"Cartoonist, Hyakmu Ghost Jing, age 18 years old, representative works: popular serial FATE/STAYNIGHT, Guilty Crown, ending the short story She and Her Cat, Five Centimeters per Second, Dusk Girl, Memories of a Pilot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The original writer, the amber lord of the early meeting, is 18 years old, and his representative works have not heard of the name of the flower, the ancient city of the King of Thorns, the ice fruit, and the cat soup

Manga artist, Kubo Obito, age 19 years old, representative work Saint Seiya.

Cartoonist, Katsura Ono, age 22 years old, representative works unheard of the original painting of the name of the flower, love complex.

Cartoonist,Nahoko Ueda,Age 19,Representative work Urouran High School Men's Public Relations Department。

Cartoonist, Yuki Midorikawa, age 20 years old, masterpiece Firefly Forest.

Cartoonist, Chika Hakaino, age 23, whose representative work looks up at the night sky of the half-moon.

Cartoonist, Naoji Shinkawa, age 20 years old, representative work ice fruit painting.

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Hibiscus Club gives equal opportunities to manga artists and newcomers who aspire to become manga artists, regardless of whether you are young or not.

The Hibiscus Society Manga Award is open for submissions from now until the end of November.

The Grand Prize is 10 million yen, the Grand Prize is 5 million yen, and the Excellence Award is 1 million yen. ”

By mid-September, news like the above began to appear in different places, not only in Hibiscus Society's own magazines, but also in other manga-related print media.

At this time, the first issue of Godot, with a total of 50,000 copies, was already on sale.

After a few days of brewing, the topic of the Hibiscus Society Manga Award is not very popular, but it has also been hyped.

The Hibiscus Club has set up a new rookie manga prize, and it has been passed on to both manga readers and manga artists.

Readers, including those of the Hibiscus Society, are just a bit of a joke to pass on such news, but this matter has a different meaning for new manga artists.

As for why a comic book award can be passed on in this comic circle, there are several main reasons.

First, the Hibiscus Society itself attaches great importance to this matter, and even formulates a corresponding publicity strategy for this purpose, and they themselves have the intention of publicizing it.

The second is that as a comic publishing house, the Hibiscus Society has been a topic of conversation this year, and most cartoonists or people who are ready to mix in the comic circle have probably heard of such a publishing house, no matter how closed their news is, there have always been times when they have heard of the deeds of the Hibiscus Society before.

There was Hanshin before, and then it was against Ren Tangtian, and then it was a confrontation with Ren Tangtian, and then it was not to learn what kind of newcomer comic awards were made by big publishing houses, and it was difficult for people in this circle to know such news.

This year, the speed and topicality of Hibiscus are very jealous of publishing houses of its size.

Third, it's a thing that is of more practical significance to manga artists, so the large prize money set by the award mentioned earlier, probably there will be no newcomer manga artist who has not debuted and does not directly take the 10 million yen prize in his eyes, right?

Fourth, this is the most important content for the outside world, and it is also a big reason why the Hibiscus Society Manga Award can cause a lot of buzz inside and outside the comic circle, that is, the gimmick.

This gimmick is mainly a matter of the age of the manga artist stated by the Hibiscus Society before the call for papers.

Previously, "Hyakmu Ghost Quiet" admitted in an interview published in the weekly ME that he is still a high school student.,High school student cartoonist.,This matter began to ferment a few days ago.,And it has attracted a certain amount of attention.。

But looking at it now, it seems that there is more than one high school cartoonist in the Hibiscus Society.

A comic magazine, or a comic publishing house, can have a 20-year-old comic series, although this kind of thing is relatively novel, but to be honest, it is not too much to make a fuss, after all, in various industries, people with unique talents, and even people called "geniuses" always have it, they can reach a height in a certain field at a very young age that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve in their lifetime.

This is a "miracle" and normal, after all, news like this is not uncommon.

But look at the Hibiscus Society, it's not like that at all, is there only one young cartoonist here?

No, there is a group of young cartoonists here.

It would be an exaggeration if the age data of these cartoonists they are now making public is true, and if you calculate the average age, the cartoonists of Hibiscus Society are probably the youngest of all such publishers.

Young cartoonists, perhaps many comic media who only care about gimmicks may directly turn this group of people into geniuses, although the statement is exaggerated, but this can cause a topic of discussion.

Most people's impression of most cartoonists is generally relatively fixed - cartoonists are bald men who are 30 years old and above, 80% weigh more than 80 kilograms, and stay at home as a whole.

