My Animation Era

Gundam is a slow-burn animation.

What is slow heating?

It doesn’t mean that it becomes popular all over the Internet at the beginning, but it slowly accumulates popularity and then rises in the later period.

It is unrealistic for you to expect to become obsessed with Gundam after watching a few episodes.

I’ve only watched a few episodes, do you know anything about Hammer Gundam? I'm afraid you can't even tell the difference between Gundam and Zaku!

"This thing is a bit like daughter's red, the older it gets, the more fragrant it becomes."

Lao Zhang joked: "If you really say what you say, then this animation may actually be an incredible work ten years from now."

"That's true..."

The current "Mobile Suit Gundam" may not be as popular as many popular works, but looking back ten years later, Gundam will definitely be a hundred times more popular than these short-lived IPs.

Gu Miao deeply agrees and believes that Gundam IP should take a long-term development path and don't mind the immediate gains and losses.

"What about the blue cat's naughty three thousand questions?"

Lao Zhang asked: "If I remember correctly, you seemed to have said that "Blue Cat Naughty Questions" is also an animation IP that takes a long-term development path?"

"no the same."

"Although Blue Cat Naughty Three Thousand Questions also takes a long-term development path, the start is much more comfortable than Gundam." Gu Miao shook her head and said.

How does Gundam start?

When the original version was broadcast in the first round, it was almost cut in half and no news was heard. Thanks to a group of fans who wrote to the TV station to express their attitude, Gundam was able to continue broadcasting and achieved its later glory.

The Blue Cat Naughty Three Thousand Questions series has never experienced this kind of dilemma.

Since its inception, this series has firmly established itself as the number one popular and humorous animation in the country.

If it hadn't declined later and been replaced by the new generation of IPs such as Pleasant Goat and Haunted Bear, it wouldn't be a big problem for "Blue Cat's 3,000 Questions" to produce another 3,000 episodes.

Don’t underestimate the blue cat!

When it comes to animations where the protagonist is a cat, especially domestic animations, only four cats have achieved the circle-breaking effect.

One is a black cat, one is a star cat, one is a rainbow cat, and one is a blue cat!

There are also some animations with cats as the protagonists that are also very popular, but in terms of influence and circle-breaking effect, they are really not interesting compared with these four cats.

Although big-faced cats, Peking opera cats, and stingy cats are also famous, they have not reached the heights of the rainbow cat and the blue cat.

This can be seen from this point.

Although Blue Cat is an outdated animated series, it was really strong at its peak. After all, it is not a simple thing to be placed alongside works such as Black Cat Sheriff, Happy Star Cat, and Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit.

Speaking of which...

Blue Cat became popular because there were no good domestic popular science cartoons at that time.

It can be regarded as taking advantage of the times.

If the Wanbao version wants to replicate the glory of the original version, it is destined to be impossible. After all, in this era, there are many animations that children can watch, and they don’t just have to watch blue cats being naughty.

However, Gu Miao made this animation more because of her childhood feelings, and she didn't pay much attention to achievements.

The achievement is up to other animations.

Such as Superman, such as Gundam!

…

In addition to the TV animation "Mobile Suit Gundam" being broadcast in March, there will also be two other blockbuster new works released.

One of them is the "LoveLive!" cross-dimensional idol project adapted by Seto based on the essay competition!

The other one is produced by Wanbao Pictures, the first live-action comic book movie "Superman"!

Superman is expected.

After all, when Gu Miao went to the North American branch, she had already made arrangements in advance, and the promotion and filming schedule were all full.

If he can't produce good results and can't compete with "Dr. Night", Du Hao doesn't need to buy a plane ticket. He can just start from Los Angeles and swim across the entire Pacific Ocean back to Jiangchuan.

The focus is "LoveLive!"!

As early as the beginning of the year, the first issue of LoveLive published a preview of the project in Neon, a two-dimensional magazine, which included the character settings and personality characteristics of the protagonists.

The name of the group had not yet been decided at that time.

With all the original paintings of the main characters unveiled, the story of the girls becoming school idols in order to save the school "Otonogizaka Academy" that is facing the crisis of being abolished has attracted the attention of many neon otakus.

Seto is not in a hurry to release animation notices.

Instead, after the CV list was announced, the voice actors of these characters were asked to jointly release a single.

OK!

With the single out, this idol group is officially established.

The next step is to decide on a name.

