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It can be said that the industry has long expected Xia Yan to be hacked.

Although he has a good reputation among the fan base, even if everyone complains about him, they only complain about his bad jokes that are out of context at critical moments.

But in the animation world, he is a complete disruptor.

For a whole year, Puella Magi Madoka Magica has made all the so-called big-budget animations in Ryuukoku unable to hold their heads high. To put it bluntly, it is difficult for animation fans who have eaten enough to go back to eat shit.

After watching Magic Circle, fans are now going to watch the big-production, heavily-publicized waste-cute animations that the three major animation companies like to produce, and the number of people buying them will definitely decrease.

Coupled with the fact that Xia Yan has achieved such great results in seven years, and that Cyberpunk Edgewalker is indeed taking off after four episodes, it is certainly impossible for the three major animation companies to just do nothing.

But Xia Yan would come forward and provoke them in turn, which they didn't expect.

After all, there is indeed a big gap between the size of Xia Tang Animation and the three major ones. Isn’t it normal for the big brother in the industry to take action to punish a few young guys who are dancing happily?

We are hacking you, but if you endure it, if the work still achieves excellent results, the three major animation companies will not say anything. This is called inferiority in skills, and if you lose, you lose.

But if you stabbed your head like this from the beginning, what’s the point?

Moreover, Xia Yan's actions also embarrassed the three major animation companies. On the surface, he was just indifferent and did not spend a penny to publish a few words on the Internet.

But if the three major animation companies can't even suppress Xia Yan's provocative behavior, then they will have little prestige in the entire animation industry in the future.

The next day, the operating departments of the three companies held a collective meeting.

At the meeting...

"So what should we do now?"

"This matter has been the third most searched topic on the Jiuxiao Forum, the largest two-dimensional gathering place in Dragon Kingdom. Many Dragon Kingdom animation fans are in a state of confusion."

"How dare he, a person who has not graduated from college, think that he has created a magic circle and is so arrogant? In the past few decades, Longguo has produced so many excellent animation works. If nothing else, we are the only three major animation companies. In the history of the company, who doesn’t have more than a dozen so-called Fengshen animation works?”

"But a good man doesn't mention his bravery in the past. In fact, Xia Yan is not competing with the seniors in the history of our three major companies, but with our current staff."

"Can't Lose. Since the other party has said that from last week until the end of his work, he will never be surpassed by other works in ratings, then as long as any of our three companies' works can win in the next two months, The ratings were at the top for a week, and his rhetoric became a joke."

"Do you really think you are a god? His Sword Art Online and Initial D have been serialized for almost a year, but they have not surpassed Red Dragon and Another World Reformer in single volume sales. Why is he confident that he can sell three books in just one quarter? In a matter of months, his new animation suppressed the animated adaptations of these two works? "

After Xia Yan refused to admit defeat and published those remarks on the Internet, the three major animation companies worked together and doubled the amount of money they paid to hire cyberpunks.

The animation team of the three animations "Red Dragon", "Reformers from Another World" and "Crash Landing" also frequently appeared on TV and gave interviews to the media.

Of course, they also control the content of the interviews. They always inadvertently bring the topic to cyberpunk fringe walkers, and then always say in TV interviews or print media interviews that cyberpunk fringe walkers are not good and the production quality is low. Children will learn bad things after watching it. The protagonist's outlook is not correct, and the core idea of ​​the work is not conducive to moral condemnation such as the great unity of the Dragon Kingdom.

After all, the laws in the Dragon Kingdom are relatively strict in this regard. You can go as far as you want, but you still can’t go too far, you can’t spread rumors, you can’t make things up, and the three major companies can’t go too far, but ordinary animation fans may be misled, but some Old people in the two-dimensional industry are not so easy to fool.

If the protagonist joins a gang, it means he has incorrect views. Then what are the animations from your three major animation companies in which the protagonist travels to another world to dominate the local master's grandfather?

Animations are bloody when someone dies. In the past, there was an animation where the protagonist Long Aotian killed hundreds of people at every turn.

Moreover, after Xia Yan's fans saw Xia Yan's end, they suddenly had a backbone and gathered in the comment areas of the official websites of the three animations to ridicule them.

All in all, over the past few days, the entire Dragon Kingdom Animation forum area was in a state of chaos, and fans of Xia Yan and the three animations could be seen tearing apart everywhere.

Moreover, these behaviors of animation fans on both sides have also intensified the conflicts between He Xia Yan and the novel fans of "Alien World Revolutionary" in the novel industry, and the comics industry and the comic fans of "Red Dragon".

In the comics industry and light novel industry, news about Xia Yan is also coming one after another.

Before the autumn animation market started, no one in the entire industry thought that the market would develop like this one month after it started.

However, Beizhou Comics and Liuli Books also know how to market. It doesn’t matter how Xia Yan’s cyberpunk edgewalker burns them in the animation industry, but since it has burned into the novel industry, they will definitely not sit idly by and watch, no matter what. He said that Xia Yan was now the face of both companies, and related marketing activities were launched one after another.

