1983 Past Life Manga King

Kojima took out the envelopes and looked at them one by one. The drawings are of higher quality than the manuscripts I received earlier. Military weapons are also quite sophisticated.

It almost feels like it was drawn with a purpose and concentration.

But it’s not enough to see the story. Kojima, who only checked the picture, immediately greeted the old man.

“The manuscript has definitely been received. Then we will go.”

“Yeah. Goodbye.”

However, Kojima, who received the manuscript and returned to the editorial department, reviewed it again and made an impression.

“·················ogue.”

Obviously, the quality was higher, but the story was strangely inconspicuous.

And then Kojima called Jiro.

“manager.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Would you like to read this?”

“Why? Is something wrong?”

“I hope you will read it once and decide.”

“okay. Okay.”

Jiro received the manuscript from Kojima and began to read it. And soon Jiro’s expression became as serious as Kojima’s.

“How are you?”

“The story is a bit distracting.”

“right? Oh, too.”

Kojima messed up her hair.

“Three people give you the wisdom of a Bodhisattva, but it seems like there are too many people.”

“What are you talking about?”

“That’s it…”

When Kojima told the story she had seen and heard in front of Izumi’s house, Jiro frowned.

“It’s also due to excessive greed.”

“I think the same. I thought that Izumi-sensei would continue to fall into the abyss. Can I leave my hands like this?”

“He said he wouldn’t even meet me, and for now, I don’t think there’s anything we can do other than wait.”

At Jiro’s words, Kojima took a deep breath.

“Hey, I’d love to hear your opinion.”

“Still, keep looking. Still, you are the editor in charge.”

“······Yeah. Okay.”

But the following week things got worse.

“Devil Virus is #7.”

At the staff’s words, Kojima wrapped her arms around her head.

“Maybe good?”

Thus, the Devil Virus was falling into the abyss as Kojima had ominously predicted.

Megalopolis in Cat (1)

“······Thanks.”

Seon-hee, who was holding the phone, spoke in Japanese.

Now, Seon-hee is on the phone with Sumire after a long time.

We sometimes talk on the phone like this and check each other’s well-being, but from what I heard, the cartoon that was being serialized a while ago seemed to have ended.

It’s not that it’s not very popular, but it must have been the end of the series that didn’t reach three volumes.

Boy Jump is more competitive than other publishers for serialization. Of course, this may have made it the best magazine in Japan, but on the contrary, it also has the disadvantage that manga with weak initial impact is cut out.

A cartoon that shines more in the second half than in the beginning is a difficult structure to survive.

Looking at it, the boy hero has a similar structure.

Anyway, after the short call, Seon-hee goes back to her seat and sits down.

These days, the weekly serialization has only one machine gun jack, so it is rather spacious, so I draw illustrations almost like graffiti.

Even though I always draw without any facial expression change as usual, somehow it feels like a silent pressure to me.

what the heck

‘Come on, come out with a new one.’

This feeling?

As soon as the first episode of the weekly series ends, fishermen also have a lot of spare time.

“Mijeong-ah, what did you do over the weekend?”

“I saw a movie.”

“It’s me. What did you see?”

“Out of Africa. It was a young hwan with Meryl Streep and it was pretty fun. your sister?”

“What am I, Jackie Chan?”

“Ah, it’s Yonghyeonghoje, right?”

“Huh. It’s big and it’s a lot of fun. Because Jackie Chan movies are really fun.”

Kim Ki-cheol also intervened in the conversation between the two women.

“I saw Natural. The scene where the home run ball and lights go off at night was really cool.”

“Well, I’m thinking of seeing it this Saturday evening. fun?”

“Yeah. fun. I heard that it won several Academy Awards, but it was definitely fun because it was an award-winning work.”

“What are you talking about? Please include me too.”

When Ryutani, who is not yet familiar with Korean, asked with a curious expression, everyone laughed. And immediately mix Japanese and have a conversation.

Anyway, because it’s Monday, everyone seems to be having fun talking about what happened last weekend.

Then, Park Sang-sik entered the studio.

“I have come.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“Oh, I’m here.”

“okay. It’s because Pasiencia is over these days, so I’m free.”

“uh. Sometimes you have to be like this But how about your brother? I heard that the sequel to Hell in the 4th District has been decided.”

Park Sang-sik smiled brightly at my words.

“right. Anyway, it’s after a fortnight. I was thinking about whether I should prepare another story, but this time I have to serialize it in earnest, so I am refining the story. I don’t know how long it will be.”

“I heard that the 4th sphere is gradually gaining popularity in Japan as well. There seems to be quite a bit of billiards, too. I think the response was better than expected.”

“I was lucky.”

“Luck is also a skill.”

“Honestly, the story is also a story, but I like Chu Yang-gu’s drawings. I’m slowly drawing Japanese-level pictures. The reaction in Japan is not bad, so other manga artists are challenging Japan little by little.”

“okay?”

The atmosphere in the Korean comics world seems to be changing little by little.

Little by little, the changes that have occurred since I came to the past are causing the butterfly effect.

In fact, I didn’t expect anything like this at all, but if many Korean cartoonists can enter Japan and have a place, I don’t know if there will be a change in the Korean publishing industry.

And at the time when Japanese culture opened up after the IMF and the Korean comics world began to sink at the same time, it might be able to change that.

Of course, the collapse of the Korean comics industry simply did not happen because of the IMF or Japan’s cultural openness. It is the result of many things happening in a complex way.

