In fact, Tangning's inspiration came from his little daughter Jenny, this day for Boys' Day, Tangning felt that his daughter might feel a little cold, so he decided to accompany her, and saw that the little girl was holding a comic book seriously, which made Tangning a little curious, only four or five years old little girl can understand what comics, so I leaned over to take a look, and suddenly realized, it turned out that she was looking at Astro Boy, of course, this is a Chinese name, his Japanese name is iron fist アトム, てつわんあとむ.

Speaking of this progenitor work in the Japanese animation industry, Tang Ning is naturally no stranger, the mainland has introduced the black and white animation version of this comic in December 1980, which is also the first Japanese animation introduced in China, although I watched it when I was a child, but I still like to watch it very much, and when I watched the replay at the age of five or six, I was generally able to understand a little. (Downing was born in 1982.) ）

It is said that from 1963 to 1966, when it was broadcast on Fuji TV in Japan, it achieved a record of 30% of the national average rating, and the highest once reached 40.7% This super high rating has become an insurmountable height in the history of Japanese TV animation, and it has not been broken.

I just didn't think about it before, but now that I remembered this classic work, Tang Ning naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity, so he picked up his daughter and kissed him heavily and said: "Good baby, you have done your father a great favor this time, what food and toys do you want, go and tell Mingzi's mother, just say that Dad agrees, and buy you everything." Then he turned around and walked away in a hurry, so he didn't hear his daughter's complaining words: "It's what I want." Mom will buy it for me."

In order to show his attention, Downing personally came to the residence of the author Osamu Tezuka - Tokiwaso apartment in Shiina Town, Toshima Ward (which is also the mecca of the Japanese manga industry now), talking about Osamu Tezuka, this person is really remarkable, he is not only a manga master and animation producer who has had a profound impact on the Japanese manga and animation industry, but also a medical doctor. His personal disciples are also famous masters in later generations, one is Fujiko Fujio, the creator of Doraemon (this is the pen name used by Fujimoto Hiroshi and Yasuko Suo when the two manga artists collaborated, but not one person), and the other is Shotaro Ishinomori, the author of Kamen Rider.

Of course, at this time, although Osamu Tezuka was already the overlord of the Japanese manga industry, but there was no comparison with his later achievements, and at the age of 28, he was only an ace writer for magazines such as "Shonen Magazine" and "Girls' Club", but as a native of Tokyo. He still knew a lot about the prestige of Tang Ning's big boss, so as soon as he heard that Tang Ning was here in person, he immediately hurriedly came out and bowed to greet him.

After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, Tang Ning got straight to the point: "Mr. Osamu Tezuka (this is his surname, worm is a pen name, it is said that he likes bugs very much, and I don't know what kind of hobby this is), I like your iron fist very much." Want to adapt him into an anime, I wonder if you are interested in it? ”

Osamu Tezuka said excitedly, "Really? Can my comics be turned into cartoons? Of course I do, of course I do. When I first watched Wald Disney's Bambi, I dreamed of how great it would be if one day my comics could be adapted into cartoons. ”

Then he seemed to suddenly remember something, and said with some sadness: "However, it is said that it costs a lot of money to make cartoons, and the cost of Disney to make cartoons is not much cheaper than that of making science fiction productions, Mr. Downing." My manga, especially this one, is very long, with hundreds of episodes, and if it is changed into an anime, is the cost too high? ”

From Tezuka's performance at this moment, Tang Ning could feel that he was indeed a person suitable for art. He is sensitive, his emotions change quickly, but he is very kind, otherwise he would not have considered the cost for Tangning, but how did such a person get admitted to the medical doctorate? Isn't it said that what people who practice medicine need most is calmness and stability?

However, for his question, Tang Ning had already been prepared, so he replied with a smile: "Mr. Tezuka, you don't have to worry about this, although I am an American, my method of shooting cartoons is different from Disney's, the scene and momentum can certainly attract the audience, but I think the most important thing is the storyline, as long as the story is exciting, even if it is two pieces of paper, it can be attractive." Tang Ning's words are absolutely confident, I think that when Ma Rongcheng's "Fengyun" and "Sword Laughter" reached the later stage, the picture was a black mess, and people who hadn't seen the previous plot didn't know what the author was painting at all, but the people who chased him all the way were still fascinated. (Uh, it seems that this is revealing age again)

Downing continued, "We were able to minimize production costs by focusing on portraying the hearts of the characters, and then develop the work with a lot of predefined movements and CG. For example, the mouth movement and blink system is a pattern of three frames of blinking and three frames of speech. I believe that the cartoons made in this way will also look good. In fact, this method is still used by the Japanese animation industry to this day. It has even become essential for AVG game production. It is also with this philosophy that Japanese animation has grown to become a giant that can compete with American animation. The characteristics of American animation take the road of large production and large cost; Japanese animation, on the other hand, adopts a low-cost, fast-output approach.

It may be that Tang Ning's theory was thrown too quickly and too much, so Osamu Tezuka couldn't digest it for a while, and said with some hesitation: "Mr. Tang Ning's theory sounds very novel, do you want to use this method to make an iron fist?" ”

Downing nodded: "That's right, and I want to invite Mr. Osamu Tezuka as the screenwriter and producer of this anime, I don't know if you want to?" "These theories were originally invented by you, and I don't have a solid heart when I don't invite you to be a producer.

Osamu Tezuka was overjoyed and said, "Of course I do, thank you Mr. Tangning for your appreciation, I will definitely do my best to make it with an iron fist." ”

So Tang Ning signed Osamu Tezuka into his film company the next day, specializing in Iron Fist, ah, no, the name of the cartoon has been changed to the production of Astro Boy. (To be continued......)