Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 423 Local adaptation, replacement and finalization of cooperation

After Lin Qingshan finalized the production of the Fate series, he also decided to tell Ming Yi Yang and Trigger Animation about it.

He immediately typed a reply to Ming Yiyang, "In that case, I actually have a pretty good idea. I want to see what you think."

After seeing Lin Qingshan's reply, Ming Yiyang also quickly replied, "Then teacher, are you free this weekend? Can you condescend to come to our company? It would be best if... you can prepare some setting drawings and main character drawings like before."

Lin Qingshan thought about it and concluded that works like animation and comics, which require a sense of visuals, are easier to understand by simply watching them.

Although the setting of Fate, which is about fighting historical crickets, actually sounds very exciting.

But he suddenly thought of a problem... If he really made an animation of the Fourth or Fifth War, it seems that he couldn't follow the original work and not have any ancient heroes of the Republic...

Hmm... there should be some localized adaptations like "Parasyte" and "Ghoul".

Otherwise, the pressure from public opinion will be great...

However, even if a localized adaptation is to be carried out, the added ancient heroes of the Republic must fit the replaced hero character in the original work.

Whether it is the fourth or fifth war, the heroine Saber cannot be replaced, and the Red A Heroic Spirit Emiya, the future male protagonist, cannot be replaced either.

The remaining twinkle...

Lin Qingshan thought that the First Emperor was quite suitable, but then he shook his head and rejected the idea.

Although the setting of the King's Treasure is also very suitable for the First Emperor, the First Emperor is not as arrogant as Shanshan.

Especially since Shanshan is destined to be a loser type of character, he will definitely lose.

But what about the First Emperor?
It is estimated that the Qin King will start the six-way sweep mode from the beginning until he finally wins and obtains the Holy Grail.

Even if he was forced to fail, after the Fourth War he gained a physical body because of the Black Holy Grail, and he would directly choose to rebuild the Qin Empire instead of wandering around like a street kid like Shanshan.

So Shanshan... let's keep the role of Gilgamesh, the King of Uruk in the original work.

The remaining heroes are of the Killer, Mage, Berserker, Rider, Archer and Spear classes.

The killing rank in the fourth and fifth battles is Hassan. The ancient heroes of the Republic who best fit the killing rank records are naturally the four great assassins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period - Jing Ke, Yaoli, Nie Zheng, and Zhuan Zhu.

However, the fourth-class assassin Hassan of the Hundred Faces is to highlight the great emperor's powerful Noble Phantasm, "The King's Army", and it is necessary to have a Noble Phantasm like Hassan of the Hundred Faces, "Delusion and Illusion".

None of Jing Ke, Yao Li, Nie Zheng and Zhuan Zhu seemed to be suitable.

Hassan the Cursed Arm from the fifth battle... Never mind, there seems to be no good replacement option for the Assassin class.

As for the magic class... Although there were no magicians in the ancient times of the Republic, Taoist priests and monks could barely be considered the Republic's version, but it's too far-fetched, so it's better not to change it.

After all, the mages in the fourth and fifth wars are both pretty negative characters, and it's a bit hard to find a similar legend for Medea, the mage in the fifth war, whose unique treasure "Ten Thousand Talismans Will Break the Rules" is also a bit difficult to find.

As for the Berserker class, Lancelot, as a character closely connected to Saber, cannot be replaced.

Hercules... The Twelve Trials is a treasure that seems to be compatible with the only ancient hero Zhou Tai of the Wu State during the Three Kingdoms period. He remembered that this character was made into a card in the Three Kingdoms Killing. Doesn’t he have an unyielding skill that makes him immortal?

But it is difficult to compare Zhou Tai with the great Greek hero and god of war Hercules. The only ones who can match Uncle B's fame and military power are probably Xiang Yu, Lu Bu, Guan Yu, Qin Qiong and other brave generals in history.

However, they do not have any legends or allusions like the Twelve Trials of Hercules, and the Martial Saint Guan Yu can barely match them.

Not to mention the Archer class, a Shining and a Heroic Spirit Emiya are both important characters and cannot be replaced.

Then the gun class...

A dog brother and a brush brother...

Suddenly, Lin Qingshan blinked his eyes, and he thought of Brother Brush, who was loyal, relatively strong, had a sense of justice of chivalry in his heart, and was also handsome.

