A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 287 Publication and Public Opinion

Soon after Xia Yan's meeting ended, Xia Yan's series of comments on 2077 and the Lelouch animation information released at the meeting spread wildly on the Internet.

Especially mechs.

Although this thing is just a show, but in the group of animation fans, it can be called Wang Bo.

"My God, I came to see the 2077 animation press conference. Why did the old thief release such cool things at the press conference?"

"Is it called a mech? Those huge robots that appeared in Lelouch's preview PV."

"so cool!"

"Brothers, damn it, I posted last month that the old thief's new animation "Lelouch of the Rebellion" will cause huge pounces because of this terrible name, and I'm wrong now"

"Why didn't the old thief name it the name of a work that is so cool and overbearing like Flying Mecha. What about the rebellious Lelouch, the animation with this name is really enough to dissuade you."

"To be honest, if the old thief hadn't released Lelouch's teaser PV in advance, I really wouldn't have watched an animation with this name."

"And the scene in the animation pv is about war, right? Could it be that this animation will be that kind of war-themed animation?"

"I don't understand, I don't want to stay here for a second this year, so I want to think about April next year!"

"When Luluxiu releases these mecha figures, I will buy them all."

"I can already see the hot scene of the old thief's animation in the surrounding market. After all, compared to selling magic girl Madoka's soul crystals and shame transformation clothes, this kind of robot figure is what a real man should be. Bought peripheral products."

"Hey, a real man should put on a magic circle character coa suit and enjoy robot figures at home."

"Above, pure pervert!"

Xia Yan's goal can be regarded as achieved.

The release of Lelouch's animation pv has indeed increased the attention of Lelouch's work, which has not yet been broadcast, in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

But because it will have to wait until next April for fans to see it on TV.

At this stage, it will not affect the bd sales and popularity of 2077.

Two days later, the first part of Cyberpunk 2077 animation BD was released simultaneously across Dragon Kingdom.

For the release of this animated bd, Xia Yan's entire company has spent 3000 to [-] million in promotional expenses from a month ago to now.

For the BD release of a theatrical version of a tv animation, this amount of publicity fees is already an extremely huge figure.

There is no such promotion fee for many animated films that are released in theaters across the country.

However, with the previous earnings of Magical Girl Madoka as a reference, Xia Yan Company can roughly estimate what range Cyberpunk 2077 animated bd can sell, and what range its earnings will be.

So for Xia Yan, this investment can only be said to be reasonable.

And wait until Cyberpunk 2077 is released.
Xia Yan's fans finally understand what kind of story this theatrical version is telling!
The protagonist V, a homeless wandering in Night City.

The story is based on his perspective, revealing the darkness in every hidden corner of Night City and the way the city operates.

After the war, human governments collapsed and replaced by various technology companies relying on the resources they controlled to become world giants.

Among them, Arasaka Corporation, headquartered in Night City, is one of the best.

There are private armies and independent weapon production lines, and they control the mining of mines and gold and other resources all over the world.

The whole story can be said to be very different from the Cyberpunk Edgewalker. The main perspective of the Edgewalker is still on David, and the analysis of the world view is not deep.

As for 2077, in fact, the story of the protagonist V is not too interesting.

The point is to understand the whole picture of Night City through his perspective. There are only some names mentioned in the fringe walkers, such as super dream, all kinds of strange prosthetic bodies, scavenger, middleman, afterlife bar, etc. In fact, there are no things to explain
Of course, although it is true that the plot is not as contagious as that of the edge walker, it is still among the best.

The first part of the theatrical version of the BD animation. At the beginning of the plot, it introduces how V and his good brother Jack mingled in the bottom of Night City, and then how they were spotted by the middleman. After receiving the mission, Jack and V sneaked into the Arasaka Tower. Stealing the biochip, seeing how the son of the chairman of the Arasaka Group killed his father. Then, the culprit who killed the chairman of the Arasaka Group was framed by the son of the chairman and framed on V and his good brother Jack.

In order to cover V's escape, Jack was shot in the abdomen and died.

At a critical moment, V inserts a biochip into his brain, and is invaded by the personality of Johnny Silverhand, the legendary Night City character in the biochip.

And when he finally came to the middleman with his brother's body to receive the reward for the mission, he was shot dead by the middleman. It was only because of the effect of the biochip inserted into his brain that he did not die directly, but his life was very little. Johnny Silverhand's personality will gradually erode V's brain until it completely occupies his body.

