A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 359 Preheating
Judging from Xia Yan's current influence, it would only take a day or two for any news of his new work to spread throughout the Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional circle.

Even the film and television industry of Longguo was shocked.

After all, the residual heat of Xia Yan's TV series "Magic Circle" and "Unknown Flowers" that started airing last quarter have not yet cooled down.

In the past, people in the Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional circle praised Xia Yan, but people in the film and television circles didn't like it and thought it was too exaggerated.

But after watching the film and television dramas adapted from Xia Yan's works, many people have completely changed their minds.

Magic Circle, Unknown Flower’s original animation, novels, adapted comic books and other products once again experienced a surge in sales.

Xia Yan's number of fans on major social platforms has also skyrocketed.

Although many film and television fans will not directly enter the field of novels, comics, animations, and games, they are always concerned about Xia Yan's news and want to see what Xia Yan will do in the future.

Then, I saw the news about Xia Yan's two new comics.

Of course, Beizhou Comics and Xia Yan know marketing. They know that using smoke bombs little by little can best attract fans' attention, so they only released the titles of two new works.

So since the end of September, Xia Yan's fan base has been completely attracted by Beizhou Comics and Xia Tang Animation's actions of releasing a little news every few days.

Ninja comics?
One Piece comics?

What is a ninja?
Can you eat?
"Ninja Ninja, judging from the name, should be a very tolerant person. But considering the special nature of the "Hunter" profession in the work "Old Thief Hunter", I feel that it cannot be interpreted simply in a literal sense."

"There is also the pirate comic. I am very curious, can a pirate be the protagonist? Judging from the gossip, it seems that the protagonist is not the kind of evil person who burns, kills, and loots. And according to the works of well-known veteran pirates on the Internet, "Intelligence Analyst" is suspected to be a post by "Qian Xia", a senior employee of Xia Tang Animation. Although the protagonist in this work is a pirate, he is the kind who does not do bad things. The main plot of the story is also the protagonist. An adventure on the sea.”

"If he doesn't do bad things, can he be called a pirate? Isn't he a navigator? Why not name him One Piece?"

"How do I know this? Anyway, it depends on what the old thief considers."

"Pirate adventure comics? Well, if it wasn't the work of an old thief, I would turn around and leave after hearing this introduction. Who would be interested in pirate adventures!"

"Maybe it's something like that popular science comic, about the daily life of pirates in ancient history."

"Why not a modern pirate?"

"What can be written about modern pirates? They were almost wiped out by the international coalition. Speaking of pirates, the golden age must have been two or three hundred years ago. Many pirates were secretly cultivated by the state. Just to plunder the empire’s goods and destroy other people’s economies.”

"So it's possible that Old Pirates' One Piece is going in this direction? He's a pirate on the surface, but actually he's the sixth spy pirate?"

"Maybe."

"Don't think so much. Two comics will be released in more than a month. If you guess so much now, you will most likely be slapped in the face."

"That's right, the title of the work One Piece is easy to say, but it's about ninja. Just study the word ninja in the name. The prefix Naruto is not mentioned at all."

"Anyway, it's less than two months, just wait."

In less than two months, from setting up the studio to setting the launch date of the comic, Xia Yan worked very efficiently.

But this is inevitable. There are hundreds of excellent works from another world in his mind. Even a masterpiece like Naruto One Piece would not allow him to spend several years preparing to build momentum. He has people under his command and money. , with a network of contacts throughout the industry, and he himself is one of the top capitals in the Two-dimensional circle. Pushing his works online and promoting them will naturally come naturally.

The marketing effect is seen in just a few days.

As for Xia Yan himself, he and Mo Ran worked together to check the manga drawings for Pirates and Naruto.

Xia Yan said that he would not interfere too much in the creation of these works, but he would definitely give clear goals in the general direction.

Fortunately for Naruto, the early part of this comic in a parallel world is impeccable.

There's nothing wrong with the artistry or style of painting.

But Pirates is different. As we all know, Pirates is in the "China area" in the parallel world. Although the sales of single comic books have always been ahead of Naruto, the number of fans was actually suppressed by Naruto during the serialization period.

The tastes of fans in the Dragon Kingdom are also very different from those in the Hua Kingdom, so Xia Yan will naturally focus on making adjustments based on the works in the Hua Kingdom in the parallel world.

In Pinxin World, Xia Yan also saw a lot of the battle between Naruto fans and Pirates fans in Tieba through memory fragments.

The reason why Pirates is at a disadvantage in this regard is that the style of painting is really disadvantageous. Boys can accept it, but many girls just give up on the style of painting.

It cannot be said that there are no female Pirates fans, but comparing the style of Pirates to Naruto, the appeal to female comic fans is very different.

Therefore, Xia Yan also made some slight changes to the version of Pirates in Dragon Kingdom. Generally speaking, the character's rough and crazy style of painting has not changed, and the main characters' designs basically respect the original comics.

