Tokyo Literary Godfather

In just half a month, the new book "Jieyou Grocery Store" has been printed several times.

It's time for Spring and Autumn Society to make a lot of money again. The faces of the entire Spring and Autumn Society are filled with joy. There is only joy and no other emotions can be seen. For example, there is no worry about the sales of this work.

They are happy for Kei Fujiwara - after this book comes out, Kei Fujiwara's status will be improved again, and from now on he will not only be a suspense mystery writer, but will remove the prefix and be named simply as "well-known writer" .

This is actually a very good thing for Kei Fujiwara. After all, being framed by a single genre will also make many readers question whether he can only write novels of a certain type? This casts doubt on this person's diverse writing abilities.

Therefore, in the parallel world, this is one of the reasons why Keigo Higashino is much better than other mystery authors and has become an author at the top of the Japanese pyramid.

Of course, the members of the Spring and Autumn Society are also happy for themselves, and they have received large year-end bonuses. A book that sells millions can bring billions of revenue to the publishing house, and it is great to spend two to three billion to reward employees. What a great thing.

Itagaki Kazuhiko has now become the minister. As soon as he took office, he announced that if the total sales of Spring and Autumn Society's single volumes this year can reach 8 million - not only new books, but also reprints of some previous books - the year-end bonus will be increased by 30%.

In this era of corporate layoffs, employees are looking forward to a salary increase. However, it is not easy to achieve this number. There are only a handful of years in the past when this sales level has been achieved. The publication of "Jieyou Grocery Store" instantly gave the members of the publishing house hope, and they felt that the 30% year-end bonus might really be within their reach.

With Kei Fujiwara’s reputation and the excellent story of this novel, it won’t be a problem to sell a million copies a year, right? And based on past experience, the popularity of this book will drive the sales of previous works to increase.

In addition, Kei Fujiwara will have many movies released this year, and the adaptations of these movies may also be published. By then, he alone will be able to contribute four to five million sales, and achieving this goal will not be a problem at all.

So now Fujiwara Kei doesn't even dare to go in and out of the Spring and Autumn Society, because he always feels that these guys are too polite. When they see him, they want to come over one by one to serve tea, treating him as the God of Wealth.

The market situation of "The Worry-Free Grocery Store" is very good. Anyone who knows a little bit about the publishing market can see that this work by Kei Fujiwara will replace the recent work of Naoki Yamazaki and become the best-selling fictional work this year. Unless something unexpected happens - for example, Kei Fujiwara publishes a new book.

Therefore, there is no sequel to the script written by these people about newcomers provoking Demon King Fujiwara, which is inevitably a bit disappointing. How about changing your tone and praising Kei Fujiwara? He is truly a godfather of literature and art, and his status is unassailable... But to be honest, readers must be tired of reading articles with this kind of rhetoric, and it is estimated that not many people will particularly care.

After all, Kei Fujiwara will face challengers every year, but the results will not change much every year. Readers are used to it.

Some of Kei Fujiwara's fans, book fans, and film and television fans liked to debate scriptures in forums at first and refuted some people who liked to badmouth Kei Fujiwara's new works. But later, their mentality became Buddhist. The main reason is that victory is tiring and they are too lazy to say more. .

A new article written by Kei Fujiwara's well-known anti-fan "Yukie Minakami" criticizing Kei Fujiwara seems to have become a joke again, and this person has also become a joke among Kei Fujiwara's readers and viewers. Many readers of Kei Fujiwara even began to write some Japanese jokes comparable to "World War II jokes" with Yukie Minakura as the protagonist.

After Yukie Minakami learned about this situation, he was briefly angry at the beginning, but gradually seemed to be enlightened.

So what if you were laughed at? As a writer, not being known is the biggest pain.

After thinking about this, Yukie Minakami continued to write articles that criticized and even disparaged Kei Fujiwara, but they were different from some previous critical articles. In the past, he always tried to find ways to make his articles appear organized, objective and true. But now, he deliberately writes some ridiculous words to misinterpret Kei Fujiwara's novels, as if he is illiterate. If commentaries can also be divided into genres, then those he wrote are definitely [Abstract Style] commentaries.

He even began to comment not only on Kei Fujiwara's novels, but also on his film and television works.

After these commentaries were published, they naturally aroused ridicule from many people, but there were also very few people who agreed with them. Gradually, he became famous. Because his comments were illogical and just like nonsense, he was known as the "mad dog critic" in the circle.

Although he was treated as a joke, he gained attention and made some money. The choice between joy and pain is unknown to outsiders except Yukie Minakami himself.

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"Black Dress Killer" is gradually being withdrawn from major theaters.

The old movies have faded away, and the new movies have entered the major cinemas, starting a new round of fighting.

In fact, "Black Dress Killer" could have persisted for a while, but fifteen days after the film was released, there were many strong opponents.

There are works from well-known animation studios, theatrical versions of popular animations, and a big-budget Hollywood fantasy film that also wears gloves and grits its teeth to enter the ring.

"My Sassy Girl" produced by Shuibo was born in this horrific environment and will be screened ten days later.

Fortunately, the freshness of these movies has passed for a while by then, and maybe the audience will be more interested in this new movie... But maybe, many movies will be a hit at the box office after more than ten days, such as Talking about the famous "Titanic", it burned countless money and the box office was extremely dismal in the first week. Cameron has already figured out how to withdraw from the film. As a result, a week later, the box office suddenly increased in an incredible manner.

Shuibo Productions can only hope that they will not encounter such a work - it is almost difficult to encounter two blockbuster movies at the same time in the film market. After all, movies are not like TV series, and the screening time can be staggered.

Even if a movie is of good quality, if there are extremely outstanding works in the same period, it will definitely be overshadowed by the other's shadow.

Of course, while Mizunami Productions is worried about this, the rival works that will be screened at the same time as Mizunami Productions' films are also worried...

With the completion of "Killer in Black Dress", it is time for Naoki Yamazaki, a new director, to have his debut film reviewed.

3.85 billion, an achievement that the producers of "Black Dress Killer" both love and hate.

To have such box office results is definitely worthy of praise, not to mention that the production budget of this movie is relatively small, so this result is even more worthy of special mention.

But the producer also felt extremely regretful... After all, it did not cross the 4 billion mark. 3.85 billion, there are zeros and round numbers, after all, it is not as good as the round number.

There is another regret... it is that it failed to reach or approach the box office of "Confession". He is also a movie debut, and Naoki Yamazaki is still a little behind Kei Fujiwara after all.