"Old Kyon?"
Nanaya was surprised to see Gen Urobuchi. He never expected that the other party would come to see him.
"Hello, Director Kiryu."
Old Gen hurriedly bowed to Nanaya.
Nanaya is now a world-class director, but his father Gen Urobuchi is still just an ordinary game scriptwriter.
In Japan, where hierarchy is very serious, it is very normal for Kyon to salute Nanaya.
Gen Urobuchi would not squander his goodwill in front of Nanaya just because he wrote the official novel of "Fate". This would be tantamount to seeking death.
"How come you have time to come and see me?"
Nanaya didn't put on any airs. He gestured for Old Gen to sit on the chair next to his office.
"Well, I've finished writing the third volume of my novel Fate. So I wanted to show it to you, Kiryu-san."
Old Gen said as he handed the white notebook to Nanaya.
"Have you finished writing?"
Nanaya was quite surprised. You know, in Nanaya's plan, the HF line of "Fate" was the content of three volumes.
In other words, Urobuchi had completed the HF line in less than a year.
Compare this writing efficiency to that of a fungus that can delay submitting a manuscript from the 3rd to the 31st.
Tsk tsk.
Gen Urobuchi smiled and said, "I just brought it to Washimine. They said you are in Japan now, so they asked me to bring it to you directly."
"Put it here. I'll look at it when I have time."
Nanaya saw that Old Gen was hesitant to speak, so he asked with a smile: "Why? Do you have anything else to say?"
"Yes..."
Old Xu became shy, rubbing his hands and stuttering, "Regarding the "Fate" series, Director Kiryu, do you have any plans?"
"What plan?"
Nanaya felt somewhat puzzled by what Old Gen said.
"It's... that... prequel or something..."
Old Gen's face turned red, and people who didn't know him would think he was saying goodbye to a girl.
"No, no, no, don't misunderstand me!" When Old Gen saw Nanaya's eyes narrowed, he said hurriedly, "I just like the "Fate" series very much, so I hope to be able to participate in the production of this series!"
Nanaya probably understood what Old Gen meant. This guy probably had some ideas, so he wanted to test the waters.
Judging from the prequel he mentioned, it is most likely FZ's draft.
"A prequel? It's a bit early."
Nanaya knocked on the table, he was a little hesitant about whether to take out FZ now.
You have to know that the current "Fate" is different from the original time and space.
No matter how popular "Fate" was in the previous life, even if its FSN was indeed a masterpiece of plot, it was ultimately just a galgame.
No matter how popular, how hot, or how awesome it is, it is still difficult to escape the galgame circle.
The longer Nanaya works as a director, the more he feels the importance of the platform of the work itself.
This is also why the two periods with the largest growth in the number of fans of the "Fate" IP were 2006 and 2010 respectively.
Because these two years happen to be the time when the 06TV version and FZ TV version are broadcast.
To put it bluntly, the circle has expanded, and it has become known by people outside the village and has become popular.
Of course, the Fate IP itself has such potential, otherwise FGO would not have tens of billions of dollars in krypton gold.
But in this world, the commercial potential of the Fate IP is far greater than in the previous life.
After all, Hollywood live-action special effects movies and Japanese anime exist in two different dimensions in terms of commercial value.
For an IP worth hundreds of millions of dollars, both Washimine and Erque Studio must have their own development ideas.
The copyright holder of such a signature series would certainly not give it up to others easily, so Gen would go around in circles and ask Nanaya about his IP development plan.
Because he really likes the Fate series, this kind of battle story between ancient heroes that transcends the boundaries of time and space can be said to have hit his creative high point.
This is also why when he was asked to write a fate novel, he immediately agreed.
Of course, although the creation of the hf line is also very much to Urobuchi's liking, because the outline has been fixed, Urobuchi encountered many constraints when creating it.
Therefore, he hopes to create a Holy Grail War of his own according to his own ideas.
The main purpose of Gen Urobuchi's questioning of Nanaya was to test Nanaya's attitude.
If the other party doesn't mind him doing something personal, he plans to write a story about the Fourth Holy Grail War under his own name.
Of course, Gen Urobuchi did not intend to regard the Fourth Holy Grail War he wrote as orthodox. He planned to make it into a doujinshi and sell it through CM.
After all, how could there be someone in this world who could impress the copyright owner simply by relying on his hobbies?
Nanaya had no idea what the uncle sitting opposite him (who was actually the same age as Nanaya) was thinking. He thought that Gen Urobuchi wanted to get the script for the prequel to Fate.
I can only say that this is a wonderful misunderstanding.
Because of the memories of the previous life, in Nanaya's plan, the development of FZ never deviated from Urobuchi's ideas from beginning to end.
