Tsukasa Higashino hung up the phone on Aiko Kijo.

Aiko Kijo over there is very grateful to Tsukasa Higashino.

Because without Tsukasa Higashino, Ryuichi Yoshimine wouldn't notice her, and there would be no subsequent series of operations.

According to Aiko Kijo, she will aim for a scholarship when she goes to university, and she will definitely not hold her alma mater back.

Higashino also responded to her statement with a 'uh-huh'.

Because even Tsukasa Higashino didn't expect such a dramatic thing to happen.

I have to say that this is a verification of the saying 'logic is needed, but reality does not need logic'.

But the results are also good.

Aiko Kijo went to university, and her youth should not be a regret, and she also painted a more satisfactory work.

So it's a win-win.

What Higashino Tsukasa has to do next is also very simple.

That is the two months spent polishing the painting "Summer is Over" at hand.

This is not a large amount of work, after all, Higashino Tsukasa has two months to take his time.

The production team of "Midnight Bell" is also in full swing.

Now it's time to draw the background of the original painting.

After all, what Higashino and the other original artists drew was just a white drawing, and the background on it was completed by a professional background painting.

And when the background is painted, it's the color, and after the color, it's the soundtrack.

When the soundtrack is ready, it's the voice actors' job to dub it.

None of this has anything to do with Tsukasa Higashino, and he handed over the last original painting to Takehiro Motohashi, which can be regarded as solving the matter of "Midnight Bell".

He has also read the manuscript of the half-finished "Midnight Bell", and he feels very good, which makes people sweat.

That's pretty good.

Tsukasa Higashino was very satisfied, and his eyes changed from the production of the animated film "Midnight Bell" to the manga he is currently serializing.

Needless to say, "The Lonely Gourmet" naturally has a leisurely atmosphere, fresh food, and tormenting the stomach bags of Japanese friends all the time, which can be regarded as a preliminary achievement of Tsukasa Higashino's small goal.

Now it should be worth mentioning "Winner is Justice".

"The Winner is Justice" has now been serialized to more than 20 episodes.

According to the two episodes of the Japanese drama, the first season of "Winner is Justice" has a total of twelve episodes, and it is almost over now.

From the first word to the last word, it firmly occupied the first place in the readers' praise of "Bad Cold".

However, for Tsukasa Higashino, he is still a little dissatisfied with the achievement of "Winner is Justice".

After all, he has a lot of fame, the author of "Midnight Bell", the designer of Kumamon, and some fame in oil painting.

These things will provide him with better data.

That's why Tsukasa Higashino was a little dissatisfied.

Of course, if this is heard by the editor Hosokawa Koharu, who has been in charge of him.

Then it is estimated that Hosokawa Koharu will be so angry that he will spurt blood directly - you are still not satisfied?

Just for more than 20 weeks in a row, it's a remarkable achievement.

Not to mention that "Winner is Justice" has also attracted social attention for a period of time... In a sense, this is already the extent of being out of the circle.

At least Hosokawa Koharu looks at the results of "Winner is Justice" with beauty every time, and smirks with satisfaction.

Aside from Hosokawa Koharu's satisfaction, the only thing that makes Higashino slightly happy is that.

That is, the well-known points he has accumulated have exceeded the 1.5 million mark and are slowly crawling towards two million points.

This is estimated to be half the credit for Kumamon's New Year's marketing.

Nowadays, Kumamon has really become the signboard of Kumamoto Prefecture, and even now, before the Shinkansen is opened, there are people who take special flights to Kumamoto Prefecture for sightseeing, which seems to be the reason why the ticket to Kumamoto Prefecture is cheaper than the Shinkansen... But no matter what, a fire is a fire.

Kumamoto Prefecture's marketing around Kumamon is expected to be lifted a lot higher this year.

When the time comes, the money that will be distributed to Tsukasa Higashino ...

This must be very amazing, Tsukasa Higashino can hold on to the cash cow of Kumamon and laze for the rest of his life.

Of course, there is also the credit of Kumamoto Chihaya.

However, compared to these miscellaneous things, Higashino Tsukasa would prefer to fight again now, and strive to continue to make a name for himself, so that the Celestial Empire also knows his name.

"The next step is to consider how "Winner is Justice" will end."

Tsukasa Higashino pinched his chin and began to think.

Next is the finale of "Winner is Justice", which is naturally the best part of the entire comic.

