195 Scripts & Characters

Qin Han received a call from Yuki Tomino, and after knowing that he had resigned, he asked Kyoko Saito to start arranging his affairs.

In April, Kyoko Saito had just graduated from university, and Qin Han's company finally had another full-time employee. Today, as vice president, she is mainly in charge of external relations and human resources, and she has begun to build the entire company.

successfully persuaded Tomino Yuyuji and dug a corner of Toei, Qin Han felt a sense of accomplishment.

Taking advantage of this good mood, he began to create the script for "Madoka Magical Girl".

You don't have to write a 12-episode script at once, you can complete two or three episodes first, and let SHAFT start working first, which can also save some time.

He took a deep breath and began to refine the images of "Madoka Magical Girl" in his memory into lines of text.

"Act 1: A pink-haired girl with two ponytails, deer-eyed, is running quickly in a strange space. She pushes open a door and enters the devastated battlefield to witness the black long straight magical girl fighting the witch. Kewpie suddenly appears and tells Madoka Shikame that if she wants to change the ending of destruction and sighing, she will sign a contract with it and become a magical girl. (Duration: 3 minutes)"

Act 2: Madoka Kameka wakes up and realizes that everything was just a dream. When they got up, the Kame family appeared one by one. The father of the househusband, the mother of a strong woman, the lovely younger brother, and the warm daily life. Through the process of brushing and grooming with his mother, the school relationship of the main character Madoka Kameo is introduced. (Duration: 3 minutes)"

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Inspiration came, everything was done quickly, Qin Han immersed himself in writing, and there were more and more words on the paper.

In order to more intuitively express his intentions in creation, he also equipped the script with a simple storyboard.

Yes, a cartoonist can write stories and draw at the same time, that's how great it is.

Of course, these storyboards are only for the supervision of the new house Akiyuki as a reference. However, as the main creator of this animation project, Qin Han can't afford others not to pay attention to it, even if he just puts forward reference opinions.

At the beginning of the animation, first used the dream of the protagonist Shikame, made some spoilers, introduced some world views, and used a strange and strange space to initially show the audience the overall atmosphere of this work.

After that, he explained the protagonist's family life and school life in a stable manner.

Until the fourth scene, the classroom, the transfer student who exudes a mysterious atmosphere, Xiao Meiyan appears.

Kameka was surprised to find that she was the black long straight magical girl in her dream.

The first interaction between the two girls, Xiao Meiyan's unclear but meaningful words, laid an important foreshadowing and left room for the audience's imagination.

After that, after depicting the image of Xiao Meiyan's top student through school life, the scene shifted to a shopping mall.

Kewpie is chased by Xiao Meiyan and asks for help from Shikame, causing her to strayed into another dimension. After Kame's friend Sayaka Miki chases away Akami, the two are also attacked by a witch.

In the end, the gentle and powerful magical girl, Sister Bamamei, appears and saves the two girls.

Qin Han almost wrote the first script of "Madoka Magical Girl" in one go.

In the first episode of "Madoka Magical Girl", the plot development can only be said to be decent, and it does not deviate from the routine of ordinary magical girl animation.

However, in terms of narrative rhythm, picture, performance, music, world shaping, and even various small details, it can be called a textbook in the animation industry, with a very high degree of completion.

In fact, even if this animation puts aside the subversive innovation setting, as well as gimmicks such as "three words U-turn", in terms of production level alone, it is also top-notch, and it can be said that it is a work that condenses all the enthusiasm and sincerity of the production team.

This is the core factor of the success of "Madoka Magical Girl".

"I hope that SHAFT, which is still very young in this world, and Akiyuki Xinfang, can have enough strength to show this story perfectly. ”

Qin Han took out a new page of paper and began to write the script for the second episode.

In this episode, although the producers are everywhere through various details, they are sending a message to the audience: this magical girl animation is very different.

But the development of the story is still not too much of a surprise.

Under the guidance of Sister Yamamei, Madoka Kame and Sayaka Miki gradually begin to understand the world of magical girls. The whole worldview is further unfolded to the audience.

Then the two girls followed Sister Bamamei and experienced a process of "finding the witch - fighting it - solving the incident - saving the innocent".

At this point, the anime seems to have developed towards a unit drama model that defeats a bad guy in one episode.

However, when the audience thought that it was another routine magical girl animation, the third episode would give everyone a huge impact.

It turns out that magical girls will also die.

This subversive setting will completely refresh the audience's long-standing stereotype of magical girl animation battles as if they were playing at home.

When Qin Han wrote the script for the third episode of "Madoka Magical Girl", he looked up and found a ray of golden sunlight casting in outside the window.

"It's already morning. Qin Han rubbed his eyes, moved his body again, and found that he didn't feel tired at all.

So, he decided to complete the character design of "Madoka Magical Girl" in one go.

In the previous life, the character design of "Madoka Magical Girl" was played by Cang Shumei. This cartoonist has created a four-panel comic "Sketch to the Sun", with a warm and healing painting style, and his cute steamed bun face is also very recognizable.

When the information of "Madoka Magical Girl" was announced, this simple and straightforward animation name, cute and round character design, and the classic five-color team setting of the protagonists in pink, black, blue, yellow and red, successfully deceived a large number of people, thinking that this was just another cute light lily magical girl work.

As a result, after the animation was broadcast, the strong contrast between the audience's expectations and the reality made "Madoka Magical Girl" a successful hype and became a topic of discussion.

I have to say that this wave of marketing is slippery.

Of course, the Qin and Han dynasties will continue to use this successful experience. However, Cang Shumei's round-faced character design is not very suitable in this era when the budding culture has just sprouted. You know, even in the previous life, when there were as many otaku as dogs and cute dolphins walked all over the ground, there were many people who couldn't accept Cangshumei's painting style.

So, he decided to go with his own style anyway.

Of course, in order to cooperate with contrast marketing, Qin Han plans to adjust his painting style, and the characters will be more young and cute than their actual age.

It took him a morning to finally draw the setting of the five main characters of the magical girls in the anime, Madoka Kame, Komi Flame, Ba Asami, Sayaka Miki, Kyoko Sakura, and the mysterious creature, the source of all evil, Kewpie.

After all this, Qin Han casually found two breads from the refrigerator to fill his stomach, took a bath, and then fell into bed and fell into a deep sleep.

So much so that in the afternoon Yui Aragaki came, and I didn't know.