"Violet Garden" was officially released in 2005, when the light novel industry in the world's 11 districts entered the middle of development, and the narrow market unexpectedly cultivated a number of high-quality light novels. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Violet Blooming Garden" has a total of 29W words, divided into two volumes and sold to the public. As the most representative work of Fog Mirror Glass, even if it is defined as a light novel category, it has achieved an amazing result of 214W annual sales at that time, with an average annual sales volume of more than one million!

Until now, "Violet Blooming Garden" has printed more than 500W copies, and the cumulative sales have exceeded 10 million!

Fate/zero has been released to the public so far, and if the fourth volume is played at a normal level, the average annual sales of each volume will only be 60W, which is equivalent to half of the Violet Garden. The biggest advantage of the novel "Fate/zero" is the length, the number of words in each volume is almost equivalent to the length of the entire novel "The Violet Blooming Garden", and the sales of each volume can steadily suppress the first line of "The Violet Blooming Garden".

In addition, despite the length of the light novels in "Fate/zero", the average sales have been slowly increasing, and the number of sales in each volume will break the sales record set by the previous volume in a short period of time. The first volume of "Fate/zero" sold more than 100,000 in the first week, which is an exaggerated first week sales in the light novel industry, thanks to the simultaneous broadcast of the "Fate/zero" anime and the accumulation of popularity of seven gaiden heroic character novels. The second volume was officially broadcast because of the animation, and the sales exceeded 15 in the first week! The third volume was released in conjunction with the novel "The Mysterious Door" by Fog Mirror Liuli, and the two light novels achieved a staggering sales of more than 300,000 that week.

You must know that light novels also have market restrictions, and it is difficult to reach the sky every step after exceeding a certain amount, and the "Fate/zero" novel does not seem to face this problem at all, and the first-week sales of the third volume of the novel are comparable to the first-week sales data of the first volume of "Violet Garden" that year.

Now that the IP of [Moon World] has been made, more and more people have come into contact with the same circle from different fields, including the novel "Mysterious Gate" by Ruri Foggy Mirror, the animation "Fate/zero", the new animation "Knight's Twilight" in October, the comics "Mysterious Gate", "Moon Seed", "Vortex Source" by three cartoonists, or the [Valhalla] game project that gradually opens up information to the outside world.

In other words, as the orthodox of the [Moon Series], the most representative work - "Fate/zero", the novel is indirectly affected by a good popularity.

The seventeenth episode of the "Fate/zero" anime has come to the most exciting plot since the whole anime was broadcast, and many readers of "Knight's Twilight" and "Knight's Tragedy" originally had a difficult choice for the "Fate/zero" novel because they felt very necessary to buy it because they saw Saber's liberation treasure's real name [Sword of Oath Victory].

"Fate/zero" is a very long novel, and every beautiful illustration in the novel is hand-drawn by Yu Kamiya, and the release price has always been the highest light novel, with an average price of more than 8,000 yen per volume, and there are no activities such as discounts. The price of the four volumes of the main story is more than 30,000 yen, which is almost the same as the price of an ordinary animation BD, and it is really difficult for a loyal reader to buy a complete set.

With the blessing of many favorable conditions, the fourth volume of the novel "Fate/zero" sold more than 100,000 on the same day, and it is estimated that it is not a problem to exceed 300,000 sales in the first week, and it will not take long to completely surpass the first-week sales record set by "Violet Blooming Garden" that year.

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After the cumulative sales of "Fate/zero" exceeded 214W this year, the light novel department of Chiyo Shoten held a special celebration banquet for Yu Kamiya, and in addition to the editors of the light novel department, many senior executives of Chiyo Shoten came to congratulate them in person.

Similar to the celebration banquet of the [Edge-no-Kong] animation production company, Yu Kamiya came over as an author to take a walk.

After the banquet, I went to the bar on the street with Gokuni Akiyama, the editor-in-chief of the "Fate/zero" novel, who had been in charge of the novel, and the atmosphere of the bar was relatively quiet, and the light was unique. Yu Kamiya doesn't like to drink, but it's not that he can't drink, on the contrary, with his physique, it is not difficult to achieve "a thousand cups without getting drunk".

"Please give me a glass of whiskey on the rocks."

