Tokyo 1970: I'll draw Doraemon?

Chapter Ninety-One: What? Oikawa Ni is back on Sunday?

After reaching an agreement, Fushimikawa, Toshiki Takei, and Keizo Inoue had dinner together, which strengthened their relationship and brought the day to a successful conclusion.

Not long after, a news item in Weekly Shonen Sunday caused a sensation.

"A Doraemon series for teenagers has been confirmed for publication, with an initial print run of 20 copies!"

It's astonishing that a work without any animated adaptation to attract viewers would be printed in such large quantities at once.

This has drawn attention from many people, since there is no single-volume book in Japan with an initial print run of 20 copies.

This is simply historic!

Isn't Sunday worried about unsold volumes causing a joke?

Shogakukan even mobilized its magazines to promote the news.

In no time, it became a hot topic of discussion among comic book readers.

In Hyogo Prefecture, 33-year-old Nobuo Ikeda, an office worker, dismissed this with disdain.

Ignoring the middle school girl in the bookstore who was excitedly stomping her feet and covering her mouth after learning the news, he went looking for "Weekly Youth Future".

"That's strange, it used to be right here, why can't I find it anywhere?"

Left with no other option, he had to go to the bookstore staff.

“You’re looking for *Future*?” the employee looked at him strangely. “Please come with me.”

He led Nobuo Ikeda to the bookstore entrance and pointed to the most prominent spot that could be seen as soon as you entered the bookstore.

"It's right there."

Weekly Youth Future was placed next to Weekly Shonen Sunday, a good position that could be seen at eye level.

It's completely different from the previous edges and corners.

Nobuo Ikeda understood. No wonder the shop assistant looked at him so strangely. Did she think he was blind?

After buying Weekly Youth Future, he hurriedly left the bookstore.

……

Mr. Parasite A is pure; his life has only two needs: life and food.

Shinichi Izumi, who threatened his life, became the person he urgently needed to deal with.

So he went into the school in broad daylight and killed three teachers who tried to stop him.

Terrorists broke in, and evacuation notices were issued on campus.

The students, however, didn't take it seriously; they had become accustomed to a peaceful life.

They chatted leisurely and playfully made their way to the shelter.

Unbeknownst to them, the Right had already made strategic arrangements to use the crowd as a shield to attack Mr. A from the side.

This is an extremely safe and perfect plan, and it is the result of rational analysis.

Shinichi Izumi, of course, disagreed. He went against the flow, went to an empty corridor, set up a trap, and waited for Mr. A to come to him.

Right wasn't angry; he immediately changed his plans.

He broke off a sharp metal table leg so that Shinichi Izumi could move with him.

By comparing the two, he concluded that the advantage was that they were two people, while A was alone.

When the fight between the right and A is evenly matched, it's time for Shinichi Izumi to step in.

The opponent was a monster whose face was completely disfigured, its head transformed into a long whip sharper than a blade, while he himself was just an ordinary person.

Shinichi Izumi was inevitably timid.

As expected, he and A fought to a standstill.

As a human being ignored by A, Shinichi Izumi mustered up his courage and actually approached A.

He possessed an execution ability that surprised even himself, and without hesitation, he shoved the metal table leg with a hole in the center into A's body!

"Oh! That's amazing!" Nobuo Ikeda exclaimed, thoroughly enjoying the sight.

"It's more impactful than novels or movies. This isn't just an ordinary science fiction horror work; it made me rethink humanity's strengths and weaknesses."

Shinichi Izumi, whom A mistook for an ant, became the one who ended his life.

He paid the price for his arrogance.

Human courage saved Shinichi Izumi.

A is the kind of parasite that Izumi Shinichi described as "a monster that eats people, and there is no better way to describe it."

They died because they ignored the power of humanity.

Shinichi Izumi proved the power of humanity.

On the other hand, once humans become accustomed to stability, they become arrogant and lose the ability to perceive danger.

