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The protagonist’s name is Ouyang Xiaofeng.

According to the law of name determines attribute in Chinese comics, it can be seen from the character Maple that this guy belongs to the wind attribute.

What hair color matches the wind attribute?

Normally, red and blue are the standard configuration of the protagonist. After all, animation must highlight the protagonist at all times. If you change the hair color of a passerby, the audience may ignore the protagonist.

This is the mainstream!

However, Pinball Legend is a counter-mainstream animation. What the hell red and blue are standard, I will use brown and black. If you don’t accept it, hold on!

There is a very interesting fact!

In Pinball Legend, both the supporting characters and the villains have very exaggerated hairstyles and colors. Only the protagonist Xiao Feng has a passer-like hairstyle and color.

in a sense……

Everyone is very exaggerated, but you look like a passerby, which also achieves the function of highlighting the protagonist in disguise.

The production team is really amazing!

There is something about visual beauty, and this kind of operation is more practical than the traditional routine of the protagonist is flashy and the supporting role is passerby.

Xiaofeng is a wind attribute!

According to the settings, there are so-called pinball elves in this pinball world. Xiaofeng’s marble elf is the “Babu Bird” that many people are familiar with.

Soar! Bubble Bird!

Maybe every pinball boy has dreamed of being able to ride the sacred pinball fighter together with Babu Bird to save the world.

Although I don’t want to admit it, but...

Meng Lang also had a similar dream!

Bubble Bird is so handsome, so handsome that he is so handsome. When he was watching animation at that time, his favorite among Pinball Elf was Babu Bird.

The ice skin frog is pretty good too!

After all, it is Hai Xiaomei's pinball elf, and it has a little bit of the BUFF blessing of the goddess pet. The more you look at it, the more pleasing it becomes.

Of course, the villain is not bad either.

Although elves such as mantises, poisonous snakes, and wolves can easily scare people, the production team has really put their heart into it in terms of styling design.

It's a pity that the toys are not selling well...

This is not because Meng Lang is bluffing, but it is an obvious fact. The original version of Pinball Legend was created by Yangcheng Tianbei Toy Company in conjunction with Shimei. From the beginning, it was focused on selling toys.

As a result, animation became popular!

Not many toys were sold!

Because it had been so long, Meng Lang couldn't remember the situation clearly. Anyway, he only remembers that when Pinball Legend was the most popular, everyone was playing marbles, but few people bought Pinball Fighter.

This phenomenon shows...

This work was indeed very successful, but the producer failed to go it alone and benefited other marble manufacturers in vain. No one bought the Pinball Fighter that we mainly promoted.

Perhaps this is also the reason why Pinball Legend has not released a second season even though it is very popular.

After all, it feels really bad to make someone else’s wedding dress after working so hard. If you were an investor, you wouldn't want to film a second season.

The animation has a good reputation and good ratings!

But what's the use?

Aren't we just doing this animation to sell toys? If the toys can’t be sold, who will film a second season?

Similar examples abound.

Countless works such as The Legend of Pinball, Song Dynasty Football Players, Go Boy, Cosmic Star God, etc. have achieved good results. Unfortunately, the toy peripherals could not be developed, and investors were disheartened, which led to difficulties in producing a sequel.

Ultimately, it's because of money.

If it can make money, even if it's a little less, someone will be enthusiastic about making a sequel. But if you don’t make money, and you even pay for it, who would do it?

Feelings cannot be eaten!

The original Pinball Legends did suffer from this problem. It is true that the investors did not make any money and were frustrated.

But the PD version is different.

The difference here does not mean that the setting and plot are different, but that the market environment is different.

Copyright protection in this world is perfect, and PD has registered the Marbles trademark and intellectual property rights. Although other manufacturers can also make glass balls, you can't call them marbles.

It is also a glass ball. You can call it exploding ball, rolling ball or even Menghei ball. No matter how weird it is, no one will care about you. But you can't call it Marbles because Marbles are unique to PD.

This is where Meng Lang's confidence lies.

Although marbles cannot be registered as a patent, others are restricted from imitating them. After all, small glass beads have no technical content to speak of. If PD can do it, other manufacturers can naturally do it too.

But he got the name Marble!

Moreover, there is one more crucial point. In this world, glass beads have no other achievements in the field of toys except checkers.

This gave him a chance.

As long as he takes the lead in making a name for himself and running the Marbles brand. By the time those in the industry realized what they were doing and started doing exploding ball rolling, marbles had already become popular.

Make a time difference!

This time difference does not need to be too long, maybe one month is enough. After all, the speed at which a toy becomes popular is truly astonishing.

Loss is impossible.

Meng Lang is very confident about the Pinball Legend project. After discussion at the meeting, he gave an SS rating.

Quite a high level!

Starting this year, PD has implemented the SSS ~ D level project rating mechanism. The higher the rating, the more financial budget, group resource tilt, human support can be obtained, and the higher the confidentiality level will be.

Generally speaking, there are only two or three SSS students in a year. For example, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX is the first SSS-level project this year.

SS level is already a regular project, the highest level that can be rated! Judging from this rating, the group will definitely do its best to support it, and funding and manpower are not a problem.

Of course, PD animation does not lack these.

Whether it's manpower or funds, they can solve it themselves. The biggest benefit brought by the project being determined to be SS-level mainly comes from the later publicity.

In addition to Pinball Legend, another work - Ultra Monster Musume was also discussed at this meeting.

Compared to Pinball Legend, Ultra Musume's rating is much lower, only A-level. After all, this work is mainly for fans welfare and is not produced to make money, so the priority is not high.

but……

Although it is only A-level, the resources Ultra Musume receives are no worse than S-level projects. It’s the same as asking for money to give money, asking for people to give to others, and you will still have what you should have.

After all, this is a project that Mr. Meng cares about.

In his own words, although Ultra Monster Girls won't make much money, it can only sell figurines. However, this work can win over many two-dimensional audiences and expand the influence of the Ultraman IP.

So, it's still very important.

PD Animation's work this year roughly revolves around Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Pinball Legend and Ultra Monster Girls.

As for PD Film and Television, the situation is a bit complicated...

Except for Ultraman Dyna which is about to be completed and Metal Hero Jibon which is about to be launched, PD Film and Television does not seem to have any blockbuster projects in the new year.

This is so embarrassing!

I have something to do tonight, so I’ll update it in advance.