When "Light Girl" entered the early stage of serialization, the sales of "Weekly Manga Times", a weekly youth comic book, were growing at a snowballing rate, and it was not until 600,000 that the growth rate slowed down significantly.

In addition to the fact that "Light Voice Girl" does attract many comic fans, the most important thing is still that Zhao Chen's huge fame is taking effect. As the best-selling and most popular cartoonist at present, Zhao Chen has absolute appeal at least in this part of the island country.

Just like some famous cartoonists after completing their famous works, the quality evaluation of the next comic book can only be regarded as average, but the single book is often not much worse than the previous one, which is the background and fame of itself, and it is also the reason why comic fans have long developed a habit. Even if the drawing is not good, it will be preconceived to improve it to a higher level, and it is also called a problem with other people's vision.

This kind of thing that makes people feel speechless is not nonsense, but a fairly common thing, of course, except for those who really have a problem with their eyes, the rest are often die-hard comic fans of a certain cartoonist.

For this kind of comic book fan, you really can't say bad things about the cartoonist he likes and his works, otherwise the consequences will be very strict, at least the argument is indispensable.

And not long after "Light Sound Girl" entered serialization, the three major societies felt more and more anxious, Zhao Chen's action was too big before, not to mention the acquisition of the two major comic companies in one go, but also serialized "Three Kingdoms" and "Light Sound Girl" one after another, making Tianxia Club once again have two major publications. If it continues like this, wait until the two major comic publications of Tianxia Society have a firm foothold. When the time comes, it won't be easy to clean up.

As a result, the three major societies once again stepped up their actions and began to use various connections at any cost. Of course, a lot of money and gifts were also spent to attract relevant officials to promote the proposal for the integration of the three major societies to be communicated as quickly as possible.

However, after all, the integration of the three major societies has the nature of a monopoly, even if the three major societies have a wide network and more money to manage, it will also take some time, and it will take secondary time just to file cases and investigate, even if these are just a scene.

The actions of the three major societies reached Zhao Chen's side at the first time, and Zhao Chen did not stop the integration of the three major societies. It's really that manpower is sometimes exhausted, and although he has some connections, he is not an island country after all. Block at such times. There is no doubt that the mantis arm is a car, knowing that it will fail, and it will waste a lot of manpower and material resources, which is not a wise man.

It's the way he's been doing lately on how to expand the Tianxia Society. However, after the acquisition of the two major companies. It takes a lot of time just to digest the Tianxia Society, otherwise it will damage the foundation. As for comic publications, Zhao Chen has achieved the extreme, and now there are six major comic publications in Tianxia Society, which is not a normal number, because even if there are only two or three comic publications in Shogakukan and Shueisha that have achieved this kind of sales.

These six comic publications have also reached the limit of the current Tianxia Society.,The main Tianxia Society is its powerful cartoonist who barely supports the serialized works of the six publications.,No matter how many really don't have good cartoonists available.。 And cartoonists who want to have more and more strength. It would take a lot of time to train new manga artists, but it was certainly not a quick process.

Come to think of this. Zhao Chen couldn't help but feel a little distressed, but he quickly made a decision, since he couldn't enhance the comics in a short period of time, since he still had some time, he might as well take the opportunity to strengthen the novels.

You must know that the current Tianxia Society has indeed become the first comic book society in the island country.,Of course, it's just that at present.,As long as the three major societies are successfully merged.,The first will miss out on the Tianxia Society.,If you want to get back the first.,When the time comes, it all depends on the situation.。

It's just that this is only in terms of the manga club.,But if it's about the island country publishing house.,The world society can also be in the top five.,I'm afraid it's not as good as Shueisha.,If it's compared with the first and second Kodansha.、Shogakukan is even more dwarfed.,The main reason is that the gap in the novel is too big.。

As long as the three major publishers merge, then the name of Kodansha, the first publishing house, will have to give way, and when that time comes, the original development of the general development of the world of the novel part must not be completely suppressed, and I am afraid that it will never see the light of day. Rather than this, it is better to take advantage of the time there is still to strengthen the ability of the novel's layout.

