Change the world with entertainment with Yokai Girl

"Hello everyone, my name is Yuan Lin, and I like..." Yuan Lin then gave a perfect, standard answer. As expected of Lin, after starting elementary school, she seemed to know even better how to act like an elegant young lady.

"I am Yuan Ying. I love reading. Please take care of me." Xiao Ying was still the same well-behaved, shy girl.

"I am Qin Jing. I love reading and hope to read in peace and quiet. Please treat me well without disturbing my reading," Qin Jing said calmly, as if she were treating him like a panda—someone to be admired from afar but not to be touched, making him a mascot for quiet reading.

"Ugh, what a stinky brat..." the other boys who didn't know Qin Jing said unhappily.

But the girls were a completely different story.

"It feels kind of cool..."

"What a beautiful child."

"She's my type," the girls whispered.

Hanako glanced coldly at the girls, then turned her gentler gaze back to Qin Jing.

"Hmph!" Xingna, sitting next to Qin Jing, glared at her unhappily, feeling that her genius had been overshadowed. Logically speaking, shouldn't she, the best student in the class, the best athlete, and incredibly cute, be the one being adored and treated like a goddess?

After everyone finished introducing themselves, the teacher gave some instructions and then the get out of class ended. Afterwards, as expected, Sunohara was called to the office...

After school, the group chatted as they walked out of the school gate.

"Where did everyone go for the previous holiday?"

"I went back to my mom's hometown in Chiba for a visit."

"It's so close..."

"Rin-chan, Sakura-chan, what about you?"

"We didn't go... hehe. You've heard about that show that's going to air on Fox Channel? You'll see when you watch it." Xiao Lin kept everyone in suspense, and judging from her smug look, she must have done something amazing again.

"Could it be the one that's already generating a lot of buzz in the news and online even before the trailer has been released?"

"Oh, that? I heard from my parents that they're really looking forward to it."

"?" Qin Jing, who had been reading books all the time and hadn't watched much TV, didn't understand at all and looked at the group of mischievous kids with a puzzled expression. "Which one is that?"

"Xiao Jing, you're already out of touch."

"No matter how much you enjoy reading, you can't detach yourself from reality."

We reached a fork in the road; the Yuan sisters' house was in the other direction.

"Goodbye, everyone. Jing, don't just read books, the super famous TV series is starting in a few days, you have to go see it!" Before parting, Xiaolin pointed at Jing and asked.

"Shizuku-kun, remember to watch it! Goodbye." Sakura waved back.

"Oh... goodbye." Qin Jing waved.

Although she didn't quite understand, it seemed that Yuan Lin and Yuan Ying had done something quite interesting during spring break. Qin Jing couldn't guess what it was all about. Was things really different once they started elementary school?

Primary school students are definitely not to be underestimated. After entering primary school, children change in both good and bad ways.

Compared to when they were young and could only rely on their parents for protection, elementary school students, whose strength and height are growing rapidly, are beginning to have their own ideas, want to be independent, and can do many things that they couldn't do on their own before. They will try to understand and think about things that they couldn't understand before, and the energy they unleash when they are passionate about something is often surprising.

For example, driving to and from school, doing business at school, or displaying various talents.

For example, in the world of mobile e-sports, even college students who immerse themselves in games all day and hone their skills to the highest level cannot change their fate of defeat when faced with a group of elementary school students.

It's said that these popular guys started calling their girlfriends "husband" and "wife" when they were in kindergarten.

While most ordinary elementary school students are still playing and fooling around every day, outstanding individuals in various industries mostly start their careers around this age.

For example, in chess, professional Go players need to start studying game records at six or seven years old. By ten, it's considered too late. There's a saying in the industry: "If you're not a national champion by twenty, you have no hope for the rest of your life." A national champion born in 97 has already won five world championships.

For example, gymnasts, especially rhythmic gymnasts, are considered old if they are over 20 years old.

For example, in the field of traditional performing arts, starting to learn it after elementary school is considered too late.

Of course, there are also things that can only be done when you reach a certain age, such as riding roller coasters, playing thrilling games, and openly smoking and drinking.

There are also things that can only be done within a certain age range, such as literature for young people. Qin Jing is at most a literary child right now.

Section 27.27 Choosing Between Rationality and Childlike Innocence

What to give up and what to gain is what is called 'trading'.

Time flies, and life is full of choices, including how to allocate time.

