Chapter 217 Bundled Promotion

The internal staff of Xia Tang Animation Production Company naturally knew about these situations. Everyone took the initiative to make stricter requirements for the production of Xia Yan's two new animations from top to bottom than before.

Xia Yan was alone in his office, handling work and analyzing the animation market in Longguo.

"I'll Wait for You in Seven Years" has been confirmed to be broadcast on TV in April next year. Speaking of it, it will only be four or five months, and it will pass in a flash.

Xia Yan still has high hopes for this work. Although he doesn't think it will be as sensational as when Madoka Magica was broadcast, at least Xia Yan thinks that with its plot level, if it is well produced, it may become another top-notch masterpiece in Longguo's animation industry.

Strictly speaking, the style of this work is very similar to another masterpiece animation "Steins;Gate" in the parallel world.

Parallel universe setting, time and space backtracking, saving and being saved, and the world line convergence

The only difference is that the pattern of Steins;Gate will be a little bigger, and the protagonist's crossing behavior will directly affect the direction of the world. Their friends will be big figures in the world in the future.

The work "I'll Wait for You in Seven Years" is not so grand. The world does not need the protagonist to save it, and the protagonist has no ability to save it. All his time travel is just to save the girl who died seven years ago and fulfill the promise to meet the girl seven years later.

In this process, the world view is revealed, the heroine is shaped, and the efforts made by the heroine to save the hero earlier.

When a little bit of the plot is revealed, the audience will know that this work is a tear-jerking love animation with fantasy colors.

Magical Girl Madoka Magica only slightly plays on the theme of time travel, which can attract so many animation fans in Longguo, who call it a god-level setting.

Xia Yan actually thinks that the market response to "I'll Wait for You in Seven Years" should be very good.

As for Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

Because of Xia Yan's extremely high requirements for picture quality and painting, the overall progress of this animation is slow.

This work itself was released in a parallel world as a derivative animation of the well-known game Cyberpunk 2077.

The animation production took several years.

Fortunately, Xia Yan had the script finalized directly, without the troublesome original game party in the parallel world who made various comments on the plot, thinking that Rebecca was a failure of the animation, and that the cute loli character holding a machine gun did not fit the style of the original game, and all kinds of arguments with the animation production party delayed the production time.

But even so, Xia Yan still felt that the one-year production time was a bit rushed. After all, the company was producing two animations at the same time, and the manpower was not so abundant, so it depended on the progress of the group of people under him. If the progress is fast, it will be scheduled for July next year, and if the progress is slow, it may be October next year or even the year after next.

In the afternoon, a meeting was held to deal with the problems of the production of the two animations, and the track of the classic theme song of Cyberpunk Edgewalker "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" written by himself was submitted to the head of the company's music department.

Let them re-create rhyming lyrics according to the original lyrics of this song.

After these things were dealt with, Xia Yan returned home with a tired face.

In the next few days, Xia Yan has been dealing with matters related to Sword Art Online and Initial D comics.

For a popular novel like Sword Art Online, the single volume is released very quickly. Although it will not be released in the near future, Liuli Bookstore has actually been preparing for it.

And Xia Yan does need to put more effort into the release of the single volume of Sword Art Online.

Sword Art Online is a very complicated series of novels in the parallel world.

Because the novel was serialized on the Internet at the beginning, and the paperback version of the novel was published after it became famous.

So in fact, the plots between the online version and the paperback version are interconnected and complementary.

But at the same time, the system is also very complicated, and the timeline is confusing.

Just like the original novel single volume, which has been serialized to the content of Death Gun at the end, the author is still writing a detailed supplementary plot about the SAO plot, and it will be several volumes at a time.

After the SAO chapter has been completed for several years, or even ten years, the author of the novel will still supplement and increase the content of this chapter.

That's right, I'm talking about the Sword Art Online Assault. In 2023, more than a decade or two after the creation of Sword Art Online, the original author is still writing a novel about the first ten levels of the SAO chapter, and the number of words he created is not cheap, which is definitely not something that can be summarized in the extra plot. You can even treat it as an independent novel.

