Half a year has passed, and Tokyo and even Japan as a whole have not changed much.

With the steady output of gasoline from new oil fields, people's lives gradually returned to the level before the fall of the sky.

It must be said that human beings have very strong adaptability. Walking on the streets of Tokyo, Higashino Hirosawa deeply felt that they had completely adapted to the existence of the sky.

Even though many new rules have been imposed on Japan under the rule of the Tenmaku, you will basically not notice them just walking on the streets.

Compared with before the sky fell, the biggest difference was that there were many more followers of Our Lady of Truth on the streets.

The Asakusa family's house was reduced to rubble in the last battle with Amano Ikuko, and it is still guarded by members of the Holy Mother of Truth.

Hiroyuki Higashino walked over and took a look, but didn't pay much attention.

The remaining believers were unable to discover the existence of Higashino Hirosawa.

Higashino Hirosawa is more concerned about his serialized comics.

Before leaving, Higashino Hirosawa had already drawn a series of paintings for about two years, and set up regular delivery in his mailbox.

The number of episodes in the series is not a problem, but the fact that he is the author of Dragon Ball comics can be found out by at least a little research.

Leaf Co., Ltd., Higashino Hirosawa took care of things before leaving, but there wasn’t much he could do about the comics.

Not only Dragon Ball, but also comics such as Slam Dunk, Kindaichi, Baseball Heroes and Hunter, as long as Ikuko Amano looks it up carefully, it is not difficult to find out that he drew it.

But maybe Amano Ikuko disdains these comics against Higashino Hirosawa, or maybe she is too young and doesn’t know that fighting an enemy requires fighting to death, or maybe she knows that targeting these comics will not cause any substantial harm to Higashino Hirosawa.

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In short, not to mention Slam Dunk and other unannounced works of Higashino Hirosawa, even the serialization of Dragon Ball has not been affected.

It's a good thing she didn't take action, otherwise Higashino Hirosawa would not be on the streets investigating information, but would go to fight with Amano Ikuko.

If a war started, Ikuko Amano would not survive today.

It can be said that Amano Ikuko temporarily saved her life by not taking action on his comic series.

Because several comics were serialized at a rate of two chapters a week during this period, within half a year, the popularity of several comics skyrocketed, becoming the most popular in their respective comic weekly magazines.

Driven by these comics, the sales of these comic weekly magazines have increased to varying degrees.

The one with the largest increase was Hot-Blooded Youth Weekly.

Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly has a good foundation, with weekly sales exceeding two million at its peak.

After the plot of Dragon Ball gradually got on track and climaxed, the sales of the weekly also skyrocketed.

From the initial sales of just over 500,000, it skyrocketed to 1.2 million in one year.

The editorial department of Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly was naturally happy. Looking back at Weekly Shonen Jump, which rejected Dragon Ball, no one said anything on the surface, but secretly, there were many people complaining.

The rejection of Dragon Ball is not a secret within Weekly Shonen Jump. The editorial department never thought of keeping it secret at the beginning. After all, it was just a manga that was rejected due to the exclusive treaty. The editorial department wanted to let the authors know that no one could

exception.

So not only the people within Weekly Shonen Jump, but also the entire industry know about this.

And one year later, Dragon Ball is becoming more and more popular, Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly's sales are skyrocketing, and Weekly Shonen Jump's sales are still declining, even with the government's strong support for entertainment.

It’s not that Weekly Shonen Jump has done anything wrong. The reason is just that Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly and Jump are similar competitors. Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly’s sales have skyrocketed, and Jump’s sales will inevitably decrease as a result.

While other weekly magazines have more or less seen an increase in sales, the industry leader has seen a decrease in sales. The reason is because of the Dragon Ball comics they rejected. This has suddenly made Weekly Shōnen Jump the laughing stock of many people.

Weekly Shōnen Jump actually didn't do anything wrong. It doesn't mean they did anything wrong by insisting on the exclusive agreement. The exclusive agreement has undoubtedly made the magazine stronger.

However, that is looking at the issue from the magazine's perspective.

From the author's point of view, this is a proper overlord's treaty. They dare not resist and have no ability to resist. However, many people are very happy to see Weekly Shonen Jump suffer a big loss because of it.

The popularity of Dragon Ball can skyrocket, and to a certain extent, there are also people like this who are secretly adding fuel to the fire.

Apart from Hot-Blooded Youth Weekly, Chaoyang Weekly had the second largest increase.

Half a year later, due to the popularity of the baseball hero comics, Chaoyang Weekly's sales have increased to over 600,000.

This is the result of Chaoyang Weekly's other serialized content being overextended. Not to mention 90%, at least 80% of the readers who buy Chaoyang Weekly come here for the baseball hero comics.

