I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 180 My evaluation is a pile of shit

Jabami Rei and the other three walked into Kinokuniya bookstore hand in hand. Quite a few people had already come here at this time, and almost everyone had a copy of "Zetsuka" in their hands. Some were sitting, some were standing, or simply leaning against the wall, quietly flipping through this autobiography of a juvenile delinquent.

It's different from every time Hide Kitagawa publishes a new book.

Although two-thirds of the readers in the bookstore were reading Jue Ge, almost no one spoke out to discuss it, and most of the expressions on their faces were indifferent or disappointed.

Following the guidance of the shop assistant, Jabami Rei and the other three came to a large bookshelf, on which were three full rows of copies of Zetsuga.

The four of them reached out and each took a copy of "Jue Ge". Seeing that there was an empty space in the corner next to the bookshelf, they walked over there and leaned against the wall to start reading.

They are all readers who have experienced the baptism of various masterpieces of Kitagawa Hide, especially Mengzi. As Kitagawa Hide's bedmate, under the influence of more than a year, her requirements for literary works have been raised a lot.

People's aesthetic tastes often change drastically due to the surrounding environment and people.

More than a year ago, Yumeko still regarded Oshima Hikaru as her idol and thought that "Thirty Years in the Human World" was a very good work.

Even though it was later copied and imitated Kitagawa Hide's "Tokyo Memories 1973", it was at least above the passing standard.

But looking back now, her evaluation of "Once Upon a Time in Tokyo 1973" can only be described in one word - "shit".

Compared with Kitagawa Hide's works, "Thirty Years in the Human World" can only be evaluated as "mediocre".

Open "Jue Ge".

The first thing that caught Yumeko's eye was a typical middle school boy's statement.

Compared with the beautiful writing style of "Hear the Wind Sing", "Jue Ge" is filled with a large number of words that are unclear, seemingly gorgeous, but actually useless.

For example, at the beginning, the author began to forcibly pile up a lot of useless images, as if he wanted to express something, but when Mengzi saw it, the first reaction that came to his mind was to "skip it."

"When he was young, A liked to lie on the thick tree trunks that stretched out to the water in the primeval forest, smoking red Wanbao cigarettes and playing the song "Sand Planet" by Matsutoya Yumi on repeat. It was the secret garden he built for himself.

Here he buried his longing for life, the loneliness that burst from his heart, and the power of death that took his breath away. "

In the first half of the entire book, this was probably the only sentence that made Mengzi feel something.

However, this sentence is a comment written by the editor of this book, Misa Ochiai.
The part of the book written by Shinichiro Azuma himself is full of curiosity, blood, violence, and immature words that match his age.

Reading such a messy autobiographical novel, Mengzi felt that she was polluting her eyes.

After reading for about five minutes, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she closed the novel with a snap and stuffed it back into the bookshelf.

Equally disappointed and speechless, Snake Rei also closed the book, and couldn't help muttering, "What a lousy, childish book. I thought Japan's Ota would at least help him repair part of it."

"I heard that the guy was strongly opposed to anyone modifying his book. He even said righteously that if the publisher and editor arbitrarily changed the parts he wrote, he would immediately tear up the contract and find a new publisher to cooperate with."

The man with glasses who had just put the copy of "The Last Song" back on the bookshelf whispered to her, and then immediately added,
"Ah, I just heard about it, just heard about it."

He worked at the Kokubunji Family Court and was particularly familiar with the case of Boy A.

This was not a rumor, but a true fact that soon spread throughout the court after the beautiful editor named Ochiai Misa left the communications room angrily.

It is said that because of this, Misa Ochiai regretted coming to cooperate with Boy A.

After all, she is a professional editor, and she knows what kind of text can be published.

The stuff written by boy A himself is crap and full of middle school vibes. Even with the popularity of the case, it is hard to make much waves if it is released on the market.

However, no matter how much Misa Ochiai tried to persuade her, it was useless. In the end, she had to give up and put this pile of shit in front of the readers' faces as it was.

The consequences are predictable.

In the quiet bookstore, Jabami Rei's sarcastic remarks not only did not arouse dissatisfaction from other readers, but instead received approval from the majority of readers.

"Only a person with a broken brain would buy this kind of book, right?"

"Are you kidding? If someone with this kind of writing and this level of writing can publish a novel, then I can do it too, right?"

"Hey, don't be so honest. Apart from the fact that the content is true and reliable, everything else is really no different from shit!"

"Can you please stop insulting shit?"

"Jue Ge" had great fanfare before its release, but once it was released, it was quickly hit by overwhelming negative reviews.

Coupled with Shinichiro Tou's arrogance and arrogance in the Family Court, many people were already dissatisfied with him, and the reputation of "Zekuge" in physical bookstores completely plummeted in a short time.

Japan is a very interesting country.

Their market is filled with all kinds of perverted and bizarre works, and some of the authors are of dirty tricks themselves.

For example, the original author of "Rurouni Kenshin" was arrested and imprisoned for pedophilia and suspected possession of multiple child pornography DVDs.

But when the work is excellent, even for such creators, there are still many crazy fans defending them, similar to the crazy fans of the fairy next door who feel like "My brother is just XD, what's wrong with that?"

Unfortunately, Shinichiro Azuma’s character is not good, and his works are even worse.

Of course, word of mouth and reputation often don’t mean anything.

Just like many works that are well-received but not popular, they will eventually become a cancer in the industry and no one will be willing to work with such authors again.

Customers in physical bookstores and netizens expressed dissatisfaction and ridicule towards "Jue Ge", but in some newspapers and magazines, Bungeishunju hired professional internet trolls and literary critics, and more people praised it instead.

