A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

In the first half of November, Xia Yan, as the chairman of Xia Tang Animation Company, went on a business trip abroad and held two fan meetings arranged by foreign partners. ඏ♦  ♦♦

The two-dimensional industry in Longguo is in a stage of crazy export in this world, which is probably similar to the island countries in the parallel world.

The two-dimensional atmosphere in overseas countries may not be as strong as that in China, but the sales revenue contributed by so many countries in the world is even higher than that of Longguo market.

In fact, the income of Xia Yan's past works, overseas income is also higher than that of Longguo.

Xia Yan's half-month trip abroad can be regarded as enjoying a wave of fans' enthusiasm overseas, and Longguo local media also reported the whole process.

During this process, Longguo's local slam dunk, fullmetal refining, hunter, and sword continued to be serialized.

And this month, Xia Yan's Pokémon, which has been brewing for nearly a year, also began to be promoted in Longguo.

Its derivative animation will be launched simultaneously in April next year.

As for the first generation of games, we have to wait until the end of next year to launch the animation first, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the game.

As for the ratings and sales of the works, Xia Yan did not ask for too much. Such works spend money to accumulate popularity in the early stage, and then explode overnight. It is too unlikely to simply expect the first generation of Pokémon games or animations to be a big hit in Longguo, or even surpass the performance of Slam Dunk and Madoka Magica.

However, Xia Tang Animation's series of large-scale investment promotions on Pokémon still attracted the attention of many Xia Yan fans in Longguo.

"Pokemon? What a strange name!"

"I went to Xia Tang Animation's official website and looked at it. It seems to be a work about cultivating monsters in another world. It mainly tells the battle between extraordinary monsters."

"Eh? Not a fight between humans?"

"It doesn't look like it, but the monsters that appear in it are pretty cute."

"Looking at the old thief's plan for this work, it seems that its main battlefield is games."

"? The old thief of games is really ready to start with the game industry?"

"I said, the two-dimensional industry is a huge field. The old thief is involved in animation, comics, and novels. How could he not enter the most profitable game industry?"

"Of I didn't make any moves in the game industry before, mainly because the initial development investment for games is too high and the investment cycle is too long. Now I have become my own capital, so I can invest as I want. "

"That's right, novels and comics only take time, and you can submit them directly after they are created. The cost of dissemination is at the publishing house. For animation production, 10 million is barely enough, such as Madoka Magica. The most difficult thing is games. The investment itself is huge, tens of millions, but game investment is just a small amount of money, and publicity investment is the big part. In the game market in Longguo, without a total investment of tens of millions or hundreds of millions, there will be no splash. "

" That's why Lao Zei is only starting to enter the game industry now. "

"Isn't it a bit late?"

"Too late? Lao Zei is only 23 years old! How many students haven't graduated from college at this age? Why do you think it's too late? "

"I mean, if Lao Zei's game production is launched at the same time as Madoka Magica, Lelouch, Cyberpunk and other works, the animation will gather popularity for the game, and the game will feed back to the animation, that would be the best ecology. To be honest, I really want to play Madoka Magica's game. "

"It's a pity when you put it that way. Although Lao Zei can spend money to make up for the games of these works later, the effect will definitely be much worse. "

"So, will Lao Zei's Pokémon be a big hit in the gaming industry? Is he going to be the boss of the gaming industry after entering the industry?"

"I think it's unlikely. Pokémon is probably just a test run. I've seen the investment in the game, and it's just over 70 million. The investment in the animation is more than 50 million, which is more than 100 million. In fact, it's not bad. This kind of investment is considered a small or medium investment in the gaming industry. It's unlikely to become a phenomenal game.

"That's right. Think about Lao Zei's light novels. He really became famous after the third and fourth works of his creative career. The same is true for the animation. The third Madoka Magica was a big hit. As for the game, it's likely that he will make one or two to test the waters first, and then make a big production later."

"In fact, I feel that among all Lao Zei's works, the most interesting one is to make Cyberpunk Edgewalker into a game. Of course, it's not about replicating the story line of David and Lucy, but about making Night City in Cyberpunk Edgewalker into a game map for players to explore. This is great to think about. ”

“Indeed, when you think about it this way, Lao Zei’s Xia Tang Animation is really a gold mine! Lao Zei can make a living for ten years by making all kinds of adaptations from his previous works.”

“That’s true, and I saw that Xia Tang Animation has recently established a TV drama department and a film department. It is very likely that Lao Zei has already thought about adapting his previous works into live-action.”