Among them, the most effective method is to plagiarize the world's major works that have not yet been published, and the other is to poach people.

Although Zhao Chen was a comic assistant in his previous life, he still read some world classics, and he still remembered them. It's just a novelist from the island country, he really doesn't know a few, and there is only one active in the current era, that is, the writer of "Norwegian Wood" Murakami Muraki.

Zhao Chen has very little information about Murakami Muraki in his head, only knowing that his works belong to the European and American style, the tone is light, and there is little post-war gloomy and heavy text atmosphere in Japan, and he is known as the first pure writer in the post-World War II period, and in later generations, he is known as the literary standard-bearer of the island country in the 80s.

Thinking of Murakami's Murakami Muraki, Zhao Chen immediately asked his subordinates to find Murakami's information, and for Murakami's Murakami Muraki, he just remembered the name, and he didn't know much about it, and he also didn't know the specific time of the work "Norwegian Forest".

Tianxia Society is a giant publishing house in the end, and although the novel is only an incidental industry, there are still specific materials about Murakami Muraki in the publishing house.

Haruki Murakami is currently in his thirties, born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, and graduated from the Department of Actuography of the First Faculty of Letters of Waseda University, specializing in the translation of American literature. I used to work in a record store and a café, and even opened a bar.

Of course, this was all Murakami's early work, and it wasn't until Murakami was 29 years old that he had the idea of writing a novel, and then he kept writing at the dinner table every night and wrote it to the group portrait newcomer award jury. The reason for submission is that there is a word limit.

Murakami Murakami's first work "Listen to the Wind" can be described as a blockbuster, and it won the 23rd Island Country Group Portrait Newcomer Award at that time, although this is only a little-known novel award, but it is also a rare thing for Murakami Muraki, and the most important thing is that it gave him enough confidence. For writers. Confidence is very important, if you don't even have confidence in yourself, then what are you creating? Therefore, it is not necessary to be a best-selling writer who is confident, but a best-selling writer must have enough confidence, especially to recognize the novels he creates.

However, even though his first work won an award, Murakami, who has a lot of experience, still has a cautious attitude and works while running a bar.

It wasn't until 1981 that Murakami finally made up his mind to create professionally and transfer the bar to someone else. In March of the year. Published "The Tragedy of New York's Coal Mines". In April, he published "Kangaroo Day", where he published a series of short stories until 1983. In the same year, he began to participate in the editorial work of Waseda Literature as a member of the editorial board. It lasted a year and a half.

During this time, he also wrote a novel called "The Adventure of the Sheep Hunt", but the sales of this novel can only be regarded as ordinary, and it does not make him a well-known novelist.

Other words. The current Murakami Muraki is just a somewhat well-known novelist. If this is the case alone, Zhao Chen will immediately start. It's a pity that he still has a layer of concern, after all, this information shows that Murakami Muraki is a contracted writer of Kodansha.

If it's the three major societies, it's okay to say, anyway, they all belong to the enemies who will blush when they meet, and they are even happier when they dig their hearts. Kodansha is different, Kodansha is not only the first publishing house in the island country at present, but also has a verbal covenant with Zhao Chen, and together they resist the 'holy alliance' of the three major societies!

In other words, if you want to dig up the Murakami Muramura tree this time. Then you have to poach people from your allies. This will undoubtedly make both sides look bad and may tear up the covenant directly. Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that the current Murakami Muraki has not completely developed the relationship of his strength, otherwise it will become an enemy.

"So why are you tangled, anyway, Kodansha is also its main competitor, there are not many opportunities for such a good one, and if you don't start, you won't have a chance."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Chen finally made up his mind that at that time, he and Kodansha became allies, that is, they were jointly used to resist the threat of the three major societies, but the current Tianxia Society has completely matured, even if the three major societies successfully merged, as long as he is there, he can block it, and the alliance will not have much effect. What's more, the current Murakami Murakami Muraki is not very famous, and if he digs it up, Kodansha may not necessarily tear up the covenant, because Murakami Muraki is 35 years old this year and has not yet shown the potential to be transcendent.

