A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

The feeling of "Steel Refining" is that during the viewing process, you will not feel that there will be any extreme fluctuations in emotions. For example, you will be happy one second, and a popular character will die directly the next second.

In the parallel world, works like Giant are different. They always suddenly ignite or become violent at a certain moment, or switch from extreme sadness to extreme burning, making the audience feel like they are on a roller coaster. .

Steelmaking has always had its own rhythm. While watching it, you may feel that some plots are handled relatively blandly, but after watching it, when you think about it, you will become more immersed in it.

Moreover, the experience will actually be better if you play Steel for the second or third time. This is very different from many anime works that just want to fast forward after watching them for the second time.

Tonight, the animation of Steel Refining has ended on the TV station, but this is just the beginning for this work.

The idea of ​​"what you want to get, you have to pay for" is throughout the work from the first episode. In the last episode, the title of Fullmetal Alchemist was sublimated with a sentence from Edward. ,and

Although the plot is not depressing and tear-jerking, it does have the emotion of separation in it. First, in the ending, in order to better understand the world, Edward resolutely set foot on the train to a foreign country even though he confessed his love to Wendy.

Just like a reincarnation, even though Edward's father Hohenheim loved Edwarda's mother so much, he still separated from his wife and children in order to defeat the villain in the bottle.

Edward's decision to travel around the world makes it difficult for the audience not to think of the ending of Hohenheim.

After defeating the villain in the bottle and getting rid of the fate of eternal life, a man came to his wife's grave alone, and died in front of his wife's grave with his last happy smile.

So after tonight's Steelmaking ends, more Steelmaking fans are still in tears.

"It's been more than a year, and the steelmaking is finished."

"In reality, I have only three or five friends, and they all go their separate ways. In the past six years, the works that have accompanied me the most are the works of Xia Yan. Every time one of his works is finished, I want to cry. It feels like a friend is leaving. It’s like I’m far away.”

"Don't say it in such a sad way, it makes me want to cry. For such an excellent work like Steel, there will definitely be animated theatrical versions and animated movies and TV series in the future."

"However, Edward's story is over. He lost the door of truth at the price, and now he is just an ordinary person. Alas, even if there is a theatrical version, we will not be able to see the omnipotent Edward."

"It's so uncomfortable. Obviously I think this ending is amazing, and I can't think of a better ending than this, but...it's just so uncomfortable."

"I feel like Steel Refining is already more powerful than Lelouch in my heart."

"I still think Lelouch is more awesome, but the difference between the two is by no means simple. It's just a matter of personal preference. I think Lelouch ranks first in my heart. It's just that I like Lelouch more. This is just a character, but from an objective point of view, I also admit that Steel is not inferior to Lelouch at all.

"The connotation of Ganglian's works feels a little more profound."

"Animation works should not discuss the connotation of the work. It is not philosophy. Just like some people who like classical music look down on pop music. Is it necessary? I only watch animations to make me happy. As long as the animation is good-looking, it doesn't matter. Connotation or not.”

"Indeed, there is no way to compare the difference between the two works. It is always difficult to compare the two works. The only thing that is very clear is that the sales data, popularity index and ratings of the works are incomparable. It’s arguable. A niche work can never be crowned a god. For works of this level like Steel and Lelouch, we can only compare them based on these aspects.”

"well"

"I hope that after finishing this work, the old thief can continue his efforts and come up with a more powerful new work."

On the night when the steel smelting was completed, the Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional circle was no longer as sensational as before. After all, Xia Yan's fans have experienced such scenes many times over the past few years, and they also have psychological expectations for the quality of his works.

Steel is indeed an out-and-out masterpiece, but everyone knows in their hearts and knows that others think so. After the completion, there are fewer people crazily touting the work than before, and most of them are still immersed in the plot, and Discussion on the influence of the work and other aspects.

Melancholy, reluctance and other emotions are brewing in my heart.

But in the end, steelmaking is finished, in this spring, this March

The next day, early in the morning, many media outlets in the Dragon Kingdom compiled and reported the news of the completion of Steelmaking, listing the influence of this work and its impact on the animation industry. But they are basically commonplace remarks.

For Xia Yan now, these things are just the icing on the cake for him. Even if these media departments don't praise Xia Yan, everyone in the Longguo two-dimensional industry knows that no one can shake Xia Yan's position in this industry.

Now everyone just wants to know.

The two episodes of Steel that aired last night will probably break the 7% mark when the ratings of that episode are finally calculated.

Even Xia Yan's competitors and companies in the animation industry were very nervous.

