Gu Miao originally planned to promote the domestic Wanbao Cup tennis tournament model to the world, but there was no suitable opportunity.

Now's your chance!

Just as the Wanbao Cup National Championship was taking place, a North American private high school suddenly approached the door, hoping to play a friendly match against this year's national champion.

This private middle school is not an ordinary middle school, but a strong tennis school with a rich heritage and has cultivated many famous tennis players.

If this year's national champions can beat them, it will undoubtedly make a big splash around the world, and the Wanbao Cup tennis tournament will also attract attention overseas......

Therefore, Gu Miao agreed.

However, everyone has little confidence in whether this year's national champion can defeat this North American powerhouse that came to smash the field.

The reason is simple.

Judging from the current schedule and performance, if nothing else, Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School will definitely be able to defend the championship.

But in the tennis team of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, except for one classmate Shen Chao who can make everyone a little confident, everyone else seems to be almost meaningless.

One god with N pits?

This sentence is very apt here.

Gu Miao knew what everyone was thinking, and he didn't explain too much, but informed Shen Chao of the matter in advance between the games.

"How? Are you sure? ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Gu!"

Different from the worries of Wanbao and the other high-level executives, Shen Chao, as a party concerned, said with great confidence: "We will definitely win, and we will not embarrass you." ”

"That's good."

When Gu Miao heard this, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, patted Shen Chao's shoulder, and everything was silent.

The result of the subsequent game was as everyone guessed, Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School burst out with amazing strength, and the autumn wind swept away the leaves to defeat a group of opponents and successfully defended the championship.

Two wins in a row!

This is the second time that Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School has won the championship trophy of the Wanbao Cup National Competition, and it is also the second time that Shen Chao has won the Most Valuable Player in the National Competition.

Three competitions, one runner-up and two champions.

The invincible performance of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School shocked countless netizens, and various media also wrote articles for the first time, spreading the news of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School's second consecutive championship all over the country.

However, before everyone could recover from the surprise of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School and the second consecutive championship, a notice from the Organizing Committee of the Wanbao Cup suddenly made everyone worried.

Huamei Middle School Student Tennis Exchange Tournament?

Egawa No. 1 Middle School, which has just defended its title, will face off against a traditional tennis powerhouse from North America in a week?

Boy!

If we say that everyone has their own support team in the national competition, you see that I am not happy and I see that you are unhappy, then this time in the Huamei Exchange Competition, everyone has become extraordinarily united.

The enemy is current, unanimously to the outside world!

Whether it is a fan of Qiushi Middle School, a fan of Lele Middle School, or a fan of the High School Affiliated to Dongda University, they all put aside their previous suspicions and cheered for Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School.

For a time, the attention and popularity of this nominal exchange competition were even higher than the previous national competition finals.

"Although it doesn't have the name of the national team, it does have the reality of the national team!"

Lao Zhang worried: "Everyone is happy if they win, but if they lose...... Can these junior high school students really stand it? ”

When it comes to this kind of cross-border confrontational competition, the enthusiasm of the Chinese people has always been very high, and they are more united than usual.

But once this kind of game is lost, the pressure of public opinion on the players is not as great as ordinary people can imagine.

That's what Lao Zhang was worried about.

The team members of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School are generally relatively young and have only entered junior high school.

It is a bit cruel to let these children face and endure such terrible pressure. After all, no matter how you say it, it's a group of children, not real national team players!

"Trust them!"

Gu Miao was relatively calmer than Lao Zhang, and her expression did not fluctuate from beginning to end.

But he also pretended.

In such a major event, even if he believes in Shen Chao, he will still be nervous when it comes to the end.

Luckily, he had both hands to prepare.

Regardless of whether the result of the exchange tournament is won or lost, at least the model of the Wanbao Cup tennis tournament can be smoothly promoted to overseas countries, and the preparations for the world championship are also well underway.

Of course!

It's definitely the best to win.

……

When the exchange match was held, Gu Miao did not go to the scene to watch the game.

He didn't want to put too much pressure on the players, so he was just normal, if he hadn't received a good news call from Lao Zhang, he would have even forgotten that there was an exchange match today.

"Win?"

