Huang Yulang's brush vividly shows the image of a comic beauty. Although Zhang Shaojie prefers three-dimensional beauties, the two-dimensional beauty also makes him feel amazing.

"What a beautiful Wang Yuyan!" Zhang Shaojie said with a smile.

Huang Yulang difference: "How do you know that she is Wang Yuyan?" ”

Zhang Shaojie smiled: "Guess! Although Huang Yulang's "Dragon Babu" came out 20 years ahead of schedule, Huang Yulang's style has actually changed very little. Historically, the comic "Dragon Babu" is also famous in Hong Kong, even if you haven't seen the plot of the entire comic, but Wang Yuyan's comic image is still recognizable.

"Hehe, you guessed it accurately! She is Wang Yuyan! Huang Yulang smiled happily.

Huang Yulang saw Zhang Shaojie with something that looked like a book, and said strangely: "Shaojie, you came to Yulang Company today, but you didn't just want to chat with me!" ”

Zhang Shaojie nodded, handed the two book samples in his hand to Huang Yulang, and said: "These are the two novels under the "Ming Pao", and now all kinds of copyrights, including film and television, animation copyrights, are in the hands of the "Ming Pao" group, I think these two novels are very suitable for adapting comics or animation, so I want to recommend them to Yulang Company." I don't know, are you interested in cooperating? ”

Huang Yulang frowned and said, "It's not a question of whether I'm interested in cooperating, or even a question of funding!" It's because of talent constraints, and it's powerless to have a heart! Although Yulang International has been expanding and recruiting people in the past few months! However, now my Yulang International Company's stall is too big. The comics that are being serialized include such popular kings as "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty". There are more than a dozen comics that sell tens of thousands of copies per issue. Now the whole company is only more than 500 painters, to put it mildly, the whole Hong Kong can be used among the cartoonists **Chengdu in Yulang International. Such a small person, in addition to maintaining the more than ten comics that have been serialized, also have to prepare for the two new comics "Dragon Babu" and "The Condor Heroes" "

Zhang Shaojie frowned and said: "The expansion is too fast, and the talents can't keep up, hey!" This is a common problem in almost all sunrise industries and high-speed development enterprises, but I think these two novels really have the potential to sell well! ”

"Okay, I'll see!" Huang Yulang simply flipped through the two works brought by Zhang Shaojie.

"Qingcheng Sword Immortal" Huang Yulang couldn't help but be moved after reading it for a short time, and said, "This novel is really good. It's a fandom of "Shu Mountain", but I think "Shu Mountain" is too profound and too long, and I can't always finish it. This "Qingcheng Sword Immortal" seems to have more appetite for me! ”

Zhang Shaojie nodded and said: "That's true, I also think that this work is more superficial than the original work of "Shushan", and it is more suitable for readers who have no patience to read "Shushan" to understand the magnificent and majestic world of cultivating immortals in "The Legend of Shushan Swordsmen" from a certain popular and superficial side!" The world system of "Shushan" is too strong, too leafy, and the entire world system is so huge that even 100 books are enough. Traditional classics such as "Journey to the West" and "Fengshen Bang" are actually far inferior to "Shushan" in terms of the grandeur of imagination and the grandeur of the world system! ”

"Hehe, the master of the Pearl House was born at the wrong time! If he was born in the post-war era and serialized his "Shushan" in Hong Kong and Taiwan, then his manuscript fee and readers would definitely be more than during the war of the Republic of China, and readers would be able to accept him more easily! Huang Yulang said.

"Actually, the book of the lord of the Pearl House is not as simple as a book! It's a treasure trove. If you have a hearted author, you can take some Xianxia sects, exercises, magic weapons, immortal caves and other settings from the book of the lord of Huanzhu Mansion! To be popular, you can immediately become a first-class Xianxia author! Zhang Shaojie said with a smile, "At least within a hundred years, no one can surpass the setting of the owner of the Huanzhu Building!" ”

In the 90s, a large number of Western novels were translated into Chinese, and many Chinese readers read the setting of Middle-earth in the Western work "The Lord of the Rings" and the world setting of Feron in the DND novels.

They are pessimistic that through the words of novels, the construction of a magnificent world system, and the fictional civilization of a magical civilization and the civilization of the gods, are rigorous and vast projects that only Westerners are capable of doing.

All kinds of novels in China's domestic history basically do not pay attention to building a huge virtual world system. Even if it is a mythological novel, it is only a little sorting out the existing folk and religious myths and legends, and there has never been a groundbreaking creation of a grand and original world system.

