Chapter 252 New Year
However, what made Chu Yu a little relieved was that the royalties from the first four volumes of the Natsume Friends Account had already been transferred to his account one after another.
The sales volume of the first four volumes of 6.1 million copies was priced at 25%, with a 10% share, and after tax deductions, more than 9 million were transferred to his account.
And this is only half a year's sales royalties of the single book, which has exceeded all the other incomes of Chu Yu's past cartoonist career.
Coupled with the remuneration of Chu Yu for serializing two works simultaneously on Xuangui, in January 2022, Chu Yu officially became a rich man with tens of millions of cash.
Although there are many rich people in Hemo, but considering Chu Yucai's 20-year-old age and his status as a sophomore student, aside from those who have mines at home, at least among his peers, Chu Yu's earning ability Already at the top of the pyramid.
Moreover, the two works of 5 Centimeters Per Second and Voice of the Stars are still spreading wildly on the Internet. It is estimated that the influence of the two works will gradually weaken in a week or two.
Now, judging from the 19 million playback volume of the three episodes at a speed of five centimeters per second, and the 6 million playback volume of the Voice of the Stars, even if the playback volume of the two works stops at this moment and does not increase, then this After the two works are broadcast and sold online, they will be divided with Huang Ming. At this time, the revenue from the broadcast volume of the two works will be distributed to Chu Yu, and there will be about 10 million Dragon National Coins.
But these two works are now in a hot period, and the number of broadcasts will definitely continue to grow. After counting all kinds of overseas copyright sales and peripheral sales, it is possible that Chu Yu's final income from these two works is conservative. It will be more than two or three million.
However, these earnings will definitely be settled to him in 2022, and the release of Natsume's Friends Book in April will probably drive the sales of the comic book. A huge gain.
In 2021, Chu Yu's total income will look like 13 million after tax, and in 2022, this number may more than triple or quadruple.
Chu Yu was just idle and bored, and he was a little stunned. In the end, he could only sigh. The animation industry is good, and money is coming faster than stealing money.
But this is also normal. In Japan in the parallel world, the annual income of top cartoonists is as much as 100 million RMB, while in the Dragon Kingdom plane, the Dragon Kingdom with many population advantages, the top cartoonists, the income is 100 million yuan a year. There are several billionaires in the national currency, and Chu Yu is still far behind those people.
But if the development continues step by step, if everything goes well, perhaps in two or three years, when people mention the names of the top cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom, they will definitely think of Chu Yu's name.
But seven or eight years later, when people mention the top cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom, they may only have the name of Chu Yu in their minds.
The former and latter concepts are completely different.
And Chu Yu is also trying to become the latter.
Although it is during the Chinese New Year, it still does not affect the enthusiasm of the fans to read the comics.
Initial D is now entering the climax of the plot.
After Usui's No.1 female driver Sato Mako asked Iketani, Takumi finally agreed to race with her on the Usuiyama Road.
However, in this plot, the audience basically understands that there are actually two narrative lines in this plot, one is the match between Sato Mako and Fujiwara Takukai. Fans are also looking forward to the performance.
The other line mainly tells about the love line between Iketani and Sato Mako. The meeting between Iketani and Sato Mako was just accidental, but in the process, the two admired each other. Sato Mako was afraid that Iketani would not like her female driver status. However, he concealed from Iketani that she was the fastest driver on the Usui Mountain Road, and Iketani also thought that Mako Sato was really an ordinary person and showed her his driver status and skills to her.
It's a pity that Sato Mako's true identity was exposed after an encounter on the Weibing Mountain Road.
Chigu was hit in an instant. After all, he was crushed by the girl he liked on the racing car, the thing he was most proud of, and his inferiority complex made him feel very low when getting along with Mako.
But Mako Sato, because she had never been in a relationship, couldn't detect Iketani's true thoughts, so she asked Iketani to invite Takumi to compete with her, and she would give up her identity as a racer and formally associate with Iketani.
And Iketani was already low, and Sato Mako's words hit his self-esteem even more.
