Chapter 292 Popularity

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At the end of January, major cities in the Dragon Kingdom were basically in a cold state.

However, no matter how cold the weather is, there is no way to extinguish the enthusiasm of these two-dimensional fans.

As usual, long queues formed in front of major bookstores early in the morning.

Although the supply of Beizhou journals is sufficient, there are few out-of-stocks in small areas, and it is impossible to be out of stock in large-scale journals.

But the reason why these people got up so early and queued up was not because they were afraid of being out of stock;

I want to see the plot of my favorite work as soon as possible, and I want to prevent myself from being spoiled by my friends if I watch it too late.

These two-dimensional people turn on their mobile phones and join various two-dimensional novels, animations and comics groups. Sixty to seventy percent of the topics are related to Xia Yan's works. Unless you are not in the group, you will be late to buy serialized periodicals of his works. Either you have nothing to talk about with the people in the group, or you get spoiled by all kinds of things when you join the group.

Why is Xia Yan so popular among the Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional community?

His works are no longer simply good-looking and can be explained. At least in the two-dimensional circle, his works have become so popular that they have strong social attributes.

Lin Li was standing in line at the bookstore in the middle of winter, her body shivering from the cold.

Soon, the door of the bookstore opened, and fans rushed forward. Five minutes later, Lin Li grabbed her favorite "Beizhou" journal.

In the last issue of the year before, Beizhou Journal was full of Hunters, and only one work, Hunters, was placed on the cover of the entire journal.

Moreover, the entire magazine cover poster is not the protagonist. The cover of this issue shows Kurapika with a scary face and red eyes.

Handsome, but you can feel the suppressed murderous intent in Kurapika's eyes in the picture.

"Senior Mo Ran is really amazing at painting." Lin Li sighed.

She is a senior in high school. When she was in the second year of junior high a few years ago, she went to the same school as Mo Ran, who was in the senior year of high school at that time. As art students, they had the same art teacher in school.

There is a real relationship between senior and junior sisters. However, after a few years, Mo Ran has become a respected cartoonist in the comics industry of Dragon Kingdom. Although he is not developing in the direction of artistic painting, even if it is only in the field of comics in painting, he can have such achievements. Her teacher was extremely proud and always praised Mo Ran as his student when meeting everyone.

And she is still worried about whether she can pass the cultural courses of the college entrance examination.

But who cares?

While shivering, Lin Li walked quickly and headed home with the journal in hand.

Back in the house, while the stove was warming, she opened this issue of Beizhou Journal.

Opening the first page, there is a laminated card. On the front of the card, it is "Xia Yan & Mo Ran", as the most popular cartoonist combination of "Beizhou" magazine, giving it to the nearly 20 million fans of "Beizhou" magazine. new year wishes.

On the front is a New Year greeting message of more than 400 words. On the back, there is a set of gorgeous photo pictures taken back to back of Xia Yan and Mo Ran, wearing handsome and beautiful New Year's attire.

Lin Li looked carefully at the photo taken together by Mo Ran and Xia Yan.

Inexplicably, I felt envious of the two of them.

Suppressing these emotions, Lin Li turned the comic journal to the first page of the catalog.

The content of this chapter continues last week’s plot of the tower of trial and the battle between the mortals in the tower.

In the first game, Xiaojie and the prisoner burned the candle slower than anyone else, and Xiaojie won by blowing out the other's candle.

The second game was Kurapika, fighting against a muscular man with a strong build.

Is it finally time to get to the battle scene?

Lin Li suddenly felt a sense of anticipation in her heart.

After all, no matter when Xia Yan was interviewed or when the comic was serialized, the type of work noted in the journal was "battle-blooded" work.

However, this work has been serialized for three months and has more than ten chapters, but there has not been a decent battle yet.

Although the plot is becoming more and more attractive, this comic without battle scenes is inevitably suspected of being sold as dog meat.

Sure enough, the plot quickly clarified that the battle between Kurapika and the muscular man was a life and death duel.

And when the muscular man pulled off the cloak mask on his head.

Lin Li's expression stiffened

this.

Isn't this damn ugly too?

His facial features are crooked, with only a few teeth left, his eyes are lewd, and his face is smiling lewdly.

It is really hard to believe that the beautiful senior sister Mo Ran can draw such an ugly muscular villain image.

[I have killed nineteen people so far, but I think the number nineteen is not good. I am very excited now. Finally, a twentieth person came to die. 】The wretched muscular man said with a ferocious smile.

Lin Li was speechless when she saw this.

This villain's character is really low.

How dare you brag about killing nineteen people?

[Once the duel begins, don't expect that giving up will make me stop attacking you. 】The muscular man said.

[I understand, it’s settled. ] Kurapika said with a calm expression.

