If you don't consider other factors, purely from a plot point of view, AlphaGo is really a good choice.

Moreover, it is not impossible to set it as a villain, and it is even more appropriate than the protagonist, and the sense of accomplishment of defeating it is more satisfying than defeating any chess saint and chess god.

In addition, AlphaGo also has an identity that is very suitable for it, that is-the cheat plug-in grandfather!

There is already a precedent for this.

As far as Gu Miao knows, in many online articles Go, the plug-in gold finger given by the author to the protagonist is the portable AlphaGo, and then travels back to the era when AI Go has not yet been born, and shocks everyone by killing all sides......

Be reasonable.

If "Go Boy" is not an ancient background, but a modern urban background, if Gu Miao wants to open a hang for Jiang Liuer, it will probably be a hanging.

After all, in the context of modern cities, what kind of plug-in in the Go world can be more fierce than AlphaGo?

It's a pity that Jiang Liuer is an ancient.

In the context of ancient stories, AlphaGo is naturally unusable. After all, it is very strange for modern scientific and technological products to be put in the Ming Dynasty, and it is awkward no matter how you look at it.

After discussing with Xiao Ke and Liu Lao, Gu Miao finally decided to give the protagonist Jiang Liuer the characteristics of a "peerless genius".

It is also commonly known as plug-ins.

As the protagonist of the animation, it's impossible not to hang up, and the talent is relatively speaking, it's already the most rubbish plug-in.

The story begins in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the prevalence of the Japanese in the coastal areas, in order to resist the Japanese invaders, the imperial court specially sent a batch of magic cannons, but these weapons inexplicably fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders.

Qin Cha Jiang Lingyun was ordered to come to investigate the matter thoroughly, he had a son named Jiang Liu'er, who showed a talent for Go from an early age, and at the age of three he won the Lingyun Temple Master Yuande, although the master gave up the nine sons......

As the second generation of the powerful, Jiang Liuer was not the perfect protagonist as everyone imagined at the beginning.

Although he has a talent for Go, he doesn't pay attention to it, he likes to dance with knives and guns, and he has the temper of a young master and the arrogance that surpasses others, and he gives people a very bad impression at first glance.

This is also the most commendable point of the original plot.

If Jiang Liu'er came up with a perfect personality and became a chess saint all the way, it would be too boring and lacked the sense of drama that it should have.

He needs a process of growth.

A chess master is never born, and only after enough experience can he become a chess master.

It happened that in the plot, Jiang Liuer experienced the ups and downs of life.

The front foot is still the descendant of the powerful that everyone envies, and no matter where he goes, he is a superior existence, and the back foot becomes an orphan, and he is also burdened with the burden of avenging his father.

It was such a great change that prompted him to grow up, and finally embarked on the path of learning chess hard and eventually becoming a chess master.

Why Go?

Because of the death of Jiang Liuer's father, including the mastermind behind the collusion with the Japanese Koukou case, it is very likely that he is a member of the royal family and will be the king of Chaofu.

If you want to unravel the truth and bring down the powerful King Fu, you have to meet the emperor in person, but Jiang Liuer is just a grass people, how can he meet the emperor?

The identity of the Ming chess saint may be a good choice.

"To be honest, this is a bit of."

Ma Kui, who acted as the little brother of Mr. Gu, couldn't help but pout: "If you play chess well, you can see the emperor?" This setting is inevitably too outrageous, so if I play chess well, can I see ......"

As soon as the words fell, Ma Kui, who was making tea, found that Mr. Gu, as well as Xiao Ke and Liu Lao on the side, were all looking at him with strange eyes.

"What's the matter, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Stupid ponies!"

Liu Lao and Xiao Ke didn't speak, Gu Miao glanced at Ma Kui, who didn't know why, rolled his eyes and said: "If you play Go well and reach the level of a chess saint, then you can indeed see the emperor, what's the matter, are you not convinced?" ”

"If you can play Go well, see ...... Ahem, it's not impossible, I don't believe you ask Xiao Ke and Liu Lao. ”

"Really?"

Ma Kui turned his head to look at the two.

"Really!"

Before Xiao Ke could speak, Liu Lao said with a smile: "The older generation of chess saint Nie Lao, you can go and learn about his deeds." ”

"The modern chess saint is still a little bit meaningless, after all, the modern chess saint has become an ordinary title, and in the final analysis, the social status is like that."

