A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

During the Spring Festival, topics about Howl's Moving Castle movie filled the film and Two-dimensional circles.

During this Spring Festival, more than a dozen movies were released together, and the works of best-sellers, best-sellers, and national-treasure-level directors competed with each other. However, Howl's Moving Castle, which was released for five days and grossed 11 billion in box office, has maintained its second place in the box office during the National Day period. , there is only a gap of less than [-] million from the movie that ranks first at the box office.

In the Dragon Kingdom plane, the purchasing power of Dragon Kingdom coins is quite valuable, and most movie tickets are in the price range of one to twenty. This box office data is, to be honest, explosive.

People from all walks of life in the entire Dragon Kingdom know how terrifying Xia Yan's current influence is, but his work has achieved such results for the first time in the Spring Festival, which still makes many people in the film industry and many media feel uncomfortable.

This is not making money anymore, it's picking up money. I am envious but can't bear to hate. The gap is too big, so I can only sigh.

How many directors and movie stars could not achieve box office results in their lifetimes, but Xia Yan easily achieved it with an animation with an investment of over [-] million.

As for the fan base, everyone is dissatisfied that Howl's Moving Castle came in second place with a total box office of [-] million in the first five days of the Spring Festival.

When did Xia Yan become the second child?

"Let's go, let's go and support the old thief's new animated film."

"But I heard from others that his new animated film is not too easy to understand. It's not like his previous animated films."

"Isn't this normal? Old thieves have to grow up too! I think the plot of Howl's Moving Castle is much more interesting than his previous animated film To the Moon, but I can't accept the heroine turning into an old woman. It seems It’s not so beautiful, but the final ending is still quite touching.”

"Stop being so picky. You all think there's something wrong with Howl's Moving Castle, so I really don't know what kind of work can satisfy you."

"Am I the only one who thinks the relationship between the heroine and the hero is beautiful? I really like the hero who is gorgeous on the outside but a little timid on the inside!"

"Yes, and have you noticed that although the heroine has been cursed with aging, as long as she faces her heart and becomes brave, her appearance can return to her youthful appearance. On the contrary, if she feels sorry for herself, she will become old immediately. This metaphor marvelous."

"It's just that the plot is a little rushed. I always feel that a longer plot would be better."

"There is no way. If a movie is too long, cinemas will not give too many films. You are a cinema owner. Who will you support for a one-and-a-half-hour movie or a three-hour movie? The former is available 24 hours a day. It can only show eight shows, while the latter can show sixteen shows, but the movie tickets are almost the same price. It can only be said that the old thief wants to express a lot, but he can only do this due to time constraints, but this movie The movie must be excellent, and it won’t be criticized by those scumbags.”

"I think these people have watched too many old thieves' works, and their tastes have become picky."

"I have watched this animated movie three times. The first time I watched this animated movie, I didn't feel much about it. The second and third time I watched it, I felt so deeply."

"It's a pity that Lao Zei only releases one animated film every year or two. In fact, I really think that his TV animations are cool and have some connotations, but his animated films are all metaphors and connotations, and the level of his works is extremely high. "

"Not entirely, just like Lelouch, Madoka, Steel, and Slam Dunk, which are the TV animation works with the best performance by the old bandits. Although the results are similar, who dares to say that Steel's works are not high-level? The ratings of these works may be similar, but the purpose of the works is too much."

"I'm just talking about a common phenomenon. Don't use steelmaking as an example!"

Under the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival, there is an even more lively Two-dimensional forum.

The UW chapter of Sword Art Online is about to come to an end, the story of the Fate series of novels is unfolding, the god-level plot development of Song Lingjun's new novel, and the chapter contents of the two comics Naruto and One Piece are getting better.
The entire two-dimensional industry, in this era when the number of teenagers and children has been declining in recent years, industry personnel have unanimously denounced it, but it is Xia Yan's works that have driven the market from the beginning. In fact, various publishing houses and magazines The company's sales have increased compared to previous years.

Even the top three animation companies such as Xingkong Novel, Qingze Library, Squirrel Comics, and Dragon Kingdom, which have worked hard under the impact of Xia Yan's works for many years, have to admit Xia Yan's contribution to the industry.

Maybe Xia Yan has eaten the biggest piece of cake in the market, but in fact, it is because of his existence that the industry has become more popular than before and the cake is even bigger.

The seven-day Spring Festival movie schedule flies by
The total box office of Howl's Moving Castle in seven days was 14 billion, which was still 4000 million lower than that of a masterpiece movie with three movie kings, two movie queens and an investment of [-] million.

But
It doesn't matter anymore.

Xia Yan didn't think that the Dragon Kingdom's cultural industry would be so weak. Howl's Moving Castle would be a huge hit in the market. He was very satisfied with the result of taking second place in this spring's schedule.

