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"Considering the selection period of the Rookie Manga Awards, the more well-known and influential Shueisha Manga Awards are held twice a year and once every six months, while the Hibiscus Society Manga Awards are held once a year."

"However, according to the explanation of the Hibiscus Society, the only criterion for the selected works of the Grand Award is quality, and there is no limit to the quantity of each issue." Motohashi said.

"What does that mean?" The host Suzuki asked, and she felt that there seemed to be something unclear in the other party's words.

In other words, according to the Hibiscus Society, we can understand that even if it is in the first selection. If 10 works meet the quality criteria of the Grand Prize, the Grand Award will be awarded to these 10 people, and a total of 100 million yen will be paid instead of a shared prize. “

"This kind of thing...... Will they really do that? I said that I wanted to draw a manga and submit it. Suzuki said half-jokingly.

"Why not?"

Although it was a rhetorical question, Motohashi's tone was all affirmative, and he didn't seem to doubt the "sincerity" of the Hibiscus Society.

"According to my observations, although only the 95-year-old Yu-Gi-Oh has won the big prize so far, but you can guess the selection criteria of the Hibiscus Society, in addition to the quality, the work must also be serialized, that is, the work is either directly long-form, or has the potential for long-form adaptation......"

"The idea of the Hibiscus Society is very good, and they also select the best-selling works directly from the newcomers."

What Motohashi said makes a lot of sense, and that's what Shizune Miyahara thinks.

"It's up to the newcomer to do that...... Is this possible? Suzuki was puzzled.

"Possibly, for example, Yu-Gi-Oh, which everyone is familiar with, is definitely a bestseller, and then consider its peripheral added value...... Assuming that there are 10 works like Yu-Gi-Oh a year, even if you do come up with a prize of 100 million yen, Hibiscus Club will definitely be happy. ”

"Of course, this is impossible anyway, otherwise ME's sales would have surpassed JUMP's, and Hibiscus Society's award ideas are possible and feasible, but the probability is low."

"So it's not surprising that the Hibiscus Society Comics Award was not selected for the first two years, after all, the prize money is high, and the quality of the works is high, and they are strictly grasping the quality of the works of the big awards, and if you want to win the 10 million newcomer award, you must have the quality of 10 million."

"In the case of the Hibiscus Society Manga Awards, because I am a young award, and I am operating because of the high amount of bonuses, I don't have the same background as an old publishing house, so I haven't produced a major award for two consecutive years, so my credibility has been questioned......"

"There is indeed such a saying, the 1000 prize of the Hibiscus Society Comic Award is a gimmick, so only the first one has a big prize, and the next two years the big prize disappeared because of the reluctance to give up the bonus." Suzuki answered.

Motohashi refuted this view, "This is nonsense, and people who think this way should first consider what kind of manga should be able to win this kind of newcomer award." ”

"In the final analysis, the prize money of the Hibiscus Society should not be set so high, because after all, it is a newcomer award, and a high prize requires high-quality comics, but high-quality comics are a minority of the few after all."

"So why did the Hibiscus Club set the prize money so high? Isn't this asking for trouble for yourself? ”

"Because they have to." "In order to compete with other comic clubs for newcomer resources, Hibiscus needs to increase their attractiveness, so they directly chose the bonus, although this will bring other problems, but there are pros and cons, and it can't be said that their approach is wrong." ”

"It is possible to accomplish inconsistent results." Suzuki was thoughtful.

"Yes, although there are many factors involved, some public opinion still forces the Hibiscus Society to come up with a big award this year...... I think the other side is even facing a continuous decline in the number of submissions. ”

Motohashi concluded, "Going back to the original question, why did the Hibiscus Society select the Grand Prize so early after a year-long selection period? Why not wait a little longer, maybe a higher quality work? ”

He asked himself:

"First, this work called Chess Soul is indeed of quite high quality and has the potential to sell well, which is the most ideal guess."

"Second, in order to maintain the credibility of the award, this work is actually a big award work that the Hibiscus Society 'forced' to take...... But in fact, if the award works are not of considerable quality, that is the biggest damage to the credibility of the award, just imagine, if the third-rate works can win awards, then what is the meaning of the 10 million? ”

"So Hashimoto-sensei thinks the reason is the latter?" Suzuki asked, saying that it was not difficult to judge the inclination of the other person from his words.

Hashimoto didn't answer directly, but continued: "Consider it, the original work of Chess Soul didn't have any manga foundation before, not to mention the ability to draw, and we can't fully trust the ability to create stories."

"As for Ken Obata who paints, everyone should know something, he was originally a manga artist of Shueisha, and I don't know why he went to Hibiscus Society, and he is also a 'newcomer' of Hibiscus Society."

"In terms of achievements, masterpieces and popularity, Ken Obata is not a famous artist, although his previous works are good puppeteers, but they are not as popular as his works."

If it's a masterpiece, it won't be discontinued.

"Actually, I think it's a pity that the puppeteer is a work, but personally, it's the same Kennei Obata can continue to serialize this work ......at Shueisha," he said, shaking his head.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he was actually not very optimistic about the chess soul, otherwise he wouldn't have compared it with Zuo Jin.

But he also put a lot of effort into it, and his words are reasonable, not all nonsense, at least he has known two cartoonists.

As a work that can be animated, the quality of Zuo Jin really can't be said to be bad, but I just don't know if Zuo Jin can be animated like the original trajectory under the premise that Ken Obata has left Shueisha.

"The cooperation of two 'newcomer' cartoonists, going back to the theme of the soul of chess, is a niche Go competitive ......"

"Works with this kind of theme, it's not that you can't do it, after all, Inoue Yuhiko made the same niche basketball into a national-level hot-selling comic...... but Go is more niche than basketball

"With the practice of the Hibiscus Society, the award works announced in advance will not be hidden for too long, and it will probably start to be serialized soon, what the chess soul is, everyone will wait and see."

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