Tokyo life starting with painting

"Even if the matter at AKB Office is settled, I still have something to ask Ms. Hasegawa. I heard that you have rejected many Japanese dubbing animations or movies, and even some singing of theme songs of TV series?"

The matter of Hasegawa Riko has come to an end, and it is not a big deal.

Compared to AKB Agency, Higashinoji wanted to know why Hasegawa Riko kept rejecting audition invitations.

The other party had previously said that he would only dub Higashinoji's works, but at that time Higashinoji just thought that Hasegawa Riko's words were polite and didn't pay too much attention.

After all, the other person is very talented and can become popular when he finds an opportunity. There is no need to be obsessed with him at all.

As a result, Higashinoji didn't expect that Hasegawa Riko really wanted to fulfill her promise recently. Not only did he turn down many invitations from famous firms, he also had an expression on his face that said, "I'll just follow you. Even if you don't want my help, it's okay, I'll just stick with you."

This left Higashikata a little speechless.

Obviously, the other party can get many good performance opportunities if he finds any famous firm. Being famous is not just casual, but there are also great opportunities.

This matter was taken advantage of by Higashinoji unilaterally. He felt it was not appropriate, so he thought of asking Hasegawa Riko what he thought.

"I promised Mr. Higashino before." Hasegawa Riko shyly lowered her head and spoke directly in a low voice.

Then she was afraid that Mr. Higashino might misunderstand, so she hurriedly added: "It's okay even if I don't have a role. I can run my family's sukiyaki shop and I will never cause trouble to you Mr. Higashino."

""Higashinoji.

Is it okay even if there are no characters? Then there's really no problem.

Besides, since the other party has said so, Higashinoji really has nothing to say.

Higashinoji groaned, and then replied thoughtfully: "I'll bother Ms. Hasegawa when I have another animation adaptation or other work here."

Higashinoji chatted with Hasegawa Riko for a while before sending her out the door.

The whole thing here has come to an end.

As for whether Urashima Publishing has any animation adaptations?

Higashinoji is not worried about this.

The single volumes of his comics are selling very well, and the plot is particularly suitable for adaptation. I think he will have a lot more things to do before long.

Just like that, a day passed——

As the president of AKB Agency said, all the negative announcements and various negative rumors about Hasegawa Riko have been clarified.

They worked very efficiently, and even found a well-known newspaper to report on the incident, saying that it was due to an internal staff error. The production team of "The Ring" expressed their sincere apologies and promised that such things that harm the image of others will not happen again.

This is very convincing news.

Because the publisher was none other than Hasegawa Riko’s old employer, AKB Office.

They stood up at this time, which naturally silenced the discussion about Hasegawa Riko on the Internet. Many people said, "My youth is back." They no longer have to worry about the production team of "The Ring" finding a person with bad character. A great voice actor.

After this turmoil, the popularity of "The Ring" has reached a higher level. It continues to maintain high box office and continues to grow, which is completely gratifying.

Leaving aside "Midnight Ring", the editorial department of Urashima Publishing also values ​​Higashino Tsukasa more.

As the mainstay of the billboard, Higashinoji's performance is noticed by everyone.

Even if he is said to be one of the top ten people in the history of "Abominable Chill", there is no problem.

Not to mention the outstanding performance of "Unnatural Death" this time——

""Unnatural Death" is expected to reach an average of 1.5 million copies." Looking at Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death", it has already topped 670,000 copies in just four days, ranking first on the Oricon list. Sales volume, Oshima Sapien, the editor of Urashima Publishing House, couldn't help but mutter to himself.

He was the first to review "The Ring" with Koharu Hosokawa.

At that time, he only thought that Higashino Tsukasa was good at drawing horror comics. If he was well trained, he should be able to become a small pillar in Urashima Publishing House. It would be a bit difficult to defeat Suzuki Ha who quit his job.

What people didn’t expect was that one year later, Higashinoji not only became the mainstay of Urashima Publishing House, he even pushed the other two major publishing houses to the ground and rubbed them against each other repeatedly.

Now it is even more important to hit the average sales volume of 1.5 million volumes.

This is indeed something we haven’t seen in Urashima Publishing for a long time.

If we say that in the past when Urashima Publishing was glorious, there was a record of average sales volume of 1.5 million copies, or even more than 1.5 million copies. The real sales ceiling of Urashima Publishing's "Abominable Cold" manga single volume The average sales volume is 2.5 million copies.

