The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

"When I saw the name of the manga, I wanted to scold at first, until I suddenly remembered that I clicked on Huaying's official website [怪力]"

"Should it be just a title party, right? The star's vision is not that low, and it is impossible for Huaying to do such a self-destructive thing. It is probably intended to catch the popularity of the Sherlock Holmes series, but the actual content does not matter much? The name Sherlock is quite common. Yes, maybe it’s just the same name.”

"Although, whether this comic is good or not is another matter. This operation is really a bit confusing. Thinking of the star break before, the sales of "Huaying Comics" directly dropped by 300 million, um..."

As the most well-known and most concerned comic magazine nowadays, Huaying's new work is undoubtedly the focus of attention of all colleagues and readers.

"The Fall of Las Vegas" has come to an end, and at least half of the sales of "Hua Ying Comics" are driven by the Sherlock Holmes series. Although Zhuo Liming's new work is also well received, his comics are still based on " Although an ancient style like "Returning on a Snowy Night" can attract many fans, the audience is destined to be limited.

For a comic magazine that has just established itself, this is obviously not enough.

Under such circumstances, "Hua Ying Manga" will inevitably find a way to launch a new work that can replace "The Fall of Las Vegas", and whether this so-called new work can take over part of the burden of the Sherlock Holmes series has become a new work of the painting. The key to the present moment.

So what about "Sherlock"?

No matter how you look at it, this comic seems to be taking advantage of the popularity of the Sherlock Holmes series. Can it really offset the loss of readers caused by the end of "The Fall of Las Vegas"?

It was at this time that Huaying Comic's official Weibo suddenly uploaded the cover of the next issue of Comic Weekly——

A young man who is quite similar to Sherlock Holmes but completely different.

Unlike the Sherlock Holmes series, which is more biased towards the style of youth comics, the "Sherlock" on the cover is obviously following the common beauty line in comics-a black suit, a slender woolen trench coat of the same color, and a dark blue scarf rubbing against him. The neck naturally hangs down.

Unmistakably modern attire.

Not only that, but the background shown on the cover is no longer the luxurious and gorgeous city in the Sherlock Holmes series, but a typical metropolis with more modern features.

If there is anything that immediately reminds people of Sherlock Holmes, it may be those familiar gray eyes-cold, withdrawn, with a squint at the corners of the eyes and brows.

"Wait, this background, this look, this "Sherlock" won't be the modern version of Sherlock Holmes?!"

"emmmmm, I lost interest after seeing the cover. Does this mean that I can't find high-quality comics and started the blood-sucking Sherlock Holmes series?"

"To be honest, I'm a bit... not able to accept it. It's not that I don't believe in Huaying. I believe that since the stars will choose this "Detective Sherlock", then its quality must not be much worse. It is very likely that it is at least one There are cartoons at the level of "The Fall of Las Vegas", but what I like is the British style of the nineteenth century, and the background of Sherlock is changed, and the taste has changed."

"I still have to talk about the review standards of Huaying. I'm a little curious about what the modern version of Sherlock Holmes will look like. Personally, I'm looking forward to it."

"Fuck, what's the matter with this soul-stirring feeling? Is Sherlock so handsome! Can someone who hasn't read the original Sherlock Holmes series understand this?"

With the release of the cover of the next issue of Huaying Comics, the evaluation of "Detective Sherlock" is further divided. There are original fans who are extremely resistant to this and are not interested at all; there are also original fans who are curious about this and are still waiting to see; There are also passer-by fans who have never watched the Sherlock Holmes series at all, but have a preliminary impression of "Sherlock".

"Finished?" Shepherd Xing asked.

Shen Xing actually doesn't quite understand why Xing Musu, who has never cared about readers' feedback, asked him to know the comments and feedback of online readers before serializing.

But out of trust and habitual obedience to the Shepherd Star, he still nodded honestly after carefully reading them one by one: "It's over."

"Any ideas?"

"Ah?" Shen Xing blinked, a little puzzled.

He subconsciously looked at the two seniors beside him—however Zhuo Liming and Meng Zhiyuan didn't seem to notice the situation here at the moment. They were concentrating on discussing something in "Night Watchman 2". A plot, without even looking at him.

It's no wonder that the two of them didn't interrupt. Whether it was Zhuo Liming or Meng Zhiyuan, both of them were famous and experienced comic book writers. There were many things that Mu Xing didn't need to ask, they would naturally understand what they needed to know.

But Shen Xing was different.

"The Capture of Las Vegas" certainly allowed him, a fledgling little transparent, to rival the big guys in sales in an instant, but it is undeniable that he has many abilities in comics that are still waiting to be discovered. The reason why Xing Musu dedicated all his energy to staring at Shen Xing after returning from the hiatus.

