Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 312 The Knife Is Almost Finished! (4000 words)
"We hope that Mr. Higashino's new works can carry the banner of the new magazine."

Osawa Hekichi expressed his thoughts without hesitation.

In his view, the development of the Internet market is still unclear, and it is no problem to give up some resources to assist Higashino Division.

And he felt that relying on the strength of their Urashima Publishing House, they could compete with Higashinoji even if they entered the arena later, so he didn't have to worry about it at all.

Furuta Shinji next to him certainly had the same idea. The two of them looked at Higashinoji, hoping that he would make a statement.

But they also know it.

This task is not easy, even for Higashino, facing so many excellent authors who have been serializing for 20 years and 30 years, it is probably a bit difficult to deal with, right?

Even if Higashinoji would agree, he should hesitate for a while.
"I see. Leave it to me."

Higashino Division directly agreed without any hesitation.

Sensing Higashino Tsukasa's confident tone, both Osawa Hekichi and Furuta Shinji couldn't help being stunned.

Even if it's a workplace talk, Higashino Division should shirk it symbolically.
As a result, Higashino Division directly agreed?

The two of them did not expect it.

On the other side, Higashino Division ignored their thoughts.

He has always been a prudent manga author, and he basically treats the benefits sent to him with care, but this time is different——

The terms of cooperation offered by Osawa Kokichi and Furuta Shinji are indeed attractive.

You can imagine it this way.

All comics serialized under Urashima Publishing House and Fuji Publishing House can be searched through Higashino Division’s online comic reading platform, and then you can see
This is bound to attract many fans of "Chill" and "Thriller" to visit the website.

In other words, it's like the other party feeding the cake directly to his mouth.

If he didn't take a bite, he would really feel sorry for Osawa Hekichi and Gutian Shinji.

But thinking about it according to this idea, Higashinoji discovered that in this era, Osawa Kokichi and Furuta Shinji still underestimated the online market too much.

This is true.

They've all been in the physical print book publishing business all their lives, and you suddenly jump out and make them care about the online industry. It's just not possible when you think about it.

It's like if you let people who have eaten sweet tofu nao all their lives suddenly try salty tofu nao, they will definitely not adapt to it.

Of course Osawa Kokichi and Gutian Shinji didn't know what Higashinoji was thinking.

But Higashino Division has already agreed, and they will not hesitate.

"In this case, then wish us a happy cooperation, Higashino-sensei."

Osawa Hekichi stretched out his hand and shook hands with Higashinoji.

"Well, it's a pleasure to work together."

After shaking hands with the other party, Higashinoji kept something to eat, and discussed with Osawa Hekichi and others about the future.

According to what Osawa Kokichi and Furuta Shinji said, the merger of the two publishing houses will probably take place next week.

During this merger period, the editorial departments of the two comic departments considered launching a new comic magazine.

As the main publication of the new manga magazine, Higashino Division will take the position of general, and will fight against the new manga magazine released by Xinyanzhu Publishing House.

At the same time, keep Urashima Publishing House's "Aversion to Chill" and Fuji Publishing House's "Thriller", and divide them into two sub-issues. If the serial quality is not enough to be serialized in the new manga magazine, it will continue to stay in "Aversion to Chill" and "Thriller" from Fuji Publishing House. "trembling".

In this way, the serialization of the remaining authors of Urashima Press and Fuji Press will not be disrupted.

As for the editor-in-chief of the old "Aversion to Chill" and the old "Thriller", the choice is even simpler.

After all, the size of the editorial department will double after the merger of Urashima and Fuji Press, so there will be no shortage of editor-in-chief candidates.

From their conversation, Higashino Division also probably understood. They estimated that the planned merger has been going on for a long time, otherwise they would not be so familiar and methodical.

And when Tonoji asked what their literature department should do.
Osawa Kokichi and Furuta Shinji were somewhat difficult to answer.

After all, the manga department has Higashinoji as the pillar here, and the two of them still have some room for maneuver.

But on the side of the literature department, even if the two of them merged, they would still be weaker than the other—this was simply a difference in hard power, which could not be changed.

