Chapter 152: The Emperor Star Award Selection Begins and the Comic Manuscript

In late April, the selection of the Dragon Country Light Novel Emperor Star Award officially began. ‘6’ ‘9’ ‘s’ ‘h’ ‘u’ ‘x’ ‘.’ ‘c’ ‘o’ ‘m’

In the past year, hundreds of novels born in Dragon Country have been included in the selection list.

But how to say it?

This kind of novel award is basically composed of senior industry leaders from the seven major bookstores, as well as some Dragon Country novel associations and official literary departments, and then selected through a complex selection mechanism.

However, novel awards are definitely not all based on the judges' likes. Generally speaking, the works that can win the award must be the novels with the greatest influence in the year.

This includes novel sales, ratings, and whether this work has brought innovation, change, development and other potential values ​​to the novel industry.

Of course, normally, the novel that can win the first place gold award must be the most popular work among the new novels in Dragon Country that year.

After all, the changes and developments in the pattern of the novel industry are too abstract, but the popularity of the work is very intuitive.

This selection activity will last for several weeks and is divided into two rounds. In the first round, 20 works will be selected from a series of works participating in the award to enter the second round.

Basically, as long as they can squeeze into the second round, for many novel authors.

The industry status, reputation, and career resume will all be improved, which is equivalent to the purpose of gilding with this award.

And the works that enter the second round will all be given a ranking order after another round of selection by judges.

Xia Yan has also been cooperating with Liuli Book Club to shoot GG and videos of related activities these days.

After all, it will be on TV at that time.

However, for this kind of award selection process that he has no control over, Xia Yan can only do whatever the book club asks him to do and passively wait for the results of the award selection.

Moreover, although the popularity of Parasitic Beast is very good, it is limited by the type of work and some bloody and bizarre elements. It is not a mainstream novel type in Longguo. After the number of readers grows to a certain extent, it encounters a bottleneck. Compared with other competing novels in this selection, it does not have an advantage.

Being able to enter the top 20 is normal performance, being in the top 15 is excellent, and being in the top 10.

Then Xia Yan's novel agent Bai Xuan will directly hold a celebration party for him.

After all, in Longguo, in a large category like light novels, which has a huge industry, being able to write a novel that is in the top ten of the annual award is basically an achievement that only the big names in the light novel industry can achieve.

In the past few days, the TV program about the selection of the Emperor Star Award on the Imperial Capital TV1 channel has been hotly broadcast. Xia Yan has also been promoted on TV as a new and influential first-line light novel writer. When he was in school these days, the rate of people turning their heads and asking for his autographs has increased significantly.

On the other side, the comics club.

Xia Yan looked at the comic with a bursting style in his hand, and his expression was confused.

"How is it?"

Today, Mo Ran was wearing a light gray short skirt, a loose short-sleeved T-shirt on her upper body, and a double ponytail on her head. She was tall and had a beautiful and fair face, but at this moment her big eyes were full of tension.

Although it was only the first chapter of the Initial D comic, it still took her more than three weeks to complete it.

She knew very well that she had no talent for plot creation and was not even familiar with the car. She spent so much time drawing the first chapter of the comic mainly to give the audience a stunning visual effect in the first chapter and to familiarize them with the drawing process of racing comics, so that the following content would be much faster.

As for her, she actually felt that her painting could be improved, but Xia Yan gave her limited time, so she didn't go into the details of the painting. But Xia Yan was still amazed when he saw this comic manuscript.

In the parallel world, Initial D is an old comic after all. The comic painting, drawing techniques and style of the year seemed a bit out of date.

But Mo Ran's version

retains the realistic style of the original, while the light and shadow of the picture are greatly improved.

Let's not talk about the black and white AE86 body in the comic for now, after all, it is just an ordinary-looking sedan.

But Takahashi Keisuke's FD, its appearance is too obvious. In the close-up of the storyboard, the car is handsome, steady, and heavy, just like a mechanical monster.

At the end of the first episode, the handsome inertial drift of ae86 combined with Mo Ran's comic style, Xia Yan's heartbeat accelerated even though he knew the plot.

