A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

After the episode of Slam Dunk was aired, the controversy on the Internet about whether the slam dunk went off topic and Xia Yan's portrayal of the sports plot would look good has basically disappeared.

It took two months for Slam Dunk from the time it was broadcast to when the controversy of the work disappeared and it was initially recognized by fans.

But in fact, in Longguo, the development process of slam dunk is similar to that in the parallel world.

After all, Slam Dunk’s popularity was sluggish in the early days of parallel world manga serialization, because the author Inoue didn’t intend to draw any orthodox basketball manga at all. He told his editor directly before the serialization that basketball was just a cover. Campus youth comics in basketball jackets.

Because bad comics were popular in the island country at that time, he also followed the trend and drew the protagonist as a bad boy, and because the popularity in the early stage of the serialization was too low, he also added more funny plots.

Even so, in fact, the popularity of comics has always been tepid, and if it continues like this, it may be cut in half. Since playing basketball can't make comic fans emotional, then let the protagonist fight instead of playing basketball.

That's why there is a plot of Mitsui Shou Stadium fighting against the whole Xiangbei team.

Relying on the outstanding performance of Hanamichi Sakuragi, a basketball rookie and master fighter in this chapter, the popularity of slam dunk has really started to rise, and there are signs of fire.

In the last chapter, at the end of this chapter, Mitsui Shou relied on the phrase "Coach, I want to play basketball!" The fire subsided, detonating the emotions of comic fans, and the road to the popularity of the original slam dunk comics began from here.

Interestingly, in the process of serializing this chapter, Inoue originally wanted the character of Mitsui Shou to leave the scene quickly after being crushed by Sakuragi, and to be a character who only appeared in a few episodes of the manga.

However, during the serialization process, Inoue felt the author's reluctance for Mitsui Shou, a bastard, for the character in the novel. On a temporary basis, he came up with the idea of ​​letting him also play basketball.

So in Longguo, Xia Yan was mentally prepared before the slam dunk was broadcast, thinking that if the slam dunk wanted to become a real hit and get the approval of fans, it would also have to wait until Mitsui Shou appeared on the stage.

As for Slam Dunk's current ratings being so high, that's only the result of Xia Yan's huge popularity flow, not that the funny plot in the early stage of Slam Dunk will really be liked by so many people in Longguo.

But Xia Yan did not expect that the scene of the exchange match with the Lingnan team would cause such a strong reaction from the audience.

I thought that fans would like this plot, but I feel that the fans' praise is a bit higher than expected.

But that's a good thing.

But now, in the serial animation, after the exchange match between Xiangbei team and Lingnan team, soon
In the early stage of Slam Dunk, the most classic Mitsui Shou Stadium vs. basketball team will be staged.

But before that, for many of Xia Yan's fans, many of them are now interested in basketball first.

There is no NBA league on the plane of Dragon Kingdom. Of course, basketball has a market abroad, but in Dragon Kingdom, the popularity is definitely much lower than in the parallel world.

Many people know about this sport, but they are very vague about the rules. Now Xia Yan's fan comment area has begun to look like a basketball knowledge forum.

"Going to learn about basketball, I feel that the rules are quite interesting."

"Although basketball is not very popular in Longguo, don't you think you don't even know the rules of basketball after seeing more than a dozen episodes of Slam Dunk?"

"I don't know the rules of basketball. I thought that the old thief was creating a youthful and funny animation with basketball as a gimmick until the scene of the exchange game between Xiangbei and Lingnan. Basketball is just a way for Huadao to chase girls. The real plot The main line is that he is chasing Haruko. It’s just that I was a little touched when I saw the scene where Huadao lost the game. To be honest, I don’t feel much about watching sports games in reality. I don’t know the rules of basketball games in animation. Tears."

"So this is the charm of Two-dimensional works! Character characterization, inner growth, you, as an audience, know everything from God's perspective."

"At first, I thought the game of a group of high school students was interesting, but now, I am really interested in the so-called national competition in that fictional island country and fictional region, so I hurried to improve my basketball knowledge."

"Speaking of which, the sports works created by the old thief are so unpopular. Car racing and basketball are all unpopular sports in Long Country."

"But it is popular in foreign countries, especially racing. Overseas racing athletes earn a lot of money, but in Longguo, everyone thinks that sport is too dangerous and is not encouraged."

"I hope the plot behind the slam dunk is more like a basketball game. Although the flower arrangement in front of it is quite interesting, I still feel that the basketball game is more interesting."

"Don't talk about it, brothers, I will continue to watch foreign basketball games to learn the rules of basketball, and try to at least fully understand the game when Slam Dunk is broadcast next week."

