Reborn In Tokyo After Picking Up Sayu Who Ran Away From Home

  Chapter 407 Comic Release

   Monday this day.

  The new issue of manga magazines began to be released one after another.

   Among them, "Weekly Shonen Jump" published by Shueisha is the leader among the comic magazines.

   as one of the well-known manga magazines.

  In Japan, at least 1 in 20 people is a reader of Shonen Jump.

   As the "Juvenile Jump" that accompanied countless people's youth, it was serialized in the 1990s—

  In the era of "Dragonball", "Slamdunk", and the works of "Rurouni Kenshin",

   has set an unprecedented horror record of 6.53 million copies in one week.

   Throughout the history of weekly magazines and even Japanese magazines, this sales record is unprecedented.

  Although the market has been shrinking since then, but now, the circulation of each issue is also around 2 million, ranking first among the three major weekly shounen manga magazines.

  The second place is Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, and the third place is Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday.

   Both were released on Wednesday, with a circulation of about 1 million copies per issue.

   The three constitute the leader of the Japanese manga magazine industry, known as Japan's three major weekly shounen manga magazines.

  Below this, there are many middle and lower reaches of comic magazines.

   As for the reputation of the three companies as "Japan's Big Three", the Fudogawa Manga Department has always been dissatisfied with it, thinking that it should be changed to "Japan's Big Four".

   After all, I have to say that my own "Youth Undead" manga magazine has a circulation of about 500,000 per issue, which is worthy of the name of the fourth in Japan, but it has not been recognized by the above three.

   Whenever this matter is mentioned, the editor-in-chief of the Undying Chuan Comics Department who was smiling like an old man next door will become stern and gloomy the next second.

   Such little gossip, Xiangle Mayu doesn't know much about it, but she still came to the bookstore near her home early today.

   to buy magazines, manga magazines, shounen manga magazines.

  Target: "Youth Undead".

   After paying 280 yen, she also got her wish to buy "Youth Undead", which was not very popular at all.

   After that, she spent another 510 yen to bring a copy of "Junior Jump" and "Junior Magazine" to her resentful brother, before returning home with a shopping bag.

The reason    does this is not because of her whim or because she likes shounen manga.

   In fact, Sagara Mayu's taste has always been stable, that is, she likes cute things.

   This point can explain the problem whether it is from her own works or the works of other wives in the circle she pursues.

   Normally speaking, although Sagara Mayu likes to read manga, she usually reads shojo manga, and things like shounen manga are almost unrelated to her.

   After all, for those male characters who fight all day and sweat, where can there be soft, fragrant, and cute girls?

   But today is different. She bought a Shonen manga magazine out of her own will, and the reason is related to the fourth volume of "Love Metronome" released the day before yesterday.

   More specifically, it is related to the testimonials written by the teacher "Kasumi Shizi" at the end of the volume.

   In addition to the formulaic thanks to the workers related to the works, there is a passage that arouses the strong curiosity of Sagara Mayu.

   says this:

   "In the process of writing this novel, there is a person who is important to me in every sense. He not only provided me with a lot of advice and help, but now he has also entered the industry as a cartoonist."

   "His work "Chainsaw Man" will be serialized on "Youth Undead", which will be released on Monday (October 5th) this month."

   "Although I'm still a rookie, I hope everyone can witness his growth with me. I would like to express my sincere thanks here. Let's meet again in Volume 5!"

  —This passage has caused a lot of discussion in the circle of "Love Metronome". Out of trust in Teacher Xia Shizi, book fans have expressed that they will buy this issue of "Youth Undead" to watch.

   For Sagara Mayu, in addition to being curious about the manga mentioned by Kasumi Shiko, she also smelled a kind of gossip from it.

  'Is the author of this comic the one that Kasumi Shiko-sensei likes? What kind of person will it be? ’

   She couldn't help thinking about it, and she thought of the previous meeting on Xia COMI and the beautiful girl who looked like Sa Yujia.

  ‘I don’t know if Kasumi Shiko will participate in this year’s winter COMI. It would be great if there is an opportunity to exchange ideas about novels. ’

   It's a pity that the other party has not established an account such as Twitter at all, and even the readers' letters are basically not answered, which makes people feel cold and mysterious, but can't help but have a stronger interest.

