Chapter 224. Can you kill all the people in front of you? (4000 words)
"Lemon" has been recorded, so I turn my eyes a little and refocus on Tsukasa Higashino's "Unnatural Death".
After five episodes of warm-up, the sales of the third volume of Higashino's "Unnatural Death" remained at about 1.56 million.
This figure does not surprise publishers or industry insiders, who have already admitted that Unnatural Death is indeed a phenomenal manga, so it is normal for its average volume sales to remain at more than 1.5 million.
But on this basis, some people have come up with new ideas... Will Tsukasa Higashino be able to maintain the sales of "Unnatural Death" and continue to increase the average volume sales?
Many people deny this just by thinking about it.
The average sales volume of 1.5 million volumes is already a phenomenon, and you have to continue to climb up... Isn't that a bit excessive? Don't you take other publishers too seriously?
The unanimous thinking of many people in the industry is that unless "Unnatural Death" still has a hidden hand, it is impossible to continue to go up.
And even if you climb up... So what?
The history of Japanese manga sales is there, and the average volume sales of 1.5 million are just worthy of entering the top ten, and then go up to the ceiling of Japanese comics with an average sales of 2 million volumes... Are you trying to make Unnatural Death set that record?
There are positive and negative ones, and of course the number of negatives is the majority.
However, this is also a very common discussion, and not everyone in the industry is staring at "Unnatural Death".
And at this time, the incident of the happiness cake factory carefully prepared by Tsukasa Higashino finally began to be officially serialized.
The plot of this episode is actually relatively straightforward compared to the first three episodes, and the reasoning process is relatively simple.
Since the reasoning process is relatively simple, then, on the other hand, in this episode, there are much more scenes about people's feelings and how people survive in society.
This is the most important reason why this statement is so sensational.
Sano is an employee of a factory called Happy Honey Cake, but because Happy Honey Cake is very popular on the Internet and on TV, he often works until midnight before going home to rest.
And one day, Sano suddenly suffered a traffic accident and died, but because the motorcycle insurance had expired, and Sano did not buy life insurance, so Sano's family had no way to claim compensation from the insurance company, and this also made Sano's wife Kanako desperate, she was a housewife with two children, and she had no financial resources, so it can be said that she was desperate.
To help. In order to help the family, Mikoto Mitsumi's mother hopes that the Unnatural Death Institute can investigate the true cause of Sano's death.
According to Kanako, her husband often works until midnight, and there is a possibility that Sano's fatigue driving will be caused by overwork at the Happy Honey Cake Factory, and he will eventually die.
During the investigation, the director of the Happy Honey Cake Factory felt that the overwork incident was simply vexatious, and mentioned that the cause of Sano's death was caused by brake failure.
However, the motorcycle shop also said that the brakes had been completely repaired, and that the cause of Sano's death was an accident that occurred due to illness while driving, and that it had nothing to do with him.
The hospital party in charge of examining Sano's body heard this and said that there was nothing abnormal in the examination, and that Sano's cause of death was due to simple overwork.
The three of them quarreled fiercely, their faces were red and their necks were thick, and no one was willing to pay tens of millions of yen in compensation.
This is the end of the sixteenth episode of "Unnatural Death", and at the same time, Tsukasa Higashino also quietly put the song "Lemon" into the list of online delivery downloads.
This is a paid URL, and you will be charged 400 yen to download a full digital version of a song on this site, so there is no doubt about the authenticity of the number of downloads.
Tsukasa Higashino just put "Lemon" on it and continued to paint the plot of "Unnatural Death".
After all, any song has a period of word-of-mouth fermentation, although Tsukasa Higashino brazenly added a "Unnatural Death" theme song in the back, but it is not as exaggerated as most of them, which became popular on the first day and became popular all over the world on the second day.
Of course, there are also reasons why Tsukasa Higashino has not yet advertised on "Unnatural Death".
Another week has passed, and the seventeenth episode of "Unnatural Death" has been released!
After Mikoto's mother's repeated evidence collection, she finally received a report from the Happy Honey Cake Factory, and she learned that there was indeed overwork in the factory, and had a heated debate with the cake factory manager.
