A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

In the new week, after Xia Yan cooperated with the animation broadcast promotion of Slam Dunk and Initial D on Monday and Tuesday, there were not so many businesses that he needed to handle in the next two days.

After he deliberately delegated various rights regarding the production of works to the people below, the company no longer needed Xia Yan to handle as many businesses as before, except for some large-scale fund transfers that required Xia Yan's signature and seal. At least for the popular Slam Dunk and Fullmetal Alchemist animations, Xia Yan could ignore them for a week or two, and they could produce finished products that would satisfy Xia Yan.

Even Xia Yan has now started to download a bunch of stand-alone games on the office computer for a long time. During the working hours of the company, almost half of the day is spent playing games.

"This is life!"

After Xia Yan just cleared a small boss in the game, he felt a sense of accomplishment and couldn't help but sigh.

But after the small level was cleared, it was time to do the real work. There were still some documents on the table that Xia Yan needed to deal with as soon as possible.

Looking back on the past few years, Xia Yan had almost no free time, and he spent all his time on his career. Naturally, he would sigh like this.

It took several years to establish Xia Tang Animation Production Company. The scriptwriting department of the company may still be average, but the comprehensive strength of other departments is definitely top-notch in the animation industry of Longguo.

As long as Xia Yan can come up with suitable works, they can definitely complete the animation products that Xia Yan is satisfied with.

For example, the animation of Slam Dunk.

It was expected that the early plot would be complained by fans, but at least the production quality of the animation, Xia Yan had to say "wow" after watching it.

However

Xia Yan looked at the company's various business reports, as well as the documents submitted by the company's subordinates on the company's future development plan. He flipped through them casually and put them aside.

Since the development of Xia Tang Animation Company, the growth rate has basically slowed down.

This company, which was established five years ago, has now become a strong industry in the animation industry of Longguo. If we talk about the company's influence, Xia Tang Animation is definitely the first in the industry.

However, the limit of animation production companies is here. Even in the parallel world, there are basically no companies that have become Fortune 500 companies by making animation.

The top two-dimensional cultural companies in the parallel world are all big IPs, and animation is just an operating branch of those companies, a means of IP promotion.

For example, Pokémon, is its animation popular?

But Nintendo basically doesn't care about the income from animation. The bulk of Pokémon's income is in games and derivative peripherals.

Xia Yan is only 22 years old now. He must have the idea to make Xia Tang Animation comparable to or even surpass Nintendo in the parallel world.

However.

This process cannot be done in a few months.

Even if Xia Yan relies on the huge amount of funds he has obtained in the animation industry to develop, developing a company is like raising a child. If you feed this child ten meals a day, he will not grow up in a year.

Seeing that the company's game department needs to add 20 million funds this quarter, Xia Yan thought about it and signed it.

At noon, after Xia Yan had dealt with some documents, the assistant handed over a report on some matters that Xia Yan needed to deal with in the afternoon.

Beizhou Comics hopes that Xia Yan can have a fan meeting organized by the comics club next week.

Liuli Book Club wants Xia Yan to cooperate with the company to promote the production and broadcast of the second season of Sword Art Online in advance, and even wants Xia Yan to go to the capital to be interviewed by a variety show.

Half a year after the end, Lelouch of the Rebellion also had a huge influence overseas, and overseas fans strongly hoped that Xia Yan could have an overseas fan meeting.

A game company in Longguo is interested in Xia Yan's Pokémon and hopes to jointly develop it with Xia Tang Animation and invest in it.

I took a casual look and saw that Xia Yan wrote a rejection on all of them.

Fan meetings and the like are not very meaningful to Xia Yan now.

In the past, he did these because he wanted to have exposure and maintain his popularity. Now, in fact, even if he holds a hundred similar events a year, it will basically not help his popularity grow.

As for the overseas fan meeting, the intention of a company to invest in Pokémon made Xia Yan roll his eyes.

Definitely rejected.

After working for another two hours in the afternoon, finally, all the things for today were dealt with.

Xia Yan also left work early. On the way out of the company, hundreds of employees rushed to greet Xia Yan. In less than half an hour, Xia Yan returned to his home by car.

The house was empty.

Tang Yin was still on a business trip in a coastal city and would not be back until tomorrow.

