Chapter 327: The Truth
Mid-March
The rebellious Lelouch finally came to the final end according to the scheduled arrangement after several tear gas canisters in a row this quarter.
At the same time, this week, Sword Art Online's single book officially exceeded the average sales of 28 million volumes.
As everyone in the industry said, Xia Yan is now his only enemy.
A Sword Art Online, since its birth, has been growing in popularity for two or three years, and at this moment, it has become a popular work with an annual output value of more than ten or two billion in the upstream and downstream.
And as the serialization time lengthens, the commercial value of Sword Art Online will continue to grow.
If you are a full-time hunter, after the plot ends from the Sky Tower chapter, you quickly enter the Phantom Brigade chapter.
Although it is still only in the early stage of the chapter, the characters with vivid images in the Phantom Brigade appear one after another, and they are constantly refreshing fans' expectations for this work.
Nowadays, the average sales volume of a single volume of comics has exceeded 26 million copies, which is only a few hundred thousand miles away from the first in history.
And in fact, no one in the entire Dragon Nation doubts that a full-time hunter can achieve this achievement.
In fact, whether it is Lelouch, Sword Art Online or full-time hunters, they are indeed excellent, but they are not so exaggerated, and after the three works are taken out, they can easily refresh one record after another in the Dragon Kingdom.
Normally speaking, if you are a rookie creator and serialize for the first time in your life, you will definitely not be able to achieve the current results if you take out these three works and put them on the market.
But the important link between these works is Xia Yan.
It's like the Marvel universe in a parallel world, starting with Spider-Man, then Iron Man, Team America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Doctor Strange
As long as some characters in the Marvel Universe are popular, it will drive the popularity of other related characters to rise together.
In the Dragon Kingdom, Xia Yan's works can have this kind of achievement, which is also similar to this phenomenon.
Xia Yan's past works in the three fields, plus the fans of the works that are being serialized, are a large collection, and they are transformed into each other in the various fields involved by the creator of "Xia Yan", forming a virtuous development vortex.
Therefore, after Xia Yan reached the top in the animation field, his fame quickly radiated to the comics and fields, and after Xia Yan became the top in the industry in the field of comics, he radiated back to the animation field, so that Lelouch could even be popular, and the ratings exceeded that of Moyuan.
This phenomenon is unique to Xia Yan in the industry.
Other creators compete with Xia Yan, not only with Sword Art Online, Hunter or Lelouch for a single work.
Instead, it is facing the combination of Xia Yan's three groups of fans.
This is the reason why Xia Yan can be so far ahead in the two-dimensional industry of the Dragon Kingdom.
Merely. Others can't learn if they want to.
The most direct point is that at the same time, the three masterpieces of Sword Art Online, Hunter, and Lelouch are serialized, not to mention that there is no such genius in the two-dimensional industry of the Dragon Kingdom, and there is no one in the parallel world.
Yoshihiro Fujian has been updating Hunter intermittently for more than 20 years, which can make the Hunter animation have this kind of popularity, not to mention that Xia Yan is flooded in the Dragon Country, and several works of the same level are updated together.
Martial arts in the world, only fast is not broken, Xia Yan is not only updated quickly, but the quality of his works is so top-notch.
Beizhou Comics Agency, because the hunter is now close to the top of the first sales order in the history of Dragon Kingdom Comics, and it is also a bloody investment, in April, it is ready to invest tens of millions of publicity and advertising expenses, engage in various promotional gift activities, and cheer for the hunter, so that its average sales volume in April will exceed at least 26.5 million.
This matter is now brewing, and Xia Yan has also been notified, and he is also arranging a plan for next month.
As for this time
This month, it belongs to Lelouch.
Third Sunday in March
On the official website of Xia Tang Animation, there was a special anchor who started the live broadcast in the live broadcast room during the day to warm up for the end of Lu Luxiu's animation in the evening.
In the two-dimensional commercial streets of the major first-tier cities of Longguo, the propaganda slogans and posters of Lu Luxiu's closing words are overwhelming.
Subway, bus TV, billboard, curtain wall advertising screen of commercial street in the center of the city of Magic City.
Lelouch, CC, Suzaku and other characters appeared one by one.
This quarter, Sword Art Online was barely able to compete with Lelouch, and Sword Art Online was serialized to the twelfth episode, and the ratings also broke 6%, but in the week when Lelouch finished speaking, Xianliu Animation was also very face-saving, and deliberately did not engage in marketing to make the topic influence of Sword Art Online animation and Lelouch grab attention.
