"Neon Literature の Disaster"

"Recently, I heard the news from a friend that the second book of a rising star in the literary world has reached 1 million copies in the first printing alone. You must know that one of my most popular books has only sold more than 600,000 copies. So after hearing the news, I was shocked and really had mixed feelings, and I just felt that I really didn't have any talent on the road of literature.

Fortunately, although I am not very talented, I am still good at learning, so I immediately asked my friend who the gentleman was, and asked if I had a chance to get a sneak peek. Then I was surprised to hear a name [Kyosuke Hojo] from my friend, and I couldn't think about it for a long time. As we all know, the literary world is an inclusive and close-knit circle, and everyone will share it when they meet talented young people, as if they have discovered treasures.

After all, if you want to revitalize the declining literary world, you can't do without a new force, so you and I are happy to help newcomers in any way we can. For example, Shoji Arakawa was the one I invited to practice writing in my column, and after that, he wrote the masterpieces that everyone knows.

But this Hojo-kun, I can't find this name in my memory, it's really ......"

Seeing this, Hachiman couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Ahhh Your dead fish eyes are whiter! Now it's a dead fish's eye! Komachi exclaimed.

Encouraged by his sister, Biqi Gu rolled his eyeballs upwards more and more hard, until his eyeballs hurt a little and then returned to the normal mode of dead fish eyes, and then looked at his sister proudly.

"How?"

"It's great, although Komachi doesn't know what to be proud of when he rolls his eyes, but Ernie-chan's love for Komachi has a high score here in Komachi!"

Hikiya Komachi applauded, his expression very vivid.

The corners of Hachiman's mouth smirked again, and he looked at the newspaper.

This old man, if you really haven't heard the name of the eldest brother, I will directly twist my head and give you a "blast shot"! The eldest brother's "The Devotion of Suspect X" sold so well, and it also won the main house award, even if ordinary people are counted, how can a person related to the literary world not have heard of this name?

The old guy is clearly trampling Minister Hojo!

Bikiya held back his anger and continued to watch, he knew that this was the appetizer, after all, the sensational title had not yet been officially revealed.

“…… But there are so many geniuses in the world, and there will always be pearls left behind, so I asked my friend what this Hojo-sama was, and my friend only told me to go to the bookstore and find out.

So I went to a bookstore I knew, and sure enough, I knew it at a glance. "The Dream and Death of Writer K", three posters of this work are posted at the door of the bookstore. It's amazing, I've only seen this kind of pomp and circumstance in Kabukicho, and the cowherds use this kind of trick when competing for guests, but this is the first time I've seen it in publicity.

When I walked into the bookstore, I was shocked again when I wanted to ask my boss about the book. Forgive me for making such continuous exclamations, but this Hojo-sensei's work is so popular. The bookstore counter was full of people, and I took a cursory view of the fact that it was all customers who had ordered this book "The Dream and Death of Writer K", which I thought could not be compared to the pomp and circumstance of several famous writers in modern times.

I wanted to wait until the customers were gone before I came up to talk to the manager, but I was shocked that my legs were numb and the number of customers in line did not decrease in the slightest......"

Hahaha

Seeing this, Bi Qigu couldn't help laughing, although this old man didn't have a good word in his mouth, and every word hid a bad heart, but it still made him happy. At that moment, he hurriedly took out his mobile phone and took a photo and sent it to the chat room of the rampaging angel, so that everyone could enjoy it elegantly and vulgarly.

Komachi, who had already walked to the kitchen and put on a yellow apron, looked over, and when he saw his brother's energetic appearance, he also narrowed his eyes and smiled. Then he turned on the gas stove and began to prepare the dinner of the brother and sister.

“…… I was so curious about the appeal of this work that would attract so many customers, so I was very offended and asked the store manager to ask the staff to register and give me a few minutes to talk.

Why is it so popular?

