Is it okay not to want to work hard?

"Then you should be quiet now, go play games or sleep by yourself. If you feel lonely, then go find Hong Xia to play with. Look, the bicycle is parked right there, push it and ride it to find Hong Xia. Your short legs won't be able to reach the pedals, will they?"

Higashino Kanade said something very hurtful and insulting in a calm tone.

"Who has short legs? I may be short, but my legs are long. They extend from my neck down to my neck."

Quan Cifang straightened his back and stood on tiptoe, looking very unconvinced.

Haha, below the neck are legs, do you think you are Yan He?

Dongye Zou didn't say anything. He planned to ignore Ci Fang. Ci Fang was the type of person who would become more noisy the more he paid attention to her. If he didn't say anything, she would feel bored and leave after a while.

He is really busy drawing the animation.

The reason is that his mediocre animation "Giyikawa" finally became popular.

The reason for the popularity is simple, that is, NHK's program interviewing major cartoonists was broadcast on October 1st.

As a professional manga artist for Weekly Shonen Jump, Higashino Kanade is very popular because of his good comics and activeness on various social platforms such as Twitter. He has many fans. However, these fans are generally fans of his comics, not his fans. Even if there are some, they are not many.

But it’s different when he’s on TV. Although it may not sound nice to say this, there are not many good-looking cartoonists in the industry. There are even fewer who are both popular and good-looking. If you add the label of being young, there are even fewer of them.

The most important thing is that Higashino Kanade in the show is very interesting. The anecdotes he tells about the industry are very interesting. Which editor looks fierce but is actually very soft-hearted like a tsundere, which cartoonist looks decent but is actually a life-threatening fighter, and which cartoonist asked the editor for sick leave, and the editor finally found out from other cartoonists that this "sick" cartoonist was helping other cartoonists finish their manuscripts...

This made Higashino Kanade gain a lot of fans when she appeared on the show, but many of them were not comic fans. Instead, they were fans who did not read the comics but only admired others for their looks or other reasons.

In short, people follow him not because they like his comics, but simply because they like him as a person. Some people like him because of his looks, some people think he is interesting, and some people think he is young and can inspire their children.

But what does this have to do with the popularity of "Jiyi Kawa"?

In fact, Higashino Kanade mentioned this animation on the show. Although he didn't talk much about it, he did talk about his independent animation "Giikawa".

Not everyone likes to read comics, especially black and white comics. Many people prefer animations with color, dubbing and music compared to comics.

What's more, the few animated characters shown in the show looked very cute, so some fans went to watch it. Most of these fans were not from the two-dimensional world, but not-so-two-dimensional real-life characters, real-life boys, real-life girls, and some housewives.

Some female fans cannot accept the poor performance of Higashino Kanade's animation, so naturally they ask their relatives and friends to watch it, while housewives watch such animation with their children, and the children find it interesting and tell their friends about it.

As the saying goes, even good wine needs no bush. Although Higashino Kanade was promoting his work before, the bush was too narrow and many of his fans are busy otakus who stay at home and don't appear in real life, so his promotion to everyone was limited.

Now, after he appeared on the show, his fan base has skyrocketed, and the fan base has changed from a single otaku to a diversified group that is somewhat like fangirls. His animation became popular all of a sudden.

The purpose of this fire is to urge for more updates, and in order to keep the popularity of his animation longer, he is trying his best to make the animation to let fans see his strength.

Don't think that Higashino Kanade is the only one who is busy working on the animation. Others have to be busy too because of dubbing, just not as busy as him.

Chapter 43 Returning

Autumn.

The temperature in Tokyo is getting lower and lower.

Although it is still a bit hot when the sun is out during the day, it becomes a bit cold at night and it is unbearable without wearing long sleeves and long pants.

Of course, people who are resistant to frost are an exception.

Next to the station, Yamada Ryo was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt with a blue and white jacket casually hanging over her arms. She and her bandmates were performing a street rock show.

People were coming and going on the street, and sometimes someone would stop to listen and watch the rock and roll of four high school girls.

A junior high school girl came out of the station, heard the music outside the station, and saw pedestrians stopping to watch, she looked confused.

What are you all watching?

When she walked into the crowd and saw four girls performing on the street, she understood why so many people gathered here.

No wonder there were so many middle-aged men, it turned out that there were four high school girls performing on the street.

Let’s go quickly, they are all middle-aged men and it feels very dangerous.

Kita Ikuyo doesn't dislike uncles, but because of some reports she can't help but have some stereotypes, so for her own safety, it is better to stay away from environments where she feels dangerous.

However, she stopped after taking only two steps.

What's going on? It sounds kind of good?

