Chapter 257 "Xialan" explodes, the king of investment!(1/3)
"If "Qin Shi Mingyue" is not released, who dares to say that Chinese comics are at their peak?"
"That is, "Qin Shi Mingyue" is the Chinese comic that I hope for. Of course, if you want to say it is great, it has to be a Japanese comic."
"Dr. Wang is very professional in making mobile phones, but he is amateur in making animations."
""Xia Lan" is not worth looking forward to. It is most likely to be shoddy."
"Don't be ridiculous, Director Wang invested another 20 million to completely reset "Xia Lan" and comprehensively upgraded the modeling and image quality."
"It's no use upgrading!"
"Even "Qin Shi Mingyue" is five years behind the Japanese comics, let alone "Xia Lan"."
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Looking at these public opinions, the staff of Xuanji felt very happy:
"Sure enough, the audience's eyes are still sharp. "Qin Shi Ming Yue" has a better reputation. "Xia Lan" and so on are not worth mentioning."
"That's right, the number one Chinese comic is still our "Qin Shi Mingyue"!"
"I heard that Director Wang originally planned to acquire our Xuanji, but our senior management was unwilling to sell, so he decided to do the next best thing and acquire Ruosen as a last resort."
"So that's the case, so we don't have to expect too much from "Xia Lan". But we are still pleased to see that our friends are catching up."
"That's right, this way is not alone, there are people who will succeed it, hahaha!"
At this time, CEO Shen Qianshan came over:
"What are you all excited about? Isn't it just netizens saying that "Qin Shi" is better than "Xia Lan"? What is there to be proud of?"
"I haven't seen netizens saying that Japanese comics are the top? Why don't you go and work hard!"
"yes!"
The faces of everyone changed drastically, and they quickly returned to their respective workstations and continued to move bricks.
Unfortunately, Xuanji's funds are tight, and the fourth part of "Qin Shi Mingyue" is not progressing smoothly.
It was originally planned to be broadcast in the first half of next year, but now it seems that it will be at least September.
Animation production is too expensive, and it all depends on the support of the sponsors.
Now the financial backer behind Ruo Sen is Wang Yi, who is very wealthy. The reset alone is worth 20 million.
But Youku, the financial backer behind the mystery, is not that powerful.
That’s right, Xuanji’s original financial backer was Youku, and it can even be said that Youku helped him.
Seasons one to six of "Qin Shi Mingyue" are also exclusively broadcast on Youku.
But it's a pity that Youku, the financial backer, is not strong enough. It is reluctant to pay a high price for such a good animation, and it is reluctant to invest heavily.
This resulted in a lack of funds for Xuanji, which made it difficult to produce "Qin Shi Mingyue". It took more than ten years to produce only six films.
It takes an average of three years to complete one, which is shockingly inefficient.
Later, Xuanji turned to cooperate with the Goose Factory, and then we had a sufficient budget and the efficiency was greatly increased.
In one breath, he created "Wu Geng Ji", "Douluo Da Luo", "Swallowing Starry Sky"... many of them are years old!
The reason behind the tenfold increase in output is that the goose factory has strong strength and sufficient funds!
But that was four years later, and the current mystery has not yet caught Goose Factory’s attention, and it is still struggling under Youku.
The main reason for rejecting Wang Yi’s acquisition and investment before was also Youku!
"Qin Shi Mingyue" and Youku are inextricably linked.
As soon as Shen Qianshan returned to the office, he heard Director Guan slandering:
"It was 20 million for the first two seasons of the reset. Xingyi Technology is really rich and has money to burn. Ruo Sen is so lucky that he directly embraced Director Wang!"
Shen Qianshan didn't take it seriously: "It's no use being lucky. If "Xia Lan" doesn't do well and Director Wang's money is wasted, that would be a joke!"
Director Guan opened his mouth, but still said: "But if Ruo Sen's strength is online, coupled with Wang Dong's financial support, "Xia Lan" will be a great success?"
Director Shen smiled slightly: "If that is the case, it will be a disaster for our mystery. But unfortunately, this possibility is very small, or even non-existent!"
"But what if there is?"
"Lao Guan, you are overthinking, there is no such thing as a chance! Haha, it's time, let's get off work!"