If Qin Jing's goal wasn't to become a literary youth but a chess player, she might already be preparing for the entrance exam, spending at least six hours a day studying chess records.

If you want to become a cartoonist, you have to practice drawing techniques every day, and you also have to study scriptwriting, direction, composition, and conquer various difficult angles to draw, such as distant views and overhead views. This is a long and arduous process.

For humans, time is the fairest thing. No matter how you spend it, you only have 24 hours a day. To get a result, you may need to accumulate thousands or even tens of thousands of hours of hard work and practice. This does not mean success, but it is only a prerequisite for getting the result.

Of course, the results that everyone gets through their efforts will vary in value in the short term, including wealth, superiority, inferiority, self-interest, and dedication.

But in the long run, everything will return to dust. Even Confucius, Einstein, Schopenhauer, educators, scientists, and philosophers—after their deaths, the living continue to rely on their theories, carrying them forward, or improving upon them, or perhaps distorting them. Their names are still well-known, worshipped by some, and used by others to create beautiful things.

Qin Jing chose to become a literary youth, so she had to spend her time reading and cultivating her reading comprehension skills.

This may be disagreeable to others, it is neither right nor wrong to oneself, it is meaningless in the face of time, but for oneself, yes, the choice is only for oneself;

But even if you think about these issues, it doesn't change the fact that Jing is still just a child.

Just as he was deep in thought, a pair of large hands suddenly appeared and grabbed his cheeks.

"You're only 5 years old! Even if you want to study, don't look at me with that blank, almost enlightened expression! Take this!" Qin's mother pinched the tender flesh on both sides of her son's cheeks.

"Xiao Jing, you'll suffer great losses if you continue like this," Qin's father said in the tone of an experienced elder advising his younger generation.

"Are you awake?" Jing mumbled, her face pinched by her mother.

"The joys of being a child! How to be willful and be forgiven, how to whine to adults to your heart's content, how to have the right to make mistakes with a clear conscience, and the novelty of experiencing new things for the first time! These are some of the few wonderful things in the world that you can't experience when you grow up." The father said, resting his chin on his hand, thinking what he thought was a cool statement.

"Dad's words are so great! They're so cool, I want to clap my hands!" Mom praised with an admiring smile, while gently kneading Jing's face.

"Then let go! Put it down!" Jing, who was being rubbed and abused, waved his hands and protested indistinctly. With his strength as a child, he was no match for his mother.

"No, it's so plump and feels just right." Mom was intoxicated by the wonderful touch, feeling completely refreshed. She really never imagined that such a heartwarming treasure would come from her own body. After working hard every day and coming home to cook and do housework, she was so busy that she was living for this moment of happiness.

"..." Xiao Kui, sitting to the side, seemed thoughtful, looking like she was really enjoying Nini.

Qin's father, who was flipping through the newspaper nearby, saw this and felt that he needed to calm down.

"Ah! Honey, the food in the pot is about to burn!" Qin's father shouted.

"Oh no!" Mom abandoned Jing and rushed to the kitchen.

Finally free from the clutches, Qin Jing covered his reddened cheeks. He had long since come to fully understand the cruel reality that as a child, he had no say except for the right to act spoiled.

"By the way, are there any famous TV dramas airing recently?" Qin Jing asked, recalling Yuan Lin and Yuan Ying's words.

Qin's father smiled and said, "Oh! You heard about it from your classmates? I really want to recommend it to you. It's the latest masterpiece from Fox TV, it's absolutely hilarious. You can use it as a topic of conversation with your classmates after watching it, and you're sure to make some new friends!"

"Is Fox TV really that powerful?" Qin Jing asked doubtfully. Why does everyone keep talking about Fox TV?

"It is impressive, or rather, it has unique features, but what is truly remarkable is the entire Penglai Culture Group."

"Penglai Culture Group?" Qin Jing asked in confusion. It was another name he didn't recognize, though it sounded somewhat familiar.

"It has a presence in animation, comics, games, novels, television, and movies. It's a multinational cultural media business empire with a huge industrial chain. Ah, that's hard for you to understand, isn't it? Well... it's the one that has repeatedly won international film awards with Totoro, Spirited Away, and The Moving Steel Castle."

"European companies mainly produce fantasy dramas, while Chinese companies mainly produce kung fu and xianxia fantasy dramas, which are popular all over the world. And China mainly produces fantasy dramas related to monsters and mythology."

