Gotta Go the Healing Route

Therefore, the starting point of the authors who draw depression-type comics is to 'knife people' and hurt readers...

It is worthy of being Xie Daoman's current leader...

"The younger generation is awesome, the younger generation is awesome..."

Jun Murayama's expression changed, but Kazama Xi didn't pay attention any more.

Kazama Xi fell silent, and now he is seriously thinking about one thing.

"By the way, my speech just now is not going to be recorded, it will be published together with the supplement of the newcomer awards summary..."

The ten works finally selected for each newcomer award will be collected by Shueisha and made into a supplement for sale to the outside world.

In addition to the works of the contributors, the comments and comments of the judges and guests will naturally be attached to it.

Because it was an internal meeting, he didn't think too much when Kazama Xi spoke before.But thinking about it now, those words seemed a bit inappropriate.

For cartoonists and editors, those remarks were a discussion of creative techniques.But for readers, isn't it obvious that I am telling them that I am deliberately stabbing you?

Chapter 290 Six Inner Skirts 8 6 9 0 6 2 9 5 2 About to become the root of all evil

Failed.

Kazama thought of it.

It seems that after this review meeting is over, I still have to have a good chat with the deputy editor-in-chief Chunren Dashan.

Kazama Xi turned her gaze back to the work in front of her.

Speaking of which... this year's newcomer award is indeed a bit strange.

Kazama Xi's perception of the Newcomer Awards still remained at the previous year.After all, he was preparing to participate in this competition at that time, so he naturally had a good understanding of this competition.

His strategy back then was not to take the usual path.How to get out of the crowd of entries for the Newcomer Award and let the editors notice it, of course, is to make your work stand out while being excellent enough.

To highlight this 'difference', it was not difficult to do it at the time, just draw evil manga.

After all, when Kazama Xi hadn't debuted yet, kingly manga was at its peak.What is good at the top must be followed by the bottom.At that time, the comic newcomers were also crazy about Wang Dao, and regarded it as a traffic code.

On the contrary, Kazama Xi's "After the Death" was the only work that was biased towards evil among the works that entered the final selection at that time.

Of course, this tricky approach will also have disadvantages. For example, editors and judges may be more inclined to benevolent comics and give higher scores to such comics.

However, this is up to each person's ability. If the work is really good enough, these will not be a problem.

But now it's different.

The next work after "Killing X Love"...youshuang is an evil work.

The title of the work is "Only Me Wrong".

This is still a love story.

The male protagonist has a very cute and excellent girlfriend who is envied by outsiders.But this girlfriend is sick and delicate, sending emails to the male lead every day, and following the male lead all the time.

The male protagonist felt great pressure, even bored, but it was impossible for his girlfriend to agree to a breakup. One day, the male protagonist couldn't bear to kill his girlfriend.

Then, the girlfriend's soul finds the male lead again, hoping that the male lead can fulfill her wish for her.

When the plot comes here, the atmosphere is very warm.

The appearance of the girlfriend after death is completely different from that of her life, gentle and considerate.

The male protagonist began to regret, thinking that he had never really understood the female protagonist.

What is lost is the most beautiful, men are big pigs.

The author is probably a woman, and there is a sense of déjà vu that makes Xi Kazama watch "The Temptation of Going Home".

Then the male protagonist committed suicide, as an apology for his girlfriend, and willing to become a ghost to accompany the female protagonist forever.

But at the end of the story, there is a reversal. The male protagonist becomes a ghost. At this time, the ghost of the understanding girlfriend suddenly changes his attitude and becomes the dominating girlfriend again.

It turns out that the previous empathy was all pretended by the heroine, just to trick the hero into turning into a ghost to accompany her forever, tied to her forever.

Sick...

Kazama Xi sighed.

The character is crazy enough, if the hair is dyed pink, it will be the most classic image of sick and delicate.

It is not surprising that this story was selected. Although the story is a little weaker, the character image creation and the final plot reversal are bonus points.

but...

Still that question.

It's too much to get into this final evaluation.

Has there been such a huge change in the direction of the comics market in the past two years?

Kazama Xi suddenly remembered what Jun Murayama said to herself before the selection meeting began.

'This year's selection meeting is somewhat different from previous ones. '

Jun Murayama is talking about this, isn't it...

What else did Jun Murayama say at the time:

'This matter has something to do with Mr. Kazama. '

Is it me?

