Chapter 52: Supplement (I)

After the bank loan of the Hibiscus Society was officially put into the process, the second issue of Simir in July, a total of 130,000 copies, went on sale. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is the first attempt in three years to increase the circulation of Simariel, and if this additional issuance can be successful, it means that the hibiscus society has begun to substantially come out of a state of decline.

This may have been another turning point for the Hibiscus Society.

Just like that day, Shizu Miyahara and Yoshishi Kubo waited for the results of the day's sales statistics at the Hibiscus Society.

In the past few years, the Hibiscus Society has cut the book department and juvenile comics, but even so, its business status is constantly deteriorating, especially after entering the 90s, the Hibiscus Society, the only girl who is still publishing the semi-monthly comic magazine Sealell's sales have also rapidly fallen from the peak to the level of 100,000, even if it is only 100,000, it is barely maintaining.

Simariel has also tried several small-scale additional issuances before, but all of them have failed.

There are no works that can be sold, and they are not waiting to be liked and sought after by readers, but it is impossible to simply try to increase the sales of the magazine.

Although there is no shortage of manga artists in Japan, the more excellent manga artists they are, the more they gather with big publishing houses, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Kodansha, Shirasensha, etc., will never get a small Hibiscus Society.

Do you need talent to draw manga? It must be needed, excellent cartoonists are a minority after all, and there are only so many comics with tens of millions of sales.

The Hibiscus Society has also tried to train manga artists from scratch, but this is also not feasible, first, because there is not enough financial support, and secondly, the previous Koyama Takama is an example, once they succeed, it is likely that they will leave before it can help the vitality of the Hibiscus Society.

So if it weren't for Miyahara Shizune, Hibiscus would have been stuck in a dead end, barely maintaining Seemaril's sales.

The previous girls' high school was very popular.,Let the Hibiscus Society see the first hope.,But just when they wanted to let this work continue to accumulate popularity.,With the cartoonist Koyama Takama left the Hibiscus Society without any symptoms.。

Now the second opportunity has come, and the Hibiscus Society has also really grasped it, and when it is time to expand the circulation, they decisively chose to increase the issuance, and now it depends on whether the readers can give them a good return.

Yoshishi Kubo's mood on this day was similar to that of the issue when a large number of Simiel's manga were discontinued, although it was not so heavy, but it was not much easier.

Once Seamaril's attempt to increase circulation is successful, it means that its sales will move from 100,000 copies to 150,000 copies, which is definitely a huge encouragement for the entire Hibiscus Society, but once it fails, it means that Seamaril is still a magazine with a circulation of 100,000 copies, especially after the whole company worked together to overcome the crisis, with excellent serialization, all employees are looking forward to Simiel's ability to get out of the dilemma of 100,000 sales.

If this attempt fails, the psychological gap among the employees will deal a serious blow to the morale of the Hibiscus Society, and because for a long time, Simariel will not make any more attempts to increase the issuance.

In a sense, this time Simiel is still only allowed to succeed and not fail, otherwise the Hibiscus Society will fall back to twilight from its current prosperity.

Of course, Kubo also knew that his worries were a little unnecessary, and even if all the 30,000 copies of the supplement could not be sold, with the sales status of the previous issues of Simariel, 10,000 copies could be sold conservatively, and Hibiscus was still improving, but only a little bit.

"Editor-in-Chief Kubo, you're too worried," Miyahara Shizune said to Kubo Yoshishi, who looked a little worried, "I have confidence in Simari, weren't we all ready before, the previous issues of Simariel were in short supply, and we also received requests for additions from the bookstore one after another, although those additions were temporarily suppressed at the time, but the statistics alone have 20,000 copies, plus the publicity that animedia helped us do this month, There will be no problem with the additional 30,000 copies issued under all these favorable conditions. ”

Miyahara Jing is really not too worried about the sales of Simariel, in terms of proportion, a one-time increase of 30% is indeed a bit dangerous, but the base of 100,000 copies is not large after all, coupled with the previous preparations of the Hibiscus Society, the probability of success is very high.

"Jingjun, maybe you don't know the mood of an old employee like me, I joined the company at the very beginning of the establishment of the Hibiscus Society, and since the seventies, I have watched the Hibiscus Society grow step by step, and then in the late eighties, I watched it decline year by year, everyone from the initial gritted teeth to the final dispersion, it can be said that the original employees have almost gone, and now I finally see the opportunity for the revival of the Hibiscus Society, so it is inevitable that there will be some gains and losses." Yoshishi Kubo said with a sense of reminiscence.

Miyahara nodded, although he couldn't empathize, but he could understand Kubo Yoshishi's thoughts, after all, he could be said to be the elder of the elders of the Hibiscus Society, he was devoted to the Hibiscus Society, maybe now, the original group of employees of the Hibiscus Society was really the only one left.

"Don't worry, editor-in-chief Kubo, I can guarantee that Hibiscus society is recovering." Miyahara said with certainty that he was confident that he would be able to do this.

"Jingjun, you are indeed a very thoughtful person, which is completely different from your peers, although it may be too early to say that it is recovering, but if Simiel can get a good sales figure today, it means that Hibiscus Club has begun to get out of the eight-year-long predicament, which is very exciting news for our employees, editors and cartoonists."

As soon as Yoshishi Kubo said this, the phone on the desk suddenly rang.

He immediately stopped the conversation with Miyahara Shizune and picked up the phone.

"Hello, this is the Hibiscus Society."

"Yes, Tokyo Publishing Sales Co., Ltd. ......"

Sure enough, it was a call from the East Seller, and Miyahara Jing also pricked up his ears, but he still couldn't hear the voice on the other end of the phone.

No matter how confident she is in her mouth and in her heart, it is impossible for Miyahara Jing to still be so calm when she is really about to get the sales data.