A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 350 New Years
In fact, because Xia Yan has produced too many excellent works before, and everyone has high expectations for each of Xia Yan's works, although Ganglian has developed various gods since the mid-stage plot, everyone has always embraced Ganglian. I have this kind of expectation, so although the ratings of the work have been climbing all the way, and the score of the work has risen from 9.2 to the current 9.8, in fact, its influence is spreading.

Coupled with the fact that the story of Slam Dunk Mitsui Shou has brought too much discussion to the industry, so the process of the steel refining story has not received much media coverage.

But the plot has been serialized to the middle and later stages, no matter how good the fans of Dragon Kingdom and the news media are, they cannot ignore the popularity and influence of Ganglian in the animation industry of Dragon Kingdom.

And the most important thing is that there is a gap in level between the steel refining work and other Two-dimensional works in the market.

Lelouch's work is already powerful enough, but its world view setting is still flawed, and the plot in many places is also more deliberate. Lelouch's performance in the plot is that he is very wise and close to a demon, not so much how smart he is Rather, it is better to say that his enemies are more or less superimposed with the halo of reducing intelligence in the plot to achieve his image.

And the depiction of politics and war in Lelouch's plot is not very deep.

But Ganglian is better in these aspects. Seeing the number of episodes now, the audience of Longguo didn't really feel how strong the protagonist's aura superimposed on the protagonist Edward in the plot of this work.

Brother Edward is indeed a very powerful alchemist, but there are many people who are better than them.

The President, Roy, Scar, the Seven Deadly Sins, and many other characters who appeared in The National Alchemist, in fact, according to the evaluation of the fans, Edward can't beat them in heads-up.

This work is not so much portraying the growth of the protagonist Edward's two brothers in alchemy, as it is depicting the world.

There are flesh and blood in it, and there are too many characters that the audience can still remember after watching it, and the plot is not far-fetched at all, and the logic of everyone's actions will also be presented.

Moreover, in the later stage of the work, it also focuses on deepening human nature and desire.

If you want to say how deeply Ganglian is involved in this field on a philosophical level, it’s not necessarily true, but in the animation theme, the depth of Ganglian’s works is much higher than other works on the market. These boring concepts are integrated into moving plots. , and then cause this group of Two-dimensional people who only like cute and cute elements to think about concepts such as life, meaning, future, and the world, even for a second. This is the excellence of Steel Refining.

Those who can't see it have already abandoned the fan in the first ten episodes in the early stage, but those who can see it.
Seeing it now, I am completely addicted to it.

Do the episodes aired every week make them happy to watch?
In fact, it's not good at all, the plot is getting heavier, and more and more characters are dying, but it can't stop at all.

And at this point in the animation serialization, the fans of Ganglian finally couldn't sit still.

"Brothers, cheer up, support Ganglian's premiere, let Ganglian surpass Lelouch!"

"Steel Refining broke Luluxiu's record again without much difference, everyone, don't relax!"

"The old thief is really, I'm really crying to death. Where is the limit of his potential? Before the steel refining started, I thought that the old thief had also fallen, and went to create a toilet paper anime about sword and magic in another world, but in the end everyone I see, I never thought that an animation of this kind of theme could be portrayed with such flesh and blood."

"Now half of the characters of the Seven Deadly Sins are dead. It should soon be progressing to the appearance of the father of the artificial human group, right? It feels like this animation has also entered the later stage of the plot."

"It seems that from the information on the official website of the old thief, Steel Refining is the plot length of sixty or seventy episodes, right? It has been broadcast for almost a year now, and it has been aired to fifty episodes. It is normal for it to end."

"Honestly speaking, I actually hope that Steel Refining will be completed as soon as possible. As we all know, there are no masterpieces in long-form works! But as long as the number of episodes is long, all those early-stage works will inevitably end up unfinished. I have watched animation for 20 years. Without exception, it is those medium-length animations that are controlled within a hundred episodes, and fans are often very satisfied after the end."

"The old thief should be able to break this example!"

"It's hard to say. I'm panicked. I'm afraid that the old thief's messy plot will lead to a decrease in the quality of steelmaking."

"Steel Refining is the way it is anyway, and it should be over in a few months. However, according to the progress of Slam Dunk, it is estimated that it will be aired for at least one or two hundred episodes."

"One or two hundred episodes, is that an exaggeration?"

