Reborn in Tokyo after picking up Sayu who ran away from home

Chapter 407 Comics Released
Monday this day.

The new issue of the manga magazine began to be released one after another.

Among them, "Weekly Shonen Jump" published by Shueisha is the leader among the manga magazines.

As one of the well-known comic magazines.

In Japan, at least 20 out of every 1 people is a reader of "Shounen Jump".

As "Juvenile Jump", which accompanied countless people's youth, it was serialized in the 90s——

In the era of "Dragonball", "Slamdunk", and the works of "Rurouni Kenshin",
It even set a record of 653 million copies issued in a week, an unprecedented horror record.

Throughout the history of weekly magazines and even Japanese magazines, this sales record is unprecedented.

Although the market has been shrinking since then, until now, the circulation of each issue is still around 200 million copies, ranking first among the three weekly shonen manga magazines.

Ranked No.2 is Kodansha's "Weekly Shonen Magazine", and No.3 is "Weekly Shonen Sunday" from Shogakukan.

Both are released on Wednesdays, and each issue has a circulation of about 100 million copies.

The three constitute the leader of Japanese manga magazines, and are known as the three major weekly juvenile manga magazines in Japan.

Below this, there are many comic magazines in the middle and lower reaches.

As for the reputation of the three companies as "Japan's Big Three", the Fushikawa Manga Department has always been dissatisfied, and believes that it should be changed to "Japan's Big Four".

After all, if you want to talk about your own "Shounen Undead" manga magazine, the circulation of each issue is about 50. It is truly the fourth in Japan, but it has not been recognized by the above three companies.

Whenever this matter is mentioned, the editor-in-chief of the Immortal River comics department who was smiling like an old man next second will become serious and gloomy in the next second.

Such little gossip, Xiangle Mayu didn't know much about it, but she still rushed to the nearby bookstore early today.

Come buy magazines, manga magazines, shonen manga magazines.

Target: "Shounen Undead".

After paying 280 yen, she also bought "Youth Undead", which was not very popular at all, as she wished.

After that, she spent another 510 yen to bring a copy of "Shounen Jump" and "Shounen Magazine" for her brother, before returning home with the shopping bag.

The reason for doing this is not because of her whim, nor because she likes shonen manga.

In fact, Sagara Mayu's taste has always been stable, that is, she likes cute things.

This point can explain the problem whether it is from her own works or the works of other wives in the circle she pursues.

Normally, although Sagara Mayu likes to read manga, she usually reads shoujo manga, and she has almost no chance of juvenile manga.

After all, those male characters who call and sweat all day, how can there be soft, fragrant, and cute girls?
However, today is different. She bought a juvenile manga magazine out of her own volition. The reason is related to the fourth volume of "Love Metronome" released the day before yesterday.

More specifically, it is related to the testimonial written by the teacher "Xia Shizi" at the end of the volume.

In addition to those formulaic thanks to the workers involved in the work, there is a paragraph in it that aroused Mayu Sagara's strong curiosity.

The words say this:

"During the process of creating this novel, there is a person who is important to me in every sense. He not only provided me with a lot of advice and help, but now he has also entered this line of work as a cartoonist."

"His work "Chain Saw Man" will be serialized on "Shounen Undead" which will be released on Monday (October [-]th) of this month."

"Although he is still a newcomer, I hope everyone can witness his growth with me. I would like to express my sincere thanks here, and let us meet again in the fifth volume!"

——This passage caused a lot of discussion in the circle of "Love Metronome". Out of trust in teacher Xia Shizi, book fans expressed that they would buy this issue of "Youth Undead" to read.

As for Mayu Sagara, in addition to being curious about the manga mentioned by Teacher Kasumi Shiko, she also smelled a kind of gossip from it.

'Is the author of this comic the person that teacher Xia Shizi likes?What kind of person will it be~? '

She couldn't help thinking about it, and thought of the previous meeting on Xia COMI, and the beautiful girl who looked like Sayuka.

'I don't know if Teacher Xia Shizi will participate in this year's Winter COMI, but it would be great if I could have a chance to exchange novel thoughts. '

It's a pity that the other party didn't set up a Twitter account at all, and basically didn't even reply to letters from readers. It made people feel aloof and mysterious, but they couldn't help being more interested.

