"Magazine-special" is a supplement to Kodansha's "Weekly Shonen Magazine", and the circulation is based on the supplement of "Weekly Shonen M" from 1/20 to 1/30, and occasionally the ratio is as high as 1/15.

"Juvenile Weekly M" is one of the three major neon juvenile weekly, and the circulation has reached a terrible number of 4 million copies per week, but that is also a matter of the last century, and it has been falling since the new century, and it has fallen below one million in the second half of 16 years, and it continues to fall all the way, falling below 800,000 at the beginning of 18, and finally falling to 700,000 in the middle of 19 years and finally barely steady.

The best circulation of "Weekly Shonen Jump" is also not objective, the king who once had a circulation of more than 6 million per issue fell below 2 million at the beginning of 17, and quickly fell to 1.9 million in 17 years, and continued to fall in 18 and 19 years, and fell below 1.6 million in mid-19.

If there were no pirates in "Weekly Shonen Jump", there was a good chance that it would fall below 1 million by the end of '18.

As for Shogakukan's "Weekly Shonen Sunday", it has long fallen below 300,000, and it has no way to fall, either it will continue to be consumed between 200,000 and 300,000, or it will be suspended.

At the end of '19, the circulation of magazine-special was between 25,000 and 30,000, and most of them were still 25,000.

When "Strange People from Mountains and Seas" was first serialized, the circulation was 20,005, the second time it was increased to 30,000, and this time the circulation was increased to 30,005.

On the morning of the 19th, comic stores and other physical distribution channels opened for sale, and the supplement serialized with "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas" sold very quickly, and some comic store owners were surprised to find that for every 10 copies of "Weekly Shonen M" sold, there was a supplement sold, and some comic shops with a low proportion of supplements were sold out at more than 10 o'clock in the morning.

This happens quite a lot, and some comic shop owners are a little baffled.

"Why did you buy a supplement?"

The owner of a manga shop in Hokkaido, after finding out that the last supplement had been bought, couldn't help but ask the teenager who bought the last one.

"Because of "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas"!"

The boy replied, ignored the boss, threw the schoolbag on the ground, sat on it, opened the supplement by leaning on the bookshelf of the comic shop, and quickly found the serial page of "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas", and read it with relish.

"You're also because of "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas"?"

The owner of the comic shop asked, and on the other side, a teenager who was also sitting on the ground and watching.

The boy nodded, continued to look, and then let out a low roar of pain: "Yaga! It's gone! The damn author is actually disconnected here! I really want to kill someone!"

The owner of the comic shop was very depressed, he really didn't know what good comic works were in the supplement of "Weekly Shonen M", so he rubbed his hands embarrassedly and asked the boy, "Can you lend me a look?"

The boy shook his head, then stood up, picked up his school bag, then thought about it again, and said, "It's okay to lend it to you, but you have to agree to my request." ”

"What requirements?"

"The next time this supplement arrives, you'll have to keep a copy for me. ”

"That's fine. ”

"Then look at it, I'm going to take it back to others after I finish reading!"

The boy was very happy, so he didn't have to worry about having to skip class to buy comics because the supplement was sold out.

The owner of the comic shop quickly sighed again and again: "Si Guoyi! This painting is so good! And this painting style, I like it so much!"

The boy seemed to be in a hurry to go back to school, thought about it, and said, "Boss, why don't you log in to Kodansha's mobile app and watch it, you can start reading it from the first episode." ”

The boss thought about it, thought it was okay, and then returned the comic to the boy.

"Then our previous agreement is still the same, right?"

"No change. By the way, who is this cartoonist, why haven't you heard of it before?"

The boy shook his head, indicating that he didn't know, and hurried to school with the comics.

Like this teenager, most of the fans and readers don't know who the author of "Strange Man in the Mountains and Seas" is, and they don't even know that he is a Chinese, and they really don't be fascinated by "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas" because of the name Meng Fan.

After Meng Fan's Kyoto Dome brawl, Kodansha at that time was honestly uncertain about the future development trend, so he didn't do any publicity to Meng Fan. The increase in the circulation of the supplement, as well as the rising performance of "Strange Man from Mountains and Seas" on the official website, is mainly because of the comic itself.

