Chapter 202 Warm-Up

Early October passed by in a flash.

At this time, Xia Yan's other work, the novel "Sword Art Online", will be officially serialized in the first issue of the "Liuli" novel journal in a few days.

Things in the two-dimensional industry will not affect the film industry too much. Although the movie "To the Moon" is still in theaters, the light novel industry

has a big event that has excited novel fans recently.

The latest issue of "Liuli" magazine issued a heavy preview.

A large section of the journal cover was directly used to announce a piece of news.

[The popular light novel writer of Dragon Country, the author of "Parasyte", the popular animated film "To the Moon", and the author of the popular manga "Initial D", "Genkiyo", the new work "Sword Art Online" will be released on October 17. 】

The cover of a journal like "Liuli" is an advance preview of the serialization of a certain work.

That is a treatment that is unanimously recognized by the three major light novel publishing houses in Dragon Country and can only be enjoyed by the top novelists in the light novel industry in Dragon Country.

Xia Yan's "Sword Art Online" can receive such publicity treatment, which shows the importance that "Liuli" Book Club attaches to him at this moment.

When Xia Yan serialized the comics in "Beizhou" Comic Club, it was because of his achievements in the light novel industry, plus the operation of deputy editor-in-chief Hu Yi. So he was directly qualified to serialize in the "Beizhou" comic journal.

And Xia Yan's new novel can get this kind of publicity resources in "Liuli", which is also the result of the popularity of works such as Initial D and To the Moon, which greatly increased Xia Yan's commercial value.

This is the result of the mutual influence of several categories in the two-dimensional industry.

The groups of novels, comics, and animation works have too high a degree of overlap. Popular cartoonists are also very popular in the fields of novels and animation, and vice versa. Companies in the industry will not ignore these.

And the serialization preview of Sword Art Online's works also.

It has an impact on the Dragon Country light novel group, even comics, animation, and some movie audiences who became fans of Xia Yan because of To the Moon.

"Damn... this news is too sudden. Is Mr. Genkiyo so awesome?"

"Parasyte was only finished half a year ago, and he has a new novel? Even the donkeys in this production team are not as hardworking as him!"

"Compared to other popular light novel writers in Dragon Country, who generally take a break for one or two years after finishing a work before releasing a new work, Mr. Genkiyo is really a model worker."

"Not only that? He is still serializing the "Initial D" comics while writing light novels? This guy is too amazing... where does he get so many inspirations?"

"A few days ago, he was live streaming on the live streaming page of "Sugar Man" Film and Television to help promote the movie. Now he has a new light novel to be serialized?"

"Damn, it seems that the old thief "Warrior of Love" is not even worthy of carrying Mr. Genkiyo's shoes. Just based on this level of professionalism, the warrior of love is crushed by Mr. Genkiyo."

"It's a month since the release of the theatrical version of the animation of Magical Girl Madoka Magica, and the lazy old thief hasn't even released the production news of the second part of the theatrical animation. I'm so angry. ”

“I hope that the popularity of this new novel by Genkiyoshi will explode, reaching the same level as “Puella Magi Madoka Magica”, and give those Madoka Magica fans a good slap in the face. They look down on Genkiyoshi and always say that Genkiyoshi is not as good as the old thief.”

“Actually, I think Initial D is already very popular now. Now the plot has finished the Death Tape Race. Judging from the plot of these few episodes, the Usui female racer Zeng Zhi (Sato Mako) who has an ambiguous relationship with Iketani will have a battle with Tu Hai, and this work will now have a real love story. I feel that this chapter is more attractive than the previous one. ”

“But it is still a little worse than Madoka Magica!”

“There is no way, the main reason why Madoka Magica is too exaggerated in the animation community. Now the average sales of the BD volume of the TV animation has exceeded one million, and the average sales of the volume of the theatrical version “The Rebellion” has exceeded 2.8 million. The total sales of BDs have reached 11 million. ”

“But if we add up all of Mr. Genkiyo’s works, plus the popularity of the movie To the Moon, if we really compete on the total number of fans, it may not be lower than “The Warrior of Love”, right?”

“If the Sword Art Online novel is a big hit, that’s possible.”

“By the way, why do you assume that Mr. Genkiyo’s new novel will be a big hit? Haven’t you considered that the quality of this light novel called “Sword Art Online” is not good?”

“What do you mean?”

“Do you really think that for a comic work of the level of Initial D, the author can maintain the quality when he is in such a half-hearted state of creation? What I am worried about is that Mr. Genkiyo is serializing two works at the same time. Maybe the quality of the Sword Art Online novel is not good. Even the quality of the Initial D comics has declined!”

“Ah, this.”

“ It's not impossible!"

"No, I get nervous when you say that."

"It's okay if Sword Art Online fails, just don't let Initial D's plot get ruined because of distraction."

"What do you mean Sword Art Online fails? Can't Sword Art Online and Initial D be both hits in the comics and light novels?"

"Of course this is the best situation, but I'm still a little worried."

"But the name of this work is Sword Art Online. It's a bit bad! Mr. Genkiyo's past works all have weird names like To the Moon, Hana no Hana, and Parasyte. And the content of the story is just like the title of the work, weirdly good and novel. Sword Art Online? It won't be toilet paper literature like Demon King and Hero in Another World, right?"

