Chapter 127 Choose "Dragon Ball"
"By the way, how could I forget the key points!"
Just as Zhao Chen was struggling to choose which hot-blooded comic, he suddenly slapped his head with an expression of annoyance on his face.
"That's the original author! Although both of them are Shueisha's comics now, Masami Kata is still a non-famous ordinary comic artist. She can try to subdue them. If it succeeds, "Saint Seiya" can only draw a storyboard, and most of the fame and fortune will still be mine. "Dragon Ball" is a work by Toriyama. Shueisha is so dear to him that he has no chance to dig it up. Is there any choice?"
At this time, Akira Toriyama was in a period of rapid rise in fame with "Alarei". If it weren't for being overwhelmed by Zhao Chen's "Rebellious Lelouch" when he issued a copy last time, he would be even more famous now. But even so, Akira Toriyama became the rising star of Shueisha with "Alarei".
How could Shueisha become a comic giant? He naturally attaches great importance to Akira Toriyama. In addition, the attractiveness of the World Club is far less than that of Shueisha. How could Zhao Chen dig up Akira Toriyama?
As for the original author of "Saint Seiya", Masami Shita, the cartoonist has been in Shueisha for several years, but his works have not been very popular. Because he is not very famous, his status in Shueisha is far inferior to Akira Toriyama.
But only Zhao Chen knew best about Masami Cheda. Masami Cheda's famous work is "The Madness Kojiro", and this comic will be serialized in "Youth JUMP" next year. If you didn't poach people before this, you would have almost no chance.
It is precisely because of the huge difference in fame of these two comics that Zhao Chen finally made a choice, that is "Dragon Ball"! As for the classic passionate comic "Saint Seiya", it depends on the situation. It is best to be able to dig Masami Cheda, and if you can't, you can only do it yourself.
"Dragon Ball" is a work in 1984, with a total of 42 volumes, with a total sales volume of 230 million (some say 350 million). The results can be said to be quite impressive. If we only talk about the average sales volume of single-line books, "One Piece" is not its rival, because "One Piece" has released a total of 74 volumes of single-line books, which is completely based on the number of single-line books that surpassed "Dragon Ball".
The story summary of the early stage of "Dragon Ball" is like this. The young man Sun Wukong who lives alone in the deep mountains meets the girl scientist Buma who collects Dragon Balls. In order to obtain the four-star dragon balls owned by Wukong, he took Wukong on a journey to find the Dragon Ball. During this period, he defeated the evil bad guys many times, and met friends such as Shenlong, Leping, Turtle Fairy, Bull Demon King and his daughter Qiqi, and used them to collect seven dragon balls. This is the first exploration chapter. There are also martial arts conference chapters, Great Demon King chapters, Saiyan chapters and other various chapters.
It has to be said that the "Dragon Ball" that was serialized at the beginning was actually a funny adventure comic. It can be seen from the beginning that Goku and Bulma all sought to find Dragon Ball, but they were not very famous at that time. However, with the popularity of "Bei Dou Shen Fist" in the island country, the fighting situation was very good. In a hurry, in order to satisfy the expectations of fans, Akira Toriyama had to keep letting Goku fight, and thus reached the peak and became a popular masterpiece.
Among them, Zhao Chen must modify "Dragon Ball". After all, although "Dragon Ball" has many advantages, its defects are not ordinary. Although it is exciting, it is often criticized. What he needs to do is to promote his advantages, cover up and make up for the defects.
The basic modifications are as follows: increase the level of supporting roles to avoid being passers-by; narrow the strength gap between the front and back BOSS to avoid too much gap; increase the description and portrayal of love. Especially for Buma and Vegeta, Gohan and Kiki, their love development process could have been ignored, and no emotional color would be added to avoid making people feel abrupt.
As for the fact that Earth Warriors are too weak in the middle and late stages, Zhao Chen cannot modify it. Otherwise, they will be overturned, and at most, they will be allowed to kill more soy sauce.
After thinking, Zhao Chen then started to take action. Because of his successful painting of "The Rebellious Lelouch", Zhao Chen's painting skills have improved considerably. At least his current painting skills are more than enough to control the original "Dragon Ball". Instead, with all his efforts, the painters of "Dragon Ball" have been improved again, which is a bit beautiful.