With this thought in mind, Sagara Mayu took leaping steps, hugged the shopping bag in her hand to her chest, and ran back to the apartment at home at a faster speed.

"I'm back~~!"

He took off his brown-red Martin boots in the hallway, stepped on his little feet with white lace socks, and trotted towards his room.

The door "clicks" open.

"—Oh~ welcome back, Mayu."

Sagara Mayu: "...?"

I saw my ruffian brother sitting at her desk and desk, drinking coke carelessly while flipping through comics, looking a little bored.

Xiang Lezhen's happy expression froze for a second, then turned to disgust in the next second, pouted and complained.

"You're too bad, aren't you? Brother, how can you casually enter the room of the opposite sex when the master is not around?"

"Huh? Opposite sex?"

Fumio Sagara tilted his head slightly to the left, looked her up and down from top to bottom with a puzzled face, then spread his hands helplessly, and let out a sigh.

"It's too early for you to use the term "opposite sex". Besides, I just entered my sister's room. Why did you react so strongly?"

"Because the smell won't go away."

"Huh?? Smell? What's the smell?" Fumio Sagara raised his arm and smelled himself, only to smell the smell of laundry detergent.

Then he said, "What are you doing? Isn't this normal?"

"Don't bother."

Sagara gave him a sideways glance, stepped forward, handed him the two comic magazines in the shopping bag, and said:

"Here, the manga magazine you want, and what I just said is the smell of a scumbag, Public Enemy of Women."

"What, it was just a joke, I almost took it seriously." Xiangle Fumiong leaned back on the back of the chair lazily, raised Erlang's legs, with a cynical expression on his face.

"Thank you for the manga ~ Mayu."

"Oh."

Sagara Mayu ignored his hippie smile, came to the bedside with the "Shounen Undead" in her arms, plopped down on her stomach, and was about to read the manga.

But then, she felt that something was missing.

Gudou, Gudou~
Swish, Swish.

Glancing at his brother who was facing tons of new comics, Mayu suddenly realized the crux of the matter, and his cheeks swelled up.

"Brother! I want Coke too, and the milk pudding in the refrigerator, too."

In the face of his sister's request, although Fumio Sagara is a scumbag who plays with women, he is very considerate of this sister who grew up with him and provided him with the convenience of meeting girls in the Two-dimensional circle.

So he didn't evade the prevarication, and immediately put down the manga in his hand, got up and walked out of the room.

Seeing his reaction, Sagara Mayu nodded in satisfaction, and looked back at the manga magazine in her hand.

On the cover, a blond boy with a black eye patch on his right eye is standing there holding a pet that looks like a puppy but has a chainsaw blade on his face.

On the top is the magazine title of Undead, and on the right is the title of the comic strip Chainsaw Man in bold font.

Considering the reader's reaction here, after discussing with the editorial department, Kato Yusuke made some changes, using a milder illustration as the cover, so it looks more acceptable.

"What a cute puppy~~" Sagara Mayu's eyes lit up slightly, and she began to turn the pages.

During this process, she couldn't help but notice a problem.

That is the work "Chain Saw Man" on the cover of this issue, but it is in the middle of the entire magazine in terms of the order of layout.

Generally speaking, those works with high popularity are usually ranked first.The lower the ranking, the lower the ranking of the representative works, and the less attention they receive.

However, a work that is not valued should not be recommended on the cover, but this phenomenon happened in "Chain Saw Man", which is somewhat strange.

But when I think of the newcomer king in the field of light novels—Xia Shizi, and the mysterious relationship between the two, this situation seems to make sense again...

"Hey, does this count as nepotism~?" Xiangle Mayu excitedly murmured to herself, with an ambiguous smile like eating melon appeared on her face.

Such an idea was confirmed in the next second.

When the fingertips turned to the beginning of the page "The Chainsaw Man", a brightly colored coloring page suddenly appeared in front of the eyes among the black and white pictures.

And in comic magazines.

Being able to have a central color page means that there must be the support of the editorial department behind it. This will generally make the work a slightly higher position than the actual popularity.

