Chapter 43: Porco Rosso and the Roman Holiday and the Castle in the Sky (Part I)
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The effect of this is that the popularity of ODA NOBUNA, which has been declining in popularity, has risen again.
Please Give Me Wings is transforming from an earthquake song to a song that inspires and expresses will in a broad social sense.
Well, the expansion of the Hibiscus Society's influence is always based on the time when it brings pain to some people after some vicious events.
But after the heat rose again, being idle was also idle, and the Hibiscus Society decided to send out a single book of some comics that had been saved before.
So in early April, Hibiscus released the first volume of a single book with an unheard flower name.
In terms of the period of serialization, the unheard name has been serialized for nearly a year at this time, and with the readership base and popularity accumulation, it can be said that it is the time to release a single book.
In fact, judging from the progress of the story, it was time for the unheard of names at this time to have to sell a single book, because the unheard names on Seemar were nearing the end of the closing stage.
If you don't send out a single book in these last few months, you'll have to wait for the story finale to release the bundle.
The latest development in the unheard of Hana manga is that the parents of the face code have believed in the existence of the ghost, and everyone is ready to fulfill her last wish to start making summer fireworks, and the final tears have begun to pave the way.
The serial planning of the name itself is a little more than a year.,The number of volumes in a single book is also within five volumes.,Originally, it was just a thirteen-word TV animation.,And in terms of story structure,,This story can't be stretched at will.,It's not that it can't be done.,If you want to delay the progress, the editors have a variety of methods.,But once this story is delayed for a long time,The original moving will be greatly weakened.,Miyahara Jing personally, it's worth the loss.。
After a period of accumulating popularity, Unheard of Flower Names already has a group of die-hard readers and fans, and although it is not the most orthodox shoujo manga in terms of classification, it is indeed a story that is deeply loved by female readers.
So after entering this half a year, in terms of popularity, unheard of flower names have always belonged to the first echelon of the top comics.
In April, the week when the first volume of Unheard of Names was released, its sales exceeded 200,000 without any hindrance, and its sales exceeded 450,000 at the end of the month.
In terms of broad horizontal comparison, although this sales are outstanding, it is not the top shoujo manga sales, and this number is actually the same as the sales of the first volume of Heaven's Kiss last year, but the current environment is different from that time.
At that time, when the first volume of Heaven's Kiss was released, the base sales of Simiel were only 100,000, and now Sealile's sales have more than doubled.
Of course, as the first volume of a newcomer's new work, it is quite good that Unheard of Flower Name can win such sales, at least the editorial department is more satisfied with this result.
Sales of the second, third and fourth volumes of Unheard Flower Names released in the following months also fluctuated between 50 and 600,000 copies, and although the sales of the work were on the rise overall, the increase was not significant, which also shows that the readership base of the work that likes Unheard Flower Names has basically solidified.
In May, Hibiscus released the first volume of the Guilty Crown, which sold even more than the unheard of flower name.
But it's hard to say, is the sales won by the Guilty Crown the charm of the work itself, or is it because of the comic book character of Kazuki?
In the past few months, Kai Qi has won a super high exposure, which still has a positive impact on the sales of the work.
It's certainly a good thing to have a well-known and well-known character in the manga who has a good image and a positive impression, but in the case of Kakei, it can basically be said that the impact on sales is extremely strong.
This work may now be a fight of one person, which is not a good sign for the work, and if possible, it is necessary to return the work to the story itself.
When people can't get exposure, they crave exposure, and when they win exposure, they hope that readers can turn the realization back to the story itself.
As a teenager serialized in a girl's comic.,With a little bit of a sense of misfit, the crown of sin,Unexpectedly chopping melons and chopping vegetables, it won 600,000 sales in the month of the release of the single book.,And the magic is that other publishers in the month either didn't have a single book on sale.,Or the sale is not a heavyweight work.,In short, the sin crown is like stepping on shit luck and won the first place in the sales ranking of the single book of the comic book that month.。
600,000 won the first place, which is indeed lucky.
In June, the third volume of Heaven's Kiss, Simiel's biggest work to date, was released.
