During the Spring Festival, the topic of Howl's moving castle movie filled the film circle and the two-dimensional circle.

More than a dozen movies were released together during the Spring Festival, and the works of national treasure directors were competitive, but Howl's Moving Castle, which was released for five days and had a total box office of 1.1 billion, has always maintained the second place at the box office during the National Day schedule, and there is only a gap of less than 200 million from the first-ranked movie at the box office.

On the plane of the Dragon Country, the purchasing power of the Dragon Kingdom currency is still quite valuable, and most of the movie tickets are in the range of one or twenty ticket prices, this box office data, to be honest, is very explosive.

People from all walks of life in the entire Dragon Kingdom know how terrifying Xia Yan's influence is now, but his work has this achievement for the first time when it enters the Spring Festival, which still makes many film industry practitioners and many media uncomfortable.

This is not a circle of money, it is a collection of money, envy and jealousy but can't afford to hate, the gap is too big, only sigh.

How many directors can't get the box office results in a lifetime, Xia Yan easily did it with an animation with an investment of more than 100 million.

As for the fan base, everyone is dissatisfied with Howl's mobile castle ranking second with a total box office difference of 200 million five days before the Spring Festival.

When did Xia Yan become the second child?

"Let's go, let's go, let's go and support the old thief's new animated film."

"But I've heard from people that his new animated film isn't too easy to understand. Unlike his previous animated works. ”

"Isn't that normal? The old thief has to grow up too! Howl's Moving Castle I feel that the plot is much more interesting than his previous animated movies going to the moon, but the heroine becomes an old woman that I can't accept it, and it doesn't seem so beautiful, but the final ending is still quite touching. ”

"Don't be so picky, you all think there's something wrong with Howl's Moving Castle, so I really don't know what works will satisfy you."

"Do I think the relationship between the female protagonist and the male protagonist is very beautiful? The appearance is gorgeous.,But there's a little cowardice in the heart.,I really like it! ”

"That's it, and you didn't find it, although the heroine was given the spell of getting old, but as long as she faces her heart and is brave, her appearance can return to her youthful appearance, but if she feels sorry for herself, she will be old immediately, this metaphor is great."

"It's just that this plot is a little rushed, and I always think that the plot will be better if it is longer."

"No way, if a movie is too long, the cinema won't give too many shots, you are the theater owner, a one-and-a-half-hour movie and a three-hour movie, who will you support? The former can only show eight shows 24 hours a day, while the latter can show sixteen, but the movie ticket is almost the same price. It can only be said that the old thief wants to express a lot of things, and he can only do so due to time constraints, but this movie must be very good, so as not to be pulled out and criticized by those sunspots. ”

"I think these people mainly watch too many of the works of old thieves, and their tastes have become picky."

"I've watched it three times, and I didn't think much of it when I watched this animated movie for the first time, but the second and third times I watched it and felt too deep in my heart."

"It's a pity that the old thief's animated movie only comes out in a year or two, in fact, I really think that his TV animation belongs to the cool with some connotations, but his animated films are all metaphors and connotations, and the level of his works is extremely high."

"Not exactly, just like Lelouch, Magic Circle, Steel Chain, Slam Dunk, these old thieves' best TV animation works, although the results are similar, but who dares to say that its works are not of high level? The ratings of these works may be about the same, but the idea of the works is too much. ”

"I'm just talking about a common phenomenon, don't take the case of steel refining as an example!"

Under the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival, it is a more lively two-dimensional forum.

The UW chapter of Sword Art Online is coming to an end, the story of the Fate series is unfolding, the god-level plot development of Song Lingyun's new work, and the chapter content of the two comics of Naruto and Pirates is getting better

The entire ACG industry, in the past few years, in the era of declining numbers of teenagers and children, the industry personnel have unanimously sung the decline, but it is by relying on Xia Yan's works that the market has driven the market from the head, in fact, the sales of various publishing houses and magazines have increased compared with previous years.

Even the companies that have worked hard under the blow of Xia Yan's works for many years, such as Starry Sky, Kiyosawa Library, Squirrel Comics, and the top three animation companies in Dragon Kingdom, have to admit Xia Yan's contribution to the industry.

Maybe Xia Yan ate the biggest cake in the market, but in fact, it is because of his existence that the industry has become hotter and the cake is bigger than before.

The seven-day Spring Festival movie schedule passed in a flash

Howl's Moving Castle has a total box office of 1.44 billion in seven days, which is still 100 million lower than the box office of the masterpiece movie that gathered three actors, two actresses, and invested 300 million.

But

It doesn't matter anymore.

Xia Yan didn't think that the cultural industry of the Dragon Kingdom would be so weak, and Howl's mobile castle would be slaughtered indiscriminately in the market, and he was already very satisfied with the second place in this year's spring schedule.

