Chapter Seventy-Four: Serious Problem?
After leaving Sapporo, the next stop at the book signing was Yokohama City.
Yokohama is one of the three major neon metropolitan areas, but in terms of city size, it is the largest city on a par with Nagoya, after Tokyo and Osaka.
It's just that it's too close to Tokyo and depends on Tokyo economically, so it's overshadowed by Tokyo.
Therefore, in terms of fame, it is not as good as the three major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya.
The signing cities arranged by Shogakukan for Hideki Hanyu are all the most developed areas of the neon economy, and the purpose is to better stimulate sales.
The two book signings in Yokohama City were no surprise, and Hideki Hanyu was still so popular, but there were more fans who came to him with "Children's Literature and Art" for questioning.
The reason for this is that, in addition to the story that began to spread, the Shogakukan used all kinds of means to increase the sales of "Children's Literature and Art" is also an important reason.
"Love, Go Home" began to be serialized under the name of his new work again, which did attract many readers, but soon the annoying bear child caused readers to collectively resent it.
The Elementary School Museum is deeply aware of the truth that black and red are also red, and immediately grasp the bear child to hype, so that readers are buying and hating at the same time, and hating while buying.
The sales of "Children's Literature and Art", which had almost fallen below 300,000 before, soared to more than 500,000 under such a new way of publicity.
It's just that the Shogakukan is happy, but Hideki Hanyu, who is at the signing party, suffers and directly faces the fire of many readers.
This can't be blamed on readers, they all bought "Children's Literature" under the name of Hanyu Hideki, thinking that they could see a book with the same story as "Magical Snack Shop", but who wants to encounter the psychological impact of bear children.
"Hanyu-san, tomorrow a new issue of children's literature and art will be released."
After the second signing in Yokohama, Eri Kitahara reminded Hideki Hanyu.
At this time, they were having dinner at a sukiyabe restaurant, and Hideki Hanyu was served by Eri Kitahara for the entire time, and all he had to do was hold a clip in his left hand and put the egg wash in his mouth.
It's not that he's playing a big name, it's all because after six signings in three cities in a row, his right hand really needs to rest.
He was concentrating on eating, and when he heard Eri Kitahara say this, he didn't react for a while, "What? ”
Seeing this, Eiri Kitahara reminded again, "Tomorrow is the release time for children's literature." ”
In the past few days, Eri Kitahara has been following Hideki Hanyu, and of course I have seen readers who have come to question Hideki Hanyu with "Children's Literature and Art".
And she has also read the original manuscript of "Love, Come Home", and knows that the behavior of Masao in the second story will only make readers more annoying.
Tomorrow "Children's Literature and Art" will be released, and the day after tomorrow they will go to Nagoya to hold a book signing, and after a day of fermentation and dissemination, there is no need to know that there will only be more readers who will come to Hanyu Hideki to question.
At this time, Hideki Hanyu finally realized the seriousness of the problem and showed a look of annoyance.
"If I knew it would be like this, I shouldn't have agreed to serialize."
"I guess the management of the headquarters didn't expect that if this situation continues, it will affect the sales of the magic dim sum shop."
Eri Kitahara also has a headache, the world is unpredictable, and no one thought that the bear child would make everyone so annoying.
"It's really not good, I suggest that the weekly magazine increase the length of the serialization and advance the story to the back as soon as possible." Hideki Hanyu said an idea.
"The original plan was to finish the serialization of six issues, even if it is compressed, it will be reduced by two issues at most, how can it be until the last issue when Zhengnan changes, and at that time your signing session will be completed."
Eri Kitahara sighed after speaking, what they could both see, how could the upper echelons of the Shogakukan not see it.
It is estimated that the Tokyo headquarters has already begun to reduce the serialization cycle, and although it cannot be completed before the end of the book signing, it cannot continue to drag on, and the impact on the release of "Magical Snack Shop" must be minimized.
"It seems that I'm going to prepare the story of the second volume of the magic dim sum shop as soon as possible, and when the serialization of Love Comes Home is over, I will start serialization immediately."
Originally, he also thought that when the sales of the first layer of "Magical Dim Sum Shop" declined, he would start serializing the story of the second volume, which would somewhat stimulate the sales of the next single book.
But who would have thought that the single book he was releasing was pitted by his own serialized works, and it was inexplicably a little ridiculous.
But it's already happened, and it's not going to work without serializing it in advance.
"I don't think there's any need to serialize it in advance." Eri Kitahara gave a different advice.
"Why?" Hideki Hanyu asked.
"Because Hanyu-san's love for homecoming is not a nasty story, and today's readers are like springs, and the tighter they are pressed by the hate, the more violent they will be when they are released and moved."
"What Kitahara-san means is that the sales of a single book of the short-term magical confectionery shop may be affected by the love of homecoming, but it will get better when the word of mouth reverses." Hideki Hanyu quickly understood what Eri Kitahara meant.
"It's not just going to get better, but under the effect of compensating psychology, I feel like a spring will usher in a wave of rebound."
"It seems that the full version of Love Home is also going to prepare a release plan, and I think Love Home will bounce back more than the magic snack shop."
Things have developed to this point, in fact, it doesn't matter whether "Magic Dim Sum Shop" can rebound, a good reputation will always allow it to get the sales it deserves, but it will drag on for a longer time.
But now the reader's emotion of being suppressed by the bear child is the best opportunity for the release of "Love, Go Home".
"In this case, I don't have to write the second volume of the magical dim sum shop in a hurry, and I just can't overuse my right hand recently."
When Hideki Hanyu felt that he didn't need to use code words, and his heart was relaxed for a while, Eri Kitahara spoke.
"Since the inspiration is here, Hanyu-san should not waste it, the manuscript should still be delivered, and the right hand can't be used, I asked the headquarters to send an assistant over, and you can dictate it and let him record it."
"Doesn't Kitahara-san feel that his enthusiasm in urging the draft is a little excessive? Let's understand my recent hard work, okay? ”
"It's just for Hanyu-san to dictate, you can choose to lie in bed and create, it won't tire you."
"Kitahara-san, is this not even my time to sleep?"
"I didn't say that." Eri Kitahara pouted.
"But Kitahara-san obviously did this!"
"If you know it, why say it."
"Hey! Doesn't the Shogakukan's oppression of writers need to be concealed? ”
"Are writers who make it to the best-selling charts also considered to be squeezed?"
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Not surprisingly, the two entered the familiar bickering session again.