Because Xia Yan was too lazy and basically did not respond to Beizhou Comics' invitation to activities, Mo Ran became the favorite of Beizhou Comics Club. In addition to drawing comics, she had to satisfy the enthusiasm of millions of comic fans in Longguo and run around in Longguo's first-tier cities.

Song Lingjun was similar. Although her eyes would be strange whenever she saw Xia Yan, as one of the top novelists in Longguo after Xia Yan, she also had to be responsible for the activities of the novel book club and promote her own works.

After all, her new novel has been serialized for such a long time, and the average sales volume is about 20 million copies.

There is still a big gap with Sword Art Online, but the pillar novelist of Liuli Book Club, Song Lingjun is definitely one of them.

Xia Yan carefully thought about the current situation of the three people with whom he had the best relationship. He graduated less than a year ago, but except for Tang Yin because they were boyfriend and girlfriend, Mo Ran and Song Lingjun also had contact with him. , undoubtedly much less than before.

The previous scene of getting up early in the morning and having breakfast together has not happened for a month.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan let out a long sigh.

Xia Yan thinks that her relationship with Mo Ran is pretty good. Just like Tang Yin said, maybe she has a good impression of him during the past few years of cooperation.

But as time goes by, and the fact that she is already dating Tang Yin, the good impression will be suppressed in her heart, and it should dissipate over time.

At least Xia Yan doesn't have a strange atmosphere when he gets along with Mo Ran now.

As for handling the relationship with Song Lingyun.

Xia Yan now only maintains contact with her on a friend level, and on a deeper level, such as making appointments to go out to eat, watch movies, go shopping, etc. Xia Yan has rejected Song Lingjun several times in the past half a year, and Song Lingjun also There is nothing you can do about Xia Yan.

She may be persistent and a bit obsessed with love, but Xia Yan has to restrain herself, otherwise there is a high chance that she will end up like a piece of cake.

Xia Yan didn't think that he could handle his emotional relationship with Tang Yin perfectly after making a mistake.

and

Although Xia Yan is still young, considering that Tang Yin is seven or eight years older than him, Xia Yan is also planning to propose to Tang Yin after these works are broadcast this year.

Eating takeout dinner alone at home, Xia Yan was thinking about his career and future plans for his life.

In April, the temperature gradually rises.

Several weeks have passed, and the Dragon Kingdom animation world has also ushered in the biggest carnival in recent years.

In the past, Xia Yan's works were the most outstanding in the market, but in this quarter, it was Xia Yan's Three Kingdoms that stood out.

The three works of Initial D, Slam Dunk, and Fullmetal Alchemist, which were broadcast on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday respectively, were discussed in different ways.

In terms of ratings, Steelline remains at around 6.3%, Slam Dunk is at 5.9%, and Initial D is at 5.5%, although there is a gap between them.

But among the fan community, the disputes between fans of the three works are back-and-forth, refusing to give in to each other.

After the plot of Steel Refining entered April, the main line began to become clear.

The conspiracy of the artificial human group, something wrong with the empire, and the enemies codenamed Seven Sins encountered by the protagonist Edwards.

The slow unfolding of the plot gave fans a strong sense of being immersed in the world, especially the death of Hughes in the middle, which made a lot of fans cry.

Generally speaking, the ratings of Steelmaking are also rising slowly. They are not as ups and downs as Lelouch, but they are indeed stable.

The situation of Initial D is similar. The fan base of the original comic is here. The ratings are not as good as Steel Refining only because the animation production company behind it is promoting it. The production quality is much worse than Steel Refining. Strictly speaking, Initial D is not as good as Steel Refining. The Initial D Natsuki stalk is also a double-edged sword. Lok-suckers will be interested in Initial D after seeing similar stalks, but pure lovers will not watch this anime if they hear about cuckoldry.

Among the three works, the most controversial one is actually Slam Dunk.

It has been serialized for several episodes. The protagonist is still doing some basic training, has conflicts with bad boys, is about to leave the basketball club, and is being coaxed by the head coach of the judo club with photos of the heroine.

Although Xia Yan has tried his best to reduce the plot in the early stages of Slam Dunk, many fans still feel that these plots in the early stages of Slam Dunk are scattered.

A bit of bad fighting, comedy, daily life, and showmanship, but only basketball

"So this animation is called Slam Dunk, Slam Dunk and Master. So far, I only see that the protagonist is very good at fighting and is a master at causing trouble."

