Tokyo life starting with painting

The sales volume of 12,000 is really not good.

But in this struggle, his sales volume of 12,000 copies is really not enough. It is really the kind of thing that can only be heard when thrown into the battlefield of a meat grinder.

Sakamoto sighed, but there was nothing he could do about this situation.

Regardless of him, everyone is paying attention to this release date.

Not only Urashima Publishing, but also Fuji Publishing.

Fuji Publishing has lost its voice a bit.

"The one-hour volume of "Unnatural Death" sold 18,000 copies, and Mr. Ozawada's new manga sold 19,000 copies."

Shinji Furuta looked at the data at hand and took a deep breath. At the same time, he tilted his head and smiled and asked Suzuki Ha, who came to the editorial department for a rare occasion: "Mr. Suzuki, don't you want to say something when you look at this data?"

He can be considered to be enjoying the hardships, but the gap is too terrifying.

Suzuki Hagami's comics published by Urashima Publishing have sold an average of 800,000 copies, which can be considered a great success, but compared to Higashino Tsukasa and Ozawada, the gap is still not small.

Judging from this situation, "Unnatural Death" is basically going to hit the comics with an average sales volume of 1.5 million copies. To be honest, Ozawada's comics are a bit difficult to estimate.

After all, compared to Higashinoji, Ozawada's fan base is too solid.

You have to wait until the second volume of Ozawada's manga comes out to see the specific situation.

"The fan base does not represent everything." Suzuki Yu said with dark circles under his eyes and a pale face: "There is a high probability that Mr. Higashino will win this time."

"Oh? Are you so confident in Mr. Higashino?" Shinji Furuta said with a smile: "This is the first volume sales competition that tests the fan base the most. Logically speaking, Mr. Ozawa should have the advantage."

"Of course Higashino-sensei will win." Suzuki Yu stood up, knowing that Furuta Shinji was asking knowingly.

Ozawada relied on his fan advantage and failed to widen the gap with Higashinoji in the first hour. Then when the fan enthusiasm gradually subsides, the competition will be quality.

She stood up and seemed to want to walk out.

"Mr. Suzuki, what are you going to do? The details of the animation of your manga will be released soon, why don't you wait any longer?"

"It's okay. Mr. Higashino's comics are very interesting. I just went to buy them and read them."

Suzuki Yu turned around and answered simply.

Furuta Shinji also shook his head at Suzuki Ha's behavior of subsidizing the enemy, but Higashinoji's sales were not inferior to hers, so Furuta Shinji ignored her.

Suzuki Yu quickly went downstairs and found a bookstore soon after going out.

This is quite normal. After all, Fuji Publishing House is located in a prosperous area, and there is no shortage of buildings such as bookstores and shopping malls.

As soon as he entered the bookstore, Suzuki Yu picked up the shopping basket on the side and started loading the single volume of "Unnatural Death" into it.

She packed more than a hundred volumes, and the readers waiting in line to buy the single volume of "Unnatural Death" were stunned.

They have seen people who bought two copies at once, and they have also seen people who supported Higashinoji to buy more than ten copies. But this is indeed the first time they have seen such a ruthless person who directly buys more than a hundred copies.

Seeing that she had almost finished loading the book "Unnatural Death" at the front desk, there was a young man behind him who was holding a separate volume of "Unnatural Death" in his hand and was getting anxious.

He was also a fan of Higashinoji and planned to buy two copies, one for collection and one for viewing. But before he could get the second copy, it was about to be completely lost.

So he hurriedly said hello: "Excuse me, can you leave a copy for me?"

"Huh?" Suzuki Yu was stunned, and then carefully looked at the unopened "Unnatural Death" in his hand. After thinking for a moment, he said: "I want to ask if you still want the copy in your hand. , can you give it to me?"

What? !

This Suzuki Yu bought the entire counter and was still thinking about what he had in his hand.

The young man was immediately stunned, and then he covered the copy of "Unnatural Death" in his hand and shook his head, saying that he would never sell it.

This action made Suzuki Yu shake his head helplessly. He carried the heavy shopping basket in his hand and walked to the front desk to pay: "Please give me a box and ask a clerk to help deliver it to the Fuji Publishing House next door."

