Chapter 10 Weekly Juveniles and Juvenile Monthly

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Miyamoto Orichi wandered anxiously back and forth in the guest room, although this room was already considered a good grade in Bongwon, but in Japan, it can only be said to be quite simple. But Miyamoto Okuichi doesn't have the heart to pay attention to these things at all right now.

As a newly established manga magazine, "Shonen Monthly" is naturally not conspicuous in the Japanese manga industry, but its backstage boss in Japan is the well-known Enix Co., Ltd., which is the production company of Japan's national game "Dragon Quest". Founded in 1975, the company was originally a small company engaged in real estate appraisal and street automatic cameras, but it was not until the beginning of 1982 that it began to operate PC games. At the end of 1985, at the instigation of playwright Yuji Horii, Enix Co., Ltd. signed a contract with Nintendo to develop games for the then popular FC console.

Enix's debut title, Dragon Quest, was a huge success, a landmark game that borrowed from European and American gameplay styles while blazing a new trail for Japanese RPGs. It is unimaginable from the perspective of later generations, and "Dragon Quest I", which sold a total of 1.5 million copies, was completed in less than five months from script planning to production, and the 20-member team of production personnel, such as Koichi Nakamura and Takahashi Brothers, who later became powerhouses in the industry, can be called the most luxurious lineup in later generations. Yuji Horii also invited Kanaki manga artist Akira Toriyama to design the character of Dragon Quest I, and hyped it up in Weekly Shonen, which in fact contributed greatly to the success of the Dragon Quest series of games, which sold more than 7 million copies at its peak.

This achievement is a fantasy for Enix Co., Ltd., which has previously been involved in PC games, to sell millions of copies, and the sales of about 80,000 copies of Morita Shogi, which had the best sales performance before, are already boastful in the PC game field. In the face of the pouring money, President Yasuhiro Fukushima led the developers to make persistent efforts to launch Dragon Quest - Evil Spirits of the Gods on January 26 of the following year, when it became a social phenomenon for Japanese people to skip school due to waiting in line all night. The impressive sales figure of 2.4 million copies made the console manufacturer Nintendo also impressed Enix, and changed the preferential conditions to the same level as NAMCO and other veteran manufacturers without waiting for the contract to expire.

After these two successes, Enix Co., Ltd. became so confident in developing games on Nintendo consoles that it soon decided to make the business its main business.

The establishment of "Shonen Monthly" was due to the realization of the huge role played by "Weekly Shonen" in the promotion of the game "Dragon Quest" by the executives of Enix Co., Ltd. At the same time, they are also aware of the huge profits that can be brought by adapting good comic works into games. Therefore, having a magazine under their own control is undoubtedly a powerful tool for future business development. Therefore, at the end of '87, the "Juvenile Monthly" was officially established.

Although the magazine was founded, it was not easy to obtain the works of some of Japan's best manga artists at the time, as they were already in other countries. The new generation of cartoonists are more optimistic about those old magazines, plus those old magazines have been suppressed intentionally or unintentionally, so in the past few months, the results of "Juvenile Monthly" have not been ideal, but fortunately, they are monthly magazines, and so far, they have only published four issues, and the problem of difficulty in balancing income and expenditure is not prominent. However, finding excellent works to fill the gaps in the magazine has become a top priority for everyone up and down the magazine.

At the end of February, a staff member of the magazine who went to China to attend the book fair suddenly came back with the news that he had found a good comic book in the capital of China, and had copied some of it and sent it back to the magazine. Although it's just a beginning, the plot is quite vivid and lively, and the images of the four protagonists are very full, as the protagonist of the Chinese-Japanese mixed-race Zhuge Yousuke as a spiritual detective, and work with his companions to eradicate the monsters who are doing evil in the world......

Such a story, in Japanese shonen manga, is quite popular, Miyamoto Ori immediately applauded, but in the other people in the society, but encountered some trouble, some people in the society believe that the author is Chinese, and may have a lot of influence on the publication, and it is difficult to get the recognition of the Japanese. So the matter was delayed. But recently, the company suddenly heard that "Weekly Boy" also took a fancy to this cartoon and intended to send someone to Huaxia to discuss copyright matters. At this moment, the opposition in the sub-agency was immediately swept away, and how to sign the author before the "Weekly Boy" became the focus of everyone's greatest concern. And Miyamoto Orichi came with this heavy responsibility.

However, although he had already arrived in Fengyuan and had already contacted the author, he had just gotten another bad news that the editor of "Weekly Boy" had also arrived in the capital of China. Presumably, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest, we will arrive in Bongwon.

In the face of the veteran magazine in the Japanese manga industry, what kind of reason do you want to convince the author to choose his own magazine?

At this time, Fang Mingyuan and the others had already come to Fengyuan's second uncle's house, and with the support from the Fang family, Fang Ya had already gained a firm foothold in Fengyuan City, and he also bought a small courtyard less than half a stop away from the Fengyuan City Government. The yard is not big, and there are only seven large and small rooms, with an old-fashioned toilet outside. In the summer, the smell in this yard is a little worse. But Fang Ya was already very satisfied.

Su Aijun had been waiting for him here for two hours at this time. Today's Su Aijun is also the head of the department of Fengyuan Jiaotong University, who just got married last year, and the bride is also a teacher in Fengyuan Jiaotong University. For this marriage, although Old Man Su was a little displeased, he finally nodded in approval.

"You kid, you have made such a big deal again quietly!" Su Aijun smiled and patted Fang Mingyuan's shoulder, this kid has been running very fast in the past four years, and he is already a little mature.

"Huh?" Fang Mingyuan looked at the information handed by Su Aijun in disbelief. Needless to say, "Weekly Boy", a veteran comic magazine in Japan, Fang Mingyuan was already very familiar with it in his last life. Among the comics it publishes, there are many classics in later generations, such as "City Hunter", "Rogue Kenshin", "Slam Dunk" and so on, and the original publishing house of "Yuyou Hakusho" is it. It is undoubtedly a good thing to be recognized by it, and with its status in the Japanese manga industry, the big sales of "Yuyu Hakusho" can be said to be a matter of course.

However, the origin of another publishing house is also not small, and as a loyal player of Final Fantasy, it is natural that Enix Co., Ltd., which will merge with Square Enix in the future. Moreover, the status of "Shonen Monthly" in the Japanese manga industry in the future should not be underestimated, but most of its works focus on video games. But...... Fang Mingyuan remembered that it seemed that in the previous life, "Juvenile Monthly" would only be founded in the early nineties. It seems that history has changed slightly.

"I've already inquired about the situation of these two magazines, and all the information is here. Personally, I think it seems that Weekly Shonen has a greater influence in Japan. Su Aijun pointed to the information and said, "But their editor has just arrived in the capital, and it is estimated that he will have to come to Fengyuan tomorrow, and the editor of "Juvenile Monthly" has already arrived in Fengyuan, and I have arranged a place for him to live." What is it called Miyamoto Orichi, do you want to see you in the afternoon?"