The next day, Saturday, was supposed to be a rest day, but because the promotional video had just been released, many people came over to take the initiative to make up for the shift - mainly to see the comments on the Internet about the three-minute film.

Except for a few original artists who really couldn't pull away, there were agreed artists outside, basically everyone came.

This scene stunned Qianxia Yamagami, who came in advance with her bag, she had never seen such a scene.

It's not working hours, but so many people take the initiative to come to work...

Yamagami Chixia was a little stunned, but soon greeted these seniors one by one.

Just as she was about to walk to her workbench, someone took the initiative to stop her: "Miss Yagami, Superintendent Yano went to get the projector, saying that it was the situation of everyone watching the promotional video together later." ”

"I see."

No wonder everyone is sitting and chatting here, waiting for the projector.

Chixia on the mountain suddenly realized.

She also put down her bag and chatted with a few original artists around her and the two previous original artist apprentices.

Chixia Yamagami is a working woman who is more good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, even if she gets preferential treatment from Higashino Tsukasa in advance, she can actually coax the other two original artist apprentices to have no opinion on this.

Soon Yano Ryuichi came out with a projector in his arms, connected the output port, and waited until the image appeared on the white screen, and then he clicked on the Higashino Studio page on the computer.

The logo of Higashino Studio is a simple and simple black and white paintbrush, and the logo of the brush hangs on the empty and humble studio website, and then scrolls down to the three-minute promotional film that was put up yesterday and a small comment area below.

Other than that, there is nothing.

Yes.

It's kind of rudimentary.

But no one cares.

No matter how glamorous the web page is, it is useless, the most important thing is the results, and nothing is in vain without results.

Everyone turned to real-time click statistics.

And then—

A burst of cheers erupted from inside Higashino Studio, although it was not as excited as the chest-beating in TV and movies, but the happy expressions on everyone's faces could be seen - "Winner is Justice" directly received more than 100,000 hits...

You must know that this is just a promotional video, and the promotional videos produced by several other animation production companies are only tens of thousands of hits at most..."Winner is Justice" has thrown them five or six times over, and it is really surprising that they can get this kind of result in just one night.

Even the mood of Chixia Yamagami was driven by the atmosphere of the group, and she was unconsciously happy, and began to discuss with a few people around her.

On the other side, Tsukasa Higashino, who was watching the result, also nodded with satisfaction, the results of "Winner is Justice" are not particularly ugly.

As for the atmosphere of such a united team... This also made Higashino think about it for a while, and felt that this was actually normal.

What makes a team more cohesive?

It's a question that can be answered without even thinking about it – it's a common challenge for the team.

And "Winner is Justice" plays such a difficult role.

Four months of construction, a lot of problems, lack of manpower... These months have been an extremely difficult time for the entire Higashino Studio.

Now that the gloom has been cleared up a bit, the members of the studio will of course be very happy.

Even Ryuichi Yano, who was next to Tsukasa Higashino, was emotional... He has been a well-deserved hero of Higashino Studio in the past few months, running around in various contacts, as well as the review of the voice actors, and his hair has fallen out a lot, but only at this moment did he feel that his hair loss was valuable.

The members of the studio made a fuss like this for a while, and Yano Ryuichi turned to look at Tsukasa Higashino beside him, and after finding that his expression hadn't changed much, he asked with some curiosity, "Mr. Higashino, what's wrong?" Are you not quite satisfied with the result? ”

Hearing Yano Ryuichi's words, Higashino's studio fell silent for some reason, and the members inside, including Yamagami Chixia, all looked at Higashino Tsukasa.

After two months of getting along, many people have a positive understanding of the power of Mr. Higashino, who likes to squint and smile, especially when he squints and the corners of his eyes are bent... There will always be people who will be scolded and scolded.

The point is that he is not the kind of direct insult, but talking around the corner, which makes you feel guilty and embarrassed...

In addition, Higashino Tsukasa has the ability to do it, and the work intensity is no less than theirs... This makes them even more unable to refute it at times.

If you have the ability, you will scold people, you will not take credit, you will work with them, and in the same way, you will not treat them badly, and you are willing to pay overtime... Many companies or animation production companies in Japan don't pay overtime, so naturally people become like Chinatsu Yamagami, who respects Tsukasa Higashino.

Tsukasa Higashino was thinking about things, but when he heard Ryuichi Yano speak, he noticed that everyone was looking at him, so he subconsciously smiled, and the corners of his eyes curled up - this smile was very hearty, but it made a group of employees of Higashino Studio chuckle in their hearts.

Oops! Higashino-sensei is going to eat people!

They took a step back, afraid that Higashino would find them.

"The results achieved this time are very good, you have worked hard in the past few months, and as a celebration, Mr. Yano will take you to dinner tonight, and the accounts will be recorded in the studio's finances." Tsukasa Higashino announced with a smile.

This made the studio members below breathe a sigh of relief, and began to smile softly again.

Seeing this scene, Tsukasa Higashino didn't say much... But to be honest, just the number of clicks on the promotional video doesn't mean anything, even if the viewers applaud at the bottom of the comment area, it will be in vain if they can't get good results at that time.

So Tsukasa Higashino's emotions weren't particularly excited... Even if you really want to be happy, it's not too late to be happy after the sales of Blu-ray discs come out.

After pacifying them, Higashino Tsukasa did not freeze in place, but called four overseers, one of whom was invited by Hosokawa Koharu to help.

Although they have achieved good results, they must not be complacent like ordinary painters and special effects artists in the studio, but have to have a meeting to discuss and discuss.

This discussion is not complicated, mainly because of where the high number of hits like "Winner is Justice" comes from.

Soon, Tsukasa Higashino and the others came to a conclusion.

