A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

On October 25, the third volume of Cyberpunk Edgewalker BD was officially released.

Compared with the first two volumes, the influence and purchasing power of the third volume have increased significantly.

After all, the animation plots included in the third volume are all the essence of this work, and the whole process is heartbreaking, and the production cost is also the highest in the whole work.

The stores selling animation peripheral products in Longguo Second Dimension Commercial Street have also seen a long queue due to insufficient supply.

Everyone in the industry knows that the sales of the third volume of Cyberpunk Edgewalker's animation BD will definitely be greatly improved on the basis of the second volume.

The sales of the second volume in the first week were more than 300,000 copies. Can the first week of the third volume exceed 400,000?

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After the release of the TV version of Cyberpunk Edgewalker BD, what results will the release of the theater version BD have in the next two months?

However, Xia Yan only paid appropriate attention to the sales of Cyberpunk Edgewalker BD, and did not specially organize any BD signing sessions or fan meetings.

After all, he has more important things to do now.

Given Xia Yan's current busyness, he basically only conducts real-life promotions in the two most developed cities in Dragon Country, "Magic City" and "Imperial City".

He gave up the signing event for the Cyberpunk BD release and turned down Liuli Bookstore's request for Xia Yan to promote the "Sword Art Online" novel on a one-quarter variety show.

During this period, Xia Yan fully cooperated with Beizhou Comics' schedule and started to promote the first chapter of Hunter x Hunter four days later.

After all, Initial D ended at the beginning of the month, and Hunter x Hunter began serialization at the end of the month. This speed is too fast. Although Beizhou Comics is willing to spend money on promotion, it is impossible to complete it in many aspects.

Now, anyway, Xia Yan is called up, relying on his huge fan base and traffic, to spread the information about Hunter x Hunter serialization through various channels and attract some passers-by fans.

After all, if a work wants to be a big hit, it must not rely solely on old capital.

If Xia Yan's comics really want to achieve results comparable to or even surpass Initial D.

The best way is to attract fans of companies such as Squirrel Comics and Snow Wind Comics.

The number of comic fans in the market will not suddenly soar or drop.

Just like the sales of Beizhou magazine increased, the sales of several other top comic magazines declined.

They are all comic fans, and fans are just switching.

If Xia Yan changes the subject of comics, there will definitely be some of his Initial D fans who are not interested in his new work, but as long as the number of new fans who like hot-blooded fighting comics exceeds this number, it will be enough.

The major media in Longguo are also very cooperative at this moment.

Xia Yan is now the center of the two-dimensional industry, young, talented, and handsome.

The most important four is that the fan traffic is huge, and the number of related articles is also sky-high.

The media is naturally happy to report news related to Xia Yan.

[Xia Yan, a genius in the comics industry of Longguo, has a new comic "Hunter x Hunter" which will be serialized on the 29th of this month along with the Beizhou magazine released on the same day! Will Xia Yan's new work bring his journey as a cartoonist to a new high, or will the hasty transformation of this work make him suffer his first failure since his debut? 】

[The industry has great expectations for Hunter x Hunter. Xia Yan finished this work when Initial D was at its peak of popularity, and instead serialized a new comic at the speed of light within a month. If this "Hunter x Hunter" cannot surpass the performance of Initial D, then Xia Yan's decision to finish Initial D this month will become a black spot in his career as a cartoonist. 】

[What can Hunter x Hunter, a new work that was born after the completion of Initial D, achieve in the end? Is it another masterpiece in the comics industry? Or will Xia Yan's transformation work be a joke? 】

【There are too many hot-blooded fighting comic masterpieces in the history of Dragon Country. Xia Yan, who was enshrined in the racing comic category, may eventually fall from the altar because of his arrogance. Once his new comic full-time hunter begins serialization, the industry will inevitably compare this work with the major comics of the same type in the history of Dragon Country comics. Perhaps rashly ending Initial D will be the biggest mistake Xia Yan has made in his life. 】

【Xia Yan, who has won the first place in the animation field for two consecutive years and holds the record for the highest sales volume of TV animation bd volumes, is not far from the throne in the novel field. The latest news is that the average sales volume of Sword Art Online light novels has exceeded 23 million, officially becoming the first novel in the serialized works in the Dragon Country light novel industry. Moreover, it has also entered the top seven in the historical sales rankings. It is very likely that during the serialization of this work, it will stabilize the top three in history. Will his new works in the comics field keep up with the performance? 】

