Chapter 202 Activities

"The time is set, it's October 20th!"

"That's only a week away!"

"It's just Chu Yu, in order to cooperate with the release of this single book, Xuan Gui and the publishing house that issued the single book are going to let you hold a fan meeting and signing event in the magic capital on that day, so I came here this time except for this week's comics. In addition to the manuscript, I also came to discuss this matter with you, you can see if you can spare some time that day." Li Xi said.

"October 20th, Wednesday?" Chu Yu thought for a while.

"Okay, no problem. I'll ask for a leave of absence for school matters. For comic drafts, I'll work overtime in advance to draw both works!"

"It's just... I'm afraid that when the time comes, there will be a signing ceremony, and it will be embarrassing if no one comes!" Chu Yu said.

"No one, what are you thinking?" Li Xi looked at Chu Yu speechlessly.

"Although I know that you don't pay much attention to the outside world, you are now the author of the second most popular comic book author among all the works serialized by Xuan Gui!"

"Moreover, a work such as Natsume's Book of Friends, which is hugely popular among women, was held in the magic capital, so how could no one come?"

After Li Xi finished speaking, he thought about it and told Chu Yu more information.

"This time the Natsume single-volume book is issued, the publisher estimates based on the sales of works of the same level in our Shuiyuan journals in the past. The first three volumes of the first edition of the Natsume Friends' Book are scheduled to print 400,000 copies each, with a total of three volumes. With 1.2 million copies, people are so confident that you are even worried that no one will come when you even hold a book signing?"

"Really? Was there a lot of people coming to the book signing event for the comic artist's single book release in the previous Magic Capital?" Chu Yu wondered.

After all, he saves others by himself. Anyway, he feels that no matter how interested he is in a comic, he will not be interested in comic creators, even if the author of his favorite comic works is held next to the house where he lives. Chu Yu might not be interested in joining the fun for such an event.

It's just that 400,000 copies were printed in the first edition of each single volume Li Xi said, which aroused Chu Yu's interest.

After all, it's all money!

Now that he has invested money into animation production, he is very poor.

"Then Li Xi, according to the past situation, how much do you think the sales volume of Natsume's friend account will be?" Chu Yu asked.

"I thought you were really going to stay in the Buddhist system! You finally asked a question that a normal cartoonist should be concerned about." Li Xi glanced at Chu Yu and continued.

"Normally, as long as the quality level of a work is maintained online, its single-book sales can be roughly estimated."

"Judging from the past sales of Dragon Country's very popular comics, generally speaking, its average volume sales will eventually be almost three times the first week sales of its single edition."

"Anyway, according to our conservative estimates, we feel that the average sales volume of Natsume's Book of Friends should reach more than one million after its release, but the upper limit cannot be accurately estimated, so it is conservative, and the printing volume of the first issue is set at 400,000 copies per volume, and then adjust the printing volume in the later period according to the sales situation.”

When Chu Yu heard this, he quickly passed the information in his mind and compared the gap between the sales of comics in the two worlds.

In the parallel world of Japan, the sales peak of single-line comics is basically a slam dunk, such as pirates, and the sales of single-line volumes are 4 million copies. It's far below. .

Comics in that world are already very popular comics with sales in the order of two million in a single book.

For example, works such as giants and hunters are all in this category.

This is the ceiling of the single book sales of the world comics.

In the Dragon Kingdom, because of the population factor, the sales of works of the same quality are often much higher.

For example, Tang Xin's dream world.

Tang Xin serialized Dream World for three years. The single volume of this work has been released to the thirteenth volume. Each volume contains ten comics. The total sales volume of the single volume can reach 31 million copies. Thousands or so.

In the parallel world of Japan, this achievement is already comparable to the manga achievement of an old monster like Fu Jian.

But in the Dragon Country, this achievement only made her barely qualified to step into the ranks of the top cartoonists in the active Dragon Country.

Note that it is active duty, and those seniors in the comics industry who have already closed their pens are not counted. Otherwise, even the top cartoonists who are still serializing comics in Longguo will not be able to compare with those old monsters.

As for the total sales of single books that many fans are concerned about, that thing may not reflect the true popularity of a work.

After all, for a manga that has been serialized for 20 years, the total sales volume of the single book is higher than that of the manga that has been serialized for several years. Isn't that normal? But which of the two works has better results, or the average sales volume can be more reflected.

Chu Yu was also satisfied with this conservative sales estimate. After all, if the single volume was calculated at one million, Chu Yu could serialize more than 50 chapters of Natsume's Friends Book and publish five single volumes in one year.

Calculated based on the sales volume of one volume and one million copies, the total sales volume in one year is five million, and the price of a single volume is 25 yuan, and then Chu Yu's royalties are divided into 10%.

Then Chu Yu can get more than 12 million Dragon National Coins in one year by relying on the sales of Natsume's friend account, plus other various incomes such as author fees, nothing else, at least Chu Yu is now because of The somewhat distressed economic situation of putting money into animation production can also be alleviated.

Moreover, the million volumes are only conservative estimates of the mysterious turtle. The reason for being conservative is that Natsume's Book of Friends has not been animated, and it has not converted a large number of animation fans into comic fans.

Otherwise, if the broadcast of the animation and the release of the single book are carried out at the same time, then the mysterious turtle will not be so conservative.

But the broadcast time of the animation of Natsume's Book of Friends has been set for April next year, and it is only half a year away.

Thinking like this, it's a matter of time. As long as the animation production is normal, Natsume's animation will definitely drive the sales of Natsume's friends account.

"Anyway, prepare yourself!" Li Xi said.

"You are worried that no one will come by then, but I think there will be a lot of people who will come by then, and I'm afraid you will be soft on signing and signing!"

"After all, after Tang Xin only experienced this kind of thing once, it has been two or three years now. When I mention similar events such as signing events, fan meetings, etc., she is full of rejection, and even prefers to I don’t want to participate in such activities if I go to work overtime to draw cartoons.”

"It's not that exaggerated!" Chu Yu felt that Li Xi was exaggerating.

"It's not an exaggeration, you can go and see it later!" Li Xi glanced at Chu Yu.

After speaking, he left soon.

Only Chu Yu was left to ponder.

The main significance of this kind of activity is the meeting between comic authors and fans. If it really goes, it will be the second public appearance of Chu Yu's cartoonist career in the past few years.

The first time was when the Dragon Star Awards were presented.

If it's not necessary, Chu Yu really doesn't want to participate in this kind of activity, because the higher the exposure, the higher the probability of being recognized, and he doesn't really want people around him to recognize him and affect his life.

But such an event was held by the publisher and Xuangui, and it would not be appropriate not to go.

People are helping you make money, but you want to be a salted fish, which is obviously unreasonable.

"Forget it, I don't think I have any attraction for people to come to the scene to interact with me. Maybe there will be few people in the past. If you do it casually, maybe the event will end!"

Thinking of this, Chu Yu felt a lot more comfortable.