Unfortunately, Nanaya's proposal was directly rejected.
The ones who voiced the loudest opposition were Ryan and Lily.
It's not something you can do casually to make a statue out of a real person, especially since Lily is still alive.
But even if Lily's reason wasn't there, Shion probably wouldn't agree.
Artoria is indeed a very important character for Washimine Entertainment, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the most powerful star character.
But if he really had to choose someone to stand in front of the Washimine Group's building, Nanaya thought that a plumber might be more suitable.
Although it is impossible to erect a statue for Saber, Washimine Entertainment has not reduced its promotion of FGO.
Various news related to the movie were released frequently, and news that had little to do with the plot content also began to be revealed bit by bit.
Even the new looks of several servants appearing in the movie were not missed by Washimine Entertainment.
Fox TV, which has already changed its home, was the first to show fans the final makeup photos of several servants, as well as their previous looks for comparison.
"Recently, the upcoming summer hit movie FGO released the actors' makeup photos."
The sweet-looking female announcer was telling her story to the audience in extremely excited words.
"From the comparison, you can see that all the servants' costumes have been completely renewed. The two characters that have changed the most are probably Cu Chulainn and Artoria."
"Especially Cu Chulainn, who discarded his iconic spear and took up a staff. According to Celtic mythology, Cu Chulainn did use runes, which may be why he was summoned as Caster."
"It is not clear how Cu Chulainn will perform after changing his class, but from the trailer clips we can see that this character will shine in the movie."
The announcer spoke so happily that people who didn't know her would have thought that this woman's sister was getting married.
In fact, Washimine just finally paid off the six months' salary that Fox owed her.
However, the promotion of the character's costume changes did attract a lot of old Fate fans.
Many people think that this FGO is the same as HF, just telling a new story using the settings of FSN.
But at the moment, it seems that the story of FGO should bring a lot of freshness to everyone.
It's just that the image of Black Saber had already appeared in HF, so it lacks some freshness.
Many people even complained that this image lacked novelty and that Nanaya Kiryu was just rehashing something old.
Nanaya would simply scorn such arguments.
I'm not even anxious at all, why should these people be anxious at all?
This black Artoria was just used to test the waters.
After all, HF is just a web drama, and its influence is much less than that of a movie.
Most of the casual fans saw this image of Artoria for the first time.
Using this merely evil image to test the market's reaction is very valuable as a reference for Nanaya and Washimine in developing future Artoria products.
If Black Saber's business performance is good, then the future Artoria army will arrive as promised.
There are Joan of Arc, Mordred, Nero, X-hair, swimsuits, brides, those with breasts, those without breasts, those with swords, those with guns, those riding skateboards, those driving motorcycles, those driving Gundams, those with water guns, and those with lightsabers;
There are also various leather color change versions.
All of these are available.
As long as the fans can think of it, Washimine will definitely have it.
So Nanaya felt that these fans were really too anxious. They should stop shouting and yelling just because they were criticizing Saber.
How could a big pit called [Artoria] be short of members? The time to spend money is still to come.
Anyway, Nanaya felt that if he wanted to completely dominate the fans around Artoria, he would at least have to have a suite in the capital of the Celestial Empire.
This woman's worth is not something that ordinary people can afford.
As the first member of Artoria's army, Black Saber has had ample publicity resources this time.
Among all the movie posters, except for the personal posters of each character, Black Saber is definitely the center of attention.
After intensive publicity and Washimine Entertainment's rigorous distribution preparations, the days are moving forward step by step.
Finally, time slowly arrived at May 5th, which is the date when the FGO prologue will be released.
Similarly, unlike most Hollywood film companies, Washimine Entertainment still held the film's North American premiere at the AMC Theater in New York.
At the beginning, Nanaya chose AMC Cinemas just for the gimmick of IMAX.
But the success of several movies in a row made Washimine become superstitious about this theater, and every major premiere would be held at the AMC theater.
If it weren't for the US antitrust regulations that clearly stipulate that film companies cannot get involved in theaters, Washimine would have bought this cinema long ago.
But Nanaya wasn't particularly cold.
After all, although there are still not many IMAX theaters now, they are no longer as rare as they were in the early 2000s.
As long as there is an IMAX theater in the cinema, it doesn't matter where the premiere of Seven Nights is held.
