A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 296 Lelouch Starts Broadcasting

This year's Dragon Kingdom's animation industry in April was extremely bleak.

There are only 72 new animations aired in total, [-] less than last year.

And among them, there are 500 low-cost animations with an investment of less than 47 million yuan, 500 animations with a medium-cost investment of 3000 million to 21 million yuan, and only 3000 animations with an investment of more than 4 million yuan.
Among them, the rebellious Lelouch is also included. Although it is claimed that the total budget of the whole work is 7000 million, in fact, the total investment of more than 20 episodes in the first season of this work is 700 million. As for the production cost Whether there will be any changes in the future, Xia Yan will have to make adjustments based on the reaction of the work in the market.

Those battles, different worlds, superficial, and hot-blooded animations that were scheduled for April early last year, almost collectively shifted to July after learning that Xia Yan’s Lelouch’s was also competing in the same period. October or even next January.

This makes the animation market in April this year look a bit bleak. The other three animations with an investment of more than 3000 million are also types of animations that are love, funny, and everyday styles. They really cannot form a competitive relationship with Lelouch. It will also not be affected by Lelouch's broadcast, which will lead to a sharp drop in bd and copyright sales during the same period, so he bites the bullet and competes with Lelouch in the same period.

But the emergence of this phenomenon has also made many practitioners in the industry feel very uncomfortable.

Because including the three major animation companies Yuanling, Dragon and other companies, their works that were originally expected to be broadcast in this quarter have also changed their schedules.

After all, the year before last and last year, I suffered a big loss. I was full of ambition and spent seven to ninety million investment in the animation. I was beaten by Xia Yan's Magic Circle and Edgewalker in various ways, from TV broadcast ratings to BD sales market, peripheral sales Um, overseas copyright bidding.
Almost didn't pay back.

It's just hilarious.

This year, the three major companies are all out of business, you Xia Yan is awesome, right?How long will your Lelouch influence last?It's only a few months, just avoid it. When it comes to the animation market in July and October, we are still gods in this industry.

Many people in the industry are also laughing at the behavior of the three major animation companies.

"Psychologically I've been discouraged."

"How can anyone be successful for three consecutive years, and all three works can be a big hit? I'm not questioning Xia Yan's strength, but I think, no matter how powerful he is, there will always be a period of underestimation of his creation, right? Just one year and twelve months, In those one or two months, I created a piece of rubbish, and I was confident that I invested hundreds of millions of dollars to make it into an animation. That’s right, I’m talking about Lelouch. Is it possible that Lelouch will have a big movie after it airs? Pounce!"

"Objectively speaking, your conjecture is entirely possible, but I just don't believe it."

"Who dares to bet? The three major animation companies are commercial companies. If you lose face, you will lose a little bit. If you want to make money, it's not shabby."

"But think about it, the Big Three, who have been in the animation industry of Dragon Kingdom for decades, are now being suppressed by an animation production company that has been established for several years. How can they bear it?"

"I couldn't bear it last year, so I was hanged and beaten!"

"Above, what you said is right, it made me laugh."

"In the animation market in April this year, Lelouch is the one I'm watching anyway. There are only four animations with an investment of more than 3000 million? It's ridiculous."

"But I heard from my friends on TV1 in Shanghai that Lelouch's animation seems to be more than 20 episodes, and it is a medium-length animation that has been broadcast for two consecutive seasons! If this is not done well, the autumn animation market will also be affected. Bar."

"A medium-length animation? True or false?"

"But I also have a friend who said that I heard that Lelouch is that kind of year-end animation, with forty or fifty episodes."

"Don't believe the gossip, who knows what kind of contract Magic City tv1 signed with Xiatang Animation? There will be more than 20 episodes at once, and more than 50 episodes at once. I think maybe the summer market will end, and this animation will end, and Like cyber friends Edgewalker."

"But if it's really a year-end animation, then it's something to watch. If Lelouch's popularity can reach the popularity of Magic Circle and Edge Walker, and it's still so long, I guess for a long time, Dragon Kingdom animation will be absolutely obsessed Most of the energy will not be put on other animations."

"Indeed, the purchasing power and time of Longguo animation fans are limited. Many animation fans are students. A month's pocket money is enough to buy a few animation bds, one or two figures or peripherals. They will only buy popularity in the market. The derivative products of the highest and most excellent animation works, otherwise there would not be so many works under so many companies hiding from Lelouch, after all, it is necessary to stagger the time."

"Okay, let's see what happened to the premiere of Lelouch on the [-]th."

In the animation industry, everyone's eyes are on Lelouch's broadcast.