As a true fan of Higashinoji, this is all she can do.

It can be regarded as a modest effort. I hope Higashinoji can successfully defeat Ozawada - she can't stand the unfair competition between Iwakaku Publishing House and Mozhu Bookstore.

However, this was an obvious act of favoring the enemy. Suzuki Yu also pinched his chin, thinking that he would only buy ten copies next time, not more.

What if she buys too much and she can’t catch up with Toyoshi?

Suzuki Yu was thinking as he led the bookstore clerk into Fuji Publishing House. At this time, the editorial department of Iwakaku Publishing House on the other side fell into silence.

It really fell into silence.

Although today is a working day, not many people are doing handovers on comics, and the entire editorial department is quiet.

This is of course.

Because the editorial department of Iwakaku Publishing House expected that Ozawada would sell 4,000 copies of "Unnatural Death" in the first hour.

But no one expected that Higashinoji would bite so hard. There was only a thousand copies sales difference between Ozawada and Higashinoji.

This greatly exceeded their expectations. Likewise, they also knew that the sales volume of this thousand copies was very unstable.

"Unnatural Death" is likely to overtake it in the second hour, and it has to find a way.

But no matter how hard we try, this situation is still somewhat difficult to change.

After all, they can't operate in secret when it comes to sales, right?

If it is exposed by then, the reputation of Yanjiao Publishing House will be damaged.

They don't need to be quick.

"Teacher Ozawa, what do you think of this data?"

Editor-in-chief Yamano asked Ozawada next to him thoughtfully.

"Teacher Higashino is indeed very powerful." Ozawada couldn't see any expression of disappointment on his face: "Even if you have a fan base, it's a bit difficult to defeat Mr. Higashino."

Ozawada is considered a relatively down-to-earth person during this turmoil.

He did not try to smear Higashinoji. Even if the first episode of Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death" had mediocre results, he did not accept an exclusive interview to comment on this matter like Sakamoto did.

And the fact proved that his idea was correct.

Even he felt like he was going to be knocked to the ground by Higashinoji.

But this is actually good.

In this way, comics authors in the comics industry will no longer focus on robot comics.

It feels like this stagnant water that was disturbed by robot comics has finally been able to get out of the quagmire.

"Mr. Ozawa, you are pretty much what I thought. The performance of "Unnatural Death" is really amazing." Chief Editor Yamano of Iwakaku Publishing House also sighed.

He was given this task by his superiors, asking him to defeat Higashinoji and push Higashinoji down again. But now it seems that this request seems a bit difficult to complete.

My family knows their own affairs.

With the extra thousand sales, it would not be difficult for Tonoji to surpass it today.

Ozawada has fans, and Higashinoji is not a vegetarian.

But when he thought that Higashino had suppressed him once before when Komori Ken was there, Editor-in-Chief Yamano was a little angry.

He didn't expect that Higashinoji had such a good relationship with Hosokawa Koharu that he would actually be willing to quarrel with him, the editor-in-chief of Iwakaku Publishing House, over an editor-in-chief who might be replaced frequently.

Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case.

He was a little depressed, but there was nothing he could do about it.

In this situation where everyone is focused, the data of "Unnatural Death" and Ozawada's new comics soon came out.

"Unnatural Death" sold 18,000 copies in the second hour, with almost no downward trend.

Ozawada's new manga sold 18,000 copies in the second hour, a drop of 1,000 copies from the first hour.

This is quite normal. The sales volume is always the highest in the first hour. The further you go, the more the sales volume will drop, and eventually it will stabilize at a relatively stable sales volume.

In the third hour, there were more than 18,500 copies of "Unnatural Death". Not only did it not drop, it even increased slightly.

Sales of Ozawada's new comics dropped to 16,000 copies.

At this point, "Unnatural Death" has completed its lead.

But other publishers are no longer focusing on this.

They had already guessed this result when the sales of "Unnatural Death" did not drop in the second hour.

But in the third hour, "Unnatural Death" not only did not drop sales, but even increased sales, they were completely confused.

The strength of "Unnatural Death" is simply exaggerated.

It has been three hours and there has been no drop, but a slight rise. What kind of monster is this?

