Chapter 141 Hot Discussion and Development
The next day, Xia Yan was invited to the company headquarters by Liuli Book Club early in the morning.
Because Parasite Beast will be published in the journal "Liu Li" in two weeks, the cover poster of this novel will need to be redesigned, and the book club will also take some photos of Xia Yan and attach them to the serialized journal. The journal is given as a gift to the majority of light novel fans.
It is a routine operation for the three major journals. Anyone whose works can be serialized in them must go through this process.
These actions of book clubs have also led to the fact that in the Dragon Kingdom, light novel writers are comparable to stars.
After all, the book club understands the fan economy very well. If a novel wants to get out of the circle, it will be very useful to work more with the author of the novel, not to mention.
Many of the people who write light novels are young and middle-aged, fat-bellied and pot-bellied. Young and middle-aged people grow old due to the pressure of serialization. There are not many young and handsome light novel writers like Xia Yan in the industry.
This also caused the book club's internal photographer's eyes to light up when he saw Xia Yan.
A few days later, Chapter 19 of Parasite Beast was successfully serialized.
The plot of this chapter mainly tells the story of the male protagonist Xin Yi, who cooperates with the government to find ways to eradicate the parasitic beasts in order to save more people.
Of course, Goto, the strongest parasitic beast in the entire game, also made a slight appearance.
The plot is relatively dull, but the total number of readers' votes still exceeded 600,000, ranking first.
And another week passed.
During this week, the first three volumes of Parasite Beast were successfully released and are selling like hotcakes throughout the Dragon Kingdom.
As for the first three single volumes of Parasite Beast, their respective first-week sales were 1.96 million, 1.89 million and 1.88 million copies respectively.
This result can only be said that even though Liuli Publishing House was mentally prepared, the sales volume still exceeded their forecast by nearly 300,000.
The average sales volume in the first week is about 1.9 million copies. It is basically certain that the total sales volume will exceed 5 million copies, and the probability of the average volume sales reaching 6 million copies is not small.
The general plot of the three single volumes of the novel is also serialized into the plot of Chapter 16 of the novel.
It’s early March
The serialization date of Chapter 20 of Parasite Beast.
But this time, it is no longer serialized in "Liu Li Color".
The cover of this week's magazine "Liu Li", one of the three major light novel journals in the Dragon Kingdom, is a high school boy with a cold face and determined eyes. He is dressed in a black school uniform. In his right hand is a steel knife transformed from a piece of flesh. The shape of the steel knife At the tip of the knife is Xiaoyou's equally cold and calm eyes, staring directly outside the cover of the journal, looking at the novel readers of this journal.
Handsome
That's the first impression most readers of this week's issue will have.
The look of Xiaoyou and Xinyi really touched people's hearts.
After opening the journal, on the page of Chapter 20 of the Parasite Beast
It took about a thousand words to briefly introduce the world view of the plot before Parasite Beast. In short, it is almost an outline of the story, so that new fans can have a general understanding of the plot before Parasite Beast, and clearly announced the three-volume single volume of Parasite Beast. The news that it has been released means you are obviously interested in this novel? Go buy a single book.
After these contents, there is a photo of Xia Yan in the book. Behind the photo is about Xia Yan's resume and achievements in the light novel world.
Wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, her hair was styled by a hairstylist, and she also posed in front of the camera.
It is different from the formal photos of light novel writers in the past. After all, readers are tired of seeing the same image of middle-aged authors.
Apart from anything else, the author of the novel has such good looks and age.
Many readers have become interested in this work from the author's image.
It wasn't until they started reading Chapter 20 of the novel that they read less than 2,000 words and saw the plot of a parasitic beast eating humans, and they were a little confused.
How could such a cute young boy write such a scary and bloody novel?
next day
The novel ranking of Chapter 20 of Parasite Beast is out.
The total number of votes was 503,215, and the journal ranked sixth in voting order.
Even though the number of votes is lower than when it was serialized on Liuli Color, in fact
There are many more readers who will read this novel.
When it was serialized on Liulise, it had 6 million readers, 4 million read Parasite Beast, and 600,000 voted for Parasite Beast.
