Chapter 214. Empty body, blank gaze (4000 words)
The average sales volume of manga is 1.5 million volumes, which can be regarded as the ceiling of manga sales in Japan.
That's a place that many comic book writers dream of squeezing into - even if they fight for half their lives, as long as they can squeeze in, it's worth touting for a lifetime.
After all, at that point, it's already a phenomenal comic.
Phenomenal comics... That's not about how well the figurines, posters, keychains and other goods are sold.
Instead, even those who sell panties will come to the door, find a way to take the property rights, and produce a series of panties related to comic characters...
That's the charm of phenomenal comics.
Of course, it is naturally difficult to get to that point.
The years of the previous ninety years were the peak of all comic magazines.
In recent years, it has been seen that paper comics are declining more and more, and it is more difficult for comic works to reach 1.5 million copies per volume, which is a curse that all comic magazines cannot escape.
After all, with the emergence of the Internet era and various webtoon media, this has had a huge impact on the traditional paper media of comic magazines.
In particular, the advent of smartphones has dealt a devastating blow to the comic magazine industry - all comics can be contained on a small smartphone, compared to more than 300 pages of comic magazines that are difficult to carry, smartphones can be carried around, and they can read as much as they want... This portability naturally affects the comic magazine industry.
In the world of Tsukasa Higashino, the sales of the young manga giant Weekly Shonen Jump had already dropped to two million copies from time to time - and at its peak in the nineties, "Jump" had a steady record of selling more than six million copies.
Before the advent of the big Internet era, before the development of paper media, drawing a few phenomenal works was one of Higashino's goals.
After all, scientific and technological progress is the torrent of the world and even the times, even if he is a traverser, it is impossible to go against this torrent.
This time, "Unnatural Death" gave Tsukasa Higashino the hope of reaching the ceiling of manga sales, and he naturally had to hone it.
For this reason, Tsukasa Higashino did not even personally negotiate about the animation and live-action TV drama of "Winner is Justice" and "Lonely Gourmet", but concentrated on preparing "Unnatural Death" in his hand.
The result of the negotiation seems to be that the animation rights of "Winner is Justice" were taken down, and "Lonely Gourmet" was turned into a live-action TV series.
As for whether Urashima Publishing House will cut the profits that Tsukasa Higashino deserves?
This is certainly unlikely.
As the author of the pillar of Urashima Publishing House, Urashima Publishing House is afraid of melting, and he dares to cut his profits? It's just a joke... The top management of Urashima Publishing House is not so stupid, otherwise how would they have made Urashima Publishing House to such a scale?
Of course, in order to avoid such a stupid person in the world, Tsukasa Higashino also hired a lawyer to follow Hosokawa Koharu to coordinate and confirm the animation and live-action TV drama.
With such a double insurance, Higashino Tsukasa naturally doesn't have to worry about interests.
But although there is no need to worry about the issue of interests... But the level at which Japan has live-action manga works ... This is debatable.
There are many positive examples, but there are also many negative ones.
Fortunately, the hairstyle of Goro Inonotou, the protagonist in "Lonely Gourmet", is still relatively normal and aesthetically pleasing - it will not make the live-action director of the TV series make a broom head like in "I Am Big Brother".
Tsukasa Higashino comforted himself for the time being, and at the same time thought about whether he had drawn some strange characters, so as not to see the hairstyles and spicy eyes of those strange characters when he got there...
He comforted himself while his subordinates kept going.
In such a state of concentrated work, the sixth episode of "Unnatural Death" has officially begun to be serialized.
The good foundation of the first five words is also revealed at this moment.
The sixth episode of "Unnatural Death" did not have more than 200 votes of readers' praise like the first episode, but stabilized at 673 votes.
After reading the sixth episode, many comic readers expressed their interest in the next development, and many comic readers said that the theme of "forensic detective" was very fresh and interesting to watch.
This result has come as a relief to many editors at Urashima Press.
Unnatural Death did not have any 'low periods', as many newspapers and magazines have analyzed.
On the other hand, Tsukasa Higashino, who received such positive feedback, naturally did not hesitate and continued to devote himself to his work.