"It's just such an exaggeration. Slam Dunk has been broadcast for almost forty episodes, and it is still playing against Xiangyang. It takes three to five rounds to enter the finals, and another twenty or thirty episodes will be played in the finals, and I can only say that the length of two hundred episodes is easy."

"The works created by the old thief are so long now! I feel a little uncomfortable. I used to have several new works in a year, but now a new work has been serialized for several years."

"Is not it good?"

"Of course it's good, but rather than watching [-] episodes of slam dunks, I'd rather watch [-] or [-] short animations like Rubik's Circle and Cyberpunk!"

"Fifteen and six magic circles. Ah, this?"

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"I'm speechless."

"You are whimsical!"

"If the old thief can create more than a dozen magic circle-level animations, then he probably won't be a human being. Don't be too outrageous."

"I want to see Ganglian quickly break Lelouch's score before the end. I don't want the other side to use the ratings results to make an argument when I argue with Lelouch fans in the future."

"Ganglian suffers here. The plot is a bit heavy, and it's not as popular as Lelouch's routine."

"Actually, I think Lelouch looks better, don't you? I don't know why so many people say that steel refining is better than Lelouch. As far as Lelouch's ending is concerned, what more can I say? It's just a word of God."

"How do you know that the steel refining ending will not be more magical than Lelouch? Maybe the old thief has made a breakthrough in steel refining?"

"Okay, stop arguing. There have been more and more discussions about steel refining and Lelouch's Magic Circle work recently. What's the fuss about? Aren't they all works by the same author?"

"It is estimated that by next year, the discussion on the forum will be whether Slam Dunk is the best animation in the history of Dragon Kingdom."

"I hope that this happens every year. It means that the old thief is still challenging himself to surpass himself every year. He is only 23 water. I don't want him to reach the peak like this and fall back."

At the end of the year, in the animation world, fans of Gang Lian and Xia Yan's previous works have begun to have small frictions.

Although they are all fans of Xia Yan, they are also divided into factions internally, which Xia Yan has no way to control.

And the same situation also appeared in Sword Art Online and Hunter.

Sword Art Online was compared with those god-level light novels of Dragon Kingdom in history.

As for Hunter, although the results are better than Initial D, many Initial D fans are not convinced.

And the hunter serialization time is long enough, now that the brigade chapter is over, and I am preparing to enter the Greedy Island chapter.

This work has been serialized until now, and even the fans themselves have started to quarrel.

Who is stronger, the head of the group, Kurollo or Hisoka?
How strong are the other members of the Phantom Brigade in the Hunter World?

Who is more powerful, Grandpa Qiya or the president of the Hunter Association.

Xiaojie's father, Jin Nitero, the president of the Hammer Hunter Association.

What level of strength does Kurapika's mind ability use on ordinary people?

Similar discussions often appear in long works.

There are endless debates about the combat power of characters.

These discussions in the parallel world are overwhelming on the Internet, even in the Dragon Kingdom, the same is true.

And the influence of these long-form works spread rapidly under such circumstances.

Xia Yan is not very active in front of fans and the media, but he will still pay attention to the development trend of his works.

Although he is moving, it is not the whole process of moving without change. In the works of the island country, many local customs, such as the Japanese-style shrines that will appear in it, will definitely replace the Jackie Chan-style heaven, earth, king, relatives and other specifications.
Some concepts of ghosts and ghosts reborn as Buddhas will also be replaced.

In addition, the customs and jokes in the work that belong to the island country will be directly changed to the Dragon Kingdom version, and the non-mainline sub-plots, if the Dragon Kingdom audience agrees that they are boring, they should be cut.

If all the elements in the works are completely copied, there will definitely be various problems, but fans have not complained about the few works that have been serialized until now, which shows that the audience of Longguo is generally quite adapted to the plot.

This made Xia Yan quite at ease. What he was most worried about was that the national competition in the slam dunk would not be accepted by the Dragon Country audience.

After all, Dragon Kingdom doesn't have such a thing at all. Even a bigger city in Dragon Kingdom is bigger than the island nation, so there is no such thing as a national competition.

As for the works serialized up to now, the popularity has basically stabilized.

Fans argue with each other, just like the Two-dimensionals in the parallel world who are arguing about who is more powerful in the sea of ​​dead flames, and there is no result. It's not all about ratings and sales to measure who has more influence.