Anyway, things keep going. In a few months' time, in May, the animated film Millennium Actress will be released, and then in the summer season of July, Suzume Toki will follow.

Howl's Moving Castle is just a test of the waters. Since the effect is good, Xia Yan is also planning to release Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, Your Name, Five Centimeters Per Second and other works one by one during the Spring Festival in the next few years. come out.
Xia Yan looked away from the report in his hand. Of course, Howl's Moving Castle has only been released for more than a week, and there is still a month to hit the box office.

If the total box office develops according to normal development, it will be around 20 billion. The result will be a little worse, 21 billion, and a little better, at most it will not exceed [-] billion.

The box office of this achievement is more than [-] million. It is possible to make a small profit of [-]-[-] million after the production cost of [-] million plus the publicity and distribution coverage of [-] million for this animated film. And the animated film is the largest compared to the live-action film. The advantage is that you can sell peripheral products later, which is also a lot of income.

Only half a month after the Spring Festival, Xia Yan's company can expect to earn several hundred million. This kind of earning power is very high even if there are so many listed private companies in Shanghai.

What's more, Xia Tang Animation is a typical asset-light company with a small number of employees. Now the total number of employees in animation, TV series, movies, games and other departments has just exceeded a thousand.

This information is combined, and the media has also reported various reports on this aspect in recent days.

As one of the giants in the animation industry today, the revenue capabilities of Xia Yan and Xia Tang Animation have also attracted market attention. Everyone in the industry in Longguo knows that Xia Yan is now very rich, holding tens of billions of dollars in his hands Although he has a lot of funds, he just doesn't know what direction he will develop next, and how far Xia Yan can develop in the end.
With a sigh, Xia Yan put down the report in his hand and began to study another document submitted by the company's subordinates.

About the company's development plan for the next ten years.

However, Xia Yan just took a casual look and put it aside. It can only be said that the imagination of his group of people is still relatively lacking, and they only think that the company can triple the current revenue within ten years.

But Xia Yan's purpose is definitely more than that. The serialization of comic works such as One Piece and Naruto has begun to get on track. In a few more months, Xia Yan will start to let Xia Tang follow the contract with Beizhou Comics. Animation set out to create animations for Pirates and Naruto.

Moreover, a year after the launch of One Piece and Naruto animations, and after the market popularity stabilized, the company's mobile games and console games related to the two works will also be developed and launched, and other peripherals, novels, and anime adaptations will naturally not be left behind. .
Two-dimensionalip, if you want to monetize and make money, you must move closer to games. Game guys spend thousands of game coins without blinking an eye. Asking them to spend ten yuan to open a video membership to watch genuine animations is all kinds of disgusting. , borrow a number if you can, the gap is quite big.

And there is also the incubation of Pokémon, a big IP. After the first generation Pokémon game was launched, millions of copies were sold worldwide. The results are actually quite good. Pokémon animation and the second game are also In ongoing production.

And after two years of publicity, its influence among primary and secondary school students in Long Kingdom has spread.

This can also be seen from the fact that the Pokémon animation ratings have increased from 4% before to 5% now.

If all goes well, in seven or eight years, or ten years from now, the annual revenue from Pokémon may be several times the company's current revenue.

Up to now, Xia Yan's influence on the big ship of Xia Tang Animation will continue to weaken. After the IPs of these works are hatched, Xia Yan will not need to arrange work. When the time comes, the market will automatically match and adjust. Their product positioning means that Xia Yan will basically just sit at home and make money.

Moreover, if you want an IP like Pokémon to have the influence of a parallel world, you have to cooperate with various game channels and manufacturers at home and abroad, and share some profits to make cakes, otherwise you will only be boycotted by others. , in this process, some of the say rights over the works are also given away, so Xia Yan can basically imagine the development trend of these works in the future.

"If you think about it carefully, although this is enviable, it is also quite boring." Xia Yan let out a long breath.

"Every time I come in, I see this expression on your face. Is work so stressful?" At this time, Tang Yin directly opened the door to Xia Yan's office.

In the whole company, only Tang Yin dared to come in like this without knocking. When Xia Yan saw his wife arriving, a smile appeared on his face.

"It came so fast."

"That's for sure. I've been abroad for half a month and I'm bored to death. I can't get used to the food there." As soon as Tang Yin closed the door, she pulled up a chair and sat next to Xia Yan, casually browsing through Xia Yan's table. various files.

"You are so pitiful. Now you are occupied with these things all day long. If it were me, I would have found a professional agent to take over the company's operations." Tang Yin chuckled, her beautiful face full of teasing.

"I would like to if I could, but it's a pity that the professional managers of these companies in Longguo don't know much about my works, and they can't understand their value. I can only do it myself."

The two have been married for such a long time, but basically one company chairman is sitting in Shanghai to handle the company's internal affairs, and a company vice director is away discussing business cooperation with the company. When they meet like this, it really feels like they are saying goodbye to newlyweds.

