1983 Past Life Manga King

Chapter 97

“Three times?”

“It’s the fourth.”

“Wow, that’s great. What kind of comic book sells so many in one day?”

“It sounds like you haven’t shot a lot of books. So it seems that this bookstore hastily asked me to send you the books.”

“Oh my gosh, what are the publishers doing like such an idiot? Thanks to you, we are dying.”

“Well, the manager said he died because he liked the sales increase.”

Upon hearing the story, Kido smiled as he saw the staff running up with books with curious eyes.

It seems that there are a lot of great cartoons these days.

There is also a manga called Doctor Slump, the first to surpass 2 million copies in the first edition, and Rumiko Takahashi paid a huge tax of 150 million yen last year, paying the manga artist tax.

I’ve also heard that it was the first division.

It’s me, even if my income isn’t bad, where can I compare to those cartoonists?

I thought that there are many great manga artists in Japan.

“A magazine or a jump manga?”

Mumbling like that, I followed them into the bookstore at a leisurely pace. And soon he went to the comic corner he wanted. But people lined up

line looks

“···········?”

He tilted his head for a moment, then remembered what had just happened at the entrance and said, “Aha,” and understood. They immediately bought the books that the staff received at the entrance.

There will be people who come

In order to become such a popular one day, he vows to burn it until it becomes ashes.

Then we passed them and finally reached the comic corner.

“Okay, where do you want to be?”

I walk around the comics corner and check out the new comic books.

There, I found a cartoon called ‘Human Weapon’. It is an adult manga currently serialized in Weekly Manga Koraku.

“There are 20 volumes.”

“Yes, guest.”

“Did Samsara come out today?”

“Are you Samsara?”

The female employee looked surprised.

Well, it’s only natural that the female staff doesn’t know about Samsara’s low awareness.

“So, the manga artist….”

“Yeah. It’s Sunny’s samsara, right?”

“Oh, it’s different because you’re an employee of a large bookstore. exactly. That samsara…….”

“I’m sorry, sir, but today seems to be a little difficult.”

I don’t understand the woman’s words.

What do you mean hard?

Immediately, a female employee reached out and pointed.

She was the long line of people she had seen coming all the way to her fingertips.

There, I see a female employee screaming.

“Sorry. There are only 200 volumes left. I’ll count the lines from now on, so I’m sorry to those who are after 200, but please come back in a few days. and 200

Only one copy is sold per person.”

Those after 200 people get annoyed at that.

“No, I waited seven hours, what the hell!”

“Aww!”

“Damn!”

Even less than 200 people have some complaints.

“Can’t we only buy one book per person?”

“Oh, damn it. I’ll line up in the morning too. My friends said they bought two or more copies.”

“Ah huh. I can’t.”

It’s people screaming.

Kido, who saw it, asked the female employee.

“What does Samsara have to do with those people?”

“Oh? didn’t you know? Those people over there lined up like that to buy samsara. I heard that Samsara was already sold out at a nearby bookstore. by the way

My bookstore called several times and brought all the last stock from the print shop. I heard that there are people who want to buy badly printed books too.

I’m still in contact with you, what?”

Hearing this, Kido made a bewildered expression and ran to the frontmost seat of the line. And there is the book ‘Samsara’ that I saw at the entrance earlier.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

it was There were people taking it one by one and counting it.

“·················ogue.”

He was speechless for a moment and just stood there blankly.

End

< Pirate One-legged Silver (1) >

Did I not hear well?

“The first 50,000 copies sold out in one day?”

– Yeah. I never imagined that I would get such a huge response. Thanks to the influx of phone inquiries, the editor-in-chief and…

Jiro’s words were not heard properly.

5 million in one day.

Did this absurd thing really happen?

By the way, how much is 50,000 copies in one day?

10% royalties for 300 yen per book, 30 yen per book.

For 50,000 copies, 30 yen X 50,000 = 1.5 million yen.

Since the current exchange rate is about 3.6 times (before the Plaza Agreement), it is about 5.4 million won in Korean money.

In Japan, 10% of the tax is deducted, so if you subtract 500,000 won, you get 4.9 million won.

If you think about all the little things, it’s going to be over 4 million won…?

It is indeed Japan that a single book makes this much money in one day.

I’m drenched in such and such thoughts, and my ears are ringing.

– ······Teacher! Teacher! Did the phone hang up?

