Chapter 119: The Continuation of the Myth
Although the celebration party where the animation was released and was a great success didn't end until four or five o'clock in the morning, Meng Zhe left the scene early because he was drunk at more than two o'clock.
In fact, everyone didn't mean to pour Meng Zhe, but just like that, if you toast a glass and he toast a cup down, Meng Zhe, who has a combat power of only 5 at most in the wine field, can he live for a long time?
Although they felt sorry for their son, neither Meng Guozhu nor Li Guilan stopped Meng Zhe, who was not yet an adult, from drinking, because they could feel their son's elated and almost carried away mood - at this time, how could they sweep away his son's interest?
Son, since he invested in animation last year, he has never slept more than six hours a day!
Every day, I always go to bed after 12 o'clock and get up again before 6 o'clock in the morning...... I've been working hard for so long, and now I've finally got such good results, let's make him happy!
In this way, Meng Zhe, who was so drunk that he didn't wake up, didn't even know how he got home.
And at noon the next day, with the headache after a hangover, Meng Zhe covered his head and finally got up from the bed danglingly.
With a sigh of grunt, after drinking a cup of cold boiled water on the bedside table, Meng Zhe finally felt more comfortable. Looking around the entire bedroom, although the smell of alcohol was smoking, there was no trace of vomit, Meng Zhe put down the water glass, got dressed, and pushed open the door.
"Awake?"
Kong Lan, who was sitting on the sofa fiddling with his laptop, looked at Meng Zhe, who staggered out of the bedroom door, and said this.
Hearing Kong Lan's voice, Li Guilan leaned out of the kitchen, looked at Meng Zhe's face and said reassuringly: "Go, hurry up and clean yourself up, and have lunch soon!" They're coming later, Uncle Jiang, they're coming......"
"Oh......"
Meng Zhe, whose brain was still drowsy, only listened to the first half of his mother's words and agreed with a sullen voice, and then went straight to the bathroom.
After taking a cold shower, smelling the clothes full of wine, Meng Zhe, who was refreshed, threw all the clothes into the washing machine, and then ran out of the bathroom wearing a pair of boxer shorts - anyway, there are no outsiders at home, Sister Lan just smiled when she saw this situation.
It's just that as soon as he rushed out of the bathroom, Meng Zhe was shocked to find that the four members of the Jiang family, the Guan family brothers and sisters, Luo Shadi and Kong Zhang, had gathered at home at some point...... Looking at the people who were either playing 'Three Kingdoms Killing', or watching the battle from the sidelines, so they didn't speak loudly, Meng Zhe, who was only wearing a pair of boxer shorts, was stunned, this, this is the situation of Shenma?!
"Wow——, Aunt Li, Aunt Li, Meng Ji guitar, he ran naked!"
Just when Meng Zhe was about to turn around and retreat back to the bathroom, Jiang Xiyao's sharp-eyed girl had already found Meng Zhe who was almost [***], and then the sister-in-law exclaimed.
The sister-in-law's exclamation made Meng Zhe burst into tears.
Hey, hey! What do you mean by running naked, brother-in-law, I'm clearly still wearing boxers, okay?!
But everyone didn't think so, so everyone followed Jiang Xiyao's stunned gaze and fixed their eyes on Meng Zhe, who was extremely embarrassed.
Now that he has seen it, Meng Zhe, who was still extremely embarrassed, gritted his teeth, squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and explained: "What's that...... My clothes smelled of alcohol, so I stuffed them in the washing machine after taking a shower......"
After speaking, Meng Zhe turned into a disciple of the crotch covering faction and rushed into his bedroom.
After a long time, Meng Zhe, who was dressed neatly again, moved out of his bedroom with his head hanging down amid the calls of everyone.
Although according to his age before rebirth, Meng Zhe is a strange uncle in his thirties, and it is not unheard of to be dangling on the street with only big pants and shirtless, but just now when everyone fell on him with surprised eyes, he felt embarrassed no matter how he thought about it!
For Meng Zhe's appearance, except for the three and a half big loli, everyone else, including Meng Zhe's parents, showed a kind smile.
In the eyes exchanged by everyone, the meaning conveyed was clear: Meng Zhe, this kid is so interesting, but he is still so shy?
And the more everyone was like this, the more Meng Zhe felt that something was wrong, so although he sat next to Jiang Weirui during the meal, in the end, Meng Zhe ate some vegetables indiscriminately, and drank a bowl of gruel that Li Guilan deliberately boiled because he was drunk, so he used the excuse of going to the animation studio to have a look, and ran away.
