Depressive Screenwriter

Min Xinyi slumped on the sofa.

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An indescribable feeling welled up in her heart.

After the ninth episode aired last week, she condemned Emiya Kiritsugu, wondering why he deserved to be the protagonist and why he could summon the holy, noble, and chivalrous King Arthur, Artoria.

Now...

She understood.

"He wants to become an ally of justice! His only ally is justice."

Killing his own father, killing his adoptive mother.

Even participating in the Holy Grail War now, using despicable means to kill Kayneth Archibald, is all for this dream.

How should one evaluate such a person?

It's not that he has no emotions, but he places the safety and lives of more people above his own feelings.

Min Xinyi blew her nose with a tissue.

Honestly, after watching so many of Su Yan's works, she thought she had become immune to similar plots.

"Turns out it wasn't that I was immune. It's that Su Yan didn't focus on this aspect in recent films like Rurouni Kenshin and Fireworks."

Min Xinyi looked at the TV screen, her mood sinking even lower.

Tonight, in the comments section of Fate/Zero on Sakura Online and in Su Yan's comment section, it was rare that everyone wasn't criticizing Su Yan.

In previous works, once a depressing plot appeared, most fans would directly scold the screenwriter as an idiot for creating tragic fates for the protagonist.

But Emiya Kiritsugu was the exception.

His bumpy fate was his choice.

If he hadn't killed Shirley, everyone on the island would have died from her infection.

So, to prevent the tragedy from repeating, he killed his father with his own hands.

Similarly, to prevent the tragedy from repeating, he killed his adoptive mother, Natalia, with his own hands.

He could be selfish, disregard the lives of others, and let his parents live, but he didn't.

Although his methods are despicable, those who criticize Emiya Kiritsugu, standing in his shoes, could they have done half as well as him?

If one day, your own relative is a heinous and dangerous element, who can eliminate that evil relative for the sake of justice?

"Damn it, I'm crying."

"Who was it that scolded Emiya Kiritsugu last week? Come out and apologize."

"Ally of justice, I never thought I would shed tears for such a ridiculous term one day."

"This is what everyone often calls 'staying true to your original aspiration,' right?"

"I can't even imagine how painful it must have been for Emiya Kiritsugu when he fired at the plane Natalia was on, out at sea."

"Su Yan, that old thief, I don't know what to say this week."

"I want to scold him, but it doesn't make sense. I could say that those depressing plots in Su Yan's previous works were deliberately arranged by the screenwriter. But this drama is truly out of helplessness. Emiya Kiritsugu is a fictional character on the surface, but in real life, there are too many dilemmas like the ones Emiya Kiritsugu faces. If you want to uphold justice, you have to pay the price of sacrifice."

"Sigh, now that I think back to the plot of the ninth episode, it's a bit depressing."

"All I can say is that if people like Kayneth weren't killed, there would probably be revenge from ordinary people who were harmed later. But the fact that he killed Diarmuid with such means is indeed hard to let go."

"He only looks at the result, not the process."

"I thought Emiya Kiritsugu's phrase 'world peace' in the first episode was just lip service. I didn't expect it to be real."

"Last week, I saw Emiya Kiritsugu as a clown. This week, I think I'm the clown."

"Old thief is awesome!"

"This episode is amazing! Although I watched it and wanted to cry, it's really awesome, whether it's the plot, special effects, cinematography, acting, or picture quality, I'm just blindly praising it."

"This is the Master worthy of Artoria. Although the two have different styles of behavior due to different experiences, the two are essentially idealists!"

"So, is the Holy Grail really useful? Can it really grant world peace, and the world will be peaceful?"

"It feels like wishing in Madoka Magica. Except for Madoka, everyone else will suffer a backlash from their wishes."

"That's right, the more I watch, the more I feel that wishing on the Holy Grail is a trap, just like wishing in Madoka Magica. How can there be such a convenient and omnipotent wishing machine? If there really is, why don't the Magus Association and others in this world send more powerful mages to participate? Don't those mages who are stronger than Emiya Kiritsugu have their own desires?"

