Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 213 Can You Squeeze In? (4400 words)

"Even if the matter at the AKB office is resolved, I still have something I want to ask Ms. Hasegawa. I heard that it seems that you have rejected the Japanese dubbing of many animations or movies, and even refused to sing the theme songs of some TV dramas?"

Hasegawa Riko's matter is considered to be over, it is not a big deal.

Compared with AKB office, Higashino Division wants to know why Riko Hasegawa has been rejecting the audition invitation.

The other party said before that he would only dub Higashinoji's works, but Higashinoji only thought that Hasegawa Riko's words were polite words, and didn't care too much.

After all, the other party is very talented, and he can become popular when he finds an opportunity, so there is no need to be obsessed with him at all.

As a result, Higashino did not expect that Riko Hasegawa really wanted to fulfill her promise recently.Not only did he reject invitations from many famous firms, but he also had an expression of 'I'll follow you, even if you don't want my help, I'll follow you'.

This made Higashinoji a little speechless.

Obviously, the other party can find many good performance opportunities at any famous firm. Famous is not casual, but there are great opportunities

Higashino Division took advantage of this matter unilaterally, and he felt that it was not appropriate, so he wanted to ask Riko Hasegawa what he thought.

"I promised Mr. Higashino before." Riko Hasegawa lowered her head shyly, and said directly in a low voice.

Then she was afraid that Higashino would misunderstand, so she hurriedly added: "Even if there is no role, it's okay, I can run my sukiyaki restaurant, and I will definitely not cause trouble for you, Higashino-sensei."

"" Higashino Division.

Is it okay even if there is no character?Then there is no problem.

Besides, since the other party has said so, Dongyesi really has nothing to say.

Higashino groaned for a while, and only thought about it and replied: "I will trouble Ms. Hasegawa when I have another animation adaptation or other work on my side."

Higashinosi chatted with Riko Hasegawa for a while before sending her out the door.

The whole thing here has come to an end.

As for Urashima Publishing House, is there any animation adaptation?

Dong Yesi is not worried.

His manga booklets are selling very well, and the plot is also very suitable for adaptation. Presumably, there will be a lot of things to do in the near future.

Just like that, the day went by——

As the president of AKB said, the negative announcements about Riko Hasegawa and various negative rumors have all been clarified.

They are very efficient in handling affairs, and they even found a well-known newspaper to report on the incident, saying that it was caused by an internal staff error, and the staff has now been dismissed. The production team of "Midnight Ring", they express their sincere apologies and promise that such things that damage the image of others will not happen again.

This is a very convincing piece of news.

Because the publisher was Hasegawa Riko's former employer, AKB Office.

They stood up at this time, which naturally silenced the discussion about Riko Hasegawa on the Internet. Many people said that "my youth is back", so there is no need to worry about the production team of "Midnight Ring" finding a bad character. End of the voice actor.

After this turmoil, the popularity of "Midnight Ring" has risen to a higher level. It continues to maintain a high box office and continue to go up, which is completely gratifying.

Regardless of "Midnight Ring", the editorial department of Urashima Publishing House also paid more attention to Higashino Tsukasa.

As the mainstay author of the board, Higashino's performance is seen by everyone.

Even if he is one of the top ten people in the history of "Aversion to Chill" since its publication, it's fine.

Not to mention the outstanding performance of "Unnatural Death" this time——

""Unnatural Death" is expected to hit an average of 150 million copies per volume." Seeing that Higashino's "Unnatural Death" has already dominated 67 copies in just four days, ranking first in Oricon's sales volume, as Pu Homoto Oshima, the editor of Shima Publishing, couldn't help muttering to himself.

At the beginning, he was the first to review "Midnight Ring" with Hosokawa Koharu.

At that time, he only thought that Higashino Tsukasa was good at drawing horror comics, and he should be able to become a small pillar in Urashima Publishing House if he was well trained. It would be a bit difficult to defeat Suzuki Yu who left after quitting.

As a result, people did not expect that after a year, Higashino Division not only became the pillar of Urashima Publishing House, but even pushed the other two major publishing houses to the ground repeatedly.

Now it is even more important to hit the average sales volume of 150 million volumes

This is indeed something I haven't seen in Urashima Press for a long time.

If we say that when Urashima Publishing House was brilliant in the past, it had a record of 150 million volumes per volume or even more than 150 million volumes. sales.

But that was only the glory days before.

