Chapter 863: Requirements
In the last week of April, Alice came to Meng Huo's office where he was producing "Wine of Immortality".
When she walked in, there was a smile on her face. The painters were all fascinated by the smile and raised their eyes to look at her. But Meng Huo was not happy at all. His eyelids suddenly jumped, as if he had a premonition that something troublesome was about to come.
"Menghuo, I have something to ask you for help." Sure enough, Alice immediately said after coming to him. She wanted Menghuo to help with something, but she is so capable. What kind of things would she ask him for help?
According to previous practice, Meng Huo had a bad premonition.
"What's the matter?" He seemed to have vaguely guessed Alice's purpose, which should have a direct relationship with her recent work, but this guess would not be very good if it came true.
"The promotion of "The Rebellious Lelouch" has reached a bottleneck." Unfortunately, God does not seem to be attached to Meng Huo. Alice said what he guessed: "We plan to hold some voice actor activities, it's time for you to show up!"
The promotion of "The Rebellious Lelouch" led by Alice is progressing smoothly, and it is time to go further. After the initial promotion, further publicity should make full use of the value of voice actors. Meng Huo played the role of the leading role in "The Rebellious Lelouch", so his appearance was taken for granted.
"I just knew..."
After hearing Alice's words, Meng Huo felt his head hurt again, so he guessed that Alice would make this request. In fact, looking back on the past year, in addition to private matters, Alice asked Meng Huo for help at work - the voice actor's matter.
This time the help was no exception, and the reasons and preparation were too outstanding. Meng Huolian's chances of rejecting were very small.
"Can I not do it?" He tried his best to compromise-although Meng Huo also understood that Alice could not compromise.
"No!" It was like writing a draft in advance. After Meng Huo asked, Alice said 'no' directly. After rejecting Meng Huo's plea, she added: "The decision to fully promote "Rebellious Lelouch" comes from your judgment of this animation. How can you avoid responsibility now?"
Making "Rebellious Lelouch" into a super popular animation - this is the conclusion after internal discussion of Phoenix Company, but when making this conclusion, the key is what Meng Huo said for "Rebellious Lelouch": It has no audience restrictions.
It was because of this sentence that Phoenix Company promoted "The Rebellious Lelouch" on a large scale during this period, including Alice, comics and magazine departments, peripheral affairs departments, voice actors' offices, etc. - and even Qin Ya from Comic Island. Everyone did their best in this publicity war, and the results brought were also significant.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Meng Huo, the director, scriptwriter and male lead voice actor, is even more difficult to get out of it. No matter which identity positioning he has, he must contribute to "Rebellious Lelouch".
"What do you want me to do?" After talking to Alice for five minutes, Meng Huo found that he could not convince her to give up. Alice was determined to put him in the propaganda war. No matter what Meng Huo said, she would not eat the soft and hard.
Meng Huo compromised first than Alice. He was originally a little wrong with this matter, so he really had no confidence to refuse Alice.
"I'll give you two choices." Alice had the upper hand and became excited: "The first is that our company will soon hold an exclusive fan club for "Rebellious Lelouch". All voice actors will appear, and you must also appear. And as Lelouch's voice actors, you must be the protagonist of the event."
Meng Huo frowned: "When?"
"May 7." Alice looked at Meng Huo with anticipation: "Did you agree?"
"On the 7th..." Meng Huo calculated the time and found that that day was the time he was going to return to Yanjing to work, so he was very likely not to be able to get a free time: "This time is not good. What is the second choice? What is it?"
He actually didn't want to hold any exclusive fan meetings. The event was super annoying, especially as the protagonist of the event, he couldn't imagine how troublesome it would be.
"The second one is relatively simple." Alice's expectations disappeared a lot, but her eyes did not dim, and were still as bright as before: "The second choice is. You have to create a song for Lelouch, the male lead of "The Rebellious Lelouch", which you will sing in person."
Meng Huo was surprised: "Lelouch's song?"
"Yes. Character Song." Alice nodded. Lelouch is the most outstanding character in "The Rebellious Lelouch", not only because he is the protagonist of the animation, but also because he embodies the soul of the animation. However, this character still has no character songs, which makes the audience regret.
Character songs, this term is very rare in the past, and it was known to fans for the first time in the comic industry circle. It was also in the text adventure game - of course, this was also what Meng Huo did. He brought the text adventure game to this world, and character songs are a common thing in text adventure games.
However, after the emergence of the text adventure game, the influence of "character songs" did not expand rapidly. It was only popular in the game industry. In order to get closer to He Xi's works, other manufacturers have also put songs to the heroines in their text adventure games one by one - but these songs are rarely famous.
The real popularity of ‘character songs’ was after the broadcast of “Magic Girl Xiaoyuan”. The character songs that suddenly appeared when Saya and Apricot died caused a great sensation. In the following time, many Chinese animation manufacturers also learned to launch exclusive songs for the top-notch characters.
Benefiting from the widespread dissemination of animation, "character songs" are no longer a new thing. Other animation companies in China are not less than those in Phoenix in terms of "character songs".
Even relatively speaking, the number of "character songs" released by Meng Huo is unusual, and his launch speed is very conservative. Fortunately, his quality is far superior to other companies. Therefore, it has always been highly anticipated by the audience.
Alice suddenly made this request, Meng Huo was stunned for a long time. In fact, if it was just a character song, he would definitely agree. But the problem is that in order to give the audience a more realistic feeling, the character songs are generally sung by the voice actor of this animation character - of course, Meng Huo has to sing the character songs of Lelouch.
And Alice has already made the words very clear, and it is impossible for him to replace him.
"..." This made Meng Huo difficult: "I can't sing!"
