Tokyo life starting with painting

Although it is very heart-wrenching, if it happens, it has happened.

Chinatsu Yamayama had no choice but to patiently teach Arisa Nakano how to use manga drawing tools. She also picked up a book of drawings that Higashino had drawn out of boredom in his spare time and asked her to refer to it and draw accordingly.

"Is it just a collection of paintings?"

Nakano Arisa flipped through Higashinoji's collection of paintings roughly once or twice, and looked at Chinatsu Yamayama in confusion.

It's really hard to understand.

When she used to study from her brother's "Basic Hand Drawing Methods", there were many annotations in it.

Chinatsu Yamayama just took out a book of Higashinoji's paintings, and there were no annotations at all - how to study this?

Nakano Arisa didn't quite understand, but Chinatsu Yamada next to her took the initiative to explain to her: "Actually, I want you to learn from Mr. Higashino's drawing album. The main reason is to make you familiar with the drawing tools used in comics."

But while explaining, Shanxia Qianxia also secretly cursed in her heart. Isn't this just a noob?

Why does Mr. Higashino still have to take care of a noob by himself?

But ‘It’s hard to disobey a teacher’s orders.’ Chinatsu Yamayama continued to explain: “The drawing tools used in comics are a little different from the ones you usually use.”

"Is that so?" Nakano Yusaki touched his head, not sure what it meant.

"Well, let's do this. I'll demonstrate it to you."

Chinatsu Yamayama sighed inwardly, feeling that it was troublesome to take care of the newbie, but due to Higashinoji's instructions, she still patiently showed him how to use the G pen.

When soaking in ink, the ink should not be too much or too little. It should be moderate. After drawing two strokes, wipe the tip of the pen with toilet paper before soaking in ink, and then continue drawing.

She drew a girl with a single ponytail just like Nakano Arisa, and then started teaching her how to apply dot paper.

After demonstrating the use of all comic tools.

Chinatsu Shanshan let out a small breath and looked at Nakano Arisaki: "That's probably it."

But who knows, Nakano Arisaki reached out and suddenly grabbed the palm of Shanxia Chinatsu, with a pair of big eyes shining with admiration:

"Senior Shan, you know a lot! You are so powerful!"

"Huh? Yeah, so-so."

Shanxia Qianxia, ​​who was suddenly grabbed by the hand, coughed twice.

She was a little embarrassed. After all, she had always felt that her status was the lowest in Dongye Studio.

This is the first time that someone looks at me with such admiration.

Although teaching newcomers is a bit troublesome, the feeling of being admired is quite good.

Senior on the mountain, yes. That’s a pretty good title!

This call from Senior Shanxia was felt in Shanxia Qianxia's heart, which made her feel happy.

"Okay! I'll also try to copy Mr. Higashino's paintings!"

Nakano Arisaki didn't hold Yamayama Chinatsu's hand for too long. She took the G pen and flipped through a few pages of the album. She found a character in the album and started to draw it.

Only then did Shanxia Qianxia come back to her senses.

I saw Arisa Nakano starting to work on the album.

Chinatsu Yamayama couldn't help but remind her: "Wait a minute, Nakano-san, you just started using Mr. Higashino's painting album. It's best to draw ordinary protagonists like Misumi Mikoto and Hansawa Naoki in the front. As for the later "Midnight" Sadako Yamamura of "The Ring", wait until you are mentally prepared before copying."

Yes.

This collection of paintings by Higashino Tsukasa is a precious possession of Higashino Studio.

Because this is not a printed version, but a handwritten version by Higashinoji, and there are still traces on it.

Pencil marks and ink marks are basically all left on it.

In addition, Higashinoji's drawing skills are very good, and the characters of Mikoto Misumi and Naoki Hansawa in the front are not bad.

But when it came to some of the characters in "The Ring," many people at Higashino Studio were really shocked.

If you don’t talk about others, let’s talk about Qianxia on the mountain.

She is very timid. She once watched Higashinoji draw "Midnight Ring" by Yamamura Sadako.

The lifelike appearance really startled her.

As a result, she even dared not go to the bathroom alone for a few nights. When she was sleeping, she always felt that as soon as she opened her eyes, all the monsters and monsters were staring at her.

For this reason, this collection of Higashino's handwritten paintings has been ridiculed by many artists at Higashino Studio as a 'painter upgrade manual'.

At the beginning, there were male and female protagonists of the "Mikoto Misumi" and "Naoki Hansawa" types.

