When I stayed at home on the first day, I felt very comfortable.
In the morning, my wife and I slept until we woke up naturally. When we woke up, the nanny prepared a delicious breakfast. After eating, we read the newspaper, went out for a walk with the dog, and when we came back, we chatted and it was time for lunch.
I took a nap at noon, read a book, drank tea, petted the cat, and watched TV in the afternoon. It was dinner time again...
I continue chatting and watching TV in the evening until I go to bed at night. It has been three months since then and I can’t post messages with my wife anymore...
It was still so comfortable the next day, but I occasionally switched from watching TV to playing handheld games and listening to music...
On the third day, I was a little bored. I stayed in the study for a while in the morning to write the script, and in the afternoon I called my friends to talk about my current situation...
On the fourth day, I was even more bored and a little irritable. I resumed running in the evening...
On the fifth day...
The weather is getting hotter, nature has entered the most vital season of the year, the courtyard is full of green, and the grass in the corner is growing wildly every day.
Even Yotaro and Nyaotaro seemed to be aware of the season and began to become more active.
But Nagayama Naoki, who was sitting in the courtyard verandah, covered his face with a book and murmured softly:
"So boring..."
It's strange to say that when he was the only one in the Yamasakura courtyard, he would never be bored no matter what, reading, drinking tea and watching TV.
But now that Akina is with him and Mrs. Mari Nonaka helps with the chores, and he only needs to eat, drink and have fun every day, Naoki Nagayama feels bored...
But Ming Cai is not bored, but very happy.
After breakfast, I chatted with my husband for a while, and then went to the clothing design studio to draw clothes styles or make small clothes for the baby.
When I get tired, I walk around the yard, smell the flowers in the flowerbed, and then just like now, I run directly to Nagayama Naoki and cover his eyes:
"Naoki-san, guess who I am?"
"..." Feeling the soft hands on his eyes, Nagayama Naoki felt helpless, "Ah...I can't guess..."
Her hands were taken away at once, Akina put her arms around Nagayama Naoki's neck, and leaned closer, as if she wanted to give him a cross...
"Why is this~~~the answer is not sincere at all! Say it again!"
"...I have to say it again..."
Nagayama Naoki became more and more helpless, turned around and with a little force, took Akina into his arms and kissed her casually.
Looking at his smiling, young and beautiful wife in his arms, who seemed to not know what sorrow was, Nagayama Naoki couldn't help but sigh,
"Mingna herself is like a child, but she is about to give birth to a baby..."
"I also learned how to be a mother, okay? I even bought a parenting book!"
Akina touched her belly in her arms,
"I can definitely be a good mother!"
Then he grabbed Naoki Nagayama’s ear and said, “Naoki-san, you should also be a good father!”
"Hi hi~"
After talking for a while, Akina seemed to think of something again and hurriedly ran to the design studio on the other side. It was as if she suddenly remembered to give her husband a little intimacy while working, and then ran away again.
Nagayama Naoki did not continue to blow the wind on the porch, but came to the study.
The script of "Across the World" has been perfected and will be put aside for the time being until filming begins. What he is doing now is trying to sort out some of the animations that have been popping up in his mind before.
"Unheard Flower Name", "A Certain Scientific Railgun", "Attack on Titan"... These are fragments of anime that I remembered before, bits and pieces of pictures. Naoki Nagayama originally only recorded the theme song.
, and now that Itou Shuichi is focusing on the production of animated movies, he also wants to pick up these fragments, maybe they will be useful~
"Why can't I remember the animation of Sea of Death..."
Nagayama Naoki probably remembers the plots of these three anime and knows a few of the main characters, but after all these years, the pictures in his mind are really blurry.
If you can't recall it, there is only a summary of the story, which is of no use~
"How about looking for some inspiration?"
With this idea in his head, Naoki Nagayama immediately drove out and came to the comic shop in Akihabara.
When a comic shop is usually filled with teenagers, the shop owner was a little surprised when an adult suddenly came, and he was even more surprised after he recognized his face.
"Naoki Nagayama...are you here to buy comics?!"
Naoki Nagayama, on the other hand, strolled through the comics, randomly pulled out the latest issue of "Jump" and started reading.
"Huh? "Dragon Ball"..."
