Generally speaking, a domestic animation company can produce thirty to fifty episodes of online animation, which should be familiar to most animation fans. However, there is such an animation company that has produced several animations with more than 30 episodes, but basically "

Generally speaking, a domestic animation company can produce thirty or fifty episodes of online animation, which should be familiar to most animation fans.

However, there is such an animation company that has produced several animations with more than 30 episodes, but basically "no one watches" them. There are even fewer viewers who know this animation company.

Judging from the current animations, it can be said that this animation company is "professional" in producing animations that "no one will watch".

This animation company is Dream Animation. They produced three animations with completely different styles: " Zichuan ", " Tomb King " and " Desperate Response ".

01. "No one watches" animation

"The Tomb King" series has aired 4 parts with a total of 87 episodes, "Desperate Response" has 30 episodes, and "Purple River" is still being serialized and has also aired 30 episodes. The animations of more than 100 episodes of

are not the kind of funny works "produced after learning animation for XX years", nor are they just a few minutes of feature films, but real animations of that can be used as wallpapers by taking screenshots of every frame. But the popularity is not high.

The first is "The King of Tomb Kings", the original Tomb sect martial arts animation.

Tomb sect and martial arts were rarely seen together before, especially in animation.

Audiences who like tomb sect-themed stories and audiences who like martial arts-themed stories don’t seem to have a high degree of overlap, but that’s how this story came together. Everyone has seen the results of

. html has been released four times in a row in 14 years. The speed and quality far exceed that of most online animations, but in the end the total playback volume is not as good as the playback volume of some animations in a few weeks. Why is

so miserable?

① Audiences who like tomb sects and martial arts themes have long passed the age of chasing anime every day. Today’s mainstream audiences like anime where the protagonist cheats and wins all the way. Protagonists like Lou Manfeng and Luo Shiqiu are always being fooled. The more they watch, the more useless they feel.

②The distribution of male and female protagonists is too balanced. Two men and two women are assigned at the beginning, and there is no possibility for the audience to complain about other CPs. If the protagonist group is an odd number, they can fight over CP issues, and the popularity will be there, but "The King of Tomb Kings" obviously does not have such conditions.

No one will watch animations with old themes like martial arts, but animations with new themes of future technology should attract new audiences, right?

So, "Desperate Response" came.

"Desperate Response" is a story set in the future. Intelligent people have gained self-awareness and are divided into two camps. The villain intelligent people who want to subvert human rule have an online IQ. The protagonist camp is not bad either. Both sides are tit-for-tat with Mai Mang. The story is quite wonderful.

In terms of character setting, it basically satisfies the preferences of current mainstream audiences: a cold lady, a dark lolita, a beautiful goddess, a violent tomboy, a cold man, a funny man, a cunning man...

Character types that everyone likes , can all be found here, and the ethical settings of humans and machines in this animation are also relatively forward-thinking.

But unfortunately, "Desperate Response" is not particularly popular. The original animation has always had such a dilemma. Unlike the adapted animation, which has the blessing of the original party, "Desperate Response" does not have a good fan base and there is no publicity. Well, many anime fans haven’t heard of this anime until now.

It seems that Zhumeng just can’t take the path of original animation, so let’s adapt it.

So, "Purple River" came.

The animated adaptations that have been popular in recent years are basically about cool stories about male protagonists, and most of them are novels that have become relatively popular in recent years.

But "Purple River" just doesn't satisfy these two points. The original work is a novel written more than ten years ago, and the theme is a relatively brain-consuming conspiracy and war theme. The main CP has also been separated for a long time, which is nothing to complain about, and it perfectly avoids the current mainstream animation audience. preferences.

Now that "Ziguan" has been broadcast for 30 episodes, there are very few related discussions. Why are there so few discussions on this type of animation? Dudu has written many articles before, so I won't go into details here.

02.Casting Dreams

I have always had respect for companies that produce original animations.

Currently, Guoman Runtong’s relatively stable profit model is to adapt popular novels and comics, and then obtain various authorizations to receive advertisements and sell peripheral products. The uncertainty of originality is too great. If you are not careful, you may even lose the company.

But they still insist on making original animations and want to realize their animation dreams. Maybe the founders also have such high hopes for "dream casting".

But reality slaps them in the face again and again, and the audience teaches them how to do animation again and again.

If ancient costume martial arts doesn't work, then change to future technology. If originality doesn't work, then adapt it. If adapting a brain-burning novel doesn't work, then try something with a simpler plot...

If you want to create a dream, you have to have someone to carry it. Only by having a "body" that you can live with can you realize your dreams step by step. If you really wear down your body, the chances are that you won't get sympathy and understanding, but ridicule and forgetfulness.

So, we can see that Zhu Meng’s next animation is "Xian Ni". Although it is still an online article more than ten years ago, the subject matter is at least the type that is favored by the current mainstream audience.

At the same time, the fifth season of "Tomb King" "Water Without Trace" is also in production.

Maybe this is the perseverance of animators. No matter how hard it is, they will persevere. It would be a real regret if the motivation to pursue dreams is gone.

I hope every animator can create works according to their own preferences as soon as possible and create their own animation dream world!