I just want to draw cartoons quietly

Many fans of Natsume's Book of Friends have learned that the two works launched by the two companies are similar in style to Natsume's Book of Friends. They just thought that Natsume was slower and bought two manga series with a little expectation. periodicals.

Unfortunately......

After watching it, I always feel that I have been forcibly fed poison.

Indeed, the highlight of Natsume's Book of Friends is the character design and memories of monsters, Natsume and Reiko.

But these two works are forced to be moved in order to move, and the plot is brainless. If they are really imitated, they can only be imitated by Natsume in shape, not in spirit.

In this regard, fans of Natsume's Account of Friends naturally did not hesitate to spend some effort and time to directly send bad reviews to the two companies.

After the two works were serialized in the second week, after hearing the news after a week of fermentation, fans of Natsume's Friends of Friends sent more negative comments than in the previous issue.

The two comic studios unanimously cut two comics.

After all, they created these two works to see if they could attract fans of Natsume's Account of Friends, but now, these two works have not only become jokes in the industry, but also... The disgust of fans of Natsume's account of friends.

Imitation is not a crime, the point is to imitate in three ways, and it is inevitable to be ridiculed.

The ending of the two works made many cartoonists who want to follow suit weigh themselves in advance.

Soon, December will be over.

Time to enter January.

Today's Natsume's Book of Friends has also risen to sixth in serialization in the Water Edge Journal.

By this time, the growth in popularity is not as fast as before.

This situation is due to publicity reasons, as well as reasons for comic-themed audiences.

But overall, the popularity of the work is still approaching No.5.

Chu Yu can accept this point.

After all, the works at the top of Natsume's ranking are all works that have been serialized for several years. How can it be so easy to surpass the popularity accumulated over the years?

Unless Chu Yu is not drawing Natsume, but a hot-blooded manga, it is almost the same. It is difficult to get ahead of that kind of work, but once the drawing is good, the growth rate of popularity will be absolutely rapid, far exceeding all other types of manga.

And during this time, it began to snow in Shanghai.

In Chu Yu's rented house, the air conditioner and heater are also running all day long.

Counting it, he has been in Shanghai for half a year.

It has been almost a year since the painting of Rurouni Kenshin's Memories was completed!

At this time last year, he was still serializing Rurouni Kenshin's Memories of Rurouni in Los Angeles. Now, Natsume's Book of Friends has become a well-known work in Longguo.

And the animation production about unheard of flowers has also been in full swing during these two months.

Last month, Gu Yan often chatted with Chu Yu Weixin and invited Chu Yu to go out for fun, although Chu Yu refused.

But this month, because of dubbing work and study, Gu Yan rarely sent Weixin to Chu Yu.

Although Chu Yu can't get involved in the animation, it doesn't mean that Chu Yu is indifferent to unheard flower names.

In one month's time, the unnamed animation will be broadcast, and Chu Yuke has great expectations for it.

If the results after the broadcast of Unheard Huaming can replicate the trend of the results in the parallel world.

Na Chuyu felt that with this work, he was likely to be rewarded by the system.

At that time, his idea of ​​serializing new works will be realized.

Although Chu Yu can also directly use the world points to redeem works, but Chu Yu is not very willing to do so unless it is absolutely necessary.

It is difficult to earn points in the world, but the achievements in the comics industry of Longguo are easy.

In his words, he still tends to rely on the lottery rewarded by the system to draw the next serial work.

Chapter 127 Voting

For Chu Yu, the manga series in Natsume's Book of Friends did not follow the version given by the system.

Chu Yu expects the serialization time of Natsume's Account of Friends to be within one year.

After all, there are so many excellent works in the system, Chu Yuzhen first serialized all the updated parts of Natsume's Friends Account, it may not be done in four or five years, this time is too long.

A work has wonderful places, and naturally there will be relatively boring parts.

Therefore, the plots of Natsume's Book of Friends serialized by Chu Yu are selected and serialized from chapters that he thinks are relatively prominent.

Therefore, the reader stickiness of Natsume's Friends Account has always been very high.

The unit drama comics are afraid that there will suddenly be two or three issues, the story will be boring, and then the readers will temporarily abandon the pit, and at the end they will not remember and finally abandon the pit completely.

However, Chu Yu's approach completely avoided such a situation.

A story narrated every two weeks has earned the tears of many fans in Longguo.

