On the morning of January 7th.

New Frontline Media Building.

Editorial Department of Monthly Junior Frontline.

The office is a little cluttered, everyone's desk is a lot of comics and folders containing copies of the original manuscript in addition to the computer, the editorial department adopts a flexible work system, and the editors often go out to find authors, so unlike other serious white-collar workers, the editorial office of "Monthly Youth Frontline" is still empty at nine o'clock.

No, to be exact, there are still a few of them.

In the corner of the editorial office, where the space is obviously larger, a man with thinning hair and a bearded face is leaning back on a chaise longue and sleeping, when he is woken up by the ringing of his mobile phone.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

He wanted to press it directly, but after reading the call message, he immediately connected the phone.

"Lao Yang, do you still have a single copy of "Soul Eater" in stock?"

This is the phone number of He Yingjie, the manager of the sales department of New Frontier Media and the editor-in-chief of "Monthly Youth Frontline", who has known him since he joined the company.

"Soul Eater?"

Yang Guyan was slightly puzzled, he got up, picked up the black-rimmed glasses on the table, and quickly recalled the comic that had been serialized in his magazine.

"I think there are more than a hundred copies in the warehouse."

The majority of printed copies will be sent to the warehouses of various bookstores and online shopping sites, and only a small number will remain in the warehouses of the editorial department as an emergency reserve for occasions such as author signings and industry exchanges.

"More than a hundred? That's not enough...... How do I explain to Taotao......"

On the other end of the phone, He Yingjie's voice was a little disappointed.

"Why,I remember that this comic is not very popular.,Hey,Lao He,I remember that you proposed to cut the print run of this comic.,Right?"

Yang Guyan is still confused, he has known He Yingjie for many years, and knows that his tone is not a joke, and the comic book of "Soul Eater" seems to be really out of stock.

"Then your editorial department didn't tell us that its animation production was so explosive?"

He Yingjie faced Yang Guyan's burial-for-tat.

"What?"

Yang Guyan didn't quite understand that the animation production of "Soul Eater" was also a company process that went through him there, and the specific affairs were handled by the people on the copyright authorization side, but only Li Ruoxuan, the editor in charge of "Soul Eater", often mentioned it, Yang Guyan subconsciously felt that this animation was also an ordinary level, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

"You haven't seen it yet? The first episode broadcast in Chengkong last night,It was completely blown up.,Now it's on Weibo.com.,Taotao.com sold out of inventory in the middle of the night last night.,Their purchases called me at six o'clock today.。 ”

"Really?"

Yang Guyan unlocked the computer screen and clicked on the Chengkong video network.

"I'll take a look first, and then you can find someone to come and move my inventory here, and then see if the printing house can temporarily print it, oh yes, I remember that last time the public relations people asked for more than 200 copies to go to the book fair, and they shouldn't have been disposed of, you go and ask."

After he finished explaining, he hung up the phone, and just saw that on the whole site click list of Chengkong Video Network, "Soul Eater: Zero" had climbed to the top of the list!

The first episode of "Soul Eater: Zero", which aired at 11 o'clock last night, has more than 500,000 views, and the second place on the list has only less than 80,000 views.

Even, Yang Guyan roughly estimated that the data added up from the second to the tenth on this list was not enough for the episode of "Soul Eater: Zero".

The volume of Chengkong Video Network is not large, and most of the videos in it are comic adaptations and animations under its own umbrella, and it is not easy to reach this click data in such a short time.

Yang Guyan didn't read the comments below, clicked the play button directly, and spent more than 20 minutes watching this episode.

His expression at first was full of anticipation.

Then it became boring.

Then there was a little confusion.

In the end, when Huangfu Xun appeared on the stage and killed the "protagonists" cleanly, Yang Guyan opened his mouth wide and froze in place.

"Damn, can you still play like this?"

Yang Guyan was full of expectations at the beginning because of such an explosive playback data, and the production must be very amazing.

But after watching the first half, it can be regarded as well-made, but the plot always feels a little familiar, and for editors who have browsed countless comics, it is naturally boring.

Yang Guyan himself has seen the original work of "Soul Eater", although it is a mediocre work, but it is always a little impressionistic, therefore, when he saw the "protagonist" and his party fighting, Yang Guyan began to be confused, he didn't seem to have seen a similar scene in the comics.

It wasn't until the end of the film that all the characters on the stage were killed by Huangfu Xun like chopping melons and vegetables, and Yang Guyan suddenly realized.

"So this is a prequel?"

Huangfu Xun in "Soul Eater" was an evil spirit when she appeared, and was destroyed by the protagonists Bai Jianshi and Li Leshen, but now she is in a human state no matter how you look at it.

"This is talking about before the comic begins?"

Yang Guyan's intuition allowed him to guess the intention of the animation production team, indeed, the original performance of "Soul Eater" is average, it is better to abandon the story, only keep the setting, and describe the prequel in a similar way to the same people.

Thinking about it this way, the title of "Soul Eater: Zero", which originally felt a little weird, is very appropriate.

"However, this opening gimmick is well done."

Yang Guyan looked at the comments on the first episode, most of them were in a state of confusion, these years, I dare to die in the first episode of the animation of the "protagonist", but there is no one.

What's more, Yang Guyan glanced at the official website of the animation again, and the information hanging on it was the group of people who received the lunch box in the first episode, if it wasn't for people who had read the comics and were very familiar with the construction of the plot, how could they guess that this group of people was just cannon fodder, cannon fodder to support Huangfu Xun!

"No wonder the sales of comics have skyrocketed, these people probably want to find the original comics after watching the anime and being confused."

Yang Guyan pondered.

I don't know if these people who came to see the original work will be disappointed in the end, but it has the effect of boosting manga sales.

Compared to some works that just make the characters move, I don't know how high the publicity effect of "Soul Eater: Zero" is!

Thinking of this, Yang Guyan immediately made a decision.

He opened the internal work group and sent a short message in the group.

[Yang Guyan]: The cover of the January issue of "Monthly Youth Frontline" uses "Soul Eater", plus the frontispiece color page, and the editor in charge informs the author and asks him to submit the manuscript as soon as possible.

Since the animation is on fire, the editorial department will naturally follow suit!