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In early and mid-September, the wave of interest in the Mitsui Shou plot continued.

For nearly half a month, enthusiastic Slam Dunk fans on major video websites and two-dimensional forums matched Mitsui Shou's memories and the plot of the prodigal son with the popular and suitable songs in Longguo, and made a variety of animated MVs and spread them wildly on the Internet.

In Longguo, basketball is indeed a niche, but Slam Dunk, even if it is in a parallel world, is not popular because of basketball elements, but because of the passion for character portrayal and plot and the deep impression of fans.

Or to put it this way, replace its plot with badminton, table tennis, e-sports, football, tennis, etc.

As long as the plot is still the same, it will basically be popular.

Longguo fans do not really like basketball, but the scene of Mitsui Shou, the prodigal son, crying to Coach Anzai at the end.

These things can easily impress most of the audience in Longguo, because everyone can find resonance only from these animated MVs made spontaneously by fans.

Children feel very excited when watching Hanamichi fighting, and adults shed tears when watching Mitsui Shou return to the right path.

This directly caused the popularity of Slam Dunk to show a blowout growth in the next few weeks.

Of course, this growth may not be particularly obvious in the ratings.

The ratings of Slam Dunk in these two weeks have only risen to 6.68%. After all, the number of TV viewers in Longguo is limited, but it is obvious that the ratings of the replay of Slam Dunk on TV1 in Shanghai have increased significantly.

After all, the animation viewers who watch the first broadcast every Saturday night are often loyal and have time, but there are a large number of passers-by who see the public opinion on the Internet and find that if a certain work is really well received, they will arrange time to watch the replay. And the growth of these ordinary passers-by is very impressive.

Before the Mitsui Shou plot, the popularity of Slam Dunk has been suppressed by Fullmetal Alchemist.

After all, Fullmetal Alchemist is also a great masterpiece, and the plot of the early and middle stages of Fullmetal Alchemist is much more stable than Slam Dunk. It is a work with a very high lower limit and a very high upper limit.

But Slam Dunk is the kind of work that makes you feel sleepy once the "water" is turned on, but once the blood is excited, the upper limit is slightly higher than that of Fullmetal Alchemist.

In the two weeks when the plot of Mitsui Shou caused excitement among fans, Slam Dunk surpassed Fullmetal Alchemist in popularity.

Of course, this reversal lasted only two weeks. After Mitsui Shou joined the Xiangbei team, the national competition qualifiers started quickly without delay. However, at the beginning, the Xiangbei team played against some small fish teams, or even a group of experienced babies, which was not at the same level as the Ryonan team they met before. Of course, these plots are also interesting, but compared with Fullmetal Alchemist, which has already started a brutal struggle with the artificial human group and the plot is in a white-hot stage, there is a big gap.

So in early October, Fullmetal Alchemist's popularity once again surpassed Slam Dunk.

However, after the pull in September, the popularity of Slam Dunk and Fullmetal Alchemist has clearly surpassed other works in the market.

Of course, this "other" refers to the two works Initial D and Tengen Toppa.

In October, the launch of Bakemonogatari added.

The entire Dragon Country animation market has presented a distorted pattern.

The first in the ratings is Fullmetal Alchemist, the second is Slam Dunk, the third is Initial D, the fourth is Tengen Toppa, and the fifth is Bakemonogatari.

The original creators of these works are all Xia Yan, and the ratings are all above 5%.

The sixth-ranked work is the game-adapted fantasy dragon Aotian animation "Sword, Magic and Girls!", which Longyang Animation invested heavily in this quarter. The first episode had a rating of 4.52%.

The original work belongs to the kind of beautiful girl fantasy world development game, which has tens of millions of game fans around the world.

The original work itself is very popular. In the past few years, this kind of work would definitely be the quarterly drama hegemony.

But after the launch this year, it can only be ranked sixth.

After all, Xia Yan's current influence in the animation industry cannot be shaken by a simple popular game-adapted animation. He is now at the top of the three fields of animation, novels, and comics, and his fans are switching between the three fields. It is indeed a bit abnormal.

Of course, this situation also makes many capitalists in the two-dimensional industry more jealous of Xia Yan.

Ordinary practitioners, such as some cartoonists, novelists, and animation screenwriters, no longer think that Xia Yan has any direct relationship with them.

They basically don't think about surpassing Xia Yan's height. It's nothing more than a mountain in the industry. If you can't cross it, you can't cross it. Longguo has tens of millions of two-dimensional fans. They have so much time. After watching Xia Yan's works, they will always watch other works. It can't be said that Xia Yan's rise has no impact on them, but it's okay.

It's just that the capitalists in the industry are suffering.