Kamiya Yu casually ordered a glass of whiskey with ice as a drink, not to show that he had a good amount of alcohol, the alcohol he knew was particularly rare, and whiskey, as a type of alcohol that often appeared in film and television works, subconsciously ordered a glass and tried the taste by the way. When you take a sip, it feels like a weird drink with a slightly stronger taste.

The bartender nodded and began to blend whiskey for him.

"Combined with the sales of the fourth volume in the past few days, the total sales of "Fate/zero" exceeded 215W, breaking the sales record that we called [Impossible to Break the Wall]. I said, Kamiya, how about you just change jobs and become a light novelist? The achievement will probably not be worse than that of Mr. Fog Mirror Liuli. The wine drunk at the banquet had already made the editor-in-chief Akiyama Gojing a little drunk on his face, and when he came to the bar, he still poured it into his mouth like no money, and although he didn't have a strong emotion when he said this, he could still feel the sour taste in the words.

After so many months of contact, Kamiya Yu and him are half friends, but he didn't shy away from smiling: "It really doesn't sound like you're praising me." ”

Akiyama Gojing was stunned for a moment, and when he remembered the tone of his voice, he realized that he had lost his words, so he also laughed: "Almost, because Kamiya you can always easily achieve the achievements that others dream of, and to be honest, I'm very jealous now." The dream of a former light novelist was to break the sales record set by Ruri Kirigame in "The Violet Blooming Garden", and then the animation continued to cause social phenomena, and now both of these are out of reach. ”

Yu Kamiya shook his head: "It's not easy for me myself, but most of the time I do it because of interest, so I don't feel tired and bored." ”

Relaxed, this word does not match the sweat spent on the achievements of Kamiya Yu now, even with the existence of [consciousness space], Kamiya Yu's study time and hard work are several times that of ordinary people, and it has taken several years of accumulation to have the current ability and achievement.

"Interest, I used to enter the industry with interest, and I can't stick to it with interest alone." Akiyama Gojing drank another glass of wine and smiled bitterly.

Yuu Kamiya asked along the topic, "That's why you changed careers to become an editor in Akiyama?" ”

"Da~"

Akiyama Gojing put the wine glass on the table, nodded and laughed at himself: "Ah, I just wanted to accumulate experience and understand the light novel market, but I didn't expect to stay in this industry all the time, and the more I learned, the more I didn't dare to write it myself." ”

"Afraid that the novel you wrote will not be popular?" Kamiya Yushen thought so, he was also troubled by this when he was a street writer in the past, and his shallow understanding at that time may not have been as much as that of Akiyama Gojo.

"That's pretty much what you're talking about, and that's one of the biggest reasons." Akiyama Gojo said lonely, and after taking a big sip of wine, he apologized: "I'm sorry, I just wanted to have a drink with you and talk about the follow-up development of "Fate/zero", but now it has become a grievance meeting for me." ”

Yu Kamiya shook his head: "I don't care, and I've read the novels you wrote." ”

"Oh, how?" Akiyama Gojing raised his eyebrows in interest, and he didn't put down the wine glass in his hand and waited for Yu Kamiya's answer.

Kamiya Yu thought for a while and said, "The overall feeling is okay, and the story is exciting and interesting, but." ”

Gojing Akiyama sighed: "It feels a little weird to be commented on by others in front of your work, so I don't have to worry about saying it, I also want to hear your answer." ”

"Take your "Pilot's Smile" as an example, I feel that the biggest problem is that the plot is scattered and hides the charm of the setting, and it is easy to get bored when you can't find the center of the novel. It can be seen that your work does not want to cater to the reader's interests, but because of this negative pandering, many parts of the novel are too stiff and awkward, such as the part where the protagonist Guy is in the enemy flying group. ”

Yuu Kamiya's evaluation made Akiyama Gojing fall into deep thought, and after a long time, he shook his head with a wry smile: "It's similar to my evaluation of myself, but it's very convincing for you to evaluate." ”

Kamiya Yu groaned, "Since Akiyama said what you just said, it means that you still want to return to this industry in person?" ”

Akiyama Gojo stopped drinking, looked at Yu Kamiya and said seriously, "Yes, it was your novels that made me ignite this year." Before reading Fate/zero, I thought that such a novel would either not appear or would not be popular with the market. It turns out that I was wrong, the plot of your novel is very interesting, and there is no commercial element of a general light novel but it can also rely on the wonderful plot and personality characters to get the current results, so I think my novel is not popular because it lacks some light novel elements that readers like, but because I have not written it well enough. ”

"Then go on."

