Society fears that young people don’t want to be literary godfathers

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Who is the greatest cartoonist in the history of Japanese comics?The answer to this question may vary - but if you ask what is the greatest comic magazine in the history of Japanese comics?There is only one answer to this question, and that is "Weekly Shonen Jump".

If cartoonists are compared to actors and comics are compared to a play, then comic magazines are undoubtedly the stage for the performance.

In the long history of Japanese comics, there have been countless such stages, and the one with the brightest star among them is undoubtedly "Weekly Shōnen Jump".

Hiroshi Momiya, Go Nagai, Akira Toriyama, Takehiko Inoue, Yoshihiro Togashi, Eiichiro Oda... these famous names have all appeared in "Weekly Shōnen Jump".People have heard too many legends about them.

But people often ignore another group of people who also use "JUMP" as a stage.Only occasionally when anecdotes about cartoonists are mentioned, will they be brought up for comment.This group of people are the directors and producers hidden behind the actors and dramas - the editors of "Weekly Shōnen Jump".

As the leaders of these editors, the editor-in-chief of "JUMP" adds more legend and drama to the history of "JUMP" with their unique existence.

Kasumi Takegami’s mother: Natsue Takegami, is the tenth editor-in-chief of Shonen Jump.

As the first female editor-in-chief in the history of Shonen Jump, Natsue Takegami works very seriously and has outstanding abilities. Not only does she perfectly coordinate the overall situation, but she can also devote some energy to paying attention to some of Jump's manga authors. It can be said that she is a true urban independent woman. .

At this moment, in the editor-in-chief's office, a woman was crossing her legs, holding the latest issue of Shonen Jump, and looking at it carefully.

On her right hand, the slender ring finger wears a diamond ring symbolizing marriage.

The long black hair was curled in slightly curling waves, the women's suit outlined her graceful curves, and under the hip-packed skirt was a pair of slender calves wrapped in shredded meat.

The pointed-toed high heels with red soles and diamonds were swaying with her crossed legs. The afternoon winter sunlight passed through the window lattice and fell on her delicate face, outlining her moist lips and her ancestral dog eyes. Transparent yet charming, it looks like it has an inexplicable charm——

There is no doubt that Natsue Takegami is an extremely beautiful lady, but due to the needs of her work, she habitually restrains her expression and exudes the aura of a strong woman.

Such a gorgeous but slightly gentle urban woman may look better when she smiles.

But...perhaps because of work, Natsue Takegami's slender eyebrows are slightly frowning, and his sharp eyes are as sharp as eagles - looking at this expression, it doesn't look like he is taking advantage of his leisure time in the afternoon. Relying on cartoons to pass the time is more like a leader conducting a surprise inspection.

"What's going on with the recent newcomers...why do they make each one more trippy than the other?"

Gently lifting her chin, her round dog eyes narrowed slightly, and the woman's expression also showed a rather complicated expression.

The painting skills are getting worse and worse, the storyboards are just okay, the story is not there, and the popularity is not good at all...except for "Chainsaw Man" owned by someone, it can be said that the entire army has been wiped out—— —It is said that the author of "Chainsaw Man" seems to be mentally unstable. He often does whatever he wants and even takes pleasure in hurting readers. He is just like a complete psychopath... It seems that the new work of "Shounen Jump" will be in the future. The direction of the comics is getting more and more confusing.

“…I don’t know what the future holds.”

After thinking about the ranking of new comics that will be held in the future Shonen Jump, and then looking at the current new comics that are almost the same as the defense, the woman lifted her long, slightly curly hair and looked at garbage in her eyes.

Those with good quality are mentally ill, but those with normal mental quality are all in defense... What's wrong with cartoonists nowadays? Why are they all so indescribable?

An uneasy feeling emerged in his heart, and Xia Jiang's ancestral amber eyes on Zhushang also fell on the snow-colored street scene outside the window at this moment.

And it was just when the editor-in-chief of Big Dog was thinking a lot.

"Dong dong dong."

A gentle knock on the door sounded at this moment.

".......Come in."

Putting down the comic in his hand, the editor-in-chief of Big Dog gently turned his head and focused his gaze on the door not far away——

And it was just after her words that the door opened with a "squeak" and Tomosuke Takegami gently poked his head out:

"Xia Jiang, it's me."

