Chapter 172: Polarizing Word-of-Mouth
An Yi is actually most concerned about the commercial achievements of "Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived", after all, this "Flowers and Dreams" girl's comic magazine can be regarded as a magazine with its own company's flag, and only by developing this comic first and managing its reputation can it have more capital to create high-quality juvenile comic magazines, youth comic magazines, home comic magazines, etc.
You only need to look at the "Martial Country", the highest-selling martial arts comic magazine at the time, and "South Wind Flower Language", the highest-selling romance comic magazine, both from the same media group, to see how powerful the complementary advantages formed between them are.
Both of these Big Mac magazines seem to be telling their readers that only works from their media groups are the best, most popular, and most fashionable......
And one day, the emerging media group like Anritsu is destined to have friction with traditional media groups, and even in the field of comic magazines, there will be a tragic battle.
The ultimate opponent of "Flowers and Dreams" is "South Wind Flower Language", which has sold more than 30 million copies in one issue!
In any case, this "Flowers and Dreams" magazine can be regarded as a bridgehead to open up into the field of physical comics, and it is a very important step to run such a bridgehead.
At this time, the commercial results of "Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived" have not yet been specifically counted, and the sales of "Flowers and Dreams" magazine have skyrocketed, also because of her popularity as "An An", which directly boosted the sales of the magazine, and then we must also see the attraction of "Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived" to the readers of the girl comic group.
Because of this, in the "Animation House" forum where industry insiders gather, many guys with ulterior motives are also singing about An An, thinking that if she draws a girl's comic that she is not good at at all, she will die herself. Her style is not suitable for the kind of emotional drama that touches the girl's comics......
Tao Wei, the editor of "Pink Memories" who was in Hei An'an before, was also instructed by the high-level. Continuing with the fancy Hei An'an, he asserted: "The limit of the sales of Flowers and Dreams magazine is 3 million copies. This is all due to a certain online painter who likes hype, and the online painter is just using guò to consume his previous reputation to support such a magazine that has no future at all. ”
"So I expect that after a certain online artist's new work disappoints all her previous fans, the sales of "Flowers and Dreams" will be prototyped again, and it can't compare to the thriving "Pink Memories". I think the romance comic magazine "Pink Memories" is very good, and the recent addition of two popular small god cartoonists is a clear proof of this, so those romance painters who are still wavering. So what are you waiting for, go and contribute to Pink Memories! ”
Tao Wei actually doesn't hate An An, in fact, he is still a deeply hidden eva fan, others like goddesses like Ayanami Asuka the most, his favorite character is Nagisa Kaoru, for no reason, he just likes such a character who appeared in the last few words, but left him a very deep impression.
But he is just a miscellaneous editor, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Pink Memories" where he works is a middle-aged woman in her forties. Her name is Cui Juanyan, her personality is extremely mean and narrow-minded, because she has always been a competitor to "Love House", the predecessor of "Flowers and Dreams". So she is extremely unhappy with "Love House", even if it has now been revised into a girl's magazine "Flowers and Dreams", she still can't stand the rise of this magazine, everyone is a third-tier small magazine, why is your sales in An'an's god effect so high?
Anyway, she Cui Juanyan just doesn't accept it!
So in her will, Tao Wei can only be a lonely sailor in this "Animation House" forum, and she is often besieged, who makes Goddess An An very popular in this forum. There are so many of her relatives and friends!
However, this time his post was approved by a small number of people. There are even An An's original readers in it.
It was a male reader with the nickname "Pool", he replied. He used to like An An's "Neon Genesis Evangelion" very, very much, and thought that what fascinated him the most was the setting of some electronic devices in the future world, which was so real that he even felt that An An, the author, was from the future......
I've been looking forward to An An continuing to draw sci-fi comics with open brains, but I didn't expect the new work I was waiting for was actually a girl's comic, he lived for more than 20 years, and he hadn't read a girl's comic in his life, it was narrated from a female perspective, and it was always greasy and crooked, and it was strange that a pure man like him would like it!
However, in order to support An An, who brought him a masterpiece "Eva" that he will never forget for the rest of his life, he chose to buy an issue of the girl's manga magazine "Flowers and Dreams" as support, which can be regarded as a gesture of affection, but he will definitely not buy the second issue, because he has no interest in shoujo manga at all.
Then there were a few old readers of An An before, most of them were men, and they all said that "Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived" was really hard to swallow, and it felt that playing literature and art was far inferior to "Flying Birds" and "East Evil and West Poison", and playing business was not as good as "Neon Genesis Evangelion", and finally came to the conclusion that An An begged your old man not to go to the girl comics to join in the fun, you still paint the science fiction comics with amazing imagination like "EVA"!
An An's previous readers, in fact, are all older, because young readers can't understand what An Yi is expressing, even college students and even readers who have worked, think that An An's comics give them the first feeling of "stream of consciousness", "obscure" and "literary to death", but once you read it, it is really fascinating!
So when such a group of readers encountered the work of "Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived", which is aimed at fourteen or sixteen-year-old girls, they all expressed their disappointment, even if it contains An An's unique literary atmosphere, it is several levels lower than "Flying Birds"! I feel that those beautiful sentences are just piling up rhetoric meaninglessly, too hasty and impetuous, and no intentions!
However, in the original readership, some readers who like nostalgia feel that this girl's comic is not bad, it is full of the atmosphere of a youth campus, and the overall atmosphere at the beginning of the comic is very warm and fresh, this is undoubtedly a good work worth drinking a cup of tea in the afternoon and killing time, no need to take your brain to see it, very relaxed.
So, at this time, An An's original readership was divided into two halves, and most of them felt that this new girl's comic was really not good, as if it was boiled water; The other half thinks it's very good, very good-looking, and it's a heart-warming and nostalgic masterpiece!
With such a polarized word-of-mouth, due to the prevailing negative reviews, all the prophets jumped out one after another, asserting that An An's new work had suffered a heavy failure......
But in this case, when "The Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived" appeared in the eyes of many fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, it made countless young readers like a treasure!
The sales of "Flowers and Dreams" magazine began to climb and climb again! (To be continued.) )
ps: Today's third update~~~~ Ask for a recommended ticket monthly pass!! This is the first update for the alliance leader [pool] added ~~~~