Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 76 Sweeping the Ranking List

The next day, Hideki Hanyu, who was temporarily resting in Yokohama, waited for the recording assistant sent by the Shogakukan.

By the way, there are two publishing contracts that he needs to sign.

The first one is the reprint contract of "Magic Dessert Shop". The number of reprints in the contract is the same as the first printing of 15 copies. "I still have confidence in the follow-up sales.

After all, after a full sales week, the actual sales volume of "Magic Snack Shop 1: The Dream Gummy Got into Trouble" has officially exceeded [-] copies!
In this era, the Neon Oricon Rankings has not yet started to count the sales of books, only some newspapers and weekly media have some inaccurate book rankings.

It was on these inaccurate rankings that "Magic Snack Shop 1: Dream Gum Candy Got into Trouble" showed a sweeping trend, all of them parachuted to No. [-], and there was absolutely no opponent who could fight.

Hideki Hanyu can completely sing a song at this time, how lonely it is to be invincible.

Such a strong sales explosion, although it is due to the follow-up impact brought by the serialization, is enough to prove the excellence of this book.

As for the second publishing contract, it is no surprise that it is the publishing contract of "Love, Go Home".

Maeda Soyoshi from the editorial department specially called Hanyu Hideki, saying that the serialization of "Love, Go Home" will be shortened to five issues, which means that there are only three issues left and it will come to an end.

And the launch date written in the release contract of "Love, Go Home" was just after the serialization ended.

The number of first prints is even higher than that of "Magic Snack Shop 1: Dream Gummy Got into Trouble", a full 20 copies.

Sure enough, what they could think of, the sales department of the Xiaoxiaoguan also wanted to use the tear-jerking plot of the last issue to hit the sales of "Love, Go Home".

It's a pity that the price is much lower than that of "Magic Snack Shop 1: Dream Gum Candy Gets into Trouble", only 890 yen.

But even so, after the signing of the two contracts, he also received more than 100 million yen in royalties.

In less than a month, the two novels brought him more than 600 million yen in revenue, which was about to catch up with the revenue of the seven picture books.

Compared with picture books with a narrower audience, the strength of traditional books in terms of sales is fully reflected in these two books.

Of course, it is limited to the territory of Neon.

In the mature book market in Europe and the United States, his two novels full of East Asian thinking are hard to sell.

On the contrary, picture books with smaller cultural barriers are more likely to sell well.

According to the news from Eri Kitahara, he has already released three picture books in the European and American markets, and the sales are not bad for the time being.

However, in some areas, the agent sales get a share, some are directly sold by the primary school, and some areas are a one-time buyout. Therefore, it is more troublesome to calculate the income. It is estimated that the first money will not be seen until the end of the year.

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After a short day's rest in Yokohama, Hideki Hanyu and the staff of Shogakukan rushed to Nagoya, the next stop of the autograph signing.

Here, he also received an extremely warm welcome. On the day of the signing, there was a long queue outside the bookstore where the number of book fans far exceeded the number of reservations.

After the signing session started, all kinds of readers were naturally indispensable.

However, as expected by Eri Kitahara, with the serialization of the second story of "Love, Go Home", the impact of the bear is even greater, and Hideki Hanyu has encountered more and more questions.

In the past, we could meet a few people at a book signing event, but now almost every seven or eight people, someone will ask Hideki Hanyu with a weekly magazine why he wrote such a story, which made everyone very unhappy.

Facing these readers, Hanyu Hideki felt that they were like reading an online novel at a certain point in his previous life, and he felt like seeing a sadistic article, and the feeling of wanting to hand over the blade was particularly strong.

It's just that at this time, the author who was going to be given the blade was replaced by himself, which felt uncomfortable.

But in order to avoid spoilers, he can't reveal the follow-up plot to readers. He can only express his apology and hope that readers can read it patiently.

And when the time came to the second signing session in Nagoya City, the number of questioners increased again, and even children expressed their dissatisfaction, saying that they would not hate grandma.

Hideki Hanyu is also in pain and happiness, because the bear child hates it, although the book fans question him, although he is very helpless.

But it also proved that his novel has indeed received a lot of attention, otherwise so many people would not have come to question it.

This is indeed the case. The sales of "Children's Literature and Art", which serialized the second part of "Love, Go Home" at the Xiaoxiaoguan, have successfully exceeded 50 copies.

This is the first time that Hideki Hanyu's "Magic Snack Shop" serialization has ended, and the sales volume of "Children's Literature" has plummeted, and the sales volume of the weekly magazine has returned to more than 50.

"Hanyu-san, congratulations to Miracle Dessert Store for breaking through [-] single-book sales on the first floor."

In Nagoya City, in the hotel where Hideki Hanyu is staying, Eri Kitahara congratulates Hideki Hanyu.

Just after the second signing event in Nagoya, the few people just returned to the hotel after dinner, and good news came from the Xiaoxiaokan.

After counting the sales of "Magic Snack Shop 1: Realizing Dreams Gummy Candy Got into Trouble" this afternoon, the actual sales volume successfully reached [-] copies.

Under the influence of "Love, Go Home", it can still achieve such a high sales volume. It is no wonder that some colleagues dislike Hideki Hanyu.

Other writers can sell [-] copies in a week, which is enough to throw a party to celebrate, but he is doing well, selling [-] copies in less than two weeks.

Although it was influenced by the serial word-of-mouth, Hanyu Hideki would not believe it if he said that he was not blessed by his excellent appearance.

Looking at it this way, it is not unreasonable for some people to say that he sells books based on his face.

"Mr. Hanyu, if I had received this news earlier, I could have opened a bottle of red wine to celebrate the dinner just now."

The speaker was a new recording assistant named Jiro Komatsu, a typical neon male white-collar worker who worked hard at work and wanted to have a good drink after get off work.

"When the signing event is all over, I will treat Komatsu-san to have a drink when I return to Tokyo, but before that, let's help Hanyu-san complete the creation with all my heart."

Eri Kitahara emphasized.

Although Eri Kitahara is younger than Jiro Komatsu, because of the thick leg of Hideki Hanyu, her status in the Shogakukan has grown rapidly in the past six months.

Although he has only worked for two years, if there is no accident, he will be promoted to the director level by the end of the year.

In the Neon company with the seniority system, the director is not a management position, but a level higher than ordinary employees. The salary and status will be raised appropriately. Generally, it takes five to ten years of work before being promoted.

Therefore, when facing Eri Kitahara, Komatsu Jiro still respected him, and answered quickly after hearing the words.

"Yes, I will try my best to help Hanyu-san complete the creation."

(End of this chapter)