My Animation Era

  Chapter 930 Xiaozhi's Growth

   "Pokemon" should be Wanbao's most comprehensive IP, and this kind of comprehensiveness is even stronger than Dragon Ball.

   Not only animations are popular every season, but comics are also best-selling at home and abroad, with many readers, ranking among the top ten best-selling serial comics in the world.

   You think this is the end?

Excuse me!

  As the most comprehensive IP of Wanbao, the power of "Pokémon" is not only reflected in comics and animations.

   Gaming is also a top priority.

  As a derivative game of the "Pokémon" series, each new game is a hot game with tens of millions of sales on average. Looking at the entire game circle, you can't find a few masterpieces that are more popular than the "Pokémon" series.

   In addition, the peripheral derivatives of the "Pokémon" series are also one of the main sources of income for Wanbao Toys.

  Leaving aside those who are far away, do you know how many "Pikachu" plush dolls Wanbao Toys can sell in a year?

million? Tens of millions!

   This is just a Pokémon of "Pikachu", and the category is only a small derivative of "Plush Doll".

  From the small to the big, it is not difficult to infer from the sales of Pikachu dolls that the sales volume of the peripheral derivatives of the entire "Pokémon" IP is definitely a jaw-dropping astronomical figure.

  And stage play...

  Not long after the movie "The Lion King" was released, its musical adaptation based on the plot of the movie became a global hit and received numerous praises.

  Since then, Gu Miao has issued an instruction to try to adapt all the classic animations under Wanbao into stage plays.

  Popular plays will be included in the resident list, and unpopular plays will not be performed after one performance...

   What a coincidence!

  "Pokemon" is just in this wave of stage play adaptations, and it is loved by more audiences, especially children. The show was full after the performance.

  Animation, comics, games, peripherals, stage plays, theme parks...

  People who don’t know Wanbao may think that IPs like “Yu-Gi-Oh” are real money printing machines, and it is also the most profitable animation series Wanbao has ever produced.

actually not!

  In terms of the value of IP and the revenue created, "Pokémon" is far better than "Yu-Gi-Oh".

  Because "Pokémon" has contributed a lot of profits to Wanbao Group, and it is also a veritable money printing machine and cash cow, so this series of TV animations has never been interrupted, and there are sequels one after another.

  The first season is Muyin.

  Because there is no subtitle, when calling this season, netizens have their own opinions, and the more recognized name is Muyinpian.

  This is the beginning of the story of "Pokémon", and also the first meeting of the golden pair of Xiaozhi and Pikachu, and then the second season of "Super Generation".

  Jiangchuan, Zhonghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang...

  Although in the animation plot, Xiaozhi still looks like a young boy, but in the real world, four years have passed.

  With the arrival of the third season of "Diamonds and Pearls", Xiaozhi also left the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions and began to travel to the southern Fujian region for adventure.

  The third season is very interesting.

  First of all, the subtitle of this season's animation directly adopts the name of the original game, which is the first time in the "Pokémon" series.

  Secondly, this is also the first time in the "Pokémon" series to try to replace the voice actor for the protagonist Xiaozhi, and the production team is facing unprecedented pressure from public opinion.

  Why do you want to change the voice actor?

  That’s a long story, first of all, let’s be clear, if it’s possible not to change, it’s definitely best to use the previous dubbing, after all, who would change Xiaozhi’s voice actor when he has nothing to do?

  But the production team decided to change people because of the consideration of being responsible to the audience.

   After all, the teacher who originally voiced Xiaozhi chose to quit the circle and get married for various reasons, and Wanbao was embarrassed to bother him again.

Yes!

  The teacher who voiced Xiaozhi was a young female voice actor. Because of his retirement, Wanbao needed to find another suitable person to replace him.

   It’s interesting to say that the voice actor that the production team recruited again is also a young woman. Her voice is more similar to her predecessor’s, but slightly more mature.

   Then change the age!

  Xiaozhi was estimated to be only 10 years old when he received the novice Pokémon and went on adventures around the world with the goal of becoming a Pokémon master.

  After traveling so many places, it seems reasonable to be a little older and sound more mature?

  Can’t be 10 years old all the time?

   To be honest, Gu Miao actually hates that kind of original animation that has been serialized for many years. The first batch of audience readers have seen college from elementary school, and even the children have gone to elementary school. The protagonist is still the old-fashioned animation work.

  Here I have to criticize "Detective Conan" by name!

   From childhood to adulthood, even the children have gone to elementary school, Teow Conan still hasn't grown up, the progress of the main plot is like a turtle crawling, it is extremely speechless.

  Pokémon can't do this.

  Gu Miao feels that Xiaozhi's growth is also a place that animation needs to focus on.

   It can’t be said that Xiaozhi and Pikachu have gone through so many adventures and wandered through so many regions, but they are still young and young, right?

   People always grow up, and animated characters will also age.

   This is a truth that Gu Miao realized from the well-known Hollywood animation movie "Toy Story 3".

  Toy Story 3 is an animated movie with a famous name in film history. I don’t know how many people cried after watching it, so why is it like this?

   The answer seems simple.

  Because in this movie, many people realized for the first time that the original animation characters will grow up and grow old, and it is impossible to accompany everyone carefree forever.

  The children who like to watch animation grow up, and the animation characters they were obsessed with grow up too. The characters grow old with the audience. Isn’t this a romantic thing?

  Gu Miao hopes that the animations under Wanbao can accompany the children's growth.

   This kind of companionship is not only to continue the laughter, but also to let the animation characters grow up with the former audience.

so…

  In the already-declined "Lei Sudeng Lightning Crossing the Line" series of animations, Ling Feng Lingyun, the world champion, retired.

  In the "Yu-Gi-Oh" series of animations, the once superb card game has also become the "legendary predecessor" in the mouth of the ten generations.

  The "Pokémon", which is in production, will also continue this tradition, implementing the spirit of animation characters growing up with the audience, so that Xiaozhi will grow up slowly.

   When he debuted, Xiao Zhi was only 10 years old.

   Maybe in a few years, Xiaozhi will be 20 years old. At that time, he believed that he had already achieved great success, won various championships, and retreated into the arena with his skin.

certainly!

   This is something that may happen in the future. Xiaozhi has not won his first heavyweight championship yet, so it is too early to talk about retirement.

  (end of this chapter)