Feature Shows Extravaganza

After entering November, the temperature difference between day and night in Jiangchuan gradually increases. Meng Lang, who was afraid of the cold, wrapped himself in thick fleece clothes early.

Today, he is going out.

As the New Year approaches, the Neon Division’s “Kamen Rider Amazon” and the North American Division’s “Ultraman Jonas” are coming to an end. The construction and development of Bolton Wanderers Club and Paris Aries Paradise have also entered a new stage.

Therefore, in the next month, his itinerary is Jiangchuan-Kyoto-Los Angeles-Bolton-Paris-Jiangchuan.

Everything was obviously normal, but after the plane took off, Meng Lang suddenly had an ominous premonition.

This feeling is very bad.

For some reason, he always felt that this trip would not go smoothly. But he couldn't explain the reason, so he could only comfort himself for overthinking.

The plane landed smoothly, and PD Neon (Branch) President Ono Jiro came to greet him with a number of senior executives.

After a while of greetings, Meng Lang took his accompanying secretary Yang Ping, accompanied by President Ono, to the branch for inspection.

The Neon Division is rich!

The office is located in the center of Kyoto and directly purchased a small building with more than 210 employees. In the parking lot downstairs, BBA models can be seen everywhere.

This is……

As soon as Meng Lang walked into the office area, he saw many painters working at their desks. Judging from the drawings they drew, it should be a comic work.

Do you still make comics?

President, this is the peripheral comic work we produced for the Kamen Rider series.

Ono randomly pulled out a printed comic book, handed it to Meng Lang and introduced, This kind of comic book is very popular among students.

Are there many sales?

Meng Lang opened the comic book and asked.

Ono said with pride: June was the best-selling month, with sales of 800,000. The average monthly sales of the entire series is about 300,000.

Pretty good!

The animation industry is indeed Neon’s pillar industry. Such high sales volume is unimaginable in China.

Through Ono's narration, Meng Lang roughly understood their idea.

To put it simply, we develop comics, animation, games and other products around the core IP of Kamen Rider. Create an ACGN full product chain to cover more consumer groups.

“Well done!”

After complimenting him, Meng Lang asked casually: What about the live-action drama? How is the situation at Amazon?

Amazon...

Ono looked embarrassed and said with a stiff expression: Amazon's ratings have indeed restored the glory of the V3 period. But in the surrounding derivative markets, the performance is very average.

The combined sales volume of SIC Amazon figures for the entire series cannot compare to the V3’s “Qi Qi” form.

This is very uncomfortable.

Meng Lang, who was well aware of this, had no intention of blaming Xiao Ye. He shook his head and said: A moment of embarrassment cannot prove anything. Believe me, Kamen Rider's future will be bright.

Just wait until the Heisei sequence!

As for Showa Knights, the ratings are getting better and better each time. But when it comes to peripheral profits, even the better-performing V3 cannot compare to Heisei Knights.

Amazon's set is located in the rented ANB special studio.

When Meng Lang came here, Shi Sen was filming Amazon Season 4. Amazon Alpha joins forces with Amazon to fight against the biochemically modified humans manufactured by Panda Corporation.

Shi Sen’s imagination is really big!

Panda Company absorbed the experience of Omega and Alpha and created the extremely terrifying Amazon cells. This kind of cell is infectious, and infected humans will undergo mutations.

The protagonists Amazon and Amazon α accepted the commission from the 4C organization and shouldered the important task of eradicating these mutants. In addition to the government, 4C also receives funding from Panda Company.

Intricate story.

Probably due to the limited space, after taking over the story of the third season, the fourth season seems to have pressed the fast forward button, and the plot of each episode is quite brain-burning.

“There’s not enough space!”

Ishimori explained: If I have time in the future, I will make two theatrical versions to explain this story in detail.

What a pity……

Meng Lang could see that Amazon in the fourth season was completely different from the first three seasons. Ishimori wanted to tell a better story, but was unable to take care of the details due to space constraints.

There is only one hole left.

Maybe many years later, when Shi Sen is old. He finally remembered the story he had not finished telling, and picked up the guide again to make a side story for Amazon...

Amazon still has five episodes to air, and they will probably end during the carnival. This is Stronger's plan. President, you can take a look.

I won't watch it.

Stronger's story is a typical Showa chivalry style. In Meng Lang's memory, regarding the plot of the strong man, he only remembered the classic opening scene and the glorious gathering of the seven at the end.

The sky is calling, the earth is calling, people are calling, calling me to defeat evil! I am a warrior of justice - Kamen Rider Stronger!

Oh yes, and there are whistles!

This is the soul soundtrack...

Compared with the plot, the real highlight of The Strong Man is the novel setting, which is what attracts the audience the most.

Electrical renovation guy!

Although I don’t know the principle of the transformation, it sounds cool and that’s it. Not to mention, radio female Tackle.

By the way, Denpa Girl's real name is Yuriko, and after the transformation, she is called Tackle, which is not Tackle as translated in many subtitles.

This is an extremely rare female hero among the macho men of the Showa era.

Although she is very weak, she is often captured by the enemy and has to be rescued by strong men. But the audience doesn't hate this character, they even love it very much.

The reason is also very simple.

I'm used to seeing the story of Tachibana's father being captured and the knight going to rescue him. After becoming a radio girl and being captured, the strong man went to rescue her, but her nature suddenly changed.

This is a hero saving a beauty!

Anyway, knights always have to save people, be it a beautiful woman or a bad old man, who do you think the audience will choose?

It's a pity that Toei is a straight male company. His attitude towards the female characters was even more ruthless than that of his neighbor Tsuburaya, who immediately silenced her.

To be honest, this isn't handled well.

Even if you don’t like this character, you won’t be silenced, right? It would be great to learn from Tsuburaya's handling method and just leave it aside without giving him a chance to play.

In this case, the audience will be thinking a little bit about it. Directly destroy the flowers with your hands, Aunt Dong, you can be a human being!

Radio Girl, electrical transformation person.

From these two names, we can see that the theme of strong men will revolve around electricity.

This is also the first time in the Kamen Rider series that the theme of electricity is used. The protagonist, the strongman, has electrical elements everywhere, from his unique moves, transformation methods and even the shape of his holster.

This is a new era piece!

Ishimori introduced it this way: Previous works were shrouded in a strange cycle of tragedy, revenge and fate. Not only was I tired of watching it, the audience was tired of watching it too.

Amazon's return to its origins does not mean that we have given up exploring new routes for the Knights. Strong people will explore more route possibilities for us.

It’s weird to believe you!

Meng Lang rolled his eyes and said, If I remember correctly, you said something similar when we were X Knights.

That was an accident...

Ishimori looked embarrassed.