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In late December, a sudden news shocked the entire China animation circle. network

At an ordinary press conference at Angel Studio, when the reporters gathered up their notes and prepared to leave, Jiang Tianshi suddenly walked in.

"Don't worry, everyone, wait until I announce the news." His words made the reporters sit down again, but Jiang Tianshi did not step up to the stage, but directly said: "Next month, the angel will cooperate with the Phoenix Company. Teacher Xi’s "One Piece" was made into an animation."

For a while, the reporters present thought that they had misheard.

"...It seems that you have nothing to ask," Jiang Tianshi looked around for a week, then turned and walked out.

The reporters reacted and jumped up with a hula, and hurriedly chased them.

"Wait! Mr. Jiang, what you said just now is true?", "Making the animation of "One Piece", Mr. Jiang, Mr. Jiang, were you kidding just now?", "Next month? Why is there no news from Phoenix Come out!"

These reporters immediately surrounded Jiang Tianshi. Jiang Tianshi waved his hand and said, "Don't panic. This is true. As for "Phoenix Company"-they should also announce the news now."

He was right. Although Phoenix did not hold a press conference, the news also appeared on the official website and the homepage of He Xi's Home Forum five minutes ago.

The announcements of the two parties are basically the same. The reason is that Angel and Phoenix just reached an agreement on the list of members of the new studio-the matter is completely settled.

When Meng Huo came to Angel's studio two weeks ago, he had already concluded the detailed discussion of the cooperation. However, both parties decided to wait for the final list of members to be officially announced. The main obstacle to the list is Phoenix.

Fortunately, the Phoenix Company has been selecting several weeks in advance. Today, after discussing the list with He Xi and Jiang Tianshi. Both of them have no objection. The matter was completely settled.

Compared with Jiang Tianshi's concise speech at the press conference, Phoenix's official website's news introduced the details of this cooperation in more detail.

The cooperation model this time is very similar to the previous Qinglong studio. Angel and Phoenix each hold half of the equity and membership quota to form the animation studio "One Piece"-this studio has a simple name, but was established for the creation of "One Piece" , There will be no cooperation with other animations in the future.

This also satisfies the psychology of most people in Angel and Phoenix. The members of Angel do not want to completely lock themselves in He Shi’s chariot, so they took the initiative to set up an exclusive animation studio. Once "One Piece" the end. This studio is also over.

But when they put forward this opinion, Phoenix Company was happy. The angels didn't want to lock up their own future, but why would Phoenix Company want to continue to share more profits with others?

He Xi cooperated with the angels to produce "One Piece". This is a stopgap measure in the eyes of many people in Phoenix. The main reason is that the animation team of Phoenix is ​​not enough, but this situation will not continue forever. Now Phoenix has Starting to reserve the future team, assuming what new animations will be launched in the future, most of them do not need to rely on external forces.

In such a situation where one is willing to fight and one is willing to suffer. The name of the studio directly used the word "pirate" in "One Piece", and even the studio's logo simply used "skeleton wearing a straw hat", which is the logo of the straw hat pirate group in the comics.

Of course, no matter what is behind the logo and collaboration. The announcement of this news still caused a huge sensation.

The He Shi’s Family Forum was about to fall out. The comics section of "One Piece" refreshed hundreds of pages less than ten minutes after the news was announced. When they learned that the comic was finally going to be animated, the comics fans felt that they would just It's like dreaming.

""One Piece" is going to be animated! Haha, finally it is going to be animated, I will be grateful when I wait for the flowers!"

"Oh my God, this is the best news I got this year. I'm going out to celebrate with my classmates in the dormitory at night. They are almost so excited!"

"Our whole office is boiling. "One Piece" is funny and passionate. I have been expecting it to be made into an animation! After waiting for so many years, now it finally appears!"

"I don't know if "One Piece" will be broadcast before the Chinese New Year. Teacher He Xi will watch a lot of animations when he comes back. There will be new animation movies next month, so I can hardly come over!"

In addition to forums, various animated chat rooms have also set off a wave of cheers. The only exception is Weibo, where people are always arguing.

