046. So I decided to become a villain. (2)

After the webtoon meeting, Kim Jun-hyeok, who met Yoo Hae-jun, randomly praised Song Jae-ik’s work.

Because it was definitely a piece of art. It still gives me goosebumps when I think about it.

“He is a heavenly cartoonist. Really, that webtoon is real. Wow.”

“What are you talking about? He’s a heavenly web novel writer.”

“Uh huh. Team leader Yoo. It’s because you haven’t read the author’s webtoon.”

“What do you not see? I’ve already seen it. You passed it on to a friend. An acquaintance handed it over to your team. But as a source, web novel skills are real. It’s amazing, that writer. The scary thing is that the more you get angry, the more you develop.”

It is the first work, but it easily passed the figure of 10,000 conversions. Doesn’t that mean you have the ability? Besides, the work gets better with each episode.

Because Ji-in Kim did that a while ago. I have to give feedback, but I don’t know what to do. If you touch it without any hesitation, it seems like something big will happen. I’m worried because I don’t say anything because I feel like I’m not doing anything.

Of course, since I’m doing well right now, I could only answer, “Just do what you’re doing,” but anyway.

If the situation is like this, what if you properly write the next work? It may change all the records of real web fiction.

“It’s because the webtoon hasn’t been launched yet. Are you launching this piece? Right now, the webtoon side is attracting all attention. To be honest, there shouldn’t be any problem with casting for variety shows? Besides that drama we are here. Are you the webtoon writer who drew this? These days, webtoon writers come out a lot like entertainment. this is 100% It’s 100% that there will be an uproar at the broadcasting station.”

“Hey. no even though no! The author is already a nutuber. That’s 600,000 YouTubers. The number of subscribers continued to grow. I thought I’d hit 700,000 soon? I’m already singing with her and making Seraphim songs! huh? A music love letter is also coming out! Also make animations! I’m done!”

Kim Jun-hyeok, who laughed at Hae-jun Yoo’s reaction, soon had an anxious thought pop into his head.

“by the way. really if Writer-nim, don’t you think you’ll go the other way?”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

“lets think. If you look at what the author has posted on You Tube, there are games, cooking, piano, vocals, guitar, painting, composing, and web novels. I really do everything. What if I suddenly achieved everything here and try something else?”

At that, Haejun Yoo stroked his goosebumps arm as if he had imagined something nonsensical. It shouldn’t have been! You are a treasured writer in this industry!

Absolutely not. Just thinking about it was terrifying.

“Hey, Team Leader Kim.”

“why?”

“Let’s also seduce the OSMU team leader.”

“What are you talking about?”

“What can we do? It sells well.”

“Well, yes.”

After all, the platform and management’s job is to sell the artist’s work well. Well seeded with other platforms. Wouldn’t that be selling well as an OSMU?

“Honestly, the web novel is also S-grade enough. If you listen to the webtoon, it seems that you are above S rank. Then, to be honest, the works of both S-class writers sell well even if we don’t touch them.”

“right. Honestly, looking at what has already been an issue, even if you just launch it, the profits will come out really quickly, right?”

“Then we should sell well to OSMU and external platforms. Let’s push this at the company level by coaxing the distribution and OSMU team leaders. To be honest, we’re not going to do this together. You should also think about your next project. What if, after achieving that level of performance, we feel sorry for our response and go to another manager?”

“Isn’t that so…?”

At Haejun Yoo’s words, Junhyeok Kim nodded as if he wasn’t bad. Because he himself was thinking of raising it as an agenda during the weekly meeting of the webtoon headquarters after discussing it in the line of working-level workers to some extent.

“We will push as much as we do. When a webtoon is launched, sales of web novels go up. It’s a natural shame. After all, both sales increase the company’s sales. Reason enough.”

It just seemed like things were getting bigger.

—

The drama was literally cruising on cruising.

The average rating of 12% for episode 1 jumped to 18% now that episode 5 was airing.

“eww. It’s fun to watch and watch. The real story is chewy.”

“Wow, really. Even in the drama, cutting new skills are too severe. So what about the main character? Obviously, the last shadow was the culprit.”

“I don’t know. Who knows. Doesn’t even Jake know? He has never been to a set other than the scene where he draws a webtoon.”

“That’s it. The real artist’s drawing skills are amazing. Especially when reality and webtoon cross each other, the effect is real. Even if you have gone through CG work, it is not usually difficult.”

“That is crazy. As usual, on the Internet, there are not only one or two stories about our channel. The number of subscribers to the channel also increased significantly. Do you think you can shoot 700,000 soon?”

“Wow. 700,000 youtubers! 1 million YouTubers will be soon, right?”

“To do that, I need to diversify my YouTuber videos a little more. That’s what worries me.”

Watching the conversation between the two, Song Jae-ik felt that the undigested talent felt in his chest was quickly digested.

One of the most important facts. The higher the ratings go. The more stories related to webtoons come out on the Internet.

The speed of digestion is getting faster and the drawing skills are getting better and better. as well as its speed.

Maybe more than a talent for music that has stopped. much more. Perhaps for the first time in my life, I felt certain that I would see the end of my talent. If this is the trend.

‘What if the talent for real painting comes to an end? What will happen?’

It was an unknown world that I had never experienced before. Will something change dramatically or will there be no change at all.

In fact, I can’t easily imagine how it changes more dramatically here.

with my daughter-

“Hello writer!”

“welcome.”

Today it was not one, but three.

Ji-in Kim, Hae-jun Yu, and a Nettopia employee I’ve never seen before.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Kim Jun-hyeok, the webtoon team leader.”

