Chapter 353： progress

In January 2023, a lot of things happened to Chu Yu.

After a trip to Japan, I came back with a girlfriend, and on the third day after I came back, the two works of initial D and Natsume's friend account were officially finished.

The ending of Natsume's Friends Account has an open ending. After all, the original work has not been finished, and Chu Yu has left a suspense. If the true ending of Parallel World comes out in the future, you can make an extra chapter on the plane of Dragon Kingdom. Above, even though Chu Yu and Xuangui broke up, as a commercial company, as long as there are things of interest, Chu Yu will never refuse. Chu Yu believes that if he once proposed to Xuangui, he would never refuse. So far... ..... After more than two years of serialization, the account of Natsume's friends with a total of 119 episodes ended in this world.

And Chu Yu’s other work, Initial D, was serialized for one and a half years. There are a total of 83 episodes serialized in this world. The ending of Initial D is slightly adapted by Chu Yu himself, or it is not a minor adaptation. It is purely to draw the ending of another initial D version in the system space, that is, the ending of the movie version of Jay Chou, into the comic ending of the initial D in this world.

In the ending, Takumi did not choose to forgive Natsuki after learning the true situation of his girlfriend, but after finally upgrading the engine of his 86, he took the initiative to challenge Keiichi of the Emperor Racing Team. After washing away the humiliation of his defeat, he agreed. Ryosuke Takahashi's invitation to form a team...

The final scene of the manga is frozen at the moment when 86 goes up the mountain.

The story of Fujiwara Takumi is not over, but the manga with initial D is over.

The fans of Chuyu's comics in this issue, when they saw the full three characters on the last page of the two comics in the new issue of Water Edge, they were quite uncomfortable. Some people still have the purpose of tears. feel.

And under Chu Yu's Weibo, there were no quarrels and mutual sprays on this day, and the screen was "finished and spreading flowers".

There were also posts about building buildings for two works, and more and more people participated. Soon, the three keywords of Shui Xin, initial D, and Natsume's friends account were topped in the top 20 of Weibo's hot searches.

And with the impact of the ending of Natsume's friends account and the initial D, the hot search term about Jojo's bizarre adventure in the Weibo hot search also skyrocketed and was topped in the hot search list.

At the same time, the second-level periodical "Fenglan Comics" under Tianji Comics has also become a hot search term for Weibo.

It’s no wonder that after the serialization of Natsume’s Friends Book and the initial D, Chu Yu became popular in the Long Kingdom comics industry, although he and Tianji Comics both published Wen Chu Yu’s serialization on Fenglan comics as "Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure". The prequel, the main story of this comic will be published in its popular periodical "Xuan Jing" after the prequel serialization is over, but Chu Yu’s fans don’t care so much, although I have this work in my heart, maybe not Too good-looking psychological preparation, but not good-looking is not good-looking, not good-looking is also the work of Shui Xin, just look at it anyway.

Fans actually have a blind trust in Chu Yu, which makes the cartoonists who originally serialized works on Fenglan comics feel a lot of pressure.

This group of people is a group of ordinary cartoonists in the Dragon Kingdom, with average talents and little strength. They just eat in the pond of Fenglan Comics. This inexplicable secret digs up a great god, and then smashes people into this pool of water. in.

The employees of other big companies in Longguo comics have an attitude of eating melons and watching movies.

After experiencing various face slaps, the commentators in the Longguo comics circle are not easily commenting on Shui Xin's comics. Although this time it is himself, Tianji and Xuangui have revealed that this "jojo prequel" may not be of good quality, but Who knows the real situation?

Didn’t Natsume’s account of friends and initial D also say the same when they first came out? What happened to these two works in the end?

When Natsume’s friend’s account was over, the single-line book was published to volume ten, with an average volume of 2.25 million volumes, and the initial D single-line volume to volume seven, with an average volume sales of 2.4 million volumes, and now the animation is on the air. Sales are still on the rise.

Anyway, many people don't believe that Shui Xin's work will be so bad? The quality is really not good. Will Shui Xin make a prequel to this work?

