Cartoonist's Dream

"Shangguo Publishing House, I've never heard of it, can this kind of thing be sold?"

13th, Friday night, Japan, Sanmucho, corner store.

As the time approached to close the store, the shopkeeper's aunt took out the comics stored under the counter and looked through them. These five comics were sold by two girls.Turning to the strange company name again, the store owner's aunt had a premonition that these five comics would be difficult to sell.Not because of anything else, just because of the name of this publishing house.

"This company name is too new! No one knows." The aunt murmured.

Generally speaking, few people look at the name of the publisher when reading magazines.But the comic book for collection is just the opposite. After all, it is a comic that is bought and collected at home. If a little-known company suddenly goes bankrupt.Or if the cartoonist skips the ticket, the booklet collected in the previous period will be wasted.Large companies can still find people with similar skills to continue drawing, but new small companies may have nothing to do, and they don't know when they will be able to complete the broken manga. [

"I hope it can be sold, and it will only be placed for a week..."

As the closing time approached, the aunt cleaned up the shelves of new books inside the door, and put

Keiko slightly poked her head out from the counter, squinted her eyes, trying to figure out what book it was.She was a little nearsighted, of course she couldn't read the words on the book, but she recognized the fiery red cloak and the Central European style armor.Isn't it the new book that was sold yesterday!

"Yes, let me see the price, um, 600." Keiko knew what the windbreaker girl meant.

I agreed in the store, and took out the new comics from the alley under the counter.

The comics displayed on the booth are generally difficult to sell, not that there is a problem with the content, and other well-known comics often fail to sell.Customers felt that the comic books on the booth had been turned over by others, and felt that it would be a disadvantage to buy a book that had been turned over by many people, so they wanted to ask if there were any new books in the store.

The girl in the windbreaker put the exhibition books back on the booth, walked into the store, and was pleasantly surprised to find that there were four more books to choose from. She picked a "better" one and said:

"I want this one." She held out two coins.

One is 500 in dark silver and the other is 100 in bright silver.

Keiko has been in the bookstore business for many years, and so far she has not been able to sum up the definition of "good books" for customers.She once saw that customers like to choose bright comics, so she picked a book with brighter colors from the wholesaler, but the first one sold was the one that looked dull.There is no pattern to be found in the selection of books by customers. Some people like to choose the "special" one, while others like to choose the most mediocre one.

In any case, let them choose what they like.Satisfying customers is the operating principle of the Chuanjiao store in the store. As long as customers feel satisfied with the shopping, they are likely to become repeat customers of our store.

"I will pay you 600, thank you for your patronage."

Keiko took the coins, and was not in a hurry to sort out the comics she just took out. She habitually exchanged feelings with new customers, hoping to find an opportunity to introduce the characteristics of the store.

"This one, with all due respect, I think you came here to buy this book on purpose, right? But I don't seem to have seen any publicity about it."

"There is no publicity. I also find it strange that such a good manga should be publicized when it is published." The windbreaker girl herself wondered why such an excellent manga would not be publicized.

She told the shopkeeper about what happened yesterday when she was shopping: "I saw this book yesterday when I was shopping in Akihabara, and turned a few pages. At that time, I didn't bring enough money, and was kicked out by the shop assistant as 'free food'. Etc. Meeting up with a friend, she wanted to buy it after she paid me back, but it was sold out.”

Rather than saying that she is narrating, it is better to say that she is complaining.

"It's really a bad experience." Keiko felt deeply sympathetic.Secretly thought that these new comics were so popular, but the next sentence of the windbreaker girl denied her guess.

"That's right. Later, I asked a few stores, and it seemed that the supply was very low. The big stores sold out all at once, but the small stores didn't sell them at all." The girl in the windbreaker continued to complain.

It turned out that it was sold out because the stocks were relatively small. Keiko made a false alarm, put aside the topic of comics, and introduced her store to the windbreaker girl: "You can read the books at the booth outside the store. The customers at the station are not Will be driven away, you can come often in the future."

Keiko pointed to the exhibition stand outside the door, which was originally used to attract popularity, and anyone can look at it casually, except that the exhibition books must be depreciated and sold at the end, in fact, there is no loss at all.Besides, no matter how thick-skinned a person is, he reads a lot of books for free, and if he occasionally has some spare money, he will still come to the store to buy a comic or two, just for fun.

"Really? Your store is really nice. I will introduce it to my friends. Now I'm going to have dinner with my friends, so I'll take my leave first." The girl in the windbreaker remembered that she was only here to buy comics, and her friend was still waiting for her, so she took the initiative to tell the store manager Farewell to. [

"Welcome to come again next time." Keiko bowed slightly.

At this time, neither she nor the windbreaker girl expected that a manga storm was coming to Japan.