Chapter 143 Anxiety

The selection of the second stage of the Newcomer Award is different from the first stage, with more votes from netizens.

Many new writers feel that these recommendation tickets are not very useful compared to the single book of comics.

Really old authors, especially those cartoonists who are trying to compete for the best long-form comic of the year, are well aware of the usefulness of these recommendation tickets. Unless a new book is released, the sales of each comic book will not be able to make a qualitative leap. Therefore, the key to gaining popularity lies in these recommendation tickets.

There are at least tens of millions of manga lovers in Huaxia, and there are six to seven million netizens registered on Manga.com alone. Excluding some zombie users, inactive accounts, and small accounts, there are almost two million netizens who regularly log in to the website. All this means that for each individual selection, there are almost two million votes per day, which can be cast for the comics participating in the comic festival.

Of course, even among active users, there are still a large number of people who find it troublesome and give up voting. Therefore, for a single item, the number of votes that can be cast every day is almost one million, which is equivalent to the sales volume of nearly 200,000 volumes. .

Take the Rookie Award as an example. Although the top comics have all aired new episodes in the fall, and sales can maintain a steady upward trend, there is a clear gap in popularity between them.

"Crime and Punishment" is just an instant noodle show, but when readers see a group of villains who are usually fierce and evil, they turn around and appear on the screen in a cute Q-version image, which makes readers feel pleasantly surprised.

This kind of cute contrast made the popularity of "Y's" skyrocket. Although the total sales volume of "Punishment" only increased by 200,000 copies throughout July, its popularity value increased by 5 million, thanks to the daily votes of netizens.

"Y's" is not as direct as animation because of the use of fan competitions, but it is worse than Instant Noodles. The page sold 300,000 copies in July, and its popularity is higher than "Crime Punishment", an increase of 800 Ten thousand popularity value, secured the fifth place on the rookie list.

The only exception is "Hunting Abyss".

Because this comic has little publicity before, many potential users have not been tapped. After the animation was broadcast, many animation parties found it very interesting. People who had never been exposed to comics before also began to buy the booklet of "Hunting Abyss".

Throughout July, "Hunting Abyss" sold 500,000 single volumes, and its popularity increased by 11 million. It rushed to the fourth place in one fell swoop, and the gap with the first place "Top of Basketball" was only 200. popularity value.

This makes the readers of "The Hunting Abyss" hooked.

From the first place to the sixth place, the popularity value is within four million.

It seems that the number is quite large, but in fact it is only 4 million recommendation tickets or 400,000 booklet sales.

Almost all readers have decided that when the next volume is released, the entire ranking list will undergo tremendous changes.

After the fan competition started, Shen Xin never paid attention to Manga.com or "New World". Even when the sales of "New World" exceeded one million, she didn't bother to post a Weibo to express her congratulations.

He is very busy and often forgets to eat. After Xi Muhan knew about it, he was quite resentful. He wanted to come to the studio several times, but was stopped by Yan Fei.

The first chapter of "Ghost Power" was published in the second weekly issue of August, and the questionnaire survey got 360 votes, ranking second among all comic strips, while Shen Xin's "Y's" still ranked first with 665 votes. open.

"Don't be discouraged, it's not easy for you. In the past two or three months, you didn't have a single manga in second place, with more than 350 tickets." Xiaoli looked at Zhou Yang, whose head was lowered and his body was twitching, and comforted him in a low voice. road.

Zhou Yang was silent for more than half a minute, then whispered to Xiaoli: "Miss Xiaoli, I want to call Master."

The only person Zhou Yang can call a master is Shen Xin.

Lily sighed.

Nodded slightly.

Zhou Yang picked up his mobile phone and entered the bathroom under the watchful eyes of Xiaoli and her assistant.

He took a deep breath and dialed Shen Xin's phone number. The moment Shen Xin answered the phone, he couldn't hold back his inner emotions anymore.

"Master, I won the second place, 80 votes more than the third place. I heard from Miss Xiaoli that this result is relatively good in the past month... umm, I will work hard, no Be proud, let Lu Ning and Brother Gao cheer, I will cheer them up..."

"..."

Xiaoli was speechless, and the assistants looked at each other.

Today's Zhou Yang is absolutely abnormal!

"Ghost Poses" won the second place, which relieved the tension in the studio.

After chatting for a while, the three of them performed their duties again and began to draw the original manuscript.

After three weeks of judging, the champion of the "Y's" fan competition was settled, and the team that won the championship was Reverberant and Seven Grapefruit.

Originally, the two girls wanted to visit Shen Xin immediately, but later they learned that their works would have another duel with Shen Xin's assistant. In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the two could only meet after this duel. Visit Shen Xin's studio.

200,000 cash was distributed to the two girls, but the prize pool was not too much. From the promotion of the fan competition to the selection of the champion, 600,000 copies of the booklet were sold, and the amount of the prize pool was only 120,000 yuan. Their prize money was finally fixed at 260,000.

Although it did not meet expectations, considering that "Y's" did not release new comics during this period, the sales volume of 600,000 copies is already very good. What's more, they still have the opportunity to compete for the final reward of 50,000 yuan.

In the last week of August, "Crime and Punishment" released the fourth volume of the booklet first, and the ranking of the newcomer list changed again. With the sales volume of 500,000 copies in the first week, "Crime and Punishment" became the second place on the newcomer list in one fell swoop.

Readers of "Y's" have already been tickled by the latest serialization and eight articles of "Y's", and are looking forward to the fifth volume released on September 7th. On September 1st, "Comic Future" It was suddenly announced that the fourth volume of "The Hunting Abyss" will be released on September 8th.

For a while, Manjia.com also fell into heated discussions, speculating about the intention of "Hunting Abyss", but then Ye Hexu posted a Weibo, explaining the reason.

"Originally, the release of the fourth volume was scheduled for September 17th, but the magazine considered that the 17th was too late, so it was brought forward by 10 days. It is definitely not what everyone imagined."

No matter how everyone guessed, Ye Hexu gave an explanation. Although it seemed like making excuses, these were Ye Hexu's sincere words.

At first, the magazine originally wanted to advance the release date to the 6th, so that "Hunting Abyss" would be released before "Y's", but Ye Hexu felt that it was not suitable, and wanted to push it to the 10th. In the end, the two parties made a compromise and released it on the 8th. .

Regarding being too close to "Y's", Ye Hexu has no choice. In terms of manga management, the magazine has the final say, no matter how tempered he is, it is impossible to change the magazine's opinion.