I loaded the ghost talk game

When Hidaka Tsunayōji and Shimogawa Yoji were wandering downstairs of the Night Club, a young man with headphones hanging around his neck ran from the sidewalk and waved to them: "Oh hello! Yoji, Tsunayō!"

Fumiya Takahashi.

Hidaka and Shimokawa's friends are also loyal fans of GENIE.

"Wen Zai, I thought you weren't coming."

"How could it be? Today is Yoji's big day, and I also really want to go to the Night Club. I just spent a little time editing the video of the review of the first season of "Katsutengu no Demon Retreat". I'm sorry. ”

Fumiya Takahashi was out of breath from running all the way.

Just as he said, today is Shimokawa Yoji's "big day".

The cause of the matter has to be talked about when the first issue of "Hundred Demons Night Journey" was released half a year ago.

As fans of GENIE, these three young people immediately went to the nearest convenience store to buy a copy of the magazine for their collection.

After reading the journal, Yoji Shimokawa, who had some painting skills, suddenly came up with an idea——

"Can I also try a fantasy story comic with the protagonist talking about monsters and ghosts?"

He told two friends about the idea on LINE.

Hidaka Tsunryo immediately expressed his enthusiastic support.

"Didn't you like to draw since you were a child? You were very good at drawing before, so there must be no problem!"

"When your manga is serialized in "Hyakuki Yakō", we will have to call you Shimokawa-sensei!"

Hidaka is a passionate fool who shows unconditional favoritism to his friends.

It’s hard to say how much reference value his words actually have.

However, what surprised Shimokawa was that Takahashi, who is always calm and has the most flexible mind, also expressed support for his idea of ​​contributing to "Hyakki Night Journey" after some thinking, and also gave some practical suggestions. Views.

"Hyakuki Yakou has just been published, and the standards for accepting manga manuscripts will definitely not be as stringent as those of mature journals. Anyway, the university studies are not too heavy, so you can really give it a try, Yoji."

"And I read in the journal that you can use some of the monsters that appear in "Miss Mary" and "The Ghost Retreat of Karastengu" as the protagonists of your manga, which is similar to the spin-off of the main show. Yoji, please study it carefully. A few likable supporting characters might actually work.”

After receiving encouragement from his friends, Yoji Shimokawa just did what he said.

After a period of consideration, he set the protagonist of the comic he wanted to draw as Wu-chan.

Satoru is a strange story that appears in the ninth and tenth chapters of "Uncertain Lady Mary".

It is based on the urban legend "Little Satoru-kun who knows everything" and appears in the main drama as a poisonous lolita wearing a black and white dress.

In the story, Satoru has the ability to control electronic devices similar to Miss Mary, and is even better than Miss Mary in controlling the network.

Wu Jiang is keen on answering various calls for help and answering various online questions and answers.

But her strength is not strong, and under various chances and coincidences, the pranks she commits continue to be "bad intentions but good deeds".

All in all, a very interesting character.

Although there are only two episodes in the main drama, it is quite popular among fans.

Therefore, based on the character setting of "Satoru-chan" in the main drama, Yoji Shimokawa actually spent three months drawing a fifty-page short comic——

"Satoru-chan's Fall".

It tells the story of Xiaowu, the most "intelligent" urban monster in the world of monsters. He was too close to human society and addicted to online games, and he fell into ruin. In order to buy more games he liked, he finally had to debut with a virtual live broadcast image and lived a hard working life in the "light comedy of monsters and monsters".

This short story itself does not conflict with the main plot of "Miss Mary", and the comic further enriches Satoru-chan's original character.

To sum it up simply, it is a cute comic that revolves around cute monster girls and focuses on relaxed daily life.

After reading the final manuscript, Hidaka and Takahashi both said that the story was very interesting and cute.

Therefore, today the two of them accompanied Shimokawa Yoji to the Night Travel Club to submit articles.

…

The three of them entered the office building and took the elevator to the fourteenth floor.

There is the front desk of the Night Tour Club here.

The lady at the front desk received the three of them with a professional and polite smile: "Excuse me, have you made a reservation in advance?"

"Yes, I made an appointment with Mr. Mizushima from the Night Club to meet at 2:30 in the afternoon. My name is Shimokawa Yoji."

