"Is that so? Hosokawa editor, but are you sure you don't think about it anymore? ”

Urashima listened to Hosokawa Koharu's answer over there.

"Yes, Editor-in-Chief Urashima."

Hosokawa Koharu over there spoke firmly: "Mr. Higashino thinks that "Naoki Hanzawa" will definitely reach the top, although my strength is insignificant, I still choose to believe in Mr. Higashino and want to help him a little." ”

“... Since that's the case, then I understand, I will recommend an editor to be the editor-in-chief of "Bad Cold" again, and you will continue to be in charge of Higashino-sensei. ”

The editor-in-chief of Urashima here did not continue to persuade him.

Although he still felt that Hosokawa Koharu's decision was a bit rash.

After all, this opportunity can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for editors at any publishing house.

But speaking of which, Hosokawa Koharu believes so much in Tsukasa Higashino... Still surprised him slightly.

After hanging up the phone, Hosokawa Koharu exhaled slightly.

She couldn't help but shake her head at first, then glanced at the manuscript in her hand, took a deep breath, and covered her face.

"Ahhh I really want to be the editor-in-chief..."

She let out a half-groan.

But...

"Now that you've given up, you don't have to think about it so much."

Koharu Hosokawa put his hand down.

Yes, they have already decided to follow Tsukasa Higashino to witness the next road of "Naoki Hanzawa", so what is there to think too much about?

She took a serious look at the original manuscript of "Naoki Hanzawa" again: "I still have to come on..."

She muttered to herself.

I just don't know if I'm encouraging myself or cheering for Tsukasa Higashino...

Hosokawa Koharu regained his spirits and headed for Toshima Press.

Now that I have the original manuscript, how can I use it to defeat "Chiyo"... That's their newsroom.

And so it passed another two days.

Tsukasa Higashino, who occasionally flipped through the situation of the Fushima Publishing House, found a new notice issued on its official website.

Following Shiniwazuki Press, Toshima Press also launched a new manga magazine, Kazuyo.

Underneath this announcement is the cover of "Heshi".

Unlike the eerie and terrifying cover of the previous "Bitter Cold", the new "Heshi" has a bit of seriousness and heaviness.

On the cover of the comic magazine, there is a close-up of a man who is wearing a formal suit, revealing a young side face, with a very 'forceful' serious expression, his gaze is cloudy, and the overall look is a little fierce.

At the bottom of the cover are neat four big characters - "Hanzawa Naoki".

"Hanzawa Naoki" here Higashino Tsukasa uses the kind of artistic font writing in the TV series in his previous life, which looks square and powerful.

And next to Hanzawa Naoki, there is information about the works of some other manga authors...

I have to say that Toshima Publishing House did give Higashino Tsukashi treatment, and the half-body profile of "Hanzawa Naoki" alone occupies two-thirds of the entire cover area, which is almost squeezed to the point that there is no place to put the names of other manga authors' works.

Tsukasa Higashino couldn't help frowning when he saw it, feeling that the editor-in-chief of Toshima Publishing House was too bold.

Although it is a chance to give Tsukasa Higashino, a big general, a chance to perform, but this is inevitably too much, and I don't care about what other manga writers think.

Even the readers in the comment area below complained.

"I do like Higashino-san's work, but this time Higashino-san's work is too close-up, right? The titles of the other works have been squeezed to both sides... How much does Toshima Press value Higashino Sensei? ”

Even the name of Higashinoji's work "Hanzawa Naoki" is much larger than the entire work introduction of others.

"Isn't this nonsense? "Kazuyo" is going to have a hard time with "Chiyo" of Shiniwazuki Publishing House this time, and the smell of gunpowder is full, and Mr. Higashino is being used as a gun when he looks at it. ”

""Naoki Hanzawa"... I feel really good when I look at this cover.,Higashino-san's painting is online! It's just that the male protagonist in the cover is staring at me inexplicably, and I feel a chill behind my back. ”

"It feels like a workplace-type manga, huh? I'm looking forward to it, I'm also a member of the office worker, and I don't know what surprises Mr. Higashino can bring us. ”

There was a lot of discussion in the comment area, and most of them were positive.

In this regard, Higashino Tsukasa felt that there was nothing to be complacent.

Because the evaluation of fans has always been one-sided, and the quality of Higashino's works has not disappointed them, and over time they have accumulated a good reputation.

