"Ding Dong!"

Li Yuntao received the documents transmitted by Cang Shuhong.

To be honest, the original comic version of "My AI Girlfriend Little Mourning" is the first time he has seen it. However, he received some illustrations sporadically before, so that Li Yuntao has an understanding of the painting style.

Moreover, the quality of the covers provided by Cangshuhong before is also quite high.

It stands to reason that Cang Shuhong, as a cartoonist serialized in "Young JUMC", is considered good by the editorial department in the story, and the style of the comic is also good.

The comics were not recognized by the editorial department, which made him feel very puzzling.

Therefore, after receiving the document, Li Yuntao couldn't wait to open it.

Page One!

The style of painting is meticulous, and you can see Cangshuhong's intentions.

Next, a few pages of Li Yuntao still feel fine, with a delicate painting style, accompanied by text and dialogue, to advance the plot. It should be said that it is very easy to understand, surpassing many comics adapted from novels in China.

Li Yuntao has watched it many times, and he feels that there is no big problem with the adaptation.

If I really want to talk about the flaws, it's that this manga is not the kind of work that starts burning on the first page. It's a kind of work that tells the story slowly and slowly, and once the story unfolds, it may attract a large number of die-hard fans.

However, it is required to be cool to explode and shocking from the beginning. This is impossible, because the original book is not that style!

Basically, Miss Hamster not only has a good level of comics, but also has a very authentic grasp of the plot and character design of the original work, after all, Cang Shuhong also participated in the creation of the original novel.

"This comic, in my opinion, has no problem! On the contrary, I think that the whole article maintains this style, and the painting style is in the best line with the original work!" Although Li Yuntao wants to find faults, he knows that even if he spends a lot of money to ask a first-class comic studio in China to adapt it, it is estimated that it is unlikely to exceed the level of Cangshuhong except for turning this comic into a color version.

"However, the editorial department serialization meeting pointed out that although my comics are good, they have not yet reached the serialization level of "Shonen JUMC"!" Cang Shuhong said frustratedly.

In other words, it is a manga magazine that is inferior to "Shonen JUMC", and most of them are eligible for serialization. However, there are only 20 serialized comics for "Shonen JUMC". Only a few of the most popular manga will be announced to be cut in half every month, and only those manga that are at the bottom of the popularity will be cut in half will it be decided that a new manga will be eligible for serialization.

There are at least 100 new comics submitted every month. Most of them are selected from manga artists who have already serialized manga or published excellent short manga.

It is not easy to be eligible to submit to the serialization conference, or it is the work of a talented newcomer. Or the work of some amazing veteran cartoonists.

Even Cang Shuhong has serialized dozens of issues on "Juvenile JUMC" before, but it is very difficult for a new work to be qualified for serialization again.

"Wait...... Don't jump to conclusions! Perhaps, it's just that the works of the same period are too strong!" Li Yuntao thought for a while and said, "By the way, if all the comics are colored and turned into color versions, will it be a blockbuster?"

"It's impossible, only one manga per issue of "Shonen JUMC" is in color, and most of the other pages are in black and white. Cang Shuhong said, "Generally, it is with the animation adaptation, the listing of a single book, the listing of peripheral products and other activities! ”

"So...... It's just that the IP of the novel is not popular enough!" Li Yuntao said, "If this is an original light novel with millions of fans, then, will the editorial department still think that according to the comic changed according to the IP of this novel, is it not qualified for serialization?"

"A light novel with millions of fans, this difficulty is no lower than that of a comic to get serialized!" Cang Shuhong sent out a funny emoji.

In the Internet era, the domestic comic industry also seems to have benefited from the IP boom of online literature, ushering in a wave of dividends from online IP adaptation of comics. Starting from "Breaking the Sky" and "Douluo Continent", a large number of domestic comics have gradually gained commercial miracles, and the sales of a single volume of these popular comics in China can exceed one million, and the annual sales can exceed tens of millions.

Of course, there is still a big gap with the world's top comics, with a total sales of more than 100 million copies.

However, it is foreseeable that domestic comics are no longer as before, with no market foundation and no commercial value at all.

