A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

In fact, because Xia Yan has produced too many excellent works in the past, and everyone has high expectations for Xia Yan's works, although Gang Lian has been developing various gods since the mid-term plot, everyone has already had high expectations for Gang Lian. There are such expectations, so although the ratings of the work have been climbing all the way, and the ratings of the work have increased from 9.2 to the current 9.8, the spread of its influence is actually not bad.

In addition, the plot of Slam Dunk Mitsui Hisashi has brought too much discussion to the industry, so the rise of the steel-making plot has not received much media coverage.

However, the plot has been serialized to the middle and late stages. No matter how good Dragon Kingdom fans and news media are, they cannot ignore the popularity and influence of Gang Lian in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

And the most important thing is that there is a level gap between the work of Ganglian and other two-dimensional works on the market.

Lelouch's work is already great enough, but its world view setting is still flawed, and the plot in many places is also rather deliberate. Lelouch's performance in the plot is that he is very wise and almost demonic, not so much how smart he is. , it would be better to say that his enemies are more or less superimposed with a halo of wisdom in the plot to achieve his image.

Moreover, the depiction of politics and war in the plot of Lelouch is not very in-depth.

Steel Refining appears to be better in these aspects. Looking at the current number of episodes, the viewers of Dragon Kingdom actually don't feel how strong the protagonist's halo is superimposed on the protagonist Edward in the plot of this work.

Brother Edward is indeed a very powerful alchemist, but there are many people who are more powerful than them.

The President, Roy, Scar, the Seven Deadly Sins, and many other characters who appear in National Alchemist. In fact, fans have estimated that even Edward can't beat them in single combat.

This work is not so much about depicting the growth of the protagonist Edward brothers in alchemy as it is about depicting the world.

It is full of flesh and blood, and there are so many characters that the audience will remember vividly after watching it. The plot is not far-fetched at all, and the logic of everyone's actions will also be presented.

Moreover, in the later stage of the work, it also focuses on deepening human nature and desire.

You may not say how deeply Steel Refining touches this field on a philosophical level, but in the animation genre, the depth of Steel Refining's works is much higher than other works on the market, integrating these boring concepts into moving plots. , and then cause this group of two-dimensional people who only like cuteness and cute elements to think about life, meaning, future, world and other concepts even for just one second. This is the excellence of Steelmaking.

People who can't watch it have already given up on the show in the first ten episodes, but people who can watch it.

Seeing it now, I am completely addicted to it.

Do they enjoy watching the plots aired every week?

In fact, it's not fun at all. The plot is getting heavier and heavier, and more and more characters are dying, but it can't stop at all.

Moreover, at this point in the animation series, fans of Steel Refining finally couldn’t sit still.

"Brothers, come on, support the premiere of Steel Refining, and let Steel Refining surpass Lelouch!"

"We're not far off from breaking Lelouch's record in Steelmaking. Don't relax, everyone!"

"The old thief really, I really cried to death. Where is the limit of his potential? Before the broadcast of Steel, I thought that the old thief had also fallen and created a toilet paper anime about swords and magic in another world, but it turned out that everyone Seeing it, I never thought that this kind of animation could be portrayed with such flesh and blood.”

"Now that half of the Seven Deadly Sins characters are dead, it will soon progress to the stage where the father of the android group will appear, right? It feels like this animation has also entered the later stages of the plot."

"Looking at the information on the official website of Lao Zei, it seems that Steel Refining has a plot length of sixty or seventy episodes, right? It has been airing for almost a year now, and it has already aired to fifty episodes. It is normal for it to be completed."

"To be honest, I actually hope that Steel Refining will be completed as soon as possible. As we all know, there are no god-like works in long-form works! As long as the number of episodes in the early works is too long, it is inevitable that they will all be unfinished. I have been watching animation for 20 years , without exception, on the contrary, for those medium-length animations that are limited to less than a hundred episodes, fans are often very satisfied after the completion.

"The old thief should be able to break this example!"

"It's hard to say. I'm very panicked. I'm afraid that the old thief will mess with the plot later and cause the quality of steelmaking to decrease."

"That's it for Steelmaking anyway. It should be aired for a few more months before it ends. But at this rate, Slam Dunk will probably have to air for at least one or two hundred episodes."

"One or two hundred episodes, is that an exaggeration?"

