In July 2oo3, when Zhou Xiao was preparing for "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", the new quarter of Japanese dramas also began to be released.

This season's Fujitai Fire Nine,It's "Water Boy" starring Takayuki Yamada and Mirai Moriyama,Although the name is similar to "Water Girl",But "Water Boy" This drama depicts the story of the high school swimming club instead of Okinawa, obviously,This is an adaptation of Tsumaki Satoshi,Tamaki Hiroshi starred in the movie "Water Boy".

And this quarter's ninth month, it is "The Goddess Only for Me" starring Takizawa Hideaki and Hasegawa Kyoko, which brings together Takizawa Hideaki, Hasegawa Kyoko, Manami Konishi, Hitomi Shimatani and even Koizumi Kotaro (his father is Junichiro Koizumi) This work was also very popular at first, and the first episode got 18.3% of the ratings, but unfortunately although it attracted a lot of attention, the poor quality made the ratings of this drama drop rapidly after the first episode, and finally it will only end with an average rating of 13.2%.

Of course, there is nothing surprising about this, in fact, this is the norm of TV dramas, and it is rare for a well-selected drama like Zhou Xiao to have an increase in ratings after almost every drama is broadcast.

In addition to this one, Kazuya Ninomiya starred in a work "Standup!" by Yukihiko Tikihiko in TBs. Originally, this "Standup! "A collection of Kazuya Ninomiya, Tomohisa Yamashita, Apricot Suzuki, Kanki Narimiya, Oguri Shun and many other actors who were quite famous later, it can be regarded as a film that is talked about by later audiences, because it is not easy for so many later very powerful actors to get together to star in a bad movie, but unfortunately, this time Zhou Xiao crossed over, under the butterfly effect, except for Kazuya Ninomiya. Tomohisa Yamashita did not appear in this drama because he was drafted to play the lead role on Nippon television.

And the work starring Tomohisa Yamashita is, of course, the "Wild Boar Makeover" that Zhou Xiao took out.

The original "Wild Boar Makeover" actually produced a very powerful lineup, the original Bai Yanxuan was just twenty years old when he began writing this work, and the screenwriter who adapted this work into a script was the famous Mu Dish Quan. The person who is responsible for the outstanding music of this work is Ike Yorihiro, who has a lot of experience in TV drama and film music, and the director of the TV series is Hitoshi Iwamoto, Keiichi Kitagawa and Kika Sakuma. Such a good lineup, coupled with the stunning starring of Tomohisa Yamashita, Kazuya Kazuyashi Kameshi, Maki Horikita and even Erika Toda, achieved this work that was talked about later.

Now, the original 2oo5 years of work has been moved to 2oo3, and the time and TV station are still the ninth file of Japanese TV. The four leading actors are only Erika Toda replaced by Yui Aragaki, without the original work, the author, the script and even the music are all Zhou Xiao, can this drama still achieve an average rating of 17%, and the theme song sells millions?

This kind of thing...... Sometimes it's subtle.

The youth drama "Wild Boar Makeover" does not have an excellent plot that people will never get tired of watching, nor does it have too many jokes that make people laugh. There is no strong star lineup that people talk about, this work, at first glance, is only played by two boys and two girls, describing a certain story of high school youth with a tendency to **, and even the ending of this drama is two male protagonists (?) ), two heroines (?) Happy life in the plot together.

Such a drama is mixed with various criminal investigation dramas, love dramas, medical dramas, and political dramas. Lawyer and even in the background drama of World War II, it is like dozens of big men who are ready to fight on one side, and Lin Daiyu is sent lightly on his side, compared with those works that are too violent, "Wild Boar Makeover" is light and fluttering from the actors to the shooting style to the plot of the whole drama.

But subtlely. The first episode of this drama in 2oo5 is 16.1%, the last episode is 18.2%, and the average rating of 16.9% is already a masterpiece in the file of Japanese TV Tujiu, not to mention adding a million singles, and even many years later, Xiuji and Zhang's "Youth Amigo" is still a very good song.

And this time, the ratings of this series, which was released two years in advance, actually surpassed the "Wild Boar Makeover" experienced by Zhou Xiao. Among the 19.1% ratings, Zhou Xiao estimated that not only the contribution of Genesys rice, but also his own rice should also contribute a lot.

But although the episode got good ratings, the social response of this drama was not very good, and the general opinion is that Zhou Xiao finally messed up this time.

Why do you think so?

In fact, it's very simple, what did Zhou Xiao shoot before? "JuRI" confronted the problem of teenage pregnancy, won the global box office $200 million, and won an Oscar.

After returning to China, the TV series "The Man Who Can't Get Married", a teenager in his early 2O years old depicts a 4O-year-old man, but he is still successful, and more importantly, the audience does not know that this drama was originally just a hammer deal but was successfully transformed into a series that may run for many seasons by Zhou Xiao.

