Superpower manga artist Kobayashi Narumi

Today, the world's largest comic forum - Mengman Forum, the traffic exploded.

{Ten years of "Spirit of War" is over! !Count those super-burning battle scenes. }

{Li Tao, can the ending of "Spirit of War" really be considered HE? }

{To commemorate the end of "Spirit of War", reply and draw merchandise. }

{"Spirit of War" is over, Kobayashi Chengshi accepts an interview to talk about the creation plan of the next work. }

{I still painted my wife to death, I want to send the blade to the old thief Xiaolin! }

{The production of the new movie version of "Spirit of War" has been decided! }

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Everything is because the most popular comic series "Spirit of War" on Mengman website ended.

Mengman is the largest online original comics website in Bluestar.Its headquarters are located in the fifth district.

There used to be many countries on Blue Star.But only ten nations survived after a bloodbath.

In order to preserve the kindling of mankind, these countries signed a peace treaty of non-interference, concealed their original names, and referred to themselves by "area codes".

The fifth district is a large animation area, and the animation industry is very mature.However, with the development of Internet technology, traditional comic magazines have been a step behind and failed to seize the track of web comics.

At that time, Mengman was born. As the first comprehensive online comic publishing website, it quickly gathered a large number of comic creators from all over the world.

Today, Mengman has become the world's largest animation group integrating comic publishing, IP development, and animation production, and its forum has naturally become the world's largest comic forum.

And "Spirit of War" has always been one of the pillars of Mengman, and it is the most famous juvenile comic serialized on Mengman. Although the author of "Spirit of War", Kobayashi Chengshi is a cartoonist who only serializes on the Internet, his reputation is not inferior to those veteran cartoonists.

"Ah...it's finally over, I haven't slept well for weeks." It was very bright outside, but the thick curtains were drawn in the room.In the dim light, a person could be vaguely seen buried in the quilt on the bed.A few strands of black hair rose from the gap between the quilt and the pillow.This is exactly Lin Chengshi who slept in the dark all day after releasing the final chapter of "Spirit of War".

Lin Chengshi is a "genius cartoonist". Of course, this title is not self-proclaimed, but bestowed by colleagues in the industry and readers who love him.

Lin Chengshi's creative experience is quite legendary.In the summer when he was 13, Lin Chengshi was just an ordinary junior high school student who liked to read comics.The dream of a teenager at this age is changing day by day. His dream at the time was to become a cartoonist.

And just at this time, Lin Chengshi opened a small website called Mengman.This website has just been established and is hosting the first Mengman Cup Short Comic Contest.Lin Chengshi, a sophomore in middle school, a junior high school student who has never studied painting systematically, and all his art education is from school art classes, submitted a manuscript in such a way.

Later, he summed up the reason for his success. Compared with others, he may just have more courage to pursue his dreams.

He drew a comic short story with abstract scenery and distorted faces. His relatives and friends couldn't stop laughing after reading it.

They must be laughing because the painting is too ugly, Lin Chengshi thought so.In order to keep his real classmates from knowing about his contribution, Lin Chengshi changed his surname to his mother's surname "Xiaolin" when submitting the manuscript, and decided on the pen name "Xiaolin Chengshi".

Unexpectedly, this comic that seems to be teasing you really made countless editors laugh, and finally won a gold medal.

The editors are discerning, or the website has just started, and there are not many outstanding authors.Mengman signed Lin Chengshi and suggested that he convert his short comics into a long-form serialization.

At this time, Lin Chengshi could already be regarded as a professional cartoonist. Even in District [-], where there are so many cartoonists, it is still very powerful for a junior high school to become a professional cartoonist.

But Lin Chengshi was embarrassed to show off to others.Because he felt that his paintings were too ugly, too ugly.Although the editor believes that with his genius funny skills, he can become popular without a painter, or in other words, this soulful painting style is the reason for his success.But Lin Chengshi still feels that painting this kind of painting is not handsome at all.

After all, he was still a junior high school student pursuing handsomeness.

Again, Lin Chengshi is a genius.Only a genius can transform Lin Chengshi from a manga layman to a proficient manga artist in just two years.

After he started serializing, the editor hired an assistant for him named Naoto Takeda.

Takeda is a student who graduated from the University of the United States, and he is also an exceptional student.It's a pity that the employment situation is sluggish, and it has been reduced to the point of being an assistant to Lin Chengshi.

When Lin Chengshi discovered the strong basic skills of his assistant, he directly knelt down to worship the teacher, determined to improve his painting level.