As a contemporary girl, she only likes pop music and doesn't listen to rock music much. She occasionally sees street performances, but she is not interested in them. However, the songs in this street performance are really nice.

Kita Ikuyo turned around and her eyes suddenly lit up when she saw the four girls playing passionately.

Eh? Wait, there's a pretty girl!

At first she didn't notice the bassist behind her, but when she saw the bassist clearly, her heart was suddenly moved.

The cold expression, sharp eyes, and flamboyant posture seem to be very individual no matter how you look at it.

So handsome!

If it were possible to take secret photos, Kita Ikuyo would have wanted to take a photo and show it to her friends.

Although I can’t take photos by myself, I can take photos with them.

Well……

Kita Ikuyo took out her wallet from her small shoulder bag, opened it, counted the bills and coins inside, and hesitated.

She spent a lot of money today going out with her friends. If she buys another ticket, she might have to control herself from going out next week.

but.

Kita Ikuyo looked at the blue-haired bassist who looked as handsome as a boy.

Just eat dirt!

It’s worth it to take a photo with such a cool girl!

Kita Ikuyo made up her mind.

At the same time, Higashino Kanade walked over from the street across the station.

He noticed a small group of people surrounding a band when he was across the street, and when he came over he saw Ryo Yamada showing off his amazing bass skills.

Ok?

This red hair, this fresh atmosphere.

He didn't know what happened to Higashino Kanade's sensory system, but at this moment he could smell the fresh scent of the red-haired girl not far away.

Maybe it's because of the law of attraction between time travelers and two-dimensional characters, so he feels that Kita Ikuyo is very special among the crowd.

Searching memories, matching faces.

That’s right, it is indeed Kita Ikuyo!

Is this the start of the plot?

Higashino Kanade couldn't help but look at Kita Ikuyo twice more. Perhaps feeling his gaze, Kita Ikuyo turned her head and met his eyes.

"..."

"..."

The two looked at each other in silence, and the next second they turned their heads away and didn't look at each other.

Huh? Wait!

When Kita Ikuyo saw Tono Kanade's face, she felt that it looked somewhat familiar. She turned around immediately, but the familiar-looking person had already entered the station and disappeared.

Ah, bad Ringo!

At this time, Kita Ikuyo remembered why she felt that the face looked familiar. Wasn't that the cartoonist Bad Ringo who had been very popular on NHK's program recently?

Recently, NHK's program that interviews various cartoonists has become particularly popular.

Japan is a powerhouse in animation after all. The profession of cartoonist is not only prestigious, but also well-received. Many people aspire to this profession and are curious about it. NHK's program just satisfies everyone's curiosity, but it also dispels many people's yearning to be cartoonists.

Working all year round, editors are always urging me to submit my manuscripts. Even popular cartoonists are at risk of having their comics cut short. The bottleneck period is extremely painful. If there is a problem with the plot, readers will get angry. It is also difficult to find a partner when you stay at home all day. Although your comics may be adapted into animations, you will not have much contact with the voice actors of your own animations, and it is even less likely that you will fall in love with them.

Not all of these things were revealed by Higashino Kanade, but he revealed a lot of them.

Higashino Kanade entered the station with a bag full of food on his back and went to Shinjuku to feed the homeless boys, girls, uncles and aunts.

Although he knows that what he is doing is just a drop in the bucket and many things need to be done by the government, but he can help in any way he can. It's like a fish stranded on the beach, just a small fish, who would care about it? But for the small fish, this one cares, and that one cares too.

It is easy to become indifferent if you read too many macro narratives. Higashino Kanade does not want to become that kind of person, so he wants to be kind and help others.

What's more, this world has an underworld, so there is nothing wrong with doing good deeds and accumulating merit.

Anyway, I have a lot of money and I'm free anyway, so there's nothing wrong with spending it lavishly. Besides, as a time traveler, I can't say I'll overthrow the remnants of feudalism and capitalists and let the red flag fly all over the world, but I can still help the homeless and give them the chance to seize opportunities to improve their lives.

Don't ask why he doesn't donate to charity, which is more convenient and doesn't require him to work hard. The answer is that he doesn't trust charity, even if it is an open and transparent charity. He is a person who is inclined to conspiracy theorists. He was not like this before, but he became like this later mainly because he thinks the world is too good. Those things that destroy the three views have not really happened, but will happen.

There is nothing much to say. If I say too much, it will just be criticism.

Bookstores may not make money, but milk tea shops should be able to make money in Japan. After all, it is said that some Japanese gangs open milk tea shops, so they should be able to make a lot of money. When he draws a big-breasted beautiful girl drinking milk tea, maybe it can lead to a wave of milk tea fever.