They can't split Higashino Division in half, put half in the manga department as the door god, and half in the literature department as the door god, right?
They couldn't think of any good solution for the time being, and Dong Yesi didn't continue to ask, but just finished the meal in a proper manner and got up to leave.

Seeing the back of Higashino Tsukasa leaving, Osawa Hekichi and Furuta Shinji couldn't help but look at each other.

"Teacher Higashino is really a person who easily refreshes my knowledge." Osawa Hekichi smiled: "I thought he would hesitate, but he agreed without hesitation."

"This shows that Higashino-sensei has confidence in his new works."

Shinji Gutian couldn't help but joked: "Our Fuji Publishing House's "Thriller" has been suppressed by him all the time, and he didn't even have a chance to look up."

Yes
Only the opponent knows the opponent better, and it's not that Shinji Gutian has never studied the comics of Tonoji.

There is really no comparison.

Even if Suzuki Yu practiced his painting skills and painting skills hard, he still couldn't beat Higashinoji's manga works.

That is, such an opponent is now a teammate.
Furuta Shinji groaned and continued to ask: "President Osawa, do you know the situation of Higashino-sensei's new manga...? Although I have great confidence in him, the competition with Xinyanzhu Publishing House is not that simple. "

"I just got the news today that Higashino-sensei's new manga is called "Naoki Hansawa", which is a standard professional manga."

Osawa Hekichi told the other party the news of Higashino Division's new comics.

"Professional manga?" Furuta Shinji opened his mouth, and it took him a while to react, and he couldn't help laughing: "Isn't this too confident?"

Yes, this is too confident.

"If this "Naoki Hansawa" can also become popular smoothly, then Mr. Higashino can really be said to be ahead of an era."

Furuta Shinji muttered to himself.

Every era has its leader.

It's like the newspaper cartoon "Miss Conch".

Another example is the national animation "Chibi Maruko".

The achievements of these cartoons are beyond the reach of many contemporary writers.

If Higashino Division can do it, it would be really remarkable.

"Editor-in-Chief Gutian, you're thinking too far." Osawa Hekichi shook his head and sighed again: "Now we should face the immediate difficulties."

Xinyanzhu Publishing House is coming in menacingly.

That's what they should be thinking about.

As for whether Higashino Division can reach that step, it has nothing to do with their publishing house.

"President Osawa is right." Furuta Shinji nodded in agreement, and did not spend any more time thinking about this issue.

They have already lined up their troops, and the next step is to see what Xinyanzhu Publishing House will do.

Two days after Higashino went back, he plunged straight into "Hansawa Naoki".

He wants to sharpen this long-prepared comic, so that it will be easier for him to stab people when it comes to the official competition.

The first chapter of "Hansawa Naoki" has a total of 55 pages, and the most important thing is the facial profiles of the male protagonist and villain.

In order to restore the feeling of "strength" that Sakai Masato had in Japanese TV dramas, Higashino spent a lot of time, not only finding a lot of real characters to copy, but also making Fujiwara Aoi and Takahashi Yumi tense A face, copied for a long time, even Konoe Lianghua did not escape his brush.

After drawing about a hundred scraps of sketches, he finally found out the feeling of "strength" but not rigidity in facial expressions.

This process caused Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi to complain endlessly. After all, the condition given by Higashinoji was very inexplicable, "the facial expression is strong, but it is not allowed to be unnatural".
It made them put on a bad face for several days in a row, and the muscles on their faces were sore.

This made Higashino Division sigh a little.

He hasn't asked too much from Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi. God knows how much Masato Sakai suffered to perform this feeling?

Some people may also think that the facial expressions of the actors in "Hansawa Naoki" are a bit too much, and the performance is too "forceful"-but this actually depends on the country.

TV dramas in Japan are basically this kind of interpretation style of "Yan Yi".

Afterwards, Higashino took some more time to directly call out Higashino Chihaya and Konoe Suzuka, and asked them to be Hanzawa Naoki and Asano branch manager, standing on both sides of the street lights in the park.

Higashino Chihaya refused to be the villain Asano Branch Manager, so Higashino had no choice but to coax and lie to her that Asano Branch Manager is actually a good person, Hansawa Naoki is a villain, and later Hansawa Naoki will bully Asano Branch Manager, the "good guy" , Let him sit down.