This day.
There are tens of millions of animation fans in the whole Dragon Country, waiting for the arrival of eight o'clock in the evening with anticipation during the day.
On this day, at the comic exhibition site of the magic capital, the imperial capital, and the first-tier coastal cities, eighty or ninety percent of the cosers were dressed in Lelouxiu, CC, Suzaku, Kalian, Xia Li and other character costumes to the scene
On this day, downstairs of Xia Yan's Xia Tang Animation Company, thousands of fans gathered during the day, holding billboards downstairs to express their support for Xia Yan.
Xia Yan stayed at home, he had long expected that he would be arrested by fans when he went to the company today, so he must avoid it first.
But in fact, now, he feels quite delicate in his heart.
The reluctance is not in the hearts of fans, and the same is true for Xia Yan.
Maybe he coldly took out a hundred excellent masterpieces from the memory fragments in his mind.
But Lelouch is unique, and after tonight's end, and after that, there will be no more.
Of course, several of Lelouch's theatrical animations are also ready to be released, and they will be released soon after the animation is broadcast.
But those things, Xia Yan himself knows very well, are used by the production company in the parallel world to make money, which slightly complements the worldview of the work, but it has little to do with the protagonist of the story, Lelouch.
Although Xia Yan also produced those plot versions, the plot of the original work was condensed, and the focus was only on portraying the expansion of the world view in the theater version, Xia Yan didn't expect to make money by relying on these, saying that it was a theater version, which was more like a side animation.
With a long breath, Xia Yan calmed down his mood and looked at the forum, everyone in the fan group was already in a commotion at five o'clock in the afternoon.
On the Jiuxiao Forum, the top ten hot search entries, seven of which are related to Lelouch, and the news broadcast of Modu TV in the evening even took fifteen seconds to introduce the relevant information about Lelouxiu's final speech broadcast tonight.
At seven o'clock, a large part of the two-dimensional people in the Dragon Kingdom turned down their friends' invitations to play, blocked the harassment of the object, and sat quietly in front of the TV waiting for the start of Lelouch's last episode.
The headquarters of Modu TV1 TV station, at night, is still brightly lit, and many people stay in the TV station to monitor the TV station ratings data in real time.
Lelouch's recent episodes and ratings are breaking records.
Xia Yan's company spends money on advertising, and Modu TV1 is naturally not to be outdone.
They also wanted Lelouch's final episode to set a record for latecomers' desperate ratings.
In this era when the TV station industry is showing signs of decline, it can be said that the record set by Lelouch now is most likely the benchmark for the future of this industry, and it is impossible for latecomers to emerge as a freak like Xia Yan, right?
So on this day, those who watch cartoons and don't watch cartoons, turn on their mobile phones, TVs, and computers, and they will inevitably be marketed by Lelouch's final words advertisement.
Su Meng took a deep breath and looked away from the Lelouch advertisement on the forum and shifted it to the TV.
Ignoring the boss's overtime request, Su Meng returned home at six o'clock, and after sitting in the living room for almost two hours, finally.
The time came to eight o'clock.
Lelouch's last episode.
First of all, the OP song was replaced.
OP changed?
"Can you redesign the OP screen and music in just one episode? What a rich production team. Su Meng's eyes froze.
Then I took a serious look at the information of the OP song.
The army, the coronation, the execution table, Nanali's tears, and .
zero
Su Meng frowned, feeling that this opening song is a bit interesting, and it seems to have a little spoiler.
But Su Meng didn't think much about it, what else could she spoil anyway?
Lelouch is the last episode, and no matter how much spoilers there are, its mystery will be revealed in the next twenty minutes.
After the opening song, the story continues at the end of the previous week.
After Lelouch controlled Cinezel with Geass through a surprise attack plan, he came to his sister Nanali, who controlled the key to the nuclear weapon, and asked her to hand over the key to the weapon that could destroy the world.
Both legs are disabled, but Nanali naturally has no way of resisting Lelouch at this time.
Outside the floating palace where the two were located, Suzaku and Karen fought fiercely.
[Brother, I don't have the qualifications to dominate this world. Nanali looked at Lelouch with anger in her eyes.
[Brother, trampled on the will of countless people. γ
[So, hiding your true identity all day long, trembling in fear, I don't know when it will come, the assassination of our two royal families by the Bunitania Empire, is this the life you want? For your future] Lelouch looked at his sister who regarded him as an enemy, and his heart may have been aching, but his expression still maintained the indifference of His Majesty the Emperor.
