Post-shadow Development Plan

Qiye remembers that in 2019, "Dragon Ball" had the highest total revenue among all Bandai Namco's IPs, reaching 1290 billion yen.

The No.2 "Gundam" is only 793 billion yen, a difference of 500 billion yen.

What is this concept?

No.3's "Pirate" is 304 billion yen, and No.4's "Kamen Rider" is 293 billion yen.

In other words, Bandai's IP needs two, three and four to surpass the No.1 "Dragon Ball".

Among them, "Dragon Ball" naturally takes the light of the 2019 theatrical version of "Broly".

But in 2018, Bandai's IP with the highest income is still "Dragon Ball", but the gap is not as big as in 2019.

More importantly, "Dragon Ball" is one of the few Japanese manga IPs that is also popular in Europe and the United States.

Not only comics are explosive in Europe and the United States, but even the fighting games derived from "Dragon Ball" are also frequent visitors in EVO, the world's largest fighting game competition.

There are many reasons why Europeans and Americans like "Dragon Ball", but the core is the distinctive fighting of "Dragon Ball".

In particular, the fighting storyboards in the "Dragon Ball" comics take into account both the sense of strength and speed.

When people are watching, there is an illusion that the characters are really moving.

The influence of "Dragon Ball" in Europe and the United States can be said to be far-reaching. After that, many European and American cartoonists have used Dragon Ball for reference in the fighting storyboard.

It can be said that Fox has a very good vision in selecting IP.

In order to get off to a good start in the summer, Fox deliberately created a grand premiere for the film.

Not only did many Hollywood stars be invited to help out, but even Akira Toriyama, the original author of "Dragon Ball", was specially invited to help out.

But watching Uncle Piao's face on TV, Qiye always felt that he was very pitiful.

"If it wasn't for the previous promotion agreement, I guess Uncle Psy wouldn't have come to the premiere, right?"

"Of course, it's changed so much that Uncle Bird doesn't even know him. Is that okay?"

Seven nights gave an affirmative answer to Ryan's question.

Akira Toriyama's dissatisfaction with Fox's live-action "Dragon Ball" is a no-brainer.

Even though he was obliged to come to the film premiere due to the agreement, it was impossible for him to stand for it.

As a cartoonist, Uncle Psy has long had enough of being squeezed by big companies.

When "Dragon Ball" was still being serialized, Shueisha never wanted "Dragon Ball" to end because of the popularity of the manga.

Not only forcibly prolonging the life of the manga, but also squeezed Akira Toriyama himself almost like crazy.

In the end, Akira Toriyama developed a very serious occupational disease.

So much so that after the end of "Dragon Ball", Uncle Psy never published long comics, and only did some short stories and game character design work.

But as a manga artist, the "Dragon Ball" series is enough for him to eat for a lifetime.

But this creative process is undoubtedly painful for Uncle Psy.

"Dragon Ball: Evolution" is neither Dragon Ball nor Evolution.

Such a nonsense movie naturally made Akira Toriyama extremely annoyed.

Others may care about the attitude of News Corporation and Fox, but Akira Toriyama doesn't care at all.

If the film can really be as real and touching as the Fate series...

No, even if the action scenes are half as good as "Transformers", Uncle Psy doesn't mind singing praises for the film.

But what exactly is this filming about? !

The Kung Fu bridge section has nothing to do with Dragon Ball, and "Kame Pai Qigong" only borrowed a name.

Forget it, Fox actually used a large number of main plots to describe the love story of high school students? !

There is obviously something wrong with the heads of all the members of the crew!

These people are either Red Deer, Baga, or Baga!

In an interview, Uncle Psy said directly: "Is this "Dragon Ball"? Why can't I feel it."

"This is obviously a romantic comedy movie about high school students, and "Dragon Ball" is just a foil. The film is shot like this, which is disrespectful to my work!"

Although Uncle Psy was extremely dissatisfied, under Fox's public relations, it was difficult for his remarks to appear in the mainstream media.

Even in News Corp.'s newspapers, Uncle Psy's praises for the movie are all over the article.

In large-scale commercial projects, the author of the original work seems to be very important, but it seems very weak in front of capital.

Facing the huge news corporation, Akira Toriyama could not make his own voice after all.

It's just that pure publicity is hard to make much sense for a movie.

After all, audiences have always voted with their feet.

The only reason they would buy a ticket is because the movie fits their taste.

However, the production cost of "Dragon Ball" is as high as 1 million US dollars (declared to the outside world), and the prior publicity and hype are quite in place.

Director James Huang was well-known in the field of horror films before, and the "Death Comes" trilogy is quite popular among horror film fans.