But after it is serialized on Liuli, eight to nine million people may read this novel, but only half a million will vote for Parasite Beast, because
All the readers' votes were taken away by the top three works of the journal "Liu Li".
Fantasy novel "Crimson Abyss", the total number of readers' votes was 2,956,781 votes, and the voting order was 1.
The total number of readers' votes for the isekai light novel "Isekai Labyrinth" is 1,504,368 votes, and the voting order is 2.
Romance light novel "You and Me!", total reader votes, 1,095,461 votes, ranking 3.
These three novels have been serialized in "Liu Li" for more than two years, and Crimson Abyss has been serialized for almost four years.
After all, one issue of the novel is serialized every week, and each issue has 10,000 to 20,000 words, which translates to 6,700,000 words in one year. If serialized for two or four years, the novel text volume is just over one to two million words, which is not too long.
They are the main novels of Liuli Bookstore in recent years. ♬ ♦ ♦♧
These three works have been in the top three novels for the past few years. Each of them is a popular light novel in the Dragon Kingdom with an average sales volume of more than 10 million, and the number of readers' votes in the journal has exceeded 1 million. The only three novels.
For other novels in the journal, the basic votes are concentrated between 200,000 and 700,000, which is quite different from these three novels.
"Sixth?" Xia Yan was still a little disappointed after seeing the results.
He definitely doesn't think Parasite will be worse than other works, but the fan popularity accumulated by those works for three or four years is unlikely to be easily surpassed.
"There are still four more periods." Xia Yan thought.
With four issues to go, Parasite Beast is finished.
In this short period of time, it is unlikely that Parasite will grow beyond the popularity of these top three works.
but
After all, the other nine works in this journal need to know that the work Parasite Beast is not just for gold plating in the "Liu Li" journal.
Parasite may not necessarily be the kind of work that can gather a lot of popularity in a very short period of time, like Giant or Tokyo Foodie, and elevate the influence of the work to a phenomenon-level animation.
But in the parallel world, as time has passed, it has been rated the highest among the three major gourmet dishes.
Xia Yan still feels that this work will still shock the competitors in the journal before it is completed.
Time has entered March, and the second semester of Xia Yan's freshman year has officially begun.
At this time, the spring animation market has come to an end, and a large number of animation fans in Longguo have begun to pay attention to a work in the summer animation market.
One hundred and twelve works, including 4 masterpiece animations with an investment of more than 50 million, 8 medium-sized animations with an investment of more than 30 million, and 39 small and medium-sized animation works with an investment of more than 10 million.
There are 61 animation works with flyweight investment below RMB 10 million.
Needless to say, the twelve animation works invested by Dazhong are basically broadcast during prime time on four channels including Modu TV and Didu TV, Channel 1 and 2.
Other works are based on the strength of the production company and are independently negotiated and broadcast on the TV stations chosen to broadcast them.
Basically, 90% of new quarterly animations have to be paid to TV stations for broadcast.
This situation is true for the Dragon Kingdom, and it is actually the same for the island countries in the parallel world. Many animation companies pay TV stations to broadcast their own original animations, which is considered to be a GG fee for the works.
However, the management of Dragon Kingdom and the expenditure on broadcasting fees are generally one-third of the animation production cost, which is the most cost-effective combination.
For example, for an animation work with an investment of more than 30 million, one-third of it is 10 million. If this work chooses to spend this money to find a broadcast spot on the four major TV stations with the first level of popularity, then it is very appropriate. .
But what did a group of animation fans in Dragon Kingdom see today?
The low-cost animation "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" produced by "Xiatang Animation Company" has a total investment of only 16 million, but it is actually willing to spend 13 million to buy a broadcast slot on Magic City TV1?
In the animation area of Jiuxiao Forum, many animation fans have already discussed this.
"Xia Tang Animation Production Company? Does anyone know about this company?"
"Well, I don't know."
"New animation company?"
"Probably."
"The animation invested 16 million, but actually spent 13 million on promotion. The boss of this company is really a little genius!"
