My Animation Era

  Chapter 184 Sister animation (for subscription)

   Neon, Kyoto.

  In the Wanbao (Neon) branch, Seto is reporting the latest work plan to the president through a portable Internet video conferencing system.

   "Hi Yi!"

   "The animation "Sailor Moon" has started the second round of reruns in many countries and regions."

  Seto explained: "TBS has been asking me, when will I start making the second season of "Sailor Moon" animation?"

  Is TBS in such a hurry?

   No need!

  The first season of the animation has just ended, so it’s time to take a rest, to organize your thoughts, and think about the second season next year. How can it be so fast?

  Gu Miao couldn't figure it out, so he asked, "Has anything happened to TBS recently? Why are you in such a hurry?"

   "Something did happen..."

  Seto introduced to Gu Miao some things that happened on TBS TV station recently.

  The situation is not complicated.

   Mainly the TBS animation production department, the two self-made animations that were ambitiously launched this year with "light changes" all suffered serious losses.

   This also caused a chain reaction.

  If one animation fails, it can be said to be an accident, but if two animations fail in a row, it is not just an accident, but there may be a deeper reason.

all in all.

   The failure of two consecutive popular works has caused tremendous pressure on TBS.

   After all, after "Sailor Moon" ended, the new work encountered Waterloo again. If we don't do anything, the audience will be lost to ANB and other TV stations.

   It may be because of this that TBS urged Wanbao to release the second season of "Sailor Moon" as soon as possible to stabilize the morale of the army.

   But this thing...

   Urging is useless!

  The second season of the animation "Sailor Moon", which is also the rumored "Sailor Moon R", has not yet been planned, let alone started production.

   Isn't this embarrassing!

  Although everyone likes to call Gu Miao and Wan Bao "high-yielding sows", he is not a real sow.

   Taking ten thousand steps back, even if she is really a sow, she must be bred first and then give birth, right?

   "TBS is under a lot of pressure, and the ratings continue to slump. It is said that many advertisers have withdrawn their advertisements one after another..."

  Remove the advertisement?

   Has it reached this point?

  Generally speaking, unless the TV ratings are really unacceptably low, advertisers will not easily use the "withdrawal" clause to stop losses.

  After all, popular advertising positions are generally paid by the second. If the advertisement is withdrawn, the advertiser will also suffer huge losses.

  Gu Miao was suddenly curious.

  What exactly did TBS do to disappoint the audience so much, and even caused a large number of advertisers to "run away with buckets"?

  This is a rare thing!

  In his impression, it seems that a similar situation has occurred in CCTV 8 in China. But that time it was a new drama of a certain little fresh meat, the ratings soared to the bottom of the earth, and the advertisers couldn't stand it, so they ran away.

  What kind of animation did TBS make?

  How can it be more intimidating than Xiao Xianrou's bad drama? It doesn't make sense!

   "It's hard to describe!"

  Seto smiled bitterly: "Those two animations are adaptations of light novels, and the original works are already very bad. The animation production is still short of funds and the schedule is tight, resulting in incomplete plots, distorted and broken paintings..."

   "That's all right!"

  As soon as Gu Miao heard the words "the original work sucks", she already knew it in her heart.

  The original work sucks, and the adaptation sucks!

   This kind of "rotten and worse" animation sudden death is simply the light of the righteous way! No matter who comes, they have to say "good death".

   "Oh yes, President."

   "The neon market has recently become very popular with sister works. Whether it is sister light novels or sister comics, the market response is very good."

  Seto hesitated for a moment before saying, "Should we follow the trend and make a sister animation to test the waters?"

   "Sister animation?!"

  Gu Miao was taken aback for a moment, and then fell into deep thought.

   One thing is undeniable, that is, whether it is animation, writing novels or drawing comics, the easiest way to succeed is naturally to follow the "trend".

simply put.

  What the market desires, what the audience wants to see, we will do.

  If Neon really has a trend of "sisters" now, then it can indeed follow the market trend and launch a "seasonal" work to test the waters.

only…

  The proposition of "sister line" is very broad!

  Different from exclusive terms such as "brother control" and "sister control", the interpretation of sister animation in a broad sense is: as long as there are kawaii female characters, it can be counted as "sister animation".

  This "sister" is not that "sister"!

  Sisters in a broad sense should refer to "beautiful female characters". In the narrow sense, the sister line refers to the relationship between righteous sisters, brothers and sisters, and sisters.

  Of course, this is just Gu Miao's understanding.

  In the eyes of the audience, as long as the protagonist has a kawaii sister, it is considered a sister animation. You don't even have a younger sister, how dare you call yourself a younger sister?

   Phew! What a shame!

  The sister works that Seto said are very popular, referring to those works that "focus on portraying the protagonist's sister", that is, "sister series" in a narrow sense.

   Gu Miao has many choices for this kind of works.

   But he wanted to hear Seto's opinion.

   After all, he is not a neon person, and he lives in Jiangchuan all year round, so he is not very clear about the market trend of neon. He needs to listen to Seto's opinion before choosing a suitable work location.

"should be…"

  Seto, who was in the video conference, scratched his head and said: "It's more cute, it's more about the daily school girls' works!"

   According to him.

  Currently, the "sister series" works that are popular in neon are generally based on "everyday campus" plots, with few elements such as superpowers, magic, and fierce battles appearing.

   That excludes many works.

   It is more about daily campus plots, that is, it focuses on the "warm and funny" direction. As for sister animations in this area, there are really not many optional works.

   "It's already November!"

  Gu Miao calculated that if she wanted to do "Sailor Moon 2" next year, she would have to spend at most 3-4 months, which is the standard of 12 episodes.

   Exclude those feature-length animations.

  In this way, works that are suitable for Wanbao Neon branch to "practice" and test the trend of the "sister series" market are actually easy to choose.

   "What about the Three Sisters theme?"

   "Three sisters?"

  Seto was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Are there three heroines? Is there a love element? If there is, then choose one of the three male protagonists?"

   "No, no, no, refuse to trade in stocks!"

  Gu Miao shook her head and said, "I'm a serious animation producer, how could I become a stockbroker?"

   "There is no male lead in this animation!"

After spending a long time, Seto, who finally understood what the president meant by "stock trading", couldn't help asking: "Without a male lead, there would be no love element! As a sister animation, this is really appropriate. ?"

   "Who said that there must be a love element to be called a sister animation? And...the absence of a male protagonist does not mean that there are no male characters!"

  Gu Miao was speechless.

   What kind of pig brain is this, can't tell the difference between the male lead and the male supporting role, right?

  (end of this chapter)