Before walking into the company, Hiroshi Okada glanced up at the entrance of the company, and the conspicuous Toei animation logo: a cat with a cowboy hat, and a line of text "since_1956" underneath, immediately came into view.

I don't know how many times this logo has appeared at the beginning of the anime, but the long history since its establishment in the fifties of the last century has given the name "Toei Animation" a profound heritage and unique temperament.

This is Dongying's premier A-level animation company.

Standing on such a huge platform gave Hiroshi Okada a lot of confidence and made him believe that he could achieve better results than those competitors.

Hiroshi Okada entered the eight-story building with a dark blue glass curtain wall that he was very familiar with, and came to the Okawa Studio, which he was in charge of on the sixth floor.

Toei Animation has a large scale and nearly 1,000 employees, and produces several series of TV animation and theatrical animation at the same time every year, so it naturally needs to be divided into independent production teams to facilitate management.

Hiroshi Okada was transferred from the Planning and Production Division to the newly established Okawa Studio, and he was full of ambition to make a career out of it.

After cooperating with the government and producing several public welfare animations, and then producing another sub-ban, Okawa Studio has accumulated enough experience and honed a mature production team.

After that, Hiroshi Okada won the precious opportunity to animate the popular shoujo manga "Sailor Moon" from Managing Director Yoshikonashin.

Hiroshi Okada's heart is full of ambition. With this animation, he wanted to become a first-class producer in the industry, and then from TV to the big screen, he began to get involved in the production of theatrical animation, and finally, created an animated film that could rival Ghibli and become famous all over the world.

Hiroshi Okada, who has a grand blueprint in mind, naturally does not allow him to experience failure at the beginning of his career. Although his personality is not very good, he once betrayed his mentor Osamu Tezuka, and was despised by former insect production colleagues such as Hiroshi Wakao and Maruyama Masao. However, for work, Hiroshi Okada is still very dedicated.

He is the producer of "Sailor Moon", not the production director, and does not need to be on the production site every day. However, in addition to running outside every day, soliciting sponsorship for "Sailor Moon", doing publicity and promotion, and communicating with the original author, Hiroshi Okada will also come to Toei Animation Headquarters whenever he has time to check the progress of animation production and boost morale or something.

Qin and Han can realize that in the high-intensity animation industry, if you want to come up with an animation that has always maintained a high level of quality, you must keep the morale of the creative team high.

Hiroshi Okada, an industry veteran, naturally knows this truth.

After some time ago's "personnel adjustment", after getting rid of a few thorns led by Yuki Tomino, Okawa Studio is now only Hiroma Okada.

When he came to the office area, both employees who were immersed in work and those who had just arrived at the company greeted him one after another.

Hiroshi Okada nodded all the way to his office.

After a while, Toshiyuki Ishimura, the art director of "Sailor Moon", knocked on his door.

"Come in. ”

"Okada-san, good morning. ”

"Good morning, Ishimura-san, is there anything wrong?"

Toshiyuki Ishimura closed the door, sat on the chair opposite Hiroshi Okada, and asked, "Okada-san, did you watch Madoka Magical Girl early this morning?"

Hiroshi Okada's face changed: "Why should I watch that anime?"

"You can touch the bottom of the enemy. Toshiyuki Ishimura explained.

He resigned from SHAFT and joined Toei Animation at the most critical moment, along with Hiroshi Wakao, and his behavior can be said to be very despicable.

It's nothing to leave your job and change jobs, the so-called good birds choose trees to perch. However, when Toshiyuki Ishimura was preparing to make an independent animation at SHAFT and had been preparing for "Madoka Magical Girl" for a long time, he suddenly left and left a mess, which made people feel very unhappy.

If it weren't for Qin Han taking on the position of art supervisor, I'm afraid that the first animation independently produced by SHAFT would not have been born so smoothly.

Toshiyuki Ishimura couldn't wait for "Madoka Magi" to hit the streets, so that his original move to change jobs would seem more legitimate - you see, I'll just say that SHAFT is no fun to produce original animations independently, I just don't want to hit the streets with them, so I jumped to Toei.

Hearing Ishimura Toshiyuki's words, although Hiroshi Okada's face was not good-looking, he actually watched "Madoka Magical Girl" for the first time last night.

This is about "saying no, but the body is very honest". Although Hiroshi Okada has an attitude of disgust and contempt for his rivals Qin Han and SHAFT, he always can't help but want to know each other's movements.

Toshiyuki Ishimura didn't care about Hiroshi Okada's face, and said to himself: "This animation of SHAFT, to be honest, is mediocre in terms of plot and setting, and it belongs to the most common magical girl animation. A middle school girl meets a magician, becomes a magical girl, and then spends her daily school life fighting against evil forces...... To be honest, this kind of animation is completely unsightly, and I can't imagine who will buy BD. ”

"At least, the chefs were interested in Madoka Magi. "Hiroshi Okada didn't blindly belittle his opponents," the graphics of "Madoka Magical Girl" are absolutely top in the industry, the frame rate and details are quite amazing, and the use of color is also masterful. There is also a special art style of collage, which is also eye-catching. Ishimura-san, I look at the credit list of "Madoka Magical Girl", the name of the art director, the new art director found by FT, is very powerful. ”

At this moment, it was Toshiyuki Ishimura's turn to look ugly.

He knew that what Hiroshi Okada said was true. But it was precisely because of this that he didn't want to admit it even more.

"If I stay in SHAFT, I will definitely do better than Qin Han, a layman. He's a cartoonist, and he's just a layman in the animation industry. ”

"Of course I believe in Ishimura-san. To be honest, the investment in "Madoka Magical Girl" has reached 30 million yen per episode, which is more than us. The excellent graphics of that animation are all made of money. Moreover, the unique art style is suitable for late-night animation, but it is not necessarily suitable for the national fan of prime time. I'm afraid that the other party knows that only by adopting the evil path can we have the possibility of defeating us. ”

"Haha, Okada-san, your analysis is correct. How much can you sell animation just by making a picture kitchen?The more SHAFT invests, the worse it will fail. The money Qin Hanxin earned by working hard to draw comics will probably be compensated by "Madoka Magical Girl". At that time, he will only have to learn Osamu Tezuka and pay off his debts by drawing manga. ”