Naifly is a good buddy of Wanbao.

Over the years, almost all of Wanbao's animation works and overseas online versions have been represented by Naifly, and the two sides have formed a deep friendship.

Although in business, this kind of business friendship cannot stand the test, and it may fall out one day.

But Naifly did push a lot of interesting projects for Wanbao, and the Angry Birds animation was a typical case before.

The animation adaptation of "League of Legends" was mentioned by Naifly to Wanbao a long time ago, but Gu Miao never nodded considering the relevant copyright issues and the unclear attitude of the penguins.

As everyone knows.

League of Legends is a game operated by Penguin, which in turn is the parent company of game developers, and Wanbao and Penguin are also competitors in the field of animation.

The good news is that Penguin isn't monolithic and probably won't interfere with the game developer's decision-making, and if Riot Games is convinced, it is possible for Wanbao to win the rights to animate League of Legends.

The bad news is......

League of Legends is certainly one of the most popular games in the world right now, but even if it gets the animation adaptation rights, it doesn't really mean much to Wanbao.

After all, the copyright is not yours, and no matter how good you do, you are just working for others.

"It's a pity."

Gu Miao likes the game League of Legends, but unfortunately, his position has decided that it is impossible for him to do an animation like "Battle of Two Cities".

Unless the penguin or the fist takes the initiative to come to the door and offer extremely generous conditions, he takes the initiative to find someone, which is no different from "licking the dog".

Let's look at Seto in the distance!

In the second half of this year, the Wanbao Neon Branch held a "Whimsical Wanbao Award" light solicitation activity, and took out huge bonuses and animation adaptation opportunities to collect a number of excellent light films.

It must be recognized......

The light industry of neon is really developed, and the number of new generation authors is also sufficient.

There are thousands of works submitted for this Wanbao Awards, and after excluding some nonsense toilet paper, there are 3 works selected for the final gold award list.

One is a traditional otherworldly theme, the brain hole is a little strange, others are reincarnated as various nobles, and the most recent is also a civilian genius, he is good, reincarnated as a slime......

The other two are both urban themes.

One is a harem love comedy in which ordinary high school students live together with many big sisters, during which there are all kinds of troubles and benefits, and the laughter is relatively intensive.

The other is a unique way.,Based on the theme of the school idol that is more sought after by modern young people.,It tells the story of several girls facing the crisis of abandoning the school.,Choose to become an idol to save the story of the school.。

“LoveLive？”

Gu Miao thought of this animation for the first time, and felt that the setting of this debut in order to save the abolished school sounded very familiar, so he asked.

It turned out to be LoveLive!

can only be said to be too coincidental, although it should not be called LoveLive, but what is it called "star student girl", but the names of Sui Naiguo and Nan Xiaoniao, there will not really be a second dimension that can't be recognized, right?

"Celebrity student girl? What kind of name is this...... Even if it's called School idol, it's fine! Gu Miao's expression was tense.

"That's right, that's what I thought, the title of this book is too sloppy."

Seto also cried and laughed on the phone: "This light book should be the most promising of the three gold medal works." ”

"The content is actually quite well written, and the adaptation value is extremely high, but the title of this book is a bit too outrageous, and it looks like eighteen forbidden literature."

"Let him change it, forget it, I'll come up with a name! LoveLive!School Idol Project,I'll inform him like this when I get back......"

It is very common to change the title of a book, especially if you participate in the call for essays, once you decide to publish or animate, the editor or animation producer is not satisfied, and you may be "voluntarily renamed" at any time.

It can only be said that most light writers may be good at writing articles, but they are definitely a real name.

This can be seen from the light titles of books in the industry.

The current light title, the title is smelly and long, and it is difficult to remember, far less than the short and concise way of naming back then.

An essay contest actually unearthed a "LoveLive!", which surprised both Gu Miao and Seto.

"Continue to hold essays in the future!"

"Wanbao Reward is very good, in my opinion, I will come here every year in the future to discover more light works with great potential for adaptation."

Gu Miao suggested: "By the way, you should also pay more attention to the other world that was reincarnated as a slime." ”

"You mean ......"

"Don't think about it, I just think that a work from another world like this, which is reincarnated as a non-human, may become mainstream in the future."

It's a pity!

