Tokyo Girlfriend Guide

Chapter 859: Response to "Detective Conan"

Kato Megumi really did not feel any envy, let alone jealousy. Her mind was even too simple.

Kyosuke-kun is really amazing. He is already so loved by my parents just after they met.

She just thought so lightly, and then her thoughts gradually drifted away.

As for Hojo Kyosuke, even if the elders of the Kato family were enthusiastic about him, as a friend of Hui, it was not appropriate for him to stay with the elders all the time. He found an excuse and came to Hui's side.

"Megumi, Hiromi-san, Bunta-san, Keiichi-kun..."

After greeting everyone with a smile, he took the marshmallow that Yukino handed to him. The girl nodded to Hui and walked away on her own.

"I really didn't expect that... I haven't seen you for a few days, but Yukino-san has changed so much~~"

Hui looked at Yukinoshita's back and sighed softly.

Hojo Kyosuke nodded, knowing what Hui meant. Yukinoshita, who had been staying here, was obviously worried that Hui would be bored later, so he took charge of the reception with a sense of ownership.

Of course, it may also be that he is worried that it will be dark and Hui will be ignored in the darkness.

He smiled and said, "Maybe it's because I've been with everyone these two days and absorbed a lot of popularity?"

"Hey, hey, hey~~Don't talk like Yukino-san is some kind of android~Kyousuke-kun!"

Hui chuckled and then retorted.

If Hui would be ignored wherever she sat, then Yukino would attract people's attention even if she didn't say a word or move. That's because she had a cold temperament that seemed to freeze people. But just as Hui said, Yukino was less cold tonight. She even exchanged a few words with her sister, exchanged travel experiences, and strongly recommended a pub called "Cat House".

After communicating through the phone for many days, Hui obviously had a lot to say to Hojo Kyosuke, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was squeezed open by her sister. Before she could get angry, her brother-in-law and cousins ​​all intervened between her and Kyosuke.

The girl with the bob haircut stood beside the bench, sighed softly, and was then pushed away by the butt of a cousin who had just entered junior high school.

"Wow! I never thought I'd get to meet Hojo-sensei in person!"

"Yes, yes! Although I've seen him many times in videos, he doesn't look that fierce in person. Instead, he looks very friendly!"

"Teacher Hojo, we have all watched your TV show!"

When Hojo Kyosuke heard the words of Kato's cousin, he was stunned. How come he didn't know what TV shows he had appeared in?

Seeing someone's appearance, the people of the Kato family looked at each other, then raised their hands together and clenched them, and then suddenly lowered them for a moment.

"Ha ha!"

A bunch of Katos of all sizes were imitating the gestures of wielding swords. Kato Keiichi even gestured in the air to show the Chairman being chopped into several pieces, while constantly dubbing in his mouth.

"..."

Grass! ! !

Someone could barely maintain his expression. The nightmare he had foreseen when he first met Hui finally came true. With his memory, he could see that the sword-wielding postures of these people were almost exactly the same as when he appeared on TV to advertise his comics. This showed that Kato and the others were definitely not imitating him for the first time...

"When Keiichi-nii first showed us this, everyone thought it was a special effect, but we didn't expect it to be real!"

Kato's cousin looked excited, and a younger cousin next to her blushed and asked Mr. Hojo to give him a score for his imitation.

Someone gave a perfect score with a stiff expression and said that even he couldn't imitate him.

Fortunately, only a few people like kendo. The Kato sisters were just forced by their brother Keiichi to do it as if they were watching a TV commercial, and they imitated it out of boredom.

Hojo Kyosuke thought that everyone was going to gossip about who his girlfriend was. After all, even his literary colleagues in the Mystery Writers Association, editors at the publishing house, and people from the Carbonate Company had asked him about this in a subtle way many times. It could only be said that human nature is gossipy.

But surprisingly, the focus of this group of young Kato people was his new comics.

Yoshinaga Bunta, the son-in-law of the Kato family, who claimed that he valued book fans, asked:

"Why doesn't Hojo-sensei's latest detective comic have letters in its title?"

"?"

