A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

In mid-September, the successful completion of the first season of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion basically announced the end of the animation market this quarter.

From the beginning to the end of the autumn market, there was basically only one work in the animation field, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion.

At this point, there was basically no one in the animation industry who questioned this work.

You can say that its plot has loopholes, it cannot stand scrutiny, or the protagonist and the enemy are too stupid, but its popularity is really here.

After the broadcast of the first season of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Xia Yan's Xia Tang Animation Production Company has begun to prepare for the release of the BD of this animation.

Of course, the first season of the animation is divided into ten volumes for sale, and as for the release date.

Xia Yan's first and second volumes are also scheduled to be released in the first week of October.

In fact, with the peripheral manufacturers that Xia Yan's company is cooperating with, this animation has been serialized for such a long time, and Xia Yan is fully capable of selling all ten volumes of BD at the same time.

It's just that considering that fans may not be able to afford so many peripheral products at the same time, but the purchase price, it will be operated slowly and steadily.

In the last year of his college life, Xia Yan also experienced the most relaxing time in his college life.

For graduation design and other topics, the subject direction just happened to be related to the novel field that Xia Yan was familiar with, and Xia Yan didn't need to spend too much time researching many things.

Anyway, there was more than half a year to produce, so he was not in a hurry, and the relationship between the tutor and Xia Yan was relatively harmonious.

This was also normal. Xia Yan was not an ordinary student. As the leading cartoonist and light novel writer in Longguo, and the chairman of Xia Tang Animation Production Company, which is now in the top ten in the animation industry in Longguo, he himself was worth billions.

Although Xia Yan was not as hard-working as other students in his studies due to work reasons, his college tutor had no problem with his head and would not embarrass Xia Yan on graduation.

Animation, comics, novels, and studies, everything was going on in an orderly manner.

At this moment, when Xia Yan was about to graduate, he was much more relaxed and happy than in previous years.

Sword Art Online and Hunter x Hunter will probably be serialized for at least several years, so he doesn't have to worry about the development of these two fields.

As for the animation field

Xia Yan can only say that he is tired. Besides, it is impossible for all the hundreds of people in the company to rely on his works to support them.

In fact, in addition to Lelouch, the company now has two or three original animation production teams working hard.

Xia Yan still has many excellent works in his mind.

However, serializing a work in the fields of animation, comics, and light novels at the same time is already Xia Yan's limit, and he can't increase his workload. )

At the meeting this morning, it was also clearly stated to the company's middle and senior management that after the completion of Lelouch, the work will take a temporary break for a while, and the company employees are expected to think about the subsequent development direction by themselves.

"So, are you going to change directly from a creator to an operator?"

Tang Yin sat next to Xia Yan's office chair, looked at Xia Yan's profile, and asked curiously.

"Not all of them." Xia Yan did not hide anything from his girlfriend Tang Yin except for Yuan Qing's matter.

"I can only say that serializing two works at the same time will be the limit in the future. Novels, animations, and comics are serialized alternately at the same time. Look at what kind of life I have been through this year?" Xia Yan smiled bitterly.

"I made so much money, but it all became numbers in the company's account. I didn't even participate in a comic exhibition. Although I like to contribute to the two-dimensional industry in Longguo, it's not like this."

Xia Yan hugged Tang Yin's shoulders, and his fingers were also playing with Tang Yin's hair.

"That's good." Tang Yin thought about it, and then smiled.

"Money is something that you can never make enough. In other words, with your spending power, the income from your current works in the next few decades will probably be enough for you to spend thousands of years. If you have free time at that time, just after graduating from college, we can travel around Longguo and see the world abroad."

"Travel around the world" Xia Yan showed an interested look on his face when he thought of this possibility.

"But now, you are almost at the top of the three fields of animation, comics, and novels. You just need to work harder on Hunter and Sword Art Online. In fact, in my opinion, if you really reach that level, you can just announce your retirement in the industry." Tang Yin leaned her head on Xia Yan's shoulder and looked at Xia Yan with interest.

"To prevent you from suddenly being in a bad state and being surpassed by inexplicably trusted newcomers, becoming a hype topic for others to become famous."

"Didn't some media in Longguo's two-dimensional industry conduct research before? The children and middle school students in Longguo's elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools who are interested in developing in the two-dimensional industry all target you and threaten to surpass you."

