Chapter 332 Thoughts and Travels

Hunter x Hunter has reached the top. Now, everyone in the two-dimensional industry is amazed, but not too surprised. ♦♦  ♦♦

What is amazing is that after Hunter x Hunter reached the top, Xia Yan completed the first grand slam in the history of Dragon Country novels, comics, and animation for the first time.

But in fact, as early as half a year ago, everyone in the industry had already begun to prepare for this moment.

With Xia Yan's current popularity in the two-dimensional industry in Dragon Country, coupled with the excellent quality of Hunter x Hunter's own works, it is only natural for Hunter x Hunter to achieve this achievement.

Of course, with Hunter x Hunter's top, Mo Ran, Xia Yan's partner, also reached the forefront of the two-dimensional industry in Dragon Country.

The photo of the two people spread on TV news, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet along with the news that Hunter x Hunter's single book sales reached the top.

So far

Xia Yan's status in the two-dimensional field has been completely deified.

In the parallel world, when it comes to who has the greater influence and higher popularity among Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Toriyama, Oda, etc., there are actually different opinions.

After all, everyone is not in the same field, and it is difficult for fans to compare any results.

But in Longguo, there is no objection to this answer.

The first person in the two-dimensional field is Xia Yan.

Although he is still a few months away from turning 22, and although he even has a week to graduate from college strictly speaking, he is actually the first person in Longguo's two-dimensional industry.

Longguo has tens of millions of fans, and similarly, in other countries in the world, Xia Yan also has tens of millions of fans of his works.

And all this.

was created in less than six years.

From showing his talent in the second year of high school to graduating in the second semester of the senior year

At the beginning, Xia Yan was just a small grass in the two-dimensional industry, but in less than six years, he has grown into a towering tree in this field.

The word miracle is difficult to describe the feelings of Longguo's two-dimensional industry practitioners about Xia Yan at the end of June.

It's really too abnormal.

[The sales of the single volume of Hunter x Hunter has reached the top, which means that Longguo's genius creator Xia Yan has officially completed the comprehensive domination of the two-dimensional industry. Perhaps. It belongs only to Xia Yan's era. ]

[When a god is born, all the stars fall. In the past few decades, the Dragon Country's two-dimensional industry has always been a battle of kings. No one can dominate any of the three major fields of "comics", "animation" and "novels" with absolute advantage, but Xia Yan did it. It took less than six years to defeat all competitors in the three major fields of Dragon Country. ]

[On this day, no one had any objection to Xia Yan being called the number one in the Dragon Country's two-dimensional industry. Even the black fans who had many opinions about Xia Yan in the past two years were collectively silent on this day. ]

[No one held a coronation ceremony for Xia Yan, but from this moment on, everyone in the Dragon Country's two-dimensional world knew that Xia Yan had already reached the top of the altar and became the unique existence in the industry. ]

[Is the peak of the average sales volume of Hunter x Hunter the end? Wrong, this is just the beginning. The recent plot of the Phantom Troupe chapter has entered a good state. A large number of Xia Yan fans who have poured in from the animation and novel fields have swept the market for Hunter x Hunter single volumes. Perhaps in the next few years, we can expect to see a masterpiece with an average sales volume of over 30 million in the Dragon Country comics industry. 】

[Mo Ran, the luckiest person in the comics industry, although her drawing skills are very strong, it must be admitted that luck played a huge role in her being able to become a god in the comics industry together with Xia Yan. But on the other hand, luck is also a part of strength! 】

The rise of Hunter x Hunter may not have such a great influence, but as the last piece of the puzzle in the three major fields involved by Xia Yan, its rise to the top has completely stabilized Xia Yan's position in the industry and attracted a lot of attention from the industry. Naturally, the relevant news still has a lot of heat in the industry for a week.

However, Xia Yan, who was busy with graduation matters in June, was not too concerned about these news.

When he just entered this industry, Xia Yan thought that he had so many works in the parallel world, and it was not a dream to become the first person in the industry in Longguo.

But the more he understood the advantages and disadvantages of the two-dimensional works in that world and the level of Longguo, Xia Yan's goal had actually changed from reaching the top of Longguo to how much influence he could spread in this world, above the first place.

Becoming the first person in the industry in Longguo at the age of 21 is just a preliminary goal.

