Chapter 312: "The Girl with a Light Voice"

If you want to increase the sales of the two major publications, in addition to the company's own sales channels and fame, the most important thing is naturally good comics or famous cartoonists.

The merger of the two major comic clubs into the Tianxia Society can be said to be a great joy, because the Tianxia Society is currently the fastest-growing comic giant, and it is faintly the NO1 in the current comics industry, and every employee hopes that he can work for the largest company, so he is more proud. Just like the same position, the grades of Tianxia Club and the two major comic clubs are different, and this is the main difference. What's more, after joining the Tianxia Society, in order to appease the employees of these two major comic clubs, their treatment has been more or less improved, which has also accelerated the speed of their merger into the Tianxia Society.

After the acquisition of Akita Bookstore and Fangwen Society, Zhao Chen directly gave up the original addresses of the current two major comic clubs, but moved various equipment to Tianxia Society, and in the future, the employees of the two major comic clubs will also work together with the employees of Tianxia Society, and when they are fully integrated, they will naturally become employees of Tianxia Society, and they will no longer be separated from each other when the time comes.

The original office addresses of the two comic clubs were actually rented, and in line with the relationship that the rent could not be wasted, Zhao Chen turned to his subordinates to re-transfer them, and returned them to the original owner when the lease period expired, which was too wasteful.

The office address of Tianxia Society is different from that of the two major comic clubs, because he completely belongs to Zhao Chen, and Zhao Chen spent a lot of money to buy such a piece of land in Chiyoda District, and then dragged a lot of relationships to establish the office building of Tianxia Society. With a height of more than 20 floors, the building is enough to house the staff and equipment of the two major comic clubs.

Most of these are the equipment of the publishing house, and it can be directly integrated into the publishing house under the Tianxia Society.

After the merger of the two major comic societies into the Tianxia Society, the original publications of the two major comic societies were also merged into the Tianxia Society's publications, which made the number of Tianxia Society's publications increase all of a sudden, although only two of them could become the main publications. But no matter how small the meat is, it is still meat, not to mention that the more the quantity is, the profit may not be less.

Similarly, the sales channels of the two major comic societies have also been successfully merged into the Tianxia Society, although most of the channels are also available to the Tianxia Society, but a small part is enough to increase the sales of various publications of the Tianxia Society.

In such a situation, the publications of the original two major comic societies were under the increase in the sales channels of the Tianxia Society. began to increase at a rate of no small growth. The main reason is that there are more purchasing agents, and the sales of publications will not increase.

As for the cartoonists who originally served the two major comic clubs, the contracts signed among them were naturally directly merged into the Tianxia Society, and only when the contract period expired would the Tianxia Society consider whether to renew the contract. As for those cartoonists who have not signed a contract, they are basically some unknown newcomers, all of whom belong to free bodies, and these newcomers have not shown their due potential, because the two major comic clubs did not take a fancy to it, so the two sides did not sign a contract. You can go and stay at any time. Unless there is a comic being serialized, due to the beginning of the contract, you can't leave until the comic is over.

Akita Shoten and Fangbunsha don't have a manga master, although Osamu Tezuka has serialized comics in Akita Bookstore before, but Akita Bookstore at that time was at its peak, and Osamu Tezuka at that time had not yet become famous, so Akita Bookstore had Osamu Tezuka during that time. As for Fangwen Society, this comic club is mainly based on youth comics and girls' comics. Neither of these are mainstream comics, although the audience is not bad. However, compared with the juvenile group, it is undoubtedly dwarfed, not to mention the comic masters, there are not even well-known cartoonists, and there are some well-known cartoonists, and most of them are women.

