Chapter 56: Jin Hong and EVA

Jinhong Comic Studio...... Meng Zhe is actually very familiar with this name, and Jinhong Comics was also a great existence in the domestic comics industry before its rebirth.

Jin Hong was actually established quite early, Hong Hong, who loves comics, and Ah Heng, who specializes in comics but is also interested in comics, established this comic studio as early as 1990.

Meng Zhe has always admired Hong Hong, because this little woman is actually the first generation of domestic comic promoters, and she is an idealistic anime promoter.

Hong Hong said: "The motherland has magnificent mountains and rivers like Tibet Province, bright cities like Shenzhen, and our nation's 5,000-year-old civilization, so our comics should not always lag behind." In this case, so she and Meng Zhe are actually ...... It's the same kind of people.

Don't say anything else, during the time when "The King of Painting" was very popular, the King of Painting also made an appointment with Jin Hong in the name of supporting new domestic comics, so Hong Hong and A Heng continued to contribute to the King of Painting, including the more famous "Shaolin Zhengzong" in the Chinese comics.

After three consecutive issues, Jin Hong received a total of 6,000 yuan in manuscript fees, but after receiving the 6,000 yuan in manuscript fees, Jin Hong returned the 6,000 yuan manuscript fee to the painting king, hoping that the painting king can use the money to set up a new comic fund to support new authors.

Later, not long after, the painting king was suspended, and the comic fund and Jin Hong's follow-up manuscripts evaporated with the disappearance of the painting king.

To be honest, Meng Zhe thinks that this matter is very inauthentic - it's true that your magazine was suspended, but why don't you give someone an explanation for Jin Hong? Disappearing without doing anything or saying anything, it hurts the feelings of Jinhong people too much, right?

It is precisely for this reason that Meng Zhe chatted with Kong Lan when the painting king was founded before, and after determining that the painting king was very likely to have his surname or be suspended, he thought about it for a long time before writing a letter to Wang Yongsheng, the editor-in-chief of the painting king.

Wang Yongsheng is a good person, but he can't stand behind the painting king, he was the largest comic book pirate in China at that time, and it is unlikely that these people have such a thing as business ethics.

Well, let's continue to talk about Jin Hong, Jin Hong later made a lot of things himself, "Comic Atomic Bomb", "The Legend of the Demon Slayer", ...... At its peak, Jinhong's 'Friends of Jinhong' readership club had 120,000 members, the comic production team grew to more than 100 people, and the highest single comic manuscript remuneration exceeded 4,000 yuan.

You know, these achievements were achieved before the turn of the millennium, even in the late nineties - 4,000 comics each, which is sky-high!

Meng Zhe didn't think of cooperating with Jin Hong, but according to his memory, Jin Hong should be signing a contract with the famous science fiction magazine "Science Fiction World" to engage in a comic column in this era.

Meng Zhe also remembered that "Shaolin Zhengzong" seemed to have only started to be serialized on the king of picture books in the second half of 94, so he originally planned to contact Jin Hong during the summer vacation.

Therefore, when he saw this article called "Atavism" from Jin Hong, Meng Zhe was a little surprised.

When he opened it, Meng Zhe found that this cartoon called "Atavism" was based on exposing the crimes of the 731 bacteriological troops of the Chinese invasion army...... So, after thinking about it for a while, Meng Zhe chose to serialize this "Atavism".

Although it is said that the promotion of anti-Japanese sentiment is actually a double-edged sword for Tianjiao Society, which has actually been connected with Yueben, and Meng Zhe himself, but at this time, the launch of such a comic with obvious tendencies can stop many people's mouths.

Moreover, this "Atavism" can also cooperate with Kong Lan's public opinion propaganda, so that the anime boy can stand in a more advantageous position.

…… After deciding to publish "Atavism", Meng Zhe wrote a letter to Jin Hong according to the address, in which he affirmed Jin Hong's attempt to make an original Chinese comic, and hoped that Jin Hong would be able to contribute more to the anime boy in the future, and the remuneration was not a problem at all.

Of course, Meng Zhe did not forget to explain in the letter what kind of comics are juvenile comics, and interesting comics will be popular.

There are some things, if you don't explain them clearly to the latecomers, the latecomers will take a lot of detours and suffer a lot.

Meng Zhe has no idea of cherishing himself, he hopes that Jin Hong can become bigger and stronger, even if he becomes a fierce rival of Tianjiao Club and "Anime Boy" in the future - this kind of principled and persistent opponent is more worthy of fighting than the opponent who achieved a circulation of 800,000 copies by doing piracy-editions, and then collapsed without attacking himself, isn't it?

After writing a letter to Jin Hong, Meng Zhe began to think about it again, Meng Zhe knew very well that only relying on the indulgence of public opinion that Kong Lan was doing and only relying on a cartoon with anti-rhetoric as a selling point could only produce results in the short term.