Kazama Xi widened her eyes.

Kazama Xi’s original idea of ​​joining this industry was not only the need to be famous and make money at the beginning, but also to let the works of her own world collide with the works of this other world, so as to burst out sparks of thought.

Perhaps, it was because I used too much force, and those old thieves in the previous life were too deep, directly knocking this industry into a crooked way?

Wait... Then wouldn't I become the root of all evil?

No no, it won't be like this.

Kazama Xi shook her head in her heart.

It's not my fault!

However, fortunately, since this "Only Me Wrong", the first kingly work of the final selection meeting finally appeared.

A warm and healing pure love work similar to the road movie type, looking for the footsteps of the father.

After this work, it will basically be a normal kingly work in the future, and the stories will all be positive and positive.

At this point, Kazama Xi also breathed a sigh of relief.

Participants of the Newcomer Award are all newcomers who want to enter the industry, which can be regarded as the future trend of this market to some extent.If the selected works are all dark and evil works, then the future of the comics industry in this different time and space is simply in jeopardy.

When it came to Wang Dao's works, Wu Shanyun, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.

This can be regarded as her field, and it can be regarded as a decent one to cooperate with Jun Murayama to comment.

After the ten works have been judged one by one according to this model, it is time for the final scoring link.

After the final score statistics were completed, it fell into the hands of the deputy editor-in-chief, Chunren Dashan.

All eyes were on the deputy editor.

Chunren Dashan was not in a hurry to announce the name of the first prize, but turned to talk about another matter.

"This year's Newcomer Award was very successful, with many outstanding newcomers appearing."

"The structure of entries has also changed from usual, and the submissions of evil comics are showing an upward trend. This is a good thing. Any industry should show a trend of blooming to be considered healthy."

For the final evaluation, five works of kingly ways and five works of evil ways.This is indeed a huge change compared to the previous year when Feng Jianxi participated in the Newcomer Awards, he had nine kingly ways and his one evil way.

The evil way is competing with the kingly way, and the kingly way is no longer the dominant family. This kind of arrangement can't help but wonder whether Shueisha did it deliberately.

Including the selection of the judges this time, he and Wu Shanyun were invited by name.

"The first prize this time is "Killing X Love"."

The depressing series got the highest score.

"The Silver Award and the Bronze Award are for "Nuoqi's Journey" and "Song of the Fairy" respectively."

No.2's "Journey to Nuoqi" is a kingly work, and then "Song of the Fairy" by Yusuke Nishikawa won the third place.

After the top three works are judged, the ranking of the latter works is not so important.

"If everyone has no objections, then this ranking will be announced as the final ranking of this newcomer award."

The three editors who acted as editors were naturally based on Haruto Dashan's opinion, and the three representing the manga artist, Kazama Xi, naturally had no objection to this.

PS: There will be more later.

Chapter 290 Seven

Select the top three and rank the rest of the works. At this point, the stage of final selection is considered complete.Follow-up matters, contacting the winners, and the announcement and distribution will be handled by the jump editorial department.

In short, the work of Kazama Xi's group of invited cartoonist guests was completed.

Participating in this kind of activity is naturally paid and can earn a fortune.

In the conference room, Chunren Dashan personally took out three brown envelopes and handed them to Kazama Xi and the others respectively.

Jun Murayama smiled, and stuffed it into his arms.

With a calm expression, Wu Shanyun took the envelope and put it in the white satchel he brought.

Kazama Xi also took it and stuffed it directly into his trouser pocket.

For cartoonists who sell best-selling comic books and earn a lot of royalties, these can only be said to be small money.Participating in this event is more of an exchange of favors with the editorial department.

"Several teachers, if you don't mind, I will be the host tonight, and invite a few teachers to eat something together.

"I know a very good izakaya." Haruto Dashan said with a smile after handing out the reward.

"Sorry, I have something to do tonight," Wu Shanyun replied immediately.

"That's a pity, where's Mr. Kazama?" Chunren Dashan said with some regret, and then looked at Kazama Xi.

"It's really unfortunate, next time I have a chance." Kazama Xi replied with a smile.

This is the same polite remark as Wu Shanyun.Adults go to izakaya at night to drink.If you don't drink alcohol, you will look out of place if you go by yourself.If it wasn't necessary, Kazama Xi would basically not participate in such a reception.