Chapter 242: Initial D's Turning Point

May, hot May.

The market for Dragon Kingdom animation, comics, and novels continues to be as hot as the temperature.

The second volume of Sword Art Online was released at the end of April. Unsurprisingly, the first week sales exceeded 5 million copies, once again setting a new record for Dragon Kingdom in the first week after the release of the single volume this year.

The single volume of Initial D has also been released into its fourth volume. The sales volume of the fourth volume also exceeded the 5 million mark in the first week. And if the sales volume of the just-released fourth volume is temporarily ignored, after all, the sales volume of the fourth volume is only one or two. It will be stable after a month, and only the sales of single volumes of the first three volumes will be counted.

Initial D's average volume sales have exceeded the 20 million mark.

After all, it had only been a week since Xia Yan announced the news that the warrior of love was him, and fans from both sides had begun to switch to each other to a certain extent. Whether it was Sword Art Online or Initial D, the sales of single books had experienced a huge increase.

Be it novels, comics, or even animations, their popularity needs to be accumulated.

Even if Xia Yan brought Dragon Ball One Piece to this world, he couldn't expect that the global influence of these works would grow to the level of a parallel world within a few months and a half. It takes time for the influence of the works to spread and ferment.

Normally speaking, even if the quality of the works of Sword Art Online and Initial D is good enough, it will definitely take more than a year for the single volume sales to reach this level.

But Xia Yan has indeed made huge achievements in three tracks in the industry. The traffic he has gathered cannot be inferred from common sense and experience. It is not an exaggeration to have his works grow to this level of popularity in just a few months.

Even because of Xia Yan, Liuli Book Club and Beizhou Comics Club, which had nothing to do with each other before, are now joining forces and planning to collaborate on works. They are not only preparing to co-organize the novels of Initial D and Sword Art Online x There are joint activities for comic peripherals, and we are still negotiating with Xia Yan himself to prepare Puella Magi Madoka Magica to join in. These three most representative works of Xia Yan have jointly launched a series of peripheral products, such as new illustrations of Madoka Magica, works In the setting collection, Sword Art Online will have some extra plots that have nothing to do with the main plot, linking some characters and elements from Initial D and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. ♦♦  ♦♦

Just like in the parallel world, One Piece and Dragon Ball also had animations and comic linkages.

After the news was released in early May, Xia Yan's tens of millions of fans in Dragon Kingdom became excited.

When other works engage in this kind of joint activities, they will inevitably be criticized by industry insiders, saying that the author has no money, and will publish a few bad pictures and create a few garbage plots to make money.

Initial D, Sword Art Online, and Madoka Magica.

Fans are eager for Xia Yan to engage in joint activities like this every day, especially for Magic Circle. Even if Xia Yan just posts the latest poster of his work on his creator account, he can get millions of views in a day or two. The number of views and likes has increased, and some fans even took the initiative to leave messages in the comment area of ​​Xia Yan's account, hoping that he would quickly produce the second part of the Magic Circle Theater version. Even if it is just to make money, it doesn't matter. Everyone is willing to give Xia Yan money to cheat them.

Fans of Xia Yan’s animations, comics, and novels are in such an environment

Welcome to the latest chapter of Initial D in Beizhou Journal.

It was early in the morning, and Li Zeliang got up. He cooked a delicate breakfast, drank a cup of coffee, and played games for two hours. Then he went to a nearby park and walked for an hour. It was noon, and then he had lunch. Then I walked slowly to the nearby bookstore.

You ask him why he doesn't go to work? The question is, my family is rich and I don’t need it.

Although he is only twenty-five years old, he has already lived a retired life. He goes to bed early and gets up late, has three fixed meals, and is immersed in the ocean of the second dimension every day.

My biggest hobby is buying comics, novels and periodicals, and my second biggest hobby is collecting two-dimensional peripherals.

For such a Buddhist two-thorned ape, he must have become a loyal fan of Xia Yan long ago and is the leader of a famous Xia Yan fan group in the Imperial Capital area.

In the plot of Initial D last month, the battle between the protagonist Tu Hai and the popular villain Gao Liang started with Gao Liang trying to perfectly replicate Tu Hai's running style in Qiu Ming Mountain, and keeping up with Tu Hai's 86 put him under psychological pressure, which led to Tires wear too much and fail.

After the protagonist defeated Gao Liang, the plot of this work entered two weeks of excessive plot.