Zhao Yun from the Three Kingdoms period should be very suitable, but Zhao Yun does not seem to have a dark history of seducing his sister-in-law...

And there are also the two spear-class treasures "Red Rose of Demon Destruction" and "Yellow Rose of Certain Destruction". It seems that Zhao Yun does not have similar weapons.

It seems that he is more suitable to replace Brother Gou.

Forget it, why not just not have the vulgar part about seducing the sister-in-law, and instead make some changes. Zhao Yun died on his sickbed in history, and he must have been feeling a bit resentful about it.

Therefore, the reason why he came to the Holy Grail War was just the same as Brush Brother's original reason, just to fight for his lord to the last moment and gain the final victory.

But the ending was still because the lord was caught by Kiritsugu's father and threatened by his mistress, and was forced to commit suicide with the Command Seal.

Actually, it’s pretty much the same.

After all, the original story of this plot mainly highlights the inevitable tragic fate of Brush Brother himself. During his lifetime, he fell in love with his master's fiancée and was seriously injured and killed by the master who he vowed to follow all his life.

Similarly, Zhao Yun could also commit suicide using the Command Seal because his Master Kenneth was threatened by Kiritsugu, instead of dying honorably in the battle and leaving the stage regretfully, highlighting his inevitable sense of fate and tragedy.

Finally, after being ordered to commit suicide, Zhao Yun, after denouncing the Saber Group's meanness, shouted "Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition!" three times with a look of regret and unwillingness, but he turned into ashes powerlessly...

That feeling of regret also exists.

As for Brush Brother's two treasures, "Red Rose that Destroys Demons" and "Yellow Rose that Destroys Death", they can be replaced by Zhao Yun's deeds and the weapons he holds, "Single-handedly Saving the Lord" and "Dragon Gallbladder Bright Silver Spear".

In that case... let's choose to make the fourth war.

Anyway, the fourth war is more to his liking.

So Lin Qingshan began to draw the main character settings and other setting pictures of "Fate Zero".

For him, this was naturally an easy thing to do. Even if he just added and replaced one of the heroes with Zhao Yun, it seemed that in his solidified memory, there was a fan fiction in his previous life that had a second Zhao Yun of the spear class.

Although he only had a fleeting glimpse and had some impression of him in his previous life, with the memory solidification ability of [Hard Disk Memory (Diamond)], he can now fully remember the settings of Zhao Yun, the Spear Class.

However, after thinking about it, he decided to use the fan-made picture of Zhao Yun, the spear-class, to set the ability parameters and class abilities of the brush brother, and the subsequent inherent skills and treasures were renamed and recreated.

Soon, with Lin Qingshan's superb painting skills, all the characters and heroic spirit settings of "Fate Zero" were drawn.

It was almost time for Gu Qianli to get off work, so he put down his painting tools and went to pick up Gu Qianli to enjoy dinner for two.

Anyway, there are still two days until the agreed time with Trigger Animation on Sunday.

……

On Sunday, the finale of the second season of "Chainsaw Man" animation was updated on time at midnight.

Countless viewers who are looking forward to the finale of the second season of "Chainsaw Man" are naturally waiting patiently during these holidays even late at night.

After the finale of the second season of "Chainsaw Man" was updated, it took only half a minute for the playback interface to be filled with barrages of comments.

"First!"

"Finish spreading flowers!"

"Great!"

"It's forbidden!"

"We! Are the February Overlords!!"

"Congratulations to Chainsaw Man!!"

……

The audience was very excited and quickly watched the finale of the second season of "Chainsaw Man" in excitement.

After all, it's an animation adapted from a comic, so the ending is bound to be a success.

After everyone finished watching the show with great satisfaction, they all said that "Chainsaw Man" was the dominant anime series of this season.

The popularity and heat of "Chainsaw Man" also continued to rise that night.

The discussion about the ending of the second season did not stop until the next day.

At this time, Lin Qingshan came to Trigger Animation with many setting drawings of "Fate Zero".

Trigger Animation's attitude towards Lin Qingshan can be described as exceptionally enthusiastic. After all, Lin Qingshan is now a golden signboard.

Working with Mr. Aoyama to make animations is like making a living, you won’t lose anything.

Of course they have to treat Lin Qingshan extra well.

Everyone entered the meeting room.