Anyway, it is clear that Japan and Korea now have a lot of different parts from the memories I knew.

“However, the country is in trouble these days. The protests seem to be getting more intense. Is it because of the death of a college student that happened some time ago?”

As Park Sang-sik said,

As the new year approaches, there are more and more protests.

And in North Korea, it seems that 11 family members have escaped at once and are going somewhere abroad, which is also frequently reported in the news.

There were so many North Korean defectors back when I was living, it wasn’t anything special. It is not common in this day and age, so it is often reported on TV or newspapers.

There are also rumors that a dam for peace will be built from next month.

Anyway, the economy seems to be in good shape, but the political side is still noisy.

Of course, in a world without the Internet, it is difficult for the general public to know the details.

In the evening, after everyone left work, Seon-hee, Kyung-hee, and the three of me were the only ones left in the studio.

Tani Ryu is living with Silver these days, and I’m also worried that he might have become a slave disguised as a special training in Korean.

Well, thanks to that, Ryutani’s Korean skills improved a lot.

Nyaan.

Seolgi Bek hangs on Kyunghee’s leg, who was sitting on the floor, and rubs his head.

“This guy, you’ve been coming here for a long time and asking for food again?”

As if to answer Kyung-hee’s question, Seol-gi cried again, and Kyung-hee smiled as if she was cute and wanted to die, raised her head and put her head on it.

“Oh, what a cute little guy. Okay, this sister will give you something delicious. Let’s go to the kitchen together.”

Saying that, he went into the kitchen with Snow White.

While I was looking at him with a blank look, Seon-hee approached me.

But somehow, his expression seems serious.

“Why? What do you have to say?”

He paused and asked while taking Kyunghee’s three-three-three cups of coffee to his mouth. Then Seon-hee seemed to be thinking about something for a moment, and then answered in a quiet voice.

“I want to try it.”

“exam? What?”

“Now that the exam is over, I want you to draw what you want to draw.”

“·················ogue.”

In the meantime, I was restrained by my side so that I wouldn’t overdo it because of my busy high school life and my life of drawing cartoons at the same time.

However, as soon as the exam was over and the university was decided, I did not know how to say that.

“What would you like to draw?”

“future.”

For a moment, I flinched and startled.

“······future?”

Maybe I didn’t know something and said something.

He asked, keeping his expression natural and bringing the cold coffee back to his mouth.

“…why did you think so?”

“Looking at Snow White.”

“What?!”

I was so surprised that I almost spilled my coffee.

All of a sudden, it’s snow-white.

Do you really know something?

Well, you asked me who I was in the first place.

However, at Seon-hee’s next words, my heart sank.

“I want to draw like that.”

“After seeing Snow White, do you want to draw a future?”

“Huh.”

What is this nonsensical saying?

Still, I was a little surprised when he said that he wanted to see Beksulgi and paint the future.

“What kind of future do you want to draw?”

To that, Seon-hee goes back to her seat instead of answering.

“···········?”

Seon-hee rummaged through the bookshelves of the liver on the desk, and took out a practice book from there and brought it to me. And when I held it out, I took it and opened it carefully.

If the real future I experienced was drawn on the practice field, I was thinking about how I would react.

However, this time, somehow, I feel like my Mac is getting loose.

It’s a look I’ve seen a lot somewhere, but it’s different from the future I lived in.

That’s because it was similar to Blade Runner’s futuristic cityscape, which was released in the United States just a few years ago and is actually in the studio on video.

When you look at it that way, Akira feels a bit like that.

Oh, was Blade Runner set in 2019?

I’m from 2018, so a year later is the background.

Of course, it would be meaningless because the degree of development was completely different in a completely different worldview.

Anyway, as I took a deep breath and was relieved, Seon-hee tilted her head.

“Why?”

“Nothing.”

After answering with an awkward smile, I looked at the pictures.

Anyway, the future that Seon-hee envisioned was not very different from other cartoons and movies. Of course, as far as I know, the German movie ‘Metropolis’, which came out around the 1920s, had the greatest influence on this future.

Anyway, Seon-hee’s picture of the future is also pretty cool.

Incredibly tall skyscrapers, intertwined roads with several floors stretching between them.

Short trains running on narrow roads connecting buildings to buildings.

Even a futuristic car floating in the sky.

It’s nothing like a typical cyberpunk city.

Of course, it is quite different from the real future, but in a way, the real future is so boring in the present age. Being realistic is not necessarily a good thing.

In any case, Seon-hee’s illustrations are quite attractive just for their drawings.

What kind of story do you want to make with this setting?

After looking at the picture more, I looked at Seon-hee and asked.

“Shall we have a story meeting now?”

“I want to be alone.”

“What? Alone?”

“Huh. I want to draw what comes to my mind. Without dialogue.”

“Without dialogue…?”

“Huh.”

I was momentarily surprised.

It’s a cyberpunk manga with no dialogue.

I’ve seen a lot of works where the amount of dialogue is extremely restrained, but what else is there other than GON that doesn’t exist at all?

Of course, there are a few graphic novels and anime, but I can’t remember any of the works being serialized in major magazines.

Of course, there are cases in which a few episodes appear experimentally even if they are being serialized.

Nevertheless, it is extremely rare.

This is because the experimental feeling is strong.

In the case of Gon, a successful work, it is not yet released to the world.