Chapter 254 July and Before Cyberpunk Starts Airing

In the next two weeks, the next two chapters of Sword Art Online will be released one after another.

But just as Xia Yan and Liuli Book Club imagined, the contents of these two chapters of the novel directly caused an explosion among the Sword Art Online fan base.

There was no setting for Asuna to wake up, and everyone just thought she had physical problems caused by lying down for two years.

However, as last week's and this week's storylines were serialized, the entire Sword Art Online fans' anger was singled out by the content of the novel.

Xuxiang, that Xuxiang again.

Through the technology of his company Lecter, when the players in the SAO game returned to the real world, they secretly intercepted the consciousness of 300 players into the ALO game for human experiments.

And Asuna is one of them.

But why is Xu Xiang called the most disgusting character at the anime festival in Sword Art Online? That is naturally his incompetent and arrogant character.

In order to make Asuna succumb to him, just locking Asuna's consciousness in the game is useless, but...

He can use force.

For example, through the technology of his company, Asuna was implanted with false memories, similar to the thought stamps in the parallel world Three Body, forcing Asuna to have feelings for him.

But because he could do this and was sure of victory, he was in the mood to imprison Asuna in a birdcage above the alo game and prepare to slowly develop a relationship with Asuna.

Well, even a complete pervert would find it boring to make a woman fall in love with him through technical means. He is still fantasizing about conquering Asuna with his own charm.

On the other side, Kirito has already entered the game and is preparing to explore how to climb to the top of the World Tree in the alo game. He sees the girl in the birdcage in the sky who looks exactly like Asuna. Is it Asuna?

This plot made fans furious.

After the latest plot serialization was released today, the entire Sword Art Online fan base exploded.

The comment section of Xia Yandan's creator account was directly occupied by angry fans.

His fans are very fickle, and when the plot goes their way, they call Xia Yan "teacher."

Whenever the plot starts to cause trouble, it is the "old thief".

"Old thief Xia Yan, take your life."

"Can you, old thief Xia Yan, come up with such an outrageous plot?"

"So Asuna hasn't been defiled by that Xu Xiang until now. It's just that he doesn't want to do it, not that he can't do it?"

"It's just a spiritual body, not a physical body in reality. Don't panic."

"Don't panic. If one day a man can enter your wife's dream through a machine and do such things with your wife, can you say don't panic?"

"But Asuna is not your wife."

"Who said Asuna is not my wife? Come forward and I will challenge him."

"Asuna is my wife, I'm standing up, what do you think?"

"Gan, Asuna is my wife. ♦♗  ♦♦"

"Hey, stop arguing about such boring things here. You have to think of a solution. This book is getting closer to cuckoldry."

"You don't need to worry, right? No matter what, it's impossible for the old thief Xia Yan to write that Asuna is really defiled, right? Even if Xu Xiang touches a hair of Asuna, I estimate that more than 100,000 fans will abandon the book. If If you dare to do something like kissing someone on the small mouth, it is estimated that millions of fans will immediately lose their followers. He is just looking at the money, and there is no way he can do such tricks!"

"It's the same sentence, just look at Initial D. The heroine in Initial D, who holds hands and kisses her little mouth every day, spends the night with Mercedes-Benz's father."

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"Don't scare me, I'm scared."

"I'm afraid that Xia Yan, the old thief, is addicted to writing reality-themed plots. After all, I also think that the character of Xu Xiang is a bit conservative. If I were Xu Xiang, would I let Asuna go?"

"So you are a pervert, but we are not. We are all pure lovers."

"Don't mention it. In the past few days, several fans have spontaneously created "Asuna and Xu Xiang's Birdcage Honeymoon" plot comics on the Internet. However, just a few pages of the comics were published and were banned by Liuli Publishing House and Xia Tang. The animation jointly sued and the account was immediately blocked."

"Asuna and Xu Xiang's birdcage honeymoon? What is it?"

"It's a fanbook! You know, Sword Art Online is so popular, there are always some talented readers among the readers. They directly re-create comics and create comic stories about Asuna and Xu Xiang falling in love in a birdcage for a long time."

"Love grows over time? Are you sure love grows over time?"

"Stop talking, I don't want to know that this kind of thing exists. Why are so many fans so perverted? How can such second-generation comics be drawn? Isn't it disgusting? They don't have the soul of pure love at all?"

"I said, is this kind of thing legal?"

"Will it be blocked if it's legal? What he draws is a secondary comic, and only half of the first chapter is posted in the post. To read the full version, you have to join the group and pay."

"If there are any resources above, send me an email and I can pay."

"A good man has a safe life."

"Me too, asking for resources."

"Ask for resources!"

"The curse of not sending me resources when you have them is that you eat instant noodles without seasoning packets."

