"It's not that easy to recruit people."

After learning about Gu Miao's troubles, Jiang Keke sighed: "The notice seeking professional animation directors has been posted on the official website and major job search websites for so long, and there are only very few applicants."

They are all bastards!

After screening, almost all the people who came to apply for jobs were "just fake" guys.

There are fresh graduates.

When asked about his masterpieces, he confidently showed off his completed animation. Looking at his expression, the only thing missing was the word "talented" engraved on his face.

But in fact, Gu Miao just glanced at Bishe's small animation, handed him 50 yuan for travel expenses, and begged for mercy: "The Wanbao Temple is small, I'm afraid it can't accommodate a giant Buddha like you!"

There are also industry “giants”.

I came to the interview with great enthusiasm, talking about all kinds of "insiders" in the industry. When I saw my masterpieces, wow! There is such a long list?

Take another closer look.

This is also a talent. There is a long list of masterpieces, but they are all "single episode titles". In fact, there is only one masterpiece, and this work has not passed the review...

After seeing all kinds of "cow ghosts and snake gods", Gu Miao had given up hope in recruiting animation directors.

"fine!"

"If we can't recruit people, we'll focus on internal training first."

After waving his hand to indicate that she didn't need to take it to heart, Gu Miao said, "That's right! I'll show you something."

Just finished speaking.

He took out a strange wand from the drawer with a "golden crescent moon" on the top and a pink rod below, and handed it to Jiang Keke.

"This is the Xingyue Stick!"

"There are two exclusive wands for Sailor Moon in Sailor Moon. This one has a silver crystal, and the other one does not."

Gu Miao asked expectantly: "How is it? Judge it from a girl's perspective?"

"Quite good looking."

Looking at the Xingyue stick in his hand, Jiang Keke hesitated and said: "Girls should like it very much, but if it's a boy..."

What happened to the boy?!

Shivering!

Gu Miao was not surprised that girls would like the "Star and Moon Wand" because the design of this wand was originally full of girlish appeal.

As for boys not liking it?

Who cares?

There may be a handful of boys who also have a pink girlish heart. But the proportion of such boys will certainly not be too high.

Gu Miao didn't expect them either.

From the first-generation Star-Moon Stick to subsequent peripheral derivatives such as the Sweetheart Moon Staff and the Spiral Star-Moon Staff, the main consumer base has always been female fans.

Male fans are useless!

Apart from contributing to the ratings, they like to daydream, and imagine that they are field guards and can have a sweet and boring love with Xiaotu, what else do they have?

"Your analysis makes sense."

After taking back the physical sample of the first version of Star and Moon Stick, Gu Miao patiently explained: "'Sailor Moon' is an attempt to transform girls into animation. Judging from the results, this market has great potential."

"Girl-oriented?"

Jiang Keke wondered: "Is this positioning accurate? How did I hear that the audience for Sailor Moon is largely male?"

"It's really not low."

"But no matter how many male viewers there are, it can't change the fact that this is a girls' animation." Gu Miao shook her head and said, "My idea is to use the broadcast of the animation to launch a comic work of the same name."

Animation and comics are not separated into different families!

The neon comic market is very good, and sales are generally very high. Since "Sailor Moon" has an animation foundation, it is logical to launch a spin-off comic to "make money".

not to mention……

Gu Miao's move also hid another purpose. He wanted to take the opportunity to become familiar with the neon comics or light novel publishing industry, so that he could make some comic modifications and lightly modify the works in the future.

Plan ahead and prepare for a rainy day.

Gu Miao now has ideas and energy to make purely original animation that is "not a comic adaptation, not a light adaptation", but he can't be energetic all his life, right?

Once he gets old or has no energy to participate in animation production, Wanbao Animation will not be able to come up with new animation projects other than endless "sequels".

It's scary just thinking about it.

In order to avoid this kind of "Gu Miao dependence", Wanbao got involved in the light novel, comic and game industries, and it was only a matter of time before it embarked on the animation route of "light adaptation of comics and adaptation of games".

As for the light adaptation of comics, Neon is indeed developing better than domestically, and there are many works suitable for animation adaptation.

Of course, it’s not bad at home either.

Gu Miao observed that the domestic comic industry was indeed not very prosperous, and there were very few works suitable for animation adaptation.

But the online articles are so awesome!

After so many years of development, the online literature industry has already accumulated a large number of excellent works. Covering various categories, whether it is fantasy, fairy tales, fantasy, history or science fiction games, there are always several works suitable for animation adaptation.

This is simply a natural treasure house of "IP".

It is a pity that compared with neon light novels, the biggest problem of online novels is that the "length" is too long, making adaptation very difficult.

Are light novels long?

Then you can’t just look at the number of words, you also have to look at the “effective content” of the same number of words!

A volume of 200,000 words in the light novel has been written, and the brave man is still "hanging out" in the novice village. In the fantasy online novel, how many levels has the protagonist upgraded in these 200,000 words, and how many supporting characters have been slapped in the face?

It's really too long.

There are millions of words of online articles, fast pace and dense plot. How many episodes of animation will it take to completely adapt it? Just delete some of the plot. Fans of the original book are not satisfied, so it is very difficult to get the best of both worlds.

But no matter how difficult it is, there is a limit.

There are still many successful cases of adapting web texts into animations. In a sense, as long as you find the right method, adapting web texts is actually not that difficult.

Of course, this is a future plan.

Whether it is a light comic adaptation or a game adaptation, it requires taking great risks. Wanbao, whose family is not strong enough, currently cannot bear the consequences of "failure to adapt".

do not forget!

"Haiwa" is still dead!

"correct……"

When thinking of Haiwa, Gu Miao immediately thought of the advice he gave to Mr. Xiong, and asked curiously: "Is there any news about a new work from Feiyang Animation?"

"Yes, I have!"

Jiang Keke thought for a while and replied: "It seems to be the sequel to "Haiwa", "Haiwa Brothers"! They seem to have received sponsorship from a home appliance manufacturer and plan to overthrow Haiwa and remake it."

Home appliance factory, Haiwa Brothers?

Gu Miao blinked and couldn't help but think of a pair of brothers who were all-powerful in their childhood and liked to go on adventures without clothes.

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

If it was really "Haier Brothers", wouldn't Feiyang Animation take off from the same place? You know, this animation had pretty good ratings back then!

Although the animation itself does not make money.

But when Haier invested in this animation, was it to make money? It was to create a brand image!

Not found...

When the earliest fans of "Haier Brothers" grew up, the first brand they thought of when buying home appliances was Haier, right?
Chapter completed!