Boss Jia's poaching business was very successful. In just half a month, more than 400 manga artists had submitted to Weekly Dengeki Shōnen, and many famous manga artists from later generations had submitted their works. Although it was not as luxurious as the previous three, it was definitely outstanding.
Boss Jia recalled for a moment and found that, except for those well-known authors who had signed contracts with big comic magazines, basically all the famous newbie cartoonists and their works around 1994 had been bought by Boss Jia.
However, these manga added up to about six. According to Fusang's usual practice, a manga magazine generally had to have 12 to 15 different serialized manga to meet the basic standard.
This time, Boss Jia planned to break this convention in order to shock the audience with a single brilliant feat. He planned to set the number of comics at 20 different comics to give the audience a brand new sense of breakthrough. Therefore, the number of comics was far from enough. Therefore, Boss Jia had to find another 14 comics.
However, these were only the manga that had been famous in his previous life. In the remaining 500 manga, there might be one or two undiscovered pearls.
After all, this world was full of tricks. It was very likely that some good manga that could have been famous would be buried in the garbage heap of history for various reasons.
Therefore, Boss Jia asked Kazuki Takahashi to mobilize the new editors that the magazine had poached to start seriously reviewing the manuscripts of the 500 manga and selecting those that were qualified to be serialized.
However, Boss Jia's standards were very high. That was, there could not be too big of a gap between the six manga that had been selected.
With such a high standard, the selection process was extremely strict. After 500 comics were carefully selected, only 10 of them could reach the serialization mark in the eyes of the editors.
However, when these 10 manga were sent to Boss Jia, Boss Jia looked at them vertically several times, and then directly rejected six of them.
It was not that these manga were bad. In fact, the drawing of these manga was quite good. It was just that the theme was too old-fashioned. Boss Jia could not see any novelty.
So far, only 10 of the comics that could be serialized together had been selected.
As a result, there were still 10 manga missing.
"Boss, why don't I take out some manga that are a level lower? These manga are actually very good in some aspects, but there are still some shortcomings! "Kazuki Takahashi suggested.
"No, we only want high-quality manga. We don't want these manga that are a level lower!" Boss Jia shook his head and then smiled. "I won't make it difficult for you. Have you forgotten that Daqian also has Daqian Games and Dengeki Bunko?"
"Our Daqian Group has a lot of excellent IP, but we have never had a manga version. Why don't we serialize these manga versions in our magazine!"
"Yes!" Kazuki Takahashi was excited. In fact, the Daqian Group already had a lot of very famous IP, such as the Pokemon series, the Water Margin Heroes and the Three Kingdoms series, the Four-wheel Drive Brothers series, and many new novels from Dengeki Bunko that were very famous recently. These could all be adapted into manga and added to the magazine.
What's more, because these manga already had a lot of popularity before, then the readers would definitely want to see these manga versions. Once "Weekly Dengeki Shōnen" was released, it would probably be able to get a lot of circulation.
"Let's do it this way. Pokemon manga version, Four-wheel Drive Brothers manga version, Three Kingdoms manga version, Water Margin Heroes manga version, Sword and Saber Divine Realm manga version from Dengeki Bunko, Humble Female Protagonist Training Plan manga version, Moon Girl manga version, and so on …" Boss Jia listed the nine large-scale IP that had been gradually cultivated by the Daqian Group. These were all the famous IP of the Daqian Group. Now, all of them were launched into manga versions.
It seemed that Boss Jia had been preventing these works from being published in the comic book version just for this day.
"But boss, there are only 19 manga in total. We still need one more manga!" Kazuki Takahashi whispered.
"We still need one more …" Boss Jia walked away and scratched his head. "Why don't we get another light novel from Dengeki Bunko and modify it?"
"But the problem is that there are only so many works that Dengeki Bunko is qualified to modify. The other light novels are too lousy. Boss Jia doesn't want to ruin the reputation of this new manga!"
"Boss, actually, I have a selected manga here. I think it's okay, but the theme is too weird …" Kazuki Takahashi whispered.
Boss Jia sighed and said, "Takahashi-sensei, I've said that the purpose of our Weekly Dengeki Shōnen is to publish novel manga that others don't dare to draw. So, don't be afraid to pick one out for me just because some of the themes are too novel or exaggerated!"
"Yes, boss!" Kazuki Takahashi nodded. Then, he took out a draft from his desk drawer and handed it to Boss Jia. "Boss, the theme of this manga is too novel. I can't judge if the readers will like it, so I can only ask you to make the decision!"
"Okay, let me see!" Boss Jia nodded and opened the manga. As a result, the title at the beginning of the manga made Boss Jia's eyes light up.
"Kennō"
What a refreshing and refined name. This name made Boss Jia immediately flip open the cover. Then, he read the first three chapters in one breath. Suddenly, he was amazed.
This manga reminded Boss Jia of the previous world. It was popular all over the world, and it was the scourge of the entire Hua Xia mobile game industry. It made the game feminine.
However, the feminine games in the previous world only gradually appeared after the year 2000. Now, in 1994, someone had already conceived a feminine theme!
However, this manga was not a battleship, but a sword.
More importantly, this sword included not only Fusang's sword, but also famous swords in the history of Hua Xia, such as the Xuanyuan Sword, the Yuchang Sword, and so on.
There was even a legendary immortal sword like the Qingping Sword that existed in the Investiture of the Gods.
Moreover, in the background setting, the Kennō was also very original and very novel.
The background of the Kennō was set after the destruction of the earth. In the year 2020, because the earth came into contact with another dimensional space, a dimensional rift was created. As a result, many monsters from another world, known as Yuan Kou, attacked the earth.
In just one year, the earth's population of seven billion was reduced to less than three hundred million people. Moreover, these three hundred million people were still in a precarious situation. They could only wait for death if they stayed in eight huge cities.
However, there was always a way out. At the moment when the human race was about to be destroyed, many of the famous swords in history that were hidden in museums, hung on the walls of homes, or buried in ancient tombs, stood up at this moment and transformed into beautiful girls. Under the control of the sword wielder, they fought for the human race.
The main characters of the manga were a sword wielder named Liu Nian Li and a Kennō named Yue Wang Gou Jian.
In any case, the entire story was very exciting. Boss Jia, who was used to reading all kinds of web novels, manga, movies, and animations, was very excited when he saw the beginning of the manga. In the end, he wanted to immediately buy a sword and see if it could transform into a Kennō.
"Good!"
"Good!"
"Very good!" Boss Jia said to the others. History had indeed drowned out many excellent people and works. A manga as excellent as the Kennō did not become popular in the previous world. No one had even heard of this manga before. It was a waste of resources.
In Boss Jia's eyes, this was definitely a top manga that could be compared to the previous six manga.
"Who is the author of this manga? Go and sign him immediately. We must serialize the Kennō manga! "
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