Hideki Hanyu has actually thought about the work to be serialized a long time ago, and that is the neon fantasy children's novel "Magical Snack Shop", which is a phenomenon in later generations.

"Magical Dim Sum Shop" is a Chinese translation, and the name of the book in Neon is "ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天", created by Reiko Hiroshima, the neon fantasy queen.

Compared with the early education picture books created by Hideki Hanyu before, "Magic Snack Shop" has a wider audience, and even adults are very interesting to read, and it is known as a children's version of the anxiety relief grocery store.

In his previous life, he bought this set of books for his little niece, but he also read it with relish.

This set of books revolves around a magical dim sum shop - "Money Heaven".

Only lucky children can find this shop, buy a magical snack from the owner Hongzi, fulfill their wishes, and solve their troubles.

Yodoyodo, the owner of another confectionery shop, "Bad Luck Hall", sells dim sum that specializes in bad things.

As a result, the owners of the two confectionery shops started a duel between good and evil because of their completely different concepts.

And the various magical snacks they sold also allowed the guests to start an incredible life of adventure.

Since the first volume of "Magical Dim Sum Shop" was published by Kai Chengshe in 2013, the total sales volume has exceeded 4 million copies as of 2019, and it has been on the neon children's literature sales list all year round.

And not only in Neon, but in all of Asia, the book is a phenomenon.

The famous "Harry Potter" series has been beaten by this fantasy children's novel in Asia, and it is powerless to resist.

However, due to the time of creation, some of the contents of the book are not in line with the current era, and he needs to make certain revisions.

Therefore, in the past few days, in addition to creating a new picture book, Hideki Hanyu is writing the first story in the first volume of "Magical Snack Shop", "Dream Gummy Candy is in Trouble".

Mayumi, who is afraid of swimming, stumbles upon a confectionery shop called "Money Heaven".

There, she bought a mermaid gummies, which made her feel like a fish in the pool, but her body quietly changed......

Mermaid gummy is the name of this story.

After the first story was completed, Eri Kitahara asked him to have something to do, and the next day he didn't go to the cloud to screen the film to track the later progress of the ice cream advertisement, but went to the Shogakukan building.

In the hospitality room on the second floor of the Shogakukan building, Muneyoshi Maeda carefully reads the manuscript handed in by Hideki Hanyu, and it is the story 'Mermaid Gummy' that has just been completed.

On the other hand, after signing a contract with Hideki Hanyu for the distribution of two new picture books, Eri Kitahara took a new contract and handed it over.

"This is an international distribution agency contract for Hanyu-san's picture books, let's see if there are any problems."

This time, Eri Kitahara asked Hideki Hanyu to come for this purpose.

Hideki Hanyu's picture books are selling well in neon, and in order to maximize profits, Shogakukan naturally wants to promote them to the international market.

After all, the picture book market in European and American countries is more mature, and the cultural barrier between picture book works is small, as long as the works are good enough, it is easy to sell well around the world.

Hanyu Hideki took it and looked at it, it was nothing more than that the Shogakukan was responsible for global promotion and distribution, and it was just a certain percentage of the profits.

I also asked some details about the international distribution, such as how to settle the bill, and I felt that there was no problem and stamped and signed.

Eiri Kitahara took the contract, "Regarding the translation of the translation, Hanyu-san wants to be involved?" ”

"I won't be involved in this aspect, I believe in the strength of the Elementary School Hall, just show me the finished product."

Hanyu Hideki thought to himself, after all, the Shogakukan is a neon veteran comprehensive publishing house, what can be the problem of translating a picture book.

Besides, he hasn't read the translations of those picture books, so he can't judge whether they are good or bad, so he might as well leave them to a professional.

"I know, I still have something to tell Hanyu-san, the first batch of 200 copies of Pokemon published at his own expense, a total of 600,000 yuan, has been transferred to the account of Cloud Culture."

"Two hundred, ......"

Although Hideki Hanyu is prepared, compared to his initial sales of thousands of copies of his picture books in a single week, this figure is really bleak.

"Sales are really average, and from the feedback from bookstores, buyers say that the problem with new works is that the readability is too poor." Eri Kitahara explained.

"Is that so?"

