I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 244: Teacher Beichuan is stuck.
Arima Yoshiyoshi and Bungeishunju's formal apology did not cause much stir in the Japanese literary world.

As Hide Kitagawa said, many readers have gradually shifted from newspapers and television to the Internet.

But the netizens of this generation are not blind. Do you think you can get away with it by just pretending to apologize?
Therefore, no matter what Arima Laiyi and others do, the piles of recordings and photos flooding the Internet are still unstoppable, and are dug up from time to time as jokes and emoticons.

From this moment on, Arima Yoshiyoshi was like a god who had fallen into the dust. The halo on his head was covered in dust and shattered. In the literary world, he no longer had the divinity of "the best in the world" and became a guy that everyone could make fun of.

The rating of "The Harp of Burma" was downgraded at an extremely fast speed by "Literary World", and the original plan to publish the physical book was forced to be terminated, causing Toru Ueno to lose a lot of money.

But his decisive choice also saved Bungeishunju's life, and the magazine's readers did not lose too much, unlike Kodansha, which directly failed.

The high-spirited Kawade Shobo did not stop his fighting steps.

In this incident, Shizuko Kawaide showed her fangs as the new generation helmsman of the consortium and the company. She ignored any warnings from others and directly used a huge amount of publicity funds to launch an overwhelming publicity offensive for Kitagawa Hide's two new novels.

On rail transit, audio-visual entertainment, social media, wherever citizens can see, they can see advertisements for "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and "Killing Commendatore".

The Battle of Nomonhan, the Massacre, and the fantasy-style pure literary writing style were repeatedly mentioned by readers.

History books from major libraries in Tokyo are frequently borrowed, and war history that has been sealed for decades has also been dug out and provided in detail online.

The writers who suffered the most were those who wrote pseudo anti-war literature. They were like rats crossing the street, everyone shouted at them and they fled in panic.

The news of Naoki Hyakuta's return was all over the literary world, but he was very unlucky. He had just returned to China and hadn't even had time to sit down when his representative work "The Eternal Zero" was criticized.

Readers analyzed his famous works word by word and listed his pseudo anti-war ideas, making it difficult for the fact that he had just won the "O. Henry Short Story Award" to generate any attention.

The fact that Arima Yoshiyoshi was pulled down from the altar completely awakened the "sleeping" "number one talents in the world".

Although Ichiro Tanizaki did not meet with Yoshiyoshi Arima, he refused to give any explanation for not awarding the Tanizaki Prize to Kitagawa Hide and for giving the share of the Nobel Prize in Literature nominees to Yoshiyoshi Arima.

But he was already unhappy with Kitagawa Hide.

Because Kitagawa Hide's behavior violated the most untouchable bottom line in the hearts of these "best people in the world" - "God is inviolable."

They spent decades establishing the concept that "the best in the world" is equivalent to "god" in the literary world and in the country.

This concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of generations of readers and industry insiders.

Even a new-age woman like Saito Rena had previously felt that it would be difficult for Kitagawa Hide to shake the position of Arima Yoshiyoshi and others.

But now.

When gods are pulled down from the altar, it means that they are just like everyone else and should be punished if they make mistakes.

With the example of Arima Yoshiyoshi, netizens criticized Momota Naoki mercilessly, without any consideration for his fame.

Last time it was Arima Yoshiyoshi, this time it was Hyakuta Naoki, so will it be Tanizaki Ichiro next time?

Therefore, when "bad writers" like Naoki Hyakuta returned, as the president of the Japan Literary Society, he not only did not stop them, but also secretly encouraged and supported them.

After being criticized for no apparent reason for a while, Naoki Momota came to his senses and quickly held a press conference, working with Shinchosha to announce that he had signed a contract with Shinchosha, becoming the second "tenkaichipin" to be officially signed by the publishing house (the first was Ichiro Tanizaki).

He then avoided the topic of "The Eternal Zero" and turned the conversation to his new book to be published in November and December.

Naoki Momota won the "O. Henry Short Story Award", which is somewhat authoritative in the American literary world, but is not recognized worldwide.

Based on this, he expressed that he would introduce more advanced short story writing techniques and concepts from overseas into China and write "new-style Japanese short stories" to guide newcomers in the literary world to cultivate this literary desert.

It would have been better if he didn't say it. After he said it, Kawaide Shizuko, Saito Rena and others immediately thought that the other party was targeting Kitagawa Hide!

Because Kitagawa Hide had already informed them in advance, the new book was most likely a collection of short stories - this news may have been leaked to the opponents inexplicably.

The last writer who dared to write on the same subject as Kitagawa Hide had just passed away, so they had full confidence in Kitagawa Hide.

The short story dispute has not yet begun, so let’s go back to “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and “Killing Commendatore”.

In this world, many things are indeed much easier to do if you spend money. After Kawade Shobo's huge advertising funds were used up, the sales of the October issue of Wen Yi continued to rise, and everyone thought that 10 copies on the first printing day was the limit of Wen Yi.

did not expect!
As the one-month sales period is coming to an end, the average daily sales of "Wenyi" still remains at 10.6 copies. The upward trend is very obvious, which is simply a miracle!
Ten more days passed like this.

