On February 5, China Literature's Global Chinese IP Festival with the theme of "Oriental Adventure Night" was broadcast online on Tencent**. During the ceremony, China Literature released the global Chinese IP list to pay tribute to good writers, good works and good actors.
There are many categories of online articles on the list.
This list combines the data of works, user reputation, market performance and the opinions of the expert advisory group to take stock of the annual performance of China's online literature and IP adaptation in 2023. The expert advisory group is composed of 15 industry-university-research experts, including Ao Ran, executive vice president and secretary general of the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association, and Hong Qingzhong, deputy director of the Singapore Infocomm Development Bureau and chairman of the Singapore Film Commission.
10 online articles such as "Dao Strange Fairy", "Spirit Walker", "Embers of the Deep Sea" and "Circle of Fate" won the "Influential Works of the Year". Covering multiple themes such as fantasy, science fiction, history, Xianxia, reality, ancient sayings, etc., many works have entered the IP development process.
Among them, the number of topics on the whole network of "Dao Strange Immortals" exceeded 1 billion, topping the annual list of China's best online literature of the Chinese Society, and readers said that it "created a novel and fantastic oriental aesthetics". The author Foxtail's pen also won the honor of "Emerging Writer of the Year" with this book, and was known as "a rising star of online literature".
"Outstanding Writer of the Year" went to the squid who loves to dive. Many of his works have broken the records of the starting point reading station many times, and won major literary awards such as the "Tianma Literature Award" in 2023.
According to the recommendation of the list, his works cover a wide range of subjects, "the story is profound and grand, and the words contain humanistic care that transcends cultural background".
After the end of the phenomenal work "The Master of Mystery", the squid who loves diving continues to create high-quality products. The second installment in the mystery series, "The Circle of Fate", continued the popularity of its predecessor, and received millions of reviews after only 28 days of its launch.
The list also set up the honor of "Overseas Influential Writer", which was won by three Chinese writers living overseas, Kugu Liuyun, Meishi Niang, and Suwei Juquan. Zheng Xiaolong, the son of Gulong, won the honor of "Outstanding Contribution to Chinese IP Communication" for his all-round three-dimensional development of Gulong's IP cluster.
The sequel is highly anticipated.
10 works, including "Da Feng Beat the Change", "Celebrating More Than Years" and "Under the Alien", were awarded the "Most Anticipated Adaptation IP of the Year".
From 2007 to 2009, it was on the starting point Chinese website**, through continuous IP development, ** is still hot 10 years after the end. The first season of "Celebrating More Than Years" broadcast in 2019 was a great success, with a ** volume of 10 billion, which was a phenomenal film and television drama of the year. The second season of "Celebrating More Than Years" has been filmed, and after 4 years, the audience's enthusiasm has not diminished, and the number of reservations for the show on Tencent** has exceeded 11 million.
In 2020, the super popular work "Da Feng Beat the Guard" was born, breaking many online records and setting off a creative trend of combining detectives and fairy tales. **After the end of 2021, the film and television adaptation will be completed in only 2 and a half years, and the film and television drama will be completed by the end of 2023. The series has not yet been broadcast, and the number of discussions on the whole network has exceeded 2 billion, and the game adaptation is also in progress.
Set up an IP influence role for the first time.
For the first time in this year's global Chinese IP list, the "Most Influential IP Role" was set up, which was won by Tang San of "Douluo Continent", Xiao Yan of "Breaking the Sky", Ye Xiu of "Full-time Master", and Klein Moretti of "Master of Mystery".
One of the responsibilities of online writers is to create good works, and good works need characters that are close to reality, and only if the characters are well portrayed, the works will be excellent", said the squid who loves diving at the ceremony.
Well-known characters are a symbol of the vitality and influence of an IP, as well as a symbol of the vitality of online literature. These four characters have witnessed the rapid development of the online literature and IP industry.
In 2008, "Douluo Continent" began at the starting point**, and Tang San was born. In the second year, Xiao Yan and "Breaking the Sky" came out, and the latter's iconic line "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don't bully the poor youth" has become a common memory of a generation.
"Full-time Master", which began in 2011, has been called an epoch-making work by many readers, and the protagonist Ye Xiu, as a phenomenal virtual idol, has broken through national boundaries and has fans all over the world. In the past ten years, Ye Xiu has come out of the book and entered animation, comics, film and television dramas, movies, and has become the spokesperson of well-known brands such as Yili and McDonald's.
In "The Master of Mystery", the modern man Zhou Mingrui unexpectedly becomes Klein Moretti, a history student in the fictional city of "Tingen". This character integrates Western fantasy settings and Eastern values, and is a Chinese IP character with global vitality.
Hou Xiaonan, CEO and President of China Literature, said that for more than 20 years, China's online literature has been a global leader in terms of creative ecology, business model, and technological innovation, and many IPs have a very large fan base overseas. ”
Text reporter He Jingtu provided by the organizer.