Their feelings towards Xia Yan are very complicated, but after most companies admitted the gap between themselves and Xia Tang Animation and accepted their fate, they actually supported Xia Yan in their hearts.

Over the years in Dragon Kingdom, television programs, variety shows, TV series, talent shows, animations and other sections all have their own achievements.

However, animation and TV dramas are the only two fields with ratings above 6%. Among them, there is not a single work with ratings above 7%.

If "Ganglian" can break 7% in ratings for a single episode, it will really gain face for the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

The strength of the number one person in the animation industry is like this. In the future, when I argue with those who watch TV series and variety shows on the Internet about who is the best, if a work of this level is presented, the other person will definitely be speechless.

In fact

Xia Yan and Modu TV1 have been preparing for this for more than half a month and have spent tens of millions on marketing expenses. The effect must be good.

The ratings for the episode in Steel where Edward defeated the boss, the Man in the Bottle, did not break 7%.

But the last episode, which was all about literary drama, caused the ratings of Steel Refining to close at 7.02%.

Although it is only a little higher than 7%, it is still high.

In the history of Dragon Kingdom, the first work with a single episode ratings exceeding 7% was born on this day.

Although the Lelouch fans were a little reluctant, they still cheered for Xia Yan in line with the steel fans.

Major two-dimensional forums are full of relevant news.

Xia Yan's Xia Tang animation started a celebration at Xia Yan's signal.

Live broadcasts and employee dinners were also held in the following days.

One thousand lucky fans will be randomly selected on the official website and will be given a full set of animated BD discs of The Circle of Steel.

You know, based on the length of Steel Refining, there are at least nearly twenty volumes of bds, and the current selling price of animated bds is worth thousands of dragon national coins.

Of course, for Xia Tang, a peripheral manufacturer, how much does it cost to produce some bd discs? The reason why Xia Yan didn't give away too much was to avoid irritating and breaking the hearts of those loyal bd buying fans, and to avoid psychological imbalance.

Magic City TV1 is naturally not far behind in similar marketing activities.

We are also planning to hold a special show on Steelmaking on Friday and invite Xia Yan to appear at that time to explain to Dragon Kingdom fans all the foreshadowings in Steelmaking.

As the boss of the company, Xia Yan has been extremely busy during this period, and finally...

It was not until the beginning of April that the enthusiasm for steelmaking finally dropped.

After all, no matter how good Steel Refining is, it is impossible for Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional fans to continue to be immersed in it. Every quarter, there are many game works filling the audience's attention.

For example, the Pokémon anime started airing in April.

As a pre-promotional animation for the Pokémon Generation 1 game that will be launched at the end of the year, Xia Yan's promotion of this work is also full of specifications.

However, for those adult two-dimensional fans in Dragon Kingdom, the Pokémon animation without the bonus of childhood feelings just feels like a slightly novel work.

Xia Yan doesn't care. His goal is to target the primary and secondary school students in the Dragon Kingdom and cultivate young fans of the work. He won't try too hard to gain the popularity of the Pokémon animation at the beginning. Anyway, he currently has a company account With sufficient funds, even if he produces ten Pokémon animations in a row, it won't be a lot of money for him.

After the completion of Steelmaking, the Dragon Kingdom TV animation industry has completely entered the era of double-wall competition between Slam Dunk and Sword Art Online animation.

As for the new Pokémon released in early April?

In fact, its popularity is not too high.

Strictly speaking, the animated content of Pokémon, at least in the early stages, is quite youth-oriented. It’s not that these adult two-dimensional fans in the Dragon Kingdom can’t stand it, but if there are top-notch works like Slam Dunk and Sword, they are still there. Serialized, these people definitely won't be too interested in Pokémon.

After the first episode aired, the ratings barely reached the 5% level.

Of course, this 5% moisture is also there. If it hadn't used Xia Yan's name to attract the attention of Xia Yan's fans, the ratings at the launch might have been at the 3% level.

but

Adults in the second dimension don't have such a strong feeling about Pokémon, but the children in the Dragon Kingdom are different.

It is difficult for primary school students to understand the heavy and profound lines and thoughts in Steel. Even if adults say that Steel is beautiful, many children still say they cannot understand it.

The plot of Naruto in the parallel world is actually excellent, but when Naruto was popular on "Star TV", many of its Chinese fans were still in elementary school. Many people intuitively felt that there was something wrong with Itachi. He actually killed his whole family for the sake of the village, and he was a second-rate person. But when these elementary school students (including a certain online writer) look back at this plot when they grow up, they can realize that Itachi was facing a choice between the country and his family at that time.

