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After Xia Yan's meeting, Xia Yan's series of remarks about 2077 and the information about the Code Geass animation released at the meeting soon spread wildly on the Internet.

Especially the mecha.

Although this thing only appeared for a moment, it is a king bomb among the animation fans.

"Oh my god, I came to see the 2077 animation press conference. Why did Lao Zei release such a cool thing at the press conference."

"Is it called a mecha? Those huge robots that appeared in the Code Geass trailer PV."

"So cool!"

"Brothers, I'm damned. I wrote last month that Lao Zei's new animation "Code Geass" would fail because of this stupid name. I'm wrong now."

"Why didn't Lao Zei name it Flying Mecha, which is a cool and domineering work name. What's the code of rebellion? An animation with this name is really enough to discourage people."

"To be honest, if Lao Zei hadn't released the Code Geass trailer PV in advance, I really wouldn't have watched an animation with this name."

"And the scene in the animation PV is a war, right? Does that mean this anime will be a war-themed animation?"

"I don't understand. I don't want to stay here for a second this year. I want to wait until April next year!"

"When Lelouch releases these mecha figures, I will buy them all."

"I can already see the scene where the peripheral market of this animation of Lao Zei will be hot. After all, compared to selling soul crystals and shameful transformation clothes of Magical Girl Madoka Magica, these robot figures are the peripheral products that real men should buy."

"Hehe, real men should put on Madoka Magica character COA clothes and enjoy robot figures at home."

"The above is pure perversion!"

Xia Yan's goal was achieved.

The release of the animation PV of Lelouch has indeed increased the attention of Lelouch, a work that has not yet been broadcast, in the Dragon Country animation industry.

But because it has to wait until April next year for fans to see it on TV.

At this stage, it will not affect the sales and popularity of BD of 2077.

Two days later, the first part of Cyberpunk 2077 animation BD was released simultaneously in the whole Dragon Country.

For the release of this animation BD, Xia Yan's entire company has spent 20 to 30 million yuan on publicity and promotion from a month ago to now.

For the release of a TV animation movie BD, this amount of publicity fee is already an extremely huge number.

Many animated films that are released in theaters throughout the Dragon Country do not have such publicity expenses.

However, with the previous revenue of Magical Girl Madoka as a reference, Xia Yan's company can roughly estimate the range of Cyberpunk 2077 animation BD that can be sold and its revenue range.

So for Xia Yan, this investment can only be said to be reasonable.

And after Cyberpunk 2077 is released.

Xia Yan's fans finally understand what story this movie is telling!

The protagonist V is a wanderer in Night City.

The story is from his perspective, revealing the darkness in each hidden corner of Night City and the way the city operates.

After the war, the governments of various human countries collapsed, and various technology companies replaced them by relying on the resources they controlled to become world giants.

Among them, Arasaka Corporation, headquartered in Night City, is one of the best.

It has a private army, an independent weapons production line, and controls the mining of mines, gold and other resources all over the world.

The whole story can be said to be very different from the cyberpunk Edgewalker. The main perspective of Edgewalker is still on David, and the analysis of the world view is not deep.

As for 2077, the story of the protagonist V is not very interesting.

The point is to understand the whole picture of Night City from his perspective, including the strange technology, Super Dream, various strange prostheses, scavengers, middlemen, afterlife bars, etc. Edgewalker only mentions some names, but actually does not expand on the explanation of things.

Of course, although the plot is indeed not as contagious as Edgewalker, it is also among the excellent ones.

The first part of the theatrical BD animation, at the beginning of the plot, introduces how V and his good brother Jack mixed in the bottom of Night City, and then how they were spotted by the middleman. After receiving the mission, Jack and V sneaked into the Arasaka Tower to steal the biochip, and saw how the son of the chairman of the Arasaka Group killed his father and then killed the chairman of the Arasaka Group. The blame was framed by the chairman's son and V and his good brother Jack.

Jack was shot in the abdomen to cover V's escape.

At the critical moment, V inserted the biochip into his brain and was invaded by the personality of Johnny Silverhand, a legendary figure in Night City, in the biochip.

And when he finally came to the middleman with his brother's body to collect the mission reward, he was shot and killed by the middleman. It was all thanks to the effect of the biochip inserted into his brain that he did not die directly, but his life was also very little. Johnny Silverhand's personality will gradually erode V's brain until it completely occupies his body.

