Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 412 Establishment of Awards

The famous "Century" magazine is located on an inconspicuous commercial street in Fujimitai, Nerima District, less than 300 meters away from the Mushi Production Animation Company.

As the sales volume of "Century" magazine reached its peak, it brought a large amount of funds to the magazine. Under this situation, Tezuka Makoto acquired a part of the shares of Chong Animation with the consent of Li Wannian.

This animation company that once closed down under the hands of Osamu Tezuka has now returned to the Tezuka family, which can be regarded as a regret for Mr. Tezuka.

However, despite sufficient funds, the location of the magazine is not very conspicuous, and can even be said to be a bit shabby. To this day, their location is still a rented office building.

"It really doesn't look as grand as Shueisha's building!"

Li Wannian got off the car, looked up at the dilapidated commercial building in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

"This shows that President Tezuka spent all his money on the construction of the magazine and did not care about these superficial things. This is why the magazine's sales volume can become the first in neon!"

Sawajiri Shi, who parked the car nearby, got out of the car and came to Li Wannian and smiled at him.

"Too!"

Li Wannian withdrew his gaze and glanced at Sawajiri Shi on the side. He didn't expect that this guy has become so smooth now?

In fact, if you think about it, Sawajiri Shi has now been promoted to the deputy editor of the magazine. He is only in his early thirties, so he is really young and promising.

In order to reach this position at such a young age, in addition to having excellent abilities and excellent resume, it is also inseparable from his interactions with colleagues and leaders around him.

Well, mainly with the leader!

And just now Sawajiri's actions to defend Tezuka Makoto, both inside and outside his words, have proven who the leader he is trying to please is!

"Mr. Li, shall we go in?"

"Okay! You lead the way, I don't know the way!"

"That's because you don't come here often! Come a few more times and you'll get to know me!"

Sawajiri Shi smiled and led Li Wannian the way.

As soon as he entered the building, he met Rumiko Tezuka who had been waiting for Li Wannian.

"Mr. Li, are you finally here?"

"Ms. Tezuka, I kept you waiting!"

After the two met, they shook hands again, and Rumiko Tezuka still kept smiling.

"I just arrived not long ago, Mr. Li, please come inside!"

"Miss Tezuka, please lead the way!"

During the entire conversation between the two, Sawajiri didn't say anything but just watched.

Although his position is higher than that of Tezuka Rumiko, why is her surname Tezuka?

To be honest, there’s not much to see in the magazine itself!

A dilapidated office on the first floor, with piles of documents everywhere, looked a bit messy and not tidy enough.

This is also the philosophy that Century magazine upholds. It does not pay attention to the external surface, but focuses on the work itself.

However, in Li Wannian's view, this is just wishful thinking of Tezuka. Work is work, and any comfortable environment and simple interpersonal relationships are nonsense. As long as you give enough money, there are plenty of people to do it!

You go out to work just to make money. If you want to be comfortable, how comfortable would it be to sleep at home?

"Here are several of our editorial teams, mainly responsible for the editors of "Century"..."

"Our planning department is opposite, mainly responsible for on-site event planning..." "This is the president's office!"

Soon, Li Wannian spent only ten minutes and took a rough look around the magazine under the introduction of Rumiko Tezuka.

"I roughly know the current sales volume of the magazine, but I want to hear more details!"

Sitting in Tezuka Ma's office, he was still accompanied by Sawajiri Shi and Tezuka Rumiko.

"Understood, the magazine does have some problems at the moment!"

Li Wannian's words made Sawajiri Shi understand that he didn't want to listen to the external propaganda, but wanted to hear the magazine's current predicament!

"Tell me!"

Sure enough, Li Wannian crossed his legs and leaned forward slightly, looking somewhat interested.

"Although the current magazine sales have stopped the downward trend and are still at 280 million, the gap with the second-placed "Jump" is less than 50!"

Even though Li Wannian... stole a lot of money from "Jump" and allowed "Century" magazine to spur its growth and reach a height he shouldn't have, "Jump" magazine has a profound foundation and is far from the newly established "Century" magazine. Can be compared.

At present, "Jump" magazine's most popular comics such as "Fist of the North Star" and "Saint Seiya" still keep their sales stable at more than 200 million.

It can be said that there is only one "Champion" between "Jump" and "Century".

"Champion", once Neon's top-selling comic magazine, now has less than 50 copies sold, making it Neon's fifth-largest comic magazine.

Due to the departure of comic masters such as Tezuka Osamu and Li Wannian, the most popular work in the magazine today is actually "Honki!" by Ayumi Tachihara, which cannot be compared with several other magazines.

"In addition to the fact that "Naruto" has ended, other than You, currently only Araki-sensei's "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" and Takaya Yoshiki's "Strong Armor Cap" are at the forefront of popularity, and the magazine is In terms of fresh blood, there are still big problems.”

When Tezuka was able to lure Araki Hiroyan over, to be honest, it really gave Li Wannian a big surprise.

Although Araki Hirohito didn't have any decent comic strips at the time, and after coming to "Century", his new comic "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" was not very popular. It wasn't until he introduced the concept of stand-in combat that his popularity started. It has skyrocketed and now ranks third only behind "Death" and "Slam Dunk", and is currently ranked third in "Century" magazine.

"What are you going to do?"

"We are also preparing to hold the Tezuka Prize!"

Tezuka Prize?

The current Tezuka Prize was organized by Shueisha in 1971, naturally in memory of Osamu Tezuka.

However, among these magazines, Shueisha is the least qualified to receive this award, because Osamu Tezuka has never serialized comics in "Jump" at all.

"Okay, it makes sense for Tezuka to handle this!"

The "Tezuka Award" will naturally be inherited by the true descendants of Osamu Tezuka, which is much better than the ill-named Shueisha.

The two talked in the office for about an hour. Since Sawajiri was just a deputy editor after all, there were some deeper things that he couldn't say, so he could only say this.

In this way, after talking about it, Li Wannian planned to leave the magazine.

However, when he went out, he saw a strange acquaintance.

"How's it going? Editor Takahashi, isn't my new comic good this time? I've been thinking about it for a long time!"

(End of this chapter)