New year, new beginnings.

As the first work of Wanbao at the beginning of the year, the animation "Dating Wars II" lived up to expectations and successfully got off to a good start.

The relatively excellent production, combined with the relatively stable plot, and the fan base accumulated after the first season aired, made Johanji the most shining star during the New Year's Day holiday.

Of course, only for the ACG circle.

The neon animation with the theme of harem love is not very likely to be out of the circle, and this is only one episode, and it is already very good to be able to cause a sensation in the circle.

The number of views is not bad......

This is also thanks to the support of die-hard fans, although the animation has only been updated for one episode, many people have brushed it twice, and even began to analyze the details of the first episode frame by frame.

I can only say, right taste!

Compared with the number of broadcasts on domestic online platforms, the performance of the second animation in Neon seems to be a bit stretched.

There's a reason for that.

The biggest root cause is that the neon animation market has been "suppressed" for too long.

It's a big anime country, but for the whole of last year, there was no animation other than "Dragon Ball", and it's a shame to say it.

After the trough, it's time to recover!

After a year-long downturn, the neon animation industry has ushered in a round of recovery this year, with excellent works springing up one after another.

From mid-December to early January, a number of high-quality other worlds, campus love, and bloody battles have been broadcast one after another.

Don't talk about the second battle.

Even the "Dragon Ball" anime, which suppressed the crowd and was regarded as a "masterpiece" by many neon anime fans, saw its ratings drop a lot during this period.

It's not a big problem, though.

Since the end of the 21st World No. 1 Martial Arts Festival, the ratings of "Dragon Ball" animation have seen many rounds of ups and downs, which is also expected by Nishio.

He told Gu Miao.

Soon, it is expected that in February and March, after the plot of the popular silk army and the divination mother-in-law is completed, the ratings of the "Dragon Ball" animation will usher in the second peak.

Because the 22nd World No. 1 Martial Arts Conference is about to start!

This not only means that the plot will enter the next high-energy moment, but also means that Goku is not far from "growing up".

After the end of the 22nd World First Martial Arts Conference, there will be a series of high-burning plots such as the Great Demon King of Vic, Temple Cultivation and the 23rd World First Martial Arts Conference.

After this series of events, it will be the most surprising "Saiyan" chapter!

Of course, about Saiyan, about Goku's life experience, about the story of his marriage to Kiki, these are the plots of the second season of "Dragon Ball Z".

According to Nishio's adaptation plan, the first season of the anime "Dragon Ball" has no print, and it will almost be OK after the end of the 23rd World No. 1 Martial Arts Association.

Why not go ahead and do it?

On the one hand, the serialization has been too long, and the plots planned now alone are almost enough to be broadcast until the end of the year.

After two years of serialization, the audience needs a little time to slow down, and the animation team also needs to wake up.

On the other hand, Nishio, who is the animation supervisor, also needs to squeeze out time and energy this year to toss the president's so-called "punching and kicking" magical girls.

It's also a double effort!

Fortunately, the follow-up plot of the anime "Dragon Ball", including storyboards and fight design, has the original manga for reference, and Seto helps to keep an eye on it.

So Nishio didn't worry much about the follow-up of "Dragon Ball", but it was the "Beautiful Girl of Light" that the president said before that gave him a headache.

Oh, my God! Spare him......

Nishio is so big and has been engaged in animation production for so many years, so he really hasn't done this kind of "magical girl" animation, so it can be said that he has no experience at all.

Not to mention magical girls.

He has never made an animation with a little girl as the "protagonist", but Seto has done "Sailor Moon" anyway, and has a little more experience than him.

It can only be said that he has suffered a great sin.

Nishio's complaints and complaints, Gu Miao, who was far away in Jiangchuan, was very clear, but he never wavered in his determination.

Until now, he still thinks that Nishio, who is in charge of the production of the "Dragon Ball" project, is the most suitable person to supervise "Mitsumi", and there is not even one of them!

Don't ask why, just ask that Mitsumi and Dragon Ball don't seem to be compatible, but in fact, they have something in common.

"What is the core of Mitsumi?"

In other words, there are so many animations in the magical girl genre, what do you rely on to attract audiences? What is your main selling point? ”

In the video call, Gu Miao said without hesitation: "You're right, you are not the most suitable supervisor candidate, and you have no experience......

"But it's precisely this kind of you who has the hope of making a different, non-mainstream magical girl animation!"

"Non-mainstream?!"

Nishio pondered the president's words, and said thoughtfully, "What I'm best at is martial arts, and the battle scenes are very intense. ”

"Then blend in!" Gu Miao slapped the table excitedly, "Do you remember what I told you?" To punch to the flesh, to punch and kick, to break people's stereotype that magical girls will only stand on stakes to release magic. ”

"I know ...... these"

Nishio scratched his hair like a chicken nest, and frowned: "But the magical girl does this, isn't it a bit out of character?" ”

Too violent, right?

The magical girls in the past, what kind of love and peace, truth, goodness and beauty are the embodiment of beauty, how can there be such a savage and violent existence?

"What do you want to do with this?"

Gu Miao scolded angrily: "Whether the audience accepts such a setting or not, that's not something you should consider." It's a big deal, let's shoot a little shorter, only do it for half a year, and treat it as an experiment. ”

"That's okay!"

As soon as Nishio heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the pressure was not as great as before.

After all, what he is most worried about is that if it is defined as a year, it is a large investment.

And with such a big investment, if the audience can't accept this "non-mainstream" magical girl setting, which leads to the animation hitting the street, then he will really apologize.

There hasn't been so much going on for half a year.

Compared with more than 50 episodes of annual animation,The half-year cycle is short and the investment is small.,In the words of the president,,It's just an experiment.。

The experiment was unsuccessful, anyway, it was half a year, and the torture ended soon.

The loss is also within an acceptable range, so as not to fall into a crisis because of the fiasco of this project.

Then it's decided!

After the communication between Nishio and Gu Miao, it was tentatively determined that the animation "Beautiful Girl of Light" will be produced as an "experimental" "half-year" project.

The tentative episode is 26 episodes!

Originally, Nishio still wanted to fight for it, which means that he will do a season of 12 episodes to see the results, and then decide whether to expand it to "half a year".

But Gu Miao said that he didn't agree with anything.

26 episodes in half a year is already his bottom line, and if it is reduced to 12 episodes in the season, it is too short......

What story can 12 episodes tell?

(End of chapter)