When faced with terrorists breaking into a school, American students would certainly perform better than Japanese students.

After all, the United States conducts exercises frequently, and even if you haven't experienced them firsthand, you've probably heard of them.

Japanese students only need to focus on reading the air.

This is a weakness of humankind.

"Yes, it's still very interesting." Nobuo Ikeda watched with satisfaction.

"only……"

He looked at the slightly yellowed pages of the weekly magazine and felt somewhat dissatisfied.

"It would be such a waste to use such a masterpiece on inferior paper. I wonder when Mirai-sha will publish a single volume. When that happens, I will definitely buy one, no, two. One to read and one to keep as a keepsake."

……

Oikawa Studio.

Miraisha has completed preparations for the Parasyte 01 manga.

During this period, Fushimikawa drew a lot of things.

For example, drawing colored pages or making some modifications to the content.

After all, weekly serializations have to be done on time, but collected volumes are different. Conscientious manga artists will find the mistakes and redraw them.

This aspect pleased Katsuhiro Otomo.

Besides these.

Fushimikawa also needs to polish the fragmented serialized content into a complete book product to make the story flow more smoothly.

The Doraemon manga volumes are actually much easier to draw, as they are episodic and don't require much effort.

Fushimikawa finished it long ago.

Therefore, it seems that the Doraemon manga volumes are being completed faster.

"In order to create momentum for my return to Sunday, Keizo Inoue launched the Doraemon manga project to attract readers' attention in advance. He must be working at lightning speed to complete the project as quickly as possible."

As he expected, by mid-June, the Doraemon manga volumes were appearing in bookstores of all sizes across Japan.

More than nine months have passed, and many readers who had forgotten about "Doraemon" unexpectedly saw this comic book in a bookstore, and feelings of nostalgia and joy welled up in their hearts.

"The standalone volume I mentioned a while ago is finally out."

"Doraemon, it's been a long time..."

They all bought the single volume.

"Grandma's Memories," "Try to Say Goodbye," "Snow Mountain Romance"... so many classic stories made them suddenly realize that they had never forgotten "Doraemon."

It's just that it's buried in my heart, and it will surface in my mind as soon as I come into contact with it.

"I had a really happy time watching Doraemon last year. I wonder how Weekly Shonen Sunday is doing now."

With this in mind, people who bought the first volume of "Doraemon" also went on to buy "Sunday".

However, before they could reminisce about the past, they saw this passage on the cover of Weekly Shonen Sunday.

"Doraemon Returns, Oikawa Niji Returns, let's all eagerly await your return!"

……

"What does it mean?"

"real or fake!"

Am I dreaming?

"The same Oikawa who drew Parasyte has actually gone back to Sunday magazine to draw Doraemon?"

"That's fantastic!"

The explosive nature of this news far surpasses that of the standalone book.

It even became a hot topic of discussion throughout Japan.

Weekly Bunshun even made this the headline.

"According to reliable sources, Weekly Shonen Sunday paid a huge price to win back Oikawa Ji's heart. Their new editor-in-chief is even suspected of going to Oikawa's studio to perform a dogeza (a deep bowing ritual)!"

Fushimikawa looked on with a puzzled expression. Was he really such an unreasonable person?

To humiliate someone who has never had a conflict with you in this way.

If Inoue Keizo were someone like the executive director Owada in "Hanzawa Naoki," that would be one thing, but he didn't do anything.

"This is slander!" Fushimikawa felt his dignity had been insulted.

But the other party claimed he was a suspect, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Moreover, he doesn't have the energy to deal with gossip media.

Following Weekly Bunshun, gossip media outlets of all sizes have put their traditional skills to use, reporting on many things that even the parties involved were unaware of.

Such claims include "Sunday's editor-in-chief downed a bottle of sake" and "Oikawa was successfully seduced by a honey trap," etc.

The readers were stunned, but none of them took it seriously.