"Wait a moment." The receptionist dialed the internal number on the landline and briefly communicated, "No problem, Mr. Shimokawa. But who are the other two?"

"We are friends of Yoji, and we came with you... Well, if we can't go in, we'll wait here."

"Let the three of you go in together." The receptionist's professional smile remained unchanged, and she took out three visitor cards and handed them to the three young people. "After registering the information, please go to the reception desk No. 6 on the left to wait, Mizushima Sir, he'll be here soon."

"very good, thank you."

Hidaka and Takahashi looked at each other excitedly.

They all wanted to see what it was like inside the Night Club. Although this was not the GENIE headquarters, the visit was still exciting.

The three of them walked towards the reception desk.

The place is divided into compartments several meters square by opaque frosted glass, and each compartment is numbered.

Walking through the clean and reflective corridor floor, you can hear people talking in many cubicles.

Obviously, there are many cartoonists like Shimokawa Yoji who come to Night Club to submit their works——

"This won't work. This manuscript doesn't meet our requirements. Please take it back."

"..."

"I'm really sorry, but there is an obvious conflict between the character setting in the original drawing you drew and "Katsutengu no Demonic Retreat House", which is against the rules. Moreover, since you have chosen this character, due to copyright issues, it means This comic cannot be submitted to other magazines. I suggest you revise the manuscript from the beginning and submit it to Night Travel Club..."

"..."

Busy, professional and efficient.

The night tour club feels like a precision instrument, running perfectly.

Before coming here, Shimokawa Yoji had some confidence, but after coming in, he felt even more stressed and so nervous that he had trouble breathing.

GENIE's newly established night club is indeed not a small club.

Will your comics be read?

Or will the manuscript be rejected and criticized as worthless?

The comics industry is very cruel.

Shimochuan felt unsure.

The two Hidaka and Takahashi who were following Shimokawa seemed to be nervous for their friend because of the atmosphere here.

"I thought we would pass by the editors' office area."

"Contributors who are just self-recommended will definitely not be able to go to the office area. The editors should be upstairs."

"Yeah, ah... there are a lot of people here."

"Well, more than I thought."

Takahashi realized that there were some errors in his previous judgment.

Although the Night Tour Club has just been established, it actually seems to be quite large.

The ambitions of the magazine "Hundred Ghosts of the Night" are probably not small either.

Competition in the comics industry is fierce. Those individual cartoonists who have not yet made their mark, as well as newcomers like Yoji who are just on a whim, can easily target this place and try their luck at the Night Club.

That’s why so many people come here to submit articles.

Moreover, "Hundred Ghosts of the Night" is not a small journal in the true sense.

No matter what, it is backed by the well-known GENIE studio.

If you achieve good serialization results in "Hyakuki Night Walk", you will naturally have the opportunity to be adapted into the GENIE anime.

There is no doubt about it.

Originally, both sides were telling monster stories.

This is a great attraction for any cartoonist who has not yet become famous and has a good level.

Who doesn’t want their manga to be adapted into anime?

The competition on the Night Tour Club side doesn’t seem to be small either.

I'm really worried about Yoji.

The three entered the glass cubicle marked with the number "6".

Shimokawa Yoji sat at the table in the cubicle, while the other two people pulled up chairs and sat down behind them with their backs against the glass.

It makes the people who actually come to negotiate and those who come to accompany them appear to be clearly prioritized.

The waiting process is very tiring.

Shimokawa put the file bag on the table and unconsciously grabbed his thighs with both hands.

Hidaka in the back listened to the conversations coming from other compartments from time to time, and tried to distract the three people by talking about irrelevant topics in a low voice:

"By the way, have you watched the latest issue of "Hakugui Night Parade"? The second episode of "Noodles" is very exciting. I didn't expect that the 'thin female noodles' I was looking for in the story would appear in that way. "

"Of course I've watched it. It's worthy of the script creation by Mr. Suliu. In just two chapters, it has a fascinating climax."

The new Yokai manga "Moodle" they were talking about was only recently published in the two issues of "Hyakuki Yakō".

GENIE's ace scriptwriter is responsible for writing the plot.

The story is set in a modern city.

At present, the plot of "Mian" has just begun.

In this story, in the world of humans and monsters, there are many different types of "ghost masks". The exact number of them is unknown and has not been fully explained.