"You guys, how did you pretend to be pure partisans just now, and show your ape-like appearance when you hear there are resources?"

"Are you worthy of being Asuna's fans? Get out of here and be expelled from the fandom."

Xia Tang Animation Company and Liuli Publishing House have been very busy these days.

Especially the staff of Liuli Book Club, they really admire Xia Yan.

Before the plot of these chapters was released, I knew that some talented readers would engage in these things to make money, so I made plans to combat them in advance.

Otherwise, if Asuna's marginal manga became popular, it would have a great impact on the character's image. If readers read too much of those things and then read the novel, they would not read the novel with a pious and pure attitude.

The fact is that these things are most effective to crack down on when they first show signs. Find a few good ones to sue, and spend money to buy hot searches to spread the information about Xia Tang Animation and Liuli Publishing House’s crackdown on illegal borderline secondary creations. , in fact, this type of behavior has been effectively curbed.

However, these operations were all prepared by Xia Yan before the work was serialized. All I can say is...

Xia Yan, the author, knows his work and the industry trends very well, and he has long known that this kind of thing would happen.

Perhaps this keen sense of the market is the biggest reason why his works can maintain such popularity.

However, even if the second creation incident in the book is contained, the cuckold still continues to linger in the hearts of fans. After all, Xu Xiang is fully capable of handling Yasi who is trapped in the alo world based on the plot revealed at this stage. Na.

Liuli Book Club also knew the concerns of fans and arranged for Xia Yan to appear on a TV show for two consecutive days to properly explain the plot of the recent novel.

Of course, Xia Yan must have hinted in various ways that this novel is about pure love and there will be no cuckold plot.

However, Initial D has such great influence that it is difficult for fans to completely let go of their wariness towards Xia Yan.

However, the popularity of Sword Art Online has not been affected, but has actually increased. The newly released sixth volume of the Sword Art Online novel sold more than 6.5 million copies in its first week, directly breaking the first-week sales record of a single book in the Ryukoku light novel industry in the past six years. .

As of the first half of this year, the first four volumes of the Sword Art Online novel Dragon Kingdom have sold a total of 82 million copies, including the novel manuscript fees, which directly brought Xia Yan 130 million in pre-tax royalties.

The first four volumes of Initial D comics have a total sales volume of 84 million, including comics royalties. Xia Yan received a pre-tax income of 150 million here, but he and Mo Ran split it 73%, so Xia Yan counts this money The figure is about 110 million.

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In addition to the previous sales of the overseas broadcast rights of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's adapted novels, comics, and animations during this year, the global BD sales revenue of the theatrical version of the animation and the TV version of the animation are approximately 800 million yuan.

Xia Yan's total net worth has now exceeded one billion dragon national currency thanks to several works.

To say whether Xia Yan's current popularity in the two-dimensional industry is dominated by his several works, there is still debate in the industry whether he can overwhelm the older generation of animation, novels and comics.

But in the past two years, as a creator, Xia Yan is definitely the highest in the entire two-dimensional industry in terms of income from the works he creates.

Before the broadcast of Puella Magi Madoka Magica last summer, Xia Yan could not even raise 20 million in production fees, and had to rely on Tang Yin and Song Lingjun to borrow money to keep the company running.

Now with a net worth of one billion, Xia Yan's rise in the two-dimensional industry is obvious to all.

And this is also the market for Longguo’s two-dimensional industry!

A huge population base allows a person with no background to rise so quickly just by relying on talent.

At the end of June, when Xia Yan was focusing on the final exam, articles about how much money Xia Yan made from several works also spread in the Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional industry.

But unlike those who hated the rich in the past, fans and passers-by were convinced that Xia Yan made so much money.

Just like Oda in the parallel world, few people like Kishimoto who make money would be jealous because people make money based on their talents. This cannot be black, nor do they want to be black.

However, a sophomore at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics has made so much money in just one year, which has caused a stir in all walks of life in the Dragon Kingdom to a certain extent.

All major media, not just those in the two-dimensional industry, have reported on Xia Yan.

But Xia Yan didn't pay attention to these things. After a whole week, after finally finishing the final exam for the last semester of his sophomore year, Xia Yan walked out of the examination room exhausted.

It’s so tiring, even more tiring than his serialized novels and comics.

but

This is also the last day of his sophomore year in college. When school starts again in a month, he will be a junior.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan still felt a little melancholy.

People's college careers are colorful, his college career.

Comics, animations, novels, book signings, traveling on planes to promote works, appearing on TV programs arranged by comic clubs, and on TV programs arranged by novel dormitories.

Nowadays, due to excessive exposure, his popularity on Longguo Street is no less than that of a first-line star. To be famous, he must wear a mask.

He checked the news media reports on the rise of the genius boy Xia Yan on his mobile phone. Xia Yan had a wry smile on his face. Anyway, he didn't feel that he was as handsome as the article said.

