Chapter 322 Action

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The plot of Lelouch Season 2 can actually obviously feel that the pace has accelerated since the death of Charlie.

To put it more clearly, we are starting to advance the main plot.

In the previous plot, Lelouch allowed his Black Knights to shrink and grow, roped in helpers such as the Chinese Federation, and had small-scale friction with the Bunitania Empire. In fact, strictly speaking, the promotion of the main plot was very limited.

This can be seen from the fact that the plot also shows about Lelouch's campus life.

How can a great leader who strives for world supremacy still hang out with a group of high school classmates on campus, but since the death of Charlie in the thirteenth episode?

The Lelouch school plot that was criticized by fans is finally gone.

Charlie's death not only greatly stimulated Lelouch and accelerated the counterattack against the Bunitania Empire, but also made Suzaku question whether Lelouch had restored Zero's memory and whether he was the mastermind behind Charlie's murder. doubted.

Then comes the fifteenth episode of Lelouch

Lelouch resented his father's brother, who was also a being named V.V who had the ability to grant geass to others.

He and CC drove a mecha to sneak attack him, but in the end, before Lelouch, his father took away his brother vv's "coad" ability that can give others geass abilities, and set a trap to trap Lu Lu. build.

And Lelouch's father is also planning to take away CC's "coad" ability.

In order to save Lelouch, cc sacrificed himself in exchange for Lelouch's chance to escape.

In the end, Lelouch's words to cc at the critical moment awakened cc's power to survive, and cc escaped with Lelouch afterwards.

But cc also lost his memory due to the interference from Lelouch's father's power.

All in all, the fourteenth and fifteenth episodes of Lelouch are very fast-paced. The content of these two episodes and the advancement of Lelouch's worldview can be said to be more than the previous thirteen episodes of the second season combined. .

The plot started to get busy, and the fans naturally bought into it, especially in the fifteenth episode when CC lost his memory and put himself into the slave period hundreds of years ago, which satisfied the fantasies of some CC to a certain extent.

Therefore, after the fifteenth episode of Lelouch was broadcast, the ratings once again reached the 6.50% mark.

Lelouch's ratings data jumped repeatedly, and to be honest, it was only a small distance away from Madoka's historical ratings record of 6.51%, which also caused a stir in the hearts of people in the entire animation industry.

Can your damn thing be broken? Give me a good time.

I thought you couldn't do it, the ratings dropped, and suddenly this happened again.

This 0.01% gap has hit twice.

On the other side, Sword Art Online Episode 2

The ratings data also increased steadily.

The ratings of the second episode closed at 5.61%

Judging from this situation, I am afraid that the ratings will break through the 6% mark in this quarter. Even if the quality of the subsequent series is better, it may not be able to compete with Lelouch in the Spring Festival market.

At Senryu Animation, all members of the animation production team can say that they have been collectively confused in the past two weeks.

The ratings of Sword Art Online are absolute historical achievements for Senryu animation.

Although due to cross-copyright reasons, a large portion of Sword Art Online's BD, peripherals, and overseas broadcast costs have to be paid to Xia Yan and Liuli Publishing House, but even the remaining profits can be predicted to be extremely considerable. number.

During this week, members of the Sword Art Online animation production team were frequently on camera in major variety shows in Dragon Kingdom.

Well, how many opportunities do people have to become famous in a lifetime? At this time, you must show off your strength.

As for the animation industry, after everyone saw that the ratings of the second episode of Sword Art Online could improve to the same extent as the first episode, almost all employees in the industry sighed inwardly.

"What does this mean? It means that the popularity of works such as Sword Art Online, Lelouch, Magic Circle, and Cyberpunk has nothing to do with the production quality of the animation. It all depends on Xia Yan's script and popularity. score."

"In the past, Xia Yan's anti-fans would say that Lelouch's good grades were due to the production cost of nearly 200 million. Now the first season of Sword Art Online has more than 20 episodes, with a production cost of 80 million, and it is also broadcast. The ratings exceeded 5%”

"In fact, there is no need to have a control group for this kind of thing. We all know that Long Guoda has invested a lot in animation, not to mention 200 million, there are also animations with 400 million investment in history, and we have never seen that animation have such results. ”

"That is, Magic Circle, as the animation that holds the ratings record in Dragon Kingdom, had an initial investment of just over 10 million. The popularity of a work is related to the amount of investment, but the success of Lelouch is not achieved by throwing money at it. came out. The funniest thing is that he actually spent more than 10 million to buy the broadcasting spot of Imperial TV Station. Perhaps it was because Xia Yan felt that it was such a loss at the beginning, so all the subsequent major animations were given to Magic City TV1 Let it go."

"I feel like in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry, Xia Yan is now a transcendent existence in the industry. Xianliu Animation can also produce a work with a first-run ratings of over 5%? What kind of international joke are you kidding? The three major animation companies are probably going to be furious."

