Hosokawa Koharu's "Midnight Bell" and "The Winner is Justice" are naturally adapted by Urashima Publishing House - this kind of popular masterpiece basically will not be released for others to adapt.

In the same way, as mentioned earlier, Urashima Publishing House is a large publishing house, which not only has comic magazines, but also other magazines and printed materials, including science, education, entertainment, etc. And publishing is also in this range.

In fact, in addition to the editorial department of the weekly "Evil Cold" to which Hosokawa Koharu belongs, Urashima Publishing House actually has other publications or editorial departments of categories, but the overall division is different, and the work does not affect each other, so Tsukasa Higashino has never been to several other separate editorial offices to see the situation.

Hosokawa Koharu is a little better than Tsukasa Higashino, but it's just a little better.

At most, when the publishing house has a publicly-funded dinner or year-end summary, Hosokawa Koharu can see the other editorial editors talking to them, and generally speaking, there is no communication.

This is actually some of the things about factions in Urashima Publishing House, she is now a team leader, and she has to wait until the deputy editor-in-chief to get in touch with this file.

Then again, the comic changed back to... This kind of thing is actually relatively rare in the industry in Japan in 2004, generally speaking, most of the well-known movies are changed back, or well-known TV dramas are changed.

But it's rare to say that there isn't.,The popularity of the leader.,Similar to Tsukasa Higashino.,It's not a problem at all to adapt it - you must know that there are still a lot of cases of Japanese later comics being changed (mostly light).,Mainly look at the questionnaire of the reader market.,If there is a strong willingness to adapt the version on the data sheet.,Then you can adapt it directly.。

Tsukasa Higashino waited in the reception room for a while, and Hosokawa Koharu, who came in from outside, brought him two editors who also belonged to Urashima Publishing House.

One is named Koji Mita and wears glasses, and the other is Kazuji Motoyama and is a tall and thin man.

Both of them were dressed in professional suits and looked very smart and capable.

Among them, Koji Mita, who was wearing glasses, smiled at him as soon as he saw Tsukasa Higashino and said, "Mr. Higashino, we brought a questionnaire for the reader's market, and a large number of people want to see the editions of "Midnight Bell" and "Winner is Justice", which is very strong, and Higashino-sensei is also the author of our Urashima Publishing House, so our editorial department has some ideas that we want to adapt it... This is good for both of us, and I hope Higashino-sensei will think about it. ”

He put the specific questionnaire in front of Higashino Division, and the thin and tall Motoyama Kazuji next to him also smiled: "It's basically no problem to leave this matter to us, Higashino-sensei, after all, this is an adaptation of our own family, and I will definitely not release the treatment of Higashino-sensei." ”

The two of them sang and harmonized, obviously very experienced, and Higashino Tsukasa also smiled and nodded, didn't answer at first, just flipped through the data sheet, and then asked sideways: "Editor Hosokawa, I shouldn't need to provide anything like the original manuscript for this adaptation, right?" I don't know anything about writing. ”

At this time, the words still have to be explained, don't sign it at that time, draw it, and stamp it, but suddenly let Higashino Tsukasa take the original manuscript out... That's a joke.

"Don't worry about Mr. Higashino in this regard, the editorial department of the editors of Mita and the editors of Motoyama basically have ghostwriters, you just need to provide the original manuscript of the comic." Hosokawa Koharu explained.

Japan's major publishing houses basically train ghostwriters, which is not news in the industry, and there is no need for Tsukasa Higashino to polish or fill in the details himself.

"In that case, there's nothing wrong with me." Tsukasa Higashino flipped through the reader's questionnaire again, and then officially stated his position.

Seeing Higashinoji's official statement, Yasuji Mita and Kazuji Motoyama were also relieved.

Now Higashino's works are not as good as the debut period of "Midnight Bell", in addition to the two of them wanting to win this piece of performance fat, the editors of the same editorial department are also staring at it, and "Midnight Bell" and "The Winner is Justice" These two works themselves belong to the type that is also very well adapted, as long as the adaptation is most likely to be unsold.