But just a good word of mouth is actually useless.

The key is the reader praise survey and the sales of the single book... That's the most important thing.

As for those readers who leave a message below and say that they are also office workers...

Tsukasa Higashino could only cough dryly twice, hoping that they wouldn't lose their jobs because of "Naoki Hanzawa"...

If they lose their jobs... Probably, probably, perhaps one ten-thousandth of the blame lies with him.

Although it's only one ten-thousandth of the responsibility, Higashino still hopes that they won't get hot after reading the manga and get involved with their bosses in the workplace.

With this in mind, Tsukasa Higashino closed the official website of Toshima Publishing House and began to browse the official website of Shiniwazuki Publishing House instead.

The content of the announcement here is actually similar to that of Toshima Press, and it is also to introduce its new manga magazine "Chiyo".

The only difference is that the cover of Chiyo magazine does not only promote Tsukasa Higashino as a main manga like Toshima Press.

Their main focus seems to be a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.

Even the slogan is - what? Don't have a main comic? No! All of our comics are main comics!

Under the cover of the magazine is the pen name of each of the comic book writers of the Taizhu.

This makes Tsukasa Higashino also understand why the new Iwazuki Publishing House has a rich heritage...

On the list of authors of this dense pillar alone... It's no wonder that Osawa and Yoshichi are not confident to compete.

Of the twenty-two manga serialized on "Chiyo", about nineteen of them are pillar-level works... The first 19 comics are basically the industry's leaders with an average volume sales of 780,000 copies.

In particular, the first five works have sold about one million copies on average, and the serialization time of the works is basically more than ten years.

And the last three are not weak at all, they are all excellent newcomers with a good reputation, and the average sales of five or six hundred thousand volumes are still no problem.

All comics are main comics... This sentence is really not nonsense.

The lineup can also be said to be very luxurious.

It's no wonder that Shiniwazuki Publishing House is full of confidence, feeling that even if it doesn't poach Tsukasa Higashino, Toshima Press's "Kazuyo" will not be able to compete with them.

It is estimated that in their opinion, no matter how powerful Higashino Tsukasa is, can he still withstand the righteous group beating of such a number of authors?

After all, the serialized works on "Chiyo" are not only the number of works, but also the quality of the works.

Readers in the comment section below were of course surprised to see this luxurious lineup.

This author lineup is inevitably too terrifying.

Many people also said that they would definitely buy a copy at the time of publication, even if it was a souvenir.

After all, this is the first issue, and it is commemorative.

After reading some of the comments, Tsukasa Higashino closed the webpage and raised his eyebrows.

It's not easy...

If nothing else, this evaluation is quite polarizing.

The Toshima Publishing House mainly commented on his "Hanzawa Naoki" by Tsukasa Higashino, while "Chiyo" here has fans of various works, and the fan base is very wide.

This gap is indeed a bit big.

However, Higashino Tsukasa wasn't too worried.

He has confidence in the knife of "Naoki Hanzawa".

"Is the release date of both magazines on Friday...?"

Tsukasa Higashino groaned.

This is similar to the previous "Bad Cold"... Previously, "Bad Chill" was released on Friday at the earliest and Monday at the latest.

At this release time, it seems that both sides want to touch each other, and there is no feeling of wanting to hide at all.

"This Friday... That is, two days later..."

Tsukasa Higashino muttered to himself.

He briefly counted the time, and finally nodded, not paying any further attention.

And during the time when Tsukasa Higashino was 'observing the enemy', on the other side, the manga writers of the old Fuji Publishing House hosted a dinner.

It was only today that they saw the cover of the new issue of Toshima Publishing House, "Kazuyo".

In particular, the cover of Tsukasa Higashino's work alone suppressed all of them.

It's simply ...

So a group of writers who had previously drawn manga at Fuji Press gathered together and held a dinner party to express their thoughts on the magazine "Washi".

The topic of discussion among these former Fuji publishing house manga writers was simple, the main thing was that they felt that the editors of the Toshima publishing house were too partial to Tsukasa Higashino.

And Hojo Nagayasu is one of them, and he is the one who has been commented as 'The overall introduction of the manga work is not as big as the title of Tsukasa Higashino's "Naoki Hanzawa." 'The author of the cartoon.

This made him feel very uncomfortable, after all, he is also a human being, and as long as he is a human being, of course he has selfish intentions.

