Tokyo life starting with painting

Chapter 366 It’s okay to say no earlier (8000 words)

Higashinoji didn't expect that the twentieth chapter of "Hanzawa Naoki" would bring so many chain effects.

His purpose has already changed from 'making money to support Chihaya Higashino' at the beginning to just wanting to be the number one in the Japanese comics industry in the world.

The current highest sales record in the history of Japanese comics is four million volumes per volume, which is slightly behind Japan in its previous life, but not much different.

In order to exceed the average sales volume of 4 million volumes, it is also crucial for the single volume of "Hansawa Naoki" to exceed 3 million volumes this time.

At least Higashinoji thinks so.

He is now focusing on paying attention to the market statistics of "Naoki Hansawa", and asks Hosokawa Koharu to report any disturbance in time.

In this process, pixiv’s first grand prize finally came to an end.

In the end, Higashinoji and Kuromiya Meisa chose "The Cat and the White Chrysanthemum" by P station artist Nakano Arisa based on the number of likes on the work and their own understanding.

After all, although Ohara's paintings are good, they are still far behind Nakano Arisa's energetic composition and emotional expression.

The final selection results were Nakano Arisaki's gold award, Ohara's card silver award, and the remaining seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, silver and bronze awards were evenly divided.

Higashinoji also made a special trip to post a message on his personal account, congratulating Nakano Arisa, Ohara and other award winners——

Originally, after all this was done and all the bonuses were distributed, everyone should be happy.

But what Higashinoji didn't expect was.

Ohara Nobu actually expressed his dissatisfaction directly in Higashinoji's comment section. He felt that his painting was better than Nakano Arisa, and the gold reward should be his.

After all, he is a professional illustrator. How could he not be as good as Nakano Arisa, a newcomer who has never been heard of in the illustrator circle?

The clever thing about Ohara Noboru is that he does not dare to challenge Higashinoji's authority.

He just kept holding on to Nakano Arisa's identity as a pink newcomer to express the unfair treatment he encountered.

He looked like a victim, which also attracted the attention of some passers-by.

Similarly, there are also a few illustrators at the p station who think Ohara is right.

Make a statement——

As a professional illustrator, it's impossible for Ohara to be inferior to a newcomer like Nakano Arisa.

There must be a big shady secret here. Maybe Nakano Arisa made a special trip to buy the like ranking data of P station from some external websites.

This is a typical Japanese thing where seniors suppress juniors in the circle.

Ohhara is not only Nakano Arisa's senior.

And as a professional illustrator, he can always get a few illustrator friends to cheer him on and clarify his position.

As a newcomer, Arisa Nakano is completely isolated in the circle of illustrators.

And Ohara probably thought that Higashinoji wouldn't care about such a trivial matter as the p station grand prize, so he could bully this unknown newcomer illustrator so openly.

Soon, the review page under Nakano Arisa's personal user account received negative reviews from many people, and even more seriously, some people directly told Nakano Arisa to die.

Standard Japanese cyber violence.

Originally, Higashinoji didn't particularly want to get involved in such noisy matters.

Because no matter how much trouble Ohara makes, Higashinoji has no intention of canceling the gold reward and giving it to him.

But then he thought about it, because of this incident, others might feel that the competitive environment at Station P is not as fair and fair as they imagined.

At that time, it will dampen the enthusiasm of some illustrators.

So he thought about it and made the announcement using his personal account.

He said that the results of this award are fair and transparent, not only based on the number of likes, but also Kuromiya Meisa and himself participated in the review. "The Cat and White Chrysanthemum" is indeed a very good work, and the gold award is well-deserved.

As soon as Higashinoji issued an announcement.

Ohara on the other side immediately silenced them.

Ohara even made a special announcement to apologize, saying that since Mr. Higashino had already said so, there must be no problem.

Seeing this humble gesture, some people who didn't know it probably thought that Higashinoji was bullying Ohara.

But after all, today's Higashinoji can be said to be the face of the Japanese comics industry.

It is natural for the Ohara Securities Association to publicly apologize.

If Higashino announced this, he would still fight to the death and refuse to let go. Then Higashino's fan base would charge forward.

Ohara Card probably doesn’t even have any scraps left.

This is the benefit of ‘authority’.

No matter what Tonoji said, it was right.