The light that stands out in this Wanbao Award is not the original "Reincarnated Slime" animation in Gu Miao's memory.

The two are almost unrelated.,If you have something in common.,It's probably that the protagonist is reincarnated as a low-level monster slime.。

Since this slime is not the Moe King Rimuru, then Gu Miao doesn't need to be too concerned, the reason why Seto paid attention to this work is just to take precautions.

Different world light, animation and comic works, after the explosive follow-up in the past few years, now there is an extremely serious "aesthetic fatigue".

It's not just that the audience doesn't like to watch it.

Animators, light editors and cartoonists in the industry suddenly turned pale when they heard the words "different worlds".

This has directly led to the precipitous decline of ACGN works in another world this year, and the number of output is far less than in previous years, not even one-tenth.

Is the other world dead?

Gu Miao thinks no!

As a major category of fantasy works, the other world may experience a short period of low points, but if it dies completely, I am afraid it will not be so easy.

At present, most of the works in another world that the audience dislikes or even rejects are lacking in innovation, and the toilet paper with serious homogeneity of the plot is light.

If at this time, a very innovative and distinctive work from another world suddenly emerges, everyone will still support it.

"Non-human" or the next outlet.

The current audience is tired of watching the setting of the protagonist being reincarnated as a human.

The setting of reincarnation in another world becoming a non-human is still relatively new for the time being, and it may set off another round of follow-up frenzy next year and the year after.

"Skeletons, slimes, spiders, vending machines, ......"

Thinking of the various anime from another world in his previous life, which could even be reincarnated by a vending machine, Gu Miao was speechless and choked.

Don't say it!

Reincarnated as a non-human in another world is lighter, and the probability of appearing to be a fine product is slightly lighter than that of a normal human being reincarnated.

What Bone King, Moe King, Spider Child, etc., aren't they all thriving when adapted into animation?

……

Seto panned for gold in, and he really found gold like "LoveLive!" for him.

Gu Miao was very envious.

So he asked Nan Tong to discuss with Lao Zhang, and pondered to hold a similar essay collection activity in China.

"It's not like I haven't done it before, what have you gained?"

Lao Zhang said disdainfully: "After three years of son-in-law, I am the fairy king and don't pretend, this is the work we finally collected when we engaged in the essay." ”

"That's better than nothing."

Although the works collected for the first time were indeed very difficult, Gu Miao still felt that it was bad luck last time, and it would definitely be different this time.

And in this essay collection, he does not plan to include works such as fantasy and fairy tales in the scope of the collection, and the activities are limited to "science fiction".

"Isn't that looking for death?"

Nan Tong shook his head and said: "There are only a few authors who write science fiction in China, who will sign up for the authors who can write a little famous?" ”

"If you have enough money, you're not afraid that no one will sign up."

"Besides, what I'm going to collect is not the works of those science fiction masters who have been famous for a long time, but the works of newcomers who write science fiction for the first time."

Gu Miao smiled slightly.

The god-level science fiction author who has been famous for a long time is indeed unlikely to sign up for Wanbao's essay contest.

But this is not necessarily the case for newcomer authors.

As long as the rewards offered by Wanbao are attractive enough, you don't have to worry about not receiving manuscripts, and you don't have to worry about the scarcity of science fiction authors.

In fact, many people, especially science and engineering men, have a science fiction dream in their minds!

It's just that everyone doesn't usually write articles, let alone sketch the imaginary pictures in their minds in the form of words.

But if these people start to write under the stimulation of Wanbao, who knows if one or two newcomers will emerge?

Do what you think.

After a closed-door discussion by the three of them, the "Whimsical Ideas" science fiction essay competition plan jointly organized by Wanbao Comics x Wanbao Animation x Wanbao Games was officially released.

In this essay contest, we learned from the "Wanbao Award" of the Neon Division, and set up three gold awards, six silver awards, and ten awards for the best creativity.

Among them, the long story should not be less than 100,000 words, the middle story should not be less than 20,000 words, and the short story should not be less than 1,000 words.

The Gold Award will receive a prize of 1 million yuan and the opportunity to be animated and adapted for film and television, while the Silver Award will receive a publication opportunity and 200,000 yuan.

This kind of reward is considered a grand prize in the entire science fiction world.

