A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 280 October and Announcement

October
The news that Xia Yan and Mo Ran were already preparing for a new work was actually known to Beizhou Comics Club immediately.

It must not be so fast for Mo Ran to draw the first chapter of the manga. After all, it is Xia Yan's new manga. According to the usual practice, at Xia Yan's current level, it will be serialized in full color in the serialization of the full-time hunter. One-page comics, this is time-consuming, at least everything is ready, plus the publicity before the serialization of the work, the serialization of this work will not be until the end of October.

But before that
Xia Yan and Mo Ran had to communicate with Beizhou Comics Club.

For the ending of Initial D, Beimanga Club has invested huge resources in publicizing it.

Moreover, for the promotion of Xia Yan's new comics, this timing is also very important.

So Beizhou Comic Club communicated with Xia Yan and Mo Ran at the end of September.

It doesn't matter if the manga content of the first chapter of Hunter x Hunter is not released, but at least the promotional poster of hunter x hunter is released first.

In this regard, Xia Yan is very cooperative.

There were even three or five editors and staff members from Beizhou Comics Club in his family to cooperate with Xia Yan's requirements throughout the two days.

"So, is that all right?"

After staying up all night with Xia Yan for two days and three nights, this promotional poster finally came out in a rush. Both Xia Yan and Mo Ran had dark circles under their eyes.

The two of them, as well as the staff of Beizhou Comic Club, looked happily at the coloring page promotional poster in front of them.

It doesn’t take so much time just to draw such a picture, but since we are making a promotional poster, the characters on it have to be designed in advance, which is more time-consuming.

After all, Mo Ran is not Fu Jian, and Xia Yan only described the style of this work with his mouth, so the style of painting can only be similar, not in appearance.

But Mo Ran is indeed a genius in painting.

At least in the past week, after in-depth communication with Xia Yan, she can basically understand Xia Yan's thoughts.

Bloody battle manga.
And don't talk about teenagers anymore, the protagonist has been around for a long time, Xia Yan even directly said that by the time the manga has hundreds of chapters, the protagonist will always be a 12-year-old child.

In the real world, this is a child in the sixth grade of elementary school. The painting style is naturally a little softer. It is absolutely inappropriate to continue the tough guy style of the initial D.

What surprised Xia Yan was Mo Ran's ability to change her painting style.

On the poster in front of him, there are more than a dozen characters in total.

Members of the full-time hunter protagonist group, the cute and natural protagonist Xiaojie, the black-bellied kid Qiya, the handsome noble son Kurapika, and the uncle Leorio naturally appear.

Then there is the last appearance of the popular character Dongba in this work in the parallel world.

Other popular characters, such as the perverted Hisoka, Kuroro, the head of the Phantom Troupe, Nitro, the president of the Hunter Association, the ant king and wheat in the later chapters
At Xia Yan's request, Mo Ran quickly created these character designs in the past few days and exported these characters together in a harmonious and aesthetic image.

"I'm talking about Xia Yan, did you have so many characters at the beginning of this work?"

Looking at the staff of the Beizhou Comic Club who were studying the promotional posters there, Mo Ran finally asked this question.

In the past few days, she is only responsible for designing character maps. In fact, she doesn't know which chapters these characters will appear in.

"Of course not." Xia Yan said with a smile.

"I asked you to draw the characters on this poster promotional picture. If all the characters on it want to appear on the stage, it may take one or two hundred episodes later."

At this time, several staff members and editors of Beizhou Comics Club saw Xia Yan and Mo Ran sitting on chairs talking with smiles, and they were also curious, listening to what they were talking about.

"One or two hundred words? You have conceived this work so far?" Mo Ran exclaimed in a low voice.

Normally, who creates comics would think so far?
In the comics world, there are so many works that have been serialized for less than three months and more than a dozen episodes have been cut in half.

Even top-level cartoonists will change the plot and character design while drawing according to the market response when creating the plot.

Now that this manga is not serialized, Xia Yan is thinking about the characters that will appear after one or two hundred episodes?

"It doesn't matter. In fact, I didn't intend to announce the images of these characters so early, but since Beizhou Comic Club asked us to make this promotional poster, then... I will take it as a benefit for fans. And eggs." Xia Yan said with a smile.

