Chapter 452: The material is in place
In the original world, "Initial D" is a youth manga drawn by cartoonist Shuichi Shigeno. It has also been adapted into an animation and movie of the same name, and there are also many peripheral books exploring car driving skills.
The song that Gu Qingge likes, "All the Way North", is the theme song from the movie "Initial D" starring Jay Chou.
The manga "Initial D" topped the manga sales charts in Hong Kong, China and Japan with sales of over 20,000 copies as soon as it was published.
The story is about mountain racing. It describes the protagonist Fujiwara Takumi, who, after his superb driving skills were discovered, was constantly challenged by many drivers from other places. So he started road racing driving his father Fujiwara Bunta's favorite car AE86. Later, he formed an expedition team Project D with his opponents Takahashi Ryosuke and Takahashi Keisuke, and began to conquer the mountain roads in various places in Kanto.
The original title of "Initial D" was "Initial D," meaning "number one." The "d" is short for drift, which is what car enthusiasts often call "drifting." (A motorsports term for the sideways sliding of a car's wheels while turning a corner at high speed.) The title was later changed to "Project D," meaning "Project D." In "Project D," Ryosuke advocates for the fastest speed on the road.
Gu Qingge chose "Initial D" as her next work. On the one hand, it was because this was also a subject that had not yet been touched upon in the online literary world of this world, and she could continue to create a new genre. On the other hand, it was because it did have some interesting plot points.
The more well-known one is, of course, the "shrimping" meme, which originated from the lip syncing of the song "deja vu" and is widely used by netizens in any scene with exaggerated movement methods similar to drifting.
This song is the theme song of the animation "Initial D".
After "Deja Vu" became popular, it was used as background music, and its video content was not limited to racing. As long as the object used an exaggerated movement method similar to drifting, "Deja Vu" could be used to inject soul into it.
A more interesting usage of this song, of course, is to use it with drifting videos of vans and classic cars such as Wuling Hongguang. The line "Catching shrimps and taking your mom flying" really injects soul into it.
However, this meme is indeed an old one. It was very popular in the past two years. This "抓虾户" is still one of the top ten hot words in the barrage of B station.
In addition to the "Catching Shrimp House" meme, "Initial D" also has the "86 goes up the mountain, Mercedes goes up the tree" meme. Those who understand this meme will understand it, and those who don't understand it can only say that it is very green. After all, the girlfriend of the protagonist in "Initial D" is named Mogi Natsuki.
Even the "old driver is driving" meme can be extended to the work "Initial D".
All of these are the reasons why Gu Qingge chose this work. She felt that once this work was released, it would bring her a lot of fun, and of course she could also gain cultivation jade. After all, writing about cuckoldry in online literature would be a real blow to readers.
Her new pen name [All the Way North] is full of a green atmosphere, and whenever this song sounds, it always gives people a heart-wrenching feeling.
In order to write "Initial D" well, Gu Qingge certainly did a lot of preparatory work.
After all, the various car brands and models in this parallel world are quite different from those in the original world. If you want readers in this world to feel involved, of course you have to choose the car brands of this world.
And don't forget that Gu Qingge had drawn a "riding" skill a long time ago, which included the "driving" skill, allowing her to easily control various cars and even fly airplanes.
Gu Qingge has already improved her "riding" skills to the expert level, which means that she is already a first-class driver, and playing "drifting" with the car is a piece of cake!
However, even though Gu Qingge has expert-level "riding" skills, it does not mean that she likes racing. She always thinks it is a relatively dangerous thing.
Fortunately, Japan, a vassal state of China in this world, is a major tourist country. Its various mountain roads can indeed be used for racing. Many people who like racing will choose to come here to experience it.
In order to collect materials, Gu Qingge of course also went to experience it personally. He drove cars of various brands and models on deserted mountain roads, and even tried the so-called "drainage ditch cornering" himself, which felt quite exciting.
After she personally experienced these things, she wrote "Initial D" while referring to the original work and other materials, and her writing was as if inspired by God.
Gu Qingge has at least two advantages over other online writers. One is her expert-level literary skills, which make her writing comparable to that of first-class traditional writers, thus creating a dimensionality reduction attack. The other is that with her current identity and status, she can experience whatever she wants.
For ordinary online writers, when writing those more YY plots, they can only learn the details through Baidu. Even so, after writing it, people will still feel that it is "the emperor using a golden shoulder pole."
Gu Qingge is different. As long as she writes about modern, urban, campus and other backgrounds, she can write in a very realistic way with full details.
This is also one of the reasons why her first e-sports work "Who Can Compete" has become increasingly popular over time. This is an e-sports work written by a truly top professional player!
This time, the same principle applies to Initial D. Gu Qingge even went racing herself, and in order to experience the performance of various cars, she drove almost all the mainstream cars...
With this kind of material selection, which author can dare to take advantage of her?
By the way, although this work has not been released yet, it has already received sponsorship commitments from many Chinese automobile brands. If "Initial D" becomes popular in the future, Gu Qingge will definitely win again.
In addition to this, "Initial D" of course also has illustrations, which are still done by [Nian Nujiao]. The illustration style is naturally realistic and beautiful, aiming to capture the industrial beauty of the car.
The new pen name "All the Way North" and the collaboration with "Nian Nujiao" can be said to have greatly increased the possibility of it being exposed, but Gu Qingge didn't care at all. As long as it was not exposed at the beginning, a large number of leeks had already fallen into the trap before it was exposed.
[Nan Gezi] Isn't it just basic practice to create a fake account to trick readers? Some great authors in the original world who cheat people like to use fake accounts to write new books. If the new book is popular, they merge it into the main account. If it flopped, they just pretend the fake account didn't exist...
After releasing "Initial D", Gu Qingge took the initiative to contact Zhao Heng, the author who is now famous for "Wu Po Cangqiong" [I Love Tomatoes and Potatoes], and asked him to promote a chapter.
If you are a new god, even if there is no official recommendation, you can find other famous ones...
Therefore, Zhao Heng was probably the first colleague to know that [Nan Gezi] released a new work under a pseudonym.
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