In the picture of the coloring page, a young man in a shirt and suit, with chainsaws growing on his head and both arms, is stepping on several humanoid monsters with one foot like climbing a mountain.

The painting style combines arrogance and simplicity, and is full of tension.

"...Huh?" Sagara Mayu's smile stopped on her face, she subconsciously frowned, and complained, "It's so ugly..."

It's not that the painting is not good, it's just that this kind of picture doesn't meet her liking, which makes her not like it a bit, but in order to satisfy her curiosity, she continued to look at it.

After turning this page, the picture returned to the familiar black and white page.

The short-haired boy and the puppy on the cover also appeared before his eyes again.

"Chop some wood, you can earn 6 a month~~"

"The kidneys sold before were... 120 million."

"The right eye is... 30."

"Sold a ball... How much did it sell for? It seems to be less than 10?"

"And then I still owe others... 3804 million."

? ? ? ? ?

A series of question marks emerged from Sagara Mayu's head.

Um--? ?

Hey, what is this? ?

Looking at the lines between the hero and his pet named Boqita, Xiangle couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

"If you kill a demon, you get 30. Sure enough, demon hunters are the most profitable."

"Wang."

During the dialogue between the male lead and Pochita, she continued to look at the next page.

What came into view was a demon with many eyes on its head and many hands under its body, which made people's San value go crazy.

"...What is this...?" Xiangle Mayu murmured, a kind of absurd and strange emotion rose from her heart, which made her freeze in place for a moment, and slapped the author of this manga in her heart A big question mark.

To say that the other party drew seriously is really nonsense, but to say that the other party drew blindly is a little bit out of character.

It gives people a sense of inconsistency and incomparable absurdity...

Xiangle Mayu fell into confusion.

At this moment, Fumio Sagara opened the door and walked in.

"—Here, the Coke and pudding you want, can I put it on the small table for you?"

"........."

"Really?"

The elder brother's voice brought the younger sister back to her senses.

"...Ah, thank you." Xiangle Mayu replied slowly, turned the manga in his hand upside down, got out of bed and drank Coke.

Fumio Sagara had already poured Coke into the cup for her in advance, and even added ice cubes thoughtfully, and now he went back to the desk to read his own comics.

Xiangle Zhenyou took two sips of coke absent-mindedly, his gaze involuntarily glanced at the bed, and his mood bounced back and forth between wanting to look and not wanting to look.

After a few beats, she finally couldn't hold back the thirst for knowledge in her heart, and reached out to take the manga in her hand.

'After all, he is the person that Teacher Xia Shizi values, let's have a look again. '

With this in mind, she continued to read.

The two brothers and sisters held a comic book each, and just watched it quietly.

The beginning of the story is not difficult to understand. The male protagonist, who was forced to sell his organs to pay back the money, worked for the underworld for the first time, and he still had a debt that would never be repaid.

But most of the money they get from working part-time is taken away by gangsters, and Dianci and his adopted demon Pochita only have a piece of bread for a day or three days.

And in his life, he has never even tasted jam, and being able to eat bread with jam is as far away as a dream for him.

In order to earn an extra 100 yen, Denji, the male protagonist, can eat hot cigarette butts under the banter of gangsters.And his biggest wish in life is to be able to live an ordinary life one day.

"It's too bad..."

Seeing this, Xiangle Mayu couldn't help but mutter something, his tone unknowingly carried a trace of sympathy, and also a little more eagerness for the follow-up development.

At the same time, she also discovered something special.

That is, the storyboard of this comic work is very cinematic, with a weird and unique beauty hidden in it, as if the story is really being performed through the perspective of a movie.

This style made her feel novel, and she couldn't help showing a smile of interest.

But soon, she couldn't laugh anymore.

When I saw that the male protagonist Dianci and his Pokita were tricked into the warehouse, and then they were beaten into pieces by gangsters who had turned into zombies, and then they were cut into pieces and thrown into the trash can.

"---Eh??!"

Finally, Sagara Mayu couldn't help but her mind went blank, and she fell into a shutdown state.

.........

(End of this chapter)