Is it okay not to want to work hard?

"Xiaozou."

"Yes." (Chinese)

"Why do some otakus think that the foot washing water of lolita and beautiful girls is drinkable? No matter how you look at it, it's not drinkable."

Quan Qifang looked down at her own little feet and stared at the clear water in the basin curiously.

"You do not understand?"

Higashino Kanade, who was practicing basic painting skills every day, stopped writing and turned to look at Izumi Konata with a look of doubt on his face.

"I understand, but I still don't quite understand. Are all you boys like this? This water can't possibly taste good, why do some of my gaming friends think it tastes good when they talk about it?"

Quan Chifang has played many Gal Games, so of course she understands it, but that doesn't stop her from being deeply shocked.

"Don't bother with me, I'm not."

Higashino Kanade quickly drew a line between himself and the pervert that Izumi Konata described.

"Not a boy?"

Quan Cifang's eyes lit up.

"You must be doing this on purpose. I don't think footbath water tastes good. But bath water is something you can taste."

Higashino Kanade spoke calmly and in a very gentlemanly manner.

Others who drink a beautiful girl’s foot washing water are perverts, but he who wants to taste the bath water is a gentleman.

"Then next time I take a shower, should I fill a bottle for you? Which part do you like to drink from, calf, thigh, or..."

Izumi Konata's left palm slid from his calf to his chest.

Such direct teasing made Tono Kanade blush.

No way, Cifang, at your age, how can you know so much? You are so capable. What kind of games do you play all day? You are like a vixen at such a young age.

"Vulgar, what I want to taste is the beautiful girl's, not yours."

It's unclear whether Higashino Kanade was sincere or not when he said this, but he looked very serious. Well, he was saying something serious that was perverted, but not completely perverted.

Beautiful girls and lolita are different. The main difference is that the former is feasible, while the latter is punishable. The same goes for bath water. The former is perverted, while the latter is not a question of whether it is perverted or not. It is a question of whether to go through the 110 procedure or be shot.

The heavy industry of the second dimension is sincere, and the heavy industry of the third dimension strikes hard.

People must distinguish clearly between what is illusion and what is reality, otherwise problems are bound to arise.

"Zou-kun, am I not a beautiful girl?"

Quan Chifang lifted her hair by her ears and imitated the eldest lady in "Maria Mater".

"This little girl actually calls herself a beautiful girl, just a loli."

Dongye Kanade complained mercilessly. He knew that Chi Fang would never become a beautiful girl in this life. She would not grow taller, bigger, or bigger. She would always be a loli, from a punishable loli to a legal loli.

Pretty girls are not allowed, but legal lolis are allowed.

"I want to be a beautiful girl."

Izumi Konakata has a talent for voice acting, and what she said is so true to the story.

"You pinch him like that, it's weird."

What is a beautiful girl's woman? Isn't it enough to just become a beautiful girl? Higashino Kanade knew that Izumi Konakata wanted to play a meme, but was it too forced to play this meme?

"No, I don't want to play anymore."

Quan Cifang lay down on the bed. For some reason, she felt exhausted after soaking her feet instead of being energetic.

"Hey, after you're done washing, can you please wipe your feet and pour out the water before going to bed? Don't just lie on the bed with your feet soaked. What if you accidentally knock the basin over?"

When Higashino Kanade saw Izumi Konata lying lazily on the bed, he thought of an emoticon of a girl in a cartoon lying down and saying "I'm so bored, I really want to be fucked by (a kind of plant)".

"Don't we have you, Xiaozou? I'll leave everything to you." Quan Qifang raised his hand and gave a thumbs up, "Come on, Xiaozou, I'm counting on you."

"I'm going to wash my face, don't look for me."

Higashino Kanade packed up his paper and pen and went to wash up and go to bed.

"Xiaozou, you're not gentle at all."

Quan Konaka's tone was lost, but her lost tone could not fool Dongye Kanade, who knew her inside out.

"Not only am I not a coward, I'm also very violent. Hurry up and wipe your feet, get some water and get on the bed, or I'll stab you with my knife."

"I'd rather eat barbecue."

"No."

"mean."

Higashino Kanade ignored Izumi Konata and went to wash up. If he continued to talk nonsense with Konata here, it would be eleven o'clock. If he didn't pay attention and was led by Konata to chat happily, then his father would not give him good juice, but his loving mother would give him good juice.

It hurts. It hurts so much.

Chapter 26: Kira Yoshikage, Guitar Hero

"Xiaozou."

"sleep."

"I can not sleep."

"sleep."

