It's May,Most of the January dramas have ended in early April.,The normal length of an ordinary animation is only twelve episodes.,Take the broadcast progress of one episode a week.,Overlapping with the change of seasons is also a three-month animation quarter.,There are a total of January new in a year.、April new fan、July new and October new time.。 Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This kind of animation length decision is actually the practice of animation production companies to seek stability.,In short, release twelve episodes first to test the market reaction.,If the sales and response of the animation are good, then you can book the production of a second season.,If the sales are not good, it's a commercial form of work, then it's estimated to be a lifetime series.。

And then there will be such a part of the animation is an exception.,For example, "The King of Adventure" is a long-form hot-blooded boy manga adaptation, with the stable popularity support of the original work and a broad market, basically as long as the animation production company does not die, it will definitely be profitable, this kind of animation is going to the long-form animation from the beginning, followed by "Mobile Suit 007", an industry IP-level animation supported by the previous work, even if the animation popularity is poor, there will always be faith fans to support it.

It is very rare for an original animation such as "Madoka Magica" to be directly announced to be made into 24 episodes, and if it succeeds, it will be another "Rebellious Lelouch", and if it fails, it will be "Guilty Crown". Although even if the plot of "Sin Crown" was criticized by many audiences, the quality of animation production was there, and the picture and music were at the top level at the time, Yu Kamiya is now deeply impressed by the OP and the German song [Drawing the Sword Divine Comedy] of this animation, plus the popularity of the heroine Kaji to support the whole animation, the average sales of BD have exceeded the level of the second phase of 8000, and only about 15% of the animation in an animation season can reach this result.

The original animation uses 24 episodes, and the production team has a lot of confidence in themselves before they dare to take risks.

Now, even if the April drama is freshly released, most animation lovers still have their eyes on the January work. There's no other reason.,The four feature-length animations in the January drama "Madoka Magica", "Adventure King", and "Mobile Suit 007" were not released in July and October, and they were all called the three masters of this year's animation. Many animation nerds think that this year is the most glorious year in the history of the industry, and these three works are phenomenal animation in the ACG field, adding a lot of vitality to the industry.

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"New Genre of Animation", a physical magazine published by the famous publisher Chiyo Shoten, is currently the most popular and longest-running animation magazine. It is published once a month and comes with gadgets such as animated keychains, posters, and cards, and the content of the magazine is analysis by industry veterans and a variety of anime information. Japan's protection of genuine rights and interests is very strict, so even in the era of electronic products, paper books and periodicals are still enduring for a long time, and physical comics, fashion magazines, age-restricted photo shoots, and so on can be purchased at convenience stores.

In a solemn meeting, the editors of Chiba Shoten Co., Ltd., who is in charge of the monthly magazine "New Genres of Animation", exchanged views with each other.

"That... How about continuing to publish the relevant content of "Mobile Suit 007", now that the plot of this anime is at a breaking point, I believe that there will be many viewers who will be interested, and the popularity of the heroine is also ranked second in the popularity ranking of female characters this time. The young male editor hesitated and raised his hand to express his opinion.

Another older editor shook his head: "But this month's popularity survey report 'Adventure King' is still number one." ”

"For the first three months, we've been publishing mainly information about Adventure King, and readers will feel tired no matter how much they say."

"What about Madoka Magical Girl? There's plenty to dig into this anime, and although it's still ranked third in this month's anime popularity survey, various data show that this anime has good potential. ”

"Agreed,We've only mentioned the content of "Madoka Magical Girl" in a few columns before.,A deep dig into this animation should be able to make several big columns.。

Another editor objected: "I think we should start working on the new content in May this month.,Although the anime is popular in January.,But the old information that comes and goes will also make readers tired.。 ”

"Editor-in-Chief Ishikawa, what do you think?" All the editors who attended the meeting were focused on the silent editor-in-chief Ishikawa, one of the founders of New Genre of Animation and the oldest veteran in the company, whose opinion directly influenced the decision of the meeting.