Neither of the two seniors responded to him, so Shen Xing had to face the boss's test alone. After thinking for a while, he thought that Mu Su Xing was worried about his psychological endurance, so he waved his hands in a hurry: "It's okay, such remarks will not affect you at all. Let’s talk about mine, besides, when I was painting “Las Vegas,” it’s not like I didn’t get scolded by fans of the Sherlock Holmes series, and I’m used to it.”

Shepherd Xing rubbed his forehead, a little speechless about his understanding: "Who cares about you?"

Faced with Shen Xing's bewildered expression, Shepherd Xing had no choice but to get straight to the point: ""Sherlock" is different from "The Fall of Las Vegas", this is a work based on the Sherlock Holmes series—in other words In other words, the popularity of the Sherlock Holmes series will not only be your help, but also your resistance."

"Have you thought about how to deal with this problem?"

This time, Mu Su Xing did not intend to write the comic script himself. What he gave Shen Xing was the original script of the TV series "Detective Sherlock" that he exchanged from the system mall. That is to say, how to adapt it into a comic script, The core selling point of the script, etc., Shen Xing had to figure out this series of questions by himself.

For the current Shen Xing, this is also a kind of exercise.

Shen Xing obviously understood what he meant.

In fact, since Shepherd Xing came back from the hiatus, his attitude has changed very obviously when he works in Huaying Comics on weekdays: If we say that in the past, Shepherd Xing would often do many important matters by himself, then the suspension of publication After returning, the Shepherd star seemed to be preparing for himself to leave.

As one of the three most famous exclusive contracted authors of Huaying Comics, Shen Xing is the youngest among them, and also the one with the most unstable level.

Entrusting "Detective Sherlock" to Shen Xing with full authority is not only a kind of trust, but also a test.

Seeing that Shen Xing's originally confused eyes gradually became clear, Mu Suxing smiled slightly. He didn't say anything more, but just patted Shen Xing on the shoulder: "The script has been given to you, what kind of comics will be drawn in the end?" , How to deal with the relationship between following the original work and adapting it appropriately depends on you.”

What is the core of "Sherlock"?

After that day, Shen Xing devoted all of his body and mind to the study of the original script.As Shepherd said, the more popular the Sherlock Holmes series, the more prudent the adaptation of "Sherlock" must be. How to attract more non-Holmes fans without arousing the resentment of the original fans as much as possible, It became Shenxia's top priority.

Fortunately, Shenxia's script itself was good enough, which made Shen Xing less difficult invisibly.

"I understand!" Three days later, Shen Xing finally found the feeling and said happily: "Boss, I know what the core of Shenxia is!"

Shepherd Xing couldn't help laughing: "You just talk about it, what results did you research?"

"No, no, now is not the time," Shen Xing, who had found his direction, seemed to be more energetic, and he said confidently, "It will be released soon, and you will know when the time comes."

Along with a new work called "Detective Sherlock", "Huaying Comics" was released as scheduled.

As a double fan of Huaying animation and comics, Luo Gaofeng naturally got the latest issue of "Huying Comics" immediately.

For "Detective Sherlock", many fans of the original work seem to have an almost instinctive rejection.As a fan of the original books of the Sherlock Holmes series, Luo Gaofeng certainly doesn't like this kind of behavior of showing off popularity, but this time, it is Huaying who has been a fan of him for three years.

This caused Luo Gaofeng, a long-time Huaying fan, to inevitably become a little complicated for a while.

He believes in the review standards of Huaying, and believes that the Shepherd Star will not make fun of the Sherlock Holmes series, but at the same time, out of his enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes series, he is also very worried that there will be plots or plots in "Sherlock" that damage the original work. set up.

Afraid that it is the same as the Sherlock Holmes series, and afraid that it is not the same as the Sherlock Holmes series.

With this complicated mood in mind, he opened the manga.

Like the Sherlock Holmes series, the beginning of "Sherlock" still starts with John Watson. After briefly introducing the psychological barrier caused by Watson before his discharge from the army, the storyline once again returns to the case link familiar to readers-a certain case. On a suicide case that made the police department helpless.

Faced with the statement of "serial suicides" given by the Metropolitan Police Department, the reporters in the audience looked inexplicable, and almost had doubts written on their faces: "The suicide cases are also related?"

As the person who had to explain the case to the outside world—Inspector Lestrade seemed to know how unconvincing his words were, which made him a little awkward in his movements, and he said dryly. Said: "Obviously."

"Is there any connection between these three people?"