Female cartoonists tend to have more delicate drawings than men. The painting style is soft, suitable for girly comics; But the style of the same male cartoonist is wilder, and it is also more suitable for blood, and it is more suitable for combat, funny, competitive and other types of comics. The island nation is currently a patriarchal country, and women tend to serve their husbands at home. Female cartoonists are relatively rare, even if they are part-time, they often don't have so much time to complete the weekly, so the vast majority of women's cartoons are semi-monthly or monthly. Therefore, it is often male cartoonists who are famous, and they can get more recognition from the world. If a female cartoonist wants to be famous, the difficulty factor will undoubtedly go up a notch.

Among the current female cartoonists, the most famous should be Rumiko Takahashi, but even Aunt Takahashi is currently at the level of a well-known cartoonist, and there is still a distance from the master of manga. The current Aunt Takahashi is far from reaching the peak, in fact, to be honest, if you have read Aunt Takahashi's information, you will find that her results are no worse than Osamu Tezuka and Akira Toriyama, but on the other hand, it is better, but the title of the god of manga and demigod has nothing to do with her, and the root cause is probably the relationship between gender.

The sales volume of each of Takahashi Rumiko's works can reach about 100 million, and I am afraid that it will surpass Akira Toriyama and Osamu Tezuka in total sales, and the ratings obtained by the manga adaptation animation are also very good, but no one will press a stronger title on her head, maybe it is because she is a woman's relationship, patriarchal countries abound, even if the ostensible system belongs to equality between men and women.

It can be said that after the merger, there are not many more outstanding cartoonists in Tianxiasha, but there are many more middle- and low-level cartoonists. These cartoonists basically publish comics in those publications with ordinary sales, although these publications can't make a lot of money, but it is enough to make the impression of the world society on the industry increase sharply, because this is what the world society lacks.

For the two major manga publications of the two major manga companies, Zhao Chen plans to let the former pillar of the Akita bookstore, Mitsuki Yokoyama, write "Three Kingdoms" in advance to attract more manga fans and increase the sales of "Weekly Shonen Champim".

Yokoyama's manga "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" depicts a magnificent historical picture based on the Three Kingdoms period on the mainland, with a total of 26 volumes.

As a representative work of Yokoyama's glorious historical comics, "Three Kingdoms" has a status that cannot be ignored in many aspects. This work won the "Island Cartoonists Association Award and Excellence Award" for the next three years, and it has a lot of audiences in the island country, and a large number of island readers have learned about the changing history of ancient China.

In other words, the serialization of "Three Kingdoms" can be regarded as a kind of cultural invasion.

In addition, this work is also more faithful to the original work in the island comics with the theme of the Three Kingdoms. The comics of "Yokoyama Glorious Three Kingdoms" are a collection of many Three Kingdoms fans. The content of the comic book ranges from Taoyuan Yuyi to the burning of Chibi. It describes the main plot of the first half of "Three Kingdoms" quite completely, and this part is also the most classic and bloody plot in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the whole comic comes to an end in the Battle of Red Cliffs. The backgrounds and characters in the anime version are much more elaborate than in the manga. The story is also richer and more fleshed out, and the personalities of the characters are also enhanced. The added details are very touching. In particular, the portrayal of the battle has its own uniqueness.

Although most of this comic is indeed related to the Three Kingdoms, Yokoyama Guanghui is not a Chinese, and the historical facts drawn are naturally different from the original work, so Zhao Chen can only modify these deviation plots. Then it re-brings the character archetypes closer to history. In general, an excellent version of "Yokoyama Glorious Three Kingdoms" has just been released, of course, it is just the outline and character modeling.

Although "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has long existed, it is only a novel after all, and the outline written by Zhao Chen is completely combined with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and some acrobatics.

Therefore, although it is more imaginary than the historical "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", this can also be regarded as Zhao Chen's originality. It is Zhao Chen who can cooperate with Hengshan Guanghui in a bright and bright way.

At the time of the acquisition and merger of Akita Shoten, the most famous manga artist of Akita Shoten was Mitsuki Yokoyama. This Yokoyama Guanghui can be ranked on the top even among well-known cartoonists, but he has always stayed in Akita Bookstore, in addition to the treatment given to him by Akita Bookstore is really good, he has always had the idea of preferring to be a chicken head rather than a phoenix tail in his heart, this is Yokoyama Guanghui.

