"Boss, after our magazine announced the upcoming Electric Shock Cup Comic Awards, we've already received hundreds of submissions from cartoonists!" A few days later, Kazuki Takahashi, who had become the chief editor and president of the comic magazine, reported excitedly to Boss Jia.
"Is this result very good?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.
"It's not just good, it's quite good!" Kazuki Takahashi said, and then gave Boss Jia some knowledge about the Comic Awards.
The Comic Book Awards were not like the Oscars or Nobel Prizes, where they were given out professionally every few years and were judged globally or nationally.
The Comic Awards of the comic magazine were, in fact, a reward for selecting excellent manga works for the magazine.
Generally speaking, the Manga Awards would be held once a quarter or even once a month to accept submissions from cartoonists from all over the country. Then, outstanding works would be selected from these submissions. A portion of the submissions would be given the opportunity to be serialized in magazines and periodicals.
This was the main way for a comic magazine to select suitable works for serialization.
And for a magazine, the number of works submitted for a comic book award would determine the status of the magazine in the hearts of the cartoonists.
For example, Youngermen Jump could receive more than 500 submissions every time they held a Comic Awards.
This didn't sound like a lot, but it was important to know that manga was not like novels. Manga was something that consumed a lot of energy and effort. A manga that could be submitted required at least a month of painstaking work to be completed.
At this time, how many potential manga artists could there be in Fusang who could devote a month's time to their work?
Therefore, the number of 500 submissions was definitely not a small number. It could even be said that it included more than 80% of the manga submissions of the same period. This was the charm of Youngermen Jump, and also the attractiveness of the platform.
Otherwise, why would Boss Jia spend so much effort to ruin the reputation of Youngermen Jump? It was because he had his eyes on the manga artists under the platform! These were the greatest treasures!
And this time, Boss Jia's plan was undoubtedly very successful. The magazine had just announced that it would accept submissions for five days, and it had already received hundreds of submissions. At this speed, it was estimated that it would receive more than 300 submissions in the end.
Although this number was not comparable to Youngermen Jump, it could surpass 90% of the senior magazines in the circle. This was a super treatment that a newcomer magazine could not even dream of.
However, Boss Jia did not show much joy, because Boss Jia was very clear that although there were many submissions, most of them were useless garbage that could not attract readers. Only high-quality manga were the real treasures.
"Show me the list of submissions!" Boss Jia said calmly. Then, Kazuki Takahashi gave the list to Boss Jia.
The reason why Boss Jia wanted to look at the list was, of course, that he wanted to see some familiar names that he had seen in his previous life. This way, he could use the fastest way to pick out the best works.
Unfortunately, Boss Jia had never heard of most of the manga on the list. It was estimated that they were cannon fodder level works in his previous life, so Boss Jia did not care.
After looking at more than 60 names, Boss Jia's eyes finally lit up, and it was a bright light.
The name was "Detective Conan". Then, he looked at the manga artist's name: Takeshi Aoyama.
It's done, this time it's done!
Boss Jia excitedly clicked on the name, and then continued to look. As a result, not long after, he saw a familiar name.
"Ronin Kenshin". The manga artist's name was Nobuhiro Kazuki.
At the end of the list, Boss Jia actually found something. He saw the name "Initial D". Although Boss Jia did not remember the manga artist's name, a manga with such a remote name could not be wrong.
This feeling was as good as drawing three SSRs in a row of 10 consecutive draws.
"Find me the submissions of these three manga!" Boss Jia pointed at the names of the three manga and said.
"Okay!" Although Kazuki Takahashi did not know why Boss Jia valued these three manga so much just by looking at the names, Kazuki Takahashi asked his secretary to find the submissions of these three manga as quickly as possible and give them to Boss Jia.
Boss Jia took a few glances and was completely relieved. These three manga were the top manga in his previous life.
Among them, the characters of "Detective Conan" and "Ronin Kenshin" were exactly the same as in his previous life, but the character of "Initial D" was slightly different. It looked more immature than in his previous life, and the drawing was worse. It seemed that the personal ability of this manga artist was still improving.
"What do you think of these three manga?" Boss Jia put the three manga in front of Kazuki Takahashi and asked Kazuki Takahashi to give his evaluation.
"Hey!" Kazuki Takahashi picked up the three manga and began to read it carefully. Finally, he took a deep breath and said, "Chairman, you really have a good eye. Detective Conan and Ronin Kenshin are top manga that can make people feel refreshed. It is our honor to have such a manga artist join our magazine!"
"Oh, what about" Initial D "?" Boss Jia asked again.
"This … the plot is okay, but the drawing style is too bad. It still needs to be honed. In addition, it seems that the heroine doesn't look cute at all. This is very important!" Kazuki Takahashi said.
"It's not just not cute. It simply makes the readers want to kill her!" Thinking of the heroine of "Initial D", Boss Jia muttered. Then he put the three manga together and said, "I don't care how you arrange the names of these three manga, but I hope that these three manga can be included in our first issue of serialization!"
"Hey!" With the power of sufficient construction capital and Boss Jia's power, Kazuki Takahashi became very smart. He never refuted Boss Jia's words and treated everything as the truth.
Kazuki Takahashi never thought of himself as the real owner of this magazine. He was very clear about this.
"Let's go. Come with me. Let's go and visit these three manga artists in person!" Boss Jia stood up and said.
"What! Chairman, there's no need for this … "Kazuki Takahashi was a little shocked. He thought that Boss Jia simply liked the works of these three. He didn't expect that Boss Jia would value them so much.
"What's the most important thing in the 20th century?" Boss Jia asked.
"This …" Kazuki Takahashi shook his head.
"Talent!" Boss Jia said loudly, "You're a talent, so I helped you to the position of CEO. These three are also talents, so I want to visit them in person. I want to firmly pull them into my hands. "
"Hey!" Kazuki Takahashi nodded in realization. The chairman is so smart!
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