Chapter Ninety-Seven: The President of Shueisha
"I happened to create a new work recently, so please come and evaluate it for me!"
Zhao Chen's eyes have been staring at Araki Fei Lu Yan, the current Araki Fei Lu Yan is young after all, even if he hides his feelings, it will inevitably leak out. Zhao Chen knew that if he didn't eliminate his negative feelings, Araki Fei Lu Yan might go to other companies to submit his paintings!
In order to eliminate the negative feelings in Araki Fei Lu Yan's heart, Zhao Chen immediately took out the first issue of "Rebellious Lelou Xiu" and put it in front of Araki Fei Lu Yan.
Araki Fei Lu Yan held back the anger in his heart, and his eyes fell on Zhao Chen's sketch, and his eyes suddenly couldn't move. Just on the first page of the sketch, Araki Fei Lu Yan knew that he couldn't compare to Zhao Chen in terms of painting style.
Next, Araki Fei Lu Yan has a feeling of inextricability, not only Zhao Chen's painting style is much more exquisite, but also can grasp the reader's psychology very well, handsome guys, beauties, campuses, machines and wars and other popular elements are combined with each other, but just one issue can well portray the character of the characters, as well as a good sense of tension and mystery for readers!
Even Araki Hirohiko, who is a manga artist, has a strong urge to continue reading after reading it, which shows what kind of sensation this manga will cause if it enters the series.
At this time, Araki Hirohiko remembered last year's anime "Mobile Suit Gundam", but no matter what he thought, last year's Gundam was inferior to the manga in front of him in terms of the model of the machine, the plot and the style of painting.
No way, the original Gundam in 1979 did have some flaws, and it was far from reaching its peak, and it naturally can't be compared with the 21st century's "Rebellious Lelouch", which is mainly due to the gap formed by the times. The times are advancing, and the comic style of the future will be much more gorgeous!
"How?"
"Good, good!"
The corners of Araki Feilu Yan's mouth were full of wry smiles, it turned out that his previous self was like a frog at the bottom of a well, completely sitting in the well and watching the sky, the original pride had completely disappeared, and even his confidence began to be insufficient. Now I can't control this work at all, mainly because of the gap in painting style.
"Mr. Araki, your talent is actually good, and you have also formed your own style and characteristics, as long as you continue to work hard, you may not be able to reach this level in the future!"
Araki Fei Lu Yan's disappointment was all in sight, how could Zhao Chen not see it, so he had to comfort him.
"Thank you! Zhao Chenjun,You are the best cartoonist I have ever seen.,And the most talented cartoonist.,This work will definitely be a big hit in the future.,I'm willing to become a signed cartoonist of the World Society.,I just hope Zhao Chenjun has time to give me some pointers! ”
Araki Fei Lu Yan bit His Excellency's lip hard, tried to forget Zhao Chen's age, made up his mind in his heart, and bent down.
"Mr. Araki, there's no need to do this, since you've decided to become a contracted manga artist of Tianxia Society, you can come to me whenever you have any questions in the future!"
Zhao Chen was shocked, Araki Fei Lu Yan's movements were no longer much different from the disciple salute, and he quickly stood up and helped him up.
"I will definitely work harder in the future!"
To sign a manga artist is to sign an exclusive contract for the manga artist to make sure that they can handle the serialization of the manga club at their best. Signing this contract means that no new work can be conceived or not, and it is not possible to cooperate with other comic media; Even if you have a full plan, you still have to wait for the relevant editor to find the relevant pending order. With the exception of a very small number of popular manga artists, it will be difficult to return to this stage once they abandon their contracts. This contract is a risky contract for any cartoonist.
After signing a contract with Araki Fei Lu Yan, one of Zhao Chen's knots can be regarded as complete, that is, he finally made up the number of pages of the weekly magazine, and the overall quality is not bad.
Among them, "Rebellious Lelouch", "Soccer Player" and "The Three Cat's Eye Sisters" are all manga works that shine in later generations, and it can be said that if these works are serialized in a weekly magazine, the overall quality is no worse than the current Shueisha's "Shonen Jump". Among them, I have to say that Tsukasa Hojo resolutely added Zhao Chen's name to the author column of "The Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", which means that the three comics are all related to Zhao Chen, which makes Zhao Chen a little crying and laughing.
