Chapter 344 Turning Point

After the episode of Slam Dunk was broadcast, the controversy on the Internet about Slam Dunk going off topic and Xia Yan's portrayal of sports plots being good-looking basically disappeared.

It took Slam Dunk two months from the broadcast to the disappearance of controversy and the initial recognition of fans.

However, in fact, the development process of Slam Dunk in Dragon Country is similar to that in the parallel world.

After all, Slam Dunk was also unpopular in the early days of the parallel world comics serialization, because the author Inoue did not plan to draw any orthodox basketball comics at the beginning. He directly told his editor before the serialization that basketball was just a cover, and this was a campus youth comics in the guise of basketball.

Because bad comics were popular in the island country at that time, he also followed the trend and drew the protagonist as a bad boy. Then, because the popularity in the early stage of serialization was too low, more funny plots were added.

Even so, in fact, the popularity of the comics has always been tepid. If it continues like this, it may be cut off. Since playing basketball cannot make the comic fans excited, let the protagonist fight instead of playing basketball.

That's why there is the plot of Mitsui Shou fighting against the entire Xiangbei team in the gymnasium.

Thanks to the outstanding performance of Sakuragi Hanamichi, a basketball rookie and a fighting expert in this chapter, the popularity of Slam Dunk actually began to rise, and there were signs of it becoming popular.

In the end of this chapter, Mitsui Shou became popular with the words "Coach, I want to play basketball!", which ignited the emotions of comic fans, and the road to the popularity of the original Slam Dunk comic began here.

Interestingly, during the serialization of this chapter, Inoue originally wanted the character of Mitsui Shou to be quickly eliminated after being crushed by Sakuragi, and become a minor character who only appeared in a few chapters of the comic.

However, during the serialization process, Inoue developed the author's reluctance to part with the gangster Mitsui Shou, and on a whim, he came up with the idea of ​​letting him play basketball as well.

So in Longguo, Xia Yan was mentally prepared before the broadcast of Slam Dunk, thinking that if Slam Dunk wanted to really become popular and be recognized by fans, it would also have to wait until Mitsui Shou appeared.

As for the high ratings of Slam Dunk at this stage, it is only the result of Xia Yan's huge popularity. It does not mean that the funny and funny plots in the early stage of Slam Dunk will be liked by so many people in Longguo.

But Xia Yan did not expect that the exchange match with the Ryonan team would cause such a strong response from the audience.

I thought that fans would like this plot, but I feel that the fans' praise is a bit higher than expected.

But this is a good thing.

And now, in the serialized animation, after the exchange match between the Xiangbei team and the Ryonan team, soon

the most classic Mitsui Shou Stadium battle against the basketball team in the early plot of Slam Dunk will be staged.

But before that, for many of Xia Yan's fans, many of them are now interested in basketball.

There is no NBA league in the Longguo plane. Of course, basketball also has a market abroad, but in Longguo, the popularity is definitely much lower than in the parallel world.

Many people know that there is this sport, but they are very vague about the rules. Now Xia Yan's fan comment area has begun to become a basketball knowledge popularization forum.

"I learned about basketball and found the rules quite interesting."

"Although basketball is not very popular in Longguo, you have watched Slam Dunk for more than ten episodes and you don't even know the rules of basketball?"

"I don't know the rules of basketball either. Until the exchange match between Xiangbei and Ryonan, I thought Lao Zei was creating a youth comedy animation with basketball as a gimmick. Basketball is just a means for Hanamichi to pursue girls. The real main plot is that he pursues Haruko. But I was really moved when I saw the scene where Hanamichi lost the game. To be honest, I don't feel anything when watching sports games in real life, but I cried when watching basketball games in animations where I don't know the rules."

"So this is the charm of two-dimensional works! Character portrayal, inner growth, you as a viewer, you know everything from a God's perspective."

"I originally thought that a group of high school students' game was not interesting, but now, I really don't like that A fictional island country, a fictional region of the so-called national competition, aroused my interest, and hurried to catch up on basketball knowledge. "

"Speaking of which, the sports works created by Lao Zei are all unpopular. Racing, basketball, all are sports that are not popular in Longguo."

"But they are popular abroad, especially racing. Racing athletes abroad have a high income, but in Longguo, hehe, everyone thinks that sport is too dangerous and is not very encouraged."

"I hope there will be more basketball games in the plot after Slam Dunk. Although the flower path show in the front is quite interesting, I still feel that basketball games are more interesting."

"No more, brothers, I will continue to watch foreign basketball games to learn basketball rules, and strive to at least fully understand the game when Slam Dunk is broadcast next week."

