386 is a big bet
In all fairness, the production lineup of "Madoka Magical Girl" is indeed unattractive in the eyes of the majority of animation audiences.
Supervising the new house Akiyuki, a nobody, there was no representative work at all before. When the audience saw this name, most of their first reaction was that question marks popped up, and two words came to mind: Who is it?
The lyrics and composers of the theme song - Yuki Kajiura, and the lead singer - Ishikawa Tomoaki, who has just abandoned his identity as an OL and debuted as a musician, has never even reached the top 100 of the oricon chart, and no one has heard of it.
Production Company SHAFT?
Although it was established very early, it is a veteran company in the animation industry, but it has always been engaged in the animation OEM business, and in the minds of the most senior animation fans, I am afraid that there is no impression.
If it weren't for the well-known cartoonist Qin Han, who held the three major positions of script, series composition, and character design, the production lineup of "Madoka Magical Girl" might not even be able to make a little wave in the eyes of animation audiences.
Fortunately, although the production lineup is unknown, the voice actors of this anime are still quite famous.
Nana Mizuki with Madoka Shikame, Yui Horie with Akatsumi, Yukari Tamura with Sayaka Miki.
The famous Gosanya in the previous life, after debuting in this world through last year's instant noodle fan "Monday's Plumpness", quickly became famous and had a large number of fans.
For many voice actor chefs, even if they are not optimistic about "Madoka Magical Girl" because of the obscurity of the production lineup, but just because of the three idol voice actors who are in the limelight, they will watch this anime.
In addition, to Qin Han's surprise, the other two magical girls, the voice actors of Asami Ba and Kyoko Sakura, and the sound supervisor Yoichi Tsuruoka actually found Chiwa Saito and Yuki Bi.
At the beginning, he was busy with manga matters, and he didn't pay much attention to the voice actor audition of "Madoka Magical Girl". It wasn't until the voice actor was decided later, and producer Hiroshi Wakao sent him the list, that Qin Han was taken aback.
These two, in the previous life of Qin and Han, were originally the voice actors of Xiao Meiyan and Lumu Yuan. Unexpectedly, in this parallel world, although the world line has long changed, he still participated in the production of "Madoka Magica" by accident.
Chiwa Saito is about the same age as Nana Mizuki and others, and he is also a rookie voice actor who has just debuted. This time, he completely relied on his own strength to get the role of Ba Asami.
And Yumu Bi is younger than the voice actors of the other four magical girls.
She was born as a child star and entered the entertainment industry very early, and began working as a voice actor when she was in elementary school. Later, after focusing on the development of voice actors, he stopped working as an actor.
In this world, she didn't have a voice job for the main role before she got the job of "Madoka Magical Girl", and she was considered a newcomer.
This voice actor lineup, if placed in the previous life, is definitely luxurious, and will be regarded by the otaku as a model of "rich and rich, voice actors don't need money".
Although in this world, the five voice actors are not very big names, but they have both strength and talent. Qin Han believes that they will be able to bring wonderful performances to the audience.
Maybe in the future, when anime fans talk about the anime "Madoka Magi", they will say, "Do you know so-and-so, although I was still a rookie voice actor during the time of "Madoka Magi", my performance was so powerful that it can be called her famous work!).
The production of "Madoka Magical Girl" is progressing well, and by November, the production of the first seven episodes had been completed. According to the schedule of producing one episode a month, by the time it aired in early January, there were nine episodes. There are three episodes left to be produced while broadcasting, and the time is just enough.
If something happens on the way, causing the production progress to not keep up with the playback speed, there is also a big killer weapon called "Total Episode".
Of course, unless it is absolutely necessary, Qin Han will not use this kind of scolding means.
Now that the production of "Madoka Magical Girl" is completely on the right track, and there is nothing to worry about in terms of comics and games, Qin Han turned his attention to SHAFT's next animation, "Gundam".
When you do things, you have to plan ahead. The more fully planned an animation is, the faster the subsequent work can begin. If we wait until the end of "Madoka Magi" to start the "Gundam" project, the company will face a long window period.
When the time comes, will Qin Han still let SHAFT take over the outsourced chores to do?
Moreover, Qin Han plans to make "Gundam" into a fifty-episode episode, and is ready to broadcast it in prime time such as 5 pm.
Whether it is the production cost or the publicity cost, "Gundam" will be several times or even dozens of times that of "Madoka Magical Girl".
Although Qin Han is not short of money now, such a huge investment is also a very high-risk gamble, once he loses, although he can't reach the miserable level of going to the rooftop, but he is far from completing his small goal - accumulating enough 100,000 voice points, and he will be farther and farther away.
Therefore, Qin and Han must make full preparations for this big production.
In a previous life, Gundam was a very large animated series. As a representative of real robot animation, its complex and huge world view often makes newcomers who want to contact daunting and don't know how to start, and their minds are overwhelmed by a series of questions: What is UC, what is CE, what is the Heisei trilogy, and is Gundam 00 related to previous works......
Of course, this is not a difficult problem to solve for a traveler like Qin Han who can stand at the height of the overall situation and choose which Gundam to "carry" to this world.
As the starting point of the entire series, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, which is what fans call the original Gundam, is undoubtedly the most suitable work.
With a wonderful and profound story, rich and charismatic characters, and the ability to establish a huge worldview that can be used in many later works, "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079" is really suitable as a pioneering work.
However, it is obviously not advisable to completely copy Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 into this world.
Not to mention whether Qin Han can do this, according to his consistent concept of "works of art must conform to the trend of the times in order to achieve the greatest success", "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079", which was created in the late seventies of the twentieth century, is obviously not suitable for the taste of the new audience in the 21st century in this parallel world.
Moreover, as the original director of "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079", Yuki Tomino's works have some characteristics, which are also difficult for audiences in the new era to adapt to.
For example, the most prominent point: no storytelling.