A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

Given Xia Yan's current influence, it only takes a day or two for any news of his new work to spread throughout Longguo's two-dimensional circle.

Even Longguo's film and television industry has been shaken.

After all, the heat of Xia Yan's TV series Madoka Magica and Anohana, which aired last quarter, has not yet cooled down.

In the past, people in Longguo's two-dimensional circle praised Xia Yan, but people in the film and television industry were not interested, thinking it was too exaggerated.

But after watching the film and television dramas adapted from Xia Yan's works, many people have completely changed their minds.

The original animations, novels, and adapted comic books of Madoka Magica and Anohana have once again seen a surge in sales.

The number of Xia Yan's fans on major social platforms has also skyrocketed.

Although many fans of film and television dramas will not directly enter the fields of novels, comics, animations, and games, they are always concerned about Xia Yan's dynamics and want to see what comic-adapted film and television dramas Xia Yan will have in the future.

Then, I saw the news of Xia Yan's two new comics.

Of course, Beizhou Comics and Xia Yan are good at marketing and know that releasing smoke bombs little by little can best attract fans' attention, so they only released the titles of the two new works.

So since the end of September, Xia Yan's fan base has been completely attracted by Beizhou Comics and Xia Tang Animation's actions of releasing some news every few days.

Ninja comics?

Pirate comics?

What is a ninja?

Can it be eaten?

"Ninja, from the name, should be a person who can endure. But considering the special profession of "Hunter" in the work of Lao Zei Hunter, it feels that it cannot be simply interpreted literally."

"And that pirate comic, I am very curious, can a pirate be the protagonist? From the gossip, it seems that the protagonist is not the kind of evil element who burns, kills and robs. Moreover, according to the well-known Lao Zei work "Intelligence Analyst" on the Internet, a post by "Qian Xia", who is suspected to be a senior employee of Lao Zei Xia Tang Animation, the protagonist of Lao Zei's work is a pirate, but he is the kind who does not do bad things. The main plot of the story is also the protagonist's adventure on the sea."

"Not doing bad things? Can it be called a pirate? Isn't that a navigator? Why not name it One Piece?"

"How do I know this? Anyway, it depends on what Lao Zei considers."

"Pirate adventure comic? Well, if it is not Lao Zei's work, I will turn around and leave after hearing this introduction. Who is right I would be interested in the adventure of pirates!"

"Maybe it's something like a popular science comic, popularizing the life and daily life of pirates in ancient history."

"Why not modern pirates?"

"What can modern pirates write about? They have been almost wiped out by the international coalition forces. Speaking of pirates, it must be two or three hundred years ago, which was the golden age. Many pirates were secretly cultivated by the country, just to plunder the empire's goods and destroy other people's economy."

"So the old thief's One Piece may also be created in this direction? On the surface, he is a pirate, but in fact he is a spy pirate?"

"Maybe."

"Don't think too much. There is more than a month before the two comics will be online. If you guess so much now, you will probably be slapped in the face.

"That's right, the title of One Piece is easy to say, as for the ninja, you can study the word ninja in the name. The prefix of Naruto doesn't mention it at all."

"Anyway, it's less than two months, so just wait. ”

In less than two months, from setting up the studio to setting the date for the comics to go online, Xia Yan's work efficiency was very high.

But this was inevitable. There were hundreds of excellent works in the other world in his mind. Even for masterpieces like Naruto and One Piece, it was impossible for him to spend several years preparing for the promotion. He had people under him, money in hand, and a network of relationships in the industry. He was one of the top capitals in the two-dimensional circle. It was natural for him to promote his own works online.

The marketing effect came out in just a few days.

As for Xia Yan himself, he and Mo Ran were together to check the comic drawings of One Piece and Naruto.

Xia Yan said that he would not interfere too much in the creation of these works, but he would definitely give clear goals in the general direction.

Naruto was okay. The early part of the comics of this work in the parallel world was impeccable.

The painting skills and style were all fine.

But One Piece was different. As we all know, in the "China region" in the parallel world, although the sales of comic single volumes of One Piece have always been ahead of Naruto, But in fact, the number of fans was suppressed by Naruto during the serialization period.

The tastes of Dragon Country fans are also similar to those of China, so Xia Yan will naturally refer to the works in the parallel world of China to make adjustments.

In the new world, Xia Yan also saw a lot of the battles between Naruto fans and One Piece fans in the forum through memory fragments.

The reason why One Piece is at a disadvantage in this regard is that the painting style is really too disadvantageous. Boys can still accept it, but many girls directly abandon it at first sight.

It cannot be said that there are no female One Piece fans, but the One Piece painting style is far less attractive to female comic fans than Naruto.

So Xia Yan also made some changes to the Dragon Country version of One Piece. Generally speaking, the rough painting style of the characters has not changed, and the character settings of the main characters basically respect the original comics.

