A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

During the Spring Festival, the topic of Howl's Moving Castle filled the film and the two-dimensional circles.

More than a dozen movies were released during this Spring Festival, and the works of the best actor and best actress, and national treasure-level directors competed together, but Howl's Moving Castle, which was released for five days and had a total box office of 1.1 billion, has always maintained the second place in the National Day box office, and is only less than 200 million away from the top-ranked movie.

In the Dragon Kingdom plane, the purchasing power of the Dragon Kingdom currency is still quite valuable, and most movie tickets are in the 10-20 price range. To be honest, this box office data is very explosive.

People from all walks of life in the entire Dragon Kingdom know how terrifying Xia Yan's influence is now, but his work has achieved this result for the first time in the Spring Festival, which still makes many film industry practitioners and many media feel uncomfortable.

This is not making money, but picking up money. Envy and jealousy, but can't hate, the gap is too big, so I can only sigh.

How many directors and best actors can't get the box office results in their lifetime, but Xia Yan easily achieved it with an animation with an investment of more than 100 million.

As for the fan group, everyone was dissatisfied with the fact that Howl's Moving Castle ranked second with a total box office difference of 200 million in the first five days of the Spring Festival.

When has Xia Yan ever been the second?

"Let's go, let's go and support Lao Zei's new animated film."

"But I heard from others that his new animated film is not easy to understand. It is not like his previous animated works."

"Isn't this normal? Lao Zei also needs to grow up! I feel that the plot of Howl's Moving Castle is much more interesting than his previous animated film Going to the Moon. It's just that I can't accept that the heroine becomes an old woman. It doesn't seem so beautiful, but the final ending is still very touching."

"Don't be so picky. If you all think there is something wrong with Howl's Moving Castle, then I really don't know what work can satisfy you."

"Do I think the relationship between the heroine and the hero is beautiful? I really like the hero who looks gorgeous but is a little cowardly inside!"

"Yes, and did you notice that although the heroine was cursed to age, as long as she faced her heart and was brave, her appearance would return to her youthful appearance. On the contrary, if she complained about herself, she would immediately look old. This metaphor is great."

"It's just that the plot is a little rushed. I always feel that it would be better if the plot was longer."

"There's no way. If a movie is too long, the cinema will not give it too much time. You are the owner of a cinema. A one-and-a-half-hour movie and Which one would you support for a three-hour movie? The former can only be shown eight times in a full 24-hour day, while the latter can be shown sixteen times, but the movie tickets are almost the same price. I can only say that Lao Zei wants to express a lot of things, but he can only do so much due to time constraints, but this movie is definitely excellent and will not be criticized by those haters. "

"I think these people are mainly because they have watched too many works of Lao Zei and their tastes have become picky."

"I have watched it three times. I didn't feel much when I watched this animated movie for the first time, but I was deeply moved when I watched it for the second and third times."

"It's a pity that Lao Zei's animated movies are only one or two He only releases one movie every year. In fact, I really think that his TV animation is fun with some connotations, but his animated movies are full of metaphors and connotations, and the level of his works is extremely high. "

"Not entirely, just like Lelouch of the Gate, Madoka Magica, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Slam Dunk, which are the best TV animation works of Lao Zei, although the results are similar, who dares to say that Fullmetal Alchemist is not of high level? The ratings of these works may be similar, but the intention of the works is far superior to that of Fullmetal Alchemist. "

"I am just talking about a general phenomenon, don't use Fullmetal Alchemist as an example!"

Under the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival, there is an even more lively two-dimensional forum.

The Sword Art Online UW chapter is about to end, the story of the Fate series of novels unfolds, the god-level plot of Song Lingjun's new novel develops, and the chapters of Naruto and One Piece comics are getting better and better.

The entire two-dimensional industry has been in decline in recent years, and industry personnel have all been unanimous in their praise of it. However, it is precisely relying on Xia Yan's works to drive the market from the top. In fact, the sales of various publishing houses and magazines have increased compared with previous years.

Even companies such as Xingkong Novels, Qingze Bookstore, Squirrel Comics, and the top three animation companies in Longguo, which have worked hard under the impact of Xia Yan's works for many years, have to admit Xia Yan's contribution to the industry.

Perhaps Xia Yan has eaten the largest piece of the market cake, but in fact, it is because of his existence that this industry has become more popular than before, and the cake is bigger.

The seven-day Spring Festival movie schedule has passed in a flash.

Howl's Moving Castle has a total box office of 1.44 billion in seven days, which is still 100 million lower than the box office of the blockbuster movie with three movie emperors and two movie queens and an investment of 300 million.

But

This is not important.

Xia Yan did not think that the cultural industry of Longguo would be so weak. Howl's Moving Castle would be so popular in the market. He was already very satisfied with the result of taking the second place in this spring season.

