"Well, that's actually it." Qing Zhiyuan seemed to think that it was a bit rude to ask such a question, so he quickly apologized, and then explained the reason to Miyazaki.

"Actually, I'm Gu Yuan Tsubaki."

Qing Zhiyuan leaned into Miyazaki's ear and said.

"Huh?"

Miyazaki was a little surprised, but not so surprised.

The main reason is that he has only heard the deeds of Furuhara Tsubaki from Toshio Suzuki, but he doesn't know much about this person's previous works, the only thing he knows is that the game "Your Name" is really good, beyond Miyazaki's imagination and cognition of the game.

But in this way, he appreciated Qing Zhiyuan even more.

"So, you made 'Your Name'?"

"Hmm." Qing Zhiyuan nodded distressedly, "Senior, please keep it secret for me." ”

"I love this game." Miyazaki does not hide his affection at all, "The style of painting is very delicate and very pleasing to the eye. ”

"Thank you, Miyazaki senior," Qing Zhiyuan clasped his hands together, "I didn't want to continue to make games with Furuhara Tsubaki before, and at the same time, I wanted to give way to young people, so I issued a retirement statement, and now the producer of the game is not enough, maybe I need to use Furuhara Tsubaki, so I'm a little panicked."

I'd like to ask you how you handled it. ”

Oh, that's it.

Hayao Miyazaki understood at once.

He glanced at Qing Zhiyuan and smiled meaningfully.

Good guy, you are so young that you say that you want to give way to young people, so what about me, a middle-aged and elderly person in my 50s?

But well...... Thinking about it carefully, it's really a coincidence, Qing Zhiyuan actually has the same experience as him.

Thinking about it like this, he felt that fate was even more wonderful.

"That's right...... It's really an interesting question to come back after retiring. ”

Miyazaki sat on his back in a chair, crossed Jiro's legs, and scratched a silver hair on the back of his head with his right hand.

I instinctively wanted to light a cigarette to smoke, but suddenly remembered that this was a non-smoking place in the store.

Qing Zhiyuan reacted immediately and said with a smile, "Senior, otherwise let's go outside and talk." ”

He placed his index and middle fingers on his lips and gestured.

Miyazaki laughed.

……

After eating dessert, the two of them found a smoking room on the street and sat down, each smoked, and continued to talk for a while.

"Every time I retire, I'm serious."

Miyazaki took a puff of his cigarette and couldn't help but laugh as he recalled his feelings at the time.

"At that time, after making Castle in the Sky, I thought it was probably the pinnacle of my life." Miyazaki looked back at Aochigen and said, "I think the same thing as you, but maybe for a different reason." I was 45 years old when I finished filming Castle in the Sky.

I think it's time to make room for young people.

And retiring at the peak of life may be the best destination for us comic book authors.

According to my thoughts at the time, I didn't want to go downhill because of a lack of physical strength or creativity, and finally quit because of dismal grades.

It's too embarrassing. ”

Qing Zhiyuan listened silently, looking at the expression on the old man's face, knowing that he was saying this very seriously.

Sometimes, it takes a lot of courage to retreat from the rapids, and it takes a lot of courage to stop at the peak.

"It's amazing that Miyazaki-senpai was able to say his retirement after the end of "Castle in the Sky"." Qing Zhiyuan sighed.

Throughout China's thousands of years of history, there are very few people who can truly achieve success and retirement.

Hayao Miyazaki smiled indifferently, "About the comeback later...... I don't really want to say it's for Ghibli, or for the audience, although there are some reasons for that. ”

"I will also be troubled, saying that this era still needs Miyazaki, whether Miyazaki's new works can still be seen, whether they can surpass the previous works, these will actually give you invisible pressure."

"But after retreating, there is a little flame in your heart, which will burn and then transform into a powerful force that pulls you up from the bed and pushes you forward."

"If you don't draw the ideas that keep coming into your brain, you can't stand it."

"Maybe that's my flaw."

"Based on this, I made "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Porco Rosso" again."

Hayao Miyazaki said this with a childlike smile on his face.

This is probably the love and persistence of innocent animators for animation.