"Well, win!"

Lao Zhang told Gu Miao that he thought that there was a big gap between the level of Chinese tennis and North America, but after actually playing, he found that the level was actually about the same.

It's hard to say about the higher-level professional-level competition, but at the level of middle school students, the top middle school students in China and the United States are indeed at the same level.

It's surprising, but it's normal when you think about it.

After all, in the junior high school stage, the children's bodies are still developing, and their ball skills have not been honed to the point of perfection, how can the "Prince of Tennis" anime depict it so terrifying?

No way?

No one really thinks that "The Prince of Tennis" is a realistic anime, thinking that there really is a pervert who mastered world-class skills in junior high school and left countless professional players in the dust, right?

Don't make a fuss!

Gu Miao has always felt that the most outrageous thing about "The Prince of Tennis" is not the Asura Shinto, nor the selfless realm, nor the light and dark hitting......

These skills are outrageous, but isn't the most outrageous thing that junior high school students can master these skills?

Reality is not anime.

A genius like Echizen Ryoma is destined to only appear in anime, and a real junior high school student can't play too perverted tennis just because of his physical fitness.

This is also the main reason why Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School can win 3:2 in this Huamei Exchange Competition.

The foundation is almost the same, the players of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School have more experience in the competition, and they have experienced more hard battles than the other party, and there is a pervert like Shen Chao, why can't they win?

Shaking his head, not thinking about the exchange competition for the time being, Gu Miao calmed down and looked at a document on the table patiently.

[Suggestions for making a new animated game of the sports genre!] 】

“…… Even after a long time, the animation "The Prince of Tennis" is still full of vitality in different fields, and derivative events and IP peripherals are becoming more and more popular. ”

"It can be seen that the vitality of a high-quality sports competition animation is very long, and it is not inferior to other animation genres with a wider audience......"

This is an internal document drafted by the IP management and operation department of Wanbao Animation, soliciting the opinions of a number of animation producers, and submitted directly to Mr. Gu.

The content is actually quite simple.

Thanks to the popularity of the Wanbao Cup Tennis Competition, the recent Huamei Exchange Tournament has attracted the attention of the whole network, and the derivatives related to the animation "The Prince of Tennis" have received a good response.

Netwang fandom is all over the network.

Especially recently, many TV stations have even come to buy the rebroadcast rights of the first and second seasons of "The Prince of Tennis".

This is undoubtedly a very surprising thing for an old animation that has been over for many years.

After all, TV stations are representatives who can't afford to be unprofitable, if "The Prince of Tennis" is not popular enough, how could they come to buy the replay rights after so long?

The popularity and success of "The Prince of Tennis" made the copyright operation department feel that maybe boutique sports is also a good choice?

Although in a short period of time, the income of such animation is not as good as that of works like "Digimon" and "Pokémon", but from the perspective of long-term development, high-quality sports fans should not be underestimated.

Here's an example.

Twenty more years......

Maybe at that time, "Digimon" was completely grounded, no one mentioned it, and young people forgot about it.

But "The Prince of Tennis" will not be forgotten, after all, as long as everyone talks about tennis, they will definitely think of "The Prince of Tennis", a once smash hit anime.

This is the longevity of the boutique sports fan, as well as the indelible far-reaching influence in the field.

Based on this consideration, the copyright operation department sincerely suggested to the company's senior management to launch another bloody sports with mainstream sports as the carrier, similar to "The Prince of Tennis".

Gu Miao adopted this suggestion.

He really didn't expect this.,But then again,The vitality of the boutique sports fan is really long.,If you can.,You can make another one.。

The question is what?

Tennis has already been done, and football is the number one sport in the world, but this theme is relatively popular, and football-related anime works emerge in endlessly.

"Maybe basketball is good?"

Gu Miao thought about it seriously and felt that basketball might be a better choice besides football.

After all, the audience of basketball is really not much in China, and it can even be said that there are more people who play basketball than football.

And there are a lot of basketball-related high-quality animations, not to mention the pinnacle "Slam Dunk", such as "Kuroko's Basketball", "Slam Dunk" and so on are masterpieces that cannot be ignored.

Oh yes......

