I am a literary giant in Japan

After August 1998, 8, the threshold of Hideya Kitagawa's luxurious villa in the port area was almost broken by people.

The latest issue of "Dazhong" was snapped up by readers all over Japan as soon as it was released.

Everyone can't wait to read the final chapter of "Hanzawa Naoki" and want to know what the final fate of this guy who shouted "an eye for an eye, double the amount" will be.

These die-hard fans of Hide Kitagawa's book did not disappoint the editors of the popular editorial department.

On August 8, Oricon took the lead in announcing the first-day sales data of the August 3 issue of "Dazhong" on the Internet.

The result was unexpected, but also reasonable.

102.9 copies!

Compared with the previous issue, the sales volume increased by more than 40 copies!
So far, only "Wenyi" published by Kawade Shobo has achieved the achievement of single-day sales exceeding one million.

"Mass", a new magazine focusing on popular literary novels, has also joined the "million club" in the publishing industry in a rude and unreasonable manner.

Of course, Hide Kitagawa's "Hanzawa Naoki" did not disappoint readers.

Hanzawa was as sharp and aggressive as ever, and succeeded in making Branch Manager Asano kneel down and apologize in tears.

What makes readers feel most comfortable is the revelation of the mystery about the irrelevant answer given by Hanzawa Naoki during the interview.

It turns out that his father died because the bank "closed the umbrella in the rain", and he entered the banking industry for revenge!
In this way, all the strange behaviors of Naoki Hanzawa before can be explained.

Moreover, the foreshadowing left by Mr. Beichuan at the end clearly tells readers that this shocking and exciting novel will obviously have a second part!
Pure literary novels never have a second or third volume.

Because they are all serious literature with literary value as the main factor and plot as the secondary factor, there is no need to produce sequels after everything that needs to be said has been said.

This has also led to many pure literary novels that have become popular all over the world, and readers are eagerly looking forward to seeing the sequels, but they never get to wait for them in this lifetime.

Relatively speaking, popular literature is much more tolerant in this regard. Some best-selling popular literature will continue to publish sequels to meet the needs of readers.

But even so, in Japan's deformed literary market, popular literature written by well-known authors rarely has sequels.

A successful work would bring him both fame and fortune, and he would no longer be short of money in a short period of time.

Popular literature is naturally inferior to pure literature, so well-known popular literature writers want to use it as a springboard to enter the field of pure literature.

Now that Keigo Higashino has also achieved success, he is starting to get restless again and is thinking about going to "Wenyi" to publish pure literary works.

no way.

After acquiring wealth and social status, top authors want to pursue their own historical position in the Japanese literary world.

And this can only be achieved through pure literary works.

But Kitagawa Hide is an example of someone who went the opposite way.

He had long been unrivaled in the field of pure literature, and he came to popular literature to stir up the storm. Everyone thought that Mr. Kitagawa was just too bored and wanted to have some fun.

But now it seems that this is not fun at all!

"Hanzawa Naoki" is going to have a sequel!
This means that Mr. Kitagawa is not just writing a book for fun, but intends to use this series to break through the ceiling of Japanese popular literature!
In the past, the ceiling of Japanese popular literature couldn't even touch the floor of pure literature, so not many people paid attention to it.

After Keigo Higashino became famous, people gradually regarded him as the ceiling of Japanese popular literature.

But the upper limit of detective literature is there, it is just a carnival feast for a small number of readers.

just now.

Everything is different.

The publishing, literary and academic circles have all realized that Kitagawa Hide's punch may not only shatter the ceiling of Japanese popular literature.

He may break the inherent perception of popular literature and pure literature in everyone's mind for thousands of years!
After realizing this, some people in the publishing, literary and academic circles really couldn't sit still.

Once this unbreakable barrier was broken, the thrones of pure literature authors and the leading figures were no longer as stable as a mountain.

"Why can pure literature that is as good as shit be considered more literary and valuable than our popular literature?"

“Is popular literature really inferior to pure literature? Does it mean that if we put on the word ‘serious’, the text will become noble and noble?”

"Can't literary works that are easy to understand, interesting and attractive be called classics?"

Similar doubts began to ferment in the grassroots author circle, the popular literature author circle and the Internet.

Where there is doubt, there is progress.

Popular literature writers who have been looked down upon and despised for many years and are at the bottom of the food chain now have hope, fighting spirit and passion for creation.

Pure literature authors who have been enjoying the benefits of pure literature for many years and have no output have begun to panic, anxious, and at a loss.

Those high-ranking old guys were even more frightened.

