Chapter 178 Conversation

The explosion of Initial D at Beizhou Comics Club caused great turmoil in the entire Dragon Kingdom comic industry.

The audiences of the four major comics agencies are actually highly overlapping.

Fans of the other three magazines will soon know which comics company has some outstanding works.

It’s impossible not to notice a work that ranks fourth on Beizhou.

Many commentators in the comic industry also started working at this time, praising the works that have significantly increased their performance and criticizing those that have declined. This is the job of the commentators.

But the audience and readers like to see these.

Many comic readers are now very interested in this work, which ranked fourth in Beizhou Comics after only three weeks of serialization.

In the Dragon Kingdom comics circle, many people have privately asked their friends to borrow the two issues of "Bei Zhou" that were serialized by Initial D.

On Saturday, Xia Yan and Mo Ran were invited by Beizhou Comics Club to TV2 in Shanghai to participate in the live broadcast of a variety show.

This program basically invites young talents who have worked in various industries to interview.

This can be regarded as one of Xia Yan's jobs. The contract signed with Beizhou had these contents in it.

After all, Beizhou Comics Club wants to create a signature image that belongs to the cartoonists under its own comics club.

After this episode airs that night,

Xia Yan and Mo Ran are two people, one is handsome and handsome, the other is beautiful, generous and talented. The question and answer session between the two of them and the host in the show showed the personality characteristics of Xia Yan and Mo Ran under the clever design of the program content.

When the two of them appeared on the TV station to represent Beizhou Comics Club, they really started to frantically play GG with the initial D for publicity.

However, these are all gradual things, and the growth of fans takes time to ferment.

It's just that Mo Ran has been a little stressed recently.

In the past, when I was desperate, I would just feel uncomfortable for a day or two if my work wasn't liked by others, but now, I worry about the decline in Initial D's performance in the next issue every day.

"Xia Yan, aren't you worried about the decline in your performance? Why are you so calm every day?"

While continuing to communicate with Xia Yan about the content of the storyboard draft, Mo Ran suddenly asked.

"Descending? Well, what's there to worry about?" Xia Yan said casually.

"As creators, we have no choice but to let it go."

"Don't always think about these things. If Initial D's grades decline, it must be because of the plot and has nothing to do with your painting skills."

"You are really good at talking, Xia Yan." Mo Ran glanced at Xia Yan's anxious eyes, and a smile appeared on her fair face.

"But I'm not as big-hearted as you. I'm worried now that in this work, when the relationship between Natsuki and her father is revealed, the readers will riot collectively!"

Initial D is a work that is strictly speaking a very refreshing work, but there are also several plots in this work that make people very uncomfortable.

First of all, the relationship between the supporting character Ikegu and a female driver character behind him is very disappointing.

Secondly

It’s the plot of Natsuki and her godfather Mercedes-Benz Man.

Many readers can't stand that a character originally designed as a heroine has such an outrageous plot development with the uncle.

After all, the residents of the Dragon Kingdom are relatively simple, and high school girls looking for a godfather for money are relatively advanced, which is shocking.

"I said, does it really make sense to have the heroine Xia Shu have this kind of setting and plot in it?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

In fact, she drew the comics herself, but she felt that Natsuki's plot was not right. After asking Xia Yan about the plot settings behind it, and knowing who the character Natsuki always called daddy was, she was heartbroken.

"Her role is to help the male protagonist Tu Hai grow psychologically." Xia Yan mentioned casually.

One thing that parallel world island comics have in common is this.

The protagonist's becoming stronger must be his mental state becoming stronger.

Whether it's a sports comic or a combat comic, as long as the protagonist's mentality grows, his strength will skyrocket.

For example, the protagonist’s playing skills in The Prince of Tennis, the explosive growth of each character in Dragon Ball, and the protagonist’s comeback from adversity in One Piece.

As long as the characters defeat their inner demons, he will become stronger for no reason.