"Who told the three major animation companies to join forces to suppress Xia Yan when he was rising? I heard that the three major animation companies were originally interested in changing Sword Art Online, but Xia Yan vetoed it and told Liuli Bookstore directly. If If Sanda accepts it, he would rather Sword Art Online never be adapted into an anime than sign on.”

"Really or not?"

"Of course it's true. I've heard about it."

"This is the confidence of short-term light novel writers, who have the ability to negotiate terms with the publishing company."

"But he might as well make Sword Art Online into an original animation from the beginning. That way he can earn more money and he doesn't have to cross-hold copyrights with Liuli Book Company. He is actually fully capable of doing it alone."

"Actually, it's almost the same. Sword Art Online is suitable for light novel serialization. Although Liuli Book Company will have some copyrights in its hands, most of the profits from the work will still go to Xia Yan. Moreover, the revenue share of Sword Art Online single volumes is not inferior to the benefits of the animation adaptation. It's a bit troublesome, but from the perspective of income alone, Xia Yan will definitely not lose."

"With Sword Art Online as a test run, it will be much easier to broadcast the adapted animation of Initial D later. . It seems that the adapted animation of Initial D will also be broadcast in the second half of the year. "

"Then there is Hunter x Hunter. Xia Yan has such a strong market appeal now that it is hard to imagine what results the adapted animation of Hunter x Hunter will achieve after it is broadcast.

The great success of Sword Art Online has made people in the animation industry focus on Initial D and Hunter x Hunter.

Xia Yan's two consecutive works, Lelouch and Cyberpunk, have achieved good results, and even Sword Art Online seems to be on the road to a big explosion.

At a time when other works in the Dragon Country animation industry are still considered to be high-quality with a 3% rating and a 4% rating, Xia Yan's animation has not even started with a rating of less than 5%.

This obvious gap in lead makes Xia Yan's colleagues in the animation industry smile bitterly.

There is no way to catch up.

This is not simply a performance data that can be explained by the quality of the work.

Xia Yan is now a traffic monster with the support of the terrifying number of fans of Dragon Country's top two-dimensional works such as Sword Art Online, Madoka Magica, Cyberpunk, Initial D, Hunter x Hunter, etc.

If Sword Art Online was an animation produced by a new screenwriter in Dragon Country, it would be considered good if the ratings could exceed 4% at the beginning of the broadcast, but because of Xia Yan's name, it easily exceeded 5% and even developed towards 6%.

In the next week, the media in the two-dimensional industry in Dragon Country commented on a number of animations in the spring season, and Xia Yan's words unexpectedly became the focus of news again.

At this time, Xia Yan was not too concerned about the performance of the two works.

Instead, he paid attention to the two original animations produced by Xia Tang Animation Production Company this quarter.

However.

The two animations The first episode of the animation received 1.73% and 2.16% ratings respectively.

The ratings are ranked in the upper middle level among all the animations in the spring season of Longguo.

However,

many people in the company are used to the 5%-6% ratings of Xia Yan's works. Seeing that these original works of their own company are just like this.

Many people can't help but feel disgusted.

Although Xia Yan was mentally prepared for this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

According to Xia Yan's idea, he hoped that Xia Tang Animation Production Company would gradually get rid of its dependence on Xia Yan in the next few years or even ten years. Even without Xia Yan's works, it would have sufficient blood-making ability, like the three major animation production companies.

But judging from the results of this experiment, he invested 83 million in these two original animations, and it is likely to break even.

If Xia Yan is excluded from this company, Xia Tang Animation is currently second-rate in Longguo.

"Alas" Xia Yan leaned back and lay down.

Tang Yin, wearing a black dress and long black stockings, came in. Seeing Xia Yan's expression and looking at the documents on Xia Yan's desk, she could guess what he was thinking.

"Okay, stop being greedy. Think about the three major animation production companies. When I was young, they were well-known animation companies in Longguo. They developed for more than 20 years to become the industry leader. How many years do you think our company has been successful? Less than four years at most." Tang Yin put the documents that Xia Yan should have dealt with in the afternoon on his desk, and then sat on the sliding chair next to him.

"I know the reason, but it's just..."

"What is it?" Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan.

"You are only 21 years old, how can you be more anxious than my father. He is 50 years old, and the film and television animation production company he established for 30 years is now less than half of our Xia Tang's in terms of scale and revenue capacity. Even so, he still thinks he is a genius."

Xia Yan thought about it, and finally smiled.

"You're right. I can't expect Xia Tang Animation to become a world-class animation production company in two or three years. Although the company's revenue level is very good, its originality and blood-making ability can only be developed slowly."

"And Xia Yan, you have to be clear." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan's attitude, hesitated for a moment and then said.

"You can't have too high expectations for these people. They are indeed first-class players in the animation industry. They are talents that our company has spent a lot of money to dig up. But compared with you, they can only be described as mediocre. If you expect them to create original works like Lelouch and Madoka Magica in a few years or more than ten years, then I can only say that you probably won't see that day."

