Rebirth of the Father of Anime

"When you marry a writer, you can hear sweet words that most people can't think of and can only exist in novels. You can see your own image written into the story of the book. Maybe you can also see your own image being adapted. , appearing on the big screen, how romantic it is - others think of me this way, but I have never heard those touching sweet words from your mouth, although they will also appear as the protagonist in your novels , but in the end I will inevitably end up with a tragic death... If you don’t like me, why did you marry me! Stop talking sweet words. If I want to watch a movie with you, I have to beg you to go out. You just stay at home and die! "

A young and beautiful girl exuding youthful vitality scolded a man wearing glasses, slightly chubby, and giving off a bookish and elegant air.

"Those you are talking about are romance novels. I am a writer of mystery and suspense novels. I can tell horror stories anytime I want, but I really can't pronounce those lines. Besides, the heroines in my books basically have to die. , I didn’t want to write about you, but you insist on letting me write, what can I do..."

This man is Liang Xiaoqiu, a mystery novel writer.

In the past two years, due to He Chen's indirect or direct reasons, the world of mystery novels has once again shown great vitality and great changes. Comics use a form of expression that is more intuitive, but different from TV, which can only follow the director's script. It is between text novels that give people room for imagination and TV that gives people visual impact, so that this kind of subject matter shines. The extraordinary charm has gone from being unpopular to now. Although it has not yet become a mainstream hit, it is definitely not unpopular either.

The author feels the most obvious about this. Their income has increased very intuitively and significantly.

Newly added comics and animation conversion channels. Even if the original popularity remains unchanged. It’s also an extra income for no reason. What's more, after the comics and animations were broadcast, they also greatly promoted the sales and fame of their own novels... This part of the influence even made some people who like the expression of comics directly switch careers. Become a suspense cartoonist.

Moreover, there are game adaptations that had extremely low chances in the past. Due to the limitations of the subject matter itself, unless it is a very good horror theme, it is basically impossible to adapt a general type of suspense reasoning game. This is exactly the same dilemma that romance genres face now - if this kind of plot-based work is adapted into a game, how should players play it?

Tianman's galgame pointed the way for everyone. Although Tianman has not released such a galgame, the savvy businessmen immediately saw the possibility.

Taking advantage of the galgame boom, they immediately launched this galgame - in theory, they shouldn't call it a galgame, it's a visual novel.

In a normal galgame, players make choices based on character settings and attack the characters.

And this is for players to make spontaneous judgments based on the content prompted by the previous plot text or screen. Reason and ultimately make a choice. Explore this suspenseful story.

The sales volume of the game is average and the production cost is low (generally galgames have to hire a lot of dubbing, but this type of game has very little dependence on this, and there is no need to hire big names. Even if you want to save money, you can let the company employees directly do the dubbing) , it still has a good profit.

Moreover, the fan loyalty is very high, and it is very popular among players who love reasoning.

This is also the only game type that was barely affected by Tianman’s two attacks on galgame.

Liang Xiaoqiu is one of the authors who has closely followed the footsteps of Tianman and Porter and has benefited greatly from this change.

Although he himself did not switch to comics, he combined the expression techniques of comics with the expression techniques of traditional mystery novels to form a suspense reasoning style that focuses on atmosphere creation and has a strong sense of picture.

Afterwards, he adapted comic strips from three short stories in a row, and confirmed movie plans, which made him famous.

He also met his wife when he was writing these short stories. Although they didn't get along for a long time, they had a very good relationship.

He is rather boring, perhaps because he has written too much in this genre. He has many thoughts in his mind but is too lazy to express them verbally. His wife has a very sunny personality and likes to talk. Maybe it was because being with her made him feel relaxed and moved, so he had a flash marriage with her.

I'm currently preparing for a novella, and because I'm so busy, I haven't spent much time with my wife.

And his wife also saw that he was always under a lot of pressure recently, and she couldn't write novels, so she couldn't help him in this regard, so she took advantage of this day to take him out shopping to change his mood.

This trivial scolding also added a bit of fun between the two.

As a mystery and suspense writer, Liang Xiaoqiu is very good at understanding people's hearts. After talking to his wife for a while, he immediately became happy.

Now is both the Christmas season and the Lunar New Year season. For Chinese audiences, it is the most "exhilarating" time of the year.

After glancing at the screening list, the audience was dazzled by the gathering of celebrities, various well-known directors, excellent screenwriters, etc. They wanted to watch every work, but they never learned the art of avatar.

