Chapter 3 Acting President (Part II)
The phone rang just as soon as it rang, and Miyahara quickly picked it up. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Yes, this is Shizune Miyahara, is it Uncle Shinji?"
The person on the other end of the phone who was Shizune Miyahara became Shinji's uncle said something very anxiously and quickly, and that tone was even heard clearly by Mr. Sasaki, who was standing on the side.
"Yes, Showa University Hospital, I'll go right away."
The call lasted almost less than a minute, and Miyahara put down the phone and quickly explained the situation to the teacher, and immediately left the school without stopping.
He hailed a taxi at the entrance of the school, urging the driver to speed up along the way, and it took him just over 20 minutes to reach the hospital he said on the phone.
After paying, he jumped out of the taxi and walked into the hospital, and soon he found the detailed location on the phone.
It was the outside of a hospital room, and several people stood there with ugly faces.
"Jingjun, this way!"
A middle-aged man immediately noticed the arrival of Miyahara Shizu, his name was Miyahara Shinji, Miyahara Yuichi's younger brother and Miyahara Shizu's own uncle, and the person who had just called Miyahara was him.
"Uncle Shinji, Aunt Hideko, how is my father's condition?"
At this time, in addition to Shinji Miyahara, there were two other people outside the ward, namely Shinji's wife **Hara Hideko, and Hibiscus Society's editor-in-chief and vice president Yoshishi Nagabo.
Miyahara's tone became more and more anxious, he had just received a call from Shinji Miyahara, saying that his father had just fainted while at work, and had been rushed to the hospital.
Shinji Miyahara first glanced at his wife, and after seeing her nodding, he said to Miyahara Jing: "It's not clear for the time being, the eldest brother hasn't woken up yet, and the hospital hasn't given a detailed test report yet, nor has it explained the eldest brother's condition, but they have affirmed that the eldest brother's vital signs have stabilized to normal indicators, and there is no danger to his life for the time being."
When Miyahara heard the words "no danger to her life", her heart was temporarily relaxed.
Through the small round glass window outside the ward, you can see that Yuichi Miyahara lying on the hospital bed has a pale face, and his body is full of various tubes and various monitoring instruments, it seems that his condition is not very good, the potential meaning of the phrase "not life-threatening for the time being" is to say that in addition to guaranteeing that Yuichi Miyahara is still alive, no one can guarantee what will happen to him.
"Jingjun, we can't enter the ward for the time being." Miyahara Hideko walked up and said as she held Miyahara's shoulder.
"I understand, thank you Aunt Hideko for your concern, I'm fine, don't worry about me."
Miyahara Hideko may be worried that Miyahara Jing can't accept the fact that her father suddenly fell ill, but what she doesn't know is that for Miyahara Jing, who has died once, her ability to accept this kind of thing is much stronger than ordinary people.
Seeing that Miyahara Shizune was not as panicked as he imagined, Shinji Miyahara explained it to a few people, and then went to deal with the admission procedures of Yuichi Miyahara.
After Shinji Miyahara left, Shizune Miyahara and Yoshishi Kubo struck up.
"Mr. Kubo, what happened to my father?"
Yuichi Miyahara fainted at the Hibiscus Society, and what happened at that time, Yoshishi Kubo, as the vice president of Hibiscus, should know better.
"It's the company's problem...... "Vice President Kubo said.
"A problem with the company?"
Miyahara thought for a moment, and then said, "After the lack of 'girls' high school', the sales of Similil fell too much this time, so my father was stimulated?" It's only the first day of release, so the data shouldn't be that bad, right? ”
Although the closure of the publication of "Two or Three Incidents of Girls' High School" was a bit sudden, the announcement of the Hibiscus Society was only because the author was unwell that the "Girls' High School" would be suspended for a short time, and this kind of thing often happens, so readers should not be so unpopular, right?
And Yuichi Miyahara doesn't look like someone who can be easily knocked down by such a thing as falling sales.
"It's not a matter of sales, we just announced the temporary suspension of the girls' high school in this issue, and judging from today's short story of the new series, the response is good, and we estimate that the sales of Simiel in this issue will not change much."
"What's the reason for that?"
"It's because today there was a collective resignation of editors and cartoonists."
"Collective resignation?"
"Yes, seven editors submitted their resignation letters at the same time today, and half of the cartoonists said they would stop their comics in the next issue."
"What?"
Shizune Miyahara found the news so unbelievable that he wondered if Yoshishi Kubo was joking.
Editors aside, generally speaking, cartoonists have basically been tied to a publishing house since their debut, and it is rare for them to change jobs, after all, they will sign an exclusive agreement with the publishing house, to put it negatively, the relationship between the publishing house and the cartoonist is to control and be controlled, and Miyahara Shizun has never heard of such a thing as a collective suspension of publications.