Xia Yan looked at Tang Yin.

"In the past few decades when the animation industry in Longguo has been booming, there has only been a monster like you, Xia Yan. There is no one else in this industry who can be as good as you." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan and said softly.

Xia Yan was stunned when he heard this, thought about it, and then let out a long breath.

Seeing this, Tang Yin stopped talking about this topic.

She actually understood Xia Yan's thoughts. Essentially, what Xia Yan wanted to build was an excellent large company, not a large studio that only served him personally.

It's a pity that the reality is very skinny.

Xia Tang Animation is indeed at this level after leaving Xia Yan.

"Speaking of Xia Yan, Lelouch's animation has almost been produced, and there are one or two hundred people in the company who are now going to have nothing to do. Are you ready to let them continue to create original works?" When the topic came to this point, Tang Yin He also took the opportunity to say.

Xia Yan's previous idea was to let his subordinates have free play for half a year after Lu Lu Xiu was finished, so that he could take the opportunity to travel and spend their honeymoon with Tang Yin.

After four years of college, Xia Yan was almost driven crazy by her studies and work, and she wanted to relax.

But at this stage

If he really allowed his subordinates to perform freely, Xia Yan would have to be prepared to suffer losses.

Part of Xia Yan's depression comes from this.

"Okay, let's not waste any more time." Xia Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"I understood as soon as you said it. Maybe I thought too much. I always thought that there would be talents that could not be discovered in the company and help me support the company's business. I would find ways to find things for the employees to do. Yes, investing 80 million in two animations and this is the result? There is also the risk of losing money. I might as well do nothing and save the money in the bank."

However, after these few years, Xia Yan no longer has much interest in making short stories or quarterly animations like before.

These works are short, and they take up a lot of Xia Yan's energy. Xia Yan has to check everything from the script, character design, music, storyboards, to the review of the completed production. Every time he creates a new work, these processes have to be repeated. Again.

As for the long-form animation, Xia Yan can save a lot of energy. Just like in the later stage of the Lelouch animation, the employees basically know Xia Yan's style and production requirements for the work, and there is no need for Xia Yan to supervise the completion. The quality can satisfy Xia Yan.

When Tang Yin heard this, her eyes lit up and she asked curiously.

"That's what you mean."

"It is really difficult to arrange work for hundreds of people. Let me think about it. I will try to come up with a full-length work. Otherwise, I have to think about their work problems every quarter. I am also very troubled. In a company with hundreds of people, It feels like I have become a wet nurse." Xia Yan said.

"Long-form animation?" Tang Yin blinked.

But I understood what Xia Yan meant.

But full-length animation.

"You seem to have never created a long work before. The longest one is Lelouch, but the first and second seasons combined are only forty or fifty episodes."

"There is no animation, but in the field of comics and novels, isn't it Hunter and Sword Art Online?" Xia Yan said with a smile.

"Don't worry, I know my current position in the industry. I won't try to ruin my brand by myself, and I have to start laying out many things."

"Layout?" Tang Yin's eyes were confused.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's hard to explain it to you now, but you'll know it later."

Xia Yan said.

After all, Xia Yan knows very well that he may have to deal with the two-dimensional industry in this world for decades in the future.

It is definitely best to release some works early to accumulate popularity.

For example, Pokémon, Blue Fatty, Marvel’s real two-dimensional IP commercial masterpieces, Lelouch, and Magic Circle are not even ranked.

After all, the work is short and its influence does not last long enough.

However, the accumulation of popularity for works such as Pokémon, Fatty Blue, and Marvel is not useful in a day or two, but at least in a few years, or more than ten years.

Xia Yan can start to make these works gradually available, but at least for a long time in the future, he will have to invest a lot of money to protect the dissemination of these works. Only in this way can he be able to make them available in the next few years, ten years, or decades. Huge profits were made from these works.

In layman's terms, it means spending money to hatch golden eggs at this stage.

Fortunately, Xia Yan Company has accumulated enough now and is capable of hatching these golden eggs.

It's just that at this stage, the company still has to rely on Lelouch and other works to make money and grow.

Therefore, Xia Yan cannot accept that the two animations he invested 80 million yuan in will produce ratings of 1% and 2%. This is a pure waste of time. This kind of investment return rate cannot support Xia Yan's plan to develop a two-dimensional business empire. conception.

The long-form works that Xia Yan and Tang Yin talked about are definitely not Pokémon or Marvel.

At Xia Yan's current level, it is difficult to produce ordinary works. After all, the quality is not enough and his reputation will be lost. He doesn't want to expose his flaws and let those haters laugh at him.

What Xia Yan can come up with must be in a parallel world and at the same level as Lelouch and other works.

For example, steel refining, Tianyuan breakthrough, cl and so on.

Of course, the company also has the need to develop into the field of animated films and short animations. Works such as Nakāra no Realm can also be turned into a series of animated films.

There were many complicated thoughts in his brain, and Xia Yan gradually fell into thinking.