Image: "Kita Ikuyo", Location: "Images/1693846210-100353842-110762531.jpg"

Chapter 44 Surroundings

[Madam, can you give us some peripheral products? ]

[Bad Ringo, can Jiyi's little bear have peripheral products? 】

[Is this really a personal animation? Why can it be updated every two days?]

[Usagi's voice acting is so magical, is the voice actor a newcomer? I haven't seen him before]

[Whose vest is it? It’s the same as the voice actor of Yourou]

[This is not a sex job, why do I need a vest?]

At night, after dinner, Higashino Kanade handed the dishwashing task to Hiroi Kikuri. He turned on his computer and logged into the animation forum to read everyone's comments on his animation and about himself.

"Jiyikawa" became popular because of the broadcast of the TV program and its own quality.

This made Dongye Kanade in a very good mood these days. He was so happy that he had no objection even if Jifang dragged her to a party every day.

To be honest, it's quite tiring to party every day. Not only does it tax one's mind, but it also strains one's body and soul.

Although Higashino Kanade did not regret dating Konokata and the others, he regretted having a harem. He felt that his body could not take it anymore. He had no problem having sex every day, but he really could not take partying every day. Not to mention his body, it took too much time to have sex with so many people. It was okay to do it from morning to night in every sense.

Holding a lollipop in his mouth, Higashino Kanade read the comments of fans on various "Giyikawa" discussion platforms and felt that he could indeed launch some "Giyikawa" peripheral products. Making money was secondary, the main thing was to continue to add fuel to the fire and increase the popularity.

Some people may not have watched the animation, but after buying the peripheral products of "Giyikawa", they might be curious whether the doll is the original IP or the peripheral products of the animation and search for it. If they find that it is a character of "Giyikawa", they might watch it out of curiosity, and after watching it, they might like this animation.

Make some peripheral products, make some emoticons, and then do some secondary creations.

After some thought, Higashino Kanade decided to ask Yoshida for help in finding out if there were any studios producing peripheral products.

Since the fans have requested it, then just sell the peripherals. It shouldn't be a loss, right? If it is, we can deal with it later. Anyway, he can make money, so let it be a loss.

Perhaps because he makes money relatively easily, he is not very sensitive to money.

There is no way. This is what it is like after you become financially free. Money is just a string of numbers in a card.

Of course, that said, his money was only enough to live comfortably, if he wanted to buy a house in a prosperous area of ​​Tokyo or a nice car, he would have to grit his teeth. But it was just grit, not that he couldn't afford it.

He more or less understood why the lives of rich people were plain and boring. The lives of rich people who had fun were definitely not boring, but his most despicable behavior was to throw parties, and he only dabbled in pornography, not gambling or drugs, and he didn't do anything weird. He was really free and bored.

Although he has a lot of paintings to draw, what happens when he is not drawing? It can't be either games or games.

Originally he wanted to play marbles and watch Uma Musume, but he gave up after losing miserably. You can use superpowers to win at marbles, but using superpowers to win is like activating Wind Spirit and Moon Shadow with a "ding" sound. You will get bored after playing for a while, and marbles are easy to get stuck in.

He doesn't want to kneel down in front of the pachinko parlor and wail loudly after losing a whole day. If NHK finds out, he will probably be on the show again, but it will no longer be a program interviewing cartoonists, but a program interviewing gamblers.

During the weekend, because of the rainy day, Higashino Kanade stayed at home and did not go out to play.

Kōfō didn't come, and neither did Naoko, so there were only him and Hiroi Kikuri in the studio.

It was still morning and Kikuri had not gotten up but was sleeping soundly in her room. So he was like a person in a studio, listening to the sound of wind and rain outside the window and leisurely drawing in the book.

As a book demon, he is quite famous. After all, his books are very good in terms of plot, storyboard and drawing. Even if the characters are wrapped tightly, he can draw them so that they look like Guitar Hero. The only thing that fans criticize is that his books are only available in electronic version, not physical version.

Other artists who have started their careers would go to comic conventions to sell comic books to make money and support their families, but he wouldn't go. Not to mention selling comic books, he wouldn't even want to go to a comic convention if Ci Fang hadn't dragged him there.

Why do other people go to comic conventions?

Besides, Kotobukiya and the others are just two-dimensional characters. He can see a group of real people at home, so why should he go to comic conventions to see Cosplay of two-dimensional characters that he can never see?

Is it that this recipe is not good, or that the glass is not fragrant enough, or that Ichiri, Nijika, and Kikuri are not good enough, and they actually have to go to see Cose, isn't this a betrayal to them!

Well, he just said that because he was too lazy to go out. He was not a person who liked to go out every day, but he also didn't like to stay at home every day. Occasionally, he still had to go out to breathe the fresh city exhaust gas and feel the unnaturalness of reinforced concrete.