During this period, the November issues of "Group Portrait" and "Literary World" were released one after another. The former continued its previous "good results", selling 11 copies on the first day of printing, and was "setting a new record". The latter's sales dropped sharply to 7120 copies due to the removal of "The Harp of Burma".

The November issue of "Wenyi" serialized the final chapter of the prophetic bird chapter of "The Strange Bird Chronicle" and the final chapter of the manifest concept chapter of "The Assassination of the Grand Master of the Knights Templar". On November 11, it shocked everyone again.

25.1 copies!

The sales of Wen Yi magazine, which serializes Kitagawa Hide's novels, seem to be endless, and no one knows where its limit is.

After seeing this exciting data, Oricon was the first to take the plunge and openly printed the "Shincho" magazine, which had a monthly sales volume of 580 million copies when "Devil's Tattoo" was serialized, on its cover, echoing this issue of "Wenyi", just like "Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong".

The implication is very clear.

Oricon feels that this issue of "Wenyi" has a chance to break the historical record of that issue of "Shincho"!

If Kitagawa Hide and Kawaide Shobo had accomplished this great feat, Japanese literary world would have opened a new chapter and entered new history!

Everyone focused on the shocking data of the first day of the November issue of "Wenyi", but ignored the final monthly sales data of the October issue of "Wenyi" -

309.1 million copies!!!

This is a historic moment in more than 30 years when the monthly sales of pure literature magazines have once again exceeded the 300 million mark!
Unfortunately, everyone was attracted by the gimmick of the November issue of "Wenyi" VS the historic No. 11 "Xinchao" and ignored this matter.

The literary world has forgotten about this, but Kawade Shobo has not.

Shizuko Kawaide set up a champagne tower in the company's editorial office area and asked Hide Kitagawa to pour the champagne himself to celebrate with a group of employees who had been promoted because of him.

It has to be said that this big boss has a great control over the company and people's hearts. After the sudden death of the old president, the company was in turmoil for only a few months before she turned it into a rope again.

Now, in the survey of literature departments of various universities, Kawaide Shobo has surpassed Shinchosha and become the company that literature students most want to work for!
Watching a group of people celebrating enthusiastically, Saito Reina, who was promoted to editor-in-chief of the editorial department, walked over with light and feminine steps, smiling.

Her face no longer had the youthfulness she had when she first arrived. Within a year, she jumped three levels from being an airborne deputy editor-in-chief to becoming the de facto third-in-command of the editorial department, with the only people ahead of her being the elderly deputy director and director.

The editor-in-chief is also the company's real senior management and will own a certain proportion of the company's shares, and will no longer be a slave worker.

She is also the first female editor-in-chief in the Japanese publishing industry. I wouldn’t say there will be anyone better than her, but at least there has never been anyone like her before!
When she got promoted the day before yesterday, her senior Touma Reiko sent her a congratulatory message. Many of her peers and classmates who she hadn't been in touch with for years also came to congratulate her and cheered her up, which surprised Saito Rena who was unable to react for a while.

It turned out that unknowingly, she followed Kitagawa Hide step by step and became an influential figure in the industry.

"Kitagawa, I heard that you've been stuck in a writer's block recently?" Saito Rena's smile revealed a sense of confidence. During this period of time, in order to run Kitagawa Hide's novel and manage the editorial department, she has also put in a huge amount of effort. On average, she sleeps in the company for ten days a month, her face is swollen for three days, and she has dark circles under her eyes for four days!
Under the high-intensity work, her progress is very significant, and the worry that she once had about being left by Kitagawa Hide and falling into oblivion has disappeared.

When she heard Mengzi say that Kitagawa Hide had been troubled by a writer's block recently, she suddenly became interested - her ability as an editor could finally be put to good use!

"Yeah, that's right." Kitagawa Hide nodded. "I kept getting stuck when writing the new book, so I could only finish The Strange Bird Chronicle and Killing the Knight Commander first."

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The slight sense of "editor superiority" that had just risen in Saito Rena was immediately extinguished.

There was no such thing as Versailles in that era, but she had experienced it countless times with Kitagawa Hide.

It turns out that the problem wasn’t with the two serialized books, but with the new book!

What does it mean that because I’m stuck in writing, I can only finish the old book first?
Listen, is this human language?
"The new book is a short story, right? This is the topic I studied in college, so I should be able to help you." Saito Rena calmed down and asked with a forced smile.

When Kitagawa Hide heard this, his eyes lit up and he quickly turned around and said, "That's great! I'm planning to write a collection of short stories for my new book. I've written four so far, and this is the fifth one."

"Wait, aren't you stuck?" Saito Rena felt dizzy again, and then the joy of her promotion was dampened.

"It's a writer's block, stuck on the fifth chapter. Listen to me, the name of the novel is "The Dancing Girl of Izu," said Kitagawa Hideru.

(End of this chapter)