Tokyo life starting with painting

The three girls who bumped into Higashinoji were obviously panicked, especially Konoe Ryoka. She didn't expect that Higashinoji would get off work early today. She was completely caught off guard, so she covered her face with her hands and tried to numb herself. I feel like Higashinoji probably won’t recognize him anymore.

Then her hand was taken by Higashinoji: "What are you doing? Lianghua?"

Seeing that the surprise battle failed, Takahashi Yumi did not hesitate and directly chose to be the second and fifth son: "I know! Mr. Higashino! I noticed that Lianghua and Aoi were acting strangely recently, so I followed the two of them, and finally found them The two of them parked under the building of Dongye Studio and the rest has nothing to do with me!"

Takahashi Yumi threw the pot away, and Fujiwara Aoi on the other side was so angry that she glared at her fiercely - it was obviously Konoe Ryoka who came to find Higashinoji, and she and Takahashi Yumi were in the same group. This guy has also slandered himself.

She was indeed so angry that she could not speak for this 'good' best friend. You can only open your mouth and finally close it.

Konoe Ryoka, on the other hand, was sandwiched between two people, looking around with shrinking head, feeling quite like "As long as I don't look at Aji, Aji can't see me."

In response, Tonoji just reached out, pinched the soft flesh on both sides of her cheeks, and then pulled away——

"It hurts, it hurts so much, Asagi," Konoe Ryoka then turned her head and said inarticulately.

"What are you guys here for?" Tonoji was a bit dumbfounded. He let go and looked at Konoe Ryoka and her two best friends, whose cheeks were pinched red, and asked simply.

"I came here to visit Asi."

The first person to confess was Konoe Ryoka, and she simply gave up her resistance.

When Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi saw this, they could only tell the cause of the matter - they were Ogyi Konoe Ryoka.

This made Toyoshi, who thought they were here to visit him, couldn't help but smile and shake his head. These little girls were really...

"How's it going? You're all here, do you want to go up and have a look?" Higashino pointed to the upstairs and asked them if they wanted to go to Higashino's studio.

After hearing these words, Takahashi Yumi showed a strong desire to visit. Compared to Konoe Ryoka and Fujiwara Aoi, she is a real fan of manga. Now that she has the opportunity to visit the animation production process, she is of course very grateful. interest.

However, Higashinoji's next sentence dispelled her idea: "The production of "The Winner is Justice" has basically been completed. There is currently no one in Higashino Studio. If you don't want to visit, we can just leave like this."

After saying this, Yumi Takahashi naturally stopped thinking about visiting.

Without the original painter, special effects artist, and sound effects artist, Higashino Studio is just a room with computers and painting tools. There is no need to visit it.

"It's better to wait until someone comes to visit next time. It won't disturb Mr. Higashino, right?"

Takahashi Yumi said thoughtfully.

"No." Higashino replied with a smile: "The atmosphere at the actual production site is very tense. They have too much time to take care of themselves, so they don't have time to care about you. If you want to come then, just call me and let me know."

After making this promise, he took a few girls downstairs, planning to go home just like that.

However, Higashinoji didn't expect that Chinatsu Yamayama would see him walking out with three high school girls.

To be honest, Qianxia on the mountain was dumbfounded.

It turns out that Mr. Higashino likes high school students. No, no, Mr. Higashino is originally a high school student. It’s normal to like high school students. The most important thing is, why are there three of them?

You know, Hasegawa Riko was also interested in Mr. Higashino before. Mr. Higashino is too affectionate, right?

Others only have one seed in their hands, but why does Higashino have a basket?

She shook her head hastily, trying to erase the incident from her mind.

He is equivalent to someone who knows Higashinoji's secret, and in many comics, the person who exposes his boss's secret will never end well.

She decided to play dumb - she didn't see anything.

Shanxia Qianxia just hypnotized herself and watched them leave.

the other side.

"Teacher Higashino, I watched the three-minute film you uploaded. Will it have the same quality when it is released?" Yumi Takahashi asked curiously.

"It's just a short section randomly cut out from the finished product." Higashino replied.

"Really? Isn't this the kind of thing that can defeat an invincible opponent in the world?"

