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At the same time, many bookstores in Hong Kong were experiencing shortages of the "A Long and Winding Road" magazine, which had only been on the market for three days.

Although there are many comic artists in Hong Kong,

there are very few quality comics produced.

Currently, Hong Kong's local comics are not very popular in the market, with many imitating the style of Japanese comics.

On the contrary, Japanese comics and their adaptations into anime are very popular in Hong Kong.

In the 1960s and 70s, the anime "Astro Boy" was broadcast on Hong Kong television, and was loved by many teenagers. "Ikkyu-san", "Doraemon", "Green Legend Ran", "Judo Boy" and many other Japanese anime successively occupied the anime market in Hong Kong.

In addition, Hong Kong was also flooded with a large number of unauthorized pirated Japanese comics.

Although Hong Kong has its own comics, they simply cannot compare with Japanese comics in terms of popularity.

Looking at Hong Kong's comics, apart from a few such as "Old Master Q" that have gained some recognition, there are hardly any other notable works.

And there are even fewer comics that can be adapted into anime.

But now, a comic magazine weekly with the slogan "Local Masterpiece", "A Long and Winding Road", quickly became popular throughout Hong Kong after it was released.

Many people even thought that this was a new masterpiece from Japan.

However, some interested people contacted their friends in Japan and discovered that these two comics had never appeared in the Japanese market.

In other words, these two comics are really created by local comic artists, as advertised.

Taro Tateno is Japanese, 22 years old this year. Because he likes Hong Kong movies, he taught himself Cantonese during college. After graduating from university, he came to work for a Japanese company in Hong Kong as a planner.

Speaking Cantonese is his advantage, so in the company, he is highly valued by the forty-something female boss, who likes to take him with her on business trips and social events.

Taro Tateno has been in Hong Kong for a full year and has already become accustomed to life here.

As a young man, he likes to read comics, especially "Doraemon". He has been following it since he was 14 years old, and now, it has been 8 years, without interruption.

According to the serialization date of "Doraemon", the latest issue should have been released yesterday.

So, taking advantage of his free time today, he plans to go to the bookstore to buy the latest issue of the Japanese comic magazine.

After arriving at a relatively remote bookstore nearby, Taro Tateno asked in standard Cantonese and learned that "Doraemon" had not yet been restocked, and was immediately disappointed.

"Are you looking for comics? Here is a Hong Kong comic magazine that is very popular. See if you like it. The latest issue of 'Doraemon' will be back in stock tomorrow." Taro Tateno is a regular customer of the store. Seeing his disappointed expression, the shop owner took out his treasured "A Long and Winding Road" and handed it to Taro Tateno.

Although this bookstore is relatively remote, his stock of "A Long and Winding Road" magazines was sold out early in the morning. He kept one for himself yesterday, and has already finished reading it. He originally planned to keep it as a collection, but in the end, he decided to sell it to Taro Tateno, after all, there will be more stock coming tomorrow, and he can get another one to collect then.

"Ah, no, I don't like to read Hong Kong comics." Taro Tateno quickly refused.

"That's a pity. With my many years of experience in reading comics, the quality of the two comics in this magazine is no worse than 'Doraemon'. You'll miss out if you don't read it." The boss indifferently took back the comic magazine weekly, preparing to continue to take it back for safekeeping.

Anyway, he is not worried about selling this magazine at all.

However, just as Taro Tateno was about to turn around and leave, he glanced at the cover of "A Long and Winding Road" and was immediately curious about the image of Sun Wukong on the cover.

"Wait, boss, can you let me take a look?" He thought curiously,

"Take a look. Buy it if you like it, if you don't like it, I'll take it back to collect." The boss handed it to Taro Tateno again, and said with a smile.

This store itself is relatively remote, so there are not many customers at this time.

Taro Tateno sat directly on a stool next to him and opened the "A Long and Winding Road" weekly to read.

The first half of this magazine serializes "Dragon Ball", and the second half serializes "Detective Conan". The serialized content is not much, each only serializing a few chapters, and then they are put together into a magazine.

However, the content of "Dragon Ball" quickly entered the plot, and Taro Tateno was deeply attracted by the content after only reading a few pages.

These two works originally belonged to the Japanese in another world, so they are full of Japanese style.

Once Taro Tateno started reading, he couldn't stop.

The shop owner was very patient. Most people would not let him read so much, after all, they would not be able to do business if they came to freeload?

After about ten minutes, Taro Tateno finally finished reading all the content of the first issue of "A Long and Winding Road", the first half of "Dragon Ball", but found that the next one was actually another comic, and finally came back to his senses.

"Boss, how much does this magazine cost? I'll buy it." Taro Tateno asked.

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"2 Hong Kong dollars." The boss replied.

"Here are two Hong Kong dollars, I want the magazine, thank you boss." After handing the money to the bookstore owner, Taro Tateno couldn't wait to return to his residence.

Since the first half is so good, then the other comic in the second half should not be too bad!

Back home, he quickly finished reading the "Detective Conan" comic.

After reading it, he looked at the magazine regretfully, wondering when the next issue would come out?

But since it is a weekly, it should be released once a week?

Taro Tateno is already looking forward to the following content.

"That's right, next week is my younger sister, Mami Tateno's, birthday. I didn't know what gift to give her, why not give her this magazine? While I still have time, I'll translate all the Chinese on it into Japanese, and then ask a friend who is preparing to return to Japan to help bring this gift back to my sister, she will definitely like it very much." Taro Tateno suddenly thought of this.

Before this, he had been thinking about what to give his sister. Isn't this a good gift now?

His younger sister is currently studying in junior high school in Kyoto, and like most Japanese teenagers, she also likes to read comics. And the "A Long and Winding Road" comic magazine with his personal annotations in Japanese is definitely a unique birthday gift.

Thinking of this, he found a pen and began to mark some of the Chinese characters in the magazine with Japanese characters.

What Taro Tateno didn't know was that after his younger sister, Mami Tateno, brought this magazine to school, it quickly spread like wildfire among her classmates.

In the end, it was discovered by a middle-level manager working at Kodansha Publishing in Tokyo and bought it for a high price.

This comic magazine, which has not yet been released in Japan, became popular in Japan in this way.

Subsequently, the president of Kodansha Publishing, the largest comic publishing house in Japan, personally came to Hong Kong, planning to cooperate with Xia Yi Literature Media Company to publish these two comics in Japan.

As the president of Kodansha Publishing, the largest comic publishing house in Japan, he naturally knew the potential value of these two comics, and he did not want to miss such a good opportunity.

However, these are all things that happened later. At this time, Taro Tateno was still seriously translating the words on it with his Chinese level.