MTL - My Animation Era-Chapter 657 Dragon Ball's popularity bottleneck (seeking subscription)

  Tennis Boy doesn't need a girlfriend.

  But Dragon Ball Boy needs a girlfriend. As the core protagonist, Monkey King, after the 21st Tianxiayi Budokai ends, he finally meets his true destiny.

   Kiki!

  As the only daughter of the Bull Demon King, Qiqi is actually a very good girl, but because of Wukong's ignorance of world affairs, she has a wonderful fate with Wukong.

   Simply put, engaged.

  The first meeting between the two is barely considered an extremely rare emotional scene in the animation "Dragon Ball".

   Unfortunately, this fate is too short. After bidding farewell to Qiqi, Wukong embarked on the journey to find the Dragon Ball again.

  The marriage contract between Qiqi and Wukong is very hasty to be honest...

   But no matter how sloppy, it is still a marriage contract. And Wukong has that kind of pure personality. It can be said that since he and Qiqi made a marriage contract, the two were destined to be together.

  Is this a good thing?

  Seeing that on some forums and social platforms, the majority of "Dragon Ball" fans expressed their congratulations for Wukong's "leaving the order", Gu Miao was speechless.

   Maybe at this time, everyone only knows that Qiqi is Wukong's official partner, and they don't know what happened to Qiqi later, right?

  Although the manga has been updated to the part about Goku and Kiki’s marriage, since the manga has just released the latest volume, many animation viewers haven’t read it yet.

   This also leads to .

  Most of the audience is supportive of the engagement between Wukong and Qiqicao.

  Only a small number of fans who read the latest chapters of the manga quietly changed their previous views.

   Kiki is worthy of Wukong.

But…

   Wukong is not good enough for Kiki!

   Wukong is simple and simple, and to put it bluntly, he is a "martial idiot". If it wasn't for the manga author who gave him a wife, a personality like his would have been guaranteed a lonely life.

   After he married Qiqi, to be honest, he didn't let Qiqi live a very good life. Instead, he relied on Qiqi to support a grandson's family alone.

  Qiqi is the "pillar" of the Sun family!

   To be able to marry such a virtuous wife who manages the house, Wukong can only say that he is lucky.

  Although many fans of the "Dragon Ball" anime support the "first love team" of Boulma and Wukong, including Gu Miao himself.

   But even those fans who support the first love group and are obsessed with Boulma, few will speak ill of Kiki.

  Don't ask why.

  Qi is the role of "a good wife and loving mother" played by Qiqi, which is really hard to fault. Some people may feel sorry for Boulma, but no one dares to say that Qiqi is not as good as Boulma.

   Of course, extreme fans are an exception.

  From Gu Miao's point of view, he has strong dissatisfaction and prejudice against the emotional scenes in the "Dragon Ball" animation.

  He also thought about changing the story line of the characters to make the emotional drama less thin, so that the mention of "Dragon Ball" is not just fighting and killing.

   But he changed his mind...

  The reason why "Dragon Ball" became popular is not because of the emotional lines portrayed by Akira Toriyama, but because of the exciting and exciting fighting scenes.

  As long as this part is done well, the relationship line will be a little bit worse, and it doesn't matter anyway.

  Even deleting these emotional lines has not had much impact on the IP of "Dragon Ball".

   So, he didn't make changes.

  What is the emotional drama of the original version of "Dragon Ball", what is the Wanbao version. If I have to say the difference, it should be that the shape of the character has changed.

   This is Gu Miao's request.

  When the "Dragon Ball" comics were about to start serialization, he told the author of the comics that the characters should be drawn as "characteristic" as possible.

  Take female characters as an example.

  Don't dress so "retro" and old-fashioned anymore. Anyway, this is the new century. Even exercise clothes can't have such a "sense of age"?

  It should be fashionable, and it should be fashionable.

   Gui Xianren can be so fashionable, why can't others?

  In addition to dressing and dressing, the Wanbao version of "Dragon Ball" comics and animations also made individual revisions to the "hairstyle" of each character.

   Don't get me wrong, it's not a Saiyan!

   Of course, Gu Miao wouldn't move the Saiyan's iconic exploding hairstyle. What he asked people to change was just the hairstyles of other characters in their daily life.

  …

  The "Dragon Ball" animation continues to hit the air.

  As the two-line serialization of animation and manga progressed, Gu Miao, Nishio and the others also noticed a phenomenon.

   Popularity seems to have reached a bottleneck?

  No matter how much money Wanbao spends and how many advertising spaces it buys, the effect of publicity and promotion will not be as good as before. The popularity of animation & manga is always stuck here, unable to go up or down.

   To be honest, it was quite embarrassing.

   You said "Dragon Ball" is not popular...

   This is not only the No. 1 neon sales volume, but also the top ten popular single-volume comics in domestic sales. It is also a popular animation that has repeatedly broken neon ratings records and has exceeded 100 million online broadcasts.

   It must be said that "Dragon Ball" is very popular! It seems that it has not reached the height of the original version, and currently only has a certain influence in East Asia.

   Is something wrong?

  Gu Miao didn't understand at the beginning, why would a work like "Dragon Ball" encounter a bottleneck in popularity?

   But he discovered through investigation that he seemed to have made a mistake, that is, he seriously underestimated the increase of "Saiyan" to this series.

  Dragon Ball without Saiyans is indeed almost meaningless. The current popularity is considered to be super-level performance.

   Only when the Saiyans appeared, the animation of "Dragon Ball" really took off. From a regional animation that only had influence in East Asian countries, it became a "world-class" animation IP with a wide fan base all over the world.

   "You still have to be a Saiyan!"

  Gu Miao pursed her lips, shook her head and sighed: "It seems that if the popularity of "Dragon Ball" can go further, it can only rely on the second season of the animation."

  Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Kai, Dragon Ball Super...

  Let’s not talk about comics.

  If you only consider animation, the "Dragon Ball" series is indeed a work step by step, slowly ascending to the altar.

  Conferred God in the first season?

   This is indeed Gu Miao's overthinking, she definitely can't do it with the first season alone, she has to rely on the follow-up works to complete it.

   But it's not a big problem.

  Although Gu Miao overestimated the influence and popularity of the first season of the animation, this is Dragon Ball after all. Even if it reaches the bottleneck of popularity, it is a height that other animations cannot reach.

  Compared to the initial investment, Wanbao has already made a lot of money.

  After all, in the production process of "Dragon Ball", Wanbao really didn't spend much money. It was nothing more than buying more pages when it was serializing comics in the early stage.

   Anyway, the investment is not high, at least not comparable to the previous "Sailor Moon S".

   In terms of return rate, "Dragon Ball" is not much worse than "Sailor Moon S".

  Although the "Sailor Moon" series is still the mainstay of the Neon Division, with the sudden rise of "Dragon Ball", the status of Sailor Moon has been shaken.

   How strong is Yichao?

   No no no! Now it's a battle of the poles!