But things that surprise them are still happening.

"Unnatural Death" stayed strong for six hours, and finally increased a little, reaching sales of 19,000 copies an hour.

I originally had a lot of comics behind me to see when it would fall down, but unexpectedly it actually got longer. What's the situation?

In this way, "Unnatural Death" withstood the pressure until the tenth hour, and finally began to gradually decline, and finally stabilized at 17,000 sales per hour - this is only relatively stable, and it will definitely fall later. , no comics can escape this law.

But even so

The results of "Unnatural Death" are also exaggerated.

During the same period, the stable data of Ozawada's comics was 15,000 copies per hour, and the sales volume of Sakamoto's comics was 9,000 copies per hour.

Compared with Higashinoji's performance, it is absolutely no problem to call him a monster.

As for those unknown publishing houses who want to join in the fun

If you can sell one or two thousand copies in an hour, it's already a high price.

The market was really squeezed to the limit, and Higashinoji accidentally crushed many comic book authors to death like ants.

Under this situation, of course, some print media began to comment - they did not dare to speak until the sales of "Unnatural Death" were fully displayed, for fear that the estimate would be wrong.

But now that "Unnatural Death" has taken the lead, of course they are going to start riding the wave of popularity.

This heat is not in vain.

As a result, there were suddenly a lot of articles analyzing the plot of "Unnatural Death" on the market. The rigorous analysis seemed to have to figure out the intention of even a random scene storyboard drawn by Higashinoji.

This gave Higashinoji a taste of what 'reading comprehension' is.

But there are too many plot analyzes for "Unnatural Death", and it's impossible for everyone to catch this popularity.

So some people started talking about the same period between Ozawada and Higashinoji. After all, Ozawada is the main pillar of Iwakaku Publishing House, and Higashinoji is also the main pillar of Urashima Publishing House. It is necessary to compare the two people.

After analyzing the past in this way, even the neglected Mozhu Bookstore Sakamoto was dragged out and beaten severely - the remarks he made on TV before were dug up, and many people laughed at him.

Look at you, how dare you mock Mr. Higashino for being such a bad guy? You only sold 12,000 copies in the first hour.

This really made Sakamoto feel like crying.

Twelve thousand copies in the first hour are really not good. It is a small pillar in any publishing house. How come it becomes a special dish in your mouth?

And why didn’t you report me on my previous release date? At this time, he suddenly jumped out and whipped the corpse?

Sakamoto's life was really miserable, but he still couldn't vent it.

Because Higashinoji is far ahead of him in terms of readers' praise and sales.

The manga industry still relies on the sales of individual books to speak for itself. Without sales as a backing, Sakamoto would have no choice but to take a beating.

Grievance, really grievance.

The current situation can be said to be very good. "Unnatural Death" is selling like hot cakes and has a tendency to become popular.

If it weren't for the fact that there are only five episodes at the moment, people would probably come to ask about the situation of TV series or animation.

Hosokawa Koharu also had a very happy life.

As a new editor who joined Urashima Publishing House last year, after continuously 'training' Higashino to draw several popular comics, Urashima's chief editor also handed her the position of editorial team leader.

While she is in charge of Higashino Division, she is also responsible for four newcomer manga editors. As the team leader, Hosokawa Koharu also has the authority to participate in serialization meetings (meetings to discuss cutting works or serializing new works.)

This can be regarded as the carp leaping over the dragon's gate, but Hosokawa Koharu felt a little guilty.

It is said well that he trained Higashinoji.

Internally, she actually felt that Higashinoji had trained her.

She was also confused.

How come I became the team leader just by messing around?

But fortunately, she is quite experienced compared to the newcomers, and can still help them with some common sense issues.

Of course, what these four new editors are most curious about is Higashinoji's affairs.

They felt that the rise of Higashinoji and Hosokawa Koharu was simply too bizarre.

This made Hosokawa Koharu somewhat relieved.

She can answer some common sense questions, and she can also reveal a little bit about Higashinoji.

This team leader position is secure.

No one said anything about the old editor. After all, Hosokawa Koharu has made great achievements this year, and it is also because she is a newcomer and a woman, otherwise the position of deputy editor would probably be her turn.