Anyway, in a few months, in May, the animated movie Millennium Actress will also be released, and then in the summer of July, Lingya Hudi will also follow.

Howl's Moving Castle is just testing the waters, and since the effect is good, Xia Yan is also ready to release the works such as Sky City, Spirited Away, Your Name, and Five Centimeters per Second one by one during the Spring Festival schedule in the next few years.

Xia Yan looked away from the report in his hand, of course, Howl's Moving Castle has only been released for more than a week now, and there is still a month to hit the box office.

If the total box office develops normally, it will be around 2 billion, and the result is a little worse, 18.9 billion, a little better, and it will not exceed 2.1 billion at most.

The box office of this achievement, the account sharing is more than 600 million, and it is completely possible to make a small profit of 200 or 300 million after the production cost of 100 million yuan plus 150 million publicity and distribution coverage of this animated film, and the biggest advantage of animated films over live-action movies is that they can sell peripheral products in the later stage, which is also a lot of income.

Only half a month has passed since the Spring Festival, and Xia Yan's company can expect to earn hundreds of millions, and this kind of earning power, even if there are so many listed private companies in the magic capital, it is also very high.

What's more, Xia Tang Animation is a typical asset-light company, and the number of employees is not large, and now the total number of animation, TV series, movies, games and other departments has just exceeded 1,000 people.

This information is combined, and the media has also reported in this regard in the past few days.

As one of the giants in the animation industry today, the revenue capacity of Xia Yan and Xia Tang Animation is also concerned by the market, everyone in the industry of Dragon Kingdom knows that Xia Yan is very rich now, and he has tens of billions of funds in his hands, but he doesn't know what direction he wants to develop next, and how far Xia Yan can develop in the end.

With a sigh, Xia Yan put down the report in his hand and began to study another document submitted by the company's subordinates.

About the company's development plan for the next ten years.

However, Xia Yan just took a casual look and put it aside, it can only be said that the imagination of this group of people under him is still relatively lacking, and he only thinks that the company can achieve three times the current revenue in ten years.

But Xia Yan's purpose is definitely more than that, the serialization of manga works such as Pirates and Hokage has begun to get on the right track, and in a few more months, Xia Yan will start to let Xia Tang Animation start to produce the animation of Pirates and Hokage in accordance with the contract with Beizhou Comics.

And a year after the pirate and Naruto's animation was launched, after the popularity of the market stabilized, the company's mobile games about the two works, console games will also be developed and listed, and other peripherals, anime adaptations will naturally not be left behind.

Two-dimensional IP,To realize and make money,You must still have to move closer to the direction of the game,The game guys spend thousands of game coins without blinking,Calling them to spend ten yuan to open a video membership to watch genuine animation, that's all kinds of disgust,If you can borrow the number, you can borrow the number,The gap is quite big。

And there is also the incubation of the big IP of Pokémon, after the first generation of Pokémon games were launched, millions of copies were sold worldwide, and the results were actually quite good, Pokémon animation, the second part of the game is also in continuous production.

And after two years of publicity, its influence among the primary and secondary school students in the Dragon Kingdom has spread.

This can also be seen from the fact that the Pokémon anime ratings have increased from the previous 4% level to the current 5% level.

If everything goes well, in seven or eight years, ten years later, the annual revenue of Pokémon alone will be several times the company's revenue today.

Development to now, Xia Yan's influence on the big ship of Xia Tang Animation will continue to weaken, and when the IP of these works is incubated, there is no need for Xia Yan to arrange work, and when the market comes, it will automatically match and adjust their commodity positioning, and then Xia Yan will basically sit at home and make money.

Moreover, if you want Pokémon to have the same influence as the parallel world, you have to cooperate with various game channels and producers at home and abroad to divide some of the benefits to make cakes, otherwise you will only be boycotted by others, and in this process, part of the discourse power controlled by the works will also be divided, so Xia Yan can basically imagine the development trend of these works in the future.

"Come to think of it, it's enviable, but it's also boring." Xia Yan let out a long breath.

"Every time I come in, I see your expression, is there so much pressure at work?" At this time, Tang Yin directly pushed open the door of Xia Yan's office.

In the entire company, only Tang Yin dared to come in like this without knocking on the door, and Xia Yan saw his wife arrive, and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's coming so fast."

"That's for sure, I've been abroad for half a month, I'm bored to death, and I can't get used to the food over there." As soon as Tang Yin's door closed, he directly pulled a chair and sat next to Xia Yan, casually flipping through the various documents on Xia Yan's desk.

"You're so pitiful, now you've been occupied all day by these things, and if it were me, I would have found a professional agent to take over the company's operations." Tang Yin chuckled, her beautiful face full of ridicule.

"I also want to if I can, but it's a pity that these professional managers of these companies in the Dragon Kingdom don't know much about my works, and it is impossible to understand their value, so I can only do it myself."

