Gotta Go the Healing Route

Knowing that Kazama Xi and Kazama Akane had had breakfast for a long time, Toyama Kisaragi simply suggested to go directly to lunch.

"As for what to have for lunch... of course it's soba noodles and fugu." Toyama Kisaragi laughed.

People in ancient times always pinned their hopes and blessings on various things, such as food, which became a tradition over time.

The buckwheat noodles are thin and long, and in the island country, it represents the long flow of water and health and longevity. People hope to live as long as the buckwheat noodles.In addition, because buckwheat noodles are easy to break, people hope to end the hard work and troubles of the year and not bring them into the new year, hoping that the new year will always be happy and prolong life.So there is a custom of eating fugu at the end of the year

In addition to eating soba noodles at the end of the year, fugu is also eaten during the New Year in island countries.Fugu is pronounced "fugu" in Japanese, which is similar to the pronunciation of "fu" ("fuku").

As soon as he said it, Toyama Kisaragi left Fushimi Inari Shrine with Yu Kazama and Akane Kazama directly, and the three of them came to a strange fugu restaurant by car.

Needless to say, the restaurant chosen by Yuanshan Ruyue, although it looks ordinary, but the puffer fish dish served still opened Kazama's eyes.

The store uses wild tiger puffer fish, and each part of the puffer fish can be made into a dish: mixed puffer fish skin, slightly sour appetizer, and the fish skin is also crispy and tough; the meat is used as sashimi, which can be thinly sliced ​​or thickly sliced. The translucent fugu meat is arranged in the shape of a chrysanthemum, dipped in yuzu sauce, it is tender and springy; the fried fugu has a crispy and firm outer skin, and can firmly lock the juice inside.Puffer fish hot pot has a refreshing taste, and the soup is very sweet. It is a must for making rice.As for the soba noodles, the store also delivered them, and the taste was above average.

Toyama Kisaragi asked for a small cubicle, where he could chat unscrupulously while tasting the food.

As for the topic of chatting, as a fanatic of literary creations, Yuanshan Ruyue naturally has three sentences related to creation.After learning that Kazama Xi was Yu Biechao, there were naturally more related topics.

In normal times, Kazama Xi wouldn't mind satisfying this fanatical fan. Whatever she wanted to talk about, Kazama Xi would just chat with her.

But the remote mountain Kisaragi's main concern is the manga "Fan Fist".Looking at Yuanshan Ruyue, it seems that he is still the kind of die-hard fan who can accept such a painful and tortured plot.

To this, Kazama Xi just responded with "Don't think too much, drawing this manga is just because I like cult movies."

"Mr. Xi is really too modest."

Kazama Xi's words did not make Yuanshan Ruyue back down, but the girl became more emotional.

"Some people on the Internet said that this work is neurotic, and the story always deviates from the main theme and has no clear main line. But I think the main theme of this story is very clear. New identities but losing those identities. Constantly gaining new goals and losing them. In this hopeless world, wandering and struggling painfully.”

"The struggle was painful, and the ending was not satisfactory, but I had to continue to struggle. This is how Togata's death touched me."

"It is in line with Kazama-kun's consistent creative thinking, pursuing those precious things in hysteria."

Kazama Xi didn't speak, and Yuanshan Ruyue began to analyze on his own.

To be honest, Yu Kazama has always been curious about how those readers and fans of Fujimoto in his previous life could keep up with the thinking of the freelance manga artist and analyze so many things.From the creator's point of view, Kazama Xi felt that sometimes Fujimoto didn't even think about what he was drawing.

No way, Kazama Xi had no choice but to change the subject.

"Didn't you ask me about literary creation before? I just finished a story, are you interested in reading it for me?"

Sure enough, Yuan Shan Ruyue stopped discussing Yan Quan, and put those beautiful eyes on Feng Jianxi.

"To be precise, it's a novel."

"What is your name?"

"The name..."

Kazama Xi took out a USB flash drive from her pocket and placed it in front of Yuanshan Ruyue.

"This novel is called "The Realm of the Sky."

Chapter 230 Eight-Moon IP

The novel of "The Realm of the Sky" was completed by Yuzai Kazama in his spare time at work while manga.

As the debut novel of Nao Kinoko, the full text of Kongjing is not too long, only about 40 to [-] words.For Kazama Xi, who was a writer in her previous life, the workload of re-enacting it was not too great.

Excluding the "Future Gospel" added by Nao Kinoko in the future, there are only seven chapters in the main biography of Kukai.