With that said, Director Shen picked up his bag and walked out of the office.
Lao Guan fell into silence and murmured for a long time:
"Although "Xia Lan" is Ruo Sen's debut, looking at the trailer after the reset, the standard is not as high as usual. If the modeling quality of subsequent content is at this level, we will be in big trouble!"
"But it's unlikely, because the cost is too high at this level. The third and fourth seasons of "Xia Lan" will cost 500,000-700,000 per episode. Finishing all the subsequent seasons will cost more than 100 million !Can’t Mr. Wang afford the fire?”
You know, the buyout price for the fourth season of "Qin Shi Mingyue" was only 300,000 per episode from Youku.
The production cost can only be controlled to about 250,000, so you have to make some money, right?
Moreover, according to Youku and Soosou, an episode worth 300,000 yuan has to be settled in batches, so "Qin Shi" was slow in production.
It’s not a mystery, it’s a lack of funds!
"I hope "Xia Lan" is just a good trailer and a regular drama. If it is of this level, it will be over."
Director Guan shook his head and turned to leave.
Soon, another piece of news became a hot search topic:
"Xia Lan" will be broadcast tomorrow, and the number of scheduled viewers has exceeded 3 million.
Ten years later, this number will not be outstanding.
But in 2011, it was already outstanding.
After all, the current number of users of Xingyi Video is only 9 million.
9 million users in two days can only be said to be terrifying.
One million of them are Xingyi mobile phone users who have already got the Xphone 1, and the rest are mostly attracted by sign-in and free membership activities!
In 2011, when other platforms had to pay to sign up for membership and there were not many resources, Xingyi Video gave membership directly, and all in high definition!
Nine million users in two days is just the starting point.
At ten o'clock in the morning the next day, "Xia Lan" was officially released.
The number of reservations has already exceeded 5 million, and since it is a Saturday, anime fans have been squatting early in the morning to prepare to watch.
Non-anime fans come to watch and enjoy it.
Others are purely for the purpose of combating the counterfeiting of "Xia Lan", the pinnacle of Chinese comics.
Each episode begins with a three-second slogan:
Ye Xiaohe: [Meiyou down jacket is warm and fashionable, and you are invited to watch Xingyi Media’s S-level homemade animation "Xia Lan"! 】
Then the drums sounded, inspiring, and the opening video appeared simultaneously.
The Suona that followed closely took the audience into the passionate world of "Xia Lan".
Different from the opening theme "Moonlight" of "Qin Shi Mingyue", the opening theme of "Xia Lan" has no vocals and is just pure classical music.
But it is this kind of classical music that fits the opening video better.
Just like "Painting Jianghu", when the suona sounds, you instantly enter the Jianghu!
The exquisite opening video and the barrage are hilarious:
"The opening video is so exquisite and the special effects are so powerful. It feels like a big anime movie!"
"The title of the film is so beautiful, so I guess the content will be the same."
"The fights are passionate, the special effects are high-octane, and even the soundtrack is so classy that I couldn't bear to fast-forward the opening video."
"Yes, me too, read it bit by bit."
Twenty minutes later, after watching the first episode, the barrage was already dense:
"After watching the first episode, the modeling is so exquisite, the special effects are so powerful, the plot is good, and the picture quality is also very high. It can be regarded as the pinnacle of Chinese comics."
"That's right, the modeling and special effects alone beat "Qin Shi Mingyue"."
"I apologize to Director Wang, and I apologize to Ruo Sen. I thought it was just that the trailer was exquisite, but I didn't expect the feature film to be of this level. It's my fault, "Xia Lan" is the pinnacle of Chinese comics!"
""Qin Shi Mingyue" is also good, but the modeling and picture quality are five years behind "Xia Lan"."
"Yes, especially watching "Xia Lan" on my xphone 1,720P high-definition large screen, it's so cool!"
“I read the website on my laptop and it’s much better!”
"Now the pressure is on Xuanji. With Wang Dong, how can we pursue Xuanji?"
"Hahaha, that's right. Let's go, brothers. See you in the next episode."
"Fire tongs Liu Ming, see you in the next episode!"
"Three episodes released at once, Xingyi's video is really awesome, Wang Dong is so powerful!"
To be continued...