Rebirth Begins with a Manga Adaptation

Before Attack on Titan was broadcast, in fact, the trailer of this show had predicted its plot direction to a certain extent, and most of the audience had a psychological expectation.

But the actual viewing experience.

It can only be said that the psychological preparation is still not so sufficient.

Cannibalism is not a strange setting, no matter which world, if you look through the history books, you will definitely see this kind of thing.

However, the rumors of cannibalism mentioned in the books are definitely different from the scenes of giant monsters eating humans that they saw on TV.

After all, what is shown in the TV series is that human beings have no power to fight back and can only self-confine to avoid the setting of giants. However, judging from the actual performance in the TV series, there is indeed a huge gap in combat power.

More than ten meters tall monsters living in groups?

How can a group of human beings in a country that is still technologically advanced in the Middle Ages resist.

Moreover, in the first episode of Attack on Titan, when the hero's character and family portrayal made the audience immerse himself deeply in the hero's setting, suddenly a wave of her mother died in front of him.

It can be said that it directly confused countless audiences on the spot.

"I cried to death. This plot is too outrageous."

"The style of the old thief's works has changed too much, right? A drama with a different style?"

"Evangelion Apostle is at least only interested in the city where the protagonist is! Attack on Titan is good, and the whole world is left with only the city where the protagonist is."

"Actually, to be honest, the place where the male lead is located is not considered a city. Its area is quite large. There are three rings of city walls from the inside to the inside, and there are many small acropolises protruding from the outermost wall. The male protagonist is only in a small acropolis, but to be honest, if the entire human race is trapped in such a region, what's the point? The population and technology can't be developed directly."

"The old thief's imagination is too abnormal. I felt sick to my stomach for a while, but after watching it, I can't wait to watch the second episode."

"But this male protagonist is a piece of trash!"

"It's only the first episode, so don't think so much. What do you expect a ten-year-old kid to do? Transform into Tiga and fight giants? It's funny. From now on, this drama is a survival drama in the last days."

"But the armored giant and the super-giant giant are really handsome! There are such monsters in the giant group, why are they attacking the human domain now?"

"Who knows? Maybe I haven't found such a human gathering place before. From the setting point of view, these giants have no brains and only know the kind of monsters they eat. Anyway, these elite giants may only be discovered during the time in the play." There is such a place, the city wall was attacked out of eating instinct."

"Then this drama is Battle Road with Giants? Is it the kind of drama that is biased towards war?"

"Who knows? It depends on how the old thief sets it up? I still don't know how to fight a monster that can't be killed, but can regenerate its limbs and arms within a minute?"

"Oh, the sense of substitution is too deep, and I still feel terrible now, especially the scene where Ellen's mother is suppressed by the beams and keeps letting Uncle Hans take her two children away. The image of a heroic mother was still a second ago, In the next second, she covered her mouth, for fear that she would shout out of fear, which would shake Hans and cause the three of them to die in vain. The inner monologue "Don't go," which only she knew, really made me feel very uncomfortable. "

"All of a sudden, the image of the mother came to life. The old thief's ability to portray characters is simply amazing."

On the night when Attack on Titan was broadcast, the ratings of the first episode directly reached 10.98%, just a little bit short of breaking 11%. It can be said that you crushed all the TV stations in the same time period throughout the week, even the six major TV stations At the same time, the ratings were also squeezed to around 1%.

Moreover, after the first episode was broadcast, the heated discussion in China was much greater than that of Jing Yu's previous works.

After all, this setting, this theme, is indeed too novel and shocking for the current Da Zhou.

Fans have generally praised it, but film critics and the media like to sing a different tune.

[Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted, and Jing Yu's new drama's attacking giants sprint for violence and massacres all the way. Jing Yu, who used to rely on plot to attract audiences, has also become sleepless and reduced to relying on violent and vulgar images to retain audiences. 】

[Only relying on novelty hunting cannot continue to attract viewers. The ratings of the first episode of Attack on Titan broke 10%, but the author asserts here that the popularity of this drama will definitely drop sharply within three episodes. 】

[Ultraman fighting monsters can also convey to children the concept of righteous warriors defeating evil. What does the attacking giant convey? From the beginning of the first episode to the end, the audience felt a word. Despair. Human beings feel powerless in the face of evil. It can be said that the tone of this drama is problematic. 】

[Attack on Titan's first episode can be said to have attracted so many people to watch it simply because of its novelty and blood. Does the high rate mean that this work is excellent? I hope that the second episode of the giant can give us some other surprises. If the giant still slaughters humans and only focuses on depicting the tragedy between life and death, then perhaps this masterpiece with an investment of more than 300 million will become Jing Yu's failure.]

