A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 299 Goal
Two days later, the sales statistics for the first volume of the Hunter x Hunter manga volume came out.

First week
670 million volumes.

Of course, before the release of this data, the comics industry as a whole agreed that the sales volume of the first volume of Hunter will be more than 500 million in the first week.

Everyone is not blind, you can see how many people are queuing up outside the surrounding bookstores to buy single copies.

However, the sales volume reached 600 million in the first week, or even 670 million. Many people in the entire industry are still confused.

The sales volume in the first week is not the final sales volume. Generally speaking, three times the sales volume in the first week of a work is probably the final sales volume within one or two years after the release of the work.

And works like popular manga and light novels, because of the strong purchasing power of fans, their final sales will be close to or even more than four times the sales in the first week.

What the hell is Hunter selling 670 million copies in the first week?

Is this the actual popularity of Xia Yan's work?
The four major cartoon clubs in Longguo, Xuefeng, Squirrel, Beizhou, and Nixing at the bottom, besides Beizhou comic club, the other three Chunchun don't know what to do anymore.

Since Xia Yan joined Beizhou, in two years, the sales volume of the comic periodical "Beizhou" has increased from 300 million to 400 million.

Now, the battle with "Xuefeng" comic periodical for the No. [-] comic periodical in Dragon Kingdom has entered a fierce stage.

In the nine weeks of the past two months, Beizhou periodicals were the number one weekly seller five times, and Xuefeng four times.

The snow wind itself has the disadvantage.

As for Hunter x Hunter volume 670, which sold [-] million copies in the first week, needless to say, could Beizhou Comic Club miss this promotional opportunity?

This is the sales record for the first week of the release of the first volume of all comics created by Longguo in the past 18 years!
As for those records from 18 years ago, I won’t talk about them. The times were different. There were tens of millions more teenagers than now. Therefore, the sales records of the Dragon Country comics industry are basically occupied by ancient works.

But now, everyone in the Dragon Country comics world can feel that Xia Yan is killing God!
In this era when the scale of comics, novels, and animation groups is gradually decreasing with the aging of society, they are gradually challenging the records set by those popular masterpieces in the history of Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional.

Magic Circle, cyberpunk edge walker, is already the top two animation works in the history of Dragon Kingdom.

In Sword Art Online, because of the storyline serialized last month, the protagonist rubbed the alo chapter villain Xu Xiang on the ground sharply and readily.

Not only is Xu Xiang dismembered and ravaged in the game alo, Xia Yan in reality is not like in the parallel world animation, the pig protagonist Li Tongren was stabbed in the back by Xu Xiang during the process of running to find Asuna, and was almost killed by a surprise attack.

This is the main character?

The protagonist of Sword Art Online was almost attacked by scum like Xu Xiang in the real world, and even stabbed?

This plot was not pleasant to write, so Xia Yan changed it directly. Xu Xiang's sneak attack with a knife has not changed, but he attacked the protagonist, and the protagonist Li Tongren fought back in self-defense. It is not too much to beat him into a semi-cripple without injury. ?

With the blessing of this wave of refreshing plot, fans of Sword Art Online's novels have enjoyed it, and it is also very strong in sales of single volumes.

Many people went directly to the bookstore to buy a complete set of booklets as gifts, which also allowed the sales volume of Sword Art Online to exceed 400 million copies, reaching the fifth place in history.

Going forward, they are all heavyweight players in the history of Longguo light novel industry.

They are all the novel products of the period of the two-dimensional golden age of Longguo 13 years ago, when the youth population was the largest.

Sword Art Online is clearly moving forward.

The No. 19 volume-selling work in the Longguo light novel industry is "The Battle of Tiandao" created by the great light novel author Zhou Lin 730 years ago. There are a total of [-] volumes in the whole work, and the average sales volume of each volume is [-] million copies.

In the field of comics, the best-selling work per volume is the phenomenon-level comic "Dragon Magician" of Dragon Kingdom 23 years ago. There are 24 volumes in total, and the average sales volume of each volume is 610 million copies.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it doesn’t matter whether Hunter, whose first volume sales exceeded 670 million copies in the first week, or Sword Art Online, which has sold an average of 400 million copies.
Both of them have the opportunity to challenge the historical first works in their respective fields.

Because their creators are Xia Yan
The Xia Yan who created the initial D, the magic circle, and the edge walker.

In the current Two-dimensional industry, because the number of readers is not as large as before, it is too difficult to break the records set by previous works.

But Xia Yan is different. His novels, comics, and animation fields are top in the industry. He can easily mobilize his fans in the three fields to switch to each other, which to a certain extent makes up for the limitations of the times.

Xia Yan's traffic and fan base are there, and they can definitely support the two works.

The difference is just that.
Hunter this work hunter exam plot, and the plot of Sword Art Online ggo chapter
Can fans buy it and take out real money from their purses to support the booklet of Xia Yan's work.