Modu tv1 has cooperated with Xia Yan in two consecutive animations. The two parties are familiar with each other, and even competed for the right to broadcast Lelouch's work from April to June this year at an outrageous price of 7000 million.

Of course, Shanghai TV1 is not stupid. Xia Yan’s popularity in Long Kingdom is obvious to all. In the three fields of manga, animation and light novels, even if the fan groups overlap with each other, there are tens of millions of people who are willing to support Xia Yan. A terrifying market where works are bought by consumers.

His work was broadcast, and the major companies in Longguo were also willing to pay a lot of money for sponsorship and sponsorship for their products.

Generally speaking, TV1 of Shanghai Magic City can even make a lot of money in this transaction.

Starting from April [-]st, whenever there is free time, the TV station will frantically broadcast Lelouch's teaser video.

And the TV station's program schedule is also full.

Lelouch is broadcast at [-] o'clock on Sunday night, but in fact, from next Monday to next Saturday, this animation will be replayed once a day in the morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and late night, which is absolutely satisfying The needs of TV fans at all hours of the day.

It doesn’t matter if fans don’t have time to watch the premiere of the animation. It will premiere once on Sunday, and it will be replayed six times in different time slots on the other six days of the week.

For animations that cost a lot of money, Magic City TV1 must squeeze the value to the max. After all, 7000 million yuan can only be broadcast for three months, which is too bad.

As for the offline publicity in major first-tier cities, Xia Yan paid for it himself.

In the first three days of April, the new episodes of this season were broadcast one after another.

As for grades.
It is basically in line with the investment amount of these works.

In various places, or in the capital city, the TV stations in the imperial capital broadcast it, and the ratings of the first broadcast ranged from 0.1% to 3%.

The best-scoring work is the funny campus animation "The Next Table with a Twitching Head!" with an investment of 4000 and [-] million.

The premiere ratings were 2.72%.

This result can only be said to be so.

Although TV stations such as Shanghai and Imperial City have the potential to make a work soar to more than 6% ratings, but in fact, without excellent works, no matter how large the traffic of other TV platforms is, it is useless.

After a few days, as everyone predicted, the animation market this quarter has not seen any animations with explosive potential.

at last
Time came to number four.

A sunny day, for most ordinary people in Longguo, this day is no different from an ordinary weekend.

But for Xia Yan's fans, the new year has already started in the forums and fan groups since daytime.

"It's finally the day. It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still five hours."

"Brothers, go ahead!"

"I don't know what the old thief Xia Yan is doing now?"

"He held a fan meeting in the imperial capital, don't talk about it, I'm at the scene now."

"Damn, how far is it to run to the capital?"

"He has traveled to five cities this week, and I have never seen him work so hard. Judging from his attitude towards this work, I feel that Lelouch will definitely be of high quality."

"Indeed, this work is not at the same level as Magic Circle and Edgewalker from the publicity, preview, and production costs. The final results should be better."

"I still don't believe that the performance of Magic Circle will be surpassed."

"Actually, it's quite an exaggeration. An animation with an investment of more than 1000 million two years ago has become an insurmountable mountain in the animation industry of Longguo. Although the edge walker is already very strong, but now, the TV animation of this work BD sales and theater version BD sales have already been fixed. They are both a little worse than Magic Circle, ranking second in the history of Dragon Kingdom, which is a pity."

"Now, in the entire Dragon Kingdom, no one has the strength to challenge the achievements of the magic circle, except the old thief Xia Yan himself. He has always said that the magic circle is not the pinnacle of his creation history, and he does not want to be the pinnacle of his debut. I hope that the wish of the old thief can be realized on Lelouch."

"I feel that if you want to surpass the magic circle, you must jump out of the inherent framework of the previous works of Dragon Kingdom. Although cyberpunk is excellent, it still does not have the feeling of subversiveness, so that is why the results are not good. As for Lelouch, Anyway, according to the promotional trailer, it’s all new things, let’s not talk about superpowers, the giant robot element is the most important thing, if the old thief can be shaped well, it feels like it will set off a wave among Dragon Kingdom animation fans Huge wave of popularity."

In the various fan groups and forums of Dragon Country, the discussion among fans about Lelouch before the broadcast continued until the evening, and reached the peak after dinner at six o'clock.

From seven o'clock, it is the daily news time, and after half an hour of the news, it is the weather forecast and the regular long commercial time of Shanghai TV1.

The time comes to 45:[-]
The ratings of TV1 in Shanghai finally ushered in the rapid rise that everyone expected.

From 2.31% after the weather forecast ended, within 3 minutes, it rose to 3.5%, and then at 4:[-], this data broke [-]%
The employees of Modu TV1, who are concerned about the real-time ratings of the TV station, are also beating very fast at this moment.

