Chapter 207 Profits

After the second chapter of Sword Art Online was serialized, Xia Yan's fans basically knew the main plot of this work.

The protagonist will most likely show the game "Sword Art Online (sao)" to readers in a long part of the novel, while looking for ways to crack the boss of the level.

To be honest, this type of novel has never been written in Longguo.

Although it is just watching the protagonist's game strategy, after adding the setting that the real person will die once the game dies, the whole novel will feel very tense, which is completely different from the attitude of everyone playing games and dying is dead. .

"So the protagonist will have to complete the game with one life?"

"That should be the case, as this will reflect the protagonist's high-level playing ability."

"But the characterization of Asuna in the second chapter is really good. She is courageous, does things without dragging her feet, and is quite gentle. Most importantly, she is not a jerk at playing games."

"Wow...what a fairy girl. Pretty, good-tempered, and not a jerk at playing games. It's amazing to have any one of these three conditions, and she has all three."

"Mr. Gensei understands us in the second dimension."

"But I feel that the style of this work is a bit different from Mr. Gensei's previous works. Mr. Gensei's previous works were all slow-burning and foreshadowing types, even Parasyte, the main themes of the stories were actually quite grand and lofty, and they were environmentally friendly. The direction is reliable. But Sword Art Online is really a pure fantasy light novel style. "

"That can't be helped! To the Moon is so good, but the average sales of the single volume is only 8 million copies. Parasyte is so profound, but the average sales of the volume is only 7 million copies. Hana no Hana no Nama sold 7 million copies, while pure harem light novels like "A Different World of Bones" can sell 9 million copies per volume. It can only be said that novels with depth are not in line with the tastes of mainstream readers after all. If the works want to have good sales data, they still have to make certain sacrifices. "

"That's right, and Mr. Minase writes this type of light novels that are quite good. At least now in the second chapter, I don't see any stupid characters, and the protagonists and supporting characters are all smart and there is no halo of reduced intelligence. Especially this female Asuna is very attractive. "

"It's also because of Mo Ran's good painting skills. The illustrations she drew for Asuna really fit the character image and look very immersive. "

"Push for more, urge for more, urge for more."

"Actually, I think it's pretty good. Sword Art Online is not stupid, the plot is online, and it's very comfortable to read. It doesn't look like anything on the surface, but if you read more other light novels, you will know how rare it is. →"

"I hope this novel can keep the current pace and don't come up with any weird plots later. For example, the important supporting characters or the heroine are killed and forced to be sensational. "

"You gamers think this kind of novel is good, but it's embarrassing for me who don't like to play games. I can't stop reading the novel while reading it. I said I had to read the novel guide online to understand the game terms in it. "

"Haha, don't worry about these details. In fact, you don't need to understand them. On the surface, this novel is strongly related to the game content, but in fact it is still about people. But it is about the life of a group of players in desperate situations. The game part doesn't actually use too many professional terms in it. I guess Mr. Yuanqing has also considered the knowledge of you, the new game readers, and simplified it in this regard. "

"Haha, everyone has read too many light novels written by Mr. Yuanqing. Are you not used to reading this kind of light novel with a pure "easy adventure" mode? "

"The online reputation of the second chapter of Sword Art Online is better than that of the first chapter after it was serialized.

As many fans of Xia Yan's readers said, if the plot of Sword Art Online is really shocking, it is not as good as the explosive plot of Anohana and To the Moon in the later stage.

But it is good that the style of the work is very popular.

That is why after it was serialized, with the combined blessing of Xia Yan's past fan popularity and the quality of the work itself, it was able to publish only the first chapter and get the third place in "Liuli".

The next day, the voting order for the second chapter of Sword Art Online was released.

The first place is still Crimson Abyss, with 2679451 votes from readers.

The second place is still Labyrinth of the Other World. The plot of this work was serialized to the climax this week, and several villains with very bad reviews died. Readers were satisfied with it, and the voting support rate was naturally high, ranking second with 1695123 votes.

