In the first half of November, Xia Yan, as the chairman of Xia Tang Animation Company, went on a business trip abroad and held two fan meetings under the arrangement of foreign partners.

The two-dimensional industry of the Dragon Kingdom belongs to the stage of crazy export in this world, and the situation is probably similar to that of the island countries in the parallel world.

The two-dimensional atmosphere of overseas countries may not be as strong as in China, but so many countries in the world combined, the sales revenue they can contribute is even higher than that of the Dragon Country market.

In fact, Xia Yan's income from so many works in the past is higher than that of the local income of the Dragon Kingdom.

Xia Yan's half-month trip abroad can be regarded as enjoying the enthusiasm of fans overseas, and the local media of Longguo also reported the whole process.

In this process, the Dragon Kingdom's native slam dunk, steel, hunter, and sword also continued to be serialized.

And this month, the Pokémon that Xia Yan has been brewing for nearly a year also began to be promoted in the Dragon Kingdom.

Its spin-off animations will be launched simultaneously from April next year.

As for the original game, we have to wait until the end of next year to launch the animation first, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the game.

As for the ratings and game sales of the work, Xia Yan didn't ask too much, this kind of work is to spend money to accumulate popularity in the early stage, and then it explodes, simply expecting the first generation of Pokémon games or animations to explode in the Dragon Kingdom, and even surpassing the results of Slam Dunk is still too low.

But Xia Tang Animation's series of big investment in Pokémon still attracted the attention of many Xia Yan fans in Dragon Kingdom.

"Pokémon? What a strange name! ”

"I went to the official website of Xia Tang Animation to take a look, it seems to be a little interesting, it's the kind of otherworldly Warcraft cultivation work. Talking about the battle between extraordinary monsters. ”

"Huh? Not a human fight? ”

"It doesn't look like it, but the monsters that appear in it are quite cute."

"Looking at the old thief's plan for this work, it seems that its main battlefield is a game."

“？ Is the game thief really ready to attack the game industry? ”

"I'll just say, the two-dimensional industry is huge, animation, comics, and old thieves are all involved, how can you not enter the most profitable game industry?"

"I haven't made any moves in the game industry before, mainly because the pre-development investment in games is too large, and the investment cycle is too long. Now that the old thief has become his own capital, he can invest as much as he wants. ”

"That's right, it takes time to create a comic, and you can submit it directly after it is created, and the cost of dissemination is in the publishing company. In terms of animation production, 10 million is barely enough, such as the magic circle. The most difficult thing to get is the game.,Even if it's a big investment, it's often tens of millions.,But game investment is just a small amount of money.,Publicity investment is the big head.,In the game market of Dragon Country.,Without a total investment of tens of millions of dollars,The splash won't splash.。 ”

"That's why the old thief is only starting to enter the game industry now."

"Isn't it going to be a little late?"

"Late? The old thief is only twenty-three years old! How many scholars have not graduated from college at this age, why do you think it is too late? ”

"I mean, if the game production is online with the original magic circle, Lelouch, cyberpunk and other works, the animation gathers popularity for the game, and the game feeds back the animation, that is the best ecology. To be honest, I really want to play the game of Magic Circle. ”

"It's a shame that you say that. Although the old thief can spend money to make up for these games in the future, the effect will definitely be much worse. ”

"So, the old thief, this Pokemon, could it be the king of the game world? After he entered the game industry, he is also ready to sit as the boss of the game industry? ”

"It feels unlikely.,Pokémon should just be the kind of work that tests the waters.,I've seen the game investment.,It's only in the early 70 million.,Animation investment of more than 50 million.,More than 100 million.,Actually, it's okay.,This kind of investment is a small and medium-sized investment in the game industry.,It's unlikely to become a phenomenal game work.。

"That's right, think about the old thief's lightness, it was after the third or fourth work of his creative career that he really became famous.,Animation too.,The magic circle of the third part is a big hit.。 If you are a game, there is a high probability that you will make one or two parts first to test the waters, and then make a big production later. ”

"Actually, I feel that among all the works of the old thief, making cyberpunk edgerunners into games is the most interesting, of course, not to reproduce the storyline of David and Lucy, but to say that the night city in cyberpunk edgerunners is made into a game map for players to explore, which is great to think about."

"Indeed, thinking about it this way, the old thief's Xia Tang animation is really a vault! The old thief eats the old books of his previous works, and he can eat all kinds of adaptations for ten years. ”

"This is true, and I look at Xia Tang Animation, which has recently set up a TV drama department and a film department, and it is likely that the old thief has already had the idea of live-action his previous works."