Anyway, it will take a long time. In May, the animated film Millennium Actress will also be released. Then in July, during the summer season, Suzuya Toku will also be released.

Howl's Moving Castle is just a test. Since the effect is good, Xia Yan is also ready to release works such as Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, Your Name, and 5 Centimeters per Second one by one during the Spring Festival season in the next few years.

Xia Yan looked away from the report in his hand. Of course, Howl's Moving Castle has only been released for more than a week, and there is still a month to impact the box office.

If the total box office develops normally, it will be around 2 billion. If the performance is a little worse, it will be 1.8 or 1.9 billion. If it is better, it will not exceed 2.1 billion at most.

With this performance, the box office share is more than 600 million. It is completely possible to make a small profit of 200 to 300 million after adding the 100 million production cost of this animated film and the 150 million publicity and promotion. In addition, the biggest advantage of animated films over live-action films is that they can sell peripheral products in the later stage, which is also a considerable income.

Only half a month after the Spring Festival, Xia Yan's company can expect to earn several hundred million. This ability to make money is very high even with so many listed private companies in Shanghai.

What's more, Xia Tang Animation is a typical light asset company with a small number of employees. The total number of employees in animation, TV series, movies, games and other departments has just exceeded 1,000.

These information are combined, and the media has also made various reports on this aspect in recent days.

As one of the giants in the current animation industry, the revenue capacity of Xia Yan and Xia Tang Animation has also been paid attention to by the market. Everyone in the industry in Longguo knows that Xia Yan is now very rich and has tens of billions of funds in his hands. It is just unclear where he will develop next and how far Xia Yan will eventually develop.

With a sigh, Xia Yan put down the report in his hand and began to study another document submitted by his subordinates.

About the company's development plan for the next ten years.

However, Xia Yan just took a look at it and put it aside. It can only be said that the imagination of his subordinates is still relatively scarce. They just think that the company can achieve three times the current revenue in ten years.

But Xia Yan's goal is definitely not just this. The serialization of comic works such as One Piece and Naruto has begun to get on track. After a few months of serialization, Xia Yan will start to let Xia Tang Animation start to produce animations of One Piece and Naruto in accordance with the contract with Beizhou Comics.

Moreover, after the animation of One Piece and Naruto is broadcast for a year and the popularity in the market is stable, the company will also develop and launch mobile games and console games related to the two works, and other peripherals, novels, and animation adaptations will naturally not fall behind.

If the two-dimensional IP is to be realized and make money, it must be closer to the direction of games. Game guys spend thousands of game coins without blinking an eye, but they are all disgusted when asked to spend ten yuan to open a video membership to watch genuine animations. If they can borrow an account, they will borrow an account. The gap is quite large.

In addition, there is the incubation of the big IP of Pokemon. After the first generation of Pokemon games were launched, the global sales volume was several million copies, and the results were actually quite good. The animation and the second part of the Pokemon game are also being produced.

And after one or two years of publicity, its influence among the primary and secondary school students in Dragon Country has spread.

This can be seen from the fact that the ratings of the Pokemon animation have risen from the previous 4% level to the current 5%. ♦♦  ♞♦

If everything goes well, in seven or eight years, or ten years, the annual revenue of Pokémon alone may be several times the current company revenue.

Up to now, Xia Yan's influence on the big ship of Xia Tang Animation will continue to weaken. When the IPs of these works are hatched, Xia Yan will not need to arrange work. At that time, the market will automatically match and adjust their product positioning. At that time, Xia Yan will basically sit at home and make money.

Moreover, if you want to make IPs like Pokémon have the same influence as the parallel world, you must cooperate with various game channel vendors and producers at home and abroad, and share some profits to make cakes, otherwise you will only be boycotted by others. In this process, part of the right to speak for the works must also be shared, so Xia Yan can basically imagine the future development trend of these works.

"Think about it carefully. Although this is enviable, it is also quite boring." Xia Yan let out a long breath.

"Every time I come in, I see your expression. Is the work pressure so great?" At this time, Tang Yin directly pushed open the door of Xia Yan's office.

In the entire company, only Tang Yin dared to come in without knocking. Xia Yan smiled when he saw his wife coming.

"You came so quickly."

"Of course I did. I was bored after being abroad for half a month. I couldn't get used to the food there." Tang Yin closed the door and pulled a chair to sit next to Xia Yan, flipping through the various documents on Xia Yan's desk.

"You are so pitiful. These things occupy all your time now. If it were me, I would have found a professional agent to take over the operation of the company long ago." Tang Yin chuckled, with a teasing look on her pretty face.

"If possible, I would like to, but it's a pity that the professional managers of these companies in Longguo don't know much about my works, and it's impossible for them to understand their value. I can only do it myself."

