May 1st, 1993. For many people, this day seemed very normal. It was just a normal Labor Day.
But for people who paid attention to 2D culture, this day had a special meaning in the future.
On this day, Pokemon officially went on sale in Japan. Of course, there were 45 different Nintendo games sold together with it, including two different platforms, GB and FC.
Six novels appeared in bookstores all over the country in Fusang. Coincidentally, game cartridges were also sold in bookstores as cultural products.
In this era, half of the bookstore was always used to sell books, and the other half was used to sell game discs, music MVs, movie videos, and console game cartridges.
In this era, bookstores were a paradise for 2D enthusiasts.
On May 1st, different products from the same company gathered in Fusang's bookstore.
On this day, there were two products in the most conspicuous position in the bookstore. One was the newly released Final Fantasy 5 GB version cartridge, and the other was a novel that was stacked together to form a magical sword.
When the bookstore opened, there were already many players lining up in front of the bookstore.
This was not unusual for the people nearby. The first of every month was the time when Nintendo released a new game of the month. Naturally, many game enthusiasts would rush over to buy their favorite games.
In fact, when top games such as Super Mario or Tetris were released, the line of players in front of the bookstore to buy the cartridges could stretch for hundreds of meters in one breath, just like the line of people who had queued up to buy Elf Crispy Noodle Snacks.
But today's popularity was obviously lower. Even on the first day of the bookstore, there were only a dozen or so players lining up in front of the bookstore.
"It seems that there are no big releases this month!" The bookstore owner looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh.
Although the Final Fantasy series was a little famous, it was still a distance away from being a big hit. In addition, it wasn't a new FC title, but a retro title. It was already quite good that there were a dozen or so players lining up to buy it.
"Boss, I want to buy Final Fantasy 5, the GB version!" The first in line was a young man in his twenties. He had been in line since 5: 00 in the morning, and his face was red from the cold.
"Here!" The shop owner handed a copy of Final Fantasy 5 to the young man, then picked up a book from the side and introduced it to the young man. "This novel seems to be about how to play games. Are you interested in reading it?"
"A novel about how to play games?" The young man had been playing games for more than ten years, but he had never heard of a novel about how to play games.
Therefore, the young man curiously glanced at the title of the book. It was called The Sword and Saber Divine Realm.
What an interesting name!
"Boss, how much is this book?" The young man asked curiously.
"Including tax, it's 499 yuan per book!" The boss laughed.
"It's quite cheap!" The young man was taken aback. Any random novel in Fusang cost more than a thousand yen, and this novel was half the price.
"Will the printing quality of this book be terrible?" After discovering that the price was so cheap, the young man couldn't help but doubt the quality of the novel.
He glanced at the cover of the book, and then his whole body was shocked again.
Because on the cover, there were actually two anime characters, a boy and a girl, each wearing a clean swordsman's uniform.
The boy was wearing black, holding a black sword and making a blocking action.
The girl was wearing white armor, holding a white long sword in her hand, and her face was delicate and charming.
"So beautiful!" Seeing the anime girl, the young man in reality couldn't help but breathe faster.
"Is this a comic book?" The young man couldn't help but ask the shop owner.
"No, this is a novel. You will know when you open it!" The shop owner quickly said. The young man quickly flipped a few pages and found that it was indeed full of text.
This was very surprising. After all, the covers of Fusang's novels were either simple text without any pictures.
Or some traditional Japanese art in the style of ukiyo-e.
Or, it was a photo of the shameless author himself.
In any case, a novel with an anime character as the cover was definitely something that the young man had never seen before.
One must know that the reason why young people don't like to read novels these days is because the stories in novels are too boring, and they often like to talk about some big truths and some tragedies to shock people.
These days, everyone's life is so depressed, who the hell wants to see tragedies to torture themselves.
Therefore, when they see those traditional novel covers, most young people lose 99% of their interest, and then put these novels on the shelf.
When the young man saw the cover, it turned out to be a boy and a girl from anime, his enthusiasm instantly jumped up.
More importantly, the drawing of this young man and woman was quite outstanding. The exquisiteness of the characters had never been seen before, especially the pair of white combat boots on the female lead's legs. The drawing actually gave off the feeling of white silk stockings, which made this young man, who was still a boy in his twenties, have an involuntary reaction after seeing it.
These days, the silk stockings of anime characters haven't been studied by many artists for more than ten years, and they haven't developed any different color, color gradient, thick coating, natural feeling, light and shadow, fleshy feeling, golden ratio, two-point perspective, three-point perspective, and so on. They just simply painted it black or white.
When the young man saw the white silk stockings with a trace of white light, he couldn't help but feel a little restless, even his little tent was about to move.
Cough cough, such a beautiful illustration, of course, it was the masterpiece of our Boss Jia. He didn't want the Asuna of this world to be completely different in the hands of other artists, so the work of the characters of all six novels was done by our Boss Jia.
And the most important part is that all the colored drawings were drawn by our Boss Jia after ten days of meticulous carving.
This made the few people who knew the inside story admire Boss Jia from the bottom of their hearts.
And when the young man saw the cover of Asuna, he couldn't help but immediately grab the book and said without hesitation, "Boss, I'll buy this book."
"Okay!" The boss took the money and smiled, then said, "Young man, here are five more novels that are similar, you can take a look at them!"
"There are five more!" The young man was shocked and looked over. Sure enough, he saw another five different novels.
The style of the covers of these novels was very similar, they were all composed of different anime characters and scenes, but the magical thing was, each character looked different from the other.
Looking at these characters, the young man felt like he was looking at different characters.
The most important thing was that these covers were all very erotic. Boss Jia knew too well what kind of things the teenagers liked. And the color illustration from 30 years in the future, even if the clothes were tight, it still had an irresistible temptation.
"These drawings are really perfect!" The young man couldn't help but exclaim.
"Young man, buy a few more books!"
"No, I'm going home!" The young man hugged the novels and ran home as if he was running for his life.
God, if he didn't go home, he felt that he would spend all the money he had spent on instant noodles to buy these novels.
As for the Pokemon that were also sold in the bookstore.
No one cared about it.
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