Chapter 1031 The Importance of Mecha

Qiqu Animation was criticized.

At first, some people didn’t know that the production company of "Fruit Robo 2" had changed people, and ran to Weibo and other places to criticize Wanbao Animation.

Can Gu Miao bear this injustice?

He immediately clarified and waved his hands repeatedly to say: Don’t be embarrassing! We Wanbao have never produced animations like "Fruit Robo 2", this is all done by Qiqu Animation...

Now Qiqu Animation has become famous.

Qiqu Animation, which originally had no reputation and presence and ordinary audiences had never heard of it, suddenly became the target of public criticism and was scolded by angry "Fruit Robo" fans.

There are even some powerful netizens who, through some unknown channel, dug out the name "Xiong Tianwei" in the list of shareholders of Qiqu Animation.

Then, Mr. Bear was unlucky.

Qiqu Animation was scolded anyway, but it was a vest company set up by Mr. Bear, and he didn’t care if he couldn’t be scolded.

But after the identity of the actual controller was revealed, the audience was not stupid. Combined with the "close" relationship between Xiao Xiong and Gu Miao, they quickly guessed that the culprit was Xiao Xiong.

Well, it turned out to be you!

The audience who were still wondering where Qiqu Animation came from? Why did it get the follow-up production rights of "Fruit Robo" from Wanbao? They were worried about having no place to vent their anger, and Xiao Xiong ran into the gun.

"I am wronged!"

"This is all Gu Sanshui's instructions. I can't twist my arms. Without his acquiescence, how dare I make "Fruit Robo 2"? "

Xiao Xiong was determined to drag Gu Miao into the water. As the saying goes, good brothers are used to take the bullet. How can he be scolded alone for such a thing?

Unfortunately, the audience didn't believe him very much.

In the words of a netizen, Gu Sanshui's new work "Guardians of the Sheep Village" and "Fruit Robo 2" were broadcast almost at the same time. Could he also know the art of splitting? One person controls two animation production teams?

This guy surnamed Xiong must have bad intentions and deliberately threw dirty water on Mr. Gu. Don't believe him!

"You're going too far."

Mr. Xiong was so angry that he called and asked, "We agreed to fight against public opinion together, but when the time comes, you put all the blame on me, right?"

"Don't be so embarrassing!"

"The audience's eyes are sharp. They have all found me not guilty. How can you blame me?"

Gu Miao would never admit it.

What "Fruity Robo 2"? I don't know, I don't understand, it has nothing to do with me!

Although he knew that the performance of Fruity Robo 2 would be much worse than the first season before it was broadcast. But he really didn't think about this kind of reputation at the moment.

Fortunately, this hot potato was thrown to Mr. Xiong at the beginning, and now he can blame him. Otherwise, the second season will be produced and released by Wanbao Animation, and Gu Miao dare not even think about the consequences.

"I knew you had bad intentions."

"Oh! Do you regret it?"

Gu Miao said with a spit: "This is the Fruity Robo series. Although the performance of the second season is not satisfactory, I don't believe that it didn't make money. How dare you say that?"

Now Mr. Xiao Xiong was silent.

Gu Miao's guess was correct. Although from the perspective of performance, the second season of Fruity Robo is indeed far worse than the first season, and the reputation has also declined seriously.

But after all, this is the "Fruity Robo" series that is popular in China. How can the sequel not make money?

The third season may lose money.

But for the third season, neither Mr. Xiao Xiong nor Gu Miao have too many thoughts in their hearts.

Gu Miao is not very interested.

And Mr. Xiao Xiong thinks that "Fruity Robo 2" may be the last afterglow of this series, and the third season is destined to be cold.

But no matter how cold it is, at least the title of the work still has the prefix "Fruity Robo". Even if the broadcast performance is very poor, it can still make a living by relying on the old capital.

"Living off the old capital?"

Hearing what Mr. Bear said, Gu Miao smiled bitterly and said, "What do you think of "Fruit Robo"? Do you think the old capital of this animation is thick enough for you to live off for several consecutive seasons?"

Stop joking!

The audience is very realistic. The cold reception of a single season of sequels may be an accident, and they can also give the production team enough tolerance to allow them to adjust.

But if two consecutive seasons of sequels, or even multiple seasons of sequels, are lower than expected, then there will be a big problem.

The premise of living off the old capital is that the family background is thick enough, otherwise what old capital are you living off? Where can you live off the old capital?

Only super popular IPs like "Pokémon" and "Dragon Ball" can exist in the situation that Mr. Bear imagines, that is, multiple TV sequels can make a lot of money.

And does Fruit Robo meet this standard?

Obviously not.

The second season of the bad performance means that this IP has reached the brink of life and death. If the third season continues to be bad, then we can arrange the funeral for Cheng Liuxiang, Pineapple Blowing Snow and Lu Xiaoguo.

…

The cold reception of Fruity Robo Season 2, or the unsatisfactory performance, was within Gu Miao's expectations.

After all, the reason why he gave this IP to Mr. Xiao Xiong was because he had long been prepared for the fact that Fruity Robo Season 2 would be worse than the previous season.

But to be honest…

Gu Miao still likes the three jelly characters, Cheng Liuxiang, Pineapple Blowing Snow and Lu Xiaoguo.

Although the decline of the IP is inevitable, for the sake of these three animated characters, he still wants to try his best to save it and find a new turning point.

The question is how to do it?

Start with the story?

Putting aside other things, Gu Miao still likes the story of Fruity Robo Season 3. It feels that whether to change it or not is not the point, because the problem is obviously not in the plot.

That's the setting?

If you think about it carefully, when the animation "Fruit Robo" was released, everyone thought it was a sequel to "The Three Musketeers of Jelly", and didn't take it seriously.

As a result, a cry of "The Fruit Robo is back" directly made this animation take off and became one of the most popular children's animations at the time...

So, what everyone likes is actually the combination of mechas, or the cool battle between mechas and mechas?

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the influence of "The Three Musketeers of Jelly" when it was broadcast was completely incomparable to the later "Fruit Robo".

To put it bluntly, the main reason for the popularity of Fruit Robo was mainly due to the unique setting of the Fruit Robo at that time.

Mecha, Fruit Robo...

If Gu Miao remembers correctly, it seems that in the original "Fruit Robo" series of animations, mechas such as Orange War Robo, Pineapple War Robo and Little Fruit War Robo have undergone several changes in settings and shapes afterwards?

Let's not talk about the pros and cons of the design first.

Just talking about the significance of changing the mecha's shape and setting, it seems to be very unusual? Especially in the fourth season, even the name of the mecha was changed.

It can be seen that Blue Arc seems to know the importance of Fruity Mecha, and has tried many innovations and thought of many ideas in the process of making the sequel.

This also inspired Gu Miao.

Anyway, it has become like this, why not give children a wonderful life that will either make their eyes light up or darken?