It's okay that Xia Yan ate the biggest cake in the industry. Five animations with a ratings of over 5% this quarter took the top five? Who can stand this?

Xia Yan ate meat alone, and only the two companies that cooperated with Liuli Bookstore and Beizhou Comics could eat a little soup. All other companies can basically only watch.

The animation industry has become like this, making the capitalists of the old top animation companies in the industry very uncomfortable now.

But there is nothing that can be done. Xia Yan's current situation is that no one can suppress him unless he commits suicide. Their former interest groups have been affected by Xia Yan's rise, but the new interest groups that have benefited along with Xia Yan's rise are now firmly supporting Xia Yan.

Many GG merchants, many companies in the industry that cooperate with Xia Yan, and some departments of Longguo, including Liuli Bookstore and Beizhou Comics, are now all strongly tied to Xia Yan, and everyone is making money through Xia Yan, the cash cow.

In essence, in the past few years since Xia Yan rose, although he did not say how to change the pattern of Longguo's two-dimensional industry, the talent trend and capital flow of the entire industry have actually been tilted towards Xia Yan.

During this period, Xia Yan's company has continued to recruit talented employees. The number of employees in the company has increased a lot, and departments such as film and TV series have also been established.

Like Xia Yan's previous series of works, adapted into live-action dramas or movies after a few years, there will also be a huge market.

It's just that Xia Yan is not too concerned about the details of the company's development now.

In terms of operations and company development, Longguo has plenty of talents to deal with this. Xia Yan's high-level executives who spend so much money every year are not hired in vain. They have a clear plan on how to make Xia Tang Company grow and become the first two-dimensional cultural company in Longguo, or even the world.

After all, it is good to lean on a big tree for shade. Xia Tang Animation has Xia Yan to continuously produce a series of popular hegemonic works in the market. The company has money, fame and funds. Tens of millions of Xia Yan fans around the world will pay attention to Xia Yan's related dynamics every day. With such a card in hand, it is extremely difficult to play a problem.

The problem now is the time for development

However, Xia Yan is not in a hurry about this.

At the current development speed of the company, it is likely to become the largest animation production company in Longguo in two or three years, and after three to five years, it will develop games, animation, TV series and movies together.

As for TV animation, Xia Yan does not need to think too much for the next two or three years. As for two or three years later, it will be the long-term battle line of the dead fire sea and the like. Those works can make their fans from teenagers to fathers.

The only place that Xia Yan pays a little attention to is the movie section.

Xia Yan is not deeply involved in this field, and he was active when the movie "To the Moon" was released before.

There have been no new works on the screen in the past two years.

In the film industry, Longguo has animated films, live-action films, and imported films that each occupy one-third of the market.

From the number of films released each year to the box office by genre, it is basically the same ratio.

In the company, there are already two or three projects that Xia Yan has planned to adapt his previous works into live-action films, but Xia Yan will definitely not pay too much attention to these things that he thinks are rehashing old works, but will pay more attention to the themes of animated films.

After the end of this year and the beginning of next spring, he plans to start planning two or three animated films in the company, selecting the works of Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Makoto Shinkai, etc. in the parallel world and producing them for release.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan rubbed his head a little.

Since graduating last year, a large part of his work focus has been occupied by the company's management.

After all, the company's current number of people is about to exceed a thousand after the establishment of the film production department, TV series production department, and game production department.

The company is basically entirely dependent on Xia Yan's works for operation, and the copyright of the works is in Xia Yan's hands, so he dares to delegate power to his subordinates to let them develop and operate freely, without fear that they will undermine their own industries, develop in the company and then go out to work alone, or even be poached by other companies. After all, Xia Yan is the only person who is truly irreplaceable in Xia Tang Animation.

However, even if he has tried his best to give the right to handle the work at hand to his subordinates, Xia Yan still has a lot of affairs to deal with in a day for a company with such a number of people.

Apart from other things, the company now has more than a dozen large and small projects launched at the same time. Xia Yan must read and sign the project funding plan every month and every quarter.

If a boss doesn't even care about the company's financial operations, it's definitely not okay. This is just one of the jobs. What about negotiating with friendly businesses, eating, discussing cooperation, and specifying plans and inspections with the heads of relevant foreign industrial chains? Now that Xia Yan's influence is growing, these jobs are also increasing.

"Is this my 22 years old?" Xia Yan smiled and sighed.

Being influenced by studies in school, I always feel that I will have time to rest and enjoy life after graduation, but in fact, the development of the company is not completely controlled by Xia Yan, the founder.

Even if Xia Yan wants to stop the development now, hundreds or thousands of employees under him will not agree. They are waiting for the company to grow and develop so that they can get promoted and get a raise.