“?”

“Really? If Madoka Magica is adapted into a live-action version, I will praise Lao Zei directly.”

“Xia Tang Animation YYDs, how can it understand us fans so well?”

“This cold rice is reheated for me, I like to eat cold rice.”

“It got me excited all night.”

“What about Initial D? I want to see the live-action version of Tu Hai Akina Mountain Racing.”

“Sword Art Online should also have a live-action version, I want to see Kirito perform Starburst Healing Slash. ”

“Haha, if that’s the case, I’d rather watch the live-action version of Fullmetal Alchemist. To be honest, I now think that the only thing missing from Fullmetal Alchemist is a normal ending. As long as the quality of this ending is maintained, I’d like to call it the first work of the old thief.”

In mid-November, a series of promotional activities launched by Xia Yan's Pokémon game and Eye-derived animation directly energized his fans.

And after this series of discussions and exchanges among fans, many people discovered how far Xia Yan's Xia Tang animation has grown.

In the two fields of comics and novels, it is impossible for Xia Yan to work alone.

Not to mention anything else, Liuli Book Club and Beizhou Comics have a sales network all over the country. If Xia Yan wanted to go it alone, it would be impossible to establish it in seven or eight years. This kind of thing is not something you can just spend money on. of.

Just like if you give your wife 100 million to take supplements, it is impossible for her to have a child in a month. Money is not everything. It takes time to incubate sales channels to establish.

That's why Xia Yan is willing to share the copyright of his works with these cooperative publishers. After all, cooperation is a win-win situation.

In the field of animation, Xia Tang Animation is already the top animation company in the Dragon Kingdom in terms of production. With the support of TV1, the company's work promotion channels are also among the best in the industry.

Then the following live-action novels, comics, animations and other dramas will most likely be launched on Modu TV1.

In terms of movies, the film "To the Moon" was successfully released before, so it can be considered as having experience.

Coupled with the entry into the game industry

As you can see now, Xia Tang Animation is already a large company spanning animation, games, TV series, movies and other fields.

There are thousands of employees, and the company's account has nearly 10 billion in liquid cash. Moreover, the most valuable thing about this two-dimensional culture company is not the paper funds in the account, but the copyright value of the company's various works.

The works like Magic Yuan are finished, but that doesn't mean their value is gone. As long as Xia Yan is willing, he can make some live-action TV series or games based on these works in three to five months. The popularity of old works will immediately skyrocket, and the revenue from the works will follow suit. To be honest, the copyright value of Xia Yan's many works is not lower than the company's assets.

Xia Yan’s many fans carefully calculated

“It’s a pity that the old thief Xia Tang Animation is not listed on the market, otherwise Xia Tang Animation would be the number one company in the animation field.

"Xia Yan, the old thief, is not stupid. Is his company short of money? Is he asking a few investors to restrain himself when going public for financing? Is he sick? Besides, Xia Yan's works are great in creation, and his business war wisdom is probably that of a normal twenty-year-old young man. Level, if you bring capital into the company, it’s possible that the company will become someone else’s. He will definitely not do it!”

"If the old thief's company can be financed and listed, I will definitely buy it as much as I want. He is called a potential stock. He is twenty-three years old and has founded a company worth tens of billions. If he holds the shares of Xia Tang Animation for ten years, I’m afraid I can do it as many times as I want.”

"A lot of capital has approached the old thief, but the old thief just ignored it. He doesn't even have a bank loan to go public? He's thinking too much."

"This is the 23-year-old old thief. Why is there such a big gap between people? I was 23 and looking for a job in Shanghai. I interviewed with more than a dozen companies, but all of them were rejected. I just wanted to find a job in March. Is Qian’s job so difficult?”

"Don't talk too much. I'm crying. We are all graduates this year. I have been looking for a job since July and now in November, but I still haven't found it. I lied to my family and said that I have been working for two months. In fact, these two months have been spent." The sales were all borrowed, and I owed several thousand yuan to my classmates. Now when I look at the old thief, who is in his twenties and has tens of billions of assets, I can only say that I admire him, but I can't be jealous. The gap is too big. "

"This is the first time I feel like someone in the comments section is so harmonious about a rich person. Isn't he not hating the rich?"

