Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 326 Turmoil
Originally, Su Yan's works produced throughout the year were basically light-hearted and joyful.

Including Weathering With You, although many viewers criticized the ending of the male protagonist for being selfish, willing Tokyo to be submerged by decades of heavy rain in order to survive for the woman he loves, they also have to admit that this ending is definitely a good one.

It's a happy ending for the protagonist and the audience who identify with the protagonist.

I won’t talk about the previous ones, I really want to tell you and fsn. The fsn shot by Su Yan included the final ending of the game. Although Altria returned to her era, her soul was silent. After endless years, Altria’s heroic spirit and Shirou Emiya’s heroic spirit reunited in the utopia.

Several consecutive works have had good endings, which has made many viewers forget Su Yan’s style in the past few years.

Although Shirley is only a supporting character in Code Geass, if Su Yan had let her die directly in the plot arrangement, the audience might not have experienced her emotional breakdown between being caught between her father and the person she loves, and finally Lelouch used his power to erase her memory of himself.

“It’s a bit uncomfortable!”

"I cried. Actually, I have always been a CC fan, but I really feel sorry for Xia Li tonight."

"Last week I was still criticizing her for forgetting her father's revenge for the person she loves. Love... If I were her, I would have a hard time making the decision, too."

"Su Yan is real. Is this kind of plot necessary? I think it would be better if Shirley was given a quick death. If she really made up her mind to kill Lelouch, and then was killed by CC, I would feel better. This plot really hurts me."

"The part at the end where Lelouch talked to Shirley, who had forgotten him, really made me cry. They were someone they loved so much, but they no longer recognized each other when they met face to face."

"Alas, Su Yan is really the best in Xia Country in creating such uncomfortable plots!"

"Isn't this drama full of knives? I've always watched it as a fun drama!"

"It shouldn't be that serious, right? How else can he be killed? Lelouch was able to kill his half brother. In fact, the only people he cares about in the world are his sister Nunnally and his childhood friend Shirley. Now that Shirley is offline, if he wants to kill again, he can only use Nunnally."

"It shouldn't be that serious. If Nunnally dies, Lelouch's life will be a failure. He rebelled against the Britannian Empire just to create a world where his sister can live in peace, without being threatened by his royal status and his dictatorial emperor father. If Nunnally dies, Lelouch's life will be a failure regardless of whether the revolution succeeds or not."

"The seventh episode has a viewership rating of 6.7%. Although a bunch of people on the forums are criticizing Su Yan, the viewership ratings don't lie. The old thief's works always have the highest viewership ratings when these episodes are broadcast!"

Throughout the whole day, fans of Code Geass continued to discuss the drama, and this was one of the most touching plots in the first episode of Code Geass that touched the audience.

But this is just the beginning.

Over the next two weeks, the plot of Code Geass Season 1 has clearly accelerated.

The eighth episode can be considered as a revenge plot of Lelouch, where Mao takes advantage of Shirley's inner weakness, causing her to lose control of her emotions and causing Lelouch to lose his best friend.

But his ability to read minds also prevents Lelouch from using his wisdom. After all, he knows everything Lelouch is thinking. In addition, he is a person whose geass ability has gone out of control, so Lelouch's ability is ineffective against him.

To this end, Lelouch defeated Mao by using geass on himself, making plans in advance, but then using the geass ability to make himself forget his plans.

The character Mao is more like a side plot for this drama, but through this character, some of CC's past deeds and the setting that Geass can get out of control are dug up.

Originally, the ability to read minds should be something that can be controlled freely and used only when one wants to. However, Mao overused this ability and became unable to turn it off. He became mentally ill because he was forced to hear other people's thoughts every day.

The audience didn't have much thought when they saw this, they just thought Mao was just an unlucky guy. No one expected that the setting of the tragic character in this side story would be a big foreshadowing for the next plot.

Soon, the ninth episode of Code Geass was aired. The plot of this episode mainly revolved around Lelouch's incarnation Zero, who crashed into an isolated island together with Suzaku, Kallen, and his half-sister Euphemia during the battle with the Britannian Empire.

Here, Lelouch and his sister Euphemia recognized each other, and the two quarreled because of their different ideas. Lelouch believed that the dictatorship of Britannia led to the tragic fate of himself and his sister Nunnally, while Euphemia believed that the resistance war launched by Lelouch under the pseudonym Zero was only causing more innocent people to sacrifice.

Generally speaking, no one is wrong, but up to this point, Lelouch is Zero's identity. In addition to CC, Euphemia also knows it, which makes many viewers feel that something is wrong.

This half-sister actually knew something that even her biological sister Nunnally didn't know. Su Yan's plot arrangement is quite weird. Isn't he afraid that Euphemia will report Lelouch?
After all, the Governor Clovia who Lelouch killed in the first episode was Euphemia's brother from the same mother!

For two consecutive weeks, after the broadcast of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, the ratings approached the 6.8% mark.

Up to now, it can be said that every increase in ratings is a feat of breaking new records within the limits.

In the Internet age, a large number of residents do not have time to watch TV on time and choose to watch the show on the online streaming platform. As a result, the number of TV viewers has been declining. Against this background, the show is still setting a new record for ratings. It can be said that it is difficult to find other adjectives for Xia Guo to describe his peers except terrifying.

In the two weeks after Code Geass was released, Weathering With You's box office data approached 25 billion.

The movie's opening numbers were very impressive, but its follow-up momentum is not as strong as Your Name. As things stand, the total box office may not break 30 billion, but it will still have a total of or billion. Although it will not likely break a new box office record, it is guaranteed to be in the top two on this year's box office charts, and no news media will dare to mock it.

Moreover, during these two weeks, the biggest earthquake in the entire Xia country's film and television industry was not the two works by Su Yan that were currently being aired.

Rather, it was the casting activity for Su Yan’s two new TV series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam Z Gundam.

The biggest advantage of being your own investor is that you can act decisively without having to think too much.

It is normal for other film and television dramas to take one to two years from project approval to script writing to casting. With an investment of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, anyone would be very cautious and conduct market research, but Su Yan does not consider so much.

The two dramas have each invested more than 4.5 million Xia Guo yuan, and the production specifications are even more exaggerated than the currently popular "Code Geass". Even before the casting meeting began, it was clearly stated that the total pay of the actors in this drama will be reduced to less than 20% of the investment. That is to say, with an investment of more than 4.5 million, the actors' pay will be less than million, and more than million yuan will be used entirely on filming and special effects production.

But even so, after Su Yan's company released the audition news, actors from major film and television companies in Xia Country and abroad still flocked to it!

And it is accompanied by the work title Mobile Suit Gundam. Both dramas have this prefix, indicating that they are series of the same type.

But what is a Mobile Suit?
Let’s take a look at the information released on the official website of Dimension Films.

As soon as you click in, you will see various Gundam perspective drawings hand-painted by Su Yan himself. The handsome, iron-blooded, and fascinating black and white hand-painted drawings of Gundam mechas that appear in front of the public for the first time.

Strictly speaking, although the work "Code Geass" has the concept of mecha, the mecha is not the focus of the work, but a setting. The mecha settings in it are definitely much worse in appearance than the orthodox Gundam.

When the people of Xia Country saw the model design drawings of the authentic Gundam, they understood everything at that moment.

Gundam~
Mobile Suit, so this is what you are talking about!

(End of this chapter)