A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

In order to get the recognition of her teacher Jin, Kate, as a disciple, found Jin's hometown, hoping to find him here. However, she met Jin's son Xiaojie, saved him from a giant bear in the forest, and told Xiaojie about his father's deeds, which made the ten-year-old Xiaojie think about leaving Whale Island and becoming a hunter.

The content of the first episode of Hunter x Hunter is very simple, and even children can understand it.

There is no complicated setting, and even the specific job of the hunter in the comics, how to become one, and the process are not explained clearly, however.

The first episode of this comic has a faint attraction.

Geng Duo knew that if it were his three roommates who were still snoring, they would have given up reading it long ago if they didn't see any handsome fighting scenes, interesting superpower settings, or beautiful girl protagonists who made people's eyes shine after reading more than ten pages of the comics.

But for Geng Duo, who has a calm personality, he thinks this comic is very suitable for his appetite.

He is not very interested in hunters for the time being.

But the character creation of Aunt Mitt and Xiaojie made him feel a little touched.

Gon wants to leave Whale Island, and Mit doesn't want him to encounter danger. The relationship between the two is not mother and son, but it seems to be a more pure portrayal of family affection.

And

A conversation between the two people because of this matter.

[What exactly does the hunter want to do? He actually abandons his family and home, and you actually become a hunter in order to find him. ] Mit looked sad and wanted to persuade Gon.

[But, even if you have to abandon your own children, you have to continue your work. Isn't this a great job? ] Gon looked at Aunt Mit and said.

Puff!

Seeing this, Geng Duo almost coughed.

This.

What is this saying?

What kind of work is worth sacrificing family and life to do?

Moreover, as a victim of the irresponsible behavior of his father Jin, why can Gon still have such an idea?

[You are indeed his son. ] Aunt Mit looked sad.

In fact, if you are a comic fan who is watching Hunter x Hunter for the first time, you will think that Gon's words are a bit far-fetched.

However, this work is Hunter, it is not a pure hot-blooded boy comic.

Even the characters in it do not have absolute justice.

Are all hunters good people?

Hisoka, who kills people like crazy, is a hunter.

The knights in the later Phantom Troupe are hunters.

Killua, a killer who has no absolute sense of good and evil, is also a hunter, and Killua's brother is also a hunter.

Which of these characters has not killed dozens or hundreds of people? If you look at it from a normal perspective, if these characters are placed in other hot-blooded youth comics, the protagonist will definitely eliminate them for justice.

But in Hunter x Hunter, Gon doesn't care about these. He only makes friends based on whether you are suitable for him, not whether you are a good person.

Even thinking deeper, the ants in the Ant King arc are trustworthy, principled, loyal, and have a bottom line.

On the contrary, the hunters who attack the ants are ugly, and each one is more cunning and vicious than the other.

This is what Togashi wants to express in this work.

The author Togashi also said in an interview in a parallel world that he never thought of making Xiaojie a kind person, but wanted to make him a crazy protagonist. He hoped to create the plot to his heart's content without considering the moral conflicts in the character's heart.

So, starting from the first chapter, people like Geng Duo, who have a more upright outlook, can feel that Xiaojie, the protagonist, has an abnormal perspective on the world in some things.

There is no absolute justice or evil in this work, including the protagonist Xiaojie. In fact, the choices he made in many plots make readers feel that he is a bit scary.

Hisoka, the captain, and other cruel murderers in the early stage, do not need the author to whitewash them, and they automatically become popular characters in the later stage.

Why? Because readers have also accepted the worldview of this world. Don't morally kidnap the characters in it, because you can't find a few good people throughout the whole work.

You will feel that a certain character is annoying just because they are enemies with the protagonist. Once the hostile relationship between the two sides is temporarily lifted, like the characters of Hisoka Captain, everyone can instantly feel their charm.

Geng Duo felt a little uncomfortable when he saw this, but he quickly passed it.