In just one episode, Emiya Kiritsugu, the male protagonist who was scolded by fans all over the internet last week, directly reversed his reputation this week.

Emiya Kiritsugu, who was previously sprayed by thousands of fans to become the number one most hated character in the Xia Country's current season of TV dramas, was pushed by a large number of Fate fans to the third place in the most liked character list of this season's TV dramas in one night.

As for the first place, it must be the female protagonist of this work, Artoria.

Second place is Alexander the Great.

Fourth place is Waver Velvet.

The activity of the entire Fate/Zero fan circle has climbed to the highest since the premiere of this work.

The entire work began to shape a large number of characters from the first episode, and finally, after this episode, everyone finally had a sense of empathy for the character of Emiya Kiritsugu.

Finally, they recognized his actions.

Letting the fans stand in Emiya Kiritsugu's shoes, they may not be able to make the same choices, but letting the fans stand in his shoes, they certainly can't do better than Emiya Kiritsugu.

Tokyo, noon.

When Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki were watching the final episode of Fate/Zero in the office, the ratings for the tenth episode of Fate/Zero were released.

"6.02%," Su Yan said softly, looking at the message on his phone.

"6%!" Ayumi Shinozaki's expression froze, then she sighed.

In the past, when the ratings of her works were 6%, she was as happy as when she received a gift from a friend for the first time.

But when the ratings of her third work broke 6%, her joy was already controlled to an extremely smooth level.

After all, the first time is new, the second time is familiar, and the third time is ordinary.

"No problem."

Su Yan finally looked at the ending screen of the last episode of Fate/Zero and nodded slightly.

"It's just, is this ending really suitable for Fate/Zero?" Ayumi Shinozaki thought for a while, but still said.

"It always feels like this ending is an open ending. There's still a lot of content behind it."

"You can tell?" Su Yan smiled.

Ayumi Shinozaki's expression froze.

"Su Yan, what do you mean by that?"

"Well, Fate/Zero has subsequent plots."

"However, this type of drama has a long production cycle, and the fermentation and spread of the work's influence also takes a certain amount of time, so after the production of Fate/Zero was completed, I didn't immediately start the script creation for the sequel. How should I put it, I'll take a break for a while."

"However, the production of the Fate sequel will definitely be launched. Just like the movie sequel of Rurouni Kenshin..." Su Yan smiled.

"I will slowly start producing these things in the future."

"Rurouni Kenshin has a sequel movie?" This was the first time Ayumi Shinozaki had heard Su Yan mention such a thing.

"Of course, otherwise why would I make this work, which has been separated for four or five years, into a movie? The first movie version is just the beginning. In the next few years, the Kenshin sequel movies will also be released one after another. How should I put it, I have to strive to build it into a benchmark movie for the Xia Country's martial arts action series..."

Su Yan then discussed many ideas with Ayumi Shinozaki.

He will definitely develop these long IP works in the future, but he will not spend too much energy on them like before.

It is impossible for the company to recruit so many people, and Su Yan has to control everything in detail. When the script is written, it will be handed over to professionals to play.

Su Yan also plans to use the funds on the company's account to purchase some video website company stocks and some leading companies in the industry's theaters and media in the next period of time.

The Xia Country's TV industry is still booming, but the scale of the online broadcasting market has also been rapidly expanding in the past two years. Su Yan is now quite wealthy. It is not to say that entering these markets can control the market, but at least in the perspective of the next few years, he can become a big player in the industry, so that the works produced by his company are not controlled by others.

Su Yan only talks about these ideas with Ayumi Shinozaki, who is a joint partner in the company.

Ayumi Shinozaki listened very carefully, her eyes slowly lighting up.

Although her and Su Yan's greatest pleasure in the film and television industry is creating works.

But Dimensional Films has developed to the present, and the two cannot be salted fish anymore.

Diversified development is an inevitable path.