Tokyo, everyone is drawing comics, who still wants to fall in love?.

Chapter 121: Thank you to the two female parents

The circulation of local comics in Japan is much larger than that in China. After all, Japan is the heyday of comics and has a rich consumer market foundation.

The circulation of single books, in terms of Springfield Books' distribution channels, means supplying to thousands of bookstores, totaling about 10 copies, which is called distribution volume.

Generally, 13 copies of a single book will be printed, but no more than 15 copies will be printed. The stock will be replenished in time according to market feedback. If the market response is quite good, more copies will be printed.

Of course, popular comic books will have hundreds of thousands or even millions of copies in print. For example, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba on Earth sold nearly 400 million copies of its final volume.

For national-level comics, the cumulative sales of multiple volumes can reach tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

However, that is a big IP monster level that is released only once every three years on average.

Oda Studio.

Oda Shingo took out the official version of the comic book that had just been delivered and began to analyze the situation with his two female assistants.

"One Punch Man has a print run of 15 copies, and three volumes were released in a row, which means 15 copies. According to information from Saburo Mikami, Gun-eisha printed 20 copies of Goddess Sword, but the distribution volume was also 10 copies."

He knew that due to Kousuke Watsuki's reputation as a tough newcomer, the main publishing department of Qun'eisha was confident that they could slowly digest the 10 extra copies of "Sword of the Goddess".

Based on experience, the outcome of the competition between the two sides for single-volume books will depend on who can consume the 10 copies of the books in stores first!

"This is our "One Punch Man"!" Fujido Kaoru kept stroking the official version of the comic book with his hands.

The strategy adopted by Oda Shingo was to release a set of three volumes. The first volume featured Saitama as the main character and the two sisters Tornado and Fubuki on the cover together.

Don't get me wrong, they are posing together on the cover, not some kind of sisterly action.

The second and third books have close-up covers of Tornado and Fubuki respectively.

Then each volume has colorful foldout posters and color printed pages.

Oda Shingo reminded: "Toudou-kun, the forum has posted a joint event for anime fans to buy the single volume, so we need to promote it more vigorously."

Fujido Kaoshi made an OK gesture and said in the unique Japanese London accent: "OK, Nopo Raobo Nut."

The Japanese pronunciation of English is really weird, Oda Shingo rolled his eyes secretly.

"I didn't expect it to look so good when printed out." Namikaze Youhe's hands kept stroking the color pages, feeling full of emotion. He felt that the printed things were better looking than the draft.

I even found it hard to believe that this was a character I created.

Of course, it was Oda Shingo who taught her how to wear black stockings and tights. She felt embarrassed when she heard it, especially when she was asked not to draw Tornado's lower body clothes...

But now I understand that it was all worth it! Not only is it very popular online, but even when it is printed and held in the hand, you can feel the excellence of the character's clothing settings.

But, Oda-kun’s XP seems to be a bit manly... Namikaze Yukaku blushed a little.

She looked at the production team's location again, and saw the words Oda Shingo and Crane.

"Keep it well." Namikaze Yukaku has decided to send a set of comics back home for his parents to read.

"Saburo Mikami just called and said we're going to have a live sales event on the last Saturday of the month." Oda Shingo reminded, "Would you guys go together?"

"Live sales? Are there many people?" asked Namikaze Youhe.

Fujido Kaoru was a little nervous: "It must be a lot, right?" Although she is usually noisy, she will be shy when there are many people in unfamiliar places. In other words, she can be the king in the student area of ​​​​school.

"You have to face different people. You are too beautiful and it is indeed not suitable for you to sit on the spot for autograph sessions." Oda Shingo thought about it and came to this conclusion.

"Okay, then I will assist you backstage and not sit here on the scene." Namikaze Youhe smiled.

When Fujido Kaoru heard Oda Shingo's compliments, she happily teased, "Is it because we are too beautiful? You are afraid of being pursued by others, right? Mr. Oda, you really have no confidence."

"No, I just don't want people to think that I'm not drawing comics properly and I'm collecting beautiful assistants every day."

"...Well, that's a nice thing to say." Fujido Kaoru hummed a tune, carefully put away the comic book, and prepared to show off to her dad in the evening.

In the afternoon, the three of them continued to concentrate on the creation of One Punch Man.

It was not until around nine o'clock in the evening, when Namikaze Yuzuru and Fujido Kaoshi were leaving, that Oda Shingo suddenly called out to the two women.

"Hey, you took a set of comic books with you, right? Give them to me first."

Namikaze Yuzuru took it out without any hesitation and handed it to Oda Shingo.

Fujido Kaoru took it out and murmured curiously, "Teacher Oda, you won't be reluctant to let us keep one for ourselves, right?"

"You must show it to your family. Let me sign my name." Oda Shingo sat down at the table with the comic and wrote on the title page very seriously:
[Thanks to Namikaze Yuzuru for her great assistance. Without her support, I would not be able to complete this book alone. - Oda Shingo]
[Thanks to Fujido Kaoru for being my assistant. Without her support, my work and life would not be so convenient and worry-free. - Oda Shingo]
Then he returned the book to the two people and took out two thick envelopes.

"The bonus for publishing a single book is 80,000 yen per person. It's not much, but it's my little token of my appreciation. Maybe I can buy something for your parents, that would be great."

Namikaze Yuzuru and Todou Kaoru took the book and envelope and looked at him carefully.

Both of their faces were flushed.

It seems that this boss has become even more handsome...

End of month.

Saturday night.

The single volume showdown is coming.

[Oh! For the glory of the goddess!]
[For the goddess, I am ready to buy the single volume! ]
[One punch is the evil way! The battle of the goddess sword is the right way!]
[Down with One Punch Man!]
In many comic forums, supporters of the Goddess Sword appeared and shouted slogans.

In the web comic community of Qunyingsha, fans of One Punch Man also took similar actions.

[I saw the preview of the single volume published by Springfield Books! The cover shows the sisters Tornado and Fubuki flying together!]
[The preview shows that three books will be released at the same time!]
[Wow? All three books released at the same time? So they are keeping up with the web serialization progress?]
[I caught up, I just planned to collect it!]
[I am here to collect Tornado’s wife! prprprpr, I will let Tornado know that my tongue is very powerful!]
Fans of both sides are ready to go.

Similar to the last time Takeshi Gouda released a web comic, many comic authors also posted blogs and other information to mobilize fans to support Kousuke Watsuki's single volume.

Some neutral cartoonists, on the other hand, just watched the show and mentioned "One Punch Man".

As for the well-known comic critic Hanbei, he expressed his attitude early on:

[I can guarantee with all my heart that Oda Shingo's One Punch Man is of better overall quality than Goddess Sword! Unfortunately, in today's capital market, the former is necessarily weaker than the latter.]
This is what almost everyone recognizes will happen.

(End of this chapter)