Chapter Seventy-Five: Sweeping the Leaderboard

The next day, Hideki Hanyu, who was temporarily resting in Yokohama, waited for a recording assistant sent by the Elementary School Building.

By the way, there are two more issuance contracts that he needs to sign.

The first is the contract for the reprinting of "Magical Dim Sum Shop", which has the same number of 150,000 copies as the first printing, proving that even under the influence of the serialization of "Love, Go Home", Shogakukan still has confidence in the subsequent sales of "Magical Dim Sum Shop".

After all, after a full sales week, the actual sales of "Magical Snack Shop 1: Dream Gummy Candy" have officially exceeded 70,000 copies!

In this era, the neon public trust list has not yet begun to count book sales, and only some newspapers and weekly media have engaged in some inaccurate book rankings.

It is on these inaccurate rankings that "Magical Dim Sum Shop 1: Dream Gummy Candy is in Trouble" has a sweeping trend, and all of them are airborne, and there is no opponent who can fight at all.

Hanyu Hideki can sing a song at this time, how lonely it is to be invincible.

Such a strong sales explosion, although it is because of the subsequent impact of the serialization, is enough to prove the excellence of the book.

As for the second issuance contract, it is not surprising that it is the distribution contract of "Love, Home".

Maeda Muneyoshi of the editorial department specially called Hideki Hanyu to inform him that the serialization of "Love, Homecoming" would be shortened to five issues, which means that there are still three issues left to usher in the end.

And the release date written on the release contract of "Love, Home" is just after the end of the serialization.

The number of first prints is even higher than "Magical Dim Sum Shop 1: Dream Gummy Candy is in Trouble", a full 200,000 copies.

Sure enough, what they could think of, the sales department of the primary school hall also thought of, was to use the tear-jerking plot of the last issue to impact the sales of "Love, Go Home".

It's a pity that the price is much lower than "Magical Snack Shop 1: Dream Candy Gets into Trouble", which is only 890 yen.

But even so, after the two contracts were signed, he received more than 51 million yen in royalties.

In less than a month, the two novels have brought him more than 76 million yen, and he is about to catch up with all the income of seven picture books.

Compared with picture books with a narrower audience, the strength of traditional reading materials in sales is vividly reflected in these two books.

Of course, it is limited to the territory of Neon.

In the mature book markets of Europe and the United States, it is difficult for his two novels, which are full of East Asian thinking, to sell sales.

On the contrary, picture books with smaller cultural barriers are more likely to sell better.

According to the news I got from Eri Kitahara, he has already launched three picture books in the European and American markets, and the sales are not bad for the time being.

However, in some areas, it is an agent sales to get a share, some are direct sales of the primary school hall, and some areas are a one-time buyout, so it is more troublesome to calculate the income, and it is estimated that the first money will not be seen until the end of the year.

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After a short day break in Yokohama City, Hideki Hanyu and the staff of Shogakukan rushed to Nagoya City, the next stop of the book signing.

Here, too, he was greeted with great enthusiasm, and on the day of the book signing, there was a long queue outside the bookstore, and the number of book lovers on site far exceeded the number of reservations.

After the signing began, it was natural that a variety of readers were indispensable.

However, as Eri Kitahara expected, as the second story of "Love, Homecoming" began to be serialized, the impact of the bear child was greater, and Hideki Hanyu encountered more and more questions.

In the past, there were a few people at a book signing, but now almost every seven or eight people, there will be a person holding a weekly magazine and asking Hanyu Hideki why he wrote such a story, which makes everyone very unhappy to read it.

Hanyu Hideki, who faced these readers, felt that they felt like he was reading an online novel at some point in his previous life and saw a book of abuse of the main text, and his mood of wanting to hand over the blade was particularly strong.

It's just that at this time, the author who was going to be sent the blade was replaced by himself, which felt uncomfortable.

But in order not to spoil it, he can't reveal the follow-up plot to the readers, so he can only apologize, hoping that the readers can read it patiently.

When the second signing party in Nagoya City began, the number of questions rose again, and even children expressed their dissatisfaction, saying that they would not hate their grandmother.

Hanyu Hideki is also painful and happy, because of the bear child's annoyance, although the book lover's question makes him very helpless.

But at the same time, it also proves that his novel has indeed received a lot of attention, otherwise there would not be so many people running to question it.

In fact, the sales of the second part of "Children's Literature and Art" serialized in the Shogakukan have successfully exceeded 500,000 copies.

This is also the first time that the sales of Hideki Hanyu's "Magical Snack Shop" have returned to more than 500,000 after the sales of "Children's Literature" plummeted.

"Hanyu-san, congratulations to the sales of the first floor of the magical confectionery shop for exceeding 100,000 copies."

In Nagoya City, in the hotel where Hideki Hanyu is located, Eri Kitahara congratulates Hideki Hanyu.

As soon as they returned to the hotel after the second signing session in Nagoya, there was good news from the Shogakukan.

"Magical Dim Sum Shop 1: Dream Gummy Candy is in Trouble" successfully sold 100,000 copies after counting sales this afternoon.

Deeply influenced by "Love, Go Home", it is no wonder that some peers will look at Hanyu Hideki unpleasantly.

Other writers can sell 20,000 copies in a week, which is enough to have a party to celebrate, and he is good, selling 100,000 copies in less than two weeks.

Although it was affected by the follow-up of the serialized word-of-mouth, if it was not blessed by excellent appearance, Hanyu Hideki himself didn't believe it.

Looking at it this way, it is not unreasonable for some people to say that he sells books on his face.

"Hanyu-sensei, if I had received this news earlier, I would have opened a bottle of red wine to celebrate just now."

The one who spoke was a new transcription assistant named Jiro Komatsu, a typical neon male white-collar worker who worked hard and had a good drink after work.

"When the signing session is over, I'll ask Komatsu-san to have a drink when I go back to Tokyo, but before that, let's help Hanyu-san finish his creation."

Eiri Kitahara emphasized.

Although Eri Kitahara is younger than Jiro Komatsu, because of the thick leg of Hanyu Hideki, his status in the Shogakukan has grown rapidly in the past six months.

Although he has only been working for two years, he will be promoted to the director level by the end of the year.

In the neon enterprise of the merit system, the director is not a management position, but a level higher than the average employee, and the salary and status will be appropriately promoted, and it is generally five to ten years of work before being promoted.

Therefore, in the face of Eri Kitahara, Jiro Komatsu was still more respectful, and hurriedly replied when he heard the words.

"Yes, I'll try to help Hanyu-san finish his work."