A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

Two days later, the sales statistics for the first volume of the Hunter Hunter comic were released. ♦♦  ♦♦

first week

6.72 million volumes.

Of course, before this data was released, the entire comics industry agreed that the first week sales of Hunter volume would be more than five million.

If you are not blind, you will know how many people are queuing up outside nearby bookstores to buy single books.

But sales in the first week reached 6 million, or even 6.7 million. Many people in the industry were still confused.

First-week sales are not final sales. Generally speaking, three times the first-week sales of a work is probably the final sales within one or two years after the work is released.

For works such as popular comics and light novels, due to the strong purchasing power of fans, most of their final sales will be close to or even more than four times the first week sales.

What the hell is it about Hunter that sold 6.7 million copies in its first week?

Is this the actual popularity of Xia Yan's work?

Among the four major comic clubs in the Dragon Kingdom, Xuefeng, Squirrel, Beizhou and the bottom Niixing. Apart from Beizhou Comic Club, the other three pure comics no longer know what to do.

Since Xia Yan joined Beizhou, the sales volume of the comic journal "Beizhou" has increased from around 13 million to 3 to 4 million copies in two years.

Nowadays, the battle with the "Xue Feng" comic journal to become the No. 1 comic journal in the Dragon Kingdom has entered a fierce stage.

In the nine weeks of the past two months, Beizhou Magazine ranked first in weekly sales five times, and Xuefeng ranked first four times.

Xuefeng itself was at a disadvantage.

As for the first week sales of 6.7 million copies of the first volume of Hunter Hunter, it goes without saying that Beizhou Comics might miss this promotional opportunity?

This is the record for the first week's sales of the first volume of a single volume among all the comic works created by Long Kingdom in the past eighteen years!

As for the records from eighteen years ago, let’s not talk about them. Times were different. There were tens of millions more teenagers at that time than there are now. Therefore, the sales records of the Dragon Kingdom comics industry were basically occupied by works from ancient times.

But now, everyone in the entire Dragon Kingdom comics world can feel that Xia Yan is killing gods!

In this era when the size of the comics, novels, and animation groups is gradually decreasing with the aging of society, they are gradually challenging the records set by the predecessors of the most popular masterpieces in the history of the Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional world.

Magic Circle, Cyberpunk Edgewalker, is already one of the top two animation works in the history of Dragon Kingdom.

In the plot of Sword Art Online serialized last month, the protagonist pushed the villain of the alo chapter, Xu Xiang, to the ground in a sharp and refreshing move.

Not only did he cut Xu Xiang into pieces and ravage him in various ways in the game ALO, but in reality Xia Yan was not like in the parallel world animation. When the pig protagonist Li Tongren ran to find Asuna, he was stabbed in the back by Xu Xiang and almost killed by a sneak attack.

Is this the protagonist?

The protagonist of Sword Art Online was almost attacked by a scum like Xu Xiang in the real world and even stabbed?

This plot was uncomfortable to write, so Xia Yan changed it directly. Xu Xiang's sneak attack with a knife remained unchanged, but he sneak attacked the protagonist. The protagonist Li Tongren counterattacked out of self-defense, so it was not too much to beat him until he was semi-crippled. ?

With the blessing of this exciting plot, fans of the Sword Art Online novel enjoyed it and the sales of the single book were very strong.

Many people went directly to bookstores to buy single copies in sets and give them away. This also made the average single volume sales of Sword Art Online exceed 24 million copies, ranking fifth in historical sales.

Going forward, they are all heavyweight players in the history of the Dragon Kingdom light novel industry.

They are all the products of novels written in the Golden Age of the Second Dimension of Dragon Kingdom thirteen years ago, when the youth population was the largest.

Sword Art Online is clearly still moving forward.

The work that ranks first in the Dragon Kingdom light novel industry in terms of average volume sales is "Tian Dao Zhan Ji" created by Zhou Lin, a great light novel author nineteen years ago. The whole work has a total of nineteen volumes, with an average volume sales of 2,730. One hundred thousand copies.

In the field of comics, the best-selling work per volume is the phenomenal comic "Dragon Magician" from the Dragon Kingdom 23 years ago. The entire comic has a total of 24 volumes, with an average volume sales of 26.1 million copies. .

Judging from the current situation, Hunter, whose first single volume has sold more than 6.7 million copies in its first week, is still the same as Sword Art Online, whose average volume sales have exceeded 24 million.

Both of them have the opportunity to challenge the first works in history in their respective fields.

Because their creator is Xia Yan

The Xia Yan who created Initial D, Magic Circle, and Edgewalker.

In the current two-dimensional industry, because the number of readers is not as large as before, it is too difficult to break the records set by previous works.

But Xia Yan is different. He is at the top of the industry in the fields of novels, comics, and animation. He can easily mobilize his fans in the three fields to switch to each other, making up for the limitations of the times to a certain extent.

Xia Yan's traffic and fan base are there, and he can definitely support two works.

The only difference is.

