My Animation Era

If you don't consider other factors and purely from a plot perspective, AlphaGo is really a good choice.

Moreover, it is not impossible to set it as a villain, it is even more appropriate than the protagonist. The sense of accomplishment in defeating it is more satisfying than defeating any chess god.

In addition, AlphaGo also has an identity that is very suitable for it, that is - the old man with the golden finger plug-in!

There is already a precedent for this.

As far as Gu Miao knows, in many online Go novels, the author gives the protagonist a plug-in cheat called AlphaGo, and then travels back to the era when AI Go has not yet been born, killing everyone and shocking everyone...

Be reasonable.

If "Go Boy" is not set in ancient times, but in a modern urban setting, and if Gu Miao wants to trick Jiang Liu'er, he will probably do it this way.

After all, in the modern urban context, which plug-in in the Go world is more powerful than AlphaGo?

It's a pity that Jiang Liu'er is an ancient person.

In the context of ancient stories, AlphaGo and the like can naturally not be used. After all, modern technological products would look very strange no matter how you look at them in the Ming Dynasty.

After discussions with Xiao Ke and Liu Lao, Gu Miao finally decided to give the protagonist Jiang Liuer the characteristics of a "peerless genius".

It is also commonly known as plug-in.

As an animated protagonist, it is impossible not to cheat. Relatively speaking, those with extraordinary talents are considered the most rubbish cheats.

The story begins in the late Ming Dynasty.

Due to the prevalence of Japanese pirates in coastal areas, the imperial court specially sent a batch of magic cannons to resist the Japanese pirates. However, these weapons inexplicably fell into the hands of the Japanese pirates.

Imperial envoy Jiang Lingyun was ordered to investigate the matter thoroughly. He had a son named Jiang Liu'er, who showed talent for Go since he was a child. At the age of three, he defeated Master Yuande of Lingyun Temple, although the master gave up nine sons. …

As the second generation of a powerful man, Jiang Liuer was not the perfect protagonist that everyone imagined at first.

Although he has a talent for Go, he doesn't take it seriously. He likes to wield swords and guns. He also has a young master's temperament and an arrogance that dominates others. At first glance, he gives a bad impression.

This is also the most praiseworthy aspect of the original plot.

If Jiang Liuer had a perfect personality and had a smooth journey to become a chess master, it would be too boring and lack the sense of drama he should have.

He needs the process of growing up.

Chess masters are never born. Only by experiencing enough can one become a chess master.

Just in the middle of the plot, Jiang Liuer experienced the ups and downs of life.

The front leg is still the descendant of a powerful person who is envied by everyone, and he is superior to others no matter where he goes. The back leg has become an orphan, and is still burdened with the burden of avenging his father's murder.

Such a huge change prompted him to grow up and finally embark on the path of studying chess hard and becoming a chess master.

Why Go?

Because the person behind the death of Jiang Liuer's father, including the case of colluding with Japanese pirates, was most likely a member of the royal family and the current King Fu.

If you want to uncover the truth and overthrow the powerful King Fu, you must meet the emperor. But Jiang Liuer is just a commoner, how can he meet the emperor?

The identity of Ming chess master may be a good choice.

"To be honest, this is a bit nonsense."

When Ma Kui, who served as Mr. Gu's tea-making boy, heard this, he couldn't help but curl his lips and said: "If you play chess well, you can meet the emperor? This setting is too outrageous. According to this, then I can play chess well. I wish I could see you..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Kui, who was making tea, noticed that Mr. Gu, Xiao Ke and Mr. Liu beside him were all looking at him with strange eyes.

"What's wrong, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Stupid pony!"

Mr. Liu and Xiao Ke didn't say anything. Gu Miao glanced at Ma Kui, who was confused, rolled her eyes and said, "If you play Go well and reach the level of a chess master, then you can indeed meet the emperor. What, don't you accept it? "

"If you can play Go well, it's not impossible to see... ahem. If you don't believe me, just ask Xiao Ke and Mr. Liu."

"real?"

Ma Kui turned to look at the two of them.

"real!"

Before Xiao Ke could speak, Mr. Liu smiled and said, "You can learn about Mr. Nie, the chess master of the older generation, and learn about his deeds."

"Modern chess master is still a bit meaningless. After all, modern chess master has become an ordinary title. In the end, the social status is just that."

"But it was different in ancient times..."