In weekly popularity surveys, Baseball Heroes is far ahead in popularity in every issue.

The editors such as Kazuo Watanabe, the president of Chaoyang Weekly, and Miyazawa Ping, the old editor, who initially triggered the joint S wish commission, were both in pain and happiness.

Because of the baseball hero, Chaoyang Weekly’s sales have exceeded the weekly’s highest sales in history.

But even though they worked very hard to screen the submissions, after more than half a year, the weekly magazine still couldn't find any new serials with great potential.

Once the serialization of Baseball Heroes is completed, Chaoyang Weekly will not say that it will suddenly fall back to its original state, but it will definitely suffer heavy losses.

If they hadn't signed a two-episode-per-week contract with Higashino Hirosawa, they might have begun to consider limiting the number of serialized episodes to one per week.

Other editors hope that the authors of their popular serials will submit as many manuscripts as possible.

Only the editor of Chaoyang Weekly really hopes that one day he will receive not two articles but one article in his mailbox.

In this way, they can legitimately serialize only one episode per issue.

There will definitely be complaints from the readers, but it is not difficult to win over the readers as long as you make a statement that the author is in poor health or something.

But unfortunately, the two episodes of manuscripts that appeared in their mailbox on time every week left them entangled.

Under tremendous pressure, the editors of Chaoyang Weekly are trying to find potential articles in the hope that they can take over the baton of Baseball Heroes after Baseball Heroes ends.

In addition to Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly and Chaoyang Weekly, Weekly Shonen Magazine serializes Slam Dunk, Weekly Shonen Sunday serializes Hunter, and Seishen Plus serializes Kindaichi, the weekly sales of these comic magazines have increased by about 20,000 to 300,000.

of sales.

The total sales volume of the five comic magazines is less than 8 million.

However, the number of readers of these five comics is far more than eight million.

Borrowing books from classmates and friends, renting books, and piracy online, Higashino Hirosawa can't tell how many readers these five most popular comics have at the moment.

However, he looked at relevant forums online and found that quite a few hot topics were related to the five comics he serialized.

What is certain is that the popularity is quite high.

After getting the general details, Higashino Hirosawa sent an email to the editors of the five publishing houses and asked them to meet at a high-end izakaya owned by the Kambara family the day after tomorrow.

People in the Japanese workplace have their mobile phones bound to their email addresses, so they don’t have to worry about not receiving emails.

What's more, Higashino Hirosawa is the key care staff of these editors. They all set different special notification sounds for Higashino Hirosawa's emails.

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Editorial Department of Hot-Blooded Youth Weekly.

A group of editors are having a meeting.

Siling your cell phone during meetings is a basic workplace etiquette.

However, while President Murakami was speaking, the voice of a mobile phone rang loudly, and the voice was very special.

"Aoki, be careful of your influence and don't bring bad luck to your descendants."

President Murakami looked over and saw Aoki Shiren busy picking up his mobile phone, so he said aloud.

"Ah, no, this is Teacher Akira Toriyama's email receiving prompt. I made a special setting. I'm sorry."

The green wood stone man said quickly.

A long time ago, in order not to miss Higashino Hirosawa's emails, he specially bought a mobile phone with this function.

"Did Toriyama Akira-sensei send you an email? He sent you a manuscript email, isn't it at this time?"

When Murakami heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Hirosawa Higashino always sends emails on time every week. Even if Murakami is the president, he knows the specific time very well.

"Yes, I just received two new chapters of the manuscript yesterday."

The green wood stone man nodded.

"Toriyama Akira-sensei never sends private emails, right?"

"Could something happen?"

In the conference room, other editors couldn't help but speak out one after another.

"Aoki, look at what Akira Toriyama-sensei said."

When Murakami heard this, he couldn't help but say.

Nowadays, Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly is booming, and something can happen to anyone, but Higashino Hirosawa and Longzhu cannot have problems, otherwise it will be a huge blow to Hot-Blooded Shonen Weekly.

"good!"

The Aoki Stone Man nodded and quickly picked up his phone and opened the email.

"This..." Aoki Stone glanced at it, picked up his phone, and came to President Murakami.

President Murakami glanced at it, and was also stunned. Then he waved his hands and said to the editors in the conference room: "Today's meeting will end here first, and we will talk about the rest. Everyone, please go out!"

The other editors were very curious about what the email said and asked the president to stop the meeting in the middle. However, they were curious and could not ask more questions, so they had no choice but to go out.

"Teacher Akira Toriyama asked you to meet the day after tomorrow? Is this true or false?" President Murakami looked at the email and didn't believe it.
To be continued...