At this time, Shueisha's "Shonen Jump" included Osamu Akimoto's "Oolong Police Station", Akira Toriyama's "Aralei", and Masami Sadada's "Boxing King Genesis" and other works. If in terms of quality, the overall quality of the three works of Tianxiashe is undoubtedly higher, but the rest of the works are generally inferior to the rest of the ordinary works of "Shonen Jump", so Zhao Chen thinks that the comic magazine he is about to open is no worse than "Shonen Jump".
The name of the comic weekly Zhao Chen has long discussed with several editors, and finally decided to name it "Juvenile soaR", soaR means to fly and soar, the reason for this name is mainly because Zhao Chen hopes that this weekly magazine can soar into the sky and break the monopoly of several major comic magazines in the island country!
The cover of "Young soRa" is still done by Zhao Chen himself, the handsome and black-bellied Lelouch occupies the main shot of the cover, Xiao Yi is weaker, and the other is the three sisters of Maoyan, as for the other ordinary comic protagonists, they are used to fill in the blank parts, so as not to have a sense of fullness on the cover.
And the comic that started was "Rebellious Lelouxiu", Zhao Chen decided to use the color version page during the period of Lelouxiu's serialization, in order to better set off the advantages of this comic. This may increase the cost, but where does Zhao Chen still account for these.
The first is "Rebellious Lelouch", the back is "The Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", the back is "Football Player", and the rest of the ordinary comics are placed in the middle.
Zhao Chen is very confident in the charm of "Football Player", even if it is the queen of the palace, it is difficult to affect this classic sports comic, not to mention that it is Zhao Chen who created it, as long as "Rebellious Lelouch" is hot, "Football Player" is bound to be driven, which is the advantage brought by the serialization of multiple works by the same author.
In addition, Zhao Chen decided to add a reader survey to the last page of each weekly comic to determine the ranking of serialized comics, mainly to increase the competition among cartoonists and improve the charm of the work. However, due to the lack of qualified comics, he will not imitate "Shonen Jump" to cut his work in half for the time being.
"Shonen soaR" is priced at 22o yen, which is slightly lower than "Shonen Jump", but the cost of the two manga magazines is not the same. Due to sales, Shonen Jump is significantly less expensive to publish.
The comic market of the island country is undoubtedly far greater than that of Xiangjiang, and the comic readership is calculated in tens of millions, and the sales of each issue of the three major comic magazines alone are close to 10 million, not to mention that there are various other comic magazines.
A comparison between the comic market of Xiangjiang and the island country is undoubtedly a mayfly shaking the tree, and there is no comparison! The readership of Xiangjiangde comics is only a few hundred thousand, and the "Shonen Weekly" with the largest number of purchases has only a few hundred thousand sales, while the major comic magazines with the highest sales in the island country have millions of sales in each issue, which is still the reason why the competition in the island country is too fierce.
In other words, Zhao Chen can only be regarded as a small fight in Xiangjiang, and now it can be regarded as a real test, once he succeeds, he will soar.
At the door of Shueisha, Zhao Chen glanced at the towering building in front of him and stepped into it.
"Hello, sir!"
Just like last time, the front desk lady was still so polite, with a smile on her face that didn't change.
"I'm looking for your manager of the marketing department!"
When the front desk lady put down the phone, she said with a little regret, "I'm sorry, Mr. Aida is not here!" ”
"Then your president is always here, I'm here to fulfill the previous agreement!"
"Does the gentleman have an appointment?"
"Sure enough, it's still the same, just look at this!"
Zhao Chen held his forehead with one hand, this front desk lady was like a machine, and her answers were still as formulaic as the last time, and her tone did not even change, which made Zhao Chen have to take out the contract.
The front desk lady took the contract and looked at it a few times, and finally showed surprise in her eyes, she didn't expect that the person in front of her was a novelist, or was favored by the president of Shueisha, which was too small.
Fortunately, the psychology of the front desk lady was very good, and she knew that the visitors were different this time, so she picked up the phone and dialed the number of the president's office.
"Sir, the president promised to meet you."
Zhao Chen asked where the office of the president of Shueisha was, and then went straight into the elevator on the side.
The elevators of this era are naturally not as delicate as those of later generations, but the quality is not bad. Since the president's office is on the seventh floor, Zhao Chen naturally won't work hard to climb the stairs.
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