“hello.”

“Now, the time to launch the webtoon is slowly approaching, and good webtoons are also given to our platform, so I came here because I had something to say as well as a greeting.”

“Five! Is the launch imminent? I think I sent you episode 4 today.”

At Um Kang-seok’s words, Kim Jun-hyeok smiled and nodded. To be honest, it was faster than I expected.

“Probably after about 8 episodes are accumulated, it will be officially serialized. Solve the first 2 episodes. The rest of the episodes are going to be paid for.”

“If you’re curious, you mean to pay to see it in advance? See you later when it’s released for free.”

“Yes. It is also the most traditional way. In addition, there are also matters related to manuscript fees and advertising income.”

As a result of internal discussions within the company, Song Jae-ik must be kept in Nettopia unconditionally. It was decided that I should make it a writer like the icon of Nettopia.

especially last year. How envious he was to see the webtoon based on the original web novel hit the jackpot at K-Cube, a competitor of Nettopia, and winning and winning even abroad.

To be precise, they were blacked out from the top.

However, it was the judgment that Song Jae-ik could be the opponent. From simple web novels to webtoons. And even the fame of the writer itself was not normal.

Even if you give up a lot in Nettopia. The decision was made to retain it and make it an icon of Nettopia.

In the short term, the company could earn more profits by treating them like ordinary writers, but that would result in missing out on a bigger future income.

“Anyway, this is a contract written with the highest grade in everything including the artist’s name value, drawing style, speed, story, coloring level, and how many cuts there are in Hanhwa.”

Confidence was evident in his voice as he spoke of the contents of the contract. Generally speaking, this kind of treatment from the beginning was really not common.

“Ugh. Okay. After reviewing the contract, I will send it by registered mail.”

“yes? yes! You can check it at any time and send it to us.”

Kim Joon-hyeok was taken aback when he said that he would review the contract with a slight smile after skimming through it, but he couldn’t show it.

“And with the additional 3 reorganizations sent earlier, we started sales right away. We are currently planning serialization in Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, France, North America, and Japan.”

“Already? You haven’t even started serializing yet?”

“That’s why the author’s work is so attractive. Even if you only see 3 episodes, that’s enough. Overseas, it seems that it will be officially serialized with a term of about a month. The reason why there is a term is because there is a line translation or something like that.”

“What about China? Isn’t that the biggest market there?”

At Uhm Kang-seok’s question, Kim Jun-hyeok burst into an embarrassing laugh.

“Anyway, the image of China doesn’t come out so well in the author’s work. It was completely removed from the target. In 2015 alone, 38 Japanese animations were removed for ridiculous excuses, such as violence or sensationalism.”

“Aha. It deserves it.”

Because that pride wasn’t normal. Besides, isn’t China itself expressed as a ‘villain’ in the webtoon?

“There is no need to go out. I think you should be able to figure out that part for yourself. Just because they don’t sell in China doesn’t mean they’re in need of money. There is absolutely no reason to sell.”

However, there was no intention to change the content of the novel or the webtoon to suit the taste of China.

“We are of the same opinion. The author’s work is already complete. You have to keep going the way the author thought. Until the end.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Why does the word fortunate feel so scary? Kim Jun-hyeok exhaled a small breath, feeling fortunate that his choice was correct.

“Writers, please only pay attention to the work. We will take care of everything else.”

—

One week before the launch of the work. In the Nettopia web novel and webtoon app, [So I decided to become a villain. D-7] pop-up banner appeared.

– Is that webtoon finally coming out?

– Staff personal This is the best webtoon ever.

– Over. A webtoon is just a webtoon.

– Still, it’s expected.

After a day like that, when the number on the pop-up banner changed to D-6.

A whitish picture was projected onto a pop-up banner.

– what? Wasn’t it just publicity?

– Do you think the outline of that painting will be revealed every day?

– Does that mean anything? Even if you show it, it’s just a shadow.

– Well, it doesn’t look bad when you see him pushing.

People’s reactions weren’t exactly that dramatic either. It’s just a feeling that if the outline is revealed, it will be like a shadow.

However, as for the overall atmosphere itself, there were many people who said to come out soon anyway, probably because it was a work with many fans of the original work.

And when it’s D-3. It’s not a webtoon, it suddenly reminded me of a webtoon scene from We Are Here. At the same time, along with the phrase CH.CE (Song Jae-Ik) to cooperate with cartoon contents.

– Is this cartoonist the person who drew it?

– Five! Then you should definitely see it!

– Hahaha crazy. Did you draw your own webtoon while drawing the drama webtoon? is this a team?

It raised the interest of people who were not originally interested. Even on the internet, there was quite a bit of talk about who the author of the webtoon for this drama was.

And the day before the launch of the webtoon.

[Moving Toon. So I decided to become a villain. D-1]

– What is this?

– Oh yeah? real? True?

– Is the writer sane?

– Moving toon?

– Can this level of quality be maintained?

– Do you want to serialize this work one day a month?

The pop-up banner, which I thought was simply a picture, came to life and started moving.

– No, look at the drawing quality.

– But you make it move?

– a. publicity paper. Wasn’t it just one scene that moved?

– In that case, would you have used the word moving toon in publicity?

– What if every episode has at least one moving scene? That’s right, this is awesome.

A fact no one can deny. If a work of this level of quality is maintained, this is an all-time high.

and D-day.

The second episode of Song Jae-ik’s webtoon will be released first. When 5 additional episodes are released at the same time for a fee. First of all, the comments of readers who watched all the episodes, including the paid ones, started running like crazy.