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As we all know, PD Group has three main pillars: Ultraman series, Kamen Rider series and Super Sentai series.

Compared with its brothers, the Super Sentai series has been outside the East Asian cultural circle for many years, so its reputation is not obvious.

But that doesn’t mean Super Sentai can’t do it!

In fact, this IP is very profitable.

Because PD Group is not a listed company, it has no obligation to publish financial reports on a regular basis. Therefore, when many media and fans talk about PD works, they subconsciously ignore Super Sentai.

Can't blame them.

The Super Sentai series is produced and distributed by PD (North America). It is well-known in Europe and the United States, but it has little presence in East Asia.

Until PD Printing and Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PD Group that specializes in audio-visual book publishing business, joined forces with many institutions around the world to jointly launch the Pengda IP Index Ranking...

Everyone was shocked to find out that Super Sentai is so powerful?

Ranked higher than Ultraman and Kamen Rider! Is there something wrong with the statistics, but this is PD's own list?

Okay, I don’t understand.

It was not until Mengzi paid attention to this matter and explained the reason to everyone through Weibo that the truth gradually emerged.

It turns out that PD’s so-called “IP index” is composed of a variety of data. These include “impact,” “profitability,” “future prospects,” and more.

And here, Super Sentai is really fierce!

Whether it is profitability or future prospects, they are all better than Ultraman and Kamen Rider, which fans are optimistic about.

This is not difficult to understand.

The influence is indeed a little worse, but the profitability is way ahead of the curve, and the future prospects are excellent, so the overall score is definitely high.

When it comes to future prospects, one word must be mentioned: stable!

Ultraman is awesome!

Kamen Rider is also very powerful!

But these two IPs are not stable enough. Running fast is not a win, but not falling is success. The victory of a super team lies in its stability. Who is not optimistic about its future prospects?

Of course, the team also has problems.

As Ultraman and Kamen Rider successively announced their goals for the new year, when Max and Sword were launched, the team made no moves.

Don’t they have any new works?

Certainly not!

Meng Lang called Kent and asked him. He said that this year's new work plan has been completed and will definitely be broadcast as scheduled.

But the problem is, they are confused!

Robert told me that if the Super Sentai series wants to become global and popular, the first thing that must be abandoned is the naming format.

Name format?

Meng Lang was confused at first, but he understood when Kent told him that the team decided to abandon the original naming tradition and name the new game Super Sentai: Power Rangers.

This is about rebuilding mountains and rivers!

In previous Sentai series works, the prefix Super Sentai has never been added. The format is not uniform enough either. xx team xx company members, super xx/xx team xx people, xx team and the like have all been used.

This is not a good thing!

As a mature tokusatsu IP series, at least it must have a conspicuous and eye-catching title format so that the audience can know what series you are talking about at a glance.

for example!

The format of Ultraman's drama titles went through the chaotic period of the first generation of Ultraman, Seven's Ultra Seven and Jack's The Return of Ultraman, and the format of Ultraman XX was quickly determined. .

Kamen Rider did the best, there was almost no chaotic period, and the title of the drama was particularly unified, all in the format of Kamen Rider XXX.

How eye-catching this format is!

Apart from anything else, as long as the title of the show is Ultraman xxx or Kamen Rider XXX, the audience will know what the show should be like.

On the other hand, Super Sentai has been given random names over the years, making it hard to tell them apart.

A unified format is also good!

Meng Lang was quite supportive of this matter. However, he still has a somewhat immature view on the format.

The format of Super Sentai: Sentai XX is correct, but it seems a bit long as a drama title?

Nine words!

Can you shorten a few words?

If the title of the play is too long, wordy and meaningless, it can easily arouse complaints and resentment from the audience.

It’s best to simplify it appropriately!

After repeated thinking, Meng Lang also specially set up a discussion group and invited Bai Cang, Yan Tao, George and Robert to discuss it.

Final confirmation!

For the Super Sentai series, the future title format will be unified as Super Sentai. If the theme is interesting, you can also change it to Super XXX Sentai!

For example...

For example, PD North America Division has already prepared a new drama that is about to start shooting. Since the theme is dinosaurs, it can be named Power Rangers or Power Rangers!

Six words, simple and easy to understand.

It not only retains the Super and Team, but also highlights the theme of the game. It is catchy, easy to remember, and has basically no shortcomings.