"I want to see the comics you draw."

"I've submitted my comic, now I'm going to sleep."

The night should be quiet, but unfortunately the people sleeping in the room are not very quiet.

"That's just a short story. I want to see your expanded long story."

Izumi Konata wanted to see Higashino Kanade draw a long manga. Whether it is the Tezuka Award or the Akatsuka Award, the manga entries are all short works, because the number of pages of the manga manuscripts for the Tezuka Award and the Akatsuka Award is 31 pages. A manga with only 31 pages cannot tell a long story, let alone a medium-length story.

"If I can win an award, I have a long novel. If I can't win an award, I have nothing. I'll just go to sleep."

Higashino Kanade yawned, he was really sleepy.

Painting is a tiring job, especially painting day after day. Even if he was practicing basic skills and painting the most basic things, he still painted for three hours.

“You’ll definitely win a prize.”

Izumi Konakata is more confident in Higashino Kanade than Higashino Kanade is in herself. She read Higashino Kanade's comics, and she sincerely believes that Higashino Kanade's comics can win awards. They are good-looking, the pictures are good-looking, the storyboards are good-looking, and the plot is even better.

In order to participate in the Tezuka Award, Higashino Kanade chose the perspectives of a pair of supporting characters in the comic world view he conceived and told their stories. In simple terms, the long comic he was going to draw was "Journey to the West", and the one he was going to participate in the Tezuka Award was "Little Monster's Summer".

"do not know."

Higashino Kanade is confident in his drawings, but not so confident in his comics.

Pure painting is different from comics. Painting only requires drawing, while comics require storyboards and storytelling. There are also differences between the three perspectives of Japanese and Chinese. If he copied comics, it would be fine. It is normal for him to have no confidence in his original comics.

That should be fine.

He has read the works that have participated in the Tezuka Award over the years. Maybe he is arrogant, but he believes that he can also draw those comics that participate in the Tezuka Award himself, without relying on plagiarism, but with his own original creations.

Of course, he couldn't remember any suitable short comics for the Tezuka Prize. If he didn't participate in the Tezuka Prize, he could submit his comics directly to the editor, but there were prizes for the Tezuka Prize, and he felt that if he couldn't even win the Tezuka Prize, then he must have no talent and was not suitable to be a cartoonist.

Instead of going down the comics path until the end, it is better to change careers early, be a comic book artist, be a Vtuber, or be an original artist. In short, don't be a cartoonist.

His comic is called "The Brave", which tells the story of the first generation of brave men in another world. It is a short comic and cannot be told in a step-by-step manner, so the story is very simple: an earthling is summoned by another world to come to a world of swords and magic, and takes the best sword in the village to slay a dragon.

Now it is 2011, so he put some settings that are clichéd in 2022 but still novel at this time into the comics, that is, the protagonist has played a virtual reality game, and the world he travels to is exactly the game world he has played, and he is equipped with all high-end equipment and props.

In short, the comic is invincible, mainly describing the villain, and describing the protagonist from the side, in order to create contrast and laughs. Here the protagonist finds that there is no exit, and he can smash the best weapons and armor given by the king with one punch, which is both a laugh and a pleasure for the readers.

This plot, if put in ten years, can only be regarded as toilet paper, but if it were put in the Tezuka Award, he thinks it is okay.

With a plot that keeps up with the times or even slightly transcends them, coupled with sufficiently good animation and storyboards, winning an award is not just a daydream.

Works need to adapt to the times. For example, when the movie "A Chinese Odyssey" was released, it had a dismal box office and was called a bad movie, but later it was regarded as a classic.

The same goes for comics. Being a plagiarist requires basic (N) principles (M) and not all comics can be copied just because they want and will become popular after copying. One should know that One Piece was almost rejected for serialization. If you really think that a plagiarist can be invincible by just copying "Naruto", "One Piece" and "Bleach", you may end up hitting your head against the wall of reality and getting a bloody head.

I'm not kidding. If these works appear ten or twenty years later and are successfully serialized, they will definitely be popular, but it's not certain that they will reach their original status. If you don't believe it, you can take a look at the Chinese online literature industry. Some works that were once very popular are not popular now, let alone being banned.

Higashino Kanade couldn't understand how those plagiarists could not only draw multiple comics, but also make music, write novels, and make movies. He also couldn't understand why no matter what work they produced, it would become popular and they would never encounter Waterloo. Even if there was a Waterloo in the plot, it would be first suppressed and then promoted, and it wouldn't be long before the belittled work would become popular.

