There was nothing new about the award ceremony for the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, and perhaps the only thing worth mentioning was that the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Noriko Mano looked like a pretty good person, and although she looked average, she felt like she was easy to get along with.

Tsukasa Higashino received the certificate of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award from her hand, and said a few words to the camera with a smile, saying that he would continue to work hard before stepping down.

He's still thinking about what kind of cartoon he wants to draw, and he has won the award ceremony, and his reputation has risen, and he can just mess around with other things, so he needs to be so serious.

But what Higashino thinks doesn't mean that media people also think the same way.

As the youngest and good-looking young man present, he can be said to be a news breaking point everywhere, and of course these media reporters have to keep an eye on him.

As a result, as soon as the award ceremony ended, Tsukasa Higashino, who had just stood up and had not taken two steps, was surrounded by these reporters and media, and most of the questions were 'How do you feel about being the youngest recipient in the history of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award?' Or, "If you can win the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award at this age, do you have any know-how?" ’

Higashino Tsukasa smiled and answered several questions in a row, and then said that he still had urgent matters at home, so he would no longer accompany him.

In the face of the media, as long as you don't fool them casually or rashly, it is not a big deal to think carefully about the question before answering.

He soon left Japan's New National Theater and hailed a taxi so that he could not see the large number of reporters behind him.

It's clean now.

Tsukasa Higashino sat in the back seat of a taxi and began to think about what kind of manga he wanted to draw.

Honestly, he doesn't have a shortage of good comic scripts, the point is just that it's too difficult to choose.

What to draw?

Did you draw "Tokyo Love Story", which was popular in Japan back then?

This drama is good, and it was regarded as a love canon by many Japanese women back then, and at that time, this "Tokyo Love Story" became an instant hit and became the ancestor of "pure love Japanese drama". At that time, many Japanese women looked at it and had the feeling of 'ah, it seems that this happened to me', plus it's 2005, Japanese girl manga is in full swing, and many Japanese girls especially like to read girl manga...

Higashino thought about it, then shook his head and killed "Tokyo Love Story".

The last time he drew "The Winner is Justice", he was already on the edge of the sword in "Bad Cold", but it was a professional comic, and it could barely be said.

But if he wants to draw a girl's comic on "Bad Cold"... That's a big joke.

Not to mention whether Hosokawa Koharu agrees or disagrees, Tsukasa Higashino also feels that it is inappropriate.

So "Tokyo Love Story" can't be selected here.

So is it the painting "Naoki Hanzawa"? It's just that this is also a professional comic.,There will be absolutely no problem with serializing it on "Bad Cold", and every episode has a breaking point.,It was so popular in Japan that year that it could be said to be a mess.,It re-affected the hearts of the entire Japanese working animals.,I don't know how many paper media reported the news of Naoki Hanzawa back then.。 The final episode of the finale had an average rating of 42.2% in the Kanto region, 30 percentage points higher than the average rating of "Winner is Justice", and it is a real 'masterpiece' in the eyes of the Japanese.

The last time Tsukasa Higashino discussed it with Hosokawa Koharu, I took out a draft storyboard about it, but at that time, I felt that a serious workplace manga like "Hanzawa Naoki" was not very popular, so I put it on hold for the time being.

But after he learned about the Japanese comic market after half a year, he found that this parallel world was just missing this kind of serious professional comics, if it was really successful, then Higashino Tsukasa might be able to cut off the title of "the father of Japanese workplace comics" - this title is still quite tempting, and in a sense, it can also improve Higashino's influence in the comics industry.

But to be honest, there are too few good scripts like "Naoki Hanzawa", and the Japanese manga market is now muddy, and it still doesn't feel very stable to come up with such a workplace wit comic that simply talks about intrigue.

After all, TV series and comics are two different carriers.

Although Tsukasa Higashino's "Winner is Justice" is popular, it is because its original TV series has a very strong comic atmosphere, which is not a serious workplace script in the strict sense, and it is quite suitable for the market.

But "Hanzawa Naoki" is different, it's completely the workplace, human nature is dissected in turn, and the traditional arts are on the next gram, and this thing may have an impact on many people when it is drawn... I have to guard against it.

is similar to "The White Tower", which also belongs to a very serious genre as a workplace drama.

"So there was a transition needed before painting 'Naoki Hanzawa'... Let's take a look at the acceptance of this type of professional manga in the Japanese manga market today. ”

Tsukasa Higashino thought to himself.

