A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

Although works with elements such as magic, alchemy, different worlds, time travel, brave men, demon kings, and elves are too common in Dragon Kingdom, and everyone is already tired of aesthetics, but if the author ID of Fullmetal Alchemist is Xia Yan

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Then everything will be different.

Rao Zhijun quickly opened her computer and logged into the official website of Xia Tang Animation.

As for why you should use a computer to watch instead of a mobile phone, it is purely because the computer screen is larger and the viewing effect is better.

Then

Rao Zhijun clicked on the trailer.

I took a quick look at the web page information displayed in the video. At 5:20 in the morning, there were 170,000 people watching this video online at the same time.

She secretly marveled at Xia Yan's terrifying popularity. Soon, Rao Zhijun was attracted by a low and sad BGM sound.

The original work of Steel Refining is a comic created by Hiroshi Arakawa in the parallel world. It has two versions of animation in the parallel world.

The old version of Steelmaking was discontinued due to various reasons during the animation serialization period. The animation plot caught up with the comics over time, so its ending was original by the animation production team, and the FA version released later was the complete version. Made according to the ending of the comic.

But when it comes to the music of the two versions of the animation, Xia Yan personally feels that the old version is much better than the new version of the animation.

Especially the old version of the classic episode "Brothers".

Xia Yan was directly included in this trailer video.

A soothing and slightly sad tune plays

Rao Zhijun was at a loss for words.

Although there are many animations with magic themes in different worlds in Dragon Kingdom, most of them are about cuteness and treasure hunting and comedic themes.

There are very few, or almost no, animations that purely depict the world view, fighting, politics, and the combination of super powers.

In the first frame of the trailer animation for Steel Refining, a sentence of bright red text appears.

[What you want to get, you have to pay for! 】

The next screen is a paragraph, with a woman's narration and dubbing.

[The materials required to refine the human body are: 25 liters of water, 20 kilograms of oxygen, 4 kilograms of ammonia, 1.5 kilograms of lime, 800 grams of phosphorus, 240 grams of salt, and 100 grams of saltpeter.]

A simple sentence, but the composition of the human body is called Tao Ming.

As a science student, Rao Zhijun could immediately understand the meaning of this passage.

Is this what humans are made of?

So simple.

If you just buy raw materials, you shouldn't be able to get a thousand dragon national coins.

Then the scene changed, showing two little boys holding this pile of materials.

The two people looked at them expectantly.

Materials made from the human body.

Based on the previous narration, Rao Zhijun roughly understood what the two little boys were doing in the story.

Made from the human body, Fullmetal Alchemist?

So, these two little boys are going to use this pile of materials to make a human being?

Rao Zhijun's eyes lit up, this idea is not bad.

But immediately she thought of another narration sentence from before.

What do you have to pay to get something?

emmm

It’s a bit subtle!

The picture didn't give any more explanation here, and it immediately flashed to another perspective.

A magnificent kingdom, a national group of alchemists, a one-eyed president, a boy with steel arms, a character hiding in an iron shell armor, a handsome man who can make space explode with a snap of his fingers, a vicious man with a scar on his head, just... A fat man who knows how to eat

Humans who died in the war, alchemists with various strange abilities, and young men with superb physical skills who jumped through space at ghostly speeds.

These characters appear in person, some have one or two lines, and some have a handsome battle scene.

In the end, the picture settled on a dog with melancholy eyes.

Its eyes said something to Rao Zhijun in front of the camera.

【Big brother! 】

The voice seemed sad.

Finally, all the scenes came to an end, and the bloody light shot straight into the sky. Finally, the red light condensed and turned into a red and beautiful crystal.

[Fullmetal Alchemist] is fixed in a few big characters.

In Rao Zhijun's pupils, he was still touched by the flashes of those scenes just now and the obviously sad music style of the BGM.

A trailer can basically not tell the quality of an animation's plot, but a trailer can allow fans to determine the general type, style, painting style, and production level of the work.

Each episode of "Ganglian" has an average budget of 5 to 6 million RMB. It is produced with the quality of animated movies. The production cost of two episodes is the same as the production cost of more than ten episodes of many small and medium-cost cartoons. .

Funding will bring about a qualitative change in the presentation of the picture.

Rao Zhijun's feeling after watching this trailer is not that the setting of this work is good or the world view is interesting.

What can you tell from just a trailer?