"I haven't found it yet." Probably realizing that his answer was completely untenable, Lestrade quickly added: "But we are still investigating, and there will definitely be."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone at the scene, including the people on the Metropolitan Police Department's own side, everyone's mobile phone sent out a message notification sound at the same time. When they lowered their heads at the same time, a concise and clear message was quickly displayed. out of their sight—

wrong.

Only these two words, nothing else.

Linked to the current background environment, the meaning seems to be easy to understand.

"If you all received a text message, just ignore it." There was no surprise or shock, as if she had encountered such sudden incidents more than once, the young female police officer said as calmly as possible: "If there are no other problems, That’s all for this press conference.”

But that's clearly just the beginning.

With the arrival of this unclear text message, the atmosphere at the scene became more stalemate, and the reporter's questions became more sharp, and Inspector Lestrade had to make a series of explanations for this, but——

"wrong."

Again.

The atmosphere at the press conference inevitably became more awkward, but Luo Gaofeng couldn't help laughing out loud.

Okay, with the experience of the Sherlock Holmes series, he thinks he knows who this person who texts everyone is—a modern version of Sherlock Holmes who can skillfully use modern technology in the investigation and has a bit of a childish temperament - Doesn't seem too bad?

It can be seen that the plot of "Sherlock" is indeed based on the Sherlock Holmes series. For example, John Watson, who is familiar to readers, once again appeared at the beginning of the comics as a soldier. There are some differences between the assumptions and the original work—for example, Sherlock Holmes' attitude towards the police in the original work is not as arrogant as Sherlock...

But surprisingly...not annoying?

The press conference ended hastily under Mr. SH's "troubleshooting". Two police officers, a man and a woman, quickly left the venue. The curly-haired woman couldn't help complaining: "You have to stop this guy from messing around, he's making us look like idiots Same."

In this regard, the inspector replied without looking back: "If you can tell me how he did it - I will go."

Then Luo Gaofeng laughed.

That's right, that's it.

Different backgrounds, different plots, and even the case is not a nondescript adaptation of the original work. Sherlock-Holmes is still the shadow of the Sherlock Holmes he is familiar with. Even due to the change of the background of the times, this sense of distance has been further drawn closer. , the sense of substitution also becomes stronger.

If there is any difference, Sherlock in Shenxia is obviously more like a brat.

A lovable brat.

But some original fans obviously don't think so.

"What the hell, the characters in the two comics are wrong. Sherlock Holmes in the original book is obviously a polite gentleman, but Sherlock in Shen Xia is too rude? Does he know what it means to be worldly?"

"Is it my illusion? I always feel that Sherlock emmmmm in Shenxiali is over-pretending..."

There are obviously not a few fans of the original book who hold such views.

Generally speaking, fans of the original work on the Internet generally have mixed reviews on Shenxia, ​​like Luo Gaofeng who thinks the adaptation is good, pays tribute to the original work, and is out of the ordinary.There are also some adaptations of Shenxia who can't bear it, thinking that the existence of this comic has tarnished the original work.

"This is our best chance to fight back against Huaying Manga!"

In the editorial department of Flame Spirit comics, the newly appointed deputy editor-in-chief chattered: "From the results of the survey, half of the fans of the Sherlock Holmes series are dissatisfied with the adaptation of "Sherlock", and some extreme fans are even determined to boycott it. There is no doubt that if Huaying thinks that the popularity of the Sherlock Holmes series will strengthen the readers left behind by the Sherlock Holmes series, it is a big mistake."

Chang Tianlu: "Oh."

"..." His perfunctory attitude was too obvious, the deputy editor couldn't help accentuating his tone, and said, "Editor Chang!"

Chang Tianlu really didn't like the airborne deputy editor, especially since the other party was a layman deliberately transferred by the company's senior management, so he couldn't be bothered to pay attention to his series of smart ideas, and asked casually: "Why don't you talk about it first , what are you going to do?"

"This is a good opportunity to expand the reasoning audience of "Flame Spirit Comics," the deputy editor said confidently, "We can invite some professional mystery novelists to create comics like what "Baiyun Comics" did before. The script, in order to attract the part of Huaying's readers who lost because of Shenxia..."

Chang Tianlu calmly said: "Do you want to lose the core user base of "Flame Manga"?"

This was too serious, the deputy editor subconsciously put away his triumphant expression, frowned and said, "What do you mean by that?"

"The core of "Flame Spirit Comics" has always been blood, battle and friendship. I don't need to tell you how low the audience overlap between the hot-blooded boy comics and reasoning comics is?" Chang Tianlu said mockingly: "Do you really think You can make a second Sherlock Holmes with just a random reasoning script?"

Why did the Sherlock Holmes series explode?

