Chapter 657: Longzhu’s Popularity Bottleneck (Please Subscribe)

A tennis boy doesn't need a girlfriend.

But Dragon Ball Boy needs a girlfriend. As the core protagonist, Sun Wukong finally met his true destiny after the 21st World No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament.

Kiki!

As the only daughter of the Bull Demon King, Qiqi is actually a very good girl, but because of Wukong's ignorance of worldly affairs, she has a wonderful fate with Wukong.

Simply put, engaged.

The first meeting between the two can barely be regarded as an extremely rare emotional scene in the animation "Dragon Ball".

Unfortunately, this fate was too short-lived. After bidding farewell to Qiqi, Wukong once again embarked on a journey to find the Dragon Balls.

The engagement between Qiqi and Wukong was, to be honest, very hasty...

But no matter how hasty it is, it is still a marriage contract. And Wukong has a simple character. It can be said that from the moment he and Qiqi made an engagement, the two were destined to be together.

Is this a good thing?

Seeing that on some forums and social platforms, the majority of "Dragon Ball" fans expressed their congratulations to Wukong for being "unmarried", Gu Miao was immediately speechless.

Maybe at this time, everyone only knows that Qiqi is Wukong's official wife, and they don't know what happened to Qiqi later, right?

Although the manga has been updated to the part after Goku and Chi-Chi's marriage, as the latest volume of the manga has just been released, many animation viewers have not read it yet.

This also leads to.

The vast majority of the audience is supportive of Wukong and Chi Chi's engagement.

Only a small number of fans who saw the latest chapter of the comic quietly changed their previous views.

Chi Chi is worthy of Goku.

But……

Wukong is not good enough for Chi Chi!

Wukong is simple and simple, and to put it bluntly, he is a "martial arts idiot". If the comic book author hadn't sent him a wife, a character like his would have been properly left alone.

After he married Qiqi, to be honest, he did not let Qiqi live a good life. Instead, he relied on Qiqi to support the Sun family alone.

Qiqi is the "backbone" of the Sun family!

Wukong can only say that he is lucky to have such a virtuous wife who manages the house.

Although many fans of the "Dragon Ball" anime support the "first love team" of Bulma and Goku, including even Gu Miao himself.

But even among the fans who support the first love group and are obsessed with Bulma, few would say bad things about Qiqi.

Don't ask why.

The question is, the role of "good wife and mother" played by Qiqi is really hard to fault. Maybe some people feel sorry for Bulma, but no one dares to say that Qiqi is inferior to Bulma.

Of course, extreme fans are the exception.

From Gu Miao's perspective, he has strong dissatisfaction and prejudice against the emotional scenes in the "Dragon Ball" animation.

He also thought about changing the character's story line to make the emotional scenes less thin, so that when it comes to "Dragon Ball", it won't be just a fight.

But then he thought about it...

The reason why "Dragon Ball" became popular was not the emotional lines portrayed by Akira Toriyama, but the exciting and thrilling fighting scenes.

As long as you do this part well, it doesn't matter if the emotional line is bad or not.

Even deleting these emotional lines will not have much impact on the IP of "Dragon Ball".

Therefore, he did not make any changes.

What the emotional drama of the original "Dragon Ball" is like, the Wanbao version will be like that. If I have to say something different, it should be that the character's appearance has changed.

This was Gu Miao's request.

When the "Dragon Ball" comic was about to be serialized, he told the author of the comic that the characters should be drawn as "distinctive" as possible.

Take the female characters as an example.

Stop dressing so "retro" and old-fashioned. After all, this is the new century. Even the training clothes can't be so "sense of the times"?

When it’s time to be fashionable, you have to be more fashionable.

Kamesenren can be so fashionable, why can't others?

In addition to dressing up, the Wanbao version of "Dragon Ball" comics and animations also made individual revisions and modifications to each character's "hair style."

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Saiyan!

Of course, Gu Miao would not change the Saiyan's iconic explosive hairstyle. He only asked people to change the hairstyles of other characters in daily life.

…

The "Dragon Ball" animation continues to be popular.

As the dual-line serialization of animation and comics progressed, Gu Miao, Nishio and others also noticed a phenomenon.

It seems that the popularity has reached a bottleneck?

No matter how much money Wanbao spends or how many advertising spaces it buys, the effect of publicity and promotion is not as good as before. The popularity of animation & comics has always been stuck here, unable to go up or down.

To be honest, it's quite embarrassing.

You said "Dragon Ball" is not popular...

This is not only the best-selling comic in Neon, but also one of the top ten popular single-volume comics in China. It has repeatedly broken Neon ratings records and is a popular animation with over 100 million online views.

It can be said that "Dragon Ball" is very popular! It doesn't seem to have reached the heights of the original version. It currently only has a certain influence in East Asia.

Is there something wrong?

Gu Miao didn't understand at first, how could a work like "Dragon Ball" encounter a bottleneck in popularity?

However, through investigation, he discovered that he seemed to have made one mistake, that is, he seriously underestimated the increase of "Saiyan" in this series.

Dragon Ball without the Saiyans is indeed almost meaningless. With its current popularity, it can be considered as a super level performance.

Only when the Saiyans appeared did the "Dragon Ball" anime really take off, from a regional anime that was only influential in East Asian countries to a "world-class" anime IP with a broad fan base around the world.

"It has to be a Saiyan!"

Gu Miao pursed her lips, shook her head and sighed: "It seems that if the popularity of "Dragon Ball" is to be further improved, it can only rely on the second season of the animation."

Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Kai, Dragon Ball Super...

Let’s not talk about comics for a moment.

If we only consider animation, the "Dragon Ball" series is indeed a work that slowly ascends to the altar step by step.

Become a god in the first season?

This is indeed Gu Miao's overthinking. The first season alone will definitely not be able to do it, and it must be completed with subsequent works.

But it's not a big problem.

Although Gu Miao overestimated the influence and popularity of the first season of the animation, this is Dragon Ball after all. Even if it reaches the bottleneck of popularity, it is a level that other animations cannot reach.

Compared with the initial investment, Wanbao has already made a lot of money.

After all, Wanbao really didn't spend much money during the production of "Dragon Ball". It was just that he bought some extra pages when he was serializing the comic in the early stage.

Anyway, the investment is not high, at least not comparable to the previous "Sailor Moon S".

In terms of return rate, "Dragon Ball" is not much worse than "Sailor Moon S".

Although the "Sailor Moon" series is still the mainstay of the Neon Division, with the sudden rise of "Dragon Ball", Sailor Moon's status has been shaken.

How strong is one super?

No no no! Now it’s a two-pole struggle for hegemony!