Hojo Kyosuke slowly turned his head and looked at his son-in-law in confusion. Your focus is a bit strange.

"Because everyone is curious, I've been arguing with others on the Internet for two days!"

Bunta took out his phone and quickly logged onto a forum, probably where mystery fans gathered. After opening a post, he saw a thousand-story thread discussing: Why is there no letter in the title of Hojo Sensei's latest mystery work?

There are many guesses below, and the most highly praised ones are probably the following:

BML: What are you thinking about? Can mystery comics and mystery novels be compared? It is obvious that this comic was forced to be drawn by Hojo-sensei after Weekly Shonen High saw that he won the Mystery Writers Association Award! Isn't it natural to distinguish it from "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "The Dream and Death of Writer K" in terms of the name? This is both evidence and reason!

There are thousands of replies to this comment alone. This is not just hot on the Japanese internet, it is super hot.

Many people agree with this BML, and the evidence is very sufficient, all of them are talking about the plot. Because although Hojo Kyosuke has tried hard to fix some big loopholes and overly childish parts in Detective Conan, it still cannot cover up the fact that this is a comic for children.

Of course, there are many people who disagree with this conclusion.

jw1r: Why can't you consider the content of the work itself? I totally disagree with what BML said, because I can see the intention of Hojo Sensei from Detective Conan, it is definitely not a shoddy work, are you all blind?

Hundred Kilometer Truck: The naming of comics and novels cannot be generalized. Comics need people to know the general content just by looking at the name, so that it is convenient for readers to choose to read, while novels need to be more literary.

I started reading mystery novels eight hundred years ago: After all, serious literature and comics are different. Hojo Sensei debuted as a cartoonist and then achieved the highest achievement in novels. He probably had his own considerations, right?

There are countless similar debates, and Hojo Kyosuke has also seen that this is not a two-dimensional website, but a serious reasoning website, otherwise the comments would not be like this, after all, the two-dimensional world is easy to fool. In his comics, the men are handsome and the women are pretty, and the big-headed Conan is also quite cute. If people want to criticize him, they will wait and see.

The battle ended on the 974th floor.

Xiaolin: Wait a minute! I doubt if you guys have read any of Hojo-sensei's works. This is not a question of novels or comics, but the protagonist!

The protagonists of the two novels, whether it is Jigsaw Puzzle X or Writer K, they are both murderers! They are murderers! And the protagonist of Detective Conan is a detective! Isn't this obvious?

Don't news programs always black out the names of criminal suspects? And isn't it natural for police bureaucrats to give them exaggerated nicknames and release high-definition photos?

Or...you haven't even watched the TV news, let alone Hojo-sensei's works?

The comments in the post were posted very close to each other, but when it came to Xiaolin, it took more than ten minutes for the next one to appear because everyone was concentrating on replying to his comment.

"Genius! A complete genius!"

"Kobayashi-san, you are a wise man! Compared to you, we are all blind."

"…I did see the police news, but I never thought it could be explained from this angle."

"..."

Netizens were impressed by Kobayashi-san's wisdom.

Yoshinaga Bunta "How is it? Hojo-sensei, is what Kobayashi-san said right?"

This……

Hojo Kyosuke thought to himself, "Who should I ask if you ask me? I would like to change the name to "Bleach Elementary School Student G", but isn't this just to respect Mr. Aoyama?"

But let alone netizens, he was also shocked by Kobayashi Sangqingqi's train of thought.

Can this be related to the suspect and the police's nickname?

What Xiaolin said made sense, and for a moment even he began to wonder if there was such a saying. After all, the names of crime-themed works are indeed more obscure or more pretentious, but the names of police or detective works are much simpler and more crude. Most of them are directly named "Detective XXX" or "Special Search XXX", which is really clear at a glance.

Hojo Kyosuke looked at Kato's brother-in-law's curious eyes, and considering that the other party had been arguing about this for two days, he asked him in a friendly manner which point of view he supported.

Yoshinaga Bunta said immediately, "Of course I know that Mr. Hojo is not the kind of person who would randomly release works just for money! You are only sixteen years old! You must be at least sixty years old to do such a thing! Just like the old man Masao Tsuruta who was chopped down by you at the Mystery Association Awards Ceremony this time."