In fact, with Xia Yan's current popularity, Slam Dunk is basically known to everyone in the two-dimensional industry, and the quality of the plot actually has the greatest impact on the ratings.

After all, if everyone on the Internet unanimously praises the recent plot, the number of people following Slam Dunk will definitely increase.

The feedback from fans in the market was first passed on to Xia Tang Animation Production Company.

This also made everyone in the Slam Dunk animation production team excited.

At the same time, the pressure also came to the "Gurren Lagann Toppa" animation production team.

Two new works of Xia Yan were launched this year.

Slam Dunk has been on the air for almost a quarter and finally won the initial recognition of fans.

Not to mention Fullmetal Alchemist, which has been serialized to the 22nd episode and has been recognized by fans as a half-masterpiece in advance.

Although there is no possibility of surpassing Magic Circle or Lelouch in ratings in the near future, the strength of the work can be seen from the fact that it has not dropped below 6% in ratings since its launch.

And slam dunk.

Not surprisingly, within the next week or two, the ratings should reach the 6% mark.

This must have put a lot of pressure on the "Tian Yuan Breakthrough" animation production team.

Of course, they are not the only ones who are under great pressure. The Dragon Kingdom animation industry is even more uncomfortable this quarter.

Xia Yan's Steel Refining and Slam Dunk took the first and second spots on this quarter's animation popularity list, with basically stable ratings of 6%.

The popular animated adaptation of Initial D is also approaching this figure.

If we look at other companies in the animation industry, we will find that the current animation industry is too stratified.

As long as Xia Yan's works are aired, the ratings will almost always be above 5%, and if they are better, they will be directly above 6%.

But the best works of other companies only have a 4% ratings, and it is difficult to even get close to 5% ratings.

In the past five years, apart from Xia Yan's works, only one animation has had a 5% ratings.

But this upper limit for other animation companies' performance is now only the lower limit for Xia Yan's performance.

Longguo Animation Circle now basically recognizes Xia Yan as the active and even the first person in the animation industry, but this gap still makes many people in the industry lament.

Xia Yan is only twenty-two years old now. He is still young and energetic, and there is no sign of his creative inspiration running out.

Could it be said that he will rule the Dragon Kingdom animation industry for thirty or even fifty years like this?

And it's not just the animation industry. The comics and novel industries are now basically dominated by his Hunter and Sword Art Online. There is still no opponent in the industry.

Sword Art Online is okay. Although the animation has been launched, the popularity of the novel itself has reached its peak, and the animation has not brought much sales help to the novel.

Hunters are different

The Brigade Chapter is now progressing to the later stage. The plot has come to the scene where Kurapika uses his telekinesis ability to lock the members of the Brigade, the violent murderer Wojin, and finally kills Wojin with a chain under the moon. On one side is The hatred of the entire clan being massacred by the other party, but on the other side, is the guilt and pain of killing someone for the first time.

This chapter has brought Kurapika's popularity to an extreme, giving birth to millions of fans of him in the Dragon Kingdom. Nowadays, major comic exhibitions are full of men's clothing girls cosplaying with Kurapika.

The sales volume of comic books is also steadily approaching the average volume of 27 million.

In these three fields, Xia Yan's current popularity and achievements are far behind those of his contemporaries.

Xia Yan has now gradually begun to become the big devil and the pinnacle of the industry in the minds of thousands of creators of two-dimensional works in the Dragon Kingdom.

Similarly, influenced by Xia Yan's career in just six years, there are now a large number of young people in the middle and high school students in Dragon Kingdom who are striving for their life goals as novelists, cartoonists, and animation creators.

Some of them regard Xia Yan as their idol and hope to work with Xia Yan one day, but there are also some people who admire Xia Yan, but are determined to completely defeat Xia Yan in this industry one day.

This is the same as children who set the goal of becoming the richest man in the world. They have no ill intentions towards Xia Yan, but Xia Yan is the number one in the industry, so they will naturally have the idea of ​​surpassing Xia Yan.

And among this group, many people also like another creator, Song Lingjun.

As another novel genius from the same school as Xia Yan, Song Lingyun has been eclipsed by Xia Yan from her debut to the present. However, she is still chasing after Xia Yan, which also moved many people.

In late June, after the broadcast of a documentary edited by Modou TV1, featuring Xia Yan and Song Lingjun as the protagonists, interviews with Xia Yan and Song Lingjun, as well as their high school alma mater, class teacher, and classmates.

It also triggered a huge response from the market.

Xia Yan, just like this, is going further and further on the road of being the devil in the industry, and Song Lingjun is the one who has the deepest relationship with Xia Yan among his peers in the novel industry, and has a little contact with Xia Yan's presence.

June went by like this.

