The editors who were able to become the chief editor of the weekly magazine Shonen Jump branch and had the potential to compete for the chief editor of the head office all had an enviable resume in this industry. Moreover, they were all capable and ambitious people. These people had long discovered that something was wrong, but it was not easy for them to say it out loud with their status. Now that the chief editor had made things clear, everything would be easy to handle.
"As everyone knows, although Shueisha and Shogakukan belong to the same group, Shueisha was only a subsidiary company that was separated from Shogakukan. When the comics trend first rose in the 1960s, it was suppressed by the parent company, Shogakukan.”
The editor-in-chief named Tanaka stood up. His old and short body stood at the front of the conference table, but he was like a giant, oppressing all the editors present.
He looked around, and everyone he looked at straightened their bodies, afraid that something would go wrong.
" I wasn't even born when Shueisha was founded. However, during the first wave of comics, I joined Shueisha at a young age and fought hard with my seniors. When the comic market was divided up between Koudansha and Shogakukan, I forcefully opened up a path and became the number one weekly sales magazine.”
Chief Editor Tanaka spoke in a calm voice, telling the unknown story of how Shueisha, which had a bleak future, fought its way out of the encirclement and achieved its current status.
The other editors present had never experienced that era. Listening to the many stories told by the managing editor, they felt their blood boil.
"Now, the seniors are no longer around, but I have been working until now with my love for comics. However, I know that I am old and it is time for me to step down from this position.”
Chief Editor Tanaka's gaze slowly swept across the editors present. Although they tried their best to remain calm, they could not hide their fervent anticipation. He nodded in satisfaction.
He had a deep affection for the magazine that he had single-handedly brought up. He did not want to see it decline after he retired. There were many talents who could replace the chief editors of the branch offices, but there were definitely not many who could take over his position as the chief editor of the headquarters. He needed to find someone who was most suitable for the future path of the weekly youth Jump to replace him.
"Chief Editor Tanaka is old but strong. He can still lead us for another ten years. How can he just retire like this?”
"Yes, yes, the editor-in-chief can still work for another ten years.”
Compliments came one after another, but Tanaka only smiled and shook his head.
Old people were shrewd. He was not old and muddle-headed. How could he not know that these people below were eager for him to go down and replace them? However, people strive for the top and water flows down. In the company, other than those who muddled along, these ambitious people were the real core because they would work hard for their own ambitions.
"Cough cough!"
He covered his mouth with his hand and coughed twice, signaling everyone to quiet down.
"Alright, quiet down. Next, we're going to talk about the most important things. The reason why I'm telling everyone about the past is to tell everyone that we might need to change.”
" Let's not talk about the teachers who helped our magazine become famous back then…"
When Tanaka said this, the editors below all laughed tacitly.
Although they didn't live in that era, as the chief editors of the weekly magazine Shonen JUMP, they naturally knew the company's development history. Back then, in order to get out of trouble, the weekly magazine teenager Jump took an unconventional approach. He used erotic and underworld manga to cause a sensation in society. Although many people boycotted them at that time, they also used hype to bring fame.
" After that, we began to adjust our direction of operations. We changed our target readers to young readers over the age of 15. We started to use some passionate and sports comics to capture the reader base. And the facts proved that we succeeded. "Of course, we haven't reached the point of life and death yet. We're still the best-selling comic weekly magazine. We can't change the theme, but we can change it slightly within the rules…"
"…What I want to say is that the teachers who helped our magazine reach the peak, Teacher Akira Toriyama, Teacher Takahiko Inoue, Teacher Tomiken, and so on, have drawn many phenomenal comics, making our magazine's reputation even more prominent. They have always been leading the trend of the comics world. However, everyone should have realized that although the development of comics has been stable and flat in recent years, this stability is good news for other magazines. It gives them time to save up, but for us... This kind of stability was not desirable! We still have to lead the trend and continue to have those phenomenal comics!”
All the editors present nodded their heads secretly and agreed with the chief editor's words. In the past few years, the comic industry had been stable to put it nicely, but to put it bluntly, it had been declining. What they needed was a national comic that was like a dragon ball!
"We have always had an unwritten rule. When we serialize, we are used to choosing works from teachers who have experience in serializing or have submitted many times. However, the situation in recent years should have made us aware that those teachers can help us stabilize, but they can't help us break through again!”
Chief Editor Tanaka spoke with the coldness of a business or businessman. His meaning was obvious. We have given you so many opportunities, but you have not given me a satisfactory return. Even if we have worked together many times and worked together happily, I have no choice but to kick you out.
" Therefore, we need to speed up the process of changing the blood. This won't shake our current position, but it can help us explore more paths. In the past, we always had two comics each time we switched. This time, I've decided to cut off all four of them!”
He paused for a moment before he continued,"…And we also need to find more new people.”
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