Chapter 1395 January 13th Passed Safely!

Friday, January 11th.

Feihuang Studio, animation production team.

Huang Sibo and Wu Chuan were busy with the release and broadcast of *Agent Academy*.

The situation with *Successor* was basically set. All the episodes would be broadcast by the end of the weekend, but the ratings and viewership were, to put it mildly, lackluster.

Based on the current situation, the failure of *Successor* was a foregone conclusion. Judging by the viewership and ratings, it definitely wouldn't recoup the initial investment.

Of course, *Successor* wasn't consistently terrible in every episode. When Lu Zhiyao and a few other movie emperor cameos appeared, and during a few of the big scenes, the viewership and bullet comments did increase.

But overall, it didn't have a significant impact on the overall rating of the series.

Even if there were fluctuations in the rating, they were generally only around 0.1 or 0.2 points, with the rating hovering around 6.

There was no helping it, because the rating of *Successor* at this stage was no longer fair or objective. It had completely become a battlefield for two opposing factions.

Some people were blindly giving high scores, while others were blindly giving low scores.

The more the original fans tried to give high scores to pull the rating back up, the more the haters wanted to give low scores to pull it back down.

As a result, *Successor* ended up with a C-shaped rating distribution, with a lot of one-star and five-star ratings, which is commonly known as the standard rating for a marketing-driven bad movie.

Normal bad movies have an L-shaped rating distribution, with a large number of one-star reviews, but marketing-driven bad movies have many five-star ratings due to the presence of online trolls, but this still doesn't change the fact that they're bad.

Therefore, this C-shaped rating was mocked for a long time.

Huang Sibo had stopped caring about *Successor*. Recently, he had been helping Wu Chuan arrange things for *Agent Academy*.

Because after he went to see Meng Chang last time, he had a clear understanding.

Whether *Successor* would be a hit or not had nothing to do with the publicity team anymore. It all depended on the results of the election in Uukraine.

So there was no use worrying; all they could do was wait.

Instead of agonizing over this, it would be better to think about how to make *Agent Academy* a success.

Even if *Successor* failed, as long as *Agent Academy* could succeed, then the Inspiration Class project for authors at Qidian Chinese Network would have two successes and one failure, which would sound quite acceptable.

After all, copyright adaptation is inherently a high-risk endeavor, and a success rate of over 60% is already considered very good.

But if *Agent Academy* also flopped, leaving only a success rate of just over 30%, that would be a bit difficult to justify.

Although being able to have their work adapted was something that authors couldn't even ask for, and the Inspiration Class still held a strong attraction for them even in the case of adaptation failure, it would undoubtedly be a major blow to the Inspiration Class and Feihuang Studio in the eyes of outsiders.

The cooperation with the Aili Island website had already been finalized, and the first episode could be broadcast tonight.

Huang Sibo was still a little worried: "Is our planned broadcast strategy really okay? You confirmed it with Boss Pei, right?"

Wu Chuan nodded: "Don't worry, Huang-ge, Boss Pei made it very clear."

"Boss Pei said that the quality is good enough for a mealtime video, and we must seize the time to broadcast it. Speed is the most important thing."

"Boss Pei also said that when negotiating cooperation with the Aili Island website, we should calculate the cost based on total viewership and total viewing time."

"Doesn't this just show that Boss Pei had already planned this out when he finalized this production method?"

"Moreover, this production method is slow at first when creating materials, but once the materials are mostly produced, the speed will be very fast afterward. Large quantity and guaranteed satisfaction are obviously our unique advantages."

"One episode a day, we'll carve out a bloody path with diarrhea-style updates!"

Huang Sibo nodded: "Okay, it's good that Boss Pei approved it."

When they first started planning this project, Wu Chuan had investigated many animation companies and then reported to Boss Pei.

As a result, Boss Pei was not satisfied with any of them and proposed using game modeling, motion capture, and real-time rendering to produce it.

Wu Chuan didn't quite understand the meaning, but he still strictly followed Boss Pei's requirements to assemble a team, poach people, and begin the production of *Agent Academy*.

It must be said that the beginning was indeed very difficult.

Although the game models in *GOG* are very detailed, it is difficult to directly use them in animation production. After forming the team, Wu Chuan not only had the scriptwriting team spend time revising the script, but also organized people to make major changes to the models and various art resources required in the animation.

Of course, the game department and the *GOG* project team also helped a bit.

After getting all these resources roughly in order, Wu Chuan began to work on the animation production.

It was much simpler with these resources. Anyway, it was all real-time rendering, using motion actors for motion capture. Each episode was only ten minutes long, and with motion capture and post-production, they could make a little over one episode in a day if they were fast, and at least one episode if they were slow.

