Nobuji Furuta, the editor-in-chief of Fuji Press, has been a bit melancholy lately.

It's really melancholy.

He even suspected that his hair would fall out if he continued like this.

And the reason for his melancholy is simple.

is because under Tsukasa Higashino's "Winner is Justice", Suzuki Hazu's "Lawyer Trap" presents a posture of not being able to fight back.

Furuta Shinji can also see that Suzuki Yu's "Lawyer Trap" is getting better and better, whether it is a storyboard or a plot, it is getting closer and closer to a mature posture.

But the more this happened, the more Furuta Shinji felt his scalp tingle.

Because even if Suzuki Ha plays well, she still can't shake Tsukasa Higashino's "Winner is Justice".

Think about it.

No matter how hard you try and how you progress, you don't have the feeling of being able to touch the other person's exhaust... How desperate does this feel be?

Yes, Tsukasa Higashino is like a big mountain that weighs on Suzuki Yu and Furuta Shinji.

And the same lawyer theme, Higashino Division's black humor-like ridicule of reality, its audience must be much broader than Suzuki Yu.

This made Furuta Shinji even more headache... How can I surpass Tsukasa Higashino... This is his biggest proposition now.

He thinks it's a direct way to dig the foot of the wall into the Higashino Division, but Higashino Tsukasa doesn't eat this at all.

Furuta Shinji shook his head helplessly.

To be honest, in this predicament, there is still some good news for him to lift his spirits.

That is, the OVA promotion of Suzuki Yu's work "Shadow Man" has been rolled out, and the OVA promotion of "Midnight Bell" by Urashima Publishing House next door has not yet been shadowed.

This made Furuta Shinji feel comfortable and a little confused at the same time, what's going on? Why hasn't the publicity of the midnight bell started yet?

It stands to reason that it is already mid-December, and if "Midnight Bell" wants to compete for a January drama, then it should start spreading publicity now.

But now, not to mention publicity, even the early OVA posters were drawn by Tsukasa Higashino two months ago.

This made Furuta Shinji feel confused and a little uneasy in his heart.

He doesn't think that Urashima Publishing House will cancel the OVA of "Midnight Bell", after all, it is a national-level horror comic, although the length is very short, but there must be a lot of companies that want to invest.

"It's useless to care about these things."

Furuta Shinji shook his head, and when he was about to take a saliva-

"Editor-in-chief Furuta. "Midnight Bell" has news! ”

One of the editors in charge walked briskly over here, his face full of astonishment and surprise.

He looked like he had just gotten an incredible message, which was why he had this expression.

"Is it OVA?" Furuta Shinji was a little puzzled by his expression.

After all, the OVA of "Midnight Bell" is basically an ironclad thing, and even if you get the news, you shouldn't be so flustered.

"It's not an OVA, it's an animated movie."

The editor in charge replied with some emotion.

"Huh?" Furuta Shinji showed an incredible expression, he put down the water glass, and looked inexplicable: "Wait, Ota-kun, you say it again, it may be that I am old and my ears are not very good... What did you just say happened to "Midnight Bell"? ”

"The Midnight Bell is an animated movie!"

The editor, whose name is Daejeon, adjusted his tone and replied seriously.

"......" Shinji Furuta.

He glanced at the glass he had just picked up, put it down gently, and then sighed heavily—

I didn't expect it... Originally, he thought that "Midnight Bell" was going to fight their "Shadow Man".

As a result, I didn't expect that the other party had no intention of fighting at all, so he directly bypassed the fight and stole his home.

Animated Cinematic...

"Midnight Bell".

The editor-in-chief of Furuta felt that his scalp was a little itchy, and after reaching out to wipe it, he found that his palms were full of hair.

He shook his head helplessly.

Let's get someone else in the ring.

It was a terrible feeling to fight in the ring with Tsukasa Higashino.

On the other side, Tsukasa Higashino was pulled away early in the morning by the stormy Hosokawa Koharu.

The reason for being pulled away is also very simple -

As an animation scripter, he needed to meet with the animation supervisor and animator of Urashima Publishing House.

The production of animated films is divided into pre, middle, and post.

Pre-production work is mainly done by the animation supervisor, the animation script, and the animation producer (sub-supervisor).

The mid-production is equivalent to the original art composition, character design, and so on.