Of course, it can be simplified further.

It is also possible to remove the prefix and use XX Team as the name directly.

But this is too crude!

After the format was determined, this year's new work in the Super Sentai series was officially named Super Sentai.

Speaking of this work...

Meng Lang received the draft plan and studied it carefully for a long time. He concluded that it was quite interesting!

The plan was drafted by Robert.

He was born in the early 1990s, just in time to catch up with the dinosaur craze launched by the great director Spielberg, and he also read the novel of the same name Cretaceous Park.

He has a special affection for dinosaurs!

The story told in this game is the story of the confrontation between the dinosaur guardian beast and the evil force Pandora.

Although it is called Power Rangers, there are not only dinosaurs in the team, but also saber-toothed tigers and mammoths.

There are five types of dinosaurs!

Taking into account the audience's preferences, Robert selected five unique and representative dinosaurs, namely Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Pterosaurus, Allosaurus and Brontosaurus.

Except for the Brontosaurus, all other beasts have dedicated team members. The reason why there is no Brontosaurus is also very simple.

It's a mount beast!

A major feature of the team's works is the color differentiation of the protagonist's jersey. Although the animals are different, Power Rangers still uses the color system.

Tyrannosaurus rex is red anyway!

With that said, everyone who understands understands.

Each team member has his own weapon, including swords, axes, guns and bows. The setting of summoning guardian beasts and combining them to become a beast-god robot is also an old tradition.

all in all……

This is a work that lacks novelty but is full of sincerity. Moreover, this work is also the origin of the American version of the Sentai era, the first remake of Power Rangers.

Compared to its predecessor, Power Rangers, Power Rangers may be less brilliant, but more solid.

It can be seen from the background of the times.

During the production of Birdman, Toei was almost desperate for the series, and they agreed to split up and break up after filming Birdman.

As a result, the Birdman team turned the tide!

The Super Sentai series has been preserved. As a post-disaster reconstruction team, the Power Rangers cannot take risks and have to make every step steadily.

Otherwise, what if something goes wrong again and Toei yells Elder brother, let's share the luggage again?

Solid and stable!

This is Meng Lang's evaluation of the Power Rangers, and it is also his evaluation of Robert.

The guy is pretty good!

He did not mess around as soon as he took office, but gradually improved himself based on the foundation laid by his predecessors, which made him very happy.

This is like a successor!

Take a look at the Kamen Rider next door. Shirakura took over and overturned tradition immediately and took risks to create an Ultraman Guga.

So is George in Europe.

He did some extravagant work and produced a SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon as soon as he took office. How big a risk was this?

Although they all succeeded...

But what if it fails? Who will pay for the losses?

Therefore, Meng Lang did not appreciate them.

High returns also mean high risks. PD is no longer the small workshop it once was. How can we bet our career at every turn?

He admired Omori and Robert.

These two people are calm and steady, and will definitely be the mainstay in assisting the young master in the future. As for people like George Bai Cang... they can conquer the world, but they can't sit on it!

Thinking of this, Meng Lang was also very sorry.

Although he led the PD Group to unprecedented new heights. But among the people who conquered the world with him, few had the ability to govern the world.

He needs Cook, not Jobs.

This is very annoying!

After sighing, Meng Lang decided not to think about these things.

Anyway, the days are still long and Xiaotao is still young. The future will be decided by the future, so why worry about it?

Just in time, the celebration party began.

Since the release of Legend of the Galaxy, it has been on a rampage and finally achieved a total global box office of US$1.147 billion.

The celebration banquet promised by Meng Lang was also held at Jiangchuan Golden Horse Hotel.

There were many guests in attendance.

In addition to friends from the entertainment industry, an uninvited guest also came to the scene.

Li Xinglong!

His arrival was surprising.

Let me ask you in the entire film and television industry, who doesn’t know that Li Xinglong and Meng Lang have conflicts?

When the two of them worked together to prepare Warrior in Golden Armor, people were already wondering, is the sun rising in the west?

I didn't expect him to come!

This is a celebration banquet held by PD Film and Television. Why is Li Xinglong here? It can't be a happy birthday, right?

What's the meaning?

After listening to Li Xinglong's words, Meng Lang said in surprise: Are you addicted to shopping?

This guy is simply whimsical!

Perhaps the successful redemption of the copyright for Warrior in Golden Armor gave him the illusion that Meng Heizhu is easy to talk to.

