A middle school cartoonist

"You initiate the change and change the current weekly..." Repeatedly muttering the wild ambitions of a certain middle school cartoonist, Yoshida, the editor-in-chief of a certain weekly, couldn't help but have a strange tone, as if he was being persuaded, and fell into deep thought... At a certain middle school, Yoshida When the cartoonist was about to further describe his great ambition, Yoshida took a deep breath, and then let out a shocking roar, "A-Cheng, you guy... don't be too self-righteous!"

"Oh, it's rare that you, my beloved cat, have the courage to resist me..." Although his face was still full of a [joyful] smile, Takahashi Makoto's tone became unusually serious, "For the sake of me, For the sake of your courage, Familiar Cat, I will make an exception this time and forgive your disrespect for me!”

"...A-Cheng, are you serious?" Ignoring Takahashi Makoto's teasing, Yoshida turned serious and confirmed to a secondary cartoonist again, "The reason why you created and serialized "Fate" This comic...does it really have the attitude of "wanting to change the current weekly magazine"?

"No, the reason why this guy Cheng is serializing comics is definitely to kill readers to gain [pleasure]..." Uncle Tintin, who pretended to finish the comic manuscript carefully, couldn't control his body after hearing Yoshida's question. The ancient power of complaining, he couldn't help but muttered something in a low voice, and then... As soon as he finished speaking, Uncle Ding Ding saw a few inserted paintbrushes suddenly appeared on the table. He swallowed hard and immediately rushed to the table in a panic. A certain second-grade cartoonist over there squinted his eyes and admitted his mistake, "Ah, I know, I know! Cheng, I'm very sorry! I was too complacent!"

"Should I say that Cheng, your ideals are great...or should I say that your ideas are too naive?" Yoshida sensibly ignored the scene of [cartoonist bullying his assistant] and continued the topic naturally, " Trying to change the weekly format with just one popular comic..."

"Unless a miracle occurs, this kind of thing can't be done... My beloved cat, what you want to say next is this, right?" Makoto Takahashi punished Huan Chao using [Pseudo·Unlimited Sword System·Brush Version] After Uncle Tintin intervened in the conversation, he once again turned his attention to the editor-in-chief Yoshida, "My Familiar Cat, your idea is not wrong... but unfortunately, you have ignored a very important thing!"

"A-Cheng, are you talking about the influence of cartoonists...?" Yoshida held his chin and thought for a moment, then expressed his suspicion, but immediately denied it! "Although this comic was written by you, Cheng, and Mr. Eiji Niizuma... But with the influence you two have on the weekly, you won't be able to change the pattern of the weekly, right!?"

"Do you have influence as a cartoonist? Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk” "Say!" Makoto Takahashi crossed his hands on his chest and continued to tease Yoshida in a regretful tone, "And the influence of cartoonists and so on... Hahahahaha, my beloved cat, are you kidding me?" How could the arrogant cartoonist Phoenix House be deceived by the arrogance unique to humans?"

"I want to change the format of weekly magazines with a comic..." After Yoshida sighed helplessly, he couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this arrogance?"

"The manga "Fate" is a masterpiece... I remember I should have told all of you before, right?" Makoto Takahashi stopped laughing and immediately put on a fanatical expression, "Because it is a masterpiece, So creating a miracle...isn’t this a matter of course?”

"Confidence is a good thing, but Cheng..." Yoshida has completely given up on the logic of a middle-class cartoonist! "It's not okay to be too confident! According to your usual statement...excessive confidence is also a kind of arrogance!"

"My beloved cat, even though you have enough information until now, you still haven't been able to understand my thoughts..." Makoto Takahashi put on an expression of "I am as lonely as snow after being invincible in life" , looked at Yoshida with sympathetic eyes, and slowly continued to explain, "But I will forgive you! Because in this world, there are too many people like you, My Cat, who are ignorant but don't know it. Only mortals...the world can become so [pleasant] and interesting!”

"Yes, yes, Cheng, whether you find it [pleasant] or interesting..." Yoshida didn't want to understand Takahashi Makoto's thoughts! Not to mention that the thinking of a certain middle-class cartoonist is obviously different from ordinary people... Makoto Takahashi's outrageous bad taste is simply incomprehensible to Yoshida, who has a normal outlook on life! "The only thing I want to know now is Cheng's reason for serializing this [depressing] plot!"

"My beloved cat, in terms of your wisdom..." Makoto Takahashi looked at Yoshida with some suspicion and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you sure you can hear my explanation?"

"..." Yoshida kept warning himself not to be carried away by anger. After spending a lot of time, he suppressed the anger that was about to burst out and threatened angrily, "If Cheng, you can't convince me... I will submit these comic manuscripts to the editor-in-chief, who will decide whether they can be serialized!"

