105 The Legend of the Red Scarf
After opening a new career, Qin Han turned off the system and took out his mobile phone to log in to Twitter.
It's November, and it's getting closer and closer to the Winter CM Doujin Show, and it's time to step up your efforts to promote the works you'll be selling at the Doujin Show.
As soon as he hit Twitter, he found a myriad of message alerts.
As a big Internet celebrity with millions of fans, this is just a daily routine when you swipe and push every day. Qin Han glanced at it, but unexpectedly found that most of @his's tweets were related to the keyword "eating keyboards".
After a little understanding, Qin Han learned that there was an author of a comic intelligence media who wrote an article to predict the sales war between "young_animal" and "Weekly Morning", because the content was more controversial, which attracted a lot of opposition. Later, he had a quarrel with netizens and set the flag of "Weekly Morning" will eat the keyboard if it loses.
Now, the results have come out, and "young_animal" has won a big victory, so some good people went to the Twitter of the author called "Bi Feng Taro", left a message and swiped the screen, asking the other party to fulfill the gambling contract.
Qin Han was curious, and he also ran to read the analysis article called "Fierce Fight! The Battle of Sekigahara in the Golden Autumn Comics World!!".
As soon as he saw it, he knew that the media was likely to take Kodansha's money.
It is all too common for magazines and media to take money to do things and be ordered to blow B. On the contrary, Qin Han was a little sympathetic to the author who was besieged and bombarded after being slapped in the face.
After thinking about it, Qin Han had a bad taste.
He searched online and found a shop that was free to customize all kinds of cakes. Of course, the other party can also make a keyboard-shaped cake with chocolate.
Qin Han came to Bi Feng Taro's Twitter, left the store link, and said, "No thanks, my name is Red Scarf." ”
Soon, some netizens discovered Qin Han's message.
"Alas, isn't this Teacher Qin Han?"
"Really, and it's a real person, not a fake. ”
"What did Teacher Qin Han say? Did you also come to ask Bi Feng Taro to fulfill his promise and eat the keyboard?"
"Haha, Bifeng Taro took Kodansha's money, wrote the article scribbledly, and belittled "young_animal" without basis, and now it's really retribution!"
Netizens came to watch, and after reading the tweet, they found that Qin Han's message was not as they imagined.
"What does a red scarf mean?"
"I don't really understand. ”
"Teacher Qin Han is Chinese, could it be that the red scarf is the name of a Chinese celebrity?"
Netizens who had good things clicked on the link and found that it was actually a cake shop, and after a careful inspection, they realized Qin Han's intentions.
"It's a good idea to use chocolate for a keyboard. It's worthy of Teacher Qin Han!"
"Teacher Qin Han is really gentle, and he is actually willing to help this bastard. ”
"Red scarf, what a wonderful word. ”
"If I have a child, I must make him a red scarf. ”
Qin Han didn't expect that his joking ridicule made "red scarf", a word from another world, gradually become popular on the Dongying Internet, and its meaning became "an open-minded and gentle person".
Five days later, Bi Feng Taro released a video.
In the video, he really ordered a keyboard-like chocolate cake from the cake shop recommended by Qin Han, and then ate it in public.
After eating, Bi Feng Taro bowed deeply to the camera: "Thank you Teacher Qin Han for your help, it really saved my life." Because eating plastic really kills people. ”
Later, Taro Bi resigned from the media magazine where he worked and became a freelance writer, commenting on and analyzing the anime industry, and is said to be popular because of his unique and sharp views and neutral and objective stance.
Of course, Qin Han didn't know what happened later.
As he entered late November, he was getting busier and busier with his work, and he didn't have much time to spend time online.
The special issue of the "Weekly Libo Show" of the Winter CM Fan Exhibition has been completed. The second volume of the "FATE/stay-night" manga version has also come to an end.
The development of the indie game "Oriental Gensokyo Story" is still well underway. Qin Han has already relied on the relationship of his former friends at Dongda University to find two translation teams. When the game is released on Steam, it will be available in Japanese, Chinese, and English. As for other minor languages, it depends on the sales of the game.
What really increased the workload of Qin and Han was "Dragon Sakura".
"young_animal" was serialized in four issues in the last two months, plus a supplement "young_animal Lan", "Dragon Sakura" has been serialized for a total of 280 pages. This amount is more than enough to produce a single book.
Readers read comic magazines, pursue timeliness, and want to see the latest comic content, so they don't care so much about the reading experience.
Therefore, Dongying's comic magazines generally have the characteristics of poor paper and rough printing.
But there's no way around it.
For example, the Weekly Shonen Jump is priced at only 250 yen, but it is the size of an A4 sheet of paper and has an astonishing 500 pages, which are as thick as bricks in your hand.
Many anime have scenes of smashing people with jumps or padding tables, which is not an exaggeration.
Because the cost of manga magazines is high due to the abundant capacity, even if you try to save money on paper and printing, you will not make money just by selling magazines, and you will even lose money.
The real profit of the publishing house is still in the comic book.
Because people who will buy single books, they are generally fans, so whether the reading experience is comfortable, whether the books are exquisite and collectible, has become the focus.
When publishing a single book, the publisher will not only pay more attention to the printing and paper, but also spend a lot of effort on the design. In terms of content, even though it is a plot that has already been serialized in a magazine, the publisher usually asks the manga artist to revise the original manuscript.
In the past, in order to catch up with the progress of the serialization, the shoddy places had to be redrawn, and if there were line errors or bugs, they had to be corrected as much as possible.
It's like an animation on TV.,When the disc comes out.,Will correct the drawing mistakes or even completely reset some excessively broken pictures.,Some meat sales welfare fans will also make holy light corrections.,It's a reason.。
Therefore, Qin Han not only had to continue to catch up with the serialization progress of the magazine, but also revised the original manuscript by 200 pages.
Fortunately, his painting is inherently delicate and fast, and there has been no shoddy work due to rush work before. There are very few places for the original to be revised, so the workload does not increase much.
If you change to the rich traitor, the kind of guy who directly takes the draft to pay the errand, you will be tired at this time.
Baiquan Society also attaches great importance to the first single book of "Dragon Sakura".
After careful investigation, the marketing department decided on a plan to print 500,000 copies for the first time.
Dongying's hottest manga "Dragon Ball" is the first printed in about 2 million copies. With such a comparison, you can roughly know the popularity of "Dragon Sakura".
It's not as good as the top batch of juvenile comics, but in the field of youth comics, it's already the undoubted king.