Anime Heart

Seeing this, Arima Kento ignored the envious looks from others, grabbed Ayako's hand, and ran away from the school grounds.

Yako looked at Arima Kento in front of her with a sweet and reassuring gaze. She loved Arima Kento the most when he was like this.

On his way home, passing by a bookstore, Ma Xiandong suddenly remembered that there was something quite important for him today.

That was the release date of Date A Live.

Arima Kento is quite curious as to why the release date of Date A Live wasn't set for a weekend, but rather a Thursday when everyone is quite busy.

Was the timing of this release a deliberate attempt to ruin his career?

That can't be!

If your own books sell well, the publisher will also make a lot of money. There's no reason for you to cut off your own source of income!

Moreover, if it's a weekend, Ma Xiandong can personally attend the sales launch ceremony.

It's Thursday, school time, so Ma Xiandong wouldn't take a day off for this.

I just can't figure it out! I just can't figure it out.

However, since it is his own work.

Arima Kento was quite concerned, so he pulled Ayako into the bookstore to find where his book was located.

He was prepared to contribute to the sales of his book, even though he already had three deluxe hardcover copies mailed to him by the publisher.

However, after entering the bookstore, Arima Kento could not find his book.

Is today not the release date, or did I remember the date wrong?

Left with no other option, Arima Kento asked a shop assistant and found out the truth.

It's not that he misremembered, it's just that Date A Live's sales were simply too good!

They ordered 300 copies, and by 3 p.m., they had sold them all.

Now, the shop owner has personally gone to restock, because even when it was out of stock, people like Arima Hitoshi kept asking if "Date A Live" was still available.

Hearing this explanation, Ma Xiandong was finally relieved.

It seems your work is quite popular!

However, Arima Kento still doesn't quite understand why the release date was set for Thursday.

He took out his phone and called the editor, and only then did Ma Xiandong understand what the publisher had done.

It turns out that as long as the publicity is done well, countless people will come to visit, no matter what day it is.

Even on busy weekdays like Thursdays, people still make time to buy books.

The promotion for Date A Live was extremely effective.

Chapter 244 Sales Situation

The bookstore had no stock, so Arima Kento had no choice but to take Aya home.

He couldn't just stay here waiting for the shop owner to come back with more stock! He only wanted to buy a couple of books on a whim; he wasn't a true book lover.

On the other hand, Ayako looked indignant.

She knew that her brother's book was being released today, but she hadn't read the specific content of Arima Kento's "Date A Live" before its release.

Because Ayako wanted to support Arima Kento with her actions, she planned to buy one hundred books to contribute to her brother's book sales.

Therefore, to this day, she has not seen any of the released content of Date A Live.

She has a bad memory and had planned to go out to buy books today.

But after eating her lunchbox at noon, she forgot about it.

Just now, after following Arima Kenji into the bookstore, Ako remembered the decision she had made earlier.

Then she saw that there was a shortage of stock.

How could this not infuriate the girl?

Throughout the journey, Aya pouted so much that you could hang an oil bottle on her lips.

Meanwhile, the girl would occasionally walk around, kicking small pebbles on the road.

Arima Kento didn't know what the girl was thinking, but he could clearly sense her emotions.

However, no matter how angry you are, you shouldn't take it out on those shoes!

Arima Kento mourns for three seconds for the "Adi Dass" summer sneakers that Ayako is wearing.

Then, he joined Ako in the game of 'kicking pebbles like soccer balls, not caring about the quality of the shoes'.

With Arima Kento joining, Ako was clearly surprised, but she did not refuse. Instead, she looked at Arima Kento with sparkling eyes and used a move called "Salted Fish Riding the Waves".

Arima Sento was not to be outdone, and unleashed his newly devised technique, the "Wild Donkey Back Kick".

The two of them played and joked around like elementary school students, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of many people along the way.

Or rather, today's primary school students are more 'mature' than the two of them.

But so what? As long as you're happy, why care about what others think?

Moreover, and most importantly, doing this significantly reduced Ako's negative emotions.

