CHAPTER 16: SKIP! Yamada-kun!
It's finally done, and this unique, seemingly somewhat boring but full of attractive comics is finally completed. From beginning to end, from the appearance of the protagonist to the final "end of life", it only took fifty pages, but it still deduced a different style and meaning, with Shiina Mashiro's painting style, scenery, details, and background, which is not lost to those popular comics that are being serialized.
At least,Koyanagi still has this self-confidence.,It's a pity that this self-confidence doesn't seem to be able to give Shiina Mashiro a sense of peace of mind.,Although she also thinks this manga is very interesting.,It's also very well drawn.,It's very good.,But after all, it's the first submission in my life.,It's inevitable that there will be some nervousness and apprehension.。
Compared with Koyanagi's previous submission, Shiina Mashiro's apprehension at this time is almost ten times more than ten. Although it has the attribute of being natural, it is natural to attach great importance to the field of manga artists who you like and want to continue drawing, and you can't be sure what the outcome will be until the result of such an important moment appears. If there is any accident, it is undoubtedly tragic, although the possibility is very small, but there is no absolute, no one can be sure.
"Mashiro, is it already done?" Koyanagi walked in and asked.
Shiina Mahaku nodded and said, "It's done, you can help me see if there are any mistakes or omissions, and if there are any typos in the lines on the comics......"
"Okay." Koyanagi nodded, held the original manuscript of this comic in his hand, and looked at it carefully page by page, half an hour later, Koyanagi finished reading the comic, nodded and said, "It's done, you can submit this novel." ”
"Yes." Shiina Mayahiro breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said, "Throw it out...... But which comic book publisher do we put it into? ”
"Weekly Shonen Jump, of course." Koyanagi shrugged his shoulders and said as a matter of course, without the slightest hesitation, from the beginning, his goal was Weekly Shonen Jump.
As the most popular manga weekly in Japan, Weekly Shonen Jump also appears in this world, and it is more popular than Japan in the previous life.
The peak of popularity of the weekly Shonen Jump in the previous life was when "Dragon Ball" was serialized, during the peak showdown of Dragon Ball's highest popularity, the episodes of Vegeta and Son Goku's combination, once sold 6oo copies of Shonen Jump every week. However, as soon as "Dragon Ball" ended, the popularity of Weekly Shonen Jump suddenly dropped all the way, instantly becoming 4oo million copies, then more than 3oo copies, and finally stabilizing the sales of two or three million copies.
Of course, this is a weekly sales volume, with a total of 50 issues of Weekly Shonen Jump a year, and more than 100 million copies sold each year.
The decline in the popularity of Shonen Jump was inevitable in previous lives, and even the most popular manga "one-piece" (One Piece), as well as "BLeach" (Bleach (Bleach "Reaper") and "Naruto" appeared at the peak of popularity, but they still did not recover this decline and reappeared at the peak.
In fact, this is because of the inevitable impact of the decline of paper reading. The depression in the publishing industry, which is common to almost all countries, is a phenomenon that occurred much earlier in Japan than in Japan and in Taiwan.
And in this world, although the situation is a little better, it still has a very strict influence.
But unexpectedly, Weekly Shonen Jump was not affected too much, and its popularity rose steadily.
Every week, more than five million copies of Weekly Shonen Jump are sold, and at the height of its popularity, there was a staggering 14oo copies sold in a week. During the hot sales season, it is common to sell more than seven or eight million copies.
Similarly, because of this hot popularity, the competition is undoubtedly more intense. This is the pinnacle stage of the Japanese manga industry, and it is the hunting ground that almost all manga artists want to chase.
Cruelty naturally speaks for itself. It's challenging.
It was precisely because of these reasons that Shiina Mashiro asked in disbelief: "Do you really want to submit this manga to ...... "Weekly Shonen Jump"?" That's too difficult, isn't it? ”
Koyanagi touched Mabai's head and said with a smile, "You have to be confident in your comics." ”
Mahaku didn't knock off Koyanagi's hand, looked at the manga, nodded and said, "But what you said is right, I want to be confident in my manga." If even I don't believe that my comics are good, who else can believe that? My dream is to be a cartoonist, but what I want to do as a cartoonist is to make my cartoons available to more people. Weekly Shonen Jump is the most popular, and even if you look at the world, it is one of the top manga platforms. So, from the beginning, that should be the direction of my goal. ”
Mahaku rarely said a lot of words, which is a little inconsistent with her concise and refreshing style, but it seems that this is how she is solemn at this time.
"Let's go, let's go and contribute." Koyanagi said with a smile.
"Now?" Shiina asked.
"Of course, I already made an appointment yesterday." Koyanagi said as a matter of course.
"Huh? Yesterday? Did Koyanagi-kun make an appointment yesterday? Shiina Mayahiro was stunned for a moment and said.
"yes, so hurry up, by the way, you can think of a pen name. When the time comes, it will be used when it is published. Koyanagi said.
"Alas~~ Koyanagi-kun, are you so confident? This is Weekly Shonen Jump, huh? Shiina said.
"Of course......" Koyanagi was just about to boast a few words, but suddenly thought of something, and said: "Well, the three plain zhì necessary for a cartoonist, do you know what they are?" ”
"What is it?" Shiina Mashiro asked after a pause.
"Hard work, luck, and, conceit." Koyanagi said with a smile.
