A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 322 Action
In the plot of Lelouch's second season, after Xia Li's death, it can be clearly felt that the rhythm has accelerated.

To put it clearly, it is to start advancing the main line.

In the previous plot, Lelouch made the Black Knights under him shrink and grow, wooed the Chinese Federation and other helpers, and had small-scale friction with the Bunitanian Empire. Strictly speaking, the promotion of the main plot was very limited.

It can be seen from the fact that the plot can still broadcast about Lelouch's campus life.

How can there be a big leader who is fighting for hegemony in the world, and he still hangs out with a group of high school classmates on campus, but after the death of Xia Li in episode No.13
Lelouch's campus plot, which was criticized by fans, is finally gone.

Xia Li's death not only greatly stimulated Lelouch and accelerated the counterattack against the Bunitanian Empire, but also caused Suzaku to wonder whether Lelouch recovered zero memory and whether he was the mastermind behind killing Xia Li. doubt.

Then there is Lelouch's No.15 episode
Because Lelouch hates his father's brother, he is also an existence named vv who has the ability to give others geass.

He and CC drove the mecha to attack him, but in the end, before Lelouch, his father took away the "coad" ability of his brother VV, which can give others the geass ability, and set a trap to trap Lulu build.

And Lelouch's father is also planning to take away the "coad" ability possessed by CC.

In order to save Lelouch, cc used himself as the price in exchange for the chance of Lelouch to escape.

In the end, Lelouch's words to CC at the critical moment awakened CC's power to survive, and CC escaped with Lelouch afterwards.

But cc also lost his memory because of the interference of Lelouch's father's power.
All in all, Lelouch's No.14 and [-] episodes are very fast-paced. The content of these two episodes has promoted and revealed the secrets of Lelouch's worldview, which can be said to be more than the thirteen episodes before the second season. .

When the plot started to work, the fans naturally bought it, especially in episode No.15 when cc lost his memory and substituted himself into the time when he was still a slave hundreds of years ago, which to a certain extent satisfied the fantasies in the hearts of some ccs.

So after Lelouch No.15 was aired, the ratings reached the 6.50% mark again.

The repeated jumps in Lelouch's ratings data, and to be honest, there is only this gap from the magic circle's historical ratings record of 6.51%, which also caused waves in the hearts of the entire animation industry.

Can your tm be broken?Give it a good time.

I thought you couldn't do it, the ratings dropped, and suddenly this came out again.

This 0.01% gap has been impacted twice.

On the other side, the second episode of Sword Art Online
The same is the steady increase in ratings data.

The ratings of the second episode closed at 5.61%
Judging from this situation, I am afraid that in this quarter, the ratings will break through the 6% mark, and even if the quality of the later episodes passes the test, it may not be able to compete with Lelouch in the Spring Festival market.

On Xianliu Animation, all members of the animation production team can say that they have been in a daze for the past two weeks.

The ratings score of Sword Art Online is an absolute historical score for Xianliu animation.

Although due to cross-copyright reasons, a considerable part of Sword Art Online's BD, peripherals, and overseas broadcast costs have to be paid to Xia Yan and Liuli Book Club, but even the remaining profits can be predicted to be extremely considerable. numbers.

During this week, members of the animation production team of Sword Art Online frequently appeared on the major variety shows of Dragon Kingdom.

How many chances do people have to become famous in a lifetime?At this time, you must put on enough force.

As for the animation industry, after seeing that the ratings of the second episode of Sword Art Online can still increase to the same level as the first episode, almost all practitioners sighed in their hearts.

"What does this mean? It means that the popularity of Sword Art Online, Lelouch, Magic Circle, Cyberpunk and other works has nothing to do with the quality of animation production. It is all due to Xia Yan's script and popularity. score."

"In the past, Xia Yan's black fans would say that Lelouch's good performance was due to the production cost of nearly 20 million yuan, but now the first season of Sword Art Online has more than 8000 episodes, and the production fee is only 5 million yuan, and the ratings are also broadcast. break [-]%"

"In fact, this kind of thing doesn't need to engage in this kind of control group. We all know that Longguo University has invested a lot in animation, not to mention [-] million. In history, there are animations with an investment of [-] million. I haven't seen that animation achieve such a result. .”

"That is, Magic Circle, as the animation that holds the ratings record in Dragon Kingdom, had an initial investment of more than 1000 million. The popularity of a work has something to do with the investment, but the popularity of Lelouch is not achieved by throwing money at it. Yes. The funniest thing is that I spent more than 1000 million yuan to buy the broadcasting slots of the Imperial TV Station. Perhaps it was because of this incident that Xia Yan felt that it was too bad at the beginning, so the next few masterpiece animations were all broadcasted by Shanghai TV1. .”

"I feel that in the Longguo animation industry, Xia Yan is now a detached existence in the circle. Xianliu animation can also produce a work with a viewership rating of more than 5% at the beginning of the broadcast? What kind of international joke are you making? The three major animation companies are probably blown up."

