Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 411 Curse Returns: Plagiarism controversy and misunderstanding resolved (original)
The popularity and heat of "The Tao of Immortals" soared after the 32nd episode. At the same time, in accordance with previous practice, a comic book volume was published.

And after the sales of the comic book exceeded 10,000 copies, it was time for Lin Qingshan to hold an official signing event to sign autographs for fans.

Upon hearing the news, comic fans were all excited.

Zhou Wenwei saw the news while at work, but... he had been working in Shanghai for so long, and Lin Qingshan had held many autograph sessions in Shanghai in recent years, but he had hardly attended any of them.

Although he is a comic fan, he is actually more of a homebody and doesn't like to attend offline signing events with huge crowds of people.

After all, there were too many people... and they had to queue, which was really troublesome for him.

but……

He picked up his phone and took the opportunity to slack off, sending a message to... Ke Xinjie.

"There will be a book signing event for Qingshan Laozei's Dao Wei Yi Xian this weekend. Do you want to go together?"

He asked with a smile on his face.

Early in the morning, there were still few customers in the nail salon, and Ke Xinjie was the boss.

She saw the message Zhou Wenwei sent, and her eyes suddenly lit up. She said, "Okay, okay! Let's go to the book signing event together this weekend!"

"when……"

In this way, Zhou Wenwei took the opportunity to chat with Ke Xinjie for several minutes.

Until… He saw his supervisor from the corner of his eye and immediately typed, “I’m going to work, let’s talk later.”

Then he put his phone down and pretended to be working.

Ke Xinjie, who was on the other side, also roughly knew that Zhou Wenwei had met the leader, and smiled and replied, "Okay."

Then she sat on the sofa in the store again, feeling a little bored.

only……

"I've finished watching the anime, but there will be an updated episode of Akagi Kill tonight, so let's go see if there are any other interesting comics."

Ke Xinjie yawned as she spoke and opened the Manjie comics app on her phone.

Then I discovered...

“New Manga Artist Grand Prix! Many new works are waiting for your investment!”

"Invest in and subscribe to new comics. The better the work, the more rebates you will get!"

"You can get a maximum rebate of all comic subscription coins, and you can also get a chance to win a big prize in a lucky draw!"

……

"New Manga Artist Grand Prix?"

Ke Xinjie is naturally familiar with this name. After all, two of the best cartoonists of the new generation, Qingshan and Yangyangshu, both came from this newcomer grand prix.

Not only these two, in fact, most of the contestants of the Rookie Grand Prix can become famous cartoonists in the comics industry in the future.

Even if you cannot serialize your works in a comic magazine, you can still become a regular cartoonist in other comic magazines.

This is also why the comics industry has never given up on this new cartoonist grand prize.

Ke Xinjie went in out of curiosity and found that there were really a lot of comic works by newcomers participating in the competition this year.

This is different from the past when they would screen through various methods and finally select four to five comic works that the editors and chief editors-in-chief decided were very good to be serialized.

Since the serialization medium has now changed from paper magazines to the Internet, the comics industry is passing on some obviously unsatisfactory works this time, and then serializing the rest on the software.

At the same time, the main way to determine the ranking of the Rookie Grand Prix has become online voting.

"That's great, let's see if there are any good new comics."

Ke Xinjie immediately began to read the new comics with great interest.

This time, the Rookie Grand Prix is ​​not only different in terms of the serialization medium, but also different from the previous serialization which was released episode by episode.

As soon as the comic works for the Rookie Grand Prix are entered into the competition, three chapters will be released immediately after they go online, but these three chapters will be free from the beginning.

It is also enough for comic fans to enjoy the reading and at the same time, they can immediately see which comics are in line with their preferences.

Ke Xinjie has read several comics by newcomers and thinks they are all pretty good. The style of painting is pretty good, and the opening plot and setting are also quite good.

"This "The Witch of White Forest" is quite good..."

“Is this “The End of Skywalker” a cyberpunk comic? The style is not as good as “Edgewalker”.”

"No... Comparing it with Edgewalker is a bit too much of a bully."

"This... "I Became a Hero and Lived a Happy Life". I don't like this type of comics. I won't read it."

"Gray World 1688... a suspenseful manga? I might as well give it a read..."

……

After reading several books in a row, Ke Xinjie felt that some of the comic settings and opening plots were pretty good, and the painting style was also quite good.

In some comics, the opening plot discourages people from following her.

But she never saw a comic book that she really liked, until...

"The name of this comic is... Jujutsu Kaisen. It's pretty good."