“？”

"Really? If the magic circle is a real person, I will blow up the old thief directly. ”

"Xia Tang animation yyds, how does it understand us fans so well."

"This cold rice is fried for me fiercely, and I like to eat cold rice."

"Excited me for the night."

"What about the initial D? I want to see a live-action version of Tu Haiqiu's famous mountain drag racing. ”

"Sword Art Online, let's also have a live-action version, I want to see Kirito perform the Starburst Abandonment Slash."

"Haha, that's the case, I want to see the live-action version of the steel chain, to be honest, I now think that the steel chain is only short of a normal ending, as long as this ending can maintain the quality, I would like to call it the first work of the old thief."

In mid-November, a series of promotional activities launched by Natsuyan's Pokémon game and eye-derived animation directly enlivened a large wave of his fans.

And after this series of discussions and exchanges among fans, many people discovered Xia Yan's Xia Tang animation, and now it has grown to the point of stuffing.

In comics and two fields, Xia Yan can't do it alone.

Not to mention anything else, just Liuli Book Society, Beizhou Comics Society's sales network all over the country, if Xia Yan wants to go it alone, it is impossible to establish it in seven or eight years, this kind of thing does not mean that you can smash it out with money.

Just like if you take 100 million to give your wife supplements, it is impossible for her to have children left in a month, money is not everything, and it takes time to incubate when sales channels are established.

That's why Xia Yan is willing to share the copyright of his works with these cooperative publishing houses, after all, it's a win-win situation.

In the field of animation, Xia Tang Animation is already the top animation company in Dragon Country in terms of production, backed by Modu TV1, and the promotion channels of the works are also the top in the industry.

Then the next live-action, comics, animation and other dramas will most likely be launched on Modu TV1.

In terms of movies, there are successful releases that went to the moon before, and they can be regarded as experienced.

Plus the game industry that has entered

Everyone now looks at Xia Tang Animation, which is already a large company spanning several fields such as animation, games, TV series, and movies.

There are thousands of employees, and the company has nearly 10 billion liquid cash in its account, and the most valuable thing about this two-dimensional culture company is not the paper funds in the account, but the copyright value of the company's various works.

As long as Xia Yan is willing, fry the cold rice a little, and shoot a live-action TV series of these works in three or five months, or a game or something, the popularity of these old works will skyrocket immediately, and the revenue of the works will follow, really speaking, the copyright value of Xia Yan's so many works is not lower than the company's assets.

Many fans of Xia Yan carefully calculated

"It's a pity, the old thief Xia Tang Animation is not listed, otherwise the first stock in the animation field should be Xia Tang Animation."

"Xia Yan is not stupid, is his company short of money? How many investors are invited to restrain himself? There is a disease, besides, Xia Yan's works are very powerful, and the wisdom of business warfare is estimated to be at the level of a normal twenty-year-old young man, and if he introduces capital into the company, he may not be able to say when the company will become someone else's. He's definitely not going to do it! ”

"If the old thief can finance and go public, I definitely have how much money to buy, he is called a potential stock, twenty-three years old, founded a company worth tens of billions, if you hold Xia Tang Animation shares for ten years, I'm afraid it will be a few times."

"A lot of capital has looked for the old thief, but the old thief ignores it, and he doesn't even have a bank loan, go public? Think too much. ”

"This is the twenty-three years old of the old thief, alas. Why is there such a big gap between people and people? I was twenty-three looking for a job in the magic capital, interviewed more than a dozen, and all of them were brushed down, so I wanted to find a job of 3,000 a month, is it so difficult? ”

"Don't say it's all tears, it's all this year's graduates, looking for a job in July to November now, I haven't found it yet, I lied to my family that I have been working for two months, in fact, I have borrowed all the expenses in these two months, and I owe thousands of dollars to my classmates Now I look at the old thief, tens of billions of assets in his twenties, I can only say that I admire, I can't be jealous, the gap is too big."

"It's the first time I feel that commenting on a rich person in the comment area is so harmonious, and he doesn't hate the rich?"

"I don't blush when the old thief makes money, after all, I know very well that he makes money not by luck, not by background, not by family. He has a worse family condition than mine, and his growth environment is poor, and he relies on his own talent to get to this point. The hatred of the rich scolds only those who look crooked and start their careers. There is also the kind of person who buys 100 million in the lottery ticket, and the former is scolded and denounced for his moral turpitude. The latter was scolded, in fact, he was nakedly jealous that other people's luck was better than his own, and his heart was unbalanced. ”

"That's right."