As everyone knows, during the Republic of China, the lord of Huanzhu Mansion included more than 5 million words of "Shu Mountain" and "Shu Mountain" related prequels, postquels, and foreign biography, with a total text of more than 10 million words. The construction of the Shushan world system reflects the grandeur of imagination, which is the pinnacle of human imagination and a magnificent masterpiece!

On the strength of imagination, on the grandeur and detail of the world, in the entire history of Chinese national novels, and even in the history of human novels, "Shushan" is also at the pinnacle!

It can be said that "Shushan" is a world system that is enough to be looked up to by the world's setting party, at least a world system that can be compared with the world of Feron in the DND system!

After talking about "Qingcheng Sword Immortal", Zhang Shaojie recommended "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to Huang Yulang.

Huang Yulang frowned and said, "This style is really a spoof!" Zhao Yun was written as a woman, even Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Cao Ying, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, the men in the entire Three Kingdoms were written as little girls, do you think it is appropriate? ”

"What's inappropriate, I think, Zhao Yun's little Lori in the book is so cute!" Zhang Shaojie said, "After Tai Shici became a little Lori, it was also very interesting."

Huang Yulang smiled bitterly and said: "With such a theme of the sword going off the rails, forget it!" My heart is not strong enough! ”

Zhang Shaojie can only regret it, in fact, in his opinion, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has more potential for anime adaptation than "Qingcheng Sword Immortal".

I can't see the potential of this novel yet, but as long as I stick to it until the 90s, after the CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" swept across Asia. At that time, Meng culture plus the Three Kingdoms will definitely be able to make money in the market!

Although there are millions of comic readers in Hong Kong, it is claimed that it includes those who have occasionally bought anime works.

It is estimated that there are only more than 300,000 people who buy comics and anime works every year.

As for the book, at least 100 million people in the entire country read comics, and there are at least 30 or 40 million otaku and otaku who are fascinated by comics, and the theatrical version of the movie adapted from the anime of the book is even higher than the Hollywood blockbuster in the country.

This has shown that animation culture is the quintessence of Yuben and the pillar of Yuben's entertainment and cultural industry.

Yulang International's main business now is to adapt all kinds of martial arts comics, and it is also martial arts comics that make money, and other types of comics, such as girl comics and children's comics, can't come out at all.

"Forget it! Adaptation of martial arts is also good! After all, that's a 'royal man'! Zhang Shaojie said regretfully.

"Wang Daoman?" Huang Yulang was puzzled.

Zhang Shaojie explained with a smile: "This is the experience summed up by the comic company. Juveniles will always be the mainstream market for comics, and juvenile readers love elements such as blood, battle, friendship, struggle, and growth. Therefore, this style of comics is called 'Wang Dao Man'! ”

"I see!" Huang Yulang smiled, "That's right! What we have been walking is the road to kingship! When "Dragon Tiger Gate" was painted, it became more and more popular, and I didn't know why at first! Later, I found that on the other side of the book, it was also a similar struggle and growth of comics that occupied the mainstream. At this time, it is a little clear! And "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is more inspirational and struggling than "Dragon Tiger Gate", so the market is also more optimistic! Yulang International Company wants to do this kind of 'Wang Daoman'! Only the royal road can be dominant! ”

From the perspective of the comic market in various countries, some comic themes that go off the rails cannot become the mainstream.

For example, girl's comics, selling cute, selling meat comics, although they can also attract attention. However, what can really make a comic book author a great god is to draw a royal man!

The so-called Wang Daoman is a hot-blooded and inspirational juvenile comic.

This kind of manga such as "Saint Seiya", "Dragon Ball", "Football Player", "Slam Dunk", "One Piece", "Naruto" are all supported by some elements such as blood, growth, friendship and so on!

This kind of decent, through the growth and struggle of the protagonist of the comics, gradually increase the popularity of the juvenile comics, has the broadest market, so it is called "Wang Dao Man"!

Yulang International's "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" are actually models of Wang Daoman!

Although, the competition in the market of Wang Daoman is the most fierce, but if you want to gain the strongest popularity, you must take this royal road!

Comics that go off the rails can only be hot for a while, and after the fresh selling points have been experienced by readers, they will be forgotten by most readers. Because readers who like new ideas will never read it for a long time, and they will be attracted to new themes at any time. Only those who truly love the protagonists and characters of a work will truly become hardcore.

"Dragon Tiger Gate", "One Piece", and "Slam Dunk" have endured for a long time, because this kind of comic takes the route of "royal manga"!

It is precisely because of this that Huang Yulang lacks interest in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a seemingly gimmicky and creative novel.

Seeing that Huang Yulang had no interest in adapting "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Shaojie did not work hard to promote it. Anyway, "Qingcheng Sword Immortal" can be adapted, which is already a good start.

(To be continued)