Even if it is wrong, as long as it is not too outrageous, everyone will default to being right.

Higashinoji never thought that he would one day become an authority in the industry.

I was a bit dumbfounded when I saw this result.

But forget it.

It would be a good thing to be able to rescue Nakano Arisa.

Higashinoji no longer cared about the matters at Station P. He asked Yano Ryuichi to remit the bonus and never bothered about it again.

but

"Huh? Have a private message?"

Higashino looked at a private message record in the background of his personal account. He took his thermos cup over with some confusion and took a sip of water.

His personal account is considered a semi-super account.

Because there are so many people who send me private messages, and there are all kinds of messages.

Higashino simply used his background permissions to change his account's private mailbox to a state where messages could not be sent to it.

The only people I can contact are the illustrators who won the award this time. After all, I have to contact them about winning the award.

Could it be that one of the winners sent the private message?

Higashino thought about opening the private mailbox, and then saw the message in it.

That was the message from Nakano Arisa.

‘Thank you, Teacher Dongye, for helping me this time. I have received the money. Thank you so much. ’

The other party thanked him repeatedly, which made Higashinoji scratch his hair and politely replied, "No need to thank you, Nakano-san obtained this through your own ability." ’

He sent this message and wanted to close the page directly.

But what Tonoji didn't expect was that Nakano Yusaki actually sent another message.

‘No, Teacher Dongye, you don’t know what this money means to me. Thank you very much. You are my benefactor, and I will never forget this kindness in my life. ’

This message was very long, and Touyoshi was a little confused when he read it at the end.

Will you never forget this kindness for the rest of your life?

As for that?

Four million yen is actually equivalent to one and a half years' salary of an ordinary office worker in Tokyo.

You don’t have to spend your whole life doing this, right?

A modern Japanese version of "White Crane Repays a Favor"?

Higashinoji sent a message, 'You are too harsh. ’ After waiting for a while and not receiving a reply from the other party, I closed the private mailbox.

He couldn't understand Arisa Nakano's thoughts, but Tonoji knew Arisa Nakano's gender because of this chat.

The other party is probably female.

Because in the private message box just now, the other party always used the Japanese way of identifying themselves as women.

The word ‘I’ in Japanese is divided into male and female.

Unexpectedly, this gold medal illustrator is still a pink girl.

This made Higashino a little surprised, but he didn't pay too much attention.

Just when Tonoji wanted to drink some water to moisten his throat, his cell phone suddenly rang.

It turned out that it was Hosokawa Koharu who called.

Dongyeji subconsciously became energetic.

Hosokawa Koharu would call, usually to inform Higashinoji about the sales of "Hansawa Naoki".

Higashino answered the phone, and then heard Hosokawa Koharu's voice announcing excitedly on the other side of the phone: "Congratulations, Mr. Higashino, the sales volume of this volume "Hansawa Naoki" has exceeded 2.75 million volumes! It is steadily moving toward 3 million volumes. Wanjuan charges!"

This result is indeed good. Even if Touyesi heard it, he couldn't help but nodded and responded many times with a smile.

At the same time, he did not forget to joke: "What about the sales of luxury setting collections?"

"Well"

After hearing Higashinoji's words, Hosokawa Koharu was suddenly stuck.

A few days ago, she was fighting with the marketing department next door over this thing, but Higashino suddenly asked.

But forget it.

Hosokawa Koharu found the data and replied: "The luxurious setting collection of "Naoki Hansawa" has sold a total of 150,000 copies."

There are 150,000 copies of the setting collection, priced at 2,200 yen per volume, and Higashinoji takes a commission of 220 yen, which translates to more than 30 million yen.

Although selling this thing makes people feel dumbfounded when it comes to selling it, it’s really quite profitable in total, and it doesn’t take much effort.

No wonder so many comic book authors come up with canon sets.

There is no reason for this.

Higashinoji asked some more about Hosokawa Koharu, and when he thought it was almost time to hang up the phone, Hosokawa Koharu over there suddenly said:

"By the way, Teacher Higashino, are you free tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"

"If Editor Hosokawa invites me to dinner, then I will be free anytime."

Higashinoji joked cheerfully.

"Let's be serious, Mr. Higashino."

Hosokawa Koharu coughed twice and didn't particularly care about Higashinoji's attitude in front of her.