But at least in terms of the supporting characters and the painting style of passers-by, Xia Yan asked the painters in the studio to try their best to create some styles that attract women, and to be restrained in the handling of some details.

Women should dress up to look better, right?
The women in the original One Piece comics, in addition to the members of the Straw Hats, as well as characters such as the Empress and Shirahoshi, all appear in the series as monsters and monsters.

The main character should reflect the characteristics of the character, and it doesn't matter if he has a weird shape, but the supporting character should not look like an alien.

The most direct thing is that many men's battles in the original One Piece are bloody, and the squeaky armpit hair and orangutan-like leg hair on the thighs are also drawn.

Just like Xia Yan read the plot of the original One Piece comic through memory fragments, the most unbearable thing was the scene of Sanji's big hairy legs stepping on leather shoes to kick others when he was fighting.

It really made Xia Yan feel that Sanji's elegant masculine temperament suddenly turned into a sloppy image with exposed leg hair.

In Xia Yan's opinion, Sanji, who showed off his hairy legs and wore leather shoes, could rival the temperament of the tight-shoes boy from the urban-rural fringe area of ​​Dragon Kingdom.

In addition to Sanji, the same goes for Doflamingo, the popular villain in later comics. He wears beanie shoes with enlarged hairy legs, tight pants and a large pink hairy cape. This is simply a powerful filtering out of female fans.

It is indeed true that excellent works are excellent wherever they are placed.

However, appropriate changes to suit the characteristics of the plane are not a bad idea.After all, they are all separated by a different dimension, and fans' tastes are always slightly different. To a certain extent, immutable copying is also a kind of laziness.

Xia Yan looked at the comic drawings in his hand with a curious expression.

Many comic fans feel that as long as the story of a work is excellent, the style of painting and other things are not so important.

But in reality, this is just wishful thinking.

Even if the plot of the two versions of Hunter's animation in the parallel world is the same, if the team, painter, and director are changed, it will be completely different.

There are also two versions of the anime of Rurouni Kenshin, and the TV plots of the old version and the reset version look very different.

In the parallel world, Jin Lao's martial arts novels have been made into more than a dozen versions of TV series, and the differences between each version are huge. Louis Koo and Huang Xiaoming's version of the divine eagle is not on the same level as the eye-catching versions later.

Even if their plots are similar, there can still be a huge gap in viewing experience.

Therefore, although Xia Yan said that he would make certain changes to his version of Pirates and Naruto in the Dragon Kingdom, he must have strict standards to restrain them.

If you really let the people in the studio do whatever you want, it is unlikely that your masterpiece will become a blockbuster, but it is a high probability that a [-]% work will be ruined into a [-]% work.

"How is it? Does it feel okay?"

Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan with a tired look.

During the two months of the two comics, she led Xia Yan and the studio members she selected to complete most of the work.

Character design, drawing, communication and liaison with the comic book club, and publicity plans are all led by Mo Ran.

In this process, she also has to be responsible for ensuring that there are no problems with the serialization of Hunter's comics.Even though she and Xia Yan now have a team of double-digit cartoonist assistants and assistants, which has helped her save a lot of workload, it is still very tiring.

Of course, Mo Ran had no intention of complaining. After all, there were many cartoonists in the Long Kingdom who wanted to trade with her so that they could embrace Xia Yan.Moreover, Xia Yan is actually not easy either.

Comics, novels, animations, games, film and television adaptations, and even Xia Tang Animation have begun to acquire some peripheral manufacturers and start manufacturing their own peripheral products. There are dozens of direct companies and indirect companies in Long Kingdom that rely on Xia Yan's works in various fields to survive. There are hundreds of them, and the industrial chain of Xia Yan's many works in the Dragon Kingdom has an annual output value of tens of billions of Dragon Kingdom coins.

As the core figure of such a huge industrial chain, Xia Yan cannot take it easy.

"Very good." Xia Yan's serious brows widened.

There are differences between the first two chapters of One Piece and Naruto comics and the ones in my memory. The painting style, some details, and the storyboarding are all different.

But if it was up to Xia Yan to judge, he didn't feel that the results produced by his men were worse than the original works of the two parallel worlds.

After all, neither Oda nor Kishimoto are cartoonists who are good at drawing. Compared with Akira Toriyama, Inoue, and Takeru Obata, there is still a gap. Xia Yan's group of people, although, they were all in the comics industry before. I'm confused, but when it comes to painting, I'm very skilled at it.

Xia Yan thought for a moment, then took a deep breath.

"That's it. No need to make any changes. Tomorrow I will ask my assistant to submit these comic manuscripts to Beizhou Comics Club. The next step will be full publicity."

When Mo Ran heard this, his tense heart suddenly relaxed.

She is also very disturbed.

After all, Mo Ran knew very well that the main reason why Xia Yan continued to find her as a partner in these two works was that he had known her for a long time and had a high degree of trust.

But no matter how high the level of trust is, it must be based on ability. Xia Yan's approval of the drawings also shows that the comic studio of the two protagonists has no problem and can sustain the long-term serialization of the two comics.

