Manga artist Tsukasa Nishio's apartment, where he is in a daze looking at the manga magazine that his assistant brought back.

Tsukasa Nishio is an extremely veteran manga artist, but his career has not been smooth.

When Tsukasa Nishio first debuted, G Company was still competing with A Company for the first place in the domestic manga market. And A is famous for girl's comics, so G has also set a strategy to cultivate a group of cartoonists who understand girls' feelings.

It was at that time that Tsukasa Nishio was selected to serve as one of the rookie manga artists of "Shoujo Project".

The so-called "shoujo project",Naturally, it's not for Tsukasa Nishio and others to draw shoujo manga.,After all, JUMK is still a magazine for shonen manga.。

The responsibility of Tsukasa Nishio and others is to strive to make their characters more delicate and delicate, more in line with women's aesthetics. At the same time, in addition to the upgraded elements of ordinary hot-blooded comics, their stories should also add a large number of elements that women like such as love and love.

JUMK was originally the birthplace of hot-blooded comics, and no one has ever contributed shoujo manga here, and the editorial department is also a bunch of big men, so the guidance that the editorial department can give to these new manga artists is actually very limited.

Then, a large number of rookie cartoonists who participated in the "Girl Project" hit the street perfectly, and the serials were cut in half.

Tsukasa Nishio was lucky to survive, and his work was selected as the representative work of the year by G Society, and he also made a movie.

This is one of the few shining moments in Nishio's career.

Unfortunately, in the second year, because of the bankruptcy of the "girl project", a high-level editor in the JUMK editorial department was dismissed.

The new editor-in-chief is a straight man who only admires hot-blooded tough guy style comics, and he completely looks down on those sissy manga drawn by Tsukasa Nishio, and often humiliates in editorial meetings, how can a sissy like Tsukasa Nishio still be serialized on JUMK?

If you were a little short-tempered, you might have jumped out of JUMK right away, but Tsukasa Nishio endured the humiliation and still maintained his style.

Serialized for seven or eight years, none of Tsukasa Nishio's works are big hits, but they have accumulated a group of loyal fans.

After so many years of tempering, Nishioji's original delicate painting style has added a sophisticated sophistication and appropriate gorgeousness. Combined with his high-level storyboarding and composition, it feels completely pleasing to the eye.

In fact, this style of painting is already a bit close to Araki Haku's style of painting, so Nishio Tsukasa was so surprised when he saw Araki Haku's new serial.

This is the perfect style of painting he pursues, a question that he has not been able to figure out for so many years, but when he saw Araki Haku's works, he suddenly realized.

"But he's very good at drawing!"

"Even if you draw well, you shouldn't be on the cover, isn't that unfair to other participants!"

The argument of the assistants brings Tsukasa Nishio back to reality.

He frowned and asked, "What are you arguing about?" ”

The assistant Hayato Nishikawa is a short-tempered man, he has dyed short red hair, and he wears an earring on his left ear, which looks like a bad young man, but his painting level is very good, and he also participated in this Yongchuan Prize.

After hearing Tsukasa Nishio's question, Nishikawa said indignantly: "We are discussing the newcomer named Abe Haku, why can he get a cover recommendation for the competition?" Even if it's the first decision, don't do it like this! What do the rest of us think? ”

The other assistant was much weaker than Hayato Nishikawa. Although he is a boy, he looks a bit like a girl. If you dress up, you may be able to overwhelm the crowd.

His name is Yuki Shiratori, and he is still only a high school student, and he came out to work as an assistant in order to earn some pocket money.

Shiratori Yugui persuaded: "Nishikawa-kun, you dissipate your anger, he is already on the cover, even if you are angry, it will be useless." ”

Nishikawa Hayabusa said: "If he doesn't go on the cover and beat me properly, I will definitely have nothing to say, but I will never forgive this kind of secret manipulation of the game!" ”

Tsukasa Nishio asked, "Do you think your work can beat him?" ”

Nishikawa hesitated for a moment and said, "His drawings are indeed impeccable, but the manga is not only about the drawing, but the content is the most important, and I believe that the content of my work is more interesting than his." ”

Nishio said: "Then what are you anxious about, although the ranking of the Yongchuan Award will be affected by the reader's survey, but the final decision is still made by the judging group, do you think that those cartoonists in the judging group will also be secretly manipulated by the editorial department?" ”

The jury of the Yongchuan Award has always been made up of well-known veteran cartoonists in China, and most of these cartoonists are not from G Society, so I'm afraid it's hard for anyone to really control such a competition.

Xichuan was still a little unbalanced, and said: "I'm just not happy that he is on the cover, and I'm not afraid that I will lose to him." ”

Nishio Tsukasa smiled slightly and said, "It's not that you are unhappy that he is on the cover, but you are jealous that he can be so respected by the editorial department, right?" ”

Nishikawa Hayato shouted, "How could I be jealous of him! ”

Nishio said, "There's no denying it, even I'm a little jealous of him." As soon as he started the short story, he won an honor that many formal cartoonists can't get, and you can see that the editorial department values him. Coupled with this perfect painting style, as long as the story is not too obscure, his future serialization road will inevitably be smooth, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes a super popular cartoonist like Mr. Longkong. ”

Nishikawa's eyes widened and he asked, "Is it really that exaggerated?" ”

Nishio smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't you see the deep meaning of the editorial department?" As far as I know, the end of "Children of Gods and Demons" has been set, that is, the 32nd issue in three weeks. ”

Nishikawa said: "Does the editorial department want this newcomer to replace Mr. Longkong?" ”

Nishio shook his head and said, "It's just my guess, but as soon as Mr. Ryukong leaves, someone must be able to replace him." None of the popular manga artists who are currently serialized on JUMK have the strength to succeed Mr. Ryukora. I think what the editorial department will do is either to ask Ichiro Hirata to return, or to promote a newcomer with enough strength to take the position. ”

Although Shiratori Yuki is not a person in the manga industry, he also knows that Ryukorun is the top god in the Japanese manga industry, and according to the meaning of Tsukasa Nishio, the person named Abe Haku is actually used to replace Mr. Ryukora? It's just incredible.

"Looks like there's going to be something big going on in the comics world." Shiratori Yuki muttered to himself.

Nishio Tsukasa smiled and said, "It's true, but the more times like this, the more we can't relax, and we have to work hard to do our own works well." ”

Shiratori nodded and said, "What Nishio-sensei said is, Nishikawa-kun, we have to come on!" ”

Xichuan pursed his lips dissatisfiedly and said, "I know it without you saying it." ”