"Teacher Qingshan, have some tea."

Trigger Animation's current CEO Zhong Yayan personally poured tea for Lin Qingshan and said with a warm smile. Recently, Trigger Animation's financial report revenue has been rising, and all this is naturally due to his foresight. Under the pressure of Youdou.com's ban, he chose to trust Lin Qingshan and cooperated with him to produce three popular animation dramas.

And precisely because of this, Trigger Animation should continue to cooperate with Mr. Aoyama.

"Ah, thank you."

Lin Qingshan didn't care and just said it out of politeness.

"Teacher Aoyama, ahem, let's take a look at the content of the next new anime project."

Ming Yi Yang coughed at this time and said embarrassedly.

"It's okay. I'm actually a little anxious today. Once you've finalized it, you can make a copy of these setting drawings."

Lin Qingshan showed his teeth, which looked quite white due to diligent brushing, and said, "Then I will take these original drawings to Lightspeed Development Company."

"Lightspeed Development Company? The game company?"

Zhong Yayan suddenly realized and said, "Oh, that's right. The game with the same name as Edgewalker, Cyberpunk 2077, was developed by them."

"Teacher this time is ..."

He suddenly became curious and asked.

After all, Lin Qingshan asked them to copy these setting drawings, and then take the original drawings to the Lightspeed Game Development Company...

If it weren't for the fact that Lightspeed Game Development Company was not an animation production company, they would probably be a little alarmed now.

But game development is completely different from their animation production.

So Zhong Yayan was just a little curious, not worried that Lin Qingshan would go and cooperate with others instead of them.

“Fate is a series in my opinion. It is not only an animation, but also a game series.”

Lin Qingshan immediately took out the design drawings from the paper bag, as well as the detailed settings he had specially printed out, such as the Master's identity, personality, experience, as well as the faceplate and abilities of the Heroic Spirit, and placed them on the long table in front of him. He said, "And this time, my idea is that the first Fate series animation is "Fate Zero."

However, Zhong Yayan, Ming Yiyang and other senior executives of Trigger Animation looked confused.

Why is the first Fate series animation "Fate Zero"?

This kind of talk has no preface or conclusion, which makes people feel a little confused.

However, they still took the drawings that Lin Qingshan brought out and began to look at them.

The drawing in Zhong Yayan's hand showed a middle-aged man with cold and numb eyes, and the character's name was written by Lin Qingshan on it.

"The Master of the Saber camp... Mamoru Kiritsugu?"

He pronounced this somewhat strange name.

Ming Yi Yang had the design drawing of Saber, in which the classic image of Saber wearing blue and white Western medieval knight armor was brought to life on paper by Lin Qingshan's superb painting skills.

Lin Qingshan also wrote about the origin of Saber's prototype.

"Saber...Altria Pendragon? The prototype is King Arthur Pendragon from the legend of ancient Britain?"

Ming Yi Yang also read it out and said.

But they were still confused and couldn't help but look at Lin Qingshan.

Lin Qingshan scratched his head and immediately explained, "In the anime setting of "Fate Zero", there is a universal wishing machine that can fulfill all wishes. Therefore, in order to seize the Holy Grail, the people of this world held a secret battle called the Holy Grail War."

“In the Holy Grail War, seven people who have obtained the qualifications of a Master called the Command Seal will perform a ceremony through a certain medium and summon those famous figures in history as demons. They are divided into seven classes: Saber, representing swordsmen; Lancer, representing spearmen; Archer, representing archers; Rider, representing knights; Caster, representing mages; Assassin, representing assassins; and Berserker, representing berserkers…”

After Lin Qingshan's explanation, everyone in Trigger Animation suddenly understood something.

Is this... a cross-time and space cricket fight similar to the one between Guan Gong and Qin Qiong?

Or is there a version that pits China against foreign countries?
Sure enough, a Trigger Animation animation director saw the heroic spirit of an ancient hero of the Republic in his hands.

"Lancer Zhao Yun!"

His eyes sparkled as he said, "Lancer Zhao Zilong? He really fits the bill! But he's not in the protagonist camp..."

After all, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a famous novel known to every household in the Republic, so of course it has many fans.

Especially Zhao Zilong, the man with the silver saddle and white horse. Some people may dislike Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang of Shu Han because they think they are hypocrites, arrogant or they are involved in internal strife during the regent period.

