Hong Kong Comic Master

The famous Century magazine is located in an inconspicuous commercial street in Fujimidai, Nerima District, less than 300 meters away from Mushi Production Animation Company.

As the sales of Century magazine reached the top, it brought a lot of funds to the magazine. Under this circumstance, Tezuka Shin acquired part of the shares of Mushi Production Animation with the consent of Li Wannian.

This animation company, which once went bankrupt in the hands of Tezuka Osamu, has now returned to the Tezuka family, which can be regarded as a regret for Mr. Tezuka.

However, although the funds are sufficient, the location of the magazine is not very conspicuous, and it can even be said to be a bit shabby. To this day, their location is still a rented office building.

"It really doesn't look as grand as the Shueisha building!"

Li Wannian, who got off the car, looked up at the dilapidated commercial building in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

"This shows that President Tezuka has spent all his money on the construction of the magazine and doesn't care about these superficial things. This is why the magazine's sales volume can become the first in Japan!"

Sawajiri Fumi, who had parked his car on the side, got out of the car and came to Li Wannian and smiled at him.

"That's right!"

Li Wannian retracted his gaze and glanced at Sawajiri Fumi on the side. He didn't expect that this guy has become so smooth now?

In fact, think about it, Sawajiri Fumi has been promoted to deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine. He is just in his early thirties and is really young and promising.

To be in this position at such a young age, in addition to having outstanding abilities and excellent resumes, he also needs to interact with his colleagues and leaders around him.

Well, mainly with the leaders!

And Sawajiri Fumi's actions of defending Tezuka Makoto in words and deeds just now have proved who the leader he is trying to please is!

"Mr. Li, shall we go in?"

"Okay! You lead the way, I don't know the way!"

"That's because you don't come here often! Come a few more times and we'll get to know each other!"

Sawajiri Shi smiled and led the way for Li Wannian.

As soon as he entered the building, he met Tezuka Rumiko who had been waiting for Li Wannian.

"Mr. Li, you're finally here?"

"Ms. Tezuka, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting!"

After the two met, they shook hands again, and Tezuka Rumiko still kept smiling.

"I just arrived not long ago, Mr. Li, please come in!"

"Ms. Tezuka, please lead the way!"

During the whole conversation between the two, Sawajiri Shi didn't say anything, but just watched.

Although his position was higher than Tezuka Rumiko's, what could he do about her last name?

To be honest, there was nothing to see in the magazine itself!

The shabby office on the first floor was full of materials, which looked a bit messy and not tidy enough.

This is also the philosophy of Century magazine, which does not pay attention to the external surface, but focuses on the work itself.

However, in Li Wannian's view, this is just Tezuka's wishful thinking. Work is work, and comfortable environment and simple interpersonal relationships are nonsense. As long as the money is enough, there are people who will do it!

Working out is to make money. If you want to be comfortable, how comfortable is it to sleep at home?

"Here are our several editorial teams, mainly responsible for the editing of Century..."

"Our planning department is opposite, mainly responsible for the planning of on-site activities..."

"This is the president's office!"

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Soon, Li Wannian spent only more than ten minutes, and under the introduction of Tezuka Rumiko, he roughly visited the magazine.

"I roughly know the current sales of the magazine, but I want to hear some details!"

Sitting in Tezuka's office, he was still accompanied by Sawajiri Fumi and Tezuka Rumiko.

"I understand. The magazine does have some problems now!"

Li Wannian's words made Sawajiri Shi understand that he didn't want to hear the external propaganda, but wanted to hear the current difficulties of the magazine!

"Tell me about it!"

Sure enough, Li Wannian crossed his legs, leaned forward slightly, and looked interested.

"Although the sales of the magazine have stopped the downward trend and are still 2.8 million, the gap with the second place "Jump" is less than 500,000!"

Although Li Wannian copied... took a lot of wool from "Jump", allowing "Century" magazine to grow too fast and stand at a height that he should not have, "Jump" magazine has a deep foundation and is far from comparable to the newly established "Century" magazine.

At present, the most popular comics of "Jump" magazine, such as "Fist of the North Star" and "Saint Seiya", still keep their sales stable at more than 2 million.

It can be said that now there is only one "Champion" between "Jump" and "Century".

Champion, once the best-selling manga magazine in Japan, now has less than 500,000 copies sold, and has fallen to the fifth largest manga magazine in Japan.

Due to the departure of comic masters such as Osamu Tezuka and Li Wannian, the most popular work in the magazine is now Ayumi Tachihara's Honki!, which cannot be compared with other magazines.

"In addition to the fact that "Naruto" has ended, other than You, currently only Araki-sensei's "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" and Takaya Yoshiki's "Strong Armor Cap" are at the forefront of popularity, and the magazine is There are still big problems with fresh blood.”

When Tezuka was able to lure Araki Hiroyan over, to be honest, it really gave Li Wannian a big surprise.

Although Araki Hirohito didn't have any decent comic strips at the time, and after coming to "Century", his new comic "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" was not very popular. It wasn't until he introduced the concept of stand-in combat that his popularity started. It has skyrocketed and now ranks third only behind "Death" and "Slam Dunk", and is currently ranked third in "Century" magazine.

"What are you going to do?"

"We are also preparing to hold the Tezuka Prize!"

Tezuka Prize?

The current Tezuka Prize was organized by Shueisha in 1971, naturally in memory of Osamu Tezuka.

However, among these magazines, Shueisha is the least qualified to receive this award, because Osamu Tezuka has never serialized comics in "Jump" at all.

"Okay, it makes sense for Tezuka to handle this!"

The "Tezuka Award" will naturally be inherited by the true descendants of Osamu Tezuka, which is much better than the ill-named Shueisha.

The two talked in the office for about an hour. Since Sawajiri was just a deputy editor after all, there were some deeper things that he couldn't say, so he could only say this.

In this way, after talking about it, Li Wannian planned to leave the magazine.

However, when he went out, he saw a strange acquaintance.

"How's it going? Editor Takahashi, isn't my new comic good this time? I've been thinking about it for a long time!"