Chapter 5 The response is flat?
"This is a basketball comic, and a group of high school students' sweating about their dreams. It is the best explanation for friendship. Maybe you don't know what basketball is, but after reading this comic, I think you will definitely fall in love with this sport. This is "Slam Dunk". In short, I want to say: The genius Sakuragi is here, what are you waiting for?"
Chen Ze looked at the beginning of his comic. There was a recommendation on it, which indicated below that it was written by a man named Lin Lan. Lin Lan? Isn’t he the boss and editor-in-chief of New Animation Magazine, and now he is considered his boss? Chen Ze remembered the phone call Lin Lan that day. Although the two of them didn’t talk about anything again later, her voice was still very good.
Generally, women with better voices often look less good. Chen Ze thought to himself that he probably didn't look very good. However, she still attached great importance to herself and wrote a recommendation on it.
After he thanked Lin Lan in his heart, he began to read the magazine. The printing was quite excellent, and in addition to his own comics, there were one or two articles, which were quite good.
After reading the magazine, Chen Ze made such an evaluation in his heart. As a floppy otaku who has read countless comics in his previous life, although he cannot draw it himself, he is still quite sensitive to whether the comics are good or not. After reading this "Comic Weekly", in addition to his "Slam Dunk", there is also a story about a young man looking for his mother. Although the overall picture and lens are still a bit immature, the story is very good, so Chen Ze himself is willing to read it.
"The editors of this new anime still have some vision." Chen Ze touched his chin, and of course he was happy about this situation. The more vision the editor has, the more development the magazine society is, and so he will have more prospects.
But what he didn't know was that all the manuscripts were made by Lin Lan himself. If you have a good eye, I am afraid that those editors will not be as good as hers in total.
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"I heard that the sales of our new issue of Manke Weekly have already come out?" In the New Animation Magazine, a young man in his twenties sat in an office chair, slid to his colleague next to him, and asked in a low voice.
His colleague was bearded, about thirty or forty years old. He looked at Lin Lan's office and lowered his voice: "Yes, sales are average. I told me that our boss is still too young. Although he is beautiful, his vision is really bad. He insists on going against the market, and he has to make the three principles of passion, hard work and friendship. Nowadays, who still sees that thing? It's not all men's head towards flesh and women's head towards rottenness."
The editor who spoke in his thirties was the editor who wanted to eliminate Chen Ze's "Slam Dunk" a few days ago. He looked obviously despised Lin Lan. He curled his lips and continued: "And it's okay to just do this, she also hired that basketball comic. Not to mention that I have been in the comic industry for more than ten years, even a new editor who just entered the industry should know that the theme of anime, especially basketball, is an absolute penalty area. Her boss doesn't even know this."
"I advised her that she didn't listen. You see, now the investigation report has come out to confirm my words. Most readers just skip this comic at all. They don't even read it. They even reported that they lost money by buying our magazine because there is a comic that they can't read at all. "
"But who made our boss a rich second generation? He is stupid, rich, and rich, just do it hard. I see how many people in the company are laughing at her behind her back."
Lin Lan was very annoyed in the office and was in a very bad mood now. She looked at the sales of the latest issue of "Manke Weekly" on the table and sold only tens of thousands of copies. For a new magazine, this sales can only be considered average. As a comics power, China is even better than the island country in its previous life. A top magazine like Lotte Club can sell millions of copies in one issue. In this way, Lin Lan's achievements are actually nothing.
If it weren't for the bet with her father, judging from the current sales, she would be confident that she would be able to compete with Lotte within five to ten years. But it was only three years, and it would be impossible for her to become an industry leader without any surprise.
This is also the reason why she signed Chen Ze's "Slam Dunk". She didn't have time to make the magazine step by step, and could only hope to discover the pearl covered in dust. Just like Lotte Club, it was just a small club when it first started. Because it discovered Li Mingyang, the number one god in the comics field, with the unprecedented popularity of her debut work "The Holy Hunter", she defeated the season club of the old magazine in one fell swoop, becoming the largest magazine and firmly grasped the first place for twenty years.
But the dusty pearl is not so easy to find. Lin Lan casually read the magazines in her hand. The comics she carefully selected and signed some time ago were not very good in the market feedback, especially the "Slam Dunk" she signed with, which she rejected the opposition. Readers basically jumped over without reading it.
After the result came out, Lin Lan knew that many old editors in the company in this industry looked at her as if they were laughing at her. Although they were the boss, they didn't dare to laugh at their choice in front of them, but they probably had laughed at her behind their backs.
However, despite this, Lin Lan still believes in her own vision. "Slam Dunk" will definitely become a big opportunity for her. The current weakness is only because of the restriction of the subject matter. If it cannot be long, this situation will definitely turn around.
Soon the second week also came, and Chen Ze handed over the manuscript to his editor early. This week, the sales of "Manke Weekly" magazine were counted again, and it was still only tens of thousands. In the questionnaire feedback from readers, most of the impressions of "Slam Dunk" were skipped, which made more people in the company laugh at Lin Lan behind her.
After Lin Lan got the data of the new issue, she carefully analyzed it one side. Indeed, most people still only "skip" and "no interest" about "Slam Dunk", but they were "good-looking", "expected", "authored", "accelerated updates" and other impressions began to grow from almost no to more.
"Sure enough, my vision is right. As long as I persist, there will be a way out." Although the data of a survey is nothing, Lin Lan is more confident in her judgment. Of course, she knows that now everyone in the company is laughing at her female boss for being incompetent and having poor vision. She is just a rich second generation. She wants to use "Slam Dunk" to prove who is the candid.
In the following month, Lin Lan continued to pay close attention to the feedback on the readers' opinions on "Slam Dunk". As expected, as she guessed, fewer and fewer people wrote "not good-looking" and "uninterested", while more and more people filled in "like", "Rukawa Kaede" and "epic masterpieces". Although the following is only an absolute minority compared to the previous one, the number of people is increasing, and there is a trend of explosive growth.
Chapter completed!