Chapter 56 Jinhong and EVA

Jinhong Comics Studio... I am actually very familiar with the name Meng Zhe. Jinhong Comics is also a great existence in the domestic comic industry before rebirth.

Jin Hong was actually established quite early. Hong Hong, who loves comics, and A Heng, who specializes in comics but is also interested in comics, set up this comic studio as early as 1990.

Meng Zhe has always admired Hong Hong, because this little woman is actually the first generation of domestic comic promoter, and she is an animation promoter full of idealism.

Hong Hong said, "The motherland has magnificent mountains and rivers like Tibet and bright cities like Shenzhen, and our nation has 5,000 years of civilization. Our cartoons should not always lag behind." In this case, so she and Meng Zhe are actually... of the same kind.

Not to mention anything else, during the period when "King of Painting" was very popular, King of Painting also made an appointment with Jin Hong in the name of supporting new domestic comics, so Hong Hong and A Heng continued to contribute to King of Painting, among which there was the relatively famous "Shaolin Zhengzong" in Chinese comics.

After three consecutive contributions, Jin Hong received a total of 6,000 yuan of the contribution fee, but after receiving the 6,000 yuan contribution fee, Jin Hong returned the 6,000 yuan to the painting king, hoping that the painting king could use this money to set up a new comic fund and support the new author.

Not long after, the painting king was suspended, and the comic fund and Jin Hong's follow-up manuscripts evaporated with the disappearance of the painting king.

To be honest, Meng Zhe thinks that the painting king did this very unauthentic - it's right that your magazine has been suspended, but why don't you give Jin Hong an explanation? Do nothing and disappear without saying anything. It hurts the feelings of Jin Hongren too much, isn't it?

It is also for this reason that Meng Zhe chatted with Kong Lan when the painting king was founded before. After confirming that the painting king's surname was likely to be suspended, he thought for a long time before writing to Wang Yongsheng, the editor-in-chief of the painting king.

Wang Yongsheng is a good man, but behind the painting king, he was the largest comic pirate in China at that time, and it was unlikely that these people with business ethics.

Well, let's continue to talk about Jinhong. Jinhong later did a lot of things by himself. "Comic Atomic Bomb", "The Legend of Demon Slayer"... At its peak, Jinhong's 'Friends of Jinhong' readers will have 120,000 members, the comic production team will grow to more than 100 people, and the highest single comic remuneration is more than 4,000 yuan. Renminbi.

You know, these achievements were achieved before the millennium, even in the late 1990s - 4,000 yuan per comic, which is a sky-high price!

It's not that Meng Zhe didn't expect to cooperate with Jin Hong, but according to his memory, Jin Hong should be signing a comic column with the famous science fiction magazine Science Fiction World in this era.

Meng Zhe also remembers that "Shaolin Zhengzong" seemed to be serialized in the painting book king in the second half of 1994, so he originally planned to contact Jin Hong during the summer vacation.

Therefore, Meng Zhe was a little surprised when he saw this contribution from Jin Hong called "Return to the Ancestors".

When he opened it, Meng Zhe found that this cartoon called "Return to the Ancestors" was the main line to expose the crime of the 731 bacterial troops of the invading army. The story crossed the ancient and modern times, and the opposite tendency was obvious... Therefore, after thinking about it, Meng Zhe chose to serialize this "Return to the Ancestors".

Although the promotion of anti-emotions is actually related to the Japanese side, Tianjiao Society and Meng Zhe himself are actually double-edged swords, but at this time, such a cartoon with obvious tendencies can block many people's mouths.

In addition, this "Return to the Ancestor" can also cooperate with the public opinion propaganda that Kong Lan has launched, so that the animation teenager can stand in a more favorable position.

... After deciding to publish "Returning to the Ancestors", Meng Zhe wrote another letter to Jin Hong according to the address. In the letter, he affirmed Jin Hong's attempt to make original Chinese comics, and hoped that Jin Hong could contribute more to animation teenagers in the future. The remuneration was not a problem at all.

Of course, Meng Zhe did not forget to explain in the letter what kind of comics are juvenile comics, and interesting comics are popular.

If you don't explain it clearly to the latecomers, the latecomers will take a lot of detours and suffer a lot.

Meng Zhe doesn't have the idea of self-cherishness. He hopes that Jin Hong can become bigger and stronger. Even if he becomes a strong enemy of Tianjiao Club and "Anime Youth" in the future, it doesn't matter - this kind of principled and persistent opponent is compared with the opponent who has achieved a circulation of 800,000 copies by piracy, and then broke down without attacking. It's more worth fighting against, isn't it?

After writing a letter to Jin Hong, Meng Zhe began to think again. Meng Zhe clearly knew that only relying on the public opinion that Kong Lan was doing and only relying on a cartoon with the opposite as a selling point, which could only produce effects in the short term.

