Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 41 New Weekly Serialization

In fact, Hideki Hanyu has long thought about the work to be serialized, and that is the neon fantasy children's novel of later generations, "Magic Snack Shop".

"Magic Dim Sum Shop" is a Chinese translation, and the name of the book in Neon is "ふしぎ駄果子屋銭天天堂", created by Reiko Hiroshima, the queen of neon fantasy.

Compared with the early education picture books created by Hideki Hanyu, "Magic Snack Shop" has a wider audience, and it is very interesting even for adults. It is known as the children's version of the worry-free grocery store.

In his previous life, he bought this set of books for his little niece, but he read them with gusto.

This set of books revolves around a magical dim sum shop - "Money Paradise".

Only lucky children can find this store and buy a magical snack from the owner Hongzi to realize their wishes and solve their troubles.

The owner of another dim sum shop, "Hao Luck Tang", sells dim sum designed to do bad things.

As a result, the owners of the two dim sum shops started a duel between good and evil because of completely different ideas.

And all kinds of magical snacks they sold also let the guests start a period of incredible adventure life.

Since the first volume of "Magical Dim Sum Shop" was published by Kaichengshe in 2013, the total sales volume has exceeded 2019 million as of 400, ranking first in the neon children's literature sales list all the year round.

And not only in Neon, but also in the whole of Asia, this book is a phenomenal work.

The famous "Harry Potter" series has been beaten by this fantasy children's novel in Asia, and they are powerless to resist.

However, due to the creation time, some content in the book does not conform to the current era, so he needs to make certain revisions.

Therefore, in addition to creating new picture books these days, Hanyu Hideki is writing the first story in the first volume of "Magic Snack Shop" "Dream Gum Candy Got into Trouble".

Mayumi, who was afraid of swimming, stumbled upon a dim sum shop called "Qian Tiantang".

There she bought a mermaid gummy candy, which made her feel like a fish in water in the swimming pool, but her body changed quietly...

Mermaid Gummy Candy is the name of this story.

After the first story was finished, Eri Kitahara happened to have an appointment with him. The next day, instead of going to Yunying Pictures to track the progress of the ice cream commercial, he went to the Xiaoshokan building.

In the reception room on the second floor of the Shogakukan building, Soyoshi Maeda carefully read the manuscript handed in by Hideki Hanyu.

On the other hand, Eri Kitahara handed over a new contract after signing two new picture book publishing contracts with Hideki Hanyu.

"This is the international publishing agency contract for Hanyu-san's picture books, let's see if there is any problem."

This time, Eri Kitahara invited Hideki Hanyu to come here for this purpose.

Hideki Hanyu's picture books are selling well in neon. In order to maximize profits, Xiao Xuekan naturally wants to promote it to the international market.

After all, the picture book market in European and American countries is more mature, and the cultural barriers of picture book works are small. As long as the works are good enough, they can easily sell well all over the world.

Hideki Hanyu took it over and looked at it. It was nothing more than Shogakukan was in charge of global promotion and distribution, and wanted to take a certain percentage of the profits.

I also asked some detailed questions about international distribution, such as how to check out, and sealed and signed it if there was no problem.

Eri Kitahara took the contract, "About the translation work of the translation, will Hanyu-san participate?"

"I won't participate in this aspect. I believe in the strength of Xiaoxiaoguan. Just show me the finished product."

Hideki Hanyu thought to himself, after all, Shogakukan is an old neon comprehensive publishing house, so there is no problem in translating a picture book.

Besides, he hasn't read the translations of those picture books, so he can't judge whether they are good or bad, so it's better to leave them to professionals.

"I see. There is one more thing I want to tell Hanyu-san. The self-published Pokemon, the first batch of 60 books has received a total of [-] yuan, which has already been transferred to Yunshang Culture's account."

"Two hundred copies, huh..."

Although Hanyu Hideki had prepared, compared to his initial sales of several thousand picture books in a single week, this figure is really bleak.

"The sales volume is really mediocre. Judging from the feedback from bookstores, buyers said that the problem with new works is that the readability is too poor." Eri Kitahara explained.