The two have been married for so long, but basically one of the company's chairman sits in the magic capital to handle the company's internal affairs, and the other company's vice chairman is outside to negotiate the company's business cooperation.

"You're such a model worker." Tang Yin sighed in convincing.

If the chairman of Xia Tang Animation was not her husband, as far as her current assets, she would have been lying flat a long time ago, what else would she work, a day abroad to run, although she was not tired from work, she was listening to those company personnel who wanted to cooperate with Xia Tang Animation pat her ass all day long, but after listening to it for a long time, she was tired, and Xia Yan's current success can be called an industry myth, and she still works like this, putting aside her creative talent, this professionalism really makes her feel terrifying.

"It's okay, just get used to it." Xia Yan chuckled lightly and did not discuss this issue more.

"But that's it, and that's the way I put the most time and effort into my work. At most, it's the scripts of a few animated films, and when the time comes, one or two will come out a year, a long-form new work, so let's do it for the time being, I don't have that energy. Xia Yan leaned back in his chair and said.

Tang Yin was full of disbelief when he heard this, Xia Yan said the same thing before, but after a period of silence, several new works appeared, so that now almost no one in the entire industry talks about Xia Yan's exhaustion of creative talents.

Everyone seems to have acquiesced to Xia Yan's endless creative inspiration, and the reason why he can only serialize these five or six works at the same time is not that he can't conceive more, but because he is just a human being, and he only has twenty-four hours of work a day.

The two of them casually mentioned things about work, and then paid more attention to life.

For example, let Xia Yan and her go to see her father tomorrow, after all, Tang Yin's father is extremely concerned about the matter of the two having children after marriage.

Soon, the consumption boom caused by the Spring Festival ended, and the total box office of Howl's Moving Castle ended with another 2.1 billion, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film in the past five years.

And in the two-dimensional industry of the Dragon Kingdom, the topic is once again occupied by three works, such as fate, Naruto, and pirates.

The manga of the Hokage, serialized to the white, and then not cut in the appearance of the two tragic characters, in One Piece, Zoro's childhood memories, and the comic plot of wanting to become the world's number one swordsman also brought tears to the eyes of countless fans of the Dragon Kingdom, and at the same time. The hunter's manga was also serialized in the Ant King chapter.

The three masterpieces of Beizhou Comics, Hunter, Pirate, and Hokage, the popularity ranking of the three works is changing every week, and it can only be said that countless cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom can't imagine that the original works that can defeat the hunter in the comic industry have to be created by Xia Yan himself, this kind of situation where Xia Yan and his own works compete with each other, funny, funny, but sad

Many senior cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom are actually very uncomfortable, if Xia Yan has enough energy, and if he gets a few more works, then the entire comic market will not have room for their works to survive?

The cartoonists of the previous era, all had similar ideas, but at the same time.

In the campus of Dragon Country, countless children who are very interested in light, animation, comics, games and other works have a seed sprouting in their hearts.

As for fate

Because Xia Yan started serializing from the chronological order of the zero plot, the early plot was a little slow, but after Artoria appeared, the popularity of this one also reached the top of the Liuli Book Society.

As for Sword Art Online, it occupied the popularity of the Liuli Book Society for three years, and also lost to Fate Zero at the end of its serialization.

In the two-dimensional industry, the replacement of the old and the new is quietly between this, but the crown of the work has changed, but the creator behind it has always been that person.

The kind of oppression in the entire industry, no matter what popular works, has his shadow behind them, which really puts Xia Yan's peers under great pressure.

Perhaps the only one who is not affected is Song Lingyun, who is engaged in creation with his head covered

In the villa where Xia Yan, her, and Mo Ran lived, Song Lingyun put down the pen in her hand and looked at the snow that began to melt outside the house.

She walked out of the house and went outside, covering her mouth with her hands, and snorted, white mist between her mouth and nose.

"Xiaoyun, what are you doing standing outside in such cold? Not afraid of catching a cold? ”

Mo Ran, who was painting with her head covered on the second floor, also opened the window and asked with a smile.

The hair of the two girls fluttered in the cold wind, and they looked at each other one by one, and this scene with the snowy weather was really eye-catching.

"It's nothing, it's just that I just read the latest chapter of Xia Yan's Fate Zero and feel it."

"How do you feel? You, don't think about some unrealistic things, just honestly create your favorite works, and always compete with Xia Yan's pervert, how can you compete? Mo Ran said earnestly again.

"The entire Dragon Kingdom Second Metaverse,,Animation,Animation three major fields,Everyone basically defaults to Xia Yan is the first,All are competing for the second throne,Just you,Always want to play Boda"

"People, in short, need to have dreams. Sword Art Online has been serialized for so many years, and the accumulated popularity is too thick, and it is indeed difficult for me to surpass the sword, but Xia Yan this fate" Song Lingyun paused when he said this.