Editor-in-chief Ishikawa is a thin old man with a white goatee, perhaps because the thinness of his face makes him more serious in the eyes of others. He flipped through the information about the animation in his hand, and after a while, he took off his reading glasses and said in a deep voice: "We will publish what content readers want to see, and we will choose which part of the subject matter is interesting to readers." Editor Gao Sheng, please report on this month's readers' feedback. ”

Hearing this, the young editor hurriedly stood up and read out the letter statistics in his hand about readers' feedback: "Yes, there are currently 872 reader feedback letters related to the January anime "Madoka Magica", "Mobile Suit 007" has 521, and "Adventure King" has 518. ”

"What about the April part?"

"That, the part of the April drama has also been counted, but because the feedback did not enter the top three, there is no need to read it out according to the regulations." The young editor, embarrassed by the old editor's questioning, explained that this is quite rare.

"Speaking of which, although the popularity survey of "Madoka Magical Girl" is only the top three for the time being, the popularity growth rate is undoubtedly the fastest, and the topicality on the Internet is also ranked first, so it is necessary to publish a season of content on the theme of this anime."

Editor-in-chief Ishikawa looked through the information about "Madoka Magical Girl" in his hand, and after a while, he laughed and said, "Isn't it funny!" This month's theme is "Madoka Magi", and there is also Yu Kamiya, an animation supervisor who is known as a genius in the industry. ”

The veteran editors were stunned, and one of them stood up in surprise and asked, "Editor-in-chief Ishikawa, what do you mean..."

"Yes, it's not just the animation, but also a column interview with the character Yu Kamiya."

"But this kind of treatment has only been seen by a few well-known supervisors, and it is a bit too unsafe to rashly target the newcomer animation supervisor in the industry." Another senior editor frowned and suggested that Ishikawa's editor-in-chief meant that the content of the current season's "New Genre of Animation" was all used to publish information about [Madoka Magical Girl] or Yuu Kamiya, except for the standard configuration, which is equivalent to writing a biography for animation supervisors, generally only animation supervisors who have produced more than double digits and no less than three best-selling animations are qualified, how many people in the industry will pay attention to unknown animation supervisors and newcomer supervisors? Once you don't do it well, you will receive a large number of readers' complaint letters.

"Superintendent Kamiya is fun, that's enough." Editor-in-chief Ishikawa grinned, and without allowing others to object, he looked around at everyone and continued to ask, "So, who is going to interview Superintendent Kamiya this time." ”

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Yu Kamiya was slightly surprised to receive an interview request from Chiyo Shoten, of course, he knew that Chiyo Shoten's name and the famous industry physical magazine "New Genre of Animation", it was basically beneficial for him to agree to this interview.

The day after he agreed on the phone, an editor from Chiyo Bookstore came to interview him. This interview is different from "Words of Celebrity", the main content of the "Words of Celebrities" TV show is biased towards the introduction of the animation industry, and then it describes the industry from the perspective of Yu Kamiya, the editor from Chiyo Shoten is obviously a veteran of the industry, and the various content of the interview is very sharp and professional.

"Mr. Kamiya, what do you think of the current industry environment? What restrictions does this have on your work? ”

"There is a scene in your work "Madoka Magical Girl" that the audience is very interested in, in the background painting of about eleven minutes in the seventh episode, it is about the number of witches, and there are many people on the Internet who speculate that the witch is actually a magical girl, if you feel inconvenient, you don't need to answer this question."

"Mr. Kamiya, your first work, RWBY, is a popular animated film all over the world, so why did you choose to turn to Japanese animation instead of continuing there?"

"Mr. Kamiya, can you tell us about the positioning of Fit-chan, one of the protagonists of "Magical Girl Naha", in your conception."

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The interview was quite long, covering everything Kamiya knew about the industry, and most of Kamiya's answers were so insightful and sharp that even the editor, who was the interviewer, was surprised, was Kamiya's gaze and experience really just a rookie animation supervisor who had only made a few works? Many of his answers are more long-term and more extensive than those interviewed by senior overseers in the past.

