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A criticism meeting was held.

The executives of PD Toys received a bonus deduction penalty one after another, which was regarded as self-imposed punishment of three cups, and the matter was revealed.

Meng Lang finally calmed down.

After all, we are all brothers. There is no need to engage in internal strife all day long just for a little profit. If you have this time, you might as well think about how to improve your business level.

Besides...

PD lacks everything except IP. There are a lot of profitable IPs to grab, so there is no need to hang on to the magic building blocks.

Meng Lang, who was well versed in the truth of carrot and stick, after teaching the top management of PD Toys, he also showed them a clear path.

PD Animation has launched a new project recently. You can pay more attention to it. As expected, the toys derived from this project will not be much worse than the magic building blocks.

Really?

of course it's true!

Okay, let's go study it now. By the way, Mr. Meng, what's the name of the new project? Why haven't we heard of it?

Pinball Legends!

Meng Lang rubbed his eyebrows and said, The project has just been established not long ago, so it's normal that you haven't heard of it.

Marbles…marbles…

Everyone murmured and asked curiously: Why is it a cartoon again? Wouldn't it be good to make it into a live-action drama?

I also think live-action dramas are better.

Look at Yu-Gi-Oh!, it's going to be remade into a live-action drama. If the new project has great potential, just hit it right in one step and make it into a live-action drama!

Yu-Gi-Oh! A live-action remake?

Meng Lang asked in surprise: Where did you get the news? Why don't you even know about it?

Mr. Meng, don't you know?

Everyone was talking: This is what Director Wang revealed. He said that Transformers have become real people. Yu-Gi-Oh is not far away.

Wang Kui is such a bad mouther!

After Meng Lang dismissed everyone, he quickly called Wang Kui and asked, Who told you that Yu-Gi-Oh! is going to be adapted into a live-action version?

Everyone thinks so!

After being scolded for no reason, Wang Kui seemed aggrieved and hesitated on the phone: Live-action dramas are adapted into animations, and animations are adapted into live-action dramas. This is our long-standing path. There is no reason that Yu-Gi-Oh! will be an exception, right?

Is this a matter of exceptions?

This is the problem of yeqingjie!

There is indeed some truth to the saying that everything can be realized. No matter what kind of animation it is, as long as the popularity is high enough, the producers will definitely dare to start a live-action version.

It’s the same all over the world!

Transformers in North America is a relatively successful precedent, and Neon's Detective Conan and Prince of Tennis are also pretty good.

As for domestic...

There don’t seem to be many successful examples of animated adaptations of live-action dramas. On the contrary, the game modification, novel modification and manga modification have produced many excellent works.

When Meng Lang was filming the Anti-Japanese War drama, I heard that The Legend of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit was also going to be adapted into a live-action drama. It's a pity that before he saw the finished film, there was no one left.

The mutual adaptation of animation and live-action dramas is an industry trend. As a beneficiary, Meng Lang would naturally not resist this matter.

He just felt it.

The play is not nonsense, and the adaptation is not random fabrication. Some works may really not be suitable for live-action dramas/animations, and forcibly changing them may be counterproductive.

Of course, Yu-Gi-Oh can change it.

The reason why he scolded Wang Kui was not because Yu-Gi-Oh! is not suitable for adapting live-action dramas. But he felt that there was something wrong with Wang Kui's thinking. He was in the prime of life and wanted to rest on his laurels?

That's right!

In Meng Lang's view, adapting animations to live-action dramas, or live-action dramas to animations, is resting on one's laurels.

If PD lacks the ability to innovate, it really won’t be able to produce new works. He wouldn't say anything if he rested on his laurels like this.

But now there are so many new PD projects that it’s hard to keep up. Resting on one's laurels at this time would seem foolish.

After his reminder, Wang Kui also realized his mistake.

Everything can be transformed into a real person, right!

Do it now, wrong!

There may be a live-action adaptation of Yu-Gi-Oh! in the future, but it is definitely not possible now. As for when it will be in the future, Meng Lang is not sure.

Maybe ten years later, Yu-Gi-Oh! is no longer popular, and PD will launch a live-action version to extend the life of the IP. It may also be that twenty years later, the little black pig succeeded to the throne and in order to consolidate his reputation, he deliberately stirred up a wave of cold rice...

Everything is possible!

After saying this, Meng Lang suddenly remembered that there was no news about a task assigned to Wang Kui at the end of last year. How is the progress now?

Ultra Monster Girl?

When Wang Kui heard this word, he was speechless and said: Mr. Meng, this is not my intention to delay time. In fact, every character image needs to be carefully considered and discussed before it can be determined, otherwise there will be big problems!

This is true...

Ultra Monster Musume released the news of animation and manga pre-order a year ago. But until now, only two-thirds of the character drawings have been completed, and the progress can be described as slow.

But there's nothing we can do about it.

The design of each Ultra Girl or Monster Girl's character image requires several rounds of discussions before being finalized. After the sketch is drawn, it must be posted to solicit fans’ opinions.

If fans are generally dissatisfied, it will have to be torn down and redrawn.

As time goes by, time is lost.

Wang Kui did his best.

The early first generation, Zoffie, Seven, Jack and Ace, including Ultraman and TV Monster, have all been transformed into girls. There are only a few characters left, such as Taro, Leo and Eddie, who have not yet come up with plans to make them girly.

According to his estimate, Ultra Monster Girls will complete the first phase of image design in June next year, that is, 2023, start animation production, and broadcast at the end of the year.

After flipping through the design drawings in his mailbox, Meng Lang pondered, I think, since the amount of the project is so huge, we don't need to finish it all at once, but rather solve it in stages, wouldn't it be good?

what do you mean?

Now the first generation and Seven, all monsters have become girls, right?

right!

That's it...

Meng Lang pondered: The first season of the Ultra Monster Girl animation will be made first, with 12 episodes planned in the early stage. In this season, there will only be the first generation and Seven, and no other Ultraman will appear.

Looking back to the second season, new characters Jack and Ace will be added, and new monsters will also be added. In this way, every time we complete a stage, the animation will be updated for another season. What do you think?

Can!

Wang Kui, who was on the other end of the phone, took a note to write down Mr. Meng's speech and asked casually: In that case, the comic will also maintain the same progress and be released in stages?

right!

The comics will also be released in stages.

Okay, I took note of it!

Wang Kui closed the book and asked on the phone: Now there is only one question, what kind of plot should be used to connect the different stages?

The original plan is definitely no longer needed.

After all, in the original plot, all Ultraman appeared at the same time. Now that it has appeared in stages, the plot will naturally have to be changed.

This... I couldn't explain it clearly on the phone. Come to my house tonight and let's sit down and have a good chat!