"Mommy, I want to buy a Pikachu." Lace was a housewife. One day, when she was preparing an apple pie for her baby, the baby suddenly pulled on her clothes and whispered to her.
"Pikachu?" Lace was stunned. She had never heard of a Pikachu in her entire life.
"That's the one from the anime!" The baby pulled Lace to the front of the TV, where the second episode of Pokemon was playing.
At that moment, a cute yellow mouse was jumping around on Xiaozhi's shoulder. The two of them were very close.
This Pikachu was designed by Boss Jia according to the cutest Pikachu 20 years in the future. Naturally, it was extremely lethal to children, especially when Pikachu was openly acting cute. It could directly kill people.
At that moment, countless children in the United States were looking at the Pikachu with stars in their eyes.
"Lace, quickly turn on the TV and switch to Fox. There's something super cute there!" There were also many children who directly called their good friends while the animation was playing.
In the past two days, the children's phones were ringing one after another. More and more children switched to Fox.
This was because a Pikachu that could move, jump around, and act cute was very attractive.
In order to maximize the market share, Jia Yapeng decided to split the 280 episodes of Pokemon into two seasons. The first season had 140 episodes, and it would be broadcasted once a day for five months on Fox.
The remaining 140 episodes would be broadcasted weekly, with one episode per week.
Therefore, the second episode was broadcasted only one day after the first episode. However, in just one day, the Pikachu had conquered all the children who had seen it.
Out of the 600,000 viewers who had watched Pokemon yesterday, about 200,000 of them had called their friends and strongly recommended the Pokemon TV anime.
By the second day, almost 400,000 people had started to strongly recommend the anime to their good friends, and more than half of them were girls.
In the third episode, there was an intense battle between trainers, as well as a battle between Pokemon with the same extravagant special effects. The boys began to crazily join in the process of recommending the game.
In fact, it wasn't that the boys didn't like cute things, but they couldn't bring themselves to say that they liked things that were good at fighting.
And when these two were combined, it would be a situation where both men and women would be killed.
Ever since the failure of Pokemon on the first day, NBC's program director hadn't paid any attention to the anime for several days. After all, he was in charge of all the programming at NBC, so he didn't have time to invest in an anime that only had 600,000 viewers.
Five days later, NBC's program director saw a piece of news in today's newspaper. It said, "Momentum is astonishing. NBC's new animation has surpassed 5 million viewers. NBC is challenging Fox's animation hegemony!"
"What the hell is this?" The program head was stunned for a moment. He had an animation under his banner that had more than 5 million viewers? Why didn't he know about this?
He immediately called his subordinate over and threw the newspaper in front of him. His subordinate was also dumbfounded and said, "Director, didn't you read the Pokemon briefing that I give you every day?"
"That … I don't think I received it …" The head of the department blushed. He remembered that his subordinates carefully handed him a report every day. However, because of the poor results on the first day, the head of the department didn't even have the interest to look at it and directly threw it aside.
"This Pokemon, the viewership has really exceeded 5 million viewers?" The director asked excitedly.
"Yes, director, but this is yesterday's data. The latest data today is that the viewership of Pokemon has exceeded 8 million viewers. It's estimated that it will break the 10 million mark soon!" The subordinate said excitedly.
"10 million viewers!!!" The hair on the director's body stood up. No, he had to immediately write a report to the board of directors. This was his great contribution!!
That's right, after only five days, the viewership of Pokemon in the United States had reached 8 million viewers. All kinds of discussions about Pokemon had become crazily popular among the children.
The popularity of these discussions among the children far exceeded that of the Simpson family.
After all, the Simpsons' success and failure were also adults. As a result, although the Simpsons' animation had a very high viewership, most of the audience was actually adults. It didn't have much of an impact among the children.
The Pokemon that suddenly appeared overnight, whether it was the cute appearance of the little elves, the various cool battles, or the mysterious world view, all of them were naturally very attractive to children.
So in just five days, almost all the children in the United States had fallen for them. Parents were surprised to find that their children no longer ran outside to play or sat in front of the TV to play games. Instead, they watched the TV punctually every day, wanting to watch the latest episode of Pokemon.
But just watching it wasn't enough. After all, they only had 20 minutes a day. Children instinctively wanted to be able to interact with these cute little elves.
And at the end of the TV animation, there was a sticker advertisement for the Pokemon game, which naturally gave the children unlimited imagination and temptation.
"Mom, I want to buy the Pokemon game cartridge. It's only 59 US dollars. I'm willing to work at home to pay for it!" Countless children naturally said to their parents.
"No …" 59 US dollars was not a small amount of money in the United States in the 90's. Of course, these parents' first reaction was to refuse. However, such a dry refusal would obviously hurt their children's hearts. So, the parents suddenly thought of a piece of news they had seen not long ago.
"Little baby, don't watch this animation anymore. This Pokemon is actually a game and animation that abuses animals!" The parents quickly said angrily.
"Impossible? Xiaozhi would never abuse animals! "The child said in disbelief.
"You see, forcing the little elves to fight with each other and locking them in a small pokeball. If this isn't animal abuse, then what is?" The parents said with conviction.
"But the little elves were the ones who initiated the fight!" The children immediately retorted. "The animation said that these magical little elves have a natural force in their bodies called spiritual energy. This spiritual energy accumulates in their bodies every day. They have to find a way to consume it. Otherwise, their bodies will be destroyed by the spiritual energy! "
"So, all the little elves have to come out to fight from time to time to consume the excess spiritual energy in their bodies. This is something they have to do to survive. Humans are not forcing them to fight!"
"Ah …" The parents were speechless. "But everyone will get hurt!"
"That's fine. The spiritual energy in the little elves' bodies will automatically repair their bodies. And if the injuries are too severe, there's still Miss Joey's treatment. There are little elves centers in all the cities that can treat the little elves!"
"Then, locking them in the pokeball …"
"Mom, did you watch the sixth episode? The sixth episode was specifically about the pokeball. Xiaozhi and the others met a mysterious little elf and were transformed into an elf form. They entered the pokeball to visit. "
"It turns out that the inside of the pokeball is very magical. It has a space formed by dimensional gaps. It looks a little big, but it actually has a huge space of 1000 square meters. At the same time, it can store all kinds of houses, furniture, food, and the environment that the little elves like … Mom, is our house 1000 square meters big?"
"I …" The parents were suddenly speechless. They felt that this Peta was talking nonsense.
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