Ke Xuezhuo's son-in-law

Chapter 184 Decision to publish single book

After accepting the commission from Sayuri in front of the window, Mouri Kogoro spent about four days finding that breast.

In the photo, it has separated from the cat image, and now it is so thin that only bones and skin are left.

After confirming that the cat was that Mimi based on the tag on its neck, Kogoro called Sayuri's phone number in front of the bed and informed him that the cat had been found.

"Where are you? Is Mimi in Detective Maori's office now? Can I go find you now?" Sayuri's voice sounded very anxious on the phone, as if she was about to crawl out of the other end of the phone in the next second.

"No, I saw something was wrong with him, so I took him to Dr. Murata's pet hospital. However, after the doctor checked, he found that there was nothing serious."

Half an hour later, Sayuri hurriedly arrived at the entrance of the private hospital in a black Bentley. After seeing her cat, she couldn't hold it back for a moment and started crying while hugging Kogoro.

Kogoro was very embarrassed holding the cat in his hands, but the cat was too strong to break free.

"The cat is fine..."

"I understand, that's great. Thank you so much Detective Mori."

He said and hugged Kogoro harder, almost strangling him.

"No need to thank you, this is what I should do, uh uh uh, can you loosen your hands a little bit, I can't breathe..."

"I'm sorry, you are so handsome, can I ask you to be my personal bodyguard?

"Sorry, I have other things to do, so I'll leave first." Kogoro, realizing that he was in danger, was about to run away, but was quickly stopped by Sayuri, "Don't leave in a hurry, Detective Mori, the price of being a bodyguard is negotiable, 30 How about a yen a day?”

"Miss Window, I really have other things to do, please let me go."

"Yeah, Detective Maori is really out of touch. Just call me Sayuri. Why call me Miss? It's so funny."

"I really have something to do"

Ever since he met Sayuri in the park that day, Kogoro had another trouble in his life. Because of this trouble, Kogoro even gave up entertainment and devoted himself to work, trying to use his busy work to persuade Sayuri who came to harass him every day. But not everything can go as expected. The more Mouri Kogoro behaves like this, the more enthusiastic Sayuri becomes. She is no longer satisfied with the verbal invitation, but directly takes Kogoro away to let him protect herself. Every time Conan sees Kogoro being led away like a hawk pinching a chicken, it’s hard to tell whether it’s Sayuri or Uncle Kogoro who needs to be protected——
  Fujiwara's comic career is developing steadily, especially the serialization business of girls' comics. His two works have been listed in the monthly newcomers column of two comic companies respectively, becoming the best and the most popular among readers of girls' comics. Welcome new work.

Seeing that the response was good, the marketing department of the comic company did a survey and found that the comic had a good reputation. They planned to try to publish a single volume, so they called Fujiwara to ask for his opinion and urged him to deliver the follow-up comic.

"Pumpkin Mr., our chief editor is very optimistic about your comic. If possible, we would like to revise and sign the contract as soon as possible and confirm the distribution related matters."

The last time we talked about things related to serialization, it was a bit of a gamble, but I didn’t expect that the market feedback was good, and everyone liked this genre very much, so it became necessary to publish a single volume of "5 Centimeters Per Second".

Since it is the first work under the pen name Pumpkin, it will definitely not fetch a good price. Each page is about 60 yen, and the total of the serialization so far is less than yen.

The price for signing a contract with a shoujo manga is 8% of the sales of the single book or 35% of the copyright shared with the magazine.

Giving up the comic copyright can earn a little more, but for Fujiwara, the 8% and 35% are trivial and have little impact on him, but the copyright is very important. If a novel of the same name is published in the future, or adapted into a movie, no Copyright is a waste. "There is no need to modify it, just implement it as last time. I will give you %, but I retain all the rights to adapt the original work."

"Ahaha, okay."

The original idea of ​​the magazine was to amend the contract and take away some of the adaptation rights and pen name ownership rights in the form of an increase in royalties. That is to say, for a certain period of time in the future, the other party would not be able to use Pumpkin Taro's name in other magazines or comic newspapers. Publish any form of work, but seeing as the other party holds the copyright so tightly, they are probably considering long-term benefits. They are not short of money at the moment, but fortunately they have obtained the right to own the pen name.

The contract clearly stipulates that he will become an exclusive cartoonist, and their society will also provide him with a certain degree of subsidies.

But they would never have imagined that Fujiwara had two pen names, and each pen name also had serial works that were about to be published in single volumes.

As soon as I hung up the phone with this company, another girl comic called me to ask for his opinion on the upcoming single book. However, the difference from last time is that this time they also want an animated adaptation.

"Xiguajun, Flower Card Love has defeated most of the serial comics on the market, so it is necessary to publish a single volume. You should have no objections."

"No objection, just go with what you think."

How could there be any opinions?
  "That's good. We have already discussed and decided the animation adaptation within our company. If you are willing, you can come over next Tuesday and we will further discuss the animation and discuss licensing the animation team."

"Okay, no problem. I will go there then, but the comic has not been serialized yet. If my serialization progress cannot keep up with the animation team's progress, I won't be fined, right?"

Because of this damn time, it is very likely that the manuscript will be delayed for several months, so Fujiwara must be fully prepared to avoid being branded as a eunuch and a bad eunuch for no reason.

"Hahaha, no, I believe in Mr. Xigua's efficiency. He can say one thing every two weeks. Don't worry, we have discussed these issues. There won't be any mistakes. Even if there is an accident, there won't be any mistakes." There’s going to be that weird fine.”

"That's okay, how about we meet on Thursday? I'll show you the manuscript I drew recently. The location was the Maoyan Cafe last time."

"No problem, I listen to Mr. Xigua. See you on Thursday."

"Yeah, see you on Thursday."

"Bye-Bye."

"Bye-Bye."

After hanging up the phone, Fujiwara put it down and took out the later chapters of "Kindaichi Boy's Incident Book" from the storage ring. Although he always felt that he was delivering the manuscript on time every time, in the eyes of the outside world, he stopped publishing at every turn. Some people even wrote letters threatening him to resume serialization, otherwise they would never buy any works under his pen name again.

Although this level of threat is a bit childish, he doesn't want to disappoint his fans, so why wouldn't he give it up?

So I put the manuscript into a document bag and planned to send it to Shueisha today.

(End of this chapter)