"But ancient times are different......

Taking advantage of Ma Kui's question, Liu Lao gave everyone a scientific overview of the gold content and social status of the ancient title of "Chess Saint".

It is no exaggeration to say that in ancient times, the chess player who won the title of chess saint was a special existence that even the emperor had to respect and courtesy.

Meet the Emperor?

Isn't that the most basic privilege?

Isn't it very common to enter the palace to exchange chess skills with the emperor? The crown prince and prince have to come and learn chess with you!

One of the four arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, is it playing with you?

……

Ma Kui didn't understand Go, nor did he understand the social status of the four arts of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting in ancient times, and naturally he didn't understand the gold content of Jiang Liuer, the "chess saint".

In fact, Gu Miao didn't understand it very well.

It's just that he knows one thing very well, that is, the small group of people who have achieved the top in all walks of life have absolutely different status from ordinary people.

Not to mention, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are still the most popular and highest four crafts in ancient China, and their social status and influence are very high.

As a leader in the Go world, the title of chess saint is definitely one of the small groups of people standing at the top of the pyramid, if this can't see the emperor, then who can?

Liu Lao said it very bluntly.

That is, the social status of modern qin, chess, calligraphy and painting has been much lower than that of ancient times, and has become a means of cultivating body and mind.

But even so, in today's era, any skill of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting can still have unimaginable status and influence.

What about the ancient times when qin, chess, calligraphy and painting were the most praised? Will such people be less influential than they are now?

So there's nothing wrong with the plot logic.

Many people may not understand, Jiang Liuer wants to avenge his father and reveal the true face of King Fu, why do he want to take the road of Go?

But the truth is......

This is the most correct choice, and it is also the most reasonable choice, if he does not follow the path of Go, will he become a ranger assassin and be free from the jurisdiction of the law?

Don't look at the ancients through the eyes of modern people! Modern people learn Go, and learning well is nothing more than being a professional player, cultivating sentiment, and a craft to make a living.

But in the ancient context, learning Go was enough to achieve a class jump, which is equivalent to the promotion path of the modern college entrance examination.

Especially for those who learn well and have outstanding talent in Go, taking this path is actually not much different from the imperial examination.

The setting is reasonable.

Thinking of this, Gu Miao's face was also a little ashamed, after all, when he was young, he also complained about the strange setting of "learning Go to take revenge" like Ma Kui.

At that time, he also thought it was outrageous.

Learn Go to point to the title of "Chess Saint", and then expose King Fu to avenge his father? What is this? It's better to learn this than to learn some martial arts, isn't it good to be happy and revenge directly?

Of course!

It's all about thinking when you're young.

After Liu Lao's popular science and his own in-depth understanding, Gu Miao will not despise or even despise Go as much as he did at the beginning.

At least in ancient times, people who played Go well were indeed very powerful, and their social status was very high, no worse than any great Confucian.

Nowadays?

Ordinary chess players don't have such a high status, but if you reach the level of a chess master, you can still have an influence far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

……

The animation "Go Boy" was originally scheduled for 26 episodes, which is the "half a year" standard on the neon side.

Later, after discussion and research between Gu Miao and the screenwriter team, I felt that 26 episodes were still too short, and it was difficult to tell the story well.

So it was expanded to 52 episodes.

This is a very common number of TV animation episodes, neither long nor short, with a total duration of 1000 minutes, which will not make Wanbao Animation too difficult.

It's hard to say if it's too long......

Generally speaking, the total duration of a TV anime will be controlled to 2500 minutes, which is about 120-150 episodes, so as to avoid exceeding this length.

Except for works such as "Dragon Ball", "Detective Conan", and "Doraemon".

Normal animations will not exceed 150 episodes.

The reason for this phenomenon is very simple, that is, I am worried about dissuading the audience and avoiding the audience from forgetting the early plot when watching it.

It's easy to understand that the audience is worried about watching and forgetting the early plot, after all, there are many episodes and the serialization time is more than two months, so it's easy to forget what story was told before.

As for the point of dissuading the audience, in fact, you can understand it by taking TV series as an example.

Gu Miao was previously watched by a friend of Yangcheng Amway, and he wanted to take the time to finish it, but when he saw the total number of episodes 4000+, his eyes suddenly darkened.

He only watched the first dozen or so episodes, and then ran away.

I can't stop watching!