The cause of this quarrel was that the angel's fans made such a voice after hearing about it: "What a pity I can't do "One Piece" by myself, so I'm here to ask the angel for help!"

As soon as He Xi's fans saw this voice, he naturally started to argue: "He Xi teacher cooperates with the angels. It is obvious that they are pitying them. How can they be the angels?"

After going back and forth, Weibo became lively, quarrels became more and more serious, and even a scolding battle was set off. Of course, the scolding went to the back, and various personal attacks and slanders related to He Xi and the angel also came.

That night, Qin Ya did not come to paint, only Baihan and Meng Huo were in the studio.

Meng Huo turned on his computer and looked at Weibo during a break, with a relish expression, which made Bai Han look very strange.

"Teacher, you..."

"what's happenin?"

"Aren't you angry when you watch these people scold you?"

Bai Han asked, she couldn't bear to read a lot of content in Weibo, and she said everything.

Meng Huo looked away from the computer and looked back at Bai Han: "Bai Han, there is no work that everyone likes, and there is no cartoonist that nobody scolds."

"But why can you still laugh?"

"Huh?" Meng Huo asked strangely: "Did I laugh? It may be because the response on the Internet was very positive. I feel that I have made the right decision."

Bai Han was puzzled, Meng Huo pointed to the computer and said, "Have you not found that no one is saying bad things about "One Piece"?"

Although someone scolded him, none of these fans' scolding questioned that his cooperation with angels would bring about poor animation quality, but only quarreled over the dominance of their cooperation.

This means that everyone believes in the quality of the animation produced by him and Angel. And this trust is what Meng Huo wants. As long as there is trust. The audience will look forward to "One Piece".

Bai Han wanted to continue to inquire, but Meng Huo's cell phone rang.

"Here again." Meng Huo took out his cell phone and took a look. It was the secretary who called—I don’t know the first call. After the announcement of "One Piece" animation news, the calls kept coming, Meng Huo set The cell phone was used to prevent riots, but some people still approached him through the secretary.

"Who is it this time?" Meng Huo answered the phone and asked, "Didn't you say that ordinary people don't use it to notify me?"

"Of course. Vice President... This time the call is from Mr. Guo from Ninghai TV. I think you might want to answer his call." The secretary said, he didn't want to disturb Meng Huo, but he still screened some important guests for him.

Both TV Tokyo and Suhua TV had already talked to Meng Huo on the phone, this time it was Ninghai TV.

"Guo Le Boy?"

Meng Huo frowned. The person surnamed Guo he knew on Ninghai TV was actually a Guole boy.

"Yes, it's him." The secretary nodded: "Vice President, do you need me to answer his phone?"

"...Take it over!"

Meng Huo thought for a while and let the secretary answer the phone. While waiting for the connection, he stood up. He ordered Baihan to continue painting, but he walked outside.

The call was transferred within a minute, and after a long time I didn't hear the voice of Guo Le Tong, the other party was obviously more enthusiastic.

"Teacher, why don't you have such a big cooperation with angels?" After the greeting, Guoletong stated the purpose: "Since we are cooperating with angels, then we can also participate in the premiere auction of "One Piece" Right?"

This is Meng Huo’s expected goal. The Tokyo and Suhua TV stations that came to the previous point also took a fancy to the premiere of "One Piece". By the way, there is still a little worry-if He Xi cooperates with angels, the two will be divided into five and five. "One Piece" "It can't be said that it is the exclusive animation of Phoenix Company. Does that mean that more TV stations can participate in the competition for the first broadcast?

Especially Ninghai and Xiangjiang two TV stations, they are on the side of Zhongxia, they have already died of thinking about "One Piece", but now the situation has changed suddenly, they seem to stand on the same starting line as Tokyo and Suhua TV.

"Minister, is this call made by Jiang Tianshi?" Meng Huo asked.

"This... I really can't hide it from Teacher Hehe." Guo Le Tong smiled bitterly on the other side. Of course he couldn't call Meng Huo right after he got the news. Instead, he immediately asked Jiang Tianshi about the new studio'Pirate'. Who is leading it? Does Ninghai TV have a chance to get "One Piece".

