Chapter 57 Banana Man

Meng Zhe, who had a goal, began to prepare for the production of EVA. He first rewrote the letter to Jin Hong, hoping that Jinhong Animation Studio could move here to work together - after all, if the distance is too far away, communication will become a problem.

After sending the letter, Meng Zhe talked with Xiaohata about wanting to make EVA, hoping that Xiaohata could work together... manuscript remuneration or something, easy to discuss!

Ken Obata did not agree directly. After seriously asking what kind of story EVA was, he finally just said that he would consider it. After all, although for Ken Obata, he didn't have to worry about the story, the "Ches Soul" drawn once a week was already a very heavy job, and then took over the work of EVA. He thinks that the working hours are probably not enough.

Although Ken Obata has euphemistically refused, the unscated man of Heyue has shown a strong interest in EVA, but this time it is Meng Zhe's turn to euphemistically decline - Meng Zhe is really a little worried about Heyue's character value and duty.

Then they expressed a strong interest in this matter. It was the two god-level assistants, Kishi Shishimoto and Oda Eiichiro. As Meng Zhe's full-time assistants, their daily work is actually quite leisurely. After finishing their work every day, they have a lot of time at their disposal.

These two people want to draw comics by themselves, but the longer they have been an assistant to Meng Zhe, the more they feel that their painting skills are scum... Mr. Toriyama Akira is so right. The gap between us and Mr. Jiji is really at least ten years!

The national surname of fear, worship of the strong, contempt and bullying of the weak has made Kishimoto and Eichiro Oda worship Meng Zhe, a demon reborn, so how can they not sign up for such a good opportunity to study in depth?

Of course, Meng Zhe will not refuse to agree to this matter. Kishimoto and Oda were originally his assistants. Of course, there is no problem to participate in the production of EVA.

However, it's obviously not enough for three people. Meng Zhe still wants to do TV animation... The animation studio that Shueisha promised to help build has now set up a shelf, but there are still some problems with manpower - the selection criteria of animators and cartoonists are different, and each frame at a time is almost There is no difference between boring middle paintings and comics with different contents one by one, which are also two completely different concepts.

Meng Zhe's purpose in the animation studio is not to make money, but to cultivate a new generation of animators who can make exquisite new animations, so from the beginning, he had the idea of recruiting his own people.

Although it is said that Meng Zhe has released a few issues ahead of time on the animation teenager and posted an advertisement for the recruitment of animators. However, although there are many applicants, there are not many suitable candidates. So far, only six people have been recruited, and not all of these six people are from recruitment.

According to Meng Zhe's plan, the number of animators he wants to recruit should be about 15 to 20.

"Editor-in-chief Xiao Meng, are you free now? Another eight children came from the provincial capital, all of whom are Xiao Meng's editor-in-chief and your comic fans..."

An editor in the magazine knocked on the door of Meng Zhe's studio, and then leaned in half of his body and asked.

"Are there comic fans again?"

Hearing this, Meng Zhe picked up the toilet paper on the table and carefully wiped the tip of the ink-dip pen. Then he got up and walked to the door of the studio. Speaking of which, with the influence of "Anime Boy", in fact, there will be crazy animation enthusiasts with dreams from all over the country. Go to the location of Tianjiao Society.

Come to animation enthusiasts with enthusiasm, including college students, high school students, and even junior high school students. Most of these half-aged children just came to see their favorite cartoonist with a pilgrimage mentality. After getting one or two autographs, they went home contentedly. However, there are also a small number of children who are determined to stay and draw comics with the big cartoonists they worship.

In the simple consciousness of these half-sized children, it is the cartoonist who can serialize short stories on the animation teenager, and the big cartoonist who can serialize the long story, and Meng Zhe, who serializes many good comics alone, is clearly a god-like genius cartoonist!

For children who are determined to stay, Meng Zhe will talk to them in person. He will tell those children who are half big and may just be hot-blooded for a while how hard it is to be a cartoonist.

Under Meng Zhe's persuasion, some children finally retreated, but there were still a small number of children with strong will, and they had to stay.

For children who are extremely determined and really want to devote themselves to the comic career, Meng Zhe was left as an assistant to Yao Feila and others after the test, and some were sent to the newly established animation studio.

And the last remaining ones, Meng Zhe can only tell the other party: "Although I really don't want to say that, you are really not suitable for drawing comics or animation..."