These are not enough to get a big enough social repercussion, not enough to make people identify with such a new thing as comics from the bottom of their hearts.

So...... What should be done to make the public think that anime is indeed a meaningful and good thing?

How to get the recognition of the society, Meng Zhe can only find it from the memories before rebirth, but even after the millennium before the rebirth, the recognition of animation in China is only the post-80s class, and it has not reached the level of mud bombardment, whether men, women or children, they do not reject comics and will read comics.

Therefore, Meng Zhe can only search for information on how the comics were recognized by the whole society - after carefully rethinking the information about the anime in his mind, Meng Zhe suddenly found that in fact, the development of the anime was not smooth sailing!

In fact, there are times when this comic and anime are not recognized by the public because they cause social events.

But in the end, this anime successfully detonated three anime crazes with three TV animations, and then completely reversed the social identity and became an existence suitable for all ages.

What are the three anime?

1974's "Space Battleship Yamato", 1979's "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079", and "Neon Genesis Evangelion", which will only be broadcast in October 1995.

If you study it carefully, anyone can see it very clearly - these three animations that detonated the mud bomb anime craze are actually future sci-fi themes!

yes, it's all science fiction.

Sci-fi is easy to arouse people's yearning for future life, and with the addition of battle scenes that make adult men enthusiastic, more interesting and in-depth stories...... It's inevitable to detonate the anime craze.

Among these three animations, Meng Zhe's favorite is "Neon Genesis Evangelion", and he even clearly knows that the comic serialization time of "Neon Genesis Evangelion" is in February 1995.

Originally, Meng Zhe didn't have the idea of painting "Neon Genesis Evangelion", but the current situation made him have to give birth to this idea.

If it is not generally recognized by the domestic society, the development of the animation boy and the Tianjiao Society, and even the existence itself, will be seriously threatened, so we must also make such a work that is enough to detonate the domestic animation boom!

In addition, it is necessary to make more than just draw manga, but also make manga into beautiful cartoons to play...... The power of television media is too strong in this era.

Over there, even if there is one less "Neon Genesis Evangelion", the animation and comic market that has been formed will not collapse because of this, but on this side of the Celestial Empire, if there is one more "Neon Genesis Evangelion", it may be able to make the mainstream public opinion and mainstream cognition of the public from the rejection of comics and animation, and the comics and animation action children's educational materials, reversed and changed to recognize that comics are also popular reading!

Therefore, Meng Zhe decided, and he decided to make this "Neon Genesis Evangelion".

Not just manga, but also anime!

Of course, Meng Zhe also clearly knows that "Neon Genesis Evangelion" is also EVA, and some of the content, if it is done according to the original, even if the animation is made, it will definitely be clicked off by the bare board and CCTV before it starts on TV.

In the history before the rebirth, CCTV had introduced the animated version of EVA, and Sister Ju Ping also sang the opening song of EVA's Chinese version. However, after cutting out some of the 'inappropriate' shots, EVA, which was originally a little difficult to understand for teenagers, became even more fragmented and difficult to understand.

Therefore, the content that will be cut needs to be modified in a form that conforms to the national conditions of the Celestial Empire...... Thinking about it, Meng Zhe soon found that he didn't seem to have enough time now - "The Guardian of the Three Kingdoms", "The Light Girl", "Chess Soul", as well as short stories about the city, plus management magazines...... What a lot of work a day is?!

"Ahhh——!h Time, time, I need time! How nice it would be to have forty-eight hours in a day! ”

Meng Zhe, who was distressed by the lack of time, let out such a wail, and then he was thinking about whether to simply suspend school.

Of course, the idea of suspending school was turned in circles in Meng Zhe's mind, and he was suppressed again.

If you take a leave of absence, your parents may be unhappy, and you will become more and more estranged from Xun'er's wife. Although it is said that distance produces beauty, if you can't see it clearly from too far away, no matter how beautiful it is, there will only be an insurmountable barrier.

Meng Zhe is still waiting for the second year of junior high school to be transferred, and then sit at the same table again with the two big loli of the Jiang family, and then slowly cultivate their feelings.

Since it doesn't work to suspend school or anything, then Meng Zhe can only think of a way from other places, to say that people are really forced out, Meng Zhe, who is meditating, really thought of a way - Meng Zhe's method is: he will do the role and script setting by himself, and then pull Jinhong's gang and the invincible painter Ken Kobata into the gang.

As for the original animation production company GAINAX and the character design, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto...... Meng Zhe could only silently say I'm sorry, there is no shortage of anime that can detonate the craze here, and if the Celestial Empire doesn't take advantage of the national policy to produce it now, it will only take a few years to produce the half-orc's "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

But then, Meng Zhe found that there was a new problem in front of him: making TV animation, you can't just do it if you want to have comics, you also need technology! Funds are needed! Voice actors are needed! Need background music! Need...... Everything is needed, everything is lacking——!!!

(To be continued)