Master of the Machete Style Manga

Chapter 2 I'm going to become the King of Comics!

Three days, 25 pages.

Haruna Mikazuki held a stack of manga manuscripts with great satisfaction, counting them several times as if they were money.

The story goes back to noon the day before yesterday.

When she woke up from her afternoon nap, some strange memories suddenly flooded her mind.

In that memory, she was in a relationship with a man, only to discover that he was cheating on her with three other men.

Together with two other girls, she killed the man...

I can even recall the feeling of the knife stabbing into my chest; it wasn't actually that easy to insert, it would get stuck in my ribs...

It's inexplicable. How could I have killed someone?

But then again, if I actually encountered something like what happened in my dream and found out that I had been betrayed in my relationship by a scumbag, I might really be furious...

Fortunately, it was just a dream.

She was deeply impressed by the man's face; he was indeed very handsome, perfectly matching her aesthetic.

After all, it's a dream. It's normal for the man you see in your dream to be your dream lover.

Everything except what about that man was very vague, and I couldn't even remember what the other two girls looked like.

None of that matters. What matters is that the man in the dream was a comic book artist.

Haruna read his book carefully many times, and even remembered every single stroke of the pen.

I searched for the book on Google as soon as I woke up, but couldn't find it.

So she drew it.

"Young Lady, Sniper Rifle, and Pantyhose!"

Haruna really liked the work she had just drawn.

Youth, romance, and... punishing the male protagonist severely with pantyhose.

The female lead in the film reminded her of herself.

I knew it! This is the story that Lord Bensaiten told me to draw in a dream.

I'm going to be the queen of comics!
Haruna happily took her manuscript downstairs and walked through the long corridor to the lobby.

A middle-aged woman sat on the sofa, flipping through a literary work.

"Mom! Look!" Mikazuki Haruna excitedly took the manuscript and sat down on the sofa, placing it on her mother's lap.

When Mikazuki Aiko saw the stack of manuscripts, a warm smile appeared on her face: "Haruna, you've been drawing this for the past few days."

“Yes, Mom, you published a book when you were young, and I want to be a writer too,” Haruna said, sitting next to her mother.

"Hmm...it looks interesting, but Mom rarely reads comics." Aiko picked up the manuscript and looked at it, then said, "Being a writer isn't easy, but Mom supports you."

"Mom, I mainly wanted to ask if they have the contact information for an editor from a publishing house that we collaborated with a few years ago. I'd like to submit a manuscript," Chun Nai said.

"You mean Hitotsubashi Group? They're connected to the Saiga family. Wait, let me find their contact information."

Mikazuki Aiko picked up her phone, opened her email, searched for keywords, and after a moment, found the email from that time.

"Here's President Aiga's phone number." Aiko showed the screen to Haruna.

“There’s no need to go directly to the president for such a small matter. The editor-in-chief of one of the subsidiary publishing houses should be enough,” Haruna said.

"It's alright, it's alright. Your dad is very familiar with their president. They even drank together a couple of months ago."

Aiko waved her hand and sent a message to her husband directly: Haruna drew a manga, I read it, she's quite talented. You know the president of Hitotsubashi University, right? Could you help me get in touch with her?

Hitotsubashi Group is a large family business that owns the prestigious publishing house Shogakukan, under which Shueisha is a subsidiary.

When Aiko smiled, her eyes crinkled, bearing a striking resemblance to Haruna: "Haruna, just focus on your drawing. We'll have them give you all the resources you need. Our family is going to have a genius manga artist!" "Thank you so much, Mom~" Haruna was overjoyed.

In Japan, to publish a manga, you usually submit it to a magazine for serialization. If it becomes popular enough, you can get the opportunity to publish a collected volume.

Magazine space is limited, so the competition is fierce, and it is very difficult for a newcomer to get their work published directly.

But Haruna didn't want to go through all those roundabout ways.

If you have connections, you might as well use them.

Her family is in business, so she understands the importance of resources. The quality of the comics is important, but promotion is sometimes even more important.

She's currently in the middle of a whirlwind of excitement, with the entire comic book in her mind—it's a stroke of genius! All she has to do is replicate those scenes.

Haruna immediately returned to her room upstairs and picked up her pen to continue drawing.

……

Ken Sakamoto has prepared the first two chapters of "Chainsaw Man" for submission.

After the entrance exam, he wouldn't have to go to school every day, and Ken Sakamoto knew he would definitely be accepted.

This week, he discussed with the convenience store manager where he works that he would switch to the night shift and spend his days at home creating art.

I have to work, otherwise I won't be able to afford the rent and electricity bills. After all, the generous royalties are still what I've been hoping for.

He was very confident as he looked through the comics he had drawn.

This work later became the number one book in the 2021 "This Manga Is Amazing!" series, with sales exceeding 3000 million copies.

Now the question is, how do I publish it?

Last week, he randomly searched for a magazine's submission address on Google and sent the manuscript directly there.

He signed the contract without doing any research on the small publishing house's background.

Although it continued to be published afterward, there was virtually no publicity, and the magazine's circulation was poor.

This time we definitely need to find a major publishing house.

However, it is still quite difficult for new authors to get a serialization opportunity in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

After all, before publishing Chainsaw Man, Fujimoto Tatsuki already had a certain reputation with Fire Fist and a large number of short stories.

Of course, at this point, "Flame Fist" had not yet been published.

Ken Sakamoto first went to a convenience store and scanned all his manuscripts into electronic documents.

Currently, the easiest way is to submit your work to Shonen Jump+, an online comic platform that was launched last year.

After all, online comic platforms don't have the same page limitations as magazines, giving more newcomers the opportunity to publish.

The first method is to submit the manuscript via the web. You can send a scanned copy of the original manuscript to the editorial department and receive a response within a month.

The second option is to schedule an appointment with the editorial department and meet with the editor in person, bringing the original manuscript with you.

In addition to submitting directly, you can also participate in various comic awards, and winning works may have the opportunity to be serialized.

On the submission page, Ken Sakamoto noticed that it was currently the period for the "Weekly Shonen Jump+ Manga Awards".

The top prize is 100 million yen, the second prize is 50 yen, and the subsequent honorable mentions and special prizes also come with prize money and serialization contracts.

Ken Sakamoto quickly filled in the information on the submission page.

[Attachment: Chainsaw Man.ZIP]

Click Send.

Ken Sakamoto believed that as long as the editor read his manuscript carefully, it would definitely be published.

This time, let's start with Chainsaw Man and become the king of comics!
(End of this chapter)