People are in Tokyo, there is a wishing machine

Chapter 32 The Excited An Tengwu

"Well, hopefully a decent draft or two today!"

An Tengwu rubbed his face and pulled himself together.

The manuscript review work is easy to say, because some well-known or promising cartoonists are basically registered in major comic magazines, and the submissions will be sent directly to their editors.

Therefore, according to the contact information in the comic magazine, almost all of the comics sent to him are newcomer authors, and the quality of the manuscripts is generally very low. It is very easy to distinguish the good and the bad.

But it's hard to say.

In fact, many manuscripts can be sentenced to death at a glance on the first page, but An Tengwu still has to read on.

His job as a review editor is not simply to reject manuscripts that fail.

At least [-]% of the manuscripts that come to him fail.

However, [-] to [-] percent of those assigned to the retrial part can often be obtained.

The extra part is that although those drawings are not expensive, but they think the author has potential, they can contact the author to communicate and cultivate.

The comic business is cruel, and no matter how popular the author is, there is no guarantee that the next book will continue to be popular.

If comic magazines want to maintain long-term prosperity, it is necessary to keep cultivating new cartoonists.

An Tengwu's job is not so much reviewing manuscripts, but discovering potential newcomer cartoonists.

The mail was opened one by one, and An Tengwu leaned back in his chair and quickly flipped through the manuscripts.

He shook his head from time to time, and threw the manuscript on the rejection table.

Many manuscripts are not much worse than graffiti.

When he first joined the editorial department and worked as a reviewer, his work enthusiasm was high.

In the editorial department, there are many editors who have unearthed legendary deeds of super rookies from manuscripts.

An Tengwu also has the idea of ​​imitating.

But unfortunately, it didn't take long for him to be severely hit.

Those manuscripts, not to mention discovering super newcomers, he felt torture every day looking at them.

The quality of many manuscripts is very poor, which can be said to be eye-catching.

Until today, ten years later, An Tengwu still failed to discover a super rookie.

"This one is so thick. How many manuscripts have been submitted?"

Pick up the next one, the mail is very thick, and the number of pages in the manuscript is quite a lot.

But An Tengwu was not happy.

Because the magazine recommends that the number of submission pages be controlled within 30 pages, few people will exceed this number.

Those who will submit so many pages of manuscripts are mostly authors who like to work behind closed doors and lack communication with the outside world.

The quality of the drafts of this kind of authors is not very good, but they generally blindly have full confidence in their drafts, and it is particularly difficult to communicate with them.

An Tengwu can be said to be the most troublesome encounter with this kind of author.

"The name "Dragon Ball"... Huh? This painting style and storyboard!"

Taking out the drawing, An Tengwu glanced at it and couldn't help being stunned.

"Is this a famous author joking with me?"

An Tengwu turned over a few pages, more and more surprised.

The painting style is neat and bright, and there is almost nothing to criticize in terms of characterization, storytelling, and the ratio of long and short shots.

Most of the serialized manuscripts on JUMP have obvious gaps with this manuscript.

"The author, Akira Toriyama? I haven't heard of it. This style of painting is definitely not something that newcomers can draw. Could it be that some author changed his pseudonym and submitted the manuscript? But this style of painting is not familiar."

An Tengwu glanced at the author's name, and couldn't help but wonder which magazine's cartoonist planned to jump over.

But after thinking about it carefully, among those comic authors who are not serialized, there is no painting style that can match.

"Forget it, let's watch the plot first, anyway, we'll know who it is when we get in touch."

An Tengwu buried his head in reading the manuscript, and the pages of drawings passed through his hands.

"It's a very relaxing and interesting story. The main character is well portrayed. The world where animals can talk looks very interesting without being obtrusive. The setting of the seven dragon balls also makes the follow-up story infinitely possible. The battle scene is also very comfortable and smooth. The quality of this manuscript is enough to be serialized directly!"

An Tengwu exhaled.

The quality of the drawing was far better than he had imagined, and he finished it in one go.

He has never encountered such a high-quality manuscript since he was a reviewer.

"Squad Leader Morita, here is a drawing I want you to take a look at right now."