Therefore, it can be said that Yokoyama Guanghui is not interested in the merger of Akita Bookstore into Tianxia Society, and he would rather Akita Bookstore still be the large manga company it used to be, rather than merge it into Tianxia Society. The main thing is that the world society is in addition to Zhao Chen. There are quite a few well-known cartoonists, especially these well-known cartoonists are basically more famous than him. Someone like Tsukasa Hojo, Tetsuo Hara, Masami Sada and others are not more famous than him, although he is proud, he is still quite self-aware.

But at the same time, for these cartoonists, the proud Yokoyama Guanghui is quite unimpressed, because the famous works of these cartoonists are all works produced in cooperation with Zhao Chen. They can only act as the second cartoonist in the famous work.

Yokoyama Guangguang doesn't like someone to press on his head, especially when there are many such people, but it's a pity that his contract with Akita Bookstore still has two years to end, so he has to stay in Tianxia Society, but he has plans to leave in his heart.

But when Zhao Chen met him in person. Yokoyama was obviously surprised in his heart, and at the same time, he was faintly excited in his heart. In addition to Zhao Chen's identity, he actually admired Zhao Chen very much in his heart. He actually wanted to peel off Zhao Chen's head very much to see how he could have so many wonderful ideas.

"Mr. Yokoyama, I won't say much nonsense, I came to you this time mainly to cooperate with you, you can take a look at this outline first."

After the two of them sat down, Zhao Chen went straight to the point and handed the text to Hengshan Guanghui. With his current status, there is no need to be too polite, especially since Yokoyama Guanghui is still a cartoonist of Tianxia Society.

Yokoyama Guanghui was obviously very surprised, and his face couldn't help but show excitement, even if he was very disdainful of those cartoonists who relied on cooperating with Zhao Chen, but when it was really placed in front of him, he suddenly became excited and looked forward to it, even if he was already a well-known cartoonist who had achieved fame.

Taking a deep breath, Yokoyama calmed down before he began to talk and his gaze fell on the outline. This outline is a little familiar to him, isn't this exactly the subject he has always wanted to draw!

The mainland in this era can be said to be quite exclusive, not to mention the feuding island people, plus the Chinese people in this era rarely go abroad, because Hengshan Guanghui did not understand the relevant history of the Three Kingdoms era on the mainland at all, and could only pass through the documents of the island country itself, but unfortunately there were too few documents. The historical Yokoyama Glory was created in 1991 when the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was created, and the mainland at that time was obviously open-minded, not to mention, even in the island country, you can buy the Japanese version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", of course, it is limited to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", as for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and various wild histories can not be found at all, mainly because there is no publishing house that will publish these books that are bound not to sell much. And this kind of translated "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is naturally a little different from the original work.

Yokoyama is very keen on the history of various countries, especially the history of the Three Kingdoms on the neighboring continent, which in his opinion is more exciting than the history of the Warring States period of the island nation. As a history fever cartoonist. Yokoyama was quite fascinated when he read the outline, not looking at it line by line, but carefully looking at it word by word, and his face showed a feverish gaze.

Zhao Chen didn't want to wait too long, he didn't want to waste too much time in this kind of place, so he interrupted: "Teacher Hengshan." What do you think? ”

Being interrupted by someone, Yokoyama Guanghui was slightly dissatisfied in his heart, but when he remembered who was in front of him, he couldn't help asking, "President, have you studied the Three Kingdoms before?" ”

"Let's do a little research, but the history of this period is relatively chaotic, and some events are different from those recorded in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", so I just unified it."

"Oh, I see. But this is the subject I've always wanted to write about. I am very satisfied and willing to cooperate with you. ”

No one is a saint, and even the proud Yokoyama Guanghui is no exception in the face of fame and fortune, and finally agrees to the intention of cooperation, and at the same time he has a sense of urgency in his heart to immediately take it home and study it.

