Big Manga - Chapter 982
Chapter 977 :song
Although “Shakugan No Shana” is not a new work, in order to ensure its smooth production, Meng Huo stayed in Tokyo temporarily. The adaptation of manga into animation cannot be done overnight, especially in a new studio that has just been established. Meng Huo still needs a lot of running-in.
He led Bai Yan to start the preparations for the animation of “Shakugan No Shana”. This animation has some very distinctive elements. Meng Huo wants to tell Bai Yan and other members little by little.
At the same time, the animation script had to be rewritten, with Meng Huo as the supervisor, and Lu Yanqiu was responsible for the specific script, but she was not alone. She took a dozen employees from Asuka Studio to decompose the published comics of “Shakugan no Shana”, separated each one-page story into an animation with an appropriate number of episodes, and then determined the structure of each episode in more detail.
This work is time-consuming, but compared to original animation, adaptation is already very simple. Having been busy for four or five days, Lu Yanqiu finally moved the preliminary script results to Meng Huo. Meng Huo took the white geese together and began to carefully review these scripts.
“Teacher He Xi, Director Bai, how about it?”
After about half an hour, both of them were about to see, Lu Yanqiu asked nervously.
“I think it’s not bad!” Bai Yan replied first. The experienced director, she reads the script very accurately. Although Lu Yanqiu’s achievements have not yet reached the state of clearly describing the plot of each episode, every episode The plot division between them is done very well, and the overall structure is no problem.
And Meng Huo checked more seriously. He knew very well about “Shana-Eyed Shana” and found some loopholes in Lu Yanqiu’s results. After circled these loopholes in red pen and reminded him of the amendments, he gave Lu Yanqiu an answer. .
“I will adjust the small details. It is generally no problem to read the full text of Xiancun. You can enrich the content of each episode according to this diversity table.”
The outline of the script was decided on this, and the rest was the details. Lu Yanqiu and the others would naturally be able to do a good job.
But Meng Huo still felt a little pity. Originally, the first season of “Shakugan no Shana” should have 24 episodes, but because of the progress of the manga. The “Shakugan no Shana” to be produced is determined to be 16 episodes, and the progress of the plot is far behind.
In his previous life, “Shakugan No Shana” was broadcast in three seasons, with 24 episodes in each season.
However, the world may be longer. According to the current progress, the animated version of Shakugan no Shana may finally be made into five or six seasons. And if Meng Huo does not speed up the serialization of the comics, it will take a few years before the animation of Shakugan Shana can be produced for the next season, and it may even take more than ten years to finish it—
From the broadcast of the first season to the end of the last season. It will take more than ten years in total. Thinking of this, Meng Huo felt a lot of pressure in his heart, but sometimes he was helpless. He was not a three-headed six-armed body, and he really couldn’t do anything at once.
“Let’s see if I can move “Shakugan No Shana” to the weekly…”
Meng Huo couldn’t help but think so. If you want to shorten the time issue of Shakugan no Shana, you can only see if there is a chance to move its comics to Comic Weekly for serialization in the future. But in this way, he may also have to give up a plan to launch a new comic, which may not be so easy.
Because of too much work, Meng Huo has been slow to launch new comics. He has released a comic almost a year, and he is further and further away from being a mere ‘cartoonist’. Many readers have complaints. Every time Meng Huo releases a new comic, he is also trying to balance his role.
In this situation. If he does not publish new works but moves old ones to magazines, it will inevitably arouse some readers’ indignation.
But on the other hand, compared to these indignations, perhaps “Shakugan Shana” is more important-Meng Huo carefully weighed it and felt that he should indeed find a chance to move this comic into the magazine.
The animation period may be the best time, but it depends on whether Meng Huo is free and whether he can find other assistants.
“Or just let them help!” Meng Huo thought of the two female assistants who were making animations at Asuka Studio. He didn’t think about any new comics at all, so he asked them to help serialize “Shakugan Shana”. Up.
He immediately asked about the wishes of the two female assistants.
“”Shakugan no Shana”?”