"What's wrong with fate?" Mo Ran asked curiously.

"I don't think my new work will compete with fate, and there may not be no chance." Song Lingyun said with a smile, her fair and weak face was full of seriousness.

"You mean, Xia Yan's film has just been serialized for a month, but the quality is actually much worse than that of the sword? So you developed this self-confidence? Mo Ran said curiously.

In fact, she was also very curious about when Xia Yan would lose once.

It is almost impossible for the creators of the Dragon Kingdom to surpass Xia Yan in terms of historical status, but it is only in the competition with Xia Yan in a certain period of time, seeing that anyone can suppress Xia Yan, Mo Ran is still quite interested.

"No, Xia Yan's level has not decreased in the slightest, and I even think it is more attractive to me than a sword." Song Lingyun paused, then sneezed.

"The weather is so bad, I can't stand it in just a few minutes." Song Lingyun wrinkled her frozen red nose and whispered, ready to enter the house.

"Hey, you're only halfway talking?" Mo Ran, who was talking to Song Lingyun in front of the window on the second floor, was anxious.

"I mean Xia Yan's strength hasn't decreased, it's even increased, but" Song Lingyun raised her head and looked at Mo Ran with a smile.

"My progress is greater than Xia Yan's, and I don't think my new work will be crushed by Xia Yan's whole process as before."

"At least. At least once during the serialization period, it will surpass Fate Zero in the internal popularity ticket statistics and reach the top of the glass. ”

Song Lingyun's tone was full of confidence.

Xia Yan, who is in another villa area less than three kilometers away from the villa where the two are located, has not realized at this moment what kind of impact the new work that the girl who has followed him since high school will have on the industry after he gets married and completely gets rid of the invasion of love emotions.

Just like Xia Yan predicted, without that world, the cultural level of the plane would always be low, and as he came up with more and more works from parallel worlds, the creators of the Dragon Kingdom would also learn to absorb the best of them, and then create higher-level works.

It's a given.

It's just that this time will be a little longer.

Xia Yan predicts that in the next ten or twenty years, among the teenagers and children who have not yet grown up in the Dragon Kingdom, a few geniuses like Oda and Akira Toriyama will emerge.

It's just that, in fact, genius has always been by his side.

After ten years of catching up, at least Song Lingyun at this time, after seeing such a level of lightness as fate, there will no longer be a sense of hopelessness in his heart, but he will feel.

As long as she works harder and works harder, she can write at the same level.

Now, it is Xia Yan's era, but again, in the era he leads.

In the field of dragon country, animation, comics

Geniuses like Song Lingyun also set their eyes on Xia Yan.

Xia Yan may be their vision, but it is also the goal they want to surpass.

Perhaps Xia Yan's greatest contribution to the two-dimensional industry of the Dragon Country Plane over the years lies in this, becoming an industry benchmark, illuminating the night sky in the fog.

The Spring Festival ended very quickly, and another two months passed in a flash.

Early one morning

Xia Yan was woken up by his wife Tang Yin's exclamation.

"What's wrong?" Xia Yan got up from the bed with a stiff face.

looked at Tang Yin, who was next to him with his bare back and his back to him.

"That." Tang Yin turned his head to look at Xia Yan, his eyes hesitated for a moment, and he was holding a small stick-shaped item in his hand.

"Like, our efforts over the past month have paid off. I'm supposed to be pregnant. ”

Xia Yan blinked

The person is slightly dizzy.

The occurrence of this thing must be interesting for Xia Yan to do, but when things come.

People will definitely still get dizzy.

It was only after being persuaded and educated by Tang Yin's father two months ago that Xia Yan and Tang Yin decided to have a child.

"Boys and girls?" Xia Yan asked.

"How do I know, how long has it been? It's good to be able to detect pregnancy, but boys and girls? Tang Yin glanced at Xia Yan.

"It's a big deal." Xia Yan took a deep breath and thought about his future plans.

The next day, Xia Tang Animation issued an internal document that Deputy Dong Tang Yin suspended work because of physical problems.

As for her work, a temporary team was set up within the company to replace her.

And Tang Yin also began to stay at home and take care of her body with peace of mind.

As for Xia Yan, work or something, work from home, put an end to all publicity activities, and concentrate on accompanying Tang Yin at home.

At this time, Xia Tang animation is still comics, game-related industry chains, although Xia Yan has temporarily put aside some of his work, the inertia still allows them to continue in an orderly manner.

The promotion of the movie of the millennium actress, the production decision of the final season of the Sword Art Online anime, the animation plan of the Hokage Pirates, and the unprecedented 1.2 billion dragon kingdom investment plan of Pokémon that shook the global game industry

And at this time. Xia Yan is only twenty-five years old.

(End of chapter)