But this trailer gives Rao Zhijun the most direct feeling that it is eye-catching.

The music is perfect, and the graphics are of explosive quality.

The dubbing of the character voice actors is also full of emotions. Of course, the most important thing is the atmosphere of the work shown in the trailer.

In this way, Rao Zhijun is very sure that this work is not a cliché plot about a demon king and a hero from another world, nor is it a girl hero who takes risks and is cute and funny.

It's the kind of work that carefully builds a world and then tells a good story within the context of this world.

After realizing this, Rao Zhijun suddenly became energetic.

Once again, I clicked on this trailer and watched it frame by frame, hoping to find the general setting of this work before the animation was broadcast.

And there are many people who have the same idea as Rao Zhijun.

After 6 o'clock in the morning, the official website of Xia Tang Animation was like the New Year. Before dawn in most parts of Longguo, these people had already started crazy discussions.

On the hot search list of major two-dimensional forums.

[Xia Yan's new work preview! ]

Related entries strongly topped the list.

"So this work is a hot-blooded battle type, not a funny different world animation with treasure hunting?"

"It seems so."

"And the last scene of the trailer shows a dog and a stone. It seems that this dog and stone will be the key to this work. Could it be that this dog and stone will be the boss of this work?"

"Well, although it's strange that this dog can talk, it's normal for the world of alchemists to have talking magic dogs."

"What still makes me feel strange is that the two little boys at the beginning should be the male protagonists, right? Why do they grow up with one steel hand and the other with iron skin? Prosthetics? Could this be a combination of different world magic and cyberpunk elements?"

"Cyberpunk? It's not that high-tech. Look at the train in the trailer. What is it? A steam locomotive train. If you really want to talk about steampunk ”

“So a magic-themed animation in the steam engine era? It feels a bit weird.”

“What’s weird about it? Isn’t it good? I think it’s very interesting.”

“In the entire one and a half minute animation trailer, there are 31 characters. It feels like there are so many characters in this work!”

“Don’t worry, it is said that Fullmetal Alchemist has more episodes than Lelouch, but only a few dozen characters? What’s so much?”

“? Is Fullmetal Alchemist so long? Lelouch has a total of 50 episodes in two seasons.”

“Maybe you are going to make Fullmetal Alchemist into a long story.”

“Ahhhhh! It’s so uncomfortable, you might as well not release this trailer. It’s still a month before it starts. How can I wait? ”

“Although the Sword Art Online animation is still popular now, I have read the UW chapter of the Sword Art Online novel. I have read all the plots of the animation in the novel, and I don’t have much of an impression of it. Oh, I hope time will pass quickly and it will be January soon.”

“Support Lao Zei. In fact, looking at his work, it may be another masterpiece with the same quality as Lelouch.”

“Don’t be so excited. Lelouch is already a masterpiece in the Dragon Country animation industry. Although I am a fan of Lao Zei, really, don’t have too much expectation for this new work to surpass Lelouch. Think about it yourself. How could a work that ranks first in the history of various data in the Dragon Country animation industry be surpassed inexplicably? Lao Zei’s work can achieve 60% to 70% of the results of Lelouch, and the ratings can reach 4.5%, or even more than 5%, that’s enough. ”

“That’s right, everyone should think about it yourself It's easy to imagine how he could be surpassed so easily, since he's Lelouch! As long as the quality of Lao Zei's new work is not too bad, I will support him. "

"Speaking of which, among all the animations of Lao Zei, the ratings of Anohana are the lowest, right? It seems that it was just over 3% back then. In fact, if Lao Zei's new work can achieve the same results as Anohana, I think it's OK."

"Don't look down on Anohana so much. Anohana had no investment and no big publicity at the beginning. It was broadcast on weekdays and was broadcast on a second-tier TV station. It was already good enough to have a 3% rating in the quarter. Now, I think with Lao Zei's popularity, Anohana will have at least 4% or even 5% ratings. "

"So Lao Zei's current popularity has a really big impact on his works. The works of other creators can't compete with Lao Zei at all. ”

“His popularity was accumulated bit by bit in the past. Those who think that Lao Zei’s popularity has greatly increased his works and that it is unfair to compete with him, no one can stop him from accumulating such a large number of fans through his historical works.”

“That’s right. I admit that with Lao Zei’s current popularity, works with a quality rating of only 3% can easily reach 4% ratings with his name, but this is also his ability. If you can top the three major fields of animation, comics, and novels, then you can complain later.”

