Tokyo life starting with painting

The average sales volume of comics is 1.5 million volumes, which can be regarded as the sales ceiling of Japanese comics.

That's a place that many comics authors dream of squeezing into - even if it means risking half their lives, as long as they can squeeze in, it will be worthy of praise for a lifetime.

After all, when it reaches that point, it is already a phenomenal comic.

Phenomenal comics are no longer about the sales of peripherals such as figures, posters, and keychains.

Instead, people who sell underwear will even come to the door, trying to find ways to obtain the property rights and produce a series of underwear related to comic characters.

This is the charm of phenomenal comics.

Of course, it is naturally very difficult to reach that point.

The past 1990s were the peak period for all comic magazines.

In recent years, it can already be seen that paper comics are going downhill, and it is becoming more difficult for comics to reach an average sales volume of 1.5 million volumes. This is something that all comic magazines cannot escape. Curse.

After all, with the emergence of the Internet era and the era of various online comics media, this has had a huge impact on traditional paper media such as comic magazines.

Especially the subsequent emergence of smartphones caused a devastating blow to the comic magazine industry - all comics can be stored on a small smartphone. Compared with comic magazines with more than 300 pages that are difficult to carry, smart phones The mobile phone can be carried around and read whenever you want. This portability will naturally affect the comic magazine industry.

Like the world of Tonoji's previous life, the sales volume of the youth manga giant "Weekly Shonen Jump" has dropped to two million copies from time to time - and at its peak in the 1990s, "Jump" once had a stable sales of more than six million copies. good results.

Before the advent of the Internet era and before the development of paper media - drawing several phenomenal works was one of Higashino's goals.

After all, technological progress is the torrent of the world and even the times. Even if he is a time traveler, he cannot go against this torrent.

This time "Unnatural Death" gave Higashinoji the hope of reaching the sales ceiling of comics, so he naturally wanted to polish it carefully.

For this reason, Higashinoji did not even personally negotiate about the animation and live-action TV series of the two works "Winner is Justice" and "The Lonely Gourmet", but concentrated on preparing "Unnatural Death" in hand.

The result of the negotiations seems to be that the animation rights of "The Winner is Right" were won, while "The Lonely Gourmet" was turned into a live-action TV series.

As for whether Urashima Publishing will reduce the profit that Higashinoji deserves?

This is certainly unlikely.

Higashino Tsukasa is the mainstay author of Urashima Publishing House. Urashima Publishing House is afraid of melting it in his mouth. How dare he cut his profits? This is simply a joke. The senior management of Urashima Publishing House are not that stupid. Otherwise, how would they have made Urashima Publishing House such a large scale?

Of course, in order to avoid such idiots in the world, Tonoji also hired a lawyer to work with Hosokawa Koharu to coordinate and confirm the animation and live-action TV series.

With such double insurance, Higashinoji naturally doesn't have to worry about profit issues.

Although there is no need to worry about profit issues, the level of Japan's ability to turn comic works into real people is still open to question.

There are many positive examples, but there are also many negative examples.

Fortunately, the hairstyle of the protagonist Goro Inokashira in "The Lonely Gourmet" is relatively normal and in line with the aesthetics - it will not cause the director of the live-action TV series to create a broomstick like in "I Am Big Brother".

Higashinoji comforted himself for the time being, and at the same time thought about whether he had drawn some weird characters, so as not to irritate his eyes when he saw the hairstyles of those weird characters.

He comforted himself in this way while working hard.

In such a concentrated working state, the sixth episode of "Unnatural Death" has officially begun to be serialized.

The good foundation of the previous five episodes is also fully revealed at this moment.

The sixth episode of "Unnatural Death" did not have more than 200 positive votes from readers like the first episode, but stabilized at 673 votes.

After reading the sixth chapter, many comic readers expressed their interest in the next development, and many comic readers said that the theme of "forensic detective" is very fresh and interesting to read.

This result made many editors at Urashima Publishing heave a sigh of relief.

"Unnatural Death" did not experience any "low period" as analyzed by many newspapers and magazines.

