The plot of the second season of Lelouch can obviously feel the pace accelerating after Xia Li's death.

To put it more obviously, it is to start advancing the main line.

In the previous plot, Lelouch made his Black Knights shrink and develop, co-opted the Chinese Federation and other helpers, and had small-scale friction with the Bunitanian Empire, in fact, strictly speaking, the promotion of the main plot is very limited.

It can be seen from the plot that can also be broadcast about Lelouch's campus life.

How can there be a big leader who competes for dominance in the world, and he is still messing with a group of high school classmates on campus, but since the thirteenth episode Xia Li died

The Lelouch campus plot that was criticized by fans is finally gone.

Charlie's death not only greatly stimulated Lelouch and accelerated the counterattack against the Bunitanian Empire, but also made Suzaku doubt whether Lelouch had regained his memory of Zero and whether he was the mastermind behind the killing of Charlie.

And then there's Lelouch's fifteenth episode

Lelouch resents his father's brother, who is also a being with the ability to give geass to others.

Together with CC, he piloted the mecha to sneak attack him, but in the end, his father seized his brother VV's "Coad" ability, which can give others Geass abilities, before Lelouch, and set a trap to trap Lelouch.

And Lelouch's father is also ready to seize the "coad" ability possessed by CC.

In order to save Lelouch, CC paid for himself in exchange for Lelouch's chance to escape.

In the end, Lelouch's words to CC at the critical moment awakened CC's power to survive, and CC escaped with Lelouch later.

But CC also lost his memory because of the interference of Lelouch's father's power.

All in all, Lelouch's fourteenth and fifteenth episodes are fast-paced, and the work of these two episodes and the advancement of Lelouch's worldview can be said to be more than the previous thirteen episodes of the second season combined.

The plot began to work, and the fans naturally bought it, especially in the fifteenth episode, when CC lost his memory and substituted himself into the slave period hundreds of years ago, which satisfied the fantasy in the hearts of some CC to a certain extent.

So after the fifteenth episode of Lelouch was broadcast, the ratings came to the 6.50% mark again.

Lelouch's ratings data has repeatedly jumped horizontally, and to be honest, there is only this gap from the 6.51% historical ratings record of Moyuan, which also makes people in the entire animation industry feel a wave in their hearts.

Can you break it? Give it a good time.

I thought you couldn't do it, the ratings went down, and suddenly there was such a show.

This 0.01% gap has been impacted twice.

And on the other side, Sword Art Online Episode 2

The same is the steady improvement of viewership data.

The second episode was rated at 5.61%

Judging from this situation, I am afraid that it will also be in this quarter, and the ratings can break through the 6% mark, and even if the quality of the later episodes is a little better, it may not be able to compete with Lelouch in the Spring Festival market.

On the side of Xianliu Animation, all the members of the animation production team can say that they have been collectively confused for the past two weeks.

Sword Art Online's ratings are an absolute historical achievement for Xianliu Animation.

Although due to cross-copyright reasons, a considerable part of the cost of Sword Art Online's BD, peripherals, and overseas broadcasts has to be paid to Xia Yan and Liuli Books, but even the remaining profits, which can be predicted, are already an extremely considerable number.

In the past week, on the major variety shows of the Dragon Kingdom, the members of the animation production team of Sword Art Online have frequently appeared on camera.

How many opportunities can you have to become famous in a lifetime? At this point, you must have to put your forces on it.

As for the animation industry, after everyone saw that the ratings of the second episode of Sword Art Online could still have this kind of improvement to the extent of the first episode, almost all practitioners sighed in their hearts.

What does this mean? It shows that the reason why Sword Art Online, Lelouch, Magic Circle, Cyberpunk and other works can be popular is not very related to the production quality of animation, and it all depends on Xia Yan's script and popularity blessing to have this kind of achievement. ”

"In the past, Xia Yan's black fans would say that Lu Luxiu's good results were smashed by nearly 200 million production fees, but now the length of more than 20 episodes in the first season of Sword Art Online is only 80 million production costs, and the ratings of the broadcast also broke 5%"

"In fact, this kind of thing doesn't need to be in this kind of control group, we all know that there are a lot of animations invested in Longguoda, not to mention 200 million, there are also animations with 400 million investments in history, and I haven't seen that animation have this kind of achievement."

"That is, as the animation of the Dragon Kingdom's ratings record holder, the original investment was only more than 10 million, and the fire of a work has something to do with the amount of investment, but what can make Lelouch this kind of achievement is not made by throwing money. The funniest thing is that he actually spent more than 10 million yuan to buy the broadcast position of the Imperial Capital TV Station, perhaps it was because of this incident that Xia Yan felt too much loss, so the next few masterpiece animations were all given to the magic capital tv1 broadcast. ”

"I feel that in the animation industry of the Dragon Kingdom, Xia Yan is now a transcendent existence in the circle, and Xianliu Animation can also produce works with an opening rating of more than 5%? What international jokes? I'm afraid the three major animation companies are angry. ”

"Who told the three major animation companies to join forces to suppress Xia Yan when he was rising, I heard that the three major were originally interested in changing Sword Art Online, but Xia Yan vetoed it, and directly told the Liuli Book Society that if the three major accepted, he would rather never adapt the animation and not sign it."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, I've heard about it, too."

