Chapter 41 My name is Lao Li. What can I do for you?

The special drama "Magical Girl Illya" is a work funded by Nanaya's studio, Lin Bao and TBS TV station. It is certainly impossible for the other two parties to do nothing and just watch Nanaya busying around.

Because Nanaya's studio is currently just an empty shell, Lin Bao generously provided an office space. This not only provided Nanaya's studio with good office conditions, but also made it convenient for him to report his work to Lin Bao (Ryutani Nobuyuki himself).

Since Lin Bao has provided the territory, TBS will be responsible for providing the manpower.

After Nanaya expressed his need for a stunt supervisor to help, TBS used its connections to find Tsuburaya Productions, a special effects drama production company with which it often collaborated, hoping that they could send some staff to provide support.

Although Tsuburaya's new work "Ultraman Cosmos" has entered the preparation stage, the project is still in its infancy, and many stunt shooting personnel in the company are in a state of having nothing to do. Therefore, Tsuburaya also readily agreed to the request of TBS TV station, just to let their people warm up in advance before shooting "Cosmos".

At this time, Tsuburaya had just completed the production of the Heisei Three Masters, and was in high spirits. After agreeing to TBS's request, they directly sent a complete stunt team, led by a disciple of Tsuburaya's stunt master Koichi Takano.

Nanaya was very excited after getting the reply from Tsuburaya. He didn't expect that the support from Tsuburaya was much stronger than he imagined. Nanaya was worried that Tsuburaya would just send someone to fool around, but he didn't expect to meet his idol's disciple.

"I wonder if he can help me get an autograph from his teacher?" With such excitement, Nanaya ran to pick him up enthusiastically.

It is not a lie that Nanaya admires Koichi Takano. He has especially admired this master who brought all kinds of gorgeous scenes to Ultraman's battles since his previous life.

When it comes to stunt supervision, Koichi Takano can be said to be a highly respected master-level figure, and the number of famous Ultraman battle scenes directed by him is countless.

The famous Showa Ultraman series battle scenes, such as the aerial battle between the first generation and the Baltan, the underwater battle between Seven and King Joe, the ray battle between Ace and the Yawa people in another dimension, etc., were all created by Koichi Takano.

In the Heisei era, this most senior figure in the Tsuburaya special effects studio directed many classic battles in the Heisei Ultraman series and was hailed as the "Eiji Tsuburaya of the Heisei era."

Nanaya was still very excited that Tsuburaya was willing to send out such a big shot as a disciple.

Nanaya knew that his directing ability in battle scenes was somewhat lacking. Although he could make the scenes look very beautiful, they lacked a sense of sharp attack. This problem was not very obvious when filming "Kara no Kyoukai". After all, Sera's agile movements and the fact that the target of the battle was a spirit could hide Nanaya's weaknesses to the greatest extent.

But Nanaya knew that he had to make up for this shortcoming as soon as possible, after all, he would be directing more and more battle scenes in the future. He needed to grow up as soon as possible. Another important reason why Nanaya agreed to shoot the special effects drama was that he wanted to improve his shortcomings through the battle scenes in the special effects drama.

But when Nanaya saw the person he was about to work with, he was completely shocked.

"What's your name again?"

Nanaya stared with wide eyes at the stunt supervisor sent by Tsuburaya. Tsuburaya had not announced his name before, and Nanaya himself did not pay much attention, but when he met the other party, he almost fell to the ground.

The tall red-haired young man with a ponytail in front of him smiled brightly: "My name is Li Wenshu, and my hobby is Bajiquan."

"puff--"

Nanaya was so exhausted that he coughed loudly and asked, "Ahem, are you the descendant of Li the Divine Spear?"

"No." Li Wenshu directly denied Nanaya's guess, "My dad likes Bajiquan very much, and his last name happens to be Li, so he gave me this name. By the way, my dad's name is Li Tongchen, which was given by my grandfather. Our family has been learning Bajiquan for three generations. Although we are not related to that Bajiquan master, our whole family admires him very much."

"Your dad doesn't like wearing sunglasses, does he?"

For some reason, Nanaya thought of an old man in a Zhongshan suit.

Li Wenshu looked surprised: "Director Kiryu, how did you know? Do you know my dad?"

"No...I don't know him."

Nanaya turned his head away guiltily. The scene of Lao Li and Xiao Li practicing Bajiquan had already emerged in his mind.

{"Hit hard, kid! I'll reward you with half a pound of sweet potato stew later!"}

[No, what the hell is this! ]

Nanaya quickly patted his cheeks and threw the scene out of his mind.

"But maybe this is just right."

I was a little surprised that I met Master Xiao Li, but from the perspective of making "Magical Girl Illya", this is beneficial.

