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Chapter 36 Unprecedented Efficiency

Hot-blooded youth weekly editorial department.

It was still broad daylight, but the atmosphere in the editorial department was a bit gloomy and depressing.

Only the sales volume of the new weekly magazine has come out, and it has dropped a lot compared to the previous issue.

In the past six months, the sales volume of Hot-blooded Youth Weekly has been in constant decline, and the sales volume of each issue has dropped by about [-].

In the latest issue, sales dropped by nearly [-].

Now the sales volume is only a little over 50, and the decline cannot be stopped. According to this decline method, in two or three years, the weekly magazine can declare bankruptcy.

Ishito Aoki is also very worried. He has worked for Hot Blood Youth Weekly for 13 years. If the weekly goes bankrupt, he can only find a way to find a job in another comic weekly.

But now that the industry environment is getting worse and worse, it's really hard to say whether I can find a slightly better editorial job by then.

But in the face of the plight of the magazine, he has nothing to do.

After all, he is only an editor responsible for reviewing manuscripts, and what he can do is extremely limited.

"Senior Aoki, a manga author came to the first floor and said he wanted to contribute."

At this time, Hanai Mika, who was in charge of chores on the first floor, came to his side and whispered to him.

Hanai Mika originally came to Hot Blooded Boys Weekly to apply for a manga editor, but she has no editing experience, but she loves manga very much and is very familiar with manga.

Under normal circumstances, the magazine would not recruit inexperienced editors, but considering that Mika Hanai was a liberal arts student at the University of Tsukuba, the magazine also wanted to add some fresh blood from the editorial level, so Mika Hanai was finally able to apply for the job.

But it is definitely not possible to be an editor directly. At present, Mika Hanai is responsible for receiving manga authors and other chores related to editing on the first floor to accumulate experience.

"According to the usual practice, wouldn't it be enough to let him leave the manuscript and contact information? Could it be some famous author?"

Aoki Ishito said with a strange guess, but with the current situation of Hot-Blooded Youth Weekly, how could a famous manga author like it?

"No, it's a high school student. He brought over a hundred-page draft and said that he wanted us to review it now. If he didn't want to, he would change to another..."

"What high school student, so arrogant!"

When the Qingmu stone man heard this, he couldn't help getting angry.

Even though Hot-blooded Youth Weekly is doing poorly now, it used to be a weekly magazine with sales of over 200 million!

Even if the sales volume is only around [-], it's not enough for a high school student to be disrespectful!
"Ah, no. He said that he didn't mean to be disrespectful. It's just that he needs to get the manuscript fee immediately, so he did it. He showed me a few pages of drawings. I think it's necessary to come up and talk to Senior Aoki. .”

Hanai Mika said quickly.

The high school student downstairs seemed arrogant, but his attitude was actually very humble.

"Draw well?"

"In my opinion, the drawing is very good!"

Hanai Mika nodded affirmatively.

"Then go and have a look."

Aoki Shiren thought for a while and calmed down.

The current situation of Hot Blooded Youth Weekly is very bad. If it wants to stop the decline, it can only rely on high-quality comics.

But now the weekly is caught in a vicious circle.

Because of poor sales and good quality manuscripts, the comic authors gave priority to other comic magazines.

Those who voted for them were basically crooked melons and dates picked up by the other companies.

And because the quality of the works is not as good as those big magazines, the sales volume of magazines is also going from bad to worse.

Now that Hot-blooded Youth Weekly wants to come up with a popular and popular work, it can only hope that among the serialized works, some authors will suddenly explode.

In other words, resign yourself to fate.

Now that an author has sent a manuscript that may be of good quality, he won't lose anything by looking at it.

What if it is really a good manuscript?

"I want to ask, does your magazine have any exclusive clauses that restrict authors?"

In the reception room on the first floor, Qingmu Shiren saw someone coming, a real high school student.

Just sat down, before the two sides started to introduce themselves, the high school student opposite suddenly asked.

The green wood stone man was stunned, and then an involuntary strong expectation surged up in his heart, and some kind of premonition that he might pick up a treasure.

……

more than an hour later.

Aoki Ishito and Hanai Mika watched Higashino Hirosawa leave at the door.

What happened in this hour, even if Qingmu Shiren has been editing for more than ten years, it still feels a little unreal.

From meeting, reviewing manuscripts, confirming the signing of the contract, to opening a bank account, and paying the author's manuscript fee, so many processes were completed in just over an hour.

He never imagined that the efficiency of their magazine would be so high.

"Editor Murakami, when will "Dragon Ball" start serialization?"

When Ishito Aoki returned to the editorial office on the second floor, he heard squad leader Taniguchi asking.

To handle so many processes in just over an hour is naturally not something that Qingmu Shiren can handle.

After reading the Dragon Ball manuscript, he immediately took it to the editorial department on the second floor.

Then, after Higashino Hirosawa drew another sketch in front of all the editors, there was no obstacle to all the processes.

It's embarrassing to say, but this "Dragon Ball" manuscript, which only has four episodes, is currently the highest quality manuscript among the hot-blooded youth weekly magazines.

And Hirosawa Higashino proved his potential. How could such a young manga author with unlimited potential be missed by the hot-blooded youth weekly in the predicament.

"Starting from the next weekly magazine, publish two chapters!"

The editor-in-chief Murakami has gray hair, but at this time he is extremely decisive.

The next issue of the weekly, in fact, has already confirmed the content of the weekly two weeks ago.

For normal new serialization, the magazine society will confirm at least two weeks in advance, and most of them will be one month in advance.Because there are new serials, it means that serials will be cut off.

The serialization that has been cut off always has to give the readers an explanation, and the author has to be notified in advance so that the author can draw the final ending, so that the serialization location can be released.

In terms of new serials, the magazine will also use some color pages to advertise and preview at the end of each issue of the magazine.

This is the normal new serialization process.

Now editor Murakami ignores this process, and will directly serialize Dragon Ball in the next issue.

It is impossible to modify the content that has been determined, so the next issue of the weekly magazine can only be printed with dozens of pages.

It is not a strange thing to add pages to magazines, as long as you plan ahead.

However, the sudden increase of pages will not only increase the cost, but also many things need to be coordinated, which is very troublesome.

"Then it's true that there will be two episodes in each issue after that?"

Squad leader Taniguchi couldn't help asking again.

"As long as that young man can submit two episodes a week, two episodes will be serialized in each issue!"

Editor Murakami nodded affirmatively.

The editors in the editorial department couldn't help but take a breath.

Let a manga serialize two episodes at the same time in each issue, which is unprecedented in Hot Blooded Youth Weekly!

……

At the same time that Hiroze Higashino signed the contract with Hot Blooded Youth Weekly, the manuscript of "Full Time Hunter" also reached the editorial department of Weekly Shonen Magazine, and fell into the hands of a review editor.

Not only that, the express delivery efficiency in Tokyo today is surprisingly high.

The sketch of "Slam Dunk" submitted by Hirozawa Higashino in the morning also arrived at the editorial department of Weekly Shonen Sunday at almost the same time.

On the way back by subway, Higashino Hirosawa received emails from Weekly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday.

Seeing this, Higashino Hirozawa went to register two more link accounts, named Togashi Yoshihiro and Inoue Takehiko respectively.

(End of this chapter)