Depressive Screenwriter

【Puella Magi Madoka Magica's viewership is increasing slowly. Before its premiere, many fans had expectations of it surpassing Tokyo Love Story and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, but these expectations may be dashed!】

【The viewership for the third episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica is below expectations. Judging from the plot, this work may quickly enter a period of aesthetic fatigue for the audience.】

【The aftereffects of killing off the popular character Mami Tomoe have appeared. The viewership for the third episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica failed to break the 5.3% mark as expected!】

【Making a wish for others is inherently a ridiculous thing. The characters in Puella Magi Madoka Magica are detached from reality!】

【Having aired three episodes, Puella Magi Madoka Magica still hasn't revealed its main plot. We still don't know in which episode the female lead, Kaname Madoka, will transform into a magical girl!】

【Puella Magi Madoka Magica's viewership growth is slowing down. The previously sentenced-to-death Unparalleled might have a chance to surpass it!】

Previously, Su Yan's dramas would only see these kinds of comments when there were controversial plot points.

Now, even though Puella Magi Madoka Magica is still the highest-rated work of the season, there are still quite a few media outlets predicting its downfall.

However, neither Su Yan nor his fans care about these comments.

It's impossible for every episode of a drama to be full of twists and turns, captivating the audience's hearts.

Among Su Yan's many works, only Tokyo Love Story had non-stop plot twists in every episode.

An episode like the third episode of the Madoka Magica TV series is just a normal transitional and foreshadowing episode.

It's already good enough that the viewership hasn't declined, let alone increased a little.

This week, Su Yan continues to attend various events to promote Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

At the same time, the filming of 5 Centimeters Per Second entered its final stages and officially wrapped up on Friday.

The filming of 5 Centimeters Per Second wasn't difficult in itself.

There weren't any big scenes. The difficulty lies in how to integrate the art style of the previous life's 5 Centimeters Per Second into the movie during post-production editing.

Fortunately, there are still more than two months for the final post-production collaboration. The time isn't much, but it's not tight either.

That night, Su Yan got drunk at the wrap party for 5 Centimeters Per Second.

After the fourth episode of Unparalleled aired, it garnered widespread praise from the audience.

After all, it's an S-level drama. Even if it's suppressed by Madoka Magica, how bad could it be?

The necessary plot climaxes will definitely be there.

The next day, the viewership for the fourth episode of Unparalleled was 5.19%. Although there was still a gap between it and the viewership for the third episode of Madoka Magica,

But this gap...

It doesn't seem impossible to close.

This situation invigorated Akasaka Yoshitoki, who was originally somewhat despairing.

Could it be that there really is a chance?

If Madoka Magica's viewership stagnates at the 5.2% level, then next...

Akasaka Yoshitoki's heart burned with hope as he thought of this.

When everyone was not optimistic about Su Yan, this guy stirred up such a storm in the Xia country's film and television industry in just a few years.

But precisely when everyone is optimistic about Madoka Magica, its viewership still hasn't broken 5.3%.

Of course, this 5.3% is actually an extremely explosive result.

Even if it's not reached, it shouldn't be subject to criticism.

But for Su Yan, the creator of the phenomenal work Tokyo Love Story, everything is different.

What kind of rubbish result is 5.3%?

With Akasaka Yoshitoki seeing hope and hiring a large number of water armies to frantically slander Madoka Magica on Sunday,

On Sunday night, the fourth episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica aired.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Nan Yanchen waited in front of the TV on time.

He watched the cheerful opening theme of Puella Magi Madoka Magica without missing a second.

The plot continued from the previous week. Sayaka made a wish and became a magical girl.

But Madoka is still hesitating and hesitant.

But at this time, a new character appears.

Red-haired... Sakura Kyoko appears.

This character has appeared in the official website's setting collection and trailers, so Nan Yanchen doesn't feel surprised at all by her appearance.

It's just her attitude...

It doesn't seem very friendly.

It's completely different from a magical girl like Mami Tomoe.

Then there's Madoka and Homura Akemi.

Before Mami Tomoe died, Madoka relied on Mami Tomoe.

After Mami Tomoe's death, Madoka's confidante in the magical girl world unconsciously shifted to Homura Akemi.

She is still hesitating whether to become a magical girl.

She wants to save everyone, but she is also afraid of dying at the hands of a witch.

Seeing her friend fighting alone every night after becoming a magical girl, she worries that she will die like Mami Tomoe because of isolation and helplessness.

But she also hates herself for not having the courage to finally make that wish! To become an existence that can fight alongside her friends.

【I don't want to lie, and I don't want to make promises I can't keep!】

【Give up on Miki Sayaka!】

Homura Akemi and Kaname Madoka.

Gu Qingyuan and Shen Liqian.

This is not the first time these two have collaborated, but this time, that intense CP feeling overflows from the TV.

The heroic Homura Akemi and the kind and timid Kaname Madoka...

"So cute!" Nan Yanchen watched very satisfied and also moved.

【It's the same as dead people can't be resurrected. Once you become a magical girl, you can't be saved.】 Homura Akemi said so.

Nan Yanchen frowned.

This is a bit too exaggerated, right?

He admits that fighting witches after becoming a magical girl is indeed very dangerous.

But can't be saved?

What the hell?

It's like going to the battlefield. Even if you die in battle, is that a very bad ending?

Can the word "salvation" be used?

Putting everything aside, choosing to become a magical girl, even if you really can't defeat the witch and die, so what?