One by one the media wrote uglier articles than one. They said so, but in fact they didn't think so at all.

Jing Yu has been in the industry for so many years, and so many previous works have not capsized. They also feel that the possibility of capsized in the giant investment drama is relatively low.

But in the current film and television drama industry, no one reads the articles that praise Jingyu, and everyone is tired of reading them, so they have to come up with articles that Jingyu fans don't like to read.

So after the first episode of Giants was broadcast, the fans applauded, and the media generally sang bad news.

Here at Jingyu Company, after seeing the results of the first episode of the attacking giant crew, a big stone fell from everyone's heart.

What do you want if the ratings of the first broadcast break 10%? With a mournful face? That's not modesty, that's pretentiousness.

Everyone in the entire production team is arrogant in the film and television base of Shanghai Metropolis. People from the two major TV stations in the same city, Xingtong and Aurora, have nothing to say even though they are heartbroken. The TV drama industry is all about performance.

Jing Yu felt relieved after watching the ratings report of the first episode of Giants.

Fortunately, it seems that Da Zhou's audience acceptance is not bad, and he was not frightened by this level of bloody scenes and led to large-scale abandonment.

This also caused Jing Yu, who was patrolling the crew, to relax a bit.

Jing Yu of the Gundam crew basically didn’t need to worry too much about it. Anyway, the key scene is the machine battle, all special effects processing, and it doesn’t test any acting skills.

But the shooting of the giant is completely different. The group performers have to wear thick three-dimensional mobile model costumes and hang wires to do the movements. Generally, actors can’t do this kind of difficult aerial movements. Many group performances are invited acrobatic troupes or gymnastics Members of the movement came to pretend, otherwise the investment would not be so high.

Jing Yu didn't shoot it himself, but it was very interesting to watch other people filming it on the set.

But when the boss came to supervise the work, everyone lost the relaxation of the past, and the atmosphere was a little tense.

The first episode was only broadcast on the TV station, but in fact, the filming of the crew has long been filmed at the back. Reiner and Bertolt, the second-year-old and the sixth child, have long been exposed, and the giant orangutan also appeared. Levi is ready Outbreak cut monkey there.

There is no way, the production of this kind of drama is like this, if you want to shoot while broadcasting, the progress is much ahead of the broadcast content.

Because of this, the main actors on the set know what the plot behind the show is.

For other works, they were worried about whether the ratings would drop later, but Giant. The first episode did not persuade people to leave, so how could the subsequent content not be liked? It's super-burning and super-looking, okay?

After Jing Yu came to the set, they waited until they were almost done shooting, and then they filmed some behind-the-scenes footage together to release some publicity for the work.

"Jing Yu, don't you have any follow-up peripheral development plans for this giant work?"

Before Jing Yu was about to leave in the evening, Cheng Lie also called Jing Yu to ask.

"Didn't I explain it clearly to you before? The development of Giant's peripherals can only be done at home, and the copyright value of it and Ultraman Gundam's two works is not a plus." Jing Yu said.

To be honest, the sales volume of the giant's peripherals is just the same. The popularity of the work is high, and the ratings are good, but there are not many peripherals that can be released.

Gundam, at least both the enemy and the enemy, are extremely handsome. Although the monsters of Ultraman are strange, they will not make people feel uncomfortable.

But the surroundings of giants do not rule out novelty hunters, but normal fans, regardless of gender, will certainly not have much expectation for the surroundings of some naked giant monsters.

"Is that so?" Cheng Lie said disappointedly upon hearing this.

"Giant's ratings are much better than when Ultraman started broadcasting!"

"The ratings can only be a reference. Don't expect too much from the giant's copyright income." Jing Yu laughed.

If the income of a work can be simply measured by ratings and playback volume, it will be simple.

In the previous life of the giant, the animation production was so good and the popularity was so high, but the animation production company actually made it at a loss of money sometimes, and their profits also depended on part of the copyright income after the animation was completed to make up for the gap.

Of course, it’s not that Giant’s follow-up copyright is not worth much. It can only be said that compared with Gundam and other works, there is indeed a significant gap. Therefore, even though Jing Yu spent so much money to film Giant, but only from the perspective of profit, he values ​​it more. It is Tiga and Gundam, so for copyright development, it also focuses on Gundam and Tiga, as well as previous works such as Evangelion and Destiny series.

"Speaking of which, I have been idle for a while. It may not be long before a new project is launched. All the works produced by our company now are those that have a production cycle of more than half a year, or even more than a year without planning in advance. If not, then the employees of the company will have to drink the northwest wind!" Jing Yu said.

