Chapter 49: Selling Magazines
The intersection in front of Santa Maria Girls' High School. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Nearly 100 women dressed in different professional attire gathered here, as if preparing for some event. At this time, it was already school time, which attracted many students after school.
Ignoring the curious gaze of the students, a woman made a mobilization:
ββ¦β¦ We are here to defend our allies, to defend our freedom, to defend our valiant warriors. The struggle between the Reinhardt Hall and the Young Willy Hall will never end, and the conspirators who try to snatch them away from us will never succeed...... The holy war never ends! β
"Ullaβ" someone shouted.
"Ulla!" All should be reconciled.
The leader raised his right fist: "Rose Maidenβ"
"Knights!" Everyone shouted in unison, and the sound shook the sky.
On campus, shouts reached the walls. Apricot hurriedly put on her pants and rushed out of the toilet: "Erika, don't leave me alone, wait for me!" β
"Stupid apricot, I have to go to the toilet at such an urgent moment. If you don't hurry, you'll be late! Erika knocked Kyoko's head, but still took the other party's little hand.
The two girls held hands, outside the school gate of the runway, and what they saw was the scene of the final mobilization.
Eri gasped and apologized to her partners with her hands folded: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, everyone is in a hurry, right?" β
One of the OL laughed and said, "No, we've just arrived." This is an apricot, right? Sure enough, it's the same as everyone said.,It's like the characters in Mr. Ai Luo Wuyong's new work.γ β
Not? Are you talking about me?
Apricot tilted her head, "Teacher has a new issue?" β
"yes, very interesting comics. Little sister, do you know Mr. Ai Luo Wuyong, so you can appear in the new comics? β
Apricot blinked, trying to take out a comic book on a small cart, but before she could start reading, the boys from the boys' school next door arrived and apologized to everyone again and again. The scene of hundreds of people was a bit chaotic, and I couldn't find the right time to read the manga for a while.
"Everyone is here, right? Then let's go! β
"Ulla!"
As early as the other day, everyone received an advertising flyer from "Shonen Jump", introducing the ins and outs of this contest and asking everyone to support "Shonen Jump" with action.
As Li Shanhe's first unofficial fan organization, the Rose Maiden Knights naturally had an obligation to organize a lot of fans and decided to help promote it together.
Those who have money contribute money, and those who have power to contribute. Apricot was on the way to school, and was accidentally pulled in by everyone, as the second generation of the ground, she did not hesitate to take out her pocket money for a month.
The abundance of money blinded everyone's eyes, so everyone unanimously decided that this operation would go together -- to sell magazines.
After everyone shouted the slogan together, everyone was in a group of three to five, a boy pulled the car, and the rest of the girls went to the nearby newspaper kiosk, chased and intercepted, and sold along the street, or went to the subway entrance with a large flow of people, the pedestrian crossing, half sold and half delivered.
In a word. Today, everyone has to digest 2,000 copies of "Shonen Jump".
"Little sister Apricot, you can go here with Erika, don't run too far, such a cute little girl will be abducted."
"I hate it, Apricot is not a child, I won't drag everyone back!"
Kyoko protested. Although I really wanted to read the teacher's new manga, I still endured the itch in my heart and followed Erika towards my destination.
The propaganda war between the two magazines has begun, and huge billboards can be seen on the buildings on the side of the road every other section.
Shogakukan's "Shonen HereWeGo!" is a new issue, but it is well-funded and uses extravagant advertising tactics. Huge banners are plastered on the Roppongi building, and even the newspaper kiosk outside Santa Maria Girls' High School is lined with uniformly printed slogans.
In contrast, the publicity strength of "Shonen Jump" is much worse, and it can only rely on the word-of-mouth of fans to promote it.
"Apricot I, I hate people who bully others with money!"
Erika sweated a drop of sweat on her head, Miss, who has you who has money, you have bought tens of thousands of magazines with your pocket money a month, and whoever swipes tickets is not as ruthless as you.