The owner of the manga shop opened the mobile phone application, and soon found this "Strange Man of the Mountains and Seas" on the website of Kodansha, because it was hanging on the new list, and read the first six words while exclaiming and admiring, the manga boss roared: "The rest, it hasn't been updated yet! There are the latest seventh and eighth chapters on the supplement just now! I actually let the boy go! I have to wait until noon to see the latest update, it's really hateful!"

The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became, and the owner of the comic shop called the owner of another comic shop, hehe, it was sold out over there!

"I'm going to go in more next time!"

Such voices have returned to Kodansha through many channels, and Kodansha has expressed its helplessness at this.

It's of course a good thing that the comic shop wants to buy more goods, but no matter how much the supplement is printed, how far can it be printed!

Now it is 30,000 5, and if you print it up, you will print it up to 50,000 at most, and if you do more, it will be meaningless, and it will cause a waste of "resources"!

That kind of printing strength is not as good as ......

Meng Fan's editor-in-charge in Neon, Goro Takahashi, knew the information fed back from the major physical stores for the first time, and then walked into the editor-in-chief's office for the second time today and told his statement.

"Transfer to Weekly Shonen M?"

The editor-in-chief fell into a long silence after reading the feedback from the physical store and the data on the Internet, and then said: "In terms of data, "Strange Man from the Mountains and Seas" does have the strength to be serialized in "Weekly Shonen M", but "Shonen M" does not have a serial position for the time being, and I remember that the contract stipulates the number of updates for two episodes a week. If we serialize one word on our side, Huaxia will continue to serialize two words, so that if we update the progress, we will be far behind, this ......"

Goro Takahashi's emotions were a little excited: "Editor-in-chief, what are you hesitating about! The quality and data of the manga are all in line with each other, and even surpass the works on "Shonen Weekly M"! At least three works on "Shonen Weekly M" should have been cut in half, so why bother to support it, what's the problem with making room for "Strange Man in the Mountains and Seas"! Is it just because its author is not a neon man?"

The editor-in-chief smiled wryly, you know it. If it weren't for this, this third week update would have been transferred, but it's really hard to say.

"Editor-in-chief, as you can see, from the very beginning, we have not done any publicity to the author, and we can still achieve such results. On the network side,The data is even more speechless.,No. 1 in the new rankings.,The total number of clicks has also entered the top 16 recently.。 After today's noon update, it's a sure hit in the top 10. Moreover, you must have heard something about the author, Meng Sang, and if this title is used after the reassignment, I believe it will attract more attention! If you still disagree, then I will go to the president!"

Goro Takahashi relies on his old qualifications, and his attitude can still be tough.

"It's better to wait for the noon update to see what happens! In addition, didn't you say that the first volume of "The Strange Man of the Mountains and Seas" has been published in Huaxia, and also look at the sales over there. If it's all right, let alone transfer the issue, I can also agree to your request to publish a single book for "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas" in advance. ”

"Well, I'm just waiting!"

……

The first volume of the single book of "Strange People of Mountains and Seas" began to distribute goods to major cities across the country as early as a few days ago, and the distribution strength is absolutely OK, at the beginning, the total distribution volume is 20,000 copies, after all, the first printing is only 80,000 copies, and the number of prints is actually very good. However, after Meng Fan won the wrestling and judo championships, the Changjiang Publishing House, which contracted the publication of Penguin Animation Network comics, printed 50,000 copies twice, and the physical store goods increased from the original 20,000 to 40,000.

Most of the brick-and-mortar stores have also arranged a very conspicuous location, and have written recommendations such as "Manga Works of Wrestling Champion & Judo Champion", ""Strange Man of the Mountains and Seas" of Wrestling Strange People", and "Iron God's First Original Manga".

Some customers who entered the store were inexplicable after seeing it, and some customers thought of Meng Fan when they saw it, some of them picked up the comics and left, and those who didn't read the comics were also curious to read them, and then the probability of buying them was not low.

