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The entire story of "Hunter's Notes" is based on such a cruel worldview.

Guo Lei fell in love with this work after watching the content of the first episode.

The prologue at the beginning is a bit dull, but the world view, the cold picture tone, and the wasteland punk style make this animation full of a strange charm.

In the second half, Su calmly slaughtered the pack of wolves with a rifle in hand, and the confrontation with the leader of the pack was very interesting.

The fighting style of "Hunter's Notes", how to put it, if according to Guo Lei's description, it is like a flame in the ice and snow.

Under the grim and cruel painting style, the battle is in a mess, with gunfire, blood, and broken limbs...

After reading it, how can it be a cool word?

Up to now, Guo Lei has seen quite a few Dimension Entertainment works. They make things, and their styles have always been changeable.

But all in all, apart from "Special Events Task Force", which has a very special and small style, and the horror film "Hell Apartment", other works, from animation to TV series to movies, are actually They are all very popular works, almost suitable for viewing by groups of all ages.

But "Hunter Notes" is not. If you only look at the scale of the screen, this may be the largest work that Dimension Entertainment has produced so far.

And if the dark and cruel values ​​​​and worldview are also included, then its scale can be considered relatively large in the scope of animations all over the world.

But in fact, compared with the original novel, the animation has actually restrained a lot. Even though the world view is cruel and the pictures are bloody, many of the content about 'sex' in the original work have been almost cut out.

This is not to say that the original novel is pornographic, but a lot of cruelty is expressed sexually, and the animation still kills a lot of this part.

But no matter what, this work is somewhat unsuitable for children.

On the regulatory side, Dimension Entertainment started lobbying half a year ago when the project was just established.

At the same time, on the platform itself, they have also graded the industry ethically—registered users themselves need to provide identification, and they must be over 18 years old to be able to purchase and watch this drama. If there is no real name registration when registering, or if the registration information provided is a minor under the age of 18, then it is impossible to watch and purchase this animation.

To a large extent, this can reduce the possibility of minors watching this work.

Of course, it is impossible to completely eliminate it. After all, if a minor registers an account with their parents' ID card and pays to buy it; or if they use their parents' account directly, it is still difficult to distinguish.

It is always impossible to verify a wave of age before watching animation.

But Dimension Entertainment has tried its best to achieve its own attitude.

It's not that minors should not be allowed to watch this stuff, bloody and violent things, to be honest, there are too many things like this on the Internet that I want to watch. What's more, the bloody violence in "Hunter's Notes" is not linked to values. Regardless of what the original novel is like, at least the world of the animated version of "Hunter's Notes" is very dark, but it has never promoted bad values. Judging from the first episode, the protagonist is also a person who walks the right path.

Of course, when the grades improve later, I'm afraid I will still get a lot of reports and have a lot of troubles in this regard.

However, for Dimension Entertainment itself, it is necessary to do its own work well first, and then actively keep in touch with the relevant review department and cooperate with the work. I believe that many things can still be resolved.

Ignoring those things for the time being, the first day of Diary of the Hunter's launch, the results are pretty good.

From the various discussions about the animated version of "Hunter's Notes" spread on social media, it can be seen that although some people may dislike this work, most of them sing praises.

For example, like Guo Lei, he is very happy that domestic animation businesses can finally enter this more in-depth animation field.

"Hunting Notes" has almost no low-level content. This is an animation purely for adults.

Especially this style, this kind of story, all show the ability of dimension entertainment.

On the first day of the work’s launch, including the previous pre-orders, a total of 800,000 copies were sold—this is about 40 million yuan in revenue.

This already seems to be a very good income, but in fact there is still a certain distance from the cost line.

The amount of investment in "Hunter's Notes" is not small—at least in name.

For one season and ten episodes, the total investment is claimed to be 45 million US dollars - which is equivalent to 300 million RMB.

With so much money, it is enough to shoot a commercial film with good visual effects.

However, CG animation burns money, that's for sure.

Of course, for Dimension Entertainment to produce pure CG animations such as "Hunter's Notes", most of the cost is paid to 'Dimension Technology', which can be regarded as left-handed and right-handed.

According to what Fan Zhe saw when he was trying out the content of this animation, if other companies produce it with the same standard, 45 million dollars may not be enough.

The plan from the beginning of the work was to launch it in mid-November. For this reason, the relevant departments of the company started the relevant publicity work around October.

The publicity and distribution costs invested at the beginning were not large. At that time, the whole network was cheering for "Demacia: Glory", and it was meaningless to spend money at this time. It is definitely unreliable to grab your own traffic.

Later, when the box office of "Glory" exploded and the discussion was extremely high, the publicity in all aspects really started to work hard, and the two works were intentionally linked together.

After all, they are all produced by Dimension Entertainment.

The effect is not bad, and it also brought about 800,000 sets of sales on the first day.

However, due to the high cost, although it sold well, the shadow of losing money still hangs over the animation department of Dimension Entertainment.

The cost of more than 300 million yuan, based on 50 yuan per set, will have to sell 6 million sets!

This is a slightly scary data.

Such a goal, coupled with the 800,000 sets achieved on the first day... It is a little difficult to achieve.

Of course, as an animation work, there are many ways for "Hunter's Notes" to recover profits. Such as peripheral copyright development, such as the operation of overseas broadcasting...

But in the past, none of Dimension Entertainment's works did not make money. As a result, in "Hunter's Notes", good guy, this is the rhythm of losing money.

Mi Le felt very uncomfortable.

But Fan Zhe felt that it didn't matter: "It doesn't have to be a loss, and if it is a loss, it will be a loss. It's a big deal."