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Shueisha Electronic Comic Magazine Application “Juvenile JUMP+” Editorモミー said that people who run comic magazine applications are often sandwiched between two types of people: editors who are born, think that “the key to the end is whether you can make wonderful comics”; people who are born in the IT field care more about “ As long as this increases the retention and payment rates of the application, the cost can be recovered.”
モミーown in the comics editorial department and The IT department has worked, so for those who are editors, he wants to say: “If you can’t use electronic technology to create a space and plan that makes it easy to make great comics, then there is no future for comics.” For those who are born in IT, he sometimes thinks: “No matter how you look at the data, you can make all kinds of strategies. As long as the comics are good enough, the new users will have a good retention rate and the payment rate will rise up. It is most effective. It’s still the content of comics.”
モミーelectronic technology and means to make wonderful comics
One of the strengths of the weekly magazine JUMP, which has more than 50 years of history, lies in the reader survey. A few days ago, he told the new JUMP+ staff that they could learn a lot of knowledge that the editor needs to master each week based on the serial content of the JUMP and the results of the survey. However, he clearly operates JUMP+, a service with a large number of users, which can obtain data from it, and is more valuable, but it is still a paper questionnaire…
モミーthink that the purpose of the comic application It is to let the new serials sell well, then the key is whether you can get the data in this area and reflect it in the comics – that is, whether you can make full use of electronic technology to create wonderful comics
However, although the explosive growth of comics has been around for 5 years, it seems that there is no such invention
モミーthink this may be because In recent years, the mainstream of the comics’ application industry has been an electronic bookstore application that sells existing books, so it has not opened up the field. Although it is a good thing in the era of smartphones, in the era of smartphones, it is easier to see the finished works of the past, but he still hopes to create a soil that can generate more popular new works from the Internet
(https://twitter.com/momiyama2019/status/1165935368501284864).
The cartoonist Xiao LiかずまたThe magazine “The Strongest JUMP” for the boys in the elementary school is serialized with the comics “Fridge of the refrigerator!” 》. He watched the results of the magazine’s survey and found that the age of comic readers is getting higher every year. The declining birthrate is of course an important reason, but the children’s comics can’t be sold, which means that the new comic book readers are also reduced. This is a serious problem for the comics’ industry
(https://twitter.com/kazumata_oguri/status/1167064518582661121).
When the cartoonist Inari Ichiro first debuted, he once said to him in the first edition of “Weekly Juvenile JUMP”: “The most remarkable thing in the comics’ industry is “CoroCoro” (the primary school library comic magazine for elementary school boys).” He has always believed this. Of course, “The Strongest JUMP” is also amazing
The question is that:
- The children in the population pyramid are extremely few.
- And in the end, children don’t have the money to buy books.
- Buying books is for parents, so the sales of existing works that were serialized from their childhood were high, and the threshold for new works to join the market was very high.
So to be honest, for writers, children’s comics as a business, there is really too little oil. It is clear that this field bears the future of the industry
(https://twitter.com/reach_ina/status/1167068243485347840)
The cartoonist Shinohara Sugawara believes that “Weekly Juvenile JUMP” can always hold the head of the Juvenile Weekly magazine because they are most concerned about the readers of the lower ages. Even if you continue to squat, you will always set up a new serial for children to keep it. As long as you open a window of low age, you can get rid of the young readers. Despite this, in recent years, the readership of the weekly juvenile JUMP is still growing
(https://twitter.com/kentashinohara_/status/1167077959133384704).
And these party children, now probably have no mood to care about the future of comics. They are welcoming the highest number of child suicides in a year: the end of the summer vacation and the start of the new semester around September 1
The cartoonist recalled the last time, when she was a child, she often heard the adults around her say to her: “Summer vacation is over~” This is probably used to say hello, but she found that it is like everyone Just like saying hello to her with “The deadline is coming soon~”. Ever since she realized this, she has never said anything to any of her children. On the first day of school, I said, “I want to go to school today.” It is enough
Even if a cartoonist turns a blind eye to the deadline, there will never be a cartoonist who completely forgets the deadline. It is the same to want to come to children. They also know that they will start school soon. Didn’t anyone tell them that they wouldn’t do homework? Compared with the manuscript, there is always a way to deal with the past. So no problem! (No problem at all).
(https://twitter.com/yuyu2000_0908)