The clearest person about this situation is undoubtedly the cashier at the front desk, and in all major bookstores across the country, "Strange Man from the Mountains and Seas" is undoubtedly the most sold comic book this morning, and every three or five customers buy books with this comic book.

Before noon, some of the people who knew that the comic author had temporarily increased the purchase after the cattle batch had not yet arrived, and they were all sold out.

Such a fast sales is indeed largely related to the fame of Meng Fan, the author, which can be said to have a great star effect, which is similar to some traffic idols who can sell hundreds of thousands of dollars with their autobiographies, the difference is that Meng Fan's comic is indeed something.

Of course, not all of them went for Meng Fan's fame, there are many comic fans who can go to the bookstore to buy a single book for the first time, mainly because they really like comics, especially since the latest two words are updated earlier than the Internet, I went itching in my heart.

In addition, the painting and painting style of "Strange Man in the Mountains and Seas" are worth buying and collecting, and there is also an illustration included, and the illustration of each book may be different, so many fans have bought a few more copies, like drawing cards!

At half past eleven o'clock at noon, after Meng Fan updated a scarf, many people forwarded and commented after seeing it, and the content actually had nothing to do with comics and live broadcasts, purely because this was Meng Fan's first scarf after the end of his trip to South Korea to the double champion of the Wrestling Grand Prix and the Judo Masters.

Except for some retweets with ridicule, there are also some forwards for sale, however, the style of painting is not too normal.

Sleepy Master: During this time, I have received a lot of calls from friends who have not been in touch for a long time, and I thought that my conscience had found out and asked me to play.

Teacher He: A judo champion who can't wrestle is not a good cartoonist!

Bai Zhi: I look forward to Meng Fan's younger brother's comic works being animated as soon as possible, and you can do it yourself in dubbing or something!

Su Qingcen: I'm going to buy 100 copies and send them directly to Tieshen's house for him to sign, and then take them over and sell them at a high price, am I very witty!

Yu Xiaoer: I can't help when I win the championship, but I can't help if I win the championship in comic sales.

Tao Tao: Forward this scarf, and draw someone to give me a copy of "Strange People from Mountains and Seas".

The official bib of the movie "Crazy Primitives II" did not miss such a good opportunity, and while forwarding to help promote it, it also carried out self-promotion: forwarding this bib and drawing 10 netizens to give away "Strange People of Mountains and Seas" comics and "Crazy Primitives II" movie tickets. Meng Fan has a voice in the Chinese version, guess what role he deserves!

By the time Meng Fan was on the air at twelve o'clock, the number of forwards was already quite high, plus the live broadcast room was announced early, and some sailors from the water friend group rushed to tell each other, and the number of people online easily exceeded 100,000 as soon as it was broadcast, and it didn't take long for 500,000 to go up.

Regarding the number of people online who are rubbing up, Meng Fan couldn't help but sigh in his heart again, it would be good if the task of [Live Broadcast Master] could be advanced, even if it is 1 billion people and 10 billion people, it can be easily filled - and the live broadcast of sports games, it will be faster!

"Hello everyone!"

Meng Fan greeted the camera, and then clicked on the backstage of Penguin Animation Network while chatting, and said, "It's 12 o'clock, I'll update the comics first." ”

After uploading two words, Meng Fan cut to the comic page of "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas", laughed a little, and said: "I'm sorry, every time it's been broadcast recently, it's related to advertising, last time it was "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas" that started to be serialized, and this time it's "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas" on the shelves. But I can't help it, life is forcing it. Seeing that the New Year is coming, I have to rush to the performance. See this?"

Meng Fan pointed to a new link on the comic page and said: "Whether it is a web page or a mobile APP, after clicking on this 'buy a single book', you can go to the page of buying a single book." Or open these e-commerce platforms and search for "Strange People of Mountains and Seas" or Meng Fan......"

Meng Fan said a few ways to buy, and then said with a smile: "I know that a large part of many netizens and sailors online now are not here for the comics, but I still hope that you like this comic instead of me, I have nothing to like, and I just look good, but the comics are different, they are quite good-looking, and they are very good!