But that was only in the good old days.

By the time of Suzukiha, the average sales volume of 800,000 to 900,000 volumes was already considered a pillar level. When other publishing houses were selling one, two million, or two million volumes, Urashima Publishing was only I can drool with envy.

But it’s different now!

Urashima Publishing has completely stood up!

The days of robot comics are over, and it’s time for us to start over again.

The person who brought about this change was Higashino Tsukasa, the author of "The Ring" which he read last year.

"Hey, it's a pity." Oshima Sapien sighed.

If only he could have been ruthless and snatched Higashinoji from Hosokawa Koharu's hands.

Then don’t Higashinoji’s achievements belong to him?

This is indeed a pity.

"I just don't know how many tens of thousands of volumes Mr. Higashino can achieve this time. The average sales volume of 1.5 million copies is just an estimate at best. Mr. Higashino has to maintain the quality of the comic plot, which is not so easy to achieve."

The editor who was accompanying him for a drink after work sighed and said: "We have to maintain a high-intensity serialization, and at the same time, we have to consider various things such as animation, film, and TV series in the future. To maintain quality, especially Mr. Higashino doesn’t seem to have hired an assistant, right? Isn’t this too scary?”

really.

The average comic book author would have lost all his hair just thinking about these things. After all, human energy is limited. Unless you are a printer, it is impossible -

"Teacher Higashino is a printer. This is the first time I have seen someone who can draw comics like this. I heard that his oil paintings were recently exhibited at the National Museum of Art. If you say that he is not a printer, to be honest, I am not convinced. of."

Another colleague editor also added.

Although the Art Creation Award that Higashinoji participated in at the beginning of the year was overshadowed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, many people still paid attention to it.

When the name Tebi Jinbo was announced, everyone felt that this unfolding was inexplicably familiar.

Higashinoji's name is on the gold medal list again, along with his painting "Summer is Over".

This result really makes people feel like an unexpected and reasonable O. Henry-style ending.

But soon some contestants reported to the competition committee whether Higashinoji could be removed from the young author level.

After all, his level completely suppresses the level of his age group, which is not fair at all.

As soon as this sentence was said, many people responded, saying that Higashinoji's level was too illegal and unfair - he should be allowed to participate in other adult competitions.

Some people even directly doubted whether Higashinoji had someone paint for him.

Because whether it is "Tokyo Sunset·Impression" or "Tokyo" which won the double gold medal at the Tokyo Youth Art Award, or the current "Summer is Over", Higashinoji has shown that he should not have the ability at his age. level.

This incident was quite a big deal at the time, and it was reported to the editorial department of Urashima Publishing House.

However, as the organizer, the five major art academies in Tokyo did not pay attention to such people who deliberately caused trouble. The five major art academies only drafted an announcement, hoping that the contestants would view their works more rationally.

After all, with the gold and silver awards, there are only a dozen winning places at most.

So what if Higashinoji really painted for someone else? Kick him off the gold reward, and it won't be your turn to win the prize.

This is indeed true, but the explanation of the five major art academies in Tokyo was naturally not recognized by these young people participating in the competition.

These young people who failed in the Art Creation Grand Prize were sour about Higashinoji's achievements.

Some people simply felt that it was impossible for him to draw comics and design Kumamon at the same time and perfect his oil painting skills at the same time.

Drawing comics and drawing oil paintings are two completely different things.

No matter where you are, this is the case. People are like this. They always have a hatred of the rich.

You are richer than me, so you must be evil and have done something ulterior. Otherwise, how could you be richer than me?

Rumors like this are prevalent even today.

"These people are still too young and have never seen Mr. Higashino paint by himself, so that's why they say this."

Oshima Sapien laughed and took another sip of wine.

Rather than paying attention to these, it is better to pay attention to the sales of the next single volume of "Unnatural Death".

The sales volume of the next single volume will determine whether "Unnatural Death" can reach the important point of average sales volume of 1.5 million copies.

If the expected goal can be achieved, it means that the theme of "unnatural death" is stable. Higashinoji has reached the top of the comic sales ceiling and become one of them. Maybe it can also lead to the rise of the "forensic" comic theme. Being able to claim the title of the father or the first person of Japanese professional comics - following the trend is the same no matter which country you are in.

If it cannot achieve the expected goal, then we can only look forward to better performance in Higashinoji's next comic.

All this depends on the plot of Higashinoji Chapter 6.