Zhao Chen was no exception to this, but began to think about the development route of Fangwen Society's main publication, "Weekly Comics IES".

Zhao Chen still attaches great importance to this publication, after all, the main audience of this publication is young people. It is not the same as the audience of the rest of the main manga publications of Tianxiasha.

And this is not so much the development route, but rather which classic work to use. Because that's the easiest. When you're the president of a comic club, and you still have memories of various classic comics in the future, as long as you're not a fool, you'll choose to do so.

For Zhao Chen, plagiarizing wild history is a technical job, not to mention that the plagiarists are all island people, and the guilt in his heart is naturally not high.

Think about it. Zhao Chen finally chose "The Light Girl", one of the main works of the Future Fangwen Society, and when he thought of "The Light Girl", Zhao Chen's mind couldn't help but have the evil idea of 'the sound and the soft body are easy to overthrow'. Especially when I think of the appearance and character of the heroine Yui Hirasawa, I think it's quite in line with the benefits of this kind of Lori.,I believe that just a few protagonists' looks will be loved by teenagers.。

The five main characters have different personalities and appearances, and I believe that the audience of each character is also different. In this way, more comic fans will pay attention to this work, which is the main charm of "Light Girl", especially for comics, because music is basically not expressed in the comics, and the animation can fully show the advantages of "Light Girl".

This is also the main reason why Zhao Chen will not choose to draw by himself, and the songs of "Light Girl" are also quite important, without the assistance of songs, the charm of this anime will naturally be reduced.

The manga "Light Girl" tells the story of a four-member girl group (it can also be said that there are five people, but mainly these four) in a light music club that is about to be abolished to start a musical activity from scratch, this comic mainly records the lives of girls, but it is not simply a selling point of moe.

Well, another reason why Zhao Chen won't do it himself is that this plot is simply a diary of a girl who records life, and the monotonous plot also makes it difficult for him to be moved.

As Zhao Chen said, the plot of "The Light Girl" is indeed a bit monotonous, and the main sale is to attract comic fans with the girl's watch.

At the beginning of the new school year, Yui Hirasawa, a freshman in high school, mistook "light music" for "light and simple music", and because he played castanets as a child, he joined the light music club in a daze.

On the other hand, Sakuragaoka High School's "Light Tone Club" left the school because all the original members of the department graduated, and the only new members of the Light Tone Club at this time were Mio Akiyama and Tai Nakaritsu, so the two began to pull people together, preparing to gather the number of people to prevent the Light Tone Club from disbanding.

As a result, these four high school girls began to get together, and eventually there were guitarist Yui Hirazawa, bassist Mio Akiyama, drummer Ritsu Tai, and keyboard accordion play?, and the story of the light music club began. The back is to record the lives and performances of the girls, and if it is carried out in the form of comics, the attraction will undoubtedly decrease.

However, Zhao Chen couldn't think of who would serialize "Light Sound Girl" for a while, and the original cartoonist still had several years to make his debut, so naturally he didn't need to think about this aspect. As for the other female cartoonists of Fangwen Society, although a few of them are somewhat famous, the style of painting seems to be a little inconsistent. As for the complete use of newcomers, Zhao Chen is not sure to believe in it, for fear of ruining this girl's comic.

So,Someone has the idea of poaching people again.,In the current era,Although the number of cartoonists who draw girl's comics is not as good as that of later generations,But there are still a lot of more famous in the future.,Although many comic fans can't remember these cartoonists who specialize in drawing girl's comics.。

Well, in addition to women, the most people who read shoujo comics are often chaotic teenagers who have two-dimensional crossing thoughts and a little H in their hearts, and these are the two main audience groups of shoujo comics.

Among these cartoonists, Zhao Chen has recruited several of them, but unfortunately these cartoonists currently have tasks on their bodies and can't get out of their bodies at all, so Zhao Chen has the intention of continuing to dig people. (To be continued......)