Do you want to say that Xia Yan likes the character of Xia Shu? He didn't like it either, and it's not like he didn't consider eliminating this character and making this work a pure racing comic, but in the end he found that there was no way. The existence of the character Natsuki was an important factor in the protagonist's mental growth.

The protagonist's attitude towards racing changed. The first time he lost to his opponent was because his mentality collapsed after learning Natsuki's true face. He later avenged his shame, but it was also because he let go of this incident that he defeated the powerful enemy.

Even leaving Akina Mountain in the end and going to the wider world was all related to his past feelings for Natsuki.

Eliminating Natsuki means that many plots in this work will be logically broken, and the emotional foreshadowing will not be in place.

"Don't worry, the comic readers of Dragon Kingdom are not that fragile. Even if they know Natsuki's true character, they will only be uncomfortable for a short time."

Xia Yan said with a smile.

He dared to say this because he knew the development process of this work in the parallel world, which can be regarded as a half-god perspective.

Otherwise, it is really original. This kind of plot where the heroine has a godfather would make anyone who is the author very nervous.

"Okay, this week's storyboard exchange is basically okay. Then I have to leave. I have other things to be busy with. Please work hard, senior sister." Xia Yan is preparing to go to the company.

"Xia Yan, you are really busy. You don't have any new novels in serialization right now. Why are you still so busy during the summer vacation?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

"Well, it's not a secret that cannot be told, but forget it, you will know later why I am so busy during this period." Xia Yan said with a smile.

Except for members within the company, no one else knows that he is a "love warrior".

Moreover, Mo Ran was an avid fan of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's animation, so Xia Yan was too lazy to tell her these things that had nothing to do with the comic business, so as to save her distraction.

"Mysterious." Mo Ran said.

"I also said that it's summer vacation, and I wanted to ask you to go somewhere around the Magic City with us."

"Next time, I'm quite busy recently." Xia Yan said and left.

Looking at Xia Yan's leaving figure, Mo Ran was silent for a while, and then smiled.

"As expected, he is a genius of two-dimensional creators who is focused on nothing. Except for his own work, he doesn't care about anything else. No wonder, he and Song Lingjun are so familiar after spending all day in the same class, but these two people are Ordinary friendship."

The second volume of Puella Magi Madoka Magica BD, which contains the plots of episodes three to five from the anime, will be released within one week.

Weekly sales volume: 564,932 copies.

Compared with the results of the first volume, it was almost 100,000 copies higher in the first week.

Magic Circle’s animated BD sales miracle continues.

But there are more and more colleagues who are jealous of the Magic Circle results.

This week, many members of small and medium-sized animation production companies have posted to criticize the problems of Magic Circle Animation.

After all, they can't afford to offend those big guys in the animation industry, but the warriors of love? I’ve never seen it, so I’ll do it if I have the chance.

At the same time as the results of the second volume of the animation are being counted today, the third volume of Magic Circle includes the animation bds from the sixth to eighth episodes of the animation.

It is also officially released in the Dragon Kingdom.

In the major peripheral stores in Dragon Kingdom, many Magic Yuan fans are hard to find. There is no other way. The manufacturers that Magic Yuan BD Animation cooperates with have limited production capacity. It is not that Xia Yan is engaged in hunger marketing, but that the production capacity is here.

The sales volume of the BD of the third volume of Magic Circle is actually better than the data of the first two volumes. After all, it is not yet the afternoon of the release day, and the BD of Magic Circle animation is out of stock again in the market.

The last Friday in July.

A new issue of "Beizhou" comic journal is released.

In this issue, the protagonist of Initial D and his AE86 occupy the front cover of the magazine.

Moreover, with the release of this comic journal, a promotional color page poster of Initial D and signed photos of Xia Yan and Mo Ran are also included.

But the most important thing to the audience is not these, but this comic. The fourth episode is finally coming out. I have been waiting for a week.

It was really hard, but fortunately, I finally got through it this week.