When Zhao Chen was still creating "Dragon Ball", half a month passed quickly, and the half-cutting meeting was held every month and began again.
After the staff sorted out, the comprehensive ranking of "Young SORA" readers survey this month was listed again, among which the three-ranked ones include "Wings" by Katsura Kaneshima, "Please take care of more! Pure Love General" by Fukumoto and the works of an unknown cartoonist.
Most cartoonists serialized in the weekly magazine "Youth SORA" are very afraid to enter the monthly halving list, which almost means that there is a possibility of being halved, and the risk of being halved in the top three is undoubtedly quite large.
In the hall of the World Club, three cartoonists who entered the half-cut meeting were sitting on the sofa. The tension on the three of them could not be concealed. They looked nervously at a closed room not far away. There was a half-cut meeting in the room that made them feared.
"Teacher Fukumoto, your work ranks third from the bottom in the reader survey, and the possibility of being cut in half should not be too high! Unlike my comics, my work ranks first from the bottom, it is almost certain that I will be cut in half!"
Among the three, Gui Zhenghe, who is a little handsome, is the most calm. There is no way. His work "Wings" is at the bottom of the readers' survey this month. According to the results of the previous few cuts, it is almost certain to be cut. When he saw Fukumoto stand up and walk back and forth anxiously, he couldn't help but comfort him.
"Oh, Teacher Gui Zheng and Mr. Gui, it might be fine if it is normal, but if you think about the contract we signed with the company at that time, the company gave us such good treatment, but we let our works enter the half-cut meeting, and the chances of being half-cut will undoubtedly increase. Also, I heard that President Zhao Chen has a new work recently, so it seems that I can't escape this time."
Fukumoto Shinsuke sighed and told him what he had analyzed, saying that his situation was quite bad, unlike what Gui Zhenghe said.
"It is true that the company has given you enough resources, and your works cannot be returned to the company, so the company's attitude can be imagined. Let's not talk about this, let's talk about President Zhao Chen's new works first!"
At this time, another cartoonist with little reputation spoke out that his works also entered the semi-cut meeting, and he was also very nervous. The cartoonist was very envious of Gui Zhenghe and Fukumoto Shin-kun. Perhaps the world's society strictly demanded the two, but it was also trying to cultivate them, and the remuneration and share of the two were higher than that of him. No matter who it is, when he thought that his strength was not inferior to the other, but the treatment between the two parties was much different, he was always jealous.
"I heard that President Zhao Chen's new work seems to be called "Dragon Ball"?"
"Well, I don't know what the subject matter is?"
"My editor has seen it. It seems to be an adventure-like subject, and I don't know if it will be popular!"
"You guys don't know that President Zhao Chen's works are all fine works, and this comic must be quite outstanding!"
"You are right, but I still feel a little strange in my heart! Think about it, President Zhao Chen has serialized several works at the same time. Is his time really enough?"
"President Zhao Chen is a real workaholic. I heard that the book "The Legend of the Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has been completed, so President Zhao Chen will continue to create new works! With this new work, there are four comics still being serialized. In addition, the two works of "The Three Sisters of the Cat Eye" and "Baseball Heroes" were both plotted by him. Oh my God, even if there are more than a dozen assistants to help, I don't know how to describe it anymore. Anyway, I can't do it in my life."
"There are also many people who have serialized three or four comics at the same time, but they are basically cartoonists from small comic clubs. Their works are often quite rough, and they are almost the difference between heaven and earth with President Zhao Chen! Moreover, many people have talked about this issue. Apart from geniuses, there is no other statement to monsters."
"Oh, people are so angry that they are more popular!"
"Sure enough, it is worthy of being called a comic genius in the industry who has been seen in decades!"
Just as the three cartoonists were sighing in the hall, in the closed room not far away, the voice that was originally discussing fiercely finally stopped, and the meeting entered the final stage.
"According to the votes of the editors, the only works that have entered the halved stage this time are Gui Zhenghe's "Wings". As for the other two works, I will give you another month! If you become the halved stage again next month, there is no need to discuss it anymore. I wonder what the president thinks?"
After the editor-in-chief of the world club finished speaking, the lowly editors glanced at each other with their own eyes and finally focused their attention on Zhao Chen.
"Another one of the works in half will be added to Shinsuke Fukumoto's "Please take care of more! The Innocent General"!"
Chapter completed!