There is no extra love. The plot focuses on fighting, blood, cruelty, darkness, and revenge. This is the story of 2077.

During the day of the release, there were long queues in all the peripheral stores in Dragon Country.

But in fact, when I got home and watched the two-hour first part, I saw that at the end, V and Johnny Silverhand's personality in my mind had reconciled their differences, and the two reached a cooperation for the common goal of "destroying Arasaka".

The whole first part of the movie ended at a place where I was still not satisfied.

"It feels different from what I imagined!"

"Wow, I want to see David and Lucy!"

"It seems that David and Lucy will not appear in 2077."

"Who said that? Arasaka Corporation had the ability to seal personality in memory chips decades ago. Johnny Silverhand's biological chip came like this. Maybe David's personality is also sealed by Arasaka Corporation?"

"Maybe he will appear in the second part."

"But to be honest, the production of this theatrical animation is really strong, but the plot style is very different from Edgewalker!"

"Yeah, that's true."

"It feels less interesting than Edgewalker."

"No, it's your taste. I think it's great. The friendship between Jack and V, and the scene where Jack fell into V's arms at the end made me cry. Then the middleman betrayed Jack and shot V when he went to collect his reward. My god, in the animation, V was shot in the head. I thought the protagonist was dead, but it was the biochip that saved him. "

"To be honest, is Johnny Silverhand also a kind of cyberpsychopath? After the protagonist installed the chip, he was invaded by Johnny Silverhand's personality. I think it was a psychopath invasion. "

"So, this is also one of the protagonist's golden fingers?"

"Indeed, the plot seems to imply that after the protagonist inserted the chip, the influence of the prosthesis on his mind almost disappeared, and only the phantom of Johnny Silverhand's personality kept appearing in his mind. Does this mean that the protagonist can make himself a cybersurgeon without worrying about cyberpsychopaths? "

"It feels like there is indeed such a plot tendency!"

"Anyway, don't be too harsh. I personally think that the Cyberpunk 2077 theatrical animation is pretty good, but it's boring if you have to compare it with the god of theatrical animation "Rebellion Story!" Originally, 80% of the theatrical animation of a TV animation in Longguo was just rehashing old stuff, letting some popular characters show up and make some money from fans. Lao Zei's 2077 can be said to have directly created a story in the same world view, putting the revenge between Edgewalker David and Rebecca on the 2077 protagonist V to avenge. This is already a very interesting plot. You insist on asking for the quality of the theatrical animation to exceed that of Edgewalker TV animation, which is too much to ask. ”

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“It’s mainly because Lao Zei’s rebellious story is so excellent, so we have high expectations for his 2077.”

“I feel that you think 2077 is not as good as Edgewalker because the style of 2077 has changed a lot from Edgewalker. I personally like to watch this kind of pure plot urban gun battle story, and I think 2077 is no worse than Edgewalker.”

“That’s right, don’t always think about the love plot. Think more about the world view in 2077, and you will find that this work has great potential! ”

“Actually, I think the plot of 2077 is interesting, and it really depicts the world view of this story seriously. I give this theatrical animation a full score of 10.”

At night, Xia Yan’s fans who bought the 2077 animation bd during the day gathered in the forum to discuss various things.

Although the plot is not like Edgewalker, it mainly depicts love, and some fans have not adapted to the style change.

But most fans actually have a high reputation for this work.

Although the game 2077 was madly criticized by a bunch of fans in the parallel world, they only criticized it for its poor gameplay and many bugs. Players use the top-end graphics cards to play it, but it presents the players with the worst frame rate, and there are all kinds of screen freezes and tearing.

But the plot of this work is actually okay.

The next day, inside Xia Yan’s company, employees When I came to work today, the big stone that had been weighing on everyone's mind for the past week finally fell.

After all, judging from the current online reviews, the sales of Cyberpunk 2077 will not be affected.

The vast majority of viewers still buy it.

When Xia Yan arrived at the company, he called the main backbone members of the Cyberpunk project team to a meeting. Of course, the content of the meeting was also about topics related to the Cyberpunk 2077 theatrical animation.

The content of the meeting was also to let them set their next goal on the 207 next theatrical animation bd to be released next month.

After the meeting, Xia Yan also let out a long sigh.

"It's over. "Xia Yan smiled.