The Knights of the Rose Maiden's tactics are simple: man-marking.
Each person is in charge of a newsstand, and if someone wants to buy "Shonen Black Feeding the Dog", the girls will come up and ask them to buy "Shonen Jump" in a soft voice.
"Please, uncle, Shonen Jump is really good! Mr. Ai Luo Wuyong is really a super genius! β
"What? Would you like to see Shameless School on Shonen Herewego? That's how you want to see girls' panties? I didn't expect you to be such an uncle! Obviously there are live high school girls begging for you! Die single for the rest of your life! β
"Uncle, help~~ "Youth Jump" is not bad at all, look at the cover, this fine painting style, isn't it beautiful enough!"
Many uncles were dizzy and couldn't stand this situation, and those who originally planned to buy "Shonen Black Feeding Dog" were all replaced by "Shonen Jump".
If you really don't want to, then "Shonen Jump" will be given away for free, and it will be Apricot who pays for it anyway.
As a result, sales are very good. The magazines on the cart were decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Apricot looked left and right, not to be left behind, holding two magazines to a passerby:
"Hey, the one over there, two magazines together, can't you see which one is better? Hmph, even monkeys know to choose "Shonen Jump"! Come and take it! β
The cover of this issue was co-produced by the two companies.
Shogakukan intends to turn this competition into a manga event and proposes a similar cover background. Shueisha, after researching it, agreed to the request.
The background is a huge pre-painted explosion flame, which is then divided and half of the family is taken back as the cover background. "Young Black Feeding the Dog" lists all the main characters of the comics, facing to the right, with teeth and claws; And "Shonen Jump" is also all the protagonists, posing in line with their respective personalities, with horizontal eyebrows and cold faces to the left.
The "high and low" mentioned by Apricot refers to Li Shanhe's open-hanging painting skills, which crushed the other party:
The indifferent Reinhardt and the confused Yang Willy don't talk about it, just talk about the battleship behind them, from a distance, it is Reinhardt's flagship "Brenshire", and up close, the lines and color blocks of the battleship are actually a portrait of a person!
The man who was pointed at by the apricot walked over and raised his glasses:
"Wow! Such a large battleship is actually made of hundreds of avatars! It's so fine, Teacher Ai Luo Wuyong is really amazing! β
Of course, no one in this day and age knows about computer synthesis technology. When Li Shanhe took out the cover of this issue, the people in the editorial department were stupid, how long did it take to paint such a ingenious painter!
The same cover, crushing level painting skills!
This is a great convenience for the Rose Maidens, and when selling, as long as the two magazines are put together, customers can naturally see who is high and who is low.
Apricot said proudly: "Uncle, you really have eyesight, you are lucky today, I don't want your money!" β
"Stupid apricot, you're wasting money again!" Erika ran over, "Everyone has also donated money, and if you can save a little, it's a little bit...... Hey, it's you? β
She suddenly pointed to the guest in front of her: "Aren't you the bastard cartoonist who released my pigeons last time?" β
"Ahem, contemptible Koji Miyata," Miyata lifted his glasses, "It's really embarrassing, last time I was in the next place because I had a last resort, so I transferred the magazine to someone else's ......"
"Don't talk to this kind of untrustworthy man, Apricot, let's go!" Erika still remembered the last revenge, left a fierce white eye, took the little hand of the apricot and left.
"Wait a minute!" Koji Miyata caught up, "I asked the newsstand owner that you have sold out all the magazines in this neighborhood, and you can't buy Shonen Jump anywhere. Please, please give me a copy! It's about my life! β
"Well deserved!" Erika turned around and grimaced.
"Well deserved!" Apricot also stuck out her little tongue.
Koji Miyata looked at the mountain-like magazine on the other party's car, and then looked at himself, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar, why do some people die and some people starve to death?
There's no way, in order to complete Mr. Tezuka's explanation, I have to beg for a copy on my knees......