Gundam is a slow-burn animation.

What is slow heating?

It doesn't mean that it becomes popular all over the Internet at the beginning, but it slowly accumulates popularity and then becomes stronger in the later period.

It is unrealistic for you to expect to become obsessed with Gundam after watching a few episodes.

You’ve only watched a few episodes, do you know anything about Hammer Gundam? You might not even be able to tell the difference between Gundam and Zaku!

"This thing is a bit like Nuer Hong, the older it gets, the more fragrant it becomes."

Lao Zhang joked: "If you really say what you say, then this animation may actually be an incredible work ten years from now."

"That's true..."

The current "Mobile Suit Gundam" may not be as popular as many popular works, but when we look back ten years from now, Gundam will definitely be a hundred times more popular than these short-lived IPs.

Gu Miao deeply agrees and believes that Gundam IP should take a long-term development path and don't mind the immediate gains and losses.

"What about the blue cat's naughty three thousand questions?"

Lao Zhang asked: "If I remember correctly, you seemed to have said that "Blue Cat Naughty Questions" is also an animation IP that takes a long-term development path?"

"no the same."

"Although Blue Cat Naughty Three Thousand Questions also takes a long-term development path, the start is much more comfortable than Gundam." Gu Miao shook her head and said.

How does Gundam start?

When the original version was aired in the first round, it was almost cut in half and no news was heard. Thanks to a group of fans who wrote to the TV station to express their attitude, Gundam was able to be continued on the air and achieved its later glory.

The Blue Cat Naughty Three Thousand Questions series has never experienced this kind of dilemma.

Since its inception, this series has firmly established itself as the number one knowledge-popularizing and humorous animation in the country.

If it hadn't declined later and been replaced by the new generation of IPs such as Pleasant Goat and Haunted Bear, it wouldn't be a big problem for "Blue Cat's Naughty Questions" to produce another 3,000 episodes.

Don’t underestimate the blue cat!

When it comes to animations where the protagonist is a cat, especially domestic animations, only four cats have achieved the circle-breaking effect.

One is a black cat, one is a star cat, one is a rainbow cat, and one is a blue cat!

There are also some animations with cats as the protagonists that are also very popular, but in terms of influence and circle-breaking effect, they are really not that interesting compared to these four cats.

Although big-faced cats, Peking opera cats, and stingy cats are also famous, they have not reached the heights of the rainbow cat and blue cat.

It can be seen from this point.

Although Blue Cat is an outdated animated series, it was really popular at its peak. After all, it is not a simple thing to be ranked alongside works such as Black Cat Sheriff, Happy Star Cat and Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit.

Speaking of which...

Blue Cat became popular because there were no good domestic popular science cartoons at that time.

It can be regarded as taking advantage of the times.

If the Wanbao version wants to replicate the glory of the original version, it is bound to be impossible. After all, in this era, there are many animations that children can watch, and they are not limited to watching blue cats being naughty.

However, Gu Miao made this animation more because of her childhood feelings, and she didn't pay much attention to achievements.

Achievements are won by other animations.

Such as Superman, such as Gundam!

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In addition to the TV animation "Mobile Suit Gundam" being broadcast in March, there will also be two other blockbuster new works released.

One of them is the "LoveLive!" cross-dimensional idol project adapted by Seto based on the essay competition!

The other is the first live-action comic book movie "Superman" produced by Wanbao Pictures!

Superman is expected.

After all, when Gu Miao went to the North American branch, she had already made arrangements in advance, and the promotion and filming schedule were all full.

If he can't produce good results and can't compete with "Dr. Night", Du Hao doesn't need to buy a plane ticket. He can just start from Los Angeles and swim across the entire Pacific Ocean back to Jiangchuan.

The focus is "LoveLive!"!

As early as the beginning of the year, the first issue of LoveLive published a preview of the project in Neon, a two-dimensional magazine, which included the character settings and personality characteristics of the protagonists.

The name of the group had not yet been determined at that time.