Although Li Yuntao is an author of online literature, he also reads comics, especially comics adapted from some online novels. In recent years, the market for domestic comics has gradually entered a stage of revival from falling into a trough. Benefiting from the dividends of the Internet era, the emergence of original Internet comic platforms such as Tencent Animation and Youyouqi, the number and market size of domestic comic works are obviously a huge improvement compared with before.

Of course, these comics are still far from the comics in the top magazines on RB, but there is a big one-

First, IP adaptation, popular novel IP, adapted comics, with a large number of original traffic advantages, make comics full of topics at the beginning, easier to survive than comics without IP.

Second, the color version, RB comics out of black and white, and the Internet era of domestic comics are basically color version, a color covers the white ugly, after the domestic comics fully entered the color era, the market began to counterattack.

Originally, the domestic comic market was dominated by RB comics, but in recent years, whether it is a webtoon or an offline physical single book, it is basically domestic comics that dominate. The new generation of comic readers basically grew up watching domestic comics, rather than watching Japanese comics translated into Chinese.

This kind of comprehensive entry into the era of color comics has made many new comic readers accustomed to reading color page comics and subconsciously not reading black and white comics. Even if the overall level of the creators of domestic comics is lower than that of the gods of Japanese comics, it is still a great success.

This also indirectly shows that if color page comics and black and white comics compete fairly, color comics have a huge advantage!

This advantage is roughly the same as the difference between black and white films and color films. Even if the creator level of black and white films is higher, it is not as good as color films of a worse level. It's not the creator's level, it's the consumer's!

However, it is impossible to get Dream Eater World's Shonen JUMC magazine to agree to the creation and publication of the manga entirely in color!

Because "Juvenile JUMC" is a paper magazine, the cost of color page printing and black and white printing is far away, even if you know that color pages are more attractive, but for the sake of printing costs, most of the magazines will not use all color pages!

So, all that can be done is IP!

The IP of "My AI Girlfriend Xiao Wai", the world of the Dream Eater, has also been hyped up, so that the serialization qualification of the comic should be no problem.

"As I mentioned before, in the history of our world, there are some RB light novels or comics that were not favored by publishers at the beginning, but they did not admit defeat and serialized their own works on their own blogs or their own independent websites. After gaining a large amount of readers' attention on the Internet, it then counterattacked the traditional publishing market. "Sword Art Online", "One Punch Man" and other works are all Internet fires, counteroffensive offline, and the existence of traditional publishing houses to kneel and lick!" Li Yuntao said with great confidence, "I think that if "Young JUMC" is also so arrogant, we can also follow the example of "Sword Art Online" and "One Punch Man"! Build a website to serialize the novel version of "My AI Girlfriend Xiao Wai", and serialize it on the Internet, so that the novel version will become a popular work on the Internet. After that, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans as bargaining chips, the manga adaptation should be able to pass the new serialization!"

"Hey......" Cang Shuhong couldn't help but be surprised, she opened a website to serialize the novel, and hyped up the original IP, which was a roundabout strategy she had never thought of.

"That's it, anyway, just build a personal website, and the maintenance cost shouldn't be very expensive. You can choose a cheaper server hosting company, find a student from the computer science department of the University of Tokyo, use open source code, and help make a BBS-type personal website. Li Yuntao explained, "When the popularity of the Internet accumulates to a certain extent, if it has a large number of fans, there is no reason for "Young JUMC" to refuse the serialization of this comic!"

"Well, if the site isn't that expensive, I can have someone make one. Cang Shuhong said, "If it's expensive, it's better to serialize it on the blog for free." ”

"It's actually better to be able to use your own personal website! It's more convenient to manage and interact with than on a blog. Li Yuntao explained.

"Li Jun, since you mentioned it, it's better to have a name like a website. ”

"Hamster House. ”

"What?"

"Cangshu red, Chinese reads like a hamster." ”

"Nasty, are you saying it's ugly like a mouse?"

"No, hamsters are very cute, I like hamsters the most. ”

At the other end of the "......" Wanjie Jiayuan Network, Cang Shuhong was already covering his face, and he blushed a little, could it be that he was a little hamster in Li Jun's mind?