The light novelist Ito Aya came to the conclusion that the light novels of different worlds are preparing for death, that is, the dying activities of the otaku. .
As the average age of the otaku increases, they begin to feel uneasy: “What will it be like after death?” “I have already passed the ordinary life, and will I become an ordinary dead?” .
It was this uneasiness that prompted them to write works of different worlds and made this type of work popular. .
(.https://twitter.com/itou_hiro/status/1009129917802377216).
The performer Matsuo Hyun recalled a memory of his performance as the studio version of “Mobile Suit Z Gundam”. .
At the time, he was attending another meeting and could not answer the phone. After the meeting, he found three messages in the voicemail, which was supervised by Tomino Yuki. The content is as follows:
The first one: .
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Ah, I am Fuye. Well, that Mac, on your Mac, um…Final…Fi…oh? Oh, the one with Final Cut, that’s it…
“哔”, the recording ends. .
Article 2: .
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I am Fu Ye. I just said that half of it was broken, I realized that there is a time limit. So this time I think about what I have to say before I call you, there will be no problem. That’s that, Mac’s…
“哔”, the recording ends. .
Article 3: .
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I am Fu Ye. I will call you later. “.
“哔”, the recording ends. .
Matsumatsu rushed back to the studio.
(.https://twitter.com/komatsuof1/status/1008995077744496640)
Today, Kadokawa Group holds a general meeting of shareholders to report to shareholders on the company’s operating conditions and future goals in the past year, and to answer questions of shareholders’ concerns. Netizens attended the shareholders’ meeting as individual shareholders and passed Twitter and The blog reported the contents of the conference.
Speaking of Kadokawa, readers may be concerned about the series of turmoil brought about by the “Animal Friends” animation supervision. At the shareholders meeting, some people mentioned this and asked Kawagawa gives an explanation.
On behalf of the director, the general manager Shinichiro Inoue replied, first of all, I hope that you understand that Kadokawa is only one of the 13 investment companies of “Animal Friends” animation, not a company, and has no decision. They think they are dominant, but they are only a member of the production committee. To dismiss and supervise, it’s not Kadokawa’s own decision, but the company’s The opinion of one. .
is not so much the dismissal and supervision, it is better that the production company does not necessarily meet the requirements of the production committee. After the supervision and deduction, Inoue’s special affairs and President Kazuyuki Kazuo met with the production. The company listened to the opinions and requirements of the production company and contacted the members of the production committee. Although Kadokawa made various suggestions, it still failed to make the parties agree on the production system.
Inoue He expressed his gratitude for the superior ability of supervising and supervising, and said that the second phase of the animation is still undecided. “Animal Friends” is the general term for the projects including games and the stage. I hope everyone will continue to support.
Some shareholders pointed out that The claim of Inoue’s special duties and the prosecution’s claim that he “has been dropped on the ground even if he doesn’t know why.” This incident has caused great damage to Kadokawa. Why did Inoue’s affiliation not disclose itself to the outside world? Trying to explain the innocence of Kadokawa?
Kawakami said that on the Internet, Kadokawa and Dwango have become the target of public criticism. He believes that One thing, especially Dwango, can be said to have been involved in flying into a disaster.
Inoue and Kawakami did make a lot of efforts, but they failed to make up for the disagreement between the relevant people, which is also true. The shareholder believes that it should be positively publicized, but Chuan Shang believes that “We are not wrong” on the Internet will only be more and more black, so we have to exercise restraint in this regard.
Some shareholders have asked questions: animation has evolved from the era of limited animation, and animations originally produced by many people can now be done with very few people like “Animal Friends”. For the modern animation economy, what is the consideration of Kadokawa? .
Kawakami Sato said that “Animal Friends” has realized a low-cost production method based on Flash. It is a milestone animation: Flash animation can also have a plot. In addition, animation production methods have other evolutions, such as the use of the Unreal Engine overseas, using 3D motion capture, just by capturing the action of the actors, you can make animations. .
Japanese animation has always relied on hand-painting. But in the digital age, the number of people who can’t draw celluloid paintings has increased, and hand-drawn animations are hard to sustain. Under such circumstances, Japanese animation is also advancing to 3D. Low-cost animations such as Flash, as well as animations that use motion capture to get close to reality films, are also sprouting, and Kadokawa has been watching this dynamic. .