For example, the promotion direction of the latest light novel volumes of Initial D and Sword Art Online is directed towards the two works of Red Dragon and Revolutionary from Another World.

Your two works compete with Xia Yan's new animation for ratings data in the field of adapted animations. In the field of original novels and comics, you will also compete in the sales of the latest volumes.

This is what is called business competition.

Xia Yan, Chilong and the author of Revolutionary of Another World have never met each other, but as the three parties developed, they became enemies for various reasons. Now the fans of the three sides are hostile to each other. As creators, they can only stand on the same front with the fans.

Soon, it was the weekend again.

The fifth episodes of Revolutionary of Another World, Chilong and Crash Landing were broadcast one after another.

The ratings were 4.47%, 4.51% and 4.37%, which were all improved compared to last week.

Although it was only a few thousandths of an improvement in the ratings, at least the ratings of this episode of Chilong this week exceeded the ratings of the fourth episode of Cyberpunk last week, which was 4.49%.

This also made the three major animation companies feel relieved.

It is normal for the ratings of animation broadcasts to fluctuate. The plot of Cyberpunk Edgewalker last week was interesting, and the ratings soared to 4.49%. It is not impossible for it to drop below 4.3% this week.

On Sunday, many people in the animation industry were in a state of ups and downs, waiting to see the performance of the fifth episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker in the evening.

If Xia Yan had just said in public on the Internet that he would not lose, and was immediately slapped in the face that week, it would be funny that the ratings of the work plummeted.

It would definitely become a huge black history in his life.

But in fact, what made many Xia Yan haters uncomfortable was that this situation did not happen.

The plot of the fifth episode immediately entered the main line of the whole work. The protagonist's Mann team wanted to get some information from Tanaka, a senior executive of Arasaka. This Tanaka was the father of the college classmate who had insulted the protagonist David's mother and was beaten by David.

The plot of this entire episode tells the story of the protagonist and his team kidnapping Tanaka, a senior executive of Arasaka Company.

Although it is not the most anticipated plot of the protagonist David and Lucy's relationship, but.

The ratings of the fifth episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker were counted by TV1 in Modu the next day, 4.52%.

Not more, not less, just 0.01% more than Red Dragon.

This result is extremely ironic.

Although there is no huge lead, it is still the first of the week.

After the result came out, Xia Yan also shouted lucky in his heart.

He was a little careless, thinking that after Cyberpunk Edgewalker topped the ratings last week, it would be difficult for its three competitors to surpass it this week.

Because everyone knows the plot of Red Dragon and the Revolutionary of the Different World from the novel, there will be no big explosion in the fifth episode, otherwise Xia Yan would not be so confident.

But I didn't expect that the ratings of this episode of Red Dragon were not increased so much by the animation plot, but by the original animation plot, forcing the heroine to give swimsuits and benefits, attracting a group of old perverts in the animation industry to stop and watch, and forcibly raising the ratings.

That's right, the animation industry in Longguo will also play this set. The animation production team likes to make some swimsuit episodes while broadcasting, which has no meaning in promoting the main plot. It just forces the heroine to sell benefits to satisfy pervert animation fans.

This almost made Xia Yan get slapped in the face.

But if the fifth episode of Cyberpunk didn't fail, in the office, Xia Yan put down the report in his hand, and a look of relief flashed in his eyes.

Then there will be basically no failure in the future.

Cyberpunk Edgewalker has a total of ten episodes, and the first five episodes and the last five episodes are not the same level of script.

The first five episodes simply describe how a boy with a tragic life fell from a top student to the bottom of society and became a cyberpunk story.

The original animation in the parallel world will use the explosive and depressing plot to tell the audience why the name David Martinez can leave a name in the afterlife bar in the original game and become one of the legends of Night City.

Of course, there is no Cyberpunk 2077 game in Dragon Country, and animation fans can only get their understanding of Night City from animation, so there is no sentence on the Internet that matches this animation work.

Night City, there is no living legend!

Cyberpunk has topped the ratings for two consecutive weeks, which really makes the three major animation production companies lose face.

As time entered early August, the three companies were still adding animation promotions for several of their works.

Discrediting remarks about Xia Yan's work continued to emerge under their arrangement.

However, Xia Yan was too lazy to care about these things. He has now begun to sign a series of BD production and distribution contracts and peripheral production and sales contracts with major peripheral producers.

Unlike Magical Girl Madoka, the current Xia Tang Animation Production Company is no longer what it used to be, and the cooperating manufacturers are not those small and medium-sized companies.

Instead, they are the top companies in the industry in Longguo.

"Teacher Xia Yan, don't worry, you will be very satisfied with choosing to cooperate with us. The three major animation production companies still want us to listen to them and not cooperate with you. Hehe, we immediately rejected their unreasonable demands."

The big-bellied senior executive of the other company who signed the contract with Xia Yan put his arm around Xia Yan's shoulders and laughed heartily.

