Chapter 514: Problems with the New Comic Book

As long as she is with Eiri, there will be no lack of joy. The girl is not the type to deliberately seek out fun, but she often becomes the fun herself.

On the deserted road, the two stepped on each other's shadow, and then used their hands to construct various inexplicable weapons to save themselves, chase, cheat, and when tired, carry me.

It was impossible to carry it on her back. Eiri had a full stomach after eating in the family restaurant. This was the time to take a walk to eat. She still remembered the last time she was laughed at by Kasumigaoka Shiu for getting fat.

In the end, only half of the body was hanging on Hojo Kyosuke, and the two of them were just like ordinary high school lovers who had just returned home from club activities.

During this period, he was talking about what happened in school, and who was confessing to him.

"It's really troublesome to find a way to reject those people decently and resolutely!" Her Royal Highness the Princess said so, and at the same time, she did not forget to secretly poke a few words at a certain witch:

"It's better to be as arrogant as Shiyu Kasumigaoka. It only takes two or three times and no one will dare to confess to me again!"

She will also talk about the Tokyo Youth Exhibition. Once she enters such a professional field, her whole body will shine with dazzling light.

"I've already thought of the theme. Even if I don't read the content, the idea alone is worth a silver reward! Hehehehe, Kyousuke, if you continue to be so leisurely, don't cry when the time comes. But there's no need to worry, wait. I will guide you after drawing. After all, there is a big difference between this kind of exhibition work and comics."

Hojo Kyosuke agrees with this statement. Those paintings participating in the art exhibition, if you are not a professional, may only see that the colors are amazing and the paintings are very similar. If the painter's skills are more advanced, he may be very shocked, but what is the specific shock? But I can't say such a comment.

Otherwise, painting is an elegant activity, and if everyone can comment on it like baseball, how could the relatives of the royal family come together to hold an art exhibition to maintain their own dignity that day.

However, Hojo Kyosuke participated in this event just to accompany Eri, and it didn't matter whether he won or not. But thinking about it, with his strength as a cheater, it would be very difficult for him not to win the prize.

This kind of three-dimensional related things were just ignored by Eri-ri. Maybe it was because she had already talked too much with the people around her during the day, so she only mentioned it a little now. The discussion between them was more about otaku. circle thing.

It's a bit inaccurate to say that they belong to the otaku circle, because neither of them are simply consumer otakus. One is the teacher Eri Kashiwagi who has become famous in the book world through hard work early on, and the other is a cheater who came to cheat Otaku from the very beginning. They are both creators.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Koike is actually an old man in his sixties. I always thought that the author of such cute comics would be a cute girl like me."

Eiriri said excitedly, unlike Hojo Kyosuke who was trying to catch fish, she joined the production team early. Although she is not as well-known in the serious drama industry as in the world, on the one hand, she has been active in the industry for a long time as the original artist and novel illustrator of "Teacher Egoist", and her name also directly appeared in "One Punch Man" "The author column is tied with Hojo Kyosuke, so it still receives a considerable degree of attention.

At this moment, Hojo Kyosuke is still fishing, but she has already served as LAYOUT. Simply put, she is the person who draws the design drawings based on the storyboard. The storyboard will briefly explain what the scene is like, which characters will appear, and what the characters will do. LAYOUT is responsible for implementing and detailing these things. This is not simple. You have to consider perspective, proportion, lens time, etc.

The last time Hojo Kyosuke was in the production team of "One Punch Man", he was mainly responsible for the production of the storyboard script. Because it was too detailed, it directly saved a lot of effort for the original animators. Well, the position of LAYOUT is usually filled by the original artist, so the strength of the original artist is taken into consideration. After all, this is not a static painting, but we need to consider whether the entire scene will look good and reasonable when it moves. The requirements for the original painter's aesthetics, painting skills and other professional abilities are very high.

Eiriri has been full of energy since she got this position. Even if Kasumigaoka Shiyu teased her for being a coolie, she didn't care. She looked like she was going to gain experience to upgrade after entering the dungeon. Even if she didn't explain it directly, Hojo Kyosuke knew that this guy was holding his breath after being provoked by Akane Benisaka last time.

