Chapter 46. Letters and Gifts from Readers
Urashima Publishing House.
The original manuscript of the serialized author is generally preserved here.
After all, as a comic author, these original manuscripts have a preservation value, and they can also give readers a benefit from time to time, such as printing the author's setting manuscript or original painting collection into a book... This is a sum of money.
In addition to the original manuscript of the author in the serialization, the rest are readers' reply letters, letters from readers and gifts from readers after the miscellaneous statistics.
What Hosokawa Koharu showed Higashinoji was the letters his readers sent to him and the gifts he sent.
"Originally, we were responsible for handing over the letters and gifts from readers to Teacher Higashino, but Teacher Higashino, you also saw it..."
Hosokawa Koharu's voice sounded unconfident.
Higashinoji looked in the direction of Hosokawa Koharu, and then he saw the gifts placed behind her...their readers sent to him.
It was clearly a TV set.
A brief look at it was about ten units, some were smashed and some were brand new products I just bought.
"this...?"
This was the first time Higashinoji encountered this scene, and he glanced at Hosokawa Koharu with a little strangeness.
"This is a letter from the reader, Mr. Higashino, please take a look."
Hosokawa Koharu handed over a thick stack of readers' letters to Higashinoji.
This should have been selected. Although it looks thick, it only has more than a dozen letters.
Higashinoji read it one by one.
Some of these readers praised him for his horrible and realistic paintings of "Midnight Bell".
This type of readers is a standard loyal fan reader. Even if the TV at home is gone, they are very positive and optimistic.
Some of them were also like they wanted to kill Higashinoji with a knife to sacrifice to their own TV in the sky, but at the end of the letter, they still added awkwardly, "It's really good to draw, I smashed the TV, just to read your comic, don't let me down."
Old arrogant.
Among them, a considerable number of readers think that he paints very well, but they are a bit of TV.
Most of these readers are particularly rich. The brand new TVs placed here are sent by them, looking like "I am very rich, and I can change another TV if I smash the home, so you can speed up the painting, no problem."
Higashinoji obviously didn't expect that there would be something else. He looked at the readers' letters and then at the TV set in front of him, and laughed happily.
It seems that he has not insulted the reputation of "Midnight Bell", which has really tortured Japanese readers to the point of being physically and mentally disabled.
Speaking of which, Japanese fans are indeed like this, with very high motivation. Higashinoji had heard of a story about a fan finding her address through the reflection of her favorite idol's eyes.
Now it seems that maybe it is not a rumor.
"...Ahem...Teacher Higashino, it's another matter to laugh. These TVs, Urajima Publishing House's warehouses cannot always have them. You have to think of a way."
Hosokawa Koharu reminded him next to him.
"It's nothing, the worn-out TV is dealt with directly, and the new TV is given as a gift to readers of Midnight Ring... I don't need so many TVs."
Higashinoji soon came up with a solution.
This is called taking it from the people and using it for the people.
He doesn't use TV at all, so he might as well return these TVs to readers who have already smashed the TV.
"This is a good idea. I will propose to the editor-in-chief...but there is a TV, Teacher Higashino, you still have to accept it."
Hosokawa Koharu took out a greeting card from his pocket, which was a very common postcard: "This is what Mr. Kuromiya, the author of "Between the Dolls", hopes that I will hand it over to you."
"The author of "Between the Dolls"?" Higashino was stunned, and then remembered the manga author who removed him from the top reader's praise last week.
Is it him? And the surname Black Palace sounds quite familiar.
Higashinoji took the postcard handed over by Hosokawa Koharu, and only one sentence was written on it—
‘The Midnight Bell is very good, I hope to encourage you.’
This is not like the traditional novels that leave provocative words.
Since he was a fellow traveler and a gift from his senior, Higashinoji thought about it and nodded: "I understand, then I will accept the gift from Mr. Kurokumiya."
Now the readers' reply and gifts are temporarily resolved.
But Hosokawa Koharu should have something to say, and he looks a little hesitant.
"If there is anything else I want to say, please let Editor Hosokawa tell me directly."
Higashinoji took the opportunity to give Hosokawa Koharu a step.
"Actually..."
Hosokawa Koharu hesitated for a while before he took Higashiji back to the office area, and then pulled out a stack of paper materials from her desk:
"These are the recent reviews of "Midnight Bell" by some newspapers and magazines outside."
Higashinoji put the letter from the readers he received into his shoulder bag, and then he freed up his hand to take over the information composed of newspapers and magazines.
He took a look at it with his eyes.
Koharu Hosokawa did not hesitate and simply explained to him: "These newspapers and magazines were not chosen by me deliberately, so Teacher Higashino, you can completely believe in their objectivity."
She said, sighing and looking at Higashinoshi.
Hosokawa Koharu sighed not because these magazines and newspapers slandered "Midnight Bell", but because they really praised "Midnight Bell".
To a rare level.
What is the new star in the horror comics world, the author of the genius comic script, and the realistic and realistic painting skills will bring you into that world...
Anyway, you can do whatever you want.
Including the magazine "Atsuki", a subsidiary of the publisher Fuji Publishing House, which has always been unfavorable to Urashima Publishing House, all gave five-star reviews and called on everyone to read it.
This made Hosokawa Koharu feel a little crisis.
Because for her, this excessive flattery is very unfavorable to the creator's growth.
And if you think deeper, these magazines and newspapers actually have the intention of praising Higashinoji.
After all, the first episode of Midnight Bell is so outstanding that even if they want to find a place to spray, they can only praise it - what if the second episode of Midnight Bell is mediocre?
Hosokawa Koharu could even imagine how these magazines and newspapers would criticize Higashinoji if the second chapter was not of quality.
Higashinoji quickly finished reading all the information, still looking happy and laughing.
When is this time? You are still laughing! Could it be that Higashinoji has not understood the seriousness of the problem?
Thinking of this, Hosokawa Koharu asked, "Teacher Higashino, do you understand the current situation?"
"Ah? Situation? Oh... Is the editor of Hosokawa referring to the fact that these media deliberately praise me?"
"Yes...Don't Teacher Higashino understand this very much?" Hosokawa Koharu looked at Higashino's smile in confusion.
We have already learned that these people are praising and killing each other, and we have already known that others are watching him joke.
Why does Higashinoji still look happy?
"Do you really have nothing to do? Teacher Higashino?"
Hosokawa Koharu asked subconsciously.
"It's okay." Higashinoji still smiled: "My "Midnight Bell" is even better than they praise, why should I worry?"
These confident words were just a word that made Hosokawa Koharu stunned.
This... Why is Higashinoji so confident?
But she soon thought of the quality of the second episode of Higashinoji's "Midnight Bell".
In an instant, she felt relieved again.
yes.
Teacher Higashino's "Midnight Bell" is even better than these people.
Since this is the case, why are you still worried about being praised?
Chapter completed!