Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 68 Collaborative Ideas
Seeing this is the senior editor of "Weekly Shonen Sunday", Hideki Hanyu felt dizzy.

Since the last time I met "Pokemon" manga, even though he made it clear that he was not interested, Kumagai Xuandian still did not give up.

Even if he is out on a trip, he can still receive a paging message from this person. If he can't bear to ignore him, as long as he calls back, the other party will always stalk him and want him to serialize comics.

He really didn't understand why "Weekly Shonen Sunday", which has two popular comics "Fuxing Kid" and "Baseball Hero", should be him.

I was really afraid of meeting this senior editor, Hideki Hanyu. After returning from Hyogo Prefecture, I came to the Shogakukan twice carefully, for fear of being bumped by the other party.

But he kept hiding and hiding, but he was still found by the other party.

"Good morning, Kumagai-san." Hideki Hanyu greeted weakly.

Kumagai Gennori didn't care about Hanyu Hideki's attitude either. After all, he was an editor who urged manga artists all the year round, and he had seen manga artists in any state.

After Kumagai Gennori greeted him, he politely said to Maeda Muneyoshi next to him, "Maeda-san, please use your reception room."

Maeda Muneyoshi, who has already been busy with serialization, said generously, "It's okay, Kumagai-san and Hanyu-san chat casually, and I won't bother you two."

Although it is not a system, it belongs to the same publishing house after all. Soyoshi Maeda has naturally heard about the anecdote that Hideki Hanyu was pestered by an editor of "Weekly Shonen Sunday" to serialize manga.

Seeing Hideki Hanyu's unlovable expression, Soyoshi Maeda didn't want to use it as a shield, so he stepped away immediately after speaking.

"I'm really not interested in serial comics, Kumagai-san, please stop wasting time on me."

Hanyu Hideki tried to sound sincere in his tone.

For Hanyu Hideki's refusal, Kumagai Gennori was not surprised at all, but he came prepared this time.

After being instructed by his colleagues, he deliberately "spended a lot of money" to invite Eri Kitahara, the person in charge of Hideki Hanyu, to dinner, and obtained a lot of important information from Eri Kitahara.

According to Eri Kitahara, Hideki Hanyu doesn't like to be busy, and has a casual and casual personality. Most of the reluctance to serialize manga is a waste of time and too troublesome.

Therefore, Kumagai Xuandian didn't say that there are other things that are not available, and he cut to the point when he came up.

"Please rest assured, Hanyu-san. I have considered that Hanyu-san is busy with work, so we will help Hanyu-san form a complete manga creation team, including the main writer, line draft, background, coloring, post-production and other personnel. Hanyu-san only needs As the screenwriter of the work, Hanyu-san doesn’t have to worry about wasting too much time on manga serialization.”

In Kumagai Gennori’s view, it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to draw manga, even if you don’t know how to draw. There are manga artists who only serve as manga screenwriters. The cooperation model of original works and artists is not uncommon in the manga industry.

For example, Kazuo Koike, who can't draw at all, is a cartoonist comparable to Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki in terms of status.

Kumagai Gennori finished his thoughts in one breath, and then waited expectantly for Hanyu Hideki's answer.

Hearing such thorough consideration from the other party, Hideki Hanyu felt his scalp go numb.

The Kumagai Xuandian in front of him obviously guessed wrongly. He didn't want to serialize the manga. Although he thought it was a waste of time, it was more because of the copyright sharing of Pokemon.

He was so considerate of him, and sincerely invited him one after another, and Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times to invite Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain.

However, he remained unmoved.

"Kumatani-san, to be honest, Pokemon has a very special meaning to me, and I have no plans to make it a manga for the time being."

Hideki Hanyu found a reason that is not a reason. As for the special significance, this is not a problem for writers. Anyway, neon writers have some weird hobbies.

"Is that so?" Xiong Gu Xuandian couldn't hide his disappointment.

But after a moment of disappointment, the senior editor of "Weekly Shonen Sunday" cheered up again and tried to ask Hanyu Hideki.

"Since this Pokemon book cannot be serialized, does Hanyu-san have any other stories that are suitable for serialization as manga?"

In fact, in Kumagai Gennori's opinion, Hanyu Hideki's "Magical Sweets Shop" is very suitable for drawing as a manga, but it is a pity that the story style is not suitable for serialization in "Weekly Shonen Sunday".

"This..." Looking at the expectant eyes of the senior editor, Hideki Hanyu fell into thought.

If there is a complete creative team to serve, he only works as a comic screenwriter, and he doesn't have to stay at home all day to draw comics, it is not impossible to make some extra money by making comics.

It's just that although there are many influential comic works in his memory, the success of those works is inseparable from the creator's style of painting in addition to the story creativity.

Even if there is a creative team to help, some comics you draw by a different person really don't have that taste.

Thinking of this, he said to Kumagai Xuandian, "I do have an idea for a manga story here, but I may need to find other manga artists to cooperate with."

"Hayu-san wants to find a manga artist to cooperate with, just let me get in touch."

Xiong Gu Xuandian patted his chest and boasted.

"Kumatani-san, don't worry, wait until I prepare the manga script first."

Hideki Hanyu thought to himself, the manga artist he wanted to work with was not so easy to invite because he was a pillar of another family.

However, if the creativity of the work can impress the other party, it is not impossible to talk about it.

"Well, I hope Hanyu-san won't make me wait too long."

Kumagai Gennori scratched his heart curiously, he just wanted to see Hanyu Hideki's manga script sooner.

"I'm afraid it won't work in the near future. After participating in the Children's Culture Publishing Award at the Xiaoshokan, we will soon start the whole neon sign tour. Kumagai-san will have to wait until at least October."

Hideki Hanyu's words made Kumagai Gennori quite helpless, but compared to serial manga, the release of Hideki Hanyu's new work is undoubtedly more important.

Even as the editor of "Weekly Shonen Sunday", he can feel that the entire Shogakukan attaches great importance to Hanyu Hideki. After all, when the second issue of "Children's Literature and Art" achieved a miraculous million sales volume, it caused a sensation in the entire industry. .

At such a critical moment, he dared to ask Hanyu Hideki to create a manga script regardless of priorities, not to mention that Hanyu Hideki didn't have time, I'm afraid the sales department would come to trouble him immediately.

Although he is far-sighted, the sales volume of "Weekly Shonen Sunday" is still not a problem, and he has time to wait for Hideki Hanyu's manga script to come out.

"Then trouble Hanyu-san, if the manga script is finished, please let me know as soon as possible."

"We'll talk about it when we're done."

What Hideki Hanyu doesn't want to do, it's useless to be persuaded by others. He decides to do it only because he wants to do it, and he will never do it for other people's expectations.

And now that he wants to collaborate on comics, it's because he wants to, not because of Kumagai Xuandian.

Sending Xiong Gu Xuandian away, he looked at the time and found that it was almost noon, so he had to hurry back.

In the afternoon, I also agreed to an exclusive interview with Sankei Shimbun. I was really busy and couldn't stop for a moment.

　Thanks to the sinner for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)