Because during this period, LoveLive had already released a single and was considered a debut artist. Therefore, they have a certain number of fans across the entire network, and the name of the group is determined by voting.

"Muse" is a name derived from the goddess in charge of music, dance and literature in Greek mythology, and has been recognized by many fans.

Ever since, LoveLive’s first school idol group was officially named “Muse”!

After officially confirming the name of the group, releasing a single, and participating in various radio idol activities, the Wanbao Neon Division later officially announced that the animation production is scheduled to be broadcast as soon as the end of March.

This news immediately made many fans excited.

First let’s be clear!

Muse first debuted as an "idol" and then announced the animation decision. Instead of producing animation first and then becoming an idol.

These are two completely different concepts!

In everyone's eyes, a muse is the same as an idol. They have singles and activities, but the idol I recommended is going to have a TV animation?

Wow! Now I have to support it!

In order to increase the popularity of the animation and to make the LoveLive project more popular, Seto also came up with a very vicious method - voting!

On the newly established LoveLive official support website, the Muse group opened the first round of popularity voting and announced that the animation production team will decide the group's position and role in the performance based on the voting rankings.

Whoever is more popular will take the C position and enjoy higher attention and exposure!

The main focus is fairness and impartiality.

The official fanning the flames instantly ignited the enthusiasm of fans.

In order to let their favorite characters stand in the C position, in order to let their idols get higher attention and roles in animation, fans have spared no effort.

It's not enough to vote by yourself, you have to mobilize the people around you to vote together, for Honoka, for Minami Kotori... and Wanbao broke out!

Seto knows how to hype things up very well.

Thanks to his outrageous actions, the animation "LoveLive!" has become the focus of public opinion in Neon even before it is aired.

what is interesting is……

During the popularity voting process, Gu Miao seemed to see two distinctive figures rising to the top of the rankings.

One is Anna, a blonde hottie, and the other is Li Wenwen from an ancient Eastern country.

"It's really different!"

Gu Miao smiled and immediately realized that this was Seto's deliberate move.

The Wanbao version of "LoveLive" is no longer the same group of people as the original version. At least except for Honoka, Sonoda Umi and Minami Kotori, everyone else in the muse has changed beyond recognition.

Mainly the newcomers have changed.

Moreover, Gu Miao took a closer look and found that most of the changes were the names and original paintings, and the characters and characters were all correct.

how to say……

After all, the Wanbao version of "LoveLive!" was produced and planned by a different group of people, so the differences are to be expected.

And this version, because of Gu Miao's wonderful development, Wanbao has a strong influence in North America, Neon, and China, so Muse has North American members and Chinese members.

We need to expand our influence!

In the original LoveLive project, neon was more popular in China. There was no behemoth like Wanbao as a promoter abroad, so this problem did not exist.

However, Wanbao’s version of LoveLive project is backed by Wanbao, a multinational giant with extensive influence in North America and China, so it only added characters from this region.

Anna is from North America, and Li Wenwen is from China.

In the story, both of them came to Neon as students studying abroad. They studied at Otonogizaka Academy and joined Muse by chance.

Due to the special origins and backgrounds of these two characters, Gu Miao originally thought that he would be at a disadvantage in the popularity vote and could not vote for other characters.

Who knew...

The number of votes is quite high!

I don’t know if it’s the result of Seto’s behind-the-scenes operation, or if these two characters really have so many fans. Anyway, these two characters ranked fourth and fifth respectively in the number of votes, second only to the trio of Honoka, Minami Kotori, and Sonoda Umi. name.

"I cheated a little bit."

Seto frankly admitted that there was a shady story, but he also said that the shady story was not very serious and the voting results were quite fair.

simply put.

The popularity of Anna and Li Wenwen is almost the same as that of other characters. The gap cannot be widened. Seto just helped a little to push the ranking slightly higher.

As for why he did this, the reason is very simple.

Since the Wanbao version of "LoveLive!" is going to open up the North American and Chinese markets, it is destined that these two characters will not have too few roles.

If the ranking is very low, but the animation gives many appearance opportunities and good positions, then isn’t this voting a pure joke?

In order to show that the voting results are authentic and credible, at least on the surface, the animation production team did not favor any one character and made animations based entirely on the voting results. It is inevitable that they will be promoted to a higher ranking.

"It doesn't matter, it's a shady story."