The number of episodes is too persuasive, I was very interested, but when I saw the exaggerated number of episodes, I was instantly uninterested.

This is the same as Gu Miao's plan to give Amway, who doesn't watch anime, "Naruto", "One Piece" and other works, originally my friends were all moved, but when I saw the number of episodes, I suddenly left a sentence of "forget it".

There are too many episodes, which will inadvertently discourage some people's interest in watching.

For example, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" is obviously the most classic in the first season, but the frequency of online on-demand is far less than that of the later sequels.

Because there are so many episodes!

People who haven't watched the anime usually think that I definitely don't have time to watch so many episodes, so since I can't finish watching it, I just don't watch it.

So that's why most anime control the duration and number of episodes to avoid being extremely long-form.

Take the current popular online text adaptation animation as an example, it is broadcast weekly anyway, why not record hundreds of episodes at a time, and have to be broadcast separately into several seasons?

You think they don't want to?

It's not that I'm worried about going from beginning to end, if you don't divide it into seasons or chapters, there are too many episodes to scare away new audiences.

"Go Boy" is the same.

Gu Miao plans to make Go Boy into a series, since it is a series, there is more than one animation, for the sake of the audience's viewing experience, it is impossible to make each season too long.

Within 100 episodes is the best.

According to Wanbao Animation's current production capabilities, if the firepower is fully opened, it can produce about 40-65 minutes of unedited and unsynthesized footage a day.

In other words, as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the audience will be able to see the animation "Go Boy" on TV.

This is the situation when everything is going well.

Considering that there may be some accidents and accidents along the way, mid-October is a relatively reasonable time point.

"It's autumn......"

Gu Miao frowned, and immediately thought of "Roaming the World of Animation" that was in production.

According to the progress reported by Huang Kun, the first season of "Roaming the World of Animation" is expected to be broadcast in September this year, that is, the beginning of the school season.

If the Go boy is too busy, he may collide with Ah Kun.

What if you drag your progress?

That's not so good, either.

After all, after November, Wanbao Animation will usher in a real "epic masterpiece" - the return of Superman Remake!

These two works are not ordinary animations, and it is definitely not a good choice for Go Boy to collide with them.

But then again.

It's only August now, and it's too early to say this, whether it's "Roaming the World of Animation" or "Superman Remake", there is a possibility of postponement and bounce.

Especially the Superman remake.

The probability of Wanbao's other animations bouncing is about zero, but the probability of the Superman remake bouncing is almost 100%.

It's just that there is no official announcement......

Dave of Wanbao's North American branch has always maintained close contact with Gu Miao one email a day, so Gu Miao also knows a lot about the situation of the remake of "Superman".

As far as he knew.

The reason for the high probability of the Superman remake is that the production progress is really ...... It's too slow!

Comparable to "Cat and Mouse".

That's not to say that Superman Remastered was made to the same level as Cat and Mouse.

In fact, if it is because of "slow work and careful work" that causes the postponement and jumping, not only Gu Miao will understand, but I believe that fans and viewers can also express their understanding.

But the Superman remake is not slow work, but the vast majority of the production team is entangled in lawsuits......

Scald!

When Gu Miao received the news, she didn't expect the Weiler company to be so abstract, and the Superman IP was sold to Wanbao, but the employees who made Superman were reluctant to let go.

This is one of those lawsuits.

There is also a lawsuit initiated by Mardete Comics, accusing several employees of Wanbao for theft of trade secrets, and Wanbao Animation for alleged unfair competition and infringement of intellectual property rights......

That's right!

In order to better produce and shape the superhero of "Superman", Dave also poached a lot of people from Mardete.

This is Gu Miao's old enemy.

It's already dirty, and you're still poaching me? Mardete's old man George had a bad stomach and immediately dragged Wanbao with a lawsuit.

Most of these lawsuits are vexatious.

But he couldn't stand the disgusting people of the other party, and tried to pour dirty water on "Superman" in production through this despicable means to stigmatize the superhero.

Mardete Comics and Weller reached a consensus to try to make the IP of "Superman" rot and destroy it in the hands of Wanbao.

This made Gu Miao speechless.

Mardete's target is understandable, after all, they have a lot of superhero IPs, and they don't want to see Superman live out of the second life to grab market share.

What does Kwühler think?

No matter how you say the Superman series, it is also a great IP created by themselves, the front foot has just been sold to Wanbao, and the back foot is splashed with dirty water?

(End of chapter)