“No problem at all!”
The two female cartoonists agreed more simply than Meng Huo had imagined. They are happy to do this as manga assistants for the same work while making anime.
Meng Huo, who got the answer, immediately informed the editorial department of “Weekly Youth”. “Shakugan no Shana” is a work between the shonen manga and the girl manga, but the last time Meng Huo put the manga in the girls editorial department. Of course he has to balance this time.
Ye Xiong immediately responded after receiving the news, and he didn’t care at all that “Shakugan Shana” was not the loss of the new comic.
“It doesn’t matter, Shana’s single-page book is very popular, and the results after serialization are not bad… But I hope that the comic serialization and the animation release time can be consistent, so that the comics can be heated up.”
The idea of the editor-in-chief of the young manga and Meng Huo came in unexpectedly. Unlike “Detective Conan”, there are still a few weeks before the release of “Shakugan Shana”, and Meng Huo’s serial preparation is also very good. adequate.
In this way, without any consideration in advance-Meng Huo confirmed the animation and manga of “Shakugan no Shana” in Tokyo.
Affected by the manga, he stayed in Tokyo for a few days to prepare for the serialization of manga, and to explain everything about “Shakugan no Shana” to two female cartoonists, and trained them to read the full text of Shanatsu’s Mythical World Adventure.
It can be said that in the past few days, the two female cartoonists are the busiest people besides Meng Huo. In order to absorb Meng Huo’s information, they work overtime with Meng Huo until 11 or 12 o’clock every day, even better than Lu Yanqiu, who is in charge of the script. It’s hard work.
However, the busiest one is undoubtedly Meng Huo. His daily schedule is filled with him. Almost all of his work has his share, and occasionally he has to see the situation of “Detective Conan”.
In addition to these things, he has a more important job, and that is to compose two actions-no matter “Detective Conan” or “Saragan of Shakugan”. There must be a lot of new songs.
“Detective Conan” does not require much, but when the animation returns, you have to change the opening and ending songs, and you can no longer use the original songs. And “Shakugan no Shana” requires all the songs such as the opening and ending credits, interludes and so on. At least a dozen songs are required.
Song writing is not difficult for Meng Huo, but he prepared so many songs in a hasty time. Or did Bai Yan and the others feel a moment of tension, can he finish writing in such a short time? And not to mention that he is busy in the studio all day-how can he free to think about songs?
“Maybe “Shakugan No Shana” has to be delayed…”
Bai Yan thought this way. If Meng Huo couldn’t write the song in time, maybe they could ask other people to compose the song—however, it would take several months to prepare a dozen songs by one person, right?
However, every month the studio is delayed, she has to spend a lot of money, and she doesn’t have time to wait for a few months.
But Meng Huo certainly wouldn’t let her wait so long. When he was still in Tokyo, he first passed the opening and ending credits of “Detective Conan” to the office. After leaving Tokyo and returning to Suhua, he wrote the song of “Shakugan Shana” within a few days.
The quality of the animated songs of “Shakugan No Shana” is quite high, and Meng Huo is also very careful about this, and the best version is used in the opening and ending credits. The opening song of the first season is “Scarlet Sky”-a very famous song. Meng Huo remembers that it was very well-known in his previous life. Many people who have not watched anime have also heard of this name.
Although the popularity of the ending song “The Girl Who Was Awakening Before Dawn” is much lower, Meng Huo’s song is better than “The Scarlet Sky”. Of course, this is only his personal taste.
Except for the opening and closing credits. The episode of “Shakugan No Shana” is also very important. In order to ensure that there is no accident, Meng Huo installed all the songs on the USB flash drive and personally took it to the seiyuu office. Give it to Shen Jie.
“The song of “Shakugan Shana”? Is it ready so soon?” Shen Jie was a little surprised when she took the USB disk. She knew that this animation had just decided to produce it, but she didn’t expect Meng Huo to prepare the song so soon. .
“You are so surprising every time!” But after the accident, Shen Jie remembered that Meng Huo had been composing so fast before, and it could only be attributed to his talent.