Many science fiction writers who are short of money, after seeing the gold award, suddenly came up with the idea of contributing to Wanbao.

More than science fiction guys.

There are many ordinary people who may not have written science fiction before, but this time they were shocked by Wanbao's generosity and wanted to win the gold award, and they also planned to write a science fiction article and vote for Wanbao to test the water.

Among them is a junior power engineer working for a coal-fired power plant.

He saw this news on the Internet, he is a science and engineering man, he is full of interest in science fiction, coupled with the temptation of the gold award, so he couldn't hold back the restlessness in his heart, and wrote the first science fiction ......

The gears of fate are beginning to turn.

The popularity of the essay contest exceeded Gu Miao's imagination.

When he learned that as soon as the announcement of the event was released, the submission mailbox was flooded with emails from all over the world, and the whole person was stunned.

it! Are there so many science fiction authors in the country?

Just kidding!

Doesn't it mean that Huaguo fantasy fairy martial arts is the mainstream, and science fiction belongs to the niche of the niche? How did so many sci-fi lovers pop up all at once?

There are so many manuscripts, many of which are hundreds of thousands of words, and some of which are thousands of words, and it is really difficult to review......

Gu Miao still has to make the animation of "Martin's Morning", and she can't squeeze out much free time to review the manuscript, so she can only distribute this work to Huang Kun, Ma Kui, Hou Bin, Guo Hongwei and others.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers!

Relying on Gu Miao alone, he may not be able to finish reading the manuscripts in the mailbox next year, but after he helped out, the preliminary screening of manuscripts was carried out smoothly.

From the end of November to the middle of December, for half a month, Gu Miao didn't know how many novels, novellas or short sci-fi novels she had watched.

Most of them are short stories.

This is normal!

After all, the essay contest has only been open for half a month, and after excluding plagiarism and other situations, it is not difficult to write a long science fiction of no less than 100,000 words in half a month.

Most people have the idea of giving it a try, write a short story of a few thousand words and come to submit.

Levels are uneven......

Some of the short stories are really wonderful, which makes people applaud when they see it, and call their brains to break through the sky.

But some short science fiction stories are written like the diary of a primary school student, which is simply torturous to watch, and I really dare not compliment his literary literacy.

Of course, that's not all.

The most headache for Gu Miao is some science fiction, maybe the author himself is engaged in this industry, so he uses a lot of professional terms and advanced technology concepts, which makes the layman look confused.

"Spare me......"

Ma Kui couldn't stand it, he was just an ordinary liberal arts college student, a little too brain-burning, he really couldn't understand it!

What is this called?

Knowledge is poisonous!

The science fiction written by these science and engineering men is more abstract and outrageous than the other, not to mention that he can't understand the principles of science fiction, and he can't even understand the formula calculations in it.

Not only Ma Kui couldn't stand it, but Hou Bin, Huang Kun and Guo Hongwei were not much better, and they also had a headache when they helped Mr. Gu screen the manuscript.

"Forget it, I'll find someone else."

Seeing that they really couldn't help, Gu Miao had no choice but to contact several well-known science fiction writers in the industry to replace Ma Kui and others to review the submission letters in the mailbox.

That's a lot of efficiency!

When Ma Kui Huang Kun and others were there, although the first draft selection work could be carried out smoothly, the efficiency was really not very high, after all, they were not professional science fiction writers.

But since Gu Miao hired foreign aid to do the first draft screening work for him, the efficiency immediately took off, and the crowded mailbox was swept away in an instant.

"Any good submissions?"

"Yes!"

Facing Lao Zhang's curious inquiry, Gu Miao smiled and said: "Although it is a sci-fi short story, I think it is very interesting, and it seems that it can be changed into an animated movie." ”

"Oh? What is your name? ”

""Chaowen Dao"!"

"Chaowen said, can you die at night? This name sounds interesting, what kind of story does it tell? Lao Zhang was very curious.

"I haven't finished reading it yet......"

Gu Miao shook her head and smiled: "I've only watched about a third of it, but I've already decided that this work must be one of the gold awards!" ”

Yes?!

Lao Zhang's eyes were a little dazed.

You didn't even read it before you decided to give it a gold award? Wouldn't that be too hasty? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to read it first and then make a decision?

(End of chapter)