Chapter 192 Summit and Decision

"Of course. Puella Magi Madoka Magica is the pinnacle of our company. From the establishment of the company to now, one year ago, all activities have been carried out around this work. Now..." Tang Yin held her cheek with her slender fingers. There is a trace of confusion on the beautiful side face.

After all, before she and Xia Yan started working on this work, she had never considered that Magic Circle could be so popular.

She, Xia Yan, and Song Lingjun combined have invested more than 30 million in this work of Magic Yuan.

But now, their investment will be returned to the three of them ten times, twenty times, or even more in the next few months. Everything is really like a dream.

"Me too. When Xia Yan asked me to borrow money at the beginning, I didn't expect this work to develop to this point. I feel like I took advantage of it." Sitting in the back seat of the taxi by the window on the other side Song Lingjun also spoke at this time.

"Don't think so much." Xia Yan chuckled.

"Tomorrow I will ask the company's financial officer to distribute dividends to several of our shareholders. During this period, I only have a few thousand yuan, and I am very poor. After getting the money, everyone will go shopping separately. Then... rest for a few days, We are about to fully enter the animation production of "I'll Wait for You in Seven Years" and "Cyberpunk Edgewalker".

"Dividends?" Tang Yin became interested after hearing this.

"Okay, Xia Yan, you are worthy of being the chairman. But what are you going to do after you take the money?"

Song Lingjun also looked at Xia Yan.

"I'm going to buy a car first." Hearing this, Xia Yan took a deep breath to dispel the dizziness in his brain.

“It’s really unreasonable that the comic book Initial D is so popular in the Dragon Kingdom comic industry, but its creator doesn’t even own a car.”

Xia Yan said with a wry smile.

Song Lingjun and Tang Yin looked at each other, with a slight smile in their eyes, amused by Xia Yan's words.

"By the way. I'm going to buy an apartment by the way. I'm not used to living in high-rise buildings near the school, and my privacy is relatively poor. People often take photos of me secretly in the community."

Xia Yan was planning a plan after the funds for his famous work "Mo Yuan" were received, when he felt sleepy and slowly fell asleep in the car.

In a daze, he seemed to feel someone holding his shoulders and taking him to his home. →

In the next few days, the sales volume of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's theatrical animation BD has finally stabilized in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

After all, it has been in continuous supply for more than a week. After most fans bought the disc, the situation of being hard to find a disc has been alleviated.

Xia Yan, on the other hand, used the sales results of Puella Magi Madoka Magica Theatrical Edition and TV Animation BD as bargaining chips to discuss cooperation plans, sharing ratios and other details with several peripheral distribution companies.

Cooperation with animation companies in overseas countries was quickly finalized.

At the same time, Puella Magi Madoka Magica's figurines, dolls, character image licensing, comics, and novel adaptation licensing are also in progress.

At least in the next six months, or even a year, the company will set up a Puella Magi Madoka Magica work docking department to handle the subsequent IP development of this work.

But at the time when Puella Magi Madoka Magica's popularity was at its highest, a question arose that made all practitioners very curious in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

"Soldier of Love", who is he?

The animation Magic Circle is so famous, why are its creators and screenwriters still hiding their faces?

In fact, some people in the Dragon Kingdom animation community now know Xia Yan's true identity.

After all, Xia Yan, as the chairman of the "Xia Tang Animation" production company, has met with at least dozens of directors from dozens of companies and TV stations in the domestic and overseas animation industry to seek cooperation.

These people know who the "Soldier of Love" really is.

We also know what kind of disturbance will be caused in the two-dimensional world of Dragon Kingdom once the news is announced that the true identity of the "Love Warrior" is Xia Yan, a 19-year-old light novel writer and cartoonist from Dragon Kingdom.

But the more this happens, the more secretive these people become.

Xia Yan himself has not disclosed his identity information in the industry, which illustrates Xia Yan's attitude. Those who came to seek cooperation with Xia Yan on behalf of the company behind him were definitely not big talkers. They hated Xia Yan. If the cooperation fell through, they would definitely not be able to live with it.

But that's it.

The entire Dragon Kingdom animation industry is very aware of this.

"Soldier of Love", his identity cannot be hidden for long.

Judging from Puella Magi Madoka Magica's popularity and influence, he will definitely not be able to win this year's "Best TV Animation of the Year" screenwriter award.

There’s no way he won’t accept this kind of award when the time comes, right?

mid september

Xia Yan's sophomore life is on the right track.

There are more courses in school, and professional courses have become more difficult.

Xia Yan also spent slightly more time on studies.

After all, this is Shanghai University, and the school's teachers will not care about Xia Yan's status as a well-known light novel writer and cartoonist in the Dragon Kingdom. If his grades are not up to standard, he will not be able to graduate.

As for Xia Yan's comic book Initial D, the plot of the series at this time has just been serialized on the showdown between Tu Hai and the sheet metal king Li Yi.

This showdown was serialized for a whole month, and was an important chapter in the steady rise in Initial D's popularity.