"The effect of publicity must be based on the quality of the work. Spending so much money on publicity and buying broadcast slots, but reluctantly spending money on animation production and script polishing, is a typical layman approach."
"Puella Magi Madoka Magica? This... this animation name, am I coming to the animation industry ten years ago? What era are we in now? I still have Puella Magi Madoka Magica? It makes me laugh to death."
"Magical girl-themed animation has been bad in the past few years. The plots are the same and boring. Those who can produce this kind of works are series works of old animation companies, and they make money and sell peripherals. I didn't expect that there is such a start-up It’s really cute that the company dares to create animations with this theme.”
"I think this animation will be a hit by then. The production cost plus publicity cost will be more than 30 million, and the new company has no fan base. It will be too difficult to earn back the money in the peripheral market."
"Puella Magi Madoka Magica, this is a work that will make you rush to the market as soon as you hear it. You don't need to say much. I also think it will make me bleed."
"Alas, in this cruel animation industry, this animation start-up company may not be seen next quarter."
"Why?"
"It must have suffered serious losses and become bankrupt."
"Wait a minute, brothers, while you were discussing this work, I went to dig up some information about the production staff of this work. Do you know the name of the screenwriter of this animation?"
"What's it called?"
"Soldier of love! Hahaha, it made me laugh so hard, warrior of love."
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"These days, are there still animation screenwriters who are so mediocre? With such a funny stage name?"
"I don’t know if the warrior of love will burst into tears when the animation is full of blood! I hope he can still spread love and laughter to us by then."
"From the screenwriter's stage name, I have already guessed that Puella Magi Madoka Magica must be an animation full of love and laughter. Really, the screenwriter conveys these things to us readers and creates the animation behind his back. It’s such a contradiction to cry bitterly over a loss.”
"The name of the animation company "Xiatang Animation Company" and the name of the animation "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" plus the name of the writer of the funny animation "Soldier of Love". ", coupled with the fact that the money is spent on promotion instead of production, this work has all the elements that make it a hit. I hope this work will not ruin the reputation of the TV station Modu TV1. When the time comes, it will be watched It would be ridiculous if the rate is too low, that’s TV1.”
On the Internet, after information about many works in the summer animation market was announced one by one, Puella Magi Madoka Magica still caused some discussion on the Internet.
Of course, these concerns and hot discussions are basically complaints.
It's just a retro work with a magical girl theme. It doesn't matter if you complain appropriately, and no one will really pay too much attention to this work.
mid march
After Xia Yan submitted the last chapter of the novel Parasite Beast to Bai Xuan
He let out a long breath.
This serialization lasted for nearly five months. Although the novel text was not large, the serialization period was still quite stressful.
Xia Yan was mainly afraid that he would ruin the work Parasite Beast.
But judging from the current situation, it’s not bad.
"This is your ending." After finishing reading the last chapter of the parasitic beast, Bai Xuan's expression condensed.
The biggest advantage of Parasite is its stability. From beginning to end, the quality of the plot is as interesting as ever. Even in the final chapter, there are many highlights.
"I wonder how a young man like you can have so many insights into life? From the first chapter to the last chapter, Parasite Beast explores human nature and the meaning of life. Although the theme of your work is profound and connotative, in the journal It’s natural to suffer a loss by publishing this kind of work online.”
"After all, there are still more novice readers in journals. The work of novices like Parasite Beast is a bit of a disadvantage."
"Well, I almost know this for this serialization. Next time, I will try my best to write a novel that is suitable for young people to read in a relaxed and enjoyable way." Xia Yan said with a smile.
Next part.
Baixuan felt relieved after hearing this, which at least reminded Xia Yan to a certain extent that he had no intention of changing jobs after the end of Parasite Beast.
"Okay, next work. I'm waiting for you, the most brilliant genius novelist recognized in the Dragon Kingdom light novel world in the past two years, to write a masterpiece and stir up the storm in the Dragon Kingdom light novel world." Bai Xuan's face showed a smile. He smiled and joked with Xia Yan.
"That's natural." Xia Yan looked at Bai Xuan and nodded seriously.
Speed up the pace, otherwise I'll feel like it's dragging on.