After the sales figures of Hunter x Hunter and Sword Art Online were released this week in the entire novel and comics industry, everyone had only one thought about Xia Yan.
Can he do it?
Climb to the top of history, successfully kill the gods of the two masterpieces of "Dragon Magician" and "Tiandao War", pull them down from the throne of the first in history, and then ascend the throne as a new god!

In the current Longguo Two-dimensional industry, except for those companies that have direct competitive interests with Xia Yan, most people are no longer jealous of Xia Yan's achievements.

Who would be jealous of such a genius?

Just like in the parallel world, would ordinary people be jealous of people like Messi, Ronaldo and James?

The gap is too big, and everyone is basically looking forward to Xia Yan's achievements in Longguo.

Looking at how this young man who has not yet graduated from college, step by step, is now climbing the ladder of gods in the field of Longguo novels and comics.

Beizhou Manga Club and Liuli Book Club are now Xia Yan's direct collaborators, and the two companies are extremely active in this matter.

He directly communicated with Xia Yan that the person in charge of the company was all kinds of booing and caring for Xia Yan, and was extremely concerned about Xia Yan's creative status. He even bluntly said that if Xia Yan had doubts about the development of the subsequent plot of the work, he could temporarily stop updating for a week or two. Be sure, definitely , You have to think about the plot clearly before serializing.

Because whether it is a full-time hunter or Sword Art Online, if it is going to attack the No. [-] throne in the history of Dragon Kingdom, relying on the influence of their two publishing houses will hardly help.

You can only have a chance by relying on the quality of the plot of the work.

Another few days passed.
The third episode of the rebellious Lelouch aired.

This episode, finally, clarifies a little bit why Lelouch hates the Bunitanian Empire.

His mother was assassinated when he was a child, but his father, who was the emperor himself, did not care about it. He even took him and his sister Nunnally as hostages and sent them to the imperial island country as a proof of the alliance between the two countries.

Then, regardless of the life and death of Lelouch and Nunnally, they attacked the island country in an all-round way while they were still hostages in the island country.
This operation.
Who is not chilling?

It can only show that Lelouch's father completely treats him and Nunnally as garbage and throws them away after use.

then
In the third episode, Lelouch sneaked into the location of his half-brother, the third prince Clovis, and used his ability to order others to find out that the person who killed his mother was the prince Shuna. Queen Zell and Empress Cornelia
He shot directly and killed his half-brother with one shot.

After all, they are the ones who use themselves and their own sister Nunnally as political tools and discard them when they are used up.
Then came the plot of the third episode. From the exciting battlefield plot, it returned to Lelouch's daily life on campus.

The important female supporting role, Xia Li, and her classmate who has been out of school due to illness all year round, the red-haired girl Kallen, in that rebel organization, can skillfully manipulate huge robots, and in Lelouch's plan to kill his brother, become Lelouch Command the most elite and powerful chess pieces.
The entire third episode of the animation plot is basically a foreshadowing.

Kallen was suspicious of Lelouch's voice and identity, and Lelouch dispelled Kallen's doubts about her.
Then, at the end of the third episode, Lelouch's friend, the soldier Suzaku, was used as a scapegoat by the soldiers of the Bunitanian Empire, and he was framed as the murderer who killed the third prince Clovis.
Let Suzaku recite what Lelouch has done.

The ratings for the third episode of Rebellious Lelouch will be released the next day.

5.17%
After three episodes of this animation, the animation fans of Longguo finally understand what the word rebellion in the title of this work "Lelouch of the Rebellion" means.

"So, it is very clear that the title of the work is chosen like this. This work is a work about how Lelouch overthrew the rule of the Bunitanian Empire."

"Damn it, the old thief's work has such a strong style change?"

"Magic Girl Madoka, a pure fantasy animation, but it focuses on friendship. Edge Walker, focuses on love. Now the rebellious Lu Luxiu, directly focuses on conspiracy wars?"

"I really admire the old thief! What kind of head is he? Since his debut, has one of his works been of the same quality? From Youth Journey to Lelouch now, he really is every All works are innovating."

"But one thing to say, don't you think this is nonsense? A Bunitanian Empire as powerful as in the story, why should the protagonist Lelouch overthrow it? As you can imagine, a country like the Dragon Kingdom will To be overthrown by someone alone? That's too nonsense."

"This kind of thing, you have to look down to know! Don't draw conclusions now."

"That's right, doesn't the protagonist have the ability to manipulate other people's actions? It's impossible to accomplish such a feat simply by relying on wisdom, but with the help of wisdom and superpowers, it's not impossible to do this kind of thing, right?"

"Indeed, and watching the animation, don't get too entangled in these side details. Just like the Kallen in the third episode, she just happened to be Lelouch's classmate. How could it be such a coincidence in the real world? But the animation, That's how it is, because around the protagonist, there will be these coincidences. Therefore, it is not impossible for the author to subvert a country under the double operation of luck, coincidence and other factors that are beneficial to the protagonist, as well as ability and wisdom. "

"Come on, don't discuss such boring issues. Why bother? Anyway, if you think Lu Luxiu looks good, just keep reading. If it doesn't look good, just don't watch it."