After that, a new enemy appeared, the powerful enemy of the Emperor's team, Keiichi (Kyoichi Sudo) appeared...

As a team from a foreign county, the Emperor's team's goal is to conquer all the teams in the county, including Gao Liang.

Among them, naturally include the 86 of Qiu Mingshan

Of course, the appearance of this new enemy has nothing to do with it.

Racing comics.

When one enemy, Gao Liang, is defeated, it is normal for another enemy, Jing Yi, to appear.

But in last week’s plot, a minor supporting character in the early stages of this comic, Natsuki’s cute female classmate Shiraishi, secretly handed a small note to Tu Hai’s desk box in the comic storyboard.

The content of the note was to allow Tu Hai to see the secret of betrayal by Tu Hai that his prospective girlfriend Xia Shu had been hiding from him at the time and place she told him.

Last week’s comic plot of Initial D ended at this point.

To be honest, Li Zeliang is already immune to the mysterious plots in this kind of comics.

"Why did Xia Shu betray Tu Hai? Oh, isn't it just a trick that Teacher Xia Yan deliberately created suspense, allowing Xia Shu and Tu Hai to experience a misunderstanding and then reconcile, and finally sublimate their relationship." Li Zeliang bought it from the bookstore. The latest issue of Beizhou Journal showed a smile on his lips.

After returning home, Li Zeliang found a seat by the window and started reading the latest chapter of Initial D comics.

The plot of the latest chapter begins with the Emperor team's driver Jingyi coming to Akina Mountain to challenge Tu Hai..

Because Tu Hai, who defeated Gao Liang, already felt that he had no room for improvement in Akina Mountain, he decided to learn from Gao Liang and conquer other mountain roads, and never compete in Akina Mountain again.

Just at this time, the captain of the Emperor team, Jingyi, suggested that Tu Hai compete with him in Akagi, the base camp of the Red Sun Team, the next day.

From Tu Hai's expression, Li Zeliang could already feel the excitement in the protagonist Tu Hai's heart.

On one hand, there was a note from an unknown person that he received at school, which allowed him to see the scene of his favorite girl Xia Shu betraying him at the location on the note the next day.

On the other hand, on the second night, the Emperor team captain Jingyi challenged Tu Hai to a match. This plot arrangement made Li Zeliang feel a little weird.

What the hell?

Deliberately arrange some annoying plots to make Tu Hai in a bad state at night?

For example, because Tu Hai didn't trust Xia Shu, Xia Shu saw through him and finally quarreled with Tu Hai, which affected Tu Hai's performance in the evening game?

emmm, it's not impossible. After all, the protagonist is so strong. Even the big boss Gao Liang was defeated by Tu Hai. Jing Yi, who was even abused by Gao Liang as a son two years ago, was abused as a grandson when he faced Tu Hai?

In order to make this duel a little more dramatic, the protagonist was distracted and could not use all his strength to fight Jing Yi, increase the tension of the plot, and make it not so easy for the protagonist to win.

Perfect.

Li Zeliang thought he had guessed the intention of Teacher Xia Yan to arrange this plot.

Then continue to watch.

Tu Hai was angry because someone slandered Xia Shu. Tu Hai, who was stubborn by nature, had a different brain circuit from normal people. He believed in Xia Shu, but this anger could not be eliminated. So although he felt bored, he still drove to the place told him on the note.

"Hmm? What's there? Tu Hai, stop what you're doing. You can't doubt Xia Shu. How can you doubt such a lovely girl just because of a piece of paper?" Li Zeliang felt a little dissatisfied when he saw this.

After all, if you really love her, you have to be tolerant and believe in her in all aspects.

Although Tu Hai couldn't control himself to observe the situation because of his anger, it was still a little uncool.

Then

In the comics, Tu Hai drove to the place indicated on the note and parked in the car in advance to wait.

The storyboard turned and came to Xia Shu's perspective.

Xia Shu was confronting his father face to face.

"Anyway, you won't consider it anymore? As for money," the father smoked a cigarette.

"Well, because... I already have someone I like, and I can't be with my father anymore." Xia Shu looked very melancholy, but still firmly rejected his father.

Li Zeliang was stunned when he saw this.

Wait

Normally, would the conversation between father and daughter be like this?

The father said that he would not consider it anyway. What to consider?

Is it related to money?

Why is it related to money?