The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 35 Daily Lives

For this week’s movie, because there was no good script, Zhou Yu still used the old story to make up the numbers. Hence the classic movie “The Magic Paintbrush”, once again appeared on the screen. However, it was a real tier-3 animated movie. So the overall quality was unrivaled, apart from the top quality animation movies.

However, there was also a problem. It was that it seemed like the animation base could not produce 3D animations, which was totally different than the game company. The game company had a 3D game option to choose, but the animation base didn’t have anything. It seemed like it needed some conditions to trigger it.

But 2D was also fine. The beautiful graphics already reached the level of Makoto Shinkai’s works. Almost every frame of his work could be used as computer background images. It was a work that even a senior otaku would not be able to find many areas to criticize.

If a professional animation artist or even just someone who knew a little bit about the domestic animation, saw this animation, they would probably be shocked to an extent that they would think that they had transmigrated into another China in the other universe.

‘Is this still the domestic animation that many people look down upon?’

Beautiful graphics, top-quality sound effects. Even if it was an old story that had been heard thousands of times, with this kind of extraordinary visual experience, it was still very enjoyable to watch.

However, the people who saw the animation here was either kids, or old people. They didn’t know the value of this animation. Even teacher Hu, who was knowledgeable than others, also only felt that this animation was not bad.

However, despite this, Zhou Yu still wasn’t satisfied. Although the graphics and the sound effects met his expectations, the voice acting was still lacking, and the story was not very refreshing. It gave people an out-of-date feeling.

However, at the moment, Zhou Yu couldn’t do anything about it. Without a talented novelist, it was impossible to make good work.

Yang Kuai didn’t have the original work skill. So different to those directors that could produce their original works, he could only produce animations after he received the script.

There were quite many good novels online. Originally, Zhou Yu wanted to adapt some novels, that he liked, into movies. However, it was a shame that the animation base didn’t accept those scripts at all. The reason was that they didn’t have permissions to do it. Even if it was not used for commercial purposes, they still refused to do it. They were very strict about this.

In other words, with the current conditions, he had to either use the old stories or he had to write a script by himself. However, with the kingdom of dreams this embarrassing example, there was no way Zhou Yu would do it again. So for the time being, he just played some old stories. He just treated it as reliving his childhood again.

After one and a half hours, the magic paintbrush was finally over. The government officials’ ship was eventually sunk in the storm, and Ma Liang and the other villagers could finally live happily ever after.

The story was pretty standard. Zhou Yu didn’t think that it was very interesting. But those kids liked a lot. They all clapped their hands excitedly for Ma Liang’s wit.

Anyway, as long as the audiences liked his products. In terms he himself, he needed to wait and see when he could discover some talented people.

After sending the children home, Zhou Yu planned to upload the animation movie as usual. However, just when he logged in, a notification suddenly popped up.

It roughly said that the video had been taken down due to the copyrighted material had been detected in the video. If he was the creator of the video, he needed to submit the relevant documents. Otherwise, his account would be banned from uploading more videos.

‘What the hell, what is going on!?’

Zhou Yu didn’t understand how it was copyrighted. And how on earth he was going to get the relevant documents? That thing just popped out of the animation based. How was that going to prove that he was the original creator?

‘Ah… Whatever! Like I give a shit. Besides, it didn’t have any views either.’

Because of this, Zhou Yu gave up uploading his animation.

On the second day, early morning, Zhou Hao and a few other kids came over to clean the yard.

When watching movies, almost every kid would have some snacks to eat. Therefore, after the movie, the yard would usually become very messy. Because it was not easy to clean up during the night time, so they needed to wait for the next day to clean up.

The lazy otaku Zhou Yu, of course, would not do the cleaning himself. Therefore he gave the task to Little Rat and his friends.

Those little naughty kids also had some self-awareness. Although they would play with each other and chase each around during the cleaning, in the end, they would still clean up the yard.

When Zhou Yu walked out of his house while yawning constantly, they would all say good morning to him. It made Zhou Yu feel like he had suddenly recruited many minions.

Making toys and playing movies, Zhou Yu’s social status in the village had fundamentally increased. Especially amongst those kids. It probably would not even be a problem to call him “The Kid’s King”.

However, this also brought a problem to Zhou Yu. Every weekend when he wanted to catch some small beasts, there would be a bunch naughty kids following him around. And no matter how he wanted to scare them away, they just wouldn’t leave. It was extremely embarrassing to carry out different types of invisible competition in front of those little kids.

Every time when this kind of thing happened, Zhou Yu would always hope that the way to catch those little beasts could be improved. At least, there needed to be some sort of methods like Shana’s Fūzetsu skill, of which would allow him to enter an invisible space to do the competitions and then return to reality after the competition was finished.

“Brother Yu, that backflip was awesome! Do another one!”

Little Rat would always be the first one cheered loudly on the side. Especially when he saw his brother Yu was doing all kinds of strange activities. He always thought that brother Yu was practicing some kind of unrivaled divine martial art.

‘Martial art my ass! That was my ass got kicked badly by those small breasts!”

[A wild programming Ape appeared in front, please choose the countermeasures.]

After selecting the fight option, it showed that the competition was 1500 meters steeplechase. And the competition began instantly!

Zhou Yu suddenly turned around and started to run, leaving all the kids behind shouting, “brother Yu ran away, quick, chase him!…”

In the beginning, they were still able to follow him. Especially those kids that were good at running. However, after a while, all of them stopped while panting on the ground.

…………………………

The national day was near, the monthly sales performance of The War of Luhua village would depend on those few days. Gao Shu was already buried by the tons of work. However, whenever he saw the constantly jumping download numbers, he was happy, despite the fact that he was very tired.

The game had already sold 30 thousand copies, so if the sale goes well during the national holiday, they might sell 50 thousand copies in a month. Although this kind of sales performance definitely could not compete with top quality games, the brothel Taoist was just a new team to the gaming industry, their future was extremely bright.

Needless to say, the joy of discovering the good team was tremendous. However, whenever he thought of the stubborn Taoist’s representative, his joy would be decreased.

In order to keep the Taoist’s popularity going, Gao Shu had already asked the Taoist if the next game was already in the development. If it was, what type of game was it, etc… However, every time he would get the same reply, “still thinking…”

Whether the Taoist’s team was overjoyed by the success of the game or they urgently needed to get the investment back, Gao Shu felt that it was understandable.

However, they couldn’t relax during this time, the chance of making their team big and famous was here, and the chance would not wait for them, they had to seize this chance.

Therefore, Gao Shu sent another message to the Taoist, “The first game is bound to be a success, you don’t need to worry. Please start the research and development of the next work as soon as possible.”

…Note…

The Fūzetsu (封絶?, Seal, lit. “Seal of Suppression”) is a dome-shaped isolated space which is detached from the flow of cause and effect of the world, with its interior area frozen and concealed from the outside. It is the most common of all Unrestricted Spells. All sorts of causalities, including time, are stopped for ordinary living beings, allowing Crimson Denizens to act freely within them.