All I can say is that these two guys were not on the same channel from the beginning.
"Let's put it this way, Old Kyon."
Nanaya felt that since Old Gen was so proactive, it would be difficult for him to discourage his enthusiasm.
So Nanaya said to Gen Urobuchi: "How about this, my current focus is on the second half of Fate, you try to write the first half first."
"Oh? Really?"
There were a lot of black question marks on Gen Urobuchi's head. He didn't know what the relationship was between his writing a fan fiction and the current promotion of "Fate".
[Are you afraid that my fanfiction will spoil the contents of the second half? ]
This was the only reason Gen Urobuchi could think of. After all, he had read the script of UBW, and he might have revealed something inadvertently when writing about the Fourth Holy Grail War.
"Okay, I understand."
Gen Urobuchi had no idea what the situation was, but he didn't dare to ask.
After all, this may involve other people's strategic propaganda content. If he, an outsider, rushes forward so eagerly, he might be considered as spying on commercial secrets.
"Have you figured out how to write your story?"
"I have an idea. According to what you said, Mr. Kiryu, the Fourth War was very cruel. I think we can adopt a total annihilation ending."
When saying this, Gen Urobuchi looked at Nanaya cautiously, for he was afraid that he would upset the other party.
"Okay, I see. Go back and make an outline, and then we'll discuss it."
"OK."
Old Gen stood up and prepared to leave. He thought Nanaya was going to review it before he started writing.
"Oh, that's right."
Before Kyon left the office, Nanaya called him.
"What's wrong, Director Kiryu?"
Nanaya shook his head and said, "Nothing, I'll tell you after I finish reading the second volume of the novel."
Gen Urobuchi believed that what Nanaya wanted to say just now was definitely not this.
"Forget it, let's just let it be."
After Old Kyon left, Nanaya muttered to himself.
He originally wanted to offer some suggestions about the FZ of Urobuchi in his memory, but then he remembered that Urobuchi might not have thought of that step yet, so he had to give up.
After all, it is normal for an author to modify his or her own draft while writing a story, so Nanaya plans to wait until Urobuchi has finished his work before he gives his suggestions for revisions.
In fact, there are still many problems with Urobuchi's FZ (the version from his previous life), and the most controversial part is the treatment of the popular character Saber.
Of course, there are various problems in the connection between the two stories of FZ and FSN.
In fact, it all comes down to a certain fungus being lazy. When he saw someone wanted to take over, he just threw away the setting and flew away with Takeuchi.
If Kyon still makes the same old mistake as FZ in this life, Nanaya decides to ask him to make the changes in his own name.
At worst, I can just adapt the script when filming FZ.
Anyway, how many Hollywood adaptations are based on the original novels? Most of them are lucky to retain 50% of the original content.
Even the "Harry Potter" series, which is said to be the most faithful to the original, if you really compare the movies with the novels, you can still find that a lot of things are missing.
However, Nanaya himself forgot one thing.
That is, in his previous life, Urobuchi wrote FZ based on the settings given by Mushroom, but in this life, Kiryu Nanaya gave nothing.
In other words, except for Kiritsugu, Mapo and Saber who appeared in FSN, the other protagonists have zero impression in Urobuchi's mind.
Since Urobuchi himself was writing a fan fiction, he didn't want to ask.
However, because of his inherent ideas from his previous life, Nanaya thought that Gen should know those characters, so he didn't mention them.
This strange misunderstanding was not realized until Nanaya saw Urobuchi's outline.
And now, Nanaya's mind is full of how to make modifications to the FZ of Old Urobuchi's previous life.
Two days later, Nanaya had to leave the warm office and come to the streets of Tokyo, which had already become a little chilly.
It wasn't because Gen Urobuchi sent him the outline, but because his female boss spoke.
The first part of the profit sharing of "Fate" has been received, and Nanaya Kiryu has finally become a billionaire, although the settlement in Japanese yen seems very watered down.
So Nanaya went directly to find Tanaka and prepared to buy the villa for 5.2 billion.
According to Nanaya's actual assets, it was indeed a bit difficult for him to buy the house at this price.
But who can blame him for having a rich boss?
After learning that the original owner of the house was from Sony, Shion directly stated that Nanaya would pay 2.5 billion himself, and she would bear all the remaining expenses including taxes.
It can be considered as an interest-free loan specially given to Nanaya by Washimine Shion.
"Before you pay off the money, I only need to own half of the property." Shion said generously, "As long as you agree that I can plant the words [Sony is a heinous crime!] on the lawn with flowers."
Facing such a generous young lady, Nanaya deeply realized that there may not be super powers in this world, but there is indeed money power.