Besides, even if a cartoonist leaves because of a disagreement with the publisher, he will definitely inform the publisher in advance, and will not suddenly suspend the publication.
After all, even if they leave the original publishing house, as long as the cartoonist is still in this industry, he will generally not have endless trouble with any publishing house.
But at the Hibiscus Society, Koyama did it first, and now Koyama has only been away for less than a week, and a large number of manga artists have done so, and they have left the publishing house very decisively, and they have not given any overt explanations and explanations.
It's hard not to think about conspiracy theories about such a thing as collective resignation, who can believe that more than a dozen cartoonists "spontaneously" resigned at the same time? Miyahara felt that this must be a malicious act organized by someone.
"Takama Koyama and his editor......" Shizune Miyahara couldn't remember the name of the editor for a moment.
"Shinzo Nohara." said the editor-in-chief of Kubo.
"Yes, now that you've figured out where these two people are after they left the Hibiscus Society?"
"It's generally clear that Koyama Takama and Nohara Shinzo should have gone to Shueisha."
"Shueisha? There's nothing wrong with this news, right? Why would they do this, Shueisha is a hundred times stronger than us, but that kind of big publishing house also means that the competition between manga artists is very fierce, and Shuei society directly Xiaoshan serialization opportunity? Miyahara Jing said with some disdain, don't look at the Hibiscus Society, Koyama Takashi can become a pillar to support the magazine, but when he goes to Shueisha, which is full of talents, he probably won't even get the opportunity to serialize.
"Of course not, Shueisha's own manga artists don't have a chance to get serialized, let alone a hill that jumped ship halfway? The conditions he got were just slightly better than those of the newcomers, but I heard that 'Shonen Jump' is now promoting shoujo comics, and may give up one or two more slots for shoujo comics, I guess Koyama Takama has taken a fancy to this opportunity. ”
"Does the editor-in-chief of Kubo think that this matter was instigated by Koyama Takamasa, or was it instigated by his editor Shinzo Nohara?" Miyahara asked.
Yoshishi Kubo thought about it for a while and said: "It should be Nohara editor, he is not a person who keeps to himself, he may feel that a small publishing house like Hibiscus Society limits his talent, he needs a bigger stage, I think it was he who heard the news of Jump's main promotion of shoujo manga, and used this to convince Koyama Takama." ”
"Would you rather go to a big publishing house to get a new treatment as a newcomer than stay in the small temple of the Hibiscus Society?" Miyahara muttered to herself.
"What does Jingjun mean that the later things were also done by Shueisha?" Yoshishi Kubo asked.
"It shouldn't be, the behemoth of Shueisha will definitely not take a small publishing house like ours in its eyes, Xiao Shan Gao really stuck it on Shueisha by himself, instead of people bothering to poach him."
Hibiscus Society only has a semi-monthly magazine with a circulation of 100,000 copies, while Shueisha has a circulation of more than 6 million copies of a single weekly Shonen Jump, and the two are not at the same level at all.
"We just had a loophole on our side, and it was caught, Chief Editor Kubo, didn't you receive any news before it happened?"
Even if Koyama Taka really ran away as an accident, it was premeditated to see the collective resignation of the cartoonists of the Hibiscus Society, and the purpose of the potential competitor or enemy was very clear, that is, to take advantage of the loss of the leading cartoonist to bring down the Hibiscus Society.
"This ......," the expression on the editor-in-chief Kubo's face became embarrassed, "I'm sorry, Shizu-kun, because the editors ran away with their manga artists, and I really didn't hear anything before. ”
His own editors are not of the same mind as the publishing house, which cannot but be said to be a dereliction of duty on his part as the chief editor and vice president.
Miyahara was silent, people had made up their minds to take care of the hibiscus society, but they didn't receive any news in advance.
"The most likely person to do this kind of thing is our peers, and it should be a slightly larger publishing house than us that poached our manga artists and editors, after all, a publishing house that is the same or too small as us does not have the financial resources to poach so many people at once, and a behemoth like Shueisha will not take us seriously, and naturally will not bother to bring us down...... Only those publishers that operate slightly larger than us will use this method to solve the problems of competitors, bring us down, and then seize our small market share and expand their own living space...... Editor-in-Chief Kubo, do you have any clue about who might have done this? ”
The editor-in-chief of Kubo still shook his head, not to mention that there are many publishing houses in Tokyo, but there are by no means a few, and it is impossible to determine which one is responsible for this.
"Forget it, unless the gone cartoonists don't publish anymore, one day we'll know who's dealing with us."