Takahashi Yumi was a little excited.

The quality is too high.

After hearing this, Konoe Ryoka and Fujiwara Aoi subconsciously wanted Takahashi Yumi to be more humble, but before they could speak, they heard Higashinoji reply with a smile: "Yes, I think so too, I am invincible in the world. "

When these words were said, the two of them were instantly speechless.

Higashinoji really deserves to be Higashinoji, which is too confident.

but

"Aji, according to what you said, the production of "The Winner Is Justice" has been completed, so why are you still working so late?" Konoe Ryoka asked in a low voice.

She really didn't quite understand.

"It doesn't mean that the work is over after the production is completed. We still have to hand over the original film to the TV station. In addition, we also have to re-produce the Blu-ray disc and other miscellaneous work." Higashino answered with a smile. .

Then he explained to Konoe Ryoka and the others about the production of Blu-ray discs.

The re-production of Blu-ray discs is something that every animation production company will do, and the sales of Blu-ray discs can explain the performance of this animation from a certain perspective.

There are about one or two episodes of animation stored in one volume (that is, a disc), and the market price is about 5,000 yen. If there are bundled peripherals such as key chains or posters, the price can even reach more than 6,000 yen.

Can you believe it? An animation disc can sell for such a high price in Japan - even based on Japan's consumption level, a disc with a market price of 5,000 yen is very expensive.

In other words, Blu-ray discs are only for core fans, that is, 'enthusiasts'. Even some fans are not particularly willing to spend such a huge amount of money to acquire an entire animation. disc.

After all, most animations have twelve episodes in a season, and the Blu-ray disc is six volumes, and 5000x6 is 30,000 yen, including Japanese tax.

Therefore, if they really want to collect, most Japanese people will probably only buy video tapes. (The picture quality is several notches lower than that of Blu-ray discs).

Therefore, many people in the outside world think that the view that the sales of Blu-ray discs determines everything about animation is actually wrong. At most, it reflects the performance of animation from one aspect.

"So that's it." Konoe Ryoka nodded as she listened.

Five thousand yen per roll was not an unacceptable price for her.

"Speaking of Mr. Higashino, on which TV station is "The Winner Is Justice" shown?" Yumi Takahashi asked with some concern.

As for the 5,000 yen thing, she specially saved the New Year's money just for now. Not to mention that she can come up with 100,000 yen, but 30,000 yen is not a big problem for her.

"The TV station where "The Winner Is Right" is released is Fuji TV. The weekly update time is. If nothing else happens, it should be the time slot of 9pm on Sunday."

Tonoji replied with a smile.

To be honest, he doesn't care much about the sales of Blu-ray discs of "The Winner Is Justified". After all, in a few years, smart phones will appear, and times will gradually change. By then, watching animations will no longer require watching the TV every day. , Japan’s Blu-ray disc operating model of 5,000 yen a piece will gradually collapse. At most, it will only make a little more money in the past few years.

Compared to this, what made Higashinoji sigh was that this time period was really great.

It can be seen that Fuji TV is also more concerned about the production situation of "Winner is Right". You know that in the previous life, this was the broadcast time of Akira Toriyama's "Dragon Ball".

We have the right time and the right place, now it’s up to us whether the audience will give us face or not.

As long as the audience gives it face and sells the screening rights of "The Winner is Justice" to some computer video websites in the future, Tono Studio will be able to make a lot of money.

After all, this time the production of "The Winner Is Justice" Higashinoji also subsidized a lot of money in order to catch up with the schedule. Not counting the 100 million yen in production funds given by investors, Higashinoji had to subsidize 10 million yen for each episode. , eleven episodes total is 110 million yen - this is why "Winner is Justice" is so well produced.

Made with money and manpower.

Coupled with the acquisition of PW Animation Production Company and the subsequent salary payment situation, Tonoji's small treasury was severely plundered.

But to be honest, these are actually just small amounts of money for Higashinoji.

The sales volume of one volume of "Unnatural Death" is more than 800 million yen (excluding tax), plus "Lemon" and Kumamon, which can continue to bring profits. Higashinoji's assets have actually climbed to tens of billions. Yen.

