After talking about the short story magazine, Miyahara asked about an event that was tied to the matter. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The Hibiscus Society manga award that I talked about earlier, did Editor-in-Chief Akizuki communicate with Vice President Kubo?"

Why do you want to get a comic book award for the Hibiscus Society, this is related to the third problem faced by the Hibiscus Society.

The short story magazine is actually an internal solicitation of manuscripts, while the comic book award is a solicitation for submissions from the outside world, so as to discover more talented cartoonists.

The number of manga artists in the Hibiscus Society is almost abundant, but why do you need to find new manga artists? There is no contradiction at all.

First of all, you need to understand the concept that a manga artist and a talented manga artist, or a manga artist and a popular manga artist, are two completely different creatures, completely different in concept and definition.

What is the total number of manga artists in --- Japanese? How many cartoonists can be remembered by readers, and there are representative best-selling works?

There is no shortage of cartoonists at the Hibiscus Society, what is lacking is talented cartoonists. And they don't have a competitive advantage in this regard, so they have to take a more proactive approach to discovering and engaging cartoonists, such as providing better basic treatment for cartoonists, and then ...... Set up a comic book prize with a big prize?

The current Hibiscus Society, the high-quality works of the two magazines basically revolve around the drama team, the drama team itself has original ability, but it also relies on Miyahara Shizu's original plan, but no matter how big Miyahara Shizu's brain capacity is, it cannot be infinite......

So the whole thing has to be considered in the far reach.

In the beginning, Hibiscus needed Ryunosuke Akasaka and Sento Isuzu, and later Hibiscus needed a drama crew, and in the end, Hibiscus needed manga artists who could draw their own manga that sold well.

In Miyahara's plan, the importance of the playwriting team on the side of the manga publishing house will gradually decline over time, and when Hibiscus, or he himself has an animation department, the focus of the playwriting team will shift from drawing manga storyboards to producing animated scripts and scripts.

Of course, this is a relatively long-term process, but the preparation still needs to be made.

No matter what century it is, no matter what industry it is, talent is precious and expensive.

The Hibiscus Society should take measures to actively attract talented manga artists.

This is actually a relatively helpless thing, large publishing houses and long-established publishing houses have traditional advantages and first-mover advantages.

For example, when the Hibiscus Society statement gradually rose this year, of course, the number of manga artists who took the initiative to join the club increased a lot, but in fact, among these people, many of the manga artists who took the initiative to submit to the Hibiscus Society and entered the Hibiscus Society were all people who tried to enter Shueisha but were unsuccessful and were rejected by Shueisha.

Therefore, no matter how good the development momentum of the Hibiscus Society is, judging from the perspective of the entire industry, it is just a rising star.

Even if Hibiscus has only relied on two serialized magazines now, it has squeezed into the top ten of all manga publishing houses in terms of sales, and even if they work harder, they can still squeeze into the top five, but this is useless, because for many manga artists or people who aspire to become manga artists, especially if their goal is shonen manga, then there are only three publishing houses in the eyes of these people: Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kodansha.

If you have the opportunity to ask these cartoonists if they know that there is such a publishing house as Hibiscus Society, and if so, what is their impression of this publishing house, then they are likely to answer that they know that there is such a comic publishing house, and they also know that their development momentum is very good, and at that speed of development, they even have the tendency to become the next comic publishing giant.

That's a nice thing to say, and that's probably what a lot of people really think, but what do they do? When they turn around, they will stuff their manuscripts into Shueisha's hands, and wait dryly for a reply and an appointment from the JUMP editor, looking forward to being able to enter Shueisha and embark on JUMP's serialization.

In this kind of thing, most people would rather be phoenix tails than chicken heads, they often have a gambler mentality, and imagine for a long time, maybe their works can be popular on JUMP, maybe they are the next Akira Toriyama, the next Yuhiko Inoue?

That's right, this comic book publishing house called Hibiscus Society has a lot of momentum and has the potential to soar into the sky, but isn't it that it hasn't flown yet?

Since it is impossible to attract excellent manga artists to submit articles with a vision and vision for the future, it is very simple for Hibiscus to create a manga award to attract them by offering tangible benefits in the present.

No matter how beautiful the imagination of the future is, in the face of the temptation of reality, those imaginations will become empty.

For the Hibiscus Society Manga Awards, Miyahara Jing has made a lot of money in the near setting, and in terms of bonus settings, the highest is the selection of the Manga Awards, with a prize of 10 million yen, the second is the admission of the Grand Prize, with a bonus of 5 million yen, and the third is the Grand Prize, with a bonus of 1 million yen.

If you compare this bonus horizontally, you will find that the hibiscus society has a handful.

Take stock of the well-known manga awards.,Probably the first one to say the Shogakukan Manga Award of the Shogakukan.,This is the oldest manga award in ---Japan.,It's now divided into four awards: children's department.、Juvenile department.、Girls department.、General department.,And the prize money is set at 1 million yen.。

Of course,The selection goal of this award is different from the manga award that Miyahara Shizune wants to do.,The Shogakukan Manga Award is for the works officially published by different publishers this year.,For those works or cartoonists,It's the reputation of this award.,Not the bonus.,1 million is nothing for well-known cartoonists.。

The Hibiscus Society Manga Award is a newcomer award, and for newcomers who have not yet made their official debut, but are interested in becoming cartoonists, 10 million is definitely a heavy prize.

Analogy with the Shueisha Manga Award, which is also a newcomer award (equivalent to the original Shueisha Tezuka Award, there is no Tezuka in this plane, and it is impossible to have a Tezuka Award, and after 97 years, the Asahi Shimbun will no longer set up the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award), the selection is 1 million, the admission is 500,000, and the excellent work is 200,000.

The prize money set at Hibiscus Club is ten times that of Shueisha, and it is self-evident that it is attractive to newcomers.

In Miyahara's plan, the Hibiscus Society Manga Award is called for submissions and even the award cycle is calculated in years, and because the selection prize is too heavy, it is impossible to award it every year, which is somewhat similar to many light novel awards, such as Kadokawa Shoten's Sneaker Award, which will only be awarded if you really wait for a super-high-quality heavyweight work.

From this point of view, for ordinary cartoonists, in fact, the Hibiscus Society Manga Award only has two levels: the entry selection and the masterpiece award, and the newcomer cartoonists who can really win the big award must be very rare.

But even if it's just a pie, this prize money is enough to make new cartoonists rush to it.

If you can't get 10 million, isn't 5 million money? (To be continued.) )