Is this cartoonist mentally ill?

After the 32nd episode, the popularity and heat of "Dao Wei Yi Xian" once rose. At the same time, according to the previous habit, "Dao Wei Yi Xian" published a comic book.

And after the sales of the comic book exceeded 10,000 copies, it was time for Lin Qingshan to hold an official signing event to sign for fans.

Hearing this news, all the comic fans were excited.

Zhou Wenwei saw this news while at work, but... he had worked in Shanghai for so long, and Lin Qingshan had held many signing events in Shanghai in the past few years, but he had not participated much.

Although he was a comic fan, he was actually a homebody and did not like to attend such a crowded signing event offline.

After all, there were too many people... and he had to queue up, which was really troublesome for him.

But...

He picked up his phone and took the opportunity to slack off and sent a message to... Ke Xinjie.

"There will be a signing event for Qingshan Laozei's "Dao Wei Yi Xian" single volume this weekend. Do you want to go together?"

He asked with a smile on his face.

In the early morning, there were still few customers in the nail salon, and Ke Xinjie was the boss.

She saw the message sent by Zhou Wenwei, and her eyes lit up immediately, saying, "Okay, okay! Let's go to the book signing event together this weekend!"

"When is it..."

Just like that, Zhou Wenwei took the opportunity to chat with Ke Xinjie for several minutes.

Until... he saw the figure of his supervisor from the corner of his eye, and immediately typed, "I'm going to work, let's talk later."

Then he put down his phone and pretended to be working.

Ke Xinjie on the other side also roughly knew that Zhou Wenwei had met his boss, and smiled and replied, "Okay."

Then she sat on the sofa in the store again, a little bored.

But...

"I've finished watching the show, but "Zhan Aka" will be updated with an episode tonight, so let's go see if there are any other interesting comics now."

Ke Xinjie yawned and said as she opened the Manjie comic app on her phone.

Then I found out...

"New Manga Artist Grand Prix! Many new works are waiting for you to invest!"

"Invest in new manga works, the better the work, the more rebates you will get!"

"You can get a maximum rebate of all subscribed comic coins, and you can also get a chance to win a grand prize in a lottery!"

...

"New Manga Artist Grand Prix?"

Ke Xinjie is naturally familiar with this name. After all, Qingshan and Yangyangshu, two of the best manga artists of the new generation, are from this New Manga Artist Grand Prix.

Not only the two of them, in fact, the contestants of the New Manga Artist Grand Prix can basically become famous manga artists in the comics industry in the future.

Even if you can't serialize your works in the comics magazine, you can become a resident serialized manga artist in other comics magazines.

This is why the comics industry has never given up on this New Manga Artist Grand Prix.

Ke Xinjie went in with curiosity and found that there were really a lot of new manga works participating this year.

It's different from the previous screening, and finally selecting four to five comics that the editors and editors-in-chief decided to serialize.

Since the serialization medium has changed from paper magazines to the Internet, this time the comic world will pass on some obviously unqualified works, and then put the rest on the software for serialization.

At the same time, the main way to determine the ranking of the Newcomer Grand Prix has also become online voting.

"That's right, let's see what good newcomer comics there are."

Ke Xinjie immediately read the newcomer comics with interest.

And this time the Newcomer Grand Prix is ​​not only different in serialization medium, but also different from the previous one-by-one serialization.

The comic works of the Newcomer Grand Prix will be released directly after three chapters are released online at the beginning of the competition, but these three chapters are free from the beginning.

It is also enough for comic fans to enjoy it while seeing which of these comics are in line with their preferences.

Ke Xinjie has read several newcomer comics and thinks they are pretty good, the style is pretty good, and the beginning plot and setting are also pretty good.

"This "White Forest Witch" is pretty good..."

"This "End of Skywalker", is it a cyberpunk comic? The style is not as good as "Edgewalker."

"No... It's a bit too bullying to compare it with "Edgewalker."

"This... "I Became a Hero and Lived a Happy Life", I don't like this type of comics, I won't read it."

""Gray World 1688"... is it a strange suspense comic? You can also read it..."

...

After reading several books in a row, Ke Xinjie felt that some comics had good settings and opening plots, and the style was also pretty good.

Some comics were discouraged by the opening plots.

However, she never saw a comic work that she liked very much, until...

"The name of this comic is... "Jujutsu Kaisen", it's not bad."

Ke Xinjie opened the next comic casually and planned to take a look, but found that... the style and plot of this comic were quite good.