"Do you think I will trust you?" Alice gave him a blank look: "The dubbing can be so good, so you can't sing anyone? Even if you can't sing, judging by your talent in voice actors, it's not difficult to learn a song, right?"
She paused and added: "Besides, I didn't want you to sing like a star..."
Does cartoonist He Xi need to be good at singing? No, of course he doesn't need it - as long as he can have a better singing voice than ordinary people. Just like the few microphones in every KTV box, he can yell almost the same, but in fact he can get the joy of the audience.
He Xi had countless halos on his body. He no longer needed to add another halo, so it was already very sufficient to be able to sing the song according to the rhythm. With Alice's understanding of Meng Huo, it would be as easy as eating, so that she would not be fooled by him.
Meng Huo was helpless. He shook his head: "It's still not possible... Although you're right, don't forget my current situation." He pointed to a poster of "Wine of Eternal Life" posted on the wall behind him and said: "There are still people staring at me."
Alice was stunned. She almost forgot that there was still the "Star Dream" incident.
The public pressure on "Star Dream" has not decreased on "Wine of Life". Why did they continue to pay attention to "Wine of Life" without much results? Alice and Meng Huo are not aware of this - but this does not mean that Zhao Meng is a fool.
Alice knows better how cunning the helmsman of the "Star Dream" is than Meng Huo. Therefore, Meng Huo's reason at this moment is reasonable. He cannot sing. Regardless of whether he sings are good or bad, as long as he sings, it will be easy to further stimulate the other party.
In fact, ‘He Xi sing’ has always been a default taboo. Now it seems that it is not the best opportunity to break it…
"I have a suggestion." Meng Huo saw Alice hesitating and immediately hit the railway: "Apart from Lelouch, aren't other characters' songs OK? We have Shen Jie and Zhen, Bai Xue and Qingfeng and Mingyue. As long as we hand over the songs to them, we can also greatly increase the popularity of "The Rebellious Lelouch".
Alice slowly frowned. She didn't want to admit Meng Huo's words. But if she forced him out, if something unexpected happened, it would be her mistake - whether it was the "Star Dream" or asking Meng Huo to come forward to sing, it was closely related to her.
"It seems that the time is not the time..." Alice thought to herself. She always wanted to take Meng Huo a step further, but now it is not the time. She wants to find a more suitable opportunity to let him come out, and now she can only give up - it's weird!
"I can agree to your suggestion..." Alice suddenly smiled, "You can create a character song for other characters, but you still have to do the two choices I give you, otherwise - you also help Lelouch create a character song, and after singing it, I will never leak it."
Meng Huo thought for a while, but finally nodded slowly. He did not object this time.
Although Alice obviously wanted to use this to test his talent in singing, she would test it. Anyway, she had objections to Meng Huo's aspect, so it was nothing to let her know the real situation.
As long as the song is not leaked, this matter will be the same as nothing. Meng Huo trusts Alice, and he believes that she will not have any mistakes in the custody of Lelouch's character songs - this is based on the trust Alice has gathered in his heart for many years.
However, if it is really leaked, perhaps this matter will be a good opportunity for Meng Huo on a private matter.
Alice didn't know Meng Huo's inner thoughts. After receiving the answer, her heart thumped happily. It took a while before she calmed down and asked what kind of song the "Open Character Song" that Meng Huo wanted to prepare was.
Meng Huo had no doubts about this: "Euphemia.li. Britania."
Euphemia Li Britania, a main character in "The Rebellious Lelouch", the third prince of the Britanian Empire. Because the third prince who created the Shinjuku Massacre and former Governor of the 11th District Clovis died tragically at the hands of Lelouch, and the second prince Cornelia came to District 11 to serve as deputy governor, he actually had no real power.
This is a person with a perfect personality that is rare in "The Rebellious Lelouch". She is kind, upright, ignorant, and unscrupulous, and not polluted by the ugliness of the Britannian royal family. This kind of kindness and gentle image has been richly portrayed in "The Rebellious Lelouch" in recent weeks. Even last week, Lelouch, who vowed to avenge the Britalian royal family, began to waver and began to think about giving up revenge.
Therefore, many viewers also regard her as the ultimate character in the first season of "The Rebellious Lelouch", which will transform the atmosphere of the animation from revenge to a peaceful ending - of course, Meng Huo will be disappointed when he knows these viewers.
"The Rebellious Lelouch" will not have such a beautiful story. It is precisely because of Euphemia's kindness that she is destined to be a person who sacrifices for the whole story, a tragedy - in "The Rebellious Lelouch" next week, Euphemia will die very miserably.
She may be the character who has died the most since the animation started, but Meng Huo certainly cannot sympathize with Euphemia. Euphemia's death is a powerful driving force for the follow-up story of "The Rebellious Lelouch". Its impact on the story. The entire animation, if you sympathize with Euphemia, "The Rebellious Lelouch" will be over.
"Blooded Euphem" - This is the title of the next episode of "The Rebellious Lelouch". Of course, Alice, who stood in front of Meng Huo, would not know what the content of this episode would say, so after hearing Meng Huo's choice, Alice felt very satisfied.
"Euphemia's voice actor is the real little girl. She will be very happy to hear that you want to create Euphemia's character song." She said, but Meng Huo thought that Xia Chuan wouldn't scold him. After next week, the character will disappear - there will be no impact on whether there is a character song or not.
And in fact, this character song is not a real character song, because Euphemia did not have a character song in the original work - she is one of the few people who are the main character in "The Rebellious Lelouch" but have no character songs.
From this point of view, Euphemia was really in a loss. Not only did she die miserably, she didn't even have a song.
Chapter completed!