But at least in the painting style of supporting roles and passers-by, Xia Yan asked the painters in the studio to try to create some styles that attract women, and to restrain the treatment of some details.

Women should make up better

In the original One Piece comics, apart from the members of the Straw Hat Pirates, as well as the Empress and Shirahoshi, the other female characters are all more monstrous than the others.

It doesn’t matter if the main characters are weird and strange to reflect their characteristics, but the supporting characters should not look like aliens.

Another direct point is that many men in the original One Piece fight and bleed, and the armpit hair in the armpits and the leg hair on the thighs like gorillas are also drawn.

Just like Xia Yan read the later plot of the original One Piece comics through memory fragments, the most unbearable thing is the scene when Sanji fights and kicks others with a pair of big hairy legs on leather shoes.

It really makes Xia Yan very out of the play, and feels that Sanji’s elegant masculine temperament has suddenly become a sloppy image with exposed leg hair.

In Xia Yan’s opinion, Sanji, who shows his leg hair and steps on leather shoes with bare legs, has the same temperament as the boy in the rural-urban fringe of Longguo wearing moccasins and tight pants.

In addition to Sanji, the popular villain Doflamingo in the later comics is also the same. The moccasins make the legs look hairy, the tight pants are added with a pink big hair cape, which is simply a strong screening of female fans.

It is true that excellent works are excellent in any plane.

But appropriate changes that conform to the characteristics of the plane are also acceptable. After all, they are separated by a plane, and the tastes of fans are always slightly different. To some extent, copying them unchanged is also a kind of laziness.

Xia Yan flipped through the comic drawings in his hand with a curious expression.

Many comic fans think that as long as the story of a work is excellent, the style of painting and other things are not so important.

But in reality, this is just wishful thinking.

Even if the plot of the two versions of Hunter in the parallel world is the same, if the team, painter, and director are changed, it will be completely different.

There are also two versions of Rurouni Kenshin's animation, and the TV plot of the old version and the remastered version also looks very different.

In the parallel world, Jin Lao's martial arts novels were made into more than a dozen TV series, and the gap between each version is very different. The version of The Condor Heroes starring Louis Koo and Huang Xiaoming is not on the same level as the later versions that are eye-catching.

Even if their plots are similar, there can still be a huge difference in viewing experience.

So although Xia Yan will make some changes to her version of One Piece and Naruto in Dragon Country, there must be strict standards to constrain it.

If the people in the studio are allowed to play freely, it is unlikely that a masterpiece will become a flop, but it is highly likely that a 90-point work will be ruined into a 60-point work.

→

"How is it? Do you feel okay?"

Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan with a tired face.

In the past two months of the two comics, most of the work was done by her leading Xia Yan and the studio members she selected.

Character design, drawing, communication and contact with the comics club, and publicity plans were all led by Mo Ran.

During this process, she also had to be responsible for the serialization of Hunter's comics.

Even though she and Xia Yan's team now have a team of cartoonist assistants in the double digits, which helps her save a lot of work, it is still very tiring.

Of course, Mo Ran has no complaints, after all, there are many cartoonists in Longguo who want to exchange with her so as to get close to Xia Yan. Moreover, Xia Yan is not having an easy time either.

Comics, novels, animations, games, film and television adaptations, even Xia Tang Animation has begun to acquire some peripheral manufacturers and start making peripheral products by itself. There are dozens of direct companies in Longguo that rely on Xia Yan's works in various fields to survive, and hundreds of indirect companies. Moreover, the industrial chain of Xia Yan's works has an annual output value of tens of billions of Longguo currency.

As the core figure of such a huge industrial chain, Xia Yan can't have an easy time.

"Very good." Xia Yan's serious brows relaxed.

The first two episodes of One Piece and Naruto comics in my hand are different from those in my memory, whether it is the style of painting, or some details, storyboard processing, they are all different.

But if Xia Yan really had to judge, he didn't think the results his subordinates produced were worse than the original works in the parallel world.

After all, neither Oda nor Kishimoto were cartoonists known for their drawing skills. Compared with Akira Toriyama, Inoue, and Takeshi Obata, there was still a gap. Although Xia Yan's people were all unknown in the comics industry before, they were skilled in drawing.

Xia Yan thought about it and took a deep breath.

"That's it. No need to make any changes. Tomorrow I will ask my assistant to submit these comic manuscripts to Beizhou Comics. The next step is to promote them comprehensively."

Mo Ran's tense heart relaxed when she heard this.

She was also very nervous.

After all, Mo Ran knew very well that the main reason why Xia Yan continued to look for her as a partner in these two works was that he had known her for a long time and had a high degree of trust in her.

But no matter how high the trust is, it must be based on ability. Xia Yan's approval of the drawings also shows that the comic studio of the two protagonists has no problem and can support the long-term serialization of the two comics.

Passed, passed.