And... it gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

This new comic titled "Jujutsu Kaisen" starts from episode 0, and there is only episode 0 at the beginning, starting with a boy named Yuta Otsutsu...

It introduces Jujutsu High School and the strange things that happened to Yuta Otsutsu.

Yuta Otsutsu had made a marriage contract with his childhood sweetheart Rika Kimoto, but unfortunately Rika died in a car accident later.

Because he refused the death of his childhood sweetheart, Mari Xiang, Otoko unconsciously connected Li Xiang's soul with the power of a spell, causing Li Xiang's soul to stay and become a super-grade curse spirit possessing the body.

As a result, later when Rika saw Yuta Otoko trying to bully him in school, she got angry and was seriously injured by him and was stuffed into a locker.

But at the same time, it also attracted the attention of...the magic world.

The world view and setting of "Spell Return" is a supernatural system related to spellcasters that was born around the power of magic and curses. The negative emotions overflowing from human beings are curses, and the power extracted from human negative emotions is curse power. .

Once ordinary people have too many negative emotions, a creature that is gathered together by the magic power emitted by ordinary people will be born - a curse spirit. This kind of creature's body is entirely composed of magic power. It is invisible to ordinary people and physical attacks are ineffective. Spell attacks work.

Negative emotions towards specific objects will form corresponding curse spirits. The outbreak of the financial crisis, frequent examinations, and long-term oppression of employees by companies will all lead to the frequent occurrence of curse spirits.

A conjurer is an extraordinary person who is responsible for lifting curses and exorcising curse spirits.

The Magic College is a magic education school that is responsible for educating magicians and solving many curse incidents.

Originally, Yigu Youta also had to be dealt with.

But the general solution to this kind of thing in the Conjuring College is... to be sentenced to secret execution. Yuta Otoko agreed because of Rika, but was later dissuaded by the teacher of the Conjuring College, Gojo Satoru. And joined the Conjuration College to study.

After that, students such as Zenin Maki and Inumaki Tsutsumi, who are students at the Conjuring College, met and realized that they had cursed Rika, and not "Rika cursed herself" as they always thought. They were determined to resolve the curse of childhood sweetheart Mari Kazu and... Gradually learned to use Tang Dao in repeated sparring sessions with Maki.

But then...he met Zenyuan Maki and Gojuanji during a mission...

Xia Youjie, who was expelled from the Conjuring High School but became one of the four special... Conjuring Masters, is now the strongest Cursing Master.

Because he took a fancy to the powerful power of the curse spirit Rika next to Otoko Uta, he came specifically to win over Otoko Uta.

After trying to win over the demons to no avail, Xia Youjie boldly announced that he would launch the "Hundred Demons Night Parade" in Shinjuku and Kyoto, Tokyo, on December 24.

But no one thought that this was actually Xia Youjie's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. The real target was Otoko Yuta and Li Xiang who stayed at the Magic College.

It can be said that the plot at the beginning of "Spell Return" is compact and beautiful, and the war starts from the beginning. The key is that the painting style is also very good, and it has a very familiar feeling...

It seemed like she had seen this style of painting somewhere.

Anyway, Ke Xinjie was instantly addicted to it.

Until she saw Yigu Youtai and Xia Youjie start fighting. Yigu Youtai tried his best and knocked Xia Youjie to the ground with the blessing of the protagonist's halo.

"...I must kill you!"

Faced with Otoko Yuta's declaration of imminent victory that was full of the protagonist's flavor.

Xia Youjie didn't care at all, and said with a smile, "It's really self-centered... but it also includes self-affirmation. This is the most important condition in life."

He slowly stood up, faced Otoko Yuta who was surrounded by Urika, and said, "Did you know? There are four humans rated as special... and there are 16 cursed spirits..."

Then the black curse power in his hand burst out, and then a curse spirit wearing a kimono with a weird face and feet appeared.

"This is one of them - the special-grade imaginary spirit "Incarnate Tamamo-mae". "

Looking at the extremely oppressive stunt spirit, Otoko Yuta and Rika were a little scared.

But Xia Youjie continued to say in the comic, "In addition...I will combine all 461 curse spirits I currently have into one...to deal with you."

In the next cartoon, a huge cursed spirit that looks like a person being spiraled into a vortex appears behind Xia Youjie...

When she saw this huge curse spirit, Ke Xinjie's eyes widened.