With this kind of thinking, people in the industry and Chu Yu's comic fans all have inexplicable expectations for Jojo's work.

In this January, the system rewards for Madoka Magica were also issued.

But one thing is different from Chu Yu’s guess, that is, for the honor of Magical Girl Madoka’s 2022 annual animation, the rewards issued by the system are not just S-level lucky draw opportunities...but an S-level Lottery chance and an A-level lottery chance.

At that time, Chu Yu was a little shocked, the system that had always been stingy was so generous this time, he really couldn't think of it.

However, after carefully looking at the explanation of the awards, Chu Yu was relieved. It turned out that the colleague who won the title of Popular Animation of the Year by Magical Girl, also won the title of Popular Animation in Winter, so the system gave another chance to draw an A-level lottery. .

But in any case, the rewards are real. Today's Chu Yu plus the remaining A-level lottery chances before, a total of S-level and two A-level lottery opportunities.

In an instant, Chu Yu's mood relaxed, and he no longer worried about whether jojo's work would flop, even if he flopped, he still had enough chances to draw.

For the rest of January, Chu Yu and his animation team started to get busy again. Huang Ming and the people from the animation studio worked overtime every day to work on the production of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and the rebellious Lelouch animation.

And Chu Yu plunged into the comic drawing of Jojo's bizarre adventure.

After all, Chu Yu took the initiative to negotiate with Tianji, and the result was two episodes of jojo a week. From this point of view, Jojo’s third Star Fighter will not be mentioned. The first or two prequels of this work that were packaged by Chu Yu will be serialized for half a year. About time.

Now that Chu Yu has won several new lottery opportunities, Chu Yu suddenly felt pressured and felt that she could no longer relax, otherwise the speed of drawing comics would be compared with the speed of rewards issued by this stingy system.

Of course, Chu Yu didn't think about whether to extract one or two more comics and put it on Tianji for serialization, but after thinking about it, Chu Yu gave up this idea for the time being.

After all, in February after January, Chu Yu has to participate in the production of two animations, and two comics are drawn every week. Although it is not impossible to pick one or two more works, Chu Yu will become a job in that case. Crazy demon, there is no spare time at all.

He doesn't want to make himself so tired. After all, he is considered a person with a girlfriend, and he always spends time with Gu Yan in the shop. He can't really become a systematic robot wage earner.

But speaking of Gu Yan, after establishing a relationship with Chu Yu, she ran Chuyu very diligently. Her school is very close to Chu Yu and it only takes ten minutes to walk. So whenever she has no class or time, she Came over to Chu Yu and stayed here. If the time is particularly abundant, he would cook and cook, freeing Chu Yu from the cookie-cutter takeaway.

At the same time, the editor responsible for Chu Yu's new comics in Tianji Comics also met him officially.

He was a man in his thirties. His name was Zhang Jing. He had a lively personality and was a silly talker, but this kind of thing didn't matter to Chu Yu.

Many cartoonists actually discuss the plots of their works with the comic editors. The authors are responsible for the general direction of the plots, edit supplementary opinions, think about the commercial nature of the works and control the market trend.

But for Chu Yu, he must have nothing to discuss with the editors, which also made Zhang Jing feel very unfulfilled, but this kind of thing got used to it after a long time.

In this case soon, the Spring Festival of 2023 is also coming.

As usual, Chu Yu didn't go home for the New Year. After all, there were no people in the family, so he couldn't take the plane.

As for Gu Yan, he went straight back to his hometown and asked Chu Yu if he had any plans to go to her home before leaving.

However, Chu Yu felt that it was too embarrassing, and the two had not been in contact for a long time, and they had not yet developed to the point of meeting their parents, so he decisively rejected Gu Yan's proposal.

But time flew fast, and January soon passed.

At the beginning of February, Chu Yu's new comics were officially published in Fenglan Comics, a secondary periodical of Tianji Comics.

To be honest... the market response is right as Chu Yu guessed.

Needless to say, the popularity of the work, no cartoonist in this kind of comics period can compare with Chu Yu's own fans.

But jojo's external comments directly exploded.