When they got home, Ayako smiled again and said to Arima Kento, "Brother, can I see yours?"

Arima Kento was taken aback. He didn't answer, but instead turned around and went back to his room to take out a three-volume set called "Date of Battle".

He handed it to Ako, responding to her request with his actions.

"Thank you, brother!"

Seeing this, Arima Kento understood why Ako had just lost her temper.

At the same time, he also thought that his younger sister, Ayako, was adorably silly.

Well, from now on, I'll repay Yako with my true feelings!

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Date A Live is very popular. Just how popular is it?

The original price of a regular physical book was 20 yuan, but scalpers were selling it for 50 yuan a copy, and countless people still took the bait.

The publisher was very anxious about this situation and had no choice but to speed up printing to put more genuine books into the market.

But doing so doesn't do much good.

Or rather, its usefulness is very limited.

The situation in Japan and even China is relatively good; at least books can be bought, even if they come from scalpers.

But the situation is much worse elsewhere; even wealthy book lovers there struggle to buy books. They rely entirely on friends within China to act as intermediaries, which provides them with some access to resources.

The reason for this is that the website for the Electric Shock Grand Prix is ​​not only open to people within China.

This website, like the Diannian website, is geared towards the entire world.

This world's China is different from the China of the previous world. Chinese is the most widely spoken language, bar none. Add to that China's national strength, its captivating history, and its delicious cuisine.

Therefore, many people admire Chinese culture and want to have excellent Chinese skills so they can show off in front of others.

For this reason, light and even the internet are the main forces for cultural export.

Not long ago, there was even a news story about a foreigner who kicked his addiction using the internet.

This is enough to reflect the appeal of the internet and light technology to foreigners.

Therefore, many foreigners believe that only by mastering Chinese and Japanese dialects can they truly appreciate the charm of online novels and light novels.

As a result, there are many foreigners on Dianping, so everyone should be careful when criticizing others.

Because you are likely criticizing a foreigner.

Of course, if the foreigner's comments are really bad, they deserve to be criticized to death.

Similarly, the Dengeki Grand Prix website also has many foreigners, and the book "Date A Live," which rose to fame by overshadowing other popular books, naturally caught their attention.

Then many talented translators translated it and posted it on foreign websites.

This resulted in several books that performed well in the Grand Prix gaining a certain fan base abroad.

Now, the best of those books, Date A Live, has been released, but surprisingly, there hasn't been a simultaneous release of an international version.

This has caused countless foreign fans to go crazy with worry.

Foreigners actually enjoy Date A Live more than many Chinese people, because dating is a very common thing for them.

They successfully gained a large following by using the trope of saving the world through dating.

Today is the first day of sales, and they don't even have the English version of the book, let alone either the Chinese or Japanese version.

Many foreigners who couldn't find their favorite books went to the Dengeki Bunko website to rant, "They don't even have an English version! This crappy publisher is doomed!"

"Exactly! Forget the English version, I studied Japanese for a month and could barely read the Japanese version, but damn it, it's not even available in our country!"

Why doesn't the person upstairs learn Chinese? (Smiling face)

"Learning Chinese in a month? You must be crazy! If you can actually learn it, tell me where you are, and I'll treat you to a meal! And while I'm at it, I'll teach you my secret to learning Chinese in a month! (Serious face)"

"Chinese is too difficult. I spent a month learning Japanese just to read that book. But it wasn't even released! Now I can only look at the photos and text posted by other people on forums..."

"You went to the forum upstairs to check, you're not alone!"

"Check it out on Tieba, add one!"

Putting aside the resentment of foreign fans towards the publisher, the publisher's president is currently deep in thought, smoking a cigarette.

"Has the additional printing of 100,000 copies just begun?"

"It has already begun, President."

How many copies have been sold so far?

"Not counting inventory, there have been 250,000 units sold."

"Phew, print another 200,000 copies!" The publisher exhaled a smoke ring, stubbed out his cigarette, and said firmly.