Chapter 225: Shame for Cartoonists

Although Matsushita Aohiko's request for the Elementary School Museum was strange, he still arranged for "Football Knight" to enter the serialization. Perhaps for them, "Soccer Knight" has the potential to become the leader of "Shonen Sunday sports comics" and has the potential to become a hit manga.

In just one week, when this issue of "Shonen Sunday" was published, comic book fans now had a football manga of "Football Knight" among them!

"Football Knight" was actually not brilliant at the beginning, but after all, this comic is a work after the 21st century, and the character modeling is not bad, but it can also attract the attention of comic fans.

Due to the relationship between the color pages used in the first issue of serialization, when the readers' impressions of this issue of "Youth Sunday" were sorted out, "Football Knight" and "Doraemon" and "Lucky Star Kid" became the first readers' impressions.

Of course, it only relied on color pages to occupy one issue, after all, the current "Young Sunday" is still "Doraemon" and "Lucky Star Kid" as the pillars.

Zhao Chen didn't plan for the first time, but watched the popularity of "Football Knight" slowly rise, and finally decided to attack. However, he didn't do it directly, but secretly used rumors to add fuel to the fire.

Zhao Chen did not use his "Daily News", after all, the scale of "Daily News" is too large, and it is Zhao Chen's own, which is not suitable for adding fuel to the fire.

can only secretly use a lot of money to buy a tabloid reporter, for tabloids, as long as it can attract attention, it is desirable. Regardless of whether the source of the report is true or false, as long as it is about Zhao Chen, the news is undoubtedly eye-catching. Not to mention the news of piracy!

Fueled by Zhao Chen, the tabloid newspaper published such a news the next day.

"The original author of "Football Knight" is suspected to be Zhao Chen!"

This news was published on the page of this tabloid, and the report was that Matsushita Aohiko was originally an assistant to the big cartoonist Zhao Chen, and he quit his job some time ago on the grounds of illness, but he soon launched the comic "Football Knight", and thought that the characters in this comic have the style of Zhao Chen!

Of course, the tabloid reporters who were bought by Zhao Chen only suspected that Matsushita Aohiko had stolen Zhao Chen's new sketches, but they did not fully confirm it, mainly because they did not get Zhao Chen's confirmation and authorization.

Zhao Chen is a real celebrity in the island country. Whether it's his comics, animations, movies, or even music, he has earned him a huge fame. Because of this, he has exclusive fans of all ages in the island country, mainly teenagers.

So in this report, the sales of the tabloid newspaper skyrocketed, which made the tabloid owner very happy.

However, with the surge in readership, and other tabloids were serialized. This report gradually became more and more intense under the control of well-intentioned people, and began to spread throughout the island country.

It's just that the two parties didn't say anything, because this report was just in the stage of doubt, but most readers thought that the character modeling of "Football Knight" did have traces of Zhao Chen, and they thought that Matsushita Aohiko, who was a rookie cartoonist, could not create such a good character model, even if he was Zhao Chen's assistant!

However, due to the rush to report. The sales of "Shonen Sunday", which was originally slowly declining, began to increase instead, mainly because of the report, "Football Knight" became famous, and many of Zhao Chen's comic fans would buy a copy of "Shonen Sunday" research! And some manga fans fell in love with the manga after researching it, which made "Shonen Sunday" grow gradually.

For the growth of "Shonen Sunday", the upper echelons of the Shogakukan are not happy. On the contrary, it feels bad, because with the constant reporting. The reputation of the Shogakukan is on the rise. For a publishing giant like Shogakukan, although the sales of "Shonen Sunday" are important, the reputation is the most important thing.

Some of Zhao Chen's comic fans believe that the Shogakukan has let "Football Knight" be serialized, which is already a cover-up, and they naturally begin to be dissatisfied with the impression of the Shogakuan.

The senior management of the Shogakukan naturally attaches great importance to this matter, but Matsushita Aohiko has become their signed cartoonist after all, and "Football Knight" has a lot of popularity, and Matsushita Aohiko's fame is not small.