The role of Natsume Takashi was once popular, and there are many female fans of all ages. …

And according to the practice of Longguo comics, at the end of the year, it is also a feast for comic fans on major websites.

Xinman.com, as the largest gathering place for Two-dimensional fans in Longguo, can attract many fans not only because of the somewhat informal comic recommendation section.

The Two-dimensional communication platform it builds, as well as Two-dimensional social networking, the hosting and holding of various Two-dimensional activities, and the sale of various Two-dimensional works on it are the real attractions of this website. Many Two-dimensional An important factor for dimensional fans to indulge in it all day long.

Every year at the end of the year, in the comics market outside of Shanghai, there are comic festivals similar to the Dragon Star Awards, which are jointly organized by the Seven Majors of Shanghai.

In the comics market in Shanghai, at this time, although there are no similar awards held by well-known organizations.

However, Xinman.com will also hold a voting event during this time period to vote on the popularity of some newly born comics in Shanghai this year, and select a popular new comic of the year.

In the beginning, activities like Xinmanwang were ridiculed by the traditional comic circles in Shanghai.

We don't do this in the physical comics industry. If you do this kind of popularity ranking on a virtual website without authorization, who would really go to your website to vote for it!

However, after such an event has been held for several years, to everyone's surprise... the fans on the Internet are extremely enthusiastic about participating in such an event.

It's like the popularity voting of anime characters held on the Internet in the parallel world, where many fans will participate.

In this world, on a big platform like Xinman.com, the new manga popularity vote initiated by this level of official will undoubtedly attract the attention of manga fans.

After all, these works belong to different platforms on weekdays, and there is no chance to compete on the same stage, but Xinmanwang provides such a platform and opportunity.

This has also led to the popularity of the Shanghai New Manga Annual Popularity Vote held on Xinman.com in the past two years, which is no less than the attention paid to those famous comic awards in Longguo.

To put it bluntly, the manga fan group is just like the celebrity fan group. They will argue with others over which manga is better, and they will also be angry because their favorite manga works are overwhelmed by other works because of such popularity.

Of course, in order not to interfere with the selection of the Dragon Star Awards and divert traffic, the time when Xinmanwang held such popularity polls was years ago.

.......

So when Li Xi asked Chu Yu's opinion on this matter.

That's Chu Yu's idea.

Of course agree!

What can he think?

Nowadays, Chu Yu is very sensitive when it comes to things like rankings and rankings, because even he doesn't know whether there will be system rewards when his work gets a good result in a certain selection.

If he can participate in such activities, he will participate.

"Are there any conditions for participating in this popularity poll on Xinmanwang?" Chu Yu asked.

"No, after all, Xinman.com is just a private website. This kind of popularity selection only puts all the manga periodicals with a little influence in Shanghai, and puts the new comics born this year on the voting page. The rest is to rely on The fans of each manga have their own power. Even if we don’t sign up for the competition, Natsume’s Book of Friends will be on their voting list by then.”

In the cold winter, Li Xi no longer pursues demeanor in her clothes, and wraps her whole body up like rice dumplings.

"Then if that's the case, why are you interested in such an activity?" Chu Yu asked suspiciously.

In his impression, Li Xi would generally not do anything that had nothing to do with improving the performance of comic works.

But no matter how you think about it, how could this kind of popularity vote on a private website catch Li Xi's eyes?

"The reason why I mentioned this is, of course, that this popularity vote will help Natsume's results in Friends' Account," Li Xi said.

"Although this vote was only held on a private website, it has no historical significance, nor is the result ranking recognized by the mainstream comics industry, but... fans of Dragon Kingdom can't stand it! Judging from the previous results , Works that can achieve good results in such popular votes, after the voting ends, because of the influence of Xinmanwang, these works will often have a huge increase in popularity."

"So... it's actually equivalent to an advertisement for those popular works by Xinmanwang!" Chu Yu finally understood.

"No, it's a big advertisement!" Li Xi looked at Chu Yu.

Emphasize the word big.

"If Natsume's Account of Friends can get the first place in this popularity vote, it will be much more effective than the promotional resources provided by Xuangui for your work."

"After all, the popularity growth rate of Natsume's Friends Account is slowing down now. There is no way to do it. Any manga has such a process of popularity accumulation. It takes ten years or even ten years for those giant manga works that everyone in the Dragon Kingdom is familiar with to have such popularity. Decades of accumulated popularity."

