Tokyo life starting with painting

Chapter 403 I really can’t figure it out (4000 words)

Nakano Arisaki heard what Chinatsu Yamayama said.

She is actually considered a disciple of Higashinoji. Although she has not formally served tea, she is not considered a disciple.

But just relying on the name of Higashinoji's apprentice, she can more or less use this name as a stepping stone to make a name for herself in the Japanese comic publishing industry.

This made Nakano Arisa even more grateful to Higashinoji in her heart. You must know that she came all the way from Hokkaido mainly to repay Higashinoji's kindness.

But after running here for so long, she couldn't repay the kindness. Instead, she owed more and more. While she was a little grateful, she also felt a little guilty.

So I seriously studied comics knowledge at Higashinoji, just to repay his kindness.

While she was an apprentice, she naturally heard about it from Chinatsu Yamayama.

Normally, it would take at least a year and a half to study under a famous teacher like Higashinoji.

But he had been studying for less than a month, and Higashinoji asked him to ‘come out’ and submit a manuscript?

This naturally made her think that Higashinoji's subtext was that he wanted to drive her away.

"Is it because I'm too stupid? Master!"

Nakano Arisaki asked in a low voice, aggrievedly, even the lively single ponytail that had always been swaying stopped.

ah?

Higashinoji originally felt baffled when he heard Nakano Arisa's previous sentence.

After hearing what she added later, he looked at the other person more inexplicably - his voice was so frightened that his voice was distorted.

But before Higashinoji could speak.

Nakano Arisa carefully continued to speak: "Give me a little more time! Mr. Higashino! I will definitely work hard to make money! Then I will definitely let Mr. Higashino sleep on a bed made of money and take a yen bath!"

Good guy.

Higashikata shook his head.

Sure enough, he really couldn't keep up with the speed of a Japanese little girl.

How did she come up with so many random things from the words she just said that asked her to submit the article?

"You can keep your own money to take a shower. You are not afraid of skin diseases."

Tonoji hit Nakano Arisaki on the head angrily.

After seeing her moaning and covering her head, Higashinoji continued: "I don't mean to let you get started right now, I just think it's time for you to enter the actual operation stage."

He paused and then continued: "I wrote the plot of "The Grudge" for you before. Have you read it?"

"Huh? I've finished reading it."

Nakano Arisaki nodded.

A few days ago, Higashinoji thought about it and compiled the general plot of "The Grudge" and gave it to her, so that she could adapt to the story style of "The Grudge" in advance.

After all, "The Grudge" is not a movie like "The Ring" that has a long main line that can be painted. It is mainly a big story composed of various small stories.

Connecting these stories is not a simple matter.

To be honest, when Higashino handed "The Grudge" to Nakano Arisa, he thought about it for a while.

Mainly I am thinking about whether Arisa Nakano is capable of drawing "The Grudge" well.

If the painting is not good, then the script of "The Grudge" will be considered a waste.

In addition, Nakano Arisa is a newcomer and whether he can grasp the story well is another matter.

Higashino thought for a long time, and finally decided to give "The Grudge" to Nakano Arisa to draw.

Firstly, it was because he had other work to do.

Secondly, although the script of "The Grudge" is quite good, the overall process is still too short. It is similar to "The Ring" and is not suitable for a long series.

Higashinoji is now well-known, but it is difficult to do a very short comic like "The Grudge" by himself.

Therefore, he relaxed and gave "The Grudge" to Nakano Arisa for practice.

And this time, it was mainly because Higashinoji wanted to see what Nakano Arisaki was capable of.

Can she become the main author of Higashino Comics?

This is what Tonoji cares about most.

"Arisa, you should start constructing the manga plot according to the plot of "The Grudge". Within these two weeks, draw the manuscript and give it to Editor-in-Chief Hosokawa and me for review."

Higashinoji said simply.

"I see."

Nakano Arisa nodded nervously.

She is not an idiot. From the conversation just now, she probably understood the meaning of Higashinoji's words.

This time it was like a midterm exam in school.

Higashinoji and Hosokawa Koharu are the examiners, used to test her recent learning achievements.

