When Hiroshi Okada got home, he lit a cigarette for himself with a great sense of frustration, then opened Niconico and began to watch "Madoka Magical Girl" from the first episode.

For Hiroshi Wakao, an old face and old rival who has had huge contradictions since the era of insect production, and then parted ways, Okada Hiroshi has always looked down on him very much.

At the beginning, the two were still very young, and simply because they "like animation", they joined Bug Production, starting from the lowest level of animators. However, Hiroshi Okada and Hiroshi Wakao didn't have much talent for drawing, so they didn't work long before they switched to production and became the people behind the production of animation.

Later, the insect production came to an end, and a group of pioneers of Toei TV animation went their separate ways. Hiroshi Okada took advantage of Miyazaki's relationship and first joined Ghibli for a few years, and then with this qualification, he established himself in Toei Animation, where he successfully produced several animations as a producer and became a company executive at the helm of a studio.

Today, Hiroto Okada is middle-aged and has a successful career. There are luxury cars and villas, and there is no shortage of women. His only wish is to be able to participate in the production of a legacy work similar to "Space Battleship Yamato" that will leave a strong mark on the history of animation, and prove it to Osamu Tezuka and his colleagues who made bugs before.

Let them regret it, let them understand that their previous views on Hiroshi Okada were all wrong.

Compared to Hiroshi Okada, who was able to become a high-level executive of Toei Animation, Hiroshi Wakao's SHAFT has always been tepid, and it is only maintained by the animation outsourcing business.

"Madoka Magi" is the first TV anime independently produced by SHAFT, and it is a matter of course that Hiroshi Okada, a well-known producer of Toei Animation, has a contemptuous attitude.

But now, Hiroshi Okada has to force himself to watch it seriously, this animation made by a hated opponent and he has always looked down on.

This kind of feeling that I hate it very much, but I have to do it, is very frustrating.

Hiroshi Okada sat expressionlessly in front of the computer for more than forty minutes, and finished watching the first two episodes of "Madoka Magical Girl".

As he talked about when he chatted with Toshiyuki Ishimura before, the first and second episodes of "Madoka Magical Girl", although the plot unfolds relatively bland, but as an anime, its expressiveness, whether it is music or graphics, has reached its peak.

Moreover, if you watch carefully, you will find that many foreshadowing and plot explosion points have been buried. Whether it's the narrative technique, or the theme it contains, it's not as simple as the average royal road to magical girl animation.

"Why is that guy Wakao Hiroshi so lucky to be able to find Qin Han to write the script. Moreover, can you also discover a ghost superintendent with a strong personal style like Akiyuki Shinbo? ”

Okada Hao's heart suddenly swelled with a thick jealousy.

He lit another cigarette, cheered up, and began to watch the third episode of "Madoka Magical Girl", which immediately caused an uproar after it was broadcast.

He just paid attention to the pre-order sales trend of this animation, and he didn't read the comments on the Internet, and he didn't know what was good about this remark, so that it aroused a wave of national discussion. I just went to the convenience store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and I was able to meet the otaku who was discussing this animation.

After more than twenty minutes passed, Hiroshi Okada understood everything.

"Unbelievable, unbelievable!" Hiroshi Okada muttered to himself.

Compared with ordinary audiences, as a professional animator, Hiroshi Okada naturally understands how shocking the third episode of "Madoka Magical Girl" is.

Although he is very reluctant to admit it, Hiroshi Okada still knows that the "Sailor Moon" animation he handled, even if he has achieved outstanding results, such as how many ratings have reached, how many discs have been sold, and how many hundreds of millions of peripheral sales have reached, it is still just a manga animation based on the original work. This animation, even if it is commercially successful, fundamentally speaking, it can't compare to the completely original "Madoka Magical Girl".

On the computer screen, the third episode of "Madoka Magical Girl" ended, ED went online, and in the scrolling cast and crew, Hiroshi Okada suddenly found a familiar name.

"Performance: Yuki Tomino."

"That guy Tomino......" Hiroshi Okada stood up excitedly, holding the monitor with both hands. He stood there for a moment, then sat back down.

"It's ironic, it's ironic...... I'll just say, how is the performance style of this sentence a little familiar? It turned out to be the masterpiece of that guy Tomino. Hiroshi Okada smiled bitterly.

He recalled that he had tried his best to squeeze Yuyuki, a thorn, from Okawa's studio. When the other party took the initiative to resign, he didn't have any retention, and he laughed at the other party for being stupid.

But now it seems, isn't it yourself who is stupid?

The third episode of "Madoka Magi" gave Yuki Tomino the best stage to show his talent when he stayed in Toei, and no one found out.

Regarding the handling of Sister Ba Mamei's death, this bald murderer performed more wonderfully than the original version of Qin and Han's previous lives. The kind of understatement cruelty perfectly reflects the sorrow and fate of the magical girl, which is more shocking than those strange bloody visceral minced flesh and screams at the bottom.

The frustration in Okada's heart became more and more serious, and even gave birth to a wave of self-doubt.

His career is still successful, and he will continue to make a lot of money in the future and make a lot of big-selling animations. However, deep down in his heart, he understands that the obsession he has been striving for - to make an excellent animation that can represent an era and be remembered by history, so that Osamu Tezuka and those colleagues who made the previous insects are convinced, and the distance is getting farther and farther away.

This era belongs to genius, but it does not belong to him.

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Sufficient financial investment, a group of talented creators, and a unique publicity strategy that has been implemented since the initial planning of the project...... All these efforts, finally after the third episode of the anime aired, ushered in the harvest period of "Madoka Magical Girl".

After the broadcast of the third episode, the data of "Madoka Magical Girl", in addition to hard indicators such as Amazon's BD/DVD reservation rankings, such as search index, Twitter popularity, online playback, ratings, etc., have skyrocketed to a new height.

Many anime critics exclaimed: "This anime is not only the strongest in January, I'm afraid this year, it will be difficult to have an opponent!" ”

A nuclear bomb detonated by "Madoka Magica" shook the animation industry, and it ushered in February.