"Although I think Natsume's account of friends can go further, but if you do nothing, the growth in popularity will indeed be slower!"

When Chu Yu heard this, he was also thinking.

First of all, regardless of whether such an informal organization's popularity selection will eventually be rewarded by the system, it is already worthwhile to increase the popularity of Natsume's account of friends after achieving results in such a selection.

"But there's nothing I can do about it as an author, right?" Chu Yu said.

"It's all the spontaneous organization of readers, and the competition is not about the quality of the works, but the popularity of the works."

"Don't you have a Weibo account? Natsume's Friends Account has been serialized until now, and your Weibo fans are almost 100 million. Don't you manage these?" Li Xi looked at Chu Yu.

"I've been talking to you for a long time, and I want you to call on your fans through these channels, whether it's the fans of the Garden of Words or the foundation of Rurouni Kenshin's Memories, of course the most important thing is to call Fans who signed up Natsume's friend account to vote."

"Fans are very lazy. If you don't tell them, they won't bother to move." Li Xi said.

"Anyway, Natsume's Book of Friends is definitely one of the more eye-catching works of the new manga that was born in Shanghai this year. It has been ranked sixth in popularity until now. I personally think that if you can really call on your fans to Natsume Voting on the friends account, at least the final ranking is guaranteed to be the top three, and there is a high probability that it will be the first."

"In that case, it is equivalent to asking Xinmanwang to give us a wave of publicity, why not do it?"

Chapter 128 Party

a hotel.

A group of people sat together and discussed matters.

Among them, there is Yu Jing who has conflicts with Chu Yu, but the two have never really met.

There are also serial cartoonists in other large and small periodicals.

Although none of these people are cartoonists from a comic agency, they all have one characteristic in common.

They were all from Qin Province.

In the cartoon industry of Shanghai, there are many people from Qin Province. Whether it is in the cartoonist industry, the editing industry, or the publishing industry, people from Qin Province occupy a large part of it.

And people in their area like to report to groups, so although they belong to different comic companies, it is common for them to meet regularly to enhance their relationship.

"By the way, the 2020 New Manga Popularity Voting for Magic City's new serialized comics held by Xinmanwang seems to have started in the past few days. Xiaoyu, I feel that you must be the number one in this popularity vote!" one of the middle-aged men looked at To a young man in his 20s, he said with a smile.

"I still remember that Li Wei's work last year won the number one popularity in last year's selection. His work's popularity soared in the second week, and his ranking rose by three places, although the popularity behind it was slow. slipped, but because of the popularity during that time, the booklet was also sold well, and the work was successfully animated.”

"Brother Zhou, stop making fun of me!" Yu Liang smiled wryly.

"It's ashamed to say that the work has been serialized since February last year to mid-January now, and the popularity ranking is only No.11.......Although I really want my work to appear on Xinman.com , but I really feel that if the popularity vote is the first... there is not much hope."

Even so, there was a bit of arrogance in Yu Liang's words.

Although in his words, he feels a little bad for his work's ranking of eleventh in popularity...

But in the end, it also depends on what kind of journal the question is serialized in?

The 30 to [-] people present, although all of them were well-known cartoonists who were serialized in Shanghai, almost half of them serialized their works in some medium-sized manga clubs or the non-ace periodicals of the seven major magazines in Shanghai.

Being able to serialize works in the ace periodicals under the seven banners of Shanghai Magic City, this achievement alone has already beaten 80.00% of the people present, not to mention, its achievement is still ranked No.11.

As a comic work that has been serialized for less than a year, such an achievement is already very good.

How can it be so easy to squeeze in the top ten works in the top ten popular journals of the top seven journals in Shanghai?

Basically, such works rely on the accumulation of popularity for several years or even longer, and the quality of the works can be maintained all the time.

In such journals, the works ranked in the top [-] and those ranked in the back are completely different things.

The former booklet is selling well, animation adaptation, copyright sales, and peripherals are selling well.

The latter, if one is not careful, one's popularity will be sluggish for a period of time, and one will be directly cut in half.

Therefore, although Yu Liang was lamenting the lack of popularity of his works on the surface, he also wanted to show off himself in his heart.

"Xiao Yu, you are too modest. For this year's new manga, the only work that can get the [-]th place in Nirvana, the ace journal of Phoenix Comic Club, must be your "Spiritual Vision"."