“Fullmetal Alchemist in January, Slam Dunk in April, Gurren Lagann in July, Bakemonogatari in October. I don’t want to live even a single day past the end of this year, so let’s finish December quickly! ”

Although Xia Tang Animation Company didn’t spend much money on marketing, the trailer of Fullmetal Alchemist still became a hot topic on major websites in Longguo after daybreak.

Young people who get up in the morning to go to work, after reading relevant information in the car, bus, or subway, most of them can’t help but sigh in their hearts.

When will Xia Yan’s creative inspiration run out?

Most of the creators who can be deified in history have either become constipated after becoming famous, and rarely produce a new work for several years or even ten years.

Or they directly retire, fearing that they will be ruined.

But like Xia Yan, there is only one top creator in Longguo who has a new work to be broadcast less than half a year after the completion of Code Geass.

Highly productive, high-quality, hard-working, rich and handsome

No wonder Xia Yan can accumulate such popularity in the industry.

Xia Tang Animation Production Company.

The six production teams in the company have also become a little nervous this month.

Having grown to the level of Xia Tang Animation, it is no longer that small studio.

Animation studios can spend several years slowly developing new animations, but Xia Tang Animation cannot.

The annual employee salary and capital expenditure are hundreds of millions. The company has to constantly produce new products, make money, and then produce new products, make more money, and continue to develop all the way.

After Lelouch achieved great success, everyone was happy and it was glorious for several months. Now, after the initial excitement subsided, there was extreme pressure.

In the entire Dragon Kingdom, tens of millions of animation fans and hundreds of thousands of fellow practitioners are staring at these hundreds of people, wanting to see what kind of development curve Xia Tang Animation will have after the completion of Lelouch?

If animations close to the quality of Lelouch can still be produced, then it won’t be long before, taking advantage of this momentum, Xia Tang Animation can catch up with or even surpass the three major animation companies in the Dragon Kingdom and become the number one animation production company in the Dragon Kingdom. .

On the other hand, could it be that the three major animation companies have joined forces with a group of peers in the industry who have been suppressed by Xia Yan in recent years to launch a counterattack against Xia Tang Animation and continue to defend their status in the industry?

Except for Xia Yan, who has extreme confidence in steelmaking, others

Including the members of the company's production team, they all felt guilty.

They are not worried that steelmaking will hit the streets.

Judging from Xia Yan's current appeal, no matter what, there will be a large number of die-hard fans who are willing to support his works without thinking. Unless he produces three or five bad works in a row, maybe the ratings of these works will be low, but only from the market Judging from the sales data and ratings data, it is absolutely impossible to lose money.

What they worry about is that the work will not perform as expected.

Lelouch and Cyberpunk both have ratings of 6%, so this is the work with the highest investment in Xia Yan’s animation career.

No matter what, it must have a 5% ratings.

But even if the ratings are 5%, that is already a level that no other work has reached in the past five years except Xia Yan.

To be honest, everyone has this mentality, standing at the top and afraid of falling.

Confidence in Xia Yan is one thing, but I also naturally believe in the famous saying that what goes up must come down, and what follows the peak is the downhill road.

Very conflicted mentally.

It's just that Xia Yan is too lazy to provide psychological counseling for the people in the company.

After the time has entered December, the first season of the Sword Art Online animation.

It's almost coming to an end.

The Dragon Kingdom version of the Sword Art Online anime did not delete many things. More than 20 episodes were produced for the sao chapter alone, and more than 20 episodes were produced for the alo chapter. The content of the novel has been retained to a great extent. Therefore, This work will only be released in December, and it has not even finished the first season.

But it has been serialized for more than half a year, and the first season of the Sword Art Online anime has finally come to its end after helping the original light novel increase sales by four million volumes.

For the last episode of the first season, the ratings closed at 6.35%. On that day, the Dragon Kingdom animation community was in a state of excitement.

After the end of the first season of Sword Art Online, Xia Yan had no scruples and officially started broadcasting and promoting the animation of Steel Refining throughout the Dragon Kingdom.

Unlike previous teaser videos, the promotion is so mild.

Xia Yan has invested so much in the production of this animation, so he will definitely not be stingy in publicity.

Only on the third day after the completion of the Sword Art Online Season 1 anime

Every corner of Longguo’s two-dimensional industry.

The publicity for steelmaking is overwhelming.