"Manager, do you still have any more JUMP for this issue?"

A man in his thirties walked into a bookstore, and as soon as he stepped one foot in the door, he asked the manager his own question. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Takahashi, it's you again, you should have graduated from JUMP at your age, right? I also read juvenile comics, at least you read youth comics too. "The store manager is much older than this Takahashi-kun, and because he is a regular customer and acquaintance, it is inevitable that his tone is a little casual when he speaks.

There is also a faint consolation in it, after all, at Takahashi-kun's age, what should be read is not actually a juvenile manga, nor a youth manga, it should be a middle-aged manga - if there is such a strange classification as a middle-aged manga.

"Anything else? JUMP。 Takahashi ignored the meaning of the store manager's words, and repeated his question again.

In fact, he didn't have to wait for the store manager's answer at all, he was very familiar with this bookstore, and after asking this sentence, he quickly walked to a certain location on a certain shelf.

JUMP is usually placed there, and he doesn't even have to ask.

Thankfully, when he got there, he found that JUMP still had quite a few pieces of stock.

While holding JUMP in his hand in a bit of a hurry, he explained a few words to the store manager, which was kind of an answer to the question he had just asked.

"I didn't buy JUMP just to read the story, like the average reader, but to learn from some of the manga artists above about their storyboarding and story structure."

It's good that he didn't say this, but as soon as he said this, he immediately ignited the store manager's preaching soul.

"Takahashi, you often buy comics from me, uncle, I have to persuade you, haven't you given up being a cartoonist yet? It's not me saying you, you're in your thirties, and you should give up that fantasy of being able to get ahead all of a sudden, right? How many manga artists are there in Japanese ---? How many cartoonists have become famous? Serialized cartoonists are often cut in half, not to mention those like you who can't even get through the door of the publishing house and get detained...... It's better to be honest and get a job and give up those unrealistic thoughts. ”

Takahashi-kun was already embarrassed, but the uncle's words were not finished:

"You still want to contribute to Shueisha? How many times have you been beaten and you haven't given up? ”

"I'm going to make one last attempt......," Takahashi said, as the conversation had been going on more than once, and Takahashi would say it one last time, but it turned out to be repeated again and again.

At this time, the shopkeeper said as if he remembered something: "By the way, Takahashi, in fact, I doubt that you have offended the editor of Shueisha, in fact, the original manuscript you took out to show me before is still of relatively high quality, and there is no reason why it will be rejected directly?" Although their threshold is high, it is not so high, right? ”

“……”

The store manager's words made Takahashi startled...... Why? Because there is really such a possibility, he remembered the first time he went to Shueisha to contribute, and then something happened, could it be that he was blacklisted by the other party because of that kind of thing?

The more Takahashi thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility, otherwise, no matter what the quality of his manuscript was, the editor of JUMP wouldn't have even made an appointment with him, right?

Why didn't you think of this before? Takahashi's expression was a little annoyed.

Seeing the change in his face, the store manager seemed to understand something, he turned out of the cash register, and then walked to the spot where Takahashi had just gone to pick up the manga, and then pulled out another magazine.

Weekly Junior ME.

"I think you can try to submit articles to this magazine, although it can't compare to Shueisha's JUMP, but it's also a 1 million shonen weekly."

"Hibiscus Society's weekly shonen ME?" As a manga artist, or someone who aspires to become a manga artist, it is impossible for him not to have heard of the Hibiscus Society, but it is true that he has not considered submitting to the Hibiscus Society until today.

The store manager handed Takahashi a copy of the current issue of ME, and then a line on the cover caught his eye.

"High school students? The identity of cartoonist Hyakmu Ghost Jing is first revealed! ”

"High school cartoonist, this is a gimmick, right? If a high school student can really draw a comic like that, he looks down on the word cartoonist, right? ”

High school students serialize popular works, so what is a person like him who hasn't officially debuted for many years?

While thinking so, Takahashi took over the magazine, FATE is very popular, and there may be many readers who like this story and may not necessarily pay attention to the author's name, but Takahashi is different, he has still heard of the name of Hyakmu Ghost Shizu.