"Homura Akemi's awareness is very low! If you only use the life-and-death dangers encountered to define the good or bad of the magical girl profession, it's too narrow." Nan Yanchen shook his head.

Continue watching.

Sayaka confides to Madoka that she feels scared every night when she sets out to fight witches.

But because of Madoka's encouragement, she also boosts her confidence.

The friendship of the girls, and that slightly tragic background music.

Also, Kyubey's well-timed admonition.

【Actually, as long as you are by my side, you can prepare a trump card to prevent the worst situation from happening! If you make up your mind...】

Kyubey is again persuading Madoka to become a magical girl.

After a brutal battle, Sayaka finally defeats the witch.

But as soon as she comes out, she encounters the witch from another city, Sakura Kyoko.

Her statement is even more shocking.

She bluntly said that Sayaka should deliberately leave some of the witch's familiars behind, let them eat people and grow stronger, and then kill them after the familiars transform into witches to obtain grief seeds.

What is this scientific pig farming theory?

"?" Nan Yanchen's expression was stunned.

Is this what people say?

How can the magical girl from another city be so evil?

The gap with Mami Tomoe is too big.

Then there's the battle between Sayaka and Sakura Kyoko, Sayaka's defeat, and Homura Akemi's intervention.

The battle plot that Nan Yanchen and the audience were looking forward to increased, and from here, the number of viewers obviously increased.

Moreover, the following plot began to reveal to the audience the information about the Witch's Night two weeks later, and Homura Akemi's desire to join forces with Sakura Kyoko to fight against this disaster.

The plot progressed all the way, and the conflict between Sakura Kyoko and Sayaka became deeper and deeper.

After learning that Sayaka's wish was actually to become a magical girl to restore a man to health, she laughed out loud.

A battle between the two sides is imminent.

But these are not the focus of this episode.

Originally, Nan Yanchen, who had been watching here all the way, thought that Madoka Magica would become a battle-type work from the fourth episode onwards.

But the female lead, Kaname Madoka, in order to stop her friend Sayaka and Sakura Kyoko's battle, at a critical moment, she chose to snatch the soul gem in Sayaka's hand while she was not paying attention on the overpass, and threw it onto a passing truck.

She just wanted to prevent her friend from using magic to fight another magical girl, but...

Sayaka's body collapsed on the spot.

Eh?

Nan Yanchen felt something was wrong.

【The maximum range that you magical girls can control your bodies is only one hundred meters.】 At this time, Kyubey began to explain in a calm tone.

【Madoka, how can you throw away your friend?】

In just two sentences, the amount of information exploded.

Throw away her friend.

Throw away the soul gem.

Nan Yanchen was stunned at first, and then, even without a plot explanation, he realized something.

Really?

Could it be that...

The real price of becoming a magical girl is to become a soul gem, and the original body is just a shell that can be controlled like a robot?

In an instant, a brainstorming session was launched in his brain.

In the plot, Homura Akemi used her power to chase the truck and retrieve Sayaka's soul gem.

At the same time, Kyubey finally explained the truth about magical girls to Madoka and the audience in front of the TV.

It's the same as Nan Yanchen guessed.

After becoming a magical girl, the magical girl's body is the soul gem.

As for the body shell, it's just a controllable piece of meat that can be repaired with magic.

Madoka kneels beside Sayaka's body and cries bitterly.

Sakura Kyoko suspects that life is pulling Kyubey.

And Kyubey's smile that is not afraid of boiling water.

【You have always been like this. After telling you the truth, you have always had such a reaction. It's hard to understand. Why are you humans always so obsessed with the location of the soul?】

I'm super...

Nan Yanchen stood up all of a sudden.

"Kyubey, what you said!"

"Why wasn't this rabbit killed by Homura Akemi in the first episode!"

Nan Yanchen was stunned when he saw this plot.

He never thought that the big plot of this drama's fourth episode was here.

No wonder.

The reasons why Homura Akemi has been persuading Madoka not to become a magical girl from the first episode to the fourth episode are all clear.

Homura Akemi knew the truth from the beginning.

And this hateful white-haired rabbit has been deceiving people.

If it had made things clear to everyone from the beginning, who would choose to become a magical girl?

Saving the world is no problem.

But what's the point of becoming a monster to save the world?

To put it nicely, it's just that the soul is transferred from the flesh to the soul gem.

But is that still human?

The reason why people are human is because they have human posture, shape, and seven emotions and six desires.

Who can accept turning from a flesh and blood body into a stone, and controlling their original body like controlling a zombie to fight witches?

No matter how nicely you say it, this is a very serious information concealment.

Becoming a magical girl is equivalent to no longer being human, but completely becoming a monster!

Little bastard...

Nan Yanchen finally understands at this moment.

The big villain of Puella Magi Madoka Magica is not the witch, but Kyubey!

In the TV series, Madoka is crying very sadly.

Sakura Kyoko's expression also became very ugly.

As for Homura Akemi, she brought back Sayaka's soul gem, and Sayaka's body instantly regained consciousness.

She asked that sentence ignorantly.

【What's wrong?】

The ending song sounded, and a strong feeling of darkness and depression rose in Nan Yanchen's heart.

Angry, furious, wanting to eat Kyubey, but...

I can't wait to watch the next episode, wanting to know the fate of these magical girls.

Want to know the plot of the next episode.

"Su Yan, you old thief, what do you mean by stopping here?"

Nan Yanchen feels that his brain is now extremely uncomfortable because of the plot.

How to break this game?

Madoka, you are the protagonist!

You can't just do nothing and be a coward, right?