The familiar name suddenly made him a little dazed. He hadn't read comics for a long time, and he didn't know that "Dragon Ball" had actually been serialized to the end of Piccolo the Great Demon.
"Shop Manager Sang...I bought these..."
Nagayama Naoki walked to the checkout counter with a large stack of various comics, making the elementary school students reading in the store envious.
"Hi!"
Although the store manager recognized Nagayama Naoki, he didn't say hello like a fan. Instead, he was a little bit reluctant to let go... Maybe the owner of the comic shop is also a bit geeky.
"Sang, the store manager, I have a question."
"Hi, Yongshan-san, please say..."
"...." After being recognized, Nagayama Naoki paused for a moment, maintaining an air of not discovering anything, "Has the animation of "Dragon Ball" been aired?"
"Ah, animation?" The store manager thought for a moment, "Yes, Fuji TV, it will start broadcasting in February and will be completed in April..."
"Fuji? April?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Nagayama Naoki was surprised again. He happened to be filming "Tokyo Love Story" during this time, and he really didn't pay attention to the animation... Besides,
Now, no one around would specifically tell him about animation...
Can you imagine Otomo Yoshimura, who is over fifty years old, chatting mysteriously with Naoki Nagayama:
"Naoki-san, do you know what was shown in the cartoon last night?"
"..."
Even Akina is past the age of watching anime~
"Store Manager Sang, do you have the complete animated series of "Dragon Ball" here?"
"Private Marseille, I don't have it in my store, but the video store nearby should have it..."
"Arigado~"
After paying the money, Naoki Nagayama hurried to the video store to buy a complete set of "Dragon Ball" cartoons.
The owner of the comic shop looked at Naoki Nagayama's leaving figure and fell into deep thought:
"Does even Naoki Nagayama watch cartoons?"
"No, no, no, it must be for other things! A gift for my nephew?"
"Is it possible that he wants to make cartoons?!"
Even he didn't think that Nagayama Naoki would simply like watching animation.
In the living room of Yamasakura-in, Akina pushed away the approaching Yotaro, then picked up a comic and flipped through it, then put it down disappointedly...it was not the girl's comic she liked to read.
"Naoki-san, why did you buy so many comics?"
Nagayama Naoki, who was busy next to the projector, put the video tape away, then sat on the sofa with the remote control:
"I saw "Dragon Ball" before, but I didn't expect it to be animated..."
""Dragon Ball"... Sun Wukong..." Akina seemed to have seen this animation, "Naoki-san, you don't know?"
"...Even you have seen it?"
"I just watched it when I had nothing to do at home, but there was nothing interesting to watch... I didn't watch it after that..."
Akina likes to watch some music variety shows, and maybe she will like to watch "I Love Singing" and the like in the future.
However, when "Dragon Ball" started playing on the TV screen, Akina sat down and watched it with her husband. Gradually, she also fell in love with this cute, funny and passionate style of painting.
"Bulma is very interesting~" "Hahaha~ the lustful Kame Sennin~" "..."
...
"Shuichi-san...about animated movies, what did you learn in Toei's animation department?"
On the phone at night, Naoki Nagayama asked Shuichi Itou curiously.
Watching "Dragon Ball" for a long time in the afternoon aroused Naoki Nagayama's expectations for animated movies. The various animated blockbusters he had seen before seemed to be stirring in his mind.
“Very slow and troublesome...”
Itou Shuichi gave two adjectives,
"Naoki-san, I visited and studied in Toei's animation department for a few days. I feel that it takes almost half a year to make an animated film, which is more time-consuming than making a movie!"
"Well..."
There is nothing that can be done about it. Animated movies these days really rely on pictures drawn one by one!
Each frame is a painting. A movie takes about 24 frames per second, which is usually one and a half hours and 90 minutes, so a total of 120,000 paintings are needed!
If you want the movie to be more sophisticated, then a movie would have more than 200,000 paintings!
For example, the "Doraemon" series of movies are better, the graphics are relatively simple, and many materials can be used universally.
But such a huge workload can keep an animation studio busy for a whole year!
"There is indeed some trouble..." Nagayama Naoki said into the microphone, "So how many people do we have in our animation studio now?"