The perspectives of adults and children are different.

The Pokémon animation is simple, straightforward, and has a juvenile style from the character design to the painting style. Its impact on children is difficult for adults to imagine.

Therefore, among the adult two-dimensional group who often surf the Internet and speak freely in forums, the popularity of Pokémon can only be said to be average to that of Xia Yan's works, while among the primary school students, this work, two weeks after it was aired, became It has started to spread rapidly in popularity.

A group of researchers under Xia Yan's company are collecting this data every day and summarizing it into reports for Xia Yan to watch.

Of course, Xia Yan is a layman when it comes to corporate IP management and operations, but money can make all the difference. With his current tens of billions of assets, it is not difficult to hire some professionals to help manage Pokémon.

Besides, he knows how Pokémon became popular in the parallel world. There were money and people, and a little bit of God’s perspective was added, which came from his own intervention in the business direction.

Xia Yan still has the confidence to present the glory of this work in the parallel world in the Dragon Kingdom plane.

However, this will take some time.

It took 20 years for works such as Death, Fire, and Dragon Ball to become world-class IPs, and it took Marvel nearly a century to become popular all over the world through movie adaptations.

Even if Xia Yan is the number one in the Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional industry today, he can use his popularity to shorten the time for the influence of Pokémon to spread to a certain extent, but this is also a job that will last for several years or even more than ten years.

In April, although Fullmetal Alchemist was completed, the situation in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry has hardly changed much from before.

New dramas are emerging one after another, but the works at the top of the popularity list are all by Xia Yan. Even if there are differences in popularity, Xia Yan's least popular works have also formed a clear advantage over the works of other animation companies in Longguo. In the two-dimensional fan group, the phenomenon of mindless support for Xia Yan's works has become more and more intense. This situation has made other animation companies in Longguo feel cold and desperate.

It has been two years. Even if Xia Yan's works have changed, he has always dominated the list of the most popular works in Longguo, and has never fallen.

Not to mention that Xia Yan has fallen from the altar, there is no possibility that he will be squeezed out for a short time.

This kind of invincible popularity and suppression in the industry makes many peers feel suffocated.

The saying that prosperity and decline naturally exists in Longguo, but everyone has no idea whether this will happen to Xia Yan.

The first person in the two-dimensional industry is just a ranking limit, but is this Xia Yan's limit?

Who knows?

Lelouch is already outrageous enough, and Xia Yan created Fullmetal Alchemist in less than a year.

It seems that Fullmetal Alchemist is now the new pinnacle of Dragon Country animation, but no one can tell how long this work can defend its "first" glory, after all, Xia Yan is only 24 years old now.

Half a month has passed in a flash.

The influence of the end of Fullmetal Alchemist has finally subsided, and Xia Yan has also taken time off from the finishing work of Fullmetal Alchemist and started preparing for the wedding in July.

Tang Yin is not the kind of person who likes to join in the fun. She hopes to keep the wedding simple and invite relatives to have a meal. But for Xia Yan, since he is going to hold it, Xia Yan will definitely hold it according to high standards.

He doesn't have many friends, but he has a lot of partners, including a number of peripheral manufacturers in Longguo, TV stations, animation industry partners, and overseas copyright operators.

There are also acquaintances in the novel book club and the comics club, several classmates who had a good relationship in high school, best friends in junior high school, and childhood playmates.

As for relatives, Xia Yan has hardly contacted them after he became famous. It's not that Xia Yan is stingy, but these people took the initiative to cut off contact with Xia Yan when his family was in trouble. After he became famous, he would definitely not go to them to get a warm face. However, he would still send out the invitations that should be sent. Xia Yan doesn't care whether people are embarrassed to come or not. Anyway, he is not going to accept gifts, and he is not afraid of owing favors. He just spends money to host a banquet to invite people he knows to dinner.

In short, Xia Yan can still create a lively atmosphere at the wedding banquet if he gets together.

In the office, Xia Yan let out a long breath, looked at the bright sunshine outside the window, and said with a smile on his face.

"Time flies by so fast."

The scene of me secretly writing novels while brushing off my study hours in high school is still vivid in my mind, as if it were yesterday. Now when I look back, it is a time that I can never go back to.

Thinking of the word "marriage" that I used to think was so far away, Xia Yan was absent-minded again, and then he laughed at himself, saying that this was not pre-marital entanglement.

April passed by in Xia Yan's expectation, and May... came.