1983 Past Life Manga King

“I asked.”

It’s not funny.

grand dreams (3)

dinner.

Kido’s house.

When I call home, Kyunghee answers.

“Hello?”

“It’s me. I’ll be back tomorrow morning.”

“Ah! brother!”

I was startled by suddenly screaming.

what?

Somehow, Kyunghee is excited.

“What happened?”

– Yes, yes. What’s over there… that’s right. I received an interview request from a broadcasting station.

“A request for an interview?”

-uh. I mean TV. TV.

what else do i say

asked in a calm voice.

“okay. what show is it? Documentary?”

– It’s not like that, it’s a morning broadcast.

“Morning broadcast?”

-Huh. It’s a famous broadcast called ‘Ask me anything’. Don’t you know my brother?

“I know.”

-Oh, why do you have all the shows you know about?

I don’t know if it’s a longevity broadcast that existed even in the era I lived in.

-Anyway, what we’re going to do there next week is about manga.

“Oh yeah?”

But Kyunghee didn’t seem to like my reaction.

– Oh no. oh yeah Because my brother is bored with the reaction, so it’s not fun. He appears in Japanese magazines and is close with reporters, so it might not be a big deal for you, but in the studio, it’s a big deal.

“·················ogue.”

A sigh escapes the phone.

Then, Kyunghee opened her mouth again.

-Anyway, it seems that my brother came to me knowing that he was promoting in Japan as a manga. So he said he wanted to do an interview.

“so?”

– It’s a broadcasting station. How do you refuse? Even her mother said a few words at random. I also said a few words.

“Has she already been interviewed?”

-Of course. I just called and came over. are you going to send it back? And as I just said, it’s a broadcasting station.

If it’s a broadcasting station in this day and age, it feels like heaven to the general public.

“Then what about Seon-hee?”

-I did come to the studio, but Seon-hee didn’t do it because she didn’t like it, and the other fishy unnies and oppas did interviews little by little. Except for Silver Brother.

Seonhee and Silver don’t feel like that.

-Oh, and I didn’t say it on purpose because I didn’t seem to know much about Seonhee. It’s because the people at the broadcasting station only know him.

“Well done.”

There is no need to make Seon-hee uncomfortable by trying to be on the air for nothing.

-But he said that he regretted not being able to interview him. They say they don’t know exactly when the show will go on or not. Well, looking at the atmosphere, he didn’t seem that interested.

“It will most likely be cancelled. If only I was the main.”

-Is that so?

“Well, it doesn’t really matter whether or not it is.”

– To be honest, I’m not expecting too much.

Saying so and smiling

How do I feel sorry for you?

Haha, because of Kyunghee’s personality, if she appears on TV, she’ll like it a lot.

– Oh, wait, I’ll change Seon-hee.

“···········?”

Soon the voice changed.

-Buy a lot of delicious food.

“Oh yeah. okay. I’m going to buy a bunch of them and go.”

– Beksulgi snacks too.

“Yeah, okay, okay.”

* * *

a few days later.

In the morning broadcast that Kyung Hee spoke of, there were stories about cartoons, but in the end, as expected, the interviews with my family and Japanese fishermen were not aired.

Perhaps it was because of my omission, it was replaced with a scene in which several famous Korean cartoonists were interviewed.

Of course, even that was a very short video.

Even if I had been interviewed, it would have only been on the air for a few seconds.

It seems like they didn’t do much research on me in the first place.

I wasn’t expecting it, so I wasn’t disappointed.

But other people seemed to be different from me.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

It seems like they all watched the morning broadcast, and the fishermen who went to work said one word at a time with disappointing faces.

“It’s still too much. I had a really hard interview.”

“Me too.”

“I even boasted to my mom that I was going to be aired.”

“After all, it doesn’t seem like it’s easy to appear on TV.”

“Yeah.”

Seeing that, Silver clicked his tongue.

“It’s obvious if it’s a morning broadcast, what did you expect so much?”

Daebong Lee also looked at Silver and nodded her head.

“The cartoonists who came out this time also said that they had long interviews in the studio, but the fishermen didn’t even have a voice at all. They must be very disappointed.”

The fishermen showed interest in Lee Dae-bong’s words.

“Were you there too?”

“uh. There was also a studio where the interview lasted over an hour. But only the teacher came out for a few seconds.”

“If you weren’t going to be on a TV show, what did you interview for?”

At Somi Park’s words, Daebong Lee flicked his fingers left and right.

“Edit, edit. Even in the manga, the unnecessary parts of the story are deleted from the continuity. It’s the same with movies.”

“It’s not like that. It’s because we delete only the unnecessary parts of the flow of the story.”