This is the treatment of Japanese national comic book writers. Although it is not as good as the writers who write novels in Japan, the income can be said to be extremely considerable.

So the current investment is irrelevant.

Moreover, as long as the Blu-ray disc and screening rights of "The Winner Is Justice" sell well, the money invested now can basically be repaid.

In order to win the position of this year's hegemonic animation, the entire set of Blu-ray discs needs to sell about 50,000 copies, which means that the revenue of 150 million yen can be recovered by Higashino in an instant.

But the little girls Fujiwara Aoi obviously don't think as much as Higashinoji thought.

The few of them were simply happy that Higashino Tsukasa's work was on Fuji TV, and they chattered about it.

This made Higashinoji also smile, take the initiative to walk beside them, and ask them about the matter of Kita Gymnasium.

"What's the most noteworthy thing about the North School recently? It's probably that summer vacation is about to begin, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Konoe Ryoka thought and replied softly.

Summer vacation.

This overly student vocabulary gave Higashino an inexplicable sense of strangeness.

After all, it has been more than a year since he came to this world, and he has never enjoyed the life of a Japanese high school student. He has always been busy with the things at hand.

But this is of course, the winter period of Japanese comics is only so short, and it was shortened even more after Higashino released "Unnatural Death".

If you want to achieve results, you must seize the current opportunity.

As for other things worth paying attention to, maybe it was during the time when Higashinoji left Kitajuku, I don’t know what methods Principal Ryuichi Yoshimine used to actually give Higashinoji the green light to basically pass all the exams.

This kind of treatment makes Takahashi Yumi, who has never been very bright, envious to death. She has to go to Kitajuku to make up for exams during the summer vacation, which is simply a living hell.

Returning to the summer vacation, Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi started chatting softly.

Probably just discussing where to go after summer vacation.

Takahashi Yumi thought it would be better to go to the beach. She wanted to go to Kanagawa to experience the Great Wave of Kanagawa. On the other hand, Fujiwara Aoi said that it would be better to go to Kyoto to go to Kanagawa. Kinkakuji, Ginkakuji, Nijo Castle, and Kiyomizudera Temple are many places of interest. Yes, there is no need to go to Kanagawa to see the sea. After all, isn’t the sea the only thing that can be seen?

The two of them were arguing fiercely, which made Tonoji couldn't help but turn his head and ask Konoe Ryoka: "Ryuka, where do you plan to go during the summer vacation? Why don't you go where you want to go with Aoi and Yumi?" "

Konoe Ryoka has been studying all the time, and she was also responsible for massaging Higashinoji at night. She was so exhausted that even Higashinoji felt a little distressed - if Yano Ryuichi was like this, Higashinoji would not have much psychological fluctuations.

Sure enough, it would be safer to relax a little.

But after listening to Higashinoji's words, Konoe Ryoka's face suddenly became melancholy. She looked at Higashinoji restlessly, her big eyes unblinking.

What's wrong? Why did Asi suddenly ask me this question?

Noticing the change in Konoe Ryoka's expression, Higashinoji felt a little strange. He calmed down for a while and said, "What's wrong? Ryoka?"

Higashinoji asked this question, and Konoe Ryoka hesitated for a while before replying in a low voice: "I want to stay with Aji during the summer vacation, can't I?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Tonoji was stunned for a moment, and then he responded with a smile and nodded: "Of course. I welcome you to stay by my side, Lianghua."

However, Higashinoji also thought about it for a moment and felt that since Kita Gymnasium was on summer vacation and "The Winner is Justice" was released, he could really take a break.

After all, "Unnatural Death" is almost over. If I don't go out and walk around, not only Higashino Chihaya will become moldy at home, but Higashinoji will also become moldy.

I have to go out and see the scenery throughout the year.

Otherwise, after finally reliving my life, I always feel like I am going to die suddenly in front of the workbench again.

Higashinoji thought and touched Konoe Ryoka's head, then raised his head and looked at the road home ahead.

What we have to wait for now is the release of "The Winner is Right".

Only when he got concrete results in "The Winner is Justice" would he be in the mood to take Konoe Ryoka, Higashino Chihaya and Takahashi Yumi on a trip.

It will be officially released in two weeks.