Chapter 499: "Five Centimeters per Second" animation decision
The price of 100,000 is very low, but 6 TV stations are a bit much. This is a good thing and a bad thing, and the good thing is that so many places can reduce the competition of TV stations, and everyone can win the copyright without paying much money. The bad thing is that there are so many competitors, and the ratings after the rerun of "Madoka Magical Girl" will be greatly affected.
What Meng wanted was the greatest audience influence, and if each of the six TV stations chose one day to broadcast it, it would add up to nearly a week, and so many TV stations would broadcast it, and all the animation viewers would be able to see it, and he could expand the influence to the maximum extent - and money was not in his consideration.
The combined bidding price of six places will not be more than that of three hotly contested TV stations, and perhaps less, but Meng Huo no longer cares.
After the bidding began, representatives of the TV station bid one after another, and although they were a little worried about the ratings, "Madoka Magi" was indeed an excellent work, and no one wanted to miss it. In the end, six TV stations, centered on CCTV and Suhua TV, won the rebroadcast rights, and their prices also ranged from 50 to 80 depending on the order in which they were broadcast.
It is worth mentioning that Ninghai TV also won the bid, and the rebroadcast of "Madoka Magical Girl" is scheduled for next month, and according to the agreement, these six TV stations will broadcast separately.
The next day, the news of the replay spread, and the sales of various animation newspapers and magazines skyrocketed that day, and animation fans were boiling.
"Madoka Magical Girl will be rebroadcast next month! Six TV stations! ”
"The broadcast time is also different, and my mother no longer has to worry about me not being able to see the anime!"
Influenced by the newspaper, the attention of "Madoka Magical Girl" has skyrocketed again. The viewers, who had thought they would have to wait a long time to see the replay, were thrilled. Thousands of people initiated a countdown to the replay on Weibo. The house is also full of posts expressing excitement and anticipation.
And not only on the Internet, in order to grab the ratings, many TV stations that have obtained the rebroadcast rights of "Madoka Magical Girl" have also launched strong promotional programs one after another, and even invited several voice actors from the animation, which greatly attracted the attention of the audience, and it is also equivalent to advertising the voice actors of Phoenix Company for free.
Affected by these favorable factors, the peripheral sales of "Madoka Magical Girl" have also developed steadily, falling below the eyeballs of many experts.
Before that. Experts have noticed the high sales of this anime, but all of them have commented that this popularity is just a flash in the pan: the miracle sales of "Madoka Magi" on the closing day are affected by the impact of the animation and the following effect of the audience, but the peripheral market of the anime has not actually developed.
All experts believe that after a short period of popularity, peripheral sales will plummet and will not develop significantly. But at this time, the situation is different from their comments, and thanks to the replay news, the sales of "Madoka Magica" have not decreased much, and people's enthusiasm for buying has increased.
Phoenix Company was overjoyed, but at this time, Meng Shu was in trouble.
Look at your frown from time to time. Is there some kind of trouble? Meng family, the old lady looked at her grandson with a smile. said: "If there is any trouble, I can help you." ”
What she said was very natural, so natural that Meng Shu felt that even if he said that the Phoenix Company was going to go bankrupt, the old lady would come to help him. Of course, he couldn't have had such a big annoyance, in fact it was a very, very small annoyance.
Meng Shu had come to have dinner with the old lady this time, and he didn't want to disturb her nature.
"Don't mind, it's just a small problem."
"Small problems are also problems, you might as well say it and let me hear about it......"
The old lady put away her smile and said, "I won't help indiscriminately, but it's always okay to listen, right?" ”
Meng Shu nodded.
"Actually, it's nothing, I'm thinking about the next work." He explained: "I wanted to make an animated film, and someone had recommended a suitable adaptation to me, but there were some troubles with this work, and I didn't know if I should adapt it directly. ”
He is talking about "Five Centimeters per Second", the animation department has been on holiday for a few days, and will come back to work officially tomorrow, but Meng Huo still hasn't decided whether to launch "Five Centimeters per Second".
This work is also among the best of all the animated films he has seen in his previous life, and its popularity in this world is not low, so it stands to reason that it is certainly a good thing to release it first. But on the other hand, Meng Shu still remembers the uproar of "5 Centimeters per Second" - dissatisfied with its tragic ending, some readers protested at the door of the Phoenix Company.