"I'm quite confused too."

"Don't pay too much attention to the title of the work. Anyway, I think this kind of funny plot is quite interesting. I watch it every week until my stomach hurts from laughing."

"What about gorillas eating big bananas and killing them in thousands of years? The old thief is too imaginative. I think he simply forgot about the basketball setting and just let the protagonist continue to play tricks like this. I will definitely follow it."

"In terms of comedy animation, it is basically impossible to surpass Lelouch's performance. There is indeed a market for comedy works in the Dragon Kingdom, but there is definitely no way for comedy works to reach the top in the industry."

"Come on, it sounds like the old thief would normally write about the main character playing basketball, and Slam Dunk would be more popular than Lelouch. The basketball theme is even more niche than the racing theme of Initial D."

"So 90% of Initial D's fans can still watch it with gusto even if they don't participate in mountain road races. Don't always criticize domestic basketball enthusiast groups. I didn't know the rules of basketball at all before I became a master. Still watching with gusto every week.”

"I have a hunch. In fact, the old thief's "Slam Dunk Master" may be a direct bloodbath in the future. Of course, the bloodbath I'm talking about does not mean that the ratings will directly drop to 1%, which is unrealistic, but that the popularity will increase in the future. A sharp decline may fall below 3%.”

"Um, why are these retarded remarks coming again? This animation has only been aired for a few weeks. Can you be patient? Do you really think that Lao Zei spent hundreds of millions on this animation to mess around? We all feel that it is a bit flawed. The old thief doesn’t know the early plot?”

"To be honest, although the early plot of Slam Dunk doesn't seem to have much to do with basketball, at least the character of the protagonist is well-developed. Anyway, I like the protagonist very much. Although he is a bad boy, loves fighting, and has no brains, just watching his actions makes me feel happy and the uncomfortable emotions disappear."

"Me too. In fact, if Lao Zei named this animation "The Daily Life of a Funny Bad Boy", I would also watch this animation. In essence, I think there is no problem with the early plot of Slam Dunk, but it is not very related to basketball, which leads to criticism."

"Watch it first, then question it. There are too many examples of Lao Zei's works that are painful to be paved in the early stage and then explode in the later stage. Only new fans will jump out to criticize immediately, and old fans will not say anything, waiting for the plot of Slam Dunk to get on track and slap the face of those who question it."

After all, Slam Dunk is the animation work with the largest single-episode investment in the history of Longguo. Its launch is expected by a large group of people in the animation industry of Longguo.

In essence, there is no problem with the early plot of Slam Dunk. Although Xia Yan deleted and modified these plots, he just let it quickly enter the main line, that is, the plot of the county trials of the national competition.

In the original animation of Slam Dunk, the protagonist's first official game was a friendly match with Ryonan High School, and the animation had been broadcast for more than ten episodes at that time.

A basketball animation that only allows the protagonist to touch the ball and play on the court after more than ten episodes will indeed make fans complain.

It's a bit like an essay that has gone off topic, and the strict examiners, that is, the animation audiences in Longguo, will definitely complain.

Xia Yan himself can also detect the problem, so the early plots of Sakuragi Hanamichi showing off and everyone shopping and doing nothing are reduced to less than six episodes.

These daily plots completely retain the character shaping part of Sakuragi Hanamichi, and other minor details are omitted. If necessary, the animation bd with supplementary content can be released later.

Xia Yan has also been paying attention to the reputation of Longguo's internal fans on Slam Dunk during this period.

At this stage, some fans are just impatient. They don't see the protagonist slam dunk and play basketball games for most of the day, and they are a little impatient.

But a considerable number of other fans have already watched Slam Dunk as a funny animation, which is definitely not Xia Yan's original intention.

Two weeks have passed

Finally, after the protagonist's resignation crisis ended, Hanamichi returned to the basketball team again and carried out solid basic training.

And the plot of Slam Dunk has officially entered the main line.

Well, at the end of the latest episode, finally. The plot clearly predicted that Xiangbei will have a basketball game in the next chapter.

The gears of fate are slowly turning. Dragon country animation fans are still unclear about how Slam Dunk will quickly transform after the friendly match chapter with Ryonan High School, from a daily animation about bad boys to the most passionate and classic work in the history of Dragon country sports themes...no one else.