"It's such an exaggeration. Slam Dunk has aired for almost 40 episodes now, and we are still playing against Xiangyang. After playing Xiangyang, we will probably have to play against Lingnan and Hainan. If we enter the national competition, we will probably still play. It takes three to five rounds to reach the finals, and the finals take another twenty or thirty episodes. I can only say that it is easy to reach two hundred episodes. "

"The works created by the old thief now are so long! I feel a little uncomfortable. In the past, there were several new works a year, but now one new work has been serialized for several years."

"Isn't this bad?"

"Of course it's good, but rather than watching two hundred episodes of Slam Dunk, I'd rather watch fifteen or sixteen short animations like Magic Circle and Cyberpunk!"

"Fifteen or six magic circles. Ah, this?"

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"I'm speechless."

"You are so fanciful!"

"If the old thief can create another dozen or so Magic Circle-level animations, then he probably won't be human anymore. Don't be too outrageous."

"I just want to see Gang Lian quickly break Lelouch's score before the end. I don't want the other party to use the ratings results when quarreling with Lelouch fans in the future."

"Steel Refining suffers here. The plot is a bit heavy, and it is not as popular as Lelouch's routines."

"Actually, I think Lelouch is better-looking, right? I don't know why so many people say that Steel Refining is better than Lelouch. As for Lelouch's ending, what more can be said? It's all done with the word "God".

"How do you know that the ending of Steel Refining will not be more awesome than Lelouch? Maybe the old thief has made a breakthrough in Steel Refining?"

"Okay, stop arguing. Recently, there have been more and more discussions about Steelmaking and Lelouch of the Magic Circle, which work is better. What's the point of arguing? Aren't they all works by the same author?"

"It is estimated that by next year, the discussion on the forum will be whether Slam Dunk is the best animation in the history of Dragon Kingdom."

"I hope this happens every year. It means that the old thief is still challenging himself to surpass himself every year. He is only 23. I don't want him to reach the peak and then settle down."

At the end of the year, in the animation industry, fans of Gang Lian and Xia Yan's previous works had begun to have some friction.

Although they are all fans of Xia Yan, they are also divided into factions internally, which Xia Yan cannot control.

The same situation also occurs in Sword Art Online and Hunter.

Sword Art Online has been compared to those god-level light novels from Dragon Kingdom in history.

As for Hunter, although the results are better than Initial D, many Initial D fans are not convinced.

And the Hunter serialization has been long enough. Now that the brigade chapter is over, we are starting to prepare to enter the Greed Island chapter.

This work has been serialized to this day, and even the fans themselves have begun to argue.

Who is stronger, Chrollo or Hisoka?

How strong are the other members of the Phantom Troupe in the Hunter World?

Who is more powerful, Grandpa Killua or the President of the Hunter Association?

Xiaojie's father Jin's real combat power can kill Nitro, the president of the Hammer Hunter Association.

When Kurapika's telekinesis ability is used on ordinary people, what level of strength does it belong to?

Long-form works often have similar discussions.

There are endless debates about the character's combat power.

In the parallel world, these discussions are overwhelming on the Internet, and the same is true in Dragon Kingdom.

The influence of these long-form works spread rapidly under such circumstances.

Xia Yan is no longer very active in front of fans and the media, but he will still pay attention to the development trend of his works.

Although he is moving, it is not a transportation without any changes. In the works of the island country, many local customs and habits, such as the Japanese-style shrines that will appear in it, will definitely replace Jackie Chan's country-style heaven, earth, king, prince, and other specifications.

Some concepts of ghosts and ghosts being reborn as Buddhas will also be replaced.

In addition, the custom jokes in the work that are unique to the island country will be directly changed to the Dragon Kingdom version, and the side plots that are not the main line should be axed if the Dragon Kingdom audience finds them boring.

If all the elements in the work are completely copied, there will definitely be various problems. However, there are no complaints from fans about the several works that have been serialized so far, which shows that the audience in Dragon Kingdom is generally quite adaptable to the plot.

This made Xia Yan feel at ease. What he was most worried about was that the Dragon Kingdom audience would not be able to accept something like a national competition in slam dunk.

After all, there is no such thing in the Dragon Kingdom. A larger city in the Dragon Kingdom is larger than the island country, so something like a national competition is simply impossible.

As for the works being serialized up to now, their popularity has basically stabilized.

The arguments among fans are just like the two-dimensional people in the parallel world arguing about who is more powerful in the sea of ​​​​death and fire, and the argument cannot come to a conclusion. After all, the two-dimensional works have reached a slam dunk level, and not all of them are as high as Hunter. Rely on ratings and sales to measure who has greater influence.