This is his final victory, but there is no one in the world who is his companion except for the honorific title of His Majesty the Emperor.
When did I ask you to do this. Nanali shouted.
When Su Meng saw this, her heart was cold.
There is no more hurtful thing in the world than "I didn't ask you to do it, you did it yourself!" β
Lelouch tried everything to get a world where the two of them could survive safely, but in Nanali's eyes, it was not worth mentioning.
Lelouch, he knows very well how Geass is too capable.
Distort the will of others and trample on the dignity of others.
Only for the cherished people, Lelouch is reluctant to use Geass.
All over the world, because of Lelouch's Bunitanian Empire, various wars are still breaking out.
But the main battlefield is where Lelouch and Nanali are.
As long as Lelouch can recover the key, the combined forces of the Black Knights and other countries will no longer be able to resist and will be completely defeated.
Until then.
There will be only one king in the whole world.
Your Majesty the Emperor, Lelouch!
[The symbol of Damocles will become a symbol of hatred, and I want to gather the hatred of the world on me, for this reason. Nanali holds the key to the nuclear weapon "Damocles" in her hand.
After she said this, Su Meng probably. Got to know Nanali's thoughts.
Whoever uses or controls this weapon against humanity will become the ruler of the world and the object of hatred, fear, and abuse from the world.
The world needs a sword of Damocles, but whoever controls this sword will be the maker of the world order, and likewise, it will be the source of contradictions.
Nanali. I hope that through Damocles, at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people, or even millions of soldiers, this world war set off by Lelouch, the Black Knights, the Chinese Federation and other forces will come to an end.
And she, after using this weapon, will become a historical sinner, a witch and a gathering place of hatred in the world, but also the opener of a peaceful world.
The logic is very smooth, but
[Lelouch v. Bunitania ordered, give me the keys to Damocles.] After hearing his sister's words, Lelouch no longer hesitated and directly used his geass ability.
Outside, the war in various places has gradually entered the white heat.
Nanali, who woke up from the Geass ability, looked at the key in Lelouch's hand, and finally couldn't help it, and hurled an insult at Lelouch.
Because, Lelouch really used her geass ability to distort her will, and in Nanali's opinion, her brother Lelouch no longer exists, and only the dictator of the world remains. Lelouch.
Next is the most classic and domineering scene of Lelouch's work.
Above the sky, a blinding light burst out.
The light of Damocles' explosion obscured the sky.
Television stations around the world broadcast only one scene, and in the cockpit, Lelouch held the key of Damocles and announced to the world.
[Inform the world, I am Lelouch, Emperor of the Bunitanian Empire.v Bunitania, Honezel has joined my command, and the Black Knights no longer have the strength to compete with me, yes, at this moment, the world is already mine!] γ
[Lelouch v. Bunitania commands, the world submits to me!] γ
Lelouch waved his palm and pointed at all the people in the world who were watching the TV.
Secondary two, handsome, but
It's exciting.
At this moment, I don't know how many communities in the Dragon Country, the two-dimensional people who watched the animation let out a warm cheer at home.
Fifty episodes
Everyone watched fifty episodes of this anime, and finally waited for this moment.
This.
"Is this the end of Lelouch?" Su Meng was also excited, but she immediately felt a little lost in her heart.
This ending is very good, Lelouch finally became the ultimate king, just
Is it what Lelouch is looking forward to to becoming such a lonely king?
Suzaku died in battle, and his sister Nanali completely turned against him.
His companions, who had fought side by side, were also captured by him.
Of course, the world is under the hegemony of Lelouch and there is no war anymore.
It's just that people's desires can be temporarily suppressed, but they cannot be eliminated.
If you don't let this thing out, it's only going to get stronger and stronger in the end.
And as soon as the picture turned, two months passed in the animation.
Lelouch sat in a huge and luxurious vehicle, surrounded by a strong and neat guard of honor, and not far from him, there were the Black Knights, the high-ranking officials of the Chinese Federation, including his sister Nanali, the former subordinates of the Black Knights, Karine and others
All of them were dressed in prison uniforms and were to be escorted to the execution ground.
"Huh? Is this preparing to kill all the previous subordinates? Not necessarily, right? β
"Suzaku is dead? It's really fake, although fighting Karen caused the body to explode, but what is it to die like this? β
"Hey, I don't think there's something right with this ending! How could Lelouch kill his sister Nanali and Karen? Isn't that a tyrant dictator? β
"The plot of the old thief is a bit outrageous!"
