Chapter 220: New Characters
In the new week, Alice rushed to the Jiayuan community.
At less than seven o'clock in the morning, Li Qin poured water on the flowers and vegetables she planted in the courtyard, and when she saw Alice's arrival, she put the kettle and opened the door: "Alice, you don't have to go to work today?" ”
"Yes, that's why I came here earlier." Alice replied, "I forgot to get the original manuscript from Meng Huo yesterday, did he get up?" ”
"Up, still washing, you can go straight in."
Li Qin let Alice in, and she continued to work.
Alice walked into the room, and Meng Shu just came out of the bathroom with a towel to wipe his head.
"Morning, Meng Huo, why are you washing your hair now."
"Huh? Alice ......" Meng Shu turned his head to look and smiled at the female editor: "My hair is messy, just wash it, and besides, it's May." ”
Before you know it, it's May, and the otherwise cool weather occasionally has a few days of hot and dry weather.
"You're going to get the original? It was in the study, already set. Meng Shu pointed to the study, Alice walked in and saw two file bags with a good file, "Inuyasha" is still the same, but "Detective Conan" ......
"Is Conan's manuscript too thick?"
Alice thought to herself, and then opened the bag, and she pulled the manuscript out of the bag, but because it was so thick, one accidentally fell on the floor.
She bent down to pick it up, her expression slightly furrowed: "This picture ......"
"That's the new character." Meng Huo walked to the door of the study and said to Alice: "She is the new character of "Detective Conan", and I want to use her as the cover of "Weekly Boys". ”
Cover?
Alice looked at the girl in the picture, which was shockingly beautiful. When the cover of "Weekly Boy" is more than rubbed. Fortunately, yesterday Alice saw a few similar pictures. She was barely able to keep her cool now. Shift your mind from the pretty to something else.
"The new character is an elementary school student?"
The blonde female editor frowned slightly: "Pretty is pretty, but there are only three characters in "Detective Conan" who have been on the cover of "Weekly Boy", Conan, Xiaolan and Kidd the Monster Thief, they are all very important roles, but this new character ......"
What is the importance of this character who has never appeared? Judging by her age alone, Alice doesn't think elementary school students have much potential.
There is a juvenile detective group in "Detective Conan", which can be said to be a children's detective group, but the role has not been very high. Does Meng Huo want to improve the role of this detective group?
Isn't that a bit of putting the cart before the horse? The adult cases in "Detective Conan" are the key, the juvenile detective group is relatively relaxed, and their roles are good as spices, too many are easy to disgust readers.
"This new character is Gray Plains Mourning, and the original manuscript has three words, you can take a look."
Meng Shu smiled.
"Three words?"
Alice's look is a little strange, this is really a coincidence, "Weekly Boy" is now small in space, and the three-word "Detective Conan" is just right.
And yesterday Phoenix Company found a new channel, and Meng Shu immediately added a fire to it. The cover is absolutely appealing with this picture, if the content is also good.
"Sales will go up ...... big deal"
The thought flashed through me. Alice no longer hesitated, she picked up the original manuscript of "Detective Conan" and read it, she read it very seriously, the content of these three words can be said to determine whether Meng Shu has a chance to defeat "Detective Sherlock Sequel".
The new role prepared by Meng is called Gray Yuan Ai, she is an important role in the original work of "Detective Conan", and it can even be said that she is the second character in addition to the protagonist, and sometimes her popularity is higher than that of the heroine.
The appearance of Gray Yuan Ai has created a miracle, she has given a new life to "Detective Conan", which has faded in popularity with the passage of time, and the long-term popularity has not diminished, so it is conceivable that this character has a lot of charm.
Her charm comes from many factors, such as an excellent and tragic background, the same experience as the protagonist, intelligence, beauty, and a high IQ and calm character.
This 'elementary school student' can definitely detonate the reader's heart.
"What's broken?" As the first person to be detonated, Alice quickly finished reading the three-episode plot, and she stood up: "Meng Shu, what's going on with the identity of Gray Yuanai!" ”
"This development is so godly! Meng Huo, tell me the rest of the story!"
She asked excitedly.