In fact, with Xia Yan's current popularity, Slam Dunk is basically well-known in the two-dimensional industry, and the ratings are actually the most important factor affecting the quality of the plot.

After all, if everyone on the Internet unanimously praises the recent plot, then the number of people following Slam Dunk will definitely increase.

Feedback from fans in the market was first passed on to Xiatang Animation Production Company.

This also caused everyone in the slam dunk animation production team to be in high spirits.

At the same time, the pressure also came to the "Tianyuan Breakthrough" animation production team.

The two new works of Xia Yan that started broadcasting this year.

Slam Dunk started broadcasting for a quarter, and finally gained initial approval from fans.

Not to mention Ganglian, which has been serialized to 22 episodes, has been recognized by fans as a half-masterpiece in advance.

Although it is not possible to see the ratings surpassing Magic Circle or Lelouch in the near future, the strength of the work can be seen from the fact that it has not dropped 6% ratings since its broadcast.

And slam dunk.
Unsurprisingly, in just a couple of weeks, the ratings should reach the 6% mark.

This must have put a lot of pressure on the "Tianyuan Breakthrough" animation production team.

Of course, they are not the only ones under great pressure, and the Longguo animation industry is even more uncomfortable this season.

Xia Yan's "Steel Refining" and "Slam Dunk" took the first and second place in this quarter's animation popularity list, and it's fine if the ratings are basically stable at 6%.

The anime adaptation of Initial D, which is currently on the air, is also approaching this data.

If you look at other companies in the animation industry, you will find that the current animation industry is too layered.

As long as Xia Yan's work is on the air, the ratings will be more than 5% at a time, and more than 6% at a good point.

However, the best works of other companies are at the level of 4% ratings, and it is difficult to even reach nearly 5% ratings.

In the past five years, apart from Xia Yan's works, only one animation has achieved 5% ratings.

But this upper limit for other animation companies is now only the lower limit for Xia Yan.

The Longguo animation community now basically recognizes Xia Yan's active role in the animation industry, and even the title of No. 1 in history, but this gap still makes many people in the industry cry.

Xia Yan is only 22 years old now, he is still young and full of energy, there is no sign of exhaustion of creative inspiration at all.

Could it be that he will rule the Dragon Kingdom animation industry for 30 years, or even 50 years?
And it's not just the animation industry, the manga and novel industry is now basically dominated by his Hunter and Sword Art Online, and there is no rival in the industry so far.

Sword Art Online is okay. Although the animation has started broadcasting, the popularity of the novel itself has reached its peak, and the animation has not brought much sales help to the novel.

Hunter is different
The brigade chapter is now progressing to the later stage. The plot comes to the scene where Kurapika locks up the brigade members with his telekinetic ability, the violent male murderer Wojin, and kills Wojin with chains at the end of the month. The hatred of the whole family being massacred by the other party, on the other side, is the guilt and pain of killing for the first time.
This chapter raised Kurapika's popularity to an extreme level, and he gave birth to millions of fans in Dragon Kingdom. Now the major comic exhibitions are full of men's clothing girls cos Kurapika voices and figures.

The sales of manga booklets are also steadily approaching the 700 million mark.

In these three fields, Xia Yan's current popularity and achievements are already far behind those of his contemporaries.

Xia Yan, has now gradually begun to become the existence of the great devil and the apex of the industry in the minds of thousands of creators of Two-dimensional works in Longguo.

Similarly, under the influence of Xia Yan's short six-year rising career, there are now a large number of young people who strive for their life goals as novelists, cartoonists, and animation creators in the group of junior high school and high school students in Longguo.

Some of them regard Xia Yan as an idol, and hope to work together with Xia Yan one day, but there are also some people who worship Xia Yan, but are determined to defeat Xia Yan in this industry one day.

This is the same reason that children will set their goals to become the world's richest man. They have no ill will towards Xia Yan, but Xia Yan is No. 1 in the industry, so they will naturally have the idea of ​​surpassing Xia Yan.

And in this part of the group, many people also like another creator, Song Lingyun.

As another novel genius from the same school as Xia Yan, Song Lingyun has been covered by Xia Yan since her debut, but likewise, she is still catching up with Xia Yan, which also moved many people.

In late June, Magic City TV1 featured Xia Yan and Song Lingyun as the protagonists, and interviewed Xia Yan and Song Lingyun, as well as their high school alma mater, class teacher, and classmates after a documentary was edited and broadcast.
It also triggered a huge response from the market.

Xia Yan, just like this person has gone farther and farther on the road of the big devil in the industry, and Song Lingyun, among his peers in the novel industry, has the deepest intersection with Xia Yan, and can touch Xia Yan's presence a little bit.

