Tokyo life starting with painting

The reason why Hosokawa Koharu said "Naoki Hansawa" deserves this evaluation.

It doesn’t just refer to the plot alone.

It also refers to Higashinoji’s painting skills and his grasp of storyboarding.

For example, let’s take the final plot of this draft storyboard.

Hansawa Naoki confronts Asano Branch Manager.

The lens is divided into two sides.

On the right is Naoki Hansawa, and on the left is Branch Manager Asano.

Asano Branch Manager was high-spirited and looked very bright standing under the street lights at night.

As his subordinate Naoki Hanzawa, his face could only be reflected from the side of the light, as if he was being pulled into an abyss.

A mistake of 500 million yen!

This is definitely a big black pot!

The credit of the subordinates goes to the boss, and the subordinates resist the mistakes of the boss.

This is a very famous saying in banks.

Naoki Hansawa was chosen as the scapegoat by the Asano branch president.

Hanzawa Naoki's expression was solemn and his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled - this was a very 'hard-working' expression.

Hosokawa Koharu, who noticed this at the time, was stunned.

You know, this is just a comic.

How did Higashinoji draw a flat, cartoonish simplified human face with that feeling of "force"?

This painting skill is truly amazing.

It really brings a flat image to life.

On the other side, Branch Manager Asano was chatting and laughing with a calm face, as if he didn't care at all about the life and death of his subordinate Naoki Hansawa.

The lights of the street lights flickered on and off, signaling the breakup between the two parties.

The huge loan scam that makes people breathless, the tense atmosphere, the underhanded lines, and the depressing lines and shadows!

Is this the modern workplace?

It's obviously just a draft storyboard, but Higashinoji relied on his terrifying basic skills to draw something that feels like a manga original.

Therefore, the reason why Hosokawa Koharu thinks "Hanzawa Naoki" is wonderful.

Half of it is due to the wonderful plot itself.

As for the other half, Higashinoji's painting work definitely deserves a lot of credit.

Hosokawa Koharu could even say a rude word.

Let’s just talk about painters.

No comic book author from any publishing house can match Higashinoji!

She spoke so highly of "Naoki Hansawa" that even Tonoji felt a little uncomfortable with it.

After all, according to previous routines, Hosokawa Koharu will more or less express some concerns about Higashinoji's theme and plot.

And this time, his preparation time was indeed very short, and he produced "Naoki Hansawa" in just one week.

Doesn’t Hosokawa Koharu need to express some more worries?

But this time, Hosokawa Koharu skipped all these conventions and started directly to praise.

This is obviously inconsistent with common sense.

Seemingly sensing Higashinoji's thoughts, Hosokawa Koharu smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Mr. Higashino, don't you think "Naoki Hansawa" deserves this evaluation?"

She originally thought Higashinoji would be a little more modest.

But what she didn't expect was that Higashinoji just nodded and continued confidently: "I think "Naoki Hansawa" fully deserves this evaluation."

This made Hosokawa Koharu cough twice before continuing: "As expected of Mr. Higashino, he is always so confident in his work."

Regarding Hosokawa Koharu's words, Tonoji just smiled and nodded.

joke.

This was a phenomenal Japanese drama back then.

The plots are all top notch.

It is not like ordinary Japanese dramas, where there is only one climax in each episode.

"Hansawa Naoki" has two or three climax points in each episode, with various twists and turns.

Although comics cannot recruit outstanding actors like Masato Sakai like Japanese dramas.

But Higashinoji's painting skills can completely make up for this.

If he wasn't confident yet, then Higashinoji really felt that he should find a trash can and throw himself in it.

"Then I will temporarily accept this draft storyboard of "Hanzawa Naoki", Mr. Higashino."

Hosokawa Koharu said as he stuffed the draft storyboard into his briefcase.

As mentioned before, this draft storyboard still needs to be brought back for discussion.

After all, this is Higashino Tsukasa's work.

As for serial meetings,

Generally speaking, each comic author's work can only be serialized in a weekly or monthly magazine through a serialization meeting, that is, if a majority of editorial team leaders vote in favor.

But Higashino Tsukasa's works can completely ignore this rule and start serialization after following the process.

Some may say this is unfair to other works.

But that’s what a publishing house is.

As long as Higashinoji's work is published, there will be no objection from the editorial team leader.

After collecting the draft storyboard, Hosokawa Koharu introduced Higashino Chihaya again.

