Gotta Go the Healing Route

Before the serialization of "Chain Saw Man", "Yu Biechao's first kingly work" was used for publicity.

In fact, it is true. From the perspective of professionals, the logic frame setting of the chainsaw man is indeed a kingly work, but no one knows how Kazama Xi can draw that kind of evil cartoon with this frame.

"The audience may be more biased towards young people." Kazama Xi took the initiative to inform this point.

The first half of Giant is a juvenile manga with relatively novel and slightly weird themes, but in the later period, it is more and more emphatic to reflect "other elements", so Giant is actually more inclined to youth manga.

However, there is no problem with this point.

Because there is a faint trend in the current industry: the popularity of pure hot-blooded youth comics is declining, or the traditional kingly way has begun to decline.

This can be seen from the reader intention survey. At the same time, when cartoonists submit their manuscripts, the themes are increasingly biased toward youth-oriented comics.

Akira Kitaoka also saw this, so he went out to do a youth jump.Itakura Atsuya, who has been with Akira Kitaoka for a long time, is of course aware of this.

"As for the theme of this comic..." Kazama Xi paused and said.

"It's anti-war."

"Anti-war?" Itakura Atsushi on the other end of the phone was also taken aback when he heard Kazama Xi's words.

"Yeah." Kazama Xi said with certainty.

Although the world history in this different time and space has become a mess, there has indeed been a world war in modern times.

And war, no matter which time and space it is in, is a scourge, a monster that harms human civilization.

Isayama Tsutomu is a war criminal and cannot be washed, because he vividly painted the work of Attack on Titan, which was supposed to be an anti-war work, as an anti-war theme.

Although there is only one word difference between anti-war and anti-war defeat, their meanings are vastly different. The former is a reflection and resistance to the nature of war, while the latter is utterly unrepentant.

Taking Attack on Titan as the next new work, Kazama Xi is not simply holding the idea of ​​letting people in different time and space carry a bag of rice to several floors.In fact, a lot of his selfishness is mixed in it.

As soon as the giant's ending comes out, the curses are the same, but there are always regrets: a manga that I have been chasing for many years, after chasing and chasing, I found that the story is getting more and more unsatisfactory.It was a sapling that was going straight up, but I watched it turn into a tree with a crooked neck.

This rebirth can be regarded as a chance to make up for regrets. At least Kazama Xi has the opportunity to cut off the crooked part of the giant's crooked tree and let him grow again.

The saying that a work is a dead person is a living thing is bullshit for the current Kazama Xi.

People are dead, but works are alive, which is more in line with his identity as a writer of different time and space.

"Here in different time and space, I can't transform the war criminal Isayama, and I can't transform the giant work?" ' Kazama Xi thought so.

Itakura Atsushi on the other end of the phone naturally didn't know what was going on in Kazama Xi's mind.I just feel like this is another story with a big theme.

In the application of story themes, Fengjianxi has always been a thriving.

"Death Note" explores what justice is.

Madoka Magica explores what love is.

"Fist of Flame" explores the meaning of being alive.

As for the Chainsaw Man, well, to some extent it should be said to be the story of the growth of an alternative boy.

Such a profound theme is where the connotation of the story lies, and it is also the root of evil.In his eyes, the great thing about teenagers is that while discussing these things, the storytelling for the public has not been won.That is the combination of commercialization and artisticization.

"A warrior of love?" Itakura Atsuya couldn't help but think of the label Yu Kazama had drawn for himself.

"Young people are terrifying..."

The matter of the new work is settled, and Atsushi Itakura also talked about another matter.

"About the newcomer reward..."

Chapter 290 Appreciation Meeting

Although manga publications are an open submission platform, everyone can contribute, but it is not easy for one's own works to be accepted.There are many down-and-out cartoonists who have been in this industry for decades and have submitted countless manuscripts but none of them have been adopted.

However, this also depends on which journal the submission is made to.

The smaller the manga publication is, the easier it is to submit. On the contrary, it is much more difficult for a newcomer to a magazine like Shonen Jump to sign up as an official manga artist.

First of all, unless you have a good work before, it is very difficult for a manga artist from another company who has switched to Shueisha to directly enter the regular issue.

If you are a newcomer with no qualifications, even if the editor of your submitted work thinks it is good, in an industry leader like Shueisha, most of them will first put the person in the supplement below for serialization.Then the newcomers will be eligible to be promoted to the official magazine through competition by participating in various monthly rewards.

It's not that there aren't people who signed up for regular publications directly, it's just that there are very few such cases, and it's usually the gold-medal level editors who find really powerful new talents to do so.

In addition to the above, there are other opportunities to get directly serialized in this magazine by participating in various comic contests.

A contest named after a celebrity who has made significant contributions to the manga industry is similar to the Tezuka Award in the previous life of Yu Kazama, an authoritative contest in the industry. If you win the first prize in this kind of contest, you will have the opportunity to directly publish for serialization.

Jump's Newcomer Award can be regarded as one of these industry competitions.

After all, it was founded by Shueisha, and it was created to help jump find excellent talents.The winner of the Newcomer Award and the Gold Award winner are of course eligible to be directly serialized in this magazine.

Kazama Xi also valued this point before participating in the jump newcomer award and contributing, and then also used the newcomer award as a springboard to enter the comics industry.

It is precisely because the jump newcomer award has a shortcut to be directly serialized in this magazine, so the number of people who sign up for the jump newcomer award every year is also very large.

Before you know it, the time has come to the end of June, which is the end of the Shueisha Newcomer Awards.

The newcomer award is usually held in summer, the deadline is July, and the list of winners will be announced in mid-July.However, compared to last year, for some unknown reason, this year's newcomer award was brought forward.

Chiyoda Ward, Shueisha's headquarters building.

