There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

Shang Jingcao responded with a roar and gave Li Nian a thumbs up.

Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and nodded at Li Nian, and the three of them turned and left.

Only Shiina came over, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Kanda noticed it, and immediately stopped what he was doing, staring at her, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Li Nian was busy cooking and casually said, "Kanda, you have something to say to Shiina."

Kanda came to his senses and immediately bowed his head to apologize to Shiina.

"Feel sorry."

"Why is Sorata apologizing?"

Kanda said without hiding anything: "Because I was jealous of you, Shiina, and even wanted to take my anger out on you. I was really bad at that."

Shiina thought for a moment: "I forgive you?"

"……Thanks."

Although Shiina's expression clearly showed that she didn't understand what she was forgiving, Kanda did feel relieved.

"The point is there won't be a next time." Li Nian suddenly said, "If a real man makes a mistake, he can only blame himself."

“…Yes, there won’t be a next time.” Kanda nodded sternly.

"By the way, Shiina, is there anything you want to eat?" Li Nian changed the subject.

“Fried shrimp.”

Li Nian gave Kanda a look, asking him to apologize with some sincerity. Kanda understood and muttered, "Then you are not allowed to be picky and peel off the batter and throw it all into my bowl, understand?" He turned around and went to make frying shrimps.

Chapter 308 Short Animation Production Decision

On a whim, I prepared a dinner that was more sumptuous than anything I had ever seen.

"…Is there some kind of festival worth celebrating today? Or is the fact that Kanda was not selected a good thing for you to celebrate?"

Teacher Chihiro, who was sitting at the table in amazement, couldn't help but complain that the dazzling array of dishes in front of her was indeed a bit too exaggerated.

Those were the delicious dishes that Li Nian had prepared with all his might.

"As the saying goes, when you are frustrated, you should eat and drink well and forget your troubles." Li Nian said this righteously. In fact, it was just his selfish desire to reward himself after his fight with Tsuchigumo. He was already extremely hungry, so he urged everyone to pick up their chopsticks quickly: "Eat quickly--"

As they said this, they didn't even bother to wait for anyone else to start using their chopsticks. It was a bit ignorant of etiquette, but the evil spirit at the table, Kamiigusa, had already started dancing and wolfing down his food without waiting for anyone else, and Shiina started munching on her own portion of fried shrimp as if no one was around. No one cared about this rule at the moment.

Qingshan swallowed his saliva, his face full of struggle, and muttered: "I'm going to get fat again..."

While secretly pinching her abdomen, that area has begun to grow soft flesh because of the good food recently...

Those were all fed by Li Nian recently. After today's meal, he will probably grow more fat... Thinking of this, Qingshan couldn't help but cast a resentful look towards Li Nian.

Li Nian was confused by the looks he received, not knowing how he had offended Qingshan again... However, he was too hungry to think too much and just focused on eating.

Senior Ren brought a beer to Teacher Chihiro, and held out his hand with a drink himself, saying with a smile: "Well, let's have a drink to celebrate Kanda's failure to be selected?"

“Don’t really celebrate?!” Kanda complained but still raised his glass.

After the mindless Kamiigusa shouted "Oh wow" excitedly, everyone really drank a glass of wine. I don't know what they were celebrating, but the atmosphere seemed to have completely forgotten about Kanda's failure in the review.

But Kanda finished a glass of iced cola in big gulps, exhaled a large breath, and seemed not to let his momentary interest be buried by the atmosphere, so he immediately made a solemn announcement in front of everyone.

"By the way, I plan to officially start learning how to make games."

When Li Nian heard this, he knew that Kanda was indeed serious.

The purpose of saying these words in front of everyone is to stop those wandering thoughts and force myself to take the initiative to move in this direction.

Everyone understood what he meant and expressed their support.

Then Kanda talked about his general plan to learn programming, and expressed his desire to seek help from Ryunosuke's tablet placed aside.

When it comes to the professional aspect, Ryunosuke's text reply was very serious. Contrary to his usual practice, he replied with a long string of words, which roughly meant to let Kanda think carefully about whether he should enter this industry, and explained to him the various pros and cons - to sum it up, once you enter this door, it's like entering a deep sea, and from then on, your hair will be nothing but a passerby, which was a completely dissuading posture.

However, when Kanda once again stated that hair and other things were not important and he only wanted to become stronger, Ryunosuke still gave a lot of suggestions that sounded quite reliable, such as the universities he knew that were more reliable in this field.

Seeing that Kanda seemed to have fully recovered and had found something to do in the future and became much more energetic, Senior Ren smiled, turned to find Li Nian who was eating, and started talking about the animation production that they had always been thinking about.