"Editor of Urashima Publishing House...?" Chihaya Higashino coughed dryly, then bowed deeply in embarrassment: "I'm really sorry."

She probably had some shadow of Chihaya Higashino from before, so just now she thought that Koharu Hosokawa and Tsukasa Higashino might be having some kind of office romance.

But now seeing the expression on Hosokawa Koharu's unwillingness to dodge and not feeling guilty at all, she felt that she might have gone astray.

"Nothing, Chihaya." Hosokawa Koharu smiled generously, shook hands, and then exchanged greetings with Higashino Chihaya and briefly introduced his previous relationship with her.

In the past, Chihaya Higashino and Koharu Hosokawa could be considered friends.

Although now starting from scratch.

But Higashino Chihaya always felt that she was very familiar with the other person, and they could understand each other just by exchanging a few words.

There may be traces of Higashino Chihaya and Hosokawa Koharu's previous exchanges in this.

Watching Hosokawa Koharu turn around and leave, Higashino Chihaya breathed a sigh of relief, then came to his brother and started questioning him directly.

"Asi, do you have any feelings for Sister Xiaochun?"

"Ah?" Higashino glanced at her inexplicably.

Didn’t Hosokawa Koharu introduce it just now? It's just that the two of them are just good friends.

Why did Higashino Chihaya come to me to ask a question or two?

Higashinoji didn't understand what Higashino Chihaya meant.

But soon I heard her explanation:

"It's also possible that Sister Xiaochun is shy and doesn't want to tell me the truth. But Sister Xiaochun is a bit old. By the time you go to college, Asi, Sister Xiaochun will be 26 or 7 years old, right? This is a problem. .”

This was so reasonable and well-founded that Touyesi couldn't help but laugh or cry.

"It's not what you think. Xiaochun and I are just good friends."

Although Higashinoji calls him Editor Hosokawa at work, there is no problem in calling him by the name Hosokawa Koharu in private.

"Really? I'm just a little worried about this. Compared to Sister Xiaochun, Lianghua is still a little green. After all, she is only a high school student. Don't you boys like older ones?"

"Then you are really insulting us boys. What do you mean by liking older people?"

"Really?" Chihaya Higashino glanced at Higashinoji sideways: "So, Aji, what type do you guys like?"

Higashinoji smiled and took a sip of tea before explaining.

"We boys like good-looking ones."

Men.

After all, we just like good-looking people with good figures. This is human nature.

As for the others.

Higashinoji guessed that the boys really hadn’t given it much thought.

"Why?"

Higashino Chihaya was stunned by Higashinoji's words.

Based on this standard, isn't she also in this range?

Higashino Chihaya was stunned and seemed to want to say something, but before she could speak, Higashinoji, who seemed to see through her mind, flicked her smooth forehead hard.

This action was like teaching a child, and Chihaya Higashino couldn't help but glare at the other party.

This is her trump card against Higashinoji.

As for other ways.?

She couldn't hit or scold Higashinoji, right?

My younger brother can be considered a very famous author.

As a sister, she naturally wants to save face for the other party.

With no choice but to do so, she could only stare at Higashi Yesi slightly, hoping to regain a little bit of her sister's dignity.

But if you look at it from Higashinoji's perspective.

Her actions actually gave the feeling of a child acting like a spoiled child when she was angry.

"A complete workplace comic?"

When he learned about Higashinoji's new comics, Editor-in-Chief Urashima raised his head with a somewhat surprised expression.

A little surprised indeed.

He has always known Higashinoji's path. After all, Higashiyoshi is a half-monastic comic book author.

But even the editor-in-chief Urashima didn't expect that his approach would be so wild.

The half-forensic and half-detective theme of the last "Unnatural Death" was enough to go off the beaten path.

Unexpectedly, Higashinoji would be more biased this time.

Speaking of the workplace.

Most people probably find it boring and boring.

Because they usually experience too much injustice and unequal treatment in the workplace.

And Higashinoji actually chose this kind of subject matter.

And the most important thing is that Higashinoji has no experience in the workplace.

At most, I just worked with the production team of the animated film "The Ring" to produce "The Ring".

workplace comics

In the opinion of Chief Editor Urashima, this must be a challenge for Higashinoji.

but--

"Since it's Mr. Higashino, I'm sure that what he comes up with will definitely not disappoint me, right? Editor Hosokawa."

