Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 214 The Body Is Empty and the Eyes Are Blank

The average sales volume of manga is 150 million volumes, which can be regarded as the ceiling of Japanese manga sales.

That's a place that many comic book authors dream of squeezing into - even if it costs them half their life, as long as they can squeeze in, it's worth boasting for a lifetime.

After all, at that point, it is already a phenomenon-level comic.

Phenomenon-level comics are no longer talking about how the peripherals such as figures, posters, and key chains are selling.

Instead, even those who sell underwear will come to their door, try to get the property rights, and produce underwear series related to comic characters

This is the charm of phenomenal comics.

Of course, it is very difficult to reach that point.

The previous nine years was the peak period of all comic magazines.

In recent years, it has been seen that paper comics are going downhill more and more, and it is becoming more and more difficult for comics to achieve an average sales volume of 150 million volumes. This is a curse that all comic magazines cannot escape.

After all, with the emergence of the Internet era and various web comic media eras, this has had a huge impact on traditional paper media such as comic magazines.

Especially after the emergence of smartphones, it caused a devastating blow to the comic magazine industry-all comics can be accommodated on a small smartphone. Compared with more than 300 pages of comic magazines that are difficult to carry, smartphones Being able to take it with you and read it whenever you want will naturally affect the manga magazine industry.

Like the world of Higashinoji in his previous life, the sales volume of the youth manga giant "Weekly Shonen Jump" has dropped to 200 million copies from time to time-while at its peak in the 600s, "Jump" once had a stable sales volume of more than [-] million copies. score.

Before the advent of the era of the Internet, before the development of paper media - to draw several phenomenal works, this is also one of the goals of Higashinoji.

After all, scientific and technological progress is the torrent of the world and even the times. Even if he is a time traveler, it is impossible to go against this torrent.

This time, "Unnatural Death" gave Higashino the hope of reaching the ceiling of comic sales, so he naturally wanted to refine it.

For this reason, Higashino did not even personally negotiate about the animation and live-action TV series of "The Winner Is Justice" and "The Lonely Gourmet", but concentrated on preparing "Unnatural Death" in his hand.

The result of the negotiation seems to be that the animation copyright of "The Winner Is Justice" was taken down, while "The Lonely Gourmet" was turned into a live-action TV series.

As for Urashima Publishing House, won't it cut Higashino Division's due profits?

This is of course unlikely.

Higashino Division is the pillar author of Urashima Publishing House, and Urashima Publishing House is afraid of being melted in their mouths. How dare they cut his profits?This is simply a joke that the top management of Urashima Publishing House is not that stupid, otherwise how did they make Urashima Publishing House such a large scale?

Of course, in order to avoid such stupid people in the world, Higashino still invited a lawyer to coordinate and confirm the animation and live-action TV series together with Hosokawa Koharu.

With such double insurance, Higashino Division naturally doesn't have to worry about profit issues.

But although there is no need to worry about interests, the level of Japan's real-life manga works is open to question.

There are many positive examples, but there are also many negative examples.

Fortunately, the hairstyle of Goro Inokashira, the protagonist in "The Lonely Gourmet", is quite normal and aesthetically pleasing—it won't make the director of the TV series live-action make a broom hair like in "I Am Big Brother".

Dong Yesi comforted himself for the time being, and at the same time, he thought about whether he had drawn some weird characters, so as not to see those weird characters with hot hairstyles and hot eyes

He comforted himself like this, while keeping his hands down.

In such a concentrated working state, the sixth chapter of "Unnatural Death" has officially started serialization.

The good foundation of the previous five chapters is also fully revealed at this moment.

The sixth chapter of "Unnatural Death" did not have more than 200 favorable votes from readers like the first chapter, but stabilized at 670 three votes.

After reading the sixth chapter, many comic readers expressed their interest in the next development, and many comic readers said that the theme of "forensic detective" is very fresh and interesting to read.

This result made many editors of Urashima Press breathe a sigh of relief.

"Unnatural Death" did not have any "trough period" like many newspapers and magazines analyzed.

On the other hand, Higashino, who received such positive feedback, naturally did not hesitate and continued to devote himself to his work.