"Currently, there are about 6 people..."
"In this case, recruit more people!" Nagayama Naoki said, "So many cartoonists have no food anyway... It would be troublesome to let them create alone, but let them draw the background according to a certain style.
And everything else, it should be fine, right?"
"No..." Itou Shuichi retorted, "The drawing styles of cartoonists are all very different, just like writing. It is difficult to unify them..."
"This is also a reason for restricting animation creation..."
"It's so troublesome..."
Nagayama Naoki feels that it is a luxury to wish to see a movie like "Spirited Away" in advance.
"So, we need to find a good animation director first. This is also different from cartoonists. The two people Naoki-san invited before are indeed very talented in painting, but they may not be able to be directors... maybe art directors.
Can...."
Itou Shuichi is still saying,
"In addition, we need to order special equipment...to set up a studio..."
"In short, it will take a long time before we can produce an animated film... We need to build a production team from scratch first!"
"..."
The more he listened, the more trouble he got. Naoki Nagayama was a little distracted.
Then a thought popped into my head... I'm so rich now, why should I build an animated film production team from scratch?!
Think about what Tencent did? Find the relevant company directly and buy it for them!
"Shuichi-san...Which is Neon's most famous animation production company now?"
"Eh? It must be Toho!"
"Um..." Dongbao couldn't afford it, "What about the second one?"
"Toei?"
I can't afford it either...
"The third one..."
"It should be made by insects..."
"What else?"
"MADHOUSE...SUNRISE are independent companies from Chong Production. They came out in 1972..."
"Where's the newer one?"
"There are many, but the two that are independent of Insect Production are still more famous. One is called Pierrot, and the other is called Kyoto Animation, which was established a few years ago."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Listening to the familiar names, Naoki Nagayama felt a little emotional. Clown Club and KyoAni are both well-known animation production companies in later generations!
And almost all of them are related to Chong Production, after former employees went out independently. It seems that Chong Production is the Whampoa Military Academy in the neon animation industry!
"Shuichi-san...Pierrot, Kyoto Animation, please help us get in touch during this period..."
Itou Shuichi on the microphone was a little surprised:
"Contact them for what?"
"Let's get in touch to discuss the acquisition..." Naoki Nagayama said, "If the acquisition doesn't work, just buy shares..."
"Naoki-san, you are going to buy an animation studio!"
Itou Shuichi reacted immediately,
"But isn't this giving them free money?"
Obviously you can build it yourself, but it doesn't actually cost much... There are cartoonists all over the place, it doesn't cost much, it just takes time and training.
"It doesn't matter, I have plenty of money!!!"
Nagayama Naoki finally felt the pleasure that rich people felt when they said this sentence... Inhumane!
"..."
After a moment of silence, Yi Tangxiu asked in a low voice:
"Naoki-san, you have had nothing to do at home these days, so you want to throw the money away, right?"
"Um...I'm really a bit free..."
"Then throw the money to me!!! Throw it to me!!! I have no money!"
Nagayama Naoki was helpless: "...Shuichi-san, you are a billionaire after all, can you please stop being so shameless!!"
"I don't... If I can make Naoki-san throw money to me without losing face, I would rather lose face!!"
The words spoken by the two of them sounded like they were talking nonsense, which made Akina, who was eavesdropping next to her, cover her mouth and laugh non-stop.
In the end, Nagayama Naoki had to interrupt Itou Shuichi’s unreasonable troubles:
"Xiu Yisang, since we already have capital, we must learn to do what capital bosses would do! Spending money to buy time is a very cost-effective business..."
"Anyway, you can contact these two companies recently..."
Nagayama Naoki paused,
"Then he let it out and said that Shuyou wanted to enter the animation industry and was in urgent need of high-quality talents..."
"Naoki-san, according to our current status, it's not a joke if we say it out loud!"
Itou Shuichi reminded that according to Shuyou's current status in the entertainment industry, what he said would even cause the animation company's stock to fluctuate.
If Naoki Nagayama speaks in person, it can even cause a wave of enthusiasm in the animation industry~
"Yeah~" Nagayama Naoki nodded, "I'm serious this time!"
"Oh well....."
After continuing to talk for a while, Itou Shuichi hung up the phone.