Mo Ran was happy.

Then her thoughts shifted to the plots of the two comics.

"Then, both comics will have subsequent plots"

Xia Yan had only given her the comic scripts of the first three episodes of Naruto and One Piece. In fact, Mo Ran had already been very interested in the plots of the two works.

The first episode of One Piece is the memories of the protagonist Luffy, and the second episode is a duel with "Little Aunt", the female pirate Alrita.

The plots of the first two episodes are just to illustrate the world view of One Piece, but the plot of the third episode, where the pirate hunter Zoro appears, becomes more attractive.

It's a pity that Xia Yan's script only describes half of Sauron's debut.

The same is true for Naruto. In the first episode, Naruto appeared and used a cheat to defeat the chunin Mizuki using the multi-shadow clone technique. Then in the second and third episodes, Sakura and Sasuke were introduced, and the plot came to Kakashi's genin assessment.

The opening plots of both works are quite attractive and the quality is online.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Xia Yan patted his head after hearing this, took out the key to his safe, stood up and went to the wall behind him, took down the painting on the wall, fingerprint, voice, and opened the key three times in a row. After locking it, I took out a large pile of comic storyboard drafts stored inside.

Although it is a small probability event, with Xia Yan's current reputation, who knows if a commercial spy will come over and steal these, so Xia Yan cannot help but be careful.

"Here are the scripts for the next ten chapters of the two comics. You can just take it and study it. During the creation process, if you have anything you don't dare to make a decision on, just discuss it with me." Xia Yan said with a smile.

Mo Ran took a thick stack of storyboard drafts in his hand.

His expression was slightly confused.

The look in Xia Yan's eyes became extremely strange.

Haven't you been on business trips this month, negotiating cooperation for various projects of Xia Tang Animation?

During this process, do you still have time to create so many script drafts?

never mind

Mo Ran shook her head. Anyway, this was not the first time she had seen Xia Yan's perversion.

Taking the storyboard draft given by Xia Yan, Mo Ran walked upstairs.

After all, the fifteenth to eighteenth floors of this building were purchased by Xia Yan to house Xia Tang Animation's offices.

Xia Yan's office is on the eighteenth floor.

On the nineteenth floor, Xia Yan bought another half floor as the office space of Xia Yan's comic studio.

Although a lot of cartoonists are engaged in cartoon creation, it is too wasteful to build an office building in such a central location. In fact, renting a villa in the suburbs will not affect it.

But Xia Yan still made this arrangement in order to facilitate his work.

For a person with a net worth of tens of billions, there is basically no need to think too much about buying half a floor.

After Mo Ran returned to her office on the 19th floor.

Mo Ran looked at his three groups of employees, who were creating comics for three works: Hunter, Naruto, and Pirates.

And she dove into the office and began to study the subsequent plot of Naruto One Piece.

Look at this.

Just a whole day

At two o'clock in the morning, Mo Ran walked out of the office building with a dazed expression.

In his head, he was still immersed in the fire scene, and the protagonist Naruto stabbed the back of his hand with a kunai.

Still immersed in Pirates, Zoro cried in front of his master about his vow to become the world's greatest swordsman and about the Devil Fruit battle between Luffy and the Ugly King Buggy.

Mo Ran may be lacking in creative ability.

But after reading comics for more than 20 years, she definitely has a good sense.

The plots of the first three chapters of these two comics are just average.

But after the next dozen episodes unfolded the world view, it was immediately overwhelming.

Compared to Steel Refining and Hunter's early plot, it's much better to watch.

Mo Ran took a deep breath and thought about what Xia Yan had said to her before.

Long story.

These two works are not inferior to The Hunter.

One Hunter has already made Beizhou comics number one in Dragon Kingdom, two more are coming

A thought naturally appeared in Mo Ran's mind.

Then perhaps from now on, there will be no such thing as the four major comic book clubs in Dragon Kingdom.

Beizhou Comics will be ahead of the other three competitors during the break, taking its position in the comics industry to a higher level.

In mid-October, Beizhou Comics, which received Xia Yan's comic manuscript, began an overwhelming promotion of the new comic.

The two comics One Piece and Naruto were released on Beizhou in the second and third weeks of November respectively. They were deliberately staggered to prevent the first chapters of the two comics from competing with each other for online popularity.

With the joint efforts of Xia Yan and Beizhou Comics.

By mid to late October.

Major two-dimensional business districts, bookstores, newsstands, schools, subways and other places in Longguo

It is already plastered with release posters for One Piece and Naruto.

Naruto and Luffy's two bright smiling faces, Naruto's iconic six-hair beard.

Luffy's yellow straw hat

For the first time, it appeared in the eyes of Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional fans.

Xia Yan is now a legend among the Dragon Kingdom 2D fans.

But Long Guo's fans have not yet realized that two legendary comics later will meet them for the first time at this point in time.