On the other hand, Higashinoji, who received such positive feedback, naturally did not hesitate and continued to devote himself to his work.

After all, the readers showed no resistance, which means that the general direction is correct and they can continue to draw.

As for Yanjiao Publishing House and Mozhu Bookstore.

When he saw that Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death" did not weaken the momentum at all, he simply shut his mouth and at the same time secretly sharpened his knife, preparing to kill Higashinoji when the results of "Unnatural Death" fell into disrepair.

Sakamoto, who had ridiculed "Unnatural Death" before, even announced early that he would take a break from writing.

He was really shocked by Higashinoji. He felt that no matter how he drew this comic, he would still be dominated by Higashinoji, so he simply gave up the struggle.

But what Sakamoto didn't expect was that even if he gave up his struggle, many people would dig up his previous remarks and ridicule him repeatedly.

This really made Sakamoto angry and anxious. He wanted to express his opinions online, but no matter how he wrote the article, it didn't feel right.

This really echoes the saying - when you lose, everything you say is like an excuse, and everything you say is wrong.

In this regard, he could only sigh deeply and gave up using his official account to post comments. Instead, he created a small forum account to angrily complain about the shortcomings of Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death" on the Internet.

This was originally a kind of self-venting. Sakamoto just said it casually, then went to other things and never took care of it again.

But what he didn't expect was that the post would go viral the next day.

Sakamoto was actually sprayed on thousands of floors continuously, and the number continues to increase.

There were some comments in it that almost made Sakamoto angry to death.

Some people think that he is just drunk and crazy, and his words are not measured. How come "Unnatural Death" is so good that it is worthless in your mouth?

Some people directly told him to get lost under the post. Don't make random comments without reading the actual content of the comic.

Of course, there are also some neutral netizens among them. They also feel that Sakamoto’s words are biased and he seems to understand some comics.

Sakamoto was so depressed that he almost vomited blood when he saw these remarks.

I don’t understand comics? I am the mainstay author of Mozhu Bookstore!

Sakamoto immediately began to argue with the netizens who scolded him, and once again used "Unnatural Death" as an issue. Although some parts of what he said were reasonable, no one on the Internet was willing to reason with Sakamoto.

Gradually, Sakamoto felt more and more powerless.

Because if you say something to them, they can respond to you with a hundred or even a thousand words. It’s really hard to beat four hands with two fists.

There are even some computer-savvy people who have locked his actual address through IP address.

This frightened Sakamoto. He used a trumpet account specifically because he did not want people to know his identity. When he saw his IP address posted under the post, he was immediately frightened and wanted to delete the post.

But what he didn't expect was that his post had already been locked by the forum administrator - after all, the post had become popular and topical.

As a result, Sakamoto had no choice but to cancel his account and disappear from sight.

But this did not stump the readers of "Unnatural Death" who were very capable. They locked the IP address itself and followed the information flow, and finally found that the other party actually belonged to Sakamoto's studio.

Suddenly there was a commotion.

Many people said that it turned out to be Sakamoto, who had never beaten Mr. Higashino in the competition and was defeated. No wonder he smelled of lemon sourness.

This is considered a case solved.

The trend suddenly changed from discussing whether "Unnatural Death" is good or not to discussing whether Sakamoto lost his mind and started going crazy after he closed the book.

Some Sakamoto fans who didn't know what was going on couldn't accept this - you just said you were closing the book a second ago, and I'm obviously still sad for you. My mind is full of wanting to read your new comics.

Then the next second I see you being mean to your colleagues on the Internet? And it’s still sour after eating lemon?

Take off the powder, take off the powder.

Even Higashikata's eyes were slightly attracted by this inexplicable turmoil.

He had been concentrating on drawing comics, but Yumi Takahashi suddenly mentioned this popular post on the Internet, which made Tonoji a little curious, and he made a special trip online to take a look.

To be fair, Higashinoji thinks this post is really well written, written by someone with professional knowledge.

However, the other party obviously doesn’t understand the current Internet trend. When others are saying that "Unnatural Death" is good-looking, you have to jump out and say that it is not good-looking and the painting is very rubbish. Isn’t this the standard Japanese ky (meaning that it is not good-looking)? People who know the air), do you want to scold me? This is the trend on the Internet. Currently, most comic readers like to read comments praising "Unnatural Death".

