My Animation Era

It's the end of September.

As we all know, September to December every year has always been the peak period for major awards activities. It is not only the awards season in the entertainment industry, but also the awards season in all walks of life.

The animation industry is no exception.

With the arrival of this year's awards season, the popularity of an animation work that has long been completed and has gradually left the public eye is quietly picking up.

"The Story of Afanti"!

It is based on folklore from the Western Regions, adapted and performed using puppet animation, and is jointly produced by Wanbao Animation and China Overseas Film Studio.

Although it can't be said to be very popular when it was broadcast, at least it is not as good as the popular "Fruit Attack", nor can it be compared to "Yu-Gi-Oh!" which just ended its first round of broadcasting not long ago.

But the nature of this animation has determined that it will be the most important contestant during this year's awards season.

Not even one!

Although colleagues are speechless, they really can't find any TV animation work that can compete with "Afanti Story" during this year's awards season.

All I can say is, there is no suspense.

The subject matter has great advantages...

This advantage has become so great that no matter how well the other animation works are shot and the results are outstanding, it is impossible to close the gap.

Maybe that's why.

During this year's awards season, except for Gu Miao, Liang Xiaodong and others who were very interested, other people in the industry expressed disinterest.

Don't ask why!

The question is... Watching Gu Sanshui win the award is more uncomfortable than everyone else's nomination and failure!

One after another, trophies and award certificates were taken home by the puppet studio led by Liang Xiaodong and put into the honor display cabinet built by Mr. Gu who "spent huge sums of money".

It was also at this time that Gu Miao suddenly realized a problem.

It’s conservative!

When you customized the glass display cabinet, you should customize a larger display cabinet. The current glass cabinet still feels too small, and it will probably be filled with trophies and certificates soon.

"I regret it, I really regret it!"

"How much do you think a glass cabinet is worth? It's not that much money short. Why didn't I make it bigger in the first place?"

In front of Mr. Xiong, Gu Miao said very Versailles: "What will we do when there is no place to put the trophies? How about this, how many trophies can I put in your office?"

Mr. Bear: "..."

So angry!

Why is this person so irritating when he talks? Didn't he just win a few bad prizes? Who really thinks he cares?

After silently despising Gu Miao in his heart, Little Bear interrupted Gu Miao's Versailles quotation: "Okay, okay, don't show off like this."

"You must have remembered what you told me back then, right? You asked me to select a few works for adaptation on the Bibi Comics platform..."

"I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten."

Gu Miao asked curiously: "What's wrong? You picked it out so quickly? Tell me, what works did you pick?"

Little Bear always comes up with a list.

Reaching out to take the thin list, Gu Miao picked it up and looked at it. She was immediately frightened by Little Bear's eyes when selecting works.

On the list, the names of three comic series were clearly written.

One of them is "Grave Robbers", a pioneer of the "grave robbers" genre that has been popular on the Bibi comic platform for nearly half a year and is adapted from a well-known online novel.

As for the second and third parts, they come from the same comic author. At first, Gu Miao didn't recognize who it was until he saw the titles of "Detective Doyle" and "Detective Conan".

Blanch!

Are you so ruthless?

On the Bip Comics platform, there are only a few online comics with "high potential for adaptation", and they were all picked up by Mr. Bear.

If all goes to Mr. Bear, will Wanbao Animation survive?

"No, no!"

On the name of the work "Detective Conan", she made a cross with a large pen. Gu Miao shook her head wildly and said: "I can't give this to you. This is an IP I keep for Wanbao to shoot myself."

Just kidding?

When the original author was still serializing "Detective Doyle", Gu Miao got in touch with him and booked an adaptation plan for his next work, "Detective Conan".

Gu Miao has been keeping an eye on it for a long time.

The reason why "Detective Conan" has already begun to be serialized but Wanbao Animation has not yet taken action is simply because it feels that the time is not yet ripe.

He plans to wait until the manga "Detective Conan" is serialized for a few more chapters, at least dozens of chapters, before considering an animation.

So this is not negotiable.

The potential of "Detective Conan" is here, and no matter what he says, Gu Miao will never give up. This has nothing to do with making money or not, it’s mainly a matter of “expanding influence”.

Everyone knows the three major "migrant workers comics".

Bleach Naruto One Piece, also collectively known as the "Sea of ​​Death Fire", was a well-known anime IP in its previous life.

But "Sea of ​​Dead Fire" is not invincible. Whether at that time or later, Neon was as popular as the three major migrant comics, including "Detective Conan".

Although "Sailor Moon" and "Doraemon" are not included in the ranks of "migrant comics", their influence is still not inferior to that of migrant comics, and even slightly surpasses them.

What?

Why is there no "Dragon Ball"?

Don't make trouble, Dragon Ball is no longer on the same level as these works. It’s hard to say about animation, but at least in the field of comics, Dragon Ball is a god-like existence.

all in all.

Whether it is for "Death Schoolboy" or to expand Wanbao's influence, it is impossible for Gu Miao to let go of the comic "Detective Conan".

Mr. Xiong probably didn’t expect that Gu Miao would value this comic so highly and have such a firm attitude...

But he didn't care either.

In his list, the comic "Detective Conan" was serialized the latest, is the shortest and the least popular, and is not his main goal.

If Gu Miao doesn't agree, forget it.

Anyway, what he wanted most was always the rights to adapt the animation called "Tomb Robbers".

"no problem."

Although Gu Miao is very interested in tomb-robbing novels and comics, she doesn't take them very seriously.

Little Bear is always willing to take it, so give it to him!

It's just a comic that became popular because of its "novel subject matter." To be honest, there's a question mark over how many years this subject matter will be popular.

The same goes for Super Detective Doyle.

Except for "Detective Conan", which was not subject to negotiation, Gu Miao readily agreed to the plan to sell the animation adaptation rights of the remaining two comic works to "Weixin Venture Capital".

Oh yes!

Weixin Venture Capital is the vest investment company opened by Mr. Xiao Xiong, and its name comes from his and his wife’s names.

The main business is to purchase the adaptation copyrights of major popular IPs, then entrust them to third parties for production, and then make profits by selling animation broadcast rights and derivatives development rights.

to be honest.

An intermediary in the animation industry.

Don't look at Xiaoxiong Zongzong who bought the comic rights, but he doesn't know how to make animations and will only find third parties to cooperate.

This is completely different from the Feiyang animation he did before. Although they are both involved in the animation industry, the nature is completely different.