Unlike the script contest voted by readers on the monthly magazine SD, the Red Dragon Award on Weekly Fantasy is a competition in which 16 works are selected by 4 well-known cartoonists after a round of screening, and the final award ranking is divided according to the score.

The scoring criteria are divided into six categories: artwork, narrative structure, storyline, expressiveness, character charisma and originality. The maximum score is 5 points, and the minimum score is 1 point. Among the 16 films, 5 were selected as the champion, runner-up and third runner-up, as well as two outstanding work awards.

It was Wednesday in the last week of August, and there were still five days left before Liang Yu started school next month.

Editorial Department of the weekly Shonen Fantasy magazine.

The four cartoonists who were invited today are all famous artists who have drawn excellent works on Fantasy, and the editorial department asked these well-known cartoonists to select the Red Dragon Award There is a hard requirement, that is, there are authors of popular works that have been serialized for more than a year, they are Mr. Kazuki who painted "Kenshin Roguer", Mr. Katsura who likes hero manga but is known for drawing delicate beautiful girls, Mr. Araki who is serializing "Jojo's Wonderful Adventure", and Mr. Toriyama, who took a break for half a year after finishing "Dragon Pig".

Among these four popular manga artists, except for the last Toriyama-sensei, the other three have all been serialized in Fantasy magazines, and it can be said that the judges invited for this Red Dragon Award Contest are all heavyweight.

Several teachers arrived at the editorial room on time according to the agreed time, they naturally knew each other, the same magazine has been serializing comics for so long, and they have more or less some friendship with each other, especially Mr. Katsura and Mr. Toriyama, who have always teased each other as hillbilly friends.

A few words of greeting at the door of the editorial department, everyone followed the conference room together, the main programming Qihua was not there today, and the two deputy editors-in-chief were responsible for receiving and presiding over the selection of the Red Dragon Award.

The atmosphere of the meeting was relatively relaxed, and several cartoonists were usually busy with their own work and life, so it was rare to have the opportunity to get together, and they had been chatting all the time, although they were in the same place, but there was no tension among the editors at all.

"Mr. Toriyama, I've been resting too much lately, I haven't seen your movement for more than half a year, what kind of masterpiece are you brewing, let's get to the bottom of it?"

"Hey, there's nothing wrong with the eight characters, if I really want to be like you said, the new editor won't rush me every now and then - Toriyama-sensei, how are your new serialization preparations?"

"Hahahaha, this guy is starting too high, I'm afraid that the new serial won't meet the readers' expectations, and I don't dare to open it, according to me, you can change the cosmic plane and continue to draw dragons and pigs." Teacher Gui teased.

Kazuki is the least senior of the four, and he naturally speaks with respect: "Toriyama-sensei will definitely be able to create a masterpiece that satisfies readers." ”

"How......"

"Then you have to hurry up, otherwise this Fantasy will be crowded with no place, and the newcomer is fierce." Mr. Araki said half-jokingly, half-emotionally.

Although Mr. Araki's "Jojo" has a wide audience, it is easy to sell as a single book, "Jojo" itself is not ranked high in the magazine, Mr. Gui's "I''s" is barely maintaining a first-line work after a period of prosperity at the beginning, and now it is barely maintaining a first-line work, the most popular of the four should belong to Mr. Kazuki, but his popularity can be said to be the result of the support of the editorial department at the end of "Dragon Pig", and it can be said that he is also one of the fierce newcomers in Mr. Araki's mouth.

As for the other one, needless to say, it must be Gu Chengfeng, who is now in the limelight.

As soon as these words came out, the people around them didn't know how to answer, because they all thought of Mr. Che Tian, who left not long ago, and was squeezed out of place by the newcomer, but it was not something that could be laughed at when they heard it.

The irony is that these veteran cartoonists are now reviewing new works for the Red Dragon Award, which is to choose their opponents to defeat them in the future, but this matter cannot be false and wronged, after all, cartoonists have the reserve and glory of cartoonists, and the reason why comics can prosper and develop is through such generations of support and hard work.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, the two accompanying deputy editors-in-chief hurriedly spoke up: "Several teachers are old and strong, and Teacher Heyue is also popular, how can you say such a thing, it is still far from a newcomer to challenge you." ”

"That would be very troublesome," Mr. Gui said, "After all, comics require generations of hard work, and we can't fault the line here, I think it should be nice to have a great newcomer appear." ”

"That's right." Toriyama teacher also said.

"The strength of the newcomers in this issue is not bad." Mr. Araki slipped away for a while, and this will quickly change the topic, otherwise it will not be good to have a reputation for suppressing newcomers in the future, he took a copy of the original work of the selection and commented: "In the end, it is the selection of the Red Dragon Award, both the composition and the plot are excellent, especially the details of the characters are enough to show the intentions." ”

Every cartoonist has different preferences, drawing habits and things he is good at, such as Mr. Araki, he is very good at drawing the costumes of the characters, each character looks full of style, like a model walking down the catwalk, because of this characteristic, Mr. Araki's focus will be on the composition of the characters a little more, if the author's characters are shoddy, no personality, he will give a score that is not high, and on the contrary, if some details are done cleverly, it will attract praise from the teacher.

As for the other teachers, they are also good at their own skills, so I won't give examples here.

"Indeed," Mr. Heyue also said, he is also a protégé of the Red Dragon Award, but he only won the Outstanding Work Award that year, which shows that the competition for this award is fierce: "Because of the limited number of pages in short stories, it is not easy to tell the story in a limited space, but the Red Dragon Award competition also requires the characteristics of each author to be brought into play. ”

Although this was a bit biased, the truth made sense, and several teachers around nodded one after another.

Only Mr. Toriyama stared at a draft of the original work for a long time, and did not join in the discussion.

Tong Cheng, the deputy editor-in-chief, saw this and asked, "Mr. Toriyama, is there anything about the newcomer that you care about?" ”

When Mr. Toriyama heard this, he raised his head from the sketch, pushed the sketch to the middle of the conference table, and said, "Let's take a look at this draft, I feel like another great guy has appeared!" ”