Chapter 940: Choice
Three days after Meng Huo returned to Ninghai, Li Qin also returned home from Su Hua.±,
That night, when Meng Huo walked into the house with a box of jelly, there was a bright light inside, and Li Qin's return made other comic assistants come to visit.
"Teacher, I'll help you." Fanto sees the box in Meng Huo's hand and immediately runs over to help him move in. The others looked over curiously. This was the first time Li Qin saw Meng Huo moving the box home: "What are these?"
"Jelly, a new product of Qingpu Company." Meng Huo laughed and said, "Everyone will eat it later. If you have any opinions, you can raise them."
"Qingpu?" Hua Meng was startled: "Is it the flavored food company Qingpu Company?"
Meng Huo nodded. This company is one of the most well-known food companies in China, specializing in the production of snack foods with various special flavors. Jelly is one of its main businesses. It is also a brand that Qin Ya likes very much.
The assistants became curious: "Teacher, why did you go to buy Qingpu jelly?" Wang Yanmeng couldn't help but unpack the box, but just as soon as she opened it, she screamed in surprise: "This is a little elf!"
Li Qin and the others followed and found that the jelly in the box was different from the jelly they had seen. The packaging was printed with various elves patterns, and even some jelly boxes were made into different elves: Pikachu, Wonderful Frog Seed, and Johnny Turtle...
"So cute!" Wang Yanmeng's eyes lit up: "This is the first time I have seen such a cute jelly. Teacher, where did you buy it?"
Meng Huo laughed: "This is not bought, it was given by them. Many people in the company have these jelly that have not yet been released. It is the "Hong Elf" series jelly developed by Qingpu and our company. It will probably take several weeks to go on the market."
He encouraged, "Everyone, it tastes pretty good."
However, in fact, there was no need for Meng Huo to inspire, and the others couldn't wait to take out the jelly and eat it. They were surprised to find that the taste of the jelly was more surprising than the appearance. Even if they were not catching a cold with the jelly, they praised it repeatedly, and ate seven or eight of them in a row.
"Teacher, can I bring some back?" Wang Yanmeng said greedily: "This is great, why did you develop such a cute jelly!"
"sure."
Meng Huo nodded. In fact, this jelly is just one part of the new strategy of "Hong Yi Elf". It was originally a series of new jelly that had been developed. Qingpu Company found a cooperation with Phoenix Company and used the image of Elf to promote it. This is a good thing for both companies.
"You will often see these products in the future."
Meng Huo laughed and said that after working for a few days, the general direction and scale of the surrounding expansion have been determined. In the future, many elves' image products will appear on the market, not only food, but also various other supplies. In addition, elves will appear in all well-known amusement parks in China.
After the return of "Hong Yi Elf", the TV station will often hold various surprise programs, jointly organized by Phoenix, TV station and corresponding companies to promote various elves products.
There are also some offline activities that are deeply involved in the society, which are already under planning. This time the animation returns. The popularity of "Hong Yi Yi" will become even more intense.
At the same time, when Meng Huo was busy with the "Hong Yi Elf", the voting of the two animations was also smooth at the He Xizhi Home Forum. Although the gap was not big, "April is Your Lie" was in an advantage.
However, this situation changed unexpectedly the night when Meng Huo moved back to the jelly.
The origin of this change is not in Phoenix, but at a shareholders' meeting held by Zhongxia Company. Due to the influence of the return of "Hongyi Elf", the shareholders of Zhongxia Company all seemed very restless.
The shareholders' meeting popped from 7 pm to 9 pm, and the conclusion of the response to "Hong Yi Elf" was not optimistic. However, after ending this issue, the shareholders also had great opinions on He Xi's two new works.
"Mr. Dong, how much influence did that "April is Your Lie" have on Qin Ya's "The Legend of the Galaxy Song"?"
Someone asked Dong Ding, but this is a very difficult question to judge. According to convention, when He Xi makes a certain type of animation, he often increases the ratings of other similar animations. He Xi's works can always make people feel "hungry and thirsty" and thus find alternatives.
As a short musical, He Xi's "April Is Your Lie" will naturally make many of his fans favor other music animations during the same period, but how many of them will become audiences of "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" due to many factors.
"It is inevitable to have an impact." Dong Ding replied at the end: "But how big the impact depends on the quality and similarity of the two animations."
"This...what is good!"
"Hongwu is getting popular!?"
The shareholders were in a stir and were very dissatisfied with the status quo.
"The Legend of Galaxy Songs is also a potential animation. In any case, we must try to minimize the impact of Hexi on it. We cannot make it more popular. It's best to let "April is Your Lie" fail!"
"Mr. Dong, how could you make such a big mistake in girl animation!"
"I missed the opportunity in vain!"
After Phoenix announced the production of "The Legend of Galaxy Song", the shareholders immediately became hindsight and regretted not developing national-level girl animations in advance.
But Dong Ding smiled bitterly amid the doubts: "We didn't notice the opportunity for girl animation, but there is no work to make it famous."
Zhongxia Company invests no less in the girl animation market than Phoenix Company, but it is not an easy task to create a national-level girl animation work, it is much more difficult than boy animation.
First of all, Zhongxia Company does not have any original work of a girl comic that can be compared with "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" and there are almost no original works that can be used for adaptation. Chinese women's works rarely feature long works, and their popularity is not high.
This is mainly because works that target girls are mostly based on emotions. Women do not like to read long works. Moreover, romance works are inherently not capable of long descriptions. Even in TV series, dozens of episodes are already considered very long, which is different from the various long works of men.
Strictly speaking, "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" is the only long girl comic, and its core is not emotion, but girl's struggle. This comic tells the story of a girl pursuing her musical dream and becoming a beloved singer in the universe. Her emotional scenes are much smaller than other girl stories.