When Suzuki Yu was later, the sales volume of 90 volumes per volume was already regarded as a pillar level. Looking at other publishing houses with sales volumes of 100 volumes and 200 million volumes, Urashima Publishing House could only sell Drooling envy.

But now it's different!

Urashima Press has completely stood up!

The era of robot blood comics is over, and now it's time for us to turn around again.

And what brought about this change was Higashinoji, the author of "Midnight Ring" he had read last year.

"Hey, sorry." Satoshi Oshima sighed.

At that time, if he could be ruthless and snatch Dong Yesi from Hosokawa Koharu's hand, it would be great.

Isn't Dongyesi's performance all his?

This is indeed a pity.

"I just don't know how many thousands of copies Mr. Higashino can reach this time, with an average sales volume of 150 million copies at most. It's an estimate. Mr. Higashino has to maintain the quality of the manga's plot, so it's not so easy to rush."

The colleague editor who accompanied him to have a drink after work sighed and said: "To maintain a high-intensity serialization, at the same time, we must also consider various things such as animation, film, and TV series in the future. Maintaining quality, especially Higashino-sensei doesn’t seem to hire an assistant, right? Isn’t this too scary?”

indeed.

Generally, comic authors just think about these things, and now they probably have lost their hair. After all, human energy is limited, unless you are a printer, otherwise it is impossible——

"Ms. Higashino is a printer. This is the first time I have seen someone who can draw manga like this. I heard that his oil paintings were recently exhibited in the National Art Museum. If you say that he is not a printer, to be honest, I am not convinced." of."

Another colleague editor also added a sentence.

Although the Art Creation Awards that Higashino participated in at the beginning of the year was taken away by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, many people paid attention to it.

When the name of Tebishi Jinshang came out, everyone just felt that this development was a bit inexplicably familiar.

Higashinoji's name was once again listed on the Golden Award, and at the same time it was his "Summer Is Over".

This result really makes people feel like an unexpected and reasonable O'Henry ending.

But soon some contestants reported to the competition committee whether it was possible to remove Higashino Division from the level of young authors.

After all, his level completely suppressed the level of the same age, which is not fair at all.

As soon as this sentence was uttered, many people responded one after another, saying that Higashino's level is too illegal and unfair-he should be allowed to participate in other adult competitions.

There are even some people who directly doubt whether Higashino has asked someone to do the painting.

Because whether it was "Tokyo Sunset Impression" or "Tokyo", which won the double gold award at the Tokyo Youth Painting Award, or the current "Summer is End", Higashino has shown that he should not have level.

At that time, this incident was quite a big deal, and it was reported to the editorial department of Urashima Publishing House.

However, as the organizers, the five major art academies in Tokyo did not pay attention to such deliberate troublemakers. The five major art academies only drew up an announcement, hoping that the contestants could view their works rationally.

After all, with the Gold Award and Silver Award, there are only a dozen or so winners at most.

So what if Higashinoji was really drawn by someone else?Kick him off from the gold reward, then it's still not your turn to win the prize.

This is indeed the truth, but the explanation of the five major art colleges in Tokyo is naturally not recognized by these participating youths.

These youths who lost in the Art Creation Awards were bitter about Higashinoji's achievements.

Some people simply think that it is impossible for him to draw manga, design Kumamon at the same time, and perfect his oil painting skills at the same time.

Drawing comics and painting oil paintings are completely two different things.

No matter where it is, this is the way people are, there is always a mentality of hatred for the rich.

You are richer than me, you must have a ghost, you must have done something ulterior, otherwise how could you be richer than me?

Rumors like these are rife, even today.

"These people are still too young. They have never seen Mr. Dongye draw a picture by himself, so they say that."

Homoto Oshima laughed and took another sip of his wine.

Instead of paying attention to these, it is better to pay attention to the next volume sales of "Unnatural Death".

The sales volume of the next single book will determine whether "Unnatural Death" can reach an important point of disagreement with an average sales volume of 150 million copies.

If the expected goal can be achieved, it means that the theme of "Unnatural Death" is stable, and Higashino Division has entered the ceiling of comic sales, becoming one of them, and maybe it can also drive the theme of "forensic medicine" to rise. It can be mixed with the name of the father of Japanese professional manga or No.1-following the trend is the same no matter which country you are in.

If you can't achieve the expected goals, you can only look forward to Dong Yeji's next comic to bring better performance.

All of this depends on the plot of the sixth chapter of Higashino Division.

