1983 Past Life Manga King

“Oh, right? What? I also read a lot of magazines called Boy Hero because of this guy Daebong.”

“what? What?”

People’s attention turned to me all at once.

I was going to answer, but again, Daebong Lee came forward.

“Would you be surprised to hear that?”

“Hey, shut up.”

“okay. Isn’t it because Yoonhwan is trying to make him feel uncomfortable by raising his expectations for nothing?”

“Because that guy has a really bad side.”

“Anyway, write your heart out.”

“Mr. Lee, it’s not. You will be amazed!”

He screamed like that, and then immediately pulled up the corners of his mouth.

“uh? Why does he have such an evil smile?”

“What are you doing? Are you tired?”

“Tell me quickly.”

People took turns looking at me and Lee Daebong.

Then Daebong Lee opened his mouth with a victor’s expression on his face.

“Samsara, Machine Gun Jack.”

“·················ogue.”

“·················ogue.”

All of them have sullen faces.

It seems that the industry is a little different, so I don’t know.

I didn’t expect you to know anything.

But soon, everyone’s faces turned to astonishment.

“What? Samsara?”

“Machine Gun Jack?”

“Sunny cartoon? that?”

Everyone’s eyes turned to me again.

Then, he shouted at the same time as if he had told him to squeeze.

“Really?”

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A group of people yelled at me and looked at me again.

Did so many people know Samsara and Machine Gun Jack?

Even though there is something in common with comics, to be honest, I didn’t expect much because it couldn’t be called the same industry.

I looked at Kim Young-ho and asked.

“Hyung, did you know Sunny too?”

“Of course you know. Look here!”

Saying so, she held out the comic book.

“I saw this too.”

However, this is a book that has been translated.

“This was so much fun, I also saw the boy hero that Daebong brought. I found out because it was written there, drawing Sunny.”

However, Lee Dae-bong, who was reading the book Kim Young-ho held out, raised his eyebrows and shouted.

“uh? This is a pirate version!”

“Ah.”

Only then did Kim Young-ho realize what his comics were like and put on a bewildered expression on his face.

Lee Dae-bong looked at me and pushed harder.

“Brother, that’s too much. You’re putting out a pirated version in front of the original author right now. What the hell are you thinking?”

“Ah, this is it.”

As I was about to say something, I immediately lowered my head.

“Yeah… well, this was my fault.”

Seeing that, I smiled.

“What the hell is that? My brother bought it because he wanted to see it anyway. The people who sold this are the bad guys. And to be honest, right now there is no legal way to view Japanese manga, so it’s inevitable.”

“·················ogue.”

Kim Young-ho was really sorry and scratched his head.

Then others said.

“Anyway, it feels really weird. I also watched that manga yesterday and thought the story was crazy. But there was a story writer, and he was Korean.”

“Sunny, a cartoonist, is also Korean.”

People were more surprised by Lee Dae-bong’s words.

“Did you?”

“Really?”

“And Yunhwan’s younger brother. This is my sophomore year in college.”

After Lee Dae-bong’s words, the room was again colored with astonishment.

Lee Dae-bong was hiding the truth well.

How long has this person been upset?

‘The king’s ears are donkey ears!’

The temptation to shout like this must have been great.

Kim Young-ho, still with a surprised expression, looks at his fingers. Then he immediately looked at Daebong Lee and me and asked.

“University sophomore? So, did you draw Samsara when you were in high school?”

“Exactly when I was a freshman in high school.”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

“High school 1 . . .”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

“You were a real genius, Sunny.”

“When I saw the manga, I wondered if there was anyone in the world who could draw like this. how old are you too The world is really big.”

“However, I am proud that such a genius is Korean. Of course you too.”

I laughed bitterly.

Because I feel like I’m being pushed back a bit more than Seon-hee.

Well, it doesn’t seem like a single point from a feeling, but let’s just make that difference.

Anyway, thanks to that, I had to be baptized with questions for a while.

What kind of relationship led you to enter Japan?

What was the reaction in Japan when Samsara started serializing her first work?

How did you feel when the cartoon movie came out?

What is your current position in Japan? etc.

Daebong Lee was more uncomfortable than me, who answered the constant questions.

“Isn’t everyone busy with work?”

“Of course I am busy. Do I have to do it by 12 o’clock tonight at least?”

“But why aren’t you working and only tormenting our Yunhwan?”

“Who is bullying? The younger brother I’m close with now is such a great person, so I’m curious.”

“Do it in moderation. Boy, look at me now. Can’t you see the blood in your eyes? You’re busy with Machine Gun Jack stories these days.”

It’s not like that.

And do you really have blood in your eyes?

I’ve also heard that my skin is getting better because I get enough sleep every day.

Anyway, I don’t know if it was thanks to Lee Dae-bong, but the questions that were pouring in suddenly stopped. And everyone seems to be really busy, so everyone goes to their desks and works.

