My Animation Era

The popularity of the special episode "Bear Bear: Chinese New Year" has made many people re-recognize the Bear Bear series, and the TV version of "Bear Bear: Global Adventure" has gradually brought this series to the altar...

As an animated work that was a hit when it premiered and is extremely well-known, "Bear Bears 2" has just finished its premiere and has been rebroadcast on TV stations all over the country.

There’s nothing surprising about the replay.

Compared with the huge output of domestic TV series and movies, there are not many domestic animation series produced annually, and there is little room for TV stations to choose from.

Under this premise, if you encounter an animation that was very popular when it first aired, had high ratings and was also very popular with the audience, the TV stations will definitely compete to rebroadcast it and try to get a piece of the pie.

The same goes for bear sightings.

Although in terms of average ratings and highest ratings, the animated "Bugs 2" is not as amazing as "Bugs Bunny", "Bugs 2" is better than its stability.

From the TV station's standpoint, it would definitely be better if they could get the rights to rebroadcast "Bugs Bunny", but if they couldn't get it, they would have to broadcast "Bugs 2". After all, "Bugs 2" is not bad either.

The key is……

Everyone is vying for the right to rebroadcast "Bugs Bunny", and the competition is no less difficult than when it first aired. An animation of this level is definitely not that easy to win.

But "Bear Bears 2" is different.

Since the first season, the rights to replay the Bears cartoon series have been sold for money, and they don’t even care about the money, as long as they are decent.

Under this strategy, almost everyone has the right to rebroadcast the TV animation series "Bear Bears". No one is fighting for it, no one is grabbing it.

This leads to a situation...

There are too many TV stations that have obtained the rebroadcast rights. In order to make the best use of them, they will definitely arrange to broadcast them as soon as possible.

Therefore, viewers will see that in other time periods except prime time, almost nine out of ten children's cartoon channels are rebroadcasting the "Bear Bears 2" animation. The frequency should not be exaggerated.

A bit like Pleasant Goat?

That's right. Pleasant Goat was also in the same situation at the beginning, but Pleasant Goat was too crazy and replayed more frequently.

Some people may be curious, why do those TV stations take the trouble to rebroadcast the same animation? Do they think the audience won't get tired of watching it?

It really is!

The answer may surprise many people. "Bear Bears" is really the kind of animation that you can't get tired of watching. The more you watch it, the more addictive it becomes and you can't stop at all.

That's it. Even if it is replayed countless times, the ratings are still optimistic, and it can even be called "Bear Bears 2" stable and strong...

The first season was pretty solid too!

If Gu Miao remembers correctly, the first season of the animation "Bear Bears" seemed to have been broadcast on television stations all over the country for almost twelve times before the ratings began to plummet.

The second season is even more exaggerated than the first season, and the animation production level and reputation are obviously much better than the first season. There is no reason why the first season could be so strong and then the second season would not be as good right after the rerun.

Therefore, the rerun ratings of the second season can only be described as stable as an old dog.

So stable!

It is so stable that it is nauseating. Animation works with such stable ratings are extremely rare and rare in the world, not to mention domestically.

Generally speaking, one conclusion can only be drawn from this kind of situation, and that is that the audience is too loyal and reluctant to change the channel as soon as they see "Bear Bears".

Is he really that loyal?

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As the ratings of reruns gradually increase, the animated "Bear Bears" series is moving towards the altar, and is only one step away from being a national animation idol.

On the other side, on the far side of the Pacific Ocean, the animation "Tom and Jerry" produced by Wanbao Animation's "North American" branch has completely established itself as a masterpiece.

Why?

Of course, this is because "Tom and Jerry", which has won two Oscars for Best Animated Short Film, took home multiple trophies for Wanbao during the awards ceremony in October this year.

Lao Zhang, who suddenly heard the news, looked a little surprised.

"How many times has this happened?"

Everyone knows that "Tom and Jerry" can win awards and be lenient. After all, the artistry and production level of the work are here. As long as no one is doing something shady, winning awards is not a trivial matter?

But the frequency of winning awards is too high, unbelievably high.

The two Oscar statuettes are already very surprising, and the animated "Tom and Jerry" has at least hundreds of trophies, commendations and honorary certificates of all sizes.

What is this concept?

This means that in order to accommodate so many trophies and certificates, at least a special bookshelf measuring 4 meters by 3 meters must be customized.

Just thinking about it made Lao Zhang feel terrible.

It’s just an animation! This animation doesn’t even have a sequel. It’s so scary that the first season alone has won so many honors!

"I forgot too..."

Gu Miao shook her head and said: "Anyway, there are quite a lot of them. Every now and then, I receive news of winning awards from Tom and Jerry."

It’s not even a small prize, the Pheasant Prize!

Gu Miao didn't care about any small prizes, pheasant prizes, etc., and it was not worthy for the North American branch to write a special email to tell him and share the joy.

If you are qualified to be known by him, it cannot be a small prize. It is definitely a pivotal award in the animation field, or an unpopular award with a lot of gold content.

And "Tom and Jerry" has won awards like this dozens of times...

"Speaking of which, are there more awards in the English region? If there is no English version of the animation, it is not eligible to participate in the nomination?" Gu Miao asked.

"it seems to be like this."

Lao Zhang pondered for a moment and then said: "There are indeed more animation awards in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea than in China. And if you want to be nominated, it must be broadcast in this region."

This rule is also very reasonable.

For the awards selected by region A, the animation is only broadcast in region B and not in region A. Why should people nominate you? Is it because you are handsome?

"No wonder there is no Bugs Bunny. It turns out that the English and Japanese versions of Bugs Bunny have not been aired yet."

Thinking of this, Gu Miao suddenly felt much more mentally balanced.

Although "Bugs Bunny" is not as majestic as "Tom and Jerry" and has repeatedly won Oscars in the field of Best Animated Short Film, it is also a classic animation that has won Oscars.

It's just that the frequency is relatively small.

Considering that the Wanbao version of "Tom and Jerry" has already won two Oscars, Gu Miao felt that it was time to implement the award-winning strategy for "Bugs Bunny".

Everyone is on the same level of IP. Tom and Jerry won two Oscars for Best Animated Short Film. Bugs Bunny, not to mention winning the award, was not even nominated once. This makes no sense...

It’s not like you don’t have the foundation to win an award. Why not go for it if you can?