Through Ma Kui's questions, Mr. Liu gave everyone a popular science about the value and social status of the title of "Chess Saint" in ancient times.

It is no exaggeration to say that in ancient times, chess players who were awarded the title of chess saint were special beings that even the emperor respected and treated with courtesy.

Meet the emperor?

Isn't this the most basic privilege?

Isn't it a very common thing for a dignified chess master to go to the palace to meet the master and exchange chess skills with the emperor? The princes and princes all have to come and learn chess from you!

One of the four arts of chess, calligraphy and painting, are you kidding me?

…

Ma Kui does not understand Go, nor does he understand the social status of the four arts of chess, calligraphy and painting in ancient times. Naturally, he does not understand the value of Jiang Liuer, the "chess master".

In fact, Gu Miao didn't quite understand either.

But he knows one thing very well, that is, the status of the small group of people who are at the top in all walks of life is definitely different from ordinary people.

Not to mention, chess, calligraphy, and painting were the most popular and highly praised crafts in ancient China, and their social status and influence were very high.

As a leader in the world of Go, the title of Chess Saint is definitely one of the small group of people standing at the top of the pyramid. If the emperor cannot be seen here, then who can?

Mr. Liu said it very straightforwardly.

That is, the social status of modern music, chess, calligraphy and painting theory has been much lower than in ancient times, and has become a means of cultivating the body and mind.

But even so, in today's era, if you are at the top of any skill of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, you can still have unimaginable status and influence.

What about ancient times when music, chess, calligraphy and painting were highly praised? Will the influence of such a person be worse than it is now?

So the plot logic is correct.

Many people may not understand that Jiang Liuer wanted to avenge his father and reveal the true face of King Fu. Why did he choose to go down the path of Go?

But the fact is...

This is the most correct and reasonable choice. If he didn't take the path of Go, would he become a knight-errant assassin and be outside the jurisdiction of the law?

Don’t look at the ancients through the eyes of modern people! For modern people, learning Go well is nothing more than becoming a professional player, cultivating one's sentiments, and a craft to make a living.

But in the ancient context, learning Go was a promotion path that was enough to achieve a class jump, equivalent to the modern college entrance examination.

Especially for people who have learned well and have outstanding talents in Go, taking this path is actually not much different from becoming an official in the imperial examination.

The settings are reasonable.

Thinking of this, Gu Miao also looked a little ashamed. After all, when he was young, like Ma Kui, he complained about the weird setting of "learning Go to take revenge."

At that time, he also felt that it was outrageous.

Learn Go and earn the title of "Go Master", and then expose King Fu to avenge his father? What is this? Rather than learning this, it's better to learn some martial arts and just enjoy your grudges, isn't it?

certainly!

These are the thoughts of youth.

After Mr. Liu's popular science and his own in-depth understanding, Gu Miao no longer despises or even despises Go as he did before.

At least in ancient times, people who were good at Go were really good at playing Go, and their social status was very high, no worse than a great scholar.

modern?

Ordinary chess players do not have such a high status, but if you reach the level of a chess master, you can still have an influence far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

…

The animation "Go Boy" was originally scheduled to have 26 episodes, which is Neon's "half-year series" standard.

Later, after discussion and research between Gu Miao and the writing team, they felt that 26 episodes was still too short, and it was difficult to tell the story well and completely.

So it was expanded to 52 episodes.

This is a very common number of TV animation episodes, neither long nor short. The total duration of 1,000 minutes will not make Wanbao Animation too embarrassed.

It’s too long to say...

Generally speaking, the total length of a TV animation will be controlled at 2,500 minutes, which is about 120-150 episodes, and avoid exceeding this length.

Exceptions include works such as "Dragon Ball", "Detective Conan" and "Doraemon".

Normal animation will not exceed 150 episodes.

The reason for this phenomenon is very simple, that is, they are worried about dissuading the audience and preventing the audience from forgetting the previous plot when watching.

It’s easy to worry about the audience watching and forgetting the early plot. After all, there are so many episodes and the series lasts for more than two months. It’s easy to forget what story was told earlier.

As for dissuading viewers, just take TV dramas as an example.

Gu Miao was introduced to the TV series "Foreign Wife, Local Man" by a friend in Yangcheng before. She wanted to take the time to finish it, but when she saw that the total number of episodes was 4,000+, her eyes suddenly darkened.

He only watched the first ten or so episodes, and then ran away in despair.

I really can’t finish it!

