Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 72 The Signing Session Begins

After getting to know Qiu Pangpang, although the two met to have time to drink flower wine together, but because both of them are busy with work, they have not been able to achieve it.

At the end of August, Shogakukan announced its Children's Publishing Culture Award, and Hideki Hanyu won the championship without any surprise.

In fact, when this award was still judged, everyone already knew that the suspense had been lost.

Even without considering the relationship between Hideki Hanyu and Shogakukan, in terms of the quality of the works alone, Hideki Hanyu is the only one in the neon picture book world this year, and he deserves the award.

On the day of the awards ceremony, the media gathered at the scene, Masahiro Aiga, the future heir of Shogakukan, presented the award to Hideki Hanyu in person, and sent a bonus check of 100 million yuan by the way.

"Hanyu-san, congratulations on winning the award, and hope our cooperation will always go smoothly."

Compared with the blandness when they first met, Masahiro Aiga at this time is full of enthusiasm.

Shogakukan is trying its best to support Hideki Hanyu, but Hideki Hanyu has also given Shogakukan what it deserves.

Just like Hanyu Hideki thought Nakamori Akina was a humanoid money printing machine before, in the eyes of Aiga Masahiro, Hanyu Hideki is also a humanoid money printing machine of Shogakukan.

For every one yen in royalties Hanyu Hideki received from the Shogakukan, it was equivalent to at least four yen for the Shogakukan.

In less than half a year, Hideki Hanyu helped the Shogakukan generate at least [-] million in revenue. It is strange that Masahiro Aikaga is not enthusiastic.

"I also hope to continue to cooperate with Shogakukan." Hideki Hanyu also said the scene.

Although there was a stalemate for several days over the royalties of "Magic Snack Shop", it did not affect the continued cooperation after discussing the benefits.

However, Yunshang Culture now has Sanzhi Iijima. In the future, such matters of competing for interests can be handed over to Sanzhi Iijima. If the cooperation is too long, he will be embarrassed to bargain.

"I heard from the editor of Weekly Shonen Sunday, Kumagai, that Hanyu-san has a story and wants to cooperate with Weekly Shonen Sunday."

Hanyu Hideki didn't expect Masahiro Aiga to care about this matter, and he didn't hide it.

"There is indeed an inspiration for the story, but I've been too busy recently. The manager of Xianghe should know that the release of the booklet of the Miracle Snack Shop is about to start. I need to do a whole neon signing tour."

"The magical snack shop really needs to be taken seriously."

Masahiro Aikata naturally knows how important "Magic Dessert Shop" is to Shogakukan.

After the serialization of "Magic Snack Shop", the sales volume of "Children's Literature and Art" plummeted by nearly 50.00%, which is enough to prove it.

The success or failure of the booklet of "Magic Snack Shop" is related to whether the school can make new breakthroughs in the second half of the year.

"But I heard that Hanyu-san plans to find another manga artist to cooperate with? Has anyone chosen?"

"It's just an idea for the time being, and it will not be confirmed until the comic script is completed."

Speaking of this, Hideki Hanyu saw Eri Kitahara gesturing to him not far away, and hurriedly said to Masahiro Aiga, "Executive Aiga, the reporter over there is still waiting for an interview."

"I'm really sorry, Hanyu-san, please go." Aiga Masahiro said politely.

Saying goodbye to Masahiro Aiga, Hideki Hanyu, accompanied by Eri Kitahara, accepted interviews from relevant media, and today's award acceptance is over.

After the presentation of the Shogakukan Children’s Publishing Culture Award, Hideki Hanyu immediately devoted himself to the work of Yunying Pictures.

After being praised by Ito Shinsuke for a while for the advertising idea proposed earlier, he, who has the title of producer, was inevitably dragged by Ito Shinsuke to give on-site guidance.

In addition to directing the commercial shooting of the film, he also had to formulate a training plan for the three of Yoko Minano at the agency.

He was the one who suggested creating a girl idol group, and the style line was also constructed by him. Apart from him, no one at the agency knew how to do it.

And in addition to making plans, he also participates in training.

Teachers for courses such as vocal music, media public relations training, and manners have found suitable candidates, but he was not satisfied with the selection of several teachers for dance, so he had to teach the lessons himself.

Speaking of which, because he is either traveling or watching football games recently, and he is busy with work, although Hanyu Hideki still has the name of the teacher in the training room, he has not taught for a while.

Originally, quite a few students came for him, but they found that his teacher was really irregular in class, and he didn't see anyone for ten days and a half months. Gradually, fewer people signed up because of him.

Returning to a regular life, time flies to the beginning of September. As the publicity for the release of the booklet of "Magic Snack Shop" by the Shogakukan begins, Hideki Hanyu's neon sign tour will also begin.

It just so happened that the middle school of the three girls started, and the training courses were temporarily slowed down, so he was able to spare time to devote himself to the signing event.

The first stop of the book signing is of course Tokyo, the city with the largest neon, which accounts for nearly 40.00% of neon book sales, so it cannot be overemphasized.

There are two signing sessions in other cities, but Tokyo starts with two signing sessions, and after completing the other four cities, come back for two more signing sessions.

Hideki Hanyu's first book signing event was arranged at the Maruzen Bookstore Marunouchi Main Store near Tokyo Station.

Here I will talk about the difference of the Neon Writer Signing Session.

First of all, the signing will be made by appointment. Although there is no charge, you need to make an appointment with the organizer in advance. The organizer will determine the number of reservations according to the on-site situation of the signing.

Book fans who have not made an appointment can also participate on the spot, but they will be arranged behind the reserved book fans, and they need to wait for the reserved book fans to sign and sell before they can enter.

The reason for doing so is related to the content of the signing session.

For book fans who make an appointment, Hideki Hanyu must also write the name of the book fan and a blessing while signing his name.

At the same time, it is also necessary to meet the group photo requirements of book fans, and give small gifts and thank-you letters to book fans to thank book fans for their support.

As for the book fans participating in the book signing, each person can only sign one book, and although there is no rule, almost every book fan will bring a small gift to the author.

Anyway, going through a set of procedures is quite time-consuming, so the number of book fans who can participate in the book signing at each station will basically not exceed [-].

It is also because of this that only a few of those book fans who did not make an appointment can get autographs, and most of them just queue up for nothing.

Compared with the kind of book signings held in China in later generations that are solely for the purpose of selling books on the spot, the sales of books at Neon’s signings are secondary, and the main purpose is actually publicity.

And this is why Hideki Hanyu does not want to hold too many signings. Compared with simple signings, such signings are undoubtedly more tiring.

As for his book signing at Maruzen Bookstore today, the Xiaoxiaoguan released [-] reservations, which is already a relatively large number.

But when he arrived at the bookstore in the morning, before he got out of the car, he saw that the book fans who actually came to the scene today had already lined up from the third floor where the autograph session was located to the street outside the first floor, and there were even lined up on the street. No end of the team.

There is no need to count at all, this number must be more than two hundred.

"Hanyu-san, I'm afraid you will have to work hard today."

Eri Kitahara, who accompanied Hideki Hanyu, showed a sympathetic look.

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