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Chapter 329 NHK Red and White Song Battle (8000 words)

"Naoki Hansawa" is the only mainstay manga of Tomishima Publishing House, and the resources obtained from the sales of single volumes are of course very generous.

Promotion on the cover of magazines, promotion on posters in popular areas of bookstores, promotion on posters on the subway.

It has to be said that Tomishima Publishing House, in a sense, is even more concerned about the sales of "Naoki Hansawa" than Higashinoji.

After all, only the sales volume of the single book represents everything. If the sales performance of the single book is average, then all the previous achievements will disappear in the clouds - it will be empty talk if it cannot be sold for money.

What makes Tomishima Press feel relaxed is that they have done a reader survey on the sales of Higashino Tsukasa's single books before.

Approximately more than 70% of readers are willing to spend 400 yen to buy a single book of "Hansawa Naoki".

This greatly boosted their morale.

With so many readers willing to buy it, even if the proportion drops by then, the sales of "Naoki Hansawa" should not lag behind others.

The Internet, media, and magazines are also very optimistic about "Hansawa Naoki". Everyone thinks that "Hansawa Naoki" can achieve good results.

except one person

That was Horikoshi Hanpei, who submitted an article to Tomishima Publishing House to no avail.

He brought his "Research and Search Team" to Tomshima Publishing House, but the result was that he only had a meeting with the editor, and then nothing more. The receptionist editor of Tomshima Publishing House pushed him half-pushed and half-pushed him away.

No publishing house dares to accept such an author's work despite such a huge public opinion effect.

Horikoshi Hanpei is now the equivalent of everyone shouting for beatings.

And when I heard that the sales of his single book had been forcibly cancelled, Higashinoji's "Naoki Hansawa" had already begun preparations for the sale of a single book.

Horikoshi Hanpei was so angry that he almost spit out a mouthful of blood.

He feels that the reason why he is like this now is mainly because Higashinoji proposed the three principles of comics. Without Higashinoji, he would not be like this.

As a result, his works could not be sold, but Higashinoji's "Naoki Hansawa" was sold?

This is amazing!

So Horikoshi Hanpei was thinking that there would be a sales error in Higashinoji's "Hansawa Naoki", and it would be better if it could not be sold at all.

That is how Horikoshi Hanpei was thinking.

The first volume of Higashino Tsukasa's "Naoki Hansawa" has finally gone on sale after two weeks of warm-up.

The entire sales process, in the words of Hosokawa Koharu, is -

"Isn't this too smooth?"

Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but mutter to himself as he looked at the rising sales data collected from bookstores across the country.

It was indeed so smooth. From shipment to sold out, the entire sales process of "Hansawa Naoki" was so smooth that she found it incredible.

You must know that when a main comic is released, the sales will pause for a while, and the sales will gradually become stable.

But "Naoki Hansawa" is completely different.

It has been rising in a straight line.

In just one hour of expedited statistics, "Naoki Hansawa" has already broken the sales mark of 40,000 copies of the first volume - not even Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death" could do this.

But "Naoki Hansawa" did it.

Not only did it happen, but it also exceeded it.

"This is probably the strength of a genius," Hosokawa Koharu murmured to himself.

To be honest, she wanted to go out and check out the bookstore right now.

But after hesitating for a long time, Hosokawa Koharu suppressed his thoughts and continued the monotonous and repetitive statistical work - the sales department next door had no more manpower, so some of their editors had to go over to help.

In the editorial department of "He Shi", this kind of thing happens all the time. After all, no matter how much manpower is replenished, it is natural to get busy as soon as the single book sales day comes.

But it’s a bit rare to be as busy as I am now.

Even the editor-in-chief Urashima personally came to help calculate various data. This can also be seen from the hot sales of Higashinoji's comics.

In Hosokawa Koharu's estimation, if nothing unexpected happens, the sales of the first volume of "Naoki Hansawa" this time will definitely exceed 2.5 million copies, which is two times higher than the period of "Unnatural Death" Three levels.

That is to say, when Hosokawa Koharu was working hard, Oshio Yosuke was surprised by the situation in the bookstore almost one kilometer away from Tomishima Publishing House.

People spontaneously lined up in a row and took the initiative to stand in front of the single copy of "Hansawa Naoki".

