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Oshii-an has been suffering from a persistent low fever in recent days.

But his low-grade fever was not caused by seasonal changes, but entirely caused by mental stress. But he was under tremendous pressure and vomited twice in three days while methodically completing the post-production of "Your Name".

Kei Fujiwara knew about his situation and expressed concern for him. At the same time, he felt a little regretful in his heart. If only he could have half the psychological quality of his teacher.

But after all, there are differences in social experience between the two. This is Oshii'an's first time filming a movie, and it is the first battle on the road to transformation. It is normal to be highly nervous because of the emphasis.

Otomo Keiichi's psychological quality and self-confidence are indeed strong, but after the movie failed, wasn't it also destroyed for the most part? He even said the words "retirement", and said it more than once during this period. It has been published in the newspapers, and various newspapers and periodicals have published this news.

The Mizunami Production and Publicity Department also took this opportunity to carry out a desperate advertising campaign, and published the slogan "Otomo Keiichi's Retirement Work" in some newspapers to promote to the audience. Some theaters even boldly posted homemade posters that read: [The movie that forced Otomo Keiichi to retire, buy a ticket to find out]. Needless to say, it actually had a certain effect.

Some animated movie lovers really became curious and went to the cinema to find out what movie could drive this famous director in the animation industry to retire.

Although the market appeal of "City of the Deep" is indeed insufficient, those who have actually watched this movie can hardly say that it is a bad movie. Instead, they think it is a rare classic.

As a result, a number of articles appeared on forums and magazines to analyze and discuss this phenomenon. Why are works like "Deep Sea City" obviously well-shot, but few audiences go to see it?

And some works have high box office but low critical acclaim?

What kind of works can get high box office?

What is the best-selling secret of a movie?

No one can really say clearly that, except for a certain person, the entire Japanese creative circle has never had an undefeated record in business.

Of course, some people still express different opinions and feel that there is no need to deify Fujiwara Kei. The reason why Kei Fujiwara's works continue to sell well is because he is still in his prime. As long as a person has been in the industry for long enough, there will always be failures, and Kei Fujiwara is no exception. He has only debuted for five years, and it will not be too late to label him an undefeated god of war in a few years.

However, some people have raised objections: Although Fujiwara Kei is not very senior and is older than many old people who have been in the industry for more than ten or even decades, he does have a lot of works. Several novels and screenplays are published every year, which is worthy of his reputation. Than model worker. Cumulatively counting the number of works, he no longer belongs to the vast majority of senior authors.

To publish works so frequently without ever failing, what is this but a miracle in the cultural world? Kei Fujiwara is indeed a man who has mastered the best-selling code. He has never failed in terms of evaluation or commercial performance.

East Island Channel recently changed a group of leaders. Since "Meteor Garden" achieved extremely high ratings on their station, the new leaders began to flatter Kei Fujiwara.

They made a program specifically analyzing Fujiwara Kei's past works, which can be said to be word by word and frame by frame, and learned by discussing his works, in order to create works that sell well.

In fact, since the September 9th time slot became popular, the writing teams of the five major TV stations have each opened a study class to study the works of Fujiwara Kei, but everyone is studying it quietly, unlike Higashishima Station so blatantly.

Dongdaotai has no airs. Although it is a top five, our top five is really incomparable with the other four. It is better to lower the profile and forget about face for the time being. Maybe there will be a chance to overtake us. A handful.

A new drama produced by Mizunami was also in production at this time. In addition to the drama written by Kei Fujiwara himself, more resources were invested in the works created by the screenwriter team produced by Mizunami.

Without him, the entire market is now too dependent on Fujiwara Kei personally. Is the drama produced by Mizuha popular? No, the most popular ones have always been the ones written by Kei Fujiwara.

Several new dramas written by Kei Fujiwara, such as "Jumping Line" and "Scam", all major TV stations are rushing to get the right to premiere. However, the market response to the dramas created by Shiraishi Monet and others has been somewhat lukewarm.

This forced Yoshida Kashi to come up with new conditions - the dramas produced by Mizuha are packaged and sold. If you want the broadcast rights of "The World of Deception", you must also take over dramas not created by Fujiwara Kei, and at the same level. It will be broadcast no less than 10pm on weekdays.

Although a bit overbearing, the TV stations led by TTV and Fanxing signed the agreement very quickly.

However, Shiraishi Monet and Togada Nanako couldn't help but feel a little disappointed after knowing that their drama had been reduced to a giveaway.

In order to create this play, they spent nearly two years and changed the draft several times. Their fingertips were almost calloused by ballpoint pens. They finally created what they thought was an excellent work, but they didn't expect it to be rejected. .

And they were the only ones who were disliked. The historical drama created by another screenwriter, Miura Fuyube, was willing to be broadcast by many TV stations. The reason is that although Miura Fuyube is ostensibly the first time to be the main creator, he has ten years of experience as the main creative screenwriter and has many well-known works under his name.

Although Togada Nanako and Shiraishi Monet are not creative novices, their qualifications are much lower and they are inevitably not trusted.

However, it was precisely because of this distrust that it aroused the fighting spirit of the two people, determined to produce results to shock those newcomers a little bit.

They have completed the basic framework of the script, but have written more than a dozen completely different plot directions, just to change the plot content at any time through audience feedback. Although the general framework is inconvenient, the content inside can be filled in temporarily.

In fact, Kei Fujiwara did not participate in the two dramas at all. Kei Fujiwara assumed part-time responsibilities for the drama. He gave them a lot of plot suggestions, many of which he learned from the Korean dramas he had watched in parallel worlds. Korean drama screenwriters are indeed a step ahead of Japanese screenwriters in terms of commercialization, and they are worth learning from. .

However, Kei Fujiwara did not sign his name. Firstly, he was afraid of being suspected of stealing the works of newcomers and becoming the second Shinya Matsushita. Secondly, he also wanted to cultivate Mizuha's own creative team and could not let himself become the only selling point of Mizuha's production...

Although Mizuno Productions' first work in the new millennium, "City of the Deep," had a bad start, it didn't seem to affect the company's plans to spread its tentacles.

By February, "City of the Deep" had been downloaded almost nationwide, and Keiichi Otomo was frustrated and registered his own personal blog, where he announced his retirement. But at the same time, Shuibo's decision to produce several new dramas and the screening of the new movie "Your Name" were announced at the same time.