A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 334 Propaganda and the end of the year

Although works with magic, alchemy, different worlds, time travel, heroes, demon kings, and elves are too common in the Dragon Kingdom, everyone is tired of aesthetics, but if the author ID of Fullmetal Alchemist is Xia Yan
Then everything will be different.

Rao Zhijun quickly turned on his computer and logged into the official website of Xiatang Animation.

As for why you use a computer to watch instead of a mobile phone, it is purely because the computer screen is larger and the viewing effect is better.

then
Rao Zhijun clicked on the trailer.

I took a look at the webpage information displayed in the video. At 17:[-] in the morning, there were [-] people watching this video online at the same time.
I secretly stunned Xia Yan's terrifying popularity, and soon, Rao Zhijun was attracted by a low and sad bgm voice.

The original work of Steel Refining is a manga created by Hiroshi Arakawa in the parallel world. It has two versions of animation in the parallel world.

The old version of Steel Refining is because during the animation serialization period, the manga has been interrupted due to various reasons, and the animation plot has caught up with the manga over time, so its ending was originally created by the animation production team, and the fa version released later is completely Made according to the ending of the manga.

But when it comes to the music of the two animations, Xia Yan personally thinks that the old animation is much better than the new animation.

Especially the old version of the classic episode "Brothers".

Xia Yan put it directly in this teaser video.

A soothing and slightly sad tune plays
Rao Zhijun's mind froze.

Although there are many magic-themed animations of different worlds in Longguo, most of them are funny themes.

There are very few or almost none of the animations that purely depict the combination of worldview, fighting, politics, and superpowers.

As for the first frame of Ganglian's preview animation, a sentence of bright red words emerged.

[If you want to get something, you have to give something! 】

The next screen is a passage, accompanied by a woman's narration.

[Materials required for human body training, 25 liters of water, 20 kg of oxygen, 4 kg of ammonia, 1.5 kg of lime, 800 grams of phosphorus, 240 grams of salt, 100 grams of saltpeter.]

A simple sentence, but the composition of the human body is fatal.

As a science student, Rao Zhijun could immediately understand the meaning of this passage.

Is this the makeup of human beings?

so easy.
If you just buy raw materials, you shouldn't need a thousand dragon coins.

Then the picture changed, and there were two little boys holding this pile of materials.
The two looked at them expectantly.

Materials made from the human body.
Combining the previous narration voice, Rao Zhijun roughly understood what the two little boys were doing in the story.
Human body forged, Fullmetal Alchemist?
So, these two little boys are going to use this pile of materials to make a human?
Rao Zhijun's eyes lit up, this idea is not bad.

But immediately she thought of another narration text from before.

What do you have to give to get something?
ummm
It's a little subtle!
The screen didn't give any further explanation here, and immediately a flash came to another perspective.

A magnificent kingdom, a national alchemist group, a one-eyed president, a boy with steel arms, a character hiding in an iron shell armor, a handsome man who can explode space with a flick of a finger, a vicious man with a scar on his head, fat man who knows how to eat
The human beings who died in the war, the alchemists with all kinds of strange abilities, and the youths with superb physical skills who moved and jumped in space with ghostly speed
These characters come on stage, some with a line or two, and some with a cool fight scene.

In the end, the picture freezes on a dog with melancholy eyes
Its eyes said something to Rao Zhijun in front of the camera.

【Big brother! 】

The voice seemed sad.

In the end, all the pictures came to an end, and the soaring blood light shot straight into the sky, and finally the red light condensed and turned into a red and beautiful crystal.

[Fullmetal Alchemist] A few large characters freeze.

In Rao Zhijun's pupils, at this moment, those pictures flashed just now and the touch brought by this obviously sad bgm.

A trailer basically can't see the pros and cons of an animation's plot, but a trailer can allow fans to determine the general type, style, painting style, and production level of the work.
With an average budget of 600 million yuan, each of its episodes is produced with the quality of an animated film. The production cost of two episodes is the production cost of many small and medium-cost cartoons with a dozen episodes.

Funding will bring about a qualitative change in the presentation of the screen.

Rao Zhijun's feeling after watching this trailer does not mean how good the setting of this work is, or how interesting the world view is.

Just a trailer to see what?
But this trailer gives Rao Zhijun the most direct feeling. It is eye-catching.

The music is perfect, and the picture is even more explosive.