When Qing Zhiyuan saw his expression, he only felt that a guy like himself, who had no talent and became the president of a game company, was really too rubbish.

I'm afraid that he will never be able to understand what kind of feeling it is for the rest of his life to "can't bear it without drawing out the thoughts in his head".

"After Porco Rosso, I felt that everything I wanted to express had been expressed, and I didn't seem to have anything to regret in my life, so I told the media that "my animation career is over," Miyazaki shook his head and smiled bitterly, then tapped his head with his hand while holding a cigarette.

"It's still this. The ideas that are constantly born, a lot of novelties, the desire to express are like a kind of magical magic entrenched in the brain, and if it is not released, it will accumulate more and more, and finally it will fill the whole brain and overflow like sea water.

So ......"

Miyazaki smiled sheepishly, "I've been working on a new anime recently. ”

"Huh? Are you sure? ”

Although Qing Zhiyuan already knew what this animation was called, he still pretended to be surprised and cooperated with the performance, "That's great, it's a blessing to continue to see your future works." ”

"No, no." Hayao Miyazaki smiled and waved his hand, "It's hard to say what the actual result will be, and it's possible that you will be scolded half to death by the audience."

But I'm exploring the answers I'm looking for in my own way. ”

"Did you find it?"

Qing Zhiyuan asked tentatively.

He knew that the animation that Miyazaki was about to make was "Princess Mononoke", and the content explored was the ultimate proposition between man and nature, but he still wanted to ask the opinions and mental journeys of the parties.

Miyazaki was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"Nope."

Qing Zhiyuan also laughed.

He looked back at Hayao Miyazaki, a senior with two dimples on his smooth cheeks, some cute and some funny.

It's nice to be able to chat with seniors like this.

"You'd better grow your beard."

"Huh?"

Hayao Miyazaki touched the stubble on his chin and laughed cutely, "Don't you feel sloppy?" ”

"Not at all. Sloppiness has nothing to do with beard. ”

"It's a little bit more intimate." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"Haha, huh?"

……

"Anyway," said Miyazaki, "it's good to be sincere." Don't think about it so much.

If you really want to retire, then retire.

If you have to come back, then do what you want.

Because life is your own choice. ”

Well.

Qing Zhiyuan nodded.

I feel like I've learned a lot again.

But Ghibli has such a good teacher, how come there is no successor, Qing Zhiyuan really can't figure this out.

Oh no, Hideaki Anno should be considered Miyazaki's protégé, but it's a pity that this guy doesn't work at Ghibli.

Sometimes students are also in need of talent.

At least Qing Zhiyuan felt that he was not quite good.

The reason why he can still hold the scene now is mainly because of his insight into the future, which is equivalent to copying the ideas of many bigwigs, but it seems that there is something missing that really allows him to independently create works that are comparable to the gods.

……

"That's right."

At this moment, Hayao Miyazaki's voice came from the side.

Now that the topic is all talked about and the atmosphere is good, Miyazaki said cheekily, "There is one thing I have been thinking about for a long time, and I just took advantage of today's opportunity to ask Qingsang." ”

"Huh?"

"That's right," Miyazaki said with a smile, "I'll tell you the truth, we're working on a new animated movie, but I'd like to ask Pokeni to make it into a game." ”

"Huh?!"

Qing Zhiyuan's whole person was stunned.

What?!

Hayao Miyazaki is going to give us Princess Mononoke to make a game?

It's simply ......

It was completely unexpected by him, and he didn't even dream of it.

How could Hayao Miyazaki license animation to someone else to make a game?!

And it's Princess Mononoke!

In Qing Zhiyuan's cognition, this is almost impossible.

"Well, this is the result of a discussion between me and Suzuki-san, but I haven't made up my mind." Hayao Miyazaki smiled, "We'll finish the storyboard for the new anime as soon as possible, and then give it to Pokeni, so please make a decision then." ”

"Okay, okay." Qing Zhiyuan took a deep breath and still hadn't come back to his senses.

Although I really want to agree now, I always feel a little informal, since it involves the cooperation of two companies, it is naturally better to go through the formal process.

