Tokyo life starting with painting

Seo Daigo actually didn't think about anything.

But unfortunately, the development potential of site P is too great. Seo Daigo can conclude that this website will definitely become Japan's number one illustration website in the future after just a cursory glance at the data.

The reason why he didn't talk about Japan's number one traffic website was because he couldn't say enough. In fact, he still wanted to go to the newly established p station operation department of Higashino Studio to have a look.

As for whether the data is fake, Seo Daigo doesn't think Higashinoji and the others would cheat on such important data. And others are not fools. It can be seen at a glance whether it is fake.

Put aside these miscellaneous thoughts.

Seo Daigo has finally received his first mission.

"An Illustration Competition with the theme of 'Rain'?"

Listening to Higashinoji's words, Seo Daigo took the draft plan handed over to him and began to read it carefully.

He had to say that the project written by Higashinoji and Yano Ryuichi was actually very good, and some of the ideas were quite novel.

The most important thing is that the illustration website holds a competition, and it is a huge prize totaling 11 million yen. This was still a gimmick in Japan in 2005.

Even some illustrators who don’t know about p station will definitely be moved when they see this exaggerated amount.

Seo Daigo quickly figured out the way, raised his head and replied: "I understand, Mr. Higashino, but besides executing this project, can I make some modifications myself? For example, here."

Seo Daigo pointed to the audition stage and said: "It's better to have more audition reviewers here. After all, this is the first competition of Station P. I think the number of participants will definitely not be small. If there are too many submissions, there will be no review. There will be a lot of pressure.”

Then he thought about it and said: "It would be better to add some participation restrictions. For example, contestants must have more than three works on the p station."

In this kind of competition that brings together painting enthusiasts, there will definitely be a lot of crude paintings.

After all, the entry threshold is too low. Anyone who is a registered member of station P can participate. In order to prevent the review pressure from being too great, it is best to add more thresholds to prevent people who are just joining in the fun and not in the mood to compete from making trouble.

Seeing Seo Daigo quickly put forward two or three useful suggestions, Higashinoji also sighed a little.

As expected of the editor-in-chief of Yanzhu Publishing House, he is really familiar with this kind of activities. (Comic magazines basically have competitions such as Newcomer Awards or Monthly Awards. Winning the Newcomer Awards or Monthly Awards will qualify you to debut as a comic book author.)

Higashinoji is still thinking like this.

Seo Daigo on the other side frowned again and said: "By the way, Mr. Higashino, does your competition require all ages, or can R18s also participate? There must be clear restrictions in this regard, because I found that on the pixiv website, R18s The works also occupy a lot of space.”

The so-called 'all ages' actually means 'all ages can watch', and 'R18' actually means that readers over 18 years old can only view it.

Higashinoji really missed this aspect. He has never run a website and has never considered this.

At this time, when he heard Seo Daigo come up with an idea, he came back to his senses and said: "Of course it must be for all ages."

You must know that this is the first large-scale event of the P station. It is GHS from the beginning, which is too fearless.

He didn't want to be labeled as "endangering the physical and mental health of minors" by some media and newspapers.

After all, there are many high school students aged fifteen or sixteen among the registered users of site p.

"I think so too." Seo Daigo breathed out a little and relaxed a little.

He was actually quite afraid of Higashinoji suddenly saying 'R18' just now.

After all, GHS is very gimmicky. In the short term, this can definitely increase the number of website registrations.

But in the long run, this may not be the case.

Now that there are so many registered users on site p, if you do these exciting things in public, others will only have various negative impressions of your website.

It is definitely not possible for a new website to only look at short-term benefits.

Seo Daigo breathed a sigh of relief. He was about to turn around and work on his Grand Prize Competition planning project, but he was stopped by Higashinoji before he could even take two steps.

This time Higashinoji didn't tell him about work matters, but asked a little curiously: "Speaking of Seo-san, I heard that you seemed to have had a very unhappy time with "Chiyo" published by Iwazuki Publishing House? "

Well.?

Seo Daigo looked at Higashinoji in surprise, then touched his head and said with a smile: "It can't be said that it was unpleasant, I just had a fight before leaving."

He was also the type of person who was tolerant and did not tell Higashinoji about the Iwazuki Publishing House faction's suppression of him.