“Then please, I have to record these songs in two weeks, not more than three weeks.” Meng Huo gave Shen Jie a time limit, which seemed very short, but the firm now has enough. The band and resources did this.
After Meng Huo left. Shen Jie immediately handed over the USB flash drive to his subordinate employees and asked them to record the song into the firm’s database. And printed a copy. She is very interested in these new songs. The opening song “Scarlet Sky” has just been printed. Shen Jie picked up the slightly hot paper and looked at it.
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When this sky is dyed red
When I come again, I will go straight with this body
“People” passing by
Confusing “things”
Will eventually become a memory and disappear
The “strong” of the hot shock
…
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The sweeping lyrics made Shen Jie’s eyes brighten, and she could easily see that after reading the “Shakugan Shana” comics, the lyrics of this song are simply tailored to the world view of “Shakugan Shana”. There is an apocalyptic world.
“Although the lyrics are good, how about the score?” Shen Jie looked at the score and hummed a few words in her heart. She found that the pitch was a bit high, but the tune was very beautiful, and there was a feeling of enthusiasm.
“This song is great!”
“This song is too!”
And while Shen Jie was watching “Scarlet Sky”, the two female employees in her office also took the other printed scores and praised them. Shen Jie recovered and looked at these. The score, every song is great.
“The quality of the songs of “Shakugan Shana” is so high!” Shen Jie was speechless, but she was very excited: “I want to sing these songs. You help me arrange a band and record the songs in two days!”
She picked up the score and eagerly wanted to leave, but after walking two steps, she felt that it was not right again. She turned her head and asked, “You said, is it appropriate for me to take these songs?”
“Of course, no one will rob you!”, “I also think Shen Jie, you sing the best!”
The two people in the office did not object, but Shen Jie frowned, but the more he thought about it, the worse it became.
Her current identity is different from the past. She is one of the directors of the seiyuu firm. Although she can easily take away these songs-but if she takes away the songs with her own identity, it will definitely cause trouble in the seiyuu group. Good response.
“This should be regarded as seeking personal gain…”
Shen Jie didn’t want to have such a rumor. She looked at the score reluctantly. Although she was a little reluctant, she took the score back and handed it to a female employee, saying, “Print out these scores and distribute them to other female voice actors!”
“Distribute?” The female employee was stunned: “Are you not going to do it?”
“Yes–but it’s not good to take it away directly. I’d better distribute the score and follow the usual process.”
Shen Jie frowned and said that the usual process is to make the songs public for the voice actors to fight for. Now, in addition to some designated songs, Phoenix mainly relies on internal semi-open selections and competitions to determine the song’s ownership.
After the firm obtains the copyright of a song, it will first be assigned to a suitable voice actor, and then recorded separately without making it public, and finally reviewed by a team of musicians, agents and animators , Select the most suitable voice actor for singing.
The reviewers of this method include animators and they have the highest rating ratio, which can be said to be the fairest screening method in the voice actor community.
The animator of “Shakugan Shana” is Asuka Studio. Meng Huo rarely participated in scoring in the past, so Shen Jie has no favoritism-but she feels that she has a big advantage in the style of these songs.
The only problem is that the usual process goes down, and the selection of songs often takes a long time, which may not keep up with the speed of animation production.
In order to solve this problem, Shen Jie ordered that the recording time be shortened, and the recording of all songs should be completed within the next week, so that there is sufficient time for the office and Asuka Studio to screen-and leave for the voice actors to practice songs. There is not much time, and each person can only choose a few songs.
Shen Jie has a natural advantage in song practice. She masters a song for one-third of the time of a normal voice actress, but this time she did not catch all the songs in one go, but chose three as a breakthrough point.
One of the three songs is an episode, and the remaining two are “Scarlet Sky” and “The Girl Who Was Awakened Before Dawn”. These are the two most fiercely contested songs. The average female voice actor just gave up, but Xia Chuan Reality and Longxue certainly don’t want to miss it. (To be continued)