At present, Xia Tang Animation will probably have close to 10 billion yuan in funds in its account after the global animation and copyright income of Slam Dunk and Fullmetal Alchemist arrives with the broadcast.

Strictly speaking, with the output speed of Xia Yan's several works this year, this money cannot be invested at all, and can only lie on the account. Otherwise, Xia Yan would not have established TV series, movies, games and other departments so quickly. Part of the reason is that he thinks that the company's funds should not be wasted too much, and he wants to find some projects to invest them in quickly.

"But this is also the limit." Xia Yan took a deep breath.

After the Chinese New Year, it is not too much work for him to create two or three movie-level animation scripts, and the total will not exceed 100,000 words.

But it is absolutely impossible for Xia Yan to start a few new medium-length or long-length animations. He couldn't do it even if he died of exhaustion.

In October, Slam Dunk took six or seven episodes to finally let the Xiangbei team defeat all those small teams in the preliminaries.

At this time, the plot of Slam Dunk was finally ready to start the plot with Xiangyang High School.

Strictly speaking, there are only five games in the original manga of Slam Dunk that fans really remember and think can be called a big chapter.

The friendly match and the two games in the main game with the Ryonan team, the game with the Xiangyang team, the game with the Hainan team, and the game against the strongest Sanwang team in the final national competition.

As for the other teams, Xia Yan collectively called them small teams.

They may seem to have their own gimmicks, but in fact, they are all paper tigers when they fight, and they are here to give Xiangbei team experience.

Just this game with Xiangyang will take at least a dozen episodes to depict.

Longguo’s current fans don’t know how painful it will be to chase the update of Slam Dunk.

A basketball game can be as short as a dozen episodes, or as long as more than twenty episodes.

If converted into the time of catching up, it will take about three to four months to half a year to catch up with a game.

To be honest, Slam Dunk is the real king of the broken chapter. As long as you enter the game plot, you will be tortured every week.

But at this moment, how can Slam Dunk fans know the details.

Take a look at the introduction of the Shoyo team in the plot.

The second in Kanagawa Prefecture, once defeated the Ryonan team.

You know, in the previous plot, the five tigers of Xiangbei lost to the Ryonan team by one point when there were only three people, Liu Chuanfeng, Hanamichi, and Akagi.

Now if the team can beat the Shoyo team with Mitsui Shou and Miyagi Ryouta, they will aim for the first place.

Now that the national competition system has been announced, fans are now excited.

"Lao Zei finally knows what we want to see."

"Finally, a strong enemy has arrived. What the hell is the team that played basketball with rugby? And the team that Hanamichi's former rival belongs to. Lao Zei likes to do these boring plots when the plot is tense."

"Speaking of which, Hanamichi has only scored one goal in the animation that has been broadcast for more than 20 episodes and almost 30 episodes. Is he really the protagonist?"

"Alas, I have understood the rhythm of Lao Zei's animation. It is estimated that it will take more than two months to beat the Shoyo team."

"I feel the same way. It will take at least two months to finish."

"Finally, a strong opponent will appear, allowing the Xiangbei Five Tigers to show their full strength."

"I hope Hanamichi can score at least two goals in the new chapter. Hanamichi is good at everything, but his basketball skills are too "It's bad, I'm not satisfied with it."

"Actually, I'm also very surprised. If the protagonist of other works is so bad, I would have given up long ago, but Slam Dunk is different. I still think Hanamichi is good even though he is bad."

"I'm not watching Hanamichi at all now, but Mitsui Shou. He is the real god."

"I like to watch Liu Chuanfeng."

"Am I the only one who likes to watch Akagi's plot?"

"Me too."

"I hope to see the Xiangbei team beat the Xiangyang team, and then enter the national competition and crush them all the way to win the championship."

"What's the point of that?"

"You don't understand, invincibility is the best! I hate the most boring games."

In late October, Slam Dunk, which was suppressed by Fullmetal Alchemist for a month, began to surpass Slam Dunk again with the upcoming game with the Xiangyang team.

As time goes by, the performance of each work in the Dragon Country animation industry this quarter is relatively stable.

Bakemonogatari is indeed the worst among Xia Yan's broadcast works this quarter, as Xia Yan expected.

Dragon country fans are not too interested in this kind of work that is too full of cute otaku culture. Instead, the plot of Gurren Lagann has been soaring since entering this quarter, and it is about to go from the earth to the moon. Although its popularity is not as high as that of Alchemist and Slam Dunk, it has shown signs of surpassing Slam Dunk animation.

At this time, winter in Dragon country has also begun to arrive.