No matter how the senior management of the Elementary School Hall hinted, Matsushita Aohiko made up his mind to veto, maybe in Matsushita Aohiko's view, Zhao Chen must have no evidence in his hands, as for the witness Takahashi Yoichi, it is because Takahashi Yoichi is Zhao Chen's subordinate and cannot be counted. Matsushita Aohiko believes that although this kind of public opinion will make his reputation worse, it will not bring him down, but will greatly increase the attention of "Football Knight".

In the face of Matsushita Aohiko's resolute veto, the senior management of the primary school hall can be said to be relieved, but they are still a little uneasy, after all, this report is not groundless, and more importantly, Zhao Chen did not say anything at all.

The world has already used abundant funds to build its own office building, which is located in the urban area where every inch of land is valuable.

The land for this office building was actually bought by Zhao Chen last year, and because the island country's economy has obviously been affected by the United States in recent years, the director was able to buy this land at a relatively cheap price.

Of course, the most important of these is that the status of Tianxiashe and the high taxes paid by Zhao Chen last year made the local government/government have to give certain preferential treatment, so that this office building is born.

In the past few days, there have always been a large number of reporters gathered at the gate of Tianxia Society, wanting to enter to interview Zhao Chen, but all of them were intercepted by security guards.

Due to the heavily guarded office building, no matter what methods those reporters used these days, they were unable to infiltrate Tianxia Society, but were caught by the security guards one by one.

However, it is precisely for this reason that more reporters are eager to do this, and they know in their hearts that if they get first-hand information, then the promotion to cadres, salary increases, and bonuses will be far away, so reporters are racking their brains to get first-hand funds.

It's a pity that what these reporters don't know is that Zhao Chen is not in Tianxia Club at all, but stays in his apartment to work. Regarding the fact that it is getting hotter and hotter outside, he thinks that as long as there is silence for a while, this matter will become more intense. Only when the heat is at its most intense will he speak out.

Perhaps because Zhao Chen remained silent, or perhaps because of the public relations of the Elementary School Museum, some media and newspapers changed their camps, believing that Aohiko Matsushita was a genius cartoonist, and "Football Knight" was originally his work.

So in this situation, the remarks of the two factions began to become more intense, which made the impact of this matter more far-reaching, and when the two factions of the media were fighting a war of words, Zhao Chen's "Daily News" finally came out with the corresponding report, and it was still the front page headline!

This article is titled "Shame on the manga artist - Aohiko Matsushita!" As soon as the report came out, it immediately added a fire to the already fierce public opinion.

In this report, it was pointed out that the original author of "Football Knight" was actually Zhao Chen, and he planned to cooperate with Yoichi Takahashi. And Matsushita Aohiko was originally an assistant of "Dragon Ball", but due to greed for stealing the outline and character modeling of "Soccer Knight", he quit his assistant job not long after, and instead made "Soccer Knight" serialized on "Shonen Sunday" in Shogakukan.

In addition to explaining in the article, it also secretly instructed the Elementary School Museum to know that it was a crime, but even though Matsushita Aohiko serialized "Football Knight", it invisibly smeared the image of the Elementary School.

As soon as this report came out, it immediately caused an uproar, and many of the media who stood on the side of the primary school hall immediately changed their camp and appeared accordingly, among which there were many non-existent things. Anyway, for the media, the more intense the news reported, the better, even if it is just speculation.

Naturally, the Shogakukan will not be passive, and at the same time, the Shogakukan is the second largest publishing house in the island country, although there is no large newspaper such as the "Mainichi Shimbun" in its hands, but there are several small and medium-sized newspapers and periodicals under its umbrella.

Just when the newspapers and periodicals on both sides were fighting a war of words, Shueisha and Shirakusensha had no intention of intervening, and sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight! What people didn't expect was that Kodansha was on Zhao Chen's side!

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