At the beginning of February, Phoenix had not officially started work, but some departments were busy.

HR departments in the three regions are the busiest, and they need to seize the time to recruit employees at the start of the new year. The animation department is second only to the personnel department, and they have to rush to produce the animation, and some editors and publishers in the comics department have to start preparing to sell new issues of the weekly magazine. And besides them, the top managers are not easy, and their eyes are focused on the new magazine.

Adding two new magazines is easy to say, but it takes a lot of care to actually do it. What is the positioning of these two new magazines? How to distinguish them from "Weekly Boy" and "Weekly Girl", and how to divide the readers' preferences and age groups they target? On the surface, the addition of two new magazines was actually as difficult as restructuring Phoenix's core business.

In the past, there were only two weekly categories in Phoenix, one for boys and one for girls. And this classification method is no longer in line with the trend of the times, and both teenager and girl magazines need to be more subdivided. This breakdown also involves the specific allocation of personnel, each magazine has to be in charge of a new editorial department, in addition to the "Xi" comic, a total of four editorial departments are needed, and how to arrange these editorial offices is also a big problem.

After several days of discussion, the Phoenix Company came to the conclusion that the Far East District was in charge of one comic magazine, Ninghai City was in charge of one, and Suhua City was in charge of the remaining two, and several comic magazines were managed separately. Meng Huo originally did not consider the editorial department of the Far East Region, but there are really many cartoonists in the Far East Region, in order to facilitate the collection of manuscripts. It's better to have an editorial office over there.

For this matter, Meng Shu also deliberately returned to Tokyo, and the time he returned to Tokyo was February 9, 2o17. It was also the day when "Weekly Boys" was sold.

On this day, in downtown Tokyo, manga artist Yu Nishikawa bought magazines early from the manga shop in front of his house, and since the scandal of Mantendo came out, a large number of manga artists have switched to Phoenix's Sakura Company - Nishikawa Yu is one of them, so he has developed the habit of buying "Weekly Shonen" every week.

The cover of this issue of "Weekly Shonen" was bright red, and when the film was torn open, Yu Nishikawa was surprised by the pattern on the cover. This time, the cover is a beautiful girl standing with a knife. With long, red eyes, an awe-inspiring temperament, bright red flames flying around her, and the whole cover seemed to be burning, and there was a hot illusion in her hand.

""Burning Eye Xana" ......"

He saw the bright red title in the middle of the cover, and then realized that it was a serial trailer, and Nishikawa's eyes were immediately drawn to the manga synopsis under the title - "Infinite time stops the beating." People burned silently. No one noticed that the world had long since gone off the rails and was surrounded by the flames of the Red World......"

This intro line looks handsome, but as a manga artist, Yu Nishikawa thinks this intro is the worst one. The introduction of a new serialization does not need to be handsome, the key is to be able to tell the reader what kind of manga this is. However, after reading the synopsis of "Burning Eyes Xana", people are in a fog, and they don't know what story it wants to tell, and they can't even understand the subject matter......

How could such a poor profile appear on the "Weekly Boys" that sold tens of millions? Yu Nishikawa felt strange, and speaking of which, the name "Burning Eye Xana" didn't look like a shonen manga no matter how it looked. The cover character is a woman. The manga name is also very feminine, isn't this a shoujo manga? Why do shoujo manga appear on the cover of Weekly Shonen?

His eyes skimmed over the profile. Then stopped at the author's name.

"What a pity!"

Nishikawa Yu's heart was cold, what a pity the comic author was! It's no wonder that the people in the editorial department of "Weekly Boy" really don't make low-level mistakes, let alone the unique pillar of Phoenix, any of his works are eligible to be on the cover of "Weekly Boy", and the profile is irrelevant to him. Other cartoonists' profiles are not good and easy to be spurned, but even if you don't write a profile, there are a large number of readers who are sought after!

The introduction of "Burning Eye Xana" this time is weird, but on what a pity, this weirdness is not a disadvantage, but a virtue that represents 'mystery'. He hasn't released a new comic for two years, and this time a new comic suddenly appears that makes people scratch their heads, and readers will not only not be disgusted, but will be curious, excited, and surprised.

This is an absolute difference between popular manga artists and ordinary manga artists!

Nishikawa Yu felt a little envious in his heart, and the manga store manager on the side couldn't help but laugh when he saw his expression.

"Mr. Nishikawa, what a pity the teacher's new work trailer is great, isn't it, the cover of "Weekly Girl" yesterday was also this." The store manager and Nishikawa Yu knew that Nishikawa Yu had switched to Phoenix Company, so he naturally said: "The sales of "Weekly Girl" have increased a lot in the past two days, and it is a pity that the teacher is worthy of being the golden sign of Phoenix Company, even if it is a preview, it can increase sales." ”

Nishikawa was stunned, and then showed a somewhat bitter smile: "Yes......"

