Chapter 139 It’s not that genius defeats capital, but that genius itself is capital (24)
"I really envy geniuses like you who can choose your own way of life."
Asaba Kazama smiled and said: "Everyone has their own troubles, even geniuses will fall into a cycle of troubles due to various things.
Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, they would think that we are suffering entirely because we are too greedy. "
Daisuke Hiramaki smiled and said, "There will indeed be situations like this. Just like when we first started to cooperate with you, there was actually quite a lot of opposition within the company. After all, our behavior was too desperate."
Asaha Kazama nodded.
Don't look at the animation proposal of "Reincarnation of Succubus" that was successfully passed within the animation studio, but that is because this project has the full support of Daisuke Hiramaki, from the president to the backbone of the middle and young generations, plus the company Someone internally learned about Asaba Kazama's past experience before finally approving it.
In essence, Asaba Kazama passed on all the troubles of connection to Daisuke Hiramaki, the general supervisor who strongly promoted this project, so that he was able to join the company in a relatively relaxed way and became the general supervisor of the project.
You know, Qianha Kazama didn't expect that he would become the general supervisor at first.
It's not that he isn't confident in his own strength, it's just that he doesn't think Animation Studio has such great determination.
Taking advantage of seniority is not something that only happens in Daxia. Looking around the world, there is no company in any country that would say that they don't take advantage of seniority, not to mention that Qianha Kazama has never actually verified his ability.
Being able to leapfrog the ranks and become the general supervisor was largely due to the fact that Daisuke Hiramaki was convinced by his own abilities and took the initiative to lend him a hand.
It's okay for Daisuke Hiramaki to be okay with this, but Asaba Kazama naturally can't take other people's kindness for granted.
So Asaba Kazama said: "What does Director Hiramaki think of this industry?"
Daisuke Hiramaki smiled and said, "Isn't the industry always like that?"
Asaba Kazama snorted and said: "Producers of lightly modified comics like Dengeki Bunko have produced more and more works in recent years. Does Director Hiramaki think this is a good thing?"
Daisuke Hiramaki was silent for a moment, smoked half of the cigarette in his mouth, and then said: "Who knows? At least it can bring some vitality to the industry that is like a stagnant water?"
"Yes, this is a last resort. The animation company needs to make a living, and since a light novel producer like Dengeki Bunko is willing to spend money to help the company share the pressure...
Although everyone knows that the quality of light-edition comics has been worrying over the years, but only when you have a full meal can you think about so-called dreams. "
Daisuke Hiramaki knew what Asaba Kazama meant.
The living environment of animation companies in recent years is actually not as good as outsiders imagine.
Since the birth of the WY production club system, Japanese animation companies have been on a fast track and no one knows where they will go.
The widespread popularity of light-edition comics is closely related to the WY production club system.
To put it simply, since animation companies need to follow the production meeting system, the direct responsibility of animation companies has changed from the audience to the capital.
Some people may say: "What's the difference? Even if the person responsible becomes the employer, the employer still hopes that the animation can be done well, so that it can make a lot of money!"
This statement sounds reasonable, but in fact it is nonsense.
Let’s take a very simple example. Although it is different from the previous era when the alternate world toilet paper anime was very popular, Japan in this time and space has also fallen into the strange cycle of frequent alternate world toilet paper.
Why?
It is obvious that the different world toilet paper animation does not meet the preferences of a large number of viewers. It is obvious that the industrial assembly line production is a typical example of shoddy production. But why are there more and more different world toilet paper animations in recent years?
It's simple, because it's easy to make money.
Just like idol companies harvesting money in the simplest way by mass-selling templated idols, everyone knows that Xiao Xianrou has basically no acting skills, and even dancing and singing are difficult to describe, but they are extremely popular and frequently occupy public traffic.
Even later in the development, the management began to quietly downgrade the aesthetics, reducing the cost of cultivating mass-selling idols from the source.
This situation of bad money driving out good money is more common in animation companies.
Yes, most of the animations of Isekai Toilet Paper are so shoddy, and even because the copyright belongs to light novel producers like Dengeki Bunko, after the animation, even if it is a big success, the main profit will not be with the animation company.
Even if it doesn't succeed, it doesn't matter, because the employer has made a calculation:
"Even if there is a loss in the animation, the short-term traffic generated after the animation can still feed back the sales of the light novel to a great extent. There is a very high chance that the profits from the increased sales of the light novel can be used to make up for the loss in the animation. , and what if a hit item is born...
That’s a lot of money! "
Look, the management has settled this account clearly.
In an era when traffic is king, even the industry cannot escape this principle.
This is why Asaba Kazama was in an unusually low mood when Heimaki Daisuke asked this question.
In the short term, such operations can keep a number of companies at the bottom of the industry chain alive.
But from the long-term perspective of the industry, Daisuke Hiramaki has a vague hunch:
"Such behavior is directly digging out the roots of innovation in animation companies."
If you can eat while kneeling, why stand up and starve?
There are definitely many companies with this idea.
When an industry loses its aggressiveness in making original animations, the industry's rising period will come to an abrupt end. Even if it declines wildly, it is not impossible.
It is true that the risk of original animation is very high, but if most people are thinking about making money and fewer and fewer people delve into original animation, then the sunset will really come.
Daisuke Hiramaki looked at Asaba Kazama: "Teacher Asaba, the reality is very cruel. For example, Miss Ishihara, to be honest, if you hadn't proposed her to be the outsourcer for this project, we would have even We won’t even give her a chance to test her level, this is the reality.”
Qianyu Kazama laughed softly and said to him in a casual tone: "Yes, reality is so cruel, but it is precisely because of the cruelty of reality that it is even more cruel to show the real world in front of everyone, isn't it? ?”
Asaba Kazama calmly looked at Daisuke Hiramaki, a great man, and said meaningfully: "Supervisor Hiramaki, don't forget that the reality is that most mediocre people spend their entire lives just barely catching up with the real people. The starting point of genius.
It is precisely because this is reality that the world is so tolerant of geniuses. Only people like me and Rina have the power to choose. It is not that genius defeats capital, but that genius... itself is natural capital. . "