"Chosen Heaven" and "Silver Soul" Sino-Japanese cooperation animation adaptation mobile game

This shows that domestic animation IP, especially national animation IP, still has much room for growth in fan base and game player transformation.

the same IP can create many different cultural forms such as games, literature, music, film and television, and animation. The following three cultural entertainment companies will take stock of the adaptation information of domestic animic-related IP in September in chronological order:

On September 12,"Long Song Xing" held a scheduled release conference. It is a dynamic cartoon adapted from Xia Da's comic work of the same name., will be compiled and written by Xia Da, produced by Xia Tian Island Studio, and produced by Ranye Culture.

On September 16, the first test of "New Qin Shi Ming Yue" is a card mobile game adapted from the automatic drawing of the "Qin Shi Ming Yue" series and its derivative sister chapters. It was jointly developed by Xuanji Technology and Shanghai Luyou. The real-life TV series "Qin Shi Ming Yue" will also be broadcast soon.??

On September 17, it was decided to animate "Once upon a Time There was a Mountain of Spirit Sword" and will be released on MX TV in Tokyo, Japan in early 2016. The cooperation was jointly funded by Tencent Animation and Japan's DEEN, with Dream Animation participating.

(Sanwen Yi's note: This is not the first animation work that China and Japan have cooperated. Prior to this, Station B invested in the animation of "Zusaki Nishi" and participated in the production committee;"Chosen Sky" also achieved Sino-Japanese cooperation, with Japan's AREA81, which produced "Naruto", responsible for the original painting design, and Shanghai Ruiyi Animation, which produced "Gameo", responsible for the post-animation period.) On September 17, Tencent Pictures released three animation IP film and television adaptation plans,"My Name is Bai Xiaofei","Fox Demon Little Matchmaker" and "Mountains and Rivers".

On September 17, at the "2015 China Online Drama Development Summit Forum", Quan Yingsheng's new comic book "Hunter", which was first serialized on Netease, announced that he had signed a contract with iQiyi and would be filmed into an online drama.

Sources say that the animation "Painting Bad People in the Jianghu" will be adapted into a 24-episode large-scale costume online drama of the same name. It will start in March 2016 and will be produced by Yiku Media and Ruosen Technology.

2. Business performance

evaluates whether an IP is successful. Its business performance is a very important element. The following table shows the ranking of mobile games adapted from anime in the AppStore best-selling rankings on September 30.

In addition, the "Blood Clan" mobile game and the "Qin Shi Ming Yue" mobile game released by Touch launched operation activities for the National Day holiday and returned to the top 100 in the income list. The results at 8 pm on October 2 were 61st and 72nd respectively in the total income list.

The performance of anime adapted mobile games this month is very good, but compared with mobile games adapted from TV series, such as "Fantasy Westward Journey","Journey to the West" and "The Legend of Hot Blood", and "The Sky Change"(No. 8 in the total revenue list) and "Flower Thousand Bones"(No. 19 in the total revenue list). This shows that domestic animation IP, especially national animation IP, still has much room for growth in fan base and game player transformation.

Another phenomenon that needs to be noted this month is products with the concept of "secondary game" such as "Divergent Million King Arthur"(ranked 26th in the overall revenue list),"Collapse Academy 2"(ranked 40th in the overall revenue list), and "Adventure and Mining"(ranked 50th in the overall revenue list). Their gameplay is different from the popular "Legend of the Knife"-style action cards or ARPG in the above-mentioned anime IP adaptation mobile games. They rely on style, CV, plot lines and other elements preferred by domestic secondary people. It has a place in both downloads and revenue.

In "Fate/stay night", which is represented by Comic Link, mentioned in the "Three Entertainment Capital Monthly", the game license was distributed to three domestic companies. Among them, Hotspot Interaction, a subsidiary split from Perfect World, received exclusive development rights for the ARPG type, Player's Heart received the horizontal version of the fighting type, and Chenzhike was the action card type and page game. What effect this model will have is also worth paying attention to.

Editor: yvonne