"Effort, luck, and, conceit?" Mahaku repeated, frowning slightly, and said, "The first two may be able to understand, but the conceit is a bit ugly, this is a derogatory term, right?" ”
"It's a derogatory term, but it's a good word for a cartoonist." Koyanagi said with a smile.
"Is that so?" Mashiro is a little skeptical.
"Listen up, it's white." Koyanagi said.
"Huh?" Mahaku answered.
"As a cartoonist, you have to always remember that your comics are the best comics, and there is no one, those popular comics are not as good as your comics." Koyanagi said, "You're the one who can draw the best manga!" That's conceit! It's not self-confidence or anything like that! And as a soon-to-be cartoonist, you have to have this conceit. Say it silently, my comics are the best! ”
"My comics are the best." Zhenbai read it again, and it was unbelievable that Fang Fang, who was still a little apprehensive, calmed down instantly at this time and became completely calm.
"Let's go, then." Koyanagi said with a smile.
"Yes." Mashiro nodded.
So the two of them went out and went to the editorial office building of Teen Jump.
The building of Weekly Shonen Jump is in the area of Tokyo, and Koyanagi is in Kyoto, these are two completely different places, and there is a lot of distance, but unlike in the previous life, the popular Weekly Shonen Jump has set up branches in famous cities in Japan, and there are as many as ten of them. Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe, etc.
Weekly Shonen Jump's Kyoto location, about 12 kilometers from Koyanagi, Koyanagi didn't venture to drive there by himself, but took a taxi to get here.
Walking into the Shonen Jump building, the security guard walked over as usual, and Koyanagi said, "I'm here to post." ”
"Please check in at the front desk." The security guard said with a straight look.
So Koyanagi checked in at the front desk, and then he was arranged in an open-air compartment made of plastic sheets.
Sitting in the cubicle and waiting, it was about five minutes, and an editor wearing a very casual plaid shirt and yawning walked over, he had thick dark circles under his eyes, and he was also very round, giving people the feeling of a giant panda. There was a pair of glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose, and he looked at Koyanagi and Shiina Mashiro who were sitting in the seat through the thin lenses, and said lightly, "Hello, are you here to submit?" Who is Koyanagi? ”
"I am." Koyanagi said.
"Then she's ......"
"We are the group, I am the original, and she is the original painting."
"That's right, I see, give me the manuscript." The editor nodded.
Koyanagi handed over the manuscript.
The editor took the manuscript and was just about to look at it quickly, but just at first glance, his expression was a little different.
“《skIp! Yamada-kun! 》? Jump, Yamada-kun? The editor looked at the name and muttered to himself, he thought he was the editor of a sports comic, but now, it is not the case at all.
The first picture is a boy in a class, holding his head, looking very painful.
"It's class, what the hell am I thinking?"
The boy with a delicate face, with clear eyes, glanced at the clock on the blackboard.
It's only been ten minutes since class.
"Yamada-kun? What's wrong? Do you have a headache? "In the second original manuscript, the head teacher showed the strangeness of Yamada-kun.
"No...... No, I don't have anything. ”
"Although I know you didn't listen to the lecture at all, but give me a little more seriousness during class and look at the blackboard, okay?"
"Yes...... Be. ”
"Let's take a trip to the staff office after class."
There was laughter in the class, and the pretty girl sitting next to the protagonist laughed.
After class, I went to the staff office.
"You're in class, why don't you study for me?"
"I'm sorry, I can't study at all."
"Why?"
"Because I hate studying so much."
"So? But your test scores aren't very bad, are you? ”
“…… I hate troublesome things, and if the test score is too bad, I need to retake the exam, which is terrible, so I will seriously go to self-study for the first few days before the exam. Because in my opinion, it's easier than retaking the exam. All in all, what I hate is troublesome things, and in my opinion, studying is the most troublesome thing, so what I hate the most is studying. ”
The protagonist Yamada-kun hesitated in the face of the teacher's inquiry, but still answered truthfully. He had observed this teacher and felt that this teacher was not the kind of troublesome old antique, and he might be able to understand his feelings.
"Yes...... Is that so? But you didn't cause trouble to your classmates, and you might be a very popular store in the class. The teacher pushed his glasses and said.
"Ah...... No, I hate human interaction just as much, but if the relationship becomes bad, it can become troublesome, so I just need to be the air, no, that's not right, it's refreshing...... That's probably the positioning. Yamada-kun continued to confess.
"Is that so...... But your idea is quite reasonable, teacher, I, when I was in school, I was not a very good guy, and some of them can understand what you mean, I don't think your idea is wrong, so keep it at that. ”
At this point in the story, the teacher approves of the student, and then continues to talk, about the relationship between men and women, the protagonist begins to confess, hating such troublesome things as men and women, and then says interest, his interest, his only, favorite interest, that is, watching horror and suspense movies.
As long as you can see horror and suspense films, then nothing matters.
End of conversation...... Yamada-kun returned to the classroom.
But the boredom of life still has to go on.
Even though he hates studying, Yamada-kun still wants to continue taking classes.
This class is an English class, and there are still 30 minutes before the end of class.
Thirty minutes left? How tormenting is this? Yamada-kun couldn't help but think to himself, it would be nice if he could jump to thirty minutes later.
And yet at this very moment......
Accident was born.
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