"Hehe." Xia Yan smiled when he heard it.

"What are you laughing at?" Tang Yin said.

"What about you? You seem to be quite happy when talking about this topic. Do you want to see me lose?" Xia Yan asked back.

"Of course, from the day I brought you to the novel industry, I haven't seen you lose once until now." A trace of memory flashed on Tang Yin's beautiful and delicate face.

"I'm also very interested, Dragon Country, is there anyone who can surpass you in this industry?"

"As the industry develops, Dragon Country, there must be someone who can create works that surpass Sword Art Online and Hunter. But if they want to surpass me, I think it's almost impossible." Xia Yan's tone was very confident.

"I'm just tired and don't want to create works with such high intensity. It's not that I don't have the ability to create new works. When someone new creates works that surpass my previous works, you never thought that I would also be able to create works that surpass mine. Are there any new works from previous works?" Xia Yan scratched Tang Yin's nose with his fingers, and then pinched her cheek.

"Hey, Xia Yan, you're so rude. After all, I'm more mature and older than you. You have to respect me. I always act so frivolously." Tang Yin's expression turned red and she rolled her eyes at Xia Yan.

"Haha. Then why don't you think about this when you call me brother at home?" Xia Yan said with a smile.

When Tang Yin heard this, she quickly twisted Xia Yan's waist.

"Okay, okay, I lose."

The couple fight between Xia Yan and his girlfriend ended with Xia Yan admitting defeat.

"Ah, but seriously."

"It's really beyond my imagination that I can reach this point today." Xia Yan expressed some emotion at this time.

"Back then, I just wanted to write novels and earn some royalties. I thought about making money from this, but I never thought that I would become a multi-billionaire now."

After all, Xia Yan at that time, as a high school student, did not have such a big imagination, and he also doubted whether these works from other worlds could be adapted to the Dragon Kingdom.

"Are you satisfied with just a few billion? The richest man in the Dragon Kingdom has hundreds of billions." Tang Yin also teased Xia Yan at this time.

Of course, she was either mocking Xia Yan, or she was repaying Xia Yan for teasing her just now. To Tang Yin, she was more Buddhist than Xia Yan. When she had enough money, she really had no interest in wasting time to earn more.

If it weren't for Xia Tang Animation, a company established by Xia Yan and her, she would have sold her shares to travel around the world and settle down.

"So I'm only twenty-one years old, what are you talking about? I still have seventy or eighty years to fight." Xia Yan said with a smile.

After all, in his memory, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball, and even the Marvel Universe series that Yuan Qing remembered in his recent dream that he was watching, Xia Yan had not yet taken out.

If these works are managed well and if Xia Yan fully controls the copyright, it is very likely that Xia Yan will use these works to create an entertainment business empire.

"You are so confident that you can live to be a hundred years old." Tang Yin laughed.

"Of course. You have to work hard. Otherwise, if I only get along with you for another thirty or forty years, I will die without seeing you. Isn't it a shame? I must live to be a hundred years old."

"Hey" Xia Yan's sudden greasy words made Tang Yin confused. Her face turned red again, and she looked at Xia Yan with a hint of surprise.

The two were silent for a while.

Tang Yin felt that the atmosphere was getting subtle and quickly changed the topic.

"Okay, let's get back to the topic. I came to you today to discuss with you the promotion of Lelouch BD in early October."

"Let's keep it simple. Considering Lelouch's current popularity, it doesn't mean much if I hold three or five fan meetings a week for promotion like before. The company will have to adapt in the future. Is there any company? The chairman is as busy as me, flying to three places to hold three fan meetings in one day," Xia Yan said.

"Also, for Liuli Book Club and Beizhou Comics Club, the recent work is not necessary, so I can just ask the staff to refuse it. After four years of college, I only have the last year left. I have to enjoy it, and I can't do it later. Come to think of it, I’ve been studying novels, comics, and animations.”

Xia Yan's work arrangements were decided during daily chats with Tang Yin, and Tang Yin would convey Xia Yan's ideas in the name of the company's deputy director to the entire company, Liuli Bookstore, and Beijing Cooperating companies like Zhou Comics provide maximum cooperation.

So after late September

Xia Yan's fans in Long Kingdom suddenly discovered.