"Who told the three major animation companies to join forces to suppress Xia Yan when he was rising? I heard that the three major animation companies were originally interested in changing Sword Art Online, but Xia Yan vetoed it with one vote and directly told Liuli Book Club that if The three major acceptances, he would rather Sword Art Online never adapt the animation and would not sign the contract."

"real or fake?"

"Of course it's true, I've heard of this too."

"This is the confidence of a writer of short and light novels, the ability to negotiate terms with book publishers."

"However, he might as well make Sword Art Online into an original animation from the very beginning, so that he can earn more, and he doesn't need to cross-hold the copyright with Liuli Book Club. In fact, he has the ability to do it alone."

"Actually, it's about the same. Sword Art Online is suitable for serialization of light novels. Although Liuli Book Club will have some copyrights in the hands of the book club, most of the income from the work will still go to Xia Yan. Besides, the income from the separate volumes of Sword Art Online is completely Not losing the benefit of adapting the animated version, the trouble is a bit more troublesome, but purely from the point of view of income, Xia Yan is definitely not at a loss."

"With Sword Art Online testing the waters in the front, it will be much easier to broadcast the adaptation animation of Initial D later. Depending on the situation of Initial D, I am afraid that the adaptation animation will also be broadcast in the second half of the year."

"And then there's Hunters Full-Time. Xia Yan's market appeal is so strong now, it's hard to imagine what will be achieved after the adaptation of Hunters Full-Time is broadcast."

The great success of the launch of Sword Art Online has caused people in the entire animation industry to bring the topic to Initial D and Hunter x Hunter.

Xia Yan's two works in a row, Lelouch and Cyberpunk have achieved good results, even Sword Art Online seems to be on the way to a big explosion.

At a time when other works in the Longguo animation industry were still rated as high-quality products with 3% ratings and 4% ratings as a hit, Xia Yan's animation did not start broadcasting with ratings lower than 5%.

This too obvious fault lead made Xia Yan's colleagues in the animation industry not only smile bitterly, but also wryly.

There is no way to catch up.

This is no longer the performance data that can be explained simply by the quality of the work.

The current Xia Yan is a traffic monster with the support of a terrifying number of fans of Dragon Kingdom's top two-dimensional works such as Sword Art Online, Magic Circle, Cyberpunk, Initial D, and Hunter x Hunter.

If Sword Art Online was an animation produced by a new screenwriter from Longguo, it would be considered good if the ratings could break 4% at the beginning of the broadcast, but because of the name of Xia Yan, it can easily break 5% or even grow to 6%.

In the next week, the media in the Longguo Two-dimensional industry commented on the animations in the spring schedule, and Xia Yan's words became the focus of the news again as expected.

At this time, Xia Yan actually didn't pay too much attention to the results of the two works.

Instead, he paid attention to the two original animations produced by Xia Tang Animation Production Company this quarter.

But well.
The opening scores of the first episodes of the two animations were 1.73% and 2.16% respectively.

The results are ranked at the upper-middle level among the animations in the spring schedule of Longguo.

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Many people in the company are used to the 5% to 6% ratings of Xia Yan's works, and seeing these original works of their own company is like this.
Many people's expressions are unstoppable disgust.

Although Xia Yan was mentally prepared for this, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

According to Xia Yan's idea, what he hopes is that Xia Tang Animation Production Company will gradually get rid of its dependence on Xia Yan in the next few years or even ten years. , like the three major animation production companies.
But judging from the results of this experiment, he invested 300 million in these two original animations, and there is a high probability that he will save his capital.

If Xia Yan is excluded from this company, Xiatang Animation is currently second-rate in Longguo.

"Oh..." Xia Yan lay back on his back.

Tang Yin, who was wearing a black dress and had long black silk legs, came in. Seeing Xia Yan's expression, and looking at the documents on Xia Yan's desk, she could guess what he was thinking.

"Okay, don't be greedy. Think about the three major animation production companies. When I was young, they were a well-known animation company in Longguo. It took more than 20 years of development to become the industry leader. How many years do you think our company has achieved? Four years of hard work. Not at all." Tang Yin put the documents that Xia Yan should deal with in the afternoon on his desk, and then sat on the sliding chair next to him.

"I know the truth, but that's it."

"What is it?" Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan.

"You are only 21 years old, why are you more impatient than my father? He is 50 years old, and the film and television animation production company that has been established for 30 years is now in scale, and its revenue capacity is not as good as half that of our Xiatang. It's a genius."

Xia Yan thought for a while, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

"You're right. I can't hope that Xia Tang Animation will become a world-class animation production company in two or three years. Although the company's revenue level is very good, its own original ability and hematopoietic ability can only be achieved slowly. develop."

"And Xia Yan, you have to be clear." Seeing Xia Yan's attitude, Tang Yin hesitated and said.

"You can't have too high demands on the group of people under your hand. They are indeed first-class experts in the animation industry, and they are talents our company has spent a lot of money to poach. But compared with you, they can only Use mediocrity to describe it. If you expect them to spend a few years, ten years to create original works like Lelouch and Magic Circle, then I can only say that you probably won’t see that day.”

