A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 323 Meetings and Directions

Xiayan Company's two new animation works are so mediocre after two weeks of broadcasting. In fact, at least half of the company's employees have been quite nervous recently.

After all, half of the company is making Lelouch animations, and the other half are all in the production project team of the two works.

Except for the magic circle, since the company's development, there has never been an animation under its command that has such a poor ratings. Moreover, these two works are promoted in Longguo under the name of Xia Yan. What Xia Yan is the producer, Xia Yan saw the promotional slogan full of praise before the broadcast, and it also whetted the appetite of fans.

But that's the reality.
I can’t say it’s a rush, after all, there is a high probability that I can still get back the money, that is
It's a bit embarrassing.

This also caused this week, when several senior executives of the production department were called to a meeting by Xia Yan, they felt very uneasy.

Xia Yan never swears in the company for several years. If he thinks you are not good enough, he will ask someone from the human resources department to interview you, dismiss him peacefully, and give him enough compensation.

However, Xiatang Animation is developing so fast now, and its scale may not have reached the No. [-] in the animation industry of Longguo, but its status and influence have already shown signs of this.

Normal people would not want to be persuaded by Xia Yan.

But a week later.
Xia Yan also only asked about their normal internal affairs of the company, but he didn't say anything about the two animations that cost 8000 million investment and only made this achievement under his name.

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When Xia Yan held a meeting two months ago, he intentionally planned to launch one or two original animation productions this spring, and Xia Yan didn't mention it anymore.

After the time arrived in late January, people inside the company actually panicked.

Lelouch's animated series has basically been produced now, only some special effects, outsourced clips, and post-dubbing are still being done.

But for the four or five hundred people in the company, it is true that everyone is facing a problem, what is the next job?
The production of the two original animations will definitely be completed in February. Needless to say, Lelouch will be completed in early February.

Next, the work of so many people in the company.
Not yet at all.

Although Xia Yan is talkative, he is not a fool. The employees themselves know that Xia Yan can't pay them empty wages.

But the results of the two original animations piloted in January were the same.

The atmosphere is indeed a bit subtle.

Xia Yan also vaguely noticed these emotions of the company's employees, but didn't explain anything.

After talking with Tang Yin before, he was also immersed in the choice of new works.

Of course, for Xia Yan, the choice of works that can be produced now is not particularly large.

There are almost no works that can completely surpass the magic circle and Lelouch.

But animation has many branches.

The Magic Circle may be the ceiling of magical girl-themed animations, and Lelouch is also one of the top works of war-themed animations.

It is also difficult for Xia Yan to find out the existence of a work that completely surpasses these two works.

However, in other branches of animation, there are still works of similar quality and at the same level.

Moreover, there are many series of works, and the length is long enough.

For example, the monogatari series, the fate series, and cl in love works, I really want to tell you.

In the pure blood animation category, Tianyuan Breakthrough, slam dunk in sports-themed works, fast-paced otaku, and when it comes to animations in the theme of bicycle racing, Xia Yan actually prefers Iron Horse Boy, but this work is relatively unpopular in the parallel world, so Xia Yan didn't think much about it.

Of course, for works like Slam Dunk and the Monogatari series, the original works are manga and light novels.

What Xia Yan originally thought was to put the two works on the agenda after the end of Hunter and Sword Art Online, and then serialize them in Liuli Book Club and Beizhou Comics Club.

But Hunter estimates that it will be difficult to serialize to the place where the original work is interrupted every three to five years. Even if Xia Yan writes quickly in Sword Art Online, the uw chapter will take about a year to write.

After thinking about it, I was too lazy to wait.

After all, what is certain is that Xia Yan’s works in the memory bank will never be reprinted in Longguo in this lifetime, not to mention more, when Xia Yanzhen is working on these works at the same time when the dead fire Sea Dragon Ball is serialized later, even if he is only responsible for writing scripts, and handing over all the painting and publicity production to his subordinates, it is estimated that he will waste at least ten years of his time.

Throughout late January, Xia Yan basically stayed in the office alone, thinking about the future work of the hundreds of people in the company.

At the end of the month, Xia Yan finally straightened out his thoughts and let out a long sigh.

He also doesn't know why the company is developing and is relying more and more on him, but if this is the truth, then Xia Yan can only accept it.

It's just that the business of cultivating original talents within the company cannot stop. After all, no one knows when a genius like Oda, Kishimoto, and Akira Toriyama will emerge on the plane of Dragon Kingdom?It is necessary to make a certain investment in this.

Instead of waiting for these geniuses to grow up, one by one clamoring to take Xia Yan as the goal and fight to defeat Xia Yan, the big devil in the industry, it is better to directly take them into the camp and contribute to the establishment of your own business empire.

