Minister Sato took a few deep breaths and pressed down his beating heart. Thinking he had mistaken his eyes, he rubbed his eyes and looked at the computer screen again.

The results remain the same.

"Dragon Sakura" is in third place.

Sweep down again. Fourth place, "Tocuh" 11 volumes, 490001 copies, release date December 16. This comic, which is translated into Chinese as "Baseball Heroes", is a landmark masterpiece of Anda Chong, the unsurpassed pinnacle of youth baseball comics. If it is the time when Koshien is held in the summer, the sales of this manga will increase significantly. And even if "Dragon Sakura" was released one day later, it only lagged behind with a slight sales difference, and its strength should not be underestimated.

And the fifth, sixth, and seventh places are the jump triple shots of "Raiden Swordsman", "Saint Seiya", and "Oolong Police Station". The top seven sales occupy four places, which shows the heritage of Dongying's No. 1 comic magazine.

And the sales of these three comics are all more than 480,000 copies.

It can be said that "Dragon Sakura" is completely dangerous and dangerous to stand on the throne of the third place.

However, this does not detract from this victory, but only highlights the value of fighting your way out of the encirclement.

You know, "Dragon Sakura" is the only youth comic in the top 10 sales, and it is the first volume on sale!

Other comics have accumulated popularity before, and it is not surprising that they sell highly, but "Dragon Sakura" has entered the top three as a newcomer, and the potential is simply terrifying.

Minister Sato knows that there is a certain chance that "Dragon Sakura" has reached this sales today. If it weren't for Qin Han, before the comics were released, they appeared on TV twice in a row, which played a great role in publicity. Moreover, the entire Baiquan Society mobilized all resources and spared no manpower to promote, and many factors were combined to achieve today's results.

This success is almost impossible to replicate.

Still, he was happy in his heart.

"Uehara!" Minister Sato shouted the name of his most powerful subordinate.

After a while, a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked into the office.

"Minister, are you looking for me?"

"The Oricon weekly sales list has come out. Minister Sato pushed the laptop in front of his subordinates.

"Ten hundred million...... "One by one," Uehara counted the numbers on the screen carefully, his eyes widening and widening.

"Third place, 490,000 copies? Really, Minister, I feel like I'm dreaming!"

"Do you want me to pinch you and wake you up from your dream?"

"Forget it, Minister, I'm afraid of pain. Uehara smiled.

"Alright, go and send a notice, tomorrow the whole department will have a meeting. Although we won the first battle, we must not relax, and next, we must come up with a detailed publicity plan! When the sales of "Dragon Sakura" reach one million, let's celebrate again. ”

"Yes, Minister!"

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Christmas is just around the corner, and the whole of Tokyo is in the festive mood. However, for some professions, the holiday season does not mean rest and entertainment, but rather a busier time.

For example, entertainers.

Major TV stations are airing Christmas specials, various magazines are also publishing Christmas special issues, and Yui Aragaki has been constantly catching up with announcements these days, almost falling into a situation of exhaustion.

"Ah, I'm tired~"

The girl came to the lounge of the office, sat down on the sofa with a very indecent butt, and did not want to get up for a long time.

Today, she came to the office to do business, and she happened to have no work in the afternoon, so she was finally able to steal half a day of leisure. So Yui Aragaki plans to go to dinner with the juniors of the office at noon, and then make an appointment with Masami Nagasawa, who also happens to have no job, to go shopping in the afternoon.

The common purpose of the two girls is to buy Christmas gifts for Qin Han.

After lying on the sofa for a while, Yui Aragaki sat up again and took out the "Dragon Sakura" that she asked the agent to buy yesterday from her bag.

"While there's still some time before lunch, let's read the manga first!"

She held the comic book in her hand and looked at the girl on the cover who was drawn according to herself, and a sweet feeling arose.

Just when the girl was obsessed with the wonderful manga plot and had already read more than a hundred pages, suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in. ”

The man who walked in was dressed in a conspicuous beige suit and his hair was combed shiny. It is President Ken Honma.

Yui Aragaki immediately got up and greeted, "Hello president." ”

Looking at this well-mannered newcomer girl who couldn't find fault with the etiquette and was the most potential in the firm, Honma Ken nodded with a smile: "Hello, Yui." Is this time hard?"

"It's hard, but it's also fulfilling. ”

"Well, it's good if you're motivated. Honma Ken said, "The last photo album sold very well, although it didn't win the first place on the weekly list, but it has always been at the top of the list, and it belongs to the popular type." It seems that your insistence was right at the beginning, and the customers also recognized your pure image. ”

"Thank you, President. ”

Seeing the girl's indifferent thanks, pampered and unfazed, Honma Ken nodded again. It is necessary to have this kind of calm breath and not be carried away by a moment of praise, so that you can go further in the entertainment industry.

"Yui, in addition to talking about the photo album, I have another important notice. You've been honing in the entertainment industry for a few years, and you don't have much room to rise anymore. So the firm decided to concentrate its resources from next year to push you. The most important thing is for you to appear in prime-time TV dramas and play at least three roles. ”

In Toei, when actors appear in TV dramas or movies, they are ranked first, second, third, fourth, and so on according to the number and importance of the scenes.

This order can be seen at a glance from the credits.

Three times, he can already be regarded as one of the leading actors. It is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a seventeen-year-old girl to be able to play a starring role in a prime-time TV series.

Even Yui Aragaki, who has an indifferent personality, can't help but be happy when she hears the information revealed by President Ken Honma.

"Really, President?"

"Of course, am I going to lie to you? So after the New Year, the office will arrange for you to take an acting class. It's a bit of a temporary cram, but in half a year, you should be able to learn something. The acting skills of late-night dramas will be humiliating if they are on prime-time TV dramas. ”

"President, I will definitely work hard to seize this opportunity!"

At this time, the hidden door was pushed open, and Yui Aragaki and his junior and friend Kawashima Kaihe, who was a junior of the same office, recklessly broke in: "Senior, let's go eat, I want to eat meat at noon today!"

"Ah, president!" the petite girl noticed that something was wrong as soon as she entered the door, stuck out her tongue, and prepared to escape.

"Forget it, I wanted to talk a little longer, so let's go to dinner. I can't abuse my artists. Honma Ken smiled and waved his hand.