In the next few decades, Xia Yan's new goal is to expand his influence from Longguo to the whole world.

But things have to be done slowly.

The last week of June.

Xia Yan received a notice and came to the classroom after not coming for more than half a year.

More than 40 people in a class came together on this day.

The class monitor, study committee members and others began to distribute their graduation certificates and class group photos.

Because of Xia Yan's existence, this class is relatively special. The school leaders appeared together, and also pulled the photographers together to find Xia Yan to take a group photo.

This year's outstanding graduate is Song Lingjun, which is indisputable.

After all, Song Lingjun's grades, appearance, academic performance, and moral character are excellent, and she herself has been in the top five in the industry's popularity in the light novel industry of Longguo.

Maybe her works are far behind Xia Yan's Sword Art Online, but compared with any masterpiece of other book clubs, her popularity is not inferior.

On the last graduation day of all the students in the college, Xia Yan looked at Song Lingjun, who was stunning, quiet and beautiful.

This thought came to her mind again.

If it weren't for me.

Then she, who was only 21 years old and had ranked among the top five in the novel industry in terms of comprehensive influence in the field of Dragon Country's light novels?

She must be the only protagonist in the field of Dragon Country's two-dimensional industry.

After seeing Xia Yan's achievements in comics and animation, Song Lingjun also had a great interest in these two fields.

She specially invited a teacher to teach her relevant knowledge.

Of course, comics are a laborious subject, and Song Lingjun may not be involved in them personally, but it is not impossible to find a partner like Xia Yan.

Song Lingjun is actually imitating the path that Xia Yan has taken.

But in fact, without Xia Yan, with Song Lingjun's talent, after she has achieved certain achievements in the field of novels, she will definitely look to the fields of animation, comics, and even games.

She is a natural genius in the two-dimensional industry of Dragon Country.

It's just that she encountered the bug of Xia Yan, so she is not very famous in the industry.

Xia Yan thought of this and sighed.

Song Lingjun also noticed Xia Yan's gaze on her.

If it were her usual day, if Xia Yan didn't take the initiative to do something, she would definitely remain silent and would not show any emotions.

But today.

After talking to the college leaders, counselors and others, Song Lingjun quietly walked to Xia Yan's side.

"What? It seems that you don't seem very happy." Song Lingjun spoke, her voice was still cold, but it contained a unique and gentle feeling for Xia Yan.

"Nothing. I graduated, and I felt a little melancholy when I thought that I had studied for more than ten years and was about to leave my student status."

Xia Yan found an excuse, and he certainly couldn't express what he was thinking.

"Then you can study for a master's degree next! Then you will be a student again."

"." Xia Yan, it's been four years, and you Song Lingjun still can't speak like this.

"What about you? Your grades are more than enough to be admitted to the school's graduate school or even a graduate school abroad, why are you..."

"Studying is not my homepage." Song Lingjun stood beside Xia Yan and said softly.

"I may try my best but still fail to surpass your current achievements in my life, not to mention that I have to study to improve my academic qualifications. Although I am not satisfied with my current academic qualifications, I will consider your proposal today when I try my best and really achieve the goal of surpassing you. Or I will fail until I am 80 years old and become an old woman who can no longer hold a pen."

"You are still so serious." Xia Yan sighed.

"This is not cute. Few boys can stand your serious approach. It will be difficult to find a partner in the future."

"So this is why you chose Tang Yin instead of me?" Song Lingjun paused and asked.

"My personality makes you feel uncomfortable."

It has been a long time since Xia Yan and Song Lingjun confronted each other. At the beginning, everyone was awkward to get along with each other. Now, the two can discuss related topics calmly.

"That's not the case." Xia Yan smiled bitterly.

"Or is it because Tang Yin and you stay together in the company all day and spend more time together." Song Lingjun continued to ask softly.

"Song Lingjun, why are you asking these questions." Xia Yan said.

"Nothing. Just curious."

Curious?

Xia Yan sighed. Song Lingjun, this friend, is indeed smart, but her brain circuit is indeed different from that of ordinary people.

At least normal women should give up the idea directly after being rejected, but she is just waiting for the opportunity.

Just like her persistence in the field of novels, after she recognized that Xia Yan was her opponent, even if Xia Yan took out Sword Art Online and achieved such an outrageous result,

she was just calculating how long it would take her, three years, five years, or ten years, or as she said before, she would consider giving up after she worked hard until she was eighty years old and couldn't hold the pen.

