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Unconsciously, 1983 is coming to an end, and the new year is coming.

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Since I started working, my life seems to have entered fast-forward mode. The days that used to be lived by day are now even lived by month. In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

During the New Year, Yangquan Restaurant's business is always full!

This restaurant has been open for several years. From a restaurant with Internet celebrity attributes, it has gradually developed into a restaurant that is truly accepted by the majority of Hong Kong Island people.

The decoration here is exquisite, the dishes are delicious, and the price is not expensive. Over time, it has become people's first choice for dining out.

A project that was not originally intended to make money was made, and it was planned to open a branch.

However, the private room at the top of this restaurant is never open to the public, and it cannot be booked no matter how much money is spent.

Therefore, this place is usually very deserted, but today is an exception.

This private room tonight is crowded with people. Looking closely, they are all familiar people, Li Wannian, Ma Rongcheng, He Zhiwen, Niu Lao, Zheng Wen, Qiu Fulong, etc.

It can be seen that these people, in addition to being cartoonists, have one thing in common, that is, they are all Li Wannian's "Guards"!

Now Huang Yulang's "Imperial Guards" has become a joke. Not only are there no talents, but the sales of comics are completely incomparable to the two-dimensional magazine series.

On the contrary, Li Wannian's "Guards" has become a well-known cartoonist group in Hong Kong Island.

Anyone here is a famous cartoonist in Hong Kong Island.

Tonight's dinner party is definitely a gathering of heroes!

"I heard that the box office of the movie "Ulongyuan" is good?"

"It's okay, anyway, it's not a loss!"

"You are really a motorcycle!"

"Hahaha, don't mess with me, what about you? What are you going to draw next after finishing "Three Kingdoms"? "

"I talked to the teacher and got some ideas in my mind. I plan to start with Buddhism and draw a martial arts comic, um, ink painting type!"

Because they are both Taiwanese, Zheng Wen and Ao Youxiang sat together and talked about their respective situations.

Ao Youxiang became a god with the book "Ulongyuan", which not only made him one of the four diamond cartoonists in the two-dimensional magazine (except Li Wannian), but also the comics were adapted into movies, which achieved a box office of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking tenth in the Hong Kong box office list in 1983.

In contrast, Zheng Wen's situation is somewhat unknown. The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he drew did not achieve very good results. After it was completed this summer, he began to conceive a new comic.

Another diamond cartoonist is Niu Lao, who is chatting with his best friend Qiu Fulong at this time.

"Are you going to finish "Rogue Teacher" so soon?"

"Yes! I plan to draw a comic that truly belongs to me!"

Relying on Li Wannian as the original work, Niu Lao soared to the sky. The comics are not only popular in Hong Kong Island, but also going to be filmed as a TV series soon, and are also serialized in Neon's "Young Champion", with good sales.

But now considering the matter between Li Wannian and Akita Bookstore, Niu Lao naturally has to choose a side, so he decided to draw a new comic after the completion.

"Don't talk about me, what about you? I heard that the "Pokemon" series has been handed over?"

"Yes, the third part is probably handed over to Zhao Rude!"

"Then what are you going to draw?"

"The teacher bought a game company in Japan and plans to make a fighting game. He asked me to draw comics with this background!"

Li Wannian naturally couldn't go to Japan just to run a magazine.

Nowadays, Japan's game manufacturing technology is far superior to that of Hong Kong Island.

However, in 1983, during the chaotic period after the ATARI SHOCK disaster, the game industry lost its strong market leader and showed a depressed and bleak decline. Many media claimed that the short-lived electronic game entertainment market was at its end.

As a result, many famous game manufacturers began to survive the long "winter" through large-scale layoffs and salary cuts.

At this time, Li Wannian took the opportunity to find a man named Kenzo Kenmoto, recruited a large number of experts in the industry, and established a game company called "CAPCOM" together.

That's right, this company is the famous Capcom, which owns the "Street Fighter", "Mega Man", "Resident Evil", "Devil May Cry" and other series of games. It is world-famous for producing action games and is called "Action God" in the industry.

"Fighting game? Wouldn't it be better to directly adapt "Dragon Ball"? Why change the new comics?"

"I don't understand this!"

"What's the name of the new comic?"

"Street Fighter!"

"Well, the name sounds pretty bad!"

"The teacher gave it!"

"It sounds good after listening carefully!"

I have to say that Mr. Niu is very quick to give up in this regard!

The other two cartoonists with diamond contracts are Ma Rongcheng and He Zhiwen who sit next to Li Wannian.

These two are the earliest assistants around Li Wannian, and now they have achieved the highest achievements!

Ma Rongcheng's "Chinese Heroes" can be called the leader of "Second Dimension Youth Comics". It has been serialized for five years since 1978.

As for Ho Chi-man, although he has always been Li Wannian's ghostwriter, he has firmly established himself as the top girl comics writer in Hong Kong with his deep involvement in girls' comics and "Boys Over Flowers", which has now been serialized for nearly four years.

It can be said that compared to Li Wannian's other students, these two students are the ballast of the two comic magazines "Second Dimension Youth Weekly" and "Second Dimension Girls Weekly".

"Teacher, it's a pity that "Dragon Ball" ends like this!"

"Yeah! It feels too rushed. I still want to know what happens after Goku gets married!"

The two of them sat next to Li Wannian, one on the left and the other on the right, and sighed.

In early December this year, the "Dragon Ball" comic finally came to an end.

Goku defeated Tian Jingfan, Piccolo defeated Shen, and the two met in the finals.

After a wonderful battle, Goku finally defeated Piccolo with a flying headbutt, and finally became the number one in the world.

Afterwards, Goku did not choose to kill Piccolo, but saved him and took Qiqi on the Somersault Cloud to get married.

The comic ends here, leaving people feeling unsatisfied.

"Hahaha, don't worry, you will see it soon!"

"Huh? Teacher, didn't you say it's over?"

"It's finished! But what's finished is "Dragon Ball", and what I want to update later is "Dragon Ball Z". Are there any questions?"

"...No, no!"

Li Wannian's words directly silenced the two of them.

Good guy, so you always play word games here?

The two knew very well that Li Wannian did this to completely cut off the relationship between the "Dragon Ball" comic series and Akita Bookstore.

However, I have to say that this move is really damaging!

The emotions of "Dragon Ball" fans are wasted!

"By the way, let me tell you something!"

At this time, Li Wannian's voice came, and everyone stopped to talk and looked sideways at Li Wannian, waiting for his lecture.

"The new comic magazine in Neon will be released in January next year. Now, except for my three comics, the rest are comics by Neon cartoonists, so if you have new comics, you can also submit them, of course. , Everything must be based on performance, remember, it is Neon’s performance!”

"yes!"

Li Wannian's words obviously excited these students. After all, as a cartoonist, who doesn't want to go to Neon?

That not only means higher income, but also greater fame!

Otherwise, why did Mr. Niu, who debuted so late, become a Diamond Contractor with just one comic book? It’s because his comics were serialized in Neon!

"Teacher, you just mentioned three comics. Besides "Dragon Ball Z" and "Death", what other comics are there? "Li Tianyi"?"

"No, it's a comic I created specifically for Neon, about ninjas!"