The third Sword Art Online, with 1691085 votes, ranked third.

It can be said that if Labyrinth of the Other World had not had a small explosion in the plot this week, if its votes were still the same as last week, it would have given up the second place to Sword Art Online.

But in fact, this popularity increase trend is already exaggerated.

Xia Yan looked at the research data of Sword Art Online in his hand. Of course, the data sent to him by Bai Xuan also included market data of competing works in other journals.

Crimson Abyss, serialized for four and a half years, published a total of 29 volumes of light novels, with an average sales volume of 18 million copies per volume, author Luo Yun, 37 years old.

Labyrinth of the Other World, serialized for more than three years, published a total of 18 volumes of light novels, with an average sales volume of 14 million copies per volume, author Xu Qing, 29 years old.

After a long time, Xia Yan let out a long breath.

Although he is very famous in the two-dimensional industry, he does not like to engage in useless socializing, and has basically no contact with his peers. He really doesn't know the detailed information of these competitors.

But he liked Crimson Abyss and Labyrinth of the Other World when he was still in the first year of high school, but he didn't expect that in just a few years, he would have to compete directly with these works for the first place in the "Liuli" magazine.

Xia Yan put down the documents in his hand and fell into thinking.

The performance of the first two issues of Sword Art Online was better than he expected.

After all, this work really needs to wait for its popularity to start to gain momentum, and it has to wait for the heroine Asuna to have more scenes and establish her status as the wife among the fan group.

In terms of the plot of the first two issues alone, it can only be said to be novel, but it is definitely impossible to gain such popularity in the industry.

"So it is said that keeping a pen name is very valuable in Longguo." Xia Yan smiled and said to himself.

Most of the fans of the second dimension in Longguo still remember the pen name.

Especially young potential novelists like Xia Yan who have never failed since their debut.

After coding a few thousand words of the Sword Art Online novel chapter at home in the morning, he came to the house where Mo Ran lived at noon and gave Mo Ran the draft of the storyboard of Initial D.

In the afternoon, Xia Yan first went to a well-known car shop in Shanghai and picked up the car he had been dreaming about since college.

In the envious eyes of the female salesperson, Xia Yan was too lazy to collect the windshield washer fluid, dolls and other items after picking up the car and left directly.

It is now October, and the first wave of revenue from the work Puella Magi Madoka Magica has arrived.

The average sales volume of the animated theatrical version of the BD volume is 3.11 million copies, and the total sales volume is 6.22 million.

The average sales volume of the five BD volumes of the TV version is 1.3 million copies, and the total sales volume is 6.5 million copies.

Based on the average price of 71, the BD sales share received is 350 million Dragon Country currency.

And this work has also received a total of 230 million in broadcast copyright revenue in more than 20 countries overseas.

Just these two items of income, that's 580 million.

Moreover, Madoka Magica's character costumes, soul crystals, figures and other peripherals are now selling well in Longguo and overseas markets. Some Longguo game companies are also negotiating with Xia Yan's Xia Tang Animation Production Company for character image licensing cooperation.

The conservative estimate of these parts of income is another 200 to 300 million. In addition to the animation works, although the income will not be as explosive as at the beginning after the first wave of popularity, at least in the next few years, the subsequent passive income of Magical Girl Madoka will remain in the tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions..

It can be said that Xia Yan can basically conservatively obtain more than ten digits of Longguo currency income from the work of Magical Girl Madoka Magica alone. As for the upper limit of the income of this work, it depends on Xia Yan's subsequent IP development of this work.

For example, if you want to make a lot of money, you can find a game company at the speed of light to develop a mobile game or online game for Magical Girls, and do the krypton gold recharge, and then produce a quarterly animation of Magical Girl Madoka Magica to maintain the popularity of the game.

Of course, this way, you can make a lot of money, but the reputation of "Warrior of Love" will encounter a serious trust crisis.

