Hong Kong Comic Master

The so-called original animation is relative to "adapted animation".

Original animation does not have the "original work" of other media forms that adapted animation relies on, such as comic-adapted animation, game-adapted animation, light novel-adapted animation, etc.

Since adapted animation can rely on the popularity accumulated by the original work itself to earn viewership, the operating risk is much lower than that of original animation, so it is more favored by producers than original animation.

Although original animation is not bound by the original work, it allows the production staff to give full play to their imagination and creativity, but the operating risk is much higher than that of adapted animation.

Therefore, when Acan proposed to make an original animation, Li Wannian could certainly understand why the other party did so?

After all, Li Wannian can spend a huge amount of money to make original animated films now, so it should not be difficult to make an original TV animation with relatively low risks and costs!

"What are your current ideas for original animation?"

"Well, there are a few ideas, but they are not very mature. After all, now without your permission, the company's employees can't let go and do it!"

Acan scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

Seeing this, Li Wannian couldn't help but sigh.

Compared with the well-prepared Lu Ziying, Acan is obviously more immature. Of course, it may also be because he has not been the general manager for a long time and lacks experience.

In the workplace, if you want to report to your boss or leader, you must prepare the report fully before telling it to the leader, otherwise the leader will only think that your ideas are not comprehensive enough and it is difficult to take on the task.

Of course, Li Wannian also understands that Acan is a person who was forced to take the position temporarily. His promotion is completely a coincidence. Who let Cai Zhizhong give up halfway?

But then again, although Acan's ability is limited, he can still keenly perceive Li Wannian's ideological changes, and strive for opportunities to find him, wanting to make a breakthrough, which also shows that he is not hopeless.

"What are those ideas?"

Li Wannian did not entangle with Acan, but asked directly.

"One is naturally a martial arts animation. We plan to find a screenwriter from Qilin Entertainment to write a martial arts script together. It shouldn't be bad, and there are relatively few martial arts animations in Hong Kong Island.

The other is a comedy animation. I have talked to your assistant Gan Xiaowen before, and we can create it together.

The last one is a science fiction theme. We have experience in creating "Gundam" before, and this animation has a high demand from the audience. We can take this opportunity to make another one!"

After listening to Acan's explanation, Li Wannian seemed to have a string in his mind plucked!

"Science fiction?"

Li Wannian seemed to be lost in thought and muttered to himself.

"That's right, boss. Although we haven't accumulated much experience over the years, Hong Kong Island has always been weak in science fiction. As long as we can make it, we will definitely succeed!"

In Acan's view, as long as he can make this animation, he dare not say that he will make a lot of money, but at least he will not lose money.

It's not that he has confidence in himself, but he has confidence in his peers. This kind of thing depends entirely on the support of his peers!

"Is science fiction relatively weak?"

Li Wannian repeated.

"Boss?"

At this time, even if Acan was still stunned, he had already noticed that something was wrong with Li Wannian.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just thought of a good idea! This time, the original animation will be science fiction, and I will be the screenwriter!"

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"Oh, okay! Ah? You agree?"

Acan almost didn't react. The boss agreed?

Wait, the boss also wants to be a screenwriter?

Acan suddenly felt that happiness fell from the sky and hit his head.

There is such a good thing?

"Of course, because of your reminder, I have a good idea. By the way, Acan, can you help me find some religious books?"

"Religious? Isn't it... science fiction?"

Acan was stunned again.

"That's right, a real science fiction animation!"

The reason why Li Wannian is so confident is that the animation he wants to copy... is the legendary masterpiece "Neon Genesis Evangelion", referred to as EVA.

This animation was jointly produced by GAINAX and Tatsunoko Studio. It premiered on Neon Tokyo TV from October 4, 1995 to March 27, 1996, with a total of 26 episodes.

Although Li Wannian didn't understand it as much as we did when he first watched it as a child, and even felt that the animation was a bit boring, but as he watched it again when he grew up, he kept shouting "Fuck", feeling that he almost missed a good animation!

There are three main reasons why this animation is a god movie.

First, his plot and worldview are fascinating "conspiracy theory" imaginations.

From the origin of mankind to the reasonable imagination of the future, and the fate of mankind, they can hit the audience's high points!

Second, the character setting is very groundbreaking.

The character setting in the animation has contributed many classic characters, and to this day, they are still talked about by fans, especially the two popular characters of Ayanami Rei and Asuka, who are the ancestors of Sanwu and Tsundere, and have become the female characters commonly used in Neon animation in later generations.

Third, the theme expresses absolute authorship and criticism of the times.

The real theme of "EVA" is to give the audience pieces to assemble one by one, so that everyone can complete the correct puzzle in their mind.

This is what fascinated Li Wannian the most, especially the rich religious thoughts contained in it. Even if Li Wannian has not read the Bible, he can see some clues from it.

For example, the word apostle generally refers to the 12 disciples who were originally selected by Jesus Christ and given the mission of preaching.

For example, the Seele organization is German, which means "soul". There are seven eyes in their logo, which comes from the Lamb of Revelation in the Bible.

In addition, this organization is also reflecting Freemasonry. The most obvious evidence is the surname of the protagonist and his father.

The male protagonist is named Ikari Shinji. This "Ikari" is separated into two words, Shiding, which means the stonemason's rule, and this thing is the angle ruler, and the protagonist's father's surname is Sextant. The angle ruler plus the sextant is the symbol of Freemasonry.

There is a letter G in the Freemasonry logo, which means God, and the child of the angle ruler and the sextant, Shinji, these two words are "ShinJi" in Neon language, which means God's child.

In short, the entire animation is full of religious knowledge. Although Li Wannian remembers every detail of the animation, he cannot understand every detail, so he needs to find a religious book to read carefully.

However, in this way, it seems that he has found a big project for himself!

Damn, his workload has increased again!