Chapter 142 Initial D

After Xia Yan handed in the manuscript of the last chapter of the Parasitic Beast novel, he breathed a sigh of relief.

In addition, the first three volumes of Parasite Beast were released in just one week, and the combined average sales of the volumes were 1.9 million copies, which also refreshed Xia Yan's spirits.

The length of Parasite Beast can be published in five single volumes, and judging from the single-book sales of the first three volumes in a single week, it is certain that this work will sell an average of five million volumes.

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Based on this sales data, it is estimated that Xia Yan's dividends from the single book will be between 25 million and 30 million.

This is the income of the creator of a top-notch novella from the Dragon Kingdom plus the blessing of a top book publisher.

The boss of a company in the Domo City area may work hard for a year to keep the company from losing money, but the author who can serialize light novels in two periodicals, Liuli and Liuli, will definitely earn several million a year no matter what. , going up the ladder, it is normal for those light novel writers who are the pillars of book publishing houses to earn hundreds of millions per year.

Xia Yan could say that he had lost all his money to produce the animation of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and the huge sales of the Parasite Beast single book also gave him a good recovery.

However, it will take some time for the dividends from these individual books to arrive, and they will continue to arrive every month in the next one-year period. After all, the sales company also distributes dividends to Xia Yan while selling books, so Xia Yan still has You have to live a hard life.

After he passed the driver's license test, he was planning to buy a boy's dream car, but he had no choice but to get down to business, so the matter was postponed.

Now, his mind became active again.

Holding my mobile phone, I browsed various sports cars from the Dragon Kingdom on the Internet, studying their performance, components, and prices.

Boys, happiness is so simple. Some people like to study cars just to show off, while some people like cars just because they like these mechanical monsters.

Even Xia Yan could easily immerse himself in this kind of thing for several hours without the pressure of serializing novels.

Playing with her mobile phone at home, Xia Yan fell into a deep sleep

Perhaps when he was sober, what Xia Yan was thinking about was to wait until the dividends from the single-line book came into his account, buy a handsome red supercar and drive it to the gate of the elementary school, receiving the envious looks of a bunch of elementary school students.

This kind of thing has been Xia Yan's dream since elementary school.

Because he always thinks about these things, Xia Yan

Entered Yuan Qing's dream again.

In fact, the frequency of Xia Yan entering Yuan Qing's memory dreams is about once a week to ten days, but most of the time he is watching this deep otaku playing games or watching some different world toilet paper anime in the dream. Basically, Xia Yan I also know that those works will be pounced on if they get them from the Dragon Kingdom.

Just when Xia Yan thought that this time he would be bored watching girls playing games.

She really went to play a game, GTA6, driving around the city, not obeying traffic rules, running traffic lights, and actually being addicted to game crimes, which made Xia Yan frown.

After all, he could only immerse himself in the girl's memory world, but in fact he didn't have to play with it, and the more he watched, the more angry he became.

Finally tired of racing in the game, the girl turned on the computer.

"The recent dramas are getting more and more boring, so I need to find some old dramas to watch again."

Yuan Qing searched boredly on the Internet and finally clicked on the link to play an anime.

Initial D.

When Xia Yan saw this, his whole body was shaken.

Although he has never seen the specific plot of this work in the girl's memory, but

While the girl was browsing the web, wasting time in anime communities and forums, the names of "Akina Mountain Car God" and "Tofu Shop Takumi" flashed across the screen in front of Xia Yan's eyes from the comments of various netizens.

This is a masterpiece that as long as people in the parallel world surf the Internet, they will hear the name and the legend of "Akina Mountain ae86" even if they have never seen it.

"Is it because I have been studying car-related knowledge all day today, so I have some deep connection with Yuan Qing's memory, which caused my dream memory tonight to directly show me the work "Initial D"? "

Xia Yan guessed thoughtfully.

Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence?

But at this time, Xia Yan didn't have time to think about so many things. He followed the girl's perspective and recalled this classic show.

Look at this.

Xia Yan was entranced.

A few hours later.

Three o'clock in the morning.

Xia Yan woke up from his dream.

After all, this dream was just to review the classic works again. Yuan Qing casually watched the content of the first few episodes of Initial D, but the content of these first few episodes shocked Xia Yan.

Can racing-related works be created like this?

Every episode is full of fragments. Xia Yan spends all day in Long Kingdom serializing light novels, hunting geese all day long, but is blinded by geese pecks. This time, Yuan Qing's behavior of forcibly breaking the text in my memory made me feel very uncomfortable.

but

It’s really beautiful.

Xia Yan took a deep breath and recalled the content of Initial D that he had read before.

But as soon as he thought about it, he frowned.

this work

It is completely unsuitable for adaptation into a light novel.

Some works can be adapted into light novels, such as Parasite Beast. Although the original work is a comic, Xia Yan can still read it by so many readers after changing it into a light novel.

Because Parasyte is a work that relies purely on the plot to attract people, the original comics and animations, the style and fighting scenes are not very colorful, so the adaptation into a novel will not make the work lose its luster. On the contrary, compared with the awkward fighting between the parasitic beasts standing and fighting with their flesh blades in the original work, Xia Yan spent a considerable amount of space in the Dragon Country light novel version to describe the fighting of the parasitic beasts with words. At least the fighting scenes imagined by the readers of the Dragon Country novel should be better than the original comics and animations. .