After all, the reader did not show resistance, which means that the general direction is correct and can continue to draw.
As for Rock Point Press and Mozhu Bookstore.
When he saw that Tsukasa Higashino's "Unnatural Death" did not weaken the momentum at all, he also simply shut his mouth, and at the same time secretly sharpened his knife, preparing to give a knife when Tsukasa Higashino's "Unnatural Death" was down.
Sakamoto, who had previously mocked and ridiculed "Unnatural Death", announced early that he would temporarily close his pen and rest for a period of time.
He was really hit by Tsukasa Higashino, and felt that no matter how much he drew this comic, he would still be dominated by Tsukasa Higashino, so he simply gave up struggling.
But what Sakamoto didn't expect was that even if he gave up struggling, many people dug up his previous remarks and ridiculed them repeatedly.
This really made Sakamoto angry and anxious, and he wanted to make a statement online, but no matter how he wrote the article, it didn't feel right.
This really fulfills the saying - when you lose, everything you say is like an excuse, and everything you say is wrong.
In this regard, he could only let out a long sigh and gave up using the official account to make comments, but made a special trip to get a forum trumpet and angrily sprayed the shortcomings of Higashino Tsukasa's "Unnatural Death" on the Internet.
This was originally a kind of self-venting, and Sakamoto just sent it casually, and then went to do other things, and never cared about it again.
But what he didn't expect was that the post actually went viral the next day.
Sakamoto has been sprayed thousands of floors in a row, and it continues to increase.
Some of the remarks in it made Sakamoto almost angry.
Some people think that he is just drunk and crazy, and he speaks out of proportion, how can a work as good as "Unnatural Death" be worthless in your mouth?
There are also some people who tell him to get out of the way directly at the bottom of the post, and don't comment indiscriminately if you haven't read the actual content of the comics.
Of course, there are also some neutral netizens among them, who also feel that Sakamoto's speech is biased, and it seems that some don't understand comics...
Sakamoto almost vomited blood when he was so depressed when he saw these remarks.
I don't understand comics? I'm the author of the pillars of Mozhu Bookstore!
Sakamoto immediately began to spray with these netizens who scolded him, and once again talked about "Unnatural Death" - although some places make sense, no one on the Internet wants to reason with Sakamoto.
Gradually, Sakamoto felt more and more powerless.
Because if you spray them, they can reply you with a hundred or even a thousand sentences... It's really hard to beat four hands with two fists.
There are even people who know how to use computers to lock their real-world address through their IP address.
This made Sakamoto startled, he made a special trip to use the trumpet just because he didn't want people to know his body, and when he saw his IP address posted under the post, he was immediately scared and wanted to delete the post.
But what he didn't expect was that his post had already been locked by the forum administrator - after all, this post had become popular and topical.
As a result, Sakamoto had no choice but to cancel his account and disappear from there.
But that didn't bother the vast number of Unnatural Death readers, who locked down the IP address itself and followed the flow of information, eventually discovering that the other party was actually affiliated with Sakamoto's studio.
All of a sudden, there was a turmoil.
Many people said that it turned out to be Sakamoto, who had never beaten Mr. Higashino in the competition and lost the battle, no wonder there was a lemon sour taste.
This is a solved case.
The direction of the wind suddenly changed from discussing whether "Unnatural Death" was good or not to discussing whether Sakamoto was delirious and began to go crazy after sealing the pen.
Some Sakamoto fans who don't know what to do are also a little unacceptable when they see this - you just said that you closed the pen last second, and I'm obviously still sad for you. Full of thoughts to see your new comics.
As a result, the next second I saw you on the Internet? And still ate the sour of lemons?
Depowdered, depowdered.
Even Higashino's eyes were attracted by this inexplicable turmoil.
Originally, he had been concentrating on drawing comics, but Yumi Takahashi suddenly mentioned this popular post on the Internet, which made Tsukasa Higashino a little curious, and he also made a special trip to the Internet to take a look.
In all fairness, Higashino thinks this post is really well written, and it was written by someone with professional knowledge.