Because Mushroom was a fan of Bajiquan in his previous life, basically many characters in Type-Moon are good at Bajiquan in hand-to-hand combat, including the main character Tohsaka Rin in "Illya". Nanaya's expectations for the "Magic" team are far more than just the TV series "Magic".

The "FATE" series that may exist in the future is Nanaya's ambition. In Nanaya's eyes, "Magical Girl Illya" currently has two goals to achieve. One is to introduce the main characters in the Type-Moon world to the audience; the other purpose is to train his own team and provide experience for future large-scale productions.

So, after the initial surprise, Nanaya took Li Wenshu's hand very attentively and brought him to his temporary office in the Linbao Company building.

"I'm sorry, Master Li. Because the studio has just been established and we haven't found an office location yet, I have to inconvenience you for a while."

"No, I don't mind such trivial matters." Li Wenshu seemed very easygoing. "Also, can you please not use the title of 'Master'? I am far from reaching the level of a teacher. Director Kiryu can just call me Wenshu."

"Okay, Master Li. Please take a seat first, Master Li."

"..."

Li Wenshu looked at the smiling Nanaya with a depressed look on his face.

I suspect you did it on purpose, and I have proof.

"Master Li, this is the costume we designed. Please take a look at it first."

Nanaya took out several color copies. He handed one to Li Wenshu and distributed the others to other people in the office.

Li Wenshu asked while flipping through the character design drawings: "This design is different from the draft TBS gave me before."

"Yes, this is the second design drawing. It is different from the first version I gave to TBS."

Li Wenshu nodded without saying anything more, but began to look at the design drawing carefully.

"Why do you want to change it? I think the first version is very good~? It highlights the cuteness of the girls~?" Shonan Rantaro expressed his dissatisfaction.

Nanaya rubbed his temple and replied: "Do you think I don't want to? Because [Lin Bao] won't give it to me!"

As a special effects drama, costumes and props can be said to be of utmost importance. After all, aren't the gorgeous special effects and exquisite costumes (leather suits) what attract audiences to watch special effects dramas?

Unlike the previous "Kara no Kyoukai" where almost all the actors except Ryougi Shiki wore casual clothes, "Magical Girl Illya" required the design of a large number of uniforms and combat suits.

Especially the latter is the top priority in the art design of this drama. Even though it is not necessary in the plot of the first season, Nanaya still gave all the COS costume design styles for Illya and Miyu's 7 professions.

It's a pity that the first set of clothes that Nanaya and Ori discussed was directly shot down by Lin Bao, one of the three major investors.

A few days ago, he sent the first draft of the character's costumes to Ryutani Nobuyuki for review (this big guy had specifically asked him to do so), but he was scolded to death.

I remember that Ryutani Nobuyuki threw the costume design book directly in Nanaya's face, and then pointed at her nose and scolded: "You plan to let a 12-year-old child wear this kind of costume! Are you going to let the PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) directly cancel this drama?! No! I absolutely won't allow it! Redesign it for me!"

The first costume design plan that Nanaya gave was designed with reference to the original work of Hiroshi. Although he took into account the wearing issues of the costumes and the review issues of the children's series and asked Ori to make many changes in the details, it was obviously not enough in the eyes of Ryutani Nobuyuki.

When the old man first received the news about this magical girl's plan, he was so furious that his lungs almost exploded.

As a granddaughter-obsessed person, how could he possibly agree to his granddaughter acting in a special effects drama, let alone wearing such revealing clothes? Nobuyuki would not be able to accept such a thing.

Unfortunately, when he learned that Illya decided to take part in the performance, he wanted to reject this plan or directly turn Nanaya into a sea-suppressing beast, but was forcibly stopped by Illya.

"If Grandpa tries to stop me, Illya will never talk to you again!"

After being threatened by Illya with this sentence, he could only watch the plan move forward.

However, even though it is impossible to cancel this plan directly, it does not mean that Ryutani can't do anything.

For example, using his identity as a project planner, Ryutani Nobuyuki supervises the entire project, especially the script and costumes. He will never allow any scenes or shots that will damage Illya's reputation.

This old man, who has his own 24K krypton gold review eyes, directly revised all the costumes given by Nanaya. Although the first set of design plans given by Nanaya had really reached the standard of PTA review line, as the parent of the heroine, he still disagreed with this plan.

Especially the clothes that Nanaya gave about Illya, which were scanned from all directions with a magnifying glass. Even the uniforms of the elementary school girls in Homurahara Academy were required to be covered with pantyhose to prevent the girls' legs from being exposed.

In this regard, Nanaya's comment is: "Damn old-fashioned, doesn't he know that black and white stockings are more seductive than bare feet?"