"You are truly a model worker in the industry." Tang Yin sighed with genuine conviction.

If the chairman of Xia Tang Animation was not her husband, with her current assets, she would be lying down long ago. What else would she be working on? She spent a day traveling abroad to enjoy the benefits. Although she was not tired from work, she spent the whole day listening to those who wanted to cooperate with Xia Tang Animation. The company staff flattered her, but after listening to it for a long time, she felt tired. However, Xia Yan's current success and fame were considered a legend in the industry, and she still worked like this, regardless of her creative talent. This professionalism really made her feel horrible.

"It's okay, you just get used to it." Xia Yan chuckled and did not discuss this issue further.

"But that's it. The amount of time and energy I put into my work can only be as high as this. At most, I can only work on scripts for a few animated movies. Then I will produce one or two movies a year, and a new feature-length work. That's it for the time being. I don’t have the energy anymore." Xia Yan said leaning on the chair.

Tang Yin was full of disbelief when he heard this. Xia Yan had said the same thing before, but after a period of silence, several new works came out, so that now almost no one in the industry talks about Xia Yan's exhaustion of creative talent. Related topics.

Everyone seems to have acquiesced in Xia Yan's endless creative inspiration. The reason why he can only serialize these five or six works at the same time is not that he can't come up with more, but because he is only a human being and only has 24 hours a day. Just working hours.The two of them only talked about work casually, and then focused more on life.

For example, let Xia Yan and her go meet her father tomorrow. After all, Tang Yin's father is very concerned about the two getting married and having children.

Soon, the consumption boom triggered by the Spring Festival ended, and Howl's Moving Castle's total box office reached another 20 billion 1000 million, becoming the fourth highest-grossing movie in Dragon Kingdom in the past five years.

As for the Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional industry, the hot topic is once again occupied by three works including Fate, Naruto, and One Piece.

Naruto's manga was serialized in Haku and Zabuza's appearance as two tragic characters. In One Piece, Zoro's childhood memories and the plot of the manga about wanting to become the world's greatest swordsman also brought tears to the eyes of countless manga fans in the Dragon Kingdom. , at the same time, Hunter's comics were also serialized into the Ant King chapter.

The three masterpieces of Beizhou Comics are Hunter, Pirates, and Naruto. The popularity rankings of the three works are changing every week. It can only be said that countless cartoonists in Dragon Kingdom have never imagined that a work that can beat Hunter in the comics industry , Xia Yan actually had to create it himself. This situation of Xia Yan himself and his own works competing with each other is funny, funny, but sad.
Many senior cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom feel very sad. If Xia Yan has enough energy and produces a few more works, will the entire cartoon market have no room for their works to survive?
Cartoonists of the previous era all had similar ideas, but at the same time.
On the campus of Longguo, countless children who have great interest in light novels, animations, comics, games and other works have a seed sprouting in their hearts.

As for fate
Because Xia Yan started serializing the novel from the chronological order of the zero plot, the plot was a little slow in the early stage, but after Artoria appeared on the stage, the popularity of the novel also reached the peak in Liuli Publishing House.

As for Sword Art Online, it occupied the popularity throne of Liuli Publishing House for three years, but also lost to Fate Zero at the end of its serialization.

In the two-dimensional industry, the replacement of old and new happens quietly. However, the crown of the work changes, but the creator behind it is always the same person.
The oppressive feeling that the entire industry, no matter what hit works, has his shadow behind it, really puts Xia Yan's colleagues under great pressure.

Perhaps the only one who is not affected is Song Lingjun, who is doing creative work with his head covered.
In the villa where Xia Yan, she and Mo Ran lived, Song Lingjun put down the pen in her hand and looked at the snow that was beginning to melt outside the house.

She walked out of the house and came outdoors. She covered her mouth with her hands and breathed out. White mist hung between her mouth and nose.

"Xiaoyun, why are you standing outside in the cold? Are you not afraid of catching a cold?"

Mo Ran, who was painting hunters with his head covered on the second floor, also opened the window and asked with a smile.

The two girls' hair was fluttering in the cold wind, and they looked at each other. This scene was really eye-catching with the snowy weather.

"It's nothing, I just read the latest chapter of Xia Yan's Fate Zero novel and was inspired by it."

"How do you feel? You, stop thinking about unrealistic things and just create the works you like honestly. You are always competing with that pervert Xia Yan. How can you compete?" Mo Ran He said again seriously.

"In the entire Dragon Kingdom Two-dimensional world, in the three major fields of novels, animation, and animation, everyone basically agrees that Xia Yan is the number one, and everyone is competing for the second throne. You are the only one who always wants to play big."