After all, the leader of the station and a large group of employees of the station are now watching these data with him at the TV station headquarters.

Although Modu tv1 is one of the best TV stations in Longguo, he has never seen such a situation where the ratings of a TV station have risen to 4% before the premiere of a work.

It is much stronger than the appeal of those so-called emperors and queens of the Dragon Kingdom.

55:[-]
Zeng Lu put down her phone, stopped the water, and turned on TV1 of Modu.

As she expected, the TV station is still broadcasting that Lelouch teaser video that she watched dozens of times.

In this week, every frame of this video has been edited and analyzed by fanatic fans. Many good people on the Internet have begun to analyze the plot of Lelouch's animation based on the elements that appear in the trailer video.

Zeng Lu has naturally paid attention to these analysis reports, so for an old fan like her, watching this animation is actually to watch with some exploration psychology.

What if he really guessed Xia Yan's plot setting?

Picking up the Coke, he took a sip, the sweetness and bubbles in his mouth stimulated his taste buds, and at this moment, the picture on the TV station paused.
Zeng Lu suddenly became nervous, and the screen flickered.

The ear-piercing chirping of cicadas sounded, and the distant view
One or two children were playing in the wild. When they turned around, they only saw a huge volcano not far away, and frightened birds flying all over the sky.

Then
Overwhelming fighter jets, huge robots, are coming across from the sky.

The footage of the screen deliberately deeply portrays the oppressive feeling of these war killers.

Animation is what you pay for, and Xia Yan will definitely not save on the budget for the first episode of Lelouch.

Zeng Lu is still not clear about the plot of this work, but the picture of this animation only took 10 minutes to conquer her.
After taking care of those ordinary animations in Dragon Kingdom, let's look at Lelouch again
It's like coming to a film and television base from a small mountain village, everyone is a fairy.

A voice next to Yujie's voice sounded at this moment.

[August 2010, 8 in the imperial calendar, the Holy Britannia Empire declared war on the island country, the island country in the Far East remained neutral, and Britannia, the world's only superpower, both sides revolved around the island country's underground resources, diplomatically]

The female voice briefly explained Lelouch's worldview in a short and clear tone.

The world's only superpower?
Island country?

Seeing such a setting, Zeng Lu was a little curious.

The Dragon Kingdom plane belongs to that kind of multi-polar world. In addition to the Dragon Kingdom, there are two other big countries in the world that can compete with the Dragon Kingdom, so there is no superpower concept, but it is like the Three Kingdoms on the world map version.

As for the islands or something
Not to mention.

The surrounding islands of the Dragon Kingdom are all the territory of the Dragon Kingdom, and there is no island country.

Of course, Xia Yan gave the concept of an island country in his previous works, such as Initial D.
And after the setting of Lelouch was made, Xia Yan's fan group of Longguo split directly.

"Island country? It won't be the country where Tu Hai is located, right?"

"So this is the world structure of Tu Hai's world decades later? The island country where Tu Hai is located was occupied by Britannia and became District [-], and many people died?"

"Damn it, the setting of the old thief is real or fake? Doesn't Tu Hai drive an 86? How come there are giant robots in this world!"

"They only said it was an island country, but didn't say it was an initial D world?"

"But both works were created by old thieves, and they are both located in island countries. It's just that Lelouch's level of technology is obviously much better than that of the era when mobile phones were not popular in the initial D, but it should be The gap is within a few decades, after all, human beings have not yet gone to outer space, so, do we have the opportunity to watch the story of grandpa Tu Hai driving a giant robot to fight for the island nation in this animation?"

"?"

"This brain hole? The old thief dares to create like this, I will buy this animation bd."

"The God of Akinayama became the God of War, the driver of a giant robot in an island country? What kind of brainstorming is this? But, don't tell me it's really interesting!"

"Okay, don't be kidding, even if the island country in Lelouch is the island country in the initial d, Tu Hai should not be allowed to play. If Tu Hai is really turned into a giant robot driver, it is estimated that Dragon Kingdom will have a million Initial D racing fans are going to crack. It's so fucked up."

Before Zeng Lu noticed, in the discussion group she joined, many people had already had crazy conversations about the opening plot introduction of this animation.

The opening narration world view introduction is over
Two children in the ruins, Lelouch and Suzaku, stood and watched.

"Suzaku, I want to destroy Britannia!"

There was hatred in Lelouch's eyes, and his immature voice fell. These words are the main thread that runs through Lelouch's entire work.

Subsequently
The OP song of this animation plays.

Feature film begins.

(End of this chapter)