I am a literary giant in Japan

Although Kitagawa's novels have brought countless wonderful memories and shocks to Japanese readers over the past three years, the explosive sales of the March 1998 issue of "Wenyi" still surprised the public.

The last time a Japanese literary magazine broke the first-day and monthly sales record was the issue of "Bungei" that serialized the final chapter of "Norwegian Wood".

The total monthly actual sales volume is close to 700 million, which is equivalent to the total sales volume of "Wenyi" in the past three years before Hideki Kitagawa!
Now, the March issue of "Wenyi" which contains the second issue of "Snow Country" is even more exaggerated. From March 3 to March 3, in just two weeks, the total sales volume soared from 18 to 3 million copies!

What does it mean to have an average daily sales volume of 40 copies?
全日本共47个一级行政区：1都（东京都）、1道（北海道）、2府（大阪府，京都府）和43县。

These 47 first-level administrative regions are equivalent to the neighboring "provinces", and there are a total of about 7973 physical bookstores in the regions (excluding newsstands, station bookstores and other simple book-selling places).

That is to say, during these two weeks, each of the 7973 bookstores sold an average of about 50 copies of "Wenyi".

A bookstore usually opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m. During the 9-hour business hours, a copy of "Wenyi" is bought almost every 10 minutes.

This phenomenon lasted for two weeks in every bookstore across the country, which sounded incredible enough in the context of the Great Depression.

In fact, this is still the "average" data.

It’s like if you compare your wealth to that of the world’s richest man, you would also be a super rich person - this gives you a sense of how exaggerated the wealth of the world’s richest man is.

The hot sales of "Wenyi" brought a large wave of wealth and fresh blood to Hede Shobo, and also completely crushed the newly emerging Xinwenxiang Publishing House.

At this point, no matter how unwilling Xinwenxiang Publishing House is, it will not be foolish enough to compete with Kawade Shobo for the No. 1 position in the publishing industry.

"Xinwenxiang" took the initiative to retreat back to its own little piece of land, and the large number of readers and traffic previously attracted by its listing and opening were released into the market again.

A bunch of small publishers rushed to eat the corpse. Just when they were smug and thought they had found a bargain, Beichuan, which had been silent for half a month, suddenly dropped a bombshell:

The new supplement magazine "Dazhong", which is a subsidiary of "Beichuan" and contains both popular literature and pure literature, has been officially scheduled to release its first issue on April 1998, 4.

Previously, Kitagawa Hide had made great efforts to attack Internet e-reading and cooperated with many mobile phone operators and manufacturers. Many people guessed that Kitagawa was going to make a big move, but they could not quite understand his intentions.

The current economic downturn, although mobile phones and computers have become somewhat popular, they are still electronic products that only middle-class and above families can afford.

Before personal mobile phones and home computers became widely popular, few people in the world were optimistic about the so-called Internet era.

Since no one can guess, the industry believes that this is just a form of entertainment for Mr. Kitagawa when he has money and has no new works for the time being.

It was not until the news of the founding of "Dazhong" was released, and "Beichuan" was advertising on the cover all day long, that the industry gradually realized that Mr. Beichuan was not entertaining, but was serious!

This is a huge investment of nearly 10 billion yen!
Previously, Kawaide Shobo's financial crisis was only 300 billion yen.

TV series, movies, literary magazines. Beichuan Entertainment, which was originally used for tax evasion, has taken root, sprouted, blossomed and borne fruit in one field after another.

Beichuan Network and Beichuan Investment are also making steady progress, continuously creating huge wealth for Beichuan Xiu.

At this moment, talents from top conglomerates such as Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and Sumitomo gradually realized that there seemed to be a new entertainment industry tycoon about to rise!

Along with the news of the release of "Mass", the love movie "Love Letter" was also released. It is produced by Shunji Iwai himself and will star popular actress Jabami Rei and Kaoru, who just became famous with "The Dancing Girl of Izu". The heroine has not yet been determined. It is scheduled to start shooting in early April.

After the TV series "The Dancing Girl of Izu Series" was broadcast, it quickly became popular all over Japan, defeating "East Love" and "Long Vacation" in one fell swoop, and became the ratings champion in the past five years.

Most of the actors who participated in the show, from the main actors to the extras, have basically raised their status in the industry by half a level.

Such strong ratings appeal and star-studdedness made Beichuan Entertainment, a newcomer, instantly become the third largest entertainment company after Toei and Toho.

Countless male and female stars heard the news and came, hoping to have a drink with Mr. Kitagawa's help.

When everyone thought that Beichuan Entertainment would keep up the good work and continue to delve deeper into the field of TV dramas, "Love Letter" popped up again. Mr. Beichuan's thinking is really different from ordinary people.

Oh yes, in addition to "Love Letter", there are actually several film and television dramas produced by Beichuan Entertainment that have also been scheduled.

For example, "Childhood Friends" written by Mayumi Aso, "Youth Story: Everything About Lily Chou-Chou" written by Shiro Dango, and "Secret", the famous work of Keigo Higashino.

It’s just that due to the limited funds of Beichuan Entertainment, most of its artists are rented, so it has not made much splash in the film and television industry.

If you think about it carefully, these writers are all direct disciples of Mr. Beichuan. Maybe the adaptations of their works can also become popular?

