June to July is the time when Yu Kamiya completes the seven Gaiden novels of "Fate/Zero", and it is also the time for the last episode of "Madoka Magi" when Yuu Kamiya draws the illustrations of Lancelot's "The Knight's Lamentation" novel at the end of the "Madoka Magi" anime. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On the afternoon of June 28th, the independent office of the animation production company Yu Kamiya.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding~"

The sound of the desk phone on the desktop interrupted the process of drawing the illustration of "Knight Dusk" by Yu Kamiya, this desk phone is a special phone for Yu Kamiya when he was working, and the business cards distributed to the outside world basically have this phone number written on it, in order not to disturb Yu Kamiya's work, the phone calls that came in were reviewed by Aoi Morishita before they were connected to him, and Kamiya Dome took over this part of the affairs after joining the [Edge-no-Kong] animation production company.

As soon as Yuu Kamiya picked up the microphone, he heard a short and clear explanation from Kamiya Dome: "Yuu, Miss Kuroda of TV Tokyo." ”

TV Tokyo's Miss Kuroda?

Yu Kamiya thought for a while and soon found the identity of the so-called Miss Kuroda, who should be one of the main leaders of TV Tokyo's reception of [Yuan-no-Kong] animation production company, and the [Yuan-no-Kong] animation production company had been using her to negotiate projects with TV Tokyo. Speaking of TV Tokyo, Yu Kamiya's face was strange for a while, whether it was in the last world or the world where Yu Kamiya was, TV Tokyo may be one of the most well-known Japanese TV stations in the world.

It's not because of how good TV Tokyo's programs are, but how simple and unpretentious this TV station is.

At the time of the earthquake in Area 11, other glamorous and cheap TV stations were seriously interspersing the earthquake news, but only TV Tokyo was broadcasting animations, food programs, and special photos according to its own philosophy. Even in the report on the second anniversary of the Great East 11 Ward earthquake, NHK, Fuji, and Asahi all TV stations expressed their silence, and only TV Tokyo was so simple that it was not pretentious to broadcast horror movies.

When a certain person was elected president of the LDP of the 11th ward, he was also a serious report on all the 11th district TV stations, and TV Tokyo perfunctorily hung up the rolling bar to display the information.

When the Northern Universe Origin Country was making trouble, TV Tokyo insisted on cartoons as always.

The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the 11th ward committed suicide, and TV Tokyo is still broadcasting European and American films, and the perseverance and means of the 11th ward audience are amazed.

A series of feats have made TV Tokyo's deeds a very famous stalk in the 11th district, and there was such a clip in the zombie film "Please Call Me Hero" adapted from the comic book in the last 11th area of the world, in which the zombie tide broke out, everyone fell into a panic, and the male protagonist saw the news reports of various TV stations when he took the taxi, and all TV stations were reporting on the outbreak of the zombie tide, only TV Tokyo was still simply unpretentious to broadcast the animation "Undetermined Progress"

The male protagonist was greatly relieved to see TV Tokyo's persistence: "Great, as long as TV Tokyo is still broadcasting cartoons, it means that it is okay for the time being." ”

As soon as these words came out, in the small TV screen of the taxi car, TV Tokyo was very serious about the zombie tide news.

The male protagonist suddenly exclaimed with a loveless face: "No..."

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After a brief greeting, TV Tokyo's Ms. Kuroda quickly explained what she meant.

"Mr. Kamiya, this time I contacted you about the broadcast schedule of the last episode of the anime "Madoka Magica" produced by your company, the popularity of the anime produced by your company is so amazing that many viewers of the show have written to us asking us to schedule it in prime time, so our TV station decided to discuss with you if we can put the broadcast schedule of "Madoka Magi" at 8 o'clock in the evening. Of course, we will bear the consequences of changing the schedule without authorization, and will not have any negative impact on you in terms of contract. ”

The schedule has been revised, from a late-night file to a prime time!? It's just a pie-in-the-sky thing.,There seems to be only one animation that can have such treatment in the last world.,2007 phenomenal animation "Rebellious Lelouch". It's also because the popularity is too hot to revise the schedule.,But that time the schedule revision seems to be the result of the producer company taking the initiative to negotiate with the TV station.,Now TV Tokyo personally came to the door to discuss the revision of the schedule, which made Kamiya Yu feel unexpected.,It's the most direct embodiment of the terrifying popularity of "Madoka Magical Girl".。

Kamiya Yu was overjoyed in his heart, and his tone of reply was with a hint of a smile: "Of course, changing to a prime time is the result that any program wants, but "Madoka Magical Girl" has an age limit for the program, won't it cause trouble for the TV station?" ”

"I'm tired of Mr. Kamiya, we have already discussed this on TV Tokyo, and now we are sending someone to explain it to the Broadcasting Ethics Team." Miss Kuroda replied politely, saying very bluntly that there is no need for Yu Kamiya to worry, TV Tokyo will bear the consequences of all schedule changes.

- Capricious enough, I like it!

Yu Kamiya was amazed in his heart, and replied politely on the surface: "Then I'm relieved, since TV Tokyo has already arranged it, there will be no objections from our side, thank you very much Miss Kuroda and TV Tokyo for valuing our company's animation." ”

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The call is over

"The late-night file has been revised to a prime file, tsk." Yu Kamiya patted his face excitedly and smiled smugly. At present, the late-night ratings of "Madoka Magical Girl" are 17%, and the share is 45%, the ratings are of course the all-day ratings of the show, and the occupancy is the percentage of viewers who watch the show in the same period.

There have been animations with 70% ratings in history, but at that time, TV was the only entertainment program, and there were not many channels owned by TV, so the popular animation could have such amazing ratings. With the improvement of modern entertainment level,Even the most popular animation in prime time is difficult to break through 10% of the ratings,As a late-night file, "Madoka Magica" did it, most of the office workers and students slept in the late-night file, but this part of the audience is the main audience of "Madoka Magica", if the last episode of "Madoka Magica" is broadcast in prime time, you can expect the next chain reaction comparable to a chemical explosion.

"To be conservative, the ratings may exceed 20 percent, not to mention animation, and even the prime time broadcast of national TV dramas on public holidays cannot be reached."

"The last episode, it took so much effort to produce, and it's time to reap the fruits." (To be continued.) )