Because it's a masterpiece.,The popularity of this work has been in a state of detonation since the second volume.,Hibiscus Society isn't worried about the sales of this work.,they're just looking forward to the third volume to reach a new high.。
Because a long time ago, Yazawa Ai had made it clear that the serialization period of Heaven's Kiss would not exceed two years, and like the unheard flower name, this work is actually in the late stage of serialization.
Manga artists like Ai Yazawa, under the intervention of Shizune Miyahara, Hibiscus basically respects their creative wishes, and since she decides when she will finish her work, the editorial department will not force him to continue serializing.
It can be said that as long as you say hello to the editorial department, the work of such a cartoonist will be finished after it is finished, and there is no ambiguity.
Isn't the Hibiscus Society inclined to serialize works for a long time? Of course, the answer is no, they are no different from other publishing houses, but for talented cartoonists, there is nothing wrong with making appropriate concessions when the publishing house should make concessions, and the publishing house cannot just focus on the immediate interests.
In short, for the release of the third volume of Heaven's Kiss, the Hibiscus Society attaches great importance to it, and even carries out a certain degree of publicity - they have good hopes, since the Crown of Sin can magically win the first sales volume, then there is no reason why Heaven's Kiss can't do it, right?
However, the reality is cruel and regrettable, as if all the good fortune of the Hibiscus Society was used on the sin crown last month, and their hopes were dashed......
As a result, the third volume of Heaven's Kiss set a new record for the highest sales of a single book in the history of Hibiscus Society, with 1.28 million copies sold in a single month.
I can't say it's the last one, but it's an unprecedented achievement for the Hibiscus Society.
However, this result was only the third place of the month, and it was also bruised by the first place shonen manga.
In second place is the second volume of Detective Conan of Shogakukan, which has been serialized by Death Elementary School since last year, and the sales of the second volume have exceeded 1.5 million copies.
The first place is even more incurable, Shueisha's Slam Dunk Volume 25, which easily sold 2.8 million copies that month, and in a few days, there is no problem at all to exceed 3 million copies.
Although the Hibiscus Society was not unhappy that the girl's manga could win such a high sales, at this time they also realized the gap between themselves and the established publishing houses.
At this time, Hibiscus is actually a bit like an upstart, and it does not have the audience base and influence of an established publishing house like Shueisha Shogakukan.
In July, the Hibiscus Society sold the fate that is currently the most theoretically able to get sales, and the sales volume of the week won 500,000, but unfortunately there was a lack of stamina, and the first month was just a dangerous 900,000, maybe it will break through one million in the near future, but the desire of the Hibiscus Society to break a seven-figure single book in a single month has come to naught.
In fact, there is nothing to be dissatisfied with, these achievements of the Hibiscus Society are enough to make the average publishing house look up, but they always like to compare with industry bigwigs such as Shueisha, and they are purely uncomfortable finding themselves.
After all, whether it is the scale of publishing, the heavyweight works, or the overall sales, Hibiscus Society and its comparison object are not in the same order of magnitude for the time being.
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Mixed with this pile of single books for sale is another thing, and that is that Celerie's special issue is finally on sale.
In May, Cial Mary was replaced with a very chic cover, or a cover that did not match the style of the previous Ciel.
This makes the reader wonder for a moment if Seemar, who has returned to girly style, is about to change again.
The cover bears the word "Special Issue".
The background of the cover is the sea and the sky, with a seaplane landing on the water, and on the left wing of the plane stands a short-haired girl in a white general's uniform, while at the girl's feet squats a pilot in a brown-red flight suit.
Is this a serialization of war-themed works on shoujo manga? Air combat? Plane battles? Star wars?
I have to say that this is a terrible decision, and the person who made such a decision would definitely be kicked in the head by a donkey - well, the reader's first impression is not good, after all, you can't expect female readers to be cool about things like flying machines, let alone say "the romance of robots" or something like that.
And the title of this story is not good.
But they guessed wrong, this is the story of the shoujo manga.
And the name written there from the author is "Hyakmu Ghost Quiet." ”
After seeing the name, some of Summer's regular readers were delighted, and after all this time, they still remembered the short story "She and Her Cat" that was serialized in Sealaire last year.
Since it's the work of Hyakmu Ghost Jing, it means that this is likely to be his return to the shoujo manga after "her and her cat".
Readers expect what kind of story he brings. (To be continued.) )