"It's good if you are willing to work hard, but you don't have to push yourself too hard. With your current reputation, you would rather produce a high-quality work in three to five years than produce two works of average quality in a year. It's hurtful. After all, you have to work hard to climb up and take a step, but falling down is faster than taking an elevator." Cheng Lie also warned.

"Don't worry about this, I know how many jealous people in the film and television industry are waiting for me to make mistakes," Jing Yu said.

The conversation between the two ended quickly, and at eight o'clock the next night after the Giant broadcast, Tiga broadcast

The audience rating of the complete episode was 11.32%, surpassing the first episode of Giants by a head.

But this is the ratings when Tiga has the popularity of children accumulated in the previous season, so it is actually quite normal.

The first week of the winter schedule ended quietly.

From the 11.32 ratings of the first Tiga, to the 10.98% ratings of the first episode of Attack on Titan, the second, to the 7.35% ratings of the love drama Xia Rixing on the third place, and then to the tenth ratings. Squirrel The TV station's one-step suspense drama has an audience rating of 5.03%.

This year's winter schedule can be said to be definitely one of the most powerful schedules for film and television dramas in the history of Dazhou TV.

The six major TV stations worked collectively. Although they knew that there was a high probability that they would not be able to compete with Jing Yu, they didn't want to be pulled too far, so that they would lose face. This season, they have brought out the main team lineup of the TV stations to produce new dramas.

But the final result. It is still useless.

This quarter can also be regarded as creating a new record in the history of the Great Week.

In the same season, there were two TV dramas whose ratings broke 10% in the early stages, and most importantly, the screenwriters of these two dramas were written by the same person.

If until the end of winter, the ratings of both Giants and Ultraman can continue to be above 10%, then this achievement will definitely record a large amount in the history of the film and television industry of Dazhou.

Anyway, there were no ancients in the past, and there will definitely be no one in the future.

With the advent of the Internet age, there will be fewer and fewer people watching dramas through TV. In a few years, let alone other people, it will be very difficult for Jing Yu to produce a work with a rating of over 10, but in turn, The main battlefield at that time was the network platform.

Into the second week of winter gear.

The second episodes of the main dramas of the six major TV stations this season have ended, and the ratings have remained largely unchanged.

And until eleven o'clock on Saturday night, tens of millions of viewers in the fan groups of various forums have been looking forward to the second episode of Giants for a week.

In fact, the second episode of Giants is mainly about the appearance of several members of the investigation corps at the same time. In the training course where everyone in the training corps trains how to fight giants, some fragmented plots are interspersed to let the audience understand, such as Reiner, Bertolt, Sith Characters such as Tria and Ymir.

However, in the original Giants, these characters are actually none other than Sacha and Connie. Those who have a good relationship with the protagonist Allen in the same period, who is not better than the other?

Let’s not talk about Reiner and Bertolt, Yani’s undercover trio, Historia’s identity behind, Ymir’s hidden background, including the protagonist Allen, the audience thinks that their perspective is the most clear and transparent. Little angel, little cutie, he also has a lot of foreshadowing.

The entire story of the giant, the characters that appear on the stage, the small boss, the big boss, and the love-hate entanglement between a group of people, in fact, these characters played 80% of the scene in the first few episodes, and the progress of the plot in the next few seasons is all about these unfolded by people.

When Jing Yu filmed this part of the plot, he deliberately increased their daily plot a little bit.

For example, when Allen and Reiner talked heart-to-heart at night, the group of two and five boys said to Allen in person, "I want to go back to my hometown that I can't return to." The close-up of the grief on the face.

The progress of Ymir's relationship with Historia's training regiment, and her feelings for Historia.

These plots are more portrayed, so that the subsequent reversal and the blackening and sacrifice of the characters will not be as abrupt as watching anime.

It’s inexplicable, why there are two or five youngsters in the team, inexplicable, why Ymir is willing to die for Historia, why does Reiner have mental problems in the later stage

Although the foreshadowing in the original plot was laid in the early stage, only one or two scenes are not enough.

Of course, even if Jing Yu gave a close-up in the second episode, the audience actually didn't see anything, on the contrary, they were extremely moved.

Those people in the training corps have a good relationship!

Reiner is so pitiful, his hometown was destroyed by giants, he must hate giants very much.

And then at the end of the second episode.

After graduating from the training corps, he joined the protagonist members of the survey corps.

Finally encountered the invasion of super giant giants again.

A huge flash of light suddenly appeared behind Allen, who was chatting comfortably with his friends on the city wall, and the huge scarlet light rose from behind him, with pupils bigger than Allen's staring at him, and steaming white smoke all over his body

This scene, as the end of the second episode, shocked almost all fans and audiences.