Gotta Go the Healing Route

Chapter 290 This Class Is Something Different

Wu Shanyun was strange, Feng Jianxi only muttered a few times in his heart, but didn't directly say: "What are you looking at?" '

This girl is one of the few acquaintances he has in this different time and space, and Kaze Jianxi has long understood what kind of person she is.

Immediately after Kazama Xi sat down, someone, one of the three editors in the conference room, got up and respectfully handed him a stack of manuscripts.

"Teacher Kazama Xi, it's yours."

Kazama Xi reached out to take the stack of manuscripts.

The manuscript is a copy, and the original is still in the editorial office on the upper floor.Putting the manuscript in his hand and flipping through it, Kazama Xi counted it, and it happened to be ten, and they were stapled together.

This year's newcomer awards are held a little earlier, but the other requirements and rules are the same as previous ones: Manuscripts are required to be short comics.

In addition to the length requirement of short stories, there is no limit to the type of stories in comics, so that contestants can use their talents as much as possible.

After the deadline, after all the entries are gathered in the editorial department of jump, the editor of jump will immediately start the selection process.

Selection is divided into three stages, the first stage is audition.

Auditions are handled by ordinary editors in the editorial department.They have to select more than a dozen submitted works that they think are good from the hundred manuscripts assigned to them.

It is not difficult to think about the audition stage. Basically, the story can make the editor feel good, or the painting style can be selected.As for the losers... the authors who contributed may really not be suitable for this bowl of rice.

The remaining one hundred works after the audition are basically all good works.Then enter the second selection stage, these one hundred works will be processed by senior editors in the editorial department.

One hundred does not save ten, and the last ten selected will enter the final selection stage.

That is the stage that Kazama Xi is participating in now: to judge the order of the ten works, of course, the most important thing is to select the works for the gold award.

There is nothing wrong with this sentence. Generally speaking, there is no qualitative difference between the works in the final round.Both the story and the painting techniques are quite good.

In this link, if there is no one that really cheats and crushes the other nine works, it is basically luck to get the first place.

Because, the final selection of the judges will be announced after the end of the newcomer award. Before that, the identities of the judges are completely kept secret, which prevents the situation of choosing their favorites.

However, radish and cabbage each have their own favorites. If the type, story and painting style of the work happen to be liked by a certain chief judge, then this work must have an advantage, so I say that there will be an element of luck in this part.

With the idea of ​​finishing work early and going back early, Xi Kazama was just about to read the first work when the door of the meeting room was opened again.

This time there were two people who came in. One was a middle-aged man with a well-fitting suit and golden eyes.The other is a middle-aged man with a unshaven beard wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt, casual jeans, and a pair of sandals on his feet.

Kazama Xi looked up, and he recognized both of them.The former is the new deputy editor of Boy Jump, named Chunren Dashan. Before becoming the deputy editor, he was also a very old gold medal editor at Shueisha, and served as the editor in charge of "Spirit of the Sword".

The latter is a fellow cartoonist, who is considered a senior to Kazama Xi and Wu Shanyun. His name is Jun Murayama, and he is famous for drawing funny cartoons.

The two walked into the meeting room talking and laughing side by side, it seemed like they had known each other for many years.

Walking into the meeting room, the deputy editor-in-chief of Chunren looked to the right, smiled and nodded to Feng Jianxi and Wu Shanyun, as a greeting.Jun Murayama waved at the two of them directly and exaggeratedly. With his image, he really looks like a comedian. It should be said that he is drawing funny comics.

Haruto Dashan walked to the main seat in the middle of the table and sat down, while Murayama Jun sat next to Kazama Xi.

"Mr. Wushan, Mr. Kazama, how are you two teachers..." Jun Murayama greeted the two of them.

"Hi, Mr. Murayama." Wu Shanyun and Fengjian Xiya replied.

"It's a humble honor to be able to cooperate with the two of you to participate in this selection... Hearing that there are two of the judges this time, I ran over in a hurry."

Although compared with other cultural and creative industries, the phenomenon of seniority ranking in the comics industry is not so serious.But Jun Murayama is the senior of the two after all, knowing that the other party was joking, Kazama Xi immediately replied:

"You really ruined me and Wu Shan."

Jun Murayama laughed, and was about to say something when Haruto Dashan, who was sitting in the main seat, coughed.

"First of all, I would like to thank the three teachers Kazama, Wushan, and Murayama for being the judges of this newcomer award. Especially Mr. Kazama and Mr. Wushan. The two teachers also set foot in the comics industry from the newcomer award at that time, and they jointly won the The Newcomer Award is also one of the most talked about stories about this award."

Jun Murayama interrupted Haruto Dashan:

"My deputy editor-in-chief, don't say such polite words. It's not a TV variety show. We are old acquaintances, so let's start directly."

Chunren Dashan coughed, with some helplessness on his face, but he didn't say anything.It seems that the relationship between the two is really good.

"Both of you are participating in the selection this year, but don't worry about being inexperienced. For these new contributors, this award is so so, but for us guys who are ashore, it is much more casual."

"To put it simply, more points will be given to those submitted works that are eye-catching. However, it is worth noting that the comments after scoring are to be published in the newcomer award supplement. The focus of comments is to catch mistakes."

"Murayama..."

The deputy editor couldn't help coughing again.

Hearing Haruto Dashan's voice, Murayama Jun also closed his mouth, and shrugged towards Kazama Xi.