Just waiting to use his own ability to produce a high-quality animation to slap him in the face and prove that he is definitely not just following Hojo Kyosuke. Although it is indeed fishing! But when you fish, you don’t get nothing but happiness!

"Do you remember Miss Murasaki Shikibu who was in my group?" Eiri asked.

"Well, it seems that you have served as the animation supervisor in "Robot Girl QZ" before, right?" Hojo Kyosuke recalled it for a while and then remembered.

"I actually remember it so clearly! Did you have something..."

"I remember that name because it's so rare!"

"Humph, anyway, I have quietly observed it. Ms. Murasaki Shikibu's ability is really great. When "Neighbor Neighbor Neighbor" is about to be finished, we will invite her to join "Carbonic Acid"! "

With a groan, the girl with truly evil intentions expressed her thoughts.

She said that she didn't seem to have considered whether Ms. Murasaki Shikibu was willing to join "carbonic acid", which shows how confident she is in her own club.

"That's great, Eriri. You've already found your target before I even start!" Hojo Kyosuke said in surprise.

He was so eager to join the animation production team, of course, not just because he liked it. Seeing his favorite characters move under his hands was indeed a sense of accomplishment, but wouldn't it be more fulfilling to see his favorite teacher join his company to help him make money?

"Carbonate"'s current team is all the ones he recruited when he joined the "One Punch Man" production team last time. This time, of course, he also planned to replicate the previous operation without hesitation and pry people out.

"I am the vice president of the company after all. Do you need to tell me about this?" Eriri raised her eyebrows, her tone was disdainful, but her steps were much lighter.

After laughing for a while, she mentioned several names that she thought could be poached after her investigation. The highest position was even the vice president of the other company.

"It's a waste to stay in that kind of company and do small productions every day. It's better to come to work for me. I will give her half the salary directly!" The little person spoke very domineeringly. It seems that the little rich woman is ready to start a company with her own money.

If Hojo Kyosuke wasn't strong enough, there would probably be a scene where Eriri had a cooling patch on her forehead, a refreshing drink in her left hand and a paintbrush in her right hand, desperately drawing books to make money to subsidize the carbonated drinks.

However, both of them believed that such a scene would never happen. Although they were also doing it for love, they were not original, but comic adaptations. With the popularity of "Attack on Titan", even if the production company was a small company with no achievements at all, it would not be difficult to find someone willing to invest in it. Apart from anything else, just looking at the name of Hojo Kyosuke was worth a try.

"I heard that you went to the baseball club for training today?" Eriri suddenly changed the topic.

"Huh? How did you know?" Hojo Kyosuke was stunned. Eriri didn't go home yesterday, so she shouldn't know about it.

"It's just that I heard someone talk about it by chance." Eriri said casually.

"But even I decided to go last night..."

"Huh?! You mean I'm always concerned about what you do? Don't be so self-righteous, just a clerk. Anyway, don't talk about such insignificant things anymore!"

Ms. Eriri's head turned, and her golden braids immediately launched a fierce attack from bottom to top. If you don't obey her order to shut up, you will definitely eat a mouthful of hair.

She just woke up in the morning and sent a message to the clerk, and found that he didn't reply for a long time, curious! Curious about whether he had something happened, so she called Sakura, and when Sakura didn't answer the phone, she called Nozomi, and when Nozomi didn't answer the phone, she called Aunt Mikiko, and when Aunt Mikiko didn't answer the phone, she rushed to the class of that woman Kasumigaoka Utaha to ask.

How can you fix it! You should also tell me in advance about the training, making people worry to death!

Hojo Kyosuke knows best when girls are the cutest. He naturally knows that Eriri, who is on the verge of being shy and pretending to be calm, or on the verge of being angry, is the cutest. So he grinned and bit a strand of hair to tease the girl.

"Yeah, I feel that since you are a high school student, you should not miss Koshien anyway."