After all, it takes time to adapt to the good and evil views of the characters in this work.

Later, it was Aunt Mitt who made a bet with little Jam. If he could catch the swamp master in the deep forest, she would agree to let him take the hunter exam.

Of course, it was no surprise that the protagonist, Xiao Jie, caught the swamp master.

At the end of this comic, after Xiao Jie caught the swamp master, he said goodbye to Aunt Mitt.

[Sorry, I lied to you. I said that Jin abandoned you, but in fact, I took your custody from the court. ]

[Well, I knew it was a lie. ] Xiao Jie smiled and looked at Mitt.

[Because Aunt Mitt would never look at me when she lied. ]

[Aunt Mitt, like my mother, I will never forget her no matter where I am. ]

Chapter 1, end.

Geng Duo let out a long sigh after seeing the words "Hunter x Hunter Chapter 1" appear.

There was still a faint touch of emotion in his heart.

To be honest, the plot of the first episode of Hunter x Hunter does not have any substantial expansion of the main storyline at all.

The setting of the hunter was thrown out, and "Hunter" was not explained in detail.

The work is called Full-time Hunter, and "Hunter" is an important profession in it.

But unfortunately, the plot of the first episode did not go into depth on this.

Instead, it focuses on portraying the family relationship between the protagonist Xiaojie and his Aunt Mit.

but

interesting.

Geng Duo himself doesn’t know what’s so interesting about this work, but after reading the first chapter, the feeling of unfinished content can’t be deceiving.

Of course, compared with the comic plot of the first chapter of Initial D, it is definitely not as attractive.

But for combat comics, it must be serialized for a few more chapters to expand the world view, so Geng Duo can understand it.

At this time, his three roommates were still sleeping and snoring. Geng Duo shook his head, opened the Jiuxiao Forum, and entered

As expected, the entire forum was filled with discussion posts by full-time hunters.

"So what do you think after reading the first episode of this work?"

"It's a bit unfinished. You might say it looks good, but it's not that great. But you might say it doesn't look good, and it's a bit off-putting.

"It seems to be a slow-paced work."

"After all, Xia Yan is an old thief. It's good to understand that his "Going to the Moon" and "Unknown Flowers" are all slow-burning."

"I also expected that the first episode of "Hunter Hunter" would be more interesting than the first episode of Initial D, but now it's far different."

"Compared with the first episode of Initial D, it is indeed a little less sensory, but it's not far from it. The relationship between Xiaojie and Aunt Mitte is very touching."

"Is it touching? Maybe I don't like to watch family scenes. I like the protagonist to kill the whole family at the beginning, without caring about family ties, and then kill all the way."

"It's a matter of taste. Anyway, I think it's quite interesting. Even though the old thief Xia Yan is in the spotlight now, the plot of this first episode is still of a high standard."

"But I'm a little disappointed. Other hot-blooded comics have penetrated the blue star, penetrated the galaxy, and fought into the depths of the universe. This comic feels like a hunter, like a special mercenary, and even the force value is similar to that of ancient martial arts comics. Not as good as that.”

"This is the first chapter of the comic, where did you read it?"

"Just look at the performance of Kate, the eldest disciple of Xiaojie's father Jin. It is said in the comics that Jin is the ceiling of combat power in this world, the strongest hunter. And as the disciple of the strongest hunter, Kate should at least be a A first-rate or second-rate master. Then this first-rate or second-rate master used a sword to confront a giant bear, but he couldn't even send out a sword energy. This clearly shows that the world in the hunter is a world of low martial arts, and it may be just that. Special forces level."

"Well, judging from this, the title of Xiaojie's father, the so-called world's number one hunter, is equivalent to the fighting level of the heavyweight boxing champion in our real world?"

"It feels like this."

"Maybe he's not at the level of a heavyweight boxing champion, maybe he's just at the level of a wild survival king?"