Ke Xinjie casually opened the next comic and planned to take a look at it, but found that... the style and plot of this comic were quite good.

And...it gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

This new comic called "Jujutsu Kaisen" starts from Chapter 0. At the beginning, there is only this Chapter 0, starting with a boy named Yuta Otsutsukoshi...

It introduces the Jujutsu High School and the strange things that happened to Yuta Otsutsukotsu.

When Yuta Otsutsuki was a child, he was engaged to his childhood sweetheart Rika Kimoto, but unfortunately Rika later died in a car accident.

Because he refused to accept the death of his childhood sweetheart Rika, Otsutsuki unconsciously used cursed power to connect with Rika's soul, causing Rika's soul to remain and become a special-grade cursed spirit possessing his body.

As a result, when Rika saw Yuta trying to bully Okkotsu at school, she got angry and was severely injured and stuffed into a locker.

But at the same time, it also attracted the attention of... the magic world.

The world view and setting of "Jujutsu Kaisen" is a supernatural system centered around spell power and curses related to sorcerers. The negative emotions that overflow from humans are curses, and the power extracted from humans' negative emotions is spell power.

Once an ordinary person has too many negative emotions, a creature formed by the cursed energy emitted by ordinary people will be born - a cursed spirit. The body of this creature is made entirely of cursed energy, and it is invisible to ordinary people. Physical attacks are ineffective against it, but cursed energy attacks are effective.

Negative emotions towards specific objects will form corresponding curses. The outbreak of financial crises, frequent examinations, and long-term exploitation of employees by companies will all lead to the frequent appearance of curses.

A sorcerer is a supernatural being who is responsible for removing curses and exorcising cursed spirits.

The Jujutsu High School is a school of curse education, specifically responsible for educating cursers and using them to resolve numerous curse incidents.

Originally, Yuta Okkotsu was also going to be eliminated.

But the Jujutsu High School's usual solution to this kind of thing is... to be sentenced to secret execution. Otsutsukotsu Yuta agreed because of Rika, but was later dissuaded by the Jujutsu High School's teacher, Gojo Satoru, and joined the Jujutsu High School to study.

After this, Zenin Maki, Goumaki Stake and other students of Jujutsu High School met and realized that it was he who cursed Rika, and not "Rika cursed him" as he had always thought. He was determined to resolve the curse of his childhood sweetheart Rika, and gradually learned to use the Tang sword through repeated sparring with Maki. However, next... During a mission with Zenin Maki and Goumaki Stake, he encountered...

After being expelled from the Jujutsu High School, he became one of the four special-grade...jujutsu masters and is now the strongest curse master, Geto Suguru.

He came specifically to win over Yuta Okkotsu because he was attracted by the powerful strength of the cursed spirit Rika who was beside Yuta Okkotsu.

After failing to win over the people, Geto Suguru threatened to launch the "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Kyoto on December 12.

But no one expected that this was actually Geto Suguru's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and the real target was Yuta Otsutsuka and Rika who stayed in the Jujutsu High School.

It can be said that the plot of "Jujutsu Kaisen" is compact and interesting at the beginning, and the battle starts at the beginning. The key is that the painting style is also very good, and there is a very familiar feeling...

It seemed like she had seen this style of painting somewhere.

Anyway, Ke Xinjie was immediately addicted to it.

Until she saw Yuta Otsutsuki and Geto Suguru start fighting, Yuta Otsutsuki tried his best and with the blessing of the protagonist's halo, he knocked Geto Suguru to the ground.

“…I must kill you!”

Facing Yuta Okkotsu's declaration of impending victory that was full of the protagonist's flavor.

But Geto Xiayou didn't care at all, and said with a smile, "You are really self-centered... But it also includes self-affirmation, which is the most important condition in life."

He slowly stood up and faced Yuta Otsutsukotsu who was surrounded by Rika, and said, "Do you know? There are four humans who are rated as special grade... and there are 16 cursed spirits..."

Then the black cursed energy in his hand burst out, and a cursed spirit wearing a kimono with a rather strange face and feet appeared.

"This is one of them - the special-grade imaginary vengeful spirit 'Incarnation Tamamonomae'."

Looking at the extremely oppressive special effect curse spirit, Yuta Otsutsukoshi and Rika were both a little scared.

But Geto Suguru continued in the comics, "In addition... I will combine all 461 cursed spirits I currently possess into one... to deal with you."

In the next comic, a huge cursed spirit that looked like a person was swirling in a vortex appeared behind Geto Xiayou...

When seeing this huge cursed spirit, Ke Xinjie's eyes widened.

