I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 139 I, Otaku Yomiuri, will never cheat on my partner!
The competition among the five major pure literature magazines this time is just like the six major TV stations in Japan competing for prime-time broadcasts.

The market is so small, there are too many wolves and too little meat. In the end, someone will definitely collapse first after the fight.

This time, "Wenyi" has completely established itself, with sales of about 10 copies in 65.3 days. It will easily break 80 copies if it sells well in the next 88 days. Last month's top-selling magazine "Xinchao" sold 8 copies, which is only more than this figure.

Some people are safe, but there is still a fierce fighting in the meat grinder, so someone is bound to be doomed.

In early November.

Kitagawa Hide was sharpening his knife, polishing the content of the last five chapters of "Border", while continuing to instruct Mayumi Aso and Shiro Dango in writing novels, and at the same time thinking about which novel to plagiarize next.

Just as he was looking up various information and paying attention to the latest social news, the first unlucky guy finally appeared.

"All the Stars", which had just invited back its mainstays, collapsed.

After being overtaken by "Wenyi" at the end of last year, Shueisha, a publishing house that originally specialized in the comics industry, angrily called back the pillar of "Qunying", and after the January issue was released, it devoted a whole page to a special interview, informing its readers that the pillar will publish a new book in the February issue, and asked everyone to come and support it quickly.

The mainstay of "Stars" is Kishisuke, one of the few "upper-class writers" in the Japanese literary world who writes both pure literature and popular literature.

Kitagawa Hide read his personal profile and representative works when he was researching the Japanese literary world in this world.

Kishisuke is a steady author who is average, not outstanding in ability but rarely does anything bad.

But because of this, his new book "Thirteen Types of Personality" is still as bland as ever and there is nothing much to watch.

In the literary environment of the past, once a well-known writer of his status published a book, other publishing houses would definitely tacitly avoid his limelight, let his new book be a hit for a while, and then promote their own good books after the limelight died down.

In this way, even a mediocre new book like this should be able to get off to a good start.

However, this time, in order to strangle Kawade Shobo, other publishing houses almost put all their efforts into it, and Kishisuke was unlucky enough to become the first victim.

"Stars" sold about 3 copies on the first day of its release, which was neither good nor bad. However, during these ten days, sales continued to decline, and finally only 21.1 copies were sold in total, which was less than one-third of "Wenyi".

After entering March, the reputation of Kishisuke's new book became worse and worse. And because the theme was similar to "The Secret", both novels explored family ethical issues, all the readers were snatched away by Keigo Higashino.

In the first few days of March, the average daily sales of "Stars" were less than 3 copies, and the lowest was only more than 1 copies. It directly reversed to the top, shoulder to shoulder with those quasi-first-tier pure literature magazines, and completely became a foil in this sales war.

The audience of "Stars" is mostly middle school boys and elementary school students. After a large number of its readers left, they naturally turned their attention to the other four major publishing houses.

The middle school boys don’t like the literary and artistic tone of “New Trend”, so “New Trend” basically didn’t take over the body of “All Stars”. However, relying on its profound foundation, it still closely follows the butt of “Wenyi”, and the sales volume is not much different.

"Literary World" and "Qun Xiang" relied on joint essay solicitation and a number of high-quality novels to grab almost 40% of readers, making the data look a little better.

The remaining 60% almost all flowed into the stomach of "Wenyi".

However, the real contributor to this matter was not Hide Kitagawa's "Border", but Dango Shiro's "Oyako-chan".

The style and content of this novel are relatively suitable for young children, and it also has a certain sense of curiosity, and it has unexpectedly become a favorite of middle school boys!
After successfully strangling a competitor, Kitagawa Hide did not show much joy.

His eyes were fixed on Noma Sawako, who had targeted himself and Kawaide Shobo at the first move and whose methods were very sophisticated.

This half-buried old woman is much smarter than her stupid daughter.

As soon as she saw that "The Stars" was doomed, she immediately arranged various activities without stopping. She first made a public statement, saying that there was absolutely no trick in this joint essay contest.

She could swear on the reputation of the Noma family and Kodansha that this essay contest was completely fair and just from the selection stage to the final confirmation stage, and there was no shady dealings at all.

The president took the lead in expressing his stance, and naturally the editorial staff followed suit and swore an oath, saying that if there was any behavior of favoritism or fraud, their entire family would be killed!
After talking about the essay contest, Sawako Noma started doing public relations work and began to do her best to eliminate the series of negative impacts brought about by her stupid daughter.