Not all people are suitable for drawing comics. Some people may not be able to imagine or draw three-dimensional pictures in their lives; they can't make up interesting stories; they can't show close-ups with tension.

After being sentenced by Meng Zhe, most of these children will be disappointed and cry bitterly. This is the first dream in their lives, but this dream was ruthlessly pierced by Mr. Jiji, the most admired genius cartoonist in their minds.

Looking at those crying children, Meng Zhe felt uncomfortable - people's hearts are full of flesh.

However, if it's not suitable, it's not suitable. Meng Zhe can't leave others on the Internet because he is an avid animation fan. That's really irresponsible to these animation fans.

Therefore, Meng Zhe will persuade these children that real animation fans should not only stare at animation and comics. People who are not suitable for painting may be suitable for writing comic scripts and sales of comic products... They even go back to school first to study hard. After graduation, they can come to Tianjiao Club to apply for a job. Meng Zhe has said this kind of thing as an editor.

Of course, Meng Zhe is not talking about those children. Now the recruitment conditions of Tianjiao Club are still relatively low. That's right. In the future, of course, priority should be given to the recruitment of animation fan editors - if the editors of animation magazines have no love for animation, how can the animation they selected have love?

Meng Zhe, who thought so, got up and walked out of the studio, and then saw eight young people with six women and two men - well, to be precise, they were eight young people wearing the school emblem of the famous Academy of Fine Arts in the province.

"This is Xiao Meng, the editor-in-chief of our magazine, and also the teacher you want to meet."

The editor who invited Meng Zhe just came out and introduced it to the eight girls.

"Hether you guys, I'm Meng Zhe, and I'm also Meng Jiji."

Meng Zhe introduced himself with a smile.

Eight young people from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts did not seem to expect to meet Mr. Jiji so easily, and Mr. Jiji would still be so 'friendly', so they were so excited that they forgot to give a polite answer for a while.

"Ah--Hello, Mr. Jiji! I... We are fresh graduates of the Department of Chinese Painting and the Department of Oil Painting of the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts. The eight of us have discussed it. We hope we can join Tianjiao Society and Mr. Jiji to draw our own new Chinese comics together!"

Eight people were so excited about each other for a long time before finally a girl with a shawl and big black-framed glasses stabted nervously.

"Join the Tianjiao Society? Are you sure... are you all serious?

After listening to the girl's introduction, Meng Zhe's expression became serious. In this era, those who can enter the Academy of Fine Arts are all talented in art.

These have profound art skills. With a little dial and training, you can draw comics above the standard. Even if the dynamic picture will be slightly worse, the still life painting and sketching skills will definitely exceed that of Chen Xiang and others!

If these eight young people really want to join Tianjiao Club, then of course Meng Zhe will agree!

"Yes, Mr. Jiji, we are serious! Because after reading those reports about the status of new comics in China, we feel that we can't let Mr. Jiji fight alone. We also want to contribute to the development of new animation in our country!" The girl with black-framed glasses, who spoke first, clenched her fist and said so.

"For traditional Chinese painting and oil painting, there will be no loss without eight of us, and there will be no more glory for eight of us, but if we can draw comics with Mr. Jiji, we will definitely achieve something!" A girl with small braids and sloppy clothes is an 'artist' no matter how she looks at it, she said.

"That's right! Nowadays, almost all the comics sold in the bookstore are Japanese comics. Only Mr. Jiji's "Anime Boy" is our own domestic comics in China. We feel that we have the responsibility and obligation to help..." The voice of the young woman who didn't wait for the artist's temperament to fall to the ground, and another thin girl interface He said again.

"Mr. Jiji, I have broken off my relationship with my family, so if you don't take me in, I can only go to the coastal area to work hard... Mr. Jiji, you definitely can't bear it, right?" Following the conversation, one of the eight people, a bald young man, spoke with a sad expression.

"Liu Kang, what are you talking about? When we came, your mother obviously brought you a large bag of food and drink to get on the train. When the train started, you obviously cried... Ah, I forgot to introduce myself to Mr. Jiji. I'm Zhang Cheng! From..." Without waiting for the bald young man to finish his words, the other young man who came with a heads wrapped in a flower scarf did not give face to expose the old background of the bald man.

"Bastar Zhang Cheng, don't think you are a hateful American imperialist banana man. You can fabricate facts like imperialists. When did I cry?!"

"I'm a yellow-skinned Chinese American, not a yellow-skinned banana man. Thank you."

(to be continued)