Anyway, during the serialization of Hunter x Hunter comics, this promotional poster is estimated to be smashed by fans for a long time. Guess what plot and chapter these characters will appear in.

This can be regarded as a joy of being a creator.

"So what if the serialization of Hunter x Hunter is less than a few months, and the popularity is too low or the negative comments from fans lead to the cut in half? If you conceived so many plots in advance, it would be a waste if you can't serialize by then."

Mo Ran and Xia Yan have known each other for two or three years now, and they also know that Xia Yan is not the kind of person who only likes to be praised and flattered by others, and he speaks very casually.

"This kind of thing should be impossible." Xia Yan said.

"How is it impossible?" Mo Ran asked.

"Yang Jun in the past two years, the manga artist of Longguo who sold 100 million copies of his previous comics, but his new manga was cut in half with only 51 chapters, and the serialization time was only eleven months"

"There are many examples of Yang Jun in the comics industry of Dragon Country."

"Because this work is a full-time hunter. Besides, I'm not Yang Jun." Xia Yan said after thinking about it.

"Well, I know that!" Mo Ran paused.

But soon, she understood what Xia Yan meant.

"You mean, you have high expectations for this comic?"

"Yes."

"How tall?" Mo Ran asked.

"A few floors are so high."

"." Mo Ran.

"Say something normal. I can't understand your inexplicable remarks, but I feel your tone. These words are not talking nonsense, which makes me feel a little stupid."

"Okay, let's stop playing riddles." Xia Yan said with a smile.

"At least, I dare to end Initial D so easily. The reason is not that I have too much money to spend, and I dislike its income of 2000 million a month. The deeper reason is that I personally think that I created the follow-up plot of Initial D. If you spend more time creating a full-time hunter, you will get better results." Xia Yan said.

"This work is 90.00% nine-possible, and the score will surpass the initial D."

Xia Yan's tone was very light, but on his face, there was no trace of a young man bragging, and Mo Ran was also shocked.

This.
What kind of confidence is this?
Initial D is already the tenth comic book in terms of volume sales in the history of Longguo comics. If the sales volume of the last two or three volumes of the single book is a little higher with the help of this big publicity, it can surpass the current comics. "Double Ring", the best-selling work in the "serial" market volume, pushed this ranking to the ninth position in history.

Even Xia Yan, if the work of Initial D maintains its current popularity and is serialized for one or two more years, even if fans slowly grind the sales, the average volume sales will be 200 million higher, and finally squeezed into the top seven and top five in history. It is also very possible.

But what is Xia Yan's tone now?
90.00% Nine Possibilities Beyond Initial D
Why not [-]%?
Could it be that he didn't dare to say this probability as 100% because he, the creator, had an accident and suffered a serious illness that prevented the serialization of the work?

Mo Ran wanted to say something more, but she held back after seeing Xia Yan's eyes.

Believe first, don't question.

This is the truth she has realized in the past few years with Xia Yan.

Those in the industry who questioned Xia Yan's bragging were often slapped in the face by Xia Yan within three months, and she, Mo Ran, would not give Xia Yan a chance to laugh at her in the future.

As for the other staff members of the Beizhou Comic Club, after being shocked, they quickly took the promotional poster drawn by Mo Ran, talked to the two of them, and left.

However, the content of the conversation between Xia Yan and Mo Ran will inevitably be reported to the senior management of the comic agency.

After completing the comic storyboard and the character design in the early stage of the work, such as Aunt Mitt and other work assistant Mo Ran, Xia Yan focused on the rebellious Lelouch.

Animation works often have a production cycle of several months, so there is no need to rush the production.

But the company now has [-] people, except for the production team members who are looking for the big movie of heaven, the other members are basically called by Xia Yan into the rebellious Lelouch animation production team.

In this way, although the number of members is relatively large, it is a little wasteful in terms of cost considerations, but the quality of animation production is definitely not small.

After all, the rebellious Lelouch has a lot of mecha sky battles and explosions in this work, and there are also a lot of circus scenes.

These are all big scenes that test the skills of the production team members and painters.

If a work like Lelouch is reluctant to spend money, then it is better not to animate it.

But now it's October, and if the rebellious Lelouch wants to broadcast it in January next year, the possibility is very low.

So in the company's internal meeting, Xia Yan also set the broadcast time of this work in April next year.

