084 The apex of youth manga
As soon as Xiong Zexin finished speaking, Qin Han received a system prompt.
“Task release.”
"The pinnacle of Japanese Youth Comics."
"Task goal: Let young_animal sales surpass "Weekly morning."
"Task Reward: Start a new profession."
"Explanation: When you get enough results in a small field, you can look at other fields."
A new career?
Qin Han carefully read the task prompts.
In the current system, he only has one cartoonist profession. It is indeed a very good thing to start a new profession.
Although "young_animal" successfully exceeded one million with the popularity of "Dragon Sakura", it is still a bit far from "Weekly morning".
Kotanshe is not only good at relying on his capital, but is also making every effort to increase magazine sales and want to win in the fierce industry competition.
The four issues of magazines released in October, "Weekly Morning" increased its average sales to 1.12 million, and still occupies the top spot in men's youth comic magazines.
"It's worthy of being a little bear from the sports department, so I'm so motivated." At this time, Editor-in-Chief Hotan, who was covered in alcohol, came over.
After hearing Xiong Zexin's declaration that surpassed the "Weekly Morning", he was also very excited and kept patting Qin Han's shoulders: "Teacher Qin Han, I have seen the name behind "Dragon Cherry", and the story is very exciting. So to achieve this goal, I'm afraid it depends on you."
Qin Han shook his head and pointed at Kentaro Miura: "Although I am very confident in my work, the success of a magazine cannot be achieved by me alone. I think Miura's new comics have great potential. In addition, Mr. Ke Yashu's new work is also worth looking forward to. With them, it is not impossible to surpass "Weekly Morning".
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That night, while Qin Han was enjoying the joy of success and various delicacies in a five-star hotel, the atmosphere was a bit stiff in the high-end apartment of Ryuzo Roppongi Toshima.
The cause of the incident was when the four Toshima Ryuzo's assistants chatted together during the break.
One of them is reading a blog that specializes in publishing information in the comics industry.
Today's blog content is the bimonthly comic magazine "young_animal", owned by Baiquanshe, whose sales exceeded one million for the first time. Baiquanshe also held a grand celebration at Chunshan Villa Hotel.
The blog analyzed the reasons for the popularity of "young_animal" and pointed out that in addition to the 20th issue of the magazine, inviting members of the popular idol group HKT48 to shoot photo albums, attracting a group of idol chefs who did not read comics to buy them into the magazine, the biggest reason was that the comic "Dragon Sakura" created by Teacher Qin Han was gradually getting better and attracted more and more readers.
"As a comic that tells about exams and learning for the first time, although "Dragon Sakura" does not have the fantastic imagination and the magnificent and unique setting of the different world that is popular among comics. However, this comic is loved by readers with its solid plot, vivid character settings, rich content, and the eye-catching style of Teacher Qin Han..."
The blog praised "Dragon Sakura" hard, and the assistant sighed: "I have also bought the last two episodes of "Young_animal", mainly because I want to learn about the style of Teacher Qin Han, but I didn't expect that "Dragon Sakura" is really good, reminding me of my previous student days."
"Yeah yeah."
Other assistants agreed.
At this moment, Toshima Ryuzo walked into the studio.
The assistants were suddenly silent.
The assistants all knew the grudge between Toyoshima Ryuzo and Qin Han. However, due to their identity, they had to make a living by Toyoshima Ryuzozo's salary, so if you have any ideas, you can only keep them in your heart, and you dare not mention the word "Qin Han" in front of Toyoshima Ryuzo.
I saw Toshima walking straight to the assistant who praised "Dragon Sakura" just now, grabbed his cell phone, and smashed it hard on the ground, falling to pieces.
Then, he took out four thousand yuan notes with a blue face: "You won't use it tomorrow. This is your salary today. If you want to buy a new mobile phone, please."
The newly fired assistant sneered: "With your mind and demeanor, you still want to become a real comic master? ~"
Looking at the assistant who turned around and left without hesitation, Toshima Ryuzo trembled all over his body in anger and shouted: "Get out, get out of here!"
The other assistants didn't want to touch the bad head and rolled and crawled out of the studio.
"Everyone is a fool! He is talking about Qin and Han all day long. What will happen to those who go to Baiquan Club to draw cartoons? Let him be proud now. When the single-line book is released, he will know what a gap that can never be narrowed!"
"young_animal" sales exceeded one million, which not only affected Baiquan Club, but also other competitors in the youth comics field.
On the second day of the celebration, the editorial department of "Weekly Morning" on the 11th floor of the Kotanshe Building, No. 21, Okinawa II, chome, Funkyo District, was particularly depressing.
The sales of competitors increased sharply, exceeding one million, which is certainly not good news for them.
After the magazine sales statistics were counted, the irritable deputy editor-in-chief Ryoko Endo was furious. The editor-in-chief also asked his subordinates to come up with countermeasures as soon as possible. The aggressive "young_animal" must not be taken away from the top sales of young comic magazines from the "weekly morning".
To this end, the editorial department held a special combat meeting in which all editors participated.
In the conference room, the editors sat together with different expressions.
Deputy editor-in-chief Ryoko Endo said first: "Young_animal" has been in a strong momentum recently and its sales have grown very fast. If we are indifferent, we will face a big crisis. Do you have any countermeasures?"
"This is also impossible. Who told the editor of "young_animal" to poach Teacher Qin Han? If it weren't for "Dragon Cherry", how could "young_animal" sell for one million?"
"It's not that you are incompetent. You haven't dug up an excellent cartoonist like Teacher Qin Han to "young_animal", but instead let your opponent take advantage." Endo Ryoko scolded angrily.
Tadao Kojima sitting in the corner sneered.
"This stupid woman pretended to be like her. If it weren't for her, "Dragon Sakura" would now be the signature work of "Weekly Morning". What else would she do except screw up everything and shirking responsibility?"
"Deputy Editor-in-chief Endo, now is not the time to hold the responsibility accountable. The key question is how to deal with the challenge of "young_animal"." The editor said.
Although other editors were unhappy with Ryoko Endo's attitude, they did not know what happened between her and Tadao Kojima, so they began to make suggestions on how to improve the "Weekly Morning".
"For a comic magazine, excellent cartoonists and interesting works are the greatest wealth. With "Dragon Sakura", "young_animal" has the confidence to challenge us, so our most effective way to deal with it is to come up with better works."
Chapter completed!