   With this thought in mind, Sagaraku Mayu jumped excitedly, held the shopping bag in her hand to her chest, and ran back to her apartment at a high speed.

   "I'm back~~!"

   took off the brown-red Martin boots on his feet at the entrance, stepped on his little feet wearing white lace socks, and trotted to his room.

   Open the door with a "click".

   "—Oh~ Welcome back, Mayu."

   Xianggaku Mayu: "...?"

   I saw my ruffian brother sitting in front of her desk and desk, drinking Coke and reading comics, looking a little boring.

   Xianggaku-san's happy expression froze for a second, and then turned into disgust the next second, pouting and complaining.

   "You're too bad, aren't you? Brother, how can you enter the room of the opposite **** without the owner??"

   "Huh? The opposite sex?"

   Xianggaku Fumio tilted his head slightly to the left, looked at her from top to bottom with a puzzled face, then spread his hands helplessly and let out a sigh.

   "The word opposite **** is too early for you, Mayu, besides I just entered my sister's room, why did you react so much?"

   "Because the smell will not be cleaned up."

   "Huh?? Smell? What does it smell?" Sagara Fumio raised his arm and smelled himself, only to smell the smell of laundry detergent.

   then said, "What are you doing? Isn't this normal?"

   "Don't bother."

   Sagaku Mayu gave him a sideways glance, then stepped forward, handed him the two manga magazines in the shopping bag, and said:

   "Here, the comic magazine you want, and what I just said is the taste of scumbags, the public enemy of women."

   "What, it turned out to be just a joke, I almost took it seriously." Xiangle Fumio leaned against the back of the chair, cocked his legs, and looked cynical.

   "Thank you for the manga~ Mayu."

"Oh."

   Sagaku Mayu ignored his hippie smile, came to the bed with the book of "Youth Undead", and threw himself on it, ready to watch the manga.

   But then, she felt something was missing.

   gudu, gudu~

   swish, swish.

   glanced at his brother who was facing the new manga, Mayu suddenly realized the crux, and her cheeks suddenly bulged.

   "Brother! I want Coke too, and get the milk pudding in the fridge for me too."

   In the face of the request made by his sister, although Xianggaku Fumio is a scumbag who plays with women, he is very caring for this sister who has grown up together and provides him with the convenience of getting to know the girls in the two-dimensional circle.

   So he didn't shirk the prevarication, he immediately put down the manga in his hand, got up and walked out of the room.

   Seeing his reaction, Mayu Sagara nodded with satisfaction, and looked back at the manga magazine in her hand.

On the cover of   , a blond teenager with a black eye patch on his right eye is standing there holding a pet that looks like a puppy but has a chainsaw blade on his face.

   Above is the magazine title of Undead, and to the right is the ChainsawMan comic title in bold font.

   Considering the reactions of the readers, after consultation with the editorial department, Yusuke Kato made some modifications and used a milder illustration as the cover, so it seems more acceptable.

   "What a cute puppy~~" Sagaku Mayu's eyes lit up slightly, and he started turning pages.

  During this process, she could not help but notice a problem.

   That is the work "Chainsaw Man" on the cover of this issue, but it is in the middle of the entire magazine in the order of layout.

   Generally speaking, those works with higher popularity are usually ranked first. If the ranking is further down, the lower the ranking of the representative works, the less attention is paid.

   However, a work that is not valued should not be recommended on the cover, but this phenomenon happened in "Chainsaw Man", which is somewhat strange.

   But thinking about the newcomer in the field of light novels, Xia Shizi, and the mysterious relationship between the two, this situation seems to make sense...

   "Oh, is this considered nepotism~?" Sagaku Mayu said to himself excitedly, with an ambiguous smile like eating melons on his face.

The idea of ​​   was confirmed in the next second.

   When the fingertips turned to the beginning of the page "The Chainsaw Man", a colorful coloring page suddenly appeared in front of the eyes in the black and white pictures.

   And in manga magazines.

  Being able to have a central color page means that there must be the support of the editorial department behind it, which generally makes the work in a slightly higher position than the actual popularity.