Still, the mouth did not rest.

Is it because fairy tales and paintings are mostly simple things like this?

The conversation started again and continued to talk about Seon-hee, but this time it moved on to the story of the history of comics and movies.

Because of that, the atmosphere suddenly became depressed.

“How long do we have to do such simple subcontracting?”

Kim Young-ho’s expression darkened a little as someone sighed and spoke up.

“Yeah. When I first opened my office, I still had a dream.”

“However, you, Young-ho, have had experience in the main project with great people in the past, but we don’t have that much experience.

“right. I came in trusting Youngho hyung, but he only made me do simple things like this to meet.”

At that, Kim Young-ho laughed awkwardly.

“When I came to this floor, I had a lot of dreams. But I’m running out of time and running out of money. That’s why, from some point in time, I became tainted by this simple pattern of subcontracting.”

In fact, almost all of the Korean animation industry in the 1980s was like this.

This was also partly why most of the theatrical version of the cartoon movies that flowed from the late 70’s to the mid 80’s were covered with plagiarism.

There was no opportunity on TV, so the theatrical version was the only breakthrough.

Most of the related companies were busy with subcontracting to Japan, so it was difficult to expect quality.

Of course, this cannot be a reason for plagiarism.

Fortunately, the first TV animations have been produced under the leadership of the government ahead of the Olympics since last year, but the quantity is still not large.

As a result, I can only envy the Japanese production environment, which produces a huge amount of animation every year.

“However, Japanese children’s production know-how is completely hidden. Because I don’t even entrust anything that is important to you.”

“It’s just an illusion that Korea is the world’s third-largest producer.”

“When will our company be able to produce its own cartoon films?”

Although the technology for production was accumulating, the ability of pre-production was significantly lower than that of Japan because it was buried in subcontracting rather than creation.

In addition, Japan is at a time when the animation industry is growing explosively, so it is an environment full of subcontract work sent to Korea.

Korean subcontractors are making good enough money just by sending work from Japan, so they are increasingly not feeling the need to make their own.

Anyway, although the Korean animation industry itself continues to grow, there were many people who were worried about the future because of this atmosphere.

Anyway, people who were talking about the reality of Korea took an interest in me again.

“Yoonhwan, your work has already been made into TV cartoons, so you must have met people in the industry.”

“Uh, what. We met for a while.”

We talked about meeting with Japanese animation officials.

I was very interested in things like the intuition of Japanese voice actors being dubbed and the circumstances there.

Some people even take notes of my words.

After all, in this era, information about Japan was scarce.

“uh? It’s already dark.”

Lee Dae-bong said looking out his window.

I didn’t realize the time was passing because I was also talking.

“It must have been delayed because of us.”

Kim Young-ho waved his hand at my words.

“It’s okay, it’s not a day or two. Anyway, I was prepared to do it late today.”

“right. On the contrary, I heard a lot of interesting stories thanks to you guys.”

“Next time, let’s talk while having samgyeopsal and soju.”

Daebong Lee, nodding his head, got up from the sofa and said to me.

“Yoonhwan-ah, let’s go back now.”

* * *

a few days later.

Jiro visited the new production company ‘Aniwork’ that was in charge of the TV animation of Machine Gun Jack.

After a brief greeting, Aniwok’s CEO and Jiro moved to the conference room. And Jiro was the first to speak up.

“I have a request from the author, Tengen-sensei.”

“Please?”

“Yeah.”

As Jiro nodded, Aniwok’s representative Makino tilted his head.

“What kind of request?”

“I wish I could take a tour of the current machine gun manufacturing process.”

“Are you talking about Tengen-sensei yourself?”

“no. These are the people of Korea’s anime-related partners.”

“······Partners?”

“Yeah.”

At Jiro’s answer, Makino had a strange expression on his face.

“Do you mean that you want to learn the production process?”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

“·················ogue.”

Makino frowned slightly and fell into thought. In front of him, Jiro looked at him without a word.

He is waiting for his decision.

“What if we refuse?”

“I think that if you refuse, there is nothing you can do.”

At Jiro’s words, Makino put on a surprised expression.

“Are you going to cancel the production of Machine Gun Jack or anything like that?”

“There is no such thing. As in our publishing house, Tengen-sensei has no intention of doing that.”

Even as he said that, Makino’s frowned brow did not open at all.

After thinking for a while, Makigo opened his mouth again.

“Then could you give me some time to think?”

“Yeah. Do by that way. And when a decision is made, please be sure to contact us.”

“I will.”

Jiro said goodbye and went back.

After a while. The staff who entered the conference room asked Makino looking at him.

“Why? What are you worried about?”

“that······.”

As Jiro told the story, the staff also had a face similar to Makino’s.

“It seems that they are trying to teach Koreans the production know-how.”

“It looks like that.”