As the most popular gourmet restaurant on Blue Star, Xingping Restaurant and its affiliated Huaying Company have naturally become the focus of many fans. As soon as Huaying's official Weibo was released, the comment area below was filled with fans from all walks of life:
"Promise me that you won't participate in this kind of competition that sounds scary just by hearing the name, okay? If you're not careful, you might end up eating a biological weapon and never come back. For safety reasons, please don't be careless and give me the chance to die. I'm willing to bear the fate of being poisoned by dark cuisine!"
"Shocked, I didn't expect that dark cuisine would be fought over one day [stunned]"
"Will there be squid legs with peanut butter? Thinking about the terrible lines in the animation, I am actually a little tempted..."
"Out-of-town fans are jealous. Why is it Xingning City again? If we can't open a branch, can't we hold similar events? [Humble]"
Faced with such news, the local Huaying fans in Xingning City were naturally very excited. Although dark cuisine is terrible, it is also a part of "Food Wars! Soma". To some extent, it is even more interesting than simply delicious cuisine. Now that Huaying has opened a restaurant with a very high degree of restoration, it has also brought out interesting dark cuisine. Huaying fans are so happy that they can't wait to even rejoice that they can't eat the food because of queuing. Even the resentment of not being able to eat the food has been reduced a lot.
Even if you can't taste the same food for the time being, wouldn't it be interesting to try dark food or watch such a cross-dimensional event
You know, this is the first time that Huaying has held an offline event!
While fans of Huaying were filling out registration forms, they were also enthusiastically discussing matters related to the "Dark Cuisine Challenge" in animation forums and other places everywhere, which made many passers-by envious.
There is no other reason. There are quite a few popular animations on Blue Star, and there are all kinds of peripheral sales, but they are basically for making money - of course, this is not to say that other animation companies are wrong to make money, but in comparison, those who can make money and hold appropriate activities and touch the hearts of fans seem to have a different kind of favorability.
"This is an animation company that is very clear about the needs of its fans." This is the unanimous evaluation of Huaying Company by industry insiders.
A week later, the three-day dark cuisine challenge came to a successful conclusion.
In the end, there were only about 500 anime fans who were able to resist the devilish taste of the dark cuisine and successfully completed the challenge. In other words, Yukihira Hotel will give away 1,500 servings of Yukihira brand dishes for free because of this challenge. Of course, compared to the invisible benefits that Huaying will get from this first-ever event, this effort is simply insignificant.
Originally, Yukihira Restaurant was already well-known enough on Blue Star. However, during the Dark Cuisine Challenge, more passers-by were attracted by this interesting name. In fact, there were also well-known anchors from areas outside Xingning City who came here to live broadcast the entire competition, which made the fans who could not come in person happy, and their obsession with Yukihira Restaurant became even deeper.
At this point, Xingping Hotel has become the most well-known internet celebrity restaurant on Blue Star.
According to the general law of the development of Internet celebrity restaurants, it stands to reason that in the coming days, the popularity of Xingping Restaurant should gradually decline.
However, the downward trend of Yukihei Hotel is significantly different from that of other Internet celebrity restaurants.
Most Internet celebrity restaurants will eventually disappear from people's sight after their initial popularity, but Xingping Restaurant's decline is only from the initial huge crowds to the full house at mealtimes every day. All the ingredients are still easily used up on the same day, and there is no waste or overflow.
It is no exaggeration to say that Huaying has brought food animation to the pinnacle this time.
Whether "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" can be regarded as the pinnacle of food animation is not the point, but from the launch of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", to the opening of Yukihira Hotel, to the recent Dark Cuisine Challenge, the creativity and ability that Huaying has demonstrated in this series of activities is truly breathtaking.
Even if better food animations appear in the future, it is unlikely to reach the level of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" in terms of profitability.
This is indeed the case.
Today, the profit point of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" is not only in the animation itself and the derived theme restaurants, but also a large number of Blue Star food companies have come to the door with high-paying advertising placement contracts. Some even directly proposed that the protagonist of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" Yukihira Soma become the spokesperson for a snack product of their own company.
Mu Suxing certainly had no reason to refuse such money that was delivered to his door. He just picked out two food companies based on his memories of his previous life that would have problems in the near future, and threw the rest of the contracts to Mu Xingxue, asking him to make the decision.
This is also one of the benefits of food animation.
In other animations, you may have to think hard about an advertisement placement, but there is no such problem with "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma". When Huaying was making "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", many scenes were originally referenced from the real scenes of Xingning City. Now, when placing advertisements on mineral water and other foods, there will be no sense of disobedience and no adverse effect on the audience.
Seeing the huge success of Food Wars!, Kawaii Animation once again made a fortune, and other animation companies also became tempted.
