The days of retirement with the singing queen

The best martial arts club in the world, the beginning of the change in the comic style of "Dragon Ball".

Basically, from the world's number one Budokai, "Dragon Ball" slowly transformed from a comedy comic to a passionate fighting comic.

This was an attempt made by Akira Toriyama and editor to increase the popularity of "Dragon Ball" after discussion, and this attempt was so smoothly integrated into the plot that it didn't feel too abrupt.

Almost unconsciously, the focus of comic readers has become the battle of characters and the ranking of characters. Lu Anzhi still remembered that in his previous life, when he was reading comics, he would always take a second look at the advanced ranking charts for the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. I wonder how many readers in this world have the same hobbies and habits as myself?

The opening scene of the manga is the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. Starting from the lottery division, the rhythm and feel of the story become different.

Before the start of the No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament in the World, Goku and Krillin, who had received special training from Kame Sennin, became the foreshadowing of the Martial Arts Tournament. The two of them were killing everyone in the knockout round, as if all their opponents were worthless in their hands, which was very exciting to watch.

In the quarter-finals, almost every game has been emphatically described.

The battle plot at this time still contains elements of the original comic comics of "Dragon Ball", such as the biochemical attack of Bacteria Bartlian, which was finally restrained by Krillin without a nose, and the various moments when Goku faced off against Mr. Goten the Kame Senjin in the finals. A wonderful idea.

But excluding these, The World's No. 1 Budokai is also an excellent work with compact plot, ups and downs, and exciting battles.

Akira Toriyama's talent in fighting comics began to slowly emerge at this time. Now, in order to recreate the classic aspects of the "Dragon Ball" comics, Lu Anzhi described the process in great detail in the script.

At the same time, Zhai Xiao has also received Lu Anzhi's guidance and her own efforts, and now she has mastered the storyboarding. The pictures are full of cinematic feeling, and the movements in the front and back pictures are very coherent, making people feel as if the characters in her comics are in the same place. As if in motion.

This is what readers of Painting Friends have the highest praise for Zhai Xiao's "Dragon Ball".

When reading other comics, the storyboards of those comics are extremely rough. Even many fighting comics are static. A character in a comic makes a move and shouts out the name of a move, and then in the next picture someone is hit by the move, and in the next picture the battle is over, or the opponent counterattacks with a move with the name of the move, you come to our side, as if Turn-based in general.

Readers can only rely on their own brains to understand the passionate battle scenes from those comics. Sometimes you can't figure it out in your head, so you can only imagine it hard, or simply ignore the process and just know the result.

But Zhai Xiao's "Dragon Ball" is different. When readers read her comics, they always feel like they are watching TV or a movie. The battles in those plots are so coherent that readers can feel how the characters are fighting without even using their brains. From this action to Between that action, how it is performed and how it moves.

This kind of storyboarding habit is even retained by Zhai Xiao in "Doraemon". In other words, her whole storyboarding creative ideas have been affected, and she is used to composing storyboards in this way.

This makes her comics extremely dynamic. Coupled with her superb painting skills, she is now rated among painting friends as one of the best in painting and storyboarding.

Of course, it still has to be one. After all, the comics she is creating have not yet shown their power.

After "Doraemon" began to be serialized, the popularity of "Dragon Ball" was also affected by "Doraemon" and improved slightly. But when it came to the No. 1 Budokai in the World, the popularity of "Dragon Ball" began to gradually increase with its ranking, gradually revealing its own unique power.

After Song Xiaoqin received Lu Anzhi's reminder, she went home and started reading "Dragon Ball".

In fact, Lu Anzhi said it too late. After all, he himself hasn't paid much attention to the progress of Zhai Xiao's "Dragon Ball" comics. He just paid attention to it before and now he has a rough idea. In fact, the plot of "Dragon Ball" drawn by Zhai Xiao has advanced to the quarterfinals of the world's best martial arts club.

After the battles of Krillin vs. Bartlian, Yamcha vs. Teacher Wutian, and Namu vs. Lanfang, we came to the last battle of Jilang vs. Sun Wukong.

