Perhaps the more famous Japanese publishing houses in the Celestial Dynasty of Higashinoji's previous life were Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan, which were known as the "Three Major Comics Publishing Houses".

As for why Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan are only specifically designated as the "three major magazines" of the "manga" type magazine?

This is because it is impossible for a Japanese publishing house to rely solely on a single "comics magazine publishing" to maintain the entire publishing house's operations. In order to obtain more profits, the "three major comics publishing houses" will not only publish comic magazines, but also publish other types of

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For example, in the previous life of Japan's Shogakukan, this publishing house mainly made profits by publishing educational books for elementary school students. Comic publishing can only be said to be one of the channels for making profits.

After all, the 'Three Major Publishing Houses' were not among the most profitable publishing houses in Japan in Higashinoji's previous life. At most, they were well-known in the 'manga' industry.

Unfortunately, this world is a parallel world.

There is no Shueisha, no Kodansha, and no Shogakukan here.

So of course, there is no hot-blooded shounen manga weekly "Shounen Jump".

Back to business.

In the parallel world of Higashinoji, the three publishing houses that replace the status of the "three major publishers" are Iwakaku Publishing House, Mozhu Publishing House, and Urashima Publishing House.

Among them, Iwakaku Publishing House can be regarded as a collection of Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan, focusing on mystery, passionate and other popular shounen comics. Mozhu Bookstore prefers to publish science fiction and romance girl comics.

And the last Urashima Publishing House - this is the publishing house where Higashinoji submitted "Midnight Ring" a few days ago.

This publishing house mainly focuses on suspense reasoning and horror comics.

Its weekly magazine "Cold" and monthly magazine "Forbidden Space" are well-known horror comics production magazines in Japan.

It's just that Urashima Publishing has been having a hard time recently. Their mainstay manga "The Man Reflected in the Camera" series has just been completed recently, and it's also the winter period for manga scripts, so they simply don't have the quality to deliver.

Horror comics.

Now they are just holding on for a while, allocating all their resources, pushing a horror comic called "Between Dolls", hoping to make it a pillar.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the quality of "Between Dolls" is simply not up to the standard of the mainstay. The quality can only be said to be acceptable.

Because of this, the overall sales of manga magazines under Urashima Publishing are also declining.

This is the so-called brand effect.

When it comes to "One Piece", "Naruto", and "Dragon Ball", some people think of Shueisha, and thus think of the weekly "Jump", but if these mainstay comics are lost...?

This will inevitably affect the influence of comic magazines.

But even so, a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. Urashima Publishing is still one of the three major publishing houses of comics. There is no doubt about this.

But recently, a company called Fuji Publishing has emerged as a new force, and there are vague signs of sharing an equal share of comics magazines with the "three major publishers"...

But that's just a sign.

Higashinoji's choice is still Urashima Publishing, one of the three major publishing houses.

After all, the qualifications of the three major publishers of Urashima Publishing House are there, and there are many publishing resources and channels. Investing in Urashima Publishing House is definitely a sure profit.

As for whether Higashinoji has confidence in his "Midnight Ring"...?

This is a bit of a joke. Of course he is confident.

"The Ring" is so famous that when it was released in Japan, the box office beat all other movies of the same period.

With a budget of US$120,000, it earned a global box office of 8.69 million pounds, ranking first in Japan at the domestic box office...

It can be said that in this village in Japan, you are carrying a knife and killing everywhere, but you can't find any opponent that you can beat.

Maybe Higashinoji can use "Midnight Bell" to edge out Urashima Publishing's current mainstay manga "Among the Dolls"?

And it's been two or three days since the submission time... There should be news from Urashima Publishing House...

Higashinoji was thinking in his heart and glanced at Higashino Chihaya who was sitting opposite.

At this time, Chihaya Higashino was holding her cell phone and playing the Snake game.

She played very seriously, and her body even followed the movements of the snake on the screen.

In Japan in 2003, mobile phones had long been popular, and they were flip phones with an oval body that looked very old-fashioned and bulky.

Chihaya Higashino and Tsukasa Higashino originally had a mobile phone each to communicate with each other.

However, Chihaya Higashino's cell phone was accidentally broken by her, and she never took it for repair, so Higashinoji gave his cell phone to Chihaya Higashino to use, and his homeroom teacher's phone number was also stored on it.

If anything happens to Chihaya Higashino, you can call him.

This is also Tonoji’s bottom line.

Otherwise, it would be really uneasy to leave her alone at home.

"Then I'm going to school. Chihaya-san, you have to stay at home."

Higashino finished everything and said hello.

"Yes, I understand." Chihaya Higashino stretched out her hand to drive Higashinoji away: "Aji, go to school quickly! I will protect this family."

As she spoke, she nodded vigorously, as if she wanted to give herself a little more courage.

But just in case, Higashino also checked the locks on the doors and windows. After finding no problems, he turned around and went to the entrance.

It's almost time to leave.

Ding ding ding——

At this time, the landline phone placed in the shoe cabinet next to the door rang.

Um?

Toyoji reached out to answer the phone and asked, "Who is that?"

Ever since the Higashino family was in trouble, no one was willing to call me.

The old friends of Higashino's parents also seemed to disappear from the world. Except for the funeral, they were never seen again.

Japan has always been a human society. Unless you are truly inseparable and close friends, that's basically what friends are like.

Most of the people who can continue to call Higashinoya are salesmen selling newspapers or health care products in the surrounding areas.

"Excuse me, is this Teacher Higashino?"

A young female voice came from the other end of the phone.

Teacher Higashino?

After a while, another voice came from the phone:

"I am Hosokawa Koharu, the editor of "Abominable Chill", a manga weekly owned by Urashima Publishing House. Is this Mr. Higashino?"

Hosokawa Koharu?

Editor at Urashima Publishing House?

Higashinoji felt refreshed.

Is the result of "Midnight Ring", which I submitted a few days ago, finally come to fruition?

"I am Higashino Tsukasa, the author of "The Ring". Am I the editor of Urashima Publishing House?"

He asked back.
Chapter completed!