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Comic editor Kanno Taro is often advocating on Twitter that the old commercial publishing model needs change. He shared a personal experience of his own:
When he still felt that “professional cartoonists put serialization in the top priority is a matter of course”, there was a cartoonist who told him: “If I am less than once, there is a Ming (in the case of the Big Sight in Tokyo). Comic Market), the annual income will be 3 million yen less!”.
This sentence, let the wilderness begin to think, what is going on in the comics, what is the business. .
Takino said, it’s like having a very famous actor and film director, saying to you: “I am busy making my own movies this month, so although I can’t hold you here, I can only arrange the usual time every day. Half of the time comes to your studio.”
As a professional, work will of course be prioritized. Kanno does not think there is anything wrong with this. .
Takino believes that if you want writers to put the serialization of their publishing house first, then either hire a writer as a company employee or sign an exclusive agreement to pay the restraint that the writer can accept. Nowadays, the publishing house, which pays the writer’s manuscript fee and deducts the assistant’s salary, is almost unable to make ends meet, but it is wrong to use other beautiful words such as “professional consciousness” to restrain others. .
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The light novel editor Sanmu Yima said that his working method as an editor is completely self-learning. Not just himself, most of the world’s editors are like this. But if you can go to a variety of excellent editorial departments when you are young, you may be able to do better. Due to the lack of open sharing of editing techniques in the publishing industry, the current inability to edit and excellent editors is polarized. There is basically no way to bridge the gap between the two. .
Sanmu’s editing technique refers not to the proper communication with the writer, the inspection of things that need to be supervised, the common sense of taking out books regularly, but the techniques of creating techniques and improving the quality of stories. According to his experience, the editors of Big Hand Comics Weekly will pay more attention to this aspect. .
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The light novel writer Sakamoto Yuichi said that when the “Space Battleship Yamato” and “Mobile Suit Gundam” were aired more than 40 years ago, their young audience saw these works, very excited and full of praise. However, there are some old-fashioned things, and they are splashed with cold water when they look at themselves: “This kind of story is already old.” “The kind of thing can’t be called science fiction.”
Sometimes, some seniors tell them: This scene is borrowed from that movie. This story is borrowed from the science fiction novel. The original source of this setting is the manga. They will also go to the original source, read a lot of works, some interesting, some are boring. Although the original code was confirmed, in their eyes, these originals were not as wonderful as the works they were fascinated by at the time. .
Like Sakamoto, I watched “Lubang III. Cariostro Castle” and I was so excited. Some seniors told him that the original text of this work is “King and the Bird.” He went to look for the latter, although he was still happy, but not as good as “Cariostro Castle”. This is of course, because it is the duty of the latecomers to digest and absorb the original code, sublimate it, and create more interesting things. .
When the “Evangelion” was popular in 1995 and swept the young audience, Sakamoto finally understood the mood of the predecessors of the seventies. When these older people look at the Evangelion, they can generally understand where the concepts and stories of the work are borrowed. However, for young people, EVA is equivalent to the Yamato and Gundam in their generation. Therefore, he did not go to pour cold water on young people.
Even if they look at the classic masterpieces of the past, they can’t have the same look and feel as the audience at the time. In the era when there are no video recorders, every week, I look forward to watching the “Space Battleship Yamato”, “Cosmic Knight”, and reading the “Dragon Ball”, “Saint Seiya”, “Fist of the North Star”, even if you want to see it at a glance Young peoples in the whole work enjoy the work like them, and young people can’t do it. .
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The light novelist Ge Xishen also said that every classic work cannot be separated from its background. .
As the “Space Battleship Yamato” is shortening the total number of episodes, the return journey will be compact; “Mobile Suit Gundam” will be difficult to get rid of the old robot animation if it is operated by Amro and Kelian according to the original schedule. Hey, later became a series is contrary to the original intention of the creator; “Kamen Rider” is popular because the protagonist suffered an accident but was blessed by misfortune. .
The works of “Dragon Ball” and “Yu You Bai Shu” are the parts of the author who violated the original intention and forcibly extended the serialization, which attracted many fans. “Saint Seiya” was successful after the author’s predecessor “Men’s Boy” was defeated. .
These parts of “the people who only make up the work itself will not understand” sometimes have a significant influence on the work. .
Although there is no time limit for watching comic book and video recordings, but a generation who has experienced that era, while recommending old works to young people, if you can tell them the background of the time, maybe you can Let them better understand the charm of the work. .
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So at this time, I should advertise some of Anitama’s historical serials.