My Animation Era

Maguire is not unfounded.

In fact, although there are few domestic sports series, there have been several excellent works, among which the majority are "football" animation works.

But what is more regrettable is...

Even these sports series with great plots and good completion quality have not received a good response after being broadcast.

"Ping Pong Tornado"!

In Ma Kui’s impression, this is a domestic sports show that does pretty well. As a result, the results were tepid, not outstanding.

The only sports programs that can produce results are mostly those that sell dogs on their own, such as anime like "Sheep and Sheep Games".

Pure sports themes can be said to be the least popular in the field of Chinese comics, and there are almost no masterpieces with outstanding results.

Based on this premise.

Ma Kui is not very optimistic about Mr. Gu's idea of ​​creating a domestic sports series based on "tennis".

"You're right……"

"But I still feel that excellent works will shine no matter what the subject matter is. As long as the quality of the work is excellent, unpopular themes may not have no spring."

Gu Miao said confidently: "When I first proposed the production of "Digimon", didn't you also express your disapproval?"

"That's different..."

"Nothing different."

Gu Miao curled her lips and said: "When Xiao Guo proposed to make a martial arts animation, you also said that martial arts was dead. Facts have proved that you should not speak too early, or you will be slapped in the face in the future."

Unpopular subject matter?

This is nothing at all!

Whether an animation is good-looking and whether it can attract audiences is not determined by the subject matter, but by the story and the quality of the completion.

No matter how good the subject matter is, no one will read it if it is turned into a piece of shit.

The subject matter is unpopular and niche, but if done well, it can still attract countless people and become their enlightenment in this subject matter.

Don’t be too short-sighted!

After criticizing Ma Kui's old thinking, Gu Miao immediately said: "Everything has two sides. There are very few tennis-themed animations. As long as we don't do too badly, we will be the leaders in this field. "

"Do you understand?"

"understood!"

Ma Kui raised his hands in surrender and said, "I can't speak to you. Anyway, you are the boss and you have the final say."

"I just want to know how to write a plot for this story that revolves around tennis?"

"I've been prepared."

Gu Miao lowered her body and rummaged through the drawer to find a plan that had gathered dust, handed it to Ma Kui and said, "Take a look at this!"

…

Jiangchuan City No. 1 Middle School.

The new autumn semester of the new year has arrived. A freshman named Ryoma met and defeated many second- and third-year seniors in the tennis club’s on-campus ranking competition, and became the main player of the tennis club.

And Long Ma’s identity is actually the son of tennis legend Long Nantian...

Young Sword Master!

From the Jiangchuan City Competition, to the East China District Competition, and then to the National Competition, Longma and his partners in the Tennis Club moved forward and finally won the National Competition.

Ma Kui, who had been looking at the project carefully for half an hour, looked at Gu Miao's expectant eyes and asked speechlessly: "Why Jiangchuan again? Why is it always Jiangchuan?"

"How can there be so many reasons?"

"Because our Wanbao is located in Jiangchuan, the school where the protagonist is located is Jiangchuan."

Gu Miao said indifferently: "Besides! The appearance rates of other middle schools are also not low! Didn't Qiushi Middle School, also from East China District, win two consecutive national competitions?"

"Yes!"

After Ma Kui was speechless at first, he quickly came to his senses. It seemed that in this plan, it was not just Jiangchuan Yizhong who stood out.

Other schools are equally strong!

Qiushi Middle School, Meijiang Middle School, Maotanchang Middle School, Hengshui Middle School...

There are many outstanding schools!

Similarly, in addition to Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School where the protagonist Ryoma is located, there are also many star players from other schools.

For example, the minister of Qiushi Middle School, Xingcun, who is known as the "Son of God", and the deputy minister Zhen Tian.

There are also the arrogant and arrogant minister of the private Meijiang Middle School, Gu Sen, the heir to the Gu Corporation, who comes from a wealthy family, etc. These are all "national-level" players mentioned in the plan.

certainly!

This is not the point. The point is, why does this draft plan give people the feeling of "semi-finished product"?

"It's true that I haven't finished writing..."

Gu Miao wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and said, "If nothing unexpected happens later, there should be a U17 training camp, which will be the chapter of the World Championships."

"But for the first season, I think it is enough to reach the national competition. As for the U17 and World Championships, it would be better to leave it to the second season..."

In fact.

It's a bit much to reach the national competition. Gu Miao personally believes that it would be better to end the first season in the East China competition.

no way!

This is the "Prince of Tennis" animation he copied. Compared with Neon, which often serializes for a whole year or even two or three years, Chinese comics obviously do not allow too long serialization.

Generally speaking, 50 episodes is enough.

Animation with more than 100 episodes is considered a super long series in China! As for animations with hundreds of episodes, I'm afraid only "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and "Bear Bears" can withstand it.

The overall narrative pace of "The Prince of Tennis" is slow, and a more critical game may take several episodes of animation to narrate.

How many episodes are there in one game? Then the question arises...

How many episodes does it take to reach the national competition?

obviously!

This duration must be controlled. Gu Miao doesn't want the filming to be long and smelly. But the narrative rhythm cannot be easily destroyed, so what should we do?

We can only cut it off halfway, cut the story of one stage into several parts, and broadcast the animation into several seasons.

Gu Miao's plan is.

The first season of the Wanbao version of the "Prince of Tennis" animation will depend on the situation, and the first season episodes will be controlled within 100 episodes as much as possible.

If you can't do that...

That's very simple. The national competition can only be held until the second season. The U17 training camp and world championships will be postponed to the third season.

"OK!"

Ma Kui had no objection to this arrangement.

Although it was just a plan, he could also see that the story called "The Prince of Tennis" would be very long and could not be told in one season of animation.

A few more seasons would be nice too.

He actually cares more about another issue than dividing the animation into seasons.

"Mr. Gu..."

"Are you sure we won't get sprayed if we do this?"

Ma Kui's expression was distorted. He pointed to the plan and mentioned the players' skills, especially the "outrageous" skills, and said: "This kind of skills already belongs to the category of fantasy, right?"

Damn it!

Although Ma Kui has never seen the world and has never played tennis, he has received nine years of compulsory education and knows what basic common sense is.

What is this!

What kind of field is that? He said that he could accept the flying swallow returning to its nest, but what is the meaning of destroying the five senses? What is the state of selflessness?

Are you sure this is playing tennis? !