You should know that SAO has a total of 100 levels. If he writes the strategy layer by layer, he probably won't be able to finish this novel until he retires. .

But Xia Yan is doing serial novels on Liuli Book Club, and one thing he must pay attention to is the main line of Sword Art Online.

That is, the progress of the strategy for the 100th level of SAO.

And pay attention to the speed of the main line.

If you want to write all the details of the Assault into the Liuli Journal, it may have a negative effect on the popularity of the novel.

Whether your protagonist is in love or flirting with various female characters, this progress, to put it bluntly, cannot be stopped.

But it can't be too watery. If you go through the story layer by layer, the readers of the novel will easily get aesthetically fatigued. You have to find a balance.

Xia Yan's serialized Sword Art Online novel in Dragon Kingdom combines the content of the original animation and the novel, so that it not only conforms to the plot rhythm of the serialized light novel, but also shows the simplicity, lightness and non-procrastination of the original animation.

Otherwise, if the plot of the original light novel is integrated and serialized according to the timeline, the reading experience will be too slow.

After all, there are some plots in it in which Kirito and Asuna go on their honeymoon and drive after dating. Xia Yan thinks that the fans of Long Kingdom's novels should be of higher quality and are not interested in these contents, so they will be omitted for the time being.

However, since Sword Art Online is about to be released as a stand-alone book, some of these contents can be appropriately selected, including how Asuna developed her comrade-in-arms relationship with the protagonist in the early stage, how the early stage strategy team defeated the level boss, and the protagonist Kirito and other women. The characters' daily interactions and strategy plot novels are added.

Naturally, Liuli Book Club was very happy with Xia Yan's proposal.

If the stand-alone novel has content that is not found in the serial plot, it will certainly boost the sales of the stand-alone novel.

Therefore, Xia Yan's recent work tasks, in addition to the creation and adaptation of comics and serial novels, also have to carefully select some interesting chapters from the complicated novel content of the original Sword Art Online to create special plot content for a single volume.

This also made Xia Yan even busier since mid-November.

Late November.

Liuli Publishing House has released some information about the new serial novel "Juejie" published in the journal "Liuli" in early December.

Promotional activities are also well underway.

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The promotion mainly revolves around Song Lingjun, a beautiful girl novel writer with top looks in the Dragon Kingdom novel world.

Moreover, after obtaining Xia Yan's consent, Liuli Publishing House also conducted bundled marketing of Song Lingjun and Song Lingjun's new novels with Xia Yan.

For many fans of Xia Yan, they first knew Xia Yan from the time of the parasitic beast.

Even now, at least 30 to 40% of his fans are still falling into the trap of Sword Art Online.

I don't know anything about Xia Yan's competitive relationship with Song Lingjun in high school.

When Liuli Bookstore specially arranged interviews with Xia Yan and Song Lingjun on the TV1 TV variety show as a competitor, it was broadcast.

Many fans of Xia Yan and Song Lingjun watched the interview in confusion.

Then, besides being confused, I was moved

It turns out that Teacher Yuanqing and Teacher Ningyun are alumni of the same class?

The two had already competed in the novel world of Southern Province when they were sixteen years old, and Teacher Ning Yun had always been the loser, the second child in ten thousand years. For the past three years, she had been chasing after Teacher Yuan Qing.

From the secondary journal of Red Maple Literature, one of them ranked first and the other ranked second.

In the most powerful journal "Red Maple" of Hongfeng Publishing House, the two of them are still ranked first and the other second.

Then in the New God Ranking Competition, one of the two ranked first, and the other ranked in the top ten.

Then Teacher Yuanqing's Parasitic Beast reached the top of the list of "Liu Li Se", a secondary journal of Liu Li Publishing House, and a few months later, Teacher Ning Yun's new work "The Hidden Blade" was also serialized in "Liu Li Se", and was serialized in this journal During this period, we also climbed to the top.

