Higashino Hirosawa then searched for relevant information about Chaoyang Weekly on the Internet.

Chaoyang Weekly was published in the 1980s and published its first issue in March 1983. It has a history of 37 years.

A magazine that has been around for decades can be said to be quite old, but compared with established comic magazines such as Weekly Shonen Jump, Sunday, and Magazine, the time gap is too big.

In the 1980s, Japan's economy was booming, and "Rising Sun" represented the rising sun. Kazuo Watanabe's father and Hei Miyazawa founded Rising Sun Weekly, presumably with great ambitions.

But the reality is very skinny. Although the economy was very good at that time, the comic weekly market had already been divided up by those big magazines.

Watanabe Kazuo's father was also a wealthy and motivated man, but at that time, it was too difficult to get good manuscripts from those big comics magazines.

Chaoyang Weekly can basically only discover new comics authors, and development is very difficult.

If there are more new people digging, they can always find some treasures.

After ten years of development, the sales volume of Chaoyang Weekly was once close to 600,000, and it has been maintained for several years.

But those few years were also the comic magazine’s last glory.

Since the beginning of the new century, the sales of major comic magazines have begun to decline rapidly, and Chaoyang Weekly is no exception.

The sales of Chaoyang Weekly are deteriorating, with fewer and fewer readers, and fewer and fewer comics authors are contributing.

The reason why the weekly magazine can continue to be published today in 2020 is because there are still two super long stories being serialized in the weekly magazine.

One is "Police Story" and the other is "A Small Town Family" that Higashino Hirosawa mentioned in Uchiaki Chiaki's wish commission.

Higashino Hirosawa did some research and found that Police Story is similar to Oolong Police Station, telling the daily story of a middle-aged policeman at the police station.

A Small Town Family tells the story of the warm daily life of a family on the beach in Hokkaido.

Both comics started being serialized in the early 1990s and have been serialized for nearly 30 years.

At the beginning of the serialization, these two comics were relatively interesting. The sales of Chaoyang Weekly were close to 600,000, which is indispensable for their contribution.

But the bottleneck of long-term serialization of daily stories is visible to the naked eye. Interesting daily stories are not something you can draw just because you want to. No matter how you add new characters, the content will inevitably be repetitive and become dull.

There was a period of time in which both comics went on hiatus for different periods of time. The author didn't know what he was doing, but in the end he came back to continue drawing these two comics.

The further we go, the more bland the stories of the two comics become.

But for many people, reading these two comics every week has become a part of their lives. It doesn’t cost much to buy a weekly copy, and they have continued the habit of buying it.

These are basically the last readers of Chaoyang Weekly.

Although Chaoyang Weekly has worked hard to discover new comics authors in recent years, potential authors have already been booked and trained by several major magazines. The quality of the articles submitted to Chaoyang Weekly is appalling.

In recent years, Chaoyang Weekly has relied entirely on "Police Story" and "Small Town" to survive, and no new series has survived past 20 chapters.

In addition to the worrying quality of the new serials, the tastes of readers of Chaoyang Weekly are also very different from those of these new serials.

The police story and the small town family actually describe stories from the 1980s, and the overall style of painting exudes an atmosphere of the times.

The subject matter of these two comics is not attractive to young people, and the style of painting is still so old, so naturally they cannot attract young readers.

On the Internet, Chaoyang Weekly is even known as the "Elderly Weekly".

Of course, more young people have no idea that such a comic weekly exists.

Now, after a long period of serialization, the comic book author of Police Story and Small Town Family is really feeling tired.

In recent years, one of the two comics' authors has occasionally stopped publishing. Three months ago, the author of "Small Town Family" announced that he would finish the comic by the end of this year.

Chaoyang Weekly relies on two comics to support itself. The readers of "A Small Town" are much more than the readers of "Police Story". With the completion of "A Small Town" and no new series can be continued, the weekly has no choice but to close the issue.

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I'm afraid that in the past few months, Kazuo Watanabe has found countless people.

But which comic book author is willing to gamble his hard work on this sinking ship?

You know, when Chaoyang Weekly had its highest sales, it was less than 600,000, and now its sales are less than 100,000.

