Depressive Screenwriter

Basically, all of Su Yan's works this year have been in a lighthearted and cheerful direction.

Including "Weathering with You," although many viewers criticized the ending, saying the male protagonist was selfish for choosing to let his beloved woman live, even if it meant Tokyo would experience decades of heavy rain and eventually be submerged. But they couldn't deny that this ending was definitely a good one.

A good ending for the protagonist and the viewers who identify with him.

Not to mention "From Me to You" and "FSN" before that. Su Yan's adaptation of "FSN" included the game's final ending: Artoria returned to her own time, but her soul remained dormant. After endless years, Artoria's heroic spirit and Shirou Emiya's heroic spirit reunited in Avalon.

Several consecutive works with happy endings had already made many viewers forget Su Yan's style from previous years.

Although Shirley in "Code Geass" was just a supporting character, Su Yan's plot arrangement of having her die directly might not have resonated as much with the audience as her emotional breakdown between her father and the person she loved, culminating in Lelouch using his power to erase her memories of him.

"It's a bit hard to take!"

"Cried. I've always been a C.C. fan, but tonight I really feel sorry for Shirley."

"Last week, I was still criticizing her for forgetting her father's revenge for the sake of the person she loved. But thinking about it carefully, if I were her, I guess I would have a hard time deciding too."

"Su Yan is ruthless. Is this kind of plot necessary? I think it would have been easier for me to accept if Shirley had been given a quick death, or if she had really decided to kill Lelouch and then been killed by C.C. This plot really stabs me."

"The scene where Lelouch spoke to Shirley, who had forgotten him, really made me tear up. She was clearly someone he loved so much, yet they were face to face and she no longer recognized him."

"Alas, Su Yan is truly the best in Xia Guo when it comes to creating heart-wrenching plots!"

"This drama isn't going to be all knives from now on, is it? I've been watching it as a feel-good show!"

"It shouldn't be, right? How else can they stab us? Lelouch can even kill his half-brother. Actually, the only people he cares about in this world are his sister Nunnally and Shirley, who is like a childhood friend. Now that Shirley is offline, if they want to stab us again, they can only use Nunnally."

"It shouldn't be. If Nunnally also dies, then Lelouch's life would be a failure. He rebelled against the Britannia Empire only to create a world where his sister could live in peace, without being threatened by his royal status and that dictatorial emperor father. If Nunnally also dies, then no matter whether Lelouch's revolution succeeds or not, his life would be a failure."

"The seventh episode's viewership rating is 7%. Although a group of people on the forum are criticizing Su Yan, the viewership rating doesn't lie. The old fox's works always have the highest viewership ratings when these kinds of plots are broadcast!"

Throughout the day, the discussion about "Code Geass" continued among fans, and this could be considered one of the more emotionally touching plots in the first season.

But this was just the beginning.

In the following two weeks, the plot of the first season of "Code Geass" clearly accelerated.

The eighth episode was a revenge plot for Lelouch. Mao used Shirley's inner weaknesses to make her emotionally unstable, causing Lelouch to lose his close friend.

But his ability to read minds also made it impossible for Lelouch to use his strategies, because he knew everything Lelouch was thinking. Plus, he was a Geass ability runaway, so Lelouch's ability was ineffective against him.

Therefore, Lelouch used Geass on himself, making a plan in advance, but then used Geass to make himself forget his plan in order to defeat Mao.

Mao's character, in terms of this drama, was more like a side plot, but through this character, some of C.C.'s past events were revealed, as well as the setting that Geass could go out of control.

Originally, the ability to read minds should be something that can be freely controlled, used only when wanted, but Mao overused this ability, causing him to be unable to turn it off, and he went insane from being forced to hear other people's thoughts every day.

Viewers who saw this didn't have too many thoughts, they just thought Mao was an unlucky guy.

No one expected that the tragic character setting of this side plot would be a major foreshadowing for the subsequent plot.

Soon, the ninth episode of "Code Geass" aired. This episode's plot mainly revolved around Lelouch, as Zero, and his battle with the Britannia Empire, where he, Suzaku, Kallen, and his half-sister Euphemia crashed on a deserted island together.

Here, Lelouch and his sister Euphemia recognized each other. The two argued because of their different beliefs. Lelouch believed that Britannia's dictatorial rule led to the tragic fate of himself and his sister Nunnally, while Euphemia believed that the rebellion war launched by Lelouch as Zero was only causing more innocent people to sacrifice.

Overall, no one was wrong, but at this point, Lelouch's identity as Zero was known not only to C.C., but also to Euphemia, which made many viewers feel that something was wrong.

Even his biological sister Nunnally didn't know, but this half-sister knew. Su Yan's plot arrangement is quite strange. Isn't he afraid that Euphemia will report Lelouch?

After all, Governor Clovis, whom Lelouch killed in the first episode, was Euphemia's brother from the same mother!

For two consecutive weeks, after the broadcast of "Code Geass," the viewership rating approached the 8% mark.

Now, it can be said that every increase in the viewership rating is a feat of breaking records within the limits.

In the Internet age, a large number of residents don't have time to watch TV on time and choose to watch this drama on online broadcasting platforms, which has led to a decline in the number of TV viewers. Against this background, this drama is still setting new viewership records. It can be said that Xia Guo can't find any other adjective besides terrifying to describe its peers.

During the two weeks that "Code Geass" was popular, the box office data for "Weathering with You" also approached 2.5 billion.

The opening data for this movie was very strong, but the subsequent momentum was not as sufficient as "Your Name." As it stands, the total box office may not be able to break 3 billion, but a total box office of 2.8 or 2.9 billion is still possible. Although it is unlikely to break the new box office record, there is a guaranteed spot in the top two of this year's box office chart, and no news media dares to come out and mock it.

Moreover, during these two weeks, the biggest earthquake in the entire Xia Guo film and television industry was not the two works that Su Yan was currently broadcasting and releasing.

But rather the casting activities for Su Yan's two new TV series, "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" and "Mobile Suit Gundam Z Gundam."

The biggest advantage of being your own investor is that you can act decisively without thinking too much.

For other film and television dramas, it is normal for the entire process from project establishment, script creation, to casting to take a year or two, with investments of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions at every turn. Anyone would be very cautious and conduct market research, but Su Yan doesn't consider so much.

Each of the two dramas has an investment of more than 500 million Xia Guo coins, and the production specifications are even more exaggerated than the currently popular "Code Geass." Even before the casting meeting began, it was clearly stated that the total salary of the actors in this drama would be reduced to less than 20% of the investment, that is, with an investment of more than 500 million, the actors' salary would be less than 90 million, and more than 300 million funds would be used for filming and special effects production.

But even so, after Su Yan's company released the audition news, actors from major film and television companies in Xia Guo and abroad still flocked to it!

And accompanying this was the work name "Mobile Suit Gundam." Both dramas have this prefix, indicating that they are series works of the same type.

But what is a mobile suit?

Everyone looked through the information released on the Dimeng Film and Television Company's official website.

As soon as you clicked in, there were various Gundam cutaway views hand-drawn by Su Yan himself. The handsome, iron-blooded Gundam machine black and white hand-drawn drawings that made people fascinated at a glance appeared in the public eye for the first time.

Strictly speaking, although "Code Geass" has a mecha concept, the mecha is not the focus of the work, but a setting. The mecha settings inside are definitely much worse in shape than the orthodox Gundam.

The people of Xia Guo saw the orthodox Gundam machine setting drawings, and at that moment, they all understood.

Gundam~

Mobile Suit, so that's what it's talking about!