Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 250 "Don't Give Up" (8000 words)
Higashino Division handed over the promotional poster of the sixth volume of "Unnatural Death" to Hosokawa Koharu, which can be regarded as the greatest comfort to Hosokawa Koharu who was devastated.

After all, in Hosokawa Koharu's impression, most of Higashino's manga works are basically very short. Except for "The Lonely Gourmet" in the monthly magazine "Aoba", there are basically no medium-length works, so some people question Higashino. Whether it lacks the ability to create medium-length works.

So "Unnatural Death" can be serialized to the sixth volume so smoothly, and there is still momentum to continue serialization. Of course, Hosokawa Koharu is a little happy.

"If you really can't come up with a good work, you really don't have to force it, Mr. Higashino." Hosokawa Koharu put away Higashino's posters in a file bag, and did not forget to comfort Higashino: "Our Urashima Publishing House is in charge of textbooks. Although such an opportunity to print is rare, it is not uncommon. There is really no need for Mr. Higashino to force yourself too much."

She was worried that Higashino was forcing herself to create for the sake of her face, so she added a teasing sentence: "My face is not worth a lot of money. Teacher Higashino should relax."

This made Higashino Division funny and a little helpless.

However, considering that Hosokawa Koharu is mainly thinking about things for himself, I hope he will not be too tired. Hosokawa Koharu has such a nagging personality, so Higashinoji didn't say much, just responded several times with a smile.

Beside Higashino, Qianxia Yamagami was a little impatient, and asked Higashino curiously: "Mr. Higashino, can we three apprentices really participate in the original painting of "The Winner Is Justice"?"

Higashino thought to himself, isn't this nonsense?
Otherwise, why do I spend so much effort training you?

And if I had to do everything myself, wouldn't that be completely reversed?
"Of course it's possible." Higashinosi simply replied: "But I'm not just withdrawing from the original painting team to be a shopkeeper. I will still check the original paintings submitted by the original painting team."

The latter sentence reassured Shan Shang Qianxia a lot.

After all, the teacher Higashino has a very high level of guidance. With his help, basically there is no need to worry about any problems with the original painting.

"Go to work." Higashinosi took out a piece of A4 paper and called without looking up.

"Yes. I understand." Qianxia Yamagami bowed her head obediently and respectfully, instead of continuing to speak, she began to seriously prepare today's original drawing.

I have to say that Higashino's "Victor is Justice" is probably the most handy original drawing drawn by a novice like her, because many of the original storyboards of Higashino's "Victor is Justice" can be directly used Use it, and it feels very comfortable.

This also made Qianxia Yamagami sigh at Higashinoji's skill in storyboarding.

If you have to pick a flaw.

That is, the things drawn by Dong Yesi are too detailed.

In layman's terms, it is too difficult to copy.

It's really hard to copy.

The characters in Higashino's works are all lifelike, with eyebrow shapes, eye corners, facial contours, nose bridges, hairstyles and bangs. Everything is presented in front of him as if three-dimensional.

The difficulty of copying is too great.

In addition, Higashino Division's pen lines are very sophisticated, thick and fine, which adds to the difficulty of copying.

You know, they draw original paintings, not to say that 90.00% or more are consistent with the original work, but they must also be about [-]% or [-]% similar. If the degree of restoration is not high enough, it will offend the fans of the original work. The production company has to stand up and issue an apology statement.

But copying the original work of Higashino Division.
To be honest, if you have an [-] or [-]% similarity, it's pretty good.

Because no matter how you draw, it seems that there is a gap between Higashinoji's own painting
It's like the difference between Li Kui and Li Gui. There is only one word difference, but there are thousands of differences.

Qianxia Yamagami stopped painting while she was drawing, and encountered trouble. In front of her was a draft of Yan Yi, the heroine of "The Winner Is Justice", Kensuke Gu Meimen, but no matter how she drew, she couldn't draw Dongye for no reason. The kind of "exaggerated, funny" feeling of the company.

So she pinched the original painting, and curiously prepared to ask Dong Yesi a question.

But before she could open her mouth, she saw Dong Yesi scribbling sharply on the A4 paper in front of her.