"...I have told you many times that you must show your duties when working."

When she saw her husband sticking his head out like a thief and calling him by his name, Takegami Natsue's expression was quite speechless.

"Copy that, Editor-in-Chief..."

"Okay - come in."

"it is good......."

The door was closed, and Tomosuke Takegami, one of the editors of Shōnen Jump, sat across from Natsue Takegami with a serious expression, which made him feel like he was sniping at the door.

"......"

Putting Shonen Jump away and looking at her husband who occasionally came into her office, the only female editor-in-chief in Shonen Jump's history was holding her chin and facing Tomosuke Takegami with a cold expression:

"You came."

"Yes, here I am."

"...It's work time now, you shouldn't be here."

"But I'm still here."

"...Okay, if you want to fish here, just say it, don't hide it."

Feeling dizzy at the middle-aged man's beating around the bush, the woman couldn't help but hold her forehead. As if she had broken a skill, some changes occurred in her cold face:

"Are you getting more and more outrageous? You can walk into my office just as easily as at home. Do you take me as the editor-in-chief seriously?"

"Then I will definitely take you seriously. I have always respected you the editor-in-chief the most."

"...So you just come here empty-handed, and then you have to take a nap in my office to do a simple fishing?"

"Hai, just turn a blind eye when we are a couple. I'll prepare dinner for you, right?"

"...That's pretty much it~"

Gently turning the pen in his hand, the editor-in-chief of Young Jump looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, with a hint of teasing on his expression:

"Okay, I won't talk about you anymore - but remember to be careful not to fish for too long. Don't worry about your superiors or everyone in the editorial department knowing that you will come to my office to chat when you are tired. That will be troublesome."

"...Okay, I'll pay attention."

While responding, Takegami Tomosuke collapsed on the soft sofa, his usually serious expression finally relaxed:

"It's still comfortable here, the sofa is soft, much better than the hard work chair at my work station -"

"Are you getting lazy?"

"What do you call this? I have always been working on the front line. I have never left early or been late even a day. I have worked hard for Junior Jump. I can be called a model worker of the times. How come you call me a weakling who only knows how to fish in my wife's office?"

"...Hmph, isn't it?"

He curled his lips slightly and deliberately made an unhappy expression, but there was no special change in Natsue Takegami's tone:

"Okay... Since you're tired, just give me a rest and don't bicker with me all day long. I still have to work."

"?."

There were no special words or special movements. The man just made a gesture to his lover, then closed his eyes, preparing to transform into the Nobi Sea Emperor and challenge himself to fall asleep in one second.

.... Judging from his position, Takegami Tomosuke is indeed his lover's subordinate. He is just a poor boy with no special abilities or outstanding looks.Perhaps it is precisely because of the ordinaryness of middle-aged men that the editors of the Shonen Jump editorial department generally believe that Takegami Tomosuke is just a down-and-out country boy who climbs high branches. When getting along with the editor-in-chief's wife, he must be as humble as a dog and almost as close to a clown as he is with the editor-in-chief's wife. —

However, it is not.

Although he himself is a strict wife, and he is usually polite to his wife because of his strict wife, but it is obvious that the relationship between Takegami Tomosuke and Takegami Natsue is much better than most people imagined.

"...Put yourself under a quilt, don't get cold."

Standing up gently, the woman took out a stack of air-conditioned quilts from the cabinet. The woman covered her husband with:

"You and Xiao Cheng are exactly the same. You don't like to cover yourself up when sleeping. You will know your mistake when you catch a cold."

"...Then I'm not afraid of catching a cold."

"What?"

"Because I know you will tuck me in."

"...You dare to let your superiors take care of you like this. It's very embarrassing."

"Okay, okay...it's no use what I say. I also covered you with a quilt. When Xiaocheng had a high fever and fell ill when he was five years old, you weren't by the bedside, and you were shivering from the cold. I almost gave back the little pearl. At that time, I went home and brought the quilt over to accompany you. Did you really forget about it?"

"...Okay, don't be too big or too small."

Unable to help but snicker, Takegami Natsujiang stretched out his hand and gently pinched his lover's ear:

"Just give me a good rest and don't talk nonsense all day long."