After hearing this, Higashino Chihaya became the head of the Asano branch with a proud face. Her proud look of "no girlfriend kisses no sister" really has a taste of the head of the Asano branch.

Konoe Suzuka next to her also imitated Hanzawa Naoki's expression for a few days, her complexion was tense, and she looked very serious. Although it looks like she is maliciously pretending to be cute with her beautiful face.

But Higashino didn't care about that.

As a professional painter, he has enough imagination.

Light heat, color. The facial muscles of Asano Branch Manager and Hanzawa Naoki faced each other face to face.
He basically imagined it through this semi-analog scene.

And it didn't take long to draw the ideal manuscript.

"Asi Asi, the branch manager Asano is really a good person, isn't he?" Looking at the original manuscript drawn by Higashino, Chihaya Higashino asked excitedly.

The role she played this time is not bad, at least not as clumsy as Kumamon, and looks very naive, so of course she cares a little bit.

"Well, he is a person who cares about his family."

Higashino replied cheerfully.

Strictly speaking, there is no distinction between good and bad people in "Hansawa Naoki".

The reason why Asano Branch Manager and Mitsutoshi Higashida cheated on loans was because he owed 5000 million yen in arrears. If he did not cooperate, his family would fall apart.

But for Naoki Hansawa and those hard-working people, the sub-branch manager Asano is indeed a bad person. The arrears he owes and the destruction of other people's homes by him cannot be washed away at all.

Higashino Chihaya is now smiling cheerfully. After the identity of Asano branch manager is exposed, I'm afraid he will bring out his younger brother and beat him up.

And the three Konoe Suzuka, Takahashi Yumi, and Fujiwara Aoi who were beside them were rubbing their faces.

In the past few days, in order to cooperate with Dong Yesi in drawing manga, it can be said that they have exhausted all their strengths - what are the words "laughing with a sullen face", "crying with a sullen face", "although the face is sullen but looks very unwilling".
When they heard Dong Yesi's request, they were actually stunned.

Could it be possible to have so many expressions with a sullen face?
"Mr. Higashino, is this "Hansawa Naoki" really that good? I have been holding back and not asking you to read the original manuscript. Don't let me down."

Takahashi Yumi said.

Compared with Higashinoji's original manuscript, she still prefers to buy manga magazines to read, so she has been refraining from reading Higashinoji's "Hansawa Naoki" manuscript.

"Don't worry, this comic is probably the best I can draw so far."

Higashino nodded with a smile.

Especially the first chapter.

He uses a pen very meticulously, and in addition to the front page, he uses many painting techniques used by professional painters. The shadows are not cut by dot paper, but drawn one by one by him.

Don't say anything else.

When the quality of this painting is released, it is estimated that many people will feel that they are looking at wallpapers.

"Is it so exaggerated? Is it better than "Unnatural Death"?" Fujiwara Aoi was more rational, and couldn't help asking with raised eyebrows after listening to Higashino Tsukasa's words.

If there are any representative works of Higashino Division, it is estimated that most people will answer "Unnatural Death" and "Midnight Ring".

After all, one is a debut work, and the other is a famous work on the ceiling.

But Higashinoji's tone now has a feeling that he can surpass these two works.
This made Aoi Fujiwara couldn't help asking.

"If nothing else happens."

Higashino smiled and nodded.

"Unnatural Death" still has some shortcomings in painting, but by the time of "Naoki Hansawa", they have all been made up.

He has done his best.
The next step is to see what the readers think.

Higashinoji put "Hansawa Naoki" into the manga file bag, and then let out a satisfied breath.

He finally finished the original draft of the first chapter of "Naoki Hansawa".

This knife is sharpened to an exceptional sharpness.

Higashino Division felt a little excited when he saw it, and wanted to call Hosokawa Koharu, and said, "An eye for an eye, double the price."

It is hard to guarantee that those young employees who have just entered the society will call their bosses directly after reading this cartoon.

"But it doesn't have much to do with me."

Higashino coughed dryly, selectively skipped this question, and at the same time focused on new questions.

"The next step is to look at the situation of Xinyanzhu Publishing House, Urashima, and Fuji Publishing House."

Yes.

It is estimated that the new magazines of these two publishing houses are almost ready.

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