"Really?" Higashinoji didn't ask too much about Seo Daigo's words. He just took out a newspaper from the side: "I just saw this newspaper today and wanted you to read it."

"What kind of newspaper is it?" Seo Daigo came over curiously.

The contents of the newspaper made him frown instantly: "This is"

Iwatsu Publishing House "Chiyo" has decided to re-use the controversial manga author Horikoshi Hanpei.

"The current editor-in-chief of "Chiyo" is really brave." Higashino sighed next to him.

Of course, Higashinoji knew why Iwazuki Publishing House kicked out Seo and immediately hired Horikoshi Hanpei.

It's probably because the sales of "Chiyo" have dropped too sharply recently.

They want to rely on Horikoshi Hanpei's "Investigation Team" to increase sales and compete with Higashinoji's "Hansawa Naoki".

"But that's basically impossible."

Seo Daigo put down the newspaper and shook his head.

Dreams are plump, but reality is generally skinny.

Not to mention one Horikoshi Hanpei, even if there are five or six more Horikoshi Hanpei, they will definitely not be the opponent of Higashinoji's "Hansawa Naoki".

And to be honest, the behavior of the newly appointed editor-in-chief more or less slapped him in the face, Seo Daigo.

The author that Seo Daigo did not adopt, he chose to adopt.

But Seo Daigo had to admit that the newly appointed editor-in-chief was indeed quite capable.

At the bottom of the newspaper is a picture of Horikoshi Hanpei bowing and apologizing to the people.

Horikoshi Hanpei has a standard bad temper. When Seo Daigo persuaded him to apologize, he ignored it at all and seemed to refuse to apologize even to death.

But I don’t know what tricks the new editor-in-chief used to actually get the other party to take the initiative to publish an apology in the newspaper.

"What is the name of the new editor-in-chief of Yanzhu Publishing House?" Higashinoji asked with some interest.

". His name should be Hiroto Komiya." Seo Daigo replied: "He is an editor from the old Iwakaku Publishing House. I have the impression that he is a particularly opportunistic person."

"It was not easy for him to climb to the position of editor-in-chief this time. He definitely wanted to stay on for a longer time, so he approached Hanpei Horikoshi to cooperate."

To be honest, Seo Daigo is a bit disgusting.

Hiroto Omiya once again found Horikoshi Hanpei to cooperate, simply because he wanted to increase the sales of "Chiyo" and thus secure his position as editor-in-chief.

This is simply a standard businessman's face, with only interests in mind and no regard for moral bottom lines.

Similarly, the fact that Iwasuki Publishing House re-found Horikoshi Hanpei has also aroused heated comments on the Internet. Many people expressed disgust, disgusting and other attitudes towards this, apparently because they thought Iwasuki Publishing House looked too ugly.

"Hiroto Komiya," Higashinoji murmured thoughtfully as he listened to Seo's introduction, but did not continue to dwell on this topic.

He looked very calm.

Seeing his expression, Seo Daigo couldn't help but ask: "What do Mr. Higashino think of this?"

"What else can I do?"

Higashinoji's words to Seo were a bit funny: "Horikoshi Hanpei. Ten more won't be enough to beat Hansawa Naoki."

Higashinoji smiled when he said this, and his expression was very calm. It seemed that it didn't take much effort to hang Horikoshi up and beat him.

His expression was so convincing that even Seo Daigo was stunned for a while.

Then Seo teased Higashinoji: "Teacher Higashino is really confident."

"Tell the truth." Higashino replied cheerfully.

After sending Seo Daigo to continue working, Higashinoji didn't hesitate, found an empty spot and began to draw "Hansawa Naoki".

And on the other side, Rock Building Press.

The new editor-in-chief Hiroto Omiya, who kicked out Seo Daigo, was frowning as he looked at the just-released Oricon Comics O-list sales list.

The first place was undoubtedly taken directly by "Naoki Hansawa".

This made Omiya Hiroto couldn't help but scratch his hair and take a deep breath.

The plot of "Hanzawa Naoki" has now reached its climax.

At the beginning of this year, it ranked first on the Oricon sales list with an unstoppable momentum, and at the same time it pushed the works of all other publishers to the ground.

This naturally includes all the works of Yanzhu Publishing House.