The number of episodes was too discouraging. I was originally very interested in it, but after seeing the exaggerated number of episodes, I instantly lost interest.

This is just like Gu Miao planning to give "Naruto", "One Piece" and other works to her friends who don't watch anime. At first, the friends were excited, but after watching the series, they suddenly said "Forget it".

Too many episodes may inadvertently dissuade some people from watching.

For example, the first season of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" is obviously the most classic, but the frequency of online on-demand viewing is far less than that of the subsequent sequels.

Because there are too many episodes!

People who have never watched anime usually think that I definitely don’t have time to watch so many episodes. If I can’t finish it, I might as well stop watching it.

So this is why most anime control the length and number of episodes to avoid becoming extremely long.

Take the currently popular animated adaptations of web texts as an example. They are all broadcast weekly anyway. Why not register hundreds of episodes at once and broadcast them separately in several seasons?

Do you think they don't want to?

If you don't worry about starting from beginning to end and not dividing it into seasons or chapters, there will be too many episodes to scare away new viewers.

The same goes for "Go Boy".

Gu Miao plans to make Go Boy a series. Since it is a series, there will be more than one animation. For the sake of the audience’s viewing experience, each season cannot be too long.

Within 100 episodes is the best.

According to Wanbao Animation's current production capabilities, if the firepower is fully activated, it can produce about 40-65 minutes of unedited and unsynthesized material in a day.

In other words, the audience will be able to see the animation "Go Boy" on TV as soon as after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is a case of everything going well.

Considering that you may encounter some changes and accidents along the way, mid-October is a relatively reasonable time point.

"Then it's autumn..."

Gu Miao frowned and immediately thought of the "Wandering Animation World" that was currently being produced.

According to the progress reported by Huang Kun, the first season of "Wandering the Animated World" is expected to be broadcast in September this year, which is the beginning of the school season.

If a young Go boy rushes too far, he may collide with Akun.

What if I delay the progress?

That's not good either.

After all, November has passed, and Wanbao Animation will usher in a truly "epic masterpiece" - The Return of Superman Remake!

These two works are not ordinary animations. It is definitely not a good choice for a Go boy to collide with them.

But then again.

It's only August, so it's too early to say this. Whether it's "Wandering the Animated World" or "Superman Remake", there is a possibility of delays and delays.

Especially the Superman remake.

The possibility that Wanbao’s other animations will be delayed is about zero, but the possibility of Superman Remake being delayed is almost 100%.

It’s just that there is no official announcement...

Dave from Wanbao North America Division has always maintained close contact with Gu Miao via email a day, so Gu Miao is fairly familiar with the situation of the remake of "Superman".

As far as he knows.

The reason why the Superman remake is likely to be delayed is mainly because the production progress is... too slow!

Comparable to "Tom and Jerry".

That’s not to say that Superman Remake is on the same level as Tom and Jerry.

In fact, if it is due to "slow work and careful work" that the delay is delayed, not only Gu Miao will understand, but I believe fans and viewers will also understand.

But the Superman remake is not about slow work and meticulous work, but that most members of the production team are involved in lawsuits...

Blanch!

When Gu Miao received the news, she didn't expect Weller Company to be so abstract. The Superman IP had been sold to Wanbao, but the employees who originally produced Superman were reluctant to let go.

This is one of those lawsuits.

There is also a lawsuit initiated by Mardete Comics, accusing many Wanbao employees of stealing trade secrets, and Wanbao Animation being suspected of unfair competition and infringement of intellectual property rights...

That's right!

In order to better produce and shape the superhero "Superman", Dave also poached many people from Mardete.

This is Gu Miao's old enemy.

You are already dirty, why are you poaching me? Old George from Mardete was full of bad intentions, so he immediately dragged Wanbao away with a lawsuit.

Most of these lawsuits are vexatious.

But I couldn't resist the disgusting person on the other side, and tried to use this despicable method to throw dirty water on the "Superman" that was being produced and stigmatize this superhero.

Mardete Comics and Weller reached a consensus and tried to let the "Superman" IP rot and be destroyed in the hands of Wanbao.

This left Gu Miao speechless.

It’s understandable that Mardete is targeting them. After all, they have many superhero IPs and they don’t want to see Superman live a second life to grab market share.

But what does Weiler Company think?

No matter what I say about the Superman series, it is also a great IP created by them. They just sold the front foot to Wanbao, and then poured dirty water on the back foot?