The delicacy of the two magazines of the Hibiscus Society and the pursuit of aesthetic style are things that many cartoonists pay attention to.

"This comic publishing house can make its debut for high school students, and it has become a well-known cartoonist, you can try it." The store manager said.

Takahashi was noncommittal, he didn't read the contents of the magazine, but quickly turned to the end, and usually such an interview would be placed at the end of the manga.

He wants to see, is there really a high school student cartoonist?

Well, in fact, 80% of the content of this interview was made up by the ME editorial department itself, and Miyahara Shizune just answered a few questions about the manga.

Sure enough, at the end of the page, he saw this gimmicky interview:

Editorial Department: "Why did Mr. Hyakmu choose to accept this interview, I heard that you are very careful to protect your privacy. ”

Baimu Ghost Quiet: "I just received an invitation from the editorial department, and the text content can't leak anything." ”

"First of all, can you tell me your age?"

"There's nothing wrong with this, I'm sure no one can determine my identity just by my age, I'm really in high school now, but for some reason, I'm actually over 18 years old."

"At the age of eighteen, it's already very young to be serialized...... It's still two serials, won't it affect your studies? ”

"No, I can guarantee that my grades are ......"

"Let's talk about the comics first, we have received a lot of questions from readers, about the plot."

"Yes."

"First of all, the first is the question of FATE, can the Holy Grail really grant anyone's wishes?

"Yes, but no one has ever made a wish on the Holy Grail so far, so the Holy Grail War is now in its fifth time, but it has not actually fulfilled any of anyone's wishes."

"Fifth...... Will anyone be able to make their wish come true this time? ”

"This can't be revealed, cartoonists can't spoil the next story content, otherwise it will make the work unattractive."

"Okay, I see, so the second question, why was Emiya Shirou able to summon the Heroic Spirit? The summoning ritual requires a catalyst, but he doesn't have a catalyst, right? ”

"This question is also unanswerable, because it will involve the question of SABER's identity, which is information that cannot be disclosed." There is no way to make it public.

“…… Okay, so I don't really have to ask my next question...... Another question is about another work, the Guilty Crown, and some readers reflect that from the perspective of the story, the work has the meaning of coming to an end? ”

"From a point of view, the serialization period of the Guilty Crown is about 2 years, and once the story is halfway through, there is indeed a feeling that it is coming to an end."

……

Most of the content of this interview is about the plot of the manga, and in addition to these two novels, there are many short questions, which Takahashi has directly skipped.

It was only in the last part that he turned back to what he was concerned about.

"When I debuted as a manga artist, why did I choose Hibiscus Society?"

"Probably because of the style of painting, I think many publishing houses probably won't accept a style of painting that is a bit inconsistent with the mainstream, and I debuted as a shoujo cartoonist, and at that time, Simari was willing to accept my style, so I naturally became a cartoonist of Hibiscus Society."

"I don't think anyone wants you to return to the shoujo manga for the time being, because of the previous accident ......"

"Hehe, I'm ...... to the Hibiscus Society"

The next content is more official, and the editorial department uses the mouth of the cartoonist to explain the various preferential treatment of cartoonists on their side, and there are many economic and contractual advantages to their peers, which is blatant advertising.

But that's what Takahashi focuses on.

Eventually, Takahashi brought the magazine home because it contained the address and method of submission of the Hibiscus Society.

After reading the thing called the interview that was actually an advertisement, for some reason, he was a little convinced that Hyakmeki was really a high school student cartoonist.

Looking at the achievements of the other party at that age, and thinking about himself, Takahashi became very entangled.

After three days of intense ideological struggle, he felt that it was time to make a change, and he decided to change the manuscript he had submitted to Shueisha to Hibiscus.

Anyway, the submission to Shueisha has been a failure, so why not try to change the publishing house?

He pulled out an original manuscript with a large number of pages, first erased the submission target on it, and changed Shueisha to Hibiscus Society.

After thinking about it, he decided to give himself a new pen name, changing the "Yiya" following his surname to "Hexi". (To be continued.) )