Of course, this end refers to the work of Xia Tang Animation Production Company in the animation field this year.

Now, only the next theatrical animation of 2077 will be released, and Lelouch will not be broadcast until April next year. As soon as today's meeting is over, Xia Yan basically has no more work to deal with from now until April next year, at least on the side of Xia Tang Animation Company.

After a busy year, it can be said that he can take a breath.

In the afternoon, he called together the members of the Lelouch animation production team to inquire about their production progress, and then handed over the music score of the original Lelouch to the staff of the music team to ask them to find someone to arrange, sing and record.

Xia Yan finished his day's work.

In the evening, he spent two hours checking the manuscripts that were to be submitted tomorrow for Sword Art Online, and handed over the latest draft of the storyboards of Hunter x Hunter to Mo Ran.

And sometimes, because of classes, he often had to work until after midnight before he could rest.

This is Xia Yan's daily life.

To outsiders, it seems quite fulfilling.

But if you find someone in Xia Yan's position, he would have retired and enjoyed his life.

Soon, a few days passed.

The first week BD sales data of Cyberpunk 2077 Part 1 was released.

First week

840,000 copies.

Although many fans complained that the plot style of 2077 and Edgewalker was very different, their support for this animation can be seen from the sales.

After this data was released, Xia Yan's colleagues and his fans in the entire animation industry were a little emotional.

Colleagues were envious and jealous.

Fans were proud.

Anti-fans were heartbroken.

"840,000 copies, amazing!"

"Is this the appeal of Lao Zei now? It's too scary. 840,000 copies in the first week, it's really outrageous."

"But don't so many people on the Internet dislike 2077? How come there are still so many sales?"

"The vast majority of fans who buy bds don't speak, so don't be misled by online public opinion. With Xia Yan Lao Zei's current popularity in the industry, a few people complaining about the boring works there will not scare his other fans. To put it bluntly, even if Lao Zei creates a bunch of defense now, fans have to buy it and see it with their own eyes before they start to criticize it. They will not be easily influenced by public opinion."

"I just said 2077 is quite interesting. It is those fans who only like to watch love stories who say it is not good. In fact, most of the passers-by, such as my sister, have not watched Edgewalker. She watched the plot of 2077 with me the day before yesterday and was very interested. She didn't talk the whole time and watched it very seriously. "

"But with 840,000 in the first week, the final sales will exceed two million copies."

"Two million, that's for sure! If this work has a stronger stamina, there is a good hope for two and a half million."

"If the sales really exceed two million. Then there are only two works in Dragon Country, and the average volume of the TV version of the animation bd exceeded one million, and the theatrical version of the animation exceeded two million. , they are all created by Lao Zei. "

"This, it's scary to think about it."

"What's wrong with Lao Zei's brain? Others can't achieve the results in their lifetime, and they can't create works in their lifetime, but he has made two works in two consecutive years."

"Maybe there will be a third one. In my opinion, the rebellious Lelouch in April next year is not an ordinary animation."

"It must be extraordinary! The production cost of the rebellious Lelouch has been released on the official website of Lao Zei Xia Tang Animation Company. The total investment is 170 million"

"Puff! Are you sure? 170 million?"

"Well, but this animation is said to be very long. Of course, the number of episodes has not been announced, because Because it is said that Lao Zei did not create all the scripts. But there should be more episodes. It is impossible that a quarterly animation with only a dozen episodes would have such a high investment. "

"Outrageous. 170 million Dragon Country currency! To make an animation? There are not many movies with such an investment in Dragon Country in a year! Lao Zei plans to make every episode of this animation as high-quality as an animated movie?"

"Who cares? Anyway, it is broadcasted by the TV station and it doesn't cost money. The bigger the investment, the better."

The entire winter party animation market has been almost completely dominated by the topic of cyberpunk from the beginning to now. On the forum, everyone is discussing the world view of the 2077 plot and the possible plot development in the next part.

And almost no one discusses the new animations broadcast this quarter.

This year's Dragon Country hegemony animation, Cyberpunk Edgewalker is well deserved.

However, just when the animation industry was immersed in the sales miracle and plot of 2077bd.

In the comics industry, Xia Yan's Initial D has been serialized to the sixth episode without knowing it.

And

After this episode, this work finally entered its main line.

Hunter Assessment!