My Animation Era

Starting from the year before last, Wanbao Animation will hold a "Popular Star" voting event around July every year.

In the first competition, Big Big Wolf from the anime "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" won the championship!

In the second competition, Tsukino Usagi from the anime "Sailor Moon" won the championship!

Compared to the liveliness of the first session, the second session was relatively dull, and the smell of gunpowder was also much lighter. The total number of voters was less than half of the first term.

The popularity is completely incomparable to the "popularity vote" within "Sailor Moon"!

Why is this?

Gu Miao carefully analyzed the reasons and finally came to a conclusion.

The enthusiasm of the fans is too low and there is no competition. This voting activity has no smell of excitement at all. How can it become lively?

Look at Sailor Moon's internal popularity poll. Fans of various Sailor Moon fans pull each other down, and the competition is fierce.

Especially after the broadcast of "Sailor Moon S", the addition of two new characters, Haruka Tenno and Mitsuru Kaioh, has expanded this competition to the point of "bloody rivers."

Even Gu Miao was involved in the situation.

It can be seen that if you engage in this kind of popularity voting activity, you cannot create harmony. Without a quarrel, how could passers-by be interested in watching the fun?

change! It must be changed!

The third [Wanbao·Popular Star] voting event must have the smell of gunpowder, and must arouse the interest of passers-by, and then come to watch the excitement.

But how to create the smell of gunpowder?

Gu Miao and Lao Zhang hid in the office, talking to each other, and soon came up with a more "underhanded" method.

Increase rewards!

In previous years' [Wanbao·Popular Star] voting event, it was really fun. There was essentially no difference between the characters at the top and the characters at the bottom.

Fans are just talking about it: "My wife, Xiaotu, is the second Wanbao Popular Star Champion!"

"Really? Your wife is awesome!"

Then...gone!

It’s no wonder that fans are not interested in this kind of Tuyile reward, and their enthusiasm for participation is not high enough.

After all, after all the fighting, the paper figurine wife/husband can’t get the bonus or trophy, so why hurt the harmony?

We can't do this this time. We need to raise the reward standards this time, and at least mobilize the enthusiasm of the fans.

But what kind of rewards can motivate these fans?

You know, this is an anime character!

No matter how high the prize money or honorary standards are in the voting activities participated by the two-dimensional paper people, it is meaningless. After all, there are thick barriers between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional.

"No prizes, no trophies!"

"We will set up resource support. For example, whoever wins the championship, we will make a special animated theatrical version based on this character."

Gu Miao said enthusiastically: "As for the runner-up, the runner-up will not have a theatrical version, and can only produce two episodes of spin-off TV animation."

"Third runner-up? If it's 3rd or 4th place, then let's give this anime character a customized gift bag with a badge figure, plush card and other peripherals."

"Okay, okay!"

Lao Zhang's eyes lit up and he said: "You know best what these fans want! Once this trick comes out, will those fans go crazy and vote for it?"

"The worst person in our Wanbao is none other than you, Mr. Gu!"

"How to speak?"

Gu Miao was very unhappy, rolled her eyes and said, "I am doing this for the benefit of my fans, but you actually said that to me?"

"My, my, sorry!"

Lao Zhang immediately apologized, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Gu! If this combination of punches continues, I can guarantee that this popular star voting event will definitely turn into a river of blood!"

More than just a river of blood?

Gu Miao feels that when the majority of Wanbao fans learn about this reward standard, they will probably mobilize all the seven aunts and eight aunts to vote for their paper figurine wives/husbands.

Maybe, this is love!

…

Facts have proved that Gu Miao was conservative.

Although he had fully anticipated the endless enthusiasm from fans after learning about this award standard.

But he still underestimated...

In order to get an "exclusive theatrical version" opportunity for their beloved anime characters, how crazy can these nerds be?

Eight in the morning.

Wanbao official has just released the reward standards, and the voting channels and links established on the official website will soon be unavailable.

Regardless of the mobile phone or web page, as long as you click on the link to access Wanbao's official website, a "403 Forbidden" error code will appear on the screen.

That's right!

The official website crashed...

Because the number of simultaneous visits is too large, the official website server cannot handle it at all, so this error code is displayed.

sad!

I finally got the official website up and reopened the voting channel, but within a few minutes it crashed again.

This time Gu Miao stayed in Bengbu.

He admitted that his company's official website was indeed very poor. After all, the average number of daily visits was not high, so he could just fool around with it.

But to be overwhelmed by the number of visits so easily is a non-war crime!

Finally, we solved the problem about the shoddy project on the official website. Gu Miao finally saw how active fans were in voting.

No.1, Tokisaki Kurumi (Date A Live) 100034 votes!

No.2, Haibara Ai (Detective Conan) 97410 votes!

No.3, Tsukino Rabbit...

After the official website returned to normal, the first place displayed was Kurumi Tokisaki, who has become popular recently with the completion of the "Date A Live" anime.

The second place is a new character in the popular anime "Detective Conan". With the popularity of Conan, the popularity is also very high.

None of this is the point.

Gu Miao, who is a die-hard fan of Little Rabbit, looks down upon the fact that Little Rabbit has become a "passed idol" and the majestic Moon Princess can't even be ranked among the top two.

What's the point?

The point is that this voting channel has only been open for less than two hours, and the number of votes for the first place has already exceeded 100,000!

What is this concept?

Tsukino Usagi, who won the championship last year, only received a total of 800,000 votes to win the championship.

Damn it! It’s so outrageous!

Not only did the number of votes per capita skyrocket, but Gu Miao also saw another noteworthy detail on this temporary ranking list.

The supporting characters are more important than the protagonists!

Yes, that's right, in the top 50 of this newly refreshed list, the supporting actors generally received higher votes than the protagonists.

Let’s not talk about Kuang San and Xiao Ai. Also on the list are Xiao Guoding from “Fruit Attack”, Tiger King from “Dragon Fighter”, Kaiba from “Yu-Gi-Oh!”...

On the contrary, the protagonists' votes were worse than the last, and they were all ranked at the bottom.

This phenomenon is quite interesting.

People are so active in voting for the supporting characters, probably because they think that the protagonist does not need to worry, since sooner or later there will be a spin-off anime and a theatrical version, but the same cannot be said for the supporting characters.

If we miss this opportunity, these popular supporting characters may never have the opportunity to have an "exclusive theatrical version/gaiden animation"?

Our village, which had had no cases in three years, finally fell...