Chapter 141: Choice
"Oriental Fantasy Village" is not so much a subject matter as a fictional setting of the world.
The history of Gensokyo can be traced back centuries, when there were still youkai in the world, and the prosperity of human civilization gradually oppressed the power of youkai, and powerful youkai felt an unprecedented crisis in their existence.
In order to solve this crisis, the yokai sage Yakumo Zi proposed and implemented the yokai expansion plan - to create a realm of virtual and real around Gensokyo, divide Gensokyo and the outside world into the "virtual" world and the "real" world, and build Gensokyo into a world that attracts "illusory things", and attract the wandering monsters into Gensokyo, and gradually increase the power of the monsters. Then use the Great Enchantment of Hakurei to block the contact between Gensokyo and the outside world, so as to provide a safe place for the monsters.
The powerful barrier cuts off the outside of Gensokyo, and the existence of Gensokyo cannot be confirmed from the outside, and it is impossible to enter Gensokyo from the outside. In this frontier land of the Eastern country, the youkai have established a civilization that is like a paradise.
The original Gensokyo started as a game, and due to the open copyright, a large number of fanfic writers made stories, comics, music, games, and even various other derivatives around the genre, which also brought the prosperity of the series.
Meng Shu has a more detailed set of settings in his mind, and he thinks that if he opens up the set of settings and then lets other cartoonists play, it is very likely to cause a sensation, but it is also risky, after all, Huaxia's comic comics have not yet developed.
But he also liked the idea of opening up some of the rights to Pokemon and expanding the comic book adaptation market.
It was an idea that popped into him, in fact, to open the rights of Pokemon to other manga artists, and it could be adapted into all kinds of stories. However, there is no historical reference to this idea, and the original copyright protection of the original book of this series is relatively strict, which restricts the development of fanmen and manga.
Meng Shu felt that there was nothing wrong with opening up a part of the copyright, as long as he held the setting of the elf in his hands, he had decisive authority, and other people's stories had to be evolved from his setting.
Moreover, opening up the rights to comics will bring excellent results.
Phoenix's cartoonists are certainly willing to prepare stories with the help of the broadcast of animation, and they write stories centered on elves, echoing the animation of Ninghai TV, animation drives the sale of magazines, and magazines can also make animation more popular.
It's the best of both worlds, the Pokemon series has a lot of potential and the timing is right, and if done well, Meng believes it is better suited than Oriental Gensokyo to boost magazine sales.
"Which one are you going to choose......
Meng Shu was in trouble.
"You can't choose both."
When he was worried, Shen Jie suddenly said, "No one wants you to choose one or the other." ”
Shen Jie was also at the hotel, and for the three days, she spent at least two and a half days in Meng Huo's hotel, under the pretext of practicing the lines of the second episode of "Pokemon", but she always loved to lie in bed and read comics.
And lie down, this guy also turned up the temperature of the air conditioner, took off his coat, and lay on the bed in a cool dress, showing his figure without hesitation.
She also likes to take a shower occasionally, and the bathroom door is always half-hidden.
Meng Shu couldn't help but suspect that Shen Jie was deliberately ** him, but every time this thought poured out, he would immediately dispel it. Shen Jie has a conservative personality, and how could a sixteen-year-old girl do such a thing.
He still remembers the scene when Shen Jie swore that he would not fall in love.
In the end, Meng came to a conclusion that Shen Jie did not treat him as a man.
"So she treats me as a best friend......"
This made Meng Shu's heart very complicated.
But he still has one more thing that is strange, this Chinese New Year, why does Shen Jie run to the hotel all day long?
To this question, Shen Jie's answer was Dao.
"I studied so hard that when I came home, I didn't know how many relatives visited me, and my parents almost treated me as an exhibit, and they had to praise me everywhere I went. I couldn't stand it, I was annoyed, and I came out to hide. ”
She escaped from home in the name of being a tutor, and others knew that she was going to be a tutor during the winter vacation, and they praised her for being sensible, and even helped the family reduce financial pressure.
Shen Jie's lies are very well done, and she still has the money she earns as a voice actor, which is difficult to be discovered.
So Meng Shu didn't say anything, and let her use her room as a refuge, and naturally told Shen Jie about the authorization of the "Pokemon" comic book and "Oriental Fantasy Township".
"Both."
Shen Jie's proposal made Meng Shu smile bitterly, in fact, Shen Jie was right, no one forced him to choose one.
However, both themes have to be led by Meng, and it is difficult to really implement them. In desperation, he listed both of them as alternates, and decided to discuss with Xu Jing after returning to Ninghai, if he had enough energy, two would be fine.
In fact, more themes, easier to attract readers, Phoenix Company's two weekly magazines, now have two comics, Gundam and Magical Girl series a total of seven articles, if you add two more types, then the comic magazine can be fleshed out, and the quality has also been improved.
The subject matter is decided, and all that remains is a new manga.
The choice of this comic was also very difficult, and Meng Huo initially planned to choose a simple comic, because the experience of "Detective Conan" taught him that simple comics are easier to let go of others to draw.
If you start a comic like "Death* Notes", then Meng Huo may have to draw for several years.
So simple, easy to find an assistant - Meng Yu thought of comics such as "Doraemon", "Crayon Shin-chan", and "Cherry Maruko", and after thinking about it, he gave up again.
He asked himself a word.
"You're going to make it to children's comics?"
The result is, of course, negative, that the Pokemon anime is about to air, and that there is no need for him to write children's manga anymore, and the main readers of "Weekly Shonen" and "Weekly Girl" are not elementary school students.
If Doraemon were serialized, the magazine's sales would not increase much, and readers might not be satisfied.
Meng Huo's current readers are young people, and some adults in their thirties and forties, these people are also the target of mainstream culture, and they will spend money to read books, and publishing comics with them can achieve the best economic effect.
So Meng changed his mind, and the sales should be intense and breathtaking. He can captivate readers and create a sensation with an intense story that can't be too long and close quickly.
A few days later, he wrote the title of the comic.
《fate/stay、night》