“Ah yes. I’m sorry. I was thinking about something else for a while.”

Jiro’s laughter is heard at those words.

– The teacher was also surprised. Well, I don’t think it’s real either.

“By the way, didn’t you say that the first edition was 30,000 volumes before?”

– Yeah? So, what I just said… Oh, you didn’t hear me because you were thinking about something else.

A smiling voice is heard again.

oh, that’s a shame

– Yeah. The fact is······.

Jiro explained what had happened over the days.

The calls poured into the editorial department and the story of working all night at the printing house to print an additional 20,000 copies.

I was only concerned about Pasiencia and Samsara, so I was unaware of such a situation, but it seems that a lot of things happened.

“You have suffered. I was also working on a printing job that I was not familiar with.”

– no. Thanks to that, I also learned a lot about printing, which helped. In addition to that, I got to know the printing factory staff, so I gained a lot from this and that.

He laughed for a while and then continued.

– Oh, and the additional printing is in a hurry from today, and I think the additional issuance is probably around 100,000 copies.

“100,000 copies?”

– In our editorial department, we tried to appeal if we could take more pictures, but the results of the sales department investigation showed that it was for people from the Manga Research Association, otaku, or whatever.

Anyway, it is said that they cannot be optimistic about additional reprints because they are the ones who bought two or three copies each and led this sale. Somehow

Also, the decision was made to sell 100,000 copies in one day because of the huge incident that sold 50,000 copies.

If otaku intervened, I understand.

Always because these are the variables of sale.

But it’s really surprising.

It is true that I personally put a lot of effort into Samsara, but I never thought that otakus would be so enthusiastic about it.

In any case, the purchasing power of otakus even in these days is beyond imagination.

With such purchasing power, companies are pouring out otaku-related products. Of course, it will be a story in the future a little more than it is now.

– And there is an interesting story about this first edition.

“What?”

– 9 original cover illustrations from the first edition.

“Why?”

– Some say that this is the main reason for the large number of sales. Of course, this is not confirmed information.

No, maybe this is the correct story.

Otakus are characterized by a great response to scarcity.

If it is an illustration that will not exist after the first edition, it will be a sufficient purchase requirement.

Come to think of it, I was also very obsessed with the first edition in the past.

Oh, it reminds me of the old days.

Perhaps there is a market among otakus who say they will buy the first edition even if they pay more.

– First of all, I left out the reprint, but if there is an additional reprint, shall we put the original illustration in then?

“No, don’t. On the contrary, doing so will only make the reaction worse. Just go ahead with your original decision.”

Anyway, after experiencing this kind of experience, it would not be bad to add a special picture that appears only in the first edition.

– Additional reprint results will be announced as they come out.

“Yeah. Thank you.”

After talking briefly about the manuscript, I hung up the phone call with Jiro.

As soon as I hung up the phone, Mija Jeong asked with a puzzled expression.

“Oh, Omanbu? It sold in one day?”

“Yeah. It says so.”

At those words, the Japanese fishermen ran all over the place.

In the end, So-mi Park falls on her desk and cries. Her Koo Ja-hee, who was by her side, reads over her, and her Jeong-mi also sheds tears in her eyes.

In fact, although the difficulty of the studio has escaped to some extent with Fasiencia, to them, Samsara is a different entity from Fasiencia.

Although Pasiencia started from Seon-hee’s hand but was completed in Jeon Sang-gil’s studio, it became a popular cartoon that closely followed the No.

This is because while Samsara has always been in the middle ranks, it has always fueled anxiety.

In particular, because of the fact that if they fall in the lower ranks, they get several warnings and they may be eliminated from the series, the assistants are usually more depressed about Pasiencia’s success.

will throw

However, how good would it feel to have all of those heartaches gone at once due to the major incident of selling out 50,000 copies on the first day?

Seon-hee and I always thought of Pasiencia and Samsara as the same children, but the fishermen seem to have a lot of their own competitive spirit.

Then, as Kyung-hee enters the studio, she is startled by this atmosphere.

Then he comes over to me with his eyes wide open and tells me with a slightly worried expression.

“Oh, brother. Did it happen after all?”

“······what?”

“That, so. Samsara that. Serialization is over…”

“no.”

“Mom!”

When Seon-hee approaches and tells Kyung-hee, she is shocked.

“It never ends.”