"Whirlpool? Wait... isn't this the way Shuichi's father turned himself into a whirlpool in Mr. Aoyama's bizarre horror manga Whirlpool?"

Ke Xinjie remembered it immediately. She was very familiar with the psychological trauma from that period of time.

"Is this... plagiarism?"

She suddenly felt a little indignant, because she had quite liked the manga "Jujutsu Kaisen".

But when I saw some plagiarism, I immediately felt disgusted.

So she took a photo and posted it on the forum to help Lin Qingshan condemn this serious plagiarism incident.

Not only her, many comic fans also saw this, especially Lin Qingshan's fans, and their number is very large. They began to denounce the comic "Jujutsu Kaisen" and its author "Akumami Gege" which plagiarized Lin Qingshan's work "Uzumaki" on the official website and major related forums.

Many people even went to Station C, because Lin Qingshan’s account on Station C was often logged in by himself.

Everyone knows this.

Soon, a lot of information appeared in Lin Qingshan’s account’s latest updates and private messages.

……

At this moment, Lin Qingshan is... drawing the manuscript for the comic book "Taoism and Strange Immortals".

He also didn't notice that the comics industry's newcomer grand prix competition had begun this year, and Akutami Yuta had successfully passed the comics industry through his connections, and his debut comic work "Jujutsu Kaisen" was serialized online.

But this time...

His cell phone rang, Lin Qingshan picked up the phone and took a look, then answered the call and said to the other end, "Moses Moses?"

"Teacher Aoyama! Something terrible has happened!"

Ayumi Ito's voice came from the other end of the phone.

This made Lin Qingshan stunned, and he asked, "Ah? Ayumi, what's wrong?"

"It's like this... Yuta's Jujutsu Kaisen has a part of the plot that borrowed the setting of the teacher's original Uzumaki."

Ito Ayumi quickly said, "Then some fans found out and said Yuta plagiarized you."

"Huh? Yuta? Jujutsu Kaisen?"

Lin Qingshan blinked and said, "You mean Yuta's debut work has started serialization, and then he was complained by comic fans for plagiarism?"

"Yes! Sensei, Yuta said this is a tribute to you, but comic fans don't seem to know that he is your assistant."

Ito Ayumi quickly said, "Why don't you go online and make a statement to explain it."

Lin Qingshan immediately patted his chest and said, "No problem, isn't it just a matter of issuing a statement? I'll issue it right away."

Then after he hung up the phone with Ayumi Ito, he found a photo in the photo album of them having a previous party, with Akutami Yuta and his three assistants.

Then, he went to the comic world software to find "Jujutsu Kaisen" and saved the poster of the work.

He then went online on social media platforms, first on Station C, and added these two pictures, then edited and posted a post:

"I already know what you are talking about, but let me tell you, Akutami used to be my manga assistant, and he also told me that he wanted to pay tribute to the setting of my manga, and I agreed, so this matter is just a misunderstanding [expression_laughing and crying]

Next, I hope everyone can support Akutami’s manga “Jujutsu Kaisen”, which I think is a very good manga!”

After he finally sent it out, he called Akutami Yuta and calmed him down a little.

But soon, Akutami Yuta no longer needed to worry.

Information spreads quickly on the Internet, especially among comic fans who are already very concerned about this "plagiarism" incident.

Ke Xinjie also saw Lin Qingshan’s tweet during her lunch break. She was stunned for a moment, then looked at the photo Lin Qingshan posted with his assistants, and suddenly she realized what was going on.

"So you're Mr. Aoyama's former manga assistant... Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's all right now."

She said with some complaints.

Then she started watching "Jujutsu Kaisen" again, and she liked it more and more.

"It turns out to be a comic by Mr. Aoyama's assistant. No wonder it looks so familiar."

Ke Xinjie immediately praised, "And this painting style and this plot really have the flavor of Mr. Aoyama. You are worthy of being Mr. Aoyama's assistant."

Now she is completely confident in getting into "Jujutsu Kaisen".

Because of this incident, "Jujutsu Kaisen" quickly became famous, and the comic work written by Lin Qingshan's comic assistant attracted the attention of many comic fans.

If that were the case it certainly wouldn't be very popular, but the plot of "Jujutsu Kaisen" itself is very exciting.

In addition, Akutami Yuta's painting skills have become more sophisticated after being trained by Lin Qingshan, making the beginning of the plot even more interesting.

Especially the opening episode 0, the plot is so compact that it fast-forwards directly to the decisive battle with the strongest curse master in modern times, which is of course very interesting.

(End of this chapter)