Although he knows that he has a gap with Tsukasa Higashino, he won't be treated like this, right?

So he came to this place to vent.

At this time, Hojo Nagayasu had finished talking with a few friends and authors, and as soon as he stood up, he saw a female figure holding a sketchbook, drawing while walking, and preparing to leave.

After seeing who the other party was, Hojo Nagayasu blinked his eyes and took the initiative to reach out and say hello: "Suzuki-sensei? What's wrong? Are you going to leave? ”

The female figure in front of her is Suzuki Yu, the pillar of the former Fuji Publishing House, who was dug up by Furuta Shinji to Fuji Publishing House, and now she can be regarded as a return.

At this moment, I heard Hojo Nagayasu say hello. Suzuki also looked away from the sketchbook and turned to look at Hojo Nariyasu, and it took a while for him to answer.

Hearing that Suzuki Yu really planned to leave, Hojo Nagayasu was also stunned.

Because as the pillar of the front desk, she is basically afraid of the existence of being held in the hands of Fuji Publishing House.,Now the introduction of her works is also squeezed aside by Tsukasa Higashino... Could it be that she doesn't have any ideas?

"I don't have any ideas."

Suzuki Yu seemed to understand Hojo Nagayasu's thoughts, and said calmly: "My strength is not as strong as Higashino-sensei, so I was brushed down, it's as simple as that." ”

"Uh... That being said..."

Hojo Nagayasu opened his mouth.

"Or does Hojo-sensei think his work can compare to Higashino-sensei's "Hanzawa Naoki"?"

Suzuki asked with a calm face.

"......" Hojo Nagayasu.

He still knows if he can compare to this, and Tsukasa Higashino estimates that he draws with his left hand, and the things he draws are better than him, right? After all, everyone in the industry knows that Higashino has the skill of fighting left and right.

Since it can't be compared, this result is a matter of course. There is nothing to be unwilling to. ”

Suzuki Yu's voice was not loud, but when he said it, it made the old authors of Fuji Publishing House, who were still complaining just now, slowly close their mouths.

Indeed...

You can't get a work that can beat Tsukasa Higashino, and you're going to be nagging here... It doesn't make much sense at all.

“... Does Mr. Suzuki think that Mr. Higashino can play the exaggerated combination of "Chiyo"? ”

Hojo Nagayasu couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

To be honest, he almost didn't get angry when he saw the lineup of comic book authors thrown out by Shiniwazuki Publishing House today.

Is this a head-to-head hit?

It's like a traditional Japanese RPG game, the brave vs. the demon king, and the demon king has four four heavenly kings who send experience behind them...

But this time it's obviously different.,The four heavenly kings who didn't send experience.,The opposite side is all demon kings.,How do you fight? Take the head to hit?

Faced with Hojo Nagayasu's question, Suzuki Yu just shook his head: "I think Higashino-sensei can." ”

Belch...

Hojo Nagayasu was a little speechless by this.

How confident should Suzuki be in Tsukasa Higashino?

Do you think Higashino Tsukasa is okay?

To use an inappropriate analogy, it's like your manga is competing with Naruto, Pirates... It's hard and hard.

The other comic book writers were also a little speechless, but they didn't know how to refute it.

After all, Suzuki Yu in front of them has the best results among them, and even if they want to refute, they don't have the confidence to refute.

And Suzuki Yu's eye for reading manga has always been top-notch.

She has predicted the outcome of the manga series many times, and there is basically nothing wrong with it.

Even Shinji Furuta praised her vision.

If even she said so... That's a bit of a pinnacle.

And Suzuki Yu saw that they were no longer talking, so he bowed slightly to Hojo Nagayasu and them, and left with the sketchbook in his hand.

Leaving behind only a group of manga authors from the old Fuji Press... Look at each other.

Even now, they don't understand why Suzuki is so confident.

Tsukasa Higashino, of course, on the other side, doesn't know what the author of the old Fuji Publishing House thinks.

But it is estimated that even if he knew, he would just smile and pass.

There's really nothing to worry about.

What he should focus on should be the current situation of "Heshi".

Can "Naoki Hanzawa" take off... This affected his path to building a webtoon platform to some extent...

That is, in a variety of opinions.

Fushima Publishing's "Kazuyo" and Shiniwazuki Publishing's "Chiyo" finally entered convenience stores and bookstores nationwide on Friday.

The general's war against a group of demon kings has also officially begun!