However, the other party obviously doesn't understand the current Internet trend, and when others are saying that "Unnatural Death" is good, you have to jump out and say that it is not good-looking, and the painting is rubbish... Isn't this the standard ky (referring to people who can't read the air) in Japan, looking for scolding? This is the trend of the Internet, and most comic book readers like to read and praise "Unnatural Death" at the moment.
Higashino Tsukasa was still a little interested in the content of this post, but when he saw that the other party belonged to Sakamoto Studio, and he almost couldn't help but open his mouth and gloat a little.
He's a person of this nature, don't talk to him about forgiveness, forgiveness... That's all plain.
Everyone else is secretly sharpening their knives to stab you, and you have to forgive him, forgive him... Isn't that hard to get along with?
And this Sakamoto's is really moldy for eight lifetimes.
This post is probably a garbage post he used to vent, and the other party probably didn't care much about it, but it was this garbage post that became popular, and his identity was dug up... It's bad luck.
It's funny indeed.
However, although this matter has caused a lot of trouble outside the circle, there is not much fluctuation in the comic industry, and there are not even a few review magazines willing to express their opinions on this matter.
After all, Sakamoto has already sealed the pen, so what's the point of you holding an author who has temporarily blocked the pen to spray? It's a big deal, just play dead on the other side.
Besides, if you don't look up and look down, there is no need to offend people to death.
The rest of the bubblers who liked to communicate on the forum only glanced at the locked posts twice and found that Sakamoto had deleted his account, so they shook their heads and shifted their focus back to the "Unnatural Death" manga.
The seventh episode of "Unnatural Death" is serialized and released!
"No, who opened that room, it's a homicide, we told the Maori police officer, and we submitted the information..."
"I guess they didn't see it."
"Huh?"
"The victim is alone, and he is bent on seeking death, the relatives of the head of the family want to close the case as soon as possible, the police have many big cases on hand, more than one thing is better than one less, pretending not to see it can be happy."
"Wait a minute!"
Mikoto Mitsumi raised her eyes, and she said with an extremely complicated expression in the comics, which she couldn't tell whether she was sad or sad:
"What about her message for help? She was not saved while she was alive, and even after death, should we turn a blind eye? ”
There seemed to be a light in her large, beautiful eyes.
Silent.
There was a long silence.
In Higashino's vivid storyboard, the two men in this shot look at each other, with only a long, silent ellipsis in between.
This was followed by the director of UDI
The director of the Institute of Unnatural Death turned his face sideways, didn't look directly into Mitsumikoto's eyes, and said, "We've done our best." Everything that can be done has been done. ”
The pain and helplessness are reflected in this series of perfect storyboards.
Justice will not only be late, but may even be absent.
This depressing plot Yumi Takahashi, a girl who has always been lively and energetic, couldn't stop sighing: "It feels so annoying!" But why is it so pretty? ”
Fujiwara Aoi next to him glanced at Yumi Takahashi, and then reached out and flipped through the seventh episode of "Unnatural Death", and then sighed.
"Higashino-san's manga is really getting better and better."
The phrase "manga is getting better and better" here does not mean that Tsukasa Higashino's drawing skills have improved again.
Rather, it refers specifically to Tsukasa Higashino's use of manga storyboards, distances, and radiation.
Some comics with poor mirror sense make your eyes so tired that you don't know where to look.
And some of the comics that are excellent will make you feel like you are watching a movie.
This is definitely not a joke.
Tsukasa Higashino's "Unnatural Death" already has a vague momentum.
The other party has only been drawing comics for a year, and they have evolved to this point, so it's no problem to say 'fast'.
And at the same time as this rapid progress, the level of Higashino Tsukasa on the other hand is also extremely improving-
Mikoto Mitsumi and her subordinate Rokuro went privately to look for clues, and they already had a clue.
And this is the key and enough interesting plot...
It was actually cut off here by Higashino Division.
This made Yumi Takahashi and Aoi Fujiwara both confused.
What's next?
Aren't you looking for clues?
Why is it just out of context?
Looking at the amputation of the waist that was in the climax part, Yumi Takahashi and Aoi Fujiwara only felt an inexplicable emptiness in their bodies, and their eyes were also blank.