There is no excess love.The plot focuses on fighting, blood, cruelty, darkness... and revenge. This is the story of 2077.

During the daytime on the day of the release, there were long queues in the surrounding stores of Longguo.

But in fact, when I got home and finished watching the two-hour episode, at the end, V and the personality of Johnny Silverhand in my mind were cleared up, and the two reached a cooperation for the common goal of "destroying Arasaka". .
The entire upper theatrical version of the movie is broken in a place that is still unfinished.

"It feels different from the plot I imagined!"

"Woo, I want to see David and Lucy!"

"Looking at it this way, it seems that 2077 has no chance for David and Lucy to appear."

"Who said there is no such thing? The Arasaka Company had the ability to seal up the personality in the memory chip decades ago, and the biological chip in Johnny Silver Hand's way, maybe David's personality was also sealed by the Arasaka Company. ?”

"Maybe the second part will appear."

"But there is one thing to say, the production of this theatrical animation is really strong, but the plot style is very different from Edge Walker!"

"Well, it's true."

"It feels less interesting than the plot of Edgewalker."

"No, it's a matter of your taste. I think it's so beautiful. The friendship between Jack and V, and the scene where Jack falls in V's arms at the end, made me cry. Then immediately the middleman betrayed Jack. I gave V a shot when I went to collect the reward. My God, in the animation, V was directly shot through the head by a bullet. I thought the protagonist would die, but I didn’t expect that the biochip saved him.”

"One thing to say, is Johnny Silverhand also a kind of cyber psychosis? After the protagonist installs the chip, he is invaded by Johnny Silverhand's personality. No matter how I look at it, it looks like a psychopathic invasion."

"So, this is also one of the protagonist's golden fingers?"

"Indeed, it seems to be hinted in the plot. After the protagonist inserts the chip, it seems that the influence of the prosthetic body on his spirit has almost disappeared, leaving only the phantom of Johnny Silverhand's personality that keeps appearing in his mind. Does this mean that, The protagonist can prosthetize his whole body without worrying about cyberpsychopathy?"

"I feel that there is indeed such a plot tendency!"

"Anyway, don't be too harsh, I personally think that the animation of Cyberpunk 2077 theatrical version is quite good, but you have to compete with the god of animation in the theatrical version "The Story of Rebellion!" "It's more boring than that. Originally, 80.00% of the theatrical version of Longguo's tv animation was fried rice, so that some popular characters showed their faces and reaped a wave of fan purses. The old thief 2077 can be said to be directly in the phase. Created another story in the same world view, putting the revenge of David and Rebecca, the edge walker, into the 2077 protagonist V to avenge it. Edgewalker tv animation, that's too difficult."

"The main reason is that the story of the old thief's rebellion is too good, so I have high expectations for his 2077."

"I feel that you all think that 2077 is not as good as Edgewalker because of the certain changes in 2077's style and Edgewalker. I personally like to watch this kind of urban gunfight story with pure plot, but I think 2077 is no worse than Edgewalker."

"That's right, don't always think about the love story. Think more about the world view in 2077, and you will find that this work of tmd has great potential!"

"Actually, I think the plot of 2077 is interesting. It really portrays the world view of this story seriously. I give this animation a full score of [-]."

At night, Xia Yan fans who bought the 2077 animation bd during the day gathered in the forum for various discussions.

Although the plot is not like the edge walker, which mainly depicts love, some fans have not adapted to the style change.

But most fans actually have a high opinion of this work.

Although the game of 2077 has been crazily criticized by a bunch of fans in the parallel world, but it is only complained that its gameplay is messy and has many bugs. Players play it with the most top-end graphics card, but it presents the player with the most garbage frame rate. The picture freezes and feels tearing.

But as far as the plot of this work is concerned, it's actually okay.

The next day, inside Xia Yan's company, the employees came to work today, and the big stone that had weighed on everyone's hearts in the past week finally fell.

After all, judging from the current online evaluation, the sales of Cyberpunk 2077 will not be affected.

The vast majority of viewers still buy it.

When Xia Yan came to the company, he called the main backbone members of the cyberpunk project team for a meeting. Of course, the content of the meeting was also related to the animation of the movie version of Cyberpunk 2077.

The content of the meeting also allowed them to set their next goal on the 207 lower part of the theatrical version of the animation bd, which will be released next month.

After the meeting, Xia Yan also let out a long breath.