There is also a relatively less famous, but equally far-reaching influence in China, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf's Basket Victory"!

Ahem, don't laugh.

Although basketball-related animations are a bit abstract when it comes to Pleasant Goat, it is undeniable that "Basket Out of Victory" is also a basketball-themed anime masterpiece.

"Basket out the future...... You can write it down first, and you can do it in two years. ”

After writing down "Basket Out of the Future" with a signature on paper, Gu Miao's expression was a little hesitant, not knowing what to write next.

Ping Pong Whirlwind?

Song Dynasty football player?

These are all well-known Guoman sports fans in the previous life,To say that he is not interested,It's impossible。

It's just that he has a careful thought.

Table tennis and football are not unpopular sports in China, since he wants to do sports, why not promote unpopular sports?

But unpopular projects rarely produce animation works, let alone high-quality masterpieces!

Just as Gu Miao was deep in thought, hesitating whether to support an unpopular project or choose a masterpiece from a popular project, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Unpopular sports, masterpieces?

There are very few anime works that meet these two requirements, and it can be said that it is basically equal to none.

But then again, the theme of sports, is mental exercise considered exercise? Does mind play count as competition?

If it is counted, then it seems that chess games such as Go and chess can also be included in the selection!

Especially Go......

Gu Miao still can't forget that the reason why she became so interested in Go was because of a CCTV animation called "Go Boy".

And in the animation, Jiang Liuer, a young man with extraordinary talent, who holds chess like a sword, and plays the same game of heaven and earth, gave him, a little "Go", a little "Go" shock!

What?

You said that Jiang Liu'er was purely playing chaotically, and his chess strength was not even as good as a certain eagle sauce now?

Fart!

Although Gu Miao doesn't know Go, he also has the most basic judgment, not to mention anything else, just because the chessboard and chess pieces will glow when Jiang Liu'er plays chess, he knows that this move is good.

Why is it so good?

Don't ask, just ask and it will glow!

This is the same as the dishes made by the little master, whether it is delicious or not, at least people will shine, and this alone has crushed countless people.

Although it attracted a lot of complaints after the broadcast, and there was even a classic saying "Go boys are very good except for Go", I have to admit that "Go Boy" is indeed a Go enlightenment course for many children.

Others don't know, anyway, Gu Miao became interested in Go through "Go Boy", and later went to buy books to learn.

Although the book was eaten with ashes when he bought it, and he didn't learn it, isn't it a success that an animation can arouse children's interest in Go?

That's good!

The popularity of Go in China is indeed very low, and it is not even as good as Xiangqi backgammon, after all, the latter has a higher popularity rate and a lower entry threshold.

The more he thought about it, the more energetic Gu Miao immediately made a decision, and his next new work was definitely "Go Boy".

In fact, there is also "Chess Soul" to choose from.

It's just that Gu Miao feels that since it is to fulfill his childhood dream and promote Go, it is still "Go Boy" that is more suitable for him.

After all, the background and story of the chess soul, if you want to make localized modifications, the workload is too great. Maybe he could give it to the Neon Division, but he certainly wasn't happy about it.

By the way.

Although "Go Boy" is a classic Go animation in Gu Miao's mind, its influence is also extremely far-reaching.

But to be honest, the Go part of this animation is indeed ...... It's hard to put into words!

The chess games chosen by the screenwriter and director cannot be said to be a piece of poop, but they are indeed very rubbish and unrepresentative.

Otherwise, how can people say that Go boys are very good except for Go?

This point must be revised.

Gu Miao has already thought about it, if you want to make the animation "Go Boy", then go to the chess academy to find a few world champion-level chess players as staff officers, and carefully screen the chess games when the time comes, so as to avoid making any low-level mistakes.

Of course!

It should be based on reality, but "Go Boy" is an anime with a bit of fantasy martial arts after all, and it is impossible to conform to reality in everything.

Not to mention anything else, Jiang Liuer, as the protagonist, is not too much to play chess and play dead, right? What about the chess soul and the old man who carries him, is Jiang Liuer still worthy of being the protagonist of the animation if he doesn't open the hanging?

Go Boy is also a relatively classic animation.,I don't know if you've seen it?

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