Song Lingjun has the same attitude towards novels and feelings, and she is serious and only has one goal.

This troubled Xia Yan.

"What are you anxious and afraid of?" Song Lingjun noticed Xia Yan's hesitation and said tentatively.

"If you really don't have any thoughts about me, then don't pay attention to me, unless you don't have confidence in yourself."

Who would have confidence?

Xia Yan complained crazily in his heart.

Even from his perspective, Song Lingjun is an extremely cute and beautiful woman.

In other words, if he was not in a relationship with Tang Yin, but was single and faced Song Lingjun's confession, Xia Yan knew very well that he would have probably agreed.

Apart from his achievements in the two-dimensional industry, he is just a 21-year-old college student. He is not blind and has no psychological problems.

Xia Yan can't imagine what kind of person can refuse Song Lingjun's pursuit.

Song Lingjun's pupils checked the emotions hidden under Xia Yan's expression, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"What are you going to do after graduation?" Song Lingjun didn't continue to force Xia Yan on this topic.

"Well, I have submitted the scripts of several new works to the company's production department in advance. After some things are almost handled this week, I will probably go on a trip with Tang Yin for a few months."

"Travel?" Song Lingjun frowned when he heard it.

"Well, couple travel." Xia Yan deliberately emphasized the word couple.

He still hoped that Song Lingjun would give up and give up some ideas.

Of course, to be honest, Xia Yan lacked confidence in himself.

Xia Yan had to admit that he had some occasional thoughts about Song Lingjun and Tang Yin, two friends he had known since high school.

For example, in high school, he thought that if he spent a long time with the two of them, he would develop a relationship with either Song Lingjun or Tang Yin.

Of course, the fact is that Xia Yan eventually developed a relationship with Tang Yin, but if Song Lingjun kept staring at him, Xia Yan would be very wary of this.

Song Lingjun was silent after hearing this.

"It doesn't matter, you are a couple, it's your freedom." Song Lingjun said softly.

As long as you are not planning to get married and have a honeymoon directly after graduation.

Although Song Lingjun is different from ordinary women, no matter how much she thinks about Xia Yan, she can only insist when Xia Yan has a girlfriend. If Xia Yan is already married.

She herself cannot allow herself to pursue a married man. This has nothing to do with liking or not, but her last bottom line.

Xia Yan sighed when he saw her expression.

How stubborn.

In July, Xia Yan officially graduated and transitioned from a student to a pure member of society.

At this time, he is already the chairman of Xia Tang Animation, a large animation company with an annual profit of more than 1 billion, the fifth largest in Longguo, and a book capital of more than 4 billion.

He is the pillar novelist of Liuli Bookstore, the first novel bookstore in Longguo.

He is the pillar cartoonist of Beizhou Comics, the first comic book company in Longguo.

He is recognized by Longguo's two-dimensional industry.

The first in the industry, and not the first at this stage or in this era, but the first in history, and Xia Yan is still making history.

But after a person reaches the top, what's next?

After half a month of carnival in the industry, many people dare not say it out loud, fearing that they will be criticized by Xia Yan's fans.

But in their hearts, they are looking forward to the broadcast of several new works of Xia Yan.

Who can keep climbing?

Just like the 100-meter sprint, if a person runs 10 seconds, the next time he participates, fans will expect him to run 9.9 seconds, and the next time, it will be 9.8, 9.7, 9.6

Until this person really reaches his limit, and then.

It is to regress from his limit, the level will decline, and regress to one day, he can no longer run under 10 seconds.

The myth is shattered, everyone loses interest in him, and turns to the next myth maker.

Now is Xia Yan's peak in the industry, the time when Xia Yan has the greatest influence, and at the same time, it is also the time when Xia Yan is most dangerous.

After the end of Code Geass, everyone's expectations for Xia Yan's new work.

reached an extremely exaggerated level.

There may be some rational fans who can accept that Xia Yan's new work is not as good as Lelouch. It is normal to be slightly worse.

But what is slightly worse?

Is 99% of Lelouch's level enough?

What about 90%?

What if it is only 80%?

These rational fans actually think carefully in their hearts that they can only do not criticize Xia Yan's new work if it is slightly worse. If it is much worse, they will probably complain on the Internet.