"Don't make me feel bad if you say that. If Mr. Yuanqing also writes about the devil king in another world, it will really destroy his reputation. No matter how you write that kind of novel, there will be no novelty, it's all routine."

The news that Xia Yan's new novel "Sword Art Online" will be serialized on October 17th quickly spread in the two-dimensional industry.

Although there are many highly popular works that have been serialized for several years in the Dragon Country light novel industry and the comics industry.

Bar Book 69 New

But after all. Those works are not fresh to fans because they have been serialized for too long.

Just like in the parallel world, when most anime fans discuss the topic of anime works, they will exclude the dead fire sea by default.

There is nothing to discuss about these old works.

In the Dragon Country two-dimensional industry, the works of new creators like Xia Yan are actually the most discussed in the forum.

Coincidentally, the popularity of Initial D comics and To the Moon were just in theaters, which also made the discussion of Xia Yan's new work hot on the day after "Liuli" Book Club issued the announcement of the serialization of the work.

It directly ranked second on the hot search list after the Jiuxiao Forum sections were combined.

On this hot search list, the hot search term with the highest search volume that day was that a popular cartoonist was detained for domestic violence.

The second hot search term was that the new novel "Sword Art Online" by Genshin Impact will be serialized in a week.

The third hot search term was a detailed analysis of the animation "Rebellion Story", and the analysis post of the foreshadowing of the old thief that you didn't understand.

The ninth hot search term was that the animated film "To the Moon" won the single-day box office championship again.

The thirteenth hot search term was that the heroine Xia Shu of "Initial D" felt strangely shaped!

It can be said that Xia Yan's works have a considerable influence in the mainstream two-dimensional groups of various types in Longguo in various senses.

The only difference is.

Not many people in Longguo know that the real identity of "Warrior of Love" is Xia Yan.

Liuli Bookstore was very satisfied with the publicity of the trailer of "Sword Art Online".

Apart from the news of domestic violence that topped the hot search list, the publicity of the trailer of Sword Art Online completely exceeded the expectations of Liuli Bookstore.

This also made many senior executives in the bookstore re-evaluate Xia Yan's commercial value.

However, Xia Yan started to work on another thing in the past few days.

The Sword Art Online novel will be serialized soon, and Xia Yan is asking Mo Ran to help him draw the promotional posters of the two characters "Asuna" and the protagonist "Li Kirito" in this novel.

Although he could ask the illustrators in Liuli Bookstore to help with the design, Xia Yan had never worked with those people. They could not understand Xia Yan's painting requirements as well as Mo Ran, and

their painting skills were not as strong as Mo Ran.

"Do you think this is okay?"

Mo Ran picked up a rough composition of Asuna's character design and showed it to Xia Yan.

"Well, I feel that her eyes are too soft. Asuna is a character who is soft on the outside but strong on the inside. Her eyes need to be stronger."

"I understand..." Mo Ran immediately started to modify it after hearing this.

"But Xia Yan."

"Hmm?"

"It's the storyboard of the new issue of Initial D comics that you gave me before. Are you really going to set the plot like this? Let Zeng Zhi and Ikegami miss each other like this?"

The battle of Usui Mountain in Initial D can be said to be the first time in the whole work that Tu Hai, the god of Akina Mountain, showed his racing skills outside Akina Mountain in front of fans.

But the best plot shaping of this chapter is not in the racing plot.

It is in the love affair between the supporting character Ikegami and the female racer Zeng Zhi.

The figure of the girl waiting at the agreed place after the race, and the helplessness of the boy who missed the girl he liked because of boredom and self-esteem.

Many people don't like this sad farewell and missed plot arrangement, but in fact, this is the essence of the Initial D comics.

Although it tells the audience from beginning to end that racers don't need women, in fact, the emotional line of its works has always emphasized that you should be honest in your feelings, otherwise, you will end up like Chi Gu and lose the person you cherish.

However, from Mo Ran's perspective, she is actually a little worried that Xia Yan will be criticized by fans after the plot is serialized.

Life is already boring enough, and Xia Yan has to draw such a realistic plot in the comics.

"Don't worry..." Xia Yan said after listening to Mo Ran.

"This is just the beginning!"

Huh?

Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan with a puzzled expression.

She naturally didn't understand what Xia Yan meant by this sentence.

Apart from other things, Xia Yan's subsequent works, I'll wait for you in seven years, Cyberpunk Edgewalker, have more heartbreaking plots than this.

Even the Sword Art Online, which is about to be serialized, has the existence of the character of the minotaur Su Xiang to disgust readers.

If all of them are changed, then all these works will become unrecognizable.

Xia Yan follows a principle when adapting these works of different worlds, that is, never change the main plot unless necessary.

What does it mean to be unnecessary?

For example, there is one point in the work Initial D that Xia Yan feels it is necessary to change.

In the original manga of Initial D, after Tu Hai later found out that his girlfriend Xia Shu was having sex with a Benz man, he actually forgave her and continued to date her.

This... really shattered Xia Yan's three views.

Xia Yan is sure that the audience in Longguo will definitely not accept this kind of plot.

So this point must be changed.

But some tear-jerking moments in the early stages of this work made the audience just feel regretful, and let alone the love story.

Mo Ran just mentioned it appropriately. Since Xia Yan had made up his mind, she didn't say much and focused on helping Xia Yan design the characters of Sword Art Online.

Soon. A few days passed in a flash.

October 17th, the first serialization day of Sword Art Online, arrived.