Let you make animations and develop virtual Pokémon? Chapter 056

Next, the confrontation between Ash’s protagonist group and Mewtwo on New Island was full of tension.

When the cloned Kanto starters led by Mewtwo crushed Ash’s Pokémon, Mewtwo proved that his philosophy was the most correct.

“Cloned Pokémon are the optimized species! The so-called originals are just fakes!”

With that, Mewtwo began to capture all the Pokémon present. Under the special Poké Balls, no Pokémon could escape and were all captured one by one and forcibly cloned.

During this time, Ash and Pikachu desperately resisted and rescued all the Pokémon, making many viewers clench their fists.

“Unforgivable! You are absolutely unforgivable!”

On the massive battleground, Ash yelled while raising his right fist and charging fiercely towards Mewtwo.

In the slow motion of Ash swinging his fist, blue light burst from Mewtwo’s eyes.

The moment Ash was flung away by psychic power, Mew glided across the screen like a shooting star—a pink protective shield caught him at the last moment.

“Mew!” Mewtwo’s anger instantly surged.

A furious power, centered on him, erupted and rushed straight towards Mew!

“You are the most precious Pokémon in the world! I was indeed created based on you.”

“But! I am the strongest, I am the true original! Only I can survive!”

Next, the scene of Mew and Mewtwo chasing each other high in the sky played out before all the viewers.

Below on the battlefield, the originals and cloned Pokémon also began to fight each other.

The audience in the cinema was sweating in their palms, yet felt deeply sad.

They were clearly the same moves, the same eyes, yet they had to fight to the death.

When Mewtwo and Mew decided to determine the victor and both used their strongest moves, releasing destructive energy, Ash resolutely leaped into it, attempting to stop the fight with his own body!

Whether they were the originals or clones, even if they were created through cloning, they were still living beings in this world, so why distinguish between winning and losing?

“Boom—!!!”

A deafening explosion rang out! Smoke and dust filled the surroundings!

“Holy crap!”

“Ash!”

“Ash isn’t dead, is he…?”

Watching the shocking scene of the explosion, all the viewers were in disbelief.

On the screen, the smoke and dust dispersed, and Ash had completely turned into a stone statue.

Pikachu also came to Ash’s side in disbelief, constantly using Thunderbolt on him.

He wanted to electrocute Ash awake, just like he usually woke up.

Unfortunately, the stone statue of Ash showed no movement.

Realizing that his actions couldn’t change anything, Pikachu looked up and cried heartbrokenly, and all the surrounding Pokémon shed tears.

In the cinema, many viewers’ long- tears could no longer be held back and fell.

However, miracles always happen in despair.

At this moment, the tears of the Pokémon and the audience seemed to turn into specks of starlight flying towards Ash.

In the close-up shot of the stone chips peeling off, Ash’s eyelashes trembled slightly.

At this moment, the story came to an end.

The dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, and light reappeared!

Ash’s actions also seemed to completely awaken Mewtwo, who left with a group of cloned Pokémon and flew to their own living place.

When the end credits appeared, there were still viewers wiping their eyes.

The moment the lights came on, thunderous applause swept through the entire theater.

“Arceus is awesome!!!”

“This is the best animated movie I’ve ever seen in my life!”

“I came here to get Mew, but I didn’t expect it to be so wonderful!”

“There aren’t many movies that can immerse me, this trip was really worth it!”

“Full marks!!!”

“This is a true movie!”

…

A week passed, and reality quickly provided the answer.

On the premiere day, “Magic Baby: Dragon Knight” was indeed fully booked for every show.

However, on the second day, the occupancy rate dropped to 80%, and on the third day, it was directly halved.

A week later, only a few scattered viewers remained in the huge screening room.

The cinema managers looked at each other, completely unaware that this “animated masterpiece” that had been hyped to the sky would collapse at such an astonishing speed.

In stark contrast, although “Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back” had fewer screenings, every show was fully booked.

Even when scheduled during off-peak hours like midnight or weekdays, the ticketing system still showed “Sold Out”!

The front desks of major cinemas were crowded with viewers demanding additional screenings, and complaints about “not being able to buy Pokémon movie tickets” rose and fell on social media.

“Can’t get tickets at all!”

“There are too few screenings, can’t you add more?”

After this, major cinema chains finally couldn’t sit still and urgently held a meeting to adjust their screening strategy.

The number of screenings for “Magic Baby: Dragon Knight” was quickly reduced.

And the number of screenings for “Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back” doubled overnight, and its screening rate even gradually rose to over 50%!

Pokémon spread “virally” on social media with its super high reputation!

During the summer vacation, many families who had never encountered Pokémon also brought their children to the cinema.

Soon, real reviews on major movie rating websites began to surface—

“’Magic Baby: Dragon Knight’ plagiarizes elements from Pokémon! And it doesn’t even plagiarize well!”

“Goose Factory really messed up this time, no matter how hard the paid shills try, they can’t save a bad movie!”

“I teared up directly after watching ‘Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back’, this is a true animated movie!”

…

#PokémonTheatricalVersionSetsBoxOfficeMyth!Hot#

#AnimatedMovie 4.5BillionBoxOfficeInFirstMonth!Hot#

#TrueMilestoneForDragonCountryMovies!Hot#

In just one month, this animated movie could be seen on trending searches on various websites, and even on foreign websites.

“Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back” even set a phenomenal box office myth! It raked in 4.5 billion in its first month, becoming the highest-grossing animated film in Dragon Country’s film history in one fell swoop!

Arceus Company created a new model of film-game linkage! Proving that true quality content is king!

The film is currently still in theaters, and industry insiders predict that the final box office is expected to break the 6 billion mark.

Arceus Company Building, President’s Office.

Ye Xiao leaned back in his chair, looking at the long string of unread emails on the computer screen with a headache.

“Overseas Copyright Cooperation Intent Letter”

“Universal Pictures: <Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back> Global Distribution Rights Negotiation”

“Disney Pictures: IP Linkage Proposal”

The movie had become popular overseas, and behind each email was the fervent pursuit of “Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back” by international film and television giants.

“However, when choosing a partner, it’s better to choose the most familiar one.”

Just yesterday, Nintendo’s boss proactively contacted Ye Xiao, hoping that Ye Xiao would hand over the overseas distribution rights of “Mewtwo Strikes Back” to him, with every word full of appreciation and desire for the Pokémon IP.

Ye Xiao knew that Nintendo completely wanted to cling to his coattails. It wasn’t enough for them to step out of the toy factory and into the gaming industry; they also wanted to continue entering the film industry.

Ye Xiao thought about it and felt it was acceptable.

During this time, Nintendo had indeed helped Arceus Company earn a lot of money overseas, and he felt at ease entrusting them with the movie’s overseas copyright.

However, the money that should be earned still had to be earned.

Ye Xiao took a 70% share of the profits, and Nintendo took 30%.

He didn’t feel bad about earning money from foreigners at all.