After all, the readers did not show resistance, which means that the general direction is correct and the painting can continue.

As for Yanjiao Publishing House and Mozhu Bookstore.

When seeing that Higashino Division's "Unnatural Death" did not weaken the momentum in the slightest, he simply shut his mouth, and at the same time secretly sharpened his knife, preparing to give Higashino Division "Unnatural Death" a blow when his grades fell.

Sakamoto, who had ridiculed "Unnatural Death" before, announced that he would temporarily close his pen for a period of time.

He was really hit by Higashino, and felt that no matter how he drew this manga, he would still be dominated by Higashino, so he simply gave up struggling.

But what Sakamoto didn't expect was that even if he gave up struggling, many people dug out his previous remarks and repeatedly laughed at them.

This really made Sakamoto angry and anxious. He wanted to post on the Internet, but no matter how he wrote the article, he felt something was wrong.

This really corresponds to a sentence - when you lose, everything you say is like an excuse, and everything you say is wrong.

In this regard, he could only sigh a long sigh, and gave up using the official account to make comments. Instead, he made a special trip to set up a forum trumpet, and complained about the shortcomings of Higashino Division's "Unnatural Death" on the Internet.

This was originally a kind of self-venting, and Sakamoto just let it out casually, and then went to busy with other things, and never cared about it again.

But what he didn't expect was that the post went viral the next day.

Sakamoto was actually sprayed on thousands of floors continuously, and the number is still increasing.

Some of the remarks in it almost made Sakamoto angry.

Some people think that he just got drunk and went crazy, and his words are not measured. How can such a good work as "Unnatural Death" be worthless to you?

Some people just told him to fuck off at the bottom of the post, don't make random comments without reading the actual content of the manga.

Of course, there are also some neutral netizens among them, they also feel that Sakamoto's words are biased, and they seem to be a little ignorant of manga

Seeing these remarks, Sakamoto almost vomited blood without being depressed.

I don't understand manga?I am the author of the pillar of Mozhu Bookstore!

Sakamoto immediately started confronting these netizens who scolded him, and once again used "Unnatural Death" as an issue-although some things were reasonable, but no one on the Internet was willing to reason with Sakamoto.

Gradually, Sakamoto felt more and more powerless.

Because if you spray them with a word, they can reply you with a hundred or even thousands of words, which is really hard to beat with two fists.

There are even some people who know how to use computers to lock his real address through the IP address.

This shocked Sakamoto. He used the trumpet so that no one would know his real identity. When he saw his IP address posted under the post, he was so frightened that he wanted to delete the post.

But what he didn't expect was that his post had already been locked by the forum administrator - after all, this post was already popular and topical.

As a result, Sakamoto had no choice but to cancel his account and disappeared from sight.

But this didn't bother the readers of "Unnatural Death". They locked the IP address itself, and at the same time followed the information flow, and finally found that the other party actually belonged to Sakamoto's studio.

All of a sudden there was a disturbance.

Many people said that it turned out that it was Sakamoto who had never beaten Mr. Higashino in the competition and was defeated. No wonder there was a sour taste of lemon.

This is a case solved.

The direction of the wind suddenly changed from discussing whether "Unnatural Death" is good or not to discussing whether Sakamoto lost his mind and started going crazy after sealing the pen.

Some Sakamoto fans who don't know what's going on can't accept it - you just said you closed your pen a second ago, and I'm still sad for you.Can't wait to read your new comic.

As a result, I will see you on the Internet in the next second?And still eat the sourness of lemon?

Powdered, powdered.

Even Higashino's eyes were a little attracted by this inexplicable disturbance.

Originally, he had been concentrating on drawing manga, but Takahashi Yumi suddenly mentioned this popular post on the Internet, which made Higashinoji a little curious, and even went online to take a look.

In all fairness, Dong Yesi felt that this post was written really well, it was written by someone with professional knowledge.

But the other party obviously doesn't understand the current Internet trend. When others are saying that "Unnatural Death" is good-looking, you insist on jumping out and saying that it is not good-looking, and the painting is very rubbish. Isn't this the standard ky in Japan (I don't think so) People who know the air), are you looking for scolding?This is the trend of the Internet. At present, most comic readers like to read comments praising "Unnatural Death".

