Chapter 323 Meeting and Direction

Xia Yan's two new animations are so mediocre two weeks after they were aired. In fact, at least half of the company's employees are quite nervous recently.

After all, half of the company is producing the Lelouch animation, and the other half are all in the production project team of the two works.

Except for Madoka Magica, the company has not had such a bad ratings for its animations since its development. Moreover, these two works are promoted in Longguo under Xia Yan's name. The slogans that Xia Yan supervised and praised Xia Yan also whetted the appetite of fans before the airing.

But this is the reality.

It can't be said to be a flop. After all, there is a high probability that it can still make a profit. It's just

a bit embarrassing.

This also led to several senior executives in the production department being very nervous when they were called to a meeting by Xia Yan this week.

Xia Yan has never scolded anyone in the company for several years. If he thinks you are not good enough, he will ask the human resources department to have a talk with you, and dismiss you peacefully, give you enough compensation, and give you another resignation subsidy based on your contribution to the company.

However, Xia Tang Animation is developing so rapidly now. Although its scale may not have reached the first place in the animation industry of Longguo, its status and influence have shown signs of this.

Normal people would not want to be persuaded by Xia Yan to quit.

But a week later.

Xia Yan only asked about their normal internal affairs of the company. He said nothing about the two animations that cost 80 million yuan to invest, but only achieved this little result under his name.

However,

Xia Yan did not mention the proposal that Xia Yan intended to start the production of one or two original animations in the spring of this year when he was in a meeting two months ago.

After the end of January, the people in the company actually panicked.

The animation series of Lelouch has basically been completed by now, and only some special effects, outsourced clips, and post-dubbing are still being worked on.

But for the four or five hundred people in the company, everyone is indeed facing a problem, what is the next job?

The two original animations must be completed in February, not to mention Lelouch, which will be completed in early February.

The next job for so many people in the company.

is still completely uncertain.

Although Xia Yan is easy to talk to, he is not a fool. The employees themselves know that Xia Yan will not pay them for nothing.

But the results of the two original animations piloted in January are like this again.

The atmosphere is indeed a bit subtle.

Xia Yan also vaguely sensed these emotions of the company's employees, but did not explain anything.

After talking with Tang Yin before, he was also immersed in the selection of new works.

Of course, in fact, for Xia Yan, there are not many works to choose from now.

There are almost no works that can completely surpass Madoka Magica and Lelouch.

But animation has many branches.

Madoka Magica may be the ceiling of magical girl-themed animation, and Lelouch is also one of the top works of war-themed animation.

It is difficult for Xia Yan to find a work that completely surpasses these two works.

However, in other branch animation fields, there are still works of similar quality and at the same level.

And there are many series of works, and the length is long enough.

For example, the Monogatari series, the Fate series, and the CL in the love-themed works, I really want to tell you.

In the category of pure hot-blooded animation, there is Gurren Lagann, and in the category of sports-themed works, there is Slam Dunk and Yatsuwa Pedal. When it comes to animations about bicycle competition, Xia Yan actually prefers Tetsukai, but this work is relatively unpopular in the parallel world, so Xia Yan didn't consider it much.

Of course, works like Slam Dunk and the Monogatari series are originally comics and light novels.

Xia Yan originally wanted to wait until Hunter and Sword Art Online were finished before putting the two works on the agenda and serializing them in Liuli Book Club and Beizhou Comics Club.

But it is estimated that Hunter will be difficult to serialize to the place where the original work was interrupted in less than three to five years. Even if Xia Yan writes Sword Art Online quickly, it will take about a year to write the UW chapter.

After thinking about it, I am too lazy to wait.

After all, it is certain that Xia Yan will never be able to reproduce all the works in the memory bank in Dragon Country in his lifetime. Not to mention, when the Dead Fire Sea Dragon Ball is serialized later, Xia Yan really works on these works at the same time. Even if he is only responsible for writing the script and leaving the painting, publicity and production to his subordinates, it is estimated that he will waste at least ten years.

Throughout the late January, Xia Yan basically stayed alone in the office thinking about the future work of the hundreds of people in the company.

At the end of the month, Xia Yan finally sorted out his thoughts and sighed.

He didn't know why the company was developing and relying on him more and more, but if this was the fact, Xia Yan could only accept it.

It's just that the company's business of cultivating original talents cannot stop. After all, no one knows when a genius like Oda, Kishimoto, or Akira Toriyama will emerge in the Dragon Country plane? It is necessary to make a certain investment in this.

Instead of waiting for these geniuses to grow up and then all of them clamoring to take Xia Yan as their target and fight to defeat Xia Yan, the industry's big devil, it is better to directly bring them under the camp and contribute to the establishment of their own business empire.