After the members of the production team signed and confirmed, in the first ten days of October, Xia Yan started to contact the TV station, peripheral manufacturers, and TV station associations and distributors in various countries at home and abroad to negotiate a cooperation agreement for Lelouch
The Xiatang Animation Company under Xia Yan's command is indeed a large-scale animation company in the Long Kingdom. Even if it recruits a lot of talents now, it only belongs to an upper-middle-scale animation company.

But the company's achievements in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry are obvious to all.

Whether it is domestic or overseas, when cooperating with Xia Tang Animation Company, the conditions offered are on the same level as those of the three major animation companies Lu Zhou, Yuan Ling, and Long Yang.

Although Lelouch is only in the conceptual stage, as long as Xiatang Animation Company releases cooperation information in the industry, some partners will rush to cooperate.

And in fact
After several top TV stations in Longguo got the news that Xia Yan had a new animation to be produced, Lightspeed sent people to discuss with Xia Tang Animation Production Company.

The benefits that the magic circle brought to Imperial TV1 are obvious to all, directly making Imperial TV1 rank first in the ranking of Longguo TV last year.

Among the TV dramas, animations, and movies broadcast throughout the year, it is the only work with an audience rating of over 6%.

This is the gold content.

And Cyberpunk Edgewalker was broadcast on TV1 of Shanghai Magic City this year, and it is another amazing animation with a rating of 6% for a single episode.

Although its performance is slightly inferior to that of Magic Circle, at least for this year, it has swept everything.

And next year.
Who knows what's going on with Xia Yan's new animation?
Maybe the quality of the work is mediocre, but Xia Yan's fan base is here, where can he go?

Besides, what if it's another God made a fire?

Although I haven't seen the finished animation yet, and I haven't even seen a concept poster, but with Xia Yan's current status in the industry, you can ask him if he is interested in broadcasting this work on our TV station after the finished work is finished. ?

If you want to fart, can such a good thing be your turn?

Several TV stations have already wanted to sign a cooperation agreement with Xia Yan. Anyway, it’s just bidding for money. In the past, Xia Yan would spend 2000 million to buy the broadcasting rights of these TV stations, and broadcast them to Magical Girl Madoka.

Now these TV stations have not seen anything, and they have already offered tens of millions of copyright broadcasting fees just by relying on the words "Xia Yan's new work". I hope that Xia Yan will cooperate with them. In just two years, it can be said that It is a direct exchange of industry status.

However, these cooperation agreements are carried out in secret. Xia Yan's tens of millions of fans in Longguo don't know what's going on now, and they are still immersed in the storm of the end of Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

ends early october
While Xia Yan was working on the production of her two new works.

The first week sales of cyberpunk edgewalker volume [-] bd are out.

First week
37 copies.
Another outrageous sales figure.

And everyone knows that the most quintessential plot of Cyberpunk Edgewalker is the last three episodes of the third volume of bd.

A lot of people actually buy these things for collection because they look at the quality of the collection, which is boring, bd drama episodes with watery plots, many people don’t buy them, and those high-quality animated episodes will definitely increase their sales a lot.

Now that even the bd of the second volume has sold more than 37 copies in the first week, what will be the result of the third volume?
What will be the sales volume of the two theatrical animation bds after the release of the third volume bd?
Will it be possible to touch the record set by Magical Girl Madoka last year?
Although I am not as good as you in the field of TV broadcasting, is there any miracle in the BD sales market?

And just when the Longguo animation industry was still discussing the horror data of the sales of the second volume of Cyberpunk Edge Walker bd.

Beizhou Comic Club released a news that caused a sensation in the industry.

Normally, after the release of the next "Beizhou" journal, the plot of the last chapter of Initial D will also be serialized.

But this also means that this god-made manga, which has been serialized for a year, has settled the plot.

As for when Xia Yan's next comic will be released, who knows?
It is possible to be faster by one or two years, or slower by three to five years.

This is the creative speed of Longguo's top cartoonist.

None of Xia Yan's comic fans expected anything.

But what is the announcement on the official website of Beizhou Comics Club today?
On the last page of the serialization of the final chapter of Initial D, the promotional poster of Xia Yan's new manga will be announced!
ha?
Xia Yan, a group of comic fans, were stunned for a moment, then ecstatic.

And this kind of thing?

(End of this chapter)