Wait until early February.
After returning from the Spring Festival, the company held a regular meeting.

Twenty to seventy middle and high-level personnel from all departments of the company were present. In the spacious conference room hall, everyone looked at Xia Yan, the chairman sitting at the head of the table, Tang Yin, the second shareholder of the company, and Tang Yin, the vice chairman in charge of external business affairs, and Song Lingyun, a sweet girl who occasionally came back to the company for a stroll, and then liked to take a nap in the company office.

Xiatang Animation has been established for so many years, and everyone knows that the meeting where both Xia Yan and Tang Yin are present may not be very important.

But even Song Lingyun was called to the meeting
That thing must be extremely important.

Because with Chairman Xia Yan's character, he would never bother Song Lingyun for nothing.

Xia Yan looked at the six bound documents distributed by the assistant secretary in front of everyone.

After coughing twice, he looked at the crowd.

"Look for yourselves, it takes half an hour, and I will start talking after half an hour."

Xia Yan waved his hand, then closed his eyes and meditated.

Apart from Tang Yin, there were more than [-] people at the scene, including Song Lingyun, all of whom were dumbfounded.

She was busy writing her own novels on weekdays, and she didn't know anything about Xia Yan's business in the company during this time.

Only the tens of millions of profit dividends regularly transferred to her bank card at the end of each year reminded her that she was also the third in command of Xiatang Animation Company.

I picked up the document in my hand and looked at it
With just one glance, Song Lingyun's expression changed.

New. New work?

Come on, what are you kidding?
Xia Yan, are you human?

Your two works, Sword Art Online and Hunter x Hunter, are still being serialized, and the Lelouch animation has not yet finished playing. Where did you get the energy to make these new works?

First of all, the content of the first two documents is very simple, that is, Xia Yan plans to incubate two Two-dimensionalip works in a few years, or even more than ten years.

And will regularly invest in two works every year, producing animations, novels, peripherals, and games.
Of course, these two works are not the company's main profit targets in the next few years, and they will not even be profitable for a long time.

But the plan also said that Xia Yan firmly believed that the two works would bring huge profits to the company in a few years or even ten years.

"Pokémon?"

"Doraemon."

Song Lingyun looked at the composition of the character elements of the two works in the proposal, the yellow-orange mouse spirit and the blue and faint big fat cat.
ha?
Xia Yan, your style change is too big, right?
Ready to enter the field of children?
Song Lingyun looked at Xia Yan with a strange expression.

After all, the main force of Longguo Two-dimensional works are basically teenagers over the age of 12.

Maybe it's because Xia Yan has already felt that the teenage fan group has little room for development, so he focused on the children's group?

Song Lingyun thought about it, and she didn't pay much attention to these two works.

Anyway, the company’s money is basically earned by Xia Yan. He can spend it however he wants. It’s good to succeed in incubating two “big IPs”. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t.

Song Lingyun focused on the contents of Xia Yan's other four planning plans.

Sure enough, it was as expected by Song Lingyun.

There are three works, all of which are orthodox new works that perfectly fit Xia Yan's style.

Fullmetal Alchemist
Song Lingyun read the introduction of the planning plan, and was immediately attracted by the worldview.

equal exchange, alchemist, war, conspiracy, price
This kind of fantasy-style different-dimensional animation is very popular in Dragon Kingdom, and may even be more popular than Lelouch, because fans are more acceptable.

Then "Tianyuan breaks through Honglian Luoyan", a work with a name that breaks through the sky, just like the phrase "Our drill is a drill that breaks through the sky!" in its planning plan.

Bloody battle genre works
The style is similar to Lelouch, and there are also elements such as "mechas" in the works.

But what the hell is the introduction to this worldview?

The protagonist hits the moon from the blue star, and then from the moon to the galaxy, the galaxy cluster.
Hey, Xia Yan, your mind is also breaking through the sky. It is not bad that you can fly out of the blue star with a broken shell mecha, and you can hit the edge of the universe?Are you sure this combat power won't collapse?
But the type is similar to Lelouch, it doesn't matter, there will definitely be a lot of support from fans after the broadcast, so it is understandable for Xia Yan to create this kind of work.

There is also the "Story Series".

That's right, it's directly stated in the plan, this plan is a series, divided into Hua Monogatari, Huo Monogatari, Cat Story, Flower Story, Ping Monogatari, End Monogatari, Calendar Monogatari, etc.
Fantastic love daily style works.

Song Lingyun looked at Xia Yan again with weird eyes.

So when Xia Yan created new works, did he come up with so much content in one go?
It’s just that in the planning stage, so many plots have already been thought of. If all the content in the planning plan is realized, this Monogatari series may become a long-form animation with a total length of more than [-] episodes, which will be twice as long as Lelouch.