【Xia Yan, the only creator in Longguo's two-dimensional industry who has achieved top results in the three fields of novels, comics, and animation, although he has never said this in any public occasion, but we all know what he thinks. First! He rashly ended the serialization of Initial D just because he felt that this work could not become the first in the history of the comics industry! This newspaper believes that the comic "Hunter x Hunter" may become a miracle in the history of Longguo's comics industry~】

【In four days, the true face of this work will be revealed. 】

Under the overwhelming publicity of major media in Longguo, Hunter x Hunter has already made many old two-dimensional fans' ears calloused before it was officially serialized.

Forums, subways, bookstores, walls of the second dimension commercial street, TV stations, cinemas, and even small shops at the entrance.

There are posters about Hunter x Hunter everywhere, thanks to Beizhou Comics's unconditional promotion.

But this also makes Beizhou Comics's promotional funds consumption rate reach an exaggerated level.

In the previous half month, 30 million yuan was spent on promoting Xia Yan's new work, Slow Talk, and this week, another 20 million yuan was spent.

So far, Beizhou Comics has only received Xia Yan's first three comics about the comic "Hunter x Hunter".

The world view has not been expanded, and the protagonist has just left Whale Island. Beizhou Comics has no idea whether this work will be interesting or boring later.

But even so, they still spend such a huge amount of money to promote Xia Yan's new work.

This is Xia Yan's current status in the comics industry.

His influence is not limited to the traffic of Initial D. It is the sum of the fans of Mo Yuan, Cyberpunk, Initial D, and Sword Art Online.

Many people would question if Xia Yan is now the number one in the history of animation, comics, or novels.

But if Xia Yan is the most popular creator in the history of the two-dimensional industry for decades, I am afraid no one would question it.

Because it is true that the fan base covered by Xia Yan's works is too wide. Xia Yan is so popular that he has so many black fans, but if these black fans want to black Xia Yan, they are basically in an environment of one against ten, because Xia Yan's works have more fans.

A few days passed in a flash.

October 29th came.

In the morning, Geng Duo, as a college student, got up at six o'clock.

Because there was no class this morning, the snoring of his three resentful roommates came one after another, making the whole dormitory like being next to a pool in midsummer. Those who didn't know would think there were a lot of frogs croaking.

Geng Duo sighed. Although it had been two months since the start of the freshman year, he had adapted to the three snoring monsters in the dormitory, but after all, he was still a little sad.

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He came to the playground at 6:10, ran for half an hour on an empty stomach, then went back to the dormitory to rest and lift dumbbells for half an hour, took a shower, and had breakfast. He came to the bookstore at the entrance of the university at 7:50. There was already a long line there.

Without looking, Geng Duo knew that these were students queuing to buy the "Beizhou" magazine.

Queuing, waiting for the bookstore to open, and then twenty minutes later, Geng Duo held a thick comic magazine in his hand.

The two big words "Beizhou" were eye-catching on the cover of the magazine.

But Geng Duo's attention was directly on the cover of this issue of "Beizhou".

Under the soft and beautiful sunlight of the leaves, the smiling yellow-haired boy, the suit uncle wearing sunglasses counting money, the handsome child squinting on the skateboard, and the green-clothed child carrying a package and holding a fishing rod

The four of them moved forward together, and the whole picture was warm and healing.

"The painting skills of Master Mo Ran have improved again!" Geng Duo had studied painting for a period of time in high school. Although he could not draw, he had a good eye.

It was obvious that the painting skills of Hunter x Hunter had improved compared to Initial D.

He was slightly excited.

Geng Duo walked into his dormitory with the journal.

He looked at the time. It was almost half past eight. The three sleeping masters in the dormitory were still snoring one after another.

Geng Duo looked helpless.

He was still sleeping at half past eight. Why could his three roommates sleep at this age?

Even if he could not get up to study and exercise, he could get up to watch anime and novels!

He sighed, put on his headphones, and played the theme song of Madoka Magica and the interlude of Cyberpunk Edgewalker on repeat. Geng Duo opened the first page of the Beizhou comic journal.

Hunter x Hunter!

At the beginning, a beautiful woman looked at the deep forest where a storm was about to fall in the tavern she ran, with a worried look in her eyes.