The dubbing of the character voice actors is also full of emotions. Of course, the most important thing is the atmosphere of the work presented in the trailer.

In this way, Rao Zhijun is very sure that this work is not a clichéd plot of a hero from a different world, nor a hero from a girl, who is adventurous and funny
It is the kind of work that carefully constructs a world and then tells a story in this world.

After realizing this, Rao Zhijun regained his spirits all of a sudden.

Once again, click on this trailer and watch it frame by frame, hoping to find the approximate setting of this work before the animation starts.

And there are many people who have the same idea as Rao Zhijun.

After six o'clock in the morning, Xiatang Animation's official website was like a New Year's Eve, and before dawn in most areas of Longguo, these people had already started crazy discussions.

On the hot search lists of major Two-dimensional forums.

[Xia Yan's new work preview! 】

The related entries reached the top of the list strongly.

"So this work is the kind of bloody battle, not a funny different world animation for brushing treasures?"

"It looks like this."

"And the last scene of the trailer shows a dog and a stone. It seems that the dog and the stone will be the key to this work. Could it be that the dog and the stone will be the big boss of this work?"

"Well, although it's strange that this dog can talk, it's normal for the world of alchemists to have talking magic dogs."

"What makes me feel strange is that the two little boys at the beginning should be the male protagonists, right? When they grow up, one is a hand of steel and the other is covered in iron! A prosthetic body? Could this be called a different world? A combination of magic and cyberpunk elements?"

"Cyberpunk? It's not so high-tech. Look at the train in the trailer, what is it? Steam engine train, if you really want to say that steampunk may be more suitable. Neat punk, for example, there are still steam-powered steel arms and armor. possible."

"So it's a magic-themed animation in the age of steam engines? It feels a bit weird."

"What's weird? Isn't that nice? I find it interesting."

"In the entire one-and-a-half-minute animation trailer, 31 characters appeared. I feel that there are so many characters in this work!"

"Don't worry, it's said that Fullmetal Alchemist has more chapters than Lelouch, with only a few dozen characters? What's the big deal?"

"? How long is the steel refining? There are a total of fifty episodes in the two seasons of Lelouch."

"Maybe the old thief is planning to turn Steel Refining into a long novel."

"Ahhh! It's so sad, old thief, why don't you release this trailer, it won't start until a month later, why should I wait?"

"Although the Sword Art Online animation is still on the air, I have seen the uw chapters of the Sword Art Online novels. I have read all the animation plots in the novels, and I don't have much sense of image. Alas, I hope the time is too fast, hurry up Probably January."

"I support the old thief. In fact, judging from his work, it may be another masterpiece whose quality is not inferior to Lelouch's."

"Don't be a baby, don't be a baby. Lelouch is already a hall-level work in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry. Although I am a fan of Old Thieves, really, don't have too much expectation for this new work to surpass Lelouch. Think about it for yourself , a work that occupies the first place in the history of Longguo animation industry, how could it be surpassed inexplicably? The old thief can achieve 4.5 to 5% of Lu Luxiu's performance, and the ratings can reach [-]%, or even [-]% More than %, that's enough."

"That's right, everyone knows how it is possible to be overtaken so easily, that's Lelouch! As long as the quality of the old thief's new work is not too bad, I will support him."

"Speaking of which, with so many animations by Old Thief, Unheard Hana's ratings are the lowest, right? It seems that it was only in the early 3% back then. In fact, if Old Thief's new work can achieve Unheard Hana's results, I think it will be fine too. gone."

"Don't look down on Unheard Huaming like this. Unheard Huaming didn't invest in it at the beginning, and secondly, it didn't have a big publicity. It started broadcasting on weekdays, and it was broadcast by a second-tier TV station. It was enough to have a 3% audience rating in the current quarter. Now, I think with the blessing of the old thief's popularity, Unheard Huaming's ratings are at least 4% or even 5% or more."

"So the old thief's current popularity bonus really has a great influence on his works. The works of other creators can't compete with the old thief at all."

"People's popularity has also been accumulated little by little in the past. Those who feel that the old thief's popularity adds a lot to his works, and it is naturally unfair to compete with the old thief, no one stops them from accumulating so much by relying on their own historical works. Fans of huge works."

"That's right. I admit that with the current popularity of the old thief, a work with only 3% of the ratings may easily reach 4% of the ratings with his name on it. , the three major fields of novels have reached the top, then it is not too late for you to complain."