"...Actually, I'm not particularly tired."

While saying these words, Takegami Tomosuke turned over and sat up with a very serious expression:

"I just squinted at my workstation for a while and chatted with you for a while. I felt a lot more energetic. I don't feel like I need to sleep on your sofa anymore."

"? Then what are you doing here suddenly?"

"Something's wrong."

"...h forbidden."

After giving birth to a child, a woman's star level plummets. Takegami Natsue gently made an "X" sign.

Seeing his lover's appearance, Takegami Tomosuke's expression was quite speechless:

"Tsk...Where are you thinking? I didn't mean that."

"Then what do you mean? You knocked on my office door suddenly not for chatting or rest, but for Kasumi?"

"It's really for Kasumi..."

Winking softly at the editor-in-chief of Big Dog, Editor Takegami seemed to have finally gotten to the point of the conversation, and his expression became quite serious.

Standing up and stretching his joints, this miserable middle-aged man who had always clocked in with a slumped face at work finally showed a hint of excitement——

He just sat next to his lover, and his voice was extremely clear:

"Well, haven't we seen Kasumi for a long time? I was thinking that we would go back to Toyama Prefecture to see Kasumi for Christmas. How about that?"

"......?"

Hearing his husband's words, the editor-in-chief of Big Dog frowned slightly:

"Ah... Do you want to go back to our hometown for Christmas?"

"Is such that."

The reliable middle-aged man nodded, facing his wife who was his superior, and said in a very serious voice:

"You haven't been back for many years, right. Why don't you take a chance and go back?"

".......don't want."

He curled his lips slightly, and Xia Jiang's amber eyes turned slightly:

"There is nothing to go back to. Isn't it always like this in Toyama County? As for Kasumi, she is already 16 years old and has grown up long ago. It doesn't matter whether she visits or not -"

"you sure?"

Takegami Tomosuke narrowed his eyes slightly with a rather teasing expression:

"Don't you miss your daughter at all?"

"...A little bit, but I don't think she wants to see me too much."

Sighing deeply and thinking of his dog-eyed daughter, Natsue Takegami's expression was quite complicated:

"After all, when she wanted to draw comics in the early years, didn't I always criticize her for not being good at drawing and therefore discourage her... Now thinking about it, I feel that she might have been too fierce at that time, which led to Kasumi not treating me at all. We were so close when we were kids.”

".......I knew it."

Hearing his lover's words, Takegami Tomosuke slumped in his seat and sighed deeply.

As the father of Takegami Kasumi, he is of course very aware that his daughter has loved sharing comics in the past. He even took the initiative to ask himself and his wife for advice on comics skills, hoping to learn one and a half tricks to make their way in the world.

At that time, Natsue Takegami took over the job of guiding her daughter's manga creation.

It sounds like a dreamy start, but unfortunately, the editor-in-chief of Big Dog has a bad temper, lacks patience with his daughter's paintings, and his excessive seriousness has turned into Dunton's bad mouth, which has cast a layer on Kasumi Takegami. Shadow... At this point, the little president of Dog Eyes has never talked about his comics since he left his parents in high school. His attitude towards his mother during the phone call was also very cold and not considerate at all. The warmth of a little cotton-padded jacket——

Why is this happening?

Obviously I love my daughter very much, and I once had the opportunity for her to draw comics... The two joys are intertwined, and the two joys bring me more happiness - but why did it change? What happened?

The delicate relationship between her daughter and herself has become a pain in the woman's heart.

Whenever he thinks of Kasumi's neglect of her love, Takegami Natsue is always heartbroken and emotes late at night. Sometimes she even loses her strong-woman look like she does now and keeps dropping little pearls, looking like a pitiful woman.

"Okay, okay... don't cry~"

Tomosuke Takegami, who never wanted to see his lover cry, sighed and handed a handkerchief to the editor-in-chief of Big Dog:

"Wipe your tears, don't let anyone see you like this."

"Well... I'm sorry Kasumi..."

After receiving the handkerchief from the reliable middle-aged man, the editor of Big Dog burst into tears:

"Well, I really want to see her, but I'm really afraid that she will look at me with that cold look and not even regard me as her mother... After all, I used to be so impatient, maybe I will..." It might leave some psychological shadow on her..."