During the two years when he followed Takeda to lay the foundation, Lin Chengshi didn't pay much attention to that funny manga, and stopped publication every three days, dragging the weekly watch into a monthly watch.

When the editors were pondering whether it was too ill-advised to allow junior high school students to start serialization, Lin Chengshi brought the first 6 chapters of "Spirit of War" he had carefully crafted, and almost unanimously passed the serialization meeting.

So Lin Chengshi quickly finished the funny comics and devoted all his energy to "Spirit of War".

That funny cartoon has become a dark history that Lin Chengshi never wants to mention, but in fact, it is an excellent work and a classic in the hearts of many readers to be fair.The booklet is also selling well, and has been steadily providing income for Lin Chengshi.

The animation quality of funny comics is also very good. Even because of the improved drawing skills and beautified characters during animation production, it seems to be more popular than comics, and it has become a "childhood memory" for children of that generation.Now it's all right, Lin Chengshi won't starve to death even if he relies on selling funny comics.

Even so, that is still Lin Chengshi's dark history as a painter, and he strives to clear his reputation through "Spirit of War".

After Lin Chengshi started serializing "Spirit of War", his garbage painter was successfully hidden.Most of the readers are overthinking, thinking that his poor drawing skills in funny comics are deliberately matching the funny theme.After all, no one believes that a person's artistry can be like a rocket, and it has improved by leaps and bounds in just two years.

However, no matter how brilliant the achievements of "Spirit of War" were, it was a thing of the past.

Lin Chengshi finally got up from the bed. He lives alone in a loft apartment. He usually sleeps and works in the loft, and the downstairs is the living area.

He shook his head, didn't make the bed, staggered down the stairs, went to the window and opened the curtains.The noon sun shines through the swaying leaves, and a small piece of light comes in from the French windows about three or four meters high, and fine dust is suspended in the light.

The apartment Lin Chengshi lives in has only four floors, and he lives on the top floor.

This area is a residential area. Although it is in the bustling capital of the fifth district, the houses are relatively low, with more than one family built, and the surrounding area is very quiet.Looking out of the window, there are endless roofs outside the window. Although there is no view, it is refreshing to see the vast sky.

To say that as an author with two big IPs in his hand, Lin Chengshi may have already earned a lot of money, and he can live in a luxury house with only royalties.But he doesn't care about material comforts, so he still lives in this well-located bachelor apartment to this day.

The phone rang.

Lin Chengshi glanced at the contact person's name, it was his editor Tanaka.He buckled down the phone screen, pretending not to hear.

He guessed Tanaka was here to discuss the new work with him, but...

Lin Chengshi sighed, climbed back to the attic, and turned on the computer.

Unlike most cartoonists, I like to follow readers' feedback to design the next plot.Lin Chengshi likes to write the outline of the comics first, and then to paint, only fine-tuning according to readers' feedback in the process.Therefore, his "Spirit of War" is like a comic adapted from the original work, with climaxes and interlocking links. The foreshadowings are recycled one by one to make readers hooked, and there will never be a problem of plot collapse.

But this way of creation also has disadvantages, that is, it is impossible to expand the length of the chapter as needed.When the plot is finished, Lin Chengshi must finish it.

Even for the theatrical version of "Spirit of War" that is being produced, continuing to serialize can better maintain the popularity of the work.

Lin Chengshi clicked on a folder in the computer, which contained all the settings for his next work.The editor suggested that he continue to create the theme of Wang Dao Boy Manga, and he also wrote the outline as required.But no matter how you look at it, his new comics are seriously homogenized with "Spirit of War".

Let's just talk about the male protagonist, just like the male protagonist of "Spirit of War", he is a sunny and kind-hearted type. Although he is a good guy, he has no special characteristics.However, there is a reason why the kingly setting is kingly. After he actually draws it, fans are likely to continue to buy it, but Lin Chengshi himself is somewhat unable to accept repeating his last work.

Probably because no one answered for too long, the call was hung up by the other party. Lin Chengshi picked up the phone and glanced at the missed call on the screen.Although he was polishing the setting of the new work a year in advance, he still failed to make up his mind to start the serialization of the new work, but editor Tanaka hoped that he would strike while the iron was hot and start a new serialization while the heat of the end of "Spirit of War" was over. The reason for contacting editor Tanaka.

Lin Chengshi clicked the mouse and called up the character setting diagram he had drawn for the new work on the computer. The first picture was the protagonist of the new work.

Blonde hair and blue eyes, gentle and sunny, the weapon is of course the most popular sword in the western fantasy series.

Compared with the previous "Spirit of War", which mainly focused on the struggle between justice and evil, there are more fighting scenes.Lin Chengshi's new work is considering writing a story that is biased towards the adventures of the protagonist group in the fantasy land.

