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

Chapter 552: Fire Shadow, the beginning of a prairie fire

Oda Shingo Studio.

"Yukaku, you seem a little absent-minded today." During the break, Oda Shingo walked up to Namikaze Yukaku.

There is a pleasant smell on Namikaze Yuzuru, which is different from the charming body fragrance of Fujido Kaoru. It is a fragrance similar to orchid, which sometimes appears and sometimes disappears, but once you smell it, it will make people feel happy and relaxed.

The characteristics of this fragrance are somewhat consistent with Namikaze Yuzuru's personality, so Oda Shingo likes to hang around her.

"..." Namikaze Youzuru hesitated for a moment, gently put down the brush and decided to speak out, "I'm a little worried that the new manga "Naruto" will hold you back..."

"how?"

Namikaze Youzuru tried his best to choose his words and said slowly: "Actually, you have given me a comic book before. This one is... a pleasant surprise? Or maybe you are helping my mother realize her unreasonable idea in order to make me happy..."

"I understand what you mean." Oda Shingo put his hands on her hair and rubbed it gently for a few times. While enjoying the smooth feeling flowing through his fingers, he said leisurely: "This is not a question of whether it is reasonable or not, but I want to make you happy, so I did it. This is a natural thing, and there is no need to think too much about it."

“……” Namikaze Yuzuru looked at Oda Shingo and her face gradually turned red.

Looking at her pink lips, Oda Shingo really wanted to bend down and kiss her, but at this moment he heard a cough in his ear.

"Ahem, someone should not harass his female assistant in the workplace." Fujido Kaoru's voice came from the side.

Oda Nobuo looked in the direction of the voice and saw Fujido Kaoru looking at him with a pursed mouth, and Mikami Yuko blinking her big eyes. There was not much expression on her face, but everyone could see that there was a hint of resentment in her expression.

The two girls looked at Oda Shingo like this, as if he was touching his female assistant in broad daylight. Is he a boss who wants to have sex with his subordinates in broad daylight? Do you still have professional ethics? Do you still have any sense of shame as a great cartoonist?
Namikaze Youhe's face turned even redder, and he quickly grabbed the pen and started painting.

Oda Shingo was not embarrassed. He slowly withdrew his hand, put it behind his back, and walked back to his work station. Then, as if nothing had happened, he turned on the computer and asked, "Let's see if anyone is broadcasting the bookstore's sales live?"

Now is the era of live streaming. Many people in the comics industry will live stream the market reaction when comic magazines are published.

Sure enough, as soon as I opened TikTok, the most popular live streaming platform in Japan, I saw an up named "Hokkaido People Watery Tokyo" live streaming the sales situation of a comics store.

Oda Shingo saw the Naruto poster at a glance and smiled with relief.

Readers at the door of the bookstore have already formed several S-shaped lines. I wouldn’t say it’s a huge crowd, but it’s definitely a long queue.

The up master also expressed his feelings during the live broadcast: [Sir Oda Shingo is indeed a great master! I have noticed that there are queues when "Champion" is released, but the long queue today is too exaggerated! ]
[This bookstore usually has few customers, but today it seems to have overdrawn a week's worth of traffic!]
[No need to guess, everyone must be here for Naruto! And as usual, posters for Oda-sensei's new manga are always in great demand. I'm afraid... Wow! Sure enough! It happened! Something really happened!]
The live camera was slightly shaky, and it was obvious that an emergency had occurred.

The camera quickly adjusted to a new position, and the audience in the live broadcast room saw a man frantically tearing down a poster from high up in the bookstore.

Although the movement was very fast, the live camera could still see clearly that the poster was one of the two posters for the initial serialization of Naruto: a poster of the "female" ninja Shiro!
The uploader exclaimed: [The poster of the female ninja from Naruto was stolen! He is running away! Haha, the city patrol police are chasing him! ]
The comic fans around were also looking over there, but most of them remained silent.

Although the poster thief made his way through the queue, no one stopped him.

The patrolman chased after him.

The live broadcast was accompanied by the whispers of several fans at the scene:
"Damn it, I want that poster too!"

"Yes, that's the woman that Mr. Oda drew. She's definitely worth a lot of money!"

"It's not about the money! If I can show this poster in school, I will definitely be the coolest guy in the grade!"

Seeing this scene through the live broadcast room, Oda Shingo couldn't help but shake his head in anger and amusement, and let out a heely laugh with a little pride in his laughter.

"Hey, Shingo, you're smiling like a villain." Fujido Kaoru slapped him.

Several female assistants came over to watch the fun.

"Forget it, it seems that the new manga will not be in a hurry to win the market." Oda Shingo closed his notebook confidently. His dominant reputation in manga, coupled with his public declaration to dominate the manga industry, has made "Naruto" peak as soon as it was released.

Oda Shingo believes that this peak is the peak in everyone's perception. Those who don't know how powerful Naruto is will only think that it is a significant result of hype.

But they would never have imagined that the so-called peak of hype was only the starting point for Naruto to spread like wildfire, and there would be an even more terrifying rising period to come!
On the street, the comic book store finally opened.

Comic fans rushed to buy "Champion".

"Hahaha! It's so thick! Almost as thick as a brick!"

"This is not just a brick, it is definitely double-layer thermal insulation brick-level thickness!"

As soon as comic fans got their hands on the comic publication, they felt the power of the extra pages.

Originally, Champion was less than 500 pages, with the occasional ad insert exceeding the limit. But now the main body is close to 700 pages!

This increase in thickness is definitely visible to the naked eye.

"Wow! Look, Naruto is serialized into five episodes, and it's 180 pages long!" a comic fan exclaimed.

This is the slogan on the book cover.

One fan opened the book and flipped through it, and saw that the Naruto scenes indeed spanned about a quarter of the comic magazine: "This is so close to a single volume!"

“Is this the power of getting approval for additional pages?”

"All the extra pages are for Naruto! It seems that this comic is the highlight of Springfield Books!"

"If I were the owner of Springfield Books, I would also give Mr. Oda the thickest page treatment!"

"I'll ask Mr. Oda how much did you draw?"

"Yes, Mr. Oda will ask how many you can let me print?"

“Print as many as you want!”

Two cheerful comic fans actually started talking about manzai on the spot, which made people around them laugh.

"Hahaha! Cool! Let's start watching now!"

The comic fans couldn't wait to sit down in the bookstore's rest area.

But today there were too many comic fans, and many people had no seats left after buying drinks.

As a result, many people could only stand against the wall to read, or sit down by the flower bed outside the bookstore.

People were reading comic books in groups of two or three, but as the number of people grew, it became a scene resembling the atmosphere of a library.

"Champion" really does promote Naruto as a comic.

The cover features the main characters of Naruto, and the first scene is the beginning of the serialization. The 180 pages of magazine space that just got approval from the Ministry of Culture are all given to this new manga.

Even the first episode was given color illustrations and printed in two colors, which can be said to be a great deal of cost!

The comic story begins...

(End of this chapter)