"I'm not jealous of the old thief making money. After all, I know very well that it's not luck, background, or family that makes him money. He has a poorer family background and a poorer upbringing environment than me. He has reached this point all because of his own talent. He hates rich people. There are only those who started their fortunes through evil means. There are also those who win 100 million by buying lottery tickets. The former is scolded for being morally corrupt, and the latter is scolded because they are actually nakedly jealous of others who have better luck than themselves. It’s unbalanced. The old thief relies on ability, so who can hate him?”

"That's right."

"I have a feeling that the old thief will start his life now. We thought this moment is his peak. In fact, this is just the beginning. In ten or twenty years, will Xia Tang Animation grow into The largest company in the entertainment industry of Dragon Kingdom that spans the second dimension and live-action drama? "

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"Based on the quality and quantity of Lao Zei's current creations, it won't take ten years, just five years. Xia Tang Animation will definitely be the one."

As Xia Yan's work focus is no longer on attending various events and maintaining the popularity of himself and his works as before, but has shifted to capital operation and company development.

The sense of mystery that Xia Yan brings to Dragon Kingdom fans is becoming more and more profound.

At the end of this year, Xia Tang Animation’s series of activities made many companies in the game industry, film and television industry very nervous.

Two years ago, they would not have had any extra thoughts about a young man in their twenties entering their industry, and they would have come if they wanted to be cannon fodder.

But now Xia Yan brings too much oppression to these companies in the cultural field of Longguo.

It was late November, and Xia Yan, who returned to the Magic City, started his position work again.

In fact, from Xia Yan's point of view, serializing these long works is quite boring.

Sword Art Online has been serialized for almost three years, and it is still in the UW chapter. It will probably take another year or two for the series to end.

Writing novel manuscripts every week now has no passion, just like running errands.

The same is true for Hunter's storyboards, Slam Dunk, Steelmaking, Hua Monogatari, and Tianyuan Breakthrough's animation scripts.

Xia Yan has already read the contents of these works and knows their plots in his heart.

In the past, I could also find some fun by paying attention to the performance improvement of their adapted animations.

Nowadays, these works are ranked first, second, third and fourth in the weekly ratings, which is really boring. Even if there are occasional fluctuations and the ranking changes, after all, he is still competing with himself.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan admired Oda, Akira Toriyama, Takehiko Inoue and others in the parallel world. They are the real serialized works that span several years, more than ten years, or even decades.

He already has a net worth of hundreds of millions and has more money than he can spend, but he is still serious about drawing comic works. Unlike Xia Yan, after he found out that he had reached the pinnacle of the Dragon Kingdom, he had no rivals in the market. Now he feels that something is missing every day at work. .

Xia Yan doesn't quite understand the efforts of Oda and others, but he can somewhat understand why Yoshihiro Togashi likes to play mahjong.

If you can make tens of millions of dollars while lying around doing nothing for a year, then most people will definitely choose to spend their time on entertainment instead of spending more than ten hours on creating works.

I can earn tens of millions a year by just playing around with the copyrights of my past works. If you work harder, sell more single books, and earn an extra ten million a year, there will be almost no difference in the quality of your life. But your life experience will be much more comfortable.

"Could it be that I have become lazy after being invincible and lonely?" Xia Yan turned off the computer and laughed to himself.

After walking out of the office, Xia Yan wandered around the company boredly.

Hundreds of employees from various departments on the company floor saw Xia Yanruo and greeted him noisily and with awe.

After all, all employees in the company know that it is Xia Yan who makes them money with his works, not them who help Xia Yan make money. The company can run without anyone, but Xia Yan cannot do it, so the employees are convinced by Xia Yan , also from the heart.

Xia Yan walked to Tang Yin's office, where she was still studying the company's development report carefully.

Xia Tang Animation has developed to this point, and Tang Yin has definitely contributed a lot to it.

Xia Yan's energy is limited, so he can only focus on the creation of his works and moderately participate in the company's operations.

How the company develops, how to find partners, authorization of derivative copyrights of works, price negotiations, copyright infringement lawsuits, and the official person in charge of the company are all handled by Tang Yin and his team.

Xia Yan focused on internal skills in the company, while Tang Yin focused on external skills, which allowed Xia Tang Animation to develop to this point.

"Hey, why do you have time to come to my place today?" Tang Yin was sitting in the office seat. When she saw Xia Yan come in, a smile immediately appeared on her beautiful and delicate face.

"After finishing the work, I came over to take a look." Xia Yan said casually.

"Can you still handle your work?" Tang Yin said with a smile.

