Chapter 127: Choosing Dragon Ball
"By the way, how did I forget the key point!"
Just when Zhao Chen was struggling with which hot-blooded comic to choose, he suddenly patted his head with a look of chagrin on his face.
"That's the original author! Although both of them are now Shueisha's manga artists, Masami Cheda is still just an ordinary manga artist who is not well-known in Shueisha, and he can try to accept it, if it is successful, "Saint Seiya" can only draw storyboards, and most of the fame and fortune will not still be mine. And "Dragon Ball" is the work of Akira Toriyama, Shueisha is very sorry for his baby, and he has no chance to dig it up, so it's still a choice! ”
Akira Toriyama is in a period of rapid rise in fame with "Alalei" at this time, if it weren't for the last time he was suppressed by Zhao Chen's "Rebellious Lelouxiu" in the single book, I'm afraid that his current fame will be even higher. But even so, Akira Toriyama has become the rising star of Shueisha with "Aralei".
Shueisha can become a comic giant, how can it be short-sighted, naturally attaches great importance to Akira Toriyama, and the attraction of Tianxia Society is far less than the relationship between Shueisha, how can Zhao Chen dig up Akira Toriyama's goods.
As for Masami Cheda, the original author of "Saint Seiya", this manga artist has been in Shueisha for several years, but the works he can draw are not very popular, because his fame is not high, and his status in Shueisha is far inferior to Akira Toriyama.
But for Masami Cheda, only Zhao Chen knows best in his heart that Masami Cheda's famous work is "Mad Demon Kojiro", and this comic will be serialized in "Shonen Jump" next year. If you don't poach people before then, there will be almost no chance later.
It was the huge difference in the fame of these two cartoonists that made Zhao Chen finally make a choice, that is, "Dragon Ball"! As for the classic hot-blooded manga of "Saint Seiya". It depends on the situation, and it's best to dig up Masami Sadada, and if you can't, you can only do it yourself.
"Dragon Ball" is a work from 1984, with a total of 42 volumes, and the total sales of a single book reached 230 million (some say 350 million). The results can be said to be quite impressive. If you only talk about the average sales of single books, "One Piece" is not its opponent, because "One Piece" has a total of 74 volumes of single books, and it is completely dependent on the number of single books to overtake "Dragon Ball".
The synopsis of the early days of "Dragon Ball" is like this, the young Son Goku, who lives alone in the mountains, meets Boomer, a young scientist who collects Dragon Ball. Boomer takes Goku on a journey to find Dragon Balls in order to get the four-star Dragon Balls that Goku has. During this period, he defeated the bad guys who did evil many times, and met friends such as Shenlong, Leping, Turtle Immortal, Bull Demon King and his daughter Kiki, etc., to collect seven dragon balls, which is the first exploration. And there are also martial arts conference chapters, great demon king chapters, Saiyan chapters and so on.
What has to be said here is that Dragon Ball, which was serialized at the beginning, was actually a funny adventure manga. This can be seen from the beginning when Little Goku and Bulma all begged to find the Dragon Balls, but they were not very famous at the time. But with the popularity of "Fist of the North Dipper" in the island country, the fighting shape shì is very good, and in a hurry, in order to meet the expectations of fans, Akira Toriyama had to keep letting Little Goku fight, so he stepped on the peak. It has become a popular masterpiece.
And among them, Zhao Chen must revise "Dragon Ball", after all, although there are many advantages of "Dragon Ball", there are not many defects, although it is wonderful, but it is often complained about, what he has to do is to promote the advantages, cover up and make up for the defects.
The basic changes are as follows: adding supporting roles to avoid passers-by; The gap in the strength of the coherent bosses is narrowed to avoid the gap between them being too large; Increase the depiction and portrayal of love. Especially Boomer and Vegeta, Gohan and Kiki, their love show process could have been ignored originally, so as not to add some emotion so as not to make people feel abrupt.
As for the fact that the Earth Warriors were too weak in the middle and late stages, Zhao Chen couldn't modify it. Otherwise, they will all be overthrown, and at most let the earth warriors fight more soy sauce.
After thinking about it, Zhao Chen then began to work, due to the successful painting of "Rebellious Lelouxiu", Zhao Chen's painting work has been greatly improved, at least his current painting work is more than enough to control the original "Dragon Ball", but under the full force, the painting work of "Dragon Ball" has risen again, which is a bit beautiful.
When Zhao Chen was still working on "Dragon Ball", half a month passed quickly, and the monthly half-cut meeting began again.