In the face of such two excellent and excellent works, what is this new wild boar makeover? A frivolous boy, a girl with facial paralysis, a plot that seems to have no depth, such a work, if it is created by a screenwriter in his early twenties, I am afraid that most people will clap their hands and applaud it, but if this person is Zhou Xiao, it will not work, the requirements are always gradually becoming stricter, you have won the world championship, but after you come back, you just made an ordinary thing, and the audience will naturally be unhappy.

This unhappiness is also reflected in the ratings, after the first episode got 19% ratings, the second episode of "Wild Boar" plummeted to 13.2%, and a 6% drop is rare in Japanese dramas.

The huge gap in ratings has caused Zhou Xiao and even several leading actors in the TV series to be attacked a lot, Zhou Xiao actually doesn't care about these at all, don't look at his young age, but after the results are there, ordinary people's attacks are not a threat to him at all.

But the few leading actors of the film are not good, Tomohisa Yamashita and Kazuya Kazuya are under the most pressure, who made them the leading actors of this drama.

Two days after the second episode aired, Zhou Xiao received a call from Genesys' agent.

"Is this necessary?" Zhou Xiao held up the phone in the car and asked, the person on the other end of the phone claimed to be the assistant agent of the two Janis in this "Wild Boar Makeover", and he told Zhou Xiao something on the phone.

"If you have time, be sure to come once. The two children seemed really stressed. The agent on the other end of the phone said in a low voice.

"Okay, I see." Zhou Xiao hung up the phone and said to the driver: "Go to the studio of Japanese TV." ”

Zhou Xiao took the car to the studio of Japanese TV, where Janis's agent was already waiting outside.

got out of the car and said hello to the other party, and Zhou Xiao was taken to a lounge.

Pushed the door open and walked in. Sitting in the lounge are the four leading actors of "Wild Boar Makeover".

"Mr. Zhou!" "Boss!" The four people stood up and shouted two names, the two girls called the boss directly, and the two boys called Mr. Zhou.

"Whatever, you all know what I'm going to do, if it's more nervous. Haven't I come in vain? Zhou Xiao said.

"I didn't ...... No, it's just ......" Kameri Kazuya wanted to say and stopped.

"Okay, I know what you think, isn't it just that the second episode of the film didn't do very well, are you worried?" Zhou Xiao said.

"Old ...... Boss! A few people didn't expect that Zhou Xiao would say it directly without saying a word.

"We're all the same age, I'll tell you. I have long been tired of those things in the adult circle every day, and the drama "The Man Who Can't Get Married" is the drama I regret the most, because I have been exposed to too many things and ideas of adults, which is simply worrying and wasting feelings, so I will come back and continue to do campus dramas, because this is suitable for my age.

Don't forget, the four of you starred in my hand-picking. My vision is not blowing, what Oscars, what hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, these things are very powerful, but compared with my vision, these are just trivial! What I'm really good at is this vision, I said you can do it, you can succeed, then you will definitely succeed! "If someone else is so bragging. I'm afraid no one will believe it, but if this person has really made achievements like Zhou Xiao, then he will only make people feel domineering when he says such things!

"Boss......!" The two girls were easily moved, and even cried a little after listening to Zhou Xiao's strong words.

"Don't worry, the future is yours. Go ahead, I'm optimistic about you! Zhou Xiao stood up and said.

"Oh yes," he turned around and said to the four of them as Zhou Xiao pushed open the door to leave.

"What?" The four men looked up.

"Yamashita, Kameri, have you recorded the song of this show?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"It has been recorded and is expected to be sold in early August." The two nodded. The TV series is sold between three and five episodes, which is a very normal sales date.

"Now that it's been recorded, go back and tell your people from Genesys, and if it's okay, order it in advance, in mid-July or at the end of the month." Zhou Xiao said.

"Yes!" The two stood up and replied.

The reason why Zhou Xiao let the two of them sell their new songs in advance is very simple, the results of this song are too good, and after the sale, the good results should give the two a lot of confidence, and this is what they need most now.

Zhou Xiao didn't talk to the four of them for a long time, after speaking, he got up and left the lounge, his German words were already very clear, you are the people I fancie, you have to have confidence in yourself, if this doesn't make them self-confident, then they will not be the actors and idols who have become very famous in the next few years.

Coming back from the TV studio, as soon as Zhou Xiao entered the company, Uncle Inoue ran over, and the uncle looked a little trembling.

"Zhou Xiao!"

"What's wrong, uncle?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"It's the game you played......"

"Games? 《minecraft》？ What happened to that game? ”

"That game...... Sold ...... It's kind of scary! Uncle Inoue said.

"Scary? What does it mean to be scary? Why is this strange adjective used? ”

"Do you know how much this game sold?"