For comics, as long as the painting is improved, even the same plot will give people a completely different reading experience.

"Very good." Xia Yan let out a long breath.

I can't praise her, so as not to make her proud.

But as far as Xia Yan's senses are concerned, he was really impressed by the first episode of the Initial D comics drawn by Mo Ran.

After hearing this, Mo Ran's nervous expression relaxed instantly, just like a student waiting for the teacher to check his homework. After receiving the teacher's praise, joy suddenly surged in his heart, and his face suddenly became rosy.

"Then I will create the subsequent plot of Initial D in this style next," said Mo Ran.

"No problem, but the speed has to be faster. If the speed of one episode is two or three weeks, it should not be in line with the serialization speed of Longguo Comics Club, right?" Xia Yan said.

"I naturally considered this point." Mo Ran said.

"I only drew the first chapter so delicately, and I will focus on the following chapters."

"That. I want to ask, do you feel pressure when creating? Do you need to hire one or two comic assistants to help you?"

"No, at least not for the time being." Mo Ran shook his head, looked at Xia Yan with clear eyes, and then smiled.

"Little brother, you haven't worked with me for a long time. This is my first time to contact racing comics, and I spent a lot of time in the first episode to complete the conception of character design and scenes. And these preliminary preparations are completed, and you will know later. Why I, Mo Ran, am so obsessed with the comics industry. I am not just good at drawing. Among the people I know in the comics industry, I have never seen anyone draw faster than me. You choose me as a partner, you won't suffer any loss."

"So confident?" Xia Yan was stunned for a moment.

"Huh." Although Xia Yan didn't praise her, she still showed a confident and proud expression at this moment.

But it's late April now. According to Mo Ran's drawing speed, the three episodes of comics will not be completed until May, and then the most headache will come.

Xia Yan absolutely would not accept the serialization of Initial D in a small comics company, and the several large comics companies in Longguo probably didn't care about Mo Ran's achievements in the comics industry, so it was unlikely that he would be taken seriously if he submitted his work under Mo Ran's name.

It would depend on whether his pen name "Yuan Qing", a light novel author, would have some face in the comics industry.

Xia Yan was planning the details and plans for the serialization of Initial D in his mind.

April 24th, Thursday.

After a week of fermentation, Puella Magi Madoka Magica has become quite famous among animation fans.

After all, in anime about cute girls, such as Magical Girls, it is not a big deal to kill a popular character in such a tragic way in the third episode.

The screenwriter "Warrior of Love" must be the first in the animation industry in Longguo.

Many fans of Longguo animation who haven't watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica this season have also heard of the name of this work in the past few days.

People only criticize the old-fashioned animation of magic theme because there have been too many animations of magic theme in the past ten years and people are tired of it. But in fact.

Which animation fan has not watched a few magic girl animations?

As long as your work can create new ideas, there are still many animation fans willing to watch this kind of animation.

Driven by this concept, the third episode of the animation of Magic Girl Madoka Magica only had a rating of about 1.9% at the beginning, but when it was replayed for the fourth time at 23:00 last night, it was able to achieve a good result of 2.36% ratings in the evening time period of TV1 in Shanghai.

It's a pity that the ratings of the Dragon Country animation industry are ranked only by the first broadcast ratings, otherwise the replay ratings of this episode of Magic Girl Madoka Magica would have ranked 13th among the new animation series broadcast in Dragon Country last week.

But today.

In the fan group and account forum of "Warrior of Love", the popularity of animation viewers has risen rapidly since 5 pm.

While criticizing the screenwriter "Warrior of Love" for being unscrupulous, everyone also made no secret of their love for this work.

What the animation audience hates is not the characters and plot in this animation.

On the contrary, they are shocked by Mami Tomoe's death. The cruelty of the magical girl world in this work also makes many animation fans feel the opening of the door to a new world.

But they can convince themselves that they like this work, but they cannot convince themselves that they like the creator of this work, the screenwriter's warrior of love.

The characters in the story are innocent, but the "warrior of love" who arranged such a tragic experience for them is guilty.