Tokyo Literary Godfather

"Fujiwara, do you plan to write about socialism this time?" Itagaki Kazuhiko asked.

Kei Fujiwara shook his head.

"The original style sect? The changing style sect?"

Fujiwara Kei shook his head again.

Itagaki Kazuhiko was stunned for a moment, then said excitedly: "No way, Fujiwara-kun, are you planning to create a new school again?"

The movie "White Night Journey" made the Socialist sect popular. Is he planning to become the founder of the sect again?

Fujiwara Keido: "I don't want genre to limit me. I only care about whether the story is interesting for new works. As for what genre, it is not within my scope of consideration."

"If possible, it wouldn't be a problem to write the Socialist, Changing and Original styles together."

Itagaki Kazuhiko quickly shook his head: "Fujiwara-kun, do you plan to make one work have the styles of three genres at the same time? I suggest you not to do this. It is easy to cause problems in a hodgepodge of works. Each genre has its own characteristics. There are advantages, but if you put them all together, the advantages will turn into disadvantages!”

Hodgepodge is often a mistake made by newcomers, and it is the stupidest kind of newcomers. I want to write everything and stuff everything into the story, but the end result is that nothing is written.

The biggest problem for newcomers is that they think too much, and many newcomers have problems with their writing motivations. They are not trying to write a good story at all, but are trying their best to "challenge high difficulties" and let readers praise their talents.

Itagaki Kazuhiko had a headache. Why did Fujiwara Keiya start to have this problem? This shouldn't be the case!

"You misunderstood." Fujiwara Kei took a sip of tea calmly and said, "It would be really bad if one case has three genre styles at the same time. But a long story can contain countless small stories, and it doesn't matter. There must be only one case. Mr. Itagaki, I plan to create a series of novels."

I see. Only then did Itagaki Kazuhiko understand.

Series of mystery novels are very common in the world of mystery literature, which means that the same detective solves different cases to form a story, and each story can be written into a novel.

For example, the Sherlock Holmes series, the Detective Polo series, the Detective Galileo series, and the most famous modern detective story Conan series.

Compared with independent mystery novels, one advantage of series of detective novels is that they are more commercial.

Once the protagonist of a series of novels leaves a deep impression on a reader, the reader will have a certain chance of buying other single volumes in the same series. Therefore, a certain volume in many famous series of novels is actually poorly written, but the sales volume is not Not too low.

"A series of novels..." Itagaki Kazuhiko thought for a moment and said, "This is indeed a good idea, but Fujiwara, if it is a series of novels, the narrative structure cannot use the two-line parallel and obscure narrative structure like "White Night Journey" It’s a new writing field for you, will you find it difficult?”

"No." Kei Fujiwara smiled, "I am confident in the story, but I still want to discuss it more with you about the character setting."

When deciding to create a series of detective stories, Kei Fujiwara's first thought was of course the famous "Detective Conan".

How about writing the story of that little dwarf? As soon as Fujiwara Kei came up with this idea, he gave it up.

The reason is obvious, that is, "Detective Conan" is not suitable for writing as a novel.

There are many reasons. First of all, there is a natural barrier between comics and novels. It is relatively easy to adapt novels into comics, but adapting comics into novels requires detailed analysis of specific situations.

If it is a comic with strict logic, it is relatively easy to extract its plot and adapt it into a written novel. However, most shounen comics have exaggerated narrative techniques.

For example, in Conan, Kogoro Mouri's neck, which was shot thousands of times, is often ridiculed in comics, but it does not affect the overall look and feel of comics, but in novels it will definitely make readers feel baffled.

There is also Conan's scientific equipment that is not scientific at all, such as the pair of shoes that can kick out cannonballs at every turn. According to the setting of the comics, the working principle of those shoes is to stimulate acupuncture points on the feet through electric current, thereby Exert great power.

If this setting were written in a novel, readers would probably tear up the book.

Not to mention, the humanoid Gundam Kyogoku Shin appeared later in the manga. As long as Fujiwara Kei dares to write a character who can blow up a house with one punch, he will definitely be on the list of the top ten most disappointing writers in Japan in the 1990s.

