Gotta Go the Healing Route

In Kazama Yuki's studio, Uemura Ziwan is reporting the good news to Kazama Yuki who is sitting in front of the workbench.

Two weeks have passed since the release of the new work, and "Attack on Titan" has been serialized to the fourth episode.

"Congratulations, Mr. Xi. This will undoubtedly be another successful work."

After all, Kazama Xi is now considered a top author with a huge fan base. As long as the quality of the new work is not too poor, readers will be willing to vote for Kazama Xi by virtue of popularity.

Although he knew that Kazama Yuki would be able to reach the top three sooner or later, Uemura Ziwan did not expect that this matter would be completed in the first month.

This shows that the potential of this work is indeed extraordinary.

As the editor of Kazama Yuki, Aster Uemura was giggling in her dreams this time.

It is different from the previous work "Chain Saw Man".

"Chain Saw Man" is regarded as a casual work in the eyes of Aster Uemura.

It is an experimental work to step into the kingly manga with the evil style. The various plot settings in the later stage of the chainsaw man make Aster Uemura feel nervous.

But this time "Attack on Titan" is different.

It can be said to be neat and rigorous, as if returning to the creative period of "Death Note".However, this time it is no longer a plot of a battle of wits that makes people addicted, but a story of kingly blood.

The familiar rhythm of the story reappeared in the comics.

The most prominent performance is in the creation of the "pressure" of the story.

The reason why dead pen can mobilize readers' emotions is that the confrontation between Ye Shenyue and L is based on the pressure of life and death.Whoever discovers the other party first and finds out the identity of the other party will die.

It is precisely because of this pressure setting that every attack and defense of Ye Shenyue and L makes readers nervous.In the mid-term, Ye Shenyue's identity was exposed, and the sense of despair that came from the surface was even more classic among the classics.

It can be said that pressure is fundamental to create a sufficiently thrilling story.

Choices made without any risk are pointless.

It's like telling the truth and lying.No one would choose to lie if all the lying would do them no good.

Conversely, people lie precisely because telling the truth often comes with enormous risks.

In this case, the quality of honesty is extremely valuable.

Is this theory somewhat similar to the creative concept of 'Only in extreme despair can one see true love'?

Although "Attack on Titan" is announced as a full-length kingly work, this kind of "pressure" is not lacking in the four episodes serialized so far.

Whether it's the straightforward pressure of survival when the giants invaded, or the pressure of the power gap between the two sides when they watched their relatives die and the protagonist was unable to revenge.

Through the plot, the shaping of this pressure can greatly mobilize the emotions of readers outside the story.Moreover, this has the advantage that it can reveal the essence of the characters more and more deeply, and show the trajectory of the characters' growth.

Of course, for comics, pictures and stories can influence each other.

The style of painting will have an important impact on the style of the story.For example, "From the Abyss" and "Girls' Last Journey" in Yu Kazama's previous life both used the appearance of cute characters to tell cruel and sad stories in essence, which helped to weaken the audience's subjective discomfort.

Back to giant.

In fact, the paintings of the giants in the previous life were criticized by readers for their lack of recognition and inability to recognize human faces. This cannot be entirely blamed on Isayama's inability to create paintings.

The idea of ​​people's painting - the extreme realism of human design has caused such problems to a certain extent.

Everything has two sides. Because of the pursuit of realistic painting style, Isayama could not use the exaggerated shape of the characters to distinguish the characters like Mr. Araki, which caused the problem of low recognition. But on the other hand, the realization of human design , such as hairstyles and clothing, can deepen the authenticity of the story, thus making the 'pressure' created by the story to a higher level.

Speaking of the 'pressure' shaping of the manga, though.

The shaping of this urgent pressure generally appears in evil manga.Because evil way comics originally show the deep core of the story through intense contradictions and pressure.

And the kingly way...the plot of the story does not need to create such a tight sense of pressure.

One is that Wangdao comics are intended for the general public and are more commercialized.In addition to fighting, they often also pay attention to smooth things, such as the production of funny and warm plots.

The second is that Wang Dao comics are generally long and long. If the pressure and conflicts are too urgent, it will not be possible to draw later.Unless the method of constantly changing the map is adopted to make the protagonist's enemies constantly become stronger.

However, once you fall into the vicious circle of constantly upgrading and changing maps, there will be a fatal problem: although it seems that the scene is bigger and the enemies are stronger, the core pressure has not been upgraded accordingly, and the character creation has stagnated. There is even a step back.

The later story of the Shinigami of Kazama Yu’s previous life stretched his hips more or less because of such a problem.

In addition to the above, there are actually various problems.For example, most comic book authors don't dare to draw too fast a pace when they draw comics and create stories, because once the pace is too fast, the authors simply don't have time to conceive the subsequent plot.

The evil way comics dare to play like this because the evil way manga is a short and medium-length novel, and there is no need to think too long-term about the plot.

In the previous life, Isayama So dared to play like this because Isayama had already thought about the whole story of the giant from the beginning of drawing manga. ⒍⒏! ⒐! ο⒍ ⒉⒐ ⒌⒉

And in this different time and space, Kazama Xi dared to play like this of course because he was on and off.

In short, apart from Xi Kazama, there is no other cartoonist in the industry who pursues the shaping of the pressure of the story.Even Wushan Yun is different.

And in doing so, the effect is extremely significant.