Fame and potential can be said to be the standard for measuring cartoonists or novelists, Murakami Muraki has been in the industry for five years, and the results he can achieve are really not good, at most he is a little famous; As for potential, you can't hope too much that a writer who entered the industry at the age of 29 can have too much potential, after all, the chances are very small, and the novels written in the past five years have not sold well, and most of them are short. It can be said that whether it is fame or potential, the current Murakami Muraki is nothing at all.

It is precisely because of Murakami's current situation that Zhao Chen is more open-minded, thinking that even if he poachs Murakami's Murakami Muraki, Kodansha will probably not turn his face. Of course, if Murakami Muraki becomes famous in the future, it will be necessary for Kodansha to turn his face, but at that time, the daylilies are cold, at least Zhao Chen thinks that Tianxia Society is enough to gain a firm foothold in novels.

In order to solve Murakami's problem, Zhao Chen made a direct appointment with Murakami, who was a relatively ordinary-looking middle-aged man with yellow skin and black skin, who looked like a person who was not good at words.

It is said that the vast majority of writers and cartoonists are basically not good at words, mainly because they have been at home for a long time, and they have lost interest in speaking, and they often answer with words such as um, ah, and oh, and the more serious the writer, the more so.

"Hello, Mr. Murakami!"

When the two looked at each other, Zhao Chen took the lead in greeting.

"Hello, Teacher Zhao Chen, I have admired your name for a long time, and I can see you today, it is really better to meet than to be famous!" Murakami Muraki has rich experience, and he has also inherited the sleek politeness of most island people, and when he saw Zhao Chen, he came to pat his ass without a trace.

"Uh." Zhao Chen didn't expect Murakami Muraki to be this opener, the other party will be a famous cattle writer in the future, how could he shoot this kind of sycophant. However, Zhao Chen obviously forgot that celebrities are also people, and there will be such times before they become famous, especially Zhao Chen's experience is very legendary.

"Teacher Zhao Chen, is there something you came to me this time? If I can, I'll help! ”

In Murakami's eyes, the other party is Zhao Chen, this is a legend, as long as he can have something to do with it. The benefits to himself can be said to be innumerable, Murakami Muraki thought.

"Mr. Murakami, I took the liberty of coming to you this time. The main thing is to be able to get cooperation with you, you should take a look at this outline first! ”

Zhao Chen took out a draft, which was full of dense words, this is the outline he completed in a day, and the title of his work is "Norwegian Forest"!

"Norwegian Wood" is a 1987 work by Murakami Muraki, which is also his masterpiece and famous work, and is ranked among the world's famous novels. After its release, the novel sold more than 10 million copies in the island nation. By 2004, the simplified Chinese version of the mainland had sold a total of 7.86 million copies, causing the "Murakami phenomenon"!

As for the total sales in the world, I am afraid that there are tens of millions of copies. There are only a few in the history of island countries where island novels can have such sales.

Seriously, Zhao Chen remembers the plot of "Norwegian Wood" very clearly even if he doesn't need to turn over his memory, no way, there is OOXX content in this world famous book. Not much, though. It is impressive, and it is worthy of being written by island people.

Murakami Muraki was obviously surprised, he thought about the purpose of Zhao Chen's coming to him, thinking that Zhao Chen came to him to let him adapt the comic into a novel, because he did do this kind of thing. I didn't expect to cooperate, but that's the case, Murakami Muraki is also a little excited, although Zhao Chen's main business is a cartoonist, he also has two works, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "2010: A Space Odyssey". The latter was written with Clark, a master of science fiction, and his strength in fiction can be imagined.

Even so. Even if the outline in his hand is very ordinary, Murakami Muraki will agree, because Zhao Chen's fame alone can bring a lot of sales to the novel. That alone can make him completely famous.