After all, the relationship between the two of them is good enough that they can hang out on the street.

The last time "Hansawa Naoki" became a hit, Hosokawa Koharu even gave Higashinoji a hug.

"Well, you say."

The other party said so, so of course Higashinoji straightened his attitude and stopped joking.

"Didn't Teacher Higashino previously join the New Century Art Association funded by our Tomishima Publishing House? It's about things over there."

"Oh, there is such a thing."

Higashikata remembered it immediately.

Before he went to Konoe Ryoka's hometown, Kageyama Bunta from the New Century Art Association had already taken the initiative to come and say hello to him.

He was also invited to join the New Century Art Association, and Higashinoji was named honorary vice president.

Although I didn’t enjoy any actual benefits, a vice president of the other party was willing to find me and invited me to join.

To be honest, Higashinoji still admires him.

At the same time, Higashinoji also sighed a little.

It is also too easy to become a member of the Art Association.

It was nothing compared to the difficulty in his previous life in the Celestial Dynasty.

In the Chinese Dynasty, if you wanted to become a professional painter, you first had to work hard to become a member of the Art Association.

So to become a member of the Artists Association, you must find a good teacher, study hard, and create hard.

After you have been creating for a period of time, you have to participate in an art exhibition and win an award. After winning the award, you have a ticket to join the Artists Association and you can become a member.

After becoming a member, you have to continue to repeat the process of participating in exhibitions and winning awards, and then you can transform from an "unknown" member of the Art Association to a professional painter who "has a little fame and will not starve to death."

It's simply not too difficult.

Higashi Yesi was the one who fought through such a mountain of swords and blood.

As for the painters who were his contemporaries?

Either switch to the design industry, or give up full-time painting and find other jobs.

In this life in Japan, Higashinoji has done nothing.

I only won the gold medal from the Tokyo Youth Award and the Grand Creation Award, and became a member of the association.

This of course made him a little emotional.

Put aside the painful history of Higashinoji's previous life.

In fact, he had already learned from President Osawa of Tomishima Publishing House that the one behind the New Century Art Association was Tomishima Publishing House.

Correspondingly, the Uesugi Art Association is a new art association funded by the current Iwazuki Publishing House.

The feud between these two giant publishing houses has long spread to the traditional Japanese painting world.

No one wants to let go of this piece of cake.

"Well, Mr. Higashino, you know this. That will save you a lot of time in explaining."

Hosokawa Koharu thought about it and said: "If Mr. Higashino pays attention to the situation in the Japanese painting world, he will find that the current situation of the New Century Art Association is actually a bit weak."

"The reason is that the previous vice president of the New Century Art Association brought nearly half of the influential members to the Uesugi Art Association."

Hosokawa Koharu explained word for word.

But Higashinoji had already seen these on the online news.

Kageyama Bunta was pushed out to take over the mess of the New Century Art Association, so the other party found him as a manga author.

But these have nothing to do with Higashinoji.

At best, he is now a first-rate comic book author.

But in the traditional Japanese painting world, he is a second-rate professional painter.

He doesn't think that his influence in the comics world can radiate to the traditional painting world.

After all, Higashinoji had experience in the Chinese painting world in his previous life.

Even during the Celestial Dynasty, the traditional painting world was famous for paying attention to the relationship between seniors and juniors, and the relationship between master and apprentice.

Not to mention Japan, a country that is most concerned about the relationship between seniors and juniors.

He is now barely considered a young newcomer in the traditional painting world in Japan, and he is also unable to change the predicament of the New Century Art Association.

Even Kageyama Bunta, who invited Higashinoji to join the New Century Art Association, only valued the influence of his comics among the younger generation.

Seemingly sensing Higashinoji's thoughts, Hosokawa Koharu immediately added:

"Actually, this is not because I want Mr. Higashino to take the initiative to support the New Century Art Association."

"But what?" Higashino asked.

"I hope Mr. Higashino can participate in the next group exhibition of the New Century Art Association."

Hosokawa Koharu hesitated for a while and finally spoke clearly.

Here Higashinoji also suddenly realized.

oh.

So that’s what happened.

Isn’t it just to let yourself draw a painting and put it in the art exhibition?

Couldn't we have said this earlier?

Thanks for the reward from Fate Qiansheng and Yi Eternal Yi! Thank you so much!