But Initial D

There is no way.

Drifting, inertial drifting, passing by drainage channels, 720-degree circles in place

These things are too pale to describe with words.

A 100-point picture appeal may only be 70 points when it is described in words.

"So. There are two suitable themes for it."

"Animation, and comics."

Xia Yan did not sleep in the middle of the night and began to think.

Although he had watched a few episodes of the animation before, Xia Yan also knew that according to the convention of memory dreams, the subsequent plot of Initial D would be slowly supplemented in the future under the pressure of Xia Yan's day and night thinking. Naturally, he has already started to consider how to move this work to this world.

Xia Yan watched the animated version of Initial D. Logically speaking, it would be more appropriate for him to make Initial D into an animation directly.

But the problem is that Xia Yan's "Xia Tang Animation Production Company" is now busy with the production of "Magical Girl Madoka Magica".

Magical Girl Madoka Magica will start broadcasting on April 3rd, and it will not end until June. Then, by then, Xia Yan's company members will be free to make the animation of "Initial D", and then it will take several months and half a year to make it. According to this process, even if Xia Yan really successfully makes Initial D into an animation, it will not be broadcast until the end of the year or early next year.

This is too slow.

Time is everything.

It's only March now. Who knows what kind of excellent works will emerge from the memory dream of the girl Yuan Qing from now until the end of the year?

If the work Initial D obtained by Xia Yan from the memory dream in March this year has to wait until next year to be released, then he probably won't have to pay attention to the dream memory for three to five years. The memory content of Yuan Qing in these three to five years is enough for him to carry for a lifetime.

Moreover, the original work of Initial D is a comic, and it is most suitable to restore it to a comic work in Longguo. The comic version of Initial D makes money once, and the animation version makes money again, so that the commercial value can be maximized.

Xia Yan thought for a long time

"Why not make it a comic version."

Xia Yan has already set foot in the novel and animation industries, and Xia Yan actually had a hunch that he could not avoid the comic industry.

As for how to adapt Initial D into a comic work, it is not difficult.

Just ask a cartoonist with excellent painting skills to work together.

He provided the script, and the other party worked hard to draw the comics. The full copyright of other types of works must be in Xia Yan's hands, but the revenue share of the comics can be appropriately distributed to partners.

Thinking of this

Xia Yan's mind appeared the face of Mo Ran, the president of the comics club.

In Longguo, there are many cartoonists with excellent comics skills. If Xia Yan is willing to spend money, everything will be fine.

Mo Ran can only be said to have excellent painting skills, but Xia Yan dare not assert to what extent, but it is definitely better than ordinary professional cartoonists.

Of course, no matter what, her painting skills must be replaced by someone, but the friendship that Xia Yan has established with her and the degree of understanding of her as a person. This kind of thing cannot be replaced by those unfamiliar cartoonists.

Mo Ran has no ambitions, and her personality is gentle. She is very honest on weekdays. When he made an appointment with her, he was never late. Even once when it rained heavily in the Magic City, she ran to the comics club before the agreed time and explained to Xia Yan the knowledge he needed to know. If he cooperates with her, Xia Yan is very sure that she will not do anything weird.

Xia Yan is very clear.

In this kind of two-person cooperation model, painting skills are only one of the factors, the most important thing is that the partner should not be too radical.

For example, Xia Yan clearly said before cooperating with the other party that the other party is just making hard-earned money by drawing comics, and should not think about other copyright issues and interests of the work.

Because the plot content of works like Initial D is irreplaceable, as for the painting skills, it is easy to replace, so it is definitely normal for Xia Yan to propose this kind of cooperation model.

But halfway through the cooperation, what if the other party is really jealous of Initial D's profits and posts a short essay online, accusing Xia Yan of using a bully contract, exploiting partners, and turning black and white, saying that Initial D actually participated in the plot conception. And so on.

Going to court, the other party will definitely not win the contract in black and white, but as long as such a lawsuit is filed, Xia Yan will definitely lose in terms of interests

Because the majority of readers will definitely sympathize with the weaker party, Xia Yan may be directly denounced by the audience in the industry, and become notorious, which will directly affect the reputation and sales of the work.

This kind of example still exists in Longguo at least.

Xia Yan thought for a long time in the middle of the night, and finally let out a long sigh.

"It's only been a week since school started, and Initial D has only learned the content of the first few episodes in his memory. This space is not enough to find others to discuss cooperation. I'll make an appointment with her to meet at the comics club after a while."

However, these are all Xia Yan's unilateral ideas. The other party must have the interest and time in this regard, and be willing to accept that they are partners on the surface, but the joint creation is actually to help Xia Yan work and earn hard-earned money for drawing comics.

I have also written about Initial D in previous books. In fact, I am tired of writing it. But I still consider the readers' reading volume. For example, I will write some new works for the animation part after Madoka Magica.

I will write them crosswise, otherwise old readers will think that I am repetitive, and new readers will think that the author is stupid. There are so many classic works, cl and fate are not good, so why write unpopular works.

The comments area these days is full of cl, fate, Fullmetal Alchemist, April's comments. I basically understand the type of works that readers of this book like.

But I still take care of both new and old readers

But if I write unpopular works like To the Moon later, please don't criticize me.

Because some people like to watch classic old shows, and some people like to see me write unpopular works, I can only take care of them appropriately.