Chapter 070. Old-fashioned themes
Cheng Ke clearly wrote the name of the animation in the planning book on the screen.
"Magic Girl Xiaoyuan".
He hadn't read the content yet, and he was subconsciously confused.
The theme of magical girls can be said to be one of the most classic themes in the animation industry. From "The Goddess of the Girl" and "The Magic Card Girl" in ancient times to "The Strange Thieves of the Girl Maria" and "The Re-dressed Girl" in the previous two years, most of the girl fighting animations basically have the shadow of magical girls.
Transformation, summoning beasts, and magic, these elements have become the final form of magic girl animation. As a subject for young audiences, this type of animation is generally clear in good and evil, and the protagonist is innocent and symbolizes the best things in the world.
Cheng Kewei naturally has seen animations with the theme of Magic Girl, but he doesn't understand why Xu Rui chose this theme.
In his opinion, this young boss is best at innovating and using novel settings or performance techniques to attract audiences, but the theme of magical girls is too old.
Cheng Kewei soon thought of Wu Yi's new work "Wolf and Cat". When this animation was released, people also found it strange that why a talented director like Wu Yi would shoot an old-fashioned superhero animation. This type of animation that can even think of the plot with your toes cannot be said to be bad, but it cannot satisfy everyone's expectations.
He also felt that the animation of Wuyi director might fail, but he did not expect that his boss would also propose an equally old subject.
"Look at the plot first."
Xu Rui smiled and did not explain more, but only let Cheng Kewei continue to watch.
In order to suppress his doubts, Cheng Ke rolled down his mouse.
The beginning of the planning is the character introduction. Whether it is the ordinary middle school student Lu Muyuan or the unknown creature Cupi who fell from the sky, they are all classic settings with the theme of magical girls. After reading the character settings, Cheng Kewei was not in a hurry to turn it down, but he felt a little weird.
Because the character settings are so complete.
The ignorant newcomer Lu Muyuan, Xiang Shaya, who is looking forward to becoming a magic girl friend, the gentle and reliable magic girl senior Ma Xingmei, the cold and mysterious magic girl Xiao Yan, and the arrogant and wild Lan Xing. These main characters almost cover all aspects of the supporting characters in the past magic girl type films, and can be regarded as a hodgepodge.
What exactly does Xu Rui want to do?
Cheng Kewei looked back and began to read the plot summary carefully.
When I first watched it, Cheng Kewei was still a little confused because the early plots were almost all classic routines of magic girls, from meeting unknown creatures from the sky to being attacked by witches, and then the magic girl seniors helped. The protagonist learned the truth of the world and the existence of the magic girl's enemy, the witch, and went deeper into this world step by step.
These are classic to cliché plots. Cheng Kewei originally thought that Xu Rui would be innovative, but he never saw the highlight of his eyes.
However, everything was overturned when Cheng Kewei saw the plot in the next paragraph.
"Damn!!!"
Cheng Kewei even stood up directly, and his knee almost hit the corner of the table.
Because he clearly saw that the gentle and reliable magic girl senior Ma Xingmei was bitten off his head while fighting against the witch, and died clearly.
The magic girl of God TM turned around!!!
Due to the influence of the magic girl animations I have watched before and the routine of the opening plot, Cheng Kewei never expected that this would happen suddenly, and he was in a daze and stood there in a daze.
"Brother Cheng?"
Gao Senmiao had just taken the original painting from outside at this time. When he saw Cheng Kewei standing there, he looked very strange. He came over and waved his hand in front of Cheng Kewei, but the other party still had no reaction.
The curious Gao Senmiao followed Cheng Kewei's vision and found that it was a new work plan.
"Ah, is this your new work planning for your boss?"
she asked.
"Yes, you guys can take a look at it first. If nothing unexpected happens, we will prepare to start making this after we have finished making the current animation."
Xu Rui's answer attracted the attention of several productions next to him.
At this time, Cheng Kewei came to his senses a little. He glanced at Xu Rui and slowly returned to his position. Cheng Kewei was unprecedented in the scene where the magical girl who should have been innocent and innocent suddenly got bitten off her head. Kecheng Kewei not only did not feel scared of this, but also suddenly had more expectations for the next plot.
Xu Rui's plot summary is not detailed, only a rough plot is recorded, but the subsequent development still made Cheng Kewei unexpectedly, and even a trace of cold sweat oozed out of his forehead.
"This plot completely subverts the inherent impression of the magic girl..."
He murmured to himself, and then Cheng Kewei saw the plot of episode 10.
“Damn???”
Cheng Kewei stood up again and maintained the same movement as before.
Originally, Cheng Kewei thought Xu Rui wanted to write a story about a magical girl with darkness. After all, the protagonist Lu Muyuan's companions died one by one, and there was no hope at all, but unexpectedly, in the tenth episode, the story had a huge reversal.
He had always been cold-eyed at Lu Muyuan. The mysterious magic girl Xiao Yan actually mastered the ability to rewrite the timeline. At the beginning, Xiao Yan was timid, cowardly, and inferior. Lu Muyuan, who had become a magic girl, helped Xiao Yan grow up.
The reason why Xiao Yan keeps reincarnation is to save Lu Muyuan!!!
This theme of time reincarnation did not exist in the animation world before!
On the one hand, the cycle of time itself is prone to paradoxes and is difficult to justify itself. On the other hand, the repetition of the plot of reincarnation can easily make the audience tired, so no one dares to use the elements of reincarnation in a relatively relaxed theme of animation.
Cheng Ke was hit at this time as much as seeing the magic girl turn around!
At the end of the next, the unknown creature Cupi revealed the truth about the magic girl and the witch, which was frightening. At the same time, Lu Muyuan also learned about everything Xiao Yan did. She chose to sacrifice herself and save all the magic girl in time and space.
In Cheng Kewei's view, it is not difficult to describe the plot of darkness alone. People can witness many dark sides of human nature in their daily lives. The difficulty lies in experiencing these darknesses, but still yearning for light, and even becoming the light of others by themselves.
Xu Rui's "Magic Girl Xiaoyuan" has a clichéd beginning, amazing reversal, heavy plot, and an ending full of human brilliance and praise hope. Although many places are contrary to traditional magic girls, there is no doubt that this is the animation that conveys the most essential spirit of magic girls.
What Cheng Kewei saw was just a rough text introduction.
At this moment, as an old producer, Cheng Kewei only had one thought in his mind.
He wants to make "Magic Girl Xiaoyuan" so that everyone can see it!
Chapter completed!