Wait until the beginning of February.

After returning from the Spring Festival, the company held a routine meeting.

Twenty to seventy middle and senior management personnel from various departments of the company were all present. In the spacious conference room, everyone looked at the chairman Xia Yan, who was sitting at the head of the table, the second largest shareholder of the company, the vice chairman Tang Yin who was responsible for external business affairs, and the third largest shareholder, the sweet girl Song Lingjun who occasionally came back to the company to hang out and liked to take a nap in the company office.

Xia Tang Animation has been established for so many years, and everyone knows that meetings attended by both Xia Yan and Tang Yin may not be very important.

But even Song Lingjun was called to the meeting

The matter must be extremely important.

Because with the personality of the chairman Xia Yan, he would never bother Song Lingjun unless there was something.

Xia Yan looked at the six bound documents distributed by the assistant secretary in front of each person.

After coughing twice, he looked at everyone.

"You can read it yourself. The time is half an hour. I will start speaking after half an hour."

Xia Yan waved his hand and closed his eyes to rest.

Except for Tang Yin, the expressions of the twenty or so people at the scene were all confused, including Song Lingjun.

She was busy writing her own novels on weekdays, and had no idea about Xia Yan's business in the company during this period.

Only the tens of millions of profit dividends that were regularly deposited into her bank card at the end of each year reminded her that she was also the third in command of Xia Tang Animation Company.

Picked up the document in her hand and took a look

Just one glance, Song Lingjun's expression changed.

New. New work?

Open, are you kidding?

Xia Yan, are you human?

Your Sword Art Online and Hunter x Hunter are still hotly serialized, and the Lelouch animation has not yet been broadcast. Where do you get the energy to make these new works?

First of all, the content of the first two documents is very simple, that is, Xia Yan plans to incubate two two-dimensional IP works in a few years or even more than ten years.

And will regularly invest in the two works every year, and produce animations, novels, peripherals, and games.

Of course, these two works are not the company's main profit targets in the next few years, and there will be no profit for a long time.

But the plan also said that Xia Yan is very confident that the two works will bring huge profits to the company in a few years or even more than ten years.

"Pokemon?"

"Doraemon."

Song Lingjun looked at the character elements of the two works in the plan, the yellow and orange mouse spirit and the blue and faint big fat cat.

Huh?

Xia Yan, your style change is too big, isn't it?

Preparing to enter the children's field?

Song Lingjun looked at Xia Yan with a strange expression.

After all, the main force of Longguo's two-dimensional works are basically teenagers over twelve years old.

Maybe Xia Yan has already felt that there is little room for development in the teenage fan group, so he has set his sights on the children's group?

Song Lingjun thought about it, and she didn't care too much about these two works.

Anyway, the company's money is basically earned by Xia Yan, and he can spend it however he wants. If the incubation of two "big IPs" is successful, it's good, and if it's not successful... it doesn't matter. There is no business in the world that is guaranteed to make a profit.

Song Lingjun focused on the contents of Xia Yan's other four planning proposals.

Sure enough, it was as Song Lingjun expected.

There are three works, all of which are orthodox new works that perfectly match Xia Yan's style.

Fullmetal Alchemist

Song Lingjun read the introduction and was instantly attracted by the world view.

Equivalent exchange, alchemist, war, conspiracy, price

This kind of fantasy-style, different-dimension animation is very popular in Dragon Country, and may even be more popular than Code Geass, because fans are more receptive.

Then "Gurren Lagann", a work with a name that breaks through the sky, is just like the sentence in its planning proposal, "Our drill is a drill that breaks through the sky!"

A work of passionate fighting style

The style is similar to Code Geass, and the work also has "Mecha" and other elements.

But what the hell is the introduction of this world view?

The protagonist fights from the blue planet to the moon, and then from the moon to the galaxy and the galaxy cluster.

Hey, Xia Yan, your imagination is beyond the sky. It's good enough that you can fly out of the blue planet with a broken shell mecha, and you can fight to the edge of the universe? Do you really think that your combat power will not collapse?

But the style is similar to Code Geass, it doesn't matter. When it starts, there will definitely be a lot of fans supporting it, so it's understandable that Xia Yan created this kind of work.

There is also the "Story Series".

That's right, it's directly stated in the plan that this plan is a series, divided into Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari, Catmonogatari, Flowermonogatari, Pramonogatari, Endmonogatari, Koyomimonogatari, etc.

Fantasy love daily style work.

Song Lingjun looked at Xia Yan with a strange look again.

So when Xia Yan creates new works, does he come up with so much content in one go?

He has already thought of so many plots in the planning stage. If all the content in the planning is realized, this story series will probably become a long animation with a total of more than 100 episodes, which will be twice the length of Code Geass.