"This is the confidence of a short contract light writer, and he has the ability to negotiate terms with the book club."

"But he might as well make Sword Art Online an original animation from the beginning, so that he can earn more, and he doesn't have to cross-hold the copyright with the Liuli Society, he actually has the ability to do it alone."

"Actually, it's pretty much. Sword Art Online is originally suitable for light serialization, although there will be some copyright in the hands of the book club in the serialization of Liuli Book Society, but most of the income from the work will still be given to Xia Yan, besides, the share income of the single book of Sword Art Online is not lost at all to the benefits of the animated adaptation, the trouble is a little troublesome, but purely from the perspective of income, Xia Yan will definitely not lose. ”

"With Sword Art Online in the front, the animation adaptation of the initial D in the back is much simpler. Initial D depends on the situation.,I'm afraid the adapted animation will also be broadcast in the second half of the year.。 ”

"And then there are full-time hunters, Xia Yan has such a strong market appeal now, it's hard to imagine what achievements the full-time hunter will have after the adapted animation is broadcast."

The success of Sword Art Online's launch has led the entire animation community to turn the conversation to Initial D and full-time hunters.

Xia Yan has two works in a row, Lelouch and Cyberpunk have achieved good results, and even Sword Art Online looks like they are on the way to the big bang.

At a time when other works in the animation industry of the Dragon Kingdom are still counting as high-quality works with 3% ratings and 4% ratings as results, Xia Yan's animation has not been broadcast below 5% ratings.

This kind of too obvious fault line leads to Xia Yan's peers in the animation industry to smile bitterly.

There's no way to catch up.

This is no longer just a result data that can be explained by the quality of the work.

The current Xia Yan is a traffic monster with a terrifying number of fans of the top two-dimensional works of the Dragon Kingdom, such as Sword Art Online, Demon Circle, Cyberpunk, Initial D, and Full-time Hunter.

If Sword Art Online is an animation produced by a newcomer screenwriter in the Dragon Kingdom, it would be good if the ratings could break 4% at the start of the broadcast, but because of Xia Yan's name, it can easily break 5% or even develop to 6%.

In the next week, the media in the two-dimensional industry of Dragon Kingdom commented on a number of animations in the spring schedule, and Xia Yan's words unsurprisingly became the focus of news again.

At this time, Xia Yan actually didn't pay too much attention to the results of the two works.

Instead, he focused on the two original animations produced by Xia Tang Animation Production Company this quarter.

Still.

The opening results of the first episode of the two animations were 1.73% and 2.16% respectively.

The results are ranked at the upper middle level in the spring schedule of the Dragon Kingdom.

It's just that

Many people in the company are accustomed to the ratings of Xia Yan's works of 5% and 6% at every turn.

Many people's expressions are uncontrollable disgust.

Although Xia Yan was mentally prepared for this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

According to Xia Yan's concept, what he hopes is that Xia Tang Animation Production Company will gradually get rid of its dependence on Xia Yan in the next few years, or even ten years, even if Xia Yan does not come up with those works, it can have sufficient hematopoietic ability, like the three major animation production companies.

But judging from the results of this experiment, he invested 83 million in these two original animations, and there is a high probability that he will save his capital.

If Xia Yan is eliminated from this company, Xia Tang Animation is second-rate in the Dragon Kingdom at this stage.

"Alas," Xia Yan lay back to the back.

Tang Yin, who was wearing a black dress and had long black legs, came in, saw Xia Yan's expression, and then looked at the documents on Xia Yan's desk, and guessed what he was thinking.

"Okay, don't be greedy, think about the three major animation production companies, when I was a child, they were well-known animation companies in Longguo, and it took more than 20 years of development to become the industry leader, do you think our company has only achieved a few years? It's less than four years. Tang Yin put the documents that Xia Yan was supposed to deal with in the afternoon on his desk, and then sat down on the slide chair next to him.

"I know the truth, but it is."

"What's it?" Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan.

"You're only twenty-one years old, so you're more anxious than my father. He is fifty years old, and the film and television animation production company that has been established for 30 years is now in scale, and its revenue capacity is not as good as half of our Xia Tang, just like that, he still thinks he is a genius. ”

Xia Yan thought about it, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

"You're right, I can't hope that Xia Tang Animation will become a world-class animation production company in two or three years. Although the company's revenue level is very good, its original ability and hematopoietic ability can only develop slowly. ”

"And Xia Yan, you have to be clear." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan's attitude, hesitated for a moment, and then said.

"You can't expect too much from your subordinates. Indeed, they are first-class players in the animation industry, and they are talents that our company has spent a lot of money to recruit. But compared to you, they can only be described as mediocre. If you expect them to spend a few years, more than ten years to create original works like Lelouch and Moyuan. All I can say is that you shouldn't be able to see that day. ”

Xia Yan looked at Tang Yin.

