My Animation Era

For the IP "Yu-Gi-Oh!", Gu Miao wants to run it for a long time and make it prosperous...

For this reason, he cannot learn music and beauty.

Konami's approach is too "fishing in the lake", focusing only on the present and not on the future.

A new system is released in one or two years, and in the end, players don’t know where to start if they want to get into the game.

What does this directly lead to?

Fans or players, if they cannot be supplemented by "newcomers", will only become fewer and fewer, and eventually they will die out.

No joke!

Based on Konami's operating strategy, how long the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" IP can survive depends entirely on how long the earliest batch of "ashes fans" live.

If they are all gone, or they are too old to have the energy and time to mess with the card library rules all day long, will there be a follow-up to "Yu-Gi-Oh"? Are there any newcomers?

Stop making trouble!

A hundred years from now, there may still be old men and women wearing VR helmets, sleeping in hibernation warehouses and playing "Holographic Landlords" and "Holographic Mahjong", but will there still be people playing "Holographic Yu-Gi-Oh!" at that time?

The bloated system is the number one problem of "Yu-Gi-Oh!". If this problem is not solved, as time goes by, even if this game is popular now, it will be destined to become a niche and unpopular in the future.

For this reason, Gu Miao decided to activate the "last elimination" mechanism.

What is last place elimination?

That is, based on big data analysis, those monster cards, magic cards, and trap cards that have the lowest appearance rate and usage rate and that no one even remembers will be regularly eliminated or even "remade"!

New cards can come out slower.

But maintaining the game environment and ensuring that a steady stream of new players can join is his ultimate goal.

Of course, this didn't happen overnight.

He only has this preliminary idea. As for how to do it in the future, how to change and maintain the game environment, he still needs to slowly experiment and explore.

Speaking of which...

The second season of Temeow's "Full Time Glory" has been released, but the third season of the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" animation has not been released yet?

December 24th.

While Gu Miao was busy dealing with the damage caused by the "Underworld" deck's rampage to the dueling environment of "Yu-Gi-Oh!", Penguin Animation released a pre-heating promotional PV video for the second season of "Glory of All Time".

And Penguin also said that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone will be able to watch the second season of the animation of Glory.

"It's really outrageous!"

Gu Miao didn't doubt the authenticity of the news, but she doubted the reliability of the second season of the animation.

Although they are both competitors, he must admit that the animation "Full Time Glory" is a Chinese comic work that he has watched in recent years, and the quality is definitely excellent.

But for such a top-notch work, the sequel was produced so quickly and hastily, which is too eager for quick success.

"You don't like it?"

"Yes!"

Gu Miao admitted frankly: "Unless they started producing the second season before the first season was aired, there is no way to explain why the second season was aired so soon?"

This possibility cannot be ruled out.

But Gu Miao felt that this possibility was still too low.

After all, the first season has not been aired yet, so who can be sure that the results and profits will be good? Who dares to rashly start simultaneous production of the sequel?

"That's indeed the truth!"

Lao Zhang nodded and said: "But we can't be too sure. What if people are very confident that the second season is really prepared in advance?"

"After all, we are doing this kind of thing ourselves, so isn't the second season of "Super Beast Arms" almost ready?"

Gu Miao was speechless.

It makes sense. For the project "Super Beast Arms", Wanbao actually completed two seasons of animation, or two parts, in one go, before starting to consider broadcasting matters.

Everything is possible!

Maybe Penguin's attitude toward "Glory of All Time" is the same as Wanbao's attitude towards "Super Beast Arms". Who can say for sure?

"correct!"

"You just said that the second season of the animation "Super Beast Arms" is almost completed? What is the situation now?" Gu Miao asked curiously.

"What else could happen?"

Lao Zhang wondered: "Literally, it's almost done. It's almost done. The animation samples are out. Didn't Huang Kun tell you?"

Farke!

Huang Kun actually hid such important news from him. Aren't they two good brothers wearing the same pants?

Gu Miao was very angry and immediately prepared to go to Dimension Studio to settle the score with Huang Kun, but as soon as he stood up, he was stopped by Lao Zhang again.

