Chapter 435: First Seasons End!
They read up on it, alright.
They even bought Chaos units and the corresponding GameKeys for the heck of it.
Making it so that they truly gamed up on it.
And they more or less experienced what the fuss was all about.
They even went above and beyond by purchasing the other much older games that are not Castlevania.
To really, really learn more about what they're going to be dealing with, of course.
At least, that's their professional reasoning to go to.
They must not in any way admit that they actually just liked these kiddie video games... and they were not in any way finding it hard to extricate themselves from the varied and addicting marathon that it is.
They're part of Universal's senior management, sort of. So, they had a reputation to uphold.
They were really not enamored with the frustrating collection of flapping birds, the exciting exploration of Hyrule, and all these other Creed Games nonsense.
Nope. Not at all.
Hopefully...
With that being enough to fool themselves... they also weren't that foolish enough to not realize why this was happening.
These 13 are literally a step above the pinging a square with some rectangles that swept the states some decade or so ago.
For people like them who were mostly acquainted with Pong, the advancement was stupendous.
Just as stupendous as it was for a new budding company to grow and dominate it all. Growing from a few millions to the speculated billion, within a year at that.
Granted, given that Creed's a very private group of companies, the true figures were anything but concrete.
Still... with Creed selling more Chaos units than computer units... plus the ever-growing gamer account numbers in leaderboards... along with the ever-expanding add-on games...
It's almost as good as guaranteed.
The more they acquainted themselves with this fact, the more they understood what angle their boss Sheinberg was looking at.
As well as what he was heavily implying to.
Someone like him with a background in law wasn't oblivious to the fact that King Kong wasn't exclusively theirs during the Donkey Kong dispute.
Nor was he oh-so-stupid to not know that Bram Stroker and his Dracula was public domain and their only claim to it was probably only those films they made during Hollywood's Golden Ages.
Looking at it more objectively, the prodigious Sid Sheinberg was probably looking at the potential of video games and the very video game company that could milk the potential of it.
The Atari of old was old while Nintendo's intending to do something but that's about it. Meaning that the chaos of this burgeoning market was pretty much spearheaded by Creed on its own.
Long story short, Castlevania was a chance to breach Creed and it was more stupid to not take it.
Nevertheless, as subordinates of his, they now understood this and had to do their best to cater to what he wanted.
All the while, it opened their eyes to what video games can bring to MCA Universal's table.
Still, there's no way that it will be worth more than MCA's music and Universal's motion pictures combined, right?
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And so... the question lingered... with an eventual conclusion that will upend the entertainment paradigm in due time.
Lest some matters get ahead of time itself, it's best to look into some concluding entertainment that are happening as of current.
An up and ending eventuality that is quite paradigmatic... in and of itself.
In any case, after the attention on Castlevania, the 13th Creed game, peaked at March 13 for being a Friday the 13th... March 14 came along.
Which was a Saturday. A Saturday the 14th, in a way. And in terms of cartoon-watching, the morning of that is Saturday Morning Cartoons.
But it's also not just any Saturday morning for some cartoons. As some cartoons are coming to an end.
With their very first seasons coming to a close, that is.
Especially Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dragonball! Creed's ambitious double entry into a series of television animation!
Who could ever not be fond of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles?
A very cool cartoon with the series about four turtles that get covered in ooze and become ninja mutants, along with a guy that got turned into a rat.
Together and with some episodic tutelage, they fight crime on the streets and high-rise buildings of New York.
Leonardo is the debated leader. Donatello was the expert at machines and mechanical stuff. Raphael was the tuff one. While the practical joker and the life of the party is Michelangelo. And Splinter was their sensei, as they all wove through characters and shady ninja organizations in the city that their sewers were in.
All of it leads up to the final episode... where the threat of Shredder, the Foot clan's mastermind, is finally unveiled.
Instead of reprieve, a sense of anticipation was brought forth.
Making one really look forward to what's coming.
Whether it be those who were purely cartoon watchers or those who are still assiduously following the most recent issue of the comics... it was a huge favorite and something that they would very much tune in to.
Perhaps not the truest to the comics but on its own terms, it is amazing, especially with all the fighting and supplementary scenes.
The same could be said with Dragonball. One that felt so much more adventurous and magical.
A monkey-tailed boy meeting an advance-tech-ed girl. Then going on a journey to find seven wish-granting balls of dragon. All the while meeting various kooky caricatures, creatures, and characters along the way.
Culminating into a shocking final episode where a giant gorilla wreaks havoc, the moon goes boom, and the sought-after wish is actually wasted on a panty.
A mystical adventure, indeed, this quest for the Dragonballs.
And to think that it was all finally over!
Creed Animations had done it!
The animations are amazingly detailed, with the colors being smooth and the character designs on target.
While the writing is humorous, intelligent, and smart, and the storylines interesting and coherent...
Of course, the music was also wonderful, the themes and tunes being very memorable, while the incidental music complemented perfectly.
Making it so that these two whole shows are just very memorable overall.
As 'I'll Give You Romance', Milla's debuting lullaby sounded out for everyone to immerse themselves in the melancholy...
It truly and finally settled in...
The fact that TMNT's and Dragonball's first seasons ended!
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As everyone who tuned in, reeled at the realization, a rare ad for the Creed Chaos System played... with many new games coming so soon enough...
Granted, Alexander wasn't able to keep much eye on Mr. Advertiser's request coming true.
How could he?
Especially with the girls correspondingly latching onto his laps and looking at him with laced celebrations in their eyes...
"Congratulations, Alex!" Milla grinned giddily.
"Yep!" Drew reinforced, adding out. "There's even a party in order, right?"
Alexander could only disappoint as he said. "Not really."
Drew just sighed and shook her head at that.
Consequently, Milla actually had something to say about it. "Why not? I know you don't like parties, Alex. But we really should celebrate something, after all, it's been a whole season of us being boyfriend and girlfriend."
"Is it?" He didn't take note of that.
"Yes, it is." Milla affirmed and reasoned. "We got together when the first episodes debuted and with seasons ending, it's obviously been a season of being boyfriend-girlfriend!"
"So... instead of some anniversary or an odd monthsary, it's a season-sary?" Was that even a thing? Not that he can remember.
"Yeah, you could say that it's our season-sary." Apparently, for Milica, it's something.
"Huh..." Thinking about it, Alexander reckoned that he's sort of had that before. But it was usually because of relationships either spanning just within winters, springs, summers, and falls.
Not really in terms of seasons involving TV shows. Alexander's considerable experience in that would probably be all the 'chilling' he did with women during Netflix and Chill.
Weird, in a way.
Yet, in another way, it fits this weird, weird relationship that they had.
"Hehe! I guess it's also been a whole season of us being not-so-secret boyfriend and girlfriend." Drew intervening-ly pointed out. Further exemplifying the weirdness of it all.
"Tsk! Do you just have to spoil everything that I want for myself." Milla chastised.
To which, Drew just shrugged.
With not much choice, Alexander could only lay on the grave that he dug himself.
Or rather, he could only sit back on the sofa that he's already laid back on...
And be spoonfed with Saturday morning cereals and kisses by two little bickering beauties.
As problematic as it seemed, this three-way situation actually came with perks... and some perky butts to touch too...
Not that it was enough to culminate the shows' first seasons coming to an end just yet.
These are still very monumental milestones, after all.