The picture in the    color page is a young man in a shirt and suit with a chainsaw on his head and arms. At this moment, he is stepping on several humanoid monsters with one foot like a mountain climber.

  The style of painting combines madness and simplicity, and is full of tension.

   "...Eh?" Xianggaku Mayu's smile stopped on his face, he frowned subconsciously, and complained: "So ugly..."

   It's not that the painting is not good, it's just that this kind of picture doesn't meet her liking, which makes her a little disliked, but in order to satisfy her curiosity, she continued to watch it.

   After turning this page, the picture reverts to the familiar black and white page.

   The short-haired boy and puppy on the cover also appeared in front of me again.

   "Chop some wood, you can earn 60,000 a month~~"

   "The kidneys sold before were... 1.2 million."

   "The right eye is... 300,000."

   "One egg was sold... How much did it sell? It seems to be less than 100,000?"

   "And then owe someone else...38.04 million."

  ? ? ? ? ?

   A series of question marks popped up from Sagaku Mayu's head.

Um-? ?

   Huh, what is this? ?

   Looking at the lines of the male protagonist and his pet named Bo Chita, Xiang Raku really couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

   "If you kill a demon, you will have 300,000. As expected, it is still the most profitable demon hunter."

   "Wang."

   In the dialogue between the male protagonist and Bo Chita, she continued to look to the next page.

  What comes into view is a demon with many eyes on its head and many hands on its body, which makes people lose their sanity.

"...What is this...?" Xianggaku Mayu murmured, an absurd and bizarre emotion emerged from her heart, which made her stunned for a while, and gave the author of this comic a big blow in her heart. question mark.

   To say that the other party drew seriously is really ridiculous, but to say that the other party is painting blindly is a little different.

   gives people a feeling of incomparable and absurd...

   Xianggaku Mayu was lost.

   At this moment, Fumio Sagara pushed open the door and walked in.

   "—Well, do you want the coke and pudding you want on the small table?"

  “…”

   "Really?"

   The elder brother's voice brought the younger sister back to her senses.

   "...Ah, thank you." Sagaku Mayu replied slowly, flipping the manga in his hand upside down, and got out of bed and drank Coke.

   Fumio Sagara had helped her pour coke into the glass in advance, and even added ice cubes thoughtfully, and now he went back to his desk to read his comics.

   Xianggaku Zhenyu drank two sips of Coke absentmindedly, glanced at the bed involuntarily, and his mood jumped repeatedly between wanting to see and not wanting to see.

   After a few beats, she couldn't hold back her thirst for knowledge, and reached out to take the comics in her hands.

  ‘After all, he’s the person Kasumi Shiko-sensei values, so let’s take a look. ’

   With this thought in mind, she continued to read.

   The two brothers and sisters each held a comic and watched it so quietly.

  The beginning of the story is not difficult to understand. The male protagonist, Dianji, who was forced to sell his organs to repay the money, worked for the underworld and had a debt that could never be repaid.

   But every time he worked part-time, most of the money was taken away by gangsters, and Dianji and his adopted demon Bochita only had a piece of bread for a day or three.

   In his life, he has never even tasted the taste of jam, and being able to eat bread with jam is like a dream out of reach for him.

   In order to earn an extra 100 yen, as the male protagonist, Denji can eat a hot cigarette **** under the banter of the gangster. And his biggest wish in life is to be able to live an ordinary life one day.

   "This is too miserable..."

   Xianggaku Mayu couldn't help but muttered when she saw this, with a hint of sympathy in her tone, and a little more eagerness for the follow-up development.

   At the same time, she also discovered something special.

   That is, the storyboard of this comic work is very cinematic, with a grotesque and unique beauty hidden in it, as if the story is really being performed through the perspective of the movie.

This style of    made her feel novel, and she couldn't help showing a slightly interested smile on her lips.

   But soon, she stopped laughing.

   When I saw the male protagonist Denji and his Bochita being tricked into the warehouse, and being beaten by the gangsters who had turned into zombies, they were cut into pieces and thrown into the trash.

"--Eh??!"

   Xianggaku Mayu finally couldn't help but lose his mind and fell into a state of downtime.

  …

   (end of this chapter)