In the course of the debate, the factory manager collapsed in emotion, and then everyone realized that the factory director was the employee who had been working for the longest time, and he, like other employees, was forced to work overtime under the pressure of the president, and did not receive any overtime pay.
The peace talks were deadlocked, and Mikoto Mitsumi's autopsy did not progress, because the final result of the autopsy showed that Sano died of traumatic vertebral artery dissection, but that was an old injury thirty days ago, and if you want to investigate, you must investigate thirty days ago.
They learned from Sano's wife, Kanako, that Sano had indeed had an accident a month ago, when the president of the Happy Honey Cake Factory asked Sanno to deliver a cake - this discovery made Mikoto Mitsumi and her sisters excited, because as long as it was confirmed that the president asked for work, they could claim compensation from the honey cake company according to the death of overwork accidents.
But the previous question is also back in front of everyone, it is an old injury from thirty days ago, and in order to use it as evidence, it is necessary to confirm where and when Sano suffered the accident, and at least there must be surveillance footage.
Once again, the event stalled, and everyone was a little helpless, because it was an old wound from thirty days ago...
Under this sense of helplessness, the seventeenth chapter of "Unnatural Death" ends.
is different from the smooth ending of the previous episode, and the content of the episode "Unnatural Death" has aroused heated discussions among many people.
In Japan, there are many social animals who work overtime until the early hours of the evening and do not return home, which is called company slaves.
Some people really haven't been paid overtime, and they don't dare to ask the company for overtime pay - Japan has just come out of the economic crisis, and there are unemployed people in society, and there is no more than you in the company, and no less than you.
Someone posted: Actually, whether there is overtime pay or not, I actually understand Sano, for him, there is a wife, son, and daughter at home who need living expenses, and even if he doesn't want to, he has to become a slave of the company... In fact, like him, I simply work along the line, process along the line, and maybe one day, I will really die of overwork.
As soon as this post was issued, many people responded below.
Because as long as people who have been in the workplace for a period of time, they have basically worked overtime, and companies with a little conscience will give overtime pay, while black-hearted companies don't care about the lives of employees at all.
This makes many people continue to look forward to the next plot of Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death".
A week passed quickly, and the eighteenth episode of "Unnatural Death" officially began to be serialized on "Bad Cold".
Mikoto Misumi and they finally found a breakthrough.
After confirming the asphalt content and the color of the bruises on the edge of the motorcycle, the group turned their attention to the city of Nishibushino.
Because only the sewer manhole cover there has this blue, yellow, and blue color, as long as you pass through the manhole cover, you can find the location of the incident.
However, this is undoubtedly a particularly difficult thing, considering that there are a total of 2,000 manhole covers in the entire city of Seibu Sano, and the number of people from the Institute of Unnatural Death alone has been confirmed one by one, and that is the amount of work in several months.
It was in this hopeless moment that the director of the Happy Cake Factory appeared.
He didn't want his subordinates to die unjustly, and he didn't want to accept the unfair terms of long-term overtime, so he asked more than a hundred workers to go on strike and took the initiative to help the Sano family find evidence, and he must win the black-hearted president of the Happy Honey Cake Factory!
This sentence can be regarded as an extremely enthusiastic development.
2,000 manhole covers, not afraid of power, the factory director who resolutely decided to strike even if he was fired... All of them were twisted into a rope.
There is a resurgence of discussion on the Internet - although such a thing does not exist in real life, that does not prevent them from imagining it in the comics.
It is worth mentioning that Tsukasa Higashino discovered one thing, that is, I don't know when, the number of downloads of the song "Lemon" he uploaded before on the Internet has gradually increased.
There are now 5,000 downloads, and if you just look at the background data, you will find that this number is not rising in a diagonal line, but skyrocketing in a nearly straight line.
Today it is 5,000 downloads, and tomorrow it may be 10,000 downloads.
After deducting the website fee and tax fees, Tsukasa Higashino is estimated to have one or two million yen in hand.