Hanzawa challenged the authority of the banking industry with his words and actions.

Kitagawa Hidenori challenged the authorities in the literary world with the book "Hanzawa Naoki".

This guy!
It’s not enough to be the best in the world.

Do you have to destroy the entire Japanese literary world before you will stop? !

There is a constant stream of visitors, each with their own thoughts.

Some people really came to visit and ask for autographs, while others were insincere and tried to find some black spots on Kitagawa Hide.

Some people even brought large amounts of gifts and money, trying to persuade Mr. Beichuan to stop causing trouble and just focus on writing his pure literary novels.

Just three days.

Mengzi, who is taking care of the baby at home, becomes overwhelmed and unable to cope.

University professor, leading figure in the literary world, owner of a film and television company, director of a TV station, and president of a well-known newspaper.
She felt like she had seen all the big names in the Japanese entertainment industry in just three days.

As for the instigator, Kitagawa Hide, he simply moved into the dormitory building of the Beichuan editorial department and stayed there temporarily during this period.

When these people's request for a meeting failed, they set their sights on the Beichuan editorial department.

Fortunately, Japan has clear legal protection for these.

As long as Kitagawa Hide stays inside and doesn't come out, these people really can't do anything to him.

If you insist on asking, you will only get a reply saying "I'm preparing a new book, please don't disturb me."

If it were any other author, these bigwigs could still use the fact that the other party was acting like a big shot to put pressure on him through various channels.

But the person opposite him is currently the number one figure in Japanese literary world.

Who dares to put pressure on him?
Didn’t you see that the new Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was also queuing up?
that's it.

After lasting for about a week, the commotion caused by the final chapter of the first part of "Hanzawa Naoki" finally subsided.

The discussion about the novel remains as heated as ever online, but there are fewer discussions about the debate between popular literature and pure literature.

These big guys still have plenty of energy.

Since Mr. Kitagawa did not make a clear statement, they took action first to prevent the situation from escalating to a point where it was difficult to contain.

But even so, this wave of unrest still gave the grassroots authors a great relief.

Especially those grassroots authors like Keigo Higashino, Mayumi Aso and Shiro Dango in the early years, who now have new and good choices after many unsuccessful submissions to pure literature magazines.

As expected, the submission mailbox of "Dazhong" is filled up every day.

Taking advantage of this trend, many new popular literature publishing houses have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain and invaded the literary market.

People no longer think that writing popular literature or publishing popular literature magazines is a shameful thing.

The film and television industry, which is highly compatible with popular literature, is also very happy. In the past, when adapting literary works into films and TV series, they could only choose those obscure and difficult-to-understand pure literary works.

The result is that even a powerful work like "Youth Trilogy" fell into the sea.

On the contrary, works such as "Confessions", "Jie Jian", "Secret", and "The Devotion of Suspect X" are widely popular and well received.

But no one writes it!
Now, there are countless authors entering the popular literature world, and it is only a matter of time before good works are born.

These bosses in the film and television industry wish they could worship Kitagawa Hide like a god in their company.

I heard that some crews have even started to stop burning Yunzhong Juejianji and Benzaiten goddess, and instead burn Kitagawa teacher's portrait or novel!

Of course, if this was discovered, they would have to pay a large amount of compensation to Mr. Kitagawa.

But in the eyes of the wealthy boss of a film and television company, this little money in exchange for Mr. Beichuan's blessing is a huge profit!
1998 8 Month 10 Day.

Beichuan Editorial Department, office area, inside a conference room.

Faced with a group of bad boys and girls, Kitagawa Hide, who was thinking of countermeasures, had no idea that he was regarded as a god by the bosses in the film and television industry.

He is now particularly troubled by his new book "Asakusa Red Group".

His initial plan was to use the Red Falcon Group formed by Ashin as the prototype, and use the lives of this group of boys and girls as the starting point to present the entire chaotic Asakusa community to the public.

With Kawabata Yasunari's original work as a reference, this is not a difficult task.

Moreover, in the Red Falcon Group, Ashin, Xiaojiu, and Gongzi all cooperated with him very well.

On the other hand, the biker gangs and biker gangs led by Meggie were also willing to help provide information.

Xunzi, who is mainly responsible for data collection and information organization, also works very hard.

Then a few days ago, the new book project suddenly ran into problems.

First, Kaoru came to him in a panic and told him that someone in the Red Falcon Gang and the biker gang was secretly using the name of Kitagawa Hidekazu and Kitagawa to make a lot of money in the Kabukicho and Asakusa communities.