So although some people in the company suggested that Xia Yan develop in this direction, after all, for a phenomenal work like Magic Circle, if you want to maximize the commercial value, you can't consider things like reputation, but Xia Yan certainly ignored these plans.

After more than 500 million yuan in funds arrived, Xia Yan was also a hidden billionaire promoted to Dragon Country.

When paying the balance of the red sports car that he had ordered before, he didn't feel bad at all.

He drove away from the car shop first, and then Xia Yan drove directly to a well-known real estate agency in Magic City.

"Hello, Mr. Xia."

The agent who helped Xia Yan deal with the villa purchased by Xia Yan in this month was also a young and beautiful woman.

Xia Yan's requirements for material life are not too high. After making money, he is not interested in the set of wine and meat, but he bought a sports car because he thinks it is cool. In addition, he is also creating Initial D comics. He searches for car-related knowledge on the Internet all day to assist in the drawing of comic storyboards, and his heart is really itching.

And buying a house.

It is because he no longer wants to be visited as a giant panda in the residential area where he lives.

Now when Xia Yan returns to the community or leaves the community, he always encounters dozens of fans who are waiting for him to sign. If this continues, the information that Xia Yan lives in this community will spread more widely. By then, it will not be as simple as dozens of fans waiting.

When encountering extreme fans of works, anything can happen.

And this situation is not only encountered by Xia Yan, Mo Ran and Song Lingjun have more or less encountered this situation around them.

Xia Yan followed the female agent to the villa he bought for the third time.

"Mr. Xia, this car of yours is really tasteful!"

Although she is a real estate agent, she also knows cars very well. She can tell the value of this car by looking at the car logo. She also flattered Xia Yan in various ways when sitting in the passenger seat of the car.

"Well, it's okay." Although he knew that the other party was flattering, Xia Yan still understood.

If others praised him for being handsome, Xia Yan might not be very happy, but if they praised the handsome car he bought, he could only say that he had a good eye.

Because he is so handsome

"Mr. Xia is really young and promising. He can buy such a foundation in Shanghai at such a young age." The saleswoman looked envious.

The purchase value of Dragon Country currency is about half of the US dollar in the parallel world. Of course, the labor cost in Dragon Country is also high.

It's just that it's very cost-effective to spend the Dragon Country currency earned in developing countries, but it's just like that in Dragon Country.

But even so, a villa worth 30 million, with three floors, an outdoor garden covering an area of ​​890 square meters, luxurious decoration, 17 rooms, and a swimming pool is also a big deal in the Magic City area.

Who can afford to live in this house without a few hundred million?

Moreover, from viewing the house to paying the full amount and transferring the ownership, Xia Yan acted quickly. After cutting the price by two million, she asked a lawyer to check the contract and the deal was completed at the speed of light.

Xia Yan spent very little energy on this order, but the agency fee share was equivalent to her five-year salary.

Xia Yan drove the car to this rich villa area.

In the villas in this community, basically more than half of them are lived by various bigwigs in Longguo's two-dimensional entertainment industry.

For example, big directors, big stars, and chairmen of some film companies, and the remaining half are chairmen of some listed companies in the Magic City area.

Because the villa area is full of industry bigwigs and well-known stars.

Therefore, the privacy and security of the community are very good. Retired soldiers are stationed in the community all year round as security personnel, completely preventing paparazzi and extreme fans from invading and secretly taking photos.

Of course, the property fee is not cheap.

However, the owners of this community don’t care about the property fee of a few million yuan a year after buying a house worth tens of millions.

After checking the layout of this villa that can be moved in with a bag again, Xia Yan finally signed his name on the document produced by the female agent after his lawyer arrived and confirmed that some documents and contract procedures were correct.

Xia Yan was very fast in handling these things.

After all, time is money. Xia Yan asked people to handle many trivial matters, so he could hand over the car and the house in one day.

"Okay. Move tomorrow." After staying in his new home for a while, Xia Yan got up and started to call the moving company to make an appointment.