Ever since Kitagawa Hide and Saito Rena left and then made a movie called "Akudani" that caused a sensation throughout Japan, there have been rumors that Kodansha exploited its employees and writers, and that editors abused their power for personal gain.

Since the second half of last year, Kodansha's stock price has been falling, and the number of new applicants has also decreased.

While holding a press conference to personally clarify the "misunderstanding", Sawako Noma also hired a large number of top literary critics such as Tsuneyasu Takeda, and managed to overcome half of the public opinion crisis by spending money.

After completing all this work, in order to reverse the declining sales, Kodansha took the lead in announcing the winning work of the joint essay contest in early March - "Five Bodies Are Not Satisfied" by Yomiuri Okata.

The novel's winning of the award did not cause much stir in the literary world.

After all, its quality is indeed the best among the shortlisted works, and it is also backed by the "best in the world" Arima Yoshiyoshi.

Not long after the award announcement was made, Kodansha launched a big fanfare to publish a hardcover paperback edition of "Five Bodies Are Not Satisfied", and then shamelessly took advantage of Kitagawa Hide's popularity.

[A pure literary novel comparable to "No Longer Human"! ]

[The quality is not inferior to "Youth Trilogy", but it is more positive and optimistic, and has better educational significance for the people]

['Tianxia Yipin', highly recommended by Mr. Arima Yoshiyoshi, absolutely not to be missed! ]

In order to make "Five Bodies Are Not Satisfied" sell well, Arima Yoshiyoshi even took in Otaku Yomiuri as his last disciple and wrote a preface for the novel.

This is probably the highest level of treatment that the new generation of writers currently receive.

Yomiuri Okamoto, who has impaired limbs and just got married last year, has begun to appear frequently in the public eye. Every time he is interviewed, he talks about his character of being disabled but determined but never giving up, as if he is afraid that others don't know that he has no hands or feet.

An inspirational personality plus a physical disability is indeed easier to market.

Kitagawa Hide was too lazy to pay attention to this guy. These days he was mainly researching what to copy for the new book.

Judging from the social response, "Border", which writes about "hollow disease", "only child" and "extramarital affair", did receive good feedback and basically achieved the purpose of plagiarizing this novel.

This was the first time that he added a lot of his own personal opinions during the copying process. He deleted some immoral content about extramarital affairs in "Border" and also deleted a large number of pornographic descriptions, replacing them with more delicate emotional changes and relatively correct values.

Judging from the results, this small adaptation was successful.

However, the deletion of some content about extramarital affairs also caused dissatisfaction among some readers and literary critics.

They feel that Kitagawa Hide is using "extramarital affair" more as a gimmick and has not really explored this social phenomenon and problem in detail.

Kitagawa Hide flipped through a large number of newspapers, and many literary critics kept harping on this point, implying that his novels were not social enough and should be more incisive.

"It's really hard to satisfy everyone. If the original novel wasn't changed at all, I'm afraid everyone would be running to the cafe to criticize me right now." Kitagawa Hide sneered.

A good writer should never be swayed by comments! Just as he was about to open the forum post to search for useful news, Yumeko Agatsuma switched the TV channel to Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS).

This TV station was one of the five major commercial broadcasters and later became the first TV station in Japan to win the triple crown in ratings.

At this time, TBS was broadcasting a special interview program with Yomiuri Okamoto on TV.

"Xiu-kun! This guy is saying bad things about you! How disgusting!"

My wife Yumeko came over with a plate of sweet potato buns and sat down next to him. Her cute face instantly puffed up.
"What he said is not true. How can he slander you like this!"

"Ah? What did he say?" Kitagawa Hide looked up at the TV and saw Okatake Yomiuri talking in a wheelchair.

"..Compared to his previous books, the quality of Border is really downgraded. 'Extramarital affair' is a very good subject, and it could be written more deeply, but he didn't do it, which is a pity. I think it's because he's not married yet, haha."

Okamoto Yomiuri smiled smugly at the camera, but his hands were empty under his suit, and they were shaking, which was disgusting to watch.

"Oh? I heard that Mr. Otatake got married last year. Do you know more about this than Mr. Kitagawa?" the host joked.

Okatake Yomiuri laughed even more wantonly: "Haha, how is that possible? Look at a disabled person like me, I never dreamed that there would be a girl willing to marry me.

