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Perhaps the more famous Japanese publishing houses in the Celestial Dynasty of Higashinoji's previous life were Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan, which were known as the "Three Major Comics Publishing Houses".

As for why Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan are only specifically designated as the "three major magazines" of the "manga" type magazine?

This is because it is impossible for a Japanese publishing house to rely solely on a single "comics magazine publishing" to maintain the entire publishing house's operations. In order to obtain more profits, the "three major comics publishing houses" will not only publish comic magazines, but also publish other types of bibliography.

For example, in the previous life of Japan's Shogakukan, this publishing house mainly made profits by publishing educational books for elementary school students. Comic publishing can only be said to be one of the channels for making profits.

After all, the 'three major publishing houses' were not among the most profitable publishing houses in Japan in Higashinoji's previous life. At most, they were well-known in the 'manga' industry.

Unfortunately, this world is a parallel world.

There is no Shueisha, no Kodansha, and no Shogakukan here.

So of course, there is no more hot-blooded shounen manga weekly "Shounen Jump".

Back to business.

In the parallel world of Higashinoji, the three publishing houses that replace the status of the "three major publishers" are Iwakaku Publishing House, Mozhu Publishing House, and Urashima Publishing House.

Among them, Iwakaku Publishing House can be regarded as a collection of Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan. It specializes in mystery, passionate and other popular shounen comics. Mozhu Bookstore prefers to publish science fiction and romance comics for girls.

And the last Urashima Publishing House - this is the publishing house where Higashinoji submitted "Midnight Ring" a few days ago.

This publisher mainly focuses on suspense and horror comics.

Its weekly magazine "Cold" and monthly magazine "Forbidden Space" are well-known horror comics production magazines in Japan.

It's just that Urashima Publishing has not been having an easy time recently. Their mainstay comic "The Man Reflected in the Camera" series has just been completed recently, and it's the winter of comic scripts, so there are no high-quality horror comics at all.

Now they are just holding on for a while, using all their resources to promote a horror comic called "Between Dolls", hoping to make it a pillar.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the quality of "Between Dolls" is simply not up to the standard of the mainstay, and the quality can only be said to be acceptable.

Because of this, the overall sales of manga magazines under Urashima Publishing are also declining.

This is the so-called brand effect.

When it comes to "One Piece", "Naruto", and "Dragon Ball", some people think of Shueisha and thus the weekly "Jump". But what if these mainstay comics are lost?

This will inevitably affect the influence of comic magazines.

But even so, a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. Urashima Publishing is still one of the three major publishing houses of comics. There is no doubt about this.

But recently, a company called Fuji Publishing has emerged as a new force, and there are vague signs of sharing a corner with the "three major publishers" in comic magazines.

But that's just a sign.

Higashinoji's choice was still Urashima Publishing, one of the three major publishing houses.

After all, the qualifications of the three major publishers of Urashima Publishing House are there, and there are many publishing resources and channels. Investing in Urashima Publishing House is definitely a sure profit.

As for Higashinoji, does he have confidence in his "Midnight Ring"?

This is a bit of a joke. Of course he is confident.

"The Ring" is so famous that when it was released in Japan, the box office beat all other movies of the same period.

With a budget of US$120,000, it earned a global box office of 8.69 million pounds, ranking first in the domestic box office in Japan.

It can be said that in this village in Japan, you are carrying a knife and killing everywhere, but you can't find an opponent at all.

Maybe Higashinoji can use "Midnight Bell" to edge out Urashima Publishing's current mainstay manga "Among the Dolls"?

Moreover, two or three days have passed since the submission time, so there should be some news from Urashima Publishing House.

Higashinoji was thinking in his heart and glanced at Higashino Chihaya who was sitting opposite.

At this time, Chihaya Higashino was holding her cell phone and playing the Snake game.

She played very seriously, and her body even followed the movements of the snake on the screen.

In Japan in 2003, mobile phones had long been popular, and they were flip phones with an oval body that looked very old-fashioned and bulky.

Chihaya Higashino and Tsukasa Higashino originally had a mobile phone each to communicate with each other.

However, Chihaya Higashino's cell phone was accidentally broken by her, and she never took it for repair, so Higashinoji gave his cell phone to Chihaya Higashino for use, and the phone number of his class teacher was stored on it.

If something happens to Higashino Chihaya, you can call him.

This is also Higashinoji's bottom line.

Otherwise, it would be really uneasy to leave her alone at home.

"Then I'm going to school. Chihaya-san, you should stay at home."

Higashinoji finished everything and said hello.

"Yes, I understand." Chihaya Higashino stretched out her hand to drive Higashinoji away: "Aji, go to school quickly! I will protect this family."

As she spoke, she nodded vigorously, as if she wanted to give herself a little more courage.

But just in case, Higashino also checked the locks on the doors and windows. After finding no problems, he turned around and came to the entrance.

It was indeed almost time to leave.

Ding ding ding——

At this time, the landline phone placed in the shoe cabinet by the door rang.

Um?

Toyoji reached out to answer the phone and asked, "Who is that?"

Ever since the Higashino family was in trouble, no one was willing to call.

The old friends of Higashino's parents also seemed to disappear from the world. Except for the funeral, they were never seen again.

Japan has always been a human society. Unless they are truly inseparable friends, that's probably the case with friends.

Most of the people who can continue to call Higashinoya are the salesmen selling newspapers or health care products in the surrounding area.

"Excuse me, is this Teacher Higashino?"

A young female voice came from the other end of the phone.

Teacher Higashino?

After a while, another voice came from the phone:

"I am Hosokawa Koharu, the editor of "Abominable Chill", a manga weekly owned by Urashima Publishing House. Is this Mr. Higashino?"

Hosokawa Koharu?

Editor at Urashima Publishing House?

Higashinoji felt refreshed.

Is the result of "The Ring", which I submitted a few days ago, finally come to fruition?

"I am Higashino Tsukasa, the author of "The Ring". Are you the editor of Urashima Publishing House?"

he asked rhetorically.

"Well, I am the editor of Urashima Publishing House. I will contact you this time about the specific matters of "The Ring"."