I don't want to make a lot of money like Huaying, but riding on the popularity of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma", it shouldn't be a problem to follow the trend and get a piece of the pie, right
Shokugeki no Soma is set in modern times, so they can make it a different world. Shokugeki no Soma takes an exaggerated approach, so they can just keep the setting of "glowing food" and make a fast-paced and refreshing upgrade flow animation.
If we combine it with the background of online novels and make an animation about practicing Taoism and opening a food store, it seems like it would be a good idea, right
Just when various animation companies were gearing up to follow in the footsteps of Huaying and try to make food animations, the deputy director of the animation "Food Wars! Soma" stated in an interview that Huaying's new animation would still be about food, and the director would conveniently transfer all subsequent projects of "Food Wars! Soma" to her Makusukoshi.
As soon as the news came out, both fans and animations became alert instantly:
"? You're starting over again, aren't you? Healing food show alert!"
"I've been fooled once, twice, and three times. Do you think I'll be fooled a fourth time? I'm telling you, it's impossible!"
"Why are you so excited? Hasn't Huaying announced the details of the new show yet? How did you know it's going to be a healing food show?"
"Let me explain to new fans in the front row that when we make animations, we basically don't consider themes that we have already made. For example, he let "Food Wars! Soma" go to other directors, and when he has already made an animation of a certain theme, if the next animation is still of the same theme... well, please refer to "Magical Girl Sakura" and "Magical Girl Madoka Magica" for details. [Smile]"
"Stop talking. I'm starting to panic now. [shivering]"
Not only the fans of the animation company were surprised by the news, but also many other animation companies that were preparing food animations.
As soon as the news that the sequel to the film "The Shadow" was still a food animation came out, all animation companies were on high alert. They still remembered the tragic encounter with their counterparts from "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". Now that the film was repeated, all major companies immediately held an emergency meeting with only one theme:
Want to avoid the painting shadow
Is it the least affected before the new food anime of Huaying is broadcast, or after the new food anime of Huaying is broadcast
The first question is self-evident. The name of Huaying is a guarantee of the quality of animation. How desperate would a company like them be to compete with Huaying? As for the second question, that was the important content they needed to discuss.
"What's the exact date of the new show's premiere?" Mu Suxing looked at Mu Xingxue who suddenly came to visit him in surprise: "Don't you usually not pay attention to these things? Why are you asking this?"
Mu Xingxue did not hide it. He immediately pointed out that since the theme of the new anime series was announced, other animation companies have been asking him about the specific time. "Of course, I'm just asking for them. You can keep it a secret if you want, but I personally think there's no need to push these companies too hard."
After all, animation companies are not like game companies. The latter may have to keep an eye on small companies with potential to snatch their workshops. As for animation companies...
There are indeed many support policies for animation on Blue Star today, but there are not many animation companies that can truly make stable profits and ensure normal operations - let alone compete with Huaying for the market. For many animation companies, being able to ensure their own stable profits is already quite good.
"In the final analysis, it was because you were too abnormal at that time." Although Mu Xingxue didn't watch much animation, he still knew everything about Yuan Shen's incident. "Otherwise, these animation companies wouldn't be so nervous and afraid of accidentally running into you."
Mu Xuxing was at a loss whether to laugh or cry after hearing this.
Unlike other people who are afraid of the development of their peers, Mu Suxing actually hopes that more talents can emerge in this industry. It doesn't matter to him to announce the launch date in advance, but...
"Magic Girl's Animation was created mainly because it was too subversive compared to other magical girl themes. This time, it's really just an ordinary food animation," Mu Suxing touched his nose, looking a little helpless: "Even if it hits, it won't have any impact."
Mu Xingxue raised his eyebrows, looking unconvinced.
"Are you going to say next that the new animation is a heartwarming food animation?"
Muxuxing thought for a moment and said, "This statement is actually not wrong, but strictly speaking, I think it might be more accurate to use 'gentle' as an adjective."
Mu Xingxue thought to himself, isn’t that even more terrifying
If Madoka Magica, which is known for being heartwarming, can be so depressing, then how depressing will the "gentle" food animation that was defined by Makusuko himself be
He was complaining in his heart but didn't say it out loud. Anyway, it would be the fans who would be abused, not him. If Mu Xuxing was happy, then let him do it.
"So what's the exact start time? Do you need to be notified?"
"No need," Mu Suxing thought for a while, "If nothing unexpected happens, I will only be responsible for the pre-production, and the rest will be handed over to other directors in the company. Next year I plan to try my hand at animated films, so I won't spend too much time on online animation."
The restaurant part of the theme park is ready, and the next thing that needs to be focused on is naturally the magical world, which is one of the core themes.