Uh.
Qianxia Yamagami didn't dare to disturb Higashino Division, after all, the boss in front of her was busy with her own affairs, how dare a little assistant like her step forward to interrupt.?Isn't that scolding?
It's just that Qianxia Yamagami is also a little curious about what Higashino is doing, and the other's sloppy gesture doesn't seem to be drawing an original painting.

She glanced at it, and what came into her eyes was a line of beautiful handwriting.

This did not attract too much attention from Qianxia Yamagami. She knew that apart from his superb painting skills, Higashinoji also had good handwriting, which was enviable.

But it doesn't seem to be a word?

Looking at the numbers and musical symbols marked on the A4 copy paper, Chinatsu Yamagami rubbed her head.

She reacted.

This is probably the song that Higashino Division wrote for Hosokawa Koharu, didn't he say it before?Come get it tomorrow.

But just start writing like this?Don't even need a draft?
This speed reminded her of the composition "What do you want to do when you grow up" that she had scribbled when she was a child. She wrote it in a hurry, which was similar to the action of Higashinoji now.

"..."Don't Give Up" (there are also other translations of "Never Give Up", "Don't Give Up")?"

The title of the song does look positive, but it's too straightforward, right?Even a little plain.

Titles like Higashinoji's "Lemon" and "Our Hands Are Empty" are good. They sound very literary and need to be guessed. They are very literary.

But Qianxia Yamagami didn't understand the song either, so she read the numbered notation written by Higashinoji for a long time anyway, and then gave up.

She couldn't understand it at all.

But she still reads the lyrics.

"For a moment when I met your eyes, I will always remember the happy heartbeat. I fell in love with this pastel-toned season, just like I fell in love with you who shone brightly that day. Don't Admit defeat, there is only a little bit left, please insist on running to the end, no matter how far the distance is. My heart will be with you."

Qianxia Yamagami read the lyrics, the more she read the lyrics, the more she felt that the lyrics were catchy, and the content was also very uplifting.

It's just that she couldn't sing and didn't know the tune, which made her a little unmoved.

I have to say that at this time, the meaning of learning is reflected. If you don't study, you can't even read a numbered musical notation, and you can't even sing your favorite songs.

She stood by and looked at it for a while, she took her thoughts away from the song, and focused more on Higashino Tsukasa's terrifying speed of writing songs and lyrics.

this speed
It was all nonsense, so why was the teacher scolding her for the composition she wrote, but the lyrics written by Dong Yesi made her feel catchy and easy to understand?

People really can't be generalized.

Just as she was thinking this way, Dong Yesi suddenly turned around and said, "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

When he raised his hand to write the numbered notation just now, he heard Qianxia on the mountain behind him reciting the lyrics as if he was chanting a scripture. This more or less attracted Higashinoji's attention, and he couldn't help but look back.

"I just want to ask Higashino-sensei some questions about the original painting. I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Qianxia Yamagami bowed and apologized for her behavior of peeking just now.

Dong Yesi obviously didn't care about such trivial matters, he just waved his hand and handed the numbered notation to the other party: "What do you think of this song?"

"Hey? Keke, sorry, Mr. Dongye, I don't know how to read music scores."

"." Higashino Division.

You don't know how to read music scores, why do you still chant scriptures behind me?Are you bored?
He was a little speechless. He originally thought that Qianxia Yamagami was the kind of young man who loves music, so he could ask her for reference.

Seeing that Higashinoji's complexion was wrong, and she seemed to want to criticize her, Qianxia Yamagami immediately expressed her opinion again: "But the lyrics are very good, and I read them very easily."

"Is it smooth?" Dongyesi smiled.

To be honest, this evaluation is indeed a bit of nonsense.

The lyrics of that song are not easy to pronounce?
If it's not smooth, can you still sing it?
But since Qianxia Yamagami didn't even know how to read the numbered musical notation, Higashinoji naturally didn't intend to embarrass her.

After all, Higashino Division is not someone who cares too much about such things.

He took the original painting handed over by Qianxia Yamagami, and then criticized her so severely that her head was almost retracted into her neck, and then he smiled and gave up.

This made Qianxia Yamagami swear again that if Higashinoji is doing other work in the future, he will never disturb him.