Just like in the parallel world, the average sales volume of Ghost Slayer manga is much higher than that of Dragon Ball and Pirates, but are Ghost Slayer and Dragon Ball Pirates an influential work?Hunters are not necessarily comparable.

Xia Yan's several works have been serialized for a little longer now, but they are actually a bit like the competition pattern in the dead flames in the parallel world.

As the work lasts, fans will stabilize and form groups, then compare each other, quarrel, communicate, form a specific circle, and finally leave the circle.

Of course, it is just a prototype now, and Xia Yan himself knows that the length of the few works he is currently serializing is actually not particularly long, and the serialization will end in two or three years, so it is difficult to form a parallel world like Dead Sea Dragon Ball. Such a stable and huge fan circle.

In fact, the purpose is basically to rely on this in the end.

If a world-class big IP wants to be formed, one or two years of serialization time is definitely not enough. Big IPs in parallel worlds such as Sea of ​​Dead Fire, Pokémon, Marvel, Disney, etc., all span ten or twenty years, or even nearly It took a century to finally form.

Xia Yan also wants to move all these works to this world soon, and then quickly spread these IPs in Longguo and even overseas, but this will take time to incubate and brew.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan showed a wry smile on his face.
"Time!" Shaking his head, Xia Yan said to himself.

"I'm afraid I'll have to wait until I'm 30 at least before I have the chance to see these ips shine in the plane of Dragon Kingdom."

Patience is the most important thing.

It took Xia Yan seven years from the age of 16 to 23 to become number one in the Dragon Kingdom.

And if you want to go from No. 30 in the Dragon Kingdom to No. [-] in the world, it will take another seven years, and it may not be realized until you are [-] years old.

Moreover, the incubation of these big IPs is the most valuable thing in Xia Yan's creator career.

The summer animation has been established for so many years, and Xia Yan has produced so many works. Their copyright value and income combined are not as good as the fraction of Pokémon in the parallel world.

After all, it is the only work in the parallel world whose accumulative sales volume has exceeded [-] billion U.S. dollars. The Marvel series is already popular in the parallel world, but the sum of the Marvel series plus peripherals and the total sales revenue of movies is not as good as Pokémon. Dream half.

Purely from the perspective of commercial value, Xia Yan has to pay these patience and spend a lot of money every year to operate them.

"However, it feels a little boring!"

After ascending to the top in Dragon Country, he felt less and less fun in this industry.

Previously there was a target, a competitor, a company.
Now, those are all gone.

There is no creator in Longguo who will challenge him now, and not only now, but in the future, when Xia Yan continues to grow, it will be even more difficult to find such an existence.

The kind of honor, reputation and status that others may have to accumulate in the industry for a lifetime, Xia Yan has it right after graduating from university.

After tidying up his collar, Xia Yan let out a long breath.

He also knows that it must be very ignorant to have such an idea, but even people who play games will hope to have some challenging existences instead of just playing miscellaneous soldiers. It is a pity that Two In the -dimensional world, in front of Xia Yan now, no one can use the word challenge.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Yan really felt a little weird. When you can only use breaking your past achievements as proof that you are still improving, then the fun of this industry will be reduced by half for this person.

Looking away from the fans' debates on his works on the computer, Xia Yan looked at his proposal.

Publicity budget plan for Pokémon animation and games to be broadcast next year
The screenwriting department of the company is said to have recruited a person with great potential. The planning of his new work project has made his subordinates very excited. I hope Xia Yan can allocate funds to support it.
Xia Yan looked at the content and script of the submitted planning plan, and unconsciously, he was fascinated by it, and a funny look flashed in his eyes. Xia Yan thought about it, and signed and approved the plan.

Although Fullmetal Alchemist is still on the air, the production of the animation is coming to an end. Before the end, there will definitely be a big wave of publicity and funding approval for these contents.

Signed a contract with a peripheral partner manufacturer of Slam Dunk.
Sales of the first volume of animation BD of Tianyuan breakthrough.

A record-breaking report on the first-day sales of the fourth volume of Steelmaking BD animation.
If Xia Yan wanted to, he could give his subordinates full control over these things, but in that case he would be more like a capital side, paying managers to run the company, rather than being at the helm of the company's development direction.

Therefore, the necessary time spent on it every day cannot be omitted.

After reading these things and signing the names, the time came to the afternoon.

In the magic city in December, the temperature dropped sharply, and fine snowflakes floated in the sky again.

Looking out through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, Xia Yan felt a little melancholy in his heart.