So this kind of genius boy cartoonist, beautiful girl cartoonist and the like, it's easier to stir up.

For many rookie cartoonists, being able to become popular when they are young, or simply say that they debut as soon as they debut, is something that only exists in fantasy, but it seems that Hibiscus Society can turn this fantasy into reality?

The power of role models is endless, young newcomers, do you want to get ahead quickly? Come on, please come to our Hibiscus Club, this is the stage specially prepared for you, and you should be famous as soon as possible!

The call for submissions for the Hibiscus Society Comic Award actually expresses this meaning.

At the same time, this statement is also a great attraction for older cartoonists who have not yet been given a chance to get ahead, since Hibiscus can give young people a chance, so what are they afraid of as experienced cartoonists?

Even if it's just for the prize money, they need to give it a try.

Therefore, after the publication of this call for papers, especially after the topic started, there were many original manuscripts received by Hibiscus Society, and a large part of them were submitted by undebuted cartoonists from other manga publishing houses.

Although this is a bit unorthodox, it is not a violation of the industry agreement, and this is different from the departure of the serialized cartoonist in the previous days of the Hibiscus Society.

Cartoonists generally start as assistants, but there really aren't many things that a manga assistant can get from a publishing house.

If you are a manga assistant to a popular manga artist, it is impossible for the publisher to impose too many restrictions on the manga assistant of a general work, and the number of assistants of a manga publisher is much larger than that of a serialized manga artist, and it is impossible for them to sign a trade restriction contract or an exclusive agreement with all of them.

Because signing such a contract means restricting the freedom of the assistant, and restricting the freedom inevitably requires reciprocal treatment in the contract, but why should the publisher go to great lengths to pay a lot of practical benefits to sign such a contract with each assistant? After all, there are assistants who aspire to become cartoonists, and before an assistant leaves, a new assistant is already waiting behind him.

That's why a publisher like Hibiscus wouldn't do that, and a big publishing house with a much larger number of manga assistants wouldn't do it.

As for the capable people among the assistants, this will test the editor's vision, if the vision is good, of course, such people can be singled out in advance, if the vision is not good, the brain drain can be regarded as a waste of money.

Therefore, this Hibiscus Society Manga Award will attract many undebuted cartoonists from other publishing houses to come and submit, and the publisher where the other party is located has no way to restrict it at all.

After all, cartoonists will take the initiative, originally, regardless of whether the submission will be selected or not, at least this is another good choice for them.

People always hope that they can have more ways out.

In addition, with the announcement of the Hibiscus Society Manga Awards, the short manga magazine that was jointly sold has also attracted the attention of some people.

There are some people who have strange ideas and cannot be said to be wrong, but they are different from the perspective of ordinary people.

Their judgment of a comic book publisher's prospects is not only based on the current circulation of the publisher's serialized magazines per issue, but also on how many copies of the most popular works are sold.

In addition to the hottest works and magazines, they also pay attention to the quality of the work in the publisher's second-class serialized magazines, such as Shueisha, who also pay attention to Shonen Jump, and the weekly magazine youngjump.

If it were left at the Hibiscus Society, they would be concerned about this newly released Godot.

These people feel that comics serialized in inferior magazines are more representative of the basic level of a publishing house, and also represent the potential of the future.

There is a budding manga artist named Xiao Gangjun who holds such an opinion, so before deciding whether or not to submit a post to Hibiscus Society, he has to use Godot to judge what the basic manga artists of this publishing house are like, and what the future of this publishing house is.

After all, no matter how rapid a comic publishing house develops in the short term, after this high-speed period, it will also return to normal.

And after returning to normal, it will be up to basic cartoonists to do the chassis support.

Are those propaganda methods of the Hibiscus Society attractive to Xiao Gangjun, of course they are, after all, he is just a newcomer, and he has seen that cartoonists younger than him are "getting ahead", and envy is there after all, although he has been mixed in a large publishing house for a few years, but he has not yet got a formal serialization opportunity.

But he is very sensible and will not change his door easily, but he has waited too long for the serial opportunity, and he has thought about it.

Xiao Gangjun bought this short serial magazine back at home, and then began to read it.

The first few pages of this magazine are all about the promotion of the Hibiscus Society Manga Award and the specific submission rules, but for the time being, he didn't need to read these, so he skipped this part and started reading the comic story behind.

Then, the title of the first manga made him a little confused.

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