The best situation is that Xia Yan's new work will be a masterpiece that surpasses Lelouch.

Xia Yan has tens of millions of fans in Longguo. Fans think so, which is actually a huge psychological pressure on creators.

If ordinary creators face this kind of pressure, they will probably start to worry about gains and losses.

The new work is of good quality, which may not surpass their previous peak, but if the new work has some flaws, it will immediately make their previously accumulated reputation fall and become a joke of black fans.

But Xia Yan is not among these people.

Because strictly speaking, these works are not created by him, so he won't be too worried about gains and losses. If a work gets bad reviews, he will carefully choose a top-notch work next time to shut up these people.

However, Xia Yan is a conservative person. The two works of Fullmetal Alchemist and Slam Dunk have the highest investment, so they should take longer to polish and broadcast later.

But in order to prevent the black fans from reviving briefly, Xia Yan still put Fullmetal Alchemist in January next year, Slam Dunk in April, Tengen Toppa in July, and Bakemonogatari in October.

The premieres of the four works are staggered in four quarters, and

in terms of the length of these four works, except for Tengen Toppa, the others are basically long series that will be serialized for more than a year.

If the animation fans of Dragon Country think that Lelouch has reached the peak, then Fullmetal Alchemist may have to change the impression of fans.

Strictly speaking, Lelouch and Madoka Magica belong to the peak of the animation business field in the parallel world, and their commercial value is extremely dazzling in their respective eras.

But when it comes to the peak of reputation, Fullmetal Alchemist is actually better.

Of course, the works are definitely at the same level, with different focuses.

Just considering the depth of the plot, the praise rate and other comprehensive factors, Fullmetal Alchemist is the eternal god in the hearts of most animation fans in the parallel world.

As for Slam Dunk, it goes without saying. Putting aside the gangster fighting plots of Sakuragi in the early plots, just looking at the main basketball part, this work is an undisputed masterpiece.

Gurren Lagann and Monogatari series are a little worse, both in terms of commercial value and reputation, they are not as good as Code Geass and Madoka Magica.

But compared with local original works such as Longguo, the gap is still obvious.

The results will not be bad after the broadcast.

After the relevant plans are finalized.

Xia Yan promoted all his activities in the next three months.

Pulling Tang Yin, the two of them carried a suitcase, surrounded by several personal bodyguards and tour guides they had hired.

In order to make up for the mistake of having almost no dates as a couple after dating for a year, I planned a travel strategy for traveling to seven countries including the Dragon Kingdom in three months.

After making money, you should take time to enjoy it

Making money is not necessarily Xia Yan's goal, but enjoying life properly is definitely Xia Yan's life goal at the same level as spreading various works in Long Kingdom.

Of course, Xia Yan went on a trip, and the full-time hunter in Dragon Kingdom and the serialization of Sword Art Online were hindered to some extent.

Basically, one chapter is updated every two weeks.

The fans are full of resentment and complaining.

But Xia Yan didn't care so much. In his almost six years of career as a creator, he had never been willful once. This time he would definitely have to bite the bullet.

Moreover, in the next few years, fans of the comic book Hunter will experience what it means to have irregular updates.

At that time, let alone updating every two weeks, it will not be possible to update once every two months.

All I can say now is let fans get familiar with it temporarily.

Just like that, time has entered autumn

Although the serialization of Sword Art Online and Hunter is slow, the sales of single volumes are still on the rise.

Xia Yan is now almost a myth in the 2D industry, and Xia Yan's works have also been mythologized. The most recommended works to new 2D fans are Xia Yan's works. Those who looked down on Xia Yan before are now broken in their hearts. I started to buy individual copies of his works.

This is star power.

However, there is not much impact in the field of comics and novels, but it is different in the field of animation.

After the completion of Lelouch, the autumn animation market will be dominated by the works of the three major animation production companies.

The anime with the highest ratings this quarter, Lelouch, dropped more than 3% year-on-year.

Three weeks after it started airing, the strongest animation only had a ratings of 3.1%.

Even though it still has half the ratings of Lelouch, in fact, the gap in influence of the works is far higher than this.

This is similar to the 100-meter race. Those who run in 12 seconds are rubbish, but those who run in 9 seconds can be called gods.