"But I feel that the position of hunters in this work is more like mercenaries, killers, etc. The first hunter can be understood as the first killer, the first mercenary and other titles."

"What's the use of discussing so much? It's only the first episode of this work and you already understand it?"

"That's right, at the beginning of Sword Art Online, a group of people said that the old thief let Asuna die in SAO, and that transferring the map from SAO to ALO ​​was a failure. The work is about to be bloody. What now? Sword Art Online has reached the highest sales volume in history. Seven. Now you, the full-time hunters, are making blind predictions and belittling.”

"It just doesn't look good anyway. Compared with the publicity of this work, the actual quality is just average!"

"I'm talking to you upstairs, you Xia Yan old thief and a well-known black guy, you have to change your account if you want to be black! When we went to the moon, we were all embarrassed. Three years later, we are still black. The first chapter of a comic was serialized. What can you tell? Just three days after a baby is born, you can tell whether he will be the richest man in the world or a beggar."

"Anyway, I'm just a fool. Before I read the first chapter of Hunter Hunter today, I was worried whether he would come up with another great comic this time, but after reading the first chapter, I really laughed out loud. . Amateur cartoonists all know how important the early plot of a comic is. The main plot of this work is a hunter, but it spends a whole chapter introducing the relationship between the protagonist and his adoptive mother. If I were to create the plot, I would just let him do it from the beginning. The protagonist is going to participate in the hunter competition, who wants to see these boring family relationships? "

"So you can only embarrass Teacher Xia Yan on the Internet, and the works he created are liked by tens of millions of people across the Dragon Kingdom. This is the gap. Old thief Xia Yan creates plots like you said, and now he also Just an ordinary person who trolls the internet."

"Upstairs, kill Xiao Heizi."

"Hahaha"

"There are always little Heizi who like to come out to make their presence felt. Four years later, these people still don't know the pain at all. Their faces are swollen every time by Teacher Xia Yan, but they still like to show their faces out happily. "

On the first day of serialization of the first episode of Hunter Hunter, overall, due to the slow pace of the plot, many silent anti-fans of Xia Yan emerged one after another. In fact, they are not brainless. The purpose of being embarrassed is just to guide public opinion and make way for passers-by. Give this comic a wide berth.

But that's it.

It's of no use.

The next day, the voting results of Beizhou Comics Club were released.

There is no surprise. With 2.7 million votes, Full-time Hunter topped the list of "Beizhou" magazine.

And the voting score also reached an astonishing 9.5 points.

Xia Yan's fan base of tens of millions across the Dragon Kingdom is here.

To put it bluntly, even if Xia Yan serialized a "real" garbage comic, in the first month or two before serialization, he could easily keep this work in the top two of "Beizhou" by relying on the popularity of past fans. .

What’s more, the first episode of Hunter Hunter itself is of good quality.

Those little black guys on the Internet are embarrassed and lead to such things as street attacks. If Xia Yan was an unknown creator now, he might really be worried.

After all, in the comics market, whether an unknown creator's work can be popular or not, the quality of the work only plays a part in it.

But now Xia Yan

He just smiled inwardly when he saw these remarks.

But seeing Mo Ran who was extremely nervous next to him, Xia Yan spoke up.

"Okay, it's still number one, don't be so heavy."

"But I see that the reviews on the Internet are not very good. During the serialization of Initial D, fans all received all kinds of praises. Now the fans' evaluation of the full-time hunter is that it is OK, not bad, and I can follow it. It feels a bit interesting. Obviously, This public opinion environment is very dangerous!" Mo Ran looked at the post on the tablet in his hand and frowned.

"Just don't look at these!" Xia Yan said speechlessly.

"Isn't this asking for trouble?"

"I'm not as strong-willed as you! If the results of this new work are not good enough, then I will be a sinner."

"What does it have to do with you?" Xia Yan was stunned.