"Hehe, then let's talk about the amount of royalties, Mr. Higashino, your work this time is a second publication, but we belong to the same publishing house, so after discussion, we decided to pay you 10.5% royalty... What do you think? ”

This is a fair price, after all, Tsukasa Higashino's "Midnight Bell" and "The Winner is Justice" were serialized on "Bad Cold", and they are not the first to be published, and it is indeed very conscientious to take 10.5% - you must know that the first-class authors in the Japanese industry only pay 15% of the royalties for the first publication.

As for the word royalty, for example, if the single volume of the manga "Midnight Bell" is 450 yen, then according to the 10% of the manga royalty, Tsukasa Higashino will get 45 yen.

However, Hosokawa Koharu next to him lowered his head and thought about it, and said with a smile: "There should be room for improvement... I remember that Suzuki Yu-sensei also adapted it before, and at that time he took 11% of the royalty and paid 10.5%, and Higashino-sensei's fame is a little less now. ”

If she can dig a little, she will dig a little, she has always regarded herself as a person on the ship of Higashino Division, and it is not a loss at all to fight for his interests.

"That time, Mr. Suzuki was a small-scale publication, with a total of only 8,000 copies, which was very niche, but Mr. Higashino was different this time, and we wanted to first print 30,000 copies on both sides, and a total of 60,000 copies to test the water."

Koji Mita replied politely.

This is indeed a big deal, the first printing of 60,000 copies to test the waters, if you lose it, basically most of the money will go into the pockets of Higashino Division.

In addition, this kind of thing itself depends on the degree of dissemination and the number of readers, in a sense, the sales channel is more important than royalties.

For example, Suzuki has published 8,000 copies, and her accumulated dissemination and readership are much less than the 30,000 copies published by Tsukasa Higashino.

And this is the first printing, so there may be a possibility of reprinting (reprinting) later.

But Hosokawa Koharu is still not satisfied, she thinks that according to the amount of royalties from Higashino's fame, she should still be able to mention some more, and the other party must have left some room for premium.

As Hosokawa Koharu expected, Mita Koji did leave some space, but it was reserved for Higashino Tsukasa, he obviously didn't expect Hosokawa Koharu and Higashino to have such a close relationship - the editor of the same company actually took the initiative to ask for a high price.

It left him a little speechless.

But in the end, he smiled and relented, and agreed to Hosokawa Koharu's request to increase the royalty amount.

Hosokawa Koharu didn't open his mouth either, but he just won 11% of the royalty payment and stabilized, after all, the other party is willing to give himself this face, and he can't really beat the snake and stick it, and he doesn't even leave face to the other party, maybe there will be cooperation in the future.

The back-and-forth calculations of this Higashino Tsukasa can't interject, after all, it's outside his scope of expertise.

However, the basic royalty calculation Higashino still understands, according to the market price of 1,500 yen to 3,000 yen, according to the lowest price is nearly 10 million yen, and if the highest price is 20 million yen, it is really lying down to make money.

I have to say that Japan's paper media is indeed developed, after all, the whole country basically has the habit of reading, more or less will read some books, and while the paper media is developed, the royalties are also very high.

Sending Yasuji Mita and Kazuji Motoyama away, Hosokawa Koharu looked back at Higashino Tsukasa with a smile: "Higashino-sensei, congratulations." ”

This time, Higashino Tsukasa is lying down to make money, and this money is in his pocket for nothing, so he doesn't have to spend any time at all, and Hosokawa Koharu is also quite envious.

If she didn't really know how to draw comics, maybe she would have followed Tsukasa Higashino to learn to draw comics, which makes money faster... It's an exaggeration.

"What's the matter, I still have to thank the editor Hosokawa, is the editor Hosokawa free next? I'll treat you to a meal. Higashino replied with a smile, and then asked a little strangely, "But why did the Urashima Literary Editorial Department suddenly ask me about the adaptation?" ”

"They haven't won any decent literature lately... There are no high-quality works, so I naturally hit Mr. Higashino, your idea. ”

Hosokawa Koharu sat down and took a sip of water to explain.

On the other hand, the editorial department of Urashima Literature is a little sluggish, and this year it has released many award-winning works that should not be released.

"Midnight Bell" and "The Winner is Justice" version belong to their editorial department in a sense, otherwise there are few achievements this year, isn't it a joke to put them out?

But it's okay, anyway, Higashino Tsukasa can get such a large sum of money without cooperating, which is good.