"In the past few decades when the animation industry of the Dragon Kingdom has been booming, there has been a monster like you Xia Yan, and there is no second person in this industry like you." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan with light eyes and said softly.

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, thought about it, and then let out a long breath.

Seeing this, Tang Yin stopped the topic.

She actually understood Xia Yan's thoughts, what Xia Yan essentially wanted to build was an excellent big company, not a large studio that only served him personally.

It's a pity. The reality is very skinny.

Xia Tang Animation left Xia Yan, and it was indeed at this level.

"Speaking of Xia Yan, Lelouxiu's animation has been almost made, and the company has one or two hundred people who are going to have nothing to do now, are you going to let them continue to be original?" When the topic came here, Tang Yin also took the opportunity to say.

Previously, Xia Yan's idea was that after Lu Lu finished repairing, he would let his subordinates play freely for half a year and a year, so that he could take the opportunity to travel and spend his honeymoon with Tang Yin's couple.

After four years of college, Xia Yan was almost crazy by her studies and work, and she also wanted to relax.

But at this stage

If you really let your subordinates play freely, then Xia Yan must be prepared to lose money.

Xia Yan's depression also comes partly from this.

"Alright, no more wasted time." Xia Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"As soon as you say it, I understand, maybe I'm thinking too much, and I always think that there are geniuses in the company who can't be tapped to jump out to help me support the company's business. I'll find a way to find something for the employees to do.,Invest 80 million to make two animations that's it? There is also the risk of loss, I might as well do nothing and keep my money in the bank. ”

But after Xia Yan has been doing it for a few years, he doesn't have much interest in doing short stories like before, and he doesn't have much interest in quarterly animation.

These works are short, and they also seriously occupy Xia Yan's energy, animation from the script, character design, music, storyboard, to the review of the completion of production, Xia Yan has to check, every time a new work is created, these processes have to be done again.

As for long-form animation, relatively speaking, Xia Yan can save a lot of energy, just like in the later stage of Lelouch animation, the staff basically knows Xia Yan's style and production requirements for this work, and Xia Yan can be satisfied with the quality of the completion without Xia Yan's supervision.

When Tang Yin heard this, her eyes lit up and she asked curiously.

"What do you mean by that."

"It's really hard to arrange work with hundreds of people, I think about it. I'll try to come up with a full-length work. Otherwise, I have to think about their work every quarter, and I am also very troubled, and the company with hundreds of people feels like I have become a wet nurse. Xia Yan said.

"Long-form animation?" Tang Yin blinked.

I understood what Xia Yan meant.

But feature-length animation.

"You don't think you've ever written a full-length work before. The longest is Lelouch, but the first and second seasons combined, it's only forty or fifty episodes."

"There is no anime, but in the manga and the realm, isn't it the Hunter and Sword Art Online?" Xia Yan said with a smile.

"Don't worry, I know that my current position in the industry will not smash the signboard by myself, and many things have to be laid out."

"Layout?" Tang Yin's eyes lit up with confusion.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's hard to explain to you now, but you'll know later."

Xia Yan said.

After all, Xia Yan knows very well that he may have to deal with the two-dimensional industry in this world for decades in the future.

It is definitely best to take out some works early to accumulate popularity.

For example, Pokémon, Blue Fatty, Marvel's real two-dimensional IP commercial masterpieces, Lelouch, and Magic Circle are not yet ranked.

After all, the work is short, and the influence does not last enough.

But Pokémon, Blue Fatty, Marvel, these works, the accumulation of popularity is not useful in a day or two, at least in a few years, more than ten years.

Xia Yan can start to make these works come out gradually, but at least for a long time in the future, he will have to invest a lot of money to escort the dissemination of these works, so that he may be able to get huge benefits from these works in the next few years, more than ten years, and decades.

In layman's terms, it is to spend money to hatch golden eggs at this stage.

Fortunately, Xia Yan Company has accumulated enough now, and it also has the ability to hatch these golden eggs.

It's just at this stage. The company makes money and grows, but it still has to rely on works such as Lelouch.

Therefore, Xia Yan can't accept that he invested 80 million in two animations, and he made a rating of 1% and 2%, which is a pure waste of time, and this kind of investment rate of return can't support Xia Yan's idea of developing a binary business empire.

The long-form works that Xia Yan and Tang Yin said are definitely not Pokémon or Marvel.

At Xia Yan's current level, it is difficult to get his hands on ordinary works, after all, the quality is not enough, and he doesn't want to show his flaws and let those black fans laugh at him.

What Xia Yan can take out must be in a parallel world, an existence of the same level as Lelouch and other works.

For example, steel refining, Tianyuan breakthrough, CL or something.

Of course, the company also has a demand for development in the field of animated films and short drama animations, and works such as the realm of emptiness can also be made into a series of animated films.

There are a lot of complicated thoughts in his brain, and Xia Yan gradually fell into thinking.

(End of chapter)