Today.

Mr. Genkiyo's new novel "Sword Art Online" is launching a general attack on the first place in the journal "Liu Li".

She. That opponent of Mr. Genkiyo, the pursuer.

Genius novelist Ning Yun, her novel "Jue Jie" was once again picked up by the book club and published in the journal "Liu Li".

It will be serialized again in the same issue as the novel Sword Art Online in "Liu Li" in two weeks' time.

Three years of competition, three years of pursuit, three years, from Southern Province to Shanghai, the platforms on which the two serialized novels were published have changed four or five times, but Ning Yun still only has eyes for Teacher Yuanqing.

What kind of feeling is this?

Novels fans are inherently a group of sentimental beings, but Liuli Book Club can do marketing and publicity on this topic.

Both Xia Yan's fans and Song Lingjun's fans were in tears after watching this interview show.

"This is called a fateful opponent!"

"If there hadn't been Teacher Yuanqing, would the most eye-catching new star in the Dragon Kingdom's light novel industry be Ning Yun?"

"Of course, someone who can write serialized novels in periodicals like "Liu Li" at the age of nineteen must be a light novel writer who attracts much attention."

"Ugh, I'm crying, everyone. I feel like these two are the kind of rivals, competitive partners that only exist in novels, and existences that allow each other to grow. After reading this interview, I feel that this guy Ning Yun let People are moved.”

"But the opponent's statement doesn't feel right. Now it's obvious that Teacher Yuanqing has much better grades than Teacher Ningyun! But Ningyun is not bad, after all, she is the closest to Yuanqing among her peers. The teacher is a genius and has a promising future.”

"Beautiful, cool, and although she is a little indifferent to others on the surface, when the host asked about Teacher Yuanqing, her eyes lit up. Brothers, I feel like something is wrong with her."

"I am a fan of Teacher Yuan Qing, and I really like this female author named Ning Yun. What she said in the interview made me fall in love with her."

"What words?"

"The host asked Ning Yun who she thought was the strongest novelist. Ning Yun didn't hesitate for a second and directly said that she is the teacher "Yuanqing" now, and she will be her in the future."

"So confident?"

"Is she a girl with this kind of personality? I love her."

"Really, Ning Yun just doesn't have much publicity resources, and has never been very popular. In fact, her novels are really good. She is just unlucky. She met the new god in the novel world, "Yuan Qing" teacher when she debuted. There is nothing she can do about it!"

"These two people really opened my eyes. The promotional activities organized by Liuli Book Club are really great. It allowed me to learn about Yuan Qing's high school years. I also learned about the opponent who pursued him, Ning Yun."

"I have changed from Xia Mo's party to Xia Song's party. Teacher Xia Yan should make his debut in the entertainment industry as soon as possible. His CP is too good to eat."

Liuli Book Club just tried it casually, but it didn't expect that the publicity method of the work that it deliberately created, Xia Yan and Song Lingjun's fateful rivals, would work surprisingly well.

Xia Yan agreed to this kind of bundling marketing, and he wanted to help Song Lingjun's new novel boost the popularity of the initial serialization.

After all, he is very rational. It is impossible for others to take advantage of his popularity.

But Song Lingjun

Although she was thinking about how to defeat Xia Yan.

But Xia Yan, in fact, doesn't care about these wins and losses, but hopes that she can have a better development in the novel world.

If a genius really appears in the Dragon Kingdom plane, he can defeat Xia Yan, who has so many excellent works in the parallel world, by his own strength.

Then Xia Yan, as a native of the Dragon Kingdom plane, will be very pleased.

But as things develop, it is a little beyond Xia Yan's imagination.

Because this matter is not only spread in the novel circle, but also in the comics circle and the game circle.

It broke the circle. Xia Yan, who originally wanted to let Song Lingjun take advantage of the popularity, now found that.

He himself also gained huge traffic in this promotional event.