When it comes to post-production, it's about adding sound effects, special effects, lighting, dubbing.

In other words, Tsukasa Higashino's work is only about the early stage, and as for the later mid-production, and the later things, it's someone else's business.

At most, he, the author, will come over and make a cameo appearance as the original artist.

Among them, the preparation work in the early stage is the most important, after all, only by laying a good foundation can there be room for play in the medium and later stages.

So Tsukasa Higashino didn't refuse, and left with the animation script he had prepared and followed Hosokawa Koharu.

This time, he is going to the very famous Dukyo Animation Production Company, which has produced countless high-quality animated films in the industry, and will not spend money on some unwanted, fancy special effects for no reason, and is a rare company that aims to 'make good animation'.

Naturally, there are a lot of excellent animation supervisors and producers in this company.

Hosokawa Koharu took Tsukasa Higashino to the main building of Tokyo Animation Production Company to go through the formalities, and then took him directly into the annex building located on the right.

When you get here, it's an annex floor for production meetings.

Hosokawa Koharu chatted with him as he walked, and most of them talked about the anecdote of the editor-in-chief Urashima who almost broke his leg in order to find a suitable production company in the past month.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the conference room they were going to this time.

Hosokawa Koharu walked in with Tsukasa Higashino, and there were already two middle-aged men waiting for Tsukasa Higashino.

When they heard a knock at the door, they stood up and went to greet them.

"Superintendent Honbashi, Deputy Superintendent Toda, this is Mr. Higashino, who is in charge of the script of "Midnight Bell" this time."

Hosokawa Koharu introduced to Tsukasa Higashino sideways: "Mr. Higashino, the one on the left is Mr. Takehiro Motohashi, who is in charge of the supervision of the animated film "Midnight Bell" this time, and the one on the right is Mr. Toda Shimitsu, who is in charge of the profession of deputy director of "Midnight Bell" this time. ”

Honbashi Guide? Toda Shimitsu?

Tsukasa Higashino muttered the names of these two people in his heart, and he only felt as if he had heard the names of these two people somewhere.

When he looked up again, he realized: "It's Mr. Motohashi and Mr. Toda, who made "The Wind Blows Through the Dandelions"... Fortunately, I will be honored. ”

"The Wind Blows Through the Dandelions", this is an animated film that Tokyo Animation Production Company can handle, in which the sub-shots drawn by Honbashi Daohiro were called golden shots by many people at the time, which means that with these sub-shots, the style of the entire animated film has risen directly.

And Toda Shimitsu is the deputy superintendent in charge of correcting the mistakes of the Honbashi guide's shots, and the two often work together, so it can be said that they are very tacit friends.

"Well, Higashino-sensei's "Midnight Bell" and the recent "Winner is Justice" are really wonderful, and some of the storyboards in it have benefited Toda and me a lot, which is really fortunate. If you don't mind, just call me Motohashi. ”

The person who spoke was Motohashi Daohiro, he was a middle-aged man, he seemed to have been sitting on the bench for a long time to paint, some were slightly hunchbacked, but the whole person looked very energetic, and he smiled and groaned when he opened his mouth, very kind, and he was not difficult to get along with.

On the other side, although Toda Shimitsu is also middle-aged, he is much more serious than Tobashi Daohiro, and he feels unsmiling, and he is the type of workaholic.

He also nodded to Higashino Tsukasa at this time: "It's okay to call me Toda, the title of teacher is a little uncomfortable." ”

This is a rare thing.

Higashino was slightly surprised.

Generally speaking, Japanese people are very subordinate and senior, and the relationship between seniors and seniors is very important, but as a result, Toda Shimitsu and Motohashi Daohiro don't seem to care at all.

However, he was surprised, of course the two of them agreed to this request, and he also felt that it was a little uncomfortable to be called 'teacher teacher' by others at every turn, so he opened his mouth and added: "Then please call me Higashino too." ”

The three of them greeted each other, and they met each other, and Tsukasa Higashino was also good, and soon integrated into the two of them, Daohiro Motohashi and Shimitsu Toda.

Hosokawa Koharu poured tea next to her and began to paddle - her responsibility was to accompany Tsukasa Higashino over and introduce her.

As for work?

