Kenichi Shimada opened "Weekly Shonen Sun", and the first manga was "Pokemon", but this was going to be read with Xinzi, so he skipped it directly and turned to the second manga,

""Football Player", a cartoon about football, is it really rare. It used to be baseball comics, so hopefully it won't be as brainless as "Astro Balls". ”

The manga of this era were not as diverse as those of later generations, and there were only a few types of manga. The subject matter is also relatively simple, most of the sports comics are about baseball, and they are all some fighting sports comics.

The so-called combat sports manga ignores the rules of sports, the rules of sports, and only fights with the help of some kind of sport. It is not a comparison of sports techniques and tactics, but a "nirvana" that allows people to make some extremely exaggerated abilities to decide the winner. This manga later became a traditional genre of Shueisha. From "Soccer Player" to "The Prince of Tennis", the basic characteristics of these popular works all originate from "Astro Ball".

It's just that "Football Player" and "Prince of Tennis" are still a little more restrained, and the nirvana of "Football Player" is just a little exaggerated. "The Prince of Tennis" will only be slightly injured because of its nirvana.

Many anime fans in later generations often say that the tennis in "The Prince of Tennis" is "murder tennis", that is, they have not watched "Astro Ball".

"Astro Ball" is much more exciting than "The Prince of Tennis", and the balls thrown by the players in the book can even send opposing players flying into the sky. It's just a baseball comic, but it's not uncommon to see dead and crippled people in games.

In contrast, the "murderous tennis" title of "The Prince of Tennis" is a bit undeserved, after all, no one has died in the book from beginning to end, and even some serious injuries will be cured in the hospital in a short time.

After a while, Kenichi Shimada finished reading the two words of "Football Player".

The content of these two words is relatively simple, telling the story of Nangong Wing who had just transferred to Nange Primary School, and the captain of the Nange football team, Ishizaki, didn't know what Wing's football strength was, so he first arranged for him to play as a defender, but he didn't expect that when they were competing for the stadium with the strong rival Xiuzhe football team, Tsubashi's performance was amazing, and even the national player Robert from Brazil was very surprised.

"It's not bad, although the drawing is a bit fake, but it's much better than "Astro Pellet", and how about other comics. ”

"Aralei, what kind of comic is this?"

When he saw Aralei being born, Kenichi Shimada couldn't help but mutter, "Isn't this the same as Astro Boy, both robots?" ”

Then seeing the scene of Aralei's trouble, Kenichi Shimada couldn't help but laugh.

"It seems to be different from "Astro Boy". ”

After Kenichi Shimada finished reading "Aralei", he continued to flip down, and suddenly let out a surprised "huh". It turns out that the name written in the author's column is Wu Ming again, and this cartoon is "Speeding YOYO".

"It's this Wu Ming again, and it's still a comic of the recently popular yo-yo, I have to take a good look. ”

As mentioned earlier, Kenichi Shimada is a fan of yo-yo, how can he bear it when he encounters a yo-yo-themed manga for the first time, and he immediately read it seriously.

When he saw that there was also a "Wu Ming" in the comics, Kenichi Shimada was a little dumbfounded, it was the first time he saw the characters in the comics with the same name as the author.

Then he saw that "Wu Ming" in the comic actually used a yo-yo to use a yo-yo to use all kinds of cool tricks that he had never seen before, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "It's amazing, I haven't seen these tricks in the yo-yo manual, and when I get to school, I'm going to practice hard to see if it's true." ”

Thinking that he could also use such a cool trick, Kenichi Shimada's heart became extremely hot.

He went on to read "Go Boy", "Hulu Brothers", "Venus Wars" and other comics in a row, and also saw the two big characters "Wu Ming" appear in the author column of the comics one after another, and his mood changed from surprise at the beginning to shock.

Later, when I watched "Pokemon" with my girlfriend Xinzi, I found that the author was also Wu Ming, and I had become numb.

After reading the entire edition of "Weekly Shonen Sun", Kenichi Shimada was completely attracted by the manga in it, and was ready to buy another copy in the next issue, and if the content was still good, he decided to follow it for a long time.

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Because Weekly Shonen Sun was advertised as the official Pokemon manga early on, many Pokemon fans would buy a copy to take a look, and within a week, 50,000 copies of Weekly Shonen Sun had been completely sold.

The remaining 350,000 copies of "Weekly Shonen Sun" were also given away as giveaways along with the hot sale of the Pokemon pet machine.

At the same time, some people who didn't buy Weekly Shonen Sun at a bookstore or bought a Pokemon pet machine also borrowed it from those who had Weekly Shonen Sun in their hands.

Although only 400,000 copies of Weekly Shonen Sun were shipped, more than 3 million people ended up reading the manga magazine. Among them, more than 100,000 people made the decision to buy the second issue of Weekly Shonen Sun.

Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kodansha, the three major manga publishing houses, did not take the Sun Moon Club founded by Wu Ming, a super child genius of the outside world, in their eyes at this time.

Although Wu Ming poached a lot of staff from their banner, most of them were rookie editors and some rookie cartoonists who had worked for a few years, only a few were experienced editors-in-chief, and none of those well-known cartoonists were poached by Wu Ming.

Even if Wu Ming used the gimmick of the official Pokemon comics, they just smiled disdainfully and then let it go. You must know that it has been almost 10 years since the three publishing houses of their three publishers have established themselves in the comics industry.

It's not that there are no other comic publishers in the middle, who want to compete with them and squeeze into the top of the comic industry. However, in the case that the talents in the comic industry are all scavenged by them, even if those comic book publishers occasionally publish one or two popular comics, they can only be compared with some medium comics in their comic weekly, and cannot be ranked at the top.

After a period of time, those manga publishers will slowly decline on their own. So they didn't have the slightest fear that the Weekly Shonen Sun would threaten their position as one of the three major comic book publishers.

By the time the Sun Moon Society later became the No. 1 comic publishing house in the island country, their bowels were all repentant. If you suppress the Sun and Moon Society earlier, although you may not necessarily solve the great enemy of the Sun and Moon Society, it can also delay the rise of the Sun and Moon Society.