"Whirlpool? Wait... isn't this the way Shuichi's father made himself into a whirlpool in Mr. Aoyama's fantasy thriller manga "Whirlpool"?"

Ke Xinjie immediately remembered it. She was very familiar with the psychological shadow of that period.

"Is this... plagiarism?"

She suddenly felt a little resentful. She actually liked the comic "Spell Return".

But when I saw that there was plagiarism, I immediately felt quite disgusted.

So she took a photo and posted it on the forum to help Lin Qingshan denounce this egregious plagiarism incident.

Not only her, but many comic fans have also seen this, especially Lin Qingshan's comic fans. The number is very large. They have begun to denounce the plagiarism of Lin Qingshan's work "Whirlpool" in the comic "Spell Return" on the official website and major related forums. "War" and its author - "簪见下下".

Many people even went to Station C, because Lin Qingshan's account at Station C was often online in person.

Everyone knows this.

Soon, a lot of information appeared on Lin Qingshan’s account latest updates and private messages.

…

Lin Qingshan is currently... drawing the manuscript for the comic "The Taoist Weird Immortal".

He also didn't notice that this year's Newcomer Grand Prix in the comics industry had started, and Yuta Akumi had already successfully passed through the comics industry through his connections, and had his debut comic work "Juju Kaisen" serialized online.

But this time...

His cell phone rang. Lin Qingshan picked up the phone and took a look, then answered the call and said to the other party, "Moses, Moses?"

"Teacher Aoyama! Something bad has happened!"

Ayumi Ito's voice came from the phone.

This made Lin Qingshan stunned and asked, "Ah? Bumi, what's wrong?"

"It's like this... Part of the plot of Yuta's "Jutsu Kaisen" borrowed the setting of the teacher's original "Whirlpool"."

Ayumi Ito quickly said, "Then some manga fans found out and said that Yuta plagiarized you."

"Huh? Yuta? "The Return of Jutsu"?"

Lin Qingshan blinked and then said, "Are you saying that Yuta's debut novel started to be serialized, and then fans complained about plagiarism?"

"Yes! Teacher, Yuta said this was a tribute to you, but the comic fans don't seem to know that he is your assistant."

Ayumi Ito quickly said, "Why don't you go online and issue a statement to explain."

Lin Qingshan immediately patted his chest and said, "No problem, isn't it just a matter of issuing a statement? I will issue it immediately."

Then after he hung up the phone with Ayumi Ito, he found a photo from the photo album with Yuta Akumi and his three assistants during their previous gathering.

Then, he went to the comic software to find the poster of "The Return of the Spell" and saved it.

He then went online to the social platform, first on Station C. After adding these two pictures, he then edited and posted——

"I already know what everyone is talking about, but let me tell you, Akumi used to be my manga assistant. He also told me that he would use the settings of my manga to pay tribute, and I agreed. So this matter is just a misunderstanding [expression_dumbfounded]

Next, I hope that everyone can support Akumi's comic work "Jutsu Kaiba". I think it is a very good comic work! "

After he finally sent it, he called Akumi Yuta again and comforted him a little.

But soon, Yuta Akumi no longer had to worry.

The Internet spreads very quickly, especially comic fans who are already very concerned about this "plagiarism" incident.

Ke Xinjie also saw Lin Qingshan's tweet during her lunch break. She was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the photos Lin Qingshan sent with his assistants, and suddenly realized it.

"It turns out he was Mr. Aoyama's former comic assistant... If I had told him earlier, it would have been fine."

She said somewhat sarcastically.

Then she watched "Spell Return" again, but it became more and more pleasing to her eyes.

"It turns out to be a comic work by Mr. Aoyama's assistant. No wonder it looks so familiar."

Ke Xinjie immediately praised, "And the style of painting and the plot really have the flavor of Teacher Qingshan. I am worthy of being Teacher Qingshan's assistant."

Now she was completely relieved to enter "Spell Return".

And because of this turmoil, "Spell Return" quickly became famous, and attracted the attention of many comic fans with the comic works of Lin Qingshan's comic assistant.

If this is the case, of course it won't be very popular, but the plot of "Spell Return" itself is very exciting.

Coupled with Yuta Akumi's more exquisite painting skills after being trained by Lin Qingshan, the beginning of the plot looks even more beautiful.

Especially the beginning of Chapter 0, the plot is compact, so compact that it fast-forwards to the decisive battle with the strongest curse master in modern times, which is of course very interesting to watch.