【.】Muscular man.

Soon the plot begins to explain this muscular man, who is a pure paper tiger.

What looks like a burly figure is actually intimidating. His exaggerated face is probably just because the plastic surgery failed. Let’s not talk about his combat power. At least he is very timid.

He deliberately looked fierce, just hoping that Kurapika would give up and admit defeat.

Seeing that Kurapika was not fooled, he could only use his special move, relying on the mechanical device on his shoulders and abdomen to punch the ground and smash through the floor.

Then, the twelve-legged spider pattern tattoo on his back was deliberately revealed.

Xiaojie and others who were watching the battle immediately explained the origin of the spider pattern.

The world's most notorious murderous group, a symbol unique to members of the Phantom Troupe.

The Phantom Troupe is also an organization that slaughtered all the Kurapika tribe in order to obtain their unique flaming eyes.

Lin Li became energetic when she saw this.

Is this an expansion of the main content?

But the member of the Phantom Troupe who was portrayed so horribly in the early plot is just such a weakling who only knows how to bluff people?

【How about it? Too scared to speak? I am one of the four kings of the Phantom Troupe, the King of Destruction, the evil tiger! If you want to admit defeat here, I can give you a chance to admit defeat] The muscular man smiled arrogantly.

Lin Li's expression darkened.

This nickname and name are so outrageous.

Originally, the villain's character was low, but with this name and nickname, the low level was even lower.

Lin Li turned the page again. As soon as the picture on the next page of the comic came into her eyes, Lin Li's expression immediately condensed and she became serious.

Because she could clearly feel that the details of the painting on this page of comics had been greatly improved.

Cartoonists also know how to make trade-offs. For climax plots, they will strive for excellence in drawing. If it is ordinary character dialogue, then the drawing will be more streamlined and the workload will be reduced.

Otherwise, if Mo Ran draws dozens of pages of comics a week, even if Mo Ran is a tentacle monster painter, it would be impossible for every picture to be drawn perfectly.

And once you become good at painting.

Lin Li continued to read.

[Did he freeze up with fear? 】

Toba gloated as he watched Kurapika fight against the "Four Heavenly Kings" of the Phantom Troupe.

Leorio looked at his teammates on the stage worriedly.

[Kurapika, angry. 】Xiaojie said.

Only Kurapika, the comics gave him a positive face at this moment.

His expression was solemn, and the pupils of his eyes changed color.

But in itself, Kurapika's painting style is extremely exquisite. As soon as the scene of his eyes changing color appears, the whole person reveals an evil style in the comics.

It's fine for male comic fans, but after reading it for female comic fans like Lin Li...

Just like the female fan of the hunter in the parallel world.

In this episode, Kurapika's comic picture made countless female comic fans become fans of him from here.

The whole person seemed to have lost his mind and his face was expressionless, but all comic viewers could feel the anger in Kurapika's eyes.

Step by step, he walked towards the so-called Four Heavenly Kings of the Phantom Troupe.

The muscular man quickly panicked and asked Kurapika to stop.

But the next comic storyboard.

He was knocked to the ground by a punch from the leaping Kurapika, and his jaw shattered the stone slab.

Kurapika, who was standing next to the muscular man, lowered his head.

Lin Li could still feel the anger on her body from the picture.

[I will give you three pieces of advice. 】

[The member mark of the First True Phantom Troupe should have the member’s number tattooed in the middle of the spider pattern. 】

[Second. They kill too many people and don’t bother to count how many people they have killed. 】

[Third. In this life, never say the words Phantom Troupe. Otherwise, I will never let you go in this life. 】

Kurapika in the comics is expressionless, but angry and lonely

This feeling is very strange.

It was obviously just a black and white comic, but Lin Li felt such emotions from the plot and pictures.

Looking at Kurapika's beautiful face in the picture, the girl's heart felt inexplicably soft at this moment.

The Hunter manga, as I see it now, has a lot of annoying characters.

Hisoka, who looked like a shemale at first glance, was a sissy and disgusting.

The same goes for that Dongba god, who is selfish and harmful to others, and is disgusting.

The protagonist Xiaojie can only say that it is okay, but he is not particularly likable.

Leorio had some highlight moments in the previous chapters, so Lin Li actually had a good impression of this character.

But today.

She is completely obsessed with the character of Kurapika.

This plot originally gave Kurapika a tragic beauty.

In addition, Mo Ran deliberately deepens this emotion in his paintings.

A girl with delicate emotions like Lin Li can naturally relate to it.

In the subsequent plot, after defeating the muscular man pretending to be a Phantom Troupe, Kurapika also returned to the preparation area and ignored him.

It's just that the plot is a game between two people, a life and death duel.