"Fullmetal Alchemist in January, Slam Dunk in April, Tianyuan Breakthrough in July, and Fumonugatari in October. I don't want to spend a single day at the end of this year, let's end December!"

Although Xiatang Animation Company didn't spend much money on marketing, the hot search for the teaser of Fullmetal Alchemist still became a hot topic on the major websites of Dragon Kingdom after dawn.

Young people who get up in the morning and go to work, when they get in the bus or the subway, most of them sigh involuntarily after scanning the relevant information.

Xia Yan, when will he run out of creative inspiration?
Most of the creators who can be named gods in history, after becoming famous, their new works are like constipation, and it is rare to hold back a work in a few years or even ten years.

Either retire directly, worrying about being ruined.

But like Xia Yan, Long Guo is the only top creator whose new work is about to be aired in less than half a year after Lelouch finished.

High production, high quality, hard work, rich and handsome
It's no wonder that Xia Yan can accumulate such popularity in the industry.

Xiatang animation production company.

The six work production teams in the company also got a little nervous this month.

The scale has grown to the level of Xiatang Animation, and it is no longer that kind of small studio.

Animation studios can spend a few years slowly developing new animations, but Xiatang animation cannot.

The employees' wages and capital costs are hundreds of millions a year, and the company has to keep producing new works to make money, and then to produce new works to make money again, and to develop along the way.

After Lelouch achieved great success, everyone was happy and had a brilliant few months. Now, after the original excitement subsided, it was extremely stressful.

In the entire Dragon Kingdom, tens of millions of animation fans and hundreds of thousands of fellow practitioners are staring at hundreds of them, wanting to see what kind of development curve Xia Tang animation will have after Lelouch is finished?
If you can still produce animations that are close to the quality of Lelouch, it won't be long before Xiatang Animation can catch up with this momentum, and even surpass the three major animation companies in Dragon Kingdom, becoming the number one animation production company in Dragon Kingdom .

On the contrary, could it be that the three major animation companies united with a group of peers who had been suppressed by Xia Yan in the past few years, launched a counterattack against Xia Tang Animation, and continued to defend their industry status.

Except for Xia Yan who has extreme confidence in steel refining, the others
Including the members of the company's production team, all of them are very guilty.

They are not worried that the steel chain will hit the street.

In terms of Xia Yan's current appeal, no matter how you say it, there will be a large number of diehard fans willing to support his works without thinking, unless there are three or five bad works in a row, maybe these works will have low ratings, but only from the market. Judging from sales data and ratings data, it is absolutely impossible to lose money.

What they worry about is that the performance of the work is not as good as expected.

Both Lelouch and Cyberpunk have achieved 6% ratings, so this is the work with the highest investment in Xia Yan's animation production career.
Anyway, it must have a 5% ratings.

But even if it is 5% ratings, that is already the height that no other work can achieve in the past five years except Xia Yan.

To be honest, everyone has this kind of mentality, standing on the top, afraid of falling.

Confidence in Xia Yan is one thing, but it is also natural to believe in the famous saying that prosperity must decline, and after the peak is a downhill road.
The psychology is very contradictory.

It's just that Xia Yan is too lazy to provide psychological counseling for the company.

After the time enters December, the first season of Sword Art Online animation.
It's almost coming to an end.

In the Dragon Kingdom version of the Sword Art Online animation, not many things have been deleted. The sao chapter alone has produced more than 20 episodes, and the alo chapter has also produced more than 20 episodes. The content of the novel is very likely to be retained. Therefore, this The work will not end until December, and the first season is not even finished.

However, it has been serialized for more than half a year, and the first season of Sword Art Online animation has finally come to its own ending after helping the original light novel to increase the average sales volume of 400 million volumes.

In the last episode of the first season, the ratings closed at 6.35%. On that day, the Longguo animation industry collectively boiled.

After the end of the first season of Sword Art Online, Xia Yan had no scruples, and officially started broadcasting the animation of Steel Refining throughout Dragon Kingdom.

Unlike the previous teaser video promotion, it was so gentle.

Xia Yan has invested so much in the production of this animation, and he will definitely not be stingy in publicity
Only on the third day after the end of the first season of Sword Art Online animation
Every corner of Longguo Two-dimensional industry.
The propaganda of Steel Refining is overwhelming.

(End of this chapter)