Xia Yan looked at Tang Yin.

"During the decades when the Dragon Kingdom animation industry has flourished, there has only been a monster like you, Xia Yan. In this industry, there is no other person like you." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan with her eyes, and said softly. .

Xia Yan was taken aback when he heard the words, thought for a while, and then let out a long breath.

Seeing this, Tang Yin stopped the topic.

In fact, she also understands Xia Yan's thoughts. What Xia Yan essentially wants to build is an excellent large company, not a large studio that only serves him personally.

It's a pity. The reality is very skinny.

Xia Tang animation left Xia Yan, it is indeed at this level.

"Speaking of Xia Yan, Lelouch's animation has almost been produced, and the company has one or two hundred people who have nothing to do now. Are you going to let them continue to create originals?" When the topic came to this point, Tang Yin Also took the opportunity to say.

Previously, Xia Yan's idea was that after Lelouch finished, let his subordinates play freely for half a year and a year, so that he could take the opportunity to travel and spend honeymoon with Tang Yin's couple.

Xia Yan, who has been in college for four years, is almost driven crazy by his studies and work, and wants to relax.

But at this stage
If you really let your subordinates play freely, then Xia Yan has to be prepared to lose money.

Xia Yan's depression also partly stems from this.

"Okay, don't waste time." Xia Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"I understand as soon as you say it. Maybe I think too much. I always think that if there are any talents in the company that can't be tapped, they will come out to help me support the company's business. I will find ways to find things for the employees to do. Yes, this is the result of investing 8000 million in two animations? There is still a risk of loss, I might as well do nothing and put the money in the bank.”

However, after Xia Yan has gone through these years, he no longer has much interest in making short stories like before, quarterly animation.

These works are short and seriously occupy Xia Yan's energy. Xia Yan has to check the animation from the script, character design, music, storyboard, to the review of the completion of the production. Every time a new work is created, these processes have to be repeated. again.

As for the long animation, relatively speaking, Xia Yan can save a lot of energy, just like Lelouch animation, the staff basically knew Xia Yan's style and production requirements for this work, without Xia Yan's supervision, it was completed. The quality can satisfy Xia Yan.

Tang Yin's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and she asked curiously.

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's really difficult to arrange work for hundreds of people. Let me think about it. I'll try to produce a full-length work. Otherwise, I have to think about their work issues every quarter. I am also troubled. A company with hundreds of people, It feels like I have become a nanny." Xia Yan said.

"Long animation?" Tang Yin blinked.

I understood what Xia Yan meant.

But the long animation.
"You don't seem to have created a long-form work before. The longest one is Lelouch, but the first and second seasons add up to only forty or fifty episodes."

"Not in animation, but in the field of comics and novels, isn't Hunter and Sword Art Online the same?" Xia Yan laughed.

"Don't worry, I know my current position in the industry, I won't blow up the brand by myself, and many things have to start planning."

"Layout?" Tang Yin's eyes were puzzled.

"what are you saying?"

"It's hard to explain it to you now, but you'll know later."

Xia Yan said.

After all, Xia Yan is very clear that in this world's two-dimensional industry, I am afraid that he will have to deal with it for decades in the future.

It is definitely best for some works to be brought out early to accumulate popularity.

For example, Pokémon, Fatty Blue, Marvel's real two-dimensionalip commercial masterpieces, Lelouch, and the magic circle are not yet ranked.

After all, the work is short and the duration of influence is not enough.

However, the accumulation of popularity of works such as Pokémon, Fatty Blue, and Marvel is not useful in a day or two, at least it is a few years, and the unit is more than ten years.

Xia Yan can start to make these works come out gradually, but at least for a long time in the future, he has to invest a lot of money to protect the dissemination of these works, so that maybe in the next few years, ten years, or decades from now Great profits were made on these works.

In layman's terms, it means spending money to hatch golden eggs at this stage.

Fortunately, Xiayan Company has accumulated enough now and is capable of incubating these golden eggs.

It's just that at this stage. The company still has to rely on Lelouch and other works to make money and grow.

So Xia Yan can't accept that he invested 8000 million yuan in two animations, and the ratings of 1% and 2% are a waste of time. This kind of investment rate of return can't support Xia Yan's desire to develop a two-dimensional business empire. idea.

The long works that Xia Yan and Tang Yin talked about are definitely not Pokémon, Marvel, etc.
At Xia Yan's current level, it is difficult to produce ordinary works. After all, the quality is not enough, and he does not want to show his flaws and make those black fans laugh at him.

What Xia Yan can show must also exist in the parallel world, on the same level as Lelouch and other works.

Such as steel refining, Tianyuan breakthrough, cl and so on.

Of course, the company also has the need to develop in the field of animated films and short animations, and works such as The Realm of Nakong can also be made into a series of animated films.

With a lot of complicated thoughts in his brain, Xia Yan gradually fell into thinking.

(End of this chapter)