Kensuke Komimon, who is on the actor's side, was first forced to a dead end, and even took his house, luxury speedboat, and luxury car to pay off his debts, and if he loses this lawsuit with Xianyu Chemical, he will have nothing.

is not only the name of the undefeated victory, but even the pants have to be lost in the end.

However, Komeimen Kensuke fell into a very unfavorable situation from the beginning, and if he wanted to win this lawsuit, he had to convince a female scientific director of Xianyu Chemical to let her appear in court to prove that the unknown elements discharged by Xianyu Chemical would indeed cause harm to the human body.

This can be said to be a desperate situation, and people from the enemy forces want to turn against them without even a job...

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is more difficult than climbing to the sky.

Tsukasa Higashino feels that as long as the plot of the finale is drawn well, the sales of the single book of "Winner is Justice" will inevitably rise sharply, and it can't be stopped.

He began to think, to ponder.

On the other side, in addition to Urashima Press, the editor-in-chief of Iwakaku Press is now full of sorrow.

As mentioned earlier, there are three most well-known publishers of manga magazines: Iwakaku Press, Mozuki Shoten, and Urashima Press.

Among them, Iwakaku Publishing House is based on hot-blooded shonen comics, while Mozhu Bookstore focuses on science fiction and shoujo comics.

Although they are divided into two publishing houses, the group standing behind them has already entered into a joint venture at the beginning of last year, and it can be regarded as a family.

Urashima Press, on the other hand, has been deteriorating since last year due to the lack of excellent manga scripts.

But judging from the current data, Urashima Publishing House, which seemed to be squeezed out last year, has miraculously breathed a sigh of relief.

Even the sales of single editions of "Winner is Justice" and "Midnight Bell" have vaguely suppressed the long-term serialization of their two major publishing houses.

To be honest, when the editor-in-chief of Yamano got the news, he was only very surprised, and even a little at a loss.

I want to suppress the blood and sci-fi comics with horror comics and lawyer comics... It's not a problem to say 'impossible' in this day and age.

Yes, it's just not possible.

The reason for this is simple.

That's because these two comic genres don't have a market advantage at all.

Whether it is a horror comic or a lawyer comic, there is no advantage in the market in the face of hot-blooded comics and sci-fi comics.

Because the hottest theme of Japanese comics in this era belongs to robot comics, and the so-called robot comics are actually comics in which the protagonist drives a giant robot to fight.

For the Celestial Empire, the slightly more famous works are probably "EVA", "Lightbringer", and "Dragon Fighter".

Since 1980, Japanese robot comics have been thriving, and they can't be stopped at all when they get to the back, and they are hot in the market.

As the saying goes, a hundred schools of thought contend, a hundred flowers bloom.

The Japanese manga market is so deformed, resulting in a flood of robot comics in the market, and the monotonous manga scripts have also led to the lack of excellent animation scripts, which has also made the manga industry enter a cold winter.

But even in the cold winter, robot comics still have a market in the market.

As a result, although they are also affected, they are not so serious overall.

Kepodao Publishing House is different, as a publishing house that focuses on horror comics, after entering the cold winter period, its sales have been declining, and it once made people feel that they are about to withdraw from the ranks of the three major publishing houses of comic magazines.

"But since the Higashino-sensei next door joined Urashima Press, this phenomenon has gradually stagnated..."

Editor-in-chief Yamano looked at the statistical table in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

This person is completely a wild man, suddenly appears, and suddenly breaks the deadlock of Urashima Press.

The reason why this Higashino Division is a wild road.

That's because Editor-in-Chief Yamano had never even heard of the name Tsukasa Higashino before, and he didn't know which author it was.

After all, the Japanese manga industry... Those people come and go.

A manga magazine from a publishing house serializes a maximum of twenty works – that is, more than twenty comic book authors.

How many manga magazine publishers are there in Japan?

That's actually a few hundred comic book authors... There are only a few hundred people, and they will naturally understand all of them back and forth

So the author of the wild road like Tsukasa Higashino, the editor-in-chief of Yamano, is also the first time I have seen it.

And in the eyes of the editor-in-chief Yamano, Tsukasa Higashino's road to fame is also quite bizarre.

Generally speaking, if a new author wants to serialize, he or she has to participate in the monthly rookie reward of the comic magazine, and first confirm the popularity in this way, and then submit it to the serialization meeting after getting the first place. This confirms whether it can be serialized.

It can be said that there are very few authors like Tsukasa Higashino who pass the serialization meeting as soon as they submit their manuscripts.