But over the years, Washimine, Nanaya and movie fans have long been accustomed to premieres at AMC theaters.
If it really were changed to another cinema, I guess everyone would feel very awkward.
Therefore, on the premiere day on May 5, New York's Upper West Side once again welcomed the carnival of movie fans.
There was a bustling crowd in front of the AMC theater, with countless fans dressed in various Servant costumes crowding the red carpet surrounding the theater.
At first glance, many people would probably think they had come to an ancient celebration.
As usual, because he didn't like to take advantage of the red carpet's popularity, Nanaya walked through the red carpet early and arrived at the interview area in front of the theater.
At this moment, he was standing shoulder to shoulder with Lily, being interviewed by reporters.
"Artoria has always been a holy and proud knight."
When a reporter asked her opinion on the character of Black Saber, Lily replied:
"This time, Black Artoria is a complete tyrant, which is very different from the original version. For me, it is a very big challenge. But for the audience, they will see a brand new and different Artoria, which will surprise them."
At this time, a reporter from Fox TV came over.
Facing his new boss, the reporter had a hint of flattery on his face.
"Nana, why did you design the character of Black Saber? You know, the original Artoria is already perfect enough."
Nanaya shook his head, then said, "Because the Black King is a very charming existence. We have seen in previous works that Artoria only chooses to do the right thing. But this time she will do the wrong thing."
"The temptation of darkness has always been very attractive to people. Villains sometimes give audiences a completely different experience, such as the Joker in The Dark Knight."
"I believe that the character of Black Saber will not lose to the genuine Knight King in terms of charm."
After saying that, Nanaya nodded to the reporter, indicating that the interview was over.
Then he patted Lily's shoulder gently, and the two of them stopped staying in the interview area and turned towards the entrance of the AMC theater.
Before entering the cinema, Nanaya looked back at the red carpet and couldn't help shaking his head.
Lily knew what Nanaya was looking at, so she asked with a smile, "Why, the situation didn't meet your expectations?"
Nanaya nodded, "Yeah, Black Saber's costume is less than I thought."
The number of Cosplay costumes worn by fans is the most intuitive reflection of a character's popularity.
There were many people dressed as Artoria on both sides of the red carpet, including both boys and girls.
But most of the fans wore the blue and white knight group.
In other words, Black Saber's image promotion has been somewhat hindered.
"It can't be helped. The life spans of the two characters are completely different." Lily comforted Nanaya, "I believe that after watching the movie, the fans will think that Black Saber is really good."
Nanaya had no doubt about this at all.
"Yes, after all, black people understand people's hearts better."
Lily grinned: "You mean black is cooler?"
Nanaya would never admit such a thing: "How could that be? I simply think that Black Saber's tyrant temperament is much more attractive than the Knight King."
Of course, personality and other things are just additional.
Although Black Saber has always been very popular among veteran Moon fans, her overall influence is not great as she only appears in the HF route.
The real beginning of the surge in Black Saber's popularity was when both of them were implemented on the FGO card faces.
The Black Saber, who is a stripper, directly beats the Quilt King, who is a clothes-wearer, on the card.
From then on, the phrase "The Knight King does not understand human nature" took on a completely different meaning.
Not to mention the gap between the two spiritual garments.
The one that's used to represent Black Saber is a new illustration directly drawn by Shinjuku Rei. Basically all the players who have seen this card say it's good.
I won't go into detail about what the Blue Sabre's spiritual robe looks like.
Anyway, the spiritual clothing set of the military knife and the rabbit ears of 215 have always been called the spiritual clothing scum duo by players.
In the past, Nanaya didn't quite understand why FGO did this. Wouldn't it be good to let the poster girl get a card that she wanted to do something with?
But now Nanaya understands that fans who truly like Artoria will not care what Aho's card face looks like.
As long as they don't collapse into the same state as Nightingale, these people will all smoke.
But the same cannot be said for Saber. It is difficult to get players to spend money on this character just based on the character's popularity.
But if the element of stripping is added, players will be unable to stop.
The same goes for spirit clothes. If you really want to release a plainclothes version of spirit clothes, wouldn't it be better to redesign a new card and open a separate pool?
Anyway, there are already so many alias of Artoria, so it won't matter if there is one more, right?