In this case

Then just do it seriously!

Arisa Nakano brought a stack of manga manuscripts and started working on it.

After watching Nakano Arisaki leave, Higashino turned to look at the profitability of Higashino Comics website.

Although he personally doesn't care much about these things.

After all, it would be a bit tacky if everything was about money.

But everything is inseparable from the word 'money'.

Even if Higashinoji doesn't care, Yano Ryuichi, Seo Daigo, and Hosokawa Koharu will always care.

So Higashinoji still planned to take a second look.

The moment he saw the background data, Tonoji really sighed - no wonder there will be so many crappy paid apps and paid websites in the future.

This speed of making money from the market is truly unmatched by other methods.

In just the past three or four days since Tono Manga's rise, Tono Manga has already generated millions of yen in profit.

And all Higashino Comics needs to pay is some virtual currency on the Internet

This makes money really fast.

Even Higashikata couldn't help but sigh when he saw it.

And this number is still rising, and it has no intention of stopping - these are just the numbers generated in the past few days.

At this point, even if Higashinoji does nothing now, he can still get the money to live with Higashino Chihaya until the next life through the website Higashino Comics.

Really awesome.

Put aside these little things that make money.

on the other side.

Higashino Studio's "Unnatural Death" animation has finally been completed, along with Tokyo Animation's "Hymn of June".

At the same time, there was a quarter-long battle for supremacy.

It finally came to an end with the two comics competing against each other.

The final result of the competition made countless well-known commentators and magazine writers who had made previous predictions somewhat speechless.

The sales volume of the last Blu-ray volume of Higashino Manga's "Unnatural Death" reached 2.7 million copies!

Far ahead of the 2.3W copies of the last Blu-ray disc of Tokyo Animation's "Hymn of June".

There is a difference of four thousand coins.

This gap cannot be changed by any language.

When the news came, the original animators and sound effects engineers of the "Unnatural Death" project team at Higashino Studio jumped for joy.

If it weren't for the fact that Seo Daigo, Hosokawa Koharu, and others had to take care of the work of pixiv and Higashino's manga department, they would have almost stopped dancing together in the studio.

You must know that "Hymn of June" is an animation produced by Tokyo Animation, Japan's leading animation production company.

Their resources, manpower, and material resources are not comparable to those of a small workshop like Dongye Studio.

And what is the final result?

Our Dongye Studio won the season championship!

Beat that Tokyo Animation!

This undoubtedly gives Higashino Studio confidence.

Reviews from the outside world are basically positive. Newspapers and magazines that were still touting "Hymn of June" before now all come to congratulate Higashino Studio for winning the season championship as a newcomer.

Of course, they also reported on the situation at Tokyo Animation.

The main reason is to encourage Tokyo Animation to continue to work hard in the next quarter. The sales volume of 2.3 million discs of "Hymn of June" is already an excellent result.

After all, Tokyo Animation has always been the leader in the animation manufacturing industry.

Of course, they couldn't make comments that ridiculed the 'leading man', so they naturally focused on encouragement.

But obviously, Tokyo Animation did not pay attention to these comments from the outside world, but released a very important news - the "Hymn of June" theatrical version will be on the screen before the end of the year.

As soon as this piece of news appeared, the news that Higashino Studio won the season championship was instantly suppressed, and the discussion turned to the theatrical version of "Hymn of June".

When Higashikata received the news, he was also inexplicably stunned.

The theatrical version of "Hymn of June" directed by Tokyo Animation?

This is really rich and powerful.

Rich indeed.

The results of "Hymn of June" are indeed good, but when it comes to making a theatrical version, they only have the financial resources to produce a theatrical version.

Only Tokyo Animation can have such financial and material resources.

Next to her, Chinatsu Yamayama, who was a member of the production team of "Unnatural Death", had envious eyes that were bloodshot.

Their production "Unnatural Death" also won the season title.

Why don't you come up with a theatrical production to take away the other party's limelight?

For this reason, Chinatsu Yamayama said to Higashinoji: "Teacher Higashino, why don't we also make a theatrical version, so as to suppress the limelight of Tokyo Animation."