Seeing Meng Zhe who ran out of the door quickly, Luo Shadi, who was sitting next to Guan Yingyang, opened her mouth and seemed to want to stop Meng Zhe, but in the end she gave up.
Unlike Luo Shadi, because he witnessed Meng Zhe's embarrassment just now, Guan Yingyang had a great appetite and was in a good mood, so he frequently raised a glass to Meng Guozhu and Jiang Bai to persuade him to drink...... Soon, Jiang Xiyao said that she was also full, and then Xiao Nizi ran out of the door.
After a while, Kong Lan said that she was also full, and after thanking Meng Guozhu and his wife for their hospitality, Jiang Weirui and Guan Yingluo, who left the table at the same time as her, helped carry the wheelchair, and she carried her younger brother Kong Zhang, who was unable to move, downstairs by herself.
So, there were only a few adults left at the dinner table, and at this time, Luo Shadi did it next to Meng Zhe's mother Li Guilan, and talked to Li Guilan softly.
"Auntie, I would like to recommend Meng Zhe as a special student to go to the composition department of the Central Conservatory of Music."
After a few words, Rosa Di suddenly spoke.
…… Meng Zhe, who had already slipped into Jiji's animation studio, naturally didn't know what Rosa Di said to his mother, and after saying hello to the employees of the animation studio who were bloodshot because of last night's celebration, but the spirit was stuffed into a good animation studio, Meng Zhe slipped into the recording studio again.
Last night's "Sword of Immortals" far exceeded the expected super high ratings, and the necessary surname to continue production has been guaranteed, so it is obviously natural to dub the second episode of the animation that has already been produced.
And since the second episode, there have been more characters in "Sword of Immortals", so the voice actors needed have become more.
However, in fact, Meng Zhe had already prepared for this matter two months ago, and he issued a dubbing talent 'recruitment order' early on "Animation Time", hoping that people who are interested in dubbing the animation produced by Jiji Animation will join Jiji Animation by mailing the original soundtrack tape or auditioning in person to Tianjiao Club.
After two months of screening, Meng Zhe finally selected five newcomers with different voices, and after signing the contract, these five people were handed over by Meng Zhe to Jing Xi and Ji Youyuan for basic voice actor training...... Although it has only been trained for two months, he has barely been able to use it, after all, Meng Zhe was originally selected according to the role that needs to be dubbed.
Even if there are any shortcomings, it can be solved by recording it several times repeatedly, which is actually the same as the singing voice on the tapes of those idol singers is as good as heaven, and the real singing voice is difficult to hear during a live concert - all kinds of 'high-tech' equipment in the recording studio can play a role in turning decay into magic!
It's just that before Meng Zhe was hot in the recording studio, Jiang Xiyao had already found him and dragged him to the studio of the Women's Twelve Painting Boat.
"Meng Jiji, when will Legend be animated? People want to see what they draw and turn it into a cartoon that can move and sound! ”
On the way to drag Meng Zhe to the studio, Jiang Xiyao said.
Although the name has been completely changed, and the background of the story has also been modified, because the story was finally set as an online game in the future time and space, "i-am-legend" or Meng Zhe's version of fate finally retained almost all of the fate characters.
It's just that because of the appearance of heroic spirits from China such as Lu Bu, the story is more like fate/extra than fate itself...... Although the "Twelve Women's Art Boat" has been established for a long time, the serialization of "i-am-legend" will not be officially published until the late May issue of "Anime Shonen" 14 days later.
The only problem is that due to many revisions so far, there are less than 50 pages of manuscripts in the studio, or a little more than two episodes, except for the first episode that will be published.
And after watching the TV animation of "Sword of Immortals" last night, how could Jiang Xiyao, who is the main creator of "i-am-legend", not have the slightest heart-warming idea?
Because, "i-am-legend" is a special comic signed by Meng Jiji and the Lenovo company to make cartoons if the comic responds for a long time!
Since the comic will be animated if it responds well, it is obviously a matter of course that Jiang Xiyao, the girl, wants to be animated, so she pulls Meng Zhe to the studio to discuss how to draw it to be more attractive.
As soon as the two discussed a few words in the studio, Kong Lan brought Guan Yingluo and Jiang Xiyao to come, and Kong Lan smiled and handed a few urgent newspapers to Meng Zhe.