It can be said that Chaoyang Weekly has one foot in the coffin.

If their works are so powerful that they can revive the dying Chaoyang Weekly, then they can be published in major comic magazines and become popular in an instant.

Under this situation, Chaoyang Weekly's editorial department went out in full force to find someone at the Comic Exhibition. Their mentality is completely understandable.

I just don’t know if there is any gain.

"Chaoyang Weekly, is it finally coming to an end?"

"There is nothing I can do about it, but I have worked very hard to survive until now."

"It's a memory of my childhood. Unfortunately, the comics that were serialized later were not that interesting. I didn't want to buy them after reading them."

"The small town family is finally coming to an end. I am now older than the characters in the comics."

Higashino Hirosawa saw a post in a small forum discussing the possibility that Chaoyang Weekly would close down as a small town.

There are not many people discussing in the post, most of them are former readers of Chaoyang Weekly.

After reading around on the Internet, Higashino Hirosawa felt confident.

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"Higashino-kun, see you tomorrow!"

Higashino Hirosawa asked Abe Taka to drop him off near Hua'er Kindergarten. After waving goodbye, Abe Taka drove away.

Higashino Hirosawa walked towards the kindergarten when his cell phone rang.

"Teacher Otanabe?" Higashino Hirosawa saw the caller ID. After being stunned for a moment, he hurriedly answered the call and asked, "Teacher Otanabe, did something happen to Chiwa?"

Although he had added phone calls to Mr. Odanabe, Mr. Odanabe never called him.

It was almost time to leave the park. If it wasn't an urgent matter, we could wait until he picked up Xiao Qianhe.

All Higashino Hirosawa could think of was that something had happened to Chiwa-chan.

"Ah, Xiaoqian and she are fine. However, Xiaoqian and she beat up a boy in the class. The boy's mother came over and insisted on asking you for an explanation."

Teacher Otanabe said helplessly.

Did Xiao Qianhe hit someone?

real or fake?

Higashino Hirosawa couldn't believe it.

Only then did he remember that he had also placed a spiritual mark on Xiao Qianhe, and he immediately turned his attention away.

In Chiwa-chan's field of vision, Kadoko stood beside her, and opposite her stood a red-eyed boy who looked to be three or four years old and a young woman.

Higashino Hirosawa moved the spiritual mark to Huaduzi, who was looking at Chiwa-chan.

Xiao Qianhe puffed out her mouth angrily, seeming very unhappy.

This... feels like you really hit someone and made them cry?

Higashino Hirosawa looked confused.

Cutting off the sharing of vision, he quickly walked into the kindergarten.

"Higashino-kun, are you here so soon?"

Teacher Otanabe was very surprised.

"We just happened to be near the kindergarten. Mr. Odanabe, what's going on? Why did Chiwa hit someone?"

Higashino Hirosawa couldn't help but ask.

Although before time travel, he had seen many parents of naughty children saying that their children were so well-behaved, how could they be mean-spirited and hit others.

But when it comes to himself, he really wants to say this.

There must be a reason why Xiao Qian, who is usually so well-behaved, is so angry and hitting people now.

"Well, I wasn't there to watch at the time. It was probably the child named Uchida Takeshi who said that Huaduzi had no father and that Chiwa had no mother. Then Chiwa became angry and pushed him. As for the child, Higashino

Please don’t take it to heart.”

Teacher Otanabe said helplessly.

After Takeshi Uchida's mother came over, Takeshi Uchida cried and complained to his mother Rina Uchida. Teacher Odanabe originally wanted Rina Uchida to stop pursuing the case, but Rina Uchida insisted that she wanted to see Higashino Hirosawa and ask him for an explanation.

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Teacher Odanabe had no choice but to contact Higashino Hirosawa.

"I see, I'm causing trouble for you, teacher."

Higashino Hirosawa nodded.

If you know the cause of the matter, it will be easier to handle.

"dad!"

Xiaoqian and Ben were standing there in anger. When they saw Higashino Hirosawa, they immediately ran over happily.

"Are you her father?"

Rina Uchida and Takeshi Uchida came over angrily and looked at Higashino Hirosawa in disbelief.
To be continued...