Yu Kamiya has the vision of the animation industry in the last world.,The world's turbid animation industry is no different from transparent in his eyes.,The constructive answer given by the situation of the last world is of course much more powerful than most of the animation directors in this world.。

There are two main contents of this season's "New Genre of Animation",One is the popular animation "Madoka Magical Girl",And then there's a column introduction about Yu Kamiya as an animation director.,It's divided into Yuu Kamiya's column interviews or relevant information reports in the past such as "RWBY" and "Magical Girl Naye".,The amount of content is not small.。 After understanding the situation, Yu Kamiya himself is looking forward to this season's "New Genre of Animation".

Kamiya Yu is most interested in "New Genre of Animation" is the monthly popularity survey report,The data of physical magazines and network data will always be different because of different audience positioning,Before March, the popularity champion of "New Genre of Animation" was won by "Adventure King" in a row,"Magical Girl Madoka" was released in March after the plot broke out.,But that month also happened to hit a plot explosion of "Mobile Suit 007", with the popularity of the previous work to support "Mobile Suit 007" naturally became the most popular animation in April, In May, the plot of "Madoka Magical Girl" became more and more attractive, and each episode made the audience talk about it and couldn't stop, and the anime's popularity continued to climb, but it was also overwhelmed by "Adventure King" by a thin line.

Chiyo Bookstore's interview with him shows that it is not surprising that in the popularity survey of "New Genre of Animation" in June, "Madoka Magical Girl" was hand-picked at the top of the rankings. The first of the two most powerful points in the plot of "Madoka Magical Girl" is the plot twist, the third episode of the original work, the seventh episode of Yu Kamiya's remastered version, followed by the ending that uncovers all the truth and detonates all the foreshadowing together! It's the end of "Madoka Magical Girl" that makes this animation the overlord of animation.,Yu Kamiya has always been very confident in the growth rate of popularity of "Madoka Magical Girl".,Now the plot hasn't come to the second breaking point, and the popularity can already be compared with the most popular "King of Adventure".,Once it's near the end,,How much popularity will rise Yuu Kamiya can't predict.。

Since "New Genre of Animation" has launched the column of "Madoka Magical Girl", the popularity will definitely go to the next level, and it is also very happy for Yu Kamiya to be able to achieve the first position in popularity before the second plot explosion of the anime.

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In May, Yu Kamiya was not as leisurely as he imagined, because during this time he personally participated in all the production steps of the animation, and he was directly responsible for the places that did not require Yu Kamiya, the animation director, to come forward, because the second plot peak of Yuu Kamiya's reset version of "Madoka Magical Girl" - the smile of the magical girl Kyoko Sakura, with the memory of Kyoko Sakura to reveal the first chapter of the cruel fate of the magical girl.

The reason why "Neon Genesis Evangelion" [Rei Ayaami's Smile] was pushed to the altar is because of the plot background of the animation, but in fact, looking at that scene from the current animation aesthetic point of view, it is not as brilliant as imagined. And Sakura Kyoko's smile has the foreshadowing of the plot, and more importantly, the appeal of the picture itself, beyond language, can make people intuitively recognize the complex emotions in her heart at a glance, this picture can be a close-up of the change of expression, with the background and the character's look, the change of smile, and the eyes are fully interpreted.

After April, Kamiya Yu was busy with the revision of the original painting storyboard.,And then all the energy was poured into this close-up of the picture.,I drew the original picture by myself and abandoned it.,After personally coloring the animation, I found that it was different from what he imagined and tried countless failures.,It's hard to gain even if you enter the consciousness space in terms of emotional expression.,For this reason, Kamiya Yu was irritable for almost half a month.,Now it's close to the animation broadcast.,That's why the seventeenth episode hasn't been handed over to the TV station for a long time.。 (To be continued.) )