Another most important problem is that when Kei Fujiwara traveled through time, "Detective Conan" had not yet finished. He didn't know the biggest suspense of the main story line, so he finally decided to abandon the story.

Although Fujiwara Kei had read a lot of detective novels in his previous life, the works must be written in line with the tastes of Japanese readers of this era. In this way, the scope was suddenly narrowed.

Kei Fujiwara summarized the detective characters in novels that he knew and wrote down the following names:

Kindaichi——"The Detective Collection of Kindaichi"

Yukawa Gakushu—"Detective Galileo Series"

Kaga Kyouichiro - "Kaga Kyouichiro Series"

Shimada Kiyoshi - "Pavilion Series"

Mitarai - "Genius Detective Mitarai Series"

There are many classic detectives in the history of Japanese reasoning, and there are definitely more than just these few. However, after some combing, Kei Fujiwara took into account the aesthetic taste of readers of this era and finally selected five candidates.

Kei Fujiwara set the characters of these five detectives and briefly talked to Itagaki Kazuhiko. Itagaki Kazuhiko looked at the five names and touched his chin to think seriously.

"Hmm... Kindaichi is the grandson of the great detective; Yukawagaku is a physicist who solves crimes in his spare time; Mitarai is an astrologer... they are all very interesting."

Itagaki Kazuhiko fell into the long exam, and Fujiwara Keiya thought about it while drinking tea.

Since it is a series of novels, once the character design of the protagonist is determined, it will be used for a long time, so we must be more cautious in the early stage. Moreover, this character setting should not be too complicated, and the background should not be too involved, otherwise it will be very troublesome for Kei Fujiwara to string other classic novels into this series.

Suddenly, Itagaki Kazuhiko raised his head and asked, "Fujiwara, I feel that each of these characters is good, but each of them is not good enough. How about combining the character settings?"

These words can be said to Kei Fujiwara's heart, and this is also his idea, so he nodded and said: "That's exactly what I mean."

The two had some discussions and finally decided on the portrait of the protagonist.

First of all, in order to give the protagonist room to grow and be more popular with young readers, the protagonist should not be too old, but a college student in psychology.

At the same time, his grandfather is a well-known detective who has helped the police solve many cases, and because of a reasoning in high school, the police discovered his outstanding ability to solve crimes, so he became the secret consultant of the police.

He usually has a gentle and gentle personality, but once he encounters a case, his temperament will change drastically, becoming arrogant and crazy, and he will not return to his original appearance until the case is resolved. The pursuit of the truth has reached an endless level.

And there is a childhood sweetheart girlfriend, the girlfriend's father is a policeman, and the girlfriend's father is sitting on the shoulders of this prospective son-in-law all the way to promotion.

The settings of several detectives have been integrated, and new settings have also been added, which means that Kei Fujiwara has to do a certain degree of originality.

While making the setting, the two continued to overthrow it. The two discussed from day to night before finally finalizing the protagonist's image.

Itagaki Kazuhiko tugged at his collar, looking at the manuscript paper all over the table, he was already sweating.

Kei Fujiwara drew a portrait of the protagonist through the character image discussed by the two, a young man with messy hair but a delicate face, and a tear mole in his left eye.

Itagaki Kazuhiko looked at the manga portrait, and said in surprise, "Fujiwara, your paintings are also pretty good."

Kei Fujiwara said with a smile: "This is storyboard painting, a necessary skill for directors."

Itagaki Kazuhiko stretched his neck to take another look, and said with a smile: "I don't understand, but I think it looks good."

"The setting of the protagonist has been decided for the time being, but Fujiwara-kun, apart from the character design, whether a work can sell well or not depends on the story, but I can't help you with this."

"I already like the story." Kei Fujiwara said.

"So fast? What's the name of the story?"

"It's called..." Fujiwara Keisang wanted to say, but Itagaki Kazuhiko suddenly looked down at the portrait of the protagonist on the table, "Wait, you should name the protagonist first, what do you want the protagonist to be called?"

Kei Fujiwara looked down at the portrait for a while, then looked at the five names on the manuscript paper next to him. He thought for a moment and said, "Just call Mitarai Aoi."

"And the first case he solved was called "The Bandage Monster Murder Case."