Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty: New Characters
In the new week, Alice ran to Jiayuan Community excitedly.
Before seven o'clock in the morning, Li Qin poured water on the flowers and vegetables she planted in the yard. When she saw Alice's arrival, she put the kettle and opened the door: "Alice, don't you have to go to work today?"
"Yes, so I came here early." Alice replied: "I forgot to get the original manuscript from Meng Huo yesterday. Did he get up?"
"I'm getting up and I'm still washing up. You can go in."
Li Qin asked Alice to go in, but she continued to work.
Alice walked into the room, and Meng Huo just walked out of the bathroom with a towel and wiped his head.
"Good morning, Meng Huo, why are you washing your hair now?"
"Hmm? Alice..." Meng Huo turned his head and smiled at the female editor: "I'm sleeping in a mess, so just wash it, and it's already May."
Time flies, and May is unconsciously coming. The originally cool weather occasionally causes a few days of heat.
"You're going to get the original manuscript? It's in the study and it's already packed." Meng Huo pointed to the study. Alice walked in and saw two packed file bags. "Inuyasha" was still the same, but "Detective Conan"...
"Is Conan's original manuscript too thick?"
Alice thought to herself, then she took the original from the bag, but because it was too thick, one of them accidentally fell to the ground.
She bent down and picked it up, looking slightly distracted: "This picture..."
"That's a new character." Meng Huo walked to the door of the study and said to Alice: "She is the new character of "Detective Conan". I want to use her as the cover of "Weekly Boy"."
Cover?
Alice looked at the girl in the picture. This picture was shockingly beautiful. When the cover of "Weekly Boy" was rubbed, fortunately, Alice had seen several similar pictures yesterday, so she could barely remain calm and shift her mind from being beautiful to other aspects.
"Is the new character a primary school student?"
The blonde female editor frowned slightly: "Beautiful is beautiful, but "Detective Conan" only has three characters on the cover of "Weekly Boy", Conan, Xiaolan and the monster thief Kid, they are all very important characters. But this new character..."
What is the importance of this character that has never appeared? Judging from age alone, Alice believes that elementary school students have no potential to explore.
There is a teenage detective group in "Detective Conan", which can be said to be a children's detective group, but the role has never been very high. Does Meng Huo want to increase the role of this detective group?
Isn't that a little bit of putting the cart before the horse? The adult case in "Detective Conan" is the key. The Youth Detective Group is relatively relaxed, and their roles are good as a adjustment. Too many can easily make readers feel disgusted.
"This new character is Ai Haibara. The original manuscript has three chapters, you can take a look."
Meng Huo laughed.
"Three episodes?"
Alice's expression was a bit strange, which was a coincidence. "Weekly Boy" is now short, and "Detective Conan" with three episodes is just right.
And yesterday Phoenix Company found a new channel. Meng Huo immediately added a lot of fire on it. The cover is definitely attractive if the content is also good.
“Sales will rise sharply…”
This thought flashed through, Alice no longer hesitated. She picked up the original manuscript of "Detective Conan" and started reading it. She read it very seriously. The content of these three chapters can be said to determine whether Meng Huo has the chance to defeat "Detective Sherlock Sequel".
The new character Meng Huo prepared is called Ai Haibara. She is an important character in the original work of "Detective Conan". She can even be said to be the second character outside the protagonist. Sometimes she is more popular than the heroine.
The appearance of Ai Haibara once created a miracle. She re-entered the "Detective Conan", which had gradually faded over time, and the popularity continued to decline. It can be imagined that this character has great charm.
Her charm comes from many factors, an outstanding and tragic background, and the same experience as the protagonist, smart and beautiful. Plus her extremely high IQ and calm personality.
This "primary school student" can definitely detonate the readers' hearts.
"Why did it break?" As the first person to be detonated, Alice quickly finished watching the three episodes, and she stood up: "Meng Huo, what's going on with Ai Haibara's identity!"
"This development is amazing! Meng Huo, tell me the story behind you!"
She asked excitedly.
