Two days ago, Fields Co., Ltd., the parent company of Round Valley Productions, announced its financial results for the three quarters of last year.
Judging from this data, Round Valley has become the performance pillar of フィールズ.com.
In addition, this data for many close-up fans, is indeed a great irony, last year's broadcast of "Teliga Ultraman" in the plot of the big collapse, has become the new generation of reverse peak, this financial report seems to prove that the quality of the work and the product best-selling or not the correlation is actually not high, which also makes many fans have some worries, worry, Round Valley has since focused more on business planning, and no longer care about the quality of the work.
In fact, it's not just fans who have such concerns, but even people in the industry have begun to criticize ultraman and Kamen Rider series for overemphasizing commercialization in recent years.
Former TAKARA producer and producer of the "Electric Light Superman Gurlitt" monster toy productSamatsu Kazumitsu once criticized the production of "Teliga Ultraman" for selling toys regardless of storytelling, which belongs to the inversion of the cart before the horse.
He thinks that shows like this should focus on conveying the values of right and wrong, and in recent years, whether it is a decent or a villain, it can be Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Gundam, this is a very stupid approach.
I don't know how many people would agree with these words of Akamatsu and Hikari, but in my opinion, his words are indeed very reasonable.
For example, the same origin is indeed the tradition of the Kamen Rider series, but in the Showa Kamen Rider series, not all the reformers can bear the title of "Kamen Rider" and can be called "Kamen Rider", which means that he must be the party of justice.
In the previous Ultraman series, the role of "Ultraman" was given "divinity" by the creator, which is an unquestionable righteous party, and the famous artist Mr. Narita Hiroshi once said: Don't do anything bad with "Ultraman".
But in the new era, Kamen Rider is no longer a reformer, nor is it an absolute partner of justice, and sometimes, Kamen Rider may even appear in the enemy camp.
In addition, the Ultraman series is not exempt from vulgarity, fading the cloak of "divinity", a new generation of creators gave him more so-called "human nature", in addition to the power, they are basically no different from human beings themselves, and they are no longer an absolutely righteous party, but also have the evil Ultraman.
So, the meaning of "Kamen Rider" and "Ultraman" has changed in modern society, I have no self-evident, of course, where the new generation of creators want to take these two IPs, where to go, is not what you and I can influence, can only say, wait and see.
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