In response to my question, the store manager pointed to the advertising sign next to the cash register, and then pointed to the poster on the glass of the store's door, and said, "Looking at such a beautiful poster, don't you be curious about the work?" A lot of customers come in and ask me about the book after seeing the poster and write down their reservations. ’

It's shocking, forgive me for being too old-fashioned, but it's a bit of a surprise to me as a traditional writer of literature to attract customers just because the posters are beautiful. Before I could continue to ask, one of the customers in line to register for the reservation generously joined us in the conversation, it was a teenage girl wearing a school uniform, who seemed to have arrived in a hurry after school, and her words also solved my question:

Even the posters are so beautifully made, how can the quality itself be poor? Just from the poster, you can feel the sincerity of Hojo-sensei! ’

The quality and sincerity of the author, as can be seen in the poster? I had never heard such a novel statement in many years of work, so I continued to talk to this girl curiously to find out more about her. Soon, my worldview was turned upside down.

This Hojo-sensei not only drew a number of beautiful posters for him, but even created a special short manga. I know that in some niche circles, there is often a practice of adapting a manga, but I am really unheard of to create a manga for the sake of publicity.

The high school lady generously answered my questions, and it turned out that this Hojo-sensei was first and foremost a manga artist and a well-known author in the manga industry before he created it.

Everything suddenly became clear, and it turned out to bring the propaganda method of the entertainment industry to the literary world. ”

Seeing this, Biqigu knew that it was time for the poor dagger to see it, and he said so much nonsense before just for the current attack. He took the time to glance at his mobile phone, and the messages were dense, and it should be his companions who were scolding.

“…… I wanted to read and study this Hojo-sensei's masterpiece so that I could create such a popular work in the future, but now it seems hopeless.

After all, I can't do anything to attract attention with beautiful posters and promotional cartoons.

From the time I embarked on the path of literary creation, my teacher told me that although creation is a very personal thing, after the birth of the work, it does not belong to oneself but to the world, so as a writer, we should be cautious. What kind of ideas the work wants to express is the most important thing, and if you can't become such a writer, you should at least be able to write a good story.

A real writer should rely on the core idea of the work to make people empathize with and attract people with an excellent and interesting plot, which is the most important thing.

But today! I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. Hojo for showing me another path, a path that does not require good ideas and good stories to make my work a hit.

All you need is a few artists with a high salary, draw a few eye-catching beautiful posters, and then invite a cartoonist to draw a short story, Qiang Qiang, a best-selling masterpiece with a first printing of one million copies!

Truth be told, when this thought came to my head, I was so frightened that I broke out in a cold sweat, which is not an exaggeration, and the store manager who was standing next to me at the time can testify. He eagerly asked me if I was unwell, and I told him I was fine, but there was probably something wrong with the neon literary world.

The success of this Hojo teacher will probably set off a trend, but what kind of trend? The cold wind that scrapes the bones and flesh!

Writers who carefully observe society and figure out the core of the story and want to write good works will be frozen into ice sculptures by the bitter cold wind, and those who are attracted by Hojo-sensei's success will follow in his footsteps and trick readers into the bookstore and out of their wallets with beautiful posters and dazzling propaganda.

Content? Thought? Tale? Presumably, as long as they can make money, they will not care about these things, they don't care whether the things they create are beneficial to this society, they only care about whether the royalties can add a zero to love.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm worried!

As a writer who holds a whip in his hand and is entrusted with important responsibilities by society and the country, if even we are infected by the exaggerated social atmosphere, then will this country, this society, still have a future?

As I write this, my seventeen-year-old granddaughter walks up to my desk. I thought she was here to persuade me not to publish this article, after all, Hojo-sensei is in the limelight now, and the Internet is almost full of believers who follow his crazy behavior, and I must be unpopular if I swim against the current.

But I didn't expect that my granddaughter, who has always been well-behaved and lovely, actually said to me, 'Why do you speak ill of my Hojo teacher!' Do you know how hard he works and how good he is to his fans!? The posters and comics were all drawn by him, and we would have supported him if he could have done this, but he worked hard to improve his studies and created so many benefits for his fans, why do you say that he ......