The work tells about the various entanglements between the girl Ryoji who has the magic eye of death and many magicians.

Although the length is not long, it depicts profound themes such as human nature, origin, emotion, contradiction, body and soul, etc.At the same time, it also spreads out a huge worldview.

Reborn in this different time and space, Kazama Xi has already left some things in the field of text creation: those two fairy tales, and the novel "From the New World".

The reason why these written works are reproduced is because Xi Kazama personally likes these works very much.

But now, Kazama Xi reprinted this "The Realm of the Sky", in addition to the senior moon chef in the previous life, and her love for Miss Shi, there is another layer of thoughts.

Speaking of which, what is the greatest achievement for cultural and creative workers?

To create a work that will last forever and be popular?

Can the work be adapted into various genres and spread around the world?

These are, or better described as, 'Ip'.

IP is not limited to a single work, but belongs to an entire setting and world view.More works are derived from these world views and settings.

Compared with a single work, IP has stronger vitality and can be continuously inherited, thus deriving infinite possibilities.Such as Marvel, DC, and Pokémon in Kazama Yuki's previous life can be described as the pinnacle of IP.

This is Kazama Xi's idea to create a big IP in this different time and space.

Strictly speaking, the manga produced by Kazama Xi can also be developed into an IP.Such as dead pen and magic circle.Under such a world view, other stories can indeed be extended.

However, the potential of these IPs is not too great, which can be regarded as the limitation of medium-length evil stories.Theoretically, the real big IP can derive countless stories through setting.

For the choice of this big IP, Kazama Xi was a moon person in his previous life, and with the blessing of personal preferences, he naturally chose Xingyue.

Compared with Marvel, DC, and Pokémon, which require a long period of preparation, Xingyue's IP is obviously simpler to build in this world.The rise of doujin culture can also allow Xingyue to spread faster and wider.

As one of the cornerstones of the Xingyue IP, "The Realm of the Sky" was naturally the first to be taken out by Kazama Xi, which is also in line with the birth process of the Xingyue world in the previous life - Moguhe was released on the Internet as early as 1998 "Kingdom of the Sky", and the full version of "Tsukihime" was not released until 2000.

The air environment can be said to constitute the setting and world view of the early type moon.It is the perfection and sublimation of Xingyue's world view.It mainly talks about the core setting of Xingyue World - the root problem.

Now that he is determined to reproduce Xingyue in this different time and space, and has already taken out "The Realm of the Sky".Before releasing the air environment, the first thing Kazama Xi should do is to taste it for professionals.

In the manga, he would leave this kind of thing to Uemura Aster.As for written novels, the first choice is of course the distant mountains like the moon.

The last time the two exchanged their identities because of an interview, Yuan Shan Ruyue learned that Kazama Xi was Yu Biechao at the same time, Kazama Xi also knew that Yuan Shan Ruyue was the famous critic 'Yuan Yue'.It goes without saying that Yuanshan Ruyue is professional.

The next thing is very simple, Yuanshan Ruyue's mind has been completely attracted by the USB flash drive that Kazama Xi gave her, and the topic of "Flame Fist" is naturally no longer brought up.

After the sumptuous puffer fish meal was finished, Toyama Kisaragi left directly.Akane Kazama, who was going to visit the festival with Toyama Kisaragi in the afternoon, was disappointed for a while.

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For storybooks, the most precious thing in life is being welcomed into readers' bookshelves.

For novel lovers, the most precious moment is when they get their favorite author's new book.Moreover, as the first reader of the work.This undoubtedly brought great satisfaction to Yuanshan Ruyue.

After being separated from the Kazama brothers and sisters, Toyama Ruyue couldn't wait to return home, and locked herself in the study directly.

Turning on the computer in the study, Yuanshan Kisaragi skillfully manipulated the computer to read the USB flash drive, and opened the files in the USB flash drive with the reader.

Online reading is the general trend in the era of rapid Internet development.But compared to using a computer to read with a mobile phone, Toyama Kisaragi still prefers the traditional paper-based reading method.

Especially at the moment, as the first taster of a new work, she should have held the manuscript paper, smelled the ink on the paper, and felt the writer's brushstrokes on the manuscript paper.

However, this is obviously difficult for some strong people.

The efficiency of handwriting is not as good as using a computer to code words.Like Kazama Xi, there is also the heavy work of manga.Under such circumstances, it is already amazing to find time to complete a novel.