"It's over." A smile appeared on Xia Yan's face.

Of course, this ending refers to the work of Xiatang Animation Production Company in the animation field this year.

Now, only the second animation of 2077 is released, and Lelouch will start broadcasting in April next year. As soon as today's meeting is over, Xia Yan will basically start from now to April next year, at least Xiatang Animation Company will not Too much work for him to deal with.

After a busy year, I can take a little breather.

In the afternoon, the members of the animation production team of Lelouch were called together to inquire about their production progress, and then they handed over the score of the original Luluxiu episode that they restored to the staff of the music team, asking them to find someone to arrange, sing, and record.
Xia Yan finished his day's work.

In the evening, I spent two hours checking the manuscript that Sword Art Online will submit tomorrow, and handed over the draft of the latest issue of Hunter x Hunter storyboard to Mo Ran.
And sometimes, because of the class, I often have to work until after twelve o'clock in the evening before taking a break.

This is Xia Yan's daily life.

From an outsider's point of view, it's quite substantial.

But if you just find someone in Xia Yan's position, you probably have already retired and spent money to enjoy life.

Soon, a few days passed.

The first week of BD sales data for the first part of Cyberpunk 2077 is released.

First week
84 copies.

Although many fans complained about the big gap between 2077 and Edge Walker in terms of plot style, their support for this animation can be seen from the sales.

After the data came out, Xia Yan's colleagues and fans in the entire animation industry were a little emotional.

Peers are envious and jealous.

Fans are proud.

Black fans are heartbroken.

"84 copies, against the sky!"

"Is this the current appeal of the old thief? It's too scary. 84 copies in the first week, it's outrageous."

"But aren't there so many people on the Internet who don't like 2077? Why are there so many sales?"

"The vast majority of fans who buy BD don't speak up, so don't be misled by online public opinion. With Xia Yan's current popularity in the industry, a few people complaining about the lack of interest in his work will not scare his other fans. To put it bluntly, even if the old thief creates an answer now, fans will have to buy it and see it with their own eyes before they start complaining, and they won’t be easily influenced by public opinion.”

"I just said that 2077 is very interesting. It's those fans who only like to watch love stories. In fact, the vast majority of passer-by viewers, such as my sister, have never seen Edgewalker. She was with me the day before yesterday. I watched the plot of 2077 with great interest, I didn’t speak the whole time, and I watched it very seriously.”

"But the first week was 84. The final sales volume will exceed 200 million copies."

"200 million, that's for sure! If this work has a stronger stamina, 250 million is also very promising."

"If the sales volume really exceeds 200 million...then there are only two works owned by Longguo, and the average TV version animation BD exceeds 100 million, and the theatrical version animation exceeds 200 million works, they are all created by old thieves."

"This, it's scary to think about it."

"Why does the old thief have such a long head? What other people can't achieve in a lifetime, and a work that can't be created in a lifetime, he has produced two works for two consecutive years like this."

"Maybe there will be a third one. In my opinion, the rebellious Lulu in April next year is not an ordinary animation."

"It's definitely not ordinary! The production budget of the rebellious Lelouch has been released on the official website of the old thief Xia Tang animation company. The total investment is 1.7 million."

"Pfft! Did you make a mistake? 1.7 million?"

"Well, but this animation is said to be very long. Of course, the number of episodes has not been announced, because it is said that the old thief has not created all the scripts. But there should be a lot of episodes. It cannot be just a quarterly animation with more than a dozen episodes. There will be Such a high investment."

"Outrageous. One hundred and seventy million Long Guo coins! Make an animation? There are not many movies in Long Guo with this kind of investment in a year! The old thief is going to make every episode of this animation high into an animation movie picture quality?"

"Whatever it is, anyway, the TV station broadcasts it, and it doesn't cost money. The bigger the investment, the better."

The entire winter party animation market, from the beginning to the present, has been dominated by cyberpunk topics. On the forum, everyone is discussing the world view of the 2077 plot and the possible plot development of the next part.

And the new animations broadcast this quarter were hardly discussed.

This year's Dragon Kingdom hegemony animation, cyberpunk edge walker is well-deserved.

But when the animation industry was immersed in the sales miracle and plot of 2077bd.

In the comics industry, Xia Yan's initial D was unknowingly serialized to the sixth chapter.

And
After this chapter, the work finally entered its main line.

Hunter assessment!

(End of this chapter)