With all the original paintings of the main characters unveiled, the story of the girls becoming school idols in order to save the school "Otonogizaka Academy" that is facing the crisis of being abolished has attracted the attention of many neon otakus.

Seto is not in a hurry to release animation notices.

Instead, after the CV list was announced, the voice actors of these characters were asked to jointly release a single.

OK!

With the single out, this idol group has been officially established.

The next step is to decide on a name.

Because during this period, LoveLive had already released a single, and was considered a debut artist. Therefore, it also had a certain number of fans on the entire Internet, and the group name was decided by voting.

"Muse" is a name derived from the goddess in charge of music, dance and literature in Greek mythology, and has been recognized by many fans.

Ever since, LoveLive’s first school idol group was officially named “Muse”!

After officially confirming the name of the group, releasing a single, and participating in various radio idol activities, the Wanbao Neon Division later officially announced that the animation production is scheduled to be broadcast as soon as the end of March.

This news immediately made many fans excited.

First let’s be clear!

Muse debuts and becomes an "idol" first, and then announces the decision to become an anime. It is not that he debuts in animation first and then becomes an idol.

These are two completely different concepts!

In everyone's eyes, a muse is the same as an idol. They have singles and activities, but the idol I recommended is going to have a TV animation?

Wow! Now I have to support it!

In order to increase the popularity of the animation and to make the LoveLive project more popular, Seto also came up with a very vicious method - voting!

On the newly established LoveLive official support website, the Muse group opened the first round of popularity voting and announced that the animation production team will decide the group's position and role in the performance based on the voting rankings.

Whoever is more popular will take the C position and enjoy higher attention and exposure!

Focus on fairness and impartiality.

The official fanning the flames instantly ignited the enthusiasm of fans.

In order to let their favorite characters stand in the C position, in order to let their idols get higher attention and roles in animation, fans have spared no effort.

It's not enough to vote by yourself, you have to mobilize the people around you to vote together, for Honoka, for Minami Kotori... and Wanbao broke out!

Seto knows how to hype things up very well.

Thanks to his outrageous actions, the animation "LoveLive!" has become the focus of the entire neon public opinion even before it is aired.

what is interesting is……

During the popularity voting process, Gu Miao seemed to see two distinctive figures rising to the top of the rankings.

One is Anna, a hot girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, and the other is Li Wenwen from an ancient eastern country.

"It's really different!"

Gu Miao smiled and immediately realized that this was Seto's deliberate move.

The Wanbao version of "LoveLive" is no longer the same group of people as the original version. At least except for Honoka, Sonoda Umi and Minami Kotori, all the muses have changed beyond recognition.

Mainly because the newcomers have changed.

Moreover, Gu Miao took a closer look and found that most of the changes were in the name and original painting, and the character design and personality were all consistent.

how to say……

After all, the Wanbao version of "LoveLive!" was produced and planned by a different group of people, so the differences are to be expected.

And in this version, because of Gu Miao's wonderful development, Wanbao has a strong influence in North America, Neon, and China, so Muse has North American members and Chinese members.

We need to expand our influence!

In the original LoveLive project, neon was more popular in China. There was no giant like Wanbao as a promoter abroad, so this problem did not exist.

However, Wanbao’s version of LoveLive project is backed by Wanbao, a multinational giant with extensive influence in North America and China, so it only added characters from this region.

Anna is from North America, and Li Wenwen is from China.

In the story, both of them came to Neon as students studying abroad, studied at Otonogizaka Academy, and joined Muse by chance.

Due to the special origins and backgrounds of these two characters, Gu Miao originally thought that she would suffer a lot in the popularity vote and could not vote for other characters.

Who knew...

The number of votes is quite high!

I don’t know if it’s the result of Seto’s behind-the-scenes operation, or if these two characters really have so many fans. Anyway, these two characters’ votes are second only to the trio of Honoka, Minami Kotori and Sonoda Umi, ranking fourth and fifth respectively.
To be continued...