From the absolute value of the data, the difference between the two is only 25%, but in fact, there may be billions of human rankings between the two, and the difference is dozens of grades.

Everyone in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry is still looking forward to Xia Yan's return.

Xia Yan at this time

Gifts, exotic customs, worlds, landscapes, spiritual baptism, forgetting all the creation and updating of works, and immersed myself in the honeymoon with Tang Yinhe and the couple's sports.

There is no real sense in making money, but spending money.

That feeling is too obvious.

Xia Yan and Tang Yin were completely in a state of forgetting all their worries and working.

It feels good to not go to work for a while, and it feels good to not go to work all the time.

"Alas."

On a certain yacht, there were only Xia Yan, Tang Yin, and a female captain.

The two of them were wearing swimsuits and looking at the blue sea in front of them and the seagulls attracted by the food.

Tang Yin spread her hands, her smooth and voluptuous waist, slender calves, and fair and beautiful face immersed in the sea breeze.

Xia Yan, on the other hand, concentrated on the work of grilling unknown prawns that he had just caught in the sea in front of him.

This was what he and Tang Yin had for dinner this afternoon.

"Ah, what a salty fish, the two of us."

Tang Yin lay directly in Xia Yan's arms, and a faint girly fragrance hit her. From Xia Yan's angle, she could see the scene inside Tang Yin's swimsuit breasts in front of her, and Xia Yan suddenly became angry.

"It's okay." Xia Yan controlled himself, after all, it was broad daylight.

"But it's time to go back." Tang Yin said at this time.

"You haven't updated Sword Art Online for three weeks. You have no interest in writing it! The Hunter manga is okay. You can fax back the storyboard draft, but Mo Ran has not updated it for two weeks."

"Go back." Xia Yan's laziness struck him.

"Let's play for another half month."

"It's already September, so don't be lazy. Otherwise, your fans will probably go berserk by then."

Tang Yin hugged Xia Yan's arm and whispered.

"Moreover, without you and I, many of the company's businesses cannot be carried out, and the hidden income lost is estimated to be between tens of millions and hundreds of millions. Many employees in the company's departments are too anxious to report to you, but more than a dozen people a day He called me in a subtle way to urge me."

"Hey, if you don't play enough this time, who knows when I will have time to take you out to play next time." Xia Yan said.

"There will always be one." Tang Yin smiled.

"And the point is to be with you, not to be somewhere with you." Tang Yin raised her head slightly and kissed Xia Yan on the lips.

"It doesn't matter how much money you make, what's important is that if you keep doing it for a long time, the market will be taken back by competitors, which will cause certain losses to our partners. The income of their employees' families will be affected. ”

"Xia Yan, you are now the core of multiple industrial chains in the Dragon Kingdom's two-dimensional industry and are related to the jobs of many people. They are not like us who can benefit from a ten-year shutdown."

"You can be willful in the short term, but in the long term, some of the small bosses and company employees who have bet on our company will go bankrupt and cannot afford to pay their mortgages." Tang Yin said.

"Okay then." Xia Yan was silent for a while after hearing this, and also felt a little bit of responsibility on his shoulders. He hugged Tang Yin and took a deep breath.

Tang Yin and Xia Yan said that he didn't care how much money they would lose if they stopped working for a day, but when it came to the topic of the family income of his collaborators and employees, Xia Yan couldn't be lazy.

Just like the works such as Dragon Ball and Naruto in the parallel world, the tail is too big to be dropped, because these works involve a huge industrial chain and are related to the work of many people in the chain.

Of course, most of the profits of the industrial chain are earned by the boss, but even the remaining soup is enough for thousands of company employees to support their families.

This is also the reason why Dragon Ball will come up with inexplicable original animation plots and Naruto will do Boruto.

If you want them to continue to generate income, you can't end them

Xia Yan looked in a certain direction on the sea level and narrowed his eyes.

This book is almost at the final stage, and the main thing is that I don't know what else I can write to improve the protagonist.

Urban novels can't change maps, and the protagonist's success and fame are nothing to write about.

A work like Hunter can make an ordinary person a top creator in the industry by taking out one of them.

It is very difficult to go up from there.

It is also difficult for me to write about the works like Dead Fire Sea that have been serialized for decades.

Otherwise, writing about the protagonist's development company would probably be quite boring, so I will write about the following works appropriately so that they are not too dragged out.