Editor-in-chief Urashima smiled, his anticipation for Tonoji aroused to the fullest.

"This work by Mr. Higashino is indeed amazing." Hosokawa Koharu replied with a smile: "It will definitely exceed your imagination, Chief Editor Urashima."

"Beyond imagination? Editor Hosokawa is going too far."

Editor-in-chief Urashima happily accepted "Naoki Hansawa" from Higashinoji.

At the same time, he did not forget to add: "My evaluation of Mr. Higashino's comics has always been a perfect 100 points. This is already the highest evaluation."

yes.

He was already full of expectations and evaluations. If Higashinoji could still surprise him, what would the other party achieve?

but

"Editor Hosokawa, you should have printed a copy of this draft storyboard for other editors, right?"

"I did ask someone from the administrative department to help print it."

Hosokawa Koharu nodded.

"Oh?" Editor-in-Chief Urashima became interested: "In this case, let's not hide away from the discussion. Brainstorming is the best option."

"This is a little bad, Chief Editor Urashima." Hosokawa Koharu looked embarrassed: "Although this work by Mr. Higashino is very exciting, in the final analysis it is just a storyboard draft, not the original manga. Just call it out directly like this All edit discussions"

Editor-in-Chief Urashima convenes all editors for discussion and Hosokawa Koharu distributes the draft storyboards and asks editors to read them. The meaning is completely different.

The former is of a command nature.

The latter is a request for inquiry.

The most important thing is that Higashinoji is still just a draft of the storyboard, and Editor-in-Chief Urashima's commanding behavior seems to others to be obvious favoritism.

Favoring her and Higashinoji.

This is actually not a good thing for her, a relatively junior editorial team leader.

Editor-in-chief Urashima cheerfully didn't care about Hosokawa Koharu's concerns.

“Even if it’s just a storyboard draft, I believe that Mr. Higashino’s work is worth doing.”

"As for the issue of favoritism, if the authors they have can produce results like Mr. Higashino's, I will also choose to be partial."

Yes, if you don’t have grades, everything you say is in vain.

Editor-in-chief Urashima simply stood up, walked out the door with the draft storyboard in hand, and summoned the editors in the editorial department at the same time.

"Everyone, please take a look at the work that editor Hosokawa just printed. This is the storyboard draft of the work that the main author of this publishing house, Higashino Tsukasa, is called "Hansawa Naoki"."

As he spoke, Editor-in-Chief Urashima briefly showed the storyboard draft in his hand.

Some senior editors below naturally felt that Editor-in-Chief Urashima was making a fuss out of a molehill.

They can understand Higashinoji as the mainstay and editor-in-chief’s concern for his works.

but

This isn't even a manga manuscript, it's just a sketch.

Because the author of this comic can change it at will, even doodles.

But now that Editor-in-Chief Urashima has spoken, they have no choice but to take out the storyboard draft of "Naoki Hansawa" from the table on one side and start reviewing it page by page.

Seeing the editor below reviewing the manuscript in a polite manner, the editor-in-chief Urashima here did not hesitate. He took a corner of the manuscript and opened it, reading page by page.

For a moment, the entire Urashima Publishing House was filled with the sound of quietly turning pages.

Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but look up and observe the expressions of the editors, wondering what kind of quality Mr. Higashino's draft storyboard was in their eyes.

But as she looked at it, she realized something was not quite right.

Because I have been reading this for four or five minutes. The editor below actually has no idea of ​​letting go.

You must know that the editors of Urashima Publishing House are very experienced. They only need to read the first half of the manuscript to roughly understand the specific quality of the comic.

But this time they didn't just read the first half.

He even continued to look at the second half word for word.

This means.

Is Mr. Higashino's "Naoki Hansawa" also a rare masterpiece in their eyes?

Hosokawa Koharu held her breath slightly.

If she alone thinks it looks good, then her opinion can only be said to be singular.

But if the entire editorial department thinks it looks good.

Then this "Naoki Hansawa" is really amazing.

However, Hosokawa Koharu didn't believe that such a large group of top editors in the industry could not find any problems at all. They just said, "It looks good, I want to read the next episode."

As she was thinking like this, the editor-in-chief Urashima, who was the first to finish reading "Naoki Hansawa", raised his head and let out a breath.

Then, he turned his head and looked at Hosokawa Koharu.

"Let me tell you my opinion first."

"It looks good. I want to read the next chapter."