Tokyo life starting with painting

“We hope Mr. Higashino’s new works can carry the banner of the new magazine.”

Osawa Aikichi expressed his thoughts without hesitation.

In his opinion, the development of the Internet market is still unclear, so there is no problem in giving up some resources to assist Higashino.

And he felt that relying on the strength of their Urashima Publishing House, they could compete with Higashinoji even if they were late entrants, so he didn't need to worry about it at all.

Of course Furuta Shinji next to him had the same idea. The two of them looked at Higashinoji, hoping that he would express his position.

But they actually know it.

This task is not easy. Even Higashinoji, faced with so many outstanding authors who have been serializing for twenty or thirty years, must be a little overwhelmed, right?

Even if Tonoji agrees, he should still hesitate.

"I understand. Leave it to me."

Higashikata immediately agreed without any hesitation.

Sensing Higashinoji's confident tone, Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji couldn't help but froze.

Even if it is workplace talk, Tonoji should symbolically shirk it.

As a result, Higashikata immediately agreed?

They both really didn't expect it.

Higashinoji on the other side ignored their idea.

He has always been a steady comic book author, and he will basically treat the profits in his hands with caution, but this time is different——

The cooperation conditions given by Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji are indeed attractive.

You can imagine it this way.

All comics serialized under Urashima Publishing and Fuji Publishing can be searched through Higashinoji's online comic reading platform, and then viewed

This is bound to attract a lot of Chill and Thriller fans to visit the site.

In other words, it is like the other party feeding the cake directly to his mouth.

If he didn't take a bite, he would really feel sorry for Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji.

But thinking according to this idea, Higashino discovered that in this era, Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji still underestimated the Internet market.

This is true.

They have all worked in the physical paper book publishing industry all their lives, and you suddenly jump out and ask them to care about the Internet industry. Just think about it and you will know that it is impossible.

Just like if you ask people who have been eating sweet tofu brain all their lives to suddenly try salty tofu brain, they will definitely not be able to adapt to it.

Of course Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji didn't know what Higashinoji was thinking.

However, Higashinoji has already agreed, and they will not hesitate.

"In this case, I wish us a happy cooperation, Mr. Higashino."

Osawa Aikichi stretched out his hand and shook Higashinoji's initiative.

"Well, it's a pleasure to work with you."

After shaking hands with the other party, Higashinoji stayed to eat something and discussed the future matters with Osawa Aikichi and the others.

According to what Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji said, the merger of the two publishing houses will take place probably next week.

During this merger period, the editorial departments of the two comic departments were thinking about launching a new comic magazine.

As the main publication of the new comic magazine, Higashino Tsukasa will take the position of general to compete with the new comic magazine published by Shin Iwazuki Publishing House.

At the same time, Urashima Publishing House's "Abominable Chill" and Fuji Publishing House's "Thriller" will be retained and divided into two separate publications. Those whose serialization quality is not good enough to be serialized in new comics magazines will continue to be included in "Abominable Chill" and "Abominable Chill" published by Fuji Publishing House. "trembling".

In this way, the serialization status of the remaining authors from Urashima Publishing and Fuji Publishing will not be disrupted.

As for the editor-in-chief of the old "Chill" and the old "Thriller", the choice is even simpler.

After all, after the merger of Urashima and Fuji Publishing, the size of the editorial department will double, so there will be no shortage of candidates for the editor-in-chief.

From their conversation, Higashino probably understood that they had probably planned the merger for a long time, otherwise they wouldn't be so familiar and methodical.

And when Higashinoji asked what their literature department should do.

Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji were a little hard to answer.

After all, with the mainstay of the comics department being Higashinoji, the two of them still have some room for maneuver.

But in the literature department, even if the two of them merge, they will still be weaker than the other party - this is a pure hard power gap that cannot be changed.

They couldn't just tear Higashinoji in half and put one half in the comics department as a doorkeeper, and the other half in the literature department as a doorkeeper, right?

They couldn't think of any good solution for the time being, and Higashinoji didn't continue to ask questions. He just finished the meal in a decent manner and stood up to leave.