"Take a look, the media's evaluation of Xiao Zhe's "Sword of Immortals" is not bad."
In Meng Zhe's puzzled eyes, Kong Lan casually flipped the top copy of the "Xixi Kyoto City Daily" to the sixth page, and then clicked on a large picture that occupied nearly one-third of the sixth page and said.
So, Meng Zhe finally saw the picture that Kong Lan ordered, which was taken in a hotel about 20 stories high - the time shown in the photo was about 0:20, but all the rooms in the entire hotel were lit up...... "Nobody Slept Last Night", directly below this huge photo, with such a big title.
"In the early hours of last night, countless people in the ancient city who were in front of the TV used the brilliance of the TV to turn this ancient city into a city that never sleeps! From south to north, "Slaying the Wolf" is shocking and thorough, and from east to west, "Sword and Fairy Love" is as tender as water...... Marvel! We witnessed a miracle of 79% viewership! And the one who created this miracle was a genius boy from our province who had just turned fourteen......"
Meng Zhe quickly finished reading this article full of praise, and after seeing that the reporter's signature was 'Xia Xiaoxuan', he showed such a smile.
Among the reporters of "West Kyoto City Daily", only the Lolita-like reporter Xia Xiaoxuan would spare no effort to express his praise to Meng Zhe...... Putting the "West Kyoto City Daily" aside, Meng Zhe picked up another copy of the "Ancient City Morning Post", and the same newspaper as the "West Kyoto City Daily" also reported on the situation of the city that you never saw last night and didn't sleep to watch the fairy sword.
is different from the "Nishikyo City Daily",It's about the signed commentator's article on the "Gushu Morning Post",It's more about using pictures and words to introduce what "Sword of Immortals" is.,For the actual TV animation chief director Meng Zhe,It's only slightly mentioned.。
However, the article in the "Ancient City Morning Post" simply believes that "Sword of Immortals" is a good cartoon that breaks through the concept, and the magical commentator also talked about the topic of reform and deepening reform from the breakthrough of this cartoon genre, which made Meng Zhe feel a little ridiculous...... In other newspapers, there are naturally all kinds of articles related to "Sword of Immortals", although they are all placed in entertainment and other sections, but this kind of attention is indeed unprecedented!
"Hehe, sure enough, people like to listen to good words!"
When he finished reading the last newspaper, Meng Zhe smiled and sighed, because when he read those newspapers just now, he was really in a good mood - the embarrassing thing before the meal had been completely left behind by Meng Zhe.
"This is just the beginning ......"
Kong Lan didn't make any comments on Meng Zhe's slightly meaningful appearance, she just said something lightly.
"This is just the beginning?"
Meng Zhe repeated Kong Lan's words strangely, he slightly didn't understand what Kong Lan wanted to express.
Kong Lan looked at Meng Zhe and raised two fingers: "First, at noon tomorrow at the latest, there should be reporters from various newspapers, magazines and even TV stations to cover them, and they should arrive." Second, there should be many TV staff from other provinces and cities and even CCTV who will be following the reporters......"
Before Kong Lan finished speaking, Meng Zhe already understood that Kong Lan was not joking with him - if these two kinds of people didn't come, it would be a strange thing, right?
"So Xiao Zhe, we must first discuss the external caliber, and there is also the issue of transferring the broadcast rights of "Sword of Immortals" to other TV stations."
Kong Lan withdrew his fingers and made a final summary with such a sentence.
"Hmmm! Sister Lan, you're right, we really should discuss it first! ”
Meng Zhe nodded, he felt that interviews with various media were easier to solve, and a press conference would be enough, so Meng Zhe felt that what really needed to be discussed carefully was to transfer the broadcast rights of "Sword of Immortals" to other TV stations.
However, before discussing with Kong Lan, Meng Zhe felt that there seemed to be something that needed to be resolved, so he glanced sideways at Guan Yingluo, who was standing beside Kong Lan, and then asked, "Yingluo, do you have anything to tell me?" ”
With Guan Yingluo's surname, if there was nothing going on, how could she come here with Kong Lan?
"Meng Zhe, my brother's girlfriend, wants to recommend you to study in the composition department of the China Conservatory of Music in the name of special enrollment, will you go?"
Sure enough, after Meng Zhe raised the question, Guan Yingluo, who had already had something to say, blurted out this question.
Rosa Di She wants to recommend me to study composition at the China Conservatory of Music? To go or not to go?