Pass, pass.

Mo Ran felt happy.

Then my thoughts shifted to the plots of the two comics.

"Then, both comics will have follow-up plots"

Xia Yan had only given her the comic scripts of the first three chapters of Naruto and Pirates before. In fact, Mo Ran had already been very interested in the plots of the two works.

The first chapter of the One Piece manga is about the memories of the protagonist Luffy, and the second chapter of the manga is about the confrontation with "Little Big Mom", the female pirate Arrita.

The plots of the first two episodes are just to illustrate the world view of One Piece, but in the plot of the third episode, the pirate hunter Zoro appears, which makes it more attractive.
It's a pity that Xia Yan's script only describes half of Sauron's debut.

The same is true for Naruto. In the first episode, Naruto appeared and used a cheat to defeat the chunin Mizuki using the multi-shadow clone technique. Then in the second and third episodes, Sakura and Sasuke were introduced, and the plot came to Kakashi's genin assessment.
The opening plots of both works are quite attractive and the quality is online.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Xia Yan patted his head after hearing this, took out the key to his safe, stood up and went to the wall behind him, took down the painting on the wall, fingerprint, voice, and opened the key three times in a row. After locking it, I took out a large pile of comic storyboard drafts stored inside.

Although it is a small probability event, with Xia Yan's current reputation, who knows if a commercial spy will come over and steal these, so Xia Yan cannot help but be careful.

"Here are the scripts for the next ten chapters of the two comics. You can just take it and study it. During the creation process, if you have anything you don't dare to make a decision on, just discuss it with me." Xia Yan said with a smile.

Mo Ran took a thick stack of storyboard drafts in his hand.

His expression was slightly confused.

The look in Xia Yan's eyes became extremely strange.

Haven't you been on business trips this month, negotiating cooperation for various projects of Xia Tang Animation?

During this process, do you still have time to create so many script drafts?
Forget it
Mo Ran shook her head. Anyway, this was not the first time she had seen Xia Yan's perversion.

Taking the storyboard draft given by Xia Yan, Mo Ran walked upstairs.

After all, the fifteenth to eighteenth floors of this building were purchased by Xia Yan to house Xia Tang Animation's offices.

Xia Yan's office is on the [-]th floor.

On the nineteenth floor, Xia Yan bought another half floor as the office space of Xia Yan's comic studio.

Although a lot of cartoonists are engaged in cartoon creation, it is too wasteful to build an office building in such a central location. In fact, renting a villa in the suburbs will not affect it.

But Xia Yan still made this arrangement in order to facilitate his work.

For a person with a net worth of tens of billions, there is basically no need to think too much about buying half a floor.

After Mo Ran returned to her office on the [-]th floor.
Mo Ran looked at his three groups of employees, who were creating comics for the three works of Hunter, Naruto, and Pirates.

And she dove into the office and began to study the subsequent plot of Naruto One Piece.

Look at this.
Just a whole day
At two o'clock in the morning, Mo Ran walked out of the office building with a dazed expression.

In his head, he was still immersed in the fire scene, and the blood of the protagonist Naruto stabbed the back of his hand with a kunai.

Still immersed in Pirates, Zoro cried in front of his master about his vow to become the world's greatest swordsman and about the Devil Fruit battle between Luffy and the Ugly King Buggy.
Mo Ran may be lacking in creative ability.

But after reading comics for more than 20 years, she definitely has a good sense.

The plots of the first three chapters of these two comics are just average.

But after the next dozen episodes unfolded the world view, it was immediately overwhelming.

Compared with Steel Refining and the early plot of Hunter, it is much better to watch.

Mo Ran took a deep breath and thought about what Xia Yan had said to her before.
Long story.

These two works are not inferior to The Hunter.
One Hunter has already made Beizhou Comics No. [-] in Dragon Kingdom, two more are coming
A thought naturally appeared in Mo Ran's mind.

Then perhaps from now on, there will be no such thing as the four major comic book clubs in Dragon Kingdom.

Beizhou Comics will be ahead of three other competitors during the break, taking its position in the comics industry to a higher level.

In mid-October, Beizhou Comics, which received Xia Yan's comic manuscript, began an overwhelming promotion of its new comic.

The two mangas One Piece and Naruto were released on Beizhou in the second and third weeks of November respectively, deliberately staggering to avoid competing with each other for online popularity in the first chapters of the two mangas.

With the joint efforts of Xia Yan and Beizhou Comics.
By mid to late October.

Major Two-dimensional business districts, bookstores, newsstands, schools, subways and other places in Longguo
It is already plastered with release posters for One Piece and Naruto.

Naruto and Luffy's two bright smiling faces, Naruto's iconic six-hair beard.

Luffy's yellow straw hat
For the first time, it appeared in the eyes of Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional fans.

Xia Yan is now a legend among Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional fans.

But fans of Dragon Kingdom have not yet realized that two legendary comics later will meet them for the first time at this time point.

(End of this chapter)