Seeing Higashinoji leaving, Osawa Akiyoshi and Furuta Shinji couldn't help but look at each other.

"Teacher Higashino is really a person who can easily refresh my knowledge." Osawa Aikichi smiled: "I thought he would hesitate, but he agreed without hesitation."

"This shows that Mr. Higashino has confidence in his new work."

Shinji Furuta couldn't help but joke: "Our Fuji Publishing House's "Thriller" has been suppressed by him all the time, and he didn't even have a chance to raise his head."

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Only the opponent knows the opponent better. It is not that Shinji Furuta has never studied Higashino Tsukasa's comics.

There really is no comparison.

Even if Suzukiha worked hard on painting and drawing skills later on, he still couldn't beat Higashino Tsukasa's comic works.

In other words, this opponent has now become a teammate.

Shinji Furuta pondered and continued to ask, "President Osawa, do you know the status of Mr. Higashino's new comics? Although I have great confidence in him, the competition with New Iwazuki Publishing House is not that simple. "

"I just got the news today that Mr. Higashino's new comic is called "Hansawa Naoki". It is a standard professional comic."

Osawa Akiyoshi informed the other party about the news of Higashino Tsukasa's new comic.

"Professional comics?" Furuta Shinji opened his mouth, and it took him a while to react. He couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Isn't this too confident?"

Yes, this is too confident.

"If this "Naoki Hansawa" can also successfully become a hit, then Mr. Higashino can really be said to be leading an era."

Furuta Shinji murmured to himself.

Every era has a leader.

It's like the newspaper cartoon "Miss Conch".

Another example is the national animation "Chibi Maruko-chan".

The achievements created by these comics are heights that many authors of the same era cannot achieve.

It would be really amazing if Higashinoji could do it.

"Chief Editor Furuta, you are thinking too far ahead." Osawa Akiyoshi shook his head and sighed: "What we should face now is the difficulty in front of us."

New Yanzhu Publishing House is coming in force.

That's what they should consider.

As for whether Higashinoji can get to that point, it has little to do with their publishing house.

"President Osawa is right." Furuta Shinji nodded in agreement and stopped spending time thinking about this issue.

They have already prepared their troops, and now it's up to New Yanzhu Publishing House to make a move.

Two days after returning home, Higashinoji dived directly into "Hansawa Naoki".

He wants to sharpen this long-prepared comic so that when the competition officially begins, he will be able to stab people with it more easily.

The first chapter of "Hansawa Naoki" has a total of fifty-five pages. The most important thing is the facial profiles of the hero and villain.

In order to restore Masato Sakai's "forced" feeling in the Japanese drama, Higashino spent a lot of time. Not only did he find many real-life figures to copy, but he also asked Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi to stretch themselves. A face that had been copied for a long time, even Konoe Ryoka could not escape his brush.

After drawing about a hundred scraps, he finally figured out the feeling of "strong" facial expressions but not stiffness.

This process made Fujiwara Aoi and Takahashi Yumi complain endlessly. After all, the conditions given by Higashinoji were very confusing, "the facial expression is strong, but it must not be unnatural".

As a result, they put on a bad face for several days in a row, and their facial muscles became sore.

This made Tonoji sigh a little.

He hasn't asked too much for Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi. God knows how much suffering Masato Sakai suffered in order to perform this feeling?

There may also be some people who feel that the facial expressions of the actors in "Hanzawa Naoki" are a bit overdone, and that the performance is too 'hard' - but this actually depends on the country.

TV dramas in Japan basically use this "Yan Yi" interpretation style.

After that, Higashinoji spent some time and directly called Higashino Chihaya and Konoe Ryoka out and asked them to be Naoki Hansawa and the Asano branch president, standing on both sides of the street lights in the park.

Chihaya Higashino refused to be the villain, Asano Branch Manager, so Higashinoji had no choice but to coax and lie to her, saying that Asano Branch Manager was actually a good person, and Hansawa Naoki was the villain. Later, Hansawa Naoki would bully Asano Branch Manager, a 'good guy' , let him sit down.