Just like in the parallel world, the average sales volume of Demon Slayer comics is much higher than that of Dragon Ball and One Piece, but are Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball One Piece works of the same level of influence? Even hunters may not be able to compare.

Xia Yan's several works have been serialized for a little longer now, and they are actually a bit like the original competition pattern of the Dead Fire Sea in the parallel world.

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As the work grows, fans will stabilize and form a group, then compete with each other, quarrel, communicate, form a specific circle, and then eventually leave the circle.

Of course, it is just a prototype now, and Xia Yan himself knows that the several works he is currently serializing are actually not particularly long in length. They will only be completed in two or three years, so it is difficult to form a parallel world like Dragon Ball in the Sea of ​​Death and Fire. Such a stable and huge fan circle.

Regardless of the purpose, it basically ends up leaning on this.

If a world-class big IP is to be formed, one or two years of serialization time is definitely not enough. Big IPs in parallel worlds such as Sea of ​​Fire, Pokémon, Marvel, and Disney all span ten or twenty years, or even It took nearly a century to finally take shape.

Xia Yan also wants to bring all these works to the world soon, and then quickly spread these IPs in the Dragon Kingdom and even overseas. However, this will take time to incubate and brew.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan had a wry smile on his face

"Time!" Xia Yan said to himself after shaking his head.

"I'm afraid I have to wait at least until I'm thirty before I have the opportunity to see these IPs shine in the Dragon Kingdom plane."

Patience is the most important thing.

It took Xia Yan seven years from the age of sixteen to twenty-three to become number one in the Dragon Kingdom.

If you want to go from Dragon Country to World Number One, it will take another seven years, and you may not be able to achieve it until you are thirty years old.

Moreover, the incubation of these big IPs is the most valuable thing in Xia Yan's career as a creator.

Xia Tian Animation has been established for so many years, and Xia Yan has produced so many works. The copyright value and income added together are not as good as the fraction of the fraction of the Pokémon in the parallel world.

After all, it is the only work in the parallel world whose cumulative sales of peripheral products have exceeded 100 billion US dollars. The Marvel series is already popular in the parallel world, but the total sales revenue of the Marvel series plus peripheral products and movies is not even half of that of Pokémon.

From the perspective of commercial value alone, Xia Yan must also pay these patience and spend a lot of money every year to operate them.

"But it feels a little boring!"

Since he reached the top in Dragon Country, he has felt less and less fun in this industry.

In the past, there was a goal, a competitor, and a company.

Now, all of these have disappeared.

No creator in Longguo would challenge him now, and not only now, but in the future, when Xia Yan continues to grow, it will be even harder to find such a person.

The kind of honor, reputation and status that others may have to accumulate in the industry for a lifetime, Xia Yan has it right after graduating from university.

After adjusting his collar, Xia Yan let out a long breath.

He also knew that it must be very ungrateful to have such an idea, but even those who play games with cheats would hope to have some challenging existence instead of all fighting miscellaneous soldiers. Unfortunately, in the two-dimensional world, in front of Xia Yan now, no one can deserve the word "challenge".

Thinking of this, Xia Yan did feel a little weird. When you can only use breaking your past achievements as proof that you are still making progress, then this industry is indeed less fun for this person.

Moving away from the fans' debate posts on his own works on the computer, Xia Yan looked at his subordinates' plans.

About the budget plan for the promotion of the animation and game of Pokemon to be broadcast next year

It is said that the company's screenwriter department has recruited a very promising person. His subordinates are very excited about the planning of his new project. They hope that Xia Yan can allocate funds to support it.

Xia Yan looked at the content of the submitted planning plan and the script, and unconsciously, he was fascinated by it. A hint of interest flashed in his eyes. Xia Yan thought about it and signed the plan.

Although Fullmetal Alchemist is still being broadcast, the production of the animation is coming to an end. Before the end, there must be a big wave of publicity. The funding for these contents has been approved.

The contract with the peripheral partner of Slam Dunk is signed.

The sales of the first volume of the animation BD of Tengen Toppa.

The report on the record-breaking sales of the fourth volume of the animation BD of Fullmetal Alchemist on the first day.

If Xia Yan wants, he can leave these things to his subordinates, but in that case, he will be more like a capital party, paying managers to run the company, rather than the helmsman of the company's development direction.

So the necessary time spent on it every day cannot be omitted.

After reading these things and signing my name, it was afternoon.

In December, the temperature in Shanghai dropped sharply, and fine snowflakes floated in the sky again.