Of course, this little bit of money is secondary!
The most important thing is that the song "Lemon" really did not disappoint Tsukasa Higashino!
And there are already some comments below.
Because many people saw that the lyricist and composer sang Tsukasa Higashino.
He is now the author of the phenomenal comic strip "Unnatural Death", and of course many people have heard his name.
But...
That's an exaggeration, isn't it?
When did the comic book author still reach into the vague realm?
Two-thirds of them said the song was a good song! It's worth a listen!
About one-third of the people left a message in the comment area asking if it was Tsukasa Higashino himself, and this layer of people was the most intensely discussed.
They don't think it can be Tsukasa Higashino himself, and I don't know which Internet singer came to play in the skin of Tsukasa Higashino... However, the use of the name "Unnatural Death" has been infringed, and I hope the author will pay attention.
When he saw these comments, Tsukasa Higashino just smiled happily and didn't pay much attention to it, and after closing the delivery download website, he began to continue drawing the next plot of "Unnatural Death".
With the help of the striking employees of the factory, the location of Sano's accident was finally discovered.
Everyone also saw what happened to Sano that day in the surveillance video.
Sano, who was riding a motorcycle, was in a relaxed mood because he had finished his work today, and now he only needed to hand over the cake to the president to complete the day's heavy work.
He smiled at the thought of the delicious and warm meals cooked by his wife at home.
Because it was a cake for the president's party, he was in a hurry, so he stopped his motorcycle and hurried upstairs and handed it over to the president of the Happy Cake Factory.
"Really, it's too slow!" In a sentence with a heavy sense of complaint, the cake was taken away by the president, the door closed, and the smile that Sano had been wearing slowly disappeared from his face.
The other party's cold eyes made him shrink his neck.
"Okay, let's go home."
He took a deep breath, eventually nodded, muttered downstairs, and left on his motorcycle.
Getting into the car again, Sano squinted his eyes several times. The sleepiness of being forced to work overtime in a row made his body heavy, and the exhaustion made him shaky.
Eventually, he crashed heavily on his motorcycle.
"It hurts..."
His face groaned in agony, struggling to get up.
But in the process of struggling, he looked up at the night sky again, as if something was attracting him...
It was the fireworks of the festival.
And at this time, in the president's apartment, the cake that Sano had worked so hard to send was only pushed to the ground and shattered... The interplay of these two scenes makes the comic picture of "Unnatural Death" full of irony.
Only when he encounters an accident and is unable to lie on the ground, Sano can take a little breath and take the time to look at the fireworks in the sky, and on the high-rise building, the president of the Happiness Cake Factory can have a carnival of wine and meat for men and women...
Sano's wife, young son, and daughter seemed to look out the window with a sense of feeling, and they smiled contentedly as if looking forward to tomorrow.
In this case, Sano could only look at the fireworks and take a deep breath: "I have to go back." ”
Oh, yes... Gotta go home.
Until this time, Sano still didn't know that this was the trigger for his death a month later.
Sano, who returned home, smiled and stroked his child's cheek, his face was full of hope, and he said softly but stubbornly, "I hope they can live happily when they grow up, become happy, become happy..."
This is the story of a happy factory and an unhappy family.
It can be said that this sentence really earned a lot of people's tears back then, and with the sound of "Lemon", it made people taste the 'bitter aroma like lemon'.
This word belongs to a special issue.,The thickened kind.,It's two words and released as a word.,Divided into (upper) (lower)。
At the same time as the release, Tsukasa Higashino also disclosed the fact that the theme song "Lemon" of "Unnatural Death" had been released on the side page of the manga and on the cover of "Bad Cold".
This time he used the skill of tracing phonographs.
Tsukasa Higashino can indeed hear the singing of "Lemon" at the end of the manga.
This made Higashino Tsukasa very satisfied, and began to wait for the specific statistics of "Unnatural Death" this time.
The theme song "Lemon" is also equipped with... Let's see where Unnatural Death goes!
Can you kill all the people in front! What about rushing straight into the ceiling of Japanese manga sales?