And so June passed.

time, into july
Because of Xia Yan's daily routine of the slam dunk plot, the deletion of the main plot, and the deliberate acceleration of the plot rhythm in the animation, so that the weekly updated plot is full of hard work, and the slam dunk plot progresses very quickly.

It has quickly entered the plot of Mitsui Shou's appearance.

Of course, in the original work, after Xiangbei lost to Lingnan, Miyagi (Miyagi Liangtian), one of the five tigers in northern Hunan, played first.

Then Mitsui Shou came out to make trouble.

In this regard, Xia Yan will not omit the plot, but will compress it a bit, and relatively abandon the funny relationship history of Huadao and Miyagi, the plot of the bitter confidant and then playing tricks, and quickly enter the main line.

So for fans and viewers of Dragon Kingdom.
Their perception is that after the game between Xiangbei and Lingnan in the animation, inexplicably, suddenly the plot stopped drawing basketball, and actually went to draw the life history of the protagonist's bad boy.

In the island country in the parallel world, because of the popularity of unscrupulous juvenile comics in the island country at that time, works such as I am a big brother, hot-blooded colleges and so on emerged in an endless stream. Naturally, it was no problem to create a plot like a slam dunk, which was the mainstream at that time.

But in Longguo, bad boys must be belittled by everyone. Before the plot was bad and funny, fans just looked at each other and smiled. They just took the bad elements as a label to highlight the funny role of Huadao.

But after Mitsui Shou played
The funny plot has also decreased, and the plot has become heavy.

and
Looking at this plot, it seems that it will really become a group fight between bad boys and the basketball club.

The development of this plot has exceeded the imagination of slam dunk fans.

"So the old thief is really planning to make a fighting animation? This is not right, a slam dunk animation."

"Don't be fooled, you old thief. The ratings of the slam dunk have just reached the 6% rating mark, and a lot of female fans have been attracted by Liu Chuanfeng and Xiandao. What kind of fighting plot are you doing? Isn't this letting the female fans run away?"

"Mitsui Hisashi is really disgusting. This character, a villain, dare not challenge Miyagi one-on-one. Even if Miyagi beats Miyagi in a group and is hospitalized, he is so embarrassed to trouble Miyagi after he is discharged from the hospital? This kind of person is also Could it be a high school student?"

"Let me tell you the truth, Miyagi and Mitsui Hisashi, if they had gang fights and beat each other into the hospital in my high school, they would have been expelled. It's fine if they haven't been expelled, but they are still planning to fight after they leave the hospital? What about that?" In a country called an island country, the school management is so loose?"

"I also can't understand the way of thinking of the old thief. It's enough to draw basketball well. Why do you want to portray the plot of bad boys? Is it really drifting?"

"There's nothing wrong with a bad fight, right? I enjoyed watching it!"

"It's not that you can't fight, it's just that this is a basketball animation. You can understand the plot in the early stage, so it's used as a portrayal of the protagonist's character. Now that it's just entered the main story line, the basketball game is obviously created so beautifully. I think most slam dunk fans will definitely What I want to see is Xiangbei's revenge against Lingnan, so it's always weird to portray delinquent teenagers fighting in the middle."

"Well, there is a feeling of creating where you want to go. The whole work seems to have a main line, which is the national competition. In fact, fifteen episodes have been broadcast so far, and the whole process is very scattered. The protagonist has fifteen episodes so far. Only Scored a goal, that is, scored a goal in the game against Lingnan. This is a basketball animation, brother, it is hard not to complain about the basketball animation in which the protagonist scores a goal in episode [-]."

"I'm laughing, you guys are so black, old thieves? Slam Dunk's ratings have broken 6% now. You think the plot is not good, but it doesn't affect the ratings of Slam Dunk, which is getting higher week by week."

"So just now, I have a hunch that if the slam dunk plot develops in the direction of unscrupulous teenagers fighting, fans will probably leave. At least I am sure that this animation is aimed at slam dunks and masters, not the words Aim at bad boys and fight these elements."

At the beginning of July, the plot of slam dunk once again entered the trend of "off the main line" in the eyes of fans, which caused a new round of quarrels among the fan community.

In the same week, at [-] o'clock on Friday night, the "Tianyuan Breakthrough" animation was broadcast.

The ratings of the first episode are 5.03%
As a mecha combat animation like Lelouch, Tianyuan still has some attention, and has inherited the popularity of many Lelouch fans.

However, compared with Slam Dunk and Steel Refining, they are definitely not as good. In the entire animation market, Slam Dunk and Steel Refining each take [-]% of the popularity traffic, and the animated version of Initial D and Tianyuan Breakthrough each take [-]%. The remaining [-]% ​​of the discussion is divided among other animation works in the same quarter.

This is the current autumn pattern in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

(End of this chapter)