After hearing this, Chihaya Higashino became the president of the Asano branch with a proud look on her face. Her proud look of "No matter how much my girlfriend kisses me, I never kiss her sister" really looks a bit like the president of the Asano branch.

And Konoe Ryoka, who was next to her, also imitated Hansawa Naoki's expression for a few days. Her face was tense and she looked extremely serious. Although paired with her beautiful face, she looked malicious and pretending to be cute.

But Tonoji didn't care about this.

As a professional painter, he has enough imagination.

The heat and color of the light. The facial muscles of Branch Manager Asano and Hansawa Naoki when they face each other face to face.

He largely imagined it through this semi-simulated scenario.

And it didn’t take long to draw the ideal manuscript.

"Asa Asa, President Asano is a really good person, right?" Chihaya Higashino asked excitedly as he looked at the original drawings drawn by Higashino.

The role she played this time was pretty good, at least not as clumsy and silly as Kumamon, so of course she cared a little.

"Well, he is a person who cares about his family."

Higashinoji replied cheerfully.

Strictly speaking, there are no good guys or bad guys in "Naoki Hansawa".

The reason why Asano Branch President collaborated with Higashida Mitsuru to defraud loans was because he owed 50 million yen. If he did not cooperate, his family would fall apart.

But for Naoki Hansawa and those who work hard, President Asano is indeed a bad person. The debts he owes and the destruction of other people's families cannot be washed away at all.

Chihaya Higashino is smiling cheerfully now. When the identity of Asano Branch Manager is exposed, he might be able to take out his younger brother and beat him up.

Next to them, Konoe Ryoka, Takahashi Yumi, and Fujiwara Aoi were rubbing their faces.

In order to cooperate with Higashinoji in drawing comics these days, they can be said to have tried their best - such as 'laughing with a sullen face', 'crying with a sullen face', and 'looking very unwilling even though they have a sullen face'.

When they heard Higashinoji's requests, they were actually stunned.

Could it be possible to have so many expression changes with a straight face?

"Teacher Higashino, is this "Hanzawa Naoki" really that good? I have been holding back from asking you for the original manuscript. But please don't let me down."

Takahashi Yumi said.

Compared to Higashinoji's manuscript, she still prefers to buy comic magazines and read them, so she has been holding back from reading Higashinoji's "Hanzawa Naoki" manuscript.

"Don't worry, this comic is probably the best one I can draw so far."

Tonoji smiled and nodded.

Especially the first episode.

He was particularly meticulous in his brushwork, and for the front page color page, he used many painting techniques used by professional painters. The shadows were not cut from dotted paper, but drawn one by one by him.

Don’t say anything else.

When this quality of painting is released, many people will probably feel like they are looking at wallpaper.

"Is it so exaggerated? Is it better than "Unnatural Death"?" Fujiwara Aoi is more rational. After listening to Higashinoji's words, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and asked.

If there are any masterpieces by Higashinoji now, then most people would probably answer "Unnatural Death" and "Midnight Ring".

After all, one is a debut work, and the other is a masterpiece that has reached the ceiling.

But Higashinoji's current tone seems to be able to surpass these two works.

This made Fujiwara Aoi couldn't help but ask.

"If nothing else happens."

Tonoji smiled and nodded in reply.

"Unnatural Death" still had some flaws in the painting, but by the time of "Hanzawa Naoki" they had all been made up for.

He has tried his best.

Next, let’s see what the readers think.

Higashinoji put "Naoki Hansawa" into the comic document bag and then let out a sigh of satisfaction.

He has finally finished drawing the first chapter of "Naoki Hansawa".

This knife is sharpened.

Higashinoji felt a little excited when he saw it, and wanted to call Hosokawa Koharu and say, 'Tit for tooth, double the amount'.

There is no guarantee that young employees who have just entered society will call their bosses directly after reading this comic.

"But it doesn't have much to do with me."

Tonoji coughed dryly, selectively skipping this question, and at the same time focused on the new question.

"Then we'll have to look at the situation of New Iwazhu Publishing House, Urashima and Fuji Publishing House."

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The new magazines from these two publishers are probably almost ready.

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