June passes and July comes.

Both Sword Art Online and Initial D have been released for nearly a year, and fans have also formed a stable habit of following updates. Xia Yan does not need to spend too much energy on the two works for the time being. On the contrary,

Starting from July 1st, he has been fully engaged in promoting the "Cyberpunk Edgewalker".

This quarter, the Dragon Kingdom animation industry has a total of 116 animations broadcast at the same time.

It’s hard to say the quality of these works, but the quantity is indeed too exaggerated.

And Xia Yan's three old friends, Luzhou Animation, Yuanling Animation, Longyang Animation and other three animation companies all have big productions broadcast.

Coincidentally, the animation work that Luzhou Animation invested 72 million this quarter to adapt is the popular work "Red Dragon", which is currently competing with Initial D in the comic industry for the second place in the sales of serialized comic single volume.

And Yuanling Animation is not to be outdone. Last year, it finally reached an agreement with Xingkong Novel and obtained Xingkong Novel's authorization to adapt the animation of "The Reformer of Another World", the novel with the highest sales of single volume in its serialized works, and only spent 97 million on the production of the first season of the animation. With this investment, this animation of twelve episodes in one season can almost be said to be the production quality of an animated film.

As for Longyang Animation, the main work this quarter is a bicycle racing animation called "Speedy Landing". The investment amount is also not low, at 71 million Longguo currency.

This is a coincidence.

Among the works being serialized in the comics industry, Initial D has an average sales volume of 21 million, ranking third. The second is the comic "Red Dragon" with an average sales volume of 21.1 million. The first is "Double Rings" by Matsu Comics with an average sales volume of 22.5 million.

In the novel industry, Sword Art Online has an average sales volume of 20.5 million, which is also ranked third in the market among the serialized novels. The second is the pillar novel "Eyes of the Stars" by Qingze Bookstore, with an average sales volume of 21 million. The first is the pillar novel "Reformer of Another World" by Xingkong Novel, with an average sales volume of 23 million.

The original works of the two works "Reformer of Another World" and "Red Dragon" have a strong competitive relationship with Xia Yan's Sword Art Online and Initial D.

They represent the strongest works of the serialized book company and the comic company, and fight against each other in the Dragon Country novel and comic industry.

Moreover, Sword Art Online has a clear advantage. Although its sales ranking is temporarily weaker than the two works, in fact, the discussion in the market is much stronger than the two works. As for the insufficient sales of the single-volume edition, it is only because the first season of the single-volume edition of Xia Yan's two works has been released for less than half a year, and it is definitely not as good as the sales of the works that have been serialized for several years and accumulated slowly.

Nowadays, the animation adaptations of Red Dragon and Another World Reformer, two old rivals of Xia Yan, and the three major animation companies that were killed by Magical Girl Madoka in the animation field last year, all fought against Cyberpunk Edgewalker again in the market this quarter.

These four works represent the four recognized "hegemonic animation reserves" in the Dragon Country animation market this quarter. Although Xia Yan's popularity is very high now, and the PV information of the new animation trailer has spread throughout the Dragon Country animation industry before the animation was broadcast, its competitors this quarter also have the popularity of the original works with considerable popularity.

Xia Tang Animation invested 60 million in the original animation "Cyberpunk. Edgewalker"

Luzhou Animation invested 72 million in the Xuefeng Comics Club comic adaptation "Red Dragon".

Yuanling Animation invested 97 million in the Xingkong Novel Dormitory novel adaptation "The Other World Reformer".

And the original bicycle racing animation "Crash Landing" invested 71 million.

Only since July 1, just after entering the autumn animation market, there has been a gunpowder smell in the publicity and promotion.

And this gunpowder smell basically comes from Xia Yan.

Be it Red Dragon or The Other World Reformer, in their respective comic novel fields, there is a possibility that they will be surpassed by Xia Yan's works.

If they lose to Xia Yan's new work "Cyberpunk Edgewalker" in the field of adapted animation, it will be fun.

The comics and novel fans of the two works are a little bit unacceptable to this situation. At this time, they are united on the Internet and face the outside world together.

It doesn't matter whether they can win the ratings championship in the autumn animation market, but they must not lose to Xia Yan's Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

If this is lost, won't Xia Yan's Initial D manga fans and Sword Art Online novel fans become even more arrogant in the future?

Fans of several works have already quarreled on the Internet. At this time, they don't care about whether their own adapted animation works have been badly animated. The fans of the two groups first blasted Cyberpunk Edgewalker on the Internet.

Prepare to make this animation's reputation worse before it starts.

The recent updates are a bit sloppy, I dare not say anything, but it won't continue like this. It will return to the previous level of 6,000 a day as soon as possible.