There are basically few stories of the same type in China, and even if there are, they will not be popular and lengthy to adapt into national animation.
In addition to the works, it also requires an excellent team to produce national animations. It is not easy to be under so many restrictions. Zhongxia Company does not want to seize opportunities, but they cannot seize opportunities at all.
If Phoenix is willing to postpone the production of "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" for two years, maybe Zhongxia can find some solution, but now they are indeed powerless.
In fact, "Blue Love Song" released a while ago in Zhongxia is already the most popular animation they can find among women. They originally wanted to make it into a national-level girl animation, but the situation is not particularly optimistic now.
The TV audience of "Blue Love Song" has passed a lot when it was transformed into animated audience. Although the popularity of animation is very high now, it is still a big gap from the level of "National Animation".
"The Legend of the Galaxy Song" is much more convenient in terms of reader conversion rate, and comic readers generally watch animations. The subject matter is good and the length is long. With the popularity of its original work, it can easily surpass "Blue Love Song".
Dong Ding was helpless, and after hearing his explanation, the shareholders regretted another thing.
"That's your mistake. I didn't expect Qin Ya to be so powerful."
"You shouldn't have lost her at the beginning."
"I was not the one who lost her." Dong Ding thought to himself, of course, he had to explain: "It was a coincidence that Qin Ya was able to create "The Legend of the Galaxy Songs". This comic cannot be separated from He Xi. "The Legend of the Galaxy Songs" can be said to be the result of He Xi and Qin Ya."
He has no definite evidence, but this is a very obvious thing. Why did the first long girl comic in China appear in Qin Ya? And it happened to be after she switched to Phoenix Company?
Qin Ya is a very stubborn girl. It is basically impossible for her to transform herself and then create "The Legend of the Galaxy Song".
Moreover, "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" has a strong He Xi color. This comic contains Gundam-like mechanical warfare, singers, and especially the status of singers is very high. This cosmic view is almost unique. Only He Xi's science fiction works have this color.
Qin Ya and He Xi work together, and there have always been rumors that many stories in "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" come from He Xi's suggestions. As the first comic, Qin Ya can control the plot so well, so He Xi's supervision must be there.
Moreover, Phoenix Company gave the "Legend of the Galaxy Song" special case to the studio, and many songs were arranged by He Xi personally. This shows how much He Xi valued this work, and he didn't believe it if he didn't interfere.
“…I’ve heard of this, too.”
"If He Xi provides ideas, it would not be surprising that "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" has come to this day."
The shareholders simply accepted He Xi's participation in the production of "The Legend of Galaxy Song", but in this way, they became even more nervous.
"Since that's the case, "April is Your Lie" is even more dangerous. You can't let it help that animation!"
"That's right, He Xi will lead fans to "The Legend of Galaxy Songs", this is not allowed!"
"Mr. Dong, can you handle this?"
Dong Ding frowned slightly. He understood the shareholders' thoughts and they planned to fake the voting.
"It's a bit difficult," he said: "It seems that many managers of He Xizhi Home Forum come from the Red Alliance of Hacker Alliance. It's not easy to deceive them."
"What's so difficult about this? Isn't it just a group of hackers? If you can't do it, just spend more money!"
"This..." Dong Ding stopped, thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "I don't think this is good."
"Why?"
"Even without "April is Your Lie", I don't know what the situation of "Rose Girl" is." Dong Ding said: "He Xi always has unexpected performances in such fantasy works. The past "Magic Girl" is an example."
"The Magic Girl is just an exception, it cannot appear every time!"
"If he had this certainty, he wouldn't have put it out and put it together with "April Is Your Lie."
"If you don't want to do it, leave it to me!" A shareholder* suddenly said: "The threat of "Rose Girl" is smaller than "April is your Lie". If you make a mistake in judgment, the responsibility will be on me, no one will have any objection, right?"
The remaining shareholders nodded immediately. Someone was doing things and they were happy to see it.
Dong Ding frowned. He actually didn't like shareholders' interference in the company's actions, which was not a good sign. But in this matter, if he tried to ensure "April is Your Lie" and made "The Legend of the Galaxy Song" rise sharply, then the responsibility would be on him.
Since this is the case, it is better not to say anything. Shareholders will do whatever they want. Anyway, the responsibility is not on him.
The shareholder meeting of Zhongxia ended like this. In the next few days, the votes of the two animations of Hexizhijia Forum began to slowly approach this sign did not arouse the suspicion of Phoenix Company. The goal should have been achieved through reasonable voting.
"But fortunately, their votes are not much different..."
Dong Ding looked at the process of change and thought that if the voting gap between the two works was as big as the first day, then the shareholder's actions would arouse the suspicion of Phoenix. It was precisely because the votes of the two animations were very small that he was given a convenient operation range.
But is it really necessary to choose "Rose Girl" because of concerns about the popularity of "The Legend of Galaxy Song"? Dong Ding felt that this judgment was too arbitrary, but no one except He Xi knew the specific situation of "Rose Girl". No matter how worried he is now, he was still worried.
Dong Ding retracted his attention.
A few days later, the animation votes were released, and the votes of the two works finally reached a victory or defeat by just two thousand. "Rose Girl" won by 327,000. Its victory did not arouse the suspicion of anyone, including Phoenix and all the members who voted.
Of course, Meng Huo didn't know about this.
Almost everyone thinks that this number of votes is the result of a normal vote. Only Dong Ding and Zhongxia shareholders understand the artificial operation. However, no one knows what the operation will bring to Zhongxia and Phoenix companies.
Chapter completed!