The finals were just a vignette.

As soon as the NTR team was awarded, Meng Lang convened the senior management of the North American branch and held a closed-door discussion.

The theme is "Super Sentai"!

Translated into Chinese, it is a super team that was famous in the previous life and was known as one of the three major neon special effects series.

This series began in 1975.

After more than 40 years of development, it has become an unusually large-scale special effects drama series. For various reasons, the series is not well-known in China. But in markets such as neon, Europe and the United States, the appeal is not inferior to that of Kamen Rider or Ultraman.

Especially in Europe and the United States......

Tired of watching the heroes who single-handedly save the world, the love of European and American audiences for the heroes of the team group is incredible.

This is also the reason why Meng Lang delegated the team series to the North American branch.

Adapt to local conditions!

About half a year ago, Kent deliberately concealed the situation of "Jonias", which caused Mr. Meng to be angry that the project was stranded. Now that Jonias is nearing completion, it's time to restart the team project.

Before you restart, set the tone.

The birth of Super Sentai is inextricably linked to Kamen Rider.

Toei producer Hiroshi Hirayama stumbled upon a special phenomenon. That is, an episode where two knights appear at the same time will be more popular than a single knight.

The Ultraman series next door to Tsuburaya also has this phenomenon. The original generation Zofie, Severjack, Ace and his brothers appeared at the same time, and the ratings will be higher than ordinary episodes.

This phenomenon inspired him.

"Why do heroes always fight alone? Perhaps, I can try to make a heroic drama with multiple protagonists working together. ”

Hirayama Heng is within Toei, and his right to speak is not bad. Coupled with his idea, he won the support of Shotaro Ishimori. The two hit it off, and quickly pulled up "Secret Sentai Five Companies" with Toei's money.

It was a great attempt!

Led by Hiroshi Hirayama and adapted from Ishimori's original work, the secret Sentai Goren was soon broadcast on TV Asahi.

The innovative five protagonists, emphasizing teamwork, broke the routine of heroic dramas that had been solidified at that time.

Then, a big success!

When this work was broadcast, it was just in time for the tokusatsu frenzy set off by Taylor V3. Coupled with its unique subject matter, the average viewership has broken through a staggering 20%!

It's a pity that the sequel doesn't work.

After the end of the five companies of the secret team, Toei ushered in a round of personnel adjustments within the company, and the series was finally handed over to Saburo Hakute to be in charge, and "JAKQ Electric Shock Team" was the sequel.

But the shock team is so miserable......

Eight hands take over temporarily, and he doesn't know enough about the team's project style. The sequel was cut in half, with only 35 episodes becoming the shortest in team history.

Fortunately, the eight hands are not small.

The loss of the sequel seems to have made him find his senses. The ratings of the subsequently produced Super Sentai works have finally stabilized.

Throughout the series, the core of Super Sentai has always been the two elements of "teamwork" and "combined robots".

These two points are crucial!

Without these two core elements, it is not a super team at all.

Based on these two elements, it is too general for the employees to understand. Meng Lang refined it into many standards, which cannot be changed without authorization.

"The main character is fixed at five, both male and female. Have a unified team name and uniform, and the uniforms are different colors......"

Speaking of color, Meng Lang suddenly paused for a moment. After thinking about it carefully, he said: "The color doesn't have to be fixed, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black and pink are all fine." ”

"Here's the point!"

"The importance of red, slightly higher than other colors, can be considered as a captain in this category. White and pink are left to the female characters as much as possible. Of course, this is not mandatory......"

In the Super Sentai set, there are two colors that are particularly special. One red is all male, and one pink is all female.

As for the other colors, they are available for both men and women. It's just that among the white players, the proportion of women is significantly higher.

Meng Lang didn't dare to guess Aunt Dong's intentions, at least before the appearance of "female red male fans", it was safest to follow this set of settings.

Regarding the team color, Aunt Dong has made a lot of setting patches. In addition to the bells and whistles of "color names", each color is given a different meaning.

Refined into a certain work, it can be understood as five colors, which represent five different abilities/beasts/attributes, etc., similar to the division of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

Speaking of which, the five elements are quite suitable.

Maybe Aunt Dong can consider making a "Five Elements Clan"? Anyway, there is a precedent for a five-star team, and it is reasonable to do it again.

"In addition to the team, another core setting of the team's work is the combined robot. ”

Meng Lang introduced: "First, the team members will join forces to defeat the monster enemy of their size, and then the monster will become huge after being defeated. The team summons merge robots and engage in hand-to-hand combat with giant monsters, before the merge robots use their ultimate weapon to slash enemies. ”

Standard Clan Template!

Kent couldn't take this routine for sure, frowned and asked, "Can the audience accept this kind ......of repetition all the time?"

"I don't want you to think, I want me to think!" Meng Lang said unreasonably, "Do you see that Ultraman has been filmed for so many years, has the story changed?"

"Nope. Kent smiled wryly.

It seems to be the reason!

Ultraman's plot uses the same template from beginning to end. The monster appeared, the humans attacked and were deflated, Ultraman transformed into a battle, successfully repelled the monster and flew away......

Has there been a change? No!

So many years, from the first generation to the latest Ace. Although many innovations have been made in the details, the story has never changed.

The Apo?

This hasn't changed the template, but in the original "story template", a new villain has been added throughout the play.

Kamen Rider is slightly better!

But it's also "slightly better", and in essence, Kamen Rider's plot still has traces of "templatedness", just a little better than Ultraman.

As soon as Meng Lang said this, everyone suddenly had no opinion.

The story is templated, which limits the imagination of the screenwriter. As sad as it sounds, from a practical point of view, this is the most appropriate option.

"Next question, script!"

After talking about the basic setting, Meng Lang fell into a new trouble. There are so many works in the Super Sentai series, which one to start with?

The Fifth Company of the Secret Sentai

Although this work is the first game of the team, it can be set to be too long with a broken storyline and not suitable for Pengda.

After the JAKQ electric shock team, it was even worse. The mysterious plot and the ratings of the blood collapse, please ignore it directly.

Battle Mania J?

The orange players who appeared for the first time were of course very good. It's a pity that the style is too bizarre and not suitable as a pioneering work.

Electronic Warfare Electromagnetic Man?

Seems to work......