The two have been married for so long, but basically one company chairman sits in Shanghai to handle the company's internal affairs, and the other company vice chairman negotiates the company's business cooperation outside. Meeting like this really has a bit of the meaning of a newlywed couple.

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"You are really a model worker in the industry." Tang Yin sighed in admiration.

If the chairman of Xia Tang Animation was not her husband, with her current assets, she would have been lying down long ago. What else would she be working on? She spent a day traveling abroad to enjoy the benefits. Although she was not tired from work, she spent the whole day listening to those who wanted to cooperate with Xia Tang Animation. The company staff flattered her, but after listening to it for a long time, she felt tired. However, Xia Yan's current success and fame was considered a legend in the industry, and she still worked like this, regardless of her creative talent. This professionalism really made her feel horrible.

"It's okay, you just get used to it." Xia Yan chuckled and did not discuss this issue further.

"But that's it. The amount of time and energy I put into my work can only be as high as this. At most, I can only work on scripts for a few animated movies. Then I will produce one or two movies a year and a new feature. That's it for the time being. I don't have the energy anymore," Xia Yan said, leaning on the chair.

Tang Yin was full of disbelief when he heard this. Xia Yan had said the same thing before, but after a period of silence, several new works came out, so that now almost no one in the industry talks about Xia Yan's exhaustion of creative talents. Related topics.

Everyone seems to have acquiesced in Xia Yan's endless creative inspiration. The reason why he can only serialize these five or six works at the same time is not that he can't come up with more, but because he is only a human being and only has twenty-four works a day. Just hours of work.

The two of them only talked about work casually, and then focused more on life.

For example, let Xia Yan and her go meet her father tomorrow. After all, Tang Yin's father is very concerned about the two getting married and having children.

Soon, the consumption boom triggered by the Spring Festival ended, and Howl's Moving Castle's total box office reached another two billion and ten million, becoming the fourth highest-grossing movie in Dragon Kingdom in the past five years.

As for the Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional industry, the hot topic is once again occupied by three works such as Fate, Naruto, and One Piece.

Naruto's manga was serialized in Haku, and Zabuza appeared in two tragic characters. In One Piece, Zoro's childhood memories, and the plot of the manga about wanting to become the world's greatest swordsman also brought tears to the eyes of countless manga fans in the Dragon Kingdom. , at the same time, Hunter's comics were also serialized into the Ant King chapter.

The three masterpieces of Beizhou Comics are Hunter, Pirates, and Naruto. The popularity rankings of the three works are changing every week. It can only be said that countless cartoonists in Dragon Kingdom have never imagined that a work that can beat Hunter in the comics industry , Xia Yan actually had to create it himself. This situation of Xia Yan himself and his own works competing with each other is funny, funny, but sad.

Many senior cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom feel very sad. If Xia Yan has enough energy and produces a few more works, will the entire cartoon market have no room for their works to survive?

Cartoonists of the previous era all had similar ideas, but at the same time.

On the campus of Longguo, countless children who have great interest in light novels, animations, comics, games and other works have a seed sprouting in their hearts.

As for fate

Because Xia Yan started serializing the novel in chronological order from the zero plot, the plot was a little slow in the early stages. However, after Artoria appeared on the stage, the popularity of the novel also reached the peak in Liuli Publishing House.

As for Sword Art Online, it occupied the popularity throne of Liuli Publishing House for three years, but also lost to Fate Zero at the end of its serialization.

In the two-dimensional industry, the replacement of old and new happens quietly. However, the crown of the work changes, but the creator behind it is always the same person.

The oppressive feeling that the entire industry, no matter what hit works, has his shadow behind it, really puts Xia Yan's colleagues under great pressure.

Perhaps the only one who is not affected is Song Lingjun, who is doing creative work with his head covered.

In the villa where Xia Yan, she and Mo Ran lived, Song Lingjun put down the pen in her hand and looked at the snow that was beginning to melt outside the house.

She walked out of the house and came outdoors. She covered her mouth with her hands and breathed out. White mist hung between her mouth and nose.

"Xiaoyun, why are you standing outside in the cold? Are you not afraid of catching a cold?"

Mo Ran, who was painting hunters with his head covered on the second floor, also opened the window and asked with a smile.

The two girls' hair was fluttering in the cold wind, and they looked at each other. This scene was really eye-catching with the snowy weather.

"It's nothing, I just read the latest chapter of Xia Yan's Fate Zero novel and was inspired by it."

"How do you feel? You, stop thinking about unrealistic things and just create the works you like honestly. You are always competing with that pervert Xia Yan. How can you compete?" Mo Ran He said again seriously.

"In the entire Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional world, in the three major fields of novels, animation, and animation, everyone basically agrees that Xia Yan is number one, and everyone is competing for the second throne. You are the only one who always wants to play with Bo Da."

