75. Birth of the Blue Dragon
"On a planet, there is a young man named Xiu. The planet he is in is an ancient civilization that once possessed magic and mechanical technology, but the civilization has already perished. Whenever a purple cloud appears in the sky, a disaster will occur. In order to stop the disaster, Xiu and his friends stood up, and huge shadows emerged one by one behind them. It was a shadow beast. In order to protect everyone, Xiu stood up and gained the most precious power - the Blue Dragon. The group gradually discovered the reason why civilization was lost after the mythology..." Su Budong briefly told Aki Toriyama about the game plot. Aki Toriyama listened carefully, while drawing design sketches such as Shadow beasts and characters based on his thoughts.
Why did Su Budong choose a game like "Blue Dragon" instead of copying the plot of "Dragon Quest 1" or "Final Fantasy 1", Su Budong has two main considerations. First, for Su Budong, "Dragon Quest" and the setting are too Western fantasy, and his idea is to make a game that is aimed at Japanese otaku but can be mixed with private goods in Chinese civilization, which is also a kind of cultural output. Blue Dragon is easier to realize his idea than "Dragon Quest". Some people in Toriyama comics have the shadow of Chinese civilization, and the current honeymoon period between China and Japan, so this kind of private goods of Chinese civilization is easily accepted. Second, the most important thing is that they like dragons and think that dragons should be the incarnation of justice rather than the existence of the overthrown demon king. The company is named Zhanlong because it "dragon fights in the wild, and its blood is mysterious and yellow."
Since this is the case, "Blue Dragon" is actually more in line with its own taste. Especially in this era, RPG has not yet entered the field of vision, so the relatively young setting of "Blue Dragon" will not be affected. In later generations, "Blue Dragon" was born at the wrong time. As a JRPG, it was released on the XBOX360, which is rampant in European and American games, rather than on the consoles of Nintendo or Sony, which caused Blue Dragon to be popular and did not cause much sensation. Instead, the cartoons and comics adapted from the game plot have received brief attention. It can be said that "Blue Dragon" is a game that is not born at the wrong time. But if "Blue Dragon" is taken out at this time, it will definitely be a different look. Especially now, the FC function is relatively weak, the picture can be simpler, and the game pays more attention to storyline and content. So Su Budong is confident that he will succeed after launching this Blue Dragon.
After drawing a sketch for a while, Aki Toriyama handed the setting picture to Su Budong. Su Budong looked carefully and said, "It is best to be different from Xiao Wukong's hair, for example, it will be spread out like this..." Aki Toriyama modified it again, and then it was Giro, Crook, Zola and their shadow beasts, the miscellaneous soldiers and villains appearing on each map.
Both of them were fiddling around all night, and Toriyama became more and more energetic as she painted. Takaji Matsuyama attacked the two of them. The final villain of the game, Nana.
Akira Toriyama felt that drawing two tentacles on the head of Nai was more sensible, but Su Budong looked at this Nai like the Piccolo Demon in the Dragon Ball. Before the Piccolo Demon was released, he quickly sweated and suggested that the corners be erased, and the face was wider, and the color was painted pink and purple - this is a character who used IQ to crush the protagonist instead of power.
Then, for the background settings inside, Su Budong asked Matsuyama Takashi to bring the mechanical design drawings made by Akira Toriyama before. The design drawings will probably be completed for a while, and it is almost time to rest. The three of them fell asleep. Su Budong lived at Akira Toriyama's house again. The bodyguard asked them to find a hotel nearby to sleep. He talked to Akira Toriyama about some of the ideas of Lanlong.
As they were talking, both of them felt a little tired and fell asleep.
The next morning, Toriyama Akira's editor-in-chief Kazuhiko Torishima came to visit. The reason was that before Su Budong came to Japan this time, he called Shueisha and said that he wanted to make a game advertisement on "Young JUMP". If it was not worth his solemn trip to the comics, but So Budong specifically told him that this time he invited Toriyama Akira to have a person-in-chief. So he wanted to visit Toriyama on the deadline to see what Toriyama Akira's plans are, because after "Alarei", Dragon Ball is still in a lukewarm state. Several magazine ranking surveys have been in a position of no up or down, which made Toriyama feel that his decision to suggest Toriyama Akira's Kung Fu Fighting Manga was wrong?
Kazuhiko Torishima did not expect that after entering the studio, he saw a person who surprised him - Su Budong.
Toriyama Akira naturally didn't know that Su Budong had called Torishima in advance, so he happily took out several draft pictures he had made overnight yesterday for Torishima Kazuhiko to show. Torishima Kazuhiko was about to vomit before he could read it. Brother, do you think you are a free labourer? You have painted it without even signing a contract?
Torishima Kazuhiko looked at Su Budong with a resentful look on his face. He didn't expect that Su Budong would be so thief, so he asked Toriyama to help him draw the game setting diagram. Although it was just a draft, anyone could complete the remaining coloring. I have a sentence that I don't know whether to talk about it or not...
However, Su Budong is still very sensible. When he looked at Kazuhiko Torishima's expression, he knew that he was afraid that he would let Toriyama suffer losses. How could he be such a person who was not promising? He handed over a contract that had been prepared long ago and asked Toriyama to take a look. It listed the price of asking Toriyama to have a character design, which was about 100 million yen, which was about 1 million RMB. He also gave an additional dividend of 2% of the game sales and a dividend of 3% of Shueisha's game sales. However, the requirement was that in the next few years, no longer painted character designs for the same type of game - Su Budong was guarding against "Dragon Quest".
Su Budong asked, "How?"
Originally, Torishima Kazuhiko wanted to be pretentious and increase Toriyama's value, but he gritted his teeth and thought about it and said that he would forget to annoy Su Budong. In the end, both parties were unhappy. After calling Shueisha, he faxed the contract. Because some details were needed to be taken by a lawyer.
Kazuhiko Torishima can see that no matter how cunning Subudong is, he still has a bottom line in being a human being and does not make things difficult for him. And how to say, Subudong is the material for doing big things. Although he has a little terrible means, he has no losses to Shueisha, Toriyama, and even Torishima Kazuhiko, but has won a lot of money.
If he knew what Su Budong was thinking, he would definitely spit out a mouthful of old blood.
Su Budong thought: "If you don't sign more games while Toriyama is cheap, you will be a fool."
While Shueisha was waiting for the contract review, Su Budong was not idle either. He drew the 104th chapter of Dragon Ball with Akira Toriyama and Takaji Matsuyama.
Kazuhiko Torishima was amazed at Subudong's painter and said sincerely: "It's a pity that you don't become a cartoonist."
Chapter completed!