But Jiang Tianshi only answered the four words he tried to fight for. The meaning of these four words is very simple, indicating that the leading power of the pirates is still in the hands of Meng Huo—this is also true.

In the agreement between Meng Huo and Jiang Tianshi, the right to determine the copyright of the animation of "One Piece" was in his hands, including the TV station that premiered it. And because the income is divided into five to five, Jiang Tianshi doesn't care where it is broadcast. Even if it is broadcast in Tokyo or Suhua TV, it will increase exposure and popularity for the angels, and there is no harm.

Jiang Tianshi knew that the premiere right was a hot potato, so he was willing to let it go. And because of this, Guo Le Tong called Meng Huo again to test his thoughts.

"I can't tell you the answer to the question about the first broadcast." Meng Huo replied to Guole Tong said: "But I can explain to you that I treat all TV stations the same, so the animation will be broadcast on the TV station at that time. You can talk to Su Hua. Television stations compete fairly."

The Guole boy was ecstatic: "Teacher He Xi, do you take this seriously?"

"Of course it's true!" Meng Huo nodded, and then added a sentence from the bottom of his heart: The premise is to broadcast on the TV station.

In fact, he already has a plan to broadcast "One Piece". This broadcast may be different from the previous animation, and it may not be first broadcast on TV. So he played a text trap. When answering the Guo Le Tong, he said that he could not answer the first broadcast, but he could answer the broadcast of the TV station.

Guoletong obviously did not realize this literal trap. After receiving Meng Huo's answer, he was already ecstatic and made up his mind to take down "One Piece" no matter what the cost.

After ending the contact with Ninghai TV Station, Meng Huozheng wanted to return to the studio, and the secretary came again with news, this time it was CCTV.

The content of CCTV's inquiry was the same as that of Ninghai TV. Meng Huo also repeated the reply just now, but what he did not expect was that his answer would have an unexpected effect.

"Fair competition?" After finishing the call, Zuo Peng looked at his mobile phone and was dazed-why did he say that all TV stations should compete fairly? Isn't he going to give Su Hua and TV TOKYO discounts?

"Deputy director, look at this answer..." Zuo Peng looked at the deputy director Liu who was standing in front of him with a questioning look. The call just now was also heard by the deputy director, and the deputy director's face was also a little bit doubt.

"It's really unexpected that He Xi made such a decision."

The deputy director said, walking a few steps left and right, and then said: "Then we can not rush to throw an olive branch, and wait until the premiere rights of "One Piece" are decided."

He originally wanted Zuo Peng to give He Xi and Phoenix Company opinions on strengthening cooperation during this call. After a few days of investigation, the deputy director had already believed in the fact that Zhongxia was split.

But now I hear what He Xi means, he obviously will not let the animation of "One Piece" be biased towards two close TV stations, so that the olive branch of CCTV can be slowed down a bit, UU read www.uukanshu.com since he If you don't favor the other side, it's useless if CCTV shows you.

And if it is a fair competition, CCTV is unlikely to lose to other TV stations. Assuming they can win the premiere of "One Piece", then perhaps there is no need to have closer ties with Phoenix.

The premiere rights of a piece of "One Piece" is enough to support a TV station, and it can also guarantee CCTV's long-term animation ratings, so that they have a stronger confidence to make other decisions, and may even be among the huge audience brought by "One Piece" , Once again developed his own original animation.

Although it may be just a dream to develop original animations comparable to him in a world where it is regrettable, anyway, CCTV does not have to make a choice in such a hurry. Even if it wants to show favor with Phoenix, it can now slow down.

"Zuo Peng, you go and explore first to see how many TV stations want to buy the first broadcast rights of "One Piece"." Deputy Director Liu ordered: "Also... try to find out the highest price they can pay, we Good preparation."

The deputy director has confidence in the financial resources and conditions of CCTV, but he is more confident that this time "One Piece" is not an ordinary animation, it is very likely to surpass "Detective Conan" and "Things Elf"— As long as you realize this, other TV stations will definitely win. (To be continued.)