Looking out through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, Xia Yan felt a little melancholy.

He knew that the end of the year was coming, and another year was about to end.

In December, the game between Slam Dunk Master Xiangbei and Xiangyang was still in full swing. The first half of this game lasted for almost a month and it was not finished. I wonder how long the second half will take?

Slam Dunk fans are in pain and happiness. On the one hand, they are amazed at the portrayal of the characters in the animation and the details of the game.

On the other hand, they feel that it is painful to chase a game for two months and not finish it.

As for the animation Tengen Toppa, the protagonist has fought from the blue planet to the moon, and then to the solar system, and even the protagonist's mecha has become as big as the Milky Way. I thought that Tengen Toppa and Lelouch were fans of the same type of animation. At this time, while calling Xia Yan a liar, I was also moved by Simon's spiral spirit and passion in the story.

The line "My drill can break through the sky!" once became a representative of passion on the Internet.

As for Bakemonogatari, the ratings have been hovering in the 5% range, but this work has quickly attracted the joy of a large number of cute otaku fans in Dragon Country.

After all, not all fans of the second dimension like passionate and deep animations such as Fullmetal Alchemist Slam Dunk. Many people just like harem, cute, and beautiful girl elements. The more brainless, the better.

The shaping and ambiguous relationship between the protagonist and the heroine, and the female supporting roles in this work opened the eyes of these fans, and the popularity of the work has grown the fastest.

At various comic exhibitions, cosplayers of Bakemonogatari characters are now springing up.

The plot of Hunter x Hunter has officially progressed to the Greed Island chapter, and Xia Yan expects it to take a whole year to serialize this chapter.

After this chapter is over, it will enter the Ant Chapter, which is the top, most legendary, and most favorite of all Hunter works.

According to the current progress, Xia Yan hopes to serialize the Ant Chapter comics in three and a half years.

As for Sword Art Online, Xia Yan has decided to put this work on hiatus after the UW chapter is finished.

Because the memory of Sword Art Online in Xia Yan's mind is incomplete, at least the plot of Sword Art Online after the UW chapter is not fully presented, so Xia Yan can only suspend its serialization.

But no matter what, it has to be serialized for another year.

Therefore, Xia Yan will not make any big moves for the next whole year.

Only at the end of December, the animated film scripts for the three works were submitted to the company's employees.

They are Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" in the parallel world, Satoshi Kon's "Millennium Actress", and Makoto Shinkai's "Suzume Hutei".

Xia Yan is just trying his hand at the original animated film market.

Howl's Moving Castle is a classic animated film from a parallel world, and Xia Yan himself likes it very much. Although there are many classic works by Hayao Miyazaki, Xia Yan started to animate this film first.

As for Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress.

It is a work that made Xia Yan feel uncomfortable for a long time after watching it. It is the same kind of work like Grave of the Fireflies. You know it is excellent, but you just don’t want to watch the second one after watching it. However, it is definitely qualified. Appears in Xia Yan's animated film production plan together with Moving Castle.

As for Suzume Toto, to be honest, there is a gap between it and the first two animated movies, but Xia Yan chose it because he was unhappy with some details when watching the original animated movie, but he understood it after reading the spin-off novel. The reason why many animated movie plots are treated that way.

To put it bluntly, in order to compete for theater schedules, many movies will compress their release time.

If a movie is three hours long, it would be good if a theater can line up five shows in one theater a day. But if a movie is only one and a half hours, the theater can line up ten shows a day, attracting more moviegoers, but the movie ticket price is high. Same thing, are you a theater owner? Which work do you like?

Naturally, in order to gain advantages in this aspect, many movies have greatly compressed the duration of the released movies, resulting in ambiguity in the key information of the plot. In the end, after watching the movie, the audience felt that the plot connection was stiff and gave negative reviews.

Suzuya's Journey is Xia Yan's animated work in the Dragon Kingdom based on his hobby. If it's popular, it's good. If it's not, it doesn't hurt.

The day after Xia Yan downloaded the three animated movie scripts, after December ended, the New Year came.

On the third day of New Year's Day, the middle-level backbones of the company's animation production department began studying the new script given by Xia Yan at home.

They are all preparing to divide the cake and compete for the position of project producer of Xia Yan's new work.

Xia Yan also spent a long time in his villa at home, gathering with his girlfriend Tang Yin, Song Lingjun and Mo Ran, two friends.

After all, the three of them tacitly turned down their work during the New Year's Day period.