Let’s see if this sixth episode can build on the good foundation of the first five episodes.

Sapien Oshima didn't know Higashinoji well, but even he, an outsider, felt inexplicably nervous when he could reach the comic sales ceiling.

I wonder what will happen to Higashinoji if this pressure is put on him?

"The plot of the sixth episode? Oh, that's no problem at all." Higashino answered the phone and replied with a smile: "I'm already preparing for the seventh episode. It's quite relaxed and there is no pressure. In addition, there are Congratulations to Editor Hosokawa on your promotion, I heard that you have been successfully promoted to team leader?"

"Promoting to team leader is just a trivial matter. Tomorrow I will go to Mr. Higashino to pick up the manuscript." Hosokawa Koharu recorded on the paper: "I also want to congratulate Mr. Higashino on the success of your new work. Since there is no pressure, it is the best."

Although Hosokawa Koharu said so, she was actually quite stressed now.

Editor-in-chief Urashima requested that 1.5 million volumes be sold at a time, and to reach that level would be considered a masterpiece in comics.

A little difficult.

But Hosokawa Koharu has confidence in Higashinoji.

After all, after working together for a year, she had never seen Higashikata collapse in the plot.

And as long as it doesn't collapse, it's absolutely fine to sell 1.5 million volumes.

Higashinoji chatted with Hosokawa Koharu for a while, and then began to think about the next plot of "Unnatural Death".

The Unnatural Death Research Institute where Misumi Mikoto works received a commission from the police, who invited them to investigate the site of a mass suicide by burning charcoal. There were four bodies at the scene of a collective suicide by burning charcoal. As a criminal police officer, Maori argued that this was not a homicide case, but a suicide case.

The police's overly indifferent and inactive attitude made Misumi Mikoto feel very uncomfortable, but this is a situation that is often seen when the Japanese police carry out cases - the relatives of the deceased want the case to be closed quickly, and the police also have other things on hand. things need to be dealt with.

Under this situation, Misumi Mikoto decided to dissect the body.

The autopsy results showed that three of the four bodies were poisoned by carbon monoxide and could be inferred to be suicides. However, the autopsy results of one high school girl showed different symptoms of atrial hemorrhage and obvious symptoms of "frozen to death". But Interpol Maori thinks this is simply unreasonable. The victim was found in the house where he committed suicide by burning charcoal. According to common sense, he should have committed suicide.

But it was not until later that Misumi Mikoto found a distress note in the stomach of the girl's body - this discovery made her confirm that the incident was a homicide.

However, as a criminal police officer, Maori did not report this correctly and only superficially mentioned the slight possibility of homicide.

The police's repeated indifference and inaction made Misumi Mikoto unbearable.

She raised her head and said with a complicated expression: "What about the girl's message asking for help? She couldn't be saved while she was alive, so do we have to turn a blind eye even after she dies?"

This is a sentence worth reflecting on.

When asked this question, even the director of the Institute of Unnatural Death, who has always advocated that doing more is worse than doing less, fell silent for a long time.

After Misumi Mikoto asked this question, she invited her subordinate Rokuro to go to Arika Hot Spring to investigate under the pretext of bathing in hot springs. It was only here that she suddenly realized what happened. It turns out that Misumi Mikoto has already discovered the clues.

After a series of investigations, Misumi Mikoto and Rokuro locked a refrigerated truck and found evidence left by the deceased on the refrigerated truck.

But at this time, the door of the refrigerated truck was closed, the air-conditioning was discharged, and the cold air robbed their body temperature. The murderer even sent the refrigerated truck directly into the lake in order to exclude Mikoto Misumi and Rokuro.

In the cold lake water, oxygen is constantly being robbed, and the water is rising. Misumi Mikoto confides her feelings to Rokuro

It turned out that she had committed suicide by burning charcoal before.

But she was lucky enough not to die, so she took the truth about this group suicide very seriously.

The following episodes 6, 7 and even 10 are actually the process of gradually shaping the character of Mikoto Misumi. Similarly, it is also the mental journey of the character Mikoto Misumi.

It can be said that without a few words, the character of Misumi Mikoto will not be too full.

The episode "Unnatural Death" is considered Higashino's favorite. Mikoto Misumi and Dr. Nakadō used scientific knowledge to communicate with each other, and the process of finally discovering clues was indeed very exciting.

Higashinoji was very confident in the plot, so he naturally started writing the manuscript.

Comic sales ceiling——

Can you squeeze in?