To be honest, this is the first time Oshio Yosuke has seen this scene, because when he usually comes to the bookstore, he never queues at all. He just picks up two books, pays for them, and leaves. How can he buy books like this now? They actually had to queue up, making it look like they were holding some kind of autograph session.

"Do young people today value entertainment so much?"

As a middle-aged salaryman in his forties, Oshio Yosuke muttered softly, but quickly took back his words.

After all, he came here this time to buy a single volume of "Hansawa Naoki" by Higashinoji - ever since he read the comic magazine brought back by Oshio Kuma last time, he has been thinking about "Hansawa Naoki" on it.

I finally found half a day to buy a single book, but I still had to queue up.

This is true

Oshio Yosuke shook his head helplessly and stood at the end of the line.

Then

Then he heard the voice coming from behind: "Come on! Come on! I can't lose to those unscrupulous bosses! After dinner, I will complete the tasks assigned by them! I will climb on top of them! Tooth for tooth, Give it back twice as much!”

"Yes! Captain Fujisawa, our team hasn't lost yet! Come on!"

Oshio Yosuke was standing peacefully, but when he heard this series of sounds, he couldn't help but look back.

The speakers were two young men. They seemed to have been employed recently, and their faces were relatively young and immature.

At this time, the two people were reading the latest chapter of "Hanzawa Naoki", their eyes were bright and they looked very excited.

This left Oshio Yosuke speechless for a while.

Why is it that reading a comic is like taking a shot of chicken blood? Looking excited?

Compared to Oshio Yosuke's speechlessness, the bookstore clerk in charge of collecting cash on the other side was not that scared.

On the contrary, he has almost gotten used to it.

After all, he sees this scene often.

Basically every time when "Naoki Hansawa" is serialized to the latest chapter, there will always be a few salarymen who pay money to read the comics, and they will jump up and down as they read, full of enthusiasm.

Some salaried workers say they want to quit their current jobs.

There are also some, like the young man just now, who expressed their desire to make contributions in the company, and finally climbed to the head of the current leader and paid back double the amount.

I don’t know if these salarymen started drinking in the afternoon and went crazy. Anyway, these bookstore employees are used to it.

After seeing off these two guests, Oshio Yosuke waited in line for about five or six minutes, and finally he arrived.

Looking at the four words "Hansawa Naoki" on the cover, and the gloomy expression of Hansawa Naoki looking ahead, Oshio Yosuke took two copies without hesitation.

He wanted to buy one for his son and the other for himself.

The reason why he bought an extra copy for his son was because he wanted to tell the great salt bear Yi that as a father, he had worked very hard to understand him.

"That's safe."

Putting the paper bags of two separate volumes into his briefcase, Oyanyang turned around and looked at the bookstore behind him.

The number of people lining up did not decrease. On the contrary, as it was approaching the afternoon and school students were out of school, more people gathered in the bookstore.

"It is indeed a very good work."

Compared with the previous viewing of comics as an entertainment product through colored glasses, Oshio Yosuke now finds that he can gradually understand the current youth culture.

And the bridge for all this is "Naoki Hansawa" in his hands.

Oshio Yosuke nodded with satisfaction, then turned and walked home.

The sales situation of "Naoki Hansawa" outside can be said to be in full swing, but as the editor-in-chief of New Iwazuki Publishing House, Seo feels a lot of pressure.

Originally, he still held on to the glimmer of hope that "Naoki Hansawa" only had good readership survey data, but its actual sales performance would not be very good.

But now it seems that his hope is about to be shattered.

The huge sales of "Naoki Hansawa" will definitely put more pressure on the comic magazine "Chiyo" of Shin Iwazuki Publishing House.

As long as Higashinoji doesn't do something crazy like Horikoshi Hanpei, the sales volume of his "Naoki Hansawa" will definitely climb to the sales ceiling of Japanese comics.

but.

"That's the sales ceiling for Japanese comics."

Editor-in-chief Seo couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Why is the ceiling called a ceiling? It is called the ceiling precisely because it is difficult to be touched.

If someone could easily touch the ceiling of Japanese comics sales, then why not call the ceiling the ceiling instead of the floor?

But Higashinoji surprised Chief Editor Seo with his own strength.

He just has the ability to become the ceiling of Japanese comics

To be honest, Horikoshi Hanpei originally had this opportunity, but

"That guy."