Since the plan to use Li Nian's manuscript as the blueprint was not changed, Li Nian allowed Senior Ren and Kamiigusa to look at his manuscript and the outline without reservation after his manuscript was approved by Ms. Machida and there was no need to make major changes.

The two of you have no objection to this for the time being, so...

“We plan to start animation production immediately.”

Li Nian paused while eating, and immediately grabbed the drink beside him and drank it down. After quickly clearing his throat, he asked in confusion, "Now? Immediately? Immediately? No, that's too fast..."

The previous plan was to contact the library and start a "light novel animation project" with Li Nian's works. This was a very difficult thing to do. After all, a work that hadn't even been published yet wanted to qualify for an animation project? It was laughable to say it out loud.

This was only possible because of the fame of Shangjinggusa, and Li Nian also needed to show the quality of her works to increase her confidence in the negotiations.

In any case, this is a plan to start a formal commercial animation - this is not an easy thing to do, it involves a lot of people, a lot of money, and a very complicated process to go through, and it is something that has a high probability of failing, so how can it be started immediately?

Before Li Nian could ask, Senior Ren already knew what he was thinking. He shook his head and said, "Don't think too much. Misaki can't hold back any longer. She's thinking about making something first. To be specific, she wants to make a short story of a few minutes without thinking about anything else."

Li Nian looked at the person over there who was gnawing on pork ribs and screaming, and he understood.

"Well, it sounds like something Kamiigusa-senpai would do."

Misaki is the kind of person who does whatever she thinks of. Once inspiration comes, she will start working immediately without thinking twice. All her previous animation works were produced in this way. Once she sets a goal, she will have the momentum, means, and execution to overcome all difficulties.

In other words, she has been too busy lately and can't control her urge to create something.

This means that Kamiigusa wants to create a personal work like he did before... Oh no, it should be called a fan work.

Li Nian smiled nonchalantly and continued to eat. He replied vaguely, "Then do it. Just tell me what you need me to do."

Ren's eyes slightly opened, feeling a little strange: "Why did you agree so readily today? If it were in the past, shouldn't you have asked this and that, and planned before taking action?"

"Nothing, I just figured it out recently, and I think that thinking like Uegusa-senpai is not bad. It's quite relaxing, and I can do whatever I want. It's refreshing and fun."

"Oh, huh?"

Mitaka Jin was quite interested in this.

Indeed, the feeling Li Nian gave people at that moment had a subtle change - there was nothing strange about it, since the first time they met in Sakurasou, the feeling this person gave people had been constantly changing.

It’s just that he was becoming more and more stable and calm before, but now he is obviously becoming rough and casual... In short, it’s not a bad thing.

Although he was curious about what caused Li Nian's change, Ren was tactful enough not to ask any more questions. Returning to the topic of the animated short story, Ren continued, "...You and Misaki have decided to let go of your minds and let go of yourself. It's not a good idea to leave all the problems to me, right? I haven't made up my mind yet, and I don't know what to do. Although I have some ideas, I think I should talk to you before making a decision... Of course, I should mainly talk to you."

After all, his childhood sweetheart, Igusa Misaki, is an alien who doesn't think much. When Ren talked to her about this before, she just said, "Just make it fun! The kind with duangduang special effects! Boom boom! The viewing experience is cool!"

To put it simply, just do whatever is fun.

To translate it again, I will leave all the thinking work to you, and I will only be responsible for making the animation.

Well, as always.

"Then tell me what you think first?"

"Let's put the content of the short animation aside for now. Before that, I think this short animation can be used as a stepping stone for your novel animation project."

"...Indeed." Li Nian nodded, understanding this truth.

Misaki Kamiigusa's works are always high-quality, and she often produces works that become popular topics after being posted online and can get over 100,000 or 1 million clicks in minutes. Their popularity will be spread all over the world at home and abroad in an instant. So far, Kamiigusa's personal account has accumulated considerable popularity through the release of various previous works. If this short story is completed and posted online, it is likely to become a hit. Of course, it can be used as persuasive material when negotiating with the library.

There is no other way. To bring a new author's new book to the stage of being approved for animation planning requires some effort.

“Then the question now is what content to create to connect with your book.”

"You can't cram too much into a few minutes of footage, so there's no need to think in a complicated way."

"Yes, it's only a few minutes long, so I don't think my script has much use. I need you, the author, to come up with some ideas."

Li Nian pondered for a moment.

Make animations... short animations... good-looking short animations... popular short animations... short animations that are related to your book... short animations...

After thinking for a while, Li Nian asked tentatively: "Do a fight scene?"

"Fighting scene..."

Ren looked thoughtful and a little troubled.

"Well, the fighting scenes in animation seem to be quite difficult to produce?" Qingshan couldn't help but say worriedly while listening to the conversation between the two.

"That's right, it's too difficult, so let's just consider it..." Li Nian changed his mind and wanted to take back his words.