In order to appease these readers, Meng promised to change the ending of the anime in the future. Although many years have passed, many people may not remember this incident, but Meng Shu still cares about the original promise. His thoughts are different from the original, he wants to show the original posture of "Five Centimeters per Second" as perfectly as possible, but a promise is a promise, how can he overturn it lightly now?
In fact, the original incident was in the end, and with the help of Lu Xue, the original hostess of Ninghai TV, many readers no longer mind the ending of the animation inheriting the comics - but two days ago, Meng Huo secretly investigated on the Internet and found that there were many people who hoped that the animation would have a perfect ending.
Those are big fans of "5 Centimeters per Second", and they have been hoping that Meng will fulfill his promise to one day animate "5 Centimeters per Second" and give it a perfect ending.
This made Meng Shu feel very troublesome, if he betrayed these readers, it would definitely set off a bigger commotion than he had at the beginning. Now he is different from before, and the number of readers has changed drastically from the past, and the original promise of animation has long spread over time, and readers who have not participated in that event can believe that Meng Huo will make an animation with a perfect ending.
That's the love of readers, who love "Five Centimeters per Second" and hope that the two protagonists will be happy...... Meng Shu can understand, so he is very conflicted.
However, despite the contradictions, Meng Shu still can't do what he promised, because the readers of "Five Centimeters per Second" are composed of two diametrically opposed groups. Some of them want a perfect ending, but some want it to end like the manga.
When Meng Shu made his promise, it sparked a confrontation between the two people, and this hostility has continued to this day. When Meng was investigating the situation, he was surprised to find that the fans of "Five Centimeters per Second" on the Internet still maintained this hostile feeling, and on Weibo and in the forum, all comments about this cartoon would always usher in cynicism with different views.
Even on the forum of He Xi's House, the "Five Centimeters per Second" section is divided into two camps, and they quarrel all day long. In this case, how did Meng Shu make up his mind to make this animation? No matter what the outcome of him is, it will attract a bunch of saliva, so it's better not to do it!
"I'm thinking about whether or not to give it up." After explaining, Meng Shu shook his head and said, "It's too sensitive. ”
"But you still don't want to give up, right......" The old lady looked gentle and said slowly: "If you really want to give up, then there will be no worries now, the reason why you are troubled is precisely because you really want to make this comic into an animated movie, am I right?" ”
"You're right."
Meng Wei nodded, the original book of "Five Centimeters per Second" is an animated movie, and the movie can show its full color, and he adapted it into a comic book in the first place. If there was this environment back then, Meng Shu would definitely launch it in the form of a movie.
Now that he has the confidence to make this movie, of course Meng Shu doesn't want to give up, and it is precisely because he doesn't want to give up that he has been thinking about it for the past few days, thinking about whether there is any other solution. But after thinking about it until now, he still hasn't come up with a countermeasure that can properly deal with the two opposing readers, and Meng Shu is ready to give up, if there is no way, he can only choose another animated movie.
"I don't have time to think about it, tomorrow the animation department will work, and I have to announce the new animation at that time." He told the old lady that he had said that the new animation would be announced tomorrow, and that the employees could not be left empty-handed.
The old lady groaned, and she picked up the tea and drank it carefully.
"I don't know much about animation...... After a while, she slowly spoke, "But everything has a law, and it can never be solved without troubles." In my opinion, you're a little paranoid in this situation.,When you're thinking about solving these two opposing readers' feelings.,The direction of your thinking is only on animation.。 ”
"The contradiction lies in the animation, and of course, the more you think about the animation, the less likely you are to get the answer."
The old lady looked at Meng Shu, and in her eyes, the core of the problem was not in the animation, but in the contradiction of the reader. No matter how much the animation is done, there will be a group of readers disappointed, and its ending cannot be both 'satisfying' and 'tragic', but this does not mean that the reader's contradictions are completely unsolvable.
"Have you ever thought about it in other ways?" The old lady said, "Leaving the animation, you should have other cards in your hand, right?" ”
Meng Shu was stunned for a moment, and then a flash of inspiration flashed, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly on his face.
"Taught." He bowed his head to the old lady, feeling a little joy and a little ashamed at the same time.
Unexpectedly, he would also walk into a dead end, and he didn't even notice such a simple solution in front of him.
However, after being reminded by the old lady, Meng Huo already knew what he should do, and the next animation work had to be "Five Centimeters per Second" - an original and somewhat bitter love movie, and as the first work of the new year of the Phoenix Company, Meng Huo definitely wanted to make everyone who saw it feel amazing. (To be continued......)