Liang Xiaoqiu suddenly saw a familiar scene, smiled slightly, and said to his wife: "Just look at it!"

""Countdown to Heaven"?" My wife muttered as she looked at the name, "It's the theatrical version of "Conan", eh! That's it!"

If nothing else, the name of the porter is enough for people to choose it.

This work also has a very important meaning to Liang Xiaoqiu, and his wife also likes this work. She is familiar with the wonderful cases in it and talked about it with Liang Xiaoqiu for a long time.

At the beginning of the movie, the production is as excellent as ever. With 3D glasses, the 3D movie can show an immersive and realistic effect just by relying on "painting" and "special effects". This ultimate enjoyment makes Liang Xiaoqiu feel like watching it every time. I can't help but be amazed.

The story is also the same as always, with a unique "Conan" riddle appearing at the beginning.

"What should I call my forty-fourth birthday? Xiaoqiu, don't you write about mystery? You can definitely guess it!"

However, Liang Xiaoqiu was disappointed with his wife's expectations: "The background of this story is an island country... The reasoning model should use the language and culture of the island country, and I don't understand this. You see, Dr. A Li also said, the hint is that this is written by a It consists of kanji and three katakana, and the character longevity can be ignored. Do you know what katakana is?"

His wife immediately expressed contempt for Liang Xiaoqiu, and Liang Xiaoqiu chuckled.

"Conan" is a background setting, which itself is a hint. If you can look up the information, it is easy to guess.

This trick is also commonly used in the suspense reasoning genre, which is more difficult than "Conan" - using the inertial thinking errors caused by language and cultural differences to arrange suspense.

For example, among counterparts in Europe and the United States, mysterious Chinese things often appear. Here, Chinese language and culture are used to set up suspense.

Liang Xiaoqiu can speak English and German and has used this method before, but he doesn't know Japanese and can't guess at all.

Dr. Ali soon revealed the answer to the mystery. In the context of the island country here, the mystery was also mixed with English.

This insignificant episode made Liang Xiaoqiu admire He Chen even more - from the works that have appeared so far, regardless of the content, just the languages ​​covered show that the porter is proficient in more than 5 languages, and most of them are proficient in more than 5 languages. I was so immersed in his unrestrained stories that I didn't even notice this.

In Liang Xiaoqiu's view, this is no longer the category of genius, but a monster.

At the very beginning of the story, a very important suspense was left for the audience: Yuan Tai went to the toilet at night and found that Haihara Ai was on the phone. The content of the phone call was also very strange. At the same time, the scene in the movie was cut to the point so far. The biggest and most mysterious villain in "Conan" and the mastermind behind it - the Black Organization, they hung up the phone and said "they have their whereabouts."

The audience was suddenly shocked and confused: Could it be that Hui Yuan Ai has contacted the organization again?

It is really an extremely strange scene that makes the audience have to think about that aspect.

Especially when Yuan Tai asked Hui Yuan Ai strangely the next day, Hui Yuan Ai denied this statement with an uneasy expression.

It casts a shadow in the hearts of the audience: Haihara Ai's popularity has been close to that of Xiaolan since her appearance. She even surpassed Xiaolan in popularity in the island country. Such a character who is loved by countless people will The black-clad organization that killed their sister was regarded as a life-and-death enemy, but their attitude suddenly changed. They contacted the black-clad organization and seemed to be harming Shinichi. This was really hard for them to accept. This sudden change made them feel... It feels like I missed several episodes of the story.

Could it be said that this Hui Yuan Ai is fake?

Faced with his wife's doubtful inquiry, Liang Xiaoqiu finally found his place, and immediately denied this statement: "Absolutely not! Even ignoring this obvious logical problem, from the perspective of the presentation technique of suspense stories, if If it is guessed by most of the audience, then it must be a failure... This is a problem that only third-rate writers will make. Masters will never do this. An excellent expression technique is to rely on a kind of induction while giving clues. The sexual performance caused the audience to make wrong guesses and inferences. When the truth was revealed, they discovered that the clues had already been given, but they just didn't notice it. This is an excellent mystery and suspense work that should give the audience The feeling. The master must have deliberately used this crossover technique that is effective in film and television to create this misleading effect."

Reasonable and convincing.

His wife looked at Liang Xiaoqiu with admiration, which made him feel extremely satisfied.

I also have some new inspiration for the works I am conceiving. (To be continued...) ()