After Song Xiaoqin returned home, she read all the plots before the knockout round and the quarter-finals, and then called Zhang Suxin and said that Lu Anzhi did not lie to her. The comic was indeed quite enjoyable. She was also very surprised. The plot seemed to It's very ordinary, but why is it so cool?

Lu Anzhi smiled and said nothing. The overall plot of the World's No. 1 Budokai does seem to be very ordinary, and even to describe it, it can be easily summarized with that promotion picture. But the details of each battle are extremely exciting and ups and downs. When Song Xiaoqin evaluated it, he only talked about the overall plot, but when he watched it, he looked at the details, so it is not surprising to have such feelings and opinions.

She followed the comics. Wukong's opponent, Chilang, the leader of the Chilang clan, looked like the flying dragon food that Wukong caught when he first appeared, but in the plot at this time, he looked very powerful.

Before participating in the 21st World No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament, this master had participated in many local martial arts tournaments and won the championship. This is the strength shown in the background introduction, and during the battle, it also showed a strength that was extremely consistent with the background, and once forced Wukong into a desperate situation.

Song Xiaoqin followed the comics and saw that Kirang used magic gum to push Wukong into a desperate situation, and then Wukong broke through Kirang's attack and kicked the wall of the martial arts arena to pieces. The battle felt short but very satisfying. Even better than "Fights Break the Sphere". She couldn't watch "Fight Breaking the Sphere".

The next semi-finals, the semi-finals, and the final are the beginning of the real classic.

Song Xiaoqincao started reading this comic one issue after another.

In the semi-finals, Song Xiaoqin was fascinated by Klin's battle with Kame Sennin and Namu's battle with Wukong.

But in the finals, the classic battle between Turtle Immortal and Wukong made Song Xiaoqin feel relieved. Drunken Fist, Monkey Fist, Wukong's reaction when the moon appeared, and Master Kame Sennin Goten destroying the moon with a move of Kame Style Qigong. The scenes are all extremely exciting. The whole battle process is full of ups and downs and is so compact that it makes people breathless. , reluctant to put down the comics.

"It's great! Sunny's paintings are so good! I'm a fan of her books!"

Song Xiaoqin immediately announced that she had become a fan of Qingtian, and she and Zhang Suxin once again found a common topic.

——As for Lu Anzhi, it’s too ripe to become a fan.

Zhang Suxin doesn't really like to read "Dragon Ball". Relatively speaking, she prefers to read "Doraemon". After "Doraemon" began to be serialized, she read the comic with Xianxian and told Xianxian about the comic. The story inside.

Xianxian was very impressed by Doraemon. She had read it when Lu Anzhi was creating this comic. At that time, she still called Doraemon Doraemon, but now she can no longer call Doraemon's name accurately.

At this time, "Doraemon" ranked one place lower among painting friends. Because "Dragon Ball" has exploded. When it reached the semi-finals, the ranking of "Dragon Ball" was already unstoppable, and when Goku fought Kame Sennin, the manga unsurprisingly showed its true strength and rushed to the top of the rankings.

At this time, many people remembered again that Lu Anzhi had such a work. This work, once considered a mediocre production by Lu Anzhi, instantly achieved a desperate counterattack.

"We all wrongly blamed Lu Anzhi."

"This comic is so good! I just didn't get to the key points before, but now it looks good!"

"It's so cool! Turtle style Qigong is awesome, Turtle Immortal is amazing!"

"I wish I could learn Turtle Style Qigong!"

In the comic forums and Wechat forums of comic book friends, these topics appear endlessly. Readers of Lu Anzhi's novels had not paid attention to this work. Only when they saw these comments did they notice the comics, which once again attracted a lot of attention to the comics.

The sales volume of the painting friends has also increased a lot.

The editor of Drawing Friends couldn't help but sigh that Lu Anzhi's appeal is so strong that he can attract so many people who usually don't pay attention to comics.

Of course, in addition to thinking that Lu Anzhi wrote the script well, there are also people who think that the current popularity of this comic is due to Zhai Xiao.

Many professional or discerning readers can see that the power of this comic in the world's number one martial arts club is largely due to its comic skills and storyboarding.

"Lu Anzhi's comics are great, but I think Qingtian is great."

