When Hidaka Tsunryo and Shimogawa Yoji were wandering downstairs of the Night Club, a young man with headphones hanging around his neck ran from the sidewalk and waved to them: "Oh hello! Yoji, Tsunara!"
Fumiya Takahashi.
Hidaka and Shimokawa's friends are also loyal fans of GENIE.
"Wen Zai, I thought you weren't coming."
"How come, today is Yoji's big day, and I also want to go to the Night Club. I just spent a little time editing the video of the review of the first season of "Katsutengu no Demon Retreat". I'm sorry.
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Fumiya Takahashi was out of breath from running all the way.
Just as he said, today is Shimokawa Yoji's "big day".
The origin of the matter has to be told when the first issue of "Hundred Demons Night Journey" was released half a year ago.
As fans of GENIE, these three young people immediately went to the nearest convenience store to buy a copy of the magazine for their collection.
After reading the journal, Yoji Shimokawa, who had some painting skills, suddenly came up with an idea -
"Can I also try a fantasy story comic with the protagonist talking about monsters and ghosts?"
He told two friends about the idea on LINE.
Tsunryo Hidaka immediately expressed his enthusiastic support.
"Didn't you like to draw since you were a child? You were very good at drawing before, so there must be no problem!"
"When your manga is serialized in "Hyakuki Night Walk", we will have to call you Shimokawa-sensei!"
Hidaka is a passionate fool who shows unconditional favoritism to his friends.
It’s hard to say how much reference value his words actually have.
However, what surprised Shimokawa was that Takahashi, who is always calm and has the most flexible mind, also expressed his support for his idea of ​​contributing to "Hyakki Night Journey" after some thinking, and also gave some practical suggestions.
Views.
""Hyakuki Night Walk" has just been launched, and the standards for accepting manga manuscripts will definitely not be as stringent as those of mature journals. Anyway, the university studies are not too heavy, so you can really give it a try, Yoji."
"And I read in the journal that you can use some of the monsters that appeared in "Miss Mary" and "The Ghost Retreat of Karastengu" as the protagonists of the manga, which is similar to the spin-off manga of the main show. Yoji, please study it carefully.
A few likable supporting characters might really work."
After receiving encouragement from his friends, Yoji Shimokawa just did what he said.
After a period of consideration, he set the protagonist of the comic he wanted to draw as Wu-chan.
Enlightenment is a strange story that appears in the ninth and tenth chapters of "Uncertain Lady Mary".
It is based on the urban legend "Little Wu-kun who knows everything" and appears in the main drama as a poisonous-tongued lolita wearing a black and white dress.
In the story, Satoru has the ability to control electronic devices similar to Miss Mary, and is even better than Miss Mary in controlling the network.
Wu Jiang is keen on answering various calls for help and answering various online questions and answers.
But her strength is not strong, and the pranks she commits under various chances and coincidences continue to be "bad intentions but good deeds".
All in all, he's a very interesting character.
Although there are only two episodes in the main drama, it is quite popular among fans.
Therefore, using the character setting of "Satoru-chan" in the main drama as a basis, Yoji Shimokawa actually spent three months drawing a fifty-page short comic——
"Satoru-chan's Fall".
It tells the story of Xiao Wu, the most "intelligent" urban ghost in the world of monsters. He was too close to human society and addicted to online games, and he fell into ruin. In order to buy more games he liked, he was not allowed to use a virtual live broadcast image to debut.
A "monster ghost light comedy" about hard working life.
This short story itself does not conflict with the main plot of "Miss Mary", and the comic further enriches Satoru-chan's original character.
To sum it up simply, it is a cute comic that revolves around cute monster girls and focuses on relaxed daily life.
After reading the final manuscript, Hidaka and Takahashi both said that the story was very interesting and cute.
So, today the two of them accompanied Shimokawa Yoji to the Night Travel Club to submit articles.
…
The three of them entered the office building and took the elevator to the fourteenth floor.
There is the front desk of the Night Tour Club here.
The lady at the front desk received the three of them with a professional and polite smile: "Excuse me, have you made a reservation in advance?"
"Yes, I made an appointment with Mr. Mizushima from the Night Tour Club to meet at 2:30 in the afternoon. My name is Shimokawa Yoji."
"Wait a moment." The lady at the front desk dialed the internal number on the landline and briefly communicated, "No problem, Mr. Shimokawa. But who are the other two?"
"We are friends of Yoji, and we came with him... Well, if we can't go in, we'll wait here."
"Let the three of you go in together." The receptionist's professional smile remained unchanged, and she took out three visitor cards and handed them to the three young people, "After registering the information, please go to the reception desk No. 6 on the left and wait, Mizushima
Sir, he will be here in a moment."
"very good, thank you."
Hidaka and Takahashi looked at each other excitedly.
They all wanted to see what it was like inside the Night Club. Although this was not the GENIE headquarters, the visit was still exciting.
The three of them walked towards the reception desk.
This place is divided into compartments several meters square by opaque frosted glass, and each compartment is labeled.
Walking through the clean and reflective corridor floor, you can hear people talking in many cubicles.
Obviously, there are many cartoonists like Shimokawa Yoji who come to Night Club to submit their works——
"This doesn't work. This manuscript does not meet our requirements. Please take it back."
"..."
"I'm really sorry, but there is an obvious conflict between the character setting in the original drawing you drew and "Katsutengu no Demon Retreat House", which is against the rules. Moreover, since you have chosen this character, due to copyright issues, it means that
This comic cannot be submitted to other magazines. I suggest you revise the manuscript from the beginning and submit it to Night Travel Club..."
"..."
Busy, professional and efficient.
The Night Club feels like a precision instrument, running perfectly.
Before coming here, Yoji Shimokawa still had some confidence, but after coming in, he felt even more stressed and so nervous that he had trouble breathing.
GENIE's newly established night club is indeed not a small club.
Will your comics be read?
Or will the manuscript be rejected and deemed worthless?
The comics industry is very cruel.
Shimochuan felt unsure.
Hidaka and Takahashi, who were following Shimokawa, seemed to be nervous for their friend because of the atmosphere here.
"I thought we would pass by the editors' office area."
"Those who are just self-recommended contributors will definitely not be able to go to the office area. The editors should be upstairs."
"Yeah, ah... there are a lot of people here."
"Well, it's more than I thought."
Takahashi realized that there were some errors in his previous judgment.
Although the Night Tour Club has just been established, it actually seems to be quite large.
The ambition of the magazine "Hundred Ghosts of the Night" is probably not small either.
Competition in the comics industry is fierce, and those individual cartoonists who have not yet made their mark, as well as newcomers like Yoji who are just on a whim, can easily target this place and come to the Night Club to try their luck.
That’s why there are so many people submitting articles here.
Moreover, "Hundred Ghosts at Night" is not a small journal in the true sense.
To be continued...