"Tsk! In other words... do I have to go to the editorial headquarters again?" Takahashi Makoto frowned slightly, looked at Yoshida who was serious, and couldn't help but sighed, "Tsk! If I don't explain it clearly, although the next thing will become very interesting, it will also become very troublesome... If I accidentally destroy the editorial side, it will affect the [final plan]!"

The mumbling of a certain middle school cartoonist made Yoshida's forehead vein jump...

"Then my beloved cat, before I analyze it, let me ask you a question first "Okay..." Makoto Takahashi thought for a moment, tapped the table with his fingers, and asked Yoshida, "Looking at the comics currently serialized in weekly magazines, most of them are praising passion, friendship, and victory... Is that right?"

"Well, most comics are basically like this..." Yoshida nodded in agreement with Makoto Takahashi's point of view, stared at a certain chuuni cartoonist, and added meaningfully, "Of course, except for the works of some weird cartoonists..."

"I'm not saying that this is bad..." Ignoring Yoshida's targeted remarks, Makoto Takahashi thought for a while. After a moment, he said hesitantly, "How should I put it... I just think that even if the setting is brilliant, if you read too many comics of the same type, you will feel bored!"

"Uh... this..." Yoshida pondered for a moment, and immediately slammed the table to refute, "Acheng, you guy... this is sophistry!"

"Sophistry...?" Takahashi Makoto was not frightened by Yoshida's momentum, but laughed very much, "Then let me put it another way! My beloved cat, although I don't deny that the [Royal Road] in the weekly magazine is the mainstream... but don't you think In many [mainstream] comics, plots such as [Justice will eventually triumph over evil] and [Good people will eventually be rewarded, and bad people will eventually suffer the consequences] appear too frequently? "

"Isn't this a good thing about comics?"

"Spreading positive energy and bringing hope to readers... There's nothing wrong with that!" The [joyful] smile that Makoto Takahashi showed at this moment, in Yoshida's view, was like a poisonous snake showing its fangs, making people feel trembling and cold... Although he knew that he should stop Makoto Takahashi from continuing to speak, for some reason, Yoshida did not stop him!! "But such gentleness, such kindness... sometimes it is poison to humans! My beloved cat, have you forgotten the cruelty and reality of the world we live in?"

"I wanted to ask this a long time ago! Why..." Yoshida sighed silently, and looked at Takahashi Makoto helplessly, his tone filled with unspeakable emotions, "... Why do you always have such paranoid and dark thoughts, Cheng?"

"Because no matter how you live, no matter how many years you live, the world..." Takahashi Makoto leaned back in his chair, his tone became a little low, "It's still as filthy as ever!"

"Uh... that..." Yoshida suddenly realized at this moment... that he had actually made the unforgivable mistake of [discussing life with Chuunibyou]! "Let's continue discussing the plot of the comics!"

"Since my cat is so pious...Okay!" Takahashi Makoto pouted unconsciously, picked up the comic manuscript on the table, and said while flipping through it, "In many comics serialized in weekly magazines, many protagonists rely on firm beliefs to achieve success in the end! But in reality, it is just the opposite. Many people have or have had firm beliefs and have worked hard for them for a long time... But in the end, they did not achieve anything, and even paid and lost a lot!"

"Is it because of something as ethereal as the [protagonist halo]? Because you are not the protagonist, because you don't have the protagonist halo... So you should accept failure?"

"That's not right! If that's the case, then for the already determined ending, what are the efforts that humans have made... What is it?"

"So, Acheng, you want to serialize this [depressing] plot..." Yoshida's face suddenly became a little weird... Because at this moment, a certain editor-in-chief really couldn't say what he wanted to say!

"Yeah, because I want to let readers know through such a plot that even if you are the protagonist of a comic, even if you have a firm belief and work hard for it, you may not necessarily succeed, and you may even lose a lot..." It was clearly a statement of a middle school manga artist, but in Yoshida's opinion, a middle school manga artist was emitting a dazzling light at this moment, "In short, what I call [change] is through [depressing] plots..."

"... to heal readers who are played by fate or cruel reality!"

Is this... still the Takahashi Makoto I know?

Hearing Takahashi Makoto say this, Yoshida's eyes were full of shock and doubt! ! !

"Hey, hey, hey, my beloved cat, don't look at me with that look..." Takahashi Makoto seemed to feel the malice in Yoshida's eyes, shook his head helplessly, and sighed with some melancholy, "Even if this world is so cruel, in some ways, I am also like Emiya Kiritsugu... I love the whole world from the bottom of my heart!"

Yeah, like Takahashi Makoto, a certain cat also deeply loves the whole world. Oh.