Based on this calculation, they could produce seven episodes in five working days. As long as everyone was efficient, it shouldn't be a problem.

It was precisely with this in mind that Wu Chuan decided to follow Boss Pei's request and implement diarrhea-style updates!

Boss Pei's positioning of *Agent Academy* was quite accurate. It was just a mealtime video, so there was no need to strive for perfection and make it so detailed. The most important thing was large quantity and guaranteed satisfaction.

One episode a week with meticulous attention to detail, or seven episodes a week with guaranteed basic quality? The latter should obviously be chosen.

While negotiating cooperation with the Aili Island website and conducting preliminary publicity, filming had also been ongoing. So far, three episodes had been filmed.

Wu Chuan decided that starting from the premiere of *Agent Academy*, they would release one episode a day, maximizing the update quantity!

Don't online novel authors generally update daily?

As an adaptation of an online novel, of course, it should promote this style!

When many anime series are updated weekly or even monthly, an anime that can maintain daily updates will definitely shock the audience!

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Late night, Sunday, January 13th.

Pei Qian, with dark circles under his eyes, yawned while scrolling through his phone.

"I'll stay up until 0:00 on the 14th! I don't believe it. Young Master Tian said something would happen on the 13th. The 13th is almost over. What's going to happen?"

"I think there's something wrong with Young Master Tian's prophetic remarks, which are like he's been hacked. What big deal is going to happen on the 13th? I've been waiting all day."

"Forget it, the netizens will scold him for me."

Pei Qian refreshed the Aili Island website and was relieved to see that the rating of *Successor* was still hovering around 6.

Yesterday, Saturday, the last two episodes of *Successor* were broadcast together and had all been played.

The amount of information in these two episodes can be said to be very large. The penultimate episode wrapped up the public safety incident that Phil had previously created, and the final episode described in great detail the scene of Phil ascending to the pinnacle of super hero power.

The entire public safety incident took about two and a half episodes to tell, occupying a very important part of the entire series.

This was the most insane thing Phil had ever done. This public safety incident caused a large number of civilian casualties, and Phil took the opportunity to pull down the super heroes who were previously at the top and successfully rise to power.

In the previous episode, the audience had just seen Phil use a conspiracy to create a large number of civilian casualties and eliminate many obstructive super heroes by disgraceful means, his hands stained with blood.

In the next episode, Phil, surrounded by a large number of supporters and the public, announced his victory and swore to all the people in a hypocritical manner that he would fulfill his duties and ascend to the throne symbolizing the highest power of super heroes.

This contrast successfully continued the "discomfort" that *Successor* had brought to the audience before, and can be said to be the emotional climax of the entire *Successor* story.

Did Phil win? Yes, he won quite thoroughly.

If you look at the problem from Phil's perspective, from the perspective of the victor being king, he eliminated dissidents, deceived the people, and successfully seized the power that belonged to super heroes.

But if you look at the problem from an outsider's perspective, leaving aside the purely utilitarian perspective of the victor being king, Phil is a complete piece of trash, without any endearing or admirable virtues.

In short, it was not a rushed ending. This ending can be said to be consistent and meets the expectations of most viewers.

But precisely because of this, the polarization of the evaluation of *Successor* has not changed in any way. People who accept the core of this story highly praise it, and people who do not accept the core of this story still can't wait to give it a negative score.

Now that the entire series has been broadcast, and after a whole day of fermentation on Sunday, Pei Qian felt that the rating could almost be finalized, right?

Even if there was still a bit of discussion when the last episode came out, and the audience argued a few words, the heat has obviously subsided now, and the publicity resources for *Successor* on the Aili Island website will definitely be withdrawn, and there should be no large number of new viewers pouring in later.

In this case, can the reputation of *Successor* still turn around?

It shouldn't be possible, right?

The only variable is Young Master Tian's worrying, prophetic prediction.

So Pei Qian stubbornly waited through the entire 13th until 0:00 on the 14th.

He refreshed the rating of *Successor* again, as well as the online reviews and news, and found no changes.

On the Aili Island website, Young Master Tian's prediction was still hanging there, and many people went to dig it up as soon as it passed 0:00, mocking Young Master Tian, but Young Master Tian didn't know whether he was asleep or pretending not to see it, but in short, he didn't respond in any way.

He seemed to be playing dead.

"Phew, false alarm."

"I said, with such a big advantage, how could it be possible to make a comeback in one day? That's impossible."

"Although I was worried all day, it's worth it to see Young Master Tian crash!"

Pei Qian went to bed contentedly.

I'll add an update tomorrow.