After all, what he hopes is that Sato Mako likes him and associates with him, rather than exchange it as a condition like a transaction.
But he agreed to Mako's words, not because he agreed to Mako's conditions, but because he wanted to fulfill Mako's wish.
Although Ikegu in the comics has more ideas and people are more sensitive, but the fans who read the comics don't have so many ideas.
"Damn it, Chi Gu is not a man. They are just looking for a reason to be with you. Why do you always think so much?"
"Originally, if Mako doesn't like you, even if you invite Takukai to race with her for ten races, she won't be able to date you. What are you thinking?"
"Have you seen it? How scary straight men are. Not only do they not understand girls' minds, but they are also fragile and sensitive. If your self-esteem is forced to change me, please give me a dozen of girls like Mako."
"Hey, it seems really anxious for a straight man to meet a simple girl. But finally, a pair of normal lovers appeared in Mr. Shui Xin's work. I can't think of two people who like each other, Mr. Shui Xin and Mr. Shui Xin. How can he abuse, Takeuchi fell out of love, because he obviously didn't have good driving skills, and he took his sister to drive a car to pretend to be forced, and he had a car accident to scare the girl away, but it is impossible for Chigu's side to ignore it because Mako's driving skills are better than him. Mako. Although there is a clear misunderstanding between the two in the plot, it is because Chigu thinks too much and people are too sensitive. It should be no problem to enlighten me about this kind of thing."
"The above, don't say it, if the final plot is really separated from Ikegu and Mako, the three protagonists in the text D will be all single drivers. The straight man Fujiwara Takumi. Say "drivers don't need women" this Takeuchi, the famous saying, and Chigu. All three have been injured by women, and then they chose to give up women and spend the rest of their lives with the car. It is really fitting that these three get together."
"Where is Takukai single, and he has never been hurt by a girl! Doesn't he have Natsuki Mogi?"
"Above, do you really think that Tuohai and Xia Shu can get together? Finally Tuohai knows about the existence of Xia Shu's daddy. Do you think he can still be like Xia Shu?"
As for Initial D, after more than half a year of serialization, its popularity in the Dragon Kingdom has gradually stabilized. Although the number of fans is still growing, the momentum is definitely not as good as when it was serialized at the beginning. If you want to increase the popularity of animation of this level, you basically have to rely on animation, but even so, there is no animated initial D, and the popularity vote on the water edge is now approaching the dream world. The gap between the works is very small. Maybe after the serialization of which issue, the initial D will surpass the dream world and reach the top of the water edge?
In this regard, Chu Yu is also looking forward to it. After all, that also means that the system will issue rewards again.
Although now, the world points that Chu Yu has obtained in the past two years have not been used, and the accumulated amount is enough for Chu Yu to exchange for a work of the highest quality in the A-level, such as the Rurouni Kenshin feature film. If he wants to draw this If it is a work, it can be directly exchanged with the world points that he has saved. It is a dream of Yuanjianxin fans, but due to copyright issues, Chu Yu cannot exchange it for serialization.
Moreover, Chu Yu keeps these World Points for other purposes. After all, it seems that after a while, Chu Yu's accumulated World Points will be enough for him to exchange for a normal S-level work. Now he can exchange them for A. Level, he was a little reluctant.
After all, World Points are different from lottery draws. Chu Yu has no idea what works will be drawn in the lottery, but World Points can be exchanged for designated works as long as the number is sufficient.
Moreover, if Chu Yu doesn't keep these, if the system gives him a work that destroys the three views at some point, such as what day is on campus, the sky of X and so on, then Chu Yu may only be able to keep it. I appreciate it. When the time comes, I want to continue serializing new works, and there is no lottery reward given by the system. At that time, it is time for this world point to play a role.
However, Chu Yu estimated that his new wave of system rewards should arrive soon.
Approaching After all, it seems that the dominance of 5 cm per second and the voice of the stars in the spring animation cannot be challenged. If after February and March, there are no dark horses after the spring animation is fully broadcast, it is estimated that the spring animation will be the most popular reward in May and June. will be credited.
