Chapter 1114: Invitation and Consideration

He Tianya (Kawada Masashi)'s younger brother He Tianji (Kawada Mikio) is a giant with a height of 2.1 meters and a weight of more than 130kg.

Although Huadao has excellent physical fitness, he still feels a bit strenuous facing such a giant. In addition to his weight advantage, He Tianji also has a fairly accurate mid-range shot. For this reason, Huadao has tried everything. suffering.

It wasn't until Huadao was reminded by Mu Gangxian that he relied on his core strength to hold He Tianji's waist, making the 210cm giant unable to turn around. This prevented He Tianji's role on the offensive end. At the same time, in terms of offense, He used his nimble steps to break through the heavy He Tianji, which stabilized the situation.

At the end of the first half, the score of the two teams was 34:36, and the Xiangbei team led Shangong by 2 points.

The competition has never been so tense. Driven by "", the sales volume of "Young Leap" has miraculously stabilized at 4.8 million copies.

With the exception of Shonen Leap, most magazines sell less than 1 million copies a week—a market for print magazines that is shrinking further as webcomics take hold.

For this reason, Tachibana, as the editor-in-chief of "Youth Leap", is quite satisfied with the sales volume, but he also knows that this is closely related to the magazine's excellent comics, and "" and "The Gate of Eternal Life" are even more recognized by him as Two pillars of Shonen Leap.

Of course, "The Strongest Pitcher", "The Exorcist" and "The Age of Steam" also have extremely high standards, but in Tachibana's view, the number of high-quality manga is still not enough.

There must be more and better comics. As for money...it is not a problem that can be solved with money.

During the period when he took over "Shounen Leap", he also discovered some newcomers, but the newcomers never reached the height of the above five comics. Therefore, Tachibana was also very anxious.

After flipping through the materials of the signed authors of "Youth Leap", Tachibana's eyes fell on Shinichi Konishi's name. Just as he picked up a pen and prepared to circle the line, the staff of the sales department walked into the editorial department with a report.

"Editor-in-Chief, here is the sales report for this week's booklet." The salesperson handed two reports to Tachibana, "The other is the first edition of the new booklet."

"Oh." Tachibana took the report and glanced at it roughly. Except for the first edition of "The Strongest Pitcher", which is 500,000 copies, the first edition of other comics are all 200,000 copies.

Needless to say, this batch of single volumes are the kind of comics that sell fairly well, but compared with pillar comics such as "" and "Gate of Eternal Life", they are much worse.

for example……

Tachibana glanced at another report. The 25th volume of "" has been released for 3 weeks, but the sales volume can still reach 200,000 copies, ranking second on the weekly sales list. This is strength.

After looking through it twice, he found that there was nothing to say. After Tachibana signed it, he returned the report to the salesperson. Then, he looked at the materials of the contracted cartoonist.

"By the way, Migu, Teacher Xiaonishi's contract expires at the beginning of next year. Do you have any ideas for a new work?" Tachibana held a pen and made a triangle in front of Shinichi Xiaonishi's name.

"Ms. Xiaoxi is already preparing a new manga, but the effect is not very good, and I am still revising it."

Konishi Shinichi's editor-in-chief, Mi Guchun, heard Tachibana call him, and involuntarily sat up straight.

"Really?" Tachibana rubbed his chin,

Keep looking down, "Go and tell Mr. Xiaoxi to come over and renew the contract when he is free."

As Konishi Shinichi who once created the best-selling work "The Crime of Falsehood", Tachibana will definitely not let go easily, unless Shinichi Konishi proves that he is exhausted and cannot draw better manga.

"Okay." Mi Guchun nodded quickly, took a sneak peek at Tachibana, saw that he was looking down at the documents, hesitating inwardly, couldn't help but said, "Editor-in-Chief, there is one thing, Mr. Xiaoxi, please ask me."

"What's the matter?" Tachibana still lowered his head.

"That's right, the magazine hasn't invited Mr. Shen to the annual meeting so far. Can you invite him to come over this year? Anyway, "" is also serialized in "Youth Leap", so we can't just say nothing Right? Besides, cartoonists should also want to see Mr. Shen." Mi Guchun thought for a while, and said this sentence.

If it wasn't for Xiao Xizhen's repeated pleas to him, he wouldn't want to run into Tachibana's fate.

At that time, Shen Zheng had a bad relationship with the magazine because of the animation, and the instigator was Tachibana. If Murakami hadn't forcibly settled the matter, no one is sure how big this matter would be in the end.

It can even be said that the reason Tachibana was punished internally has a lot to do with Shen Zheng.

Therefore, there are two problems in inviting Shen Zheng.

Firstly, whether Lihuashen can overcome this hurdle in his heart and is willing to invite Shen Zheng to come over; secondly, even if Lihuashen agrees, whether Shen Zheng is willing to come is still uncertain, he can find any reason to refuse, there is no need to make a special trip .

Of course, if Tachibana agrees, it's half done, and the next step depends on Shen Zheng's attitude. If it doesn't work, he can only ask Murakami Toru.

After comprehensive consideration, Tachibana's opinion is the most critical.

"Teacher Shen?" Tachibana raised his head with a solemn expression, "Invite him over?"

"Yes. We have cooperated with Mr. Shen, not only in the past few years. In fact, we have cooperated since "Soul of Chess", but Mr. Shen has never participated in our annual meeting. I think most cartoonists are very interested in Shen. The teacher is not very familiar, right? Teacher Xiaoxi has been reading Teacher Shen's comics, but I have never met him, and I feel a little regretful." Mi Guchun said bravely.

Li Huashen heard the words, nodded his head, his expression was solemn, but he didn't make a sound.

Mi Guchun grinned, if Lihuashen can't pass this test, let alone Shen Zheng.

In fact, Tachibana is also struggling.

The incident at that time had a bad impact on both sides. Shen Zheng even said, "If the winter show is not released, I will completely reject the animation of """, which also brought him a great deal. pressure.

The result is good. The animation of "" is extremely popular in China, China and Omi, and the sales volume of the booklet has exceeded 2 million copies, which is even more potential than "The Gate of Eternal Life". This also proves that Shen Zheng The original judgment was correct.

However, to invite Shen Zheng...he couldn't open his mouth, and even if he did, Shen Zheng was unwilling to come over due to the conflict between the two parties.

Just when Tachibana was hesitating, Miyamoto Ping, whose desk was in front of him, suddenly said, "Editor Tachibana, I think you should give it a try? Anyway...just asking, if Mr. Shen doesn't agree, we will There is no loss, but what if I agree?"

China Kotani looked at Miyamoto Hei in disbelief, why did this guy suddenly speak for Shen Xin?