In fact, after Nanaya thought of filming "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", he had been thinking about how to present this story.
The way of packaging it as a useless cute work at the beginning in the previous life would definitely not work.
Although Nanaya did not intend to make money by making this movie, if he wanted to expand its influence, the movie would definitely be released in Europe and the United States.
If it is packaged as a cute movie and children are tricked into going to the cinema.
Then when the scene of senior Mami turning her head is shown, it will be really funny.
If they get scared, the child protection associations in Europe and the United States might tear down the entire Erque Studio.
These people are the ones who are most unwilling to listen to explanations. Nanaya had already experienced this when he instigated them to cause trouble for the Fox crew.
You should know that in the previous life, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" was once required to add "violent" and "cruel" labels and to increase its rating because of its overly cute appearance and overly cruel story core.
Compared to the Japanese anime censorship agency, the American MPAA is obviously much more stringent.
During the film review process, this hurdle cannot be overcome, and the film will definitely be labeled by the review agency as not suitable for children to watch.
Moreover, Nanaya had no evil taste in scaring children. What he wanted was to make the adults unable to sleep at night after watching the movie.
As for the issue of graded review, it is not a big deal.
The movie called "Venom" that was released a few years later clearly taught Nanaya how to perform a U-turn scene in a non-restricted movie.
This kind of shot, which is on the edge of the restricted censorship line, gave Nanaya a lot of inspiration.
If she really wanted to, Nanaya could have made "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" into a PG-rated movie.
[Should we add some drama to Old Gen? ]
Nanaya looked at Old Gen and was thinking whether he should push this guy to the front.
In fact, in the previous life, the treatment of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" in Japan and China was not exactly the same.
You know, when "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" began to be broadcast, Gen Urobuchi's name already had a certain influence in the Japanese otaku circle.
Whether it is "Saya no Uta" or FZ, his name Urobuchi's "Warrior of Love" has long been well-known in Japan.
In addition, since this anime series is broadcast late at night, many people have basically guessed that the series will definitely develop in a bizarre direction.
For this reason, even though Urobuchi kept saying that this was a "healing" animation, not many people in Japan believed it.
After all, everyone has heard the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Because of his criminal record, everyone just treated Gen Urobuchi as an old man being cute.
Of course, at that time, people were more speculating that the show would at most develop in a gloomy direction, and no one had speculated that it would develop in a curious direction.
However, the situation in China is different from that in Japan. After all, at that time, the Chinese otakus had a relatively superficial understanding of anime.
They thought that this magical girl drama that was broadcast in the late night slot was just a really crappy cute animation.
After all, isn't the truly useless cute anime like "K-ON!" also broadcast in the late night slot?
Then, the Chinese audience was taught a good lesson by Gen Urobuchi.
Nanaya estimated that the biggest reason why Chinese audiences were shocked by the unexpected twist in the third episode of "Madoka Magica" was because Gen was not well-known in China at that time.
Before Madoka Magica, most otakus in China had never heard of Urobuchi.
If you are a fan of Moonlight, you may know that he wrote FZ; and GAL players who are looking for curiosity may have had the opportunity to see "Saya no Uta" and "Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer".
But compared with the fan base of animation, the number of people in these two groups is really too small, not to mention whether people who have watched those works know that they are the works of Gen Urobuchi.
The reason why Chinese audiences followed the series at that time was mainly because of the genius Shinbo who served as the animation director.
This is also because of the information gap.
So when in the third episode, poor senior Mami turned around.
The reaction of Chinese audiences: A character in a crappy animation died! What the hell is this!
The Japanese audience's reaction was: Ah, people finally started dying, let's guess how many will survive in the end.
Of course, it is this contrast that is the main reason why Urobuchi became so popular in the Chinese circle.
Nanaya himself was a little special in his previous life. Before "Madoka Magica", he had read the text of "Saya no Uta" and also read FZ's novel.
But at that time, Nanaya didn't know that the creator of the two stories was the same person.
It would be better to say that Nanaya never paid attention to who created the story.
Perhaps Gen Urobuchi is the most successful otaku screenwriter. After all, he not only changed the interpretation of the word "healing" by his own efforts, but also made everyone remember the name Gen Urobuchi.
This is a very, very rare thing for an editor who is relatively low on the creative team.
Maybe this is the idolization of screenwriters?