How to find a workplace script that is popular with Japanese youth, but at the same time does not make the atmosphere of the whole plot too serious, this is also the difficulty.

And Ozawada said that the two major publishing houses will suppress his new manga next, and use the number of manga to squeeze the number of fans during the serialization period of Tsukasa Higashino.

To be honest, as long as a man doesn't like to admit defeat, the same is true for Tsukasa Higashino.

The other party has already said this, then he must accept the offer, not only does he have to accept the offer, but also slap them in the face with the sales volume of a single volume, and beat them until their noses are blue and their faces are swollen.

This is where careful consideration and repeated selection are required.

Higashino couldn't help but like to stretch out his hand and gesture slightly, and just as he was thinking intently, he inadvertently glanced at the system page.

Speaking of which, the number of well-known points required for the next painting skill in the system, 'Tracing Phonograph', is a full five million points.

That's a big number... However, when he glanced at the system's explanation of the painting skills of 'tracing phonographs', Tsukasa Higashino was also a little curious - "The viewer can hear the sound in the world of your work through your work." ’

What does this sound mean?

I can't draw music comics.

Tsukasa Higashino was a little funny.

He can only be said to be rough about music theory, at most he knows staves, and can help copy lyrics and song notation.

Let him draw that kind of comic that talks about the music genre... It's a bit of a strong man... This skill is a bit of a chicken rib.

But... Music genre?

Tsukasa Higashino had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and then froze, and the impression of a Japanese drama appeared in his mind.

"Unnatural Death."

This is a TV series dedicated to Japanese forensics, mainly about the forensic protagonist Mikoto Mitsumi who works at the private forensic organization UDI, and a series of stories derived from it.

Unnatural death, which was translated from China at that time, means death that occurs early due to factors other than the laws of the development of life or disease—that is, death such as homicide and poisoning.

For this Japanese drama, Tsukasa Higashino actually liked it at that time, after all, the rhythm of this drama was perfectly controlled. At that time, he even won the six awards of the Japanese Drama Academy Award, which was known as the Oscar of Japanese dramas, and the ratings were among the top three for a long time, and it was also a masterpiece that caused a lot of topics at that time.

In the first episode, a unit drama was used to introduce various characters, erect the characters in the play, and there are also gimmicks such as "Japan's forensic autopsy rate is the lowest among developed countries" and the sentence "In Japan, eighty percent of the deceased are randomly named dead and sent for cremation without forensic autopsy." ’

This is indeed true in the drama "Unnatural Death", and Japanese forensics are originally standard 7K jobs.

The 7K here does not refer to earning 7,000 yuan a month, but the so-called "tired, strict, can't go home, has strict rules, can't take vacations, doesn't wear makeup, can't get married".

I have this technology, I don't know how good it is to be a doctor in Japan, I can make a lot of money, who wants to be a forensic doctor?

The people who can be forensic doctors are basically people who generate electricity with love.

This is also an important reason for the scarcity of forensic doctors in Japan.

Of course, what Higashino values is not the topicality of the drama "Unnatural Death", but its plot.

This drama is exactly the 'compromise' that Tsukasa Higashino needs now.

And the plot is interesting enough, not too serious, but not as funny as "Winner is Justice", Higashino Tsukasa thinks it's absolutely fine to draw it.

As a forensic professional drama, it is biased towards detective reasoning, which is also an advantage - there are many mystery fans in Japan, and there are also mystery comics on "Bad Cold".

The reason why Tsukasa Higashino thought of this drama is also the reason for the theme song "Lemon" in this play... Yonezu Genshi was indeed a musical genius in Japan at that time, and the faint melancholy and purity of this song "Lemeon" also added a lot of points to the play "Unnatural Death".

When he was in the Celestial Empire, Higashino often heard his apprentices who were learning to paint holding their mobile phones, and from time to time they would call 'Eight Masters, Eight Masters'.

There is also a painting skill of tracing and phonographing in the back, can you think of a way to make "Lemon" out? Because of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, Tsukasa Higashino now has more than 2.5 million fame points... And it continues to soar, maybe in "Unnatural Death", the song "Lemon" can be reproduced.

The more Higashino Tsukasa thought about it, the more new ideas he had, the more he felt that there was a play.

Although the system has never had a sense of existence, but at this time, I didn't expect it to help a lot, and Higashino nodded with satisfaction.