Yuanshan Ruyue was naturally aware of these things, so she didn't say much.

But after turning on the reader, the first thing Yuanshan Ruyue saw was not the cold text on the screen, but a picture.

An original painting that has already been colored.

The background is a dark night with falling snowflakes, on the road located on the hillside.In front of the roadside guardrail, the night view of the distant city is hazy and beautiful.

And behind the guardrail, a girl in a snow-white kimono is standing there.

Snowy night, a girl in a kimono, with a faint smile on her beautiful side face.These elements are brought together in a picture, although the text has not yet been read, but it is enough to arouse readers' infinite reverie.

In the previous life, the famous Japanese light novels were actually divided into two parts.

Story text and illustrations.

The role of those exquisite illustrations cannot be denied. Many light novels actually have rather ordinary stories, but they find the right illustrators, and the works sell well.

There is no concept of light novels in Kana Kingdom in a different time and space, let alone adding suitable illustrations to the stories.Kazama Xi's doing this can be regarded as a precedent.

"The painting is really good..." Yuan Shan Ruyue couldn't help sighing.

This pair of illustrations is naturally from the hands of Kazama Xi, using his golden fingers, he directly moved several classic scenes from the TV version of the sky into the illustrations of the novel.

And the classic character model of Takeuchi's face is absolutely amazing before it produces aesthetic fatigue.

If you haven't seen his writing, you should first hear about his paintings.

Yuanshan Ruyue has already begun to become interested in the identity of the girl in the painting.I want to know why the girl stopped in the snowy night, and I want to know what kind of story this is.

Chapter 230, Chapter Nine, Eight, Six Nine Zero Six Two Nine Five Two The Patriarch of Urban Magic

It can be said that the exquisite original paintings at the beginning made Yuanshan Ruyue arouse the interest in reading at once.

But it is the story itself that really draws the reader into it.As the illustrations passed, the black text appeared, and Toyama Kisaragi began to read the story formally.

Chapter 1 is called Overlooking the Landscape.The opening chapter starts with No.1 viewing the girl jumping off the building.

Then the perspective switched to a female perspective, mainly describing a young man named Kuroto Kanya.In the second part of the chapter, the perspective switches again, this time from the perspective of Kanya Kuroto, describing the girl who is indeed called "two rituals".

The story unfolds after revealing the main characters. Just like the name of this chapter, overlooking the scenery, it is about investigating the frequent incidents of girls falling from buildings recently.

From the beginning, without understanding the characters, before the story setting is fully unfolded, Skyland is like a detective novel-everything at the beginning is a mystery, and as the story progresses, various things are gradually revealed.

At the very beginning, because of the atmosphere of the story and the city as the background, it coincided with the incident of a girl committing suicide by jumping off a building.Toyama Kisaragi really thought this was a suspenseful detective story.

It wasn't until the development of the story, the appearance of ghosts and spirits, and the ability of the magic eye of death, that Toyama Kisaragi didn't realize that this was an urban fantasy novel.

"Urban magic?" Yuan Shan Ruyue's eyes widened.

That's right, city plus magic, these two synthetic elements that have become rotten in later generations are very novel in this era.

Here I would like to mention a classic light novel of the last century, "Unlucky Pop Can't Laugh", authored by Uedo Kohei.

The history of Japanese light novels in Yu Kazama's previous life can be roughly summarized as the era after the publication of "No Ji Pope Can't Laugh" and the era before the publication of "No Ji Pop Can't Laugh".

Before the advent of "Boogie Pop Can't Smile", Japanese light novel magic and urbanism were separated: the fantasy works of adventures in different worlds represented by "Rhodo Island War" and "Show the Sorcerer" were the school.The urban school is based on real love or suspense detectives.

After the publication of "Unlucky Pop Can't Laugh", the magic/magic/magic/fantasy/supernatural works with the background of modern urban society have become the trend of the new era.

Including "The Realm of the Sky", related works have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. The combination of "fantasy" and "real world" has even led to the trend of world-based works in the light novel world.

It is still the pot of space-time isotopes, and the current state of Kanna is also in the state before the release of "Unlucky Pop Can't Laugh".

Urbanism and magic are two distinct genres of fiction, and no one has merged them together yet.Therefore, this "Boundary of the Sky" belongs to the unprecedented type of novel in the eyes of Toyama Kisaragi.

Urban and magical, in the eyes of the first person to taste crab, the feeling is as surprising as discovering a new world but full of expectations.