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In late December, a sudden news shook the entire Chinese animation circle. network

At the end of an ordinary press conference held by Angel Studio, when the reporters were packing up their notes and preparing to leave, Jiang Tianshi suddenly walked in.

"Don't be too busy, everyone. I'll leave after I announce the news." His words made the reporters sit down again, but Jiang Tianshi didn't go on stage, but said directly: "Next month, Angel will cooperate with Phoenix Teacher Xi's "One Piece" was made into an animation."

For a moment, the reporters present thought they had heard it wrong.

"...It seems that you have nothing to ask," Jiang Tianshi looked around, then turned and walked out.

When the reporters came to their senses, they all jumped up with a whoosh, and quickly chased after him.

"Wait! Mr. Jiang, what you just said is true?", "Making the animation of "One Piece", Mr. Jiang, Mr. Jiang, were you joking just now?", "Next month? Why is there no news from Phoenix Company Get it out!"

These reporters immediately surrounded Jiang Tianshi. Jiang Tianshi waved his hands and said, "Don't be so flustered. This is true. As for "Phoenix Company"—they should have announced the news by now."

He was right, although Phoenix Company did not hold a press conference, but five minutes ago, this news also appeared on the official website and the home page of the He Xi Family Forum.

The timing of the two parties' announcements is basically the same, because Angel and Phoenix have just reached an agreement on the roster of members of the new studio-the matter is completely settled.

When Meng Huo came to Angel's studio two weeks ago, he had already finished discussing the details of the cooperation. However, both parties decided to wait for the final list of members to be announced before making an official announcement. The main obstacle to the list is also Phoenix.

Fortunately, Phoenix Company has been selecting several weeks in advance. After discussing the list with He Xi and Jiang Tianshi today. Neither of them had an opinion. Things have completely settled down.

Compared with Jiang Tianshi's succinct speech at the press conference, Phoenix Company's news on the official website introduced the details of this cooperation in more detail.

The cooperation model this time is very similar to the previous Qinglong Studio. Angel and Phoenix each hold half of the shares and member quotas to form an animation studio 'Pirate' - the name of this studio is simple, just for the creation of "One Piece". Established, there will be no other animation cooperation in the future.

And this also satisfies the psychology of most people in Angel and Phoenix Company. The members of Angel don't want to completely lock themselves in He Xi's chariot.

Therefore, he took the initiative to propose the idea of ​​​​establishing an exclusive animation studio, once "One Piece" is over. This studio is over.

And when they put forward such an opinion, Phoenix Company was happy instead. Angel didn't want to lock up his future, but why did Phoenix Company want to continue to share more profits with others?

He Xi and Angel collaborated in the production of "One Piece", which was regarded as an expedient measure by many people in the Phoenix company, mainly because the animation team of the Phoenix company was not enough, but this situation will not continue forever, and now the Phoenix company has The team that has started to reserve for the future, assuming that He Xi wants to launch some new animations in the future, probably does not need to rely on external forces.

In such a situation where one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. The name of the studio directly uses the word "Pirate" in "One Piece", and even the logo of the studio is very simple "skeleton wearing a straw hat" - which is the logo of the Straw Hat Pirates in the comics .

Of course regardless of what's inside behind the logo and collaboration. The announcement of this news still caused a huge sensation.

The forum of He Xi's House was about to fall apart. The comic section of "One Piece" was refreshed with hundreds of pages in less than ten minutes after the news was announced. After learning that the comic was finally going to be animated, comic fans felt that they were like dreaming.

""One Piece" is going to be animated! Haha, it's finally going to be animated, I'll wait until the flowers are all thankful!"

"Oh my god, this is the best news I've gotten this year. I'm going out to celebrate with my dorm roommates at night, and they're all so excited!"

"Our whole office is boiling. "One Piece" is funny and passionate. I have been expecting it to be made into an animation! After waiting for so many years, it finally appeared!"

"I don't know if "One Piece" can be broadcast before the Chinese New Year. Teacher He Xi will watch a lot of animations when he comes back. There will be a new animation movie next month. I can't watch it!"