The production of fighting scenes is indeed very difficult.

Although making a fighting animation in just a few minutes sounds good and appropriate at first glance, but in fact, if the action, scene, and various details are not well designed, it will not look handsome and gorgeous, and it is easy to mess up. In addition, the production cost is indeed huge. Qingshan, an outsider, knows this truth, and Li Nian also understands it. He said it easily, but the actual burden will be heavily placed on the producer, Senior Uegusa...

——“You can have this!”

Li Nian wanted to withdraw his proposal and change his thinking, but when Shang Jingcao heard this, he immediately became excited. He spat out the bone in his mouth, slapped his thigh and responded.

"So you were listening..."

"This is fine! This is it! This is it! This is it!"

"Okay, no need to repeat yourself. You can have it, you can have it. Of course, whatever you want to do is available."

Li Nian was even too lazy to talk to this woman about the difficulty of production. As he said, once Shang Jingcao made the final decision and thought something was possible, then it could really be done.

She is someone who doesn't joke about animation.

If there are difficulties, just overcome them. As long as it is what she wants to do, she can overcome all the difficulties.

——Well, the key is that this woman is a wealthy woman who has money to spend and is willing to spend it, and she also has connections in the animation production industry.

Ren nodded with a wry smile. He had been hesitant before due to various considerations, but now the producer Misaki herself thought it was feasible, and knowing his childhood sweetheart's personality well, he would not persuade her any further.

Ren is a screenwriter, so of course he is not good at designing fighting scenes. However, there are indeed many imaginative and gorgeous fighting scenes in Kamiigusa's works. There are basically no plot elements in them, and it is entirely Kamiigusa's personal performance. From double fights to robot fights, there are all kinds of content, which can be said to fully demonstrate the strength of this animation producer.

"Then we have decided to do the fighting scenes. However, we can't leave it to Misaki to do as she pleases as before. As I said before, this is a stepping stone for your book, Li Nian. It has to be related to your work. You have to think carefully about how to do it. First of all, let's go back to the question at the beginning. What should be the content of the fighting scenes?"

Li Nian didn't think much about it and said directly: "How about making it the plot at the beginning of my book - the battle where the Demon King betrays the Demon God."

Ren thought about it, Li Nian's [Demon's Covenant] starts with the devil betraying God. After a battle, he was seriously injured and fled to this world. The whole story began from then on.

The book only briefly mentions it as an obvious foreshadowing, and doesn't describe it in detail, but of course it can be done.

quite appropriate.

Ren's thoughts diverged and he began to use his knowledge of screenwriting.

"In this case, we can make some arrangements for this plot..."

A few minutes of fighting scenes can be summarized as "the devil who challenged the gods and was defeated", but in fact, there are many things that can be crammed into it, such as the personalities and thoughts of the two characters, the king and the gods, the reasons why the king betrayed the gods, and the changes in his emotions...

In addition to the pure visual beauty of handsome fighting, it can also bury various suspense and make the audience curious about the subsequent story...

If you want to know what happens next, please buy the novel and read it!

All of this needs to be presented through audio-visuals. Before the actual production, Misaki will use storyboards to finalize it. Before the storyboards, Mitaka Jin needs to write the script...

Ren calmed down a little. This was something he needed to think about carefully later.

"Then, I need you, Li Nian, as the original author, to provide me with various information..."

"You know about costumes, backgrounds, scenes, worldviews, and character settings, right?"

Speaking of these designs, Li Nian suddenly remembered that this seemed to be what the illustrator of his own book had to do - which was what Sawamura also had to do.

The illustrations for light novels need to be designed by illustrators. It is not something that can be done by just deciding the composition and starting to draw. Especially when a new book is just released, it is necessary to design the personalities of each character, as well as the background, etc. All of these need to be designed after consultation between the author and the illustrator.

Well, I have to talk to Sawamura in detail.

"Let's talk about this in detail after we finish eating, and then we'll talk about the most crucial part." Li Nian took the initiative to bring up one thing: "As for the core of the fighting scenes - the action design, leave it to me."

"Oh oh, I leave it to you, Rookie-kun!"

Shang Jingcao patted Li Nian's shoulder without thinking and agreed.

Ren, however, still had doubts and hesitations.

"…Although Misaki once said that you could be a fighting instructor, to be honest, it's not easy to present fighting in the form of animation. Can you really do it?"

Li Nian is an exorcist, the kind of exorcist who is very good at fighting.

Ren knew this and had heard Li Nian say this, and he did not doubt it because he had seen Li Nian use all kinds of magical methods... to do housework.

But he had never seen Li Nian in actual combat, so he had no idea what specific methods this younger generation of exorcist had, nor did he know whether Li Nian could do it well.

Ren made his own suggestion.