Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 44 Sowing the Fire
What does "Death" mean to "Two-dimensional Shōnen Weekly Magazine"?
That is a well-deserved pillar!

For the vast majority of readers who buy the magazine, they don’t care about the other bullshit comics in the magazine. They just buy it so that they can quickly read the latest chapter of "Death"!
It can be said that for the magazine, even if the magazine itself is gone, as long as the comic "Death" is still there, their magazine can make money!

However, under such circumstances, as the author of "The God of Death", Li Wannian actually wants to finish it at this moment. Who can accept it?
Readers will not accept it, shareholders will not accept it, and relevant stakeholders will not accept it!
"What are you kidding?"

The most excited person was Li Wanshan, who had the weakest interest. He jumped up from his chair and rushed in front of Li Wannian, "Are you planning to save Lu Qia and finish "Death"?"

After two years of serialization, "Bleach" has now been updated with the countdown to Lu Kia's execution, and Ichigo is about to save Lu Kia!

Back then, Ichigo got the name of his Zanpakutō - Zangetsu through experience at Kamabahara Shop, and then came to Soul Society with a group of friends.

After many levels and adventures, Ichigo defeated Ikkaku, Renji, and Kenpachi, and finally came to Lu Kia!
On the other side, Aizen, the captain of the fifth division of the Gotei Thirteenth Division, died, Shi Wanyin, the captain of the third division, betrayed, Toshiro, the captain of the tenth division, fell into crisis, and a huge conspiracy shrouded the Soul Society.

With such an exciting plot, Li Wannian actually planned to end it abruptly. How could Li Wanshan, a die-hard "Death" fan, accept it?

"It's not the end, it's the end of the first half!"

"Is there a difference? Wait, you mean the first half? When does the second half start?"

Li Wanshan reacted belatedly.

Li Wannian stretched out a finger when he saw this.

"A week?"

Li Wannian shook his head.

"One month?"

Li Wannian still shook his head.

"One year?"

Li Wannian shook his head again.

"depend on mood!"

"Look at me...what's the difference between that and the end?"

"Of course, if the time is right, I will draw the second half!"

"When is the right time? An auspicious day? Seven stars in a row? Or is it the sun and the moon that shine together?"

"Have you read too many comics?"

"Isn't it all because of you?"

At this time, Li Wanshui on the side, listening to the noisy two people, also frowned and said: "Yes, it is a time when the magazine and the company are developing rapidly, especially after the company acquired the TV station, it is very short of cash. At this time , if you pause "Death", the company will be very passive!"

"Brother, what do you think is the difference between you and me?"

Li Wannian did not answer Li Wanshui directly, but asked him a seemingly unrelated question.

"I am more inclined to management, and you are better at engaging in your own professional field?"

Li Wanshan thought for a moment and gave an answer.

"No, you're a businessman and I'm a cartoonist!"

"Are you talking to me about artistic pursuits?" Li Wanshui felt a little incredible. After all, in his opinion, Li Wannian was not a cartoonist who was completely obsessed with art.

"No, it's not that. What I mean is that your perspective will be from the perspective of the company, and I will start from the perspective of comics!"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you think Hong Kong comics can defeat Neon's comic industry with just one "Death" film?"

"Of course not!"

"Yes, I think so too!" Then, Li Wannian paused for a moment and continued: "Brother, how long do you think our company can resist the invasion of neon comics?"

"This..." At this time, Li Wanshui finally understood what Li Wannian was going to do.

Just like Li Wannian said, he is a businessman, and of course he pursues maximizing the company's interests. But Li Wannian is different. Although he is young, his vision is unparalleled, even surpassing his painting ability!
While he was still worrying about "small money" such as millions or tens of millions, Li Wannian had broken through the dimension of time and looked at the problem from a better perspective.

What Li Wannian is thinking about is, more than ten years later, in the face of the invasion of Japanese comics, how will Hong Kong's comic industry face it?
No matter in terms of talent, capital, market or technology, Japanese comics will almost completely crush Hong Kong comics. Then they will be like the impact of "Jurassic Park" on Hong Kong Island's film industry, which will be beaten and abandoned.

In the end, we can only rely on the advantages in certain subdivisions and survive on these leftovers, while other glorious histories will forever become history.

"Then what do you want to do?"

No matter how he thought about it, Li Wanshui felt that this was a dead end and could not be solved at all.

"I want to be a person who sows fire and work hard to broaden the boundaries of Hong Kong comics! As long as my other types of comics can be as successful as "Death", other practitioners will naturally imitate and let them know that Hong Kong It’s not just ghosts, gods and martial arts comics that can be accepted by the market!”

Since the appearance of the "Bleach" comics, many imitators have appeared on Hong Kong Island. Some imitate the world view of "Bleach" and are filled with comics of various ghosts; some imitate the painting style of "Bleach", with various Beautiful cartoons with beautiful character paintings; and imitating the poetic preface of "Death", in the comics... write poetry!
Of course, most of them are imitations of others, but occasionally excellent imitations appear, which surprise Li Wannian.

This also strengthened Li Wannian's confidence!
"Is this why you serialized the mecha comic "Gundam" after finishing "Chinese Little Chef" in February?" Li Wanshui asked.

That's right, "Chinese Little Chef God" was finally ended ruthlessly by Li Wannian after 102 episodes.

The original comic was so deceptive that Li Wannian couldn't accept it at all.

Are the dark cooking world descendants of Liangshan heroes?Want to use cooking to control China?Headquartered in Liangshanbo?Forcibly train babies plundered from the mountains to become chefs?
Where is this going?

If Li Wannian really painted like this, wouldn't he be sprayed to death?

Therefore, Li Wannian not only removed the legendary kitchen utensils, but also completely revised the subsequent plot.

In the following plot, Li Wannian borrowed the plot from "The Master Chef Little Fugui", and Admiral Li was accidentally involved in a conspiracy. He was mistakenly regarded as the culprit of poisoning and was thrown into prison for questioning.

In order to save Admiral Li, Liu Angxing embarked on a journey to find the nine golden kitchen utensils. Later, he passed the imperial cooking competition and finally defeated A Fei head-on, won the imperial cooking competition, conquered the Empress Dowager Cixi with his cooking skills, and finally rescued Li Admiral.

But unfortunately, Liu Angxing was unable to expose the conspiracy of Mr. K, the boss of the dark cooking world and the leader of the conservative ministers. In the end, unable to save the bean sprouts locked in Yingtai, he had to leave the palace sadly and return to the people!
No one expected that in the second half of this comic, it would turn from a royal and passionate comic into a tragedy. Although the reputation has increased, the number of readers has decreased.

Fortunately, Li Wannian finished it in time. As for the successor of "Chinese Little Chef God", it is a comic adapted by Li Wannian based on the animation, "Mobile Suit Gundam"!
Like "Pokémon", this "Gundam" comic, Li Wannian also sells toys to make money. If the current animation company is not too immature, Li Wannian would not even plan to draw comics and directly make animations!

There was no way, Li Wannian had to race against time. You must know that the first Gundam was born in 1979. Li Wannian couldn't afford to delay. He had to draw the comics before Neon made the animation!

"Yes, in this "Gundam" I think everyone should know that there is a market for drawing mechas and science fiction comics!" Li Wannian replied.

"Then have you decided what to replace "Death" with?"

"Of course! A comic related to Journey to the West! It should be more successful than "Death"!"

(End of this chapter)