God, I was prepared for an insult after the article was published, but I never expected to be scolded by the people closest to me before the article was written. What shocked me even more was that my granddaughter also gave me a death notice on behalf of Hojo-sensei at the end, she said:

"Don't look at Hojo-sensei's handsome and think he's a bully, he's the individual champion of two consecutive national kendo competitions, I'm worried that he will cut off your head with a knife."

My granddaughter, a well-behaved granddaughter who always brings me hot tea and whispers to me to rest early and pay attention to my body whenever I write late at night, when did she become like this?

Oh my God, I have already seen the future of neon literature being destroyed by Hojo-sensei, but I didn't expect that it was my family that was destroyed first? ”

This is the end of the article, and behind the bloody words, Biqigu seems to see an old man with a bitter face.

"Hahahahaha

Laughter came from Bi Qigu's mouth, he finally knew why this old man was able to become a contract writer for "Production News", and his writing was really good. Even if the content is disgusting, the readability of the article is really good, and even a person like him, who is so angry that he wants to cut off the other party's dog head after reading it, can read it with relish.

But laughing aside, Biqigu still realized the evil of this article for the first time.

There is no doubt about the sales of the new book of the total grown-up, and no one can overshadow his brilliance even if he goes forward and backward for twenty years, and the first printing alone is a million copies, and the royalties are the envy of all writers. But in this article titled "Neon Literature の Disaster", this person named Matsumoto Motohiro attributes all of Hojo-kun's achievements to the propaganda of crooked ways.

even predicted that Minister Hojo's new work would get better and better, and this one was even more vicious. is an earthling, and when he sees such exaggerated popularity on the Internet, he knows that the sales of Big Brother's work will explode more and more, but as soon as this article by Matsumoto Motohiro comes out, no matter how good Big Brother's results are after that, it will be questioned that it is due to propaganda deception rather than the quality of the work itself.

is worthy of being an evil writer for an evil newspaper, it's really dark.

Biqigu is a little worried, not worried about whether this article will affect the sales performance. Most of the pocket money is used to buy games every month, and he knows that even if it is dung, as long as there is enough discussion, someone will buy it. Under the banner of "a book that can destroy the world of neon literature", curious people will also flock to bookstores.

What he worries about is whether this will affect the chief grown-up to hit the Neon Reasoning Association Award.

The light of genius can't be hidden, even if he has a pair of dead fish eyes with no light every day, and collapses in the department like a dead fish after training every day, but his brilliance is still discovered than Kiya Hachiman.

"Dead fish-eyed people are not simple."

The military advisor said this, and included him in the think tank of the Rampage Angels. Although the sequence is still very low, and it is not his turn to play in a new book propaganda and public opinion war like this, he still knows about the fact that the chief is attacking the Neon Reasoning Association Award, and he also knows how much effort the military advisor and other companions have put in, including the current "Writer K's Dream and Death".

Originally, I wanted to use this work to set off public opinion and force the judges, but now with Matsumoto Motohiro's article, it seems that the original grand prize has changed again.

With the crooked ways of the evil sect, the work can be sold well, and with the crooked ways, you can also get the award of the Reasoning Association.

Through this review, such public opinion can be easily derived.

Now, even if he chops off the head of Xiao Hei (the dog of the judge Kurokawa Toyoya's family) and puts it next to the judge's pillow, he may have to think about it again, right?

He is not surprised why "Sanji News" would agree to publish such an article, such a large amount of traffic, not only the drooling of those stars in the entertainment industry, but also the newspapers. This kind of scolding war between literati and writers in the newspapers is the favorite of the masses. Biqigu is sure that the sales of "Production News" will increase significantly today!

Thank you for the monthly passes, recommended tickets and tips for your support, thank you.

(End of chapter)