It's a good thing for readers to release a new work, but it's not so much for manga artists. Nishikawa Yu looked at the trailer on the cover, which was printed that "Shana with Burning Eyes" would be serialized in "Pity", which made him breathe a sigh of relief, but he couldn't be happy - even if "Xana with Burning Eyes" was serialized in "Pity", but after a while, it would definitely be transferred to "Weekly Shonen" or "Weekly Girl" like "One Piece".

This is a nightmare for cartoonists.

Half a year ago, there was a wave of cartoonists joining Phoenix in the Far East, and cartoonists rushed to Phoenix with hope, and their relatives and friends, including the cartoonists themselves, were full of hope for the future. Phoenix is one of the top comic companies in China, and its comic strips are all over China, which is very different from Mantian, which is confined to the extreme east.

With a bigger stage, a vast market, money and glory, every cartoonist wants to fight with all their blood, but after actually joining Phoenix, what they get is a burst of despair.

Phoenix only has two comic magazines, and there are only thirty or forty serialization slots combined, except for a few works that are regrettable, and other popular serials that have taken root in the two magazines, leaving less than ten serialization spots for other cartoonists to compete for. For half a year, hundreds of cartoonists in the Far East and a large number of newcomer cartoonists in the Big 6 have been desperately scrambling for single-digit serial spots, and the competition is fierce.

The experience of half a year has made cartoonists gradually lose confidence, and recently in some private places, Nishikawa Yu heard that many cartoonists have the idea of changing jobs, and now that the new comics are out, it is even more amazing......

"There should be a wave of job hopping next!"

Nishikawa sighed, then picked up the manga magazine and left a little disappointed. He unfortunately occupies another serial position, this matter will become the last straw stone, He regrets that there are more serial slots than hundreds of people, although no one will question his strength. But Phoenix's model has all but cut off opportunities for other cartoonists, and it's hard to imagine how many cartoonists would be willing to wait hungry for that ethereal serialization hope.

"It's time for me to leave ...... too"

Nishikawa Yu thinks so, he has children and daughters, and he has to rely on comics to make a living, and Phoenix Company is really not suitable to continue to stay.

"Just do as you say......" When he got home, his wife sighed helplessly after hearing his words: "A small company has the benefits of a small company, so it's better to change jobs early." ”

When Yu Nishikawa joined Phoenix, his wife was the happiest, but today, his wife also understands that it is difficult for her husband to survive the cruel competition of Phoenix, so she also changes her mind. Yu Nishikawa returned to the room and wrote a letter of resignation, he had no ill feelings towards the company, so he expressed his sincerity and helplessness in a handwritten way.

After a long time of writing, the resignation letter was completed. However, just when Yu Nishikawa wanted to call Sakura to book a meeting, his phone rang.

"Hey, Mr. Nishikawa, I'm Toquan!"

The voice on the other side of the phone seemed very excited, Dongquan, he was a cartoonist who was familiar with Nishikawa, and Nishikawa Yu wondered how he could call him today.

"Mr. Dongquan, what's the matter?" He asked.

"Xichuan, I just got an inside message, you will definitely be pleasantly surprised when you hear it! I heard that Mr. He returned to Tokyo this morning, and after he came back, he held a high-level meeting and announced a bombshell news, guess what it was? ”

"What's the news? I didn't have the interest to guess, you just said it. "Nishikawa Yu is very calm, he is leaving Phoenix Company, and he doesn't care much about the topic of this company.

"You're so boring, the editorial department, it's the editorial department! Sakura wants to set up an editorial department of the same scale as the big 6 to be responsible for a new magazine! Dongquan was a little excited, and said loudly: "Wasn't it rumored that the person in charge of the Phoenix Company had become a teacher before the Chinese New Year?" I really never expected this to be true, but I decided to add two new magazines just after taking office, he is so handsome! ”

"In the near future, in addition to "Weekly Shonen" and "Weekly Girl", we have two other magazines to choose from, and the number of serialized manga has doubled, hahaha...... Dozens of serials are waiting for me, I can finally board the serial, Nishikawa-sensei, cheers, our time has come! ”

Nishikawa listened to Dongquan's voice in a daze, and his head was buzzing.

Two new magazines? Double the number of comics? Doesn't that mean...... Hundreds of cartoonists competing for dozens of serial slots?

"Great, great!"

He couldn't help but jump up, feeling the coldness in his heart melted by the warm sunlight, and his whole body trembled when he was moved.

After waiting for half a year and finally getting a result, Yu Nishikawa put down the phone, picked up the resignation letter on the table and tore it up, the more he tore it, the happier he became, he couldn't help but happily pick up his coat, turned around and ran out.

"Honey, it's time for lunch, what are you going out for?"

"I'm not resigning, I'm going to thank Mr. Hexi!"

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