Time, enter July

Because Xia Yan made some daily deletions in the Slam Dunk plot that separated it from the main plot, and deliberately speeded up the pace of the plot in the animation, every week's updated plot was full of work reasons, and the Slam Dunk plot progressed very quickly.

We have quickly entered the plot where Mitsui Hisashi appears.

Of course, in the original work, after Shobei lost to Lingnan, Miyagi (Miyagi Ryota), one of the Five Tigers in Shobei, appeared first.

Then Mitsui Hisashi came out to cause trouble.

In this regard, Xia Yan will not omit the plot, but will compress it a bit, and quickly enter the main plot by relatively discarding the funny relationship history of Hanamichi and Miyagi, the story of the victims confiding in each other and then playing tricks.

So for the fans and viewers of Dragon Kingdom.

Their perception is that after the game between Xiangbei and Lingnan in the animation, for some reason, the plot suddenly stopped drawing basketball and instead went to draw the life history of the protagonist's delinquent boy.

In the island country of the parallel world, because delinquent comics were popular in the island country at that time, works such as "I am a big brother" and "Hot Blooded High School" were endless. It was natural to create plots like Slam Dunk, which was the mainstream at the time.

But in Dragon Country, bad boys are definitely still belittled by everyone. The previous plot was bad and funny, and fans just smiled at each other after watching it, just using the bad elements as a label to highlight the role of Hanamichi in comedy.

But since Mitsui Shou appeared

The funny plot has also decreased, and the plot has become heavy.

And

Looking at this plot, it seems that it will really turn into a fight between bad boys and the basketball team.

This plot development has exceeded the imagination of Slam Dunk fans.

"So, Lao Zei is really going to make a fighting animation? This is wrong, Slam Dunk animation."

"Don't be so proud, Slam Dunk's ratings have just reached the 6% ratings mark a few days ago, and many female fans are attracted by Liu Chuanfeng and Sendoh. Why are you making a fighting plot? Isn't this going to drive all the female fans away?"

"Mitsui Shou is really disgusting. This character is a villain who is successful. He doesn't dare to fight Miyagi alone. He beats Miyagi up and is hospitalized by Miyagi. He even has the nerve to make trouble for Miyagi after he is discharged from the hospital? Can such a person be a high school student?"

"To be honest, if Miyagi and Mitsui Shou were in My high school got into a fight and ended up in the hospital, and was expelled. These two were not expelled, but they were still going to fight after being discharged? In that island country, the school management is so lax? "

"I also can't understand the old thief's thinking. He should just draw basketball well, why did he have to depict the plot of bad boys? Are you really floating?"

"There's nothing wrong with the plot of bad boys fighting? I enjoyed it very much!"

"It's not that fighting is not okay, it's just that this is a basketball animation. I can understand the funny plot in the early stage, and I just treat it as a portrayal of the protagonist's character. Now we have just entered the main plot, and the basketball game is obviously It's so beautifully created. I think most Slam Dunk fans definitely want to see Xiangbei's revenge on Ryonan. Why do they depict a fight between bad boys in the middle? It always feels weird. "

"Well, it feels like the work is created wherever it comes to mind. The whole work seems to have a main line, which is the national competition. In fact, it has been broadcast for 15 episodes so far, and the whole process is very scattered. The protagonist has only scored one goal in the 15 episodes so far, and he scored a goal in the game against Ryonan. This is a basketball animation. Brother, it's hard not to complain about a basketball animation where the protagonist only scores one goal in 15 episodes. "

"I laughed, you black people Why is Lao Zei so bad? Slam Dunk's ratings have now exceeded 6%. You think the plot is not good, but it does not affect the ratings of Slam Dunk, which are getting higher week by week. "

"So it's just now. I have a hunch that if the plot of Slam Dunk continues to develop in the direction of bad boys fighting, it is likely that fans will leave. At least I definitely watch this animation for the words "slam dunk" and "master", rather than for the elements of bad boys and fighting."

In early July, the plot of Slam Dunk once again entered the trend of "departing from the main line" in the eyes of fans, causing a new round of arguments among the fan community.

In the same week, the "Gurren Lagann Toppa" animation was broadcast at 10 pm on Friday night.

The first episode had a rating of 5.03%

As a mecha battle animation like Lelouch, Tengen still has some attention and has inherited the popularity of many Lelouch fans.

However, compared with Slam Dunk and Fullmetal Alchemist, it is definitely inferior. In the entire animation market, Slam Dunk and Fullmetal Alchemist each take 20% of the popularity and traffic, the animated version of Initial D and Gurren Lagann each take 10% of the discussion popularity, and the remaining 20% ​​is divided among other animation works in the same quarter. This is the current autumn pattern of Dragon Country's animation industry.