Not only because it is a reasoning comic, it is above the standard in all aspects—it is none other than the historian who played a key role in the dissemination of this comic them.

This kind of success itself cannot be replicated.

There are many people who like the Sherlock Holmes series: there are middle school students and college students, immature or mature office workers, high-level intellectuals with rich experience and high aesthetics, and even historical researchers who never read comics.

In other words, there are quite a few people among them who don't usually read comics at all. Even if they do, they have extremely high requirements for the plot, breadth and depth of comics.

In order to meet the high demands of these people, to wrong the original readers of "Flame Spirit Comics" and serialize unpopular comics?

Is this man crazy?

As for "Sherlock" -

Chang Tianlu remembered how he felt after watching the first episode of "Sherlock".

"This comic is not used by Huaying to consolidate the market left by the Sherlock Holmes series," Chang Tianlu said calmly: "It is used to expand the market."

Reasoning comics, but also expanding the market?

The deputy editor scoffed at this, but the reality seemed to be to verify Chang Tianlu's statement, as if to prove Chang Tianlu's statement, as the plot of "Detective Sherlock" gradually unfolded, the original sales were stable at 1300 Wan's Huaying Manga suddenly started to continue to rise.

1349 million, 1421 million, 1501 million...

what does this mean?

Considering that the single volumes of the Sherlock Holmes series entered a saturation period not long ago, there is only one thing left to drive the sales of "Hua Ying Manga"——

Some readers who are not interested in the Sherlock Holmes series but have a soft spot for "Sherlock" have joined the ranks of ordering "Huaying Comics".

but……

Like Shenxia, ​​but don't like the Sherlock Holmes series?

What the hell is this? !

The deputy editor is simply inexplicable.

It would be understandable if some readers were "really fragrant" because of the good-looking plot behind Shenxia, ​​but this law doesn't take effect at all!

Those original fans who hated "Detective Sherlock" he saw at the beginning still exist, and even as the plot progresses, their words become more fierce and their attitudes become more radical, but it is precisely in this situation that they have received a lot of negative reviews from the original party. , Shenxia has also achieved quite good results, ranking only after the Sherlock Holmes series in the popularity vote.

What made him even more speechless was that there were also readers who came for Shenxia and became interested in the Sherlock Holmes series while chasing the serialization, which led to another upward trend in the Sherlock Holmes series, which was also saturated in sales.

Are you still playing like this?

"I probably understand the core selling point of Shenxia."

As the changes brought about by Shenxia gradually stabilized, Shen Xing, who is a manga author, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After knowing that Mu Su Xing's series of actions were all about "accounting for his funeral", the pressure in Shen Xing's heart can be said to be getting heavier every day.

As one of the earliest comic writers of "Huaying Comics", Shen Xing was just a fledgling little transparent when he first came to Huaying. The sales volume can rival that of Zhuo Liming and Meng Zhiyuan, the industry giants.

It was also because of this that Shen Xing was even more unwilling to live up to the other party's trust, and even less willing to let the other party down.

Fortunately, he did it.

Seeing that Shen Xing was full of confidence and seemed to have realized something, Mu Suxing smiled and became a little interested. He was quite curious about what the other party gained after studying Shenxia's script: "What is it?"

"Strictly speaking, there are actually many core selling points of Shenxia—" Shen Xing thought about his choice of words, and then continued: "For example, the character design roughly continues the classics of the original book, and the characteristics of Sherlock are very attractive in themselves. , In addition, Shenxia also set up the cases very cleverly, instead of copying the original work, he made a reasonable adaptation on the basis of the original work, and some cases in the original work were even integrated into one episode."

"A lot of lines are also very funny, for example, I was particularly impressed by Sherlock's line 'You have lowered the IQ of the whole street!', there are many lines with a poisonous tongue, a kind of comedy that makes people laugh out loud The effect, this is also done very well.”

Shepherd star smiled and nodded slightly.

Seemingly inspired by his behavior, Shen Xing immediately became more confident, and he said, "Of course, there is also the most important point, which is also the point that I feel the deepest."

... the deepest point?

Star Shepherd is really curious now.

He recalled Shenxia's script - besides the characters, lines and the plot of the case, what is more touching than these?

Shen Xing gushed: "To be honest, I've watched a lot of comics, TV series, and movies, but it's really too much for Shenxia's script to depict emotional dramas so meticulously and quietly. Rare! For example..."

After he finished speaking blah blah blah, he realized that the entire office was quiet, and the shepherd star remained silent, with a somewhat strange expression on his face.

Shen Xing finally realized that something seemed wrong.

As if thinking of a certain possibility, he said cautiously: "...No, aren't Watson and Sherlock a couple?"

Shepherd star: "?"