Naturally, in the last episode of the duel between Tu Hai and Li Yi between AE86 and GTR32, the GTR controlled by Li Yi crashed into the guardrail due to the unstable center of gravity and accelerated through the corner, while 86 successfully overtook, and Gao Liang, who was watching the battle behind the two, made a handsome tail drift to avoid colliding with the GTR and causing a car accident.

The two characters of Tu Hai and Gao Liang completely conquered the comic fans.

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In the same issue, Initial D's journal voting ranking successfully surpassed the first-ranked work "Forbidden Door" in "Beizhou", with 1874523 votes and an advantage of more than 2,000 votes. For the first time, it topped the "Beizhou" comic journal.

At this time, it was only more than two months away from the first serialization of the Initial D comic.

The cartoonist combination of Xia Yan and Mo Ran created the history of the Dragon Country comic industry.

The youngest, the shortest time, and only the comic debut work can top the magazine of the level of "Beizhou"

Even though the Dragon Country's two-dimensional world is still immersed in the horror of Madoka Magica, Initial D can still ignore all of this and make its name known.

Beizhou Comics naturally promoted the fact that Xia Yan and Mo Ran, a cartoonist team, reached the top in the Dragon Country comics community.

But this situation made another person, Xia Yan's novel agent Bai Xuan, completely unable to sit still.

She came directly to Xia Yan's house the day after Initial D comics reached the top of Beizhou, with a serious look on her face.

"So where is the new novel you promised me? Did you forget it?"

Bai Xuan, wearing a white business dress, has a slim and delicate figure, and her long black legs and high heels are very eye-catching.

But the solemn aura on her face made Xia Yan a little flustered.

I thought Xia Yan was just going to the comics industry to test the waters, but who knew that after two months of testing the waters, the popularity of comics in Beizhou reached the top.

This kind of thing, even Bai Xuan, who is knowledgeable, is a little confused.

But then comes the imbalance in the heart.

Why?

When you first started working with me, you didn't create a work that was so popular in the "Liuli" journal, but you created a comic that topped the list in "Beizhou". Who can bear this?

Xia Yan, he actually involves comics, animation, and novels, because he knows that the works he can get from Yuan Qing's memory are of different styles, and many works have their most suitable themes and carriers for adaptation.

But in the past six months, he has been mainly busy with the animation production of Magical Girl Madoka Magica, followed by the comic creation of Initial D.

As for novels,

he really hasn't made any moves.

Of course, this doesn't mean that he didn't get any good novels in Yuan Qing's memory, but he measured his energy and temporarily suspended the development of his novel career.

But in fact,

Bai Xuan actually took a lot of care of him. When he first came to the Magic City, she helped him find his residence, and she also worked hard on the serialization of Initial D's comics.

And before, she also promised that she would launch a new novel this year.

Now the real owner is blocking the door.

"Well, there will be new novels. Don't panic!" Xia Yan said with a smile.

"In fact, urging the novelists to work hard and create new novels is also one of my tasks as an agent."

Bai Xuan sat on the sofa in Xia Yan's house, with her long black silk legs resting on her other leg, and her pretty face was very serious.

"You have time to make comics, so you won't have no time to write novels. You have to give me an answer."

Requesting for manuscripts

This was the first time in Xia Yan's two years of work that he was asked to write manuscripts.

Instantly, the pressure came up.

Xia Yan took a deep breath and wanted to say something. But after meeting Bai Xuan's eyes, he sighed.

"I'm busy this month, and I want to wait until next month, October, or November to talk to you about the new novel."

But there was no way. Xia Yan could deny it by force. However, after all, the other party was Bai Xuan. She had asked for manuscripts more than 20 times in half a year, and she came to ask for manuscripts in person today. Xia Yan didn't want to perfunctorily deal with her anymore.

After all, he still had a good impression of her.

"Come to my place again in a week, Sister Xuan."

"One week?" Bai Xuan's clear dark pupils were somewhat moved.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I have already had the idea for the new novel. I'm just busy recently so..." Xia Yan was also very straightforward and spoke his mind directly.

He was worried about whether he would have enough energy to serialize the Initial D comics, produce two animations for the company, and then serialize novels in the novel industry.

But

Xia Yan thought of a group of animation practitioners and cartoonists in the parallel world.

Those people basically work non-stop from morning to night to achieve such achievements.

Even Togashi Yoshihiro, who is called the industry's biggest lazy guy by many people in the parallel world, actually plays mahjong just for fun. His laziness is one thing, but the more important reason for not updating comics is that he has a serious back pain caused by his occupational disease of drawing comics. The later Hunter x Hunter comics were drawn while lying on the bed in a half-sleeping position to relieve the pain.

Compared with this, Xia Yan's fatigue is nothing.

After all, the plot of the work was directly in his mind, and all he needed to do was to make appropriate modifications and transfers.

He didn't want to be lazy anymore.

"Are you serious?" Bai Xuan asked.

"certainly."

"Is one week enough?" Baixuan hesitated now, fearing that she would push too hard and Xia Yan would produce a shoddy work.

"Well, what should I say? In my judgment, as far as the popularity of the work after serialization is concerned, in the two-dimensional world, it will not lose to Initial D."

Xia Yan smiled.