The plot of these three chapters is excellent, but in professional terms, it is just a prelude to the plot. The plot of the three chapters describes a girl with super high IQ and beautiful, and then finally reveals her identity.
That identity is so amazing that it will definitely make readers exclaim - making people unable to understand why this situation occurs.
But I'm so dying, the story ended at a critical moment...
"Out of context!"
Alice seemed to be able to hear the readers' curses. She was also itchy about the plot of the story.
Meng Huo smiled slightly and did not answer Alice's question. Instead, he asked: "There is no problem with these three words on "Weekly Boy"?"
"Problem? No! No problem at all!"
Alice shook her head. Although she didn't know the follow-up plot, there was no doubt that the original story was very outstanding, and the charm of the new character was no less than Kidd.
"Forget it, I understand!"
She suddenly woke up and reached out and said, "You'd better stop talking. It's boring to spoil it. I'll wait for your original manuscript next week!"
The plot development was too unexpected, and Alice thought that reading comics would be more interesting than spoilers. She carefully sorted out the thick manuscript and smiled on her face.
With these manuscripts, this week's "Weekly Boy" is worth looking forward to.
"The Huamei matter is kept confidential for the time being..." Alice thought to herself, so she could surprise Meng Huo after the release.
She picked up the manuscript and said goodbye. Meng Huo sent her to the door, but he wanted to speak but stopped.
"What else?"
Alice noticed his abnormality and laughed: "Don't keep it in your heart if you have anything, just tell me directly."
After she said this, Meng Huo nodded.
"I'm preparing a new work." He gave an answer that shocked Alice: "I don't want to put the new work in "Weekly Boy" and "Weekly Girl". When you go to work, you say to Xu Jing that I want to publish a new magazine."
New magazine, this is the only way Meng Huo thought of dealing with "Weekly Premium". If both comics were placed on "Weekly Boy", it would definitely not be able to surpass Zhongxia Company's sales.
Meng Huo wants to serialize "One Piece" in a new magazine. Although he temporarily left the daily work of Phoenix Company, it is now the time period agreed with Xu Jing - he can lead the company's strategic countermeasures.
He asked Alice to pass the message just a polite act, so that Xu Jing could be mentally prepared in advance.
"New Magazine?" Alice was startled: "This is impossible. The model of "Weekly Boutique" cannot be copied. There are too few cartoonists."
It was already very difficult for the cartoonists of Phoenix Company to serialize "Weekly Boy" and "Weekly Girl". Alice felt it was unrealistic to launch a new magazine.
Meng Huo naturally understood this.
“The new magazine doesn’t need other cartoonists, I’m alone,” he explained. “This magazine is released once a month, like a single book, and I don’t think it’s too much pressure.”
The single-line version is released once every two or three months, and it will be half a year. However, Meng Huo plans to release four or five chapters of comics in a month. This new magazine will only serialize "One Piece", but there are many possibilities in the future.
Alice was a little moved. She knew that Meng Huo was fast and it was not impossible for monthly magazines. And only magazines with He Xi's works were only for people to think about it, and it made people feel a desire to buy.
"No problem." She nodded: "I will notify him."
Another good news, Alice felt that Meng Huo was more likely to defeat "Weekly Boutique". With a faint expectation, she drove away from Jiayuan Community.
Meng Huo watched Porsche's back, and Li Qin, who had finished the work, walked to him.
"Alice has been so diligent these two days. On the contrary, what's wrong with that girl Chen Jie? She didn't come during the holiday."
Li Qin looked at Meng Huo with some concern. Did these two children quarrel? In the past, Chen Jie would stay here and not want to leave every time she had a holiday.
"Chen Jie, she, haha, she missed too many classes and was dragged by the school to make up for the lessons!" Meng Huo laughed: "Next week is the midterm exam, and she said she would win the first place in the grade."
Midterm exams, a troublesome thing...
Meng Huo thought to himself that he was going to school to make soy sauce again, and it was Thursday and Friday, which was the critical time for the release of "Weekly Boy".
Chapter completed!