Chapter 51 (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Zhao Youyue could finally sleep soundly after receiving the iconic character card “Xu Jing”. But elsewhere, a poor mangaka had to stay up the whole night.
Definitely, it was Su Li.
The moment the grand finale of “Pure Romance” was successfully published onto “Wind Manga”, it was as if Su Li woke up from the “demonised” state. Suddenly, she recalled herself picking a fight with her editor Wei Suo for the grand finale. She couldn’t help but to put her hand on her forehead, feeling that she had lost her senses at that moment. According to her style, she should have go along with the editor, after all she was still a newbie mangaka…
“What in the world was I thinking? Threatening to terminate the agreement with the magazines upon disagreement? That’s not something coming out from a newbie mangaka, that’s something wilder than God!” Slapping her own face, Su Li felt great remorse of her actions. She did not know why she would have that impulse at that moment. She actually had a degree of respect for her editor Wei Suo.
Su Li decided to take a good look at the “Pure Romance” grand finale published on “Wind Manga”. As she had recalled, the finale was quite satisfying. It was the crystallisation of her highest level of creation in the manga world. That was why she strongly demanded the magazine to publish this finale.
A question suddenly popped into her mind as she was about to open the magazine sample. Why would she decide to end “Pure Romance” this early? It was high on demand previously and even already had a confirmation plan for animation. She should have ended this at least after the anime have been aired.
As a matter of fact, the greatest benefit animation brings to the mangaka is the increased of sales in the manga booklet. This happens when the anime gains a significant name for itself. At the same time, leading to a boost in fame for the serialized manga. Hence, there is rarely any artist who will end the manga before the anime was even produced and aired. They would rather wait for a month or even as far as 3 months to publish new chapters, rather than ending it. Waiting for a step up in the popularity of their work after the animation…
The kind of animes re-animated from completed mangas were mostly old iconic manga remakes. For instance, “Parasyte”, which probably at that period of time, was unable to be perfectly replicated for certain special effects due to the lack of animation technology. Only after upon advanced technology, the animation could only then be remade.
For someone such as Su Li who seek for sales, popularity and treats the readers as Gods, had she not lost her senses, she would continue adding nonsense to drag on the story. At least it will last till the airing of anime, only then she would need to think about whether to end the manga based on its popularity. That is why regardless of which universe, there will always be some long-life manga which serialized for more than 10 years.
The reason was that after realizing the popularity of their manga maintained at a steady pace or increase in demand, they will definitely choose to continue. This will either last till the story collapsed or there were no more nonsense to add. Even the great mangas like “Dragon Ball” and “Bleach” are suspected to have a story collapse, but even if they are collapsed, there will still be a bunch of loyal fans. From these, it can be concluded that an old manga filled with continuing nonsense will be a lot stable than creating a new manga. What if the new manga drop dead?