I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 220: The first novel that quickly went viral on the Internet before it even started serialization!

It is human nature to watch the fun, and Senhara Masato is no exception.

Seeing several JKs and a group of passengers standing motionless around a large poster, with occasional low cries coming from them, he could not help but move closer, standing on tiptoe to observe the posters of different colors through the gaps between the people.

Japanese trains are different from subways. For advertising, Japanese trains prefer to use the method of posting posters on telephone poles. The entire wall of the train is often covered with dense and colorful posters.

The latter is like a large billboard on the highway. One car is usually occupied by one company, and there are only a few large posters on the walls of the car, which looks more grand and majestic.

What JK and the passengers stopped to admire was the promotional poster for the new book published by Kawaide Shobo.

At first glance, the messy layout, colorful pictures, and various exclamation marks only gave him an indescribable feeling of cheapness.

But when he took a closer look, he saw the poster clearly stating "Teacher Kitagawa Hide's new book - "The Strange Bird Chronicle" will be released on August 8.18", which immediately aroused his great interest.

The person the JKs and passengers were whispering about was also Kitagawa Hide.

Less than a month after winning the Goncourt Prize and being recognized as "the best writer in the world", Mr. Beichuan has written a new book!
Although as his readers, we had long anticipated his attitude of continuous writing, we were still greatly surprised to see with our own eyes that Mr. Kitagawa will serialize a new book tomorrow!
You have to know that those "Tenka Ippin" who are still alive have readers all over Japan, and some of them even died without ever getting to read their idols' new books.

After becoming the "best writer in the world", choosing to stop writing and retire has become the industry's default basic practice.

After all, no one can guarantee whether things will go downhill in the future.

You have finally achieved success and become one of the immortals through your previous efforts and accumulation, so what’s the point of struggling?
What if you ruin your own reputation? Wouldn’t that be a huge loss?
Therefore, if Kitagawa Hide really does not plan to write a new book, readers will accept it.

But he wrote it again!
And as always, it seems that nothing has changed at all just because he has become "the best in the world"!

"Anti-war literature. This is a brand new subject. As expected of Mr. Kitagawa, who won the Goncourt Prize! He never goes back to his old ways!"

"Hey, I remember Arima-sensei's new book seems to be about the same subject? Wouldn't Kitagawa-sensei want to compete with Arima-sensei?"

"Ah, now that you mention it, it seems that Arima-sensei's newly serialized novel "The Harp of Burma" is indeed anti-war literature!"

"Hey, do you remember the 'National Guardian God' incident that caused a lot of controversy on the Internet a few days ago? At this point in time, two 'World's Best' are writing anti-war literature at the same time. Is there a deeper purpose?"

Readers were talking about it a lot, and Masato Senhara was also very interested. He planned to call Mr. Kitagawa as soon as he returned to the bank to discuss shorting the Thai baht and to get information about the new book!

The title of the book "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is really strange. It sounds like a popular science book about birds. It is hard to imagine how it is connected with anti-war literature.

Masato Senhara's doubts were soon answered.

As soon as he returned to the bank, the branch manager hurriedly came to him.

After a conversation, Senhara Masato realized that Mr. Kitagawa's new book serialization plan had already been linked with his own branch.

Because he had always been responsible for communicating with Mr. Kitagawa, and he also entrusted the professional management team to operate the newly established Kitagawa Network Co., Ltd.

Therefore, he will serve as the project leader for this joint project and help carry out a new round of publicity and promotion on the Internet.

He also got the preface and the first chapter of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"!

These are all top secret information!

Thinking that he could see the content of the new book more than ten hours in advance, Masato Senhara suddenly became motivated to work!
But to be honest, Masato Senhara feels that Kawaide Shobo and Kitagawa Sensei's heavy investment of promotional resources on the Internet is quite abstract.

The Internet has only gradually become popular in recent years, but only a few families can afford personal computers. The effect of online promotion is far inferior to that of real-life advertisements and TV programs, but the cost of promotion is much higher than the latter two.

But this was Mr. Kitagawa's idea after all, and the decision was made by President Kawaide Shizuko and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Saito Rena at Kawaide Shobo.

He represented the bank and was the poor party B who could only try his best to meet their needs.

Now he can only hope that Mr. Beichuan's new book will attract enough traffic and the profits generated in the future will be able to cover these costs.

Otherwise, if the project loses money, he, the person in charge of the Party B of this project, will be the first to suffer!

After a brief chat, Masato Senhara immediately got into work mode and ran back to his workstation without stopping.

He first called Saito Rena to confirm the needs of the Kawaide Shobo editorial department, and then called the work team responsible for the operation of Kitagawa Network Co., Ltd.

The person he and Kitagawa Hide decided to appoint as the head of the Internet team was named Kyohei Murabayashi, 32 years old, who had worked for a super large computer company along the Kanagawa River in Tokyo.

After receiving the instructions, Kyohei Murabayashi immediately called the entire team together and asked them to work overtime to set up an online promotion channel for Mr. Kitagawa's new book tonight. It would be best to invite several well-known critics in the literary criticism circle to promote Mr. Kitagawa's new book.

They are all computer engineers that Kitagawa Hide poached from various companies.

Nowadays, computer companies are basically run by government officials and chaebols. The salaries are very low, but the workload is astonishingly large.

The famous writer Hide Kitagawa suddenly started an Internet company and offered them twice the salary to hire them, so naturally these people joined the Kitagawa network.

In fact, double the salary is not that high, and they are more grateful to Kitagawa Hide for his foresight and recognition.

At this stage, there are not many entrepreneurs who believe that Internet companies can be the trendsetters of the future, and even fewer chaebols who treat these code farmers as human beings.