To exaggerate a little later, it is the handsome male protagonist of "The Winner is Justice" Komemon Kensuke.

Finally, there is the Sadako Yamamura-type protagonist in "The Ring" - the kind who can really scare people to the point of paralysis.

There are very few painters in the entire Tono Studio who can practice a protagonist like Sadako Yamamura.

After all, just looking at Sadako drawn by Higashinoji himself is enough to make one’s back crawl, let alone copying it.

As Nakano Arisaki's senior, Chinatsu Yamayama had to remind the other party not to challenge the 'Sadako-level' experts for the time being, but to practice the 'Misumi-level' and 'Hanzawa-level' first.

But before she could finish her reminder, Nakano Arisaki had already swallowed her saliva while staring at the album, and the G-pen in her hand felt like she couldn't hold it.

Mountain Chinatsu felt something was wrong in her heart, so she took a look at the album of paintings opened by Arisa Nogano.

Okay

Sure enough, I turned to the page of "The Ring".

Various characters’ hideous death appearances, various forms of Sadako.

Just looking at the figures above, Nakano Arisaki felt inexplicably panicked.

At the same time, she couldn't figure it out - how did Mr. Higashino draw this?

They are obviously just characters in comics, but can they still be drawn so realistically?

She looked at it for a long time and felt that there was indeed a huge gap between her and Higashinoji's levels. The gap was simply visible to the naked eye.

She couldn't help but said: "Senior Shanshan, I discovered that the gap between me and Mr. Higashino is really big. Mr. Higashino is also very good at painting."

"Forehead"

Aren't you talking nonsense?

Mountain Chinatsu thought to herself.

In fact, Higashino Studio has no shortage of painters who have high ambitions but low abilities.

They feel that they are very good at painting. Even Higashinoji, who has been praised by the outside world, has to be a little behind if he wants to compare with them.

This is considered a standard newcomer's disease.

Just like writing a novel, even if they don't say it, there will still be some people who feel that they can casually write works like "Lord of the Mysteries" and "Fight the Sky".

And every time at this time, Yano Ryuichi and the others would take out this toy that Higashinoji had drawn when he was bored and show it to them.

This method is very effective, and it can make these newcomers clearly understand their status in an instant.

Chinatsu Yamayama probably felt disparity and frustration because Arisa Nakano saw what Higashinoji drew.

Nakano Arisa was a little unable to accept it.

But what Yamayama Chinatsu didn’t expect was that Nakano Arisa showed even more admiration: “Yama-senpai, Mr. Higashino is really amazing! Only by studying with such an amazing teacher can I learn such useful things. In the end I want to surpass Mr. Higashino!"

Nakano Arisaki's words made Yamayama Chinatsu couldn't help but scratch her head.

This newcomer's ideas are really different from ordinary people's.

When most people see Higashinoji's painters, they will most likely be disappointed for a while.

But she didn't expect that Nakano Arisaki was not discouraged at all, and even expressed his intention to surpass Higashinoji.

Surpassing Higashinoji in terms of painting skills——

To be honest, this is too difficult.

Mountain Chinatsu thinks it’s impossible.

But then I thought about it, maybe Higashinoji was interested in Nakano Arisaki, so he said he wanted to teach her.

"Don't talk too much, Nakano-san, you'd better practice more first, and then talk about this after you can actually use the painting tools."

Shanxia Qianxia reminded.

"I see!"

Nakano Arisa nodded vigorously and began to learn how to use the G pen again.

Should we say that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers?

Mountain Chinatsu watched her copying Sadako and couldn't help but shake her head.

This was her first time seeing such a newcomer.

Don't start learning from the easy ones, you have to start from the hardest ones.

Shanxia Qianxia didn't care about her, since she had already reminded her.

After all, Shanxia Chinatsu is also a busy person and has her own job - she takes some extra work outside to earn a little money for her pocket expenses.

She drew two original paintings like this, and then went to take a look at Nakano Arisa's practice.

The other party was indeed as she thought. He was a pure newcomer. He couldn't even use the G pen proficiently. He often broke the paper and the tip of the G pen split in the middle.

Sometimes I can poke the paper until the surface becomes furry.

But as she continued to draw, Shanxia Qianxia discovered something was wrong.

Why is this newcomer getting better and better with painting?

It’s true that the more you paint, the better.

Although there is no progress visible to the naked eye, Shanxia Qianxia can clearly feel the difference.

