On May 3, the Osaka COMIC-CON exhibition officially opened. This year's show attracted globally renowned culture and entertainment companies such as Marvel and Lego, as well as IPs like Harry Potter and the DC Extended Universe, which attracted fans from all over the world. Among them, China Literature Yuewen presented Chinese IPs such as "The King's Avatar" and "Lord of the Mysteries". Fans of these Chinese IPs at home and abroad came to visit.
In the center of China Literature Yuewen's exhibition area, a pink tree attracted many fans to take photos. It's called "Bitter Love Tree" and originated from the national comic IP "Matchmaker Fox". This cartoon in the Tencent animation platform achieved a collection of 5.5 million, more than 11 billion times of adapted animation broadcast volume. The TV series adapted is expected to be online in 2024.
In addition to "Matchmaker Fox", another national comic IP "The Outcast" eight trigrams tree also catches attention. It has a popularity value of 30 billion on the Tencent animation platform, with a rating of up to 9.8 points, and the animation adaptation has been broadcast more than 6.5 billion times.
Besides, "The King's Avatar" interactive punch point also attracted a lot of onlookers. May 29 is the protagonist Ye Xiu's birthday, so fans wrote their birthday wishes on the message board.
"The King's Avatar" landed in Japan in 2015 and was published by Libre, one of Japan's top three publishers. In 2021, the manga adaptation of it was launched on the Japanese piccoma platform, and has since grown to be a Top 3 hit on the popularity charts.
Japanese version of the animated film "The King's Avatar: For the Glory" also released on July 8, 2023, voiced by the Nakamura Yoichi , Uchida Yuima, Fukuyama Run and other well-known Japanese voice actors. As soon as the news was officially announced, it caused huge attention of the Japanese fans, on the Japanese Yahoo hot search fourth. The Japanese original artist Yoshida Toru also came to the exhibition and gave his hand-painted portrait of Ye Xiu as birthday wishes. He has participated in the "The King's Avatar: For the Glory" "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" "Detective Conan" theater series and other animated film production.
On the scene, there were also two 00s fans of "The King's Avatar" who came all the way from Tokyo. One of them said that he had attended the offline activities of "The King's Avatar" in Shanghai when he was in junior high school in 2016, and he did not expect to be reunited in Osaka after eight years.
A combination of fantasy adventure and steampunk, "Lord of the Mysteries" has also attracted a lot of attention. In April of 2018, it was a simultaneous update in English and Chinese versions. The English version has nearly 43 million readers on WebNovel, an overseas portal of China Literature Yuewen, with a rating of 4.8 out of 10, and has been defined by the foreign media as a work that "belongs to all the people of the Earth".
On the Comic-Con, a fan from the U.S. said that after reading the "Lord of the Mysteries" on WebNovel, he not only bought the peripheral products, but he also told his Spanish and Canadian friends about it.
In recent years, Chinese IPs have successfully stepped out of the country and started to draw fans globally. Chinese stories and Chinese values are increasingly recognized by overseas readers and viewers.
Translator: BAI Jing
Reviewer: PAN Wenrui
