Akihabara Pioneer Road Chapter 131: 【The confrontation between the detective and the editor! ]

Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

The editorial department of Juxian Society of Dashou Publishing House.

"Jingle Bell..."

The phone rang quickly, and the editor of Bird Island answered the phone.

"Hey, this is the editorial team of the Juxian Club. I'm Bird Island. You are..."

"Oh, you are Aoyama-san. Thank you for your visit last time! Have you already bought this issue of Weekly Shonen Comics? The sample book we sent you is probably still on the way, sorry for letting you It's been a long time."

"You asked about the response of this issue? So far, the sales are quite good! Judging from the results of the random survey of readers conducted by the publisher, the popularity of the new series of "Detective Kenan" is still very high. Sixty-eight percent of the entire survey population were very willing to continue reading and those who would continue reading if they had time."

"Is the confirmation of the later drawing correct? I will wait for Miura to send a calendar of my schedule to your email!  … Yes, yes, as long as I am free, I will give priority to receiving you."

"Okay, let's keep the communication channels open at any time! Please continue to work on your creations and save as many drawings as possible. I believe in your stories and paintings here!"

"Please also convey my greetings to Lin Sang! Okay! Let's just do this for now? Bye! Then I'll close the line!"

"Bang!" The microphone was snapped.

The other editors and editorial assistants in the Shonen Comics editorial department are whispering at the moment:

When did our "Evil Ghost Editor" Torishima answer the phone so gently?

Where is this still a "fangs demon"? The whole "Jade Faced Bodhisattva"!

Was he stimulated by something? Or fall in love again? This tone is wrong - it's too sweet!

Hey, don't you know? In this issue of the weekly magazine, a new reasoning comic called "Detective Kenan" has been serialized, and the market has responded very well! The "Qingshan" who called him was the author and painter!

Huh, that manga? I also watched it, it is really a rare masterpiece of fairy grass! No wonder Bird Island is so attentive!

I heard that the editor of Bird Island did not reject the manuscript this time, and did not redraw the manuscript this time. It was a "one-off"!

What what? One-off? According to the character of our Bird Island editor, how is that possible?

But it really happened. I heard that the countdown was the last train to deliver the manuscript to the printing house, and the editor-in-chief even scolded him for it!

But now that the grades are so good, no one should have any objections, right?

Of course! When did the Bird Island editor take a look? He will be popular in our publishing house for at least another 20 years!

"Jingle Bell..."

The phone on Bird Island's editing desk rang again. Everyone immediately stopped chatting and discussing, and they all erected their own receiving antennas, ready to continue listening to the latest battle report from the popular editor.

"Hey, I'm Bird Island. Oh, it's a printing house. Judging from the sales situation this time, it is estimated that the number of printed copies in this issue is far from enough. I have already estimated the number of additional copies to be printed. The estimate is reported to the editor-in-chief, you can just follow his orders!"

"If you're conservative, it's enough for you to put in three tons of recycled paper! Well, listen to me, there's no harm in making more preparations! Why am I letting go of the empty cannon? Well, that's it, I have a phone call again. Call in!"

Bird Island could not wait to grow Nezha's three heads and six arms to answer the phone, and he opened another internal line:

"Hey, I'm Bird Island! What's the hurry?"

"Huh? Detective from the Metropolitan Police Department? Okay, I'll be there soon!"

Bird Island put down the microphone and hurried out of the editing room door.

As soon as he left, the editorial room exploded.

Did you hear it? It's a police officer from the Metropolitan Police Department! Why are you looking for our editor, Bird Island?

There must be something strange here!

…

When Bird Island arrived at the meeting room on the second floor of the publishing house, there was already a middle-aged man in a black suit sitting there, with a neatly folded black trench coat beside him.

Is he the detective who wants to see me?

"First time meeting, my dear Torishima Sumihiko. You are..."