Wouldn't it be possible that if it is criticized more and more, no one will watch it and it will lose popularity?

It is a lie that good authors and good works will not be buried. Anyway, as long as you firmly believe that those who can be buried are not good authors and good works, you can easily draw this conclusion.

Even good wine needs no bush. The author, the work, the platform and the era are all complementary to each other. If there is a flaw in any one of them, the direction of the story will deviate from the original one.

If you don't believe it, then "The Seven Deadly Sins", "Magi", "Attack on Titan", "Gantz", "Invasion! Cuttlefish Girl", and "Komi-san Has Communication Disorder" were all rejected by Jump. If the three major comics are released in an inappropriate era, they may not even be serialized.

That’s all I have to say. If you still don’t believe it, there’s nothing I can do.

That night, Quan Konaka and Dongye Zou talked a lot, but Dongye Zou only wanted to sleep.

"Okay, go to sleep. You are such a lazy bum, all you do is sleep."

Izumi Konata moved closer to Tono Kanade and pressed herself against him tightly, with only two layers of pajamas between them.

"Can't we talk tomorrow? I'm really sleepy."

Higashino Kanade felt no emotion when he slept with the cute girl. He was too sleepy to have any thoughts. In fact, even if he was not sleepy, he would not have any thoughts. Even if he did, he could only think about them.

"I'll forget about it tomorrow."

Quan Konakata said as a matter of course.

What she wanted to say tonight, she might not remember what she wanted to say tomorrow morning. She could think of something one second ago, and forget it the next second. She must have forgotten everything she wanted to say to Xiaozou tonight.

"Then you are really awesome."

If she wasn't so sleepy, Higashino Kanade would definitely give Izumi Konakata a thumbs up. If she was a high school student, she would give her something else. Since Izumi Konakata likes to talk so much, she can only use something to shut her up.

What a pity, such a pity, the punishment cannot give him such an opportunity.

Don’t ask what the other thing is. If you ask, it’s Kira Yoshikage, and then it’s Guitar Hero.

Chapter 27: 24 years old, not a student

Yoshida Koji, 24 years old, is not a student, but an editor in the editorial department of Weekly Shonen Jump. This is his second year in the editorial department of Weekly Shonen Jump.

As a new editor, and an editor of Weekly Shonen Jump at that, he was under extremely high pressure. If an editor of Weekly Shonen Jump did not produce a new hit serialized work within a few years, he would be transferred. These few years could be five years or three years.

It won't be long before it's his third year on the job. If the cartoonist he's responsible for doesn't have a hit serialized work next year, it would be good for him to be transferred.

"There are so many comics that won the Tezuka Award."

Yoshida Koji complained and rubbed his temples, which were aching from a whole day's work.

The comics that participate in the Tezuka Award are the cartoonists serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, the editors and editorial directors of Weekly Shonen Jump, and the editorial directors of Jump Square. This time, the selection for the Tezuka Award was in his class, so at nine o'clock in the evening, he had not left the editorial office, but was looking at the submissions for the Tezuka Award.

"Brave?"

Yoshida Koji finished the last sip of coffee, took a quick look at it the first time, and then read it carefully the second time.

Interesting, super interesting, more interesting than any other participating comics I’ve seen before!

When he saw the comic was titled "The Brave", he thought it would be a cliché story of a brave man defeating a demon king or a dragon fighter. Unexpectedly, he was wrong. This was not a routine story, but an anti-routine story.

The villain is still a villain, but the invincible protagonist is more like a villain than the villain. Although it looks like an evil comic, in fact, "Brave Man" is still a passionate and orthodox comic, especially when the funny protagonist gets serious and defeats the devil with one sword, it is really cool.

The drawing skills are very solid, not like a rookie who is just starting to draw comics. The storyboards are generally excellent, but there are two pages of storyboards with flaws. The setting is very novel. A virtual immersive game appears in 2022. Players with full-level god-level equipment travel to another world and save the world one day. I thought it was a traditional hot-blooded kingly way at first, but I didn't expect it to be a non-traditional hot-blooded kingly way with a twisted way. It is funny, hot-blooded, and the degree of blood and violence is also well grasped.

Is this really a newcomer?

Yoshida Koji curiously turned over the last page of the comic manuscript and looked for the author who created this comic.

Postal code, address, name, age, occupation, phone number, resume.

Bridge Bean Sacks!

"Higashino Kanade, 10 years old? Huh?! 10 years old!!!"

Fortunately, Yoshida Koji didn't drink the water. If he had, the original comic draft might have been ruined by him.

Fifth grade student of vocational primary school.