After April, Natsume Friends Book will have an animation adaptation broadcast. Judging from the current popularity of Natsume Friends Book, if the popularity rises after the broadcast, I want to occupy the first place in the water journals for a long time like Dream World. It's not very likely, but once in a while, it's very possible to reach the top of the water edge. According to the system's standards, as long as one phase reaches this standard, the reward will naturally come.
As for whether the initial D can reach the top of the water edge, Chu Yu is not worried at all. This work is now very close to the dream world. If it is animated, then it will definitely be a natural thing to reach the top of the water edge. There is no need at all. Worry.
Now Chu Yu, just need to wait quietly for the time to come.
It's just that what Chu Yu is worried about now is that if everything goes well in the end, and three works are really pulled out, what should he do?
Double-opening comics and processing one animation has already made Chu Yu very busy, and if three works are serialized five works at the same time, it will be ruthless. Chu Yu estimates that he will be drained to the last drop of energy.
But fortunately, Initial D and Natsume Friend's account are not long. Regarding the serialization of Initial D, Chu Yu just wanted to serialize this work to Tuohai and finally chose to join the Takahashi Ryosuke team. It is enough for the story to end in Qiu Mingshan.
In the original comics, the story of Tuohai after joining the Takahashi Ryosuke team is in Chu Yu's opinion, although it is also very good, but there is no doubt that the subsequent plot is much worse than the previous one. If it ends when Tuohai prepares to join the Ryosuke team , leaving readers with suspense, this work is an out-and-out classic.
As for the Natsume Friends Book, given its length, Chu Yu may have to serialize it for more than two years before it can complete all its existing plots, but this work is still in the monthly update state in the system space. Even after updating a story for a few months, Chu Yu felt that if he wanted to finish this work in Long Kingdom, he might not be able to wait for it to finish in the system space after he finished drawing the previous plot. Chu Yu also felt a bit pitted.
Anyway, he is just going with the flow. Before there is no better plan for a new work, or before the end of the serialization of the existing space, he will continue to serialize Natsume. If a better work is drawn and the energy is not enough, then it will be suspended at that time. This work can be serialized, fatten it up a bit, and then resume the serialization.
With all kinds of thoughts, Chu Yu's Spring Festival in 2022 was spent like this
Come February.
After a week of self-cultivation after the Spring Festival, everyone returned to work.
Gu Yan didn't stay at home too much. After all, she wasn't an idler either. There were various things in the office.
However, on the morning of the first day she returned to the magic capital, she knocked on the door of Chu Yu's house early in the morning.
After she made her mind clear, she was no longer restrained when she got along with Chu Yu, although it seemed no different from before.
However, the look in Chu Yu's eyes was completely different.
In particular, she also brought a bunch of gifts to Chu Yu, and it is not good for Chu Yu to accept it, or not to accept it.
But fortunately, Gu Yan also knows that Chu Yu's opinion of her now only stays at the friend stage, so her behavior is in the category of friends. She did not dress up emotionally to tempt Chu as her friend suggested. Yu.
At first, she didn't like that, and she felt that it might be counterproductive to do so.
Second, she has confidence in herself, although Chu Yu has not liked her yet. But in the same way, Chu Yu has not liked anyone yet, and Chu Yu has told her about her thoughts. One day, she will Should be able to meet someone.
The reason why Gu Yan has not given up on Chu Yu after being rejected by Chu Yu is because of this reason, no matter which day comes, but the important thing is that it will come
There is an old saying in Longguo, the moon comes first when the tower is near the water. Anyway, Gu Yan has patience.
Chu Yu didn't understand Gu Yan's thoughts, but when he was with Gu Yan, he always felt like a little white rabbit, a feeling of being stared at by a big bad wolf.
"Is this the girl in love? The aura is different, it's really scary!" Chu Yu could only sigh in the end. .
When Chu Yu was worried about these things, the plot of the initial D Uibing chapter also entered the official competition stage after a few weeks of foreshadowing.
It's a boring transitional plot again, it's really well written, and I want to skip it directly. But it's too abrupt, so I'd better mention it properly, and then I'll try to end these plots!