"There is a feeling that the old thief will not start his life now, we think this is his peak at this moment, in fact, this is the beginning. In another ten or twenty years, will Xia Tang Animation grow into the largest company in the Dragon Country entertainment industry spanning two-dimensional, live-action dramas? ”

"According to the quality and quantity of the old thief's current creation, it won't take ten years, just five years, and Xia Tang animation will definitely be."

As Xia Yan's focus is no longer on attending various events as before to maintain the popularity of himself and his works, but on capital operation and company development.

The mystery that Xia Yan brings to the fans of the Dragon Kingdom is also getting thicker and thicker.

At the end of this year, a series of activities of Xia Tang Animation made a bunch of companies in the game industry and the film and television drama industry very nervous.

Two years ago, they would not have had any superfluous ideas about a young man in his twenties entering their industry, and they would have come as cannon fodder if they were willing to come.

But now Xia Yan has brought a strong sense of oppression to these companies in the field of Dragon Kingdom culture.

The time was low in November, and Xia Yan, who had returned to the Demon Capital, began his position work again.

In terms of its practical Xia Yan's feeling, serializing these long-form works is quite boring.

Sword Art Online has been serialized for almost three years, and it is still in the UW chapter, and it is estimated that it will take another year or two to end the serialization

Now there is no passion for writing manuscripts every week, just like coping with errands.

In the same way, the same is true of the Hunter's storyboard, slam dunk, steel, Tale of Things, and the animation script of Tian Yuan's breakthrough.

Xia Yan had already read the content of these works and knew their plots in his heart.

In the past, I was able to find some fun by watching the results of their anime adaptations rise.

Now these works are untouchable in the weekly ratings of one, two, three or four, which is really boring, even if there are occasional fluctuations, and the order changes a little, but after all, he is competing with himself.

Thinking of this, Xia Yan admired the parallel world Oda, Akira Toriyama, Inoue Yuhiko and others, they are the real serialized works that span years, more than ten years, or even decades.

is already worth hundreds of millions, and the money is so much that he can't spend it, but he still draws comics seriously, unlike him Xia Yan, after finding out that he has reached the peak of the Dragon Kingdom, there is no opponent in the market, and now he feels that he is missing something at work every day.

Xia Yan doesn't quite understand the efforts of Oda and others, but he can somewhat understand why Yoshihiro Tomiyasu likes to play mahjong.

If you can still make tens of millions of dollars while lying down and doing nothing for a year, most people will definitely choose to spend their time on entertainment rather than spending more than a dozen hours on creating works.

Relying on the copyright of past works to earn tens of millions of dollars a year by lying down. And working harder, selling more single books, and earning an extra 10 million a year, your quality of life will hardly be any different. But your life experience will be much more comfortable.

"Could it be that after being invincible and lonely, I am lazy?" Xia Yan turned off the computer and laughed at himself.

Walking out of the office, Xia Yan was bored and wandered around the company.

In all departments on the company's floor, hundreds of employees greeted Xia Yanruo noisily and with awe.

After all, all employees in the company know that it is Xia Yan who uses his works to bring them to make money, not them who help Xia Yan make money, and the company can run without anyone, but without Xia Yan, it is not good, so the employees' belief in Xia Yan is also from the heart.

Xia Yan walked to Tang Yin's office, where she was still carefully studying the company's development report.

Xia Tang animation has developed to the present, and Tang Yin has definitely contributed a lot to it.

Xia Yan's energy is limited, so he can only focus on the creation of works and participate in the operation of the company moderately.

And how the company develops, how to find partners, the authorization of derivative copyrights of works, price negotiations, copyright infringement lawsuits, and the person in charge of the company's official face are all handled by Tang Yin with the team.

Xia Yan is the main person in the company, and Tang Yin is the main person who is outside the company, which has made Xia Tang Animation develop until now.

"Yo, how do you have time to take the initiative to come to me today?" Tang Yin sat in the office seat, and when she saw Xia Yan come in, a smile immediately appeared on her beautiful and delicate face.

"When the work is done, I will come and have a look." Xia Yan said casually.

"Can you handle your work?" Tang Yin said with a smile.

"You're throwing all the unnecessary work to your subordinates now."