After figuring out this problem, more and more stars flocked to the scene, and even the reserve film and television dramas were no longer short of people.

Under such a trend, Kitagawa Hide was surprised to find that there are many ways to boost the morale of grassroots writers and improve the environment of the market, literary and academic circles!

The wave he started also benefited people like Mayumi Aso and the new writers who came later.

The popularity of film and television dramas can support a large number of scriptwriters who work tirelessly.

At the same time, the popularity of film and television dramas can drive up the sales of CDs of theme songs and interludes, allowing lyricists to get a piece of the pie.

As a result, practitioners in the cultural and creative field, with Kitagawa Hide as the core, were inexplicably tied together.

Everyone regards Teacher Beichuan as the sun in their hearts, enjoying his light and heat, and moving closely towards him.

The financial groups that discovered this were even more troubled and fearful. Could it be that a writer could really take over the entertainment industry?

It’s amazing to think that in the future various film and television awards will invite the “world’s best” in Japanese literary circles to be award presenters.

Industries that were originally unrelated and even looked down upon each other have now merged together.

It’s really hilarious just thinking about it.

April 4st, April Fool's Day.

The headquarters building of Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd., located in the core area of ​​Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is decorated with lights and colors.

The grand and spectacular opening ceremony brought together big names from all walks of life.

Ishida Taijun, who came to report as a new employee, mixed in the crowd. He had no idea that the new company he was about to join would be so outrageous!
In just a short while, he saw Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Machimura Nobutaka, National Police Commissioner Hara Bunbei and other political bigwigs.

There were countless other industry leaders, and even professors from the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University who rarely traveled or participated in business activities came to offer congratulations.

Not to mention the leading figures in the literary world.

In other business activities, it would be a blessing to be able to invite such a person.

Now, these people are not much different from passers-by walking around, and they are not given any special treatment.

even so.

They all looked very happy, as if being invited to the ceremony was a great honor for them.

This is completely different from the literary and academic circles that Ishida Yasushi knows.

It's really the opposite of Tiangang!
"Ishida-kun~" Tomoyo Kobayashi's voice suddenly sounded in my ears.

The petite body leaned forward and the small hands naturally held onto him.

Ishida Taijun looked down and found that Tomoyo Kobayashi had changed into a beautiful dress today. She had shed her previous scholarly aura and looked more like a girl of the same age.

He doesn't understand girls very well, but he knows that girls suddenly pay attention to their appearance. One reason is that girls dress up to please themselves, and the other is that there are too many outstanding women around them, and they are worried that their boyfriends will be seduced away by others.

Soon, the appearance of actresses such as Jabami Rei and Kaoru confirmed his guess.

The opening of Beichuan Entertainment was attended by two pop divas, Izumi Sakai and Akina Nakamori, as well as numerous other male and female stars, such as Takuya Kimura, Shizuka Kudo, and Hiroshi Nagano.

It was clearly an opening ceremony, but the place where celebrities gathered turned into a place for star-chasing, which is really lamentable.

Ishida Yasushi and Kobayashi Tomoyo asked around and found out that most of these stars came to support the event voluntarily, which made them even more shocked.

I've heard about Mr. Kitagawa's appeal before, but after seeing it with my own eyes today, I realized how terrifying it is.

At first, Ishida Taijun thought that he had no choice but to miss out on Kawade Shobo and come to Kitagawa Entertainment, but now it seems.
"Captain Xiaolin~Long time no see!"

Walking towards them and waving hello was Reina Saito, the acting director of the editorial department of Kawaide Shobo.

He is also a great figure whom Ishida Yasushi regards as an idol and senior!
Working in the publishing industry, no one is unfamiliar with the name Reina Saito.

Because she and Kitagawa Hide are closely tied together, they are destined to shine together in the history of Japanese literature!

"Captain Kobayashi?" He looked at his girlfriend in confusion.

I heard before that Tomoyo Kobayashi and my wife Yumeko were college classmates and seemed to be close friends, but now their paths and circles are completely different. He doesn't think that Kitagawa's wife is really that close to his girlfriend.

Watch now.
"Yes, I took over the Haiku Study Group at the University of Tokyo, and by some strange coincidence I mistook Yumeko for the Haiku Master of the University of Tokyo, and that’s how I got to know Mr. Saito."

Recalling the past, Tomoyo Kobayashi's face showed infinite nostalgia.

She pulled Ishida Taijun over.

Kitagawa Hideya followed this group of women - he actually wanted to chat with Iwai Shunji, Chihara Masato and others, but Rena Saito and Shizuko Kawaide came to their house early this morning.

The two women teased his two children while forcibly dragging him into the car, and then more and more people came and he couldn't get out.

"Ishida-kun, today is your first day at work, right? How do you feel?"

Kitagawa Hide came forward as if he had seen a savior.

Just now, Shizuko Kawaide and Rena Saito started urging him to write a new book again - after getting to know his temper in depth, these two women finally "laid their cards on the table and stopped pretending". As long as they were sure that they would not cause him anxiety and trouble, they would always start the crazy urging mode to update the book so that he would not slack off.

Even though Kitagawa Hide types like a robot, he can't stand the constant urging for more.

He pulled Ishida Taijun aside as if running away, and talked about the publication of "Dazhong" and literary creation. (End of this chapter)