Iwami sits on a train to Tokyo, accompanied by Mad Poihat's "Preparatory Overseer" Yukiko Ryumoto.

Senpai was going to Tokyo at this point in time because she had a few things to deal with: first, Mad Poihat's routine contact with Aniplex required to make some summaries of the "Flying Witch" that was on sale, and also to discuss the release plan for "IS" later...... Although the other party did not participate in the investment of the latter animation, the other party is still needed to sell the discs.

In addition, she needs to make a trip to ListenNepster. It's been almost a year since the broadcast.,The other party seems to have finally remembered to sell the disc of this animation...... I don't want to achieve any remarkable results, but at least I can recover some of the funds and count some of the funds.

Both of these things are "set schedules" and there is nothing to pay special attention to. As for the other thing, it is more "challenging...... That is, I said earlier that she needed to go to Kawakaku Pictures to discuss the possibility of a new animation project.

That's why Longyuan will walk with her.

What the producer should be doing, Mai Iwami is trying to do it, and there is a suspicion of "black ink closer" in her approach...... Prior to this trip, she had already given different "explanations" to the two parties who might be funding:

The senior sister first told Aomori that Kadokawa Pictures was very, extremely interested in this project, and if they could determine a relatively high amount of investment, then this project would be "a certainty"; At the same time, her statement about Kawakaku Pictures has become the opposite, according to her words, Mad Poihat has already "slaughtered" a large amount of money from Aomori, and they officially need to use Kawakaku's distribution and other capabilities to leave a part of the funding space for it.

As long as everyone "cooperates sincerely", it is as if all problems are no longer a problem.

Sister Rinka was originally a pure person, but now her rather "autonomous" way of doing things is obviously with someone's thick black style...... So in every sense, Gong Daiju is a person who lacks morality.

"Ms. Longyuan is still looking at those photos?"

Iwami Mai pressed a file bag against the small square table in front of her seat with one hand, while Yukiko Ryumoto across from her was flipping through the photos she had brought back from Aomori with Miyayo last time.

"Well, I feel like the new animation will use a lot of CG technology...... Actually, these photos were not very useful, and considering the authenticity of the stage background, we still needed to go to Aomori again to do the framing work, and finally we needed to choose a suitable place to use as a stage 'model'. Long Yuan said.

The story stage can't be completely real, and this is a film and not a documentary, but after all, it is to show Aomori's work, and there is always a need to have traces to follow, so "authenticity" or "seeming authenticity" is necessary.

"Then I guess the art background drawing work of the new animation should be more important than the previous 'Flying Witch'?" Realism needs to be represented. Iwami said after thinking for a while.

"It's not so much 'realism' as it is delicate and emotional, bright and distinctive...... In the end, we still need to draw the presentation effect, and the standard of this kind of painting is not to look like a photo, the better, otherwise it would be better to work directly with the photo, which would be too blunt. Long Yuan replied that this was probably a certain kind of stubbornness and persistence of the superintendent who was born in the original painting.

But she has a point, and if it looks real, then the quickest and most convenient way to process photos is to do so...... It's nothing more than adding filters, color grading, etc., and the technical means may not be as advanced as later, but there are always them. However, they stubbornly believe that paintings made by human hands are the ones that contain the emotions of the creators, are "full of feelings", and can move the audience. No matter how you do with the photo, it is still a photo, and if you look closely, it will always have a "sense of disobedience" with the animated picture.

Iwami nodded silently, she could understand the other party's emotions - although her painting skills were "magical" and "the creation of heaven and earth" had reached the point of almost "miserable", they were also "creators" who had studied painting seriously, so their emotions were the same.

Senior sister glanced out the window. Now that they had just set off and some time before arriving in Tokyo, she opened her bag of papers and prepared to re-read the text of the story.

The standard printed font on the manuscript in her hand made her frown slightly, and she felt that she obviously preferred the handwritten version of Gong Daijuan she had seen before compared to this "stiff text...... Hey, is this infected by what Long Yuan just said on the other side?

She shook her head away from the strange thoughts that had occurred in her mind, and then the words on the paper came into her eyes:

"Komori is a small village in the Tohoku region, and there are no shops here, so if you want to buy anything, you have to go to the center of the village, where the village office is located.

The journey is mostly downhill, and it takes about 30 minutes by bicycle, but I don't know how long it will take to get back.

If you look down from the rock ridge in the clear air of continuous rainy weather, Komori will feel as if he is enveloped in a large cloud of water vapor...... The moisture in the soil is bubbling out lively.

Komori is located at the bottom of a mountain basin, and the water vapor that lingers between the mountains eventually rushes into the area as the terrain unds, and the humidity rises with it.

When I came back to Komori, it was the wettest time of the year......"

If you look at the small print printed on the document bag that Iwami Mai kept at hand, you can know the title of this work:

“Little Forest：Summer & Autumn· Winter & Spring”

"Little Forest: Summer and Autumn" and "Little Forest: Winter and Spring".

And from this monologue fragment at the beginning of the story, you can tell that this is a story that unfolds from the perspective of the heroine...... Even, this is a loosely structured work that is quite "prose", and the main story line is so ambiguous that it should not be called a "story".

It can be summarized more simply:

The 20+-year-old heroine "Ichiko" finally decided to return to her hometown of Komori because she couldn't fit into the noisy city life.

It is a small village surrounded by large forests, and the people of the village depend on agriculture for their livelihood. After returning to his hometown, the city planted and harvested by himself, made his own food every day, enjoyed quietly alone, and occasionally shared with a friend, and the days flowed quietly in spring, summer, autumn and winter......

It describes a peaceful way of life isolated from the modern city, with a unique quality that can be called "quiet...... Or to put it more simply, this is a film that wants to trick people back to their hometown to farm.

The only problem is that the original story in this film is not set in Aomori Prefecture, but in Iwate Prefecture, which is next to it, but this is not a big problem, after all, they are all in the "Tohoku region", and the natural environment is very similar.

And in addition to the "only problem", there is also a problem that the mourning duo "Miyadai Kana and Iwami Mai" wants to do is not a movie, but two up and down.

Concentrate:

Little Forest, the original manga by Daisuke Igarashi, has no anime version, only two live-action films starring Ai Hashimoto.