"The show airing today is also a major series on Fox TV, you'll see when you watch it," Qin's father said mysteriously.

"Hmm..." Although she wasn't really looking forward to it, Jing still had to give her dad some face.

"Then you just wait and see." Qin's father smiled smugly and got up to go to the kitchen to help.

But even with his book-obsessed son, Qin's father wanted to tell him that modern China has one thing to be proud of, yet it is an incredibly exciting and stable part of the world's top entertainment industry: the charm of animation, comics, games, light novels, music, and film and television dramas.

In fact, anyone who watches something and thinks it's good will naturally like it. Aoi became a fan after watching shows like Kamen Rider, and she really enjoys action-packed battle scenes. She can also perfectly recreate scenes where real heroes never look back at explosions.

Children should be like this, imitating their heroes, imagining themselves unleashing Kamehameha, Chidori, Rasengan, or Conqueror's Haki, and getting excited about it. Isn't this a part of a child's growth?

If we don't have fun while we're young, why do these things have to come out all at once in the second year of middle school?

Holding the food, Qin's father felt a surge of excitement.

During dinner, Qin's father took Jing and Kui to the table and turned on the TV to a channel with a fox logo that had a long golden tail.

A melodious, ethereal voice softly sang from the television, followed by a rousing rock melody. A captivating female voice then began to sing, as the music swirled around seven cards depicting different Western-style warriors: a knight in armor wielding a sword, a warrior with a lance, an archer drawing his bow, an old man in a robe holding a staff, and a man with a skull mask…

Jing and Xiao Kui were drawn into the content of the TV series.

After the opening theme ended, the program was sponsored by the following companies. The last page showed a brief pause with the large logo of 'Yuanshi Jewelry', and then the meticulously produced annual drama officially began...

After introducing the characters and the story background, the plot unfolds in a castle full of exotic charm in a snowy region. A beautiful silver-haired woman, as exquisite as a princess, is conversing with a cold and gloomy man in a black suit. In the church, a magnificent greatsword sheath sits at the center of a crimson magic circle. The man in black is chanting a German incantation, which sounds like a summoning spell...

Meanwhile, in different places, different magicians stood before magic circles and made summons.

The magic circle emitted a dazzling light, a whirlwind arose, and a misty aura drifted in.

The thick fog that suddenly appeared in the church gradually dissipated, and a figure appeared inside the magic circle. The person standing there spoke, "Are you my Master?"

Section 28, Chapter 28: Penglai Company's Fox Terrace

The plot has reached an exciting moment.

The blond swordsman, wielding an invisible sword, was engaged in fierce combat with a black-clad gunslinger wielding a red and a yellow long gun. Sparks flew in the air from the violent clash of weapons, displaying terrifying speed and power. With each swing of the weapon, the air seemed to be torn apart.

Just then, a loud roar came from the sky, stopping the two. A powerful and handsome man with reddish-brown curly hair, driving a huge oxcart that emitted lightning, charged straight down between them.

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The scene abruptly cuts off at this crucial moment, followed by the ethereal and magnificent singing, reminiscent of a Western choir. The first episode ends...

Qin Jing was stunned. She hadn't expected that there would be a TV series, and that the production quality was as good as a movie. The visuals were exquisite and beautiful. Through computer CG rendering, reality and fantasy were perfectly integrated without any sense of incongruity. The Chinese soundtrack was already among the best in the world, and it made the summoning of the heroic spirits even more magnificent.

The fight scenes and special effects are both top-notch, making it a truly first-class movie production. All the actors are competent, and their appearances perfectly match their roles. Even the children in the film give excellent performances.

In the TV series just now, two girls from the Tohsaka family appeared: the twin-tailed black-haired girl who stayed at home and the little girl who was adopted by another magic family and turned into a purple-haired girl. They were both very well acted, and they were as real as the children he would see in his daily life.

Seeing the father's busy yet lonely state, and his worried expression towards his family, completely unpretentious, naturally evoked pity. It also made me deeply aware of the cruelty within a magician's family…

At this moment, Xiao Kui tugged at Qin Jing and asked, "Nini! Weren't those Rin-neechan and Sakura-neechan on TV just now?"

"Huh?" Qin Jing was taken aback.

The people on TV look like my classmates! Rin and Sakura! No wonder they looked so familiar. They changed their outfits and appeared on the big screen; I almost didn't recognize them. That's why they were being so secretive before.