Of course, this sentence was just a simple joke.

Just thinking about it makes you realize that there is no way that Higashinoji would actually produce a theatrical version just to fight against Tokyo Animation.

Therefore, after Shanxia Chinatsu said this, she lowered her head and prepared to continue working.

But before she could take action, Higashinoji had already taken over the topic with a smile: "Okay, that's what I planned."

ah?

Shanxia Chinatsu didn't care much at first, but as she listened, she realized something was wrong: "T-Teacher Higashino? Are you kidding me?"

This is really wrong!

She was just joking.

Wouldn't Higashikata take it seriously?

"I'm not kidding."

Higashikata replied.

"But...but but?"

She was there 'but' for a long time without being able to say a word, and finally she said: "This shouldn't be the case."

yes.

This shouldn't be the case.

In her impression, Higashinoji was not the kind of aggressive person.

"What shouldn't happen?"

Higashinoji said calmly: "I originally had this plan."

"Really?" Chinatsu Yamayama glanced at Higashinoji twice and asked hesitantly, "Teacher Higashino, when will we start working on the theatrical version of "Unnatural Death"?"

"When did I tell you that we were going to make a theatrical version of "Unnatural Death"?"

Higashinoji is a bit funny.

"Why?"

Shanxia Qianxia was even more confused.

"Unnatural Death" is now the flagship work of Tono Studio, and it is supported by excellent original work. As long as their theatrical version is not too poorly produced, there will definitely be a lot of people buying it.

But Higashinoji directly said that he would not make a theatrical version of "Unnatural Death"?

What kind of operation is this?

Higashinoji didn't show off to Shanxia Chinatsu.

He just smiled and continued: "What we are going to do is an animated film with an original script, do you understand?"

"Cough cough cough cough."

When Shanxia Chinatsu heard the words 'original script', she couldn't hold back her cough.

As she coughed, she felt even more shocked and confused.

An animated film with an original script.

What is this concept?

For example, when "Unnatural Death" was produced, the main task was to appropriately adapt the plot of Higashino Tsukasa's original comic and then put it on the big screen.

In a sense, it is still a work based on the original work.

This is the process from 1 to 2.

But original scripts are different.

The so-called originality means that everything must start from scratch.

From character setting, plot setting, to movie length, etc., these all need to be studied in a long-term manner.

Starting from nothing is always many times more difficult than starting from something.

Plus.

Does Higashinoji have any previous experience as a screenwriter for animated films?

Probably none at all, right?

In this case, why did he directly say that he wanted to make an animated movie?

Not to mention that movies are much more difficult to produce than animations.

And there is no guarantee of return of capital.

As a girl in the studio who knows Higashinoji fairly well, Chinatsu Yamayama naturally understands that Higashinoji has all kinds of weird ideas.

But she never thought that a genius like Higashinoji could think so wildly.

This really made her feel like the other person was an alien who had crash-landed on Earth.

and

"If our production team were to produce the animated film you mentioned, Mr. Higashino, what would we do with "Naoki Hansawa"?"

Shanxia Qianxia touched her little head and asked in a low voice.

yes.

"Naoki Hansawa" is also coming to an end.

If Higashino Studio produces that extremely unstable animated film, then who will be entrusted to produce the animation for "Naoki Hansawa"?

Higashino Studio does not have that much spare capacity. While producing animated movies, it can also produce the "Hansawa Naoki" animation.

This is undoubtedly a fatal choice.

To be honest, Chinatsu Yamayama is actually more inclined to the current animation production of "Naoki Hansawa" than the original animated film "Hansawa Naoki" whose situation is unclear.

Slow and steady is the last word!

And the "Naoki Hansawa" manga is now truly the number one in Japan.

As long as you win, you will basically lock in the next season championship.

That's why Shanxia Qianxia doesn't understand.

Why is it that Tonoji suddenly can't figure out what kind of animated movie he wants to make?

Totono Studio has absolutely no production experience in this area.

Are you really confused?

Thanks to Bo Gong and Wuyishi for the reward! Thank you so much!