The plot of Hunter's work Hunter Examination, and the plot of Sword Art Online GGO Chapter

Can fans buy it and take out real money from their wallets to support the single volume of Xia Yan's work?

In the entire novel and comic industry, after the sales data of Hunter Hunter and Sword Art Online were released this week, everyone has only one thought left for Xia Yan.

Can he do it?

Climb to the top of history, successfully kill the gods of the two masterpieces "Dragon Magician" and "Amashima War Chronicles", pull them down from the throne of history, and then ascend the throne as a new god!

Now in the Dragon Country ACG industry, except for the companies that have direct competitive interests with Xia Yan, most people are no longer jealous of Xia Yan's achievements.

Who would be jealous of such a genius?

Just like in the parallel world, would ordinary people be jealous of Messi, Ronaldo, and James?

The gap is too big, and everyone is basically looking at Xia Yan's achievements in Dragon Country with a longing mentality.

Watching how this young man who has not yet graduated from college is climbing up the ladder of the Dragon Country novel and comics field step by step.

Beizhou Comics Club and Liuli Book Club are now Xia Yan's direct partners, and the two companies are extremely active in this matter.

The person in charge of the company who directly contacts Xia Yan is very concerned about Xia Yan's well-being and his creative status. He even said that if Xia Yan has doubts about the development of the subsequent plot of the work, he can temporarily stop updating for a week or two, and must, must, think about the plot clearly before serializing.

Because whether it is Hunter x Hunter or Sword Art Online, if they are preparing to attack the first throne of Dragon Country history, the influence of their two publishing houses will hardly help.

Only the quality of the plot of the work can have a chance.

Another few days have passed.

The third episode of Code Geass: Lelouch the Rebellious was broadcast.

In this episode, it finally explained the reason why Lelouch hated the Bnitanian Empire.

When his mother was assassinated when he was a child, his father, who was the emperor, did not care and even took him and his sister Nunnally as hostages and sent them to the Empire Island as proof of the alliance between the two countries.

Then he completely ignored the life and death of Lelouch and Nunnally and launched a full-scale attack on the island country while the two were still hostages in the island country.

This operation.

Who wouldn't be chilled?

It can only mean that Lelouch's father completely treated him and Nunnally as garbage and threw them away after using them.

Then

In the third episode, Lelouch sneaked into the location of his half-brother, the third prince Clovis, and used his ability to command others to find out that the people who killed his mother were Prince Schneizel and Princess Cornelia.

He then shot his half-brother to death.

After all, they were the ones who used him and his sister Nunnally as political tools and abandoned them after use.

Then the third episode, slightly returned to Lelouch's daily school life from the tense and exciting battlefield plot.

The important female supporting role Shirley, and the red-haired girl Kallen, a classmate who had been absent from school for many years due to illness, were the most skilled and powerful chess pieces under Lelouch's command in the rebellious organization who could skillfully control the giant robot, and in Lelouch's plan to kill his brother.

The entire third episode of the animation plot is basically a foreshadowing.

Kallen was suspicious of Lelouch's voice and identity, but Lelouch responded to her and dispelled her suspicion.

Then, at the end of the third episode, Lelouch's friend, the soldier Suzaku, was used as a scapegoat by the soldiers of the Bnitanian Empire and was falsely accused of killing the third prince Clovis.

Let Suzaku take the blame for what Lelouch did.

The ratings for the third episode of Lelouch of the Rebellion were released the next day.

5.17%

After watching three episodes of this anime, the anime fans of Dragon Country finally understood what the word "rebellion" in the title of this work "Lelouch of the Rebellion" meant.

"So, it's very clear that the title of the work is chosen like this. This work is about how Lelouch overthrows the rule of the Bnitanian Empire."

"Damn, the style of this work of Lao Zei is so strong?"

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a pure fantasy animation, but the main theme is friendship. Edgewalker is mainly about love. Now the rebellious Lelouch is directly focusing on power struggles?"

"I really admire Lao Zei! What's his brain? Since his debut, has he ever had a work that is a rehash of the same quality? From the current Lelouch of Youth Journey to the current Lelouch, he really innovates in every work."

"But to be honest, don't you think this is nonsense? How can the protagonist Lelouch overthrow the Bnitanian Empire as powerful as the one in the story? Just like everyone can imagine, can a country like the Dragon Kingdom be overthrown by someone alone? That's too nonsense."

"You have to read on to know this kind of thing! Don't jump to conclusions now."

"That's right, doesn't the protagonist have the ability to control the actions of others? As for power, it is impossible to accomplish such a feat with wisdom alone, but with the help of wisdom and superpowers, it is not impossible to accomplish such a thing, right? "

"Indeed, and when watching anime, don't get too hung up on these trivial details. Just like Kallen in the third episode, she just happened to be Lelouch's classmate. How could it be so coincidental in the real world? But animation is like this, because there are such coincidences around the protagonist. So when the author artificially adds some factors such as luck and coincidence that are beneficial to the protagonist, and under the dual operation of ability and wisdom, it is not impossible to subvert a country. "

"Come on, don't discuss such boring questions, why bother so much? Anyway, if you think Lelouch is good, continue to watch it, if it's not good, don't watch it. "

"Anyway, I want to ask now, will the green-haired girl who appeared in the first episode appear again? Did she die just like that? She died inexplicably. "

"Not sure, but she should be dead, and then pass her ability to the protagonist Lelouch before she died? "

"Okay."