Chief Editor Seo couldn't help but sigh again.

Not only did he get himself killed, but he also implicated "Chiyo".

Even now, "Chiyo" has not found a work that can replace "Investigation Team".

This made Editor-in-Chief Seo want to find Hanpei Horikoshi and mince his flesh bit by bit and eat it.

It’s really MMP! How could there be such a bad author?

Editor-in-Chief Seo complained for a long time in his mind, but finally retracted his thoughts and turned to thinking about what to do with "Chiyo" next.

If he still can't find a work that can replace "Investigation Team", then he may really have to take the blame and resign.

Because the directors of Xinyanzhu Publishing House won't wait for him long.

Moreover, many people are eyeing the position of editor-in-chief of the "Chiyo" comic magazine. There are countless people waiting for him to take the blame and resign.

This can be regarded as an internal and external trouble.

However, New Yanzhu Publishing House was originally the product of the merger of Yanjiao Publishing House and Mozhu Bookstore, so it is normal for people to be divided.

"It's really a bit difficult to handle."

Editor-in-chief Seo shook his head helplessly and could only continue to think of solutions.

His temperament has always been relatively positive.

Compared with Chief Editor Seo, Horikoshi Hanpei on the other side is not like that.

He looked at "Naoki Hansawa", which was constantly being discussed, and recalled the long queue in front of the bookstore today. He was so angry that he smashed the magazine at hand against the wall.

Bastard! "Naoki Hansawa" is such a best-seller!

Doesn't this comparison make it even more obvious that he is nothing at all?

The more Hanpei Horikoshi read online comments, the angrier he became, so he simply turned off the computer and turned on the TV.

However, as soon as he turned on the TV, he heard the TV host smilingly holding the single book of "Hansawa Naoki" and introducing: "Today we are going to introduce the comic "Hansawa Naoki"."

Looking at the four artistic words "Hanzawa Naoki", Horikoshi Hanpei felt that his vision was a little distorted, and an uncontrollable anger rushed into his heart, making him feel a slight pain in his abdomen and even wanted to vomit.

He had been updating weekly comics for a long time, and he had some physical problems. Recently, he had become very angry, causing him to feel dizzy for no reason.

In this case, Horikoshi Hanpei suppressed his anger, turned off the TV, slapped the remote control on the coffee table, and walked to the balcony.

He goes to see the scenery!

That’s okay! ? You can't be dominated by "Hansawa Naoki", right?

But what a coincidence.

Today, Tomishima Publishing House just happened to have a hot air balloon promotion project - a huge Japanese vertical banner hanging under the ordinary hot air balloon saying "The famous manga "Naoki Hansawa" is on sale" floats in mid-air. Way.

This vertical banner can be seen from a long distance, so of course Horikoshi Hanpei saw it at a glance.

Looking at the four words "Hansawa Naoki", Horikoshi Hanpei felt his blood pressure soar inexplicably. Then he couldn't bear it anymore, his body went limp, and he actually fainted from anger.

However, as the person involved in all this, Higashinoji did not know that Horikoshi Hanpei passed out at home.

Rather than that, he was now looking at the two middle-aged men in front of him with some surprise.

"You are saying that you want to invite me to participate in NHK's Kohaku Uta Battle program?"

"Yes, Mr. Higashino."

One of the middle-aged men in suits and ties continued: "We at NHK Kohaku Uta Battle sincerely invite you to participate in the Kohaku Uta Battle program."

The other party suddenly came to the door. To be honest, Higashinoji didn't expect it at all.

The so-called Red and White Song Battle is actually equivalent to the Japanese version of the Spring Festival Gala, but unlike the Spring Festival Gala, the Red and White Song Battle is mainly divided into red and white groups for men and women, with the two groups singing against each other. songs, and a musical program that determines the winner.

Higashinoji originally just wanted to wait at home for the good news about the sales of "Hansawa Naoki" from Koharu Hosokawa. But he just stayed at home when someone from NHK TV station came to his door.

But Higashinoji wasn't too surprised.

After all, it's almost the end of the year, and it's almost time to sort out the roster for the Kohaku Uta Battle.

But the red and white song battle together?

This sounds interesting.

So whether to agree or not?

Higashikata couldn't help but think.

Thanks to Universo and Zhi Feifei for the reward! Thank you so much!