That's the matter of the three of them in Higashino, and it has nothing to do with her as an editor.

"There's something I want to ask Higashino."

The tea was also drunk, and the greeting was also called, and the superintendent, Honhashi Daohiro, naturally couldn't hold back and wanted to discuss things about work.

He and Toda Shimitsu's masterpiece "The Wind Blows Through the Dandelion" is already a work of the previous era, and basically no big productions have been taken over since then, all of them are some small-budget films, and there are many media outside singing for their two golden partners.

And this time, I finally looked forward to a big-scale work, of course, it seemed a little impatient.

"Can you give us a look at the animation script of "Midnight Bells" that you brought with you this time? If there is anything that needs to be modified in the future, Toda and I can also help. ”

Takehiro Motohashi obviously heard that Tsukasa Higashino had no experience in scripting, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to see the animation script of "Midnight Bell".

However, he also saved enough face for Higashino Division in his words, very tactful, and his tone was also very respectful, and he had no intention of quarreling.

It's just that when Honbashi Daohiro said this, Higashino Tsukasa probably understood what he meant.

The other party thinks that he is a little unreliable as an animation script, and plans to take him as a rookie with two experienced people.

In this regard, Higashino Tsukasa didn't show any angry expression, he really didn't have much experience in scripting, and the other party was right.

Moreover, instead of being angry, incompetent and angry, Higashino prefers to put convincing results in front of others.

As for giving up the position of the animation script... This is even more impossible.

"Please take a look." Tsukasa Higashino simply took out the animation script and divided it into two parts and handed it to Toda.

The two of them took the script and immediately flipped through it.

"Storyboard..."

Hiroshi Motohashi glanced at the script and sighed a little.

This thing can only be played by people with a particularly high level of artistic literacy.

Even if it's him, it's just a storyboard that draws a key place, a ruthless person like Tsukasa Higashino who uses the storyboard as a script... It's really rare.

Of course, he just sighed, and then reviewed it with professional rigor.

The storyboard is not about the form, but about whether it can fully express the content of the plot.

A storyboard, you have to let the average person know what the characters in it are doing, why they are doing it, you have to catch people's eyes, make them find it interesting, and be willing to pay for this shot, this is called a good storyboard.

And Tsukasa Higashino's storyboard picture book -

"It's too good, isn't it...?"

Toda and Motohashi looked at each other, completely unaware that things would unfold like this.

Originally, they thought that there should be a lot of mistakes in the storyboard of Tsukasa Higashino, who had not undergone serious training, and the two of them, as the big brother who was kind, could bring the inexperienced rookie script of Tsukasa Higashino.

But turning to the back, they gradually learned that Tsukasa Higashino's storyboard picture book is excellent, really good.

So good that they can even imagine in their minds how to turn the mirror and how to connect the camera.

This crisp and neat feeling made them addicted at the same time, and they couldn't help but ask Tsukasa Higashino: "Is there anyone in Higashino's family who is engaged in the animation industry?" ”

Yes, this kind of camera movement can't be done by many talented college students with serious college backgrounds... Could it be that someone in Higashino's family gave him this knowledge?

Regarding the questions of the two of them, Higashino Tsukasa also shook his head and said with a smile: "So is my animation script qualified?" ”

"It's more than qualified."

Toda Zhiguang shook his head: "I haven't seen such a clean storyboard in the industry for a long time, there is almost no delay, and it has passed in one go... However, there are still some deficiencies in trivial small places.,I'd like to discuss it with Higashino later.,See how to modify it in the future.。 ”

Toda Shimitsu and Motohashi Daohiro came to the spirit.

The two of them wanted to make a good work, and at first they thought that Higashino Tsukasa needed the two of them to bring their pig teammates, and maybe the finished product would be a little worse by then.

As a result, it seems that the other party's level is not low, and there is no need for the two of them to teach them at all.

In this way, the probability of making a good work is greater.

They were happily discussing.

Hosokawa Koharu on the other side breathed a sigh of relief quietly - fortunately, it didn't collapse.

Just now, when Toda Shimitsu and Motohashi Daohiro asked for the animation script, she was still nervous, thinking that Tsukasa Higashino might be worse.

But now it seems... The two golden partners, Toda Shimitsu and Tobashi Daohiro, were still won by this all-round Higashino printer.