Akiyama Gojing said helplessly: "I'm still hesitating, the situation is not as simple as you said." ”

Kamiya Yu clasped his hands and thought about it and smiled: "Then don't hesitate to continue writing, you can contact me when you want to write down, although I can't help you, I'm quite confident in my own illustrations." ”

"Kamiya, you want to help me draw illustrations?" Akiyama Gojing's eyes widened, and he could barely hold his body and wanted to rush over to ask if this sentence was true or false, and suddenly threw his usually calm attitude out of the clouds. As an experienced editor, he clearly knows the importance of a good illustrator to light novels, and the uniqueness of Yu Kamiya's illustrations has led to his very special position in the illustration industry, and there are countless people who want to commission him to create illustrations, and there are many sky-high prices, none of which he refuses on the grounds that he is busy with work.

If Yuken Kamiya helps him illustrate the novel, then all the hesitation will be overwhelmed by this huge scale.

Kamiya smiled and waved his hand: "The price is not cheap." ”

After finally calming down, Akiyama Gojing stood up and took a deep breath and bowed to Kamiya Yu, "I understand, if Kamiya you are willing to help me, then I have no reason to hesitate." ”

"You're welcome, then a toast to your future work."

It doesn't take much effort to draw illustrations, and Yu Kamiya wants to see excellent works appear even more.

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Kamiya Yu returned to the apartment, and saw that Kamiya Dome had fallen asleep in the bedroom, so he took his laptop to the living room to log in to his [BiuBiuBiu] website account, and regularly uploaded the fanart drawn by this afternoon's consciousness painting.

The "Fate/zero" novel and anime are growing steadily, and Yuu Kamiya's other amateur interest is finally picking up.

Consciousness drawing illustration exercises

It's been nearly three weeks since he started practicing this ability, and every day he spends an hour practicing this ability and uploading an illustration drawn with consciousness to his [BiuBiuBiu] website account every week to record the growth process, and as his ability becomes proficient, his ability to draw with consciousness has improved rapidly, and in the third week, uploading one illustration every week has changed to one every day.

Now he is a very well-known original artist in the [BiuBiuBiu] original art area, because most users come to the [BiuBiuBiu] original art area with the idea of interest to upload their works, and there are basically no professional artists. At this time, the appearance of a high-level illustrator will of course stand out from the crowd, especially because of the legendary experience of Yu Kamiya's account called [Blank].

The first time I uploaded the work, the level was equivalent to a child's ghost drawing, and there was no other comment except for the ridicule left by a few users.

The second time I uploaded the work, I had the level of a high school painter major, and the lines of the characters were clear, so I could clearly identify who the characters were.

The third upload was released a week ago, and the third work uses shadow lighting techniques, which are distinctive, and this level can already be called "small touch" in amateur circles.

The next day, the fourth uploaded work really caused a sensation in the original painting area, although the characters were still not colored, the light and shadow special effects and personal style were vividly expressed, directly across the amateur level, even in the circle of Chinese professional painters is difficult to compare.

The fifth upload work is "Madoka Magical Girl" Xiao Meiyan fanart, the use of illustration light and shadow special effects to the extreme, describing Xiao Meiyan who became a witch in the ruined and ruined world, lonely and sad, looking at the ruins of the city in the distance. The background, character details, and atmosphere of the fanart are of a very high level, not to mention that there is no mature circle of Chinese painters, even in District 11, you can't find any Xiao Meiyan fanart of the same level.

After the three original paintings were put on the popular discussion board in the original art area, the popularity of the [Blank] account rose vertically, and the followers of the [Blank] account reached 110,000!

Then Kamiya Yu continued to upload four or fanart or Japanese illustrations one after another,Each of them surpassed the previous level.,And began to draw colors.,In order to avoid others recognizing their identity through the original painting,Kamiya Yu deliberately modified his painting style.。 The next four original paintings directly put him on the altar of the [BiuBiuBiu] original painting area.

One of the benefits of consciousness painting is that the accuracy and depth are not comparable to hand-drawing, if Kamiya Yu is really familiar with and thoroughly master the ability of consciousness painting, the painted works will definitely be more fine and excellent than hand-painted, and this subtle level of progress will make his painting level qualitatively improved.

So now the level of the last original painting he released is close to the level of his hand-painting, and this kind of high-level painting is even rarer than the giant panda in China, where the painter's circle is immature.