Originally, the lines that Nakano Arisa copied were very stiff, vertical and horizontal, and he didn't know how to use the G pen at all.

But as I continued to draw, the lines Nakano Arisa drew became very weighty.

Yes. The word 'weight' may be a bit inappropriate to use here, but this just shows that the things Nakano Arisa draws are becoming more and more textured.

Sadako stretched out her hand from the TV with glittering snowflakes.

Sadako with disheveled hair, a white dress and a twisted figure

Although it is not as good as Shanxia Qianxia's painting skills.

But Shanxia Qianxia was able to see it.

"This newcomer is really talented."

Chinatsu Yamayama looked at the practice draft newly drawn by Arisa Nakano and murmured to herself.

While on the mountain Chinatsu was working hard to teach the newcomers.

On the other side, Higashinoji and Yano Ryuichi were verifying Nakano Arisa's family situation.

As the right-hand man of Higashino Studio, Yano Ryuichi was naturally willing to take the lead and took the initiative to go to the Nakano family in Hokkaido.

It just so happens that there is nothing going on at Higashino Studio right now, and "Unnatural Death" is currently being aired.

So Higashinoji also generously said that he would simply give Yano Ryu a few days off and let his family travel to Hokkaido. After the investigation is completed, there is no need to rush back.

After Yano Ryuichi's forensic investigation, it was also confirmed that Nakano Arisa did not lie.

Life was indeed difficult for the Nakano family.

Nakano Yuko and Nakano Arisa's younger brother live on the second floor of an old snack shop.

The room was not big and the conditions were very difficult.

The situation has improved a lot thanks to the P station bonus received by Nakano Arisa.

Finally, all these things were clarified, and Yano Ryuichi called Higashinoji in time.

This also made Higashino feel relieved.

Since Nakano Arisa didn't lie, there wouldn't be much of a problem.

As for her character, the first impression is good.

We will have to look at her performance later to make a final conclusion.

Higashinoji put aside the matter of Nakano Arisa for the time being, and at the same time shifted his attention back to "Unnatural Death".

Everything was as Higashino expected.

The momentum of "Unnatural Death" is so strong that even Tokyo Animation's "Hymn of June" cannot stop "Unnatural Death" at all.

Higashino Studio's disc sales also steadily outperformed Tokyo Animation's "Hymn of June" by 2,000 units.

This development was within Higashinoji's expectations.

After all, Tokyo Animation's "June Hymn" does not have the support of fans of the original work. They are an original type of script.

If this type of business is done well, the profits will be considerable.

But the risks are also very high.

After all, there is no original work to refer to.

For example, the animated version of "Unnatural Death" has Higashino Tsukasa's original manga as a reference, and there are basically no legal problems in the plot.

But "June Hymn" is different.

All plots must be thought out by the animation chief, which can easily lead to some problems.

Just like the recent plot of "Hymn to June".

Most people have mixed reviews, some think it's very good, and some think it's not very good.

This is where the original script is bad.

There can't be plot references like the original work which has references.

And several other animation production companies.

Since "Unnatural Death" and "Hymn to June" performed really well, the sales of these animation production companies were only average.

"You can actually win."

After reading the sales data these few times, Higashino couldn't help but mutter to himself.

As a new studio, Higashino Studio is able to steadily lead the established and large-scale production Tokyo Animation as it is now without its own help.

In his opinion, this was quite incredible.

But this also shows that Higashino Studio does have great potential. His efforts to find original animators, invest in large-scale production, etc. are all in vain!

The sales of the "Unnatural Death" disc also brought a lot of profit to Higashinoji.

Each Blu-ray disc is priced at 5,000 yen, and can sell an average of 2.3W to 2.4W copies, taking a middle value of 2.35W.

Calculating this, each Blu-ray disc is worth more than 110 million yen in sales.

This achievement, excluding the large-scale production investment of "Unnatural Death", has already made a lot of money.

This makes Higashikata feel very good. It's not just about making money.

The main reason is that he confirmed the current strength of Dongye Studio.

I think it would be a good time to start production on Hayao Miyazaki animated films such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro".

He is thinking about the next path for Dongye Studio.

At this moment, the news suddenly came.

Several animation directors who were sent to the hospital for recuperation due to the fire at PW Animation Production Company have been discharged!

oh?

Higashinoji became energetic.

This is great news.

Thanks to the boss of Wujian Sun for the reward of 6,000 starting coins! Thank you so much! Thanks for the reward from Fate Qiansheng and Yi Eternal Yi! Thank you so much!