Without hesitation, An Tengwu picked up the manuscript of Dragon Ball and walked towards Squad Leader Morita.

The editorial part of JUMP is divided into five classes, and each class has a class leader. An Tengwu is one of the editors under the class leader Morita.

"An Teng, why is it so urgent?"

Squad leader Morita stopped the pen in his hand and raised his head.

"I think this manuscript can be submitted to the serialization meeting tomorrow morning for a serialization vote."

An Tengwu handed over the Dragon Ball manuscript.

Every Wednesday morning, the editor-in-chief of the editorial department, two deputy editor-in-chiefs, and the monitors of the five classes will hold a serialization meeting to vote on the new serialization first, and cut off the serializations with the lowest popularity.

"The quality of this manuscript is so good?"

Squad leader Morita was surprised.

An Tengwu has never done this since he took the job of reviewing manuscripts.

What made him make an exception must be the quality of the manuscript.

Squad leader Morita took the Dragon Ball drawing and looked at it carefully.

"Very good manuscript, no wonder you are so excited, in my opinion, serialization is enough."

Squad leader Morita read it quickly and nodded.

"However, have you contacted the author? Who is the author? Someone who can draw such a mature manuscript cannot be a newcomer."

Squad leader Morita continued to ask.

"I'm sorry, monitor, I'm too excited and haven't contacted you yet."

An Tengwu looked embarrassed.

"You should contact the author first to confirm the author's identity. There can be no contract issues. I will bring this manuscript to the serialization meeting tomorrow for discussion, but whether it is serialized or not is not in a hurry."

Squad leader Morita didn't blame An Tengwu either.

As the reviewer, it is rare to come across an excellent manuscript, so it is understandable to be excited, and he has felt this way before.

I haven't seen the author's name of the drawing. It is very likely that the author of another magazine has quit. At the serialization meeting tomorrow, what Squad Leader Morita wants to discuss is after confirming the author's identity, even if the author has a contract. The author stays.

"Yes, I understand. Let me check the author's contact information... Hey, there is only one email address, and I don't even leave a mobile phone. Are you worried that we will find out your identity?"

An Tengwu dug out the contact information of Ming Toriyama, but it turned out that there was only one e-mail address.

"It's very likely that the author doesn't want to reveal his identity. It's fine, anyway, You can contact the author first, then talk about it. Also, since the author doesn't want to reveal his identity, try not to let more people know about it."

Squad leader Morita felt more confident when he saw it.

These days, who doesn't have a mobile phone?
The only explanation is that I don't want my phone number to reveal my identity.

The circle of cartoonists is just that big, and having a mobile phone number basically confirms their identity.

"Yes, I understand!"

An Tengwu returned to his workbench and quickly sent an email to the author.

However, the author named Niao Shanming didn't seem to be waiting for the email. He waited for a long time, but he didn't reply to the email.

No way, An Tengwu could only continue to review the manuscript while waiting.

……

Sakura City High School.

After school, Higashino Hirosawa came to the game department again.

Only senior Abe is in the game department, and Aida-senpai is probably busy with other things.

"Higashino-kun, you are here. I told Aida that her laptop will be handed over to you for the time being, and will be returned to her after the manga exhibition is over."

Abe Taka pointed to Aida-senpai's computer on the table and said.

"Thank you senior, then I will not be polite."

Thank you Hirosawa Higashino.

Even if Senior Abe didn't say it, he would take the initiative to borrow it.

If you want to write a script without a computer, it will be much slower and troublesome.

He is still unfamiliar with this world, and needs a computer to look up things from time to time.

"Then let's work together!"

Abe Taka looks very motivated.

Higashino Hirosawa sat down and prepared to continue writing the script.

For the time being, during the time after school, he was going to spend time in the game department, and when it was almost five o'clock, he would pick up Xiaoqianhe and go home.

Before writing the script, Hirosawa Higashino logged into his registered email.

"New email? Is it from JUMP?"

Higashino Hirosawa suddenly lifted his spirits.

As long as the drawing has passed the review, his embarrassing life can be changed immediately, and he doesn't have to pick cheap ones even for a bento like now.

(End of this chapter)