This question...... Meng Zhe didn't think about it for too long, and replied: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I have disappointed your sister-in-law's kindness, because I don't have this time at all now." ”
What Meng Zhe didn't expect was that when he said this answer, Guan Yingluo showed a relieved expression, and then Guan Yingluo said: "Oh, that's good." ”
When Guan Yingluo spoke, Kong Lan turned up the corners of his mouth and showed a smile of unknown meaning.
Now that Guan Yingluo's problem has been solved, then it is time for Meng Zhe and Kong Lan's closed-door meeting, and after discussing for nearly an hour, the two finally prepared everything in advance, and then it was busy preparing time in advance.
Kong Lan really didn't guess wrong, starting from noon the next day, a large number of reporters with long guns and short cannons flocked to Jiji Animation Studio, and surrounded Meng Zhe and Kong Lan and others!
Meng Zhe's plan to hold a press conference fell through, because these reporters who arrived one after another made Meng Zhe have to answer all kinds of the same questions over and over again. And after getting answers to all sorts of questions, the reporters scattered as if they had fallen to the ground...... Half a beat slower than the reporters were TV stations from different provinces from all over the world, crying and shouting hoping to get the broadcast rights of "Sword of Immortals".
None of the nearest provincial TV stations is bad, and the most unexpected but reasonable guest for Meng Zhe is none other than Jing Xi and Ji Youyuan, the two main voice actors, in Jiangsu Province, where they are from, although they came relatively late, the people from Jiangsu TV are obviously more fanatical than other provinces and want to get the broadcast rights of "Sword of Immortals...... Originally, these TV stations came with the heart of being slaughtered by Meng Zhe and Kong Lan, but what made these TV stations overjoyed was that Meng Zhe and Kong Lan didn't want them to pay for the copyright fees for the broadcast!
Yes, after careful discussion with Kong Lan, Meng Zhe did not plan to ask for broadcast fees from people in various provincial stations at all, and the price he offered was - 30 seconds of advertising time before and after the broadcast.
This requirement,Although some people from the provincial station are a little guilty of muttering,After all, it's now a person who can think of these two time periods with his ass.,Especially the advertising period of 30 seconds before the animation starts.,That's definitely a big deal!
However, some people from Taiwan from the province were busy and agreed-30 seconds of advertising time! It's not that you can't put more ads in front, right?
It's really not good, you can also follow the convention of broadcasting TV dramas, and insert a two- or three-minute advertisement in the middle of this cartoon!
In this way, the loss outside the wall is made up for inside the wall, and the TV station still doesn't lose a dime, right?
Since someone set an example, the other hesitant guys agreed to Meng Zhe's request after calling back to their respective stations to ask for instructions.
The only thing that makes these TV stations dissatisfied is that Meng Zhe stipulated in the official contract that the broadcast time of "Sword of Immortals" on all TV stations must be placed at twelve o'clock in the morning...... Oh, my God!
At 12 o'clock in the morning, the advertising fee is super cheap!
However, someone soon came up with a solution - aha, the contract stipulates that it can't be replayed the next day! It's just that when it is replayed, it must also be inserted into the opening and ending advertisements provided by 'Gigi Media'!
In this case, it is a big deal to premiere it once at 12 o'clock in the evening, and then broadcast it again the next day at 5 or 6 o'clock in the children's program time, so that the price of advertising will rise again?
Those who came from the TV station more savvy than the other passed on knowing glances to each other and showed a sinister smile.
Then, the people from the TV stations that signed the contract came and returned to their respective TV stations as quickly as possible with the copies that Gigi Animation Studio had already made.
After returning to the TV station, these provincial TV stations that got the right to broadcast the TV animation of "Sword of Immortals" immediately sent people to major manufacturers to carry out vigorous advertising and leasing activities.
is also moving, as well as the people of 'Jiji Media', since "Sword of Immortals" has obtained the right to broadcast TV commercials for 30 seconds before and after the broadcast, in addition to the advertisements of "Kong Menghuazhang" and the advertisements of "animation shop" chain stores, there are also more than ten seconds of advertising time that can be sold for money.
Therefore, under Kong Lan's instructions, this ten-second advertising slot spanning seven or eight TV stations was taken by 'Jiji Media' to find sponsors in the form of packaging and sponsorship...... As for the TV stations and Jiji Media itself, how much advertising money can be earned to subsidize the family by broadcasting the TV animation of "Sword of Immortals", it is not something that Meng Zhe will care about.