Nanaya looked at the uncle sitting in front of him and couldn't help but shudder.
[Forget about calling this guy. ]
Anyway, Nanaya feels that after the second half of FZ is broadcast, some of his titles will not be removed.
It's not the one about [Half-Nanaya], but something like [Death Delivery Machine].
After all, that tragic ending where basically everyone was doomed, plus the "Goblins Slayer" that Nanaya had directed before...
Nanaya suddenly discovered that quite a few people died tragically in his own script.
I wonder if the audience will not be surprised at all when I film "Madoka Magica" in the future about the scene where the senior turns her head?
[Who cares? With my reputation, I can get a lot of attention for Madoka Magica without any gimmicks.]
Rather than being surprised that senior Mami had her head bitten off, Nanaya hoped that after watching the movie, everyone's hearts would be healed by the fate of the girls.
Well, maybe healing would be more appropriate.
[However, the title of "Warrior of Love" should be reserved for Urobuchi himself. ]
Nanaya glanced at the man in front of her, and then told him the setting and core story of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".
I have to say, Gen Urobuchi is Gen Urobuchi.
After hearing Nanaya's description of the setting for "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", he felt like a weasel that had seen a fat hen, and both of his eyes glowed green.
"This story… is really great!"
Old Gen slammed the table hard, completely ignoring the murderous look of the waiter next to him.
"This is simply a perfect story of pure friendship between young girls."
"Forehead..."
Nanaya once again confirmed that Gen Urobuchi's way of thinking was simply different from that of ordinary people.
"If this subject can be written in depth, it can really touch people's hearts."
It seemed that Old Gen didn't hear Nanaya's exclamation. He continued to sigh to himself: "It leaves a deep impression in people's hearts, and then they keep thinking about this story after watching it, and are infected by this story. Let everyone understand the importance of love and hope..."
"Okay, okay, stop talking."
Nanaya quickly interrupted Urobuchi's confession. If he didn't stop this guy immediately, who knows how he would describe this "depressing" story as a "healing" story.
However, seeing how excited Urobuchi was, Nanaya thought of how this guy was jumping around and acting cute on the Internet during the first two episodes of "Madoka Magica".
However, after the third episode was aired, this guy simply gave up on treatment and confessed on Twitter, completely abandoning his previous promise of healing.
[This means that this guy has some idea in mind, right? Or this guy is the kind of guy who knows how the audience will react to his actions, but still does it anyway...]
Nanaya believed it. This guy Gen Urobuchi was definitely a sadistic person.
What a heartwarming work! From the very beginning, the only thing that warmed the heart of this guy Urobuchi was his own!
However, Nanaya's explanation was quite effective, and Kyon's mood suddenly became much brighter.
To him, Nanaya's lecture was no less than divine revelation.
This not only made Kyon realize his current shortcomings in his creative work, but also made him know what path to take in the future.
In Nanaya's opinion, Urobuchi is simply stuck due to a bottleneck in his creative period. Even without Nanaya, Urobuchi should be able to overcome this hurdle on his own.
But Nanaya didn't mind cosplaying as a prophet to improve Urobuchi's favorability.
The only ones who deserve sympathy are probably the players of "?????????".
After all, what they are about to face is a strengthened version of Urobuchi who has been buffed by Nanaya but not put on a bridle by Nanaya.
Just now, Urobuchi has already discussed this with Nana. He will go back to Japan to re-conceive the script of "?????????".
In Urobuchi's own words, he wants every one of his works to be as perfect as possible.
But in Nanaya's eyes, it was obvious that Urobuchi was treating this work as a guinea pig.
Nanaya suddenly felt a little excited. What kind of story would this Old Gen, who was like a horse running free from its reins, write? Would he be able to easily break down the psychological defenses of those players?
However, Nanaya had no intention of trying the game himself. He felt that he only needed to read the players' comments to see how "difficult" other people were.
After all, with Urobuchi's writing skills, even the Happy Ending in "Saya no Uta" cannot make people feel any happiness.
Now with this more powerful version of "?????????", I'm afraid all the endings will end in the end.
Anyway, Nanaya believes that he has completely cured Urobuchi's "inability to write a Happy Ending problem".
Just find any ending written by Urobuchi and label it as Happy Ending.
Isn't this the perfect solution?