As the saying goes, there are many good horses, but few good horse trainers. Therefore, these good horses are sincere and work hard for the big boss Kitagawa Hide. Thanks to the efforts of Kyouhei Murabayashi and others, before dinner time, Yahoo Japan Forum and their own small website were filled with information about Kitagawa Hide's new book.

A well-known literary critic named Tetsutaro Mori also wrote several high-quality literary reviews for Mr. Kitagawa's new book free of charge!
That day at 7pm.

After finishing her guest appearance in "Long Vacation", Jabami Rei dragged her tired body back to her apartment, ready to turn on her computer to browse forums and read posts.

When I clicked on the webpage, I saw an eye-popping title:

"Kitagawa teacher's new book is shocking! Anti-war theme! The title of the book is actually"

"Isn't he on vacation in Izu?!"

Jabami Rei opened her eyes wide, secretly cursing the poster's damn "shocking title", while curiously clicking on the post and couldn't wait to read the main text.

As she read on, she discovered that the post had official certification, and all her doubts immediately dissipated.

It’s really time to publish a new book!

Don’t you plan to take a break from all the hassles after becoming “the best in the world”?
Moreover, Arima Yoshiyoshi's new book just started serialization a few days ago, and everyone is speculating that his appearance is intended to target the two up-and-coming stars, Kitagawa Hide and Kawaide Shobo.

In Jabami Rei's opinion, there is absolutely no need for Kitagawa Hide to fight to the death with a veteran "number one in the world". Avoiding his edge is also a good choice.

Although Kitagawa Hide angrily criticized Hashimoto Ryutaro's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine on the Internet a while ago, she felt that it was just a manifestation of his youthful anger.

I didn't expect he was serious!
Jabami Rei wanted to call Yumeko to find out the truth, but then she thought that at this point, the two of them were probably being affectionate with each other, and it would be a bit of a downer to call at this time, so she gave up the idea.

She continued browsing the posts and found that there were quite a few promotional posts about Kitagawa Hide's new book, and they were increasing in batches and being pinned to the top. Some of the posts had more than 1000 replies!

Without exception, the posters of these posts added a website address at the end, saying that one can find the latest information about Mr. Kitagawa's new book there.

Jabami Rei clicked on it out of curiosity and found that it was a small website called "Kitagawa's Little Bookstore". It not only had online versions of all Kitagawa Hide's books, but also had literary reviews by Mori Tetsutaro scrolling on the cover.

This small website is actually the blog that became popular after 2000, also known as an online diary.

When blogging was at its most popular, those huge bloggers were no less popular than the influencers on Tik Tok with tens of millions of fans, and some even surpassed them.

Unfortunately, not long after, blogs were replaced by simpler and more straightforward social media accounts such as WeChat public accounts and Weibo, becoming the tears of the times.

Next door, after 2020, mobile apps similar to blogs such as Jianshu, Meipian, and LOFTER are popular, but they are completely incomparable to the heyday of blogs.

At that time, this operating model was still considered a dimensionality reduction attack on the Japanese Internet, and it immediately attracted countless "Jabami Rei" to collect and watch.

When he first heard Kitagawa Hide's idea, Murabayashi Kyohei thought that his boss was a little too idealistic and thought too simply of netizens.

But the boss is the boss, they do whatever he says.

I didn’t expect that after officially setting up this online promotion channel tonight, within a few hours, the number of registered website members exceeded 100 million!
Kyohei Murabayashi immediately reported to the financial team and urgently purchased two new small servers. However, within an hour, they were paralyzed by the crazy netizens!
Compared with the increasing number of meaningless posts on Yahoo Japan Forum, Kitagawa fans on the Internet obviously prefer "Kitagawa's Little Bookstore". They can use it as their base and no longer have to read those messy advertisements in the posts!

Kyohei Murabayashi immediately asked someone to repair the paralyzed server. However, within fifteen minutes, the website crashed three times in succession. The message board was basically full of posts criticizing the website's operations, which made him laugh and cry.

The news spread back to Masato Senhara at the speed of light, and then through Masato Senhara to Kawaide Shobo.

At this time, Rena Saito, who had just finished overtime, was preparing to go out for a drink with her boss - tomorrow was the first day of the new issue of "Wenyi". For some reason, these experienced women became nervous for the first time.

I didn't expect that I would receive a call from Masato Senhara right after I stepped out of the company door.

After hearing the news about Kitagawa Hide's new book promotion on the Internet, the two smiled at each other and finally felt a little relieved.

Shizuko Kawaide was surprised but also a little sad.

A long time ago, Hide Kitagawa proposed a plan to build an Internet department at the board meeting. However, the procedures of large companies are cumbersome, and many shareholders are opposed to the company's development of such new business. As a result, the plan has not been officially implemented yet.

Now, it looks like the first bite of the crab will be eaten by the little-known Beichuan Network.

But it’s better this way, as long as the benefits are kept within the family!

"That's a good thing. When we get to the pub, I'll call the company's finance department and ask them to allocate temporary funds to Beichuan Network!"

It is estimated that it is impossible to contact Kitagawa Hide at the moment, and even if he is contacted, it will take a long time for his funds to be in place.

But there is no problem for Shizuko Kawaide.

She is the new head of the Kawade Group. It would be a piece of cake for her to just take out a few hundred million yen, right?

She is not afraid that Beichuan Xiu owes her a favor, but she is afraid that he has no favors to owe her!

Mr. Kitagawa is a writer who is expected to win higher awards and gain higher status in the literary world in the future, so she must provide for him well!

(End of this chapter)