The first four chapters have already made readers eagerly look forward to the follow-up plot.

"This is the real kingly work of Kazama Evening Style." Uemura Ziwan thought in her heart.

"The perfect combination of the evil way and the kingly way, the story is biased towards the tension and oppression of the evil way, and the protagonist's role is biased towards the kingly way."

Compared with "Chain Saw Man", which is covered with a layer of domineering skin, but is actually a manga with evil ideas in essence, for editors, "Attack on Titan" obviously makes Uemura Ziwan more excited and happy.

"It's back, it's all back."

Before the giant's new work was serialized, someone who didn't know where said that Kazama Xihua's kingly way was not good, and this time he was severely slapped in the face.

Compared to Aster Uemura's excitement, Yu Kazama was extremely calm.

In any case, the early story of the giant is definitely in line with the standard of "magic work".

For him, the copywriter, the real challenge is to transform the story in the middle and later stages.

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Although most of Xi Kazama's attention is on the reshaping of the giant's story in the middle and late stages, the success of the manga in the early stage also makes Xi Kazama very satisfied.

At least, my pseudonym, because of "Chain Saw Man" and "Flame Fist", can wash away the label of "psychopath" on my back.

For those inexplicable labels that readers put on themselves, such as "a righteous middle-aged man", "paralyzed and can only sit in a wheelchair", "hurt by a childhood sweetheart", etc., Kazama Xi is very helpless.

Unless the vest is broken and your true image is exposed to the public, it will be difficult to wash it off.

But the label 'psychopath' is different. First of all, this label is new and not as deep-rooted as the previous ones.Secondly, the reason for the emergence of this label is mainly due to the free style of Chainsaw Man and Yanquan.

With the normal development of the story rhythm of giant comics, most of the doubts of readers have been basically dispelled.

As time goes by, readers are expected to slowly forget that this is just a beautiful misunderstanding.

"It is worth mentioning that..."

Aster Uemura's voice continued to be heard in her ears, drawing back the attention of Xi Kazama, who was wandering in the sky.

"Takano-kun and Zhicheng-kun's new work got No.4 this time. It's right after you."

"They're also a formidable enemy."

During the period when the two were off the magazine, they did nothing, and conceived a very good story.

"I see. Speaking of which, Wu Shan talked about this with me last time." Kazama Xi said, turning the pencil in her hand.

"In the end, it's about the manuscript of the new chapter. According to the original plan, I'll come and pick it up in two days. Is it okay?"

"Of course no problem." Kazama Xi responded readily.

Aster Uemura nodded in satisfaction, and said again:

"Speaking of which, Mr. Xi, are you going out this afternoon?"

Aster Uemura had noticed that Xi Kazama's workbench had been packed, and it seemed that the boy was not going to work here in the afternoon.

"Ah."

Kazama Xi replied: "The galgame game studio has something to ask me for."

"It's this..."

Uemura Aster immediately understood.

Speaking of which, Kazama Xi's game studio was still managed by her.However, since then, the manga and the game have been separated, and Aster Uemura does not know the specific situation there.

Originally thinking about my responsibilities as a manga editor, I should let the boy focus on the manga.But after hesitating for a moment, Aster Uemura still didn't speak.

One is that Kazama Xi has done her job well, and the other is that she has no right to interfere with the author's work.

.................

On the game studio side, Kazama Xi would take time to take a look at it every half a month, unless the manga side was too busy.

However, this time it was Kazama Xi who was approached by Himeko Ishii on his own initiative.

"Trial version?"

In the afternoon, I had lunch with Aster Uemura, and after parting, Yu Kazama went straight to the game studio.

At the moment, he is sitting in the conference room with Himeko Ishii, who is the producer.

Hearing that Himeko Ishii said that the trial version of "Tsukihime" was available, Yuki Kazama was a little surprised.

This progress is a little fast.

Although Kazama Xi doesn't know much about galgame production, it can't be said that she doesn't know anything about it.If I remember correctly, the production of the trial version should belong to the later stage of the entire game production process.

It has only been two months since the production of the different time and space version of Tsukihime began.

Seeing Yu Kazama's expression, Himeko Ishii probably guessed what this too young boss was thinking, and immediately explained:

"Thanks to the ready-made copywriting and vertical drawing provided by you, the boss, the production progress is very fast."

Originally, the most time-consuming part of galgame was the script and art design.At the beginning of Yueji's project establishment, these two links were almost done.

"Although the game project is still far from the final product, the trial version is already available."

"Is that so..."

Kazama Xi touched her chin and nodded.

Different from the background of the production of Yue Ji in the previous life, after all, Yue Ji in the previous life was only a work of fan clubs, not as produced by a dedicated studio.The original version of Tsukihime is really rough in terms of screen CG and operation, even if it is an electronic novel-style game, it is really frowning.

And in this different time and space, for Yue Ji, Kazama Xi is going to put a lot of effort into the production process. I dare not say it is perfect, but at least it must keep up with those famous galgames in this different time and space.

For example, in terms of dubbing, the game Yue Ji in the previous life had no sound. It is estimated that the Xingyue club at that time wanted to save money.On the different time and space side, Kazama Xi naturally didn't have to worry about saving money, and directly invited well-known voices to provide a high-level dubbing for this version of Yue Ji.

Excellent story, exquisite graphics, and high-level dubbing, these are the requirements of Kazama Xi for the different time and space version of Tsukihime.