Compared with hand-painting, 3D studios need more organization. Therefore, in order to prepare for the transition to 3DCG, Kadokawa is promoting the 3DCG production that was originally outsourced to the production company. Dwango uses deep learning to develop motion capture technology and wants to make animation easier. 能够自动完成中割等工序. They have been researching low-cost 3DCG production techniques. .
(Kawasaki Shimatsu once showed Miyazaki the CG they made with deep learning, and the result is. 在纪录片里被宫老斥责是“亵渎生命”.).
Shareholders’ questions, such as AbemaTV, Netflex, YouTube and other video services are growing, and bilibili is very similar to NicoNico, but grows better than NicoNico. The same is true for video services. How is the gap between NicoNico and people so big? .
Kawakami said that services such as NicoNico and AbemaTV have no direct competition in the video field. Such services have contributed greatly to raising awareness of video services in the world, as opposed to NicoNico. So they also sell their work to AbemaTV and Netflix. .
Kawakami claims to have been paying attention since the birth of bilibili. He has visited the local area many times when he was a student investor. The number of bilibili users exceeds NicoNico because of the large population of China. .
China does not recognize foreign online community services. If China can liberalize restrictions, NicoNico can also enter the Chinese market. But until now, they have not been recognized. .
Compared with bilibili, NicoNico has a paid membership system, so the business foundation is more solid. Most of bilibili’s revenue relies on games represented by Fate/Grand Order. Combining existing online community services with mobile games and web games is a great success factor. .
Single-pay is also a big theme that NicoNico is researching, and the games that it plans to invest this year are all integrated into a single payment. This is a project they have spent a lot of time, I hope everyone can see the results this year. .
(Kawasaki’s statement is obviously not convincing. Perhaps because of his position, he can’t openly talk about the shortcomings of N station itself.)
Some shareholders believe that although many people criticize network shielding, China has become one of the few countries where domestic network services can dominate by shielding overseas network services. He asked whether Kadokawa intends to call on the government to block overseas network services for tax evasion and tax deduction, and to cultivate domestic network services. .
Kawakami denies this and believes that Japan, as a liberal country, should not follow the example of China. However, he also opposes the phenomenon of “not in Japan but overseas.” .
This article refers to a pirated website that has been raging before. “Manga Village” is operated by the Japanese, but only because the server is overseas, the Japanese police can’t manage it.
Another website, “Anitube”, is also operated by the Japanese and the server is in Brazil. Kadokawa sued the site in Brazil and won the court, making the site inaccessible in Brazil. But 99% of Anitube’s visitors came from Japan, and the victory won’t make sense. .
Before these pirated websites were named by the government, they had nothing to do. Kawakami believes that this phenomenon of “as long as the server can do whatever it wants overseas” must be eradicated. .
There are also shareholders asking. Dwango 今年和动画制作公司 Khara 共同设立的新公司 βακα. Chuan Shang said that the purpose of establishing βακα is to make the self-produced game as a medium to be further developed. Compared to other types of works, games are more labor-intensive, so they build a system that supports home-made game developers through βακα. In the future, they also want to develop more useful production tools. .
They are publicly recruiting people who want to play games through βακα, especially those who want to make a script. Many people sign up. They want to discover new talents and establish new game types. .
Dwango is a platform company, so to deal with the creators, it is best to set up another company. Then, to gather the creators, and to cooperate with Japan’s top creator, Hideo Sato, to expand the possibilities. This is the motivation for their establishment of βακα with Khara. They went to the meeting directly, just as the wilderness was nearby. .
Chuan Shang said that the vast majority of people who develop homemade games are women in their teens, and they have gathered young talents. The users of such games are also very young. Both they and Khara believe that it makes sense to open up this sky. .
(.http://michsuzuki.hatenablog.com/entry/2018/06/20/000519).
In addition to Kadokawa, I also released the report of the previous day’s Bandai Nanmeng Palace and yesterday’s Sony shareholders’ meeting. Since the consortium B and Sony’s shareholder meeting did not touch on the issues that I was interested in (there was a Sony shareholder asking them to make a TV that couldn’t see the NHK, and was smashed by the president, Yoshida Kenichiro), so we only share today. The contents of Kadokawa. .
Readers who are interested in other companies can also read it.