Chapter 242 The God of Comics(1/2)
Higashino Hirosawa intends to let as many people as possible know about this matter, and directly announcing it will definitely not work.
Just like stock trading, you need to tell a story.
The best way is to let a gossip reporter accidentally discover the clues, and after a lot of hype, Higashino Hirosawa has to admit it publicly, causing a sensation.
But that would take too much time, and Higashino Hirosawa felt that there was no need to do this step.
The method that editors like President Murakami and Ishito Aoki came up with is actually not bad at all. The key is to save time.
The story is probably that when Higashino Hirosawa was sending manuscripts to five publishing houses, Mimi Huhu sent the manuscript to the wrong person in the middle of the night. The manuscript of Baseball Heroes was sent to Hot-blooded Youth Weekly.
President Murakami of Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly and President Watanabe of Chaoyang Weekly knew each other. He felt that Mr. Mitsuru Adachi of Chaoyang Weekly might have had his manuscript stolen, so he contacted President Watanabe.
As a result, when we met, we found out that Chaoyang Weekly had also received the wrong manuscript, and the one we received was the manuscript of Full-Time Hunter.
When the editors of the two magazines saw this, they felt that the matter was not simple.
After contacting Weekly Shonen Sunday, they were surprised to find that Weekly Shonen Sunday received the manuscript of Slam Dunk. Then they contacted Weekly Shonen Magazine and they received the manuscript of Kindaichi.
The manuscript of Dragon Ball was finally received from Youth Plus.
After going around, the five magazines looked at each other and discovered that there seemed to be no problem with the manuscript, but it was sent to the wrong person.
But all five magazines posted the wrong information, which is very abnormal.
A group of editors began to discuss, and then one editor accidentally called Higashino Hirosawa by his real surname "Teacher Higashino" during the discussion, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Because the author of their own popular works is also "Teacher Higashino".
Finally, after a fierce quarrel, several magazines had to admit that it seemed that their five popular works were all painted by the same person.
But how is this possible, because each of their magazines serializes the content of two chapters at the same time in each issue.
How can one person draw so many works in one week and the quality is so high?
There must be something wrong with it!
So, they went to Higashino Hirosawa together and asked Higashino to give an explanation.
Then, Higashino Hirosawa had to admit that he was the author of the five comics, but he accidentally sent the wrong manuscript, and showed them his drawing speed on the spot.
That's the story.
Of course, when showing it to readers, you can't just write it like this.
A group of editors decided to make the story into a short documentary so that readers can understand the story most intuitively.
Before announcing the news and releasing the short documentary, the five magazines will jointly announce a major news release in the next weekly issue.
This news was announced on the Monday of the following week in supplements published by five companies at the same time.
In this way, I think it will attract a lot of attention.
Although these five magazines are not the largest, they are still far behind Jump.
But the news jointly announced by the five companies will definitely cause a sensation in the industry.
The popularity of Dragon Ball, Baseball Heroes, Slam Dunk, Hunter and Kindaichi comics is no joke. There are quite a few people paying attention to their news.
After finalizing the plan, the filming of the documentary began that afternoon.
Starting from the initial receipt of the wrong script email, the plot of the story is not too long, but until the final part of the plot, there is no need for Higashino Hirosawa to show up.
Higashino Hirosawa did not participate for the time being, but after leaving the izakaya after the meeting, he quietly came to a hotel diagonally opposite the izakaya.
Inside the hotel, there were two people monitoring the Taketei Izakaya. They had no idea that Higashino Hirosawa was already behind them.
These two people came with President Murakami and Ishito Aoki.
Higashino Hirosawa grabbed their foreheads with one hand, directly read their memories, and modified their memories.
Before they came, they had reported their actions to the superior monitoring team leader.
Higashino Hirosawa has found the name and location of the surveillance team leader in this person's memory.
He immediately searched for it and modified the memory of the surveillance team leader.
In this way, Ikuko Amano will not be alarmed until the magazine announces his identity.
As for what Ikuko Amano wants to do after the announcement, it is already too late.
The documentary only took two days to shoot.
In the next week, new issues of five weekly magazines will be released one after another.
"The most amazing news yet in comics!"
"An unimaginable secret!"
"Big earthquake! Unprecedented revelation!"
"The comics world, next Monday, will be changed!"
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Five weekly magazines, in their respective new issues, used different gimmicks to announce the release of a joint supplement next Monday, and hinted implicitly or explicitly that if you don’t buy the supplement, you will regret it!
This operation of five magazines is unprecedented in the industry.
"It seems to be very big news. What exactly is it? Are these five magazines planning to merge?"
"How is it possible? What will happen after so many authors are merged? After the merger, it is impossible for all the works to continue to be published, right?"
"But apart from merger, what else can be done? Comic magazines can't publish any gossip, right?"
Readers of the five weekly magazines are very curious about this, but they can't guess what this grand declaration is.
Not only the readers of the five magazines, but also other comic magazines also had their appetites whetted by this operation.
Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Department.
When it comes to who in the industry cares most about it, of course it is Tashiroya, the editor-in-chief of the Jump editorial department.
For this matter, he also held a simple editorial meeting.
"That's the thing. Have you heard any rumors about what these five magazines said?"
Tashiroya said to the editors below.
The editors looked at each other in confusion. Of course they knew what was going on in the five magazines, but they were too busy with work, so how could they possibly know about other people's affairs.
"Then tell me, what is the most likely thing?"
Seeing no one answered, Tashiroya said again.
"Could it be related to the authors of their five popular comics? The single volumes of those five comics have all started to be released, and the sales are very good. But as far as I know, the authors of these five comics have not done anything.
Signature sale. If their five magazines join forces and hold a common signing party, it will definitely cause a lot of repercussions."
An editor hesitated for a while and then spoke.
"A signing party? It is indeed possible. Except for Higashino Hirosawa, who drew Dragon Ball, the authors of these five comics have never appeared in real life. If there is a signing party, there will definitely be many readers who will go. At the same time,
It may also become news and become famous.”
Many editors nodded in agreement.
Later, some editors mentioned other theories, but in the end, they still believed that a joint autograph signing event was the most likely.
"Huh! Just use some tricks!"
After the meeting ended and all the editors left, Tashiroya snorted coldly.
He was a little angry about the joint action of the five magazines.
But he also had to admit that with this move, their respective weekly magazines would become famous, and their sales would probably increase a lot.
Thinking that the sales of Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly might skyrocket again, Tashiroya couldn't help but feel itchy with hatred.
Amid the lively discussions and expectations, the week passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, it’s Monday when five magazine supplements go on sale.
Early in the morning, people were already queuing up in front of bookstores of all sizes across Japan.
There were not many people queuing up, but there were still quite a few people who were curious about this so-called shocking news.
Of course, what's more important is that they can immediately see the latest serials of their favorite comics.
"Apology from Akira Toriyama-sensei!"
"Teacher Adachi Mitsuru's apology!"
"Apology from Takehiko Inoue-sensei!"
"Teacher Yoshihiro Togashi..."
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As a result, when readers got the supplement, they were shocked when they saw the cover.
The authors of five of the most popular comic books collectively apologized? Did they commit something?
Regardless of reading the latest serial, readers who bought supplements turned to pages related to the incident one after another.
To be continued...