So the question remains, Xia Yan, you have spent the past two years creating Lelouch, Hunter and Sword Art Online at the same time, why do you still have the energy to conceive the plots of these works?
Are you really human?

As for the last sports-themed work project.

"Slam Dunk".
Upon hearing the name, Song Lingyun felt that this work should be meaningless.

Of course, people cannot be judged by their appearance, and animation cannot be named by its appearance.

But she has known Xia Yan for five years, and she has never seen Xia Yan go to exercise. In her spare time, she mostly goes to the beach to catch fish or play games.

A person who does not exercise creates a basketball animation.
Song Lingyun is not optimistic.

She is not one of Xia Yan's fans, she has god-like confidence in Xia Yan.

Song Lingyun pays attention to basic logic, Xia Yan is indeed very powerful, but it is impossible for him to create top-level works in any field, genre, or direction
Of course, after thinking about the existence of the initial D, I feel a little unconfident about this idea.

Others don't know, but Song Lingyun knows it.

When Xia Yan started to serialize Initial D, his driving skills were terrible, but it didn't seem to affect Xia Yan's creation.

So far, everyone at the meeting has basically understood Xia Yan's intentions for this meeting.

For the two concept works of Pokémon and Doraemon, Xia Yan is planning to set up two production teams to be responsible for their IP creation, establishment, incubation, and operation.

At least five years to start, will continue to invest money, do not expect short-term profits.

So everyone doesn't really care, five years?
Let's talk about what happened five years later, who knows if the IP of the two works can be successfully hatched by then?What if it fails?

These two works must not waste time on them. If we really want to set up an operation and production team, no one wants to be in charge of the daily work of this team.

After all, in Xiatang Animation, everyone's bonuses are positively related to the profitability of the project team they stay in. In a project team with an uncertain profit level and such a long incubation time, it will bring great uncertainty to their future income.

All the people present in the company were not interested in these two works.

On the contrary, it is for Fullmetal Alchemist, Slam Dunk, Tianyuan Breakthrough Honglian Luoyan, and the four works of the Monogatari series.
Everyone's eyes are shining now.

Boss, this is a blast!

Stimulated by the rubbish results of the company's two original animations?

It's only been less than half a month in the company's retreat, how can you come up with these four ministerial works?

Xia Yan looked at everyone's expressions, and probably guessed what these people were thinking.

Basically, in the middle and late February, the company's hundreds of employees who are directly responsible for animation production will complete all the work in hand.

If possible, Xia Yan doesn't want to come up with so many works at once, so for him, even if he is only responsible for the creation of the script of the work, it will be a very tiring job.

But there is no way, the company's booth has already been set up so big, Xia Yan can only bite the bullet.

Moreover, Xia Yan's selection of works is also very targeted. These works are basically medium-length works, which can at least meet the work tasks of the company's employees in the next year or two.

Sighing, Xia Yan said.

"The situation is as it is. I am not asking for everyone's opinions in this meeting. I am directly informing you that these six works will be your work tasks for a long time to come."

"A sports theme, a fantasy, a mecha battle, and a fantasy love. Plus the IP operation and incubation of the two concept works of Pokémon and Doraemon."

"The company will be divided into six project teams this week, so this meeting is for everyone to discuss how to set up the project team, the composition of the personnel, and who are the leaders of the six project teams," Xia Yan said.

"What's more. These six works are all extremely valuable works, but for sure, the commercial value can vary. I hope everyone will take it seriously and don't underestimate any project." Xia Yan stopped talking.

He could see that his subordinates were not very interested in Pokémon and Doraemon.

But in fact, if you really joined the creation and operation departments of the two works, that is, the members of the initial production team of these two works. Ten or twenty years later, the benefits that will be brought will actually be the greatest.

However, Xia Yan was too lazy to explain this kind of thing, and he couldn't explain it clearly. If he forced it to explain, his subordinates would probably think he was bragging.

A meeting is a discussion, a discussion involves interests, and the next step is to fight.
A company with hundreds of people, even Xia Yan cannot avoid these situations from happening.

A few minutes later, the entire conference room was in chaos.

Usually everyone is friendly, but now it is not those original projects, it is an animation project created by Xia Yan himself, if you don't argue at this time, you are a fool.

Xia Yan and Tang Yin, the three major shareholders of Song Lingyun, watched the quarrelsome arguments of their subordinates with silent expressions.

Looking at it this way, I'm afraid we won't be able to discuss this matter for a week or two.

Song Lingyun let out a long breath and looked at Xia Yan
At this time, it happened that Tang Yin was also looking at Xia Yan.

Both of them had the same emotion in their eyes.

Shock
I know Xia Yan is powerful, but I really didn't expect it to be so outrageous.

Six works plan?

He is going against the sky!
(End of this chapter)