There's no one who doesn't like to climb up, it's just that there's no chance. And now that there is an opportunity, Murakami Muraki will naturally not let it go. But even so, he still picked up the draft and began to read it, thinking in his heart that as long as the outline and plot were not too bad, he would accept it.

The outline is relatively simple, but it also has a lot of in-depth connotations.

The protagonist Watanabe's first lover in the novel, Naoko, was originally the girlfriend of his high school classmate Kizuki, but later Kizuki committed suicide, and Naoko lived alone. A year later, Watanabe and Naoko met by chance and began a relationship, at this time Naoko had become demure and shy, and a trace of gloom flashed in her eyes from time to time. The twist of the story happened quickly, and the two had sex on the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, and Watanabe realized that Naoko was actually a virgin, but Naoko disappeared the next day.

It wasn't until a few months later that Naoko wrote that she was living in a mental sanatorium far away in the mountains, and when Watanabe went to visit, she found that Naoko began to have the plump and delicate beauty of a mature woman, and she also met Reiko, who was in the same dormitory as Naoko, and Watanabe said that she would wait for Naoko forever before leaving.

Soon after, Watanabe met Midoriko at a small restaurant, and the two became acquainted with Midoriko when Midoriko asked him to borrow class notes from "Theater History II". When Midoriko's father died, Watanabe began to associate with Midoriko, who was in the lower grades. Midoriko is the opposite of the introverted Naoko, and seems to be very pure and lively.

During this period, Watanabe's heart was undoubtedly very depressed and hesitant. On the one hand, I can't forget Naoko's lingering illness and tenderness, and on the other hand, it's hard to resist Midoriko's bold confession and charming vitality.

Until soon the bad news of Naoko's suicide came that Watanabe went hiking in despair. In the end, with the encouragement of Naoko's roommate Reiko, she became clear and began to explore her life from then on.

According to the letter, Naoko originally wanted to give her original boyfriend Mu Yue for the first time, but unfortunately when the two were about to OOXX, Naoko's place was still dry, and she couldn't get wet even if she tried her best. The luck of the protagonist Watanabe is undoubtedly excellent.,Naoko's 20th birthday was quite coincidentally wet there.,The first time Naoko was taken away by Watanabe.,And except for this time,Naoko still can't get wet later.,Is this the legendary protagonist's aura at work.。

Murakami Muraki looked very carefully when he saw that part, and even raised his head and glanced at Zhao Chen with strange eyes, but he didn't say anything, but continued to read the outline.

A novelist may not be able to make a famous novel, but they have a unique vision, and Murakami Muraki quickly became obsessed with the world described in the outline, and it was not until he finished reading it that he finally came to his senses.

"Mr. Murakami, how's it going?" Zhao Chen took a sip of coffee and asked. He is very confident, after all, "Norwegian Wood" was originally the work of Murakami Muraki three years later, so it will naturally be quite his heart.

Murakami Muraki looked at Zhao Chen with a strange look, but he still said: "Very good, I think if it is written, it will at least be a best-selling novel." ”

"That's for sure." Zhao Chen couldn't help but slander in his heart, even if "Norwegian Wood" was really useless, with his fame, he could push it to the status of a best-selling novel. Of course, he won't care what Murakami Muraki really thinks.

"Mr. Murakami, you should also know one thing, as long as you are the object of my cooperation, you have to sign into the Tianxia Society, otherwise the Tianxia Society also has a lot of contracted novelists, and there are many good writing, I will not look for you because of this, I value your potential."

Hearing Zhao Chen's words, Murakami Muraki nodded, he also knew about this matter, and he also understood the reason. If Zhao Chen cooperates with the cartoonists of other comic clubs, it will undoubtedly help other comic clubs cultivate talents, as long as they are not stupid, they will not do this.

Murakami Muramura Shuri is a smart person, and he naturally knows the benefits of working with Zhao Chen, which means that he is about to develop, but he also has a layer of concerns, that is, his current publishing house, Kodansha. (To be continued......)