Tomoko Suzuki is an editor at animedia, an anime information magazine. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

She's in pain right now.

There is a causal relationship between these two sentences, and it is precisely because she is working as an editor of animedia that she is now miserable.

Founded in 1981, Animedia is the second longest-running anime information magazine published by RB Learning & Research Society, and is known as one of the top three anime magazines, along with Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype and Tokuma Shoten's Animage.

After graduating from university, Tomoko Suzuki joined Animedia as a young editor for one of its columns called "Famous Scenes of the Month".

Although Animedia claims to be an anime information magazine that is "watching, reading, decorating, and participating" with four times the fun, now they publish not only anime information, but also some manga information.

This is because the animation market is in a slump in 1994, and the monthly animation information does not even allow Animedia to do a full issue.

For example, Tomoko Suzuki's famous scene column this month,Originally, it was the selection of the most impressive or shocking animation scenes of the month.,But now there are more than ten episodes of animation technology broadcast every month.,It may not be possible to choose that kind of picture.,So the selection of this month's famous scene column has expanded to comics.。

So Suzuki Tomoko is in pain, as a new employee who has recently joined the company, of course, the most heavy work is entrusted to her to do, she has to roughly select some pictures that are likely to appear in this month's famous scene column from a large number of manga magazines and massive comics, and organize these pictures into which comics, which comic magazines they are published in, which publishing house the copyright belongs to, the reasons for recommending this picture, and so on, and then submit these entries to the editor-in-chief in charge of the column. It's up to it to decide which image will be published in the magazine.

As for those that weren't selected, I'm sorry, they can only be scrapped and not saved for the next issue.,The famous scene of "This Month",The manga's intelligence magazine is effective.。

Tomoko Suzuki's work is always accompanied by a lot of useless work, and she has to do it once a month.

Last month, she was severely reprimanded for not meeting the requirements of the editor in charge of her submissions, an experience that added invisible pressure to her work this month.

She didn't want to be criticized again this month, so she could only expand the scope of her selection again, focusing not only on those famous comics and famous magazines, but also on those comic magazines that had a small circulation and were not well-known.

On weekends, due to the rest of elementary and middle school students, there will be a large number of manga magazines on sale, so Tomoko Suzuki will also be extremely busy in the past two days, and she has to buy some manga magazines carefully selected.

Due to the limited funds given by the magazine, she could not buy every manga magazine she wanted, and sometimes she even had to pay out of her own pocket for work.

However, today she ran outside for a day and did not find a comic that met her requirements, which made her complain in her heart.

On the one hand, she complained about why today's cartoonists don't pay so much attention to their own drawing skills, and the cartoons they draw are the same as inferior industrial products produced by the assembly line.

In her case, it is contrary to the requirements of ordinary readers, for ordinary readers, the story of the work is more important than the drawing skills of the manga artist, "interesting" is the first, and for Suzuki Tomoko, no matter how wonderful the story of the manga is, it is useless if the drawing is not exquisite.

On the other hand, she complained that her requirements for the editor-in-chief were too high, and she was picking pictures among cartoonists, not among painters, so she needed to be so nitpicking?

She decided to run another bookstore, and if she couldn't find a suitable comic, she would just scrape together a few and hand them over to the editor-in-chief, and she would be criticized if they were criticized.

In the innermost part of an alleyway, Tomoko Suzuki found a small bookstore.

"That's it."

She walked into the bookstore with some self-defeat, and then asked the only clerk inside, "Store manager, what is the worst and most unpopular comic magazine you bought here?" ”

The store manager was stunned by her question, what kind of requirements are these.

"The worst and most unpopular comic magazine?" He repeated Tomoko Suzuki's question with some uncertainty.

"yes, I want the worst-selling one."

The store manager's brow furrowed, how could anyone rush into the store and ask themselves the readers of the worst manga magazine to sell? This guy isn't here to find trouble, is he? However, after he looked at Tomoko Suzuki, he found that she was an ordinary girl in her twenties, and her round face didn't look like she could take the initiative to find trouble.

So he said patiently: "We don't have bad comics here, only popular comics like Shonen Jump and Shonen Sunday." ”

"Really? That's it. "Listening to what the store manager said, Tomoko Suzuki is ready to turn around and leave, a hot boy manga like Shonen Jump, can you run to such a small store to find it?

The small bookstore sells unpopular comics, which is her inherent cognition.

"Wait," Tomoko Suzuki was about to turn around and leave, but the store manager suddenly stopped him.