Gu Miao was very open-minded and didn't mind Seto's tricks at all.

After all, this is a parallel world, and it is not unacceptable for Anna and Li Wenwen to appear.

not to mention.

These newcomers are not the soul pillars of Muse. The real pillars have to be Honoka, Minami Kotori and Sonoda Umi.

"Speaking of which, there should be more than one phase of this project, right?"

Gu Miao asked on the phone: "I mean, school idols should be more than just the Muse group, right?"

"of course not!"

Seto said of course: "More school idols will definitely be launched in the future. This is just the first phase of the project."

"OK, I understand."

"Then I hope you will run this IP project well and not create any terrible animation."

Gu Miao felt uncomfortable when she thought about the sequel animation of a certain animation that had hit rock bottom and was known as "The Legend of Xiangyin".

Don't do it!

There are probably not many masterpieces in the world that can rival "Zoo 2" in terms of negative reviews.

certainly!

No matter how bad The Legend of Xiangyin is, it will definitely not be as disgusting as Beast Girl Zoo 2.

It's just that too many people are making fun of it, and the perception of Xiangyin Chuan is really poor, so it seems to be terrible.

However, we must admit that Xiangyinden is indeed one of the few sequels in the history of the "LoveLive!" animation that most fans can't stand.

Even Xiangyinchu looked silent.

A character that I am a fan of has a lot of scenes, which is originally a good thing, but if there are so many scenes that it ruins the overall look and feel, then it is not a good thing.

Gu Miao had to inoculate Seto to prevent him from making the same mistake again, and create a so-called "Xiangyin Zhuan" for Wanbao Edition.

Please!

Never do this kind of thing, he couldn't hold back just thinking about it.

The animation "LoveLive!" was launched late and the planning content was relatively mature. Gu Miao only gave a few words of advice before hanging up the phone call to Seto.

The highlight of March has to be the superhero battle taking place in Hollywood, that is, Kryptonian Superman VS Dr. Night!

Both films have been released.

Just as Gu Miao expected, under the premise that "Superman" clearly did not want to make money but only wanted to cause trouble, the premiere schedule of "Doctor Night" shrank greatly.

The two films were released on the same day, but their first-day box office differed by a single digit.

Old George's defense was broken.

When being interviewed by the media, George was full of fire, pointing the finger at some traitors in Hollywood, and working with outsiders to suppress him, one of his own.

"Shet! The Superman movie is a piece of shit. I don't understand why it has such a high filming rate and screen count..."

"Of course you don't understand."

Gu Miao, who was far away in Jiangchuan, was so happy to see old man George break his guard.

In order to give him a fatal blow, he also told Dave to buy media releases from today on, without giving old George a chance to breathe.

The reputation of "Doctor Night" is still very good.

To suppress a film like this, you have to spend a lot of money and work with the media to turn black into white and turn a deer into a horse.

This is not a problem for Wanbao.

Wanbao has money, which is its biggest advantage in Hollywood. No matter what film critics or media reporters, they will all speak for "Superman".

It's easy to say that "Dr. Night" is a bad movie without conscience. It's not difficult to tell the truth. Just pay it.

If Old George is rich, he can fight back. Coupled with his personal connections, it is impossible to allow public opinion to continue to ferment.

But again, he has no money!

"Dr. Night" drained his wallet. If he could afford it, even if it was less, he wouldn't have to worry about no one speaking up for him.

But you are not willing to pay a penny, and you still want everyone to speak for you? what! Why are you so thick-skinned?

The performance of "Dr. Night" was dismal, and public opinion led many fans to feel that it was a bad movie and not worth buying a ticket to watch.

For the same ticket price, let’s go see Superman! I heard it looks pretty good, and the new Superman is really handsome...

A chain reaction occurred.

"Dr. Night" failed at the box office, and Mardete immediately started a civil strife to "bring down George."

George is still very prestigious.

He tried to use his prestige and connections to calm the coming storm and make everyone believe that "Dr. Night" was being targeted and it was not his fault.

But things are never that simple. How can Gu Miao, who planned everything behind the scenes, let him get his wish?

Soon the bank came to the door and demanded the due loan and interest from Mardete on the grounds of debt risk.

House seemingly endless rain!

Just when old George was struggling to cope, the news that the parliament had launched an investigation into "discrimination" in its comics completely overwhelmed him... (End of Chapter)