"He is indeed a scumbag with mental defects, who abuses others just to be abused. If he is really suffering and living in fear as he said, he deserves it. At the same time, he is really lucky. He has a family who loves him unconditionally, and the people in the youth center also guide him to a new life with the greatest patience. But apart from the author, it is really well written, alas."

"Apart from the author's identity, the work is a rare good work, and the fact that the author is only 14 years old is even more surprising. Maybe in time, he can become the second Kitagawa Hideya." "We should not read a novel with prejudice. Literary works should be independent of the author. As for the work alone, it is a blessing for the literary world that a junior high school student can have such writing style and creative ability."

Shameless literary critics dare to say anything after receiving money.

Seeing all this nonsense in the newspaper, Mori Tetsutaro, who is now quite famous, was furious after reading "Zetsuka".

He can't wait for Mr. Kitagawa's "Confessions"!

Tetsutarou Mori picked up his pen, ready to criticize this crappy book.

But after picking up the pen, he suddenly realized that he had written so many articles praising Teacher Beichuan in recent days that he even forgot how to criticize him for a moment.

All that came to my mind instantly were good words.

How could I have forgotten my old profession?

But he soon remembered another online literary critic whose name he didn't know but who was very much to his liking.

That friend only published one serious literary review. At that time, he criticized Yomiuri Okata, and used a title that Mori Tetsutarou will never forget in his life:

"The five limbs are not satisfied, but the lower body is very satisfied."

What an aggressive statement. No, what a sharp statement!
Tetsutaro Mori simply put down his pen, opened the Yahoo Japan forum, and found the literary critic "1.7 meters tall, with legs 1.2 meters long" among the people he followed.

Maybe it’s because the article “The five limbs are not satisfied, but the lower body is very satisfied” was too popular, this friend still has nearly 5000 followers even though he posted only a few times.

Mori Tetsutarou, who uses his real name to access the Internet, has only 8000 followers despite his reputation as the "No. Kitagawa fan."

It’s this nickname that’s a bit hard to describe.

But it was obvious at first glance that this friend was a fellow traveler!
In his few posts, he was either praising Teacher Beichuan or arguing with netizens who slandered Teacher Beichuan.

Tetsutarou Mori refreshed the webpage and suddenly discovered that a new post was made by "Height 1.7 meters, legs 1.2 meters long".

Soon after the post was published on the literature section of the forum, more than 100 netizens followed up with comments.

And for some reason, this post was pinned to the top of the forum by the official!
Tetsutaro Mori once asked someone to contact the operations staff of the Yahoo Japan Forum. They said that if they wanted to have your post pinned to the top of the official forum, you either had to have a lot of money or be famous.

The former has a clear price tag, and the time it stays on the top is measured in hours, 1 yen per hour, and it has been in a state of being priced out of stock for a long time - there are quite a few people who can afford this money, and now seeing that the major sections of the forum have good traffic, many companies have placed their advertisements here.

For a post like "Legs are 1.2 meters long", it was pinned to the top of the official post within five minutes of being published. It is obvious that he is either an internal employee or has a lot of money.

Mori Tetsutarou had also heard about this price from a friend he knew well.

100 million yen at a time, and you have to have a close relationship with the top management of Yahoo Japan!

When Tetsutaro Mori clicked on the post, he immediately understood why this happened.

The author of this review is "腿长一米2", and he has a co-author whose nickname is "河出書房頭達".

It is well known that the real identity of this netizen is Shizuko Kawaide.

Last time she claimed that Kitagawa Hide won the Akutagawa Prize, she would treat all netizens to a meal. Although Kitagawa did not win the award in the end, Kawaide Shizuko still generously gave away her money online.

Compared with the old stubborn people in other conglomerates, the young Shizuko Kawaide listened to the advice of Hide Kitagawa and began to pay attention to the influence of the Internet. When other bosses did not pay much attention to this industry, she had already established the image of a generous and wealthy woman in the minds of the majority of netizens.

It can be said that it was a perfect win at the starting line.

The first post was occupied by a guy who said "I just want to make money". What he posted had nothing to do with the review draft. Instead, he said "Are the legs really 1.2 meters long? Look at the leg photos."

This kind of abstract speech was too advanced on the Internet in 1996 and immediately opened up a new world for a group of netizens.

Just this one post, there are over 300 replies below it.

Everyone discovered that the Internet is really hidden!
There is no need to be so real online!

Kitagawa Hide could never have imagined that he was just posting posts out of habit and teasing tsunderes, but he was actually promoting the development of Japanese Internet culture!

Soon after, “look at the legs” was selected as one of the top ten Internet words of 1996!

Tetsutarou Mori also commented with interest, then read back the post.

However, when he saw the first sentence, he was frightened by Jaburi's terrible aggressiveness.

"Damn it, there are people who support this kind of criminal? I can't imagine how you can empathize with this serial killer.

As a person with a moral bottom line, do you have any empathy? For the little money given by Bungeishunju, you really don't even have the guts to be ashamed, scum!

Please open your eyes and see that the parents of the victims were forced to endure secondary trauma. They saw their own flesh and blood being slaughtered so cruelly in the book, but they still insisted on being upright and kind people, and expressed their pain very politely when asked by reporters.

Let me ask you, can you do it?
There are actually people who say "it's not bad to read the book without considering other people". Did you not understand the book or did your mother forget to give birth to your brain when you were born?
My advice is to drink more swill to nourish your pig brain."

Literary reviews are literary works after all.

When Tetsutaro Mori writes articles, even if he wants to criticize someone, he tries to use elegant words so as not to appear vulgar and uncultured.

But this friend with "legs 1.2 meters long" just said "Draft daddy", which immediately made him unable to do anything.

The manuscript is full of vulgar language, but as he read it, Tetsutaro Mori unexpectedly found it very exciting!

"I didn't know that you could write a literary review like this! Drafting for daddy."

(End of this chapter)