"It must be that my painting skills are not up to par, which is why my grades are bad!" Mo Ran leaned her chin on the table, with a trace of sadness on her beautiful face.

"." Xia Yan.

"Don't be so stressed." Xia Yan said.

"I would like to ask you, Xia Yan. As the number one person in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry, the creator of the top seven works in the history of the Dragon Kingdom light novel industry, and the creator of the top nine works in the history of the comics industry, you have no pressure to start a new work. "?" Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan with curiosity in her eyes.

"Aren't you worried that poor performance in your work will affect your reputation?"

"Don't worry."

"Why?"

"Because." Xia Yan paused.

Because he knows the achievements of the full-time hunter in the parallel world and the achievements of Initial D. After comparing the results of the two works, he naturally knows clearly what the future achievements of the full-time hunter will be in the Dragon Kingdom.

But there was no way to explain this to Mo Ran clearly.

"Because, I know the follow-up comic plot of Hunter." Xia Yan pointed at his head and said.

"Then what?" Mo Ran was stunned and continued to ask.

"So I know very well."

"It will become the number one comic in the Dragon Kingdom." Xia Yan said with a smile.

"First in history."

Mo Ran was shocked when he heard this.

Of course, she also knew that with Xia Yan's current status in the comics industry, she would definitely move towards this goal. But when he said this goal personally, she still couldn't calm down.

After all, if Xia Yan achieves this goal, it means that as Xia Yan's comics collaborator, she will also become the number one in the history of Dragon Kingdom comics!

"I have never considered that this work will be a hit on the street, and you should not think about it either. Your drawing skills are very good. I really like this comic that you and I created together."

Mo Ran was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then smiled softly.

"I don't know where your confidence comes from. It really spreads!"

"When you said that, I suddenly felt less nervous again."

"Okay, I'm going to work on the new chapter of the comic. I look forward to seeing the day when the full-time hunter's score exceeds Initial D, and even reaches the top."

Mo Ran actually has no confidence at all. This is her character. But she knew a little bit and just believed in Xia Yan.

Finally, after taking a closer look at Xia Yan working on the draft of the full-time Hunter storyboard comic in the lobby of his home villa, Mo Ran took a deep breath and returned to his room on the second floor to work.

A few days later, the popularity of the serialization of the first episode of Hunter Hunter gradually dissipated, and was replaced by the BD sales of the third volume of Cyberpunk Edgewalker, which had been overshadowed by the serialization of Hunter Hunter in the past few days.

470,000 copies in the first week.

Officially surpassing the sales record set by the last volume of the Magic Circle TV version of the BD animation.

The sales record of Magic Circle was broken by another work of Xia Yan a year later.

Although just because the sales volume of BD exceeded in the first week, it does not mean that the final total sales volume will also exceed it, but at least, this sales data has a huge impact on the industry.

This shows that Moyuan’s success last year was no accident.

Xia Yan said that he has the ability to reproduce and even create animations that surpass the original brilliant achievements of Magic Circle.

For many practitioners in the animation industry, this is crucial. There are pigs on the trend every year, it’s just a matter of luck. This existence is not terrible.

But Xia Yan's animation works have achieved such results for two consecutive years, which shows that he is not a pig in the spotlight, but the person who created the trend.

In their hearts, Xia Yan's position in this industry is completely stable.

Moreover, Xia Yan’s new animated film Lelouch of Rebellion, which will only be aired next April, is also rising in the industry.

Many medium and large animation companies in the Dragon Kingdom have plans to release the company's new animation in April next year. At this time, they have begun to hold meetings to discuss whether to move to other seasons to avoid Lelouch's sharpness.

Maybe Xia Tang Animation Company is not as big as the three major animation production companies in Longguo.

But at least, now with Xia Yan's Xia Tang Animation, the pressure it brings to the industry is no less than, or even exceeds, the three major animation production companies.

This subtle change in people's hearts is spreading rapidly in the Dragon Country's two-dimensional industry.