"so?"

Brother-in-law Kato nodded heavily: "I think what Kobayashi-san said makes sense!"

Kato's sister also chimed in: "And I think this might be a kind of ritual for Hojo-sensei!"

"Sense of ritual?" someone wondered.

Yoshinaga Hiromi had never been around Hojo Kyosuke like her sister, so she couldn't recognize someone's emotions very well. When she heard this, she thought it was a recognition, and immediately began to talk excitedly about her understanding:

"The core of detective works is tricks. Tricks are the romance of murderers, who pursue impeccable and unbreakable. The romance of detectives is just the opposite, which is to unravel all tricks and expose them to the sun. So when the protagonist is the murderer, Mr. Hojo, you use letters to represent it, and when the protagonist is the detective, just say the name directly!"

After Yoshinaga Hiromi finished speaking, the couple looked at Hojo Kyosuke expectantly. The other Kato sisters nearby were not mystery fans, but they all had the same expression.

"Ha ha……"

Hojo Kyosuke laughed dryly and thought to himself, you have sorted out my motivations for writing and the underlying logic, so what else can I say?

With a reserved smile on his face, he said gently: "I do have this consideration."

"yeah!!"

Sister Kato and brother-in-law immediately cheered and high-fived to celebrate. This woman was indeed very lively unlike Sister Kato.

"that……"

Yoshinaga Fumita spoke carefully:

"Can I tell others what I just said?"

He pointed at his cell phone, obviously eager to go online with the person.

"of course can."

Hojo Kyosuke smiled and said, "Don't mention you. I will have to say exactly what you two said when I interview you in two days. You understand my work better than I do as an author. How do you become readers?"

The Kato couple each took out a cell phone and started surfing the Internet frantically. Before Hojo Kyosuke could breathe a sigh of relief, another female Kato who was a college student came over.

"Teacher Hojo!"

"Hey……"

"Will Conan remain a child forever? If so, what will happen to Xiaolan? Although you said that Conan's brain is still as useful as before despite his smaller body, his body is no longer useful after all! How can he get married and have children if he remains that small? Are we going to adopt one? Or should we make Xiaolan smaller as well? But even if Xiaolan becomes smaller, Conan will still be useless..."

The female college student talked incessantly.

The look in Hojo Kyosuke's eyes as he looked at the other person gradually became strange.

Hey, hey, hey, you are a time traveler too! How do you know that Conan will be paired with a similarly shrunk heroine in the future? And it’s useless to say that Xiaolan has become a small Conan. Although there is no problem with age, it still has criminal suspicion!

Although he was complaining in his heart, a light bulb suddenly lit up in Hojo Kyosuke's head.

Wait a minute, could it be that Aoyama also saw comments like this when he first started serializing the story, so he added the character of Haibara Ai?

hiss……

After all, as a writer, how can you not collect folk stories? Visiting prostitutes is collecting folk stories, committing suicide is interviewing, drinking is collecting folk stories, and how can copying readers' comments not be considered collecting folk stories? Hojo Kyosuke has even seen authors who directly bind readers' letters into books and publish them to make money. That is the real role model for our generation, and it is the kind of author who truly makes money without doing anything.

While he was daydreaming, he just made some random remarks to deal with cousin Kato's question. After all, the Mystery Writers Association Award had encountered twists and turns because of the leak by editor Shimomura. Even if he was not afraid, he had to be more careful.

Afterwards, several Kato sisters also asked him about his new comic, which gave him an idea of ​​the performance of his new work.

Generally, a comic book is serialized for about 20 pages per issue, but new comics will be updated more frequently. This time, Hojo Kyosuke updated 80 pages of "Detective Conan" at once, and drew Conan and Xiaolan solving the roller coaster murder case, becoming smaller, and then moving into the Mori Detective Agency, and finally stopped when the family of three went out for their first commission.

This is not a special treatment for him as a mainstay, but a preferential treatment for all new comics. The magazine is really not afraid of you serializing more, after all, their printing costs are extremely low, and readers will be happier if the pages are thicker. (End of this chapter)