By the time Kaoru received the news, more than 800 people had been deceived, and the total amount of money defrauded was as high as more than million yen.

This is almost all the property those people have.

The juvenile delinquents' methods of fraud are crude.

They raised a large amount of funds from people in the two regions in the name of "assisting Teacher Beichuan in writing a book, and then getting dividends after the work is published."

After the local police intervened, they were embarrassed to find that in addition to the elderly in the Asakusa community, those who were defrauded also included a large number of illegal residents, sex workers, gamblers, etc.

The source of their money was not legal, so.
Moreover, the newly enacted "Juvenile Law" only increases the severity of trials and raises the age of sentencing for bad juvenile offenders like Shinichiro Tou.

For juvenile offenders who commit fraud, theft and robbery, the disciplinary methods are not much different from the previous ones.

And these guys have long been accustomed to the way the police and juvenile detention centers treat them.

This amount of money is just a small amount for Hidekazu Kitagawa and Kitagawa.

However, the reputational damage caused to Beichuan and him is difficult to estimate.

Fortunately, after learning about this, Shigeo Nishiguchi of the Sumiyoshi-kai came out and suppressed these lawless guys with iron blood, preventing the situation from escalating further.

Then, not even a day passed without a break, and another shocking scandal broke out inside Beichuan:

Several editors in the editorial department and internal employees had sexual transactions with the bad girls of the Red Falcon Group, but were directly tricked because of the price.

Now several people have been arrested by the police on charges of "having relations with underage girls".

In addition, because Kaoru signed a contract with Yumiko and Meggie, some will-o'-the-wisp boys with ulterior motives became restless and began to harass Kaoru, who was still a high school girl, on her way to and from get off work.

Kaoru was miserable, but she didn't want to trouble Kitagawa Hide for such a small matter. Then one time when she was returning home, she was unexpectedly seen by Jabami Rei who drove a sports car to the Kitagawa Entertainment Building.

Those who understand Jabami Rei's temper will understand her.

Several Will-O-W-O boys were beaten directly into the hospital.

Then the next morning, the news that a famous actress had beaten up a teenager dominated the headlines of major newspapers.

It just so happened that many bigwigs were recently dissatisfied with the fact that Kitagawa Hide's "Hanzawa Naoki" might break the barrier between popular literature and pure literature, and the situation was magnified by some people with ulterior motives.

It is said that Toho has already started a plan to protect Jabami Rei and stop all business activities.

Being suddenly shelved at the peak of one's career is a devastating blow to any star.

Although Jabami Rei didn't care, Kaoru blamed herself for it.

Then yesterday.

After discovering that "Hanzawa Naoki" was a big hit, this group of bad guys smelled a "business opportunity" and expressed their willingness to assist Kitagawa Hide in writing a new book, but they had to be paid a certain amount of money, and they would get dividends after the novel was published.

It is indisputable that when writing a book, copyright fees should be paid to the party that provided the materials.

Japan attaches great importance to personal copyright rights, and Kitagawa Hide had already taken this into consideration.

But these will-o'-the-wisp boys did not play by the rules, or they did not know the difference between the big and small jokers, and tried to take the opportunity to blackmail Kitagawa Hide.

This is a bit much.

And now, this group of ungrateful guys are still smoking and drinking in the conference room, treating this place as their own territory.

These people made Kitagawa Hide realize what it means to be a dog that always eats shit.

But they are not a group of guys as bad as Shinichiro Tou.

It is not good to punish them with extreme means.

Of course, this kind of diverse scene is also what Kitagawa Hide really wants to see in the Red Falcon Group.

This is in line with the background of the Asakusa community.

Ashin in the crowd looked very unhappy.

Xiaojiu, Gongzi and Meggie beside her had even darker faces.

These people used to be their good friends and good partners.

These are the “best friends” that Ashin brought up.

But they still underestimated the temptation of money and overestimated the so-called "friendship and bonds."

After realizing that it was profitable, these bad boys and girls started to become disobedient.

It comes down to it.

The so-called "Red Falcon Group" is just Ashin's wishful thinking.

This illusory and fragile bond will become nothing once it conflicts with real interests.

At this moment, Ashin, who originally thought he could help his two friends, became a real clown.

She is the one who suffers the most right now.

I've already yelled at these guys three times.

But the results were lackluster.

Those guys who used to call her the big sister now deliberately ignored her, laughed and played by themselves, waiting for Teacher Beichuan's answer.

If they are not given high compensation and dividends, they will quit!
Of course, in the end, I will not only quit, but also ruin his book! (End of this chapter)