"You are now leaving all non-essential work to your subordinates."

"That's for sure. Otherwise, I'll take care of everything. Why would I pay so many employees to come to the company? In fact, you are the same. These things in the company are too cumbersome. Otherwise, I'll go to other companies to recruit a few senior executives to help you handle it. That’s it, don’t be too tired.”

"No." Tang Yin shook her head.

"Although my ability in this area is definitely not as strong as that of professional managers, I will not cheat you. Who knows whether the person you hire will deceive you or use any tricks. Some things should be handled with confidence by yourself."

"Xia Yan, you still have to pay attention to these aspects." Tang Yin reminded Xia Yan.

"When my father started his business, he was tricked like this several times."

Xia Yan thought for a moment after hearing this, then nodded with a smile.

"One year flies by so fast!" Xia Yan did not discuss this topic any more.

"Yes, it's almost December now. In a month or two, it will be my seventh full year of knowing you." Tang Yin also said softly, dragging her cheek with her palm.

"Seven years." Xia Yan was silent.

Normally I don’t feel much, but when I think about the seven years that have passed since the day I entered this industry, I still feel a little bit like the passage of time.

"But I didn't expect that in seven years, Xia Yan, you could grow from a high school sophomore who knew nothing to the most popular king in the two-dimensional field of Dragon Kingdom." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan.

"I feel more and more now that I was really discerning back then. I just dug you out of the vast crowd. Do you think there is a possibility that if I had not resigned from Hongfeng Publishing House, I would have continued to be you and Song Lingyun?" Editor, has now become a legendary editor in the Long Kingdom novel industry?”

Xia Yan thought for a moment after hearing this, then nodded and smiled.

"It's very possible. If you hadn't left Hongfeng, I might have serialized some of my works on Hongfeng. In this case, Hongfeng Publishing House would most likely be able to spread its fame, and maybe it would have developed into a It’s a large book club in Longguo.”

"To put it this way, it's my fault that I left Hongfeng, causing them to lose an excellent opportunity for development." Tang Yin got up from the office chair, came to the sofa where Xia Yan was sitting, and sat down next to him , and then rested his head on Xia Yan's shoulder.

"The so-called fate of life changed on that inconspicuous afternoon. If a colleague in the editorial department hadn't asked for leave that day and asked me to take a shift to handle on-site submissions, I probably would never have gotten to know you in this life."

After hearing this, Xia Yan thought for a moment, put his arm around her shoulders and said.

"Luck can often be understood as a necessity. The fact is that we have come this far and we will get married next year."

When it comes to marriage, Tang Yin's heartbeat suddenly accelerated and her face turned red.

"Getting married?"

"Yes, getting married."

"You say, you have so many fans in Longguo, what will be the reaction after knowing this news?"

"It should be millions of fans congratulating me."

"I'm afraid I will become the public enemy of your female fans." Tang Yin teased.

"Don't worry, they will definitely like you, you are so cute." Xia Yan said.

"Disgusting, your sudden sweet talk is so weird."

"There will be plenty of time to get used to it in the future."

The lunch between Xia Yan and Tang Yin ended with their conversation. In the afternoon, they each had their own work and were once again submerged in it.

The time came to December.

Slam Dunk, which has been serialized for more than half a year, has finally progressed to the basketball game with Xiangyang High School.

The ratings of Slam Dunk soared to a height of 6.78% as the game became more intense.

But

Even so, the ratings of Slam Dunk were crushed by another work throughout November.

That is Fullmetal Alchemist.

From January to now, Fullmetal Alchemist has been serialized for eleven months, with more than forty episodes, and all the world views and characters have appeared.

And the work of Fullmetal Alchemist itself is a work that is a little slow in the early stage, and then slowly lays out the world view and settings as the plot progresses.

The early plot is just for fans to think, but the later plot

is the real deification.

The struggle between the protagonist and the android.

The final world view and setting of Fullmetal Alchemist are revealed.

This has made Fullmetal Alchemist's recent popularity suppress Slam Dunk, and the ratings have once risen to 6.85%.

This ratings data is very sensitive.

It is only a little away from the feat of an average rating of 7% for a single episode, which has never been achieved by any work in Longguo.

The recent performance of Fullmetal Alchemist has made many fans excited.

Could it be?

In addition to having the opportunity to break the incredible record of Code Geass, Fullmetal Alchemist also has the opportunity to create another legendary viewership rating and push its single-episode rating to the 7% level?