It's all mud legs.

The point is this kind of mud leg, which has recently beaten the comics of the pillars of their Rock Cape Press and Mozhu Bookstore to the point that they can't hold their heads up.

After all, Tsukasa Higashino does a bit of a miscellaneous.

He is not only a comic, but also an oil painter and a mascot designer.

These things bring a huge amount of traffic to Tsukasa Higashino, far more than just a single 'manga'.

There is a good saying, animation looks down on comics, TV series look down on animation, movies look down on TV series... This is a chain of long-standing contempt.

That's why the editor-in-chief of Yamano felt very sad...

The other party's comics and Kumamon peripherals are selling well, and there is no shortage of money at all, so I guess I don't eat the set of digging the foot of the wall.

Soft don't eat... Then come hard.

Find some people to write some advertorials, or dig up some black material from Tsukasa Higashino to expose...

It's doable.

After all, in addition to manga fans, Higashino Tsukasa himself Kumamon has also brought a lot of fans.

If you can dig out some of his scandals, then presumably the comics he serialized will be affected.

Editor-in-Chief Yamano thought so, and did so.

But the paparazzi reporters he paid for each came back with a look of embarrassment and hesitation.

Go and ask why... Only then did the editor-in-chief Yamano know that it turned out that Tsukasa Higashino's parents went out and met a murderer and died directly, leaving him alone to take care of his sister, and the situation was extremely tragic.

In this case, he used manga to hold up the whole family, and he and his sister Chihaya Higashino survived...

To be honest, when these words came out, even the tone of the paparazzi reporters was a little inexplicably admired, thinking that Higashino Tsukasa was a man and had the flavor of a Showa man.

The only one that can barely be counted as a black spot... It's probably that he broke up with his girlfriend.

But breaking up is just a common thing, who hasn't had a girlfriend when they were students? Haven't broken up?

Even if she wanted to dig deeper, Asami Mamanaka, the ex-girlfriend of Tsukasa Higashino, shook her head very firmly and said that the other party had nothing to be sorry for her - even Tsukasa Higashino helped her a lot.

This grassroots comic book writer who has risen from suffering sounds very inspiring.

If it weren't for the fact that the editor-in-chief of Yamano was looking for the scandal of Tsukasa Higashino, he would probably be moved to recognize the words of these paparazzi reporters again and again.

Now, the editor-in-chief of Yamano is really helpless.

Tsukasa Higashino's bone is too hard to gnaw.

I don't eat the soft ones, I don't eat the hard ones, I live like a hedgehog, and I can't find a place to put my mouth down.

Since the off-board tricks don't work, it still depends on the in-plate tricks.

Overwhelming the sales of Higashino's single book from the front... At the very least, we have to suppress and suppress Tsukasa Higashino, so that he will not quickly stand firm in the manga industry.

For this reason, the editor-in-chief of Yamano also specially called the author of the pillar of the brother publishing house Mozhu Bookstore to help refer to the works of the author of the pillar on their side.

He turned his head sideways, looked at the middle-aged man in his twenties and thirties with glasses sitting on the side, and asked with a little worry, "How is Mr. Komori?" Are you sure that you will surpass Mr. Higashino in the next one-line sales? ”

This middle-aged man, Ken Komori, is one of the two pillar authors that Iwakaku Press has now acquired.

"Hmm... It should be fine. Ken Komori responded, pushed his glasses, and thought very seriously: "My next single book manga release is just the beginning of the animation of the January schedule.,There is animation to help promote.,I feel like it's no problem to suppress Mr. Higashino's "Winner is Justice" on the sales of the single book.。 ”

He seemed to be thinking very seriously, and he was speaking sensibly.

"The first few sales of a single book were only slightly pressed by more than 60,000 copies of "Winner is Justice"... With the help of animation, this gap should not be large. ”

Animating to help promote it will really improve the sales of a single book.

"Well... I know. I'll also arrange the serialization order a little bit on the magazine's side, as well as the publicity of the frontispiece's color page.,If I can successfully suppress Mr. Higashino.,Then this year's publishing house party.,Mr. Komori can be regarded as giving us Iwakaku Publishing House a face.。 ”

“... I'll try to cheer up. ”

Ken Komori smiled reluctantly, but in fact, there was still some slander in his heart.

Because it is a top manga author like him who can most intuitively feel the gap between himself and Tsukasa Higashino.

That gap...

It's a bit big.