The TV animation “Starry Sky” aired the 12th episode of “The Final Return” last night. However, the story did not end successfully in the “final return”, but ended abruptly at a critical stage
After the animation was broadcast, the original author, supervisor, screenwriter Akane and Shuki said on Twitter that “Starry Sky” was originally scheduled for 24 episodes, which will be broadcast in the spring of the first quarter. However, entering this spring, the animation suddenly changed to the end of 12 episodes. However, because the work has taken 2 years to produce the script composition, and the painting work for the main film has also begun, Akane judged that the composition could not be modified to complete the animation in 12 episodes, so the original 24 episode composition was retained and the first 12 were produced. Set
Chigen said with self-deprecating meaning that he wanted to make “Starry Sky” into something different from the usual animation, so this way of ending the broadcast may also be very suitable for this work. He wanted to produce the story of the next 12 episodes, and he hoped that the audience watching this work would support it and make the sequel possible
(https://twitter.com/Akane2514af/status/1210246449700601856).
The total airing of “Starry Sky” on Bilibili is 4.9 million. For comparison, the total airing of “Cautious Brave” is 88.337 million
Amazon Prime Video did not announce the number of plays, but as a reference, “Starry Sky” received a total of 110 people with a score of 3.4 stars (out of 5 stars). In contrast, “Cautious Brave” has 224 ratings, and the score has also reached 3.8 stars
On Christmas Eve, musician O Keichi, who created soundtracks for such masterpiece animations as “Marmalade Boy”, “Little Witch DoReMi” and “PEACE MAKER Iron”, called for help on Twitter and asked animation enthusiasts all over Japan to help them protect Japan Animation, animation music culture
Ao pointed out that recently, in addition to masterpieces and topical works, small works in a single quarter rarely release the original soundtrack because the reason is “not sold.” Even if the original soundtrack was sold, only 300 copies could be sold, but the original could not be returned. In the past, there were many DVD rental shops in Japan. At least 20,000 DVDs and CDs that these rental shops would buy. Now, the video rental industry has also declined
Ao believes that paying for downloads and subscriptions alone is not enough to support composers, musicians, and record and animation production companies. Must sell discs. He begged all animation fans to buy more DVDs and soundtracks. Second-hand does not work
(https://twitter.com/k1oku/status/1209266979707580416).
Need to explain Ao’s last paragraph. For example, the paid subscription system such as Spotify, Apple Music, etc. is to divide the amount paid by the user each month after deducting the platform’s own maintenance costs and reasonable benefits from the total number of music played by the user in that month, and pay to the music rights holder. Therefore, every time a user plays a piece of music, the royalty that the composer and singer can receive is less than 1 cent of RMB. Therefore, except a few best-selling songs, the vast majority of non-English musicians are extremely difficult to make a living through paid subscriptions
The Austrian call for help did not seem to impress the animated audience. Of the nearly 200 comments received on the 4 tweets, most of them accused him and the animation and music industries of “making what people are willing to buy before saying” “Don’t shirk the responsibility of not making money to fans “Shouldn’t I reflect on why I didn’t make adult works?”
Singer Sennzai, who is active in the music game and fan music industry, informed fans that because there are already more than 500 videos of her songs illegally uploaded on YouTube, YouTube ’s AI mistakenly thought that her own channel was to reprint other people ’s works and canceled it. She qualifies for revenue sharing through video advertising. She wanted to live in harmony with the pirated videos, but it seemed that the situation did not allow her to do so
Although there are many ways to listen to music today, for Sennzai himself (and possibly many other singers), buying CDs is still the biggest pillar. She hopes that everyone must buy a physical CD
(https://twitter.com/sennzai/status/1210235542454992896).
YouTube has a “Content ID” policy that when users watch pirated videos that use other people ’s music without permission, the revenue from the ad share is attributed to the music rights holder. However, this policy is currently only used for music works where the record company has rights, such as independent musicians such as Sennzai, who still act independently, are still difficult to benefit from
The adult game script home xiakang バ イ オ says that when the creator says “you can’t sell it and ask you to buy it”, consumers will say “you analyze and analyze why you can’t sell it” He understands that the arguments of both sides are justified, but he still feels uncomfortable. If it says “I will buy it, so you make something good-looking”, he can still understand. But it is very uncomfortable for the creator to think about how to sell the work. He can understand that it is uncomfortable
(https://twitter.com/shimokura_vio/status/1209662594518110209)