Why is Koshien so high in status? It is because it symbolizes countless regrets. High school students can only participate in the last summer Koshien, and then they are not allowed to participate anymore. It is the last youth, and losing a game will leave a lifelong regret. Such regrets will linger in your heart until you get married and have children, so it is not just high school students who are determined to win Koshien, even office workers and retired uncles will cry on the spot.

Originally, Hojo Kyosuke did not have such a strong desire to win, but after knowing that Sakura became the manager of the baseball team, he decided to take Sakura to Koshien no matter what.

"..."

Eriri fell silent after hearing this, as if Hojo Kyosuke's words had stopped her from saying what she had thought of in advance.

"What's wrong?" someone asked.

"Do you know that the 27th is the final selection date for the Neon Mystery Writers Association Award?" The girl finally said what she wanted to say before.

"Yes, I remember it very clearly."

"Then how can you still have time to do those things? Don't you know that your chances of winning the award are decreasing now!"

Hearing that calm tone, Eriri suddenly became angry. This person really doesn't understand the situation. It's really annoying!

"Yes, I know that too." Hojo Kyosuke said with a smile.

That smile made Eriri angry again. She bared her little tiger teeth and said unhappily:

"Ah, really, what's wrong with your editor? Why can't you wait until you get the grand prize!"

Although she wanted to scold the clerk, she couldn't bear it after all, so she could only vent her anger on others.

"It can't be helped. Editor Shimomura has his own things to consider."

Hojo Kyousuke smiled and didn't care. He just squeezed Eriri's arm with his arm. At this moment, the two were holding hands.

What was Eriri talking about? The news that the next comic work of Hojo Kyousuke, the most promising winner of the Neon Mystery Writers Association Award, will be a mystery has spread in a small circle.

This is not a publicity strategy, but a real accident.

Although Hojo Kyosuke is not the mainstay of Weekly Shonen High, his status cannot be underestimated. His new work is not just the responsibility of the editor-in-chief, but the entire publishing house should pay attention to it. If necessary, the editor-in-chief can help him run errands. Oh, Shimomura Tetsuya is the editor-in-chief himself.

In short, his work is not the work of one person, but needs to be decided by the publishing house and the editor. The editor is not just urging the manuscript to strive for publicity resources, but can also help with the work to a considerable extent.

For example, Shimomura Tetsu helped Hojo Kyosuke determine the character design before, and his function is not just that. The character design, whether the theme of the comics will be popular in the market, whether there are logical problems in the setting of the plot, whether it conforms to the basic rules of creation, and the development of the plot after discussion with the author based on the feedback of readers... All these are what the editor can do.

Now that the top star of the magazine is going to open a new pit, Shimomura Tetsuya naturally has to check it carefully. If it is cut off in two or three weeks, the value of the name of Hojo Kyosuke will be lost. So after knowing the plot related to the Death God Elementary School Student, he found relevant people to investigate.

Although Neon's household registration management seems to be very chaotic, its credit investigation industry is the most developed in Asia. But to put it another way, it is precisely because of the chaos that a developed credit investigation industry has been born.

If a company wants to know whether the applicant is reliable, it will entrust a credit investigation company to investigate. Parents want to know whether their son's fiancée has a bad experience, so they entrust a detective agency to investigate. The product development department wants to know whether the new plan will be popular, so it entrusts the investigation center to investigate...

Yes, Neon's detectives do not actually assist the police in investigating homicides, but most of them are information providers.

Relying on such a system, whether it is a TV series, comics, or novels, etc., the creative industry will start the investigation before the formal production.

After determining the theme and general content of Hojo Kyosuke's new work, Shimomura Tetsuya began to investigate. Not only did he collect the historical achievements and current status of the mystery-themed comics of several comic magazines, but he also used the editor-in-chief's authority to conduct a questionnaire survey in some close bookstores. Of course, consultation with relevant professionals is indispensable.

In a word, it is necessary to confirm that Hojo Kyosuke's new work will be successful before he starts serialization.

Of course, this is not 100% accurate, but this is all he can do for Hojo Kyousuke. And this is where the problem lies.

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