"For manga publishers in the usual sense, if it is not an independent creation, most of the cooperation between the original work and the drawing of a manga should be the spontaneous behavior of two authors, such as Ken Obata sensei, if a certain original author provides you with a story, and you feel that the story can be adapted into an excellent work, then you can choose to cooperate......"

"Among them, the editorial department or the editor-in-charge plays a role at most as a matchmaker, and as for whether the work can finally be serialized, it still has to go through a new set of evaluation procedures. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

For Miyahara Shizune's words, Ken Obata couldn't help but nod his head, this whole process, probably no one in Shueisha will be more familiar with him than him.

He also noticed Miyahara's words about "publishing houses in the usual sense", isn't that the case of Hibiscus Society? Isn't hibiscus society usual enough?

Miyahara then gave her own explanation:

"This is not the case for us at the Hibiscus Society, where we have normalized and institutionalized the provision of the original work......"

"Because of the overall size of the publishing house and the number of magazines it publishes, there are actually only two editorial offices in the whole of Hibiscus now," said Miyahara Shizune, which is really not comparable to a publishing house like Shueisha, and the two publishing houses are not at the same level at all, in terms of the number of editors and the overall number of employees.

"But on top of that, we have a permanent organization that's separate from the two editorial boards, called the Drama Group."

"Drama crew?" Obviously, Ken Obata reacted more keenly and instinctively to these three words.

"Yes, the playwright...... Because our Hibiscus Society does not have the same strong foundation as a publishing house like Shueisha, there will not be so many excellent manga artists who will come to us, so we can only find another way, and this path is the drama team. ”

For this department, which can vaguely guess its functions by listening to its name, Ken Obata has a deaf attitude.

"In the absence of a genius, all-round cartoonist, we have developed our own special way, which is to separate a comic, and of course, it may be more appropriate to put it together."

"No geniuses? It's very simple, we will provide an excellent original work to a good painting, so that we can also create excellent works, maybe one or two comics above this level will not play a big role in a magazine, but what if it can be provided steadily? ”

"The original work is provided by the hibiscus society's drama team, and the excellent original author will express the idea, then turn it into a storyboard, and then provide it to the cartoonist in charge of drawing."

"Compared with the two-person cooperation in the general comics, the difference in our method is that almost all the difficulties in creation are mainly on the side of the drama team, and the pressure of painting has actually been greatly reduced, and there is also a point that all the storyboards of the drama crew, the first one must be recognized by the editorial department, and if they are qualified, they can find suitable paintings, that is to say, if they get the storyboard painting, they must have already got the opportunity to be serialized."

"And because of the special operation mechanism of our drama crew, the quality of the works produced in this way is basically guaranteed, and no one dares to confirm that the work can become popular, but if it is said that the work will be cut in half because of the poor popularity of several serialized issues, it is also not very likely."

After listening to Miyahara Shizu's simple description, Ken Obata instantly understood, what is the working principle of this so-called drama crew, there is no doubt that this organization is very attractive to a full-time cartoonist like him, to put it mildly, this is tailor-made private customization, what is Ken Obata missing, but isn't it the original? With an excellent original, can the earthlings still stop him?

"I have two questions." Although it is very attractive to him, of course, Ken Obata can't leave the warm embrace of Shueisha directly for this, and now Miyahara Jing has not officially invited him to come to Hibiscus Society, he is not so impatient, as an adult, it is impossible for people to say anything, he immediately believes it all.

"Please." Miyahara said.

It's good if there is a problem, and if there is a problem, it means that Ken Obata is interested in the system of the Hibiscus Society, otherwise if he doesn't say a word after listening to it, wouldn't it be equivalent to Miyahara Jing throwing his eyes on the blind man.

"First, is this crew in operation right now, or is it in the preparatory stage?"

"It's in operation.,I don't know how much Mr. Kobata knows about us.,Since last year, we had two comic groups co-created under a collective pseudonym.,Including the predecessor of the ancient city of Thorn King.,This can actually be seen as the predecessor and attempt of the playwright.,And now, a year later.,The playwright team has been operating on a daily basis.,Mr. Kobata Ken can look through our weekly ME or Seamaril.,See that the author's name of some works is very special with a hibiscus shading?"

Hearing Miyahara Shizune say this, Ken Obata opened the ME again, and it happened that there were several works with such shading printed under the author's name, and he didn't pay attention to this before, could it be that there is any special meaning to this?

It does have a special significance.

"The works of the playwright team will not be signed, but they will leave a special mark, which is the hibiscus flower...... So those shading authors are actually just paintings. ”

Proportion...... Minority.

Let's take a rough look at the quality of the work...... The production of the drama team is definitely above the standard.

In other words, what Miyahara said was completely true.

"The second question, although I am a painter, from the perspective of the creator, won't this practice of the Hibiscus Society destroy the enthusiasm of the original cartoonists?"

However, if someone can directly provide excellent storyboards, will some creative cartoonists still bother to develop stories?

Although the income will be reduced by a large part if you only do drawing, it is really easy to draw manga in this way, and the total amount of work dropped by 60% in an instant......

"Ken Kohata-sensei, these two points are not in conflict, cartoonists are passionate about creation, not just cartoonists, in fact, all creators want to express their own ideas, if they have an excellent story, why choose someone else's?"

If he can create a good story himself, he certainly can't give up his ideas and collaborate with others.

"This approach of the Hibiscus Society, to put it bluntly, is actually just a helpless move, if we have a lot of Akira Toriyama and Yuhiko Inoue, will there still be a drama crew? We are also actively pursuing such excellent manga artists, and if you pay attention to us, Ken Obata should be able to discover the collection of new manga awards that we are currently working on......"