While drinking beer, Qin's father laughed and said, "Impressive, isn't it? When it comes to fantasy TV series, it's the Holy Grail War series. From the ancient epic Holy Grail War, the Hundred Years' Holy Grail War between England and France, the Jade Seal War at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Subspecies Holy Grail War, and the artificial Holy Grail War in Fuyuki, there have been many series over the decades."

"Wow, that's amazing..." Jing nodded, finding it hard to believe that TV dramas from this era didn't have cheap special effects, but rather top-notch CG technology comparable to Hollywood movies she had seen in her previous lives, and the plot was even better.

"The Fourth Holy Grail War in this parallel world is such an amazing concept! I can foresee the internet and newspapers buzzing with discussions like, 'King Arthur was actually a woman!' or 'The King Arthur of British legend was a stunning blonde beauty with blue eyes!'" Qin's father exclaimed, then continued, "The special effects are fantastic too. While the large-scale war scenes in the last movie were also exciting, this TV series is a true visual feast. It seems this one is a huge success as well."

"The heroes of this generation are indeed all handsome men and beautiful women, especially the one wielding the gun, is he Chinese? And that golden-haired king, he's so handsome even though he's a bit wicked, is he of British and Japanese descent?" The mother also came over, her eyes practically sparkling with admiration.

"Ah, the one wielding the gun is Chen Kun, the one who grilled lamb skewers in Chu Liuxiang. And that king is supposedly the king from the epic story of the Mi Alliance, one-third of the people and two-thirds of the king. I don't know the actor, maybe an international star who's here to film a movie." Qin's father, who had done his research, explained.

"Milian? How was the 2/3 bloodline percentage calculated?" Qin Jing asked疑惑地问道.

"The Mesopotamian Union, a major oil-producing country. As for the second question, who knows? It just means he's more powerful than a demigod or a half-human," Qin's father replied.

"The Mesopotamian Plain has also formed an alliance?" Qin Jing wondered, "Wow, history has changed so much in this world." 'But without the US, the hamburger-selling power, causing trouble in the Middle East, the world is much more peaceful? That shouldn't be the case. Normally, if one US, the supposed peacemaker, falls, wouldn't countless others rise up?'

"Yes, Xiaojing, you still need to study hard. Listen carefully, the five major sources of civilization that have influenced the modern world are: ancient Egypt of the Nile River civilization in North Africa, ancient Babylon of Mesopotamia in West Asia, ancient India of the Indus River civilization in South Asia, China of the Yellow River civilization in East Asia, and ancient Greece, which had an important influence on modern Europe."

"Ah, of course, apart from the uninterrupted transmission of Chinese civilization, the ancient kingdoms that were the birthplaces of other civilizations are all gone, or they've become extinct. The people living there now are all different races, so you don't really have to remember them," Qin's father said with a laugh.

The film and television industry in this world has developed remarkably well. Thanks to alliances and the significantly relaxed release conditions in China, the world's largest market, fair competition and collaborative development have propelled it to even surpass Hollywood, truly achieving global actor cooperation.

Fox TV, representing the Chinese film and television industry, uses top-notch Chinese music, Chinese action choreography, actors selected from various countries to fit the roles, and cutting-edge CG special effects technology. It has many co-productions with China, Europe, and various other countries, bringing together the power of the world to produce excellent commercial works that combine visual appeal and compelling storylines.

Audiences, raised to be extremely discerning by a plethora of high-quality productions, will find that works lacking in quality, no matter how star-studded they are, how much nostalgia they evoke, or how much advertising they receive, simply won't sell. As a result, film and television industries worldwide have begun to prioritize quality.

The massive ACGN (Animation, Comics, Games, Novels) industry chain, along with movies and TV series, has made interesting novels, comics, and games from various countries highly sought after.

In terms of actors, it seems that human appearance has been elevated in this world, with all sorts of people comparable to those in anime appearing. There are also more and more actors who can perfectly handle manga and anime adaptations, and whose looks, temperament, and acting skills are in proportion to their appearance.

"How does it feel? You find it interesting, right?" Qin's father looked over and asked with a strange smile.

“Indeed, I am very surprised, in every sense of the word…” Qin Jing said.

"Let's all watch the next episode together then," Qin's father suggested.

"Great! This TV series is really interesting!" Xiao Kui raised both hands in agreement.