In addition to forums, various animation chat rooms also set off a wave of cheers. The only exception is Weibo, where people are always arguing.

The cause of this quarrel was that Angel fans made such a voice after hearing about it: "Why can't I do "One Piece" by myself, so I came to ask Angel for help!"

As soon as He Xi's fans saw this kind of voice, they naturally began to argue: "Mr. He Xi cooperated with the angels, and it is obvious that they are pity for them. Why don't they become angels?"

After going back and forth like this, Weibo became lively, the quarrels became more and more serious, and even a scolding war broke out. Of course, after the scolding, various personal attacks and slanders about He Xi and Angel also came.

That night, Qin Ya didn't come to paint, only Bai Han and Meng Huo were in the studio.

Meng Huo turned on the computer and looked at Weibo during his break, with a look of interest, which made Bai Han feel very strange.

"Teacher, you..."

"What's wrong?"

"Aren't you angry when you see these people scolding you?"

Bai Han asked, she couldn't bear to read a lot of content on Weibo, she said everything.

Meng Huo turned his eyes away from the computer and looked back at Bai Han: "Bai Han, there is no work that everyone likes, and there is no cartoonist that no one criticizes."

"But how can you still laugh?"

"Huh?" Meng Huo asked strangely, "Did I laugh? That may be because the reaction on the Internet is very positive. I feel that I have made the right decision."

Bai Han was puzzled, Meng Huo pointed to the computer, and said, "Didn't you find that no one said bad things about "One Piece"?"

Although some people scolded him, none of the scolding voices of these fans questioned that his cooperation with Angel would bring about poor animation quality, but only quarreled over the dominance of their cooperation.

This means that everyone believes in the quality of animation produced by his cooperation with Angel. And this trust was what Meng Huo wanted. As long as there is trust. The audience will look forward to "One Piece".

Bai Han wanted to continue asking, but Meng Huo's cell phone rang.

"Here we go again." Meng Huo took out his cell phone and looked at it. The caller was the secretary. This is the number of calls. After the animation news of "One Piece" was announced, the calls kept coming. The anti-riot of the mobile phone is set, but someone still finds him through the secretary.

"Who is this time again?" Meng Huo answered the phone and asked, "Didn't you say that most people don't need to notify me?"

"Of course. The vice president... the caller this time is Mr. Guo from Ninghai TV Station. I think you might want to answer his call." The secretary said that he didn't want to disturb Meng Huo, but he still screened some important guests for him. .

TV Tokyo and Suhua TV had already talked to Meng Huo on the phone before, but this time it was Ninghai TV.

"Guo Le Tong?"

Meng Huo frowned. The person surnamed Guo he met on Ninghai TV was actually a Guole boy.

"That's right, it's him." The secretary nodded: "Vice President, do you need me to take his call?"

"...You take it over!"

Meng Huo thought for a while, and asked his secretary to answer the phone. While waiting to be connected, he stood up. Instructing Bai Han to continue painting, he went outside by himself.

The call was transferred within a minute, and it had been a long time since Guo Letong's voice was heard, and the other party was obviously much more enthusiastic.

"Mr. He Xi, you have such a big cooperation with Angel, why didn't you let me know in advance?" After the pleasantries, Guo Letong explained the purpose: "Since we are cooperating with Angel, then we can also participate in the premiere auction of "One Piece" Bar?"

This is Meng Huo's expected goal. The Tokyo and Suhua TV stations who came to the spot before also took a fancy to the premiere of "One Piece". "One Piece" cannot be said to be the exclusive animation of Phoenix Company. Does that mean that more TV stations can participate in the premiere competition?

Especially Ninghai and Xiangjiang two TV stations, they stood by Zhongxia, they had already given up their thoughts on "One Piece", but now the situation has changed suddenly, they seem to be on the same starting line as Tokyo and Suhua TV stations.

"Minister Guo, did Jiang Tianshi ask you to make this call?" Meng Huo asked.