After the New Year, the headquarters has undergone a small renovation and upgrade, and the lobby is even more stylish.

After paying the fare, he opened the door and Kazama Xi got out of the taxi.

It's already midsummer, and the temperature in Tokyo is still very high.Wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, a pair of flip flops, and a pair of sunglasses on her face, Kazama Xi walked directly into the lobby.

Compared with the people in suits and leather shoes who go in and out of the headquarters, Kazama Xi's body is unavoidably a bit unique, but Kazama Xi doesn't care much about it. He is very afraid of heat, so it's natural how comfortable he is.... Although today He came to participate in the newcomer award selection meeting.

There are always many unspoken rules in the workplace in the island country, such as the dress of employees.

In previous life Japanese dramas, many young professionals in the workplace wore all black suits, black leather shoes, and black briefcases when they went to interviews.This was originally the basic dress for graduates from island countries to apply for jobs in large companies.If you don't dress like this, you will fail the interview 100% of the time.

After the newcomers are hired, they still wear such outfits, at least two or three years before they can wear them.Until you have a certain amount of experience in the company, you can be a little more free. Of course, some people like to wear like this for a lifetime, and that is his freedom.

However, Kazama Xi is not considered a worker. Although she is an author under Shueisha, the status of both parties is actually equal.Moreover, cartoonists generally have quite casual outfits, except for occasions like the annual meeting, it is difficult to wear formal clothes once a year.

Stepping into the lobby, Kazama Xi took off her sunglasses and pinned them to her breast pocket, and went to the front desk.

The lady at the front desk is still the same as before. Although there are not many people coming to the headquarters, the receptionist who is responsible for reception obviously knows Kazama Xi.

Seeing Feng Jianxi, the front desk lady bowed slightly, and then showed a warm smile.

"Mr. Kazama, you are here. Mr. Itakura told me to go to the No. [-] conference room on the second floor after you came."

"Do you need me to take you there?"

"It's okay, I'll just go there by myself, don't bother you."

Kazama Xi smiled back, and then walked towards the elevator.Although there are not many here, but the place is still figured out.

This time I came to the headquarters not because of the serialization of the new work.Although the serialization meeting has not yet been held, the serialization of Kazama Xi's new work is already a nail in the coffin.Even, the editorial department started preparing for the serial promotion of Attack on Titan.

This time at the headquarters, Kazama Xi was naturally doing the selection for the newcomers.Being the judge of this year's Newcomer Award was something that Kazama Xi had agreed to before.

However, there is still half an hour before the start of the selection meeting, Kazama Yuki is not in a hurry, if Miss Uemura is not on vacation today, otherwise he will go to the office area of ​​the editorial department to chat with Ziwan Uemura.

Reaching the second floor, Kazama Xi stepped out of the elevator.

In this building, the first floor is the lobby, and the second floor is the reception area.

Going along the corridor on the second floor, you can see the reception rooms on both sides.This is the specialty of the manga editorial department.

Every comic magazine basically has such an area, which is specially used to meet contributors.

The appointments for new contributors and editors are generally held in this small cubicle reception room.

Walking in the corridor, Kazama Xi looked inside intentionally or unintentionally.The reception room is transparent, and you can clearly see the status inside. It is nothing more than the editors fooling around and even yawning, looking at the newcomers who have just submitted manuscripts, occasionally looking down at the manuscript in their hands and casually asking questions. sentence.

This is the first difficulty that every newcomer to a manuscript faces, and is blamed by these editors.Of course, these have nothing to do with Feng Jianxi.

When Kazama Xi first entered the industry, he had indeed experienced the drafting process.But at that time, Akira Kitaoka, who was the editor-in-chief of jump at the time, came directly to the door.

Withdrawing his gaze, Kazama Xi looked directly in front of him.The so-called No. [-] meeting room is at the end of the corridor, and as a meeting room, it is naturally much larger than the small cubicle here.

The door was not locked, Kazama Xi pushed the door open and entered.

The company's conference room is not large, with a long dark brown table, a few chairs, a projector and a small blackboard, there is nothing else in the conference room.

Some people were already sitting at the long table.Four people, including a familiar face.

Wushan cloud.

The girl is also quite casual today, with a pure white off-the-shoulder long dress, long black hair draped behind her shoulders, and a silver necklace on her white neck, which is the only decoration on this outfit.

Hearing the sound of the door being opened, Wu Shanyun, who was sitting in front of the oval conference table and looking down at the drawing, raised her head. Seeing Feng Jianxi, she was slightly taken aback.

Then he pursed his mouth, as if struggling with something, finally raised his wrist, pointed to the seat beside him, and signaled Kazama Xi to sit over.

Seeing this scene, Kazama Xi couldn't help but smile, greeted the other three senior editors who had met at the annual meeting before, and sat down.

The conference table is divided into two sides, each with three positions.

There are only seven judges participating in the appraisal, four editors, and three senior cartoonists in the industry.

The editor and the author naturally sit on one side, and the middle seat is reserved for the deputy editor who presides over the selection meeting.

"How long have you been here?"

After taking a seat beside Wu Shanyun, Feng Jianxi asked.

"Just arrived not long ago."

Wu Shanyun turned his eyes away from the pile of sketches on the table, looked at Feng Jianxi and said.

"these are..."

Kazama Xi's gaze focused on the drawing that Wu Shanyun was looking at.

"For the selected entries, we will score these ten works and rank them well."

As he said that, Wu Shanyun looked at Feng Jianxi, his eyes suddenly became complicated.Being stared at by Wu Shanyun, Feng Jianxi felt a little uncomfortable for a while.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing..." Wu Shanyun sighed again, and began to flip through the drawing in front of him again.

Kazama Xi was naturally bewildered, wondering what was wrong with the girl in front of her.