“So, it’s the same thing. In the story they thought, we would have been unnecessary.”

“I see, so it is.”

“Somehow, I am very sorry. Still, I did.”

A few convincing people nod their heads.

Most of them seem very sad.

Because it’s not what I was expecting.

No, I was worried that it would be rather annoying, so I thought it was a good thing.

In any case, the interest in cartoons in Korea today is not that great.

Of course, in the future I lived in, webtoons appeared and dramatized, or their writers appeared frequently on TV.

Anyway, even though I’m used to this era, I don’t have any fantasies about TV at all.

I came from the era of one-person internet broadcasting, so it’s only natural.

“One day, the time will come when ordinary people will make broadcasts, so don’t be too disappointed.”

I said it as if passing by, and Lee Dae-bong made an impression.

“One person broadcast? Is that possible?”

“Well, wouldn’t it be possible in the future?”

“future? So, what are you filming and interviewing yourself?”

“I guess so.”

“Who wants to see that? And it would cost a lot of money to do that. Besides, there’s no way it’s going to be aired. I heard that there are many channels abroad, but I don’t think that’s the case.”

In today’s world, of course, it seems impossible.

“Even if you have a lot of ideas, that’s a bit unreasonable. You are very fresh too.”

“·················ogue.”

There is no need to go into detail about the future, so I left that story.

At that time, Daebong Lee looked at me and asked if he had remembered something.

“By the way, the headmaster of the suit came to visit yesterday. What are you here for?”

The name of the old man who followed Izumi was the name of the old man in suit.

“Disney stake.”

When I answered as if it wasn’t a big deal, everyone’s eyes turned to me at once.

Some people have their mouths wide open like a gag character in an American cartoon.

Daebong Lee was one of them.

After a moment of silence, Lee Dae-bong asked.

“Hey, is that the Disney I know?”

“Perhaps.”

“So Pinocchio in Snow White, Peter Pan…”

“okay.”

Daebong Lee frowned at my reaction.

“Aren’t you talking too lightly? Disney is called Disney. The world’s largest comic book kingdom. The owner of Dreamland Disneyland.”

“I want to go to Disneyland.”

“Of course! It’s my dream.”

“I want to go too.”

“Me too!”

The fishermen were excited and raised their hands and shouted.

In this case, everyone seems like a child.

After all, the current era is not a liberalization of travel.

“Because I said that travel would be liberalized this year. There will be a day when we will go as a group soon.”

Everyone jumped up from their seats at my words.

“Is it really possible to travel to America?”

Park So-mi nodded her head at her words.

“Yeah. Mi-ryeong had heard her mother before.”

“Oh right. Mi-ryeong said her dad was a high-ranking civil servant.”

No one knows how tall they are.

Anyway, as far as I know, it seems like it’s now, so it’s probably not wrong information.

Anyway, because of that, people were excited about it for a while.

And as soon as the feeling subsided a little, Daebong Lee spoke to me again.

“So that means I will have a stake in it.”

“Well, it’s not much to say that it is a share. A small investment.”

If you look at the real total stake, it’s really small. But in the future, even that will be a huge amount.

Silver nodded his head, seemingly in agreement with my words.

“Hey, Disney these days isn’t what it used to be.”

“Yes. They say that they don’t make it for theatres, except for occasionally seeing it on TV.”

“I heard that the ones I made before were not very fun. Wouldn’t a good Japanese animation producer be better? A place like Toei.”

Silver is right.

Because ‘Oliver and Friends’, which was released in the US at the end of last year, achieved just that.

‘The Great Detective Basil’, made in 1986, seems to have been okay.

Anyway, it was true that Disney doesn’t get much attention today.

Rather, it was an era when Japanese animations were expanding overseas with stock prices rising.

However, no matter how good Disney is, it is not comparable in size to Toei.

“It’s just an investment for the future.”

“okay. If it’s a little money, that’s fine.”

“······okay. Because it is small.”

Except for my family’s money, I threw out most of my money.

Anyway, I even talked to my lawyer about this in advance.

If anything happens to me later…

It would be nice if that didn’t happen.

Thinking about it again, my taste buds are bitter.

I’m having nightmares because of this these days.

And on the other hand, I am afraid that I will not be able to return to the days I lived in and just call out.

Hey, let’s not think about it.

It’s not even what I can do.

Then, Daebong Lee said looking towards the front door.

“uh? long time no see.”

“Good morning. Sir James.”

Someone said it was Jiro.

“Come on. Your face has improved a lot these days. I guess it’s time to get married. Are you and Kawada doing well?”

Ji-ro was startled by Lee Dae-bong’s words and waved his hand.

“㘘, it’s just an adverb.”