And—

Hosokawa Koharu stretched out his hand: "Mr. Higashino, the biggest difference between your manga works and other manga works is that they are very easy to use whether they are adapted or adapted into TV series." ”

This is true.

Whether it is the horror supernatural "Midnight Bell" or "Winner is Justice" and "Unnatural Death" and other professional comics, the difficulty of adapting them is much smaller than that of hot-blooded comics, and the plot is exciting enough, which is the unique advantage that Higashino Tsukasa has.

Even Hosokawa Koharu couldn't figure out how Tsukasa Higashino came up with these plots... Some of them are not bad on TV.

"Let's not talk about eating." Hosokawa Koharu is indeed a little greedy, after all, every time she has a company dinner, someone asks her the secret of success, so she hasn't eaten well recently, but she also knows the seriousness of the matter, and tells Tsukasa Higashino another thing: "Mr. Higashino, you should know about "Lonely Gourmet", which will be released next quarter, right?" The crew asked if you could take some time to come out, and they wanted to record a little easter egg at the end of each episode... That is, the part where the original author personally visited the store. ”

As soon as Hosokawa Koharu said this, Higashino Tsukasa was more surprised.

In the previous life, "The Lonely Gourmet" had a small part of the original author's visit to the store to eat, which was regarded as an advertisement for the restaurants on the corner of the street - by the way, it tortured the stomach bags of the audience who watched the food show late at night.

Should I say fate or is there a destiny in the dark... The "Lonely Gourmet" of this world actually asked him, the original author, to visit the store...

"This link can be deleted, if you don't have time, I'll refuse them." Hosokawa Koharu saw Higashino Tsukasa looking down and thinking, thinking that he couldn't spare time, so he took the initiative to speak.

Hearing Hosokawa Koharu's words, Higashino Tsukasa also raised his head in time and waved his hand: "No problem, I can go." ”

Can the actual tasting session without torturing the audience's stomach bag still be called "The Lonely Gourmet"?

Isn't this soulless?

Tsukasa Higashino, who has been committed to torturing Japanese readers and viewers, just thought about it for a moment and said that he was going.

The TV series "Lonely Foodie" is now focused on the streets of Tokyo, and it can be filmed in several places a day, and the first season is only twelve episodes, and it basically takes five or six days to finish filming the footage of the tasting session - after all, the author tortures the audience for only one or two minutes, and lasts three minutes as an ending credit, and Tsukasa Higashino can't be so excessive.

"Really?" Hosokawa Koharu glanced at Tsukasa Higashino more, and quipped with some amusement: "Didn't Mr. Higashino say before that he was going to the school to see the situation?" With such a busy schedule, it feels a little difficult to go to school. ”

Hosokawa Koharu's words are on the heart of Higashino Division.

It's a bit busy...

I was going to go to school tomorrow, but now it looks like I'm going to have to wait until at least next week.

But to be honest, Higashino Tsukasa is actually a little curious.

He actually chose a lot of original scenes to draw in the "Lonely Gourmet" comics before, and the names of those restaurants have basically not changed, if you are a caring person, you should be able to find these details.

I wonder if the publicity I did in "The Lonely Foodie" could help these corner shops get a new lease of life?

Higashino Tsukasa groaned, and there was still some expectation in his heart.

Generally speaking, the publicity of comics is definitely not as good as TV dramas, but no one knows if you don't go to see it.

And Hosokawa Koharu on the other side also nodded thoughtfully: "That's right, it doesn't matter if you go and see it, maybe this work can get the Japanese Drama Academy Award?" ”

The Japanese Drama Academy Award is called the Japanese Drama Oscar Award by the Japanese people, but if you look at the voting atmosphere and miscellaneous evaluation atmosphere in Japan, this award is actually not as authoritative as imagined, and it belongs to the kind of award that 'it's okay to win, but it's embarrassing to feel embarrassed if you can't get it'.

"That's not the case... Forget it, editor Hosokawa, are you going to eat? Tsukasa Higashino packed up his things and stood up and asked.

It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, so it's better to ask the editor Hosokawa to go to the 'Japanese Food Pavilion' in the first episode of "The Lonely Gourmet".

Tsukasa Higashino, it's been a long time-

I just happened to be able to see the specific situation over there, and I don't know what has become of it now.

Let's take a look in the past, so as to lay the foundation for "The Lonely Foodie".