"If only Lelouch ruled the world, why kill these people? Just because they rebelled against Lelouch when they were two or five boys? β
"I'm serious, although these people in the Black Knights betrayed Lelouch, but they won't do this, after all, it was Lelouch who deceived these people first, and now he has won, just lock them up for ten years or something, release them and then spy on them, let them be ordinary people, why kill them? Isn't this really a dictator? β
"Holy. The plot of the old thief, the last episode is still doing this. It's not really going to start a third season, is it? Cast Lelouch as a villain, and then the new protagonist of the third season kills Lelouch? β
The fan base, a group of people has begun to complain, but in the animation, unexpected characters appear.
Black cloak, first great sword, helmet.
zeroγ
zeroοΌ
Lelouch. Isn't it still sitting on the emperor's throne?
This zero
Su Meng's heart jumped, and she vaguely noticed the key point of the plot, but she couldn't think clearly for a while.
The perimeter guards fired zero guns, but they were only human strokes, and they couldn't keep up with his nimble movements.
Mr. Uncle Tangerine even sent the strongest assist, ordering the escort team not to shoot, and he wanted to fight with Zero with his sword to kill this assassin who dared to assassinate His Majesty the Emperor.
Then, Uncle Tangerine's strongest acting skills took Zero's feet with his face and gave him a loan, and Zero jumped up and came to Lelouch's throne.
This. What's the plot?
It's the last episode, old thief, what are you playing?
Why can't we understand anything?
Then the camera cuts to Lelouch and Suzaku talking in the dark hall.
[According to the agreement, you will kill me. γ
As soon as Lelouch opened his mouth, the plot exploded.
Su Meng held her breath, this memory is not long, more than ten seconds of plot, but the memories of Lelouch and Suzaku, as well as the reason why Suzaku is willing to help Lelouch, are also announced.
Lelouch Although Zero's identity is known to the upper echelons of the Black Knights.
But the people at the bottom don't know anything, and still regard Zero as a symbol of freedom and rebel against the world dictator Dai Warrior.
Lelouch now wields the weapon of war, Damocles, as well as his status as Emperor of the Bunitanian Empire.
He, at this moment, has a collection of hatred in the hearts of the Bunitanian Empire for hundreds of years, dictatorship, war that has brought pain to the world, and countless people who have lost the lives of relatives and friends.
The people at the bottom resented the force that ruled them and resented the ruler, the emperor.
Lelu cultivates both, as long as he dies
The resentment in the heart of human life will disappear.
The death of the Emperor of the Bunitanian Empire by Zero symbolizes the triumph of freedom, the world moving towards a new pattern, and the dictator becoming history.
This is human progress.
"Lelouch is preparing to die with himself." Su Meng suddenly understood the plot.
In the animation, the background music BGM changed instantly.
Suzaku pretended to be Zero, and the long sword in his hand pierced through Lelouxiu's body.
In front of the world, in front of my sister Nanali, Karen, the former subordinates of the Black Knights, and their partners.
The Emperor of the Bunitanian Empire, the evil Lelouch the Evil, was assassinated by Zero.
This is the truth that the people of the world see.
But these people who knew that Zero was Lelouch, in an instant, knew Lelouch's intentions.
Red blood stained the picture.
Lelouch's feeble body fell from the throne and fell like an ordinary person in front of Karen and Lelouch's sister Nanali, who was imprisoned, and blood spilled all over the ground.
This picture. This plot made Su Meng's heart beat wildly.
Goosebumps on the arms.
A shiver rose from the toes to the scalp.
A sadness in my heart and the feeling that this is God's work began to rise involuntarily.
Rebellious Lelouch.
This anime, it is in the last episode, the final ending, can it still come out of such a development.
[Lelouch, you want to atone for your use of Geass.] γ
In the church, CC looked at the idol with tears in his eyes.
CC's sentence, without much explanation, fans immediately knew Lelouch's mind.
It turned out that he also knew how much suffering the geass ability had brought to the world, and how much suffering it had brought to his friends, Xia Li, Nanali, Yufemia, Suzaku, and Kalian.
This plot instantly sublimates all the things that Lelouch is doing in this work, all the decisions, and the image of his character.
Su Meng looked at Lu Luxiu's body that fell weakly in the animation, and all of a sudden, his nose was sore, and he couldn't hold back his tears.
[Only those who are killed have the right to kill.] γ
In the first episode, Lelouch reminisces about the words he uttered when he first used Geass to kill people, and his current ending is intertwined to form a closed loop.
(End of chapter)