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475 The Era of Genius

After Okada Hiroshi returned home, he lit a cigarette for himself with a very great sense of frustration, then turned on Niconico, and began to watch "Magic Girl Koyuan" from the first chapter.

Hiroshi Okada has always been reluctant to look down on the old star and old opponent, who has had huge conflicts since the era of insect production and has gone their separate ways.

At the beginning, the two were still very young. They joined the worm production simply because of the reason of "loving animation", and started from the lowest-level animators. However, Hiroshi Okada and Hiroshi Wakao did not have much talent in painting. Soon after, they changed their positions to production and became the behind-the-scenes personnel supporting animation production.

Later, the production of the worm came to an end, and a group of pioneers of Japanese TV animation went their separate ways. Hiro Okada took advantage of the relationship between Hayao Miyazaki and first entered Ghibli for a few years. Then, with this qualification, he gained a foothold in Toei Animation. As a producer, he successfully produced several animations and became a senior executive of a company in charge of a studio.

Nowadays, Hiroto Okada is in middle age and has a successful career. He has luxury cars and villas, but also has women. His only wish is to be able to participate in the production of a masterpiece that can leave a strong mark in the history of animation, similar to "The Space Battleship Yamato", which is proven to Osamu Tezuka and his colleagues who made the previous worms.

Let them regret it and let them understand that their previous views on Hiro Okada were all wrong.

Compared with Hiro Okada, who can be a senior executive of Toei Animation, Hatsushi Wakao's SHAFT has always been lukewarm and has only maintained its animation outsourcing business.

"Magic Girl Koyuan" is the first TV animation independently produced by SHAFT, making Okada Hiroshi, a well-known producer of Toei animation, take a contemptuous attitude.

But now, Hiro Okada has to force himself to watch it seriously, this animation produced by his annoying opponents that he has always looked down upon.

This feeling of being very annoying but having to do it is very frustrating.

Hiro Okada sat in front of the computer with a expressionless face for more than 40 minutes, and finished the first and second episodes of "The Magical Girl Xiaoyuan".

As he talked about when he was chatting with Toshiki Ishimura before, although the plot of "The Magical Girl Koyuan" is relatively dull, as an animation, its expressiveness - both music and pictures - has reached its peak.

Moreover, if you look closely, you will find that many foreshadowings and plot explosion points have been laid. Whether it is narrative skills or the themes contained in it, they are not as simple as ordinary royal magic girl animations.

"Why is that guy Haruo Hiroshi so lucky to find Qin Han to write the script? And he can also discover the genius supervision like Xinfang Akira?"

A strong jealousy suddenly surged in Okada Hiroshi's heart.

He lit another cigarette and cheered up. After the broadcast, he immediately caused an uproar in the third episode of "The Magic Girl Xiaoyuan".

He just paid attention to the reservation sales trend of this animation, and did not read online comments. He didn't know what was good about this episode, which aroused a wave of discussion among the whole nation. He just went to a convenience store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and even met Ah Zhai who discussed this animation.

After more than twenty minutes passed, Hiro Okada understood everything.

"It's unbelievable, it's unbelievable!" Okada Hiroshi said to himself.

Compared to ordinary audiences, as a professional animator, Hiro Okada naturally understands how shocking the third episode of "The Magical Girl Komaki" is.

Although I was reluctant to admit it, Hiro Okada still knew that even if the "Sailor Moon" animation he managed had achieved outstanding results, such as how many viewers it reached, how many discs it sold, and how many billions of sales it had reached, it was still just a comic-making animation based on the original work. Even if this animation is commercially successful, it is fundamentally not as good as the completely original "Magic Girl Komatsu".

On the computer screen, the third episode of "Magic Girl Xiaoyuan" ended, and ED was launched. In the list of cast members that were played in a scrolling manner, Hiro Okada suddenly discovered a familiar name.

"Show: Toshino Yuyuki."

"That guy Tono..." Hiro Okada stood up excitedly, holding the monitor with both hands. He stood there for a moment, and sat back dejectedly.

"It's really ironic, it's really ironic... I just said, why is the performance style of this episode a bit familiar? It turns out to be the masterpiece of Toshino." Hiro Okada smiled bitterly.

He recalled the scene when he tried every possible way to squeeze Yuyuji Toyo out of Okawa's studio. When the other party voluntarily resigned, he did not keep him at all, and he even mocked him for being foolish.

But now it seems that I am not stupid?

The third episode of "The Magical Girl Koyuan" gives Yuyuki Toyono the best stage to show his talent when he stays in Toei.

Regarding the death of Bamamei, this bald murderer performed more wonderfully than the original version of the Qin and Han previous lives. The cruelty of the understatement perfectly reflects the sorrow and fate of the magic girl. It is even more shocking than those curious plasma, internal organs and minced meat, and screams from the bottom.

The frustration in Okada Hiroshi's heart became more and more serious, and even felt a sense of self-doubt.

His career is still successful, and he will make a lot of money in the future and produce a lot of popular animations. However, deep down he understands that the obsession he has been pursuing - creating excellent animations that can represent an era and be remembered by history, which convinces Osamu Tezuka and his colleagues who made the previous work, and are getting farther and farther away.

This era of genius does not belong to him.

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With sufficient financial investment, a group of talented creators, and a unique publicity strategy that they have been implementing since the initial project was launched... All these efforts finally brought "Magic Girl Xiaoyuan" to a harvest period after the third episode of the animation was broadcast.

After the third episode was broadcast, the various data of "Magic Girl Xiaoyuan", in addition to hard indicators such as Amazon BD/DVD reservation rankings, such as search index, Twitter popularity, online playback volume, viewership rate, etc., have soared to a new level.

Many anime critics exclaimed: "This animation is not just the strongest in January, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to have an opponent this year!"
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