Now that I've thought of this, let's choose "Unnatural Death", and by the way, I will make up for my knowledge about forensic medicine in the past few days - just have a normal medical common sense, and you don't need to be proficient.

He made a decision in his heart, and he also had confidence, thinking that "Unnatural Death" would definitely slap the other two major societies in the face, so he got out of the car and walked to his house.

He's going to figure out some of the details.

The goal has also been set -

Slap the face of the two major societies!

......

Hosokawa Koharu leaned back in the office chair, his eyes were wrinkled, and he sighed from time to time, his face full of helplessness that could be seen.

No way... It's really helpless.

She had just come out of the office of the editor-in-chief of Urashima, and she had also been informed that the other two major publishers might have recently targeted Tsukasa Higashino, the No. 1 seed player of Urashima Publishing House under her.

How could this not hurt her?

This time, unlike the last time Ken Komori was unprepared, whether it was Mozuki Shoten or Iwakaku Publishing House, even No. 1 thugs like Ozawada were used.

It can also be seen that they have been sharpening their knives secretly for a long time, and they want to cut off the head of Higashino Tsukasa in one fell swoop this time.

This is completely different from the kind of villains in some comics who wait for the protagonist to grow up slowly, and Tsukasa Higashino has only been in the industry for a year, and they are thinking about doing it - this is too unauthentic, right?

In this regard, Urashima editor-in-chief also gave two alternatives.

The first is to look forward to Tsukasa Higashino coming up with a new and better draft... But this approach is actually a bit of a loss.

After all, I have to compete with the comic book authors of the two major publishing houses on the same stage, and compete for single volume sales together... This method is very unsafe, and of course the more stable it is for the publisher, the better.

And the second option is to let Higashino delay the change for the time being, so that he doesn't have to rush to get the new manuscript out.

Wait until the popular authors of the finished works of the two major societies come up with new comics, stagger the serialization date with Tsukasa Higashino, and then let Tsukasa Higashino start serialization.

This way is much safer, and Higashino Tsukasa will not lose much, at most he will be a little angry.

Two alternatives...

Generally speaking, the second option is more prudent and rational.

But Hosokawa Koharu knows what Tsukasa Higashino is like, and he took the initiative to give Yukio Yamano, the editor-in-chief of Iwakaku Publishing House, a soft nail, as you can see last time.

He is definitely not one of those who is willing to compromise when he is angry.

Especially this kind of more aggrieved anger.

"Let's call and ask Higashino-sensei for his opinion first." Hosokawa Koharu thought about it and took out the phone from his bag.

She is here to worry about the past, but there is a feeling that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry, so it is better to ask Higashino Division for advice first.

I don't know what Higashino Tsukasa will think when the time comes...

Presumably Higashino Tsukasa will be very disappointed, after all, he was targeted by the two major societies.

That's pretty good.

If you change to other authors, it is estimated that it will be even more uncomfortable, and those with poor psychological quality will probably cry, after all, this is enough to affect their income, that is, the sales of single volumes of comics.

As soon as Hosokawa Koharu's hand put the button on the phone, the phone already rang.

She picked up her mobile phone and swept the caller, and she was a little dazed.

It happened to be a call from Tsukasa Higashino.

It's a coincidence, I was just about to call you.

connected the phone, and before she could speak, Higashino Tsukasa over there had already spoken: "Hey? Edit Hosokawa, I've just finished storyboarding a draft of a new manga, can you come over and help me take a look at it if you have time? ”

Yes?

Hosokawa Koharu was still in a straight state of mind and planned to tell Tsukasa Higashino about the two major societies, but he didn't expect that as soon as the other party opened his mouth, it was actually a matter of the new manga draft storyboard.

In such a time of urgency, how can Tsukasa Higashino act not urgent at all?

But of course, when I think about it, Higashino Tsukasa doesn't know that the two major societies have joined forces to take his head.

Of course, he would be so calm and calm.

Thinking of this, Hosokawa Koharu said dryly: "It's not... Higashino-sensei, that... The draft storyboard thing is set aside for now, and I have something to discuss with you. It's about Rock Point Press and Mozhu Bookstore..."

"Is Hosokawa talking about the union of the two major societies? I've known this for a long time. ”

"Huh?"

Listening to the voice of Higashino Tsukasa answering with a smile, Hosokawa Koharu pinched the phone and didn't speak for a long time.

No... You're not reacting right.

Don't talk about crying out loud... Why don't you feel lost or scared at all?