Xia Yan, who had always been active in the two-dimensional market, suddenly became inactive.

For the two works Hunter Hunter and Sword Art Online, as long as the single volumes were released before, Xia Yan would go around the seven or eight first-tier cities in the Dragon Kingdom to promote them. Now,

I haven't seen any similar news.

Even for the first and second bd volumes of the upcoming Lelouch of the Rebellion animation season, Xia Yan basically only recorded a video to promote it, and there were basically no other big moves.

But it is exactly as Xia Yan said. With his popularity reaching his current level, whether he works hard to engage in these activities will have little impact on the sales of peripheral products.

The first-week sales of the latest volumes of Sword Art Online and Hunter Hunter also continue to break field records.

Moreover, Hunter Hunter comics and Sword Art Online novels have both sold well. Thanks to the completion of the first season of Lelouch of the Rebellion, a large number of animation fans can only turn their attention to Xia Yan's other works if they can't find good works.

At the end of September, the two works experienced a huge increase in single-book sales.

The total sales volume of each single volume of Sword Art Online exploded to 1,300 copies in ten days. The printing factory's machines were smoking, and they could only barely supply the huge demand for works in the market.

Because the number of volumes released as a single volume of Hunter is less than that of Sword Art Online, in the ten days at the end of September, it only increased the sales volume of the single volume by less than 7 million.

But for the two works, the sales volume of each single volume has increased by nearly one million.

This... is actually the reason why Xia Yan is so confident that Hunter and Sword Art Online can reach the top of the Dragon Kingdom.

He has been cooperating with Xia Tang Company, Liuli Publishing House, and Beizhou Comics to allow fans in his three fields to switch among each other as much as possible.

The long-term efforts are indeed very effective. Almost all 2D people can watch animation, but animation fans may not all like to read comics and novels. This time so many fans bought Xia Yan’s past novels and comic book volumes mainly for Xia Yan came from this sign.

The weeks after Lelouch Season 1 ended were the perfect trigger to light that fire.

With the addition of one million volumes, the sales volume of the single volume of the Circle Hunter comic has soared to sixth place in history.

Sword Art Online.

The average volume sales reached 26 million copies, the second highest sales volume in history.

He is still 500,000 points away from first place.

In September, Sword Art Online and Hunters ranked first and second respectively as Dragon Kingdom’s highest-selling books in a single month in September.

In addition, the two works have made respective progress in the ranking of historical achievements.

The vast majority of practitioners in the entire two-dimensional industry in Long Kingdom were quietly staring at the two works.

Half a year ago, some people still questioned Xia Yan.

Now, no one thinks that way anymore.

Even those who are jealous of Xia Yan are actually thinking about one thing at this moment.

When will Xia Yan's two works become the first in sales history and achieve the feat of reaching the top?

Can't it really be before he graduates from college?

Time flies by, and in October, Lelouch of the Rebellion’s first and second volumes of anime bd All Dragon Kingdom are released.

And this week also comes with the airing of the first episode of Lelouch of the Rebellion Season 2 .

The first episode of Lelouch Season 2 had a premiere rating of 6.45%. The three-week hiatus did not have any impact on the popularity of the work.

Because the plot is a little convoluted, the new character Lolo appears. Because Lelouch was used as bait, in order to lure CC into appearing, his father, the Emperor of the Bunitania Empire, used his geass ability to erase his memory, forgetting that he was zero. fact, put his real sister Nunnally under house arrest, implanted the false brother Lolo in Lelouch's memory, and then arranged for Lolo to monitor Lelouch's every move, hoping to find out the existence of CC. The plot begins, Let all Lelouch fans boil completely.

The ratings will naturally not be low.

But Lelouch's first, second volume bd first week sales.

It also became the second and third blockbuster in the industry this week.

The two volumes of BD, with sales figures of 690,000 and 680,000 copies in the first week respectively, are unparalleled. Together, the two works account for 70% of the hundreds of works in the animation BD market in Dragon Kingdom this week. total sales above.

It can only be said that other works were miserably suppressed by Lelouch, and almost all sales expectations plummeted.

Become cannon fodder.

As for Lelouch's outrageous first-week BD sales record, there is no suspense anymore.

If this kind of performance can be maintained in the future, then the average sales volume of bd volume will exceed the magic circle, which is a high probability event.