"Anyway, I just want to ask now, will the green-haired girl who appeared in the first episode appear again? She just died like this? She died inexplicably."

"I don't know, but it should be dead, and then pass the ability to the protagonist Lelouch before death?"

"All right."

"However, Lelouch's animation is still an improvement compared to the old thief's previous animation. Although there are fans who complain about the logic of the plot, there are really not many people who feel bored after watching it and give bad reviews. Compared with the first three episodes of Magic Circle, everyone agreed that the plot was slow and procrastinated, and the public opinion that this animation will definitely hit the street is much better."

"That's true. Although I recalled afterwards that it was too simple for Lelouch to sneak into the third prince's residence, and his behavior of killing his brother was too cruel. But I have to say that when watching this animation, the feeling And the rise of senses and emotions can't be controlled, anyway, it's quite cool to watch."

"Haha, the main reason is that the radio waves are on the right track. Although Lelouch often has good movements and manners, he looks like a second-year-old, but watching animation, isn't it just watching these? Anime fans don't have a second-year-old Period? It’s normal to feel a little awkward, but on the other hand, this is also an excellent part of this work, because Lelouch’s middle school reminds everyone of his youth when he was in middle school.”

"If you say that, that's true."

"It suddenly dawned on me. I said why I felt embarrassed when I saw Lelouch's inexplicable posses and strange postures, but I couldn't help watching it. When I recalled it, I did have similar actions back then, haha."

"However, the third episode of this animation only reveals Lelouch's background and goals. Tell me, how long will this animation take? Considering that Lelouch is now poor and poor, with no money, no skills, no one, To overthrow the Bunitanian Empire from scratch, doesn't it feel impossible without seventy or eighty episodes?"

"So, it is correct to say that Lelouch's work is rumored in the animation industry as a new year?"

"Who knows? But judging from the current plot of Lelouch, it is definitely not a quarterly animation. If the old thief can clearly describe the plot of Lelouch's overthrow of Bunitania in one season and a dozen episodes, Then I will kneel down directly to him."

For a whole day, after the third episode of Lelouch was broadcast in the entire animation industry, discussions on the plot of the work began to spread on a large scale.

There are almost dozens of other animations that started broadcasting in the same quarter. If you read dozens of posts, you will not see a single one about them.

As far as the topic dominance of animation this season is concerned, Lelouch, who has only broadcast three episodes, is already undoubtedly at the level of super popular and hegemonic animation.

The ratings are only a manifestation of the popularity of the work. After the work is broadcast, the enthusiasm and quantity of fans' discussions on the topic of the work are the most important.

Looking at it now, fans of the entire Dragon Kingdom animation industry have given unanimous praise to Lelouch's performance in the first three episodes.

After all, stories like Prince's Revenge are quite new in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

The second part of the work belongs to the second part, but it is enough to look cool.

Xia Yan turned his eyes away from the comments of fans on the Internet forum, and then looked at the drafts of the development plan for Lelouch's work in various directions placed on the table.

Lelouch's animation, the production and development of peripheral products, and some copyright authorizations, etc., are all being carried out simultaneously during the broadcast of the animation.

However, the novelization and comicization of animation, etc. must also be put on the agenda.

Moreover, Lelouch's work itself is in a parallel world, and there are several theatrical versions that have to be started at the same time, and they are going to wait until the end of Lelouch's animation so that they can be released simultaneously.

Although these works are basically rubbish for making money, what should be produced still needs to be produced. After all, in the theatrical version, there are many supplementary contents to the original worldview, and it is impossible to completely abandon these things.

The great Xia Yan will simplify the content of these plot versions, and the price will be lower when it is released and sold.

Moreover, many online game companies in Longguo are still in contact with Xia Yan, for example, they want to add some characters such as Lelouch, Edgewalker, and Magic Circle to their games.

Xia Yan himself is not interested in adapting these works under his banner into money-making online games, mobile games, etc. It may make money, but it is more likely to ruin his reputation.

But Xia Yan does not refuse to have some joint activities with some successful, mature and popular games. The fans are happy, and the cooperative company is happy.

In April, halfway through like this, after the first three episodes of Lelouch's work, under the influence of Xia Yan's popularity and the quality of the work itself, the ratings have stabilized at around 5%.

but
Lelouch's animation is the kind of animation that gets better the more you watch it.

In the early stage of the plot, because the world view needs to be expanded, the plot is relatively restrained, and the excitement is not enough.

But after this.
Not the same.

After all, in the first three episodes of this animation, another soul character of this work, the heroine CC didn't even reveal her name, and the plot didn't enter the main line at all.

Xia Yan put the document away after reading it.

Now, there is only time left for this work to accumulate popularity.

Although in Xia Yan's mind, Lelouch and Magic Circle are animations of the same level, but he really doesn't want the animation industry to evaluate him as his debut or peak.

That just didn't feel right.

In any case, he had to find a way to break the record set by the magic circle the year before last.

(End of this chapter)