Chapter 318: A Better Future
The classic of "Slam Dunk" is undeniable. But when he first started serializing, he was at the bottom of the ranking on "Shonen Jump". It's not because of the manga problem, but because of his contemporary, there are many popular manga that we are familiar with now, such as "Dragon Ball", "City Hunter", "Oolong Police Station", "JOJO", "Dragon Quest", "Yuyou Hakusho" and other works. At that time, at the beginning of the serialization of "Slam Dunk", Inoue's positioning of the work was skewed, coupled with factors such as strong enemies, the ranking of the first few words has been hovering in the bottom ten, until the showdown between Sakuragi and the gorilla, the comic entered the top ten for the first time, and it was these words that made Inoue Yuhiko adjust the ratio of comic elements to six points for blood, three points for funny, and one point for handsomeness.
So when Wang Ming learned about the sales of "Wildfire" from Xiaoyuan, he was very peaceful, and even comforted the indignant Xiaoyuan, saying that it was understandable.
The sales of 5 million copies, put in the semi-monthly magazine, is already a very good result. You must know that most cartoonists will serialize their carefully prepared comics in weekly magazines, and will contribute to semi-monthly magazines, more of which are short and medium-length comics, and occasionally long ones are also used to make a name for themselves in the magazine. "Wildfire" was very powerful ten years ago, and now because it has not been monitored by the market, the quality of the manuscripts received is not high, and this sales are already very good.
Readers are not stupid, they can naturally see that most of the comics serialized in "Wildfire" are bland, and the quality of some comics is not very good, like a full number of works, even Mr. Qingbai's "Slam Dunk" and "One Piece" serialized in the weekly magazine There is a big gap.
Of course, there are many readers who ask the editorial department to add "Slam Dunk" to "Cat Look", they feel that the quality of "Wildfire" is not worth 12 yuan, and the whole magazine is like suppressing the fame of Mr. Qingbai.
Not only that, but even the readers of "Cat Look" are reacting, thinking that Mr. Qingbai should not draw "Slam Dunk", but "One Piece", make animations, make games, make music, etc......
After Xiao Yuan finished repeating the message, he stopped, and Wang Ming took the opportunity to say: "This kind of thing, when the editor-in-chief asked me to draw a new comic, I already thought of a countermeasure, right? As long as it has no impact on my reputation, you can do whatever you want." ”
"That's what I said, but Mr. Qingbai, you are the party after all, and these things still have to be known to you. Packing the materials on the table into the file bag, Madoka replied solemnly.
Now for the editorial department, Qingbai is the biggest cash cow, and he must serve this well, so the real comic teacher under Xiaoyuan's name is only Wang Ming, and the others are Wang Ming's assistant friends, and she only needs to be responsible for Qingbai, but even so, she often has nothing to do, just watch and listen and learn more, and strive to enrich herself in case of emergency.
"Thank you!"
"It's okay, it's my business," Xiao Yuan came to the door with the file bag, and suddenly turned around and said, "If Teacher Qingbai has something, you must contact me!"
Sending Xiao Yuan out of the door, Wang Ming returned to his seat and picked up the statistics that Xiao Yuan had just left behind.
"Wildfire" was republished, sales exploded, and there was an overprint across the country, thanks to the reputation of Qingbai and the fermentation of animation. But judging from the reader's portrait, most of the magazines are bought by housewives, and even seventeen or eighteen girls are the main force in buying comics, and only one-third of men come to buy animation. But for this kind of thing, Wang Ming doesn't care, it will get better slowly.
Shortly after the silence, the doorbell rang. After a while, four people walked in from outside the door.
"Yo, Sun Yang, why are you here with my assistants?"
"Don't mention it, the car burst a tire on the road, and it's not easy to take a taxi in winter, if it weren't for a few of them, maybe there will be more frozen male corpses on the street tomorrow. ”
"It's not that exaggerated, right?" replied Wang Ming with a smile.
Sun Yang didn't mean to be polite at all, he dragged his clothes directly, flew on the sofa bed in the living room, and didn't get up. Looking at this scene, Wang Ming beckoned to the three assistants and motioned for them to come over too, don't be restrained.
"Teacher Qingbai ......"
After the three of them sat down, Wang Ming raised his glass and asked with a smile, "How about you, what do you think of the task I left you?"
This is the homework assigned to them by Wang Ming before, the purpose is to see how creative their stories are, the requirements are not too high, just write the main story line, and design the main characters.
The task is not simple, but the time given is enough.
Even so, there was a person who didn't finish it: "I said, Miss Koizumi, can't you complete such a simple task?"
Wang Ming's voice was not terrible, but Junsheng Koizumi trembled, opened his mouth and closed his mouth more than a dozen times, looking like he wanted to say it but didn't dare to say it, which made people anxious.
After twisting and twisting, Junsheng Koizumi finally took out a sixteen-carat sketchbook from the bag beside him and handed it to Wang Ming.
After getting the manuscripts of the three of them, Wang Ming continued: "Okay, then let's continue the lecture today, let's talk about the setting principles and direction of the work......
In the midst of small talk, the day passed like this.
After having a sumptuous dinner at Wang Ming's house, looking at the three people of Ruyue Qunzhen, Koizumi Chunsheng and Liu Mengyu with a look of aftertaste, Wang Mingzhen felt ashamed for his assistants. Even Yoshihiro Fujian, who licked the plate clean, was not like these three people, with a stupid face, and these three assistants were far worse than Yoshihiro Fujian.
Clapping his hands, Wang Ming turned on the TV in the living room, tuned to the Demon Capital Station, and said to the three uncompetitive assistants: "Don't be stunned, the animation will start soon!"
For the three of them, it is not a short time to follow Wang Ming, and what they admire most about Wang Ming is not his painting ability, but his story arrangement, songwriting and character setting.
As far as the next broadcast of "Fate zero" is concerned, many years later, the audience may not remember the plot and even forget the songs, but they will never forget the pair of CPs such as Mapo who evades taxes and the ruthless Kiritsu, nor will they forget the heroic conquering king, the chivalrous Dilumudo and the most memorable saber.
The story is to serve the characters, the song is to highlight the theme, and the theme needs the characters to set off, so an animation, as long as the characters can be remembered by the audience, then it means that it is successful.
The success of Fate zero is undeniable. The average rating of 14.7% speaks for itself. Even "Dragon Emblem" has condensed the original 120 episodes of the season to 52 episodes now because of its various influences, and adjusted the time to the best time period......
No matter how much they move, it's useless. The three people who have read the script know that in the future, the plot of "Fate zero" will become more and more exciting, and it may become the second animation in history to break 20 ratings.