The first is that "Winner is Justice" is different from other animation production companies, they didn't disclose the details of the animation at all, and Higashino Studio directly threw out the finished film, and the quality was amazing, so it attracted a lot of audience discussions, and they appreciated Higashino Studio's behavior of not hiding it and directly taking out the film.

After all, it is a mule and a horse, and it can only be seen if it is pulled out for a walk.

And the second point may be that Higashino Tsukasa deliberately asked them to add the small button to share the copy link at the bottom of the video before the promotional video was released... At that time, Tsukasa Higashino was also holding the practice of sharing videos on some websites in his previous life, so he asked them to make a copy button by the way.

I didn't expect the effect to be amazing.

"Winner is Justice" has many people sharing links outside, and the fact that Higashino Studio directly released a three-minute film is also circulating.

Higashino didn't expect the effect of this casual sharing to be so good, which can be regarded as an unintentional insertion of willows.

Although Yano Ryuichi and the others were happy, they were not carried away by this moment of joy, and after figuring out the reason, they began to prepare for the next publicity plan.

The promotional film "Winner is Justice" is just a means of publicity.

In addition, there are also means such as posters... However, in Japan in 2004, the animation promotion was at most in the train or subway, and Akihabara, which was called the mecca of manga and animation in this era, was just a relatively ordinary electric street... But recently, Akihabara seems to have introduced some things about manga and anime... Maybe it will become a holy place like a manga tour in the previous life.

But no matter what, Higashino Studio won the first battle, and the next thing is to see how those competitors in the same period take over.

Higashino Studios rejoiced on one side, while on the other side, MIC Animation Productions, which is also based in Tokyo, was stunned by the combination of Higashino Studios, which had been silent.

MIC is also one of the companies that produced the October animation this time, and their production of "Takagi-kun Next Door" received a lot of production funds, and they are a strong contender for the supremacy of October animation.

In other words, they are also an animation production company that is going to fight Higashino Studios.

At this time, a group of members of the animation production team of MIC Animation Production Company were sitting next to the projector, looking up at the three-minute finished film of the promotional video released by Higashino Studio.

The realistic portrayal of Tomoko Dai, Kensuke Komimon doesn't care about the truth and justice... Tsubokura's eyes are like those of a murderer...

It gave them goosebumps.

"The quality of this film... Isn't that great? ”

In the production team, I don't know who whispered.

No way... Although Higashino Studio is about to fight them in the ring, they can't just say 'no, just can't do it' with their conscience, and then turn off the video like they dodge, right?

"Is there such a scene in our new work "Takagi-kun Next Door"?"

Looking at the delicate drawing that can be used as a background on the computer desktop, a concept artist whispered a question to a colleague around him.

The original artist who was questioned didn't speak, just a little speechless and said, "No... It's better to say that Higashino Studio is a bit too much, right? ”

Oh, yes... Higashino Studio: This is inevitably too much.

Even the brilliance on the face of the heroine Daisa Chiko in the sunset is not for the special effects artist or the post-production to be roughly colored, but it really feels like a shadow is floating...

At a glance, they could tell that it was the effect of Higashino Studio's hand-drawing... Because the computer special effects in 2004 were very rigid, it was impossible to really make that kind of floating sense of light.

This is simply a malicious showmanship!

Excessively indeed!

But at most, they are just talking about it here, and Higashino Studio is willing to put in such painstaking efforts to make such exquisite pictures, and it is unlikely that they will criticize each other no matter what.

After all, the industry is so big, and the bad things they say now may be spread to them in Higashino Studio.

It's easy to make enemies, and you can't just talk about it.

And, most critically...

Didn't you say before that there were few people in Higashino Studio? How did you make such a great work?

Didn't the original drawings of the previous PW animation production company all be burned by a fire...? What's going on? How can you come up with such an excellent work in such a predicament?

It's no wonder that Higashino Studio dared to release the feature film directly, after all, these three-minute feature films can already explain many things.

In the same way, there is no such naïve remark as 'Higashino Studio specially selected the best three minutes to make this promotional video'.

After all, most animation production companies take out this kind of 'nuclear bomb' at the bottom of the box, and Higashino Studio has the confidence to directly come up with this kind of 'nuclear bomb', which can only show that they have many other 'nuclear bombs' on hand that are not weaker than this clip.

As Kensuke Komimon's cold and sneering tone fell, the animation supervisor in charge of the production of "Takagi-kun Next Door" turned off the promotional video of "Winner is Justice": "Okay, I specially summoned you to come over and play this promotional video without damaging you, I just want you to know how strong our opponent is this time." ”

He cheered: "Although the production of Higashino Studio is excellent, it doesn't mean that our 'Takagi-kun Next Door' will lose... After all, we have two months more production time than them, and that's an advantage that can't be ignored! Even if those three minutes are excellent, what can I do? At that time, it will still depend on the audience's inspection, so don't worry and burden unnecessarily. ”

The words of the animation supervisor of "Takagi-kun Next Door" made many people nod.

It does make sense.

On their side, they have two months more production time than Higashino Studio, and that's their advantage.

There's no need to be scared or daunted by a mere three-minute film.

It's a mule or a horse, and we'll know until we've fought each other.

They regained their spirits and began to discuss in whispers.

Only the animation supervisor who spoke just now exhaled softly, and there was a bit of melancholy in his expression... Although I just said that...

But that's just a scene.

The three-minute film directly thrown out by Higashino Studio is indeed like a nuclear bomb, which is a great threat to them and has to be guarded against.

"I thought that Mr. Higashino was going to make a mistake in his work this time... I didn't expect it..."The superintendent of "Takagi-kun Next Door" exhaled heavily, completely unexpecting that such a dark horse would suddenly be killed when fighting for the hegemony of October.

And it's the kind of horse's hooves that have to trample their faces to rot.