And this is also the first question that Omiya Hiroto faces when he takes office - how to defeat "Hansawa Naoki"?

He thought about this question for a long time without an answer.

Because the data of "Naoki Hansawa" is really terrifying.

It's even scarier than "Unnatural Death" which dominated the comic book publishing industry last year.

Even if he finds Hanpei Horikoshi again and lets him re-serialize it in "Chiyo", Hiroto Omiya feels that it will be difficult to defeat Higashinoji.

"This opponent is too invincible."

Omiya Hiroto couldn't help but scratch his hair again.

Facing "Naoki Hansawa" head-on? No matter how hard you think, you can't beat it.

Use an extra move? Investigate Tonoji? But there is no scandal at all in Tonoji.

Omiya Hiroto thought of various methods.

Unlike Seo Daigo, who is upright, he thinks of all kinds of evil ways.

What about spreading scandals maliciously, asking some tabloid paparazzi to write some unfounded exposure copy, or simply asking someone to go to Higashinoji's doorstep to influence his creation?

He had all these thoughts.

He is not like the idiot Seo Daigo who has resigned. He just wants to defeat Higashinoji by relying on the excellent quality of his own magazine - competition is inherently omnipotent.

but

"I really can't find any way to defeat Higashinoji."

Hiroto Omiya knocked on the table hard, and then took a deep breath.

After debuting for so long, he has never heard of any scandals involving Higashino. Exposing some unfounded scandals may be used by Higashino to expand his influence again.

As for finding someone to stay in front of Higashinoji's house, this is a good idea.

For example, let's find someone to pour chicken blood on the door of his house or something like that.

But what if this is revealed?

At that time, he, the editor-in-chief, shouldn’t he immediately take the blame and resign?

The only thing that makes him feel a little relieved now is that he found Hanpei Horikoshi and reestablished a cooperative relationship with him.

He felt that relying on the influence of "Investigation Search Team", at least the sales of "Chiyo" would not drop any further, and his position as editor-in-chief should still be quite secure.

And just when Omiya Hiroto was thinking like this.

The atmosphere in the "Chiyo" editorial department is a bit dull - this is already the norm in the "Chiyo" editorial department.

In the past, when Seo Daigo was around, he would encourage them from time to time, saying, 'Don't be afraid if you can't beat "Hansawa Naoki", just try harder. ’

Although they were always at a disadvantage at that time, their mental state at work was very good, and everyone actively discussed how to defeat Higashinoji.

But as soon as the new editor-in-chief took office, he contacted the author of the issue, Horikoshi Hanpei, and reprimanded them, saying that they should pay attention to the pillar author of Horikoshi Hanpei.

But everyone knows what Horikoshi Hanpei did.

As long as the three views are not extremely distorted, it is impossible for any editor to agree with Omiya Hiroto's approach.

And since when does a giant publishing house like us have to rely on the works of a guy with a bad character to support its business?

Most editors were dissatisfied with Horikoshi Hanpei, but they could not resist Omiya Hiroto's request, so they could only hold their noses and tilt publicity resources towards Horikoshi Hanpei.

This made the originally dignified atmosphere in the editorial department even more depressing.

Many editors are dissatisfied with their work.

The atmosphere in the entire editorial department also became decadent.

The atmosphere in the editorial office will naturally affect the author's creative enthusiasm.

Especially when the new editor-in-chief directed most of his publicity resources to a comic book author with a bad character, many of his senior comic book authors expressed dissatisfaction.

Why does Horikoshi Hanpei get so many resources?

Are you so sure that he can win Higashinoji's "Naoki Hansawa"? Haven't we been losing all the time?

These rumors spread everywhere in the editorial department, and soon reached the ears of Horikoshi Hanpei.

At a gathering of authors at Iwazuki Publishing House, he started to fight with some authors who were dissatisfied with his work style in front of many authors, saying that even without you, the "Chiyo" comic magazine can still continue to develop.

This made the comic writers who were criticized by him by name so angry that they left the meeting on the spot.

"So this is why you came to me?"

Higashino glanced at the five or six manga authors from Rock Building Publishing House with a strange expression on his face, feeling rather surprised.

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Why are you looking to me for the conflicts within your company?

I'm not a Pacific Police officer.