None of these are enough to get a big enough social response, and not enough to make people identify with new things like comics from the bottom of their hearts.

So... what should we do to make the public think that animation is indeed a meaningful and good thing?

How to get the recognition of society? Meng Zhe can only find it from the memory before rebirth, but even after the millennium before rebirth, the recognition crowd of animation in China is only the post-80s class. It has not reached the kind of Nihong at all. No matter men, women and children, they do not reject comics and will read comics. Degree.

Therefore, Meng Zhe can only search for the information of Nihong. How did the comics get the recognition of the whole society? After thinking about the information about the Japanese animation, Meng Zhe suddenly found that the development of the Japanese animation was actually not smooth sailing!

Japanese comics and animation actually have times when they are not recognized by the public because they cause social events.

However, with three TV animations, this animation finally successfully detonated the animation cred three times, and then completely reversed the social identity and became a suitable existence for all ages.

What are the three animations?

"Space Battleship Yamato" in 1974, "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079" in 1979, and "New Century Evangelion" launched in October 1995.

If you study it carefully, anyone can see it clearly - these three animations that have detonated the mud bombardment animation boom are actually all future science fiction themes!

Yes, they are all science fiction topics.

Science fiction can easily arouse people's yearning for future life, coupled with battle scenes that make adult men's blood boil, interesting and in-depth stories... It is inevitable to detonate the animation boom.

Among these three animations, Meng Zhe's favorite is New Century Evangelion. He even knows that the comic serialization time of New Century Evangelion was in February 1995.

Originally, Meng Zhe did not have the idea of painting New Century Evangelion, but the current situation made him have to have this idea.

If it is not generally recognized by the domestic society, the development of animation teenagers and Tianjiao Society and even the existence itself will be seriously threatened, so it is necessary to make such a work that can detonate the domestic animation boom!

Moreover, we can't just draw comics, but also need to make comics into exquisite cartoons to play... The power of TV media is too powerful in this era.

On the other side of the mud bomb, even if there is one less "New Century Evangelion", the animation and comic market that has been formed will not be depressed because of this, but on the side of the heavenly dynasty, if there is more "New Century Evangelion", it may be able to make the mainstream public opinion and mainstream cognition of the public, from excluding comics and animation, Turn comics and animated action children's education into recognition that comics are also popular books!

So, Meng Zhe decided to make this New Century Evangelion.

Not only comics, but also animations!

Of course, Meng Zhe also clearly knows that "New Century Evangelion" is also EVA. If some of the contents are done according to the original, even if the animation is made, it will definitely be clicked by the light and CCTV before it is broadcast on TV.

In the history before rebirth, CCTV introduced the animated version of EVA, and Sister Ju Ping also sang the opening song of the Mandarin version of EVA. However, after cutting off some of the 'unsuitable for children' lenses, EVA, which was originally a little difficult for teenagers, became more fragmented and difficult to understand.

Therefore, these contents that will be cut need to be modified in a form that conforms to the national conditions of the heavenly dynasty... Thinking about it, Meng Zhe soon found that he didn't seem to have enough time now - "The Guardian of the Three Kingdoms", "Light Voice Girl", "Chesss of Chess", as well as the short stories of the comprehensive comic city, plus the tube Li Magazine... What a huge workload every day?!

"Ah, ah, ah--! Time, time, I need time! It would be great if there were 48 hours a day!"

Meng Zhe, who was distressed by the lack of time, let out such a wailing sound, and then he was thinking about whether to just suspend school.

Of course, the idea of suspending school turned around in Meng Zhe's mind and was suppressed again.

If you suspend school, your parents may be unhappy, and they will become more and more estranged from Xun'er's wife. Although distance produces beauty, if the distance is too far to see clearly, no matter how beautiful it is, there will only be an insurmountable gap.

Meng Zhe is still waiting for the transfer of shifts in the second year of junior high school, and then sits at the same table with the two big Lori of the Jiang family again, and then slowly cultivates feelings.

Since it doesn't work to suspend school, Meng Zhe can only find a way from other places. To say that people are really forced out, Meng Zhe, who was thinking hard, really came up with a way - Meng Zhe's method is to make his own role and script setting, and then pull Jinhong's group of people and the painter's invincible Ohata Ken. Join the group.

As for the original animation production company GAINAX, and the character setting Zhenben Yixing... Meng Zhe can only silently say sorry. There is no shortage of animations that can detonate the craze, and if the Tian Dynasty does not take advantage of the loosening of the national policy to produce. In that case, it will only take a few years to make Orc's Pleasant Sheep and Grey Wolf.

But then, Meng Zhe found that there was a new problem in front of him: to make TV animation, you can't do it if you want to have comics, and you also need technology! Need funds! Need a voice actor! I need background music! Need... everything is needed, everything is missing--!!!

(to be continued)