"I haven't really paid attention to it these days, how much has it been sold?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"One Hundred ...... 700,000 copies! ”

"One million seven million!?"

The sale date of "minecraft" is at the end of June, and it is said to be on sale, but in fact, neither Zhou Xiao nor aZx has any experience in selling games, so the so-called sale of the game is actually no physical version, and the game department of aZx is only after completing the most basic things of the PC version. If you casually throw it on the Internet, it will be sold! As for the selling price...... 4,.99 US dollars, 499 yen for Japanese yen, which is a price that can only buy low-grade ramen even for a bowl of ramen.

Moreover, Zhou Xiao and aZx have hardly done any anti-piracy measures for this game, according to Zhou Xiao. You still do anti-piracy for 500 yen, and all kinds of bugs and troubles generated in this link will drive away a lot of people, so it's better to just go out, anyway, it's already cheap to this Cheng dù, you can buy it, and if you don't buy it, you can pull it down.

Even on Zhou Xiao's blog. When someone asked him about piracy, he replied directly: "If you want to play piracy, just play it, I won't pursue it, this game is very cheap, and there is no difference between buying and playing genuine and not buying and playing pirated version......"

Such a generous attitude has aroused the approval of many players, although the reaction in sales is not obvious. But there are far fewer people attacking the game.

"Minecraft" is definitely not a fire now, the game is only on sale for two weeks, although the evaluation on the review site is very good, but in the Internet era, a lot of attention is floating clouds, two or three days later, except for the real purchase of the game. Most of the others had forgotten about it.

With high ratings but little to no publicity, Minecraft began his almost underground career as a legendary game.

In the beginning, mnet's rating brought publicity to the game, but after that, when the publicity and discussion fell silent, even the people of aZx thought that sales would drop quickly......

But except for Zhou Xiao, everyone will feel that something strange is happening when they see it, everyone is now, the sales of this game have not fallen too much from the first day of sales to the present, but have maintained a fairly good sales volume. The sales volume of 780,000 a day and more than 100,000 a day may not sound like much, but two weeks later, the first version, with a capacity of 15m and a "small" game of $5, has sold 1.7 million copies!

500 yen per serving. 1,700,000 is 850 million! And these 850 million yen is not like Zhou Xiao's singles, singer singles are an industry that singers, companies, industry companies, music production companies and many other places have to share profits, but games are such things, especially now that MC is just a sales on the Internet, in addition to taxes, they don't need to give a penny to others!

This made the aZx crowd, including Uncle Inoue, a little ...... Scared.

Because games are not music, in Japan, if you sell 17o million copies of music, maybe 80% of the people in Japan have heard your songs, but now a game sold in European and American forums has sold 1.7 million points, and the whole world is as if there is no such thing, what does this mean? It shows that the game market is outrageous! Now it's only 1.7 million, and the hundreds of millions of yen earned may seem like a small amount of money in aZx, but when it sells for 2.7 million or 3.7 million in the future, I'm afraid no one will think so!

And these people didn't dare to think about it, but in the end, one thing was that the game didn't sell two or three million copies in the end, and by the end of 12 years, the game sold 17 million copies!

"Does that scare you? Uncle, 1.7 million copies or something, far from the limit of this game, and according to the opening, the current production of this game may only be about 2o%! Zhou Xiao said.

"Yes...... Isn't it too much? Should we turn our focus to this? Uncle Inoue asked.

"Go to the game? No, no, no, of course we won't do it, the current state of our company is what everyone dreams of, not only the entertainment industry, but also the game industry is also very potential, there is a saying in China that you should never put your eggs in the same basket, now we are in this state, MC's potential is very good, if you can still stick to this state, I will consider separating the game part of the company to set up a separate company, but I don't think you should ever consider focusing on this, Our profession is still in the entertainment industry. ”

Uncle Inoue nodded again and again when Zhou Xiao said something: "This is a very mature idea, I'm relieved that you can think like this." ”

"Huh? Uncle, did you just say that on purpose? Zhou Xiao asked.

"Yes, I've worked in the entertainment industry all my life, and if you really say that you want to transform into a game, I won't do anything...... Uncle Inoue said.

"Don't worry, even if the money made by the company in other industries is far from the investment in the entertainment industry, we will not give up the company's things in this regard, this is our foundation." Zhou Xiao comforted.

The 1.7 million "Minecraft" did not cause any waves, and Zhou Xiao was not in a hurry to publicize it, because he knew that the road to this game was still long, long, maybe in the future, this would be a game that would live longer than World of Warcraft, and as the father of this game, he didn't need any means to pull out the seedlings at all, just slowly watch it grow into a towering tree.

PS: MC recently had news that it had been sold to Microsoft, 2.5 billion ...... Dollar......