But Zhao Yun...he is truly an almost perfect historical hero.

Most people would definitely have a positive opinion of Zhao Yun, a general of the Three Kingdoms, so there is no need to say much about his popularity.

An animation screenwriter from Trigger Animation also got the information on heroic spirits compiled by Lin Qingshan. He was quite excited when he saw Zhao Yun’s inherent skills and treasures on it.

"Mind's Eye (True) B? The excellent insight that can accurately predict the opponent's actions and break dangerous situations cultivated through training and tempering. Even if forced into a desperate situation, it can calmly grasp the situation of oneself and the enemy and find a way to survive in a disadvantageous situation."

"There is also the Infinite Martial Arts A, which was said to be unrivaled in a certain era. It allows the mind, skills and body to be completely unified, and can unleash powerful combat capabilities without being affected by any mental factors!"

"The general's military strategy B is a fighting method that allows you to accurately grasp the direction of the battle and induce the opponent to make mistakes even if you are not as strong as the opponent."

"Noble Phantasm "Single-Horse Rescue", Rank B~B+. According to the legend, Zhao Yun protected the young lord alone amidst a huge army. This Noble Phantasm sublimated from the legend can invalidate defenses made of magic power. Its attack is especially effective against armor made of magic power. Magic enhancements and additional abilities applied to weapons will lose all their effects when they come into contact with this gun."

"The Noble Phantasm, the Silver Spear of the Dragon's Gallbladder, is a white spear cursed with an inability to heal wounds. If you are damaged by this dangerous spear, you will suffer irreversible damage, and even healing magic and regeneration abilities cannot cure this condition."

……

Lin Qingshan combined Zhao Yun's historical legends and weapons, and then added the abilities of the brush brother Diarmuid.

The same goes for ability parameters, but he thought that Zhao Yun's reputation as an ever-victorious general should also mean that he has abilities similar to Lancelot's "Infinite Martial Arts".

So he added it in, but weakened the level a bit.

As for the general's military strategy... Zhao Yun's seven ins and outs in saving the lord alone was not only based on the martial arts of the "Infinite Martial Arts" level, of course there was also a certain strategy, but Zhao Yun is more of a general than a knight, so this change was made.

And it is obvious that in this setting of fighting crickets in the void, a hero from the ancient times of the Republic appears, especially a hero as famous as Zhao Yun.

It is a very exciting thing for the people of the Republic.

Even Zhong Yayan felt a little excited and couldn't wait to watch this anime.

but……

"Zhao Yun should be in the protagonist camp, right, Mr. Qingshan?"

Ming Yiyang frowned and said, "And it says... that the Master who was threatened was ordered to commit suicide by using a Command Spell? This is not good."

They all found it hard to accept that the ancient heroes of the Republic had to leave the stage in such a regrettable way.

As an ancient heroic spirit of the Republic, shouldn't he have simply fought his way through this Holy Grail War and become the ultimate winner?

Even if his opponent is King Arthur, the King of Heroes, or the King of Conquerors, it is nothing.

However, as a plagiarist, Lin Qingshan thought that "as a work created by people of the Republic in this world, of course there should be ancient heroes of the Republic", so he replaced Brush Brother with Zhao Yun.

It would be meaningless if all the others were changed.

But he thought about it and changed his words, saying, "The ending of this animation is actually... regrettable. In this Holy Grail War, there is no outright winner. Everyone exits with their own desires and regrets."

Even though Gilgamesh seemed to have finally gotten his wish and gained a physical body, he was still defeated in the original work's finale.

So although he seemed to be the biggest winner, he actually did not really win completely.

After hearing what Lin Qingshan said, Zhong Yayan and the others immediately understood...

It's another anime with Lin Qingshan's usual tragic narrative style.

That’s right, this is Mr. Aoyama’s style, and it’s also the reason why his works are so popular.

They had no choice. It would be boring if they had a happy ending.

So, Zhong Yayan nodded and said to Lin Qingshan sincerely, "Okay, then let's finalize the animation production projects of "Chainsaw Man" Season 3, "Magical Ghoul" Season 2, and... this "Fate Zero". Mr. Qingshan, please continue to give us your guidance."

"Haha, please give me more advice."

Lin Qingshan also had no objection and said finally.

(End of this chapter)