This time, he actually wanted to buy the copyright to Armor Warrior.

How can this be sold?

Although Meng Lang was blinded by money, he still had his own judgment.

Warrior in Golden Armor was sold to Li Xinglong because it made no money and there was no point in holding it.

Can the Armored Warrior be the same?

This is a series!

Even if Nava ends, there are still many sequels to this series. One movie a year is too exaggerated. It’s okay to make a new movie every two or three years, right?

There was no way he could sell.

Don't even think about it. This is not a question of money. Besides, can't you create your own IP? Why do you always want to buy it?

Original…

Li Xinglong's face turned dark.

If he can create a successful IP, then he definitely wants to create it! The problem is, after spending so much money and countless efforts, we still haven’t come up with an original IP. What should we do?

It's like Disney.

I spent countless amounts of money to have a child, but all the results were messy. On the contrary, I went to other people's homes to adopt children, which was very rewarding.

Then have children?

Give birth to a hammer and adopt it directly!

Li Xinglong’s idea is similar to that of Disney. Since my genes are not good enough and I cannot give birth to a beautiful child, then I will go to Lao Meng's house next door to adopt one.

Anyway, you have many children, what’s wrong with giving one to me?

Get out of here, hurry up!

Lao Meng next door is rich and powerful, so he can't afford to raise his children. Since you can keep it yourself, why give it to others? If you can take care of yourself, don't bother me!

Li Xinglong returned home in despair.

He was lectured by Lao Meng next door, and his mind was filled with the idea that it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on Lao Meng, relying on heaven and earth.

I'm very unhappy, but I can't find a reason to refute it.

Lao Meng is right. If you can't have a baby, go to the hospital for a checkup. Modern medicine is so advanced that it can always solve the problem.

He can also have babies!

Moreover, Lao Meng also said.

It doesn't matter if the child is ugly when he is born, cultivate it slowly. When you grow up, you might become handsome!

This actually inspired Li Xinglong.

Looking back on the past, he can be said to have made quite a few works and produced a lot of crooked melons and cracked dates.

So……

Among this group of crooked melons and cracked jujubes, are there any children worth cultivating who will become female girls in the future?

There must be some!

Meng Lang didn't know what Li Xinglong was thinking.

But not long after the celebration banquet ended, he saw on Weibo that Li Xinglong announced the news of restarting the Warrior series.

Finally found my original intention!

Ma Teng clicked his tongue and said, I have long said that if I persist in developing the warrior series, I will become famous sooner or later, but he didn't believe it.

It's simple...

Meng Lang rolled his eyes and Ma Teng said, It's like, everyone knows the importance of studying, but how many people study seriously?

Sometimes, the road to success is right in front of you. You know you will succeed if you take this road, but the road ahead is full of thorns, and you always want to change the direction and take shortcuts...

If you take this shortcut, you may be further and further away from success.

It doesn't matter what Li Xinglong does.

Even if he really becomes famous and promotes the Warrior series, it has nothing to do with Meng Lang.

He just feels...

This guy is so stupid!

Is the road ahead full of thorns? Then put on a pair of shoes before walking! Or drive a tank? Who told you to walk barefoot?

Completely hopeless!

Meng Lang had no expectations for the rebooted Warrior series. Instead of looking forward to this, it is better to look forward to the second season of Yarang.

The tooth wolf is quite miserable!

The quality is quite good, but due to reasons such as being too large, it was scheduled to be broadcast in the late night slot.

Therefore, it is not well-known.

The consequence of low popularity is that toy sales are not strong, and the company can only rely on industries such as Pachinko to continue to make money.

Poor blood recovery ability directly led to difficulties in producing a sequel.

PD is not Tohoku News Agency!

To be precise, PD has financial resources that are not inferior to those of Northeastern News Agency, and its investment is no less stingy than Northeastern News Agency.

But the standard of the sequel was very high, and it left the legend that Meng Tsai can't count to two.

for example.

PD can invest heavily in a drama and let you spend money as you wish. As long as the expenditure is reasonable, Mengzi will definitely support it.

But you want to make a sequel?

Then you have to look through the company's financial report to see how much revenue your IP has created for the company, and then decide whether to shoot it based on market conditions.

And Yalang has difficulty making profits...

It was not until December last year that President Ono approved the production application for the second season of Yarang.