Hong Kong Comic Master

"This guy is really cunning. He changed Dragon Ball into Dragon Ball Z, which turned one comic into two. Now all our previous efforts have been wasted!"

"Yeah, this Wansui, although young, is very resourceful!"

In the president's office of the Akita Building, Kabemura Naizo was very angry, but unfortunately no one helped him to vent his anger.

On the contrary, the president Akita Sadao, who was sitting opposite, seemed much calmer.

"President, what should we do next? Should we sue him in court?"

"Sue? How? The contract we signed at the beginning was only limited to the comic distribution rights of Dragon Ball in Japan. The characters did not belong to us. Now he even changed his name to Dragon Ball Z. Can we win the case?"

"That can't let him so easily..."

Kabemura Naizo was still indignant.

In fact, Kabemura Naizo was not a hot-tempered, reckless, or stupid person. He understood what Akita Sadao said.

The reason why he did this was, on the one hand, because he was indeed angry, but more importantly, he wanted to show his position to Akita Sadao.

Although it was Akita Sadao who made the decision to recruit Li Wannian, it was also promoted by Kabemura Naisan.

Although this decision did make "Weekly Shonen Champion" the largest comic magazine in Japan, it also made Li Wannian more powerful, and now he has the power to challenge Akita Bookstore.

In the final analysis, as a professional, being capable is useless, what's important is to know how to pass the buck!

People who don't know how to pass the buck, the more they do, the more mistakes they make!

"How much has the sales of our comics dropped so far?"

"Since the end of "Dragon Ball", the sales have fallen below 2 million, and the sales of the last issue have fallen below 1.5 million!"

"Is there any way to stop the decline?"

"In the short term, I'm afraid it will be very difficult!"

Akita Sadao asked one more question without giving up, and the answer he got was still so cruel.

All along, the rise of Weekly Shonen Champion has relied on big-name cartoonists, such as Osamu Tezuka and Li Wannian. In fact, the construction of its own cartoonist team is not good, far behind the other three.

Under such circumstances, with the departure of big-name cartoonists, Akita Bookstore has fallen into the dilemma of no successor.

Compared with the peak period of comic sales, the current sales of comics are half, and the downward trend seems to be far from the end.

"How many copies of the other party's magazine have been sold?"

As he said, Akita Sadao picked up the comic magazine on the table again.

"It is said that it exceeds 1 million. What is the specific number? I have not yet obtained specific information!"

Although Weekly Shonen Century spent a lot of money in preparation, relying on the relationship of Tezuka Makoto and the funds of Li Wannian, it is impossible for the publicity to be popularized in such a short time.

The sales volume can break through the 1 million mark, relying on the inherent fans of "Bleach" and "Dragon Ball".

However, nowadays, relying on these two works and "Naruto", the fan base of this magazine is absolutely sufficient.

It only takes time to catch up with "Weekly Shonen Champion"!

"This Wansui is really amazing! One person serializes three comics at the same time, and each one is a classic and good comic!"

"In addition to him, there are many people worth paying attention to!"

Kabemura Naizo reminded again.

In addition to Li Wannian's works, "Weekly Shonen Century" also has Qiu Fulong's new work "Street Fighter", Zheng Wen's new work "Abi Sword" and so on.

"Street Fighter" is self-explanatory, but Qiu Fulong still localized the story, changing from Long who learns karate to Long who learns Hong Quan.

Of course, some special features of Japan have been retained, such as: sumo wrestler Honda, karate Dan, etc.

As for Zheng Wen's "Abi Sword", it belongs to the ink-and-wash martial arts comics.

The story mainly tells about the protagonist He Wusheng, who bears the fate of an illegitimate child, and witnessed his biological father Yu Jing being killed by Shi Feihong who practiced the "Avici Sword Technique"; He Wusheng failed to avenge his father's murder, but was harmed by the sword technique, and had to suffer the pain of blood and qi reversal every day.

Later, a fire made He Wusheng meet the ninth messenger of Avici who was reborn from the fire, and began to experience the martial arts grievances representing greed, stupidity, ignorance, and anger, and witnessed the profound truth that "Avici (Hell)" is "the world".

This comic, which was supposed to be born in 1989, was drawn by Zheng Wen five years in advance.

Of course, this was also thanks to his learning from Li Wannian and being inspired.

However, Akita Sadao didn't care about these two Hong Kong Islanders. What he noticed was another familiar name.

"Are you talking about Hojoji?"

"Yes, this guy actually serialized a comic in Century without our knowledge!"

As agreed with Li Wannian before, Hojoji submitted a short comic, "Sunshine Girl", after Li Wannian's magazine was published. It is expected to have only 20 chapters.

The comic mainly tells the story of the protagonist, the tree elf Nishikujo Sara, and her friend Tatsuya, accompanied by her emotional stories with various plants and friends.

The story is gradually developed with Sara solving problems between friends through trees, which is full of the warmth and innocence of friendship and touching. The whole plot comes from simple daily life.

It can be seen that the current focus of Hojo Temple's work is still on "Cat's Eyes", and this comic "Sunshine Girl" is more like a practice.

But in the eyes of Kabemura Naizo, this is undoubtedly a betrayal.

"Forget it, Hojo Temple is currently the top cartoonist of our magazine, and he has been Wansui's assistant. Let's turn a blind eye!"

Akita Sadao was immediately discouraged when he thought of the relationship between Hojo Temple and Li Wannian.

"Hey, if we also have Shueisha's exclusive contract system for newcomers!"

"What's wrong? Kabemura, didn't you look down on this system the most before? Why did it change today?"

"Sorry, maybe I feel too much pressure!"

Kabemura Naizo smiled bitterly.

Who would have thought that the seemingly prosperous "Weekly Shonen Champion" was so dependent on a foreigner. When Li Wannian left, he found that the magazine he was in had no confidence to be the first in Japan.

Upon hearing this, Akita Sadao's face immediately changed, and he couldn't help but frown and asked: "Kabemura, do you think I did something wrong?"

"President, why do you say that?"

"If I hadn't rejected his proposal and retained a small amount of shares, our magazine would still be the number one in Japan!"

"This..."

Now, Kabemura Naozo really didn't dare to respond.

After all, for him as the editor-in-chief, the ownership of the publishing house has nothing to do with him. Who is the owner of the publishing house has little to do with him, but the sales of the magazine is.

Therefore, his opinion is obviously self-evident!