"is that so."

Hideki Hanyu had already expected it. After all, it is copying the text of the anime, and it is mixed with so many settings. It is strange that the readability is good.

Seeing that Hideki Hanyu didn't care, Eri Kitahara couldn't say anything more.

In fact, it’s just the feedback from the readers of the bookstore. In some newspapers and magazines, some critics have already criticized Hideki Hanyu’s failed transformation.

After all, he is a popular picture book author. At the beginning, he caused such a big commotion under the title of "Idol Writer".

Seeing that the awards season in the cultural world at the end of the year is coming, Shogakukan naturally does not want Hideki Hanyu, the ace of the direct line, to be affected by the harvest of the awards season due to bad reviews.

Therefore, public relations have already started, trying to minimize the impact of this failed transformation.

However, it is impossible to eliminate the influence by relying on public relations alone. Only Hideki Hanyu can change public opinion. As long as he can produce a successful transformation work, all the bad reviews will be self-defeating.

Thinking of this, Eri Kitahara looked at Soyoshi Maeda, who had read that short story for a long time, and did not know the quality.

"Snapped!"

At this moment, Maeda Zongyoshi, who was reading seriously, suddenly slapped the table in front of him.

"Maeda-san, may I ask what happened?"

Maeda Soyoshi's slap startled Eri Kitahara.

After Eri Kitahara finished asking, she saw Maeda Soyoshi pointing at the manuscript in his hand excitedly, and said loudly, "This story by Hanyu-san is really excellent!"

"Maeda-san has won the prize."

Hanyu Hideki wondered if he could be good. Before the Jieyou grocery store was born, this kind of routine story was still very new to today's readers.

"No award! I'm telling the truth." Maeda Zongyi emphasized again.

"Maeda-san, please let me see."

Seeing a story that made Soyoshi Maeda so happy, Eri Kitahara read it curiously.

Maeda Soyoshi ignored Eri Kitahara, and continued to ask Hanyu Hideki, "I think Hanyu-san only brought one story, are you considering serialization?"

"That's right, this kind of short story is very trivial to create. It should be serialized first, and then published as a single volume when there are enough stories." Hideki Hanyu explained.

"In that case, I have a suggestion here, which is..." Maeda Zongyi looked embarrassed.

"Maeda-san, please tell me, this is not the first time we have cooperated."

"Hayu-san knows that compared to the publishing business, our magazine business is not ideal. Recently, in order to open up the situation, the upper management has planned to start a weekly magazine focusing on children's literature. If Hanyu-san is willing, this novel will be the first issue. work."

When Soyoshi Maeda said this, Hideki Hanyu immediately understood what the other party meant.

I want "Magic Snack Shop" to be listed in the new weekly magazine, and use his fame and the quality of his works to help the new weekly magazine open up sales.

This matter has both advantages and disadvantages for him. The disadvantage is that it is bundled with the New Weekly. The New Weekly failed, and his "Magic Snack Shop" could not be promoted.

The advantage is that since Xiaoxiaoguan is determined to launch a new weekly magazine, with the strength of Xiaoxiaoguan, the publicity will definitely not be small. Once it succeeds, his "Magic Snack Shop" will take off directly.

Considering the poor sales volume of the magazines that can be serialized under Shogakukan, Hanyu Hideki feels that choosing these, it is better to give it a go.

Now is not the time for him to participate in the picture book competition. Even if Xiao Xiaoguan's new weekly really fails, he still has time to wait for "Magic Snack Shop" to counterattack with word of mouth.

Thinking of this, he said to Maeda Zongyi, "I can agree to this matter, but do you know when the new weekly magazine will be published?"

When Maeda Muneyoshi heard that Hanyu Hideki agreed, he immediately beamed with joy.

He is very aware of how good the story Hideki Hanyu created this time is a completely different level of work compared to the last Pokemon book.

"The preliminary publicity will take at least a week, and if it goes well, it will be released in early July."

"I understand, please let me know in advance if I need to cooperate with the publicity."

"That's a pleasure to work with."

"Pleasant to work with."

(End of this chapter)