He knew that the end of the year was approaching, and another year was coming to an end.

In December, the match between Slam Dunk Xiangbei and Xiangyang was still in full swing. The first half of the match lasted for almost a month. How long will the second half last?

Slam dunk fans are in pain and joy. On the one hand, they are amazed at the portrayal of the characters in the animation and the details of the game.

On the other hand, I feel that it is really painful to chase a game for two months.

As for the animation of Tianyuan Breakthrough, the protagonist has gone from the blue star to the moon, and then to the solar system, and even the protagonist's mecha has become as big as the Milky Way.I thought that Tianyuan Breakthrough and Lelouch were fans of the same type of animation. At this time, while calling Xia Yan a lie, he was also moved by Simon's spiral spirit and passion in the story.

The line "My drill bit can break through the sky!" once became a representative of passion on the Internet.

As for Hua Monogatari, the ratings have been hovering in the 5% range, but this work has quickly attracted the joy of a large number of cute and cute otaku fans in Longguo.

After all, not all Two-dimensional fans like steel slam dunk, a passionate and in-depth animation. Many people just like harem, cute, and beautiful girl elements. The more brainless the better.

The portrayal and ambiguous relationship between the protagonist and heroine of this work, and the female supporting roles have opened the eyes of these fans, and the popularity frame of the work has grown the fastest.

At various comic exhibitions, cosers of the characters of the modernization story are also springing up.

The plot of Hunter x Hunter has officially progressed to the chapter of Greed Island, and Xia Yan expects to spend a whole year serializing this chapter.

After this chapter is over, it will enter the top, most divine, and Xia Yan's most favorite ant chapter in all hunter works.

Judging from the current progress, Xia Yan hopes to complete the serialization of the Ant Chapter comics in three and a half years.

As for Sword Art Online, Xia Yan has already decided to suspend publication of this work after the uw chapter ends.

Because Xia Yan's memory about Sword Art Online is incomplete, at least the plot of Sword Art Online after the uw chapter has not been fully presented, so Xia Yan can only suspend its serialization.

But how to say, it will take another year to serialize.

So in the next year, Xia Yan will not make any big moves.

Only at the end of December, the animation film scripts of the three works were handed over to the employees of the company.

They are Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" in the parallel world, Toshi Kon's "Millennium Actress", and Makoto Shinkai's "Suzu Medo".

Xia Yan is just trying to test the original animation film market.

Howl's Moving Castle is a classic animation film in the parallel world, and Xia Yan himself likes it very much. Although there are many classic works by Hayao Miyazaki, Xia Yan started to animate this one first.

As for Toshi Kon's Millennium Actress.
It is a work that made Xia Yan feel uncomfortable for a long time after reading it. It is the same as Tomb of the Fireflies. You know it is excellent, but you just read it and don’t want to watch the second work. However, it is absolutely qualified. Appeared in Xia Yan's animation film production plan together with the moving castle.

As for Suzumeto, to be honest, there is a gap with the first two animated films, but Xia Yan chose it because he was uncomfortable with some details in the original animated film, but only after reading the derivative novel did he understand. The reason why many animated movie plots are handled that way.

To put it bluntly, in order to compete for the movie schedule in theaters, many movies will compress the time when they are released.

If a movie is three hours long, it is not bad if the theater can arrange five shows in one hall a day, but if a movie is only one and a half hours long, the theater can arrange ten shows a day to attract more movie fans, but the movie ticket price is low. Same, are you a theater owner?Which work do you like?

Naturally, in order to gain an advantage in this regard, many movies have greatly reduced the length of the movie released, resulting in ambiguity in the key information of the plot. In the end, after watching the audience, they felt that the plot connection was blunt and gave negative reviews.

Ling Ya's Journey is Xia Yan's animation work in Longguo based on his hobby. It is naturally good if it can become popular, but if it can't, it doesn't hurt.

The day after Xia Yan handed down the scripts of the three animation films, after the end of December, the New Year came.
Three days after New Year's Day, the middle-level backbones of the company's animation production department began to study the new script given by Xia Yan at home.

They are all preparing to divide the cake, and want to compete for the post of project producer of Xia Yan's new work.

As for Xia Yan, who hadn't seen him for a long time, he also got together with his girlfriend Tang Yin, Song Lingyun and Mo Ran in his villa.

After all, the three of them agreed to turn down the work during the New Year's Day
(End of this chapter)