The muscular man just fainted, not dead, so there was no winner in this battle.

Since there is no winner, the battle will not end.

But Gon and the others have a limited time to clear the trial tower. They have already wasted a lot of time before, and now the battle between Kurapika and Muscular Man is delaying time here.

So Leorio directly suggested that Kurapika marry the muscular man.

After all, he is a death row prisoner who committed murder. If he kills him, he will kill him.

But Kurapika made it clear that he refused.

[I would not do such a thing to kill a fainted person. 】

Kurapika said calmly.

[I guess you’ve never killed anyone, right? Will you be afraid? 】At this time, Killua, who has no presence in this comic, walked up to Kurapika and said this.

Lin Li continued to turn back, but...

But I only saw the words "End of this story".

My heart suddenly seemed to be grabbed by something.

I haven't experienced this feeling for almost half a year.

Half a year ago, when Xia Yan was still serializing Initial D, she had this feeling at the end of almost every comic story.

I thought that Hunter x Hunter was a lighthearted comic, and the sense of interruption in the plot should not be too strong.

However.

Damn, what the hell are you doing?

I know how fast Senior Sister Mo Ran draws, and the bottleneck of the creation speed of this comic is definitely not Senior Sister Mo Ran.

You are Xia, you are always trying to interrupt the story 365 days a year.

Now it is the last comic story before the Chinese New Year, and you will not try to interrupt the story at a non-climax, but you have to interrupt it here?

Is there something wrong?

Lin Li repeatedly turned the story forward a few pages to read the handsome and beautiful story in which Kurapika beat up the muscular man who pretended to be the Phantom Troupe, and then said the three pieces of advice with a cold expression.

It's uncomfortable.

In fact, there are a terrifying number of comic fans who have the same idea as Lin Li in Longguo.

In the early morning, the major Xia Yan fan groups and the two-dimensional forums have been quarreling.

Male comic fans often shed tears because of the plot in the previous story that Leorio and his childhood friend Piedot were separated by the cruel blows of life and reality.

But female comic fans are easily attracted by characters like Kurapika.

This can actually be seen in the parallel world of Yoshihiro Togashi's previous comic Yu Yu Hakusho.

In fact, if you read the work Yu Yu Hakusho, you will be surprised to find that the four main characters in the early characters of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter have an unusual sense of déjà vu. .

Leorio corresponds to Kuwabara, Kurapika corresponds to Kurama, Killua corresponds to Hiei, and Gon corresponds to Yusuke.

It cannot be said that the characters are completely similar, but it can be said that there is still a sense of similarity of more than 50% to 60%.

In itself, in the work Yu Yu Hakusho, the character of Kurama is very popular among women.

This is exactly the same in Hunter. Kurapika is also a very popular character among women in this work in the parallel world.

"Sisters, isn't Kurapika in this episode so handsome!"

"I feel like crying! This painting, the loneliness of Kurapika. Love it."

"I am a man and I was a little tearful. I feel that the character of Lao Zei is really well portrayed! It's just a simple plot, but I can figure out a lot of the character's psychology from the plot and pictures."

"This is the comic!"

"Kurapika is really handsome. The most handsome character in this work so far. And he seems to be very powerful."

"I suddenly found that this comic attracted me. At first, I thought it was Lao Zei's work, and I would have no common topics with my friends if I didn't read it. But now, to be fair, even if there was no Lao Zei and no common topics with friends, I would probably continue to follow this comic. It's really good!"

"Me too, actually I When I first read Hunter, I thought that this kind of comic with no superpowers, no cool battles, and a funny protagonist relying on little wisdom would not be able to attract me for a long time. At most, I would stop reading after seven or eight chapters when I got bored. But I never expected that I would keep following it until now, and I am getting more and more excited every week. "

"I was the same. I thought this comic was not good at first, but after reading a few chapters, I couldn't stop reading it. Fortunately, I was not scared away by the name of this work. "

"It's just that the old thief's update and the place where the chapters are broken are disgusting!"

"Come on, only good works will give you a sense of broken chapters, and for bad works, you just want it to end quickly. Be content."

The last issue of Beizhou Comics before the Chinese New Year has become the issue with the highest number of readers' votes since the serialization of this comic because Kurapika has gained the favor of a large number of female fans this week.

It reached an astonishing figure of 3.3 million votes.

In addition, the work rating rose from 9.5 to 9.6 overnight.

This is the data of Hunter x Hunter for three months.

At this point in the serialization, the popularity of the work has been initially stabilized, and the number of comic serials has also increased. In fact, when the top management of Beizhou Comics held a video conference during the New Year, they had already made a decision. After communicating with Xia Yan, they also decided to start printing, distributing and selling the first volume of the Hunter x Hunter comic book after the New Year holiday.