The woman talked to her mother and brought out the information of a key figure, "Xiaojie".

A ten-year-old boy named Xiaojie is obsessed with the mountains all day long, and he has made an agreement with his guardian Aunt Mitte that he will come back before sunset whenever he goes out.

[I made an agreement with him that he must come back before sunset. I don't want him to be a child who doesn't keep his word. ]

[Don't forget that even if you can replace Xiaojie's mother, you can't replace his father]

The conversation between the woman and her mother in a few pages of comics revealed most of the character of the protagonist who has not yet appeared, as well as his family and interpersonal relationships.

His parents are not around anyway, so his aunt adopted him

Geng Duo blinked and continued to read.

The scene shifted to the forest.

A tall, sharp-eyed man wearing a beret held a card with strange symbols in his hand.

Then, the huge bear in the forest, like a mistress, attacked the green-clothed child.

Sharp claws, ferocious face, at the critical moment, a very thin light flashed in the air

The huge bear fell to the ground with a bang.

Has he been saved?

Geng Duo pondered for a while.

In fact, he also understood that other types of comics were fine, but the first volume of a hot-blooded battle comic generally would not have too exciting a plot.

A chapter of a hot-blooded combat comic can easily contain dozens or hundreds of chapters, and it takes one or two years to serialize it. The content of one episode of the comic is too short.

However, the development of the story was beyond Geng Duo's expectation.

He thought that this man would comfort the child who had just escaped from the giant bear.

Unexpectedly,

the man punched the child with a backhand punch.

"Did you see this mark?" The man pointed at the claw marks of the wild bear on the tree and shouted at the child angrily.

"Who would come here in this season? Anyone who sees this mark will know that there will be danger. Didn't your father teach you?"

"It's good that you didn't hear the call of the spotted squirrel, so you don't have to kill it." The man looked at the giant bear lying on the ground, his expression heavy and sad.

The previous few pages of short comic content portrayed Aunt Mitt's image of being hypocritical and worried about Xiaojie.

Now there are a few more pages of comic content, which portray the image of this man who is decisive, has clear goals, and has a normal outlook and is not a saint.

Although he killed the giant bear to save Xiaojie, he immediately regretted killing the giant bear for no reason. After all, it was just defending its territory.

The four words "respect life" were not directly mentioned, but comic readers can actually feel it.

[I have no father and no mother. ] The little boy said with his head down.

[My father died not long after I was born, and I was raised by my aunt]

Through Xiaojie's words, his father Jin, Kate, who was Jin's apprentice, and the profession of hunter

were thrown out at the beginning of the comic.

"Hunter? It turns out that hunters don't mean hunting, but an organization of humans with special skills in the comic world view?"

Hunter Full-time

Full-time

Geng Duo thought about the information of this work while watching.

From this point of view, the main line of this work has been given

The protagonist Xiaojie wants to become a hunter.

This is a plot that is easy to guess.

Later, in order to protect the offspring of the giant bear from being killed by Kate, Xiaojie rushed to protect it with his body, and then obtained Kate's forgiveness, which made Geng Duo feel good about this.

In fact, most of the early plots of a comic are relatively ordinary.

There are not many works that can touch the audience's tears in the first episode like Naruto and One Piece.

There are not many works that can attract fans' attention by relying on the tragic death of the mother in the first episode like Attack on Titan.

After all, there is only so much content in one episode of a work. It is a bit too much to lay out the world view, shape the characters and plots, and move people to tears.

Most comics' first episodes are to let readers know the direction of the story.

However, Hunter x Hunter made most comic readers like him by the action of Xiaojie saving the offspring of the giant bear who wanted to kill him in the first half of the comic.

The protagonist's saintliness will make readers hate him, but the protagonist's kindness to a certain extent will not.

The plot of the first episode of Hunter x Hunter tells Xiaojie that his father is not dead and that his father Jin is the best hunter in the world through the encounter between Kate and Xiaojie.

Then Xiaojie has the idea of ​​finding his father and becoming a hunter.

From the first picture of the first episode to now, the tone of the whole work is slow.

There is no battle, nor any inexplicably complicated battle system settings. It simply depicts the relationship between Xiaojie and his adoptive mother, Aunt Mitte.

However, Geng Duo was completely immersed in it without realizing it.