Let's see if this sixth chapter can take over the good foundation of the first five chapters.

Satoshi Oshima didn't know Higashinoji well, but even he, an outsider, was inexplicably nervous when he was able to reach the ceiling of manga sales.

What would happen to him if this pressure was placed on Dong Yesi?

"The plot of the sixth episode? Oh, it's completely fine." Higashinosi connected the phone and replied with a smile: "I'm already preparing the seventh episode, it's quite relaxed and there is no pressure. In addition Congratulations to Editor Hosokawa for being promoted, I heard that you have been successfully promoted to team leader?"

"Promotion to team leader is just a trivial matter. I will go to Mr. Higashino to pick up the manuscript tomorrow." Hosokawa Xiaoharu wrote on the paper: "Congratulations to Mr. Higashino, your new work is a big hit. Since there is no pressure, it is the best."

Although Hosokawa Koharu said so, she is actually under pressure now.

The editor-in-chief of Urashima put forward a request to sell 150 million volumes, and if he wants to reach that level, he can already be regarded as a masterpiece in manga.

A little difficult.

But Hosokawa Koharu has confidence in Higashino Division.

After all, they have been working together for a year, and she has never seen Dong Yesi collapse in the plot.

And as long as it doesn't crash, there is absolutely no problem selling 150 million volumes.

Higashino chatted with Hosokawa Koharu for a while, and then began to think about the next plot of "Unnatural Death".

The Institute of Unnatural Death, where Misumi Mikoto works, received an entrustment from the police, and the police invited them to investigate the scene of mass charcoal suicide.There were four corpses at the scene of collective suicide by burning charcoal. As a criminal policeman, Maori argued that this was not a homicide case, but a suicide case.

The police’s disregard and inaction attitude made Sansumi Mikoto feel very uncomfortable, but this is a situation that is often seen when the Japanese police execute cases-the relatives of the deceased hope to close the case quickly, and the police also have other cases at hand. things need to be dealt with.

Under such circumstances, Sansumi Mikoto decided to dissect the body.

The autopsy results showed that three of the four bodies were poisoned by carbon monoxide, which can be inferred as suicide, but the autopsy results of a high school girl among them were different from atrial hemorrhage, with obvious symptoms of "freezing to death".But criminal policeman Maori felt that this was unreasonable. The victim was found in a house where charcoal was burned to commit suicide. According to common sense, it should also be a suicide.

But until later, Sansumi Mikoto found a distress note in the stomach of the girl's body-this discovery made her confirm that the incident was a homicide.

However, as a criminal policeman, Mao Li did not report this correctly, but only superficially mentioned the slight possibility of homicide.

Sansumi Mikoto couldn't stand the repeated indifference and inaction attitude of the police.

She raised her head and said with a complicated expression: "What about the girl's message asking for help? She couldn't be saved while she was alive, so should we turn a blind eye even after she dies?"

This is a word worth reflecting on.

When this sentence was asked, even the director of the Institute of Unnatural Death, who has always advocated that more things are worse than less things, remained silent for a long time.

After Sansumi Mikoto asked this sentence, she invited her subordinate Liu Lang to investigate in Yulu Hot Spring under the guise of soaking in hot springs.It turned out that Sansumi Mikoto had already discovered the clue.

After a series of investigations, Sansumi Mikoto and Rokuro locked a refrigerated truck, and also found evidence left by the deceased on the refrigerated truck.

But at this time, the door of the refrigerated truck was closed, the cold air was emitted, and the cold air plundered their body temperature. The murderer even sent the refrigerated truck directly into the lake in order to get rid of Misumi Mikoto and Rokuro.

In the cold lake water, the oxygen is constantly being plundered, and the water is rising

It turned out that she had also experienced charcoal burning suicide before.

But she was lucky enough not to die because of this, so she took the truth of this group suicide very seriously

The next sixth, seventh and even tenth chapters are actually the process of gradually shaping the character of Sansumi Mikoto. Similarly, it is also the mental journey of the character of Sansumi Mikoto.

It can be said that without a few words, the role of Sansumi Mikoto will not be too full.

The episode "Unnatural Death" is Higashino's favorite. Mikoto Sansumi and Dr. Nakado communicate with each other using science knowledge, and the process of finally discovering clues is really exciting.

Higashino Division was very confident in the plot, so he naturally started to draw the original manuscript.

Comic sales ceiling——

Can you squeeze in?

(End of this chapter)