Tonoji was still a little interested in the content of this post, but when he saw that the other party was affiliated with Sakamoto Studio and almost had to pull out the color of his underwear, he couldn't help but open his mouth and feel a little gloating.

He is a person with this kind of temperament. Don't talk to him about forgiveness or forgiveness. It's all pure bullshit.

Others are secretly sharpening their knives to stab you, but you still have to forgive them. Wouldn't it be difficult for you to forgive them?

And this Sakamoto is really unlucky for eight lifetimes.

This post was probably a spam post that he used to vent, and the other party probably didn't pay much attention to it, but it happened that this spam post became popular, and his identity was dug out, which is simply a case of bad luck.

Funny indeed.

However, although this matter caused uproar outside the comics industry, there was not much movement within the comics industry. There were not even a few review magazines willing to express their opinions on this matter.

After all, Sakamoto has already closed his book, so what’s the point of trolling an author who has been temporarily closed? At worst, the other party can just pretend to be dead.

Besides, we can’t see each other even when we look up, so there’s no need to offend people to death.

The remaining bubblers who liked to communicate in the forum only glanced at the locked posts and found that Sakamoto had logged out of the account. Then they shook their heads and shifted their focus back to the "Unnatural Death" comic.

The seventh episode of "Unnatural Death" is released!

"No, that room was opened by someone before. This was a homicide. We told the Maori police officer and submitted the information."

"They probably pretended they didn't see it."

"Why?"

"The victim was alone and wanted to die. The family head's relatives wanted to close the case as soon as possible. The police still have many major cases on hand. It is better to do less than to do more. We can pretend not to see it and everyone will be happy."

"Please wait!"

Misumi Mikoto raised her eyes. In the manga, she said this with a particularly complicated expression, and it was unclear whether she was sad or sad:

"What about her message asking for help? She was not saved while she was alive. Do we have to turn a blind eye even after she dies?"

There seemed to be light in her beautiful big eyes.

silence.

There was a long silence.

Under Higashinoji's vivid storyboarding, the two people in this shot are looking at each other, with only a long, silent ellipsis in the middle.

Then there is the director of UDI

The director of the Unnatural Death Research Institute turned his face sideways and said without looking directly into Misumi Mikoto's eyes: "We have tried our best. Everything we can do has been done."

The pain and helplessness are reflected in this series of perfect storyboards.

Not only will justice be late, it may even be absent.

This gloomy plot made Takahashi Yumi, a girl who has always been lively and energetic, unable to stop sighing: "It feels so irritating! But why is she so beautiful?"

Fujiwara Aoi next to her glanced at Yumi Takahashi, then reached out and flipped through the seventh chapter of "Unnatural Death" before sighing.

“Higashino-san’s comics are really getting better and better.”

The 'manga drawing is getting better and better' here does not mean that Higashinoji's drawing skills have improved.

Rather, it specifically refers to Higashinoji’s use of comic storyboards, distance, and radiation.

Some comics with poor viewing quality will make your eyes so tired that you don’t know where to look.

And some well-shot comics will make you feel like you are watching a movie.

This is definitely not a joke.

Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death" already has this momentum.

The other person has only been drawing comics for a year and has already evolved to this point. It is no problem to say "quickly".

While this progress is rapid, Higashinoji's level on the other hand is also extremely improved——

Misumi Mikoto and her subordinate Rokuro went to look for clues privately, and they already had a clue.

And it is this plot that is key and sufficiently attractive to pay attention to.

It was actually stopped right here by Higashinoji.

This made both Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi look confused.

What's behind it?

Aren't you looking for clues?

Why is it just broken?

Seeing this cut-off at the climax, Yumi Takahashi and Aoi Fujiwara felt an inexplicable emptiness in their bodies, and their eyes were blank.

Thanks to Shanchuan Tongliu, Mo Kongkong, Tongchenggu, and Tianyu Tianze for their rewards! Thank you so much!