"People, after all, need to have dreams. Sword Art Online has been serialized for so many years, and the popularity it has accumulated is too strong. It is indeed difficult for me to surpass Sword, but Xia Yan's fate." Song Lingjun paused here.

"What's wrong with fate?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

"I think there may be no chance that my new novel will compete with Fate." Song Lingjun said with a smile, her fair and delicate face full of seriousness.

"You mean, the quality of Xia Yan's novel, which has just been serialized for a month, is actually much worse than Sword? So you have this kind of confidence?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

In fact, she was also curious about when Xia Yan would lose.

It is almost impossible for the creators of the Dragon Kingdom to surpass Xia Yan in historical status. However, in the competition with Xia Yan at a certain period, Mo Ran was quite grateful to see who could suppress Xia Yan. Interested.

"No, the level of Xia Yan's novel has not dropped at all. I even think it is more attractive to me than swords." Song Lingjun paused and then sneezed.

"This weather is really bad. I can't bear it after just a few minutes." Song Lingjun wrinkled her nose, which was red from the cold, and whispered, preparing to enter the house.

"Hey, you only spoke half of what you said?" Mo Ran, who was talking to Song Lingjun in front of the second floor window, became anxious.

"I mean Xia Yan's strength has not declined, it has even increased." Song Lingjun raised his head and looked at Mo Ran with a smile.

"My progress is greater than Xia Yan's. I don't think my new novel will be completely crushed by Xia Yan's novel like before."

"At least. At least once during the serialization period, it will surpass Fate Zero and reach the top of Liuli in the internal popularity vote statistics."

Song Lingjun's tone was full of confidence.

Xia Yan, who was in another villa less than three kilometers away from the villa where the two of them were staying, had not realized at this moment that the girl who had followed in his footsteps since high school had completely gotten rid of the invasion of love emotions after he got married. What impact will it have on the industry?

Just as Xia Yan predicted, without that world, the cultural level of the plane will remain low. As he comes up with more and more parallel world works, the creators of Dragon Kingdom will also learn to absorb the excellence in them. , and then create higher-level works.

This is inevitable.

However, this time will be slightly longer.

Xia Yan predicts that in the next ten or twenty years, some geniuses like Oda and Akira Toriyama will emerge among the current group of young people in Dragon Kingdom who have not yet grown up.

But, in fact, the genius has always been by his side.

After ten years of pursuit, at least at this time, Song Lingjun, after reading a light novel of the level of Fate, will no longer have a sense of hopeless disparity in his heart, but will feel...

As long as she works harder and works harder, she can write novels of the same level.

Today is Xia Yan's era, but equally, in this era he dominates.

In various places in the Dragon Kingdom, in the fields of novels, animations and comics

Geniuses like Song Lingjun also unanimously set their sights on Xia Yan.

Xia Yan may be their dream, but he is also the goal they want to surpass.

Perhaps the greatest contribution Xia Yan has made to the two-dimensional industry in the Dragon Kingdom over the years is that he has become an industry benchmark, lighting up the night sky in the fog.

The Spring Festival is over very quickly, and another two months have passed by in a flash.

One morning

Xia Yan was woken up by his wife Tang Yin's scream.

"What's wrong?" Xia Yan stood up from the bed.

He looked at Tang Yin, whose naked back was as smooth as gel, her head lowered and her back turned to him.

"That." Tang Yin turned to look at Xia Yan, her eyes hesitated for a while, and she held a small stick-like object in her hand.

"It seems that our efforts in the past month have paid off. I should be pregnant."

Xia Yan blinked.

People are slightly dizzy.

Xia Yan must have done it intentionally for this to happen, but when it happened...

People will definitely still get dizzy.

It was only after being persuaded and educated by Tang Yin's father two months ago that Xia Yan and Tang Yin decided to have a child.

"Boy or girl?" Xia Yan asked.

"How do I know? How long has it been now? Is it good to be able to detect pregnancy? Is it a boy or a girl?" Tang Yin rolled her eyes at Xia Yan.

"This is really a big event." Xia Yan took a deep breath and thought about future plans.

The next day, Xia Tang Animation issued an internal announcement that deputy director Tang Yin had suspended work due to physical problems.

As for her job, a temporary team was set up within the company to take her place.

And Tang Yin also started to stay at home and take care of her health.

As for Xia Yan, let him do whatever he wants, work from home, avoid all publicity activities, and concentrate on being with Tang Yin at home.

At this time, Xia Tang animation, as well as comics, novels, and games were related to the industry chain. Although Xia Yan temporarily put some work on hold, inertia still allowed them to continue in an orderly manner.

Millennium Actress' movie promotion, the production decision of the final season of Sword Art Online animation, One Piece Naruto's animation plan, Pokémon's unprecedented initial investment plan of 1.2 billion dragon national currency that shocked the global game industry

At this time, Xia Yan was only twenty-five years old.