Editorial Department of Hot-Blooded Youth Weekly.

It was still broad daylight, but the atmosphere in the editorial office was a bit gloomy and depressing.

Only the sales volume for the new issue of the weekly magazine has been released, and it has dropped significantly compared to the previous issue.

In the past six months, the sales volume of Hot-Blooded Youth Weekly has continued to decline, with each issue losing about 10,000 sales.

In the latest issue, sales dropped by nearly 20,000.

The sales volume is now just over 500,000. If the decline cannot be stopped, according to this decline, the magazine will be declared bankrupt in two or three years.

Ishito Aoki is also very worried. He has worked at Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly for thirteen years. If the weekly goes bankrupt, he will have no choice but to find a way to find a job at another comic weekly.

But now that the industry environment is getting worse and worse, it’s really hard to say whether I will be able to find a better editing job by then.

But facing the difficulties faced by the magazine, he had nothing to do.

After all, he is only an editor responsible for reviewing manuscripts, and what he can do is extremely limited.

"Senior Aoki, a manga author came to the first floor and said he wanted to contribute."

At this time, Mika Hanai, who was in charge of chores on the first floor, came to his side and whispered to him.

Hanai Mika originally came to Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly to apply for a comics editor, but she had no experience as an editor. She just loved comics and was very familiar with them.

Under normal circumstances, the magazine would not recruit inexperienced editors, but considering that Mika Hanai was a liberal arts student at the University of Tsukuba, the magazine also wanted to add some fresh blood from the editorial level, so Mika Hanai was finally able to apply.

But it is definitely not possible to be an editor directly. Currently, Mika Hanai is responsible for receiving manga authors and other editing-related chores on the first floor to accumulate experience.

"As usual, wouldn't it be enough to ask him to leave the manuscript and contact information? Could it be a famous author?"

Aoki Shiren said with a strange guess, but with the current situation of Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly, how could a famous manga author like it?

"No, it's a high school student. He brought over a hundred-page drawing and said he wanted us to review it now. If he doesn't want to, he will find another company..."

"What high school student is so arrogant!"

When the Qingmu Stone Man heard this, he couldn't help but get angry.

Even though Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly is doing poorly now, it was once a weekly with over two million sales!

Even if the sales volume is only around 500,000, it is not disrespectful for a high school student!

"Ah, no. He said he didn't mean any disrespect, but he just needed to get the royalties immediately, so that's why he did it. He showed me a few pages of drawings, and I think it's necessary to come up and talk to you, Aoki-senpai.

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Hanai Mika said quickly.

The high school student downstairs seems to be very arrogant, but his attitude is actually very humble.

"A good drawing?"

"In my opinion, the painting is very good!"

Hanai Mika nodded affirmatively.

"Then go take a look."

The green wood stone man thought for a while and calmed down.

The current situation of Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly is very bad. If we want to stop the decline, we can only rely on high-quality comics.

But now the magazine is stuck in a vicious cycle.

Because of poor sales, good-quality manuscripts were given priority by comic authors to other comics magazines.

What was invested in them was basically the leftover jujubes picked up by other companies.

And because the quality of the works is not as good as those of the big magazines, the sales of the magazine are getting worse and worse.

Nowadays, Hot-blooded Shonen Weekly wants to come up with a popular work, and we can only hope that one of the serialized works will suddenly become popular.

In other words, just leave it to fate.

Now that an author has sent a manuscript that may be of good quality, he won't lose anything by reading it.

What if it’s really a good manuscript?

"I would like to ask, does your magazine have any exclusive clauses restricting authors?"

Aoki Shiren saw someone coming in the reception room on the first floor, a real high school student.

As soon as they sat down, before both parties started to introduce themselves, the high school student opposite suddenly asked.

The green wood stone man was stunned, and then a strong expectation surged in his heart, and a premonition that he might find a treasure.

…

More than an hour later.

Ishito Aoki and Mika Hanai watched Higashino Hirosawa leave at the door.

What happened in this hour felt a bit unreal even though Aoki Sekiren had been an editor for more than ten years.

From meeting, reviewing the manuscript, confirming the contract, opening a bank account, and paying the author the manuscript fee, so many processes were completed in just over an hour.

He never thought that their magazine's efficiency would be so high.

"Editor-in-Chief Murakami, when will "Dragon Ball" start serialization?"

When Ishito Aoki returned to the editorial office on the second floor, he heard monitor Taniguchi asking.

It is naturally not something that Qingmu Shiren can handle to handle so many processes in just over an hour.

After reading the Dragon Ball manuscript, he immediately took it to the editorial office on the second floor.

Then after Higashino Hirosawa personally drew another draft in front of all the editors, the entire process was no longer hindered.

It is embarrassing to say that this "Dragon Ball" manuscript, which only has four chapters, is already the highest quality among the hot-blooded youth weekly magazines.

And Higashino Hirosawa has proven his potential. Such a young comic book author with unlimited potential, how could the hot-blooded Shōnen Weekly miss it in a difficult situation.

"Starting from the next issue of the weekly magazine, two chapters will be published!"

Editor-in-Chief Murakami is already gray-haired, but at this time he is extremely decisive.

The content of the next weekly issue was actually decided two weeks ago.

Normally, the magazine will confirm new serials at least two weeks in advance, and most of them will be one month in advance. Because there are new serials, it means that some serials will be cut off.

For serials that have been cut off, readers must always be given an explanation. The author must be notified in advance so that the author can draw the final ending before the serialization position can be given up.

In terms of new serials, the magazine will also use some color pages to advertise and preview at the end of each issue of the magazine.

This is the normal new serialization process.

Now Editor Murakami has ignored this process and will serialize Dragon Ball in the next issue.

It is impossible to modify the determined content, so the next issue of the magazine will have to print dozens more pages.

It is not a strange thing to add pages to a magazine, just make a plan in advance.

But suddenly adding pages will not only increase the cost a lot, but also require coordination of many things, which is very troublesome.

"Then will there really be two chapters in each issue from now on?"

Monitor Taniguchi couldn't help but ask again.

"As long as that young man can submit two chapters per week, two chapters will be serialized in each issue!"

Editor Murakami nodded affirmatively.

The editors in the editorial department couldn't help but take a breath of air.

To have a comic serialize two chapters at the same time in each issue is unprecedented in a hot-blooded youth weekly!

…

At the same time that Higashino Hirosawa signed a contract with Hot-Blooded Shōnen Weekly, the manuscript of "Hunter" also reached the editorial department of Weekly Shōnen Magazine and fell into the hands of a review editor.

Not only that, the express delivery efficiency in Tokyo today is also surprisingly high.

The sketch for "Slam Dunk" that Higashino Hirosawa submitted in the morning arrived at the editorial office of Weekly Shōnen Sunday at almost the same time.

On the way back by the subway, Higashino Hirosawa received emails from Weekly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday.
Chapter completed!