The plot content of these three episodes is excellent, but in professional terms, this is just a foreshadowing plot. The plot of the three episodes writes about a super intelligent and beautiful girl, and then finally reveals her identity.
That identity is so amazing that it will definitely make readers exclaim - people can't figure out why this is happening.
But it's good to die, and the story breaks at a critical moment......
"Broken Chapters Dog!"
Alice seems to be able to hear the reader's curses, and she also feels itchy for the plot of the story.
Meng Shu smiled slightly, and instead of answering Alice's question, he asked, "There is no problem with these three words on "Weekly Boy", right?" ”
"Questions? No! No problem at all! ”
Alice shook her head, although she didn't know the follow-up plot, there was no doubt that the story of the original manuscript was excellent, and the charm of the new character was no worse than that of Kidd.
"Forget it, I know it!"
She suddenly came to her senses, stretched out her hand and said, "You better stop talking, the spoilers are boring, I'll wait for your original manuscript next week!" ”
Too unexpected plot development, Alice thinks that reading the manga will be more interesting than spoilers. She carefully sorted out the thick manuscript, a smile on her face.
With these manuscripts, this week's Weekly Shonen is well worth looking forward to.
"It's okay to keep the gorgeous thing a secret for the time being...... Alice thought to herself, so that she could wait for the release to surprise Meng Huo.
She picked up the manuscript and said goodbye, and Meng Shu sent her to the door, and stopped talking.
"What else?"
Alice noticed his abnormality and laughed: "Don't take anything to heart about you, just tell me directly." ”
As soon as she said this, Meng Shu nodded.
"I'm working on a new book." He gave a shocking answer from Alice: "I don't want to put my new work in "Weekly Boy" and "Weekly Girl", you tell Xu Jing when you go to work that I want to release a new magazine." ”
New magazine, this is the only way Meng Huo can think of dealing with "Weekly Excellence". If both comics were placed on "Weekly Shonen", there would definitely be no way to surpass the sales of Zhongxia Company.
Meng Huo wants to serialize "One Piece" in a new magazine, and although he has temporarily left his daily work at Phoenix Corporation, it is now the time period agreed with Xu Jing - he can lead the company's strategic countermeasures.
It was just a polite act for him to let Alice pass the word, so that Xu Jing was mentally prepared in advance.
"New magazine?" Alice was taken aback: "This is impossible, the model of "Weekly Boutique" cannot be replicated, and the number of our cartoonists is too small." ”
Phoenix's cartoonists were already struggling to serialize "Weekly Shonen" and "Weekly Girl", and Alice felt that it was unrealistic to launch a new magazine.
Meng Huo naturally understood this.
"The new magazine doesn't need any other cartoonists, just me." He explains: "The magazine is published once a month, like a single book, and I don't think it will be very stressful. ”
The single book is released once every two or three months, and there are also half a year, but Meng Huoji plans to sell four or five episodes of the manga plot a month, and this new magazine will only serialize "One Piece", but there are many possibilities in the future.
Alice was a little moved, she knew that Meng Dao was fast, and the monthly magazine was not impossible. And only the magazine that cherishes the work, just thinking about it makes people feel a desire to buy.
"No problem." She nodded, "I'll let him know." ”
Another piece of good news, Alice felt that Meng was more likely to defeat "Weekly Boutique", and with a faint expectation, she drove away from the Jiayuan community.
Meng was able to see the back of Porsche, and Li Qin, who had finished his work, walked to his side.
"Alice has been really diligent in the past two days, but it's Shen Jie's girl, what's wrong with her? The holiday didn't come. ”
Li Qin glanced at Meng Shu with some concern, did the two children quarrel, in the past, Shen Jie would stay here every time he had a holiday and was reluctant to leave.
"Shen Jie, she, Ha Luha, she is absent from class too much, and she is being pulled by the school to make up for it!" Meng Shu laughed: "Next week is the midterm exam, and she said that she wants to be the first in the grade." ”
Midterm exams, a troublesome thing......
Meng Shu thought in his heart that he was going to school to make soy sauce again, and it was Thursday and Friday, which was the critical time for the release of "Weekly Boys". (To be continued......)