Chapter 40 - Smells Good (1/2)

“You know too?”

All Meng Fan could manage was an awkward laugh.

“Of course, so many faculty members have been sharing in our group chats, I recognized you in an instant.” The administrator chuckled. “This dance is really something, watching it made me very happy. You were really good too, very lively.”

“Even better than trash-talking Er Qing?”

The administrator sternly considered it for a moment. “The happiness gained from these two things are not the same. Trash talking Er Qing is venting negative energy, and watching you dance gives me positive energy!”

“Positive energy? Alright, as long as you’re happy.”

What else could Meng Fan say, he had done the deed, it’d be foolish to judge others based on their thoughts.

Of course, Meng Fan could see the adminstrator was telling the truth, not necessarily making a joke of him.

As for the students in the studio who were looking at him… Who cares about them?!

Finding his old spot, Meng Fan sat down and set up his tools, taking out the phone stand that Zhang Zhou Wei had brought him on behalf of Wang Ya Nan. He adjusted the position, sent a few notifications to the group chat, and prepared to enter his channel at 19:30 sharp.

Soon, over two hundred people had entered the channel.

“Today is American comics special.”

Meng Fan put the texts into the announcement. Originally, he planned to draw more novel illustrations, but his trip to Song Cheng had hindered his preparations, so he switched it to characters from American comics.

Japanese anime and American comics were the two leading countries in cartoons, in terms of the manga market, American comics could not rival Japanese ones, but in terms of comic adaptations, the American market was far above Japan, especially when it came to movies.

Out of all the movie adaptations, the most famous ones had to be the Marvel and DC universes.

When speaking of animations, Japan’s anime dominated the top half of the animation industry. As for the bottom half, Disney had that covered.

All in all, American animation was on par with Japanese animation.

There were many characters and scenes American comics that he could draw, even if he hadn’t finished the books, Meng Fan knew he’d have to draw American comic characters, and one special would definitely not be enough. Aside from illustrating his novels, American and Japanese animations were also segments of his stream.

Before he began his first drawing, Meng Fan under false pretenses had inadvertently tried sticking his thumb up at his screen several times. The data did not rise one bit, confirming his previous guess.

Online, he could only rely on ‘clicked’ likes, not physical thumbs!

He had already guessed this to be the case, hence Meng Fan wasn’t too disappointed. Besides, he still wasn’t sure if he wanted to complete this [Adoration Fever] task.

A two-point increase was already this bad. The consequences of all six points… Meng Fan shook at the thought.

He collected his thoughts and began to draw.

The first character he drew had to be the first superhero in American history, Superman.

The two characters that followed were Meng Fan’s favorite antagonists, one was the joker from the DC universe, and the second was Hela from the Marvel universe.

The Joker was easy enough. As for Hela, she was the daughter of Loki in the Marvel universe, but in the movies she had been portrayed as the first child of Odin, father of all gods, basically becoming the older sister of little hammer wielder Thor.

Undoubtedly, Hela’s image in the film had left a great impression, so Meng Fan decided to draw the movie adaptation of her that was beautiful and domineering.

The fourth character he chose was the first American comic character Meng Fan had known, the smurfs.

After he drew Clumsy smurf, Meng Fan felt a wave of inspiration wash over him. He drew an arrow in the paper and wrote the words “After he grew up” on the other end. Beside it, he drew a grown-up smurf.

“Avatar!”

“Hahaha, Mr. Host are you ok?!”

“You’re killing me!”

“Smurfs can grow up to be an Avatar? This isn’t growing up, this is straight-up evolution!”

“Is the blog host also a fan of new-age stand-up comedy? Hahaha, can you please draw super Mario standing on teenage Mutant ninja turtle?!”

“Top line: Eat mushrooms and grow up healthy; bottom line: but stepping on a turtle with a brick on your head will make you live forever.”

“The smurf said to the avatar: When I grow up, I’ll be you.”

“How is everyone on this channel a genius?!”

“I accidentally entered this channel, but after a minute I don’t plan on leaving!”

“The drawing speed of this stream host is too fast! He’s pretty funny too!”

“You must be new? This streamer’s hand speed is no joke. When he wants to be fast, it’s like watching smoke from a firing gun. If he drew a normie, it would surely blow-up, and can make even the best teachers fall in love with it within seconds. Only the national football team can hold out for more than 3 seconds!”