After the opening ceremony of the World Light Novel Awards, the rules of the competition were announced. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info has set up a special "Light Novel World Network", and the website is divided into different language versions.

Authors should submit their manuscripts in the corresponding language according to their native language. The articles submitted by the audition are voted on by the registered readers of each major language area.

As the website validly voted readers, all took the mobile number bundle. Users need to receive a verification code through their mobile phone, and a mobile phone number can only be tied to a unique account. Users who have activated the voting qualification have one chance to vote once a day, and the same account can only vote for the same book 3 times. In this way, it is also to make readers more inclined to vote for more favorite novels. At the same time, it also increases the difficulty of cheating.

The first round of submissions will be from September 2013 ~ February 2014. Within six months, submissions and auditions can be opened. At this stage, the final elimination mechanism will be adopted, and the submitted works after the ranking of 200 in the major language divisions will be eliminated.

In March ~ April 2014, the preliminary list of major language divisions was selected. This ranking determines the nomination qualifications, and the top 50 entries in each major language can be eligible for nomination.

In May 2014, a more authoritative editorial team, media group, and celebrity group determined the list of winners in each competition area according to the list of nominees, and 10 award-winning authors were produced from each major language contributor. A total of 50 winners will be awarded, each of whom will receive a significant prize.

In June 2014, 50 award-winning works from major language divisions were selected as nominations for global selection, and the global champion and the top 10 in the world were selected. At the same time, the top 10 works in the world. It will also be a light novel IP that is the focus of the small partner's operation!

In this competition, there will be media exposure throughout the whole process, and the prize money for winning will be expensive. And. After winning the award, sign a contract with your partner. His works will be translated into various Chinese languages and published worldwide, which can be said to be a step to the sky and can become an internationally renowned writer.

Of course, the Global Light Novel Contest is mainly because the partner companies need to find top light novel writers, similar to Kamaike and Ma.

Japan's Kadokawa system occupies 90% of its domestic light novel market share, and Dengeki Bunko is a library that is well operated by Kadokawa Bookstore. It occupies one-third of the entire Japanese light novel market. And Kamaike and Ma, the number one celebrities in Dengeki Bunko, can occupy about 20% of the Japanese light novel market.

The little partner company held the light novel contest, naturally in the hope of obtaining some high-quality IP through this way of casting a global net!

A boutique IP of this magnitude similar to "Demon Forbidden" is the focus of the future operation of the partner. It is necessary to obtain high-quality products, but high-quality products are always found by accident, and there needs to be a large number of contributions, and the treasures are screened out layer by layer in the garbage heap.

Without a sufficient number of works, it is difficult to obtain the most valuable works.

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"Magic* Catalog" is a light novel written by Japanese novelist Kazuma Kamaike and illustrated by illustrator Kiyotaka Gray Village. This is the most successful work in the history of light novels, with 22 books selling more than 15 million copies, making it the best-selling work in the history of Japanese light novels.

And with the popularity of this novel. The adaptation of comics and animations, coupled with various fandoms, has further made it the hottest topic of the second dimension.

Kazuma Kamaike is the most popular light novel author in Japan, and is also a very prolific light novel writer, with a publication rate of 3~4 novels per year, known as a humanoid typewriter on the Internet.

Of course, this speed is very diligent and prolific in the Japanese light novel industry, but in fact, there are too many part-time jobs for Chinese novelists to write faster than him. Leave aside the Chinese online novelists of the current era. The high-yielding and best-selling first-line gods can maintain a creative rate of about 2 million words per year. It is equivalent to the publishing speed of 20 light novels, taking a traditional book of 60,000 or 70,000 words as an example. A large number of Chinese writers can publish one book in two weeks, and the fastest one can publish one traditional book in a week. Forty-five books can be published in a year!

Of course, Kazuma Kamaike writes about 400,000 words a year, which is a very fast speed in Japan. To be able to publish a book so quickly, diligence alone is definitely not enough.

On the other hand, he has to have good grades to be able to publish one book after another.

In terms of the Japanese light novel publishing market, Kazuma Kamaike is already one of the highest-grossing light novel writers. The novel's popularity is not enough, the key is that the anime version is adapted well. In 08, after the anime adaptation of "Demon Forbidden", it was well received after his death, and it still has a very hot spot.

Just by looking at the number of fanworks in various forms of "Demon Forbidden", you can see the fire of its popularity!

The top IP must be a flood of fanworks!

For example, the four famous works are all world famous IPs with a lot of fan works, and the same people in Jin Yong's works are also the most among all martial arts works, which also indirectly proves that the IP adaptation value of Jin Yong's works is very hot, and it still has strong vitality.

Whether the film and television adaptation of "Demon Forbidden" can reach the blockbuster of the Journey to the West adaptation, Wang Qinian is not too sure. However, he hates themes that have been adapted badly and likes to shoot something new.

"Demon Forbidden" is a phenomenon in the two-dimensional field, and at the same time, there have been discussions about what would happen if the live-action version was adapted.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Qinian was touched and decided to really take action and adapt it into a live-action movie!

"Hello, I heard that you are a hippopotamus who knows the most about physics." Wang Qinian smiled and smiled at the young man in front of him.

"......," Kazuma Kamaike said modestly, "In general, many readers have reported that my physics is actually very poor. In order to make the novel look great, I just learned some physical theories and added them to it. ”

"That's pretty good!" Wang Qinian said with a smile, "Including many science fiction comics and novels in the United States, in essence, they are pseudo-science fiction. Real hard sci-fi, there is not much market, and readers will find it boring. ”

What is called hard science fiction - popular science!

Popular science fiction is the real hard science fiction, with a bunch of solid scientific theories and common sense in it. But do readers really want to read this kind of fiction?

In fact, most science fiction readers like to read fictional science fiction, and the fashion value is high. It doesn't matter whether the knowledge, theories and plots in the novel are scientific or not, it should look like it's particularly scientific and unclear.

Soon after talking to Kamachi and Ma, Wang Qinian also began to introduce him to the style of the upcoming film version of "Demon Forbidden".

"It should be similar to the style of Hollywood superhero movies now, and I think "Forbidden Magic" is similar to these works." Wang Qinian smiled and said, "The adaptation is good, and when completed, it can become a blockbuster no less than "Spider-Man"!" ”

Kamaike and Ma said, "If you need my help with screenwriting, you can always contact me." I've always dreamed that the work could be adapted into a blockbuster like "Spider-Man"! ”’

Yes, don't look at Hippo is already the first person in light novels.

However, the influence of his works has been limited to the two-dimensional market. The light novel, comics and animation markets are hot again, and their influence is still a few notches behind Hollywood blockbusters. It's not just the difference in the market, but also the difference in media influence.

Being able to adapt animation is completely different from adapting a blockbuster.

No matter how popular the animation is, it will be difficult to reach the level of a blockbuster! (To be continued.) )