The Miyahara family runs a publishing house called Hibiscus Society, and Miyahara's father is the founder and president of the small publishing house. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hibiscus Society has a history of more than 20 years since its establishment, in the 80s when the business was at its best, it used to publish a semi-monthly comic magazine, a weekly comic magazine, a monthly comic magazine, but also has the ability to distribute books, at that time its various publications monthly publishing capacity of more than 1.2 million copies, in the medium-sized publishing house business conditions are good.

However, in recent years, due to the lack of excellent works and the fierce competition in the market, the publishing house has deteriorated, first cutting the book department, then the monthly magazine, then the weekly, and now only the semi-monthly comic magazine remains.

The semi-monthly comic magazine called "Silmarilon" or "Simaril" has a circulation of only 100,000 copies, and the number of employees has shrunk from more than 100 at its peak to less than 40.

"Simarielle" is released on the second and fourth Fridays of each month, with about 800 pages per issue, 20 manga, and 540 yen.

The circulation of 100,000 seems not small, and the operation of Hibiscus Society should be good, but more or less this concept is something that can be concluded by contrast, for example, the most popular manga magazine is Shueisha's "Shonen Jump", which maintained a circulation of more than 6 million copies a week throughout the 90s...... In front of a behemoth like Shueisha, the Hibiscus Society is not worth mentioning.

Four days after Shizune Miyahara handed over the manuscript to Yu Miyahara, a new issue of "Simil" went on sale.

In fact, Yuichi Miyahara does not want his son to become a cartoonist for a profound reason, as the president of a publishing house, he knows best that cartoonists are a year-round, quite hard work, although the blockbuster cartoonists are very beautiful, but this is only a very individual case, the vast majority of cartoonists may not have a good day in their lives, even after reading Miyahara Jing's comics, he still thinks so, after all, superb painting skills and works are not the same thing, painting well but not selling more works, It's just that after clarifying Miyahara Shizu's manga talent, he is no longer so clearly opposed.

Maybe it's a good thing for Miyahara to give it a try, but if he fails, he can turn his energies to the management of the study publishing house......

In the morning, Yuichi Miyahara gave Shizune Miyahara a copy of a sample of Mary's magazine, and then he took it to school.

During recess, he had time to look through this issue of Seemare.

Although the circulation of Simariel is not large, the quality of the printing is very good, and at least Miyahara is very satisfied with her own work that has become a print.

Miyahara Jing opened the catalog of the work, and then followed the directory king, and sure enough, he found his name in the end.

"Hyakme Oni Shizu", which is a pen name chosen at random by Shizune Miyahara, as an additional work in case of emergency, and it is a short story, and his manga is not typeset in the first place like the usual new serialization, but on the contrary, it is in the last place.

Miyahara Jing doesn't have a problem with this.,It's his own publishing house anyway.,He already had the status of a "young president" before he became a manga artist.,So he doesn't care too much about issues like ranking.。

In front of his pen name, is the name of the work.

"She and her cat".

The short story that Miyahara Jing took out was "She and Her Cat", which he completed not long ago, and it was a work of high quality painting, otherwise he would not have handed it over to his father to save the emergency.

The whole story is divided into four sections, and the first episode of this issue is only and, which are called "She and His Room" and "She and His Sky" respectively.

"She and Her Cat" itself tells a very simple story: as the hostess, "she" has a male cat, whether it is the anxiety when graduating from college, the failure when choosing a career, or the sadness when falling out of love, as a cat, "he" has always accompanied her, but he can only show his liking for her by silently accompaniment, and he can't do anything except quiet companionship.

The story is told from the perspective of a male cat and an inner monologue about what happened to "him" in his short life with the hostess who lived under the same roof.

One day a long time ago, this male cat named Zhuobi was picked up by a beautiful and gentle girl and began a plain and happy life.

The girl is alone, doing a job that "he" doesn't know and doesn't mind why.

What Zobi cares about is the girl's face when she goes out early, the soft words when she greets herself, and the gentleness when she touches herself...... Unconsciously, Zhuobi has long been deeply in love with the girl, however, one season after another, "he" can't soothe her lonely heart after all.

This is a story that tells the story of "ordinary" unrequited love from a peculiar perspective, with a bland beginning and then a bland end.

The emotional tone of the whole story wanders between warmth and sadness, and what is to be expressed is probably a kind of happiness that is close but cannot be felt, a plain, warm, and sad one.