After sorting out by the staff, the comprehensive ranking of the "Juvenile soRa" reader survey was listed again this month, among which the bottom three were "Tsubasa" by Katsura Masakazu and "Please take care of yourself!" by Nobuyuki Fukumoto! Innocent General" and the work of an unknown cartoonist.
Most of the cartoonists serialized in the weekly magazine "Shonen soRa" are afraid of being cut in half once a month, which almost means that there is a possibility of being cut in half, and the risk of being cut in the bottom three is undoubtedly quite large.
In the hall of the Tianxia Society, the three cartoonists who entered the half-cutting meeting were sitting on the sand at this time. The nervousness on the faces of the three of them could not be concealed, and they looked nervously at a closed room not far away, where a meeting was being held that they feared.
"Mr. Fukumoto, your work is ranked third from the bottom in the reader survey, and the possibility of being cut in half should not be too high! Unlike my comic works, which are ranked at the bottom of the list, it is almost certain that I will be cut in half! ”
Among the three, Gui Zhenghe, who is a little handsome, is the most calm, no way, his work "Wings" is at the bottom of this month's reader survey, and according to the results of the previous halves, it is almost a certainty to be cut in half. When I saw Nobuyuki Fukumoto standing up and walking back and forth anxiously, I couldn't help but comfort myself.
"Alas, Gui Zheng and the teacher, if it is normal, it may be fine, but if you think about the contract we signed with the company at that time, the company gave us such good treatment, but we let our works enter the halving meeting, and the probability of being beheaded is undoubtedly greatly increased. And I heard that President Zhao Chen recently had a new work, so it seems that I can't hide this time. ”
Nobuyuki Fukumoto sighed and said the situation he had analyzed, stating that his situation was quite bad, not like what Katsura Masakazu said.
"It's true that the company has given you enough resources, and your work can't be returned to the company, so the company's attitude can be imagined. Let's not talk about this, let's talk about President Zhao Chen's new work first! ”
At this time, another unknown cartoonist spoke up and said that his work also entered the half-cut meeting, and it was very nervous with the same nervousness. For Gui Zhenghe and Nobuyuki Fukumoto, this cartoonist is very envious, maybe the world society is strict with the two, but why not try his best to cultivate them, not to mention that the remuneration and share of the two are higher than him. No matter who it is, when they think that their strength is not worse than the other party, but the treatment between the two sides is very different, they will not be jealous in their hearts.
"I heard that President Zhao Chen's new work seems to be called "Dragon Ball"?"
"Well, I don't know what the subject is?"
"My editor-in-charge has seen it, it seems to be an adventure theme, and I don't know if it will be popular!"
"It's not that you don't know, President Zhao Chen's works are all high-quality, and this comic must be quite outstanding!"
"You're right, but I still think it's a little weird! Think about it, President Zhao Chen serialized several works at the same time, is his time really enough? ”
"President Zhao Chen is a real workaholic, I heard that the book "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has ended, so President Zhao Chen will continue to create new works! If you add this new work, then there are four comics that are still being serialized, and he drew storyboards for both "Cat's Eye Three Sisters" and "Baseball Heroes". God, even if there are more than a dozen assistants to help, I don't know how to describe it, I can't do it in my life anyway. ”
"There are also a lot of people who serialize three or four comics at the same time, but they are basically cartoonists from small comic clubs, and their works are often quite rough, and the gap between President Zhao Chen is almost heaven and earth! What's more, many people have talked about this issue, and there is no other way to say it except for ghosts and demons. ”
"Alas, people are more popular than people!"
"Sure enough, he deserves to be called a rare comic genius in the industry for decades!"
Just as the three cartoonists sighed in the hall, in the closed room not far away, the sound of the heated discussion finally stopped, and the half-cut meeting entered the final stage.
"According to the votes of the editors-in-chief, the only work that entered the cut this time is Gui Zhenghe's "Wing", and as for the other two works, I will give another month! If you go back to the mid-halve candidate next month, you don't need to discuss it anymore, I wonder what the president thinks? ”
After the editor-in-chief of Tianxia Club finished speaking, the low-level editors-in-chief glanced at each other's eyes, and finally focused their eyes on Zhao Chen.
"Add another piece of the half-cut work, to Nobuyuki Fukumoto's "Please take care of me! Innocent General" is cut in half! ”
When Zhao Chen's voice sounded, both the editor-in-chief and the editors-in-chief present were stunned, they couldn't understand Zhao Chen's thoughts.
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