Hanyu Hideki had already expected it, after all, it was a copy of the anime textualization, and there were so many settings mixed in, so it was strange that the readability was good.

Seeing that Hideki Hanyu didn't care, Eri Kitahara couldn't say anything.

In fact, it is not enough to respond to readers' opinions from bookstores, and some critics in print and newspapers have already criticized Hideki Hanyu's failed transformation.

After all, he is a popular picture book writer, and when he caused such a big stir in the name of "idol writer", he was sought after by tens of thousands of people when it was a smooth sail, and after a slight setback, some people couldn't help but jump out.

Seeing that the award season in the cultural sector at the end of the year is coming, Shogakukan naturally doesn't want Hideki Hanyu, the ace of the lineage, to affect the harvest of the awards season because of bad reviews.

Therefore, public relations has begun to be carried out in an effort to minimize the impact of this failed transformation.

However, it is impossible to eliminate the impact by public relations alone, and the only one who can change public opinion is Hideki Hanyu, as long as he can come up with a successful transformation, then all bad comments will be self-defeating.

Thinking of this, Eri Kitahara looked at Maeda Muneyoshi on the side, that short story, the other party had been reading it for a long time, and he didn't know what the quality was.

"Smack!"

At this moment, Maeda Muneyoshi, who had been reading carefully, suddenly slapped the table in front of him.

"Maeda-san, what's wrong?"

Maeda Muneyoshi's slap scared Eri Kitahara.

After Eri Kitahara finished asking, he saw Maeda Muneyoshi pointing to the manuscript in his hand with an excited face, and said loudly, "This story by Hanyu-san is really excellent!" ”

"Maeda-san has won the prize."

Hanyu Hideki thought to himself, isn't it good, at a time when the grocery store has not yet been born, the story of this routine is still very new to today's readers.

"No awards! I mean the truth. Maeda Muneyoshi emphasized again.

"Maeda-san, please let me see."

Seeing that a story made Maeda Muneyoshi happy like this, Eri Kitahara took it curiously and read it.

Maeda Muneyoshi didn't care about Eiri Kitahara, and continued to ask Hideki Hanyu, "I see that Hanyu-san only brought one story, are you considering serialization?" ”

"That's right, this kind of small story is very trivial to create, serialized first, and then released as a single book when there are enough articles." Hideki Hanyu explains.

"In that case, I have a suggestion here, which is to ......" Maeda Muneyoshi looked embarrassed.

"Maeda-san, please tell me, this is not the first time we have worked together."

"Hanyu-san knows that our magazine business is not ideal compared to the publishing business, and recently the upper echelons have been planning to start a weekly magazine focusing on children's literature in order to open up the situation, and if Hanyu-san wants to, this novel will be used as the first work."

When Maeda said this, Hideki Hanyu immediately understood what the other party meant.

I want "Magic Dim Sum Shop" to be listed in the new weekly, and use his fame and the quality of his works to help the new weekly increase sales.

There are pros and cons to this incident for him, and the disadvantage is that he is tied to New Weekly, which is not successful, and his "Magical Dim Sum Shop" is not promoted.

The advantage is that since the Shogakukan is determined to start a new weekly, with the strength of the Shogaku, the publicity will definitely not be small, and once it succeeds, his "Magical Dim Sum Shop" will directly take off.

Considering the poor sales of Shogakukan's magazines that serialize "Magical Confectionery Shop", Hideki Hanyu felt that instead of choosing these magazines to be serialized, it would be better to go to the new weekly magazine.

Now it's no longer time for him to participate in the picture book competition, even if the new weekly magazine of Shogakukan fails, he has time to wait for "Magic Dim Sum Shop" to counterattack by word of mouth.

Thinking of this, he said to Maeda Muneyoshi, "I can agree to this matter, but can I know that the first time of the new weekly has been determined?" ”

When Maeda Muneyoshi heard that Hideki Hanyu agreed, he was immediately overjoyed.

He knows very well how good the story Hanyu Hideki created this time is, and it is a completely different level of work compared to the last Pokemon.

"It will take at least a week to promote the pre-production, and if it goes well, it will be released in early July."

"I am clear, please let me know in advance if you need my cooperation with the publicity."

"That's a great cooperation."

"It's a pleasure to work with."