In another world, this work was originally a 5-minute black-and-white animated short film published in 2000 by the famous animation director Makoto Shinkai, with a distinctly Makoto Shinkai-esque style, and was later adapted into a four-episode short TV anime.

In Miyahara's manga, he uses a large grid composition, and the content of each page is basically only two or three parts, the composition is simple but each shot is very detailed, which is very suitable for this simple story. And his painting style can be seen to be obviously different from the current comics, the character lines are very simple, and the background is not complicated, but the overall can give people a fresh and warm feeling.

In Miyahara's eyes, the current comic style has the "old feeling" of the 90s, and his comics belong to the style of ten years later, whether it is the architectural style or the character costumes, his pen is more modern, or more "futuristic" is more appropriate, it is obvious that his female characters will definitely not have all kinds of strange curls, and makeup, but orthodox "Japanese cute girls".

The world of RB manga in this world is a little different from what Miyahara knew in his previous life, and he couldn't be sure if works like "She and Her Cat" would appear in the future, so he used them in a grand way...... This is because there is one less person in the RB comics industry in this world, and it is precisely because of the lack of this person's influence that the entire RB comics industry has changed enough.

The missing person is Osamu Tezuka, who is known as the father of RB manga.

There is no Osamu Tezuka in this world, there is no Astro Boy and Black Jack, and the situation in the future is very different from the RB manga industry that Miyahara knew in the previous life, such as the famous Akira Toriyama, in this world, he still began to serialize Dragon Ball in 84 and also achieved unprecedented success, but he did not complete the masterpiece "Aralei" that laid the foundation of his fame before Dragon Ball, but in the same way, the early stage of Dragon Ball still has a strong "Aralei" color.

For example, now "Weekly Shonen Jump", as Miyahara knew in the previous life, Slam Dunk, Rogue Kenshin, and Yuyou Hakusho are being serialized.

But there are also some masterpieces that have disappeared, such as the famous Saint Seiya in the eighties.

Therefore, Miyahara Shizune has no way to tell whether he is reborn in the original world or a parallel time and space.

In his previous life, he had never heard of a semi-monthly comic called "Simariel", and he didn't know if there was a publishing house called Hibiscus Society.

He doesn't know if there will be an animator like Makoto Shinkai in this world, so I'm sorry, but from a copyright point of view, "She and Her Cat" is already his work.

Although Hibiscus has always claimed that "Simariel" is a comprehensive comic magazine, it is actually girly. So on the whole, the story style of "She and Her Cat" is also very much in line with the positioning of "Simariel".

With the buffer of the eighty-page manuscript, the Hibiscus Society will have a month to prepare a work to replace the vacancy of "two or three things in girls' high school".

This issue of "Simiel" has already published the news that the author of "Two or Three Things About Girls' High School" has temporarily suspended the publication due to physical factors, and there will be no problem at present, but I believe that the negative effect of the sudden suspension of the popular manga will be revealed in the near future.

Frankly speaking, it seems to him that it is reasonable that the sales of "Simariel" will not go up, and it would be strange if it could indeed sell tens or millions of copies, because the quality of the works published on it is ordinary, and there is nothing special or attractive about it, and readers will certainly not buy it.

But it's not without high-quality products, such as the "Two or Three Things About Girls' High School" that has been discontinued, and the "Kiss of Heaven", which is being serialized, is also a step.

Miyahara Jing also discovered by accident that there is still such a god-level figure in the shoujo manga industry as Ai Yasawa squatting in the small hibiscus society, of course, before the release of that "nana", she is not so famous now.

But on the other hand, it is precisely because of one or two famous artists that the Hibiscus Society can survive.

Other than that, "Simariel" has no more works worthy of praise.

Although Miyahara was flipping through the magazine, in fact, his attention was not there.

The morning and lunch break passed quickly, and the 5th class in the afternoon was RB History, but during the lesson, something bad happened, and Shizu Miyahara and their homeroom teacher suddenly rushed into the classroom.

"Miyahara-kun? Shizukun Miyahara! There is your emergency contact. ”

Hearing the head teacher anxiously calling his name, Miyahara stood up from his seat suddenly, and a bad feeling clouded his heart.

"Mr. Sasaki, is something happening......

Miyahara asked the teacher as she walked briskly down the hallway.

"I don't know, it's from your house, and it seems to be in a hurry."

Miyahara said no more, and when he hurried into the office with Mr. Sasaki, the phone rang again.

"Jingle Bell ......"

The phone rang just as soon as it rang, and Miyahara quickly picked it up.