Best wishes for animation production

Move the time forward a little.

When Gu Xue received the attention gift at YUKI studio.

In a certain hotel, Lyons ended the remote video conference and breathed a sigh of relief.

finally.

The cool animation you imagined is confirmed!

Although the subject matter is a bit biased...

But it’s enough, just listening to it makes me feel cool!

Lyons was excited when he thought about the finalized plan.

"This trip is complete."

John, who was sitting on the bed, saw that Lyons was done, handed him a bottle of beer, and sighed.

Lyons turned around, took the beer, and was about to answer when he caught a glimpse of John's pants from the corner of his eye...

The corners of his mouth twitched.

Such a macho man who is 1.9 meters tall, but wears big pants with pictures of beautiful girls on them... and at the same time drinks tons of beer, no matter how you look at it, it is against the rules...

But... the words are quite pleasing to the ear.

Lyons looked away from John's crotch and took a sip of the beer that represented victory in his mind.

"Next we will..."

Putting down his beer, Lyons was about to confirm the itinerary with his subordinate and friend.

"COOL~~~~~~"

John, who was sitting opposite him, seemed to have a telepathic connection and interrupted him just in time, "Lyons, look at this, he's handsome."

John turned the phone over and showed Lyons the picture on the screen of his phone - Black Rock Shooter.

"Haven't you seen enough?" Lyons glanced at it, "I have seen so many at the WF exhibition last week, and this is a planned figure, and it may not be as good as the painting."

"I know, but this figure seems different from the ones we saw. This one is particularly popular. I can see posts discussing it in most forums I go to."

"Especially popular? Animated characters?"

"No, original characters... Shet, this language is too difficult. What kind of word is this? It's just a setting. Why should it be so complicated?"

John lowered his head and held his mobile phone. He had already touched the official website of the small company. Although he understood some of the language in Huaya, he was very poor. Usually he could barely understand what everyone was discussing by going to the forum and matching the pictures, but he had to understand the second grade. The character setting that is full of atmosphere is obviously not enough.

"Original character, why is it so popular?" Lyons was a little curious.

"It seems to be because of the designer of this character..." John replied casually while trying to figure out what the setting was.

"Who is the designer?"

"Who? Let me see...his name is Gu Xue."

"Oh, Gu Xue."

"Well, Gu Xue."

"..."

"..."

The two suddenly fell silent together.

After a while, the two slowly looked at each other.

"We...seem to have forgotten something?" Lyons asked.

John smiled bitterly and replied: "Yes, we forgot about Gu Xue..."

last week.

The two of them met Gu Xue at the wf exhibition and wanted to chat, but Gu Xue was running away at the time and they failed to catch up...

Then, in the middle, an animation production company called 3.C PICTURE contacted them and told them that 3.C PICTURE had a project within the company and they were very confident that someone would join them. In order to ensure quality, they would also contact them. Cooperation with another well-known animation production company... In short, the idea is, we have everything, but we are short of money. Do you want to take a look?

Of course Lyons... wanted to take a look, so they gave up the idea of ​​looking for Gu Xue and planned to find Gu Xue's company later.

But once they left, they forgot about Gu Xue.

The main thing was to go to 3.C PICTURE. Within an hour, Lyons was piqued by the other party. Then he read the proposal carefully and he was attracted.

Undersea creatures, giant monsters, a boy with super powers who can grow into giants, defend the city, and save the world.

Although the nostalgic Lyons was a little regretful that he could not use Ultraman's image without the copyright, the existing elements and the descriptions of relevant people in the conference room at the time were enough to satisfy Lyons.

Plus...the creative lineup of this project is very luxurious.

Although Lyons doesn't know many local producers, scripts, and original writers, after being introduced by people from 3.C PICTURE, they all seem to be great. And although Lyons doesn't know the script, the supervisor still knows him. Even if you don’t know him, he can check it out.

As for the supervisor responsible for the 3.C PICTURE project, Lyons happened to know him, or he could find out.

The supervisor... his name is Narita Kei.

There is information on the Internet, and there are many related well-known works.

Famous indeed.

In short, after getting to know 3.C PICTURE in the past, Lyons decided to donate money to the 3.C PICTURE project. In the next week, he and John were busy working on this matter, so Gu Xue Forgot.

Now that the dust has settled, they remember again...

"I originally wanted to ask Gu Xue if she had any good plans... Didn't she say she had a cool idea last time? Now it seems she missed it." John put down his phone, feeling a little regretful.

