Penguin is willing to invest in Wanbao Video, which is a good thing for Gu Miao.

Don't worry about your identity. If you have money, you are your father. If you are willing to spend money on Wanbao Video, don't care if it has evil intentions or is it an undercover agent sent by a friend of mine?

Moreover.

Investment is investment, and competition is competition. Gu Miao didn't even say that she took Penguin's money, but turned around and gave the "Wild Wilds" animation a five-star rating!

One yard owned by a yard.

Wanbao Video, which is preparing to go public, decided to accept Penguin's investment. This has nothing to do with the competition between "The Wilderness" and "Hell Girl" in the summer vacation.

The producers of the two animations are still throwing dirty water at each other, and the war of words between fans has become increasingly fierce.

But then again...

With its excellent production standards and the popularity brought by Professor Luo, "Hell Girl" has indeed taken an advantage in terms of reputation and broadcast volume.

Especially when the plots of the two animations are getting better and better, and after halfway through the broadcast, the gap becomes even more obvious.

The sequel to The Wilderness is weak.

As I said before, the most exciting chapter of the original novel is the first 1 million words, the "Zongmen Chapter" where the protagonist is still very weak.

After being adapted into animation, the most exciting sect chapter of the original work was briefly ignored, and the protagonist who appeared in the animation was super strong as soon as he appeared.

Maybe the screenwriter thinks...

The protagonist appears to be a super strong person when he appears, and it will be fun to watch him pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.

But he was wrong.

The reason why the audience likes the original novel "The Wilderness" is mainly because they saw with their own eyes the process of a time-traveler from a humble background, relying on his own efforts to climb up step by step and transform from an ant into a strong man.

To put it bluntly, what fans of the original novel like is the kind of "starting from scratch" development style, rather than the invincible style of becoming a strong person upon debut.

The scriptwriter's change has certainly won the love of many online fans who love Wudi and viewers who like to watch "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger", but fans of the original work feel that this animation is too disappointing.

The number of original fans is huge.

When the more they watched, the more they felt something was wrong, and even gradually became disappointed, the number of animation views collapsed.

"This is just one of them..."

"Another reason is that if you keep watching the same show-off and slap-in-the-face routine, you will really get tired of it if you watch it too much!"

Gu Miao explained: "The protagonist's growth process in the early stage involves various adventures and life-and-death crises. It would be better to adapt it into an animation, because it is all about pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger."

Once or twice is fine.

But every time, the protagonist goes to a place, is ridiculed and belittled because of his hidden strength, and then reveals his identity as an elder and his super strength to get slapped in the face and win the favor of a beauty.

This kind of drama has lasted for so many episodes, even the most loyal fans can't help but complain. Can there be some freshness?

"So the problem is still the same. You shouldn't skip the 1 million-word plot in the early stage. Without the foreshadowing of that plot, it will be very stupid and awkward to watch later."

"That's right!"

Gu Miao nodded.

Needless to say, the follow-up adaptation of the animated film "The Wilderness" was really good, but skipping the first one million words was too distasteful and directly led to the lack of follow-up of this animation.

If we follow the original work and start from when the protagonist is still very weak and witness his adventures and life-and-death crises along the way, the audience will not find it boring.

Look at the number of views...

Before, it was still over 40 million per episode. Starting from the 10th episode, the number of views dropped to about 10 million per episode. By the 20th episode, the number of views per episode was not even 5 million.

In contrast, Hell Girl.

The start was limited by the user base of Wanbao Video. The number of views was indeed not too high, but it became more and more popular as it was played.

After only 10 episodes were aired, the total views have reached 875 million, and the seventh episode with the highest views has already reached 100 million.

…

The animation "Hell Girl" is becoming more and more popular, and it has become the most popular animation work on the Internet.

At this time, Wanbao launched a lot of peripheral derivatives based on the Hell Girl animation, intending to take advantage of the popularity of the animation to make a profit.

But what's embarrassing is that.

Wanbao officially released peripheral derivatives, but not many fans paid for it. Instead, a video teaching everyone how to tie a red string with straw and tie a little figure became popular.

What's the meaning?

You don’t buy official peripherals. You like to make your own peripherals, right?

It’s fine to make it yourself, but what’s wrong is to make that straw doll with a red string on it? Also mark the doll as Gu Miao?

"Hahaha!"

After learning that fans all over the Internet were tying red string dolls in the hope that Hell Girl could send Gu Sanshui away happily, Lao Zhang, a heartless ghost, laughed so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth.

"What are you laughing laughing?"

Gu Miao said with a dark face: "Is it so funny? The person who pays your salary is cursed, don't you want to do something?"

What can I do?

Do you want me to advise the fans not to stab the villain? If Hell Girl cannot send Mr. Gu away, he might even be sent away by Mr. Gu in turn?

"Although I'm not afraid of curses, and I don't believe in them, but so many people are stabbing my little person, I will inevitably panic..."

Gu Miao frowned and said: "This is nothing. The key is that netizens are doing this. It seems that some people really believe in Hell Girls and Hell Communication is real."

"Isn't it?"

Lao Zhang's smile solidified and he said: "Isn't this just a joke among netizens? Will anyone really believe it?"

Good guy!

Hell Girl and Hell Communication are just a setting in the animation. When can a fictional setting be taken seriously?

"People have built a temple for Xiao Ai, and there is endless incense every day. Do you think anyone believes it?"

Lao Zhang: "..."

Building a temple for Yama Ai, burning incense and worshiping the gods is too abstract.

Not to mention that Yama Ai itself is just a fictional character in the animation. This god does not exist in reality. The key question is why do you worship her?

I hope she will take you away soon?

Since Lao Zhang joined Wanbao, he has seen many abstract masters, but this is the first time he has seen such abstract masters.

"what is it now?"

"Issuing an announcement to dissuade and clarify!"

Gu Miao explained: "If things continue like this, I'm really afraid that many years later, Xiao Ai will become a god worshiped by the people, and no one will know her specific origins."

Ah this?!

Damn, aren't you about to take the college entrance examination? Come on, daddy will take you to pay homage to the God of Examination, Yama Ai. It is said that this God of Examination is quite effective, and you will surely become the top scorer in high school after you take the exam!

When he thought that many years later, this scene would most likely become true, Lao Zhang also felt that this matter must be paid attention to.

On a smaller scale, this is to protect the image of the animated characters; on a larger scale, it is to avoid being labeled as "promoting feudal superstition".

Don't mess around!
Chapter completed!