"I think the Ace Attorney drama is terrible. The male lead's values are too poor. He's willing to do anything to win, which is very inappropriate for a drama."
"I don't think so. Isn't this just normal human nature? Why does the protagonist have to be morally upright? I think such a male lead is very close to real life. They have some flaws and some selfishness, but occasionally they can also display unique character arcs."
"Oh my, what's going on with this post? This is a gaming forum, talk about games! I'm stuck at a certain point. Does anyone know what's wrong with what this witness said? I've been scratching my head all night and can't figure out what's wrong."
"Hey, there's a simple method for that. It's called trial and error. Just use every available tool on every statement. There's bound to be something that fits. That's how I played."
The day after the premiere of the Ace Attorney TV drama, there were already many discussions online.
Naturally, the most discussions were happening on the official game forum of Star Electronic Entertainment.
The forum had already opened a dedicated section for Ace Attorney, with discussions about the TV drama and the game taking up about half of the discussions each.
Among the players, there were those who enjoyed watching TV dramas and those who liked workplace dramas.
Judging from their years of experience in watching dramas, they felt that the Ace Attorney: Victory is Justice drama had a decent start. Although it wasn't showing signs of becoming a hit yet, the collaboration with the game gave people the patience to continue watching.
If you were currently a player of the Ace Attorney game, you would feel a stronger atmosphere.
Because the drama's writers had studied the game's storyline, they added many elements related to the game in the drama.
For example, in the drama, Ryunosuke Naruhodo was already a somewhat famous lawyer, and occasionally, you could even see some silhouette posters related to him, portraying Ryunosuke Naruhodo as a rising star in the legal world.
And there were more connections to the main storyline in the drama than originally planned by Takayuki.
The writers even added some unrelated case details that happened to be related to the main storyline of Ace Attorney.
Having played the game and watched the drama, the immersion was even stronger.
Players were also delighted to see many details from the game in the TV drama.
At this moment, they believed that this adaptation was just right.
There were no repetitive elements in the plot, making players who had played the game feel refreshed.
We have now entered the millennium era, where the Internet and smartphones have gradually risen and become popular, and the influence of television stations has declined day by day.
A decade ago, a popular TV drama might have had a chance to achieve over 40% viewership ratings.
But not anymore.
Many people's energy has gradually been diverted to other things.
It wasn't until this time that many people in the television media industry suddenly realized.
It turned out that their television industry was the one being phased out by the times.
Many people in the television industry naively thought that they could continue to live well by defeating electronic games. But in reality, their good days were gone forever.
However, there was an exception in this year's spring lineup of television dramas, which was Ace Attorney: Victory is Justice.
At this time, even if a highly anticipated drama premiered on a Friday, it could only achieve around 11-12% viewership ratings.
This was already quite remarkable. With some effort, there was a chance to achieve nearly 30% viewership ratings by the end of the season.
But Ace Attorney had already achieved a 15% viewership rating on the first day alone, leaving many peers far behind.
This viewership rating almost laid the foundation for success in an era where the television industry was already declining.
They were almost scared to death that day, afraid that their TV drama's viewership rating wouldn't be able to match up to a collaboration TV drama that came out of nowhere.
But in the end, it was a relief.
It was probably because of their reputation and the fact that many bystanders also wanted to see what was special about this drama on the edge of the wind, so they flocked to watch it, allowing them to achieve a 16% viewership rating.
At least for now, their viewership rating was dominant.
No, they had to work harder!
Otherwise, there would be rewards to reap next week.
But at this moment, the pressure on them had increased tenfold.
Before, they could easily write the script, but now it was like being shackled by an invisible restraint.
The happiest person at this moment was Director Kubota.
He was the first to propose cooperation with Takayuki.
And he was willing to hand over all the rights to the storyline to Takayuki, allowing Takayuki to control the main plot outline while leaving the details to their writers.
This could be said to be sharing the credit with an outsider.
But he was the promoter of this cooperation, and his credit would inevitably be counted after the entire season aired.