"Um..." Lyons silently took a sip of beer, "Actually, from a personal perspective, I really hope to cooperate with her. I also hope to see works like "Little Witch Academia" again. I really like it, it reminds me of my childhood. But from the perspective of our family’s streaming media, she...is actually not very suitable."

John smiled and said: "What are you doing, sexism? Be careful if I report you. I can guarantee that I will just record what you said, then describe it with added detail, and then ask Gu Xue to complain. I guarantee that you will get out immediately, and then I'll take your seat..."

"..."

Lyons said nothing, but slowly raised his middle finger to express friendship.

"Seriously, Gu Xue is very good. What's the name of this season's movie... Isn't "There's Something Wrong with My Youthful Love" very popular? Although it's not to my taste."

Lyons took the last sip of beer: "You said it's not to your taste, don't you understand? She makes popular local themes, that kind of campus animation, we can't understand it..."

"...Unless there is another "Little Witch Academia"."

"She said she wouldn't do it."

"She said at the time that her studio was immature, but it should be mature now. And with our investment, she has no worries, and things may turn around."

"This is just a test of the water. The amount is limited. The budget for the 3.C PICTURE project is quite large. It's almost there." Lyons played with the empty beer bottle and said with a smile, "Others say we throw away money. , do you really think that we are throwing away money? How about you convince the other big guys in the marketing department for me? Do I really think that we are throwing away money?"

"Uh... forget it." John shut up angrily.

This...it's no use betraying the black hole behind him.

Lyons suddenly changed the subject: "But... that being said, we can go and visit, and maybe we can see the new "Little Witch Academia". I feel like Gu Xue has the kind of animation budget she does. It shouldn’t be very high, we can give it a try.”

John: "..."

"Yuki Studio...do you know how to get there?"

John thought for a while: "...I know, I know, but the two of us... By the way, the last time I met Miya Fumei, the general manager of the publishing house, she seemed to be very familiar with Gu Xue, and she had already agreed to meet her She talked about the comic book adaptation, so we could just meet her and ask her to lead the way."

"..."

…

YUKI Studio.

Inside the office.

After hanging up the phone from Gong Wenhui, Gu Rou made a fuss for a while and then left.

Then, almost an hour passed.

Gu Xue met Gong Wenhui and the two legendary Netflix business representatives...

The moment I saw John and Lyons.

Gu Xue was still quite surprised. She really didn't expect it to be them.

John and Lyons were not surprised when they saw Gu Xue, but suddenly they were not so 'bold', and their eyes were out of control. They glanced at Gu Xue's table desperately, and showed expressions eager to be amazed...

Because their expressions were too exaggerated, Gu Xue was a little confused. If she hadn't known that they were looking at the original paintings on the table, Gu Xue would have thought that they were table fetishists...

The three of them, plus Miyamoto Fumihi who made up the numbers, chatted for a while in the office.

Because there were no chairs, one person sat and three people stood. The scene was quite funny...

Gu Xue regretted a little.

In order to prevent Sato Ei from taking advantage of the situation, the decision not to place a chair in his office feels so stupid that it is so difficult to explain...

But her thoughts soon disappeared.

Because Lyons was the first to talk about the new project...

…

Lyons wasn't that eager at first, but when he saw Gu Xue painting the original painting while talking...he couldn't help it, and mentioned the plan with anticipation.

When he said this, he was actually hinting at the sequel to "Little Witch Academia".

He thought Gu Xue would understand, then hesitate for a while and give himself an answer.

But... the script didn't go the way he wanted.

Face his cues.

Faced with the question, ‘Does your studio plan to continue to produce original animation next? 'this problem.

Gu Xue happily took out two planning books from the drawer.

A very thick one.

The names are "Attack on Titan" and "FATE/ZERO"...

John and Lyons looked at the plan.

They looked at each other in confusion.

That's not what I meant...

But, I am still very curious.

They looked at each other...then each picked up a plan book on the table and started to read it.

The two people read different plans, with different themes, different stories, and everything else.

But when the two of them looked at each other, their expressions were the same...

Time passes slowly.

Just when Gu Xue was impatient with waiting and wanted to take the opportunity to check the original painting.

John and Lyons finally looked up.

The moment they raised their heads, they looked at each other again.

They all saw surprise and a hint of regret in each other's eyes.

This... doesn't look like Gu Xue's style.

I should have talked to her first.

That's probably the feeling.

As for why they have the same feeling when they look at different projects...

"Have you finished reading? How was it?"

Gu Xue noticed that the two of them were looking at her, so she put down her pencil and raised her head.

"..."

Lyons was silent for a moment, thought of 3.C PICTURE, and sighed.

He closed the plan.

"Sorry, Gu Xue."