"That's for sure, otherwise I'll ask everything in every detail, why do I spend money to invite so many employees to the company? In fact, you are the same, these things in the company are too cumbersome, otherwise I will go to other companies to dig up a few executives to help you deal with it, don't be too tired. ”

"Nope." Tang Yin shook his head.

"Although my ability in this area is certainly not as strong as that of a professional manager, I will not cheat you. Who knows if the person you go to invite will fool you and do anything. There are some things that you can handle with ease by yourself. ”

"Xia Yan, you still have to pay attention to these aspects." Tang Yin reminded Xia Yan.

"When my father started his family, he was cheated like this several times."

Xia Yan thought about it when he heard this, and then nodded with a smile.

"A year, what a fast time flies!" Xia Yan no longer discusses this topic more.

"Yes, it's almost December now, and in a month or two, it's the seventh year I've known you." Tang Yin also dragged his cheeks with his palms and whispered.

"Seven years." Xia Yan was silent.

I don't usually feel anything, but when I think about the seven years since I stepped into this industry, I still feel a little bit of the passage of time.

"But I didn't expect that in seven years, Xia Yan you will be able to grow from a sophomore in high school who doesn't know anything to the number one popular king in the two-dimensional realm of the Dragon Kingdom." Tang Yin looked at Xia Yan.

"I feel more and more now that my vision back then was really powerful, and I dug you out of the vast sea of people like this, do you say is there a possibility, if I hadn't resigned from the Red Maple Publishing House, I would continue to be the editor of you and Song Lingyun, and now I have become a legendary editor in the Dragon Kingdom industry?"

Xia Yan thought for a moment when he heard this, then nodded and smiled.

"It's very likely, if you hadn't left Red Maple, maybe some of my works would have been serialized on Red Maple, in this way, Red Maple Books would most likely be able to spread its fame, and maybe it would have developed into a large book club in the Dragon Kingdom now."

"Speaking of which, I have to blame for leaving the red maples and depriving them of a great opportunity to develop." Tang Yin got up from the office chair, came to the sofa where Xia Yan was sitting, sat down next to him, and then rested her head on Xia Yan's shoulder.

"The fate of the so-called life was changed on that inconspicuous afternoon at the beginning. If it weren't for a colleague in the editorial department who asked for leave that day and asked me to work on the spot to work on the spot, I probably would. I can't get to know you in my life. ”

Xia Yan thought about it when she heard this, put her arm around her shoulders and said.

"Luck, many times, can also be understood as a kind of inevitability. The fact is that we're here and we're going to get married next year. ”

At the mention of marriage, Tang Yin's heartbeat accelerated suddenly, and her face turned red.

"Get married"

"Well, get married."

"You say, you have so many fans in the Dragon Kingdom, how would you react if you knew the news?"

"I guess millions of fans congratulate me."

"I'm afraid I'll become your female fan." Tang Yin teased.

"Don't worry, they're going to like you, you're so cute." Xia Yan said.

"Disgusting, your sudden sweet words are so weird."

"What I have in the future is a habit of time."

Xia Yan and Tang Yin's noon ended in the conversation between the two, and in the afternoon, the two had their own jobs and were once again submerged in it.

It's December.

Serialized slam dunk for more than half a year, and at this time the plot finally progressed to the basketball game with Xiangyang High School.

The ratings of Slam Dunk soared to a height of 6.78% as the game heated up.

But

Even so, the ratings of Slam Dunk were crushed by another work in November.

That's steelmaking.

From the start of the broadcast in January to the present, Steel Refining has been serialized for eleven months, with more than 40 episodes of content, world view, and various characters.

And the work of steel refining itself is a work that is slightly slow in the early stage, and then slowly lays down the world view and setting as the plot progresses.

The early plot just makes fans feel good-looking, but the later plot

is the true sense of the gods.

The struggle between the protagonist and the android.

The world view and setting of the steel forge are revealed.

This has made the recent popularity of Steel Refining suppress the slam dunk, and the ratings once soared to 6.85%

This ratings data is very sensitive.

It is only a small distance away from the feat of 7% of the average ratings of a single episode that has never been touched by a work in the Dragon Kingdom.

The recent performance of steel refining has made many fans boil.

Could it be said?

Steel refining this work, in addition to having the opportunity to break Lelouch's anti-heaven achievements, there is also a chance. Creating another blockbuster rating to push its single episode rating to 7%?

(End of chapter)