So it’s still the same question. Xia Yan, you have been creating Code Geass, Hunter and Sword Art Online at the same time in the past two years. Why can you still have the energy to conceive the plots of these works?

Are you really human?

As for the last sports-themed work planning.

"Slam Dunk".

When she heard the name, Song Lingjun felt that this work should be meaningless.

Of course, you can’t judge a person by his appearance, and you can’t judge an animation by its name.

But she has known Xia Yan for five years and has never seen Xia Yan go to exercise. In her spare time, she would go to the beach to catch fish or play games at most.

A person who doesn't do any sports creates a basketball animation.

Song Lingjun is not optimistic.

She is not one of those fans of Xia Yan, who has a god-like confidence in Xia Yan.

Song Lingjun pays attention to basic logic. Xia Yan is indeed very powerful, but he can't create top works in any field, type, and direction.

Of course, this idea is a little unconfident after thinking about the existence of Initial D.

Others don't know, but Song Lingjun knows it.

When Xia Yan started serializing Initial D, his driving skills were terrible, but it didn't seem to affect Xia Yan's creation.

At this point, everyone at the meeting basically understood Xia Yan's intention for this meeting.

For the two concept works of Pokemon and Doraemon, Xia Yan is going to set up two production teams to be responsible for their IP creation, establishment, incubation, and operation.

The time will start at least five years, and money will continue to be invested, and no short-term profit is expected.

So everyone doesn't care much, five years?

What will happen in five years will be discussed in five years. Who knows whether the IP of the two works can be successfully incubated by then? What if it fails?

We definitely can't waste time on these two works. If we really want to set up an operation and production team, no one wants to be responsible for the daily work of this team.

After all, in Xia Tang Animation, everyone's bonus is positively correlated with the profit level of the project team they are in. In a project team with an uncertain profit level and such a long incubation time, it will bring great uncertainty to one's future income.

All the people in the company present have no interest in these two works.

On the contrary, they are interested in Fullmetal Alchemist, Slam Dunk, Gurren Lagann, and the four works in the Monogatari series.

Everyone's eyes are shining now.

The boss is bursting!

Was he stimulated by the rubbish results of the company's two original animations?

It's only been less than half a month since he was in seclusion in the company. How can he come up with these four long-form works?

Xia Yan looked at the expressions of everyone and probably guessed what these people were thinking.

Basically, in mid-to-late February, all the work on hand of the hundreds of employees directly responsible for animation production in the company will be completed collectively.

If possible, Xia Yan didn't want to produce so many works at once. For him, even if he was only responsible for the creation of the script, it would be a very tiring job.

But there was no way. The company had already set up such a large scale, and Xia Yan could only bite the bullet.

Moreover, Xia Yan was very targeted in the selection of works. These works were basically medium-length works, which could at least meet the work tasks of the company's employees in the next one or two years.

With a sigh, Xia Yan said.

"That's the situation. I'm not asking for your opinions at this meeting. I'm directly informing you that these six works will be your work tasks for a long time in the future."

"One sports theme, one fantasy, one mecha battle, and one fantasy love. In addition, the IP operation and incubation of the two concept works of Pokémon and Doraemon."

"The company will be divided into six project groups this week, so this meeting is to let everyone discuss how to form the project group, the personnel composition, and who will be the person in charge of the six project groups," Xia Yan said.

"Also, these six works are all extremely valuable works, but of course, the commercial value varies. I hope everyone will take them seriously and don't underestimate any project." Xia Yan stopped talking.

He could see that his subordinates were not very interested in Pokémon and Doraemon.

But in fact, if they really joined the creation and operation departments of the two works, they would be members of the initial production team of the two works. Ten or twenty years later, the benefits brought by that would actually be the greatest.

However, Xia Yan was too lazy to explain such things, and he couldn't explain them clearly. If he forced an explanation, his subordinates would probably think he was bragging.

Meetings are for discussion, and discussions involve interests, and then there will be fights.

A company with hundreds of people, even Xia Yan could not avoid these situations.

A few minutes later, the entire conference room was in chaos.

On weekdays, everyone was harmonious, but now it was not those original projects, but an animation project created by Xia Yan himself. If he didn't fight at this time, he would be a fool.

Xia Yan, Tang Yin, and Song Lingjun, the three major shareholders, looked at the quarreling arguments of their subordinates in silence.

Judging from the situation, this matter may not be settled in a week or two.

Song Lingjun let out a long breath and looked at Xia Yan

At this time, Tang Yin happened to look at Xia Yan.

Both of them had the same emotion in their eyes.

Shocked

I know Xia Yan is powerful, but I never thought he would be so outrageous.

Six works plan?

He is going to defy the heavens!