"Anything else?" Tomoko Suzuki stopped with some doubts, this kind of small bookstore won't be forced to buy and sell, right? Looking at this store manager, he looks a little vicious, in case he really wants to buy and sell, should he run out, or will he give in and turn around and call the police?

I have to say that the continuous high-intensity work has made the brain hole of this newly recruited female editor begin to enlarge.

"That,I don't know what kind of comics you're looking for.,I have a general comic here that used to sell.,But these two issues suddenly sold very well......"

"Didn't you just say you don't sell comics like this here?" Tomoko Suzuki muttered quietly.

"Ahem", the store manager coughed twice in embarrassment, and then pretended to be serious, and said as if he was teaching young people with old qualifications: "Young people like you may not know, this magazine sold no worse than a teenager jump back then, when I was your age, I read this comic, but in recent years, due to the lack of good works, its sales have been shrinking, and it is only because of my juvenile feelings that I have kept this comic, but the hard work pays off, This manga has shown signs of recovery recently, and the last two issues have been selling exceptionally well due to the addition of new serials. ”

Tomoko Suzuki didn't expect the store manager to be a chatterbox.

And the comic in the store manager's mouth is naturally Seemare, but he said that what Seemarelle bought back then was no worse than the boy jump must be nonsense, and Seemarelle has not reached that level, but Seemarelle was indeed comparable to Margaret when it sold the best back then.

Tomoko Suzuki hurriedly stopped the store manager's chatter, otherwise who knows how long this half-old man would be talking nonsense, she forcibly interjected: "Where is the manga that the store manager said?" What is your name? ”

The store manager was talking about the excitement, and of course he was a little unhappy when he was forcibly interrupted, but he still pointed to the location of Similil for Suzuki Tomoko: "Just below those two posters, it's called Seemaril, and the young people nowadays don't know how to respect the old man at all......"

At this time, Tomoko Suzuki was immediately attracted by the two posters, and did not hear what the store manager was saying next.

I'm really stupid to go home.,Isn't this the famous scene I'm looking for?! Why didn't you forget to take a look at the wall when you entered the store, it was such a big poster?

The first poster on the wall is two beautiful girls standing together, but from the description on the poster, Tomoko Suzuki found that the two characters belong to different manga, which makes her a little annoyed, although this picture is beautiful, but if it belongs to different manga, there is no way to appear in the famous scene.

But luckily for the second poster - judging by the color, this poster is newly pasted, and it only has four words written on it, "Guilty Crown", which means that this man and woman are likely to be the heroes and heroines of the same comic!

Tomoko Suzuki took a closer look at the poster.

The male protagonist in the uniform of a high school student is holding a pink-haired girl with her eyes closed, and it seems that the heroine in this poster is unconscious.

The background of the poster is a tall building and lights hidden in the night, and the two of them are surrounded by a ring of silver streamers, the gradient color seems to be flowing, and the male protagonist's right hand is holding a stunning giant sword with a metallic luster, but the most attractive thing in the picture is indeed the calm and delicate face of the heroine as if she is asleep!

This picture will definitely satisfy the editor in charge! Almost instantly, she made such a judgment.

"I hope this poster is a scene related to intelligence in the comics, not just a propaganda poster!"

Tomoko Suzuki began to pray, because if it was just a promotional poster and content that had nothing to do with the plot of the manga, it would not be able to appear in this month's famous scene.

She quickly walked to the bottom of the poster, and sure enough, she found the comic magazine named Seemaril.

"Store manager, why is there only one copy left?"

"Is there only one left? That's sold out, Simariel's circulation is not large, I only bought twenty copies, and I couldn't sell them in the past, but these two issues are just the opposite, and basically they will be sold out in two days. The store manager said.

"Did it sell well?" Tomoko Suzuki picked up the only remaining copy of the Simylil.

The cover of this issue of this manga is not the Crown of Sin on the poster, but a manga called the Ancient City of Thorns.

On the flat roof of a huge, green-covered European-style castle, a pair of barefoot twin girls in white gauze skirts stood holding hands and expressionless.

The cover of the cover of the painting is very simple, only the painting and the title of the work to which the painting belongs, "The King of Thorns in the Ancient City", the name of the magazine Simariel, and the issue number of the magazine [No. 2, June 1994].

However, Tomoko Suzuki didn't have time to care about the manga on the cover for the time being, and after she opened the manga, she quickly turned to the page where the Crown of Sin was located.