But just the setting of the last page of the first episode shows——

The White Fox Kame Noodles, the Prajna Neng Noodles, the Tengu Kuangyan Noodles, the Bodhisattva Practitioner Noodles, the Nio Dance Noodles, and the Garuda Loki Noodles.

these six categories.

Under each mask type, there are many "small faces" subdivided.

The protagonist of the story calls herself "Prajna". When she first appeared, she had a "weak mage" face of the Neng type.

At the end of the second episode, I got another "thin girl" face.

In short, the core of the story of "Mian" revolves around the theme of "putting on a mask and becoming a god".

The many different kinds of masks, what abilities they have, and how they will collide with each other are one of the highlights of the story.

The masks of the "Weak Mage" and "Skinny Girl" that appeared initially are probably because they are both of the Nami type, so their abilities are very weird and weird.

At the same time, the characters in the story compete to possess the masks of ghosts and gods, especially the humanity revealed when "putting on the mask" and "taking off the mask", which also makes the plot very full.

It's wonderful, it's the same "traditional" style as always.

Hidaka Tsunryo: "The scene where Miss Hannya puts on the mask is really beautiful and weird. And her line - 'It may be forgiven from a human perspective, but not from a god'. It's so cool." Yeah! I like this character so much!”

Fumiya Takahashi: "You will like each one of the protagonists in Mr. Susuru's story."

"Isn't this a matter of course?"

"You seem to be right..."

"Although there are only two chapters now, I am looking forward to the story later. Didn't the end of the second chapter mention something like 'small noodles'? I don't know what it is like. Anyway, when the single volume of "Noodles" is released in the future, I will buy it as soon as possible!"

"Of course I will buy it."

When the plot of "Noodles" and Mr. Sukuryu were mentioned, the three young people didn't seem to feel that the atmosphere in the compartment was tense and depressing.

"Speaking of which, how did Mr. Sukuryu do it? I mean, Mr. Sukuryu is responsible for the plots of GENIE's two dramas and the new manga "Noodles."

"Anyway, it was like this during the promotion, and judging from the plot, it should be true. It has a very obvious personal style."

"How can this time be arranged? I see that Yoji has been very busy in the past few months just conceiving the plot of a short comic like "Go-chan's Fall" and drawing storyboards."

"I heard that many cartoonists only sleep four or five hours a day, and Mr. Sukuryu may be about the same." Yoji Shimokawa, who has been drawing comics in recent months, took over the conversation.

"Working twenty hours a day? Even a body of iron can't handle it."

"It won't be a full twenty hours, after all, people need to eat and go to the toilet."

"That's also terrifying."

"And even if it's running at full capacity, it can still ensure that the plot has extremely outstanding quality..."

The three young people discussed in a low voice for a while, and finally came to the conclusion-

Teacher Su Liu is simply a superman!

The chat had just ended when a man came in from the door of the cubicle.

The man was wearing a white mask on his face, covering the lower half of his face, giving people the feeling that he was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old.

If he was the editor of the Night Tour Club, he would be a little young.

The man walked lightly, pulled out a chair opposite Shimokawa, and said: "Mr. Shimokawa? Please bear with me."

"I'm the one who needs your advice!"

Shimokawa quickly stood up and bowed, and his two friends behind him also stood up.

"Haha, please sit down."

The man sat down.

His eyes fell on the file bag on the table.

It was very strange.

I can't say it, but his eyes had a feeling that he could see through the brown paper and see the original manuscript inside.

However, Shimokawa Yoji naturally could not notice such details.

He just felt that the temperature around him seemed to have become a little colder.

Maybe the air conditioner in the night club was turned too low.

Or maybe he was a little too nervous.

"Mr. Shimokawa, can I see your comic manuscript?"

The man spoke again, and he didn't seem to have any intention of taking off his mask.

"Please take a look."

Shimokawa quickly opened the file bag, took out a stack of drawings, and handed it over respectfully.

At this time, the three young men headed by Shimokawa had not realized that the person who suddenly walked into compartment 6 to read the manuscript was not the editor Mr. Mizushima who had an appointment with Shimokawa.

It was the teacher who they had just discussed, who was praised as a superman——

Teacher Sukuryu, Chiaki Miyake.