"This... really can't be hidden from Teacher He Xi." Guo Letong smiled wryly on the other side. Of course, he couldn't call Meng Huo after he got the news, but asked Jiang Tianshi immediately, the new studio "Pirate" Who is in the lead? Does Ninghai TV have a chance to get "One Piece".

But Jiang Tianshi only answered him with the four words 'try to strive for'. The meaning of these four words is very simple, which means that the dominance of the 'Pirate' is still in the hands of Meng Huo - and it is indeed the case.

In the agreement between Meng Huo and Jiang Tianshi, the right to decide the animation copyright of "One Piece" is in his hands, including the first TV station. And because the income is 50-50, Jiang Tianshi doesn't care where it is broadcast, even if it is broadcast in Tokyo or Suhua TV, it will increase exposure and popularity for Angel, and there is no harm.

Jiang Tianshi knew that the first broadcast right was a hot potato, so he was willing to let it go. And because of this, Guole Tong called Meng Huo again to test his thoughts.

"I can't tell you the answer to the question about the first broadcast." Meng Huo replied to Guo Letong: "But I can tell you that I treat all TV stations equally, so when the animation will be broadcast on TV stations, you can share with Su Hua TV stations compete fairly."

Guo Letong was overjoyed: "Mr. He Xi, are you serious?"

"Of course it is true!" Meng Huo nodded, and then added in his heart: The premise is that it will be broadcast on TV.

In fact, he already has a plan to broadcast "One Piece". This broadcast may be different from past animations, and may not be premiered on TV. So he played a text trap. When answering Guoletong, he said that he could not answer the first broadcast, but he could answer the broadcast of the TV station.

Guo Letong obviously didn't realize this text trap. He was already ecstatic after receiving Meng Huo's answer, and made up his mind to take down "One Piece" no matter how much it cost.

After ending the contact with Ninghai TV Station, Meng Huo was about to return to the studio when the secretary sent another message, this time from CCTV.

The content of CCTV's inquiry was the same as that of Ninghai TV station, and Meng Huo repeated it according to the reply just now, but what he didn't expect was that his answer would have an unexpected effect.

"Fair competition?" Zuo Peng stared at the phone in a daze after finishing the call - why did he say that all TV stations should compete fairly? Isn't he going to give Su Hua and TV Tokyo a discount?

"Deputy Director, look at this answer..." Zuo Peng looked at Deputy Director Liu who was standing in front of him with a questioning look. I'm a little confused.

"It's a surprise that He Xi made such a decision."

The deputy director said, walked a few steps left and right, and then said: "Then we can stop throwing olive branches in a hurry, and wait until the premiere rights of "One Piece" are decided."

He originally wanted Zuo Peng to give He Xi and Phoenix Company his opinion on strengthening cooperation during this phone call. After a few days of investigation, the deputy director had already believed in the fact of Zhongxia's split.

But now hearing what He Xi said, he obviously won't let the animation of "One Piece" be biased towards the two close TV stations. In this way-CCTV's olive branch can be slightly slowed down. Since he doesn't take sides, CCTV There's no use in showing favors.

And if it is a fair competition, CCTV is unlikely to lose to other TV stations, assuming they can win the premiere of "One Piece", then maybe there is no need to have a closer relationship with Phoenix.

The premiere right of a "One Piece" is enough to support a TV station, and it can also guarantee CCTV's long-term animation ratings, so that they have stronger confidence to make other decisions, and they may even be among the huge audience brought by "One Piece". , once again developed its own original animation.

Although it may be just a dream to develop an original animation comparable to him in the world of He Xi, but in any case, there is no need for CCTV to make a choice in such a hurry. Even if it wants to show affection to Phoenix, it can take it easy now.

"Zuo Peng, go to Tantan first to see how many TV stations want to buy the first broadcast rights of "One Piece"." Deputy Director Liu ordered: "And... try to find out the highest price they can offer, Let's get ready."

The deputy director has confidence in CCTV's financial resources and conditions, but no matter how confident he is, this time "One Piece" is not an ordinary animation. It has a great possibility to surpass "Detective Conan" and "Little Monster"— —As long as you realize this, other TV stations will definitely win. (To be continued.)