Higashino Division was still somewhat interested in the content of this post, but when he saw that the other party belonged to Sakamoto's studio and almost had his underpants pulled out of any color, he couldn't help but open his mouth, a little gloating.

He is such a person, don't talk to him about forgiveness, forgiveness is pure nonsense.

Others are secretly sharpening their knives to stab you, and you still have to forgive him. Isn’t it against yourself if you forgive him?

And this Sakamoto's is really unlucky for eight lifetimes.

This post is probably a spam post he used to vent, and the other party probably didn't pay much attention to it, but it happened that this spam post became popular, and his identity was dug out, which is simply bad luck.

It's funny.

However, although this matter has caused a lot of trouble outside the circle, it has not had much fluctuation in the circle of the comics industry, and even few review magazines are willing to express their views on this matter.

After all, Sakamoto has already closed his pen, so what's the point of you grabbing an author who has temporarily closed his pen to spray?At worst, the other party just pretends to be dead.

Besides, everyone can't see up and down, so there's no need to offend people to death.

And the rest of the bubbling people who like to communicate on the forum just glanced at the locked posts and found that Sakamoto had logged out of his account, so he shook his head and shifted his focus back to the "Unnatural Death" manga.

The seventh chapter of "Unnatural Death" is released!

"No, that room was opened by someone. This is a homicide. We told the Maori police officer and submitted the information"

"I guess they pretended they didn't see it."

"Hey?"

"The victim was alone and wanted to die. The relatives of the head of the family wanted to close the case as soon as possible. The police still have a lot of big cases at hand. One more thing is worse than one less thing. Just pretend that you don't see it and everyone will be happy."

"Please wait!"

Sansumi Mikoto raised her eyes. In the manga, she said with an extremely complicated expression, whether it was sad or sad, she said:

"What about her message asking for help? She was not saved when she was alive, and even after she died, should we turn a blind eye?"

There seemed to be light in her beautiful big eyes.

silence.

There was a long silence.

Under the vivid storyboard of Higashino, the two people in this shot look at each other, with only a long, silent ellipsis in the middle.

Then there is the director of UDI

The head of the Institute of Unnatural Death looked sideways, without looking directly into Mikoto Misumi's eyes, and said, "We have done our best. We have done everything we can."

Pain and helplessness are reflected in this series of perfect storyboards.

Justice will not only be late, it may even be absent.

In this gloomy plot, Takahashi Yumi, a girl who has always been lively and vigorous, couldn't help sighing: "It feels so irritating! But why is it so beautiful?"

Aoi Fujiwara next to her glanced at Takahashi Yumi, then reached out and flipped through the seventh chapter of "Unnatural Death", and then sighed.

"Higashi-san's comics are getting better and better."

The phrase 'manga drawing is getting better and better' here does not mean that Higashino Division's drawing skills have improved again.

Rather, it specifically refers to Higashino Division's use of manga storyboards, far and near, and radiation.

Some cartoons with poor mirror effect make your eyes tired and don't know where to look.

And some excellent comics will make you feel like you are watching a movie.

This is definitely not a joke.

Higashino Division's "Unnatural Death" already vaguely has this kind of momentum.

The other party has only been drawing comics for a year, and they have already evolved to this point. There is no problem with saying 'quickly'.

And at the same time as this rapid progress, Higashino Division's level on the other hand is also extremely improved——

Misumi Mikoto and her subordinate Rokuro went to search for clues in private, and they already had a clue.

And this is the key and enough to attract attention to the plot

It happened to be broken here by Higashino Division.

This made Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi both confused.

What is behind it?

Are you looking for clues?

Why did it just break off?

Looking at the cut-off at the middle of the climax, Takahashi Yumi and Fujiwara Aoi only felt an inexplicable emptiness in their bodies, and their eyes were dumbfounded.

　Thank you Shanchuantongliu, Mokongkong, Tongchenggu, and Tianyu Tianze for your rewards!Thank you so much!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)