"Mr. Gu, please don't worry..."

"I said it's almost done, but it's not really done. There's still some finishing work to do!" Lao Zhang said with a smile.

"Although "Super Beast Arms" has not been completed yet, Dave's team has completed "Tom and Jerry"."

"What the hell?!"

Gu Miao froze on the spot, almost suspecting that she heard wrongly.

"Tom and Jerry"?

Is this thing done? real or fake! When he met Dave in October, wasn't he still worried about Tom's coat color? How long has it been before the animation is finished?

It wasn't that Gu Miao couldn't believe it, but what Lao Zhang said really shocked him.

Regarding the animation "Tom and Jerry", he was mentally prepared not to receive any reply for two to three years or even longer.

But now he was told that they had finished it in just half a year?

"real!"

Lao Zhang smiled and nodded: "I guarantee with my personality that Dave has indeed finished it! But..."

"Only one episode!"

After Lao Zhang finished the first half of his sentence, Gu Miao, who was about to call Dave to rant, heard the words "only one episode" and her expression turned petrified instantly.

Only one episode?

Can this be called over?

Your TV animation only has one episode, right? You're quite proud that you finished one episode in half a year, right?

"Where's the finished film?"

Gu Miao, who felt some toothache, sat back on the chair, leaned on the back of the chair and said, "Let me see, Dave has been sharpening his sword for half a year. How sharp is this sword?"

"There is no finished film!"

Lao Zhang shook his head at first, and then explained: "There are only samples. Dave said that this version of the sample needs to be refined later, and it is not considered a finished film."

"Anything is fine!"

Gu Miao said nonchalantly: "No matter what the sample is, show it to me first."

At his request, Lao Zhang walked into the company's specially set up "darkroom" projection room, turned off all the lights, and showed Mr. Gu a sample of just over 8 minutes.

Seeing the length of this sample, Gu Miao frowned at first, but she didn't rush to say anything, and concentrated on watching the main film.

"Puss Gets the Boot"

In the opening part, in addition to the Wanbao LOGO and the full English name of the North American branch, there is also the English signature of producer Dave Smith, and a string of title characters with unknown meanings.

"What does it mean?"

"Cat was fired? Cat got his butt kicked?" Gu Miao frowned and thought, "Why did you choose such a title?"

It does not matter.

The title was just a transition. Gu Miao soon forgot about it and devoted her full attention to the world shown in the main film.

In a house...

The blue-gray, fluffy cat is teasing and teasing a little mouse in various ways.

The mouse tried its best to escape, but could not escape the cat's clutches.

Until in the process, the cat crashed into a flower pot at home, and was reprimanded and warned by the owner.

Very interesting here.

The owner's head did not appear, nor did he show any expression. He just hit the cat a few times with a broom and pointed at the flower pot that was broken to the ground. The cat nodded desperately and swallowed, while the mouse hid aside and laughed wildly.

There was not a single sound the whole time.

There is no line in this scene, and no subtitles are added, but everyone can understand it and guess what the master means.

A very clever method!

The effect of such a performance is no different from the owner showing his face and threatening Tom, saying "If you break XX again, I will throw you out."

Or even better?

Gu Miao felt that Dave should have taken his suggestion into consideration and deleted all the lines where the master originally spoke and threatened Tom.

Before he could think about whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, the story was further extended, and the rat who had been caught finally turned over.

I saw it holding a fragile red wine glass and standing at the table ready to drop it, while the chasing cat froze instantly and did not dare to move...

The cat couldn't stand the arrogant mouse. In the process, the cat finally made a mistake and was kicked out by its owner.

Simple story.

Even the duration is very short, only eight minutes.

But the painting and production standards displayed in these eight minutes, as well as the movements and demeanor of the cat and mouse, all left a deep impression on Gu Miao.

Two words to summarize:

Absolutely amazing!

The expressions of the cat and the mouse are so vivid and "alive" that they are really awesome! And the character's movements were smoother and smoother than he imagined.

Maybe this is art?

Puss Gets the Boot is the original name, the specific translation is hard to say, Sweet Home is the translated name.