Kazama Xi smiled.It was the first time for him to participate in this kind of event, and he was a little nervous at first, but he relaxed a lot after being made like this by Jun Murayama.

"The two teachers are indeed participating in the selection for the first time. In fact, we will invite different teachers every year for the Newcomer Awards. There is really no need to be nervous during the selection process, as long as the principle of fairness is upheld."

"The selection uses a [-]-point system. I believe that Daxiong and Uemura have told you in advance. Seventy points for the story, thirty points for the style of painting, and then sum up, and take the step with the highest average score."

"After the final No. 1 spot comes out, it will be fine to discuss with you and make a decision."

While the deputy editor-in-chief was speaking, the stack of copied drawings was also delivered to Jun Murayama.

"Speaking of which, I heard that this newcomer award will be very different from previous ones."

While turning over the drawing, Jun Murayama said to Xi Kazama, but this time his voice was much quieter.

"Oh?"

Feng Jianxi frowned.

"How to say?"

"hey-hey..."

Jun Murayama smiled slightly.

"Speaking of which, this matter really has something to do with you, Mr. Kazama."

Chapter 290 Don't Make Trouble

Have a relationship with me?

Jun Murayama's words made Kazama Xi confused for a moment.

The connection between myself and the newcomer award should be only the submission of the previous year to win the award, other than that, I should not be anxious.

But Jun Murayama didn't say any more, just smiled slightly and said, "You will know when the time comes."

Then he looked down at the work in his hands.

"Being a riddler gets kicked in the balls..."

Kazama Xi really wanted to say this to Jun Murayama, but he held back on this occasion.

"Ugh..."

At this moment, another sigh came from Kazama Xi's ear.Feng Jianxi looked back, and Wu Shanyun on the other side was holding the comments for scoring and commenting, with a very complicated expression.

What happened to this young lady?

I always feel that today's occasion is inexplicably weird.

Kazama Xi shook her head, she simply abandoned her complicated thoughts and looked at the ten works in her hand.

Because it is a short manga, each work is basically only three to four chapters long.The ten chapters add up to about 40 chapters, which is basically equivalent to a novella manga.

In addition, this is not just browsing, because it is a comic review, and the details of the work must be seen, and then sorted out to give evaluation and scores.

Whether the workload is big or small, there will be a discussion session after the evaluation.It takes about three to four hours to select works for the Golden Award.

Kazama Xi opened the first work.

The work is titled "Finding the Sun".

Since it is a selection, the first thing to look at is naturally the style of painting.

The painting style of this "Looking for the Sun" tends to be realistic, with very thick lines, but it complements the character design and the medieval knight-style characters.

There is no problem with the author's drawing skills. In fact, the contributors who entered the final selection are basically not rookies. The last ones are those who have studied related majors. Most of them are those who have studied theoretical techniques and then worked as professional cartoonists. A person who completes the practice with an assistant.

Although the Newcomer Awards are named after newcomers, there are a few of them who are pure newcomers, and most of them are just industry insiders who don't have the opportunity to officially publish and serialize.

Cough cough, wasn't Kazama Xi a pure rookie back then?

True, but wall hangings don't count here either.

After inspecting the painting style, Kazama Xi returned her attention to the plot of this short story.

The background of the story is an overhead world, and at the beginning of the story, the protagonist, an iron-canned knight, reveals the world view.

This is a continent plunged into eternal night, where countless monsters and dangers hide in the darkness.Only in the light is the safe place.

The light of the continent is brought by the light bulb giant. As the name suggests, the so-called light bulb giant is a giant creature whose head glows like a bulging light bulb.

Humans regard this light bulb giant who can bring them light as a god.Although it takes many people to sacrifice for the light bulb giant to release the light.

The protagonist is a knight. By chance, he got an ancient parchment, which records the lost history of this continent before it fell into darkness.

According to the parchment scrolls, the sky of this continent once hung a great thing called 'the sun': it was a huge fireball capable of emitting endless light and heat.Most importantly, the light brought by the sun is selfless, and obtaining light from the sun does not require human life to be sacrificed.

It is also revealed at the end of the parchment that the disappearance of the sun has something to do with the Bulb Giant.

The parchment scroll is very old, and some of the second half of the text can no longer be read clearly.But it is not difficult to draw the conclusion that destroying the light bulb giant can make the sun come back.

The knight's sister was once sacrificed to the bulb giant.The revenge of killing his sister naturally made the knights full of hostility towards those light bulb giants.Now that I have heard the news, I no longer have any worries.

The knights started hunting the bulb giants around.

For the human beings who gather at the feet of the bulb giant and live by its light, the knights are undoubtedly their enemies.

In other words, the knight's move to destroy the bulb giant is equivalent to making an enemy of the entire human world.

But the knight is strong, strong enough to defeat the soldiers guarding the light bulb giant, strong enough to defeat the huge light bulb giant.

After the efforts of the knights, all the bulb giants on the mainland were finally destroyed.

The continent was plunged into complete darkness.

In the darkness, the knight waited silently.Waiting for the return of the huge fireball recorded on the parchment.

During the long wait, the light never appeared.

That parchment scroll is too old, and it is impossible to verify its authenticity.Perhaps the knight chooses to believe because he is pursuing pure light, or perhaps he only has selfish desires to avenge his sister.

But after calming down, the knight began to regret again, what if the records on the parchment were false.If all the bulb giants are destroyed, the human race will also die.