Even if this kind of theme has the blessing of the main line, it is still easy to have a too gentle plot and become a daily travel comic.At this time, an enthusiastic or even nosy protagonist is needed, so that the protagonist group can be involved in various events and enrich the plot content.

However, the protagonist of "Spirit of War" with the same personality has long been criticized by many readers.Readers think the main character is "The Virgin" and "always causing trouble".In the readers' polls of the most beloved characters in "Spirit of War" held during the serialization, the protagonist was once overwhelmed by the second male lead and the female lead.

Although the "Spirit of War" comic itself is very successful, Lin Chengshi has always been worried about it.

A charismatic protagonist...

Lin Cheng really thought about it in his heart.He's been thinking about it all day.Thinking about it when eating ramen outside, thinking about it when petting cats in the park, thinking about it when strolling in the commercial street, thinking about it while lying on the bed at night.

While thinking about the problems of the new work, there is a sense of guilty happiness at the same time.

Ah, he didn't start writing for a whole day today, which is so cool.It would be great if I could live a leisurely life like this every day.It's a pity that once a new serialization is started, it will immediately return to the draft hell.

Maybe it's thinking by day and dreaming at night.

Lin Chengshi opened his eyes and found himself lying on the soft lawn.

A creature that looked like a sheep came over and said "baa~" to him.As a result, the flock of sheep all around rang out "baa~baa~" one after another.

Lin Chengshi sat up and grabbed the grass under him with his hands. The grass leaves were so tender that they seemed to ooze juice, and the fragrance of nature lingered in his mouth and nose.Everything in front of me is like a soft light filter, more perfect than reality, not a single bug can be seen in the beautiful grass.What about the sheep?Lin Chengshi hugged the nearest end, as if hugging a handful of cotton candy, clean and soft.In short, it doesn't look like a real animal.

Lin Chengshi looked around carefully.He was on a grassy hill.Along the river, you can see the villages in the distance below the mountain, and the brown waterwheel slowly rotates, which is an idyllic scene.Not far behind him, there is a dense forest.

These elements are relatively common, but because this map is too familiar to him, Lin Chengshi quickly recognized it. This is obviously the world set in his new work.

From this, Lin Chengshi realizes that he is dreaming. The village in the distance is the Xinshou Village he designed for the protagonist. Before the plot begins, the protagonist lives in seclusion in the mountains not far from Xinshou Village.And the forest behind him is exactly the novice gathering and leveling place he designed for the protagonist.

Lin Chengshi has already designed the villages, forests, mountains and other terrains, but he didn't design the types of animals, mostly taking materials from real animals in a foolish way.

It is really rare to be able to dream so clearly of the comic world I set up.Lin Chengshi pushed away the sheep-shaped animals that had begun to surround him and screamed "baa-baa", and decided to take a good stroll in this dream world.So Lin Chengshi turned around and walked into the forest behind him.

At the beginning, Lin Chengshi was in a good state of mind, breathing the fresh air in the forest, and occasionally saw rabbits and deer passing by in the forest, which looked very similar to the real rabbits and deer, and maybe even cuter.While walking around, he admired himself for his careful setting, and for being able to have such a realistic and restored dream.

He turned around and turned into the depths of the forest without knowing it.

Suddenly, a huge bear rushed out!

This bear looks like the brown bear in Lin Chengshi's mind!But it is much bigger than the brown bear in the zoo!

"!!!" Lin Chengshi took a few steps back subconsciously. This is the boss of Novice Village he set for the protagonist.The protagonist will kill the bear to eliminate harm to the villagers, and will also take in the bear's children.The bear's child will also "recognize the thief as his father" and become the mascot of the protagonist's adventure group.

Although he knows everything about this bear, Lin Chengshi himself can be regarded as his creator.But facing such a big brown bear still made Lin Chengshi nervous.He told himself over and over again in his heart that he was dreaming, and that dreams were controlled by people themselves.

This didn't work. The bear didn't stop its disturbed anger at all. After a roar, it raised its palm and patted Lin Chengshi.

"!" Lin Chengshi suddenly sat up from the bed.The feeling of being crushed by a bear's paw seemed to still be in his nerves.Speaking of which, like other normal dreams, I felt pain in the dream, but when I woke up, I found that it was not very painful. It was a bit like the migraine he occasionally had.

Looking at the alarm clock next to the bed, he only slept for less than an hour.

This dream is really good, but the ending developed into a horror movie.

Lin Chengshi thought about it, and fell asleep again.