"Pay attention to the storyboards of Qingtian. When I read her comics, I felt like I was watching a movie. The pictures are so coherent that the entire battle process can be connected without any mental distraction. "

“What is storyboarding?”

"The storyboard is... blah blah blah..."

"It's so cool to read comics like this! Compared with Sunny Sky's storyboards, other comics are simply unreadable!"

"It's so impactful! No wonder Lu Anzhi chose Qingtian to cooperate."

"Let me tell you a secret - Qingtian was actually Lu Anzhi's illustrator before."

"Yeah?!"

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There was a lot of discussion in the forum and on WeChat. Because of the identities and cooperative relationship between Lu Anzhi and Qingtian, there were more discussions on this aspect. Even in the comic "Dragon Ball", there is a distinction between the Luan Party and the Sunny Party.

Most of the two parties gathered in the official forum of painting friends, and a small number of them went to WeChat to argue whether Lu Anzhi or Zhai Xiaoqing had a greater role in this comic.

In the end, it was Zhai Xiao who showed up and posted the same paragraph on WeChat and the official forum of Huayou Comics, describing the creation process of the "Dragon Ball" comic, which set the tone for the dispute.

In that paragraph, Zhai Xiao explained that when Lu Anzhi initially gave her the "Dragon Ball" script and asked her to try painting, her first version of the comic was unsuccessful, as well as Lu Anzhi's guidance to her, asking her to refer to the movie and improve the coherence of the pictures. In the end, it was a process of trying over and over again to develop the current storyboard style and gain approval from Lu An.

Only then did the readers understand Lu Anzhi's control over this comic, and in the end they all thought: Lu Anzhi's ideas are awesome, Zhai Xiao's skills are awesome, everyone is awesome, it's a win-win situation.

The popularity of the No. 1 Budokai in the World has brought many benefits to this comic. The artist began to prepare a single volume for "Dragon Ball" - this was actually something that had been done for a long time. After all, it was produced by Lu Anzhi, so how could there not be a single volume?

And now, the stand-alone version of "Dragon Ball" has become a matter of course. Even as the popularity of "Dragon Ball" increases, its standalone book will inevitably become a sure profit. How could the magazine not focus on it?

And then the leading animation companies in the country came to the door and applied to purchase the animation copyright of "Dragon Ball", hoping to adapt the comic into animation.

Unfortunately, the animation copyright of "Dragon Ball" is not in the hands of the artist. If you are an ordinary comic book author, the artist must have already controlled the animation copyright. But this comic was written by Lu An after all, and it was impossible to get this cross-border boss with an ordinary contract.

So Lu Anzhi retained the copyright, and the animation company had no choice but to find Lu Anzhi.

Lu Anzhi received people from the animation company near his home and had a great conversation. He had seen the works produced by this animation company and had many discussions with people from the animation company. After hearing that the animation company planned to send out a production team for this comic, and being satisfied with it, they took over the animation rights of "Dragon Ball".

Of course, the contract is still calculated on a share basis.

This comic will be a full-length comic. According to Lu Anzhi's idea, it will be created in quarters based on the progress of the comic. This avoids the embarrassment of the animation progress catching up with the comic progress, but there is no content to draw, so you have to make up random things, create your own content, and be boring and boring. Many classic long-form comics in previous lives had made the animation plots draggy and boring because of this. He didn't want to see such a scene happen in "Dragon Ball".

In addition, if the production is divided into seasons, Lu Anzhi can also increase the price later. You must know that "Dragon Ball" is just beginning to show its power. The Second World's Best Martial Arts Tournament, The Third World's Best Martial Arts Tournament, and the Namek Chapter will all become more exciting each step.

The people from the animation company agreed. Although in comparison, long-form animation is more in their interests, broadcasting it in seasons is indeed more conducive to the quality of animation. They had to consider Lu Anzhi's request.

At the same time, animation companies also made requests to purchase animation adaptation rights for other works. In this way, the animation copyrights of "The Legend of Monkey King" and "The Legend of the Holy One" have long been released, but there is still no news about their production. Lu Anzhi handed over the animation production of "Dragon" and "Fate Stay Night" to this company.

He has confirmed that this company is really good, and there will be no problem in handing over these two works to this company.