"People, after all, need to have dreams. Sword Art Online has been serialized for so many years, and the accumulated popularity is too strong. It is indeed difficult for me to surpass Sword, but Xia Yan's fate" Song Lingjun paused here.

"What's wrong with fate?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

"I think there may be no chance that my new novel will compete with Fate." Song Lingjun said with a smile, her fair and delicate face full of seriousness.

"You mean, the quality of Xia Yan's novel, which has just been serialized for a month, is actually much worse than Sword? So you have this kind of confidence?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

In fact, she was also curious about when Xia Yan would lose.

It is almost impossible for the creators of the Dragon Kingdom to surpass Xia Yan in historical status. However, in the competition with Xia Yan at a certain period, Mo Ran was quite grateful to see who could suppress Xia Yan. Interested.

"No, the level of Xia Yan's novel has not dropped at all. I even think it is more attractive to me than swords." Song Lingjun paused and then sneezed.

"This weather is really bad. I can't bear it after just a few minutes." Song Lingjun wrinkled her nose that was red from the cold and whispered, preparing to enter the house.

"Hey, you're only half-talking?" Mo Ran, who was talking to Song Lingjun in front of the second-floor window, was anxious.

"I mean Xia Yan's strength has not declined, it has even increased." Song Lingjun raised his head and looked at Mo Ran with a smile.

"My progress is greater than Xia Yan's. I don't think my new novel will be completely crushed by Xia Yan's novel like before."

"At least. At least once during the serialization period, it will surpass Fate Zero and reach the top of Liuli in the internal popularity vote statistics."

Song Lingjun's tone was full of confidence.

Xia Yan, who was in another villa less than three kilometers away from the villa where the two of them were staying, had not realized at this moment that the girl who had followed in his footsteps since high school had completely gotten rid of the invasion of love emotions after he got married. What impact will it have on the industry?

Just as Xia Yan predicted, without that world, the cultural level of the plane will remain low. As he comes up with more and more parallel world works, the creators of Dragon Kingdom will also learn to absorb the excellence in them. , and then create higher-level works.

This is inevitable.

However, this time will be slightly longer.
Xia Yan predicts that in the next ten or twenty years, among the current group of young people in Dragon Kingdom who have not yet grown up, several geniuses like Oda and Akira Toriyama will emerge.

But, in fact, the genius has always been by his side.

After ten years of pursuit, at least at this time, Song Lingjun, after reading a light novel of the level of Fate, will no longer have a sense of hopeless disparity in his heart, but will feel...
As long as she works harder and works harder, she can write novels of the same level.

Today is Xia Yan's era, but equally, in this era he dominates.
In various places in the Dragon Kingdom, in the fields of novels, animations and comics
Geniuses like Song Lingjun also unanimously set their sights on Xia Yan.

Xia Yan may be their dream, but he is also the goal they want to surpass.

Perhaps the greatest contribution Xia Yan has made to the Two-dimensional industry in the Dragon Kingdom over the years is that it has become an industry benchmark, lighting up the night sky in the fog.

The Spring Festival is over very quickly, and another two months have passed by in a flash.

some morning
Xia Yan was woken up by his wife Tang Yin's exclamation.

"What's wrong?" Xia Yan stood up from the bed.

He looked at Tang Yin, whose naked back was as smooth as gel, her head lowered and her back turned to him.

"That." Tang Yin turned to look at Xia Yan, her eyes hesitated for a while, and she held a small stick-like object in her hand.

"It seems that our efforts in the past month have paid off. I should be pregnant."

Xia Yan blinked
People are slightly dizzy.

Xia Yan must have done it intentionally for this to happen, but when it happened...
People will definitely still get dizzy.

It was only after being persuaded and educated by Tang Yin's father two months ago that Xia Yan and Tang Yin decided to have a child.

"Boy or girl?" Xia Yan asked.

"How do I know? How long has it been now? Is it good to be able to detect pregnancy? Is it a boy or a girl?" Tang Yin rolled her eyes at Xia Yan.

"This is really a big event." Xia Yan took a deep breath and thought about future plans.

The next day, Xia Tang Animation issued an internal announcement that deputy director Tang Yin had suspended work due to physical problems.

As for her job, a temporary team was set up within the company to take her place.

And Tang Yin also started to stay at home and take care of her health.

As for Xia Yan, let him do whatever he wants, work from home, avoid all publicity activities, and concentrate on being with Tang Yin at home.

At this time, Xia Tang animation, as well as comics, novels, and games were related to the industry chain. Although Xia Yan temporarily put some work on hold, inertia still allowed them to continue in an orderly manner.
Millennium Actress' movie promotion, the production decision of the final season of Sword Art Online animation, One Piece Naruto's animation plan, Pokémon's unprecedented initial investment plan of 12 billion dragon national currency that shocked the global game industry
At this time, Xia Yan was only 25 years old.

(End of this chapter)