"That...... Actually, we also have something we want to ask Miyazaki seniors for. ”

In this case, Qing Zhiyuan also has to talk about a courtesy.

"Huh?" Old man Miyazaki was also stunned.

Good guys, what are we?

Is there a soul in the heart?

In the game "LIFE-lINE", there is a plot that requires a strong concept art, because the premise of the daughter is that she can draw amazing paintings, which is why people are sought after.

Qing Zhiyuan tried several times by himself, but still couldn't find a style that he was satisfied with.

But if it's Miyazaki, it's hard to have a strong performance effect.

So in the game LL, Qing Zhiyuan wanted to ask Hayao Miyazaki to draw several very important illustrations in it.

……

A week later, Miyazaki arrived at Pokeni Co., Ltd. with the first storyboard and script of Princess Mononoke.

Qing Zhiyuan gave a warm reception.

Shinji Mikami, who was concentrating on his work and discussing with his colleagues, suddenly noticed that his surroundings were quiet.

When I looked back, I saw that the president had led a silver-haired bearded man and a thin old man into the conference room.

He was followed by Mika Ishino, the person in charge of the new project, and Ken Akanishi, the program director, and Taiji Sakata, the art director......

"Wow, I'm not mistaken, right? Could it be Hayao Miyazaki? ”

"Really?"

"Really, really Miyazaki!"

"Why did Miyazaki come to us? Is he going to make a game? ”

"Nani?! Really, how is this possible?! ”

Everyone's first reaction was how this was possible.

After all, Miyazaki gave people the impression that he hated games before, so why did he suddenly come to Pokeni at this time?

"Do you want to animate the game?"

"Ghibli? Draw our game? Is this possible? "There was a question mark on everyone's face.

While this explanation seems to be more plausible than co-making games, it's hard to imagine that Ghibli could animate someone else.

"Which game did you fancie? "Your Name"? Or "The Man in the Bed"? ”

"Both games have the potential to be animated, but hasn't Ghibli always gone the original route? You know, this is Hayao Miyazaki, he can't make his own ideas, how can he think of picking up other people's works? ”

"yes...... Incomprehensible. ”

"Actually," said Akane Ayase, a rare person who knows the inside story, "as far as I know, the president wants to ask Master Miyazaki to draw some original drawings for the new game." ”

Regarding the part of the cooperative game, I didn't talk about it because Akane Ayase didn't know about it herself.

"Nani?!"

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

The answer was even more incredible.

"Hayao Miyazaki to be our concept artist? Is this possible? ”

"Don't ask me, my mind can't turn."

"It's just a concept design, not a concept artist. It's a friendly help. Akane Ayase said.

"Doesn't that mean the same thing?"

"Terrible, our president is terrible, how did he do it?"

"It's just that it's completely incomprehensible. It's beyond my imagination. ”

……

In the conference room, the high-level negotiations between Ghibli and Pokeni were unusually easy and efficient.

Although Qing Zhiyuan has not seen the storyboard of Ghibli's new work, after confirming that it is "Princess Mononoke", the big stone in his heart also fell to the ground.

He is too familiar with "Princess Mononoke", he has watched this animated movie at least three times, and each time he watches it, he has a different feeling, in his mind, "Princess Mononoke" can be regarded as one of Miyazaki's pinnacle works.

Its profound connotation, grandeur, and narrative style without stance show the audience the most primitive power of life.

Moreover, this anime is so good to adapt into a game.

This is especially true for real-time battle games.

The movements of the hero and heroine are already very smooth in the film, especially the storyboard where Princess Mononoke rides on the back of a wolf and rushes forward, which is simply handsome.

Until now, Qing Zhiyuan still remembers it vividly, and his impression is not profound.

If it is adapted into an action game, it will definitely have a strong combat effect, and even Qing Zhiyuan is not completely sure that he can fully express the momentum conveyed in the film.

Thinking of this, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but feel a little regretful-

It would have been nice if it had been ten years late, the current game hardware had not yet been developed, and if it was 10 years later, he believed that the Princess Mononoke game could be made even better.

……

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