My wife Hitomi is my junior at Waseda University. She is a beautiful and kind person. I am very grateful to her and love her very much. It is absolutely impossible for me, Yomiuri Okamoto, to cheat on my husband!
I have been working hard on my writing these years, hoping to make a name for myself, just to give Renmei a better family environment. For her, I am willing to do anything.

Please don't confuse me with that playboy Kitagawa Hide!"

"I can testify to this for my disciple." Arima Yoshiyoshi on the side said with a smile, "He is a very outstanding person and extremely loyal to love. To be honest, I admire him for this, so I am willing to break the rules and accept him as my disciple."

As soon as Arima Yoshiyoshi spoke, all the camera shots were focused on him, and the female host sat upright with a look of respect on her face.

Kitagawa Hide could feel TBS's respect for this "best talent in the world" even through the screen.

Regarding writers of this level, Kitagawa Hideko had only heard of them through rumors.

Professor Takeuchi Osamu once told him that "Tenka No. 1" is equivalent to a golden medal of immunity from death. No matter how big a mistake you make, with this title, the public is willing to forgive you once.

The late Mr. Mishima was involved in a homosexual affair, but was eventually forgiven by the public!
It is because he is recognized as the "best person in the world".

Apart from this, writers of this level basically have their way in Japan. From the Japanese government and conglomerates to ordinary people, no one dares to disrespect this kind of "national teacher".

Isn’t Ichiko Sadaji awesome?
Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, and member of the Japan Academy.

He is still a head shorter than the "best man in the world".

However, there are only seven "Tenka No. 1" people alive in Japan now.

We hardly see them speak once a year, let alone produce new literary works.

If they write a new book, it will be so popular that it will attract thousands of people.

Arima Yoshiyoshi is willing to help Okamoto Yomiuri this time, and I don’t know how much money Kodansha gave him.

TBS also got some benefit from this and wanted to turn this interview into an interview targeting Arima Yoshiyoshi.

After Arima Yoshiyoshi said this, Okamoto Yomiuri's image as a good man suddenly became unbreakable.

The host followed up and asked about Yomiuri Okamoto's love experience.

While he talked about his love affair with Renmei, he did not forget to cue Kitagawa Hide, mocking him for taking an elderly single mother as his apprentice.

I'm afraid that this apprentice not only has to help work in his cafe, but also has to help him take care of his personal physiological needs!

This guy was famous for his outspokenness in the original world.

It is precisely because of this character that the fact that he cheated on his wife with more than 50 women was not exposed by the media, but was revealed by himself after he got drunk!

Mayumi Aso, who hadn't gotten off work yet and was helping Pete comb his hair, blushed when she heard this, and felt aggrieved and uncomfortable.

She didn't dare look back at her master and his wife.

This is so embarrassing.

What does it mean to meet physiological needs? And those unbearable words.
My wife Yumeko turned off the TV with a click, gently bumped Kitagawa Hide with her little butt, then looked at Aso Mayumi who was motionless, and blinked at Kitagawa Hide.

Kitagawa Hide understood and shouted to her, "Aso, if you have nothing else, go pick up Aiko and the others early today to come over and play."

"Yes, Master." Mayumi Aso's voice had a hint of tears in it. She tried her best to restrain herself. Hadn't she heard enough rumors like this before?
I should have been immune to it a long time ago.

But this time, she got in touch with the master for no apparent reason, and my wife Mengzi was there too, which made her a little defensive.

Kitagawa Hideya didn't quite know how to solve this problem. He turned around and looked at my wife Yumeko. My little wife understood and got up and ran towards her.

"Sister Aso, let me go with you~"

"Eh? Okay, okay." Mayumi Aso was a little afraid to face Agatsuma Yumeko, but when she looked up and saw her innocent smile, she felt that it was nothing.

The two of them left the cafe arm in arm.

Kitagawa Hide took the remote control and turned on the TV again.

Just at this moment, Arima Yoshiyoshi came out and started to criticize Kitagawa Hide.

His status in the literary world does qualify him to comment on Kitagawa Hide, and whether good or bad, it will cause a small wave of public opinion.

However, Arima Yoshiyoshi is not Ishihara Shintaro. In terms of writing ability and strength, he highly recognizes Kitagawa Hide.

Listening to the two people talking nonsense, Kitagawa Hide's thoughts had already flown elsewhere.

"Five Bodies Are Not Satisfied" is equivalent to challenging him to a physical book competition. Does he really think that apart from "Border", he has no other killer weapons?
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(End of this chapter)