"First meeting, I'm Yoshiharu Nishida from the Iidabashi Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department. I'm sorry to waste your precious time. I have something to confirm."

Bird Island motioned for the other person to sit down and talk.

"May I ask if you have an editor named 'Miura Toku'?"

"Yeah, what did he do?"

"Ah, no. In this issue of "Youth Running", which one do you remember was sent to the printing house by him?"

"Huh?" Torishima had a question mark in his heart. How could this detective named "Nishida" know all about this matter?

Did something happen to Miura that day?

He couldn't connect the work of the editorial department with the work of the detectives...

Wait!

If you insist that it is related, the newly serialized "Detective Kenan" this time is indeed the subject of criminal investigation reasoning, but no matter how much you think about this kind of virtual work, it will not alarm the detectives of the Metropolitan Police Department.

That's a bit of an exaggeration!

In the previous internal review, I had already used Miura's review rules list for investigation. The work is quite satisfactory, and the content does not involve the "taboo minefield" part.

In addition to male and female comics that are differentiated by gender, Neon's comics industry strictly divides different levels for adults, youth and teenagers according to the age range of the audience. The strictness of the censorship is progressive from the former, and the censorship level of juvenile manga is the highest. Therefore, various "taboo minefields" involving socially sensitive issues must not appear in the content of the works.

Although "Detective Kenan" involves reasoning and criminal investigation, it is inevitable that there will be a murder scene, but the author of the comic has done the utmost to deal with it. The relevant scenes are only for the needs of the plot, and the motive for the crime is not anti-human or anti-social. , the whole article is full of positive energy.

Is there anything wrong with the "Akihabara Video Game Arena Murder Case" in the first part?

Probably not!

Bird Island did not answer Nishida's question directly, he asked worriedly: "Excuse me to ask, does this have anything to do with your investigation? I know that in your capacity, our editorial department should fully cooperate with you. investigation, but we also have a non-disclosure agreement, so..."

That Nishida had no expression on his face, looked at Torishima's face with embarrassment, and refined the question: "We are only in the stage of gathering intelligence, and no major cases have occurred. Let me ask another question: 4 On the 15th of March, did your editor, Miura Mitsuru, send the comic "Detective Kenan" to your company's printing plant in Wako?"

The editor of Torishima couldn't avoid this "YES/NO" question, so he had to nod his head.

"So when did this manga start to enter the editorial department's attention?" Nishida continued to ask reluctantly~IndoMTL.com~ Torishima felt that he was walking more and more into an unfathomable fog. What is the real intention of this detective who is raking in the east and sweeping the broom in the west?

"It was April 15th. There's nothing wrong with that." Torishima responded quickly.

Is it April 15th? !

A flash of lightning flashed through Nishida's mind, but his face remained calm as water.

He has a huge labyrinth in his heart, and there are many rooms in the labyrinth, and each room is a clue or an inference. Those colorful rooms are connected by passages, and opening the doors of the passages leads from one room to another. After the conversation with the editor of Torishima just now, he opened the passage connecting the room between the "excellent reasoning stories and exciting plots of the comics" and the room of "the same day the manuscript was submitted on the same day of review", and then opened the passage from "Torishima's subordinates" Miura is a novice" room walked to the room where "Torishima editors are experienced and leak-proof", and finally led the passage connecting these rooms to a corner room - "The author of "Detective Kenan" is a Not a bad master"!

In the passage between this room and the entrance room of the entire maze, "Miura collected the scattered drawings in a short time", there must be a door that has not been seen so far!

The author column of "Detective Kenan" reads "AKBS Planning Studio", "Lin Da Ye" and "Qingshan Gangchang"!

Nishida put down his hand touching his chin, took out a business card from his suit pocket and handed it to the editor of Bird Island:

"Thank you for your cooperation! This is my business card!"

Bird Island took a look and saw that it read: Metropolitan Police Department Iidabashi Police Station...

Scientific Research Laboratory - Yoshiharu Nishida!