"However, Lelouch's animation is still improved compared to Lao Zei's previous animations. Although there are fans who complain about the logic of the plot, there are really not many people who just feel bored after watching it and give negative reviews. Compared with when the first three episodes of Magic Circle were released, everyone thought the plot was slow and dragging. The public opinion that this animation will definitely be a hit is much better. "

"That's true, although I later recalled that it was too simple for Lelouch to sneak into the third prince's residence, and that his behavior of killing his brother was too cold. But I have to say that when watching this animation, that kind of experience The senses and emotions are rising and cannot be controlled. Anyway, it is quite enjoyable to watch.”

"Haha, it's mainly because of the radio waves. Although Lelouch often has good movements and manners, he's quite good at it, but isn't that what you're watching when you watch animations? Who among animation fans doesn't have a good second level? Period? It's normal to feel a little embarrassed, but on the other hand, this is also the excellence of this work, because Lelouch's second grade reminds everyone of his own teenage years. "

"When you say that, it's true."

"I suddenly realized it. I asked why I felt embarrassed when I saw Lelouch's inexplicable poses and weird postures, but I couldn't help but look at it. When I recalled it, I did do something similar back then, haha."

"But it's only in the third episode of this animation that Lelouch's background and goals are revealed. How long do you think this animation will take? Considering that Lelouch is now poor, has no money, no one, and no skills, It seems impossible to overthrow the Bunitania Empire from scratch without seventy or eighty episodes, right?”

"So, the rumor in the animation industry that Lelouch's work is a new year is correct?"

"Who knows? But judging from the current plot of Lelouch, it is definitely not a seasonal animation. If the old thief can clearly depict the plot of Lelouch overthrowing Bunitania in one season or more than ten episodes, Then I’ll just kneel down to him.”

Throughout the day, after the third episode of Lelouch was aired, the entire animation community began to discuss the plot of the work on a large scale.

There are almost dozens of other animations that have been launched in the same quarter. You can see dozens of posts and not see a single one about them.

In terms of anime’s topical dominance this season, Lelouch, which has only been aired for three episodes, is already undoubtedly the most popular and hegemonic anime level.

Ratings are only a reflection of the popularity of the work. After the work is broadcast, the enthusiasm and number of fans' discussions on the topic of the work are the most important.

Looking at it now, fans throughout the Dragon Kingdom animation community have unanimously praised Lelouch's performance in the first three episodes.

After all, stories like Prince's Revenge are quite new in the Dragon Kingdom animation world.

The work is second to none, but it looks good enough.

Xia Yan looked away from the fans' comments on the online forum, and then looked at the various development plan documents for Lelouch's work placed on the table.

The production and development of Lelouch's animation, peripheral products, and some copyright authorizations are all going on simultaneously during the broadcast of the animation.

However, the novelization and manga adaptation of animations must also be put on the agenda.

Moreover, Lelouch's work itself is in a parallel world, and there are several theatrical versions that have to be started at the same time, and they are ready to be released simultaneously after the Lelouch animation is completed.

Although these works are basically rubbish to make money, they still need to be produced. After all, the theatrical version has a lot of content that supplements the world view of the original work, and it is impossible to completely abandon these things.

I would like Xia Yan to streamline the contents of these plot versions and price them at a lower price when they are released for sale.

Moreover, many online game companies in Dragon Kingdom are still in contact with Xia Yan, for example, they want to add some characters like Lelouch, Edgewalker, Magic Circle and so on into their games.

Xia Yan himself is not interested in adapting these works into money-making online games or mobile games. It may make money, but it is more likely to ruin his reputation.

However, Xia Yan did not refuse to organize some joint activities with some successful and mature popular games. The fans were happy, the cooperative companies were happy, and he had the money to take it. It was a win-win-win result.

April is halfway through, and after the first three episodes of Lelouch's work, the ratings have stabilized at around 5% due to Xia Yan's popularity and the quality of the work itself.

but

Lelouch is the kind of anime that gets more and more addicted the more you watch it.

Because the early plot has to expand the world view, the plot is relatively restrained and not exciting enough.

But after this.

It's different.

After all, in the first three episodes of this animation, the other soul character of this work, the heroine CC, did not even have her name revealed, and the plot did not enter the main line at all.

Xia Yan put the documents in his hand away after reading them.

Now, there is only time left for this work to gain popularity.

Although in Xia Yan's heart, Lelouch and Madoka are animations of the same level, he really doesn't want the animation industry to evaluate him in the future as if he was at his peak when he debuted.

That just didn't feel right.

In any case, he had to find a way to break the record set by Mo Yuan the year before last.