And because he was busy soliciting sponsorship, no one at all TV stations thought about why Meng Zhe asked the first round of broadcast time of all provincial TV stations to be placed in the early hours of the morning.
Unlike these TV stations, which vigorously compete for the right to broadcast, just to earn advertising fees by relying on the huge people of "Sword of Immortals", those fans of the TV animation of "Sword of Immortals" who really watch it with their hearts are different.
Because of the restrictions of the times, Meng Zhe could only get the reactions of the grassroots audience from the letters from the audience, from the messages of his starting point Chinese Internet forum, and the specially opened "Sword of Immortals" section.
Let's not mention the letters from the audience, in the past few days, there have been thousands of messages on the "Sword of Immortals" message board on the website forum! Even the website's servers were so flooded with data that they had to be restarted more than three times!
In this era when China's Internet is still highly underdeveloped, what does it mean that tens of thousands of messages are left?! What does it mean to have your website's servers all restarted because they're overloaded?!
You know, one of them was specially opened up by the moderator to let grassroots readers write a post about the after-viewing of the TV animation of "Sword of Immortals", which was replied to more than a thousand floors - 1st floor, wind and rain long night: come on! Come on, Mengjiji! Gigi Animation Animation!
2nd floor, Tu Fei: So cute! The opening of that Mengjiji's manga is so cute! The anime is also very good, even better than Saint Seiya!! Although the Shanghai TV station has not yet been launched, there are already video tapes available for rent in the video store!
3rd floor、Dream Purple Sakura: The cartoon is super super good-looking! And then there's ...... That female goblin who fought with the old Taoist priest must be the worst and worst villain, right?
…… 79th floor, slong99: Wowhaha, just now the news said that Henan TV will start broadcasting "Sword of Immortals" tomorrow night! I'm out of the way! After I finished posting, I went out to carry a big color TV and came back!
70th Floor, Miss Youyang: The ...... Brothers and sisters, does anyone know when Yanjing Terrace will release "Sword of Immortals"? Even though I listen to tapes every day, I really want to watch cartoons!
…… 199th floor, talking nonsense: I cried! Really, I cried when I saw it! Not because of the plot of the cartoon, but because we Chinese be able to make such a good-looking cartoon!!
200th floor, Li Yamiao: Big production! All I can say is that this cartoon is a big production comparable to this animated movie! I really hope that one day, as an animator, I'll be able to participate in these big productions of Jiji Animation!
202nd Floor, Xupeidong: The perfect opening song! Perfect ending song! Perfect interlude! It would be nice if China could have more such composers!
…… 734th floor, blackened solid ball: I have already watched the videotape of "Chess Soul" and "Light Sound Girl" produced by me, the picture of "Chess Soul" is relatively poor, but the picture of "Light Sound Girl" is very exquisite, I don't know when these two cartoons will be broadcast in China? In addition, what is the "Go Boy" produced by CCTV? Whether it is compared with the "Chess Soul" made by the little devil, or compared with the super good-looking "Sword of the Fairy" made by Jiji Animation, the CCTV version of "Go Boy" is a scum! I don't understand why Gigi Animation didn't do it himself............ 763rd floor, blackened solid ball: pick up the 734th floor! The word count on the 734th floor has arrived! The word limit of all evils! Limit your sister, limit! If only the computer technology in reality had even half the extent of "Stupid" drawn by guitar!! Well, vent and play to continue - CCTV's "Go Boy" can be called a model of cutting corners! In contrast, Gigi Animation's "Sword of Immortals" has absolutely no problem calling itself a movie. However, the problem of piracy is also very serious, and now there are pirated video tapes sold on the market in Hangzhou...... Insert! The word count is coming again!
…… 788th floor, blackened solid ball: Finally, this time, no matter what, I will buy the original videotape of "Sword of Immortals"! Because I don't want such a good-looking animation to cheat, and in the end it will end up fruitless because there is no production funding!! Well...... I also want to say that you are all idiots, moderators! The word limit for hairy posts, 200 words is enough to write an ass?!
789th floor, angry sword panting (moderator): Back to the 788th floor - hey, did the Sprinkler get shot while lying down?
…… Looking at these replies that are either encouraging or complaining, but they can best reflect the real thoughts of ordinary audiences, Meng Zhe's mood is more comfortable than reading those reports in newspapers and magazines!
Of course, Meng Zhe also noticed that in many replies, it was mentioned that there were already pirated versions of the "Sword of Immortals" videotapes on the market.
How to solve this problem?
(To be continued)