Dong Yesi's laughing and cursing is too terrifying, he has the feeling of a smiling murderer.

Higashinoji, who didn't know that he had been classified as a "smiling murderer", turned his head to look at the song in front of him after he finished criticizing Chinatsu Yamagami.

When it comes to this song "Don't Give Up", I have to mention the Japanese bubble economy. At that time, Japan was indeed prosperous and prosperous. Every Japanese felt that he had made a fortune, and that tomorrow would be more prosperous than today. money.

To use a very simple analogy, college students from ordinary schools will be admitted by more than five clubs after graduation. In order to compete for them, the conference club will lock them up in a luxurious hot spring hotel once they make an appointment.As soon as graduates from top schools graduate, the club will take the initiative to provide you with an export car and arrange a high-end apartment for you
At that time, Japan was too prosperous. If you didn’t spend all the entertainment funds given to you by the company, if you saved it, you would even be scolded as a “good-for-nothing” guy, and you couldn’t even do entertainment well.

Afterwards, the Japanese bubble economy burst, and the national economic depression caused about [-] Japanese companies to lay off employees. In an instant, a group of highly educated, college student homeless people appeared in the market. cycle.

This song "Don't Give Up" was born in response to the trend in that era. It is not an exaggeration at all. This song inspired an era in Japan and became popular for more than 20 years, not only on TV variety shows, but also on The old stubborn people in the Japanese education circle highly praised this song. Even if the audience survey was conducted in Japan in 2010, this song was still the most popular song in that year, with an approval rate of more than 80%.

Its singer, Izumi Sakai, is revered as a Japanese national treasure rock queen, and her limelight is second to none.

It's just that while taking out this song, Higashino also hesitated in his heart.

Because it is only based on the background, the era of "Don't Give Up" took off during the economic depression in Japan. Is it too late to show it now?After all, the right time and place have been lost, and even Higashinoji is not the sweet "sister" of Sakai Izumi (the Japanese media called her the "peak of yellow beauty"), and even the last harmony cannot be kept.

Is it really appropriate to come up with this song?

But soon, Dong Yesi shook his head in thought, feeling that he was completely worrying too much.

A good song can become a trend of the times because it conforms to the times, but you can't say that this song is a masterpiece that was praised entirely because of that era.

"Don't Throw in the Defeat" certainly had merit, or it wouldn't have stood out from the plethora of positive pop that year.

Besides, Japan is actually still immersed in the sadness of the "lost decade". (meaning ten years of economic stagnation and even retrogressive development in Japan), the right time and place have not been lost, and some people are still confused.

The number of vagrants picking up waste in the streets and alleys of Tokyo has not decreased.

Even if this song is put into this era, it is still the best support song.

No one else, because of Izumi Sakai, and because the song was evaluated by the Japanese media as "the theme song that best represents Japan's lost ten years of support".

Thinking of this, Dong Yesi felt that there was nothing to hesitate.

People still need to be more aggressive, and when it is time to make a decision, they must make a decisive decision.

As for the subsequent repercussions that may be caused by writing this song overnight, Dongyesi actually didn't bother to care about it.

Anyway, many things about him are rumored outside. Some people think that he actually has two more hands than humans. Those two hands are usually invisible and will not be seen by others.

Some people also think that Higashino's tongue can be used to hold a dip pen and draw pictures, so the efficiency is as high as that of a printer.

Some people even said that he was actually captured and transformed by aliens. His brain is so developed that he can even use superpowers.

Of course, the thing that made Higashino nothing to say the most was that some people said that he was a time traveler and came back here from the future, so he could come up with so many good works.

Anyway, there were all kinds of rumors, and sometimes Higashino couldn't help laughing out loud.

But fortunately, no matter how outrageous these rumors were, no one posted a post saying that he was a celestial traveler.

This made Higashino feel a little inexplicably relieved.

Higashino put the two-page numbered notation of "Don't Give Up" into the bag, and fixed it with a clip.

At the same time, I called the lawyer, hoping that he can handle the copyright formalities first.
　Thanks to the admirals who were completely defeated, Lou Xiao, and boarded the Hyperion for their rewards!Thank you so much!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)