Xia Yan just responded with a polite smile.

But Xia Yan also understood what the other party said.

The three companies had done these little tricks before!

If Xia Tang Animation Production Company was really a small, unknown company, and the three of them said this, then Xia Tang Animation might have a hard time finding a suitable and capable partner in the industry.

The problem is that although Xia Tang Animation is not a big company, Xia Yan is very famous. The sales of his animation BD of Puella Magi Madoka Magica is the record holder in the animation industry of Longguo. The sales of the BD volume of the TV series exceeded two million, and the sales of the theatrical animation volume were several million. Even if Cyberpunk's ratings and popularity are not as good as Madoka Magica, there are too many elements in the animation of Cyberpunk Edgewalker that are suitable for selling peripherals. Anyway, judging from the current ratings of this animation, the sales of its BD and other peripheral products cannot be low.

Cooperating with Xia Yan is at least a business with hundreds of millions of revenue. You three major animation companies want them not to make this money with just one sentence?

How is it possible? The face of the three major animation companies is not worth so much money.

This is also one of the reasons why Xia Yan dared to confront the other party regardless of their status in the industry. In the two-dimensional industry of Longguo, no company has a monopoly and can cover the sky with one hand. As long as you have value, Xia Yan is not afraid of the other party's tricks at all, and you will always find a partner for cooperation.

"Then the release date of the first volume of the BD is confirmed and will not be changed?" The other party confirmed with Xia Yan again.

"Well, it will be set on the third day after the Cyberpunk Edgewalker animation is completed," Xia Yan said with a smile.

After all, it takes two days for fans to recover from the plot, Xia Yan is still quite kind.

"Understood, happy cooperation."

The other party stretched out his fat hand and shook it with Xia Yan.

"Happy cooperation."

On Friday, the sixth episode of Red Dragon was broadcast.

However, this week, its ratings dropped slightly, from 4.51% last week to 4.37%. The daily plot of the protagonist is indeed difficult to attract fans to stop and watch.

However, on Saturday, the ratings of the sixth episode of Revolutionary of the Other World of 4.54% were very impressive.

The plot of this episode is also not very bright, but its production is amazing.

Just like the 19th episode of the TV animation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, many fans of this work got into the pit with that episode, but if you look at the description of that plot in the original comics, it is actually sparse and ordinary, and there is nothing amazing.

If we only count this plot, the animation will score 10 points, while the comics will only score 4 points. This is a rare animation that far exceeds the original comics.

The same plot, with different animation production, storyboards, music, and the emotional voices of voice actors, can give you different feelings.

This episode of Revolutionary of Another World is a bit similar to this situation.

After watching this episode, Xia Yan, although he is in a competitive relationship with the other party, also admires the strength of the other party's production team.

The three major animation companies are not just three big companies that are boasted, their subordinates are really capable!

But the most amazing animated series broadcast this week is not Revolutionary of Another World, but the sixth episode of the original animation "Crash Landing on You".

Plot, production, flash point, music, storyboard

In this episode, the expressiveness of this animation can be called the best episode of the entire work so far.

Sports animation is like this. The episode in which the protagonist wins a certain competition is definitely the climax of the entire plot and the most popular episode.

After this episode was aired, fans of the animation praised it for the whole night. When the ratings came out the next day, it also amazed the entire animation industry with a rating of 4.59%.

Many people complained in their hearts, damn

This quarter, the animation industry in Longguo is really a fight between gods.

Although the fans of the four works smeared each other, to be honest, all four works are great, and none of them are lame. Except for the annual "Magic Circle" last year, these four works have the opportunity to compete for the annual best TV animation gold award in the animation industry of Longguo in the past five years. Now they collide in the same quarter?

But when the data of the sixth episode of "Crash Landing" with a rating of 4.59% came out, on Sunday, Xia Yan's fan group was a little panicked.

Cyberpunk Edgewalker's fourth episode had a rating of 4.49%, and the fifth episode had a rating of 4.52%.

If this work wants to continue to maintain the first-ranked ratings for a single episode this week, it will be difficult.

It's a bit difficult!

The truth that a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single half is the same in any industry.

When an animation reaches this 4.5% ratings, an increase of 0.01% is probably greater than an increase from 3.0% to 3.1%.

During the day, fans of Crash Landing on You didn't say much.

After all, for original animations, fans only follow the works, and the circle consciousness is not so strong.

But fans of the novels, comics, and animations of Red Dragon and Revolutionary of Another World can no longer hold back.

Although this result was not achieved by the works they followed, no matter what, as long as Crash Landing on You won the first place in the ratings of the animation market this week.

Xia Yan's crazy words two weeks ago became the best tool for him to slap himself in the face.

Many people have begun to ridicule to the fullest, laughing on the forum, and making sarcastic remarks to the fans of Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

Although the specific results will have to wait until the sixth episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker is broadcast in the evening to be determined, but judging from the growth of the ratings of this animation before, it is highly likely that Xia Yan's previous bold words will become a joke tonight. .