I don’t know if readers have found out that among the various creators in Japan, people born in January-March are more than those born in the next nine months. .
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Japanese animation songs related to the birth month distribution map, showing a clear gap between the first three months and April. The data comes from. anison.info. .
Is it really a constellation that makes people born in these months more artistic than others? .
Musician Suzuki Daichi Show forwarded a news that children who were born earlier in the month would be more disadvantaged. The Japanese school year starts in April, so children born in January-March will be educated with children who are several months older than themselves. Although it is only a few months away, for young children, this is enough to bring about a big gap between the physical and mental development levels. .
Suzuki was born on March 18th. He has always believed that musicians are mostly older than the birth month and are also related to this. These people’s childhood developmental levels are inferior. Whether they are sports or learning, they have to invest in music. .
Although Suzuki lacks confidence in this statement, it is true that there are so many writers born in January-March. .
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So, in the country that started in September, is there many children born in June-August that have been “forced” on the road of art? .
After the release of the latest work “Future of the Future” by Hosoda Shou, a huge controversy has arisen. The contributor, Hiroyuki Hirota, watched the movie in the theater. The first thing that came out was the sigh of irrelevance. .
Guangtian looked at the name of a long list of affiliates appearing in the closing subtitles, and could not help but stunned: Hosoda Supervisor and Map Studio involved all aspects of the relationship, but still able to maintain the personality of the work, this is extremely Hard to achieve. Under such pressure, he can also let the audience see and give a vulgar evaluation such as “Shen Tian Shou is a beast control, is a positive control”, which can be said to be a miraculous situation of happiness. Hirota is very concerned about who is using what means to protect the free creation of Hosoda. However, today’s commercial animations may not allow him to find out the “Wadafield guardian.” Even if you make an interview, you will be supervised by Dongbao three times. .
Hirota said that Hosoda is still the same, and which section is cut out is Hosoda. This has been the case since Digital Beast Adventure. He only left the audience with the choice of “like” and “hate”. The audience can talk about a work with only the words “like” and “hate”. This is a very happy situation, and it can even be said that he is being pampered by him. .
But on the contrary, this may also indicate that the real voice and situation of the production site and the producer are difficult to convey to the audience. .
Hirota explains in the following why he thinks it is happiness to talk about works only with “likes” and “hate”. He said, what is the audience demanding for the blockbuster movie? The beautiful picture is taken for granted, beautiful, and there are tears in the film, praise the family and the beauty of love. Perhaps, what the audience wants for the animated blockbuster is this thing. .
He is not talking about the topic of “Future of the Future”, which is so good and so small. Hirota is not happy if the animations pursued by the world are diluted step by the harmless film that is digested. .
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Japanese books are generally divided into two versions: the “single book” of the large format and the “library book” of the portable version. There are many books that will be published in the form of hardcover singles, and after a few years, the library version will be published. How are these two forms of books established? The mystery novelist Ota Yasuke spoke on Twitter a few days ago and talked about the history and current situation of the two.
Ota said that whenever he told everyone that he had a new work, someone would reply to him “I want to read but I have to wait for the library.” Ota understands that there may be various reasons for this, but he also hopes that everyone will remember that if the single book cannot be sold, it will not be catalogued at all. Not all books will come out of the library. .
Because of the portable and cheap advantages of the library, many readers tend to buy the library. So this tweet got thousands of times of forwarding, and the response was very enthusiastic. Someone asked in the comments: “Why don’t you come out of the library at the beginning?” Ota gave an answer based on what he knew. .
Back to the source, the library was born in order to provide readers with a reputational form in a cheap form. The rock wave library that was born in 1927 is considered to be the pioneer of the Japanese library. In the publication of the end of the rock wave library, there is such a saying:
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Free the immortal books of life from the study and research room of a few people, let them go to the streets and go with the people. .
In other words, the library was originally created to spread wisdom to the public, and it is easy to buy a cheap version of the famous book. So at first, the library was only famous. Among the first works of Iwabo Library, there are Natsume Soseki “Heart”, Koda Satoshi with “Five-Pagoda”, and Sakaguchi Ikebukuro “Autumn Bamboo and Turtle”. .
This nature of the library began to change gradually around the 1950s. Not only the so-called literature, but also the masterpieces in entertainment works have begun to appear in the library. When I was born in 1959, I was already feeling this way. Since 1971, Kadokawa has begun to publish a library version of the works of Henggou’s history, which has sparked a wave of enthusiasm. .
For the generation of Ota, these works of the library version are not the ones that were written before they were born, nor are they well-known masterpieces, but works they have never seen before. So they read the library version of Henggou’s masterpiece as if they were reading a new work. From this time on, people’s understanding of the library has begun to change. .
However, at that time, the library was still a “cheap version” and this positioning has not changed. Speaking of books is a single book. However, the publishing industry has gradually built up a system for launching a library version as a new edition of the book. For publishers and writers, a book can be sold twice. .
Ota also said on Twitter before, when he first debuted, Higashino Keigo once told him: “In the beginning, you should write more works, so after three years, these works are published in the library version. It’s better.” Ota said by Dong Dongye, he wrote it all the time, and after three years, he started selling the library version. .
The two-stage book-selling method of “first-out book, then sell library version” was established. In this case, of course, the single book is the main body. Ota’s main battlefield is the cheap new book series of “××NOVELS”, which is a simple and open book, but even this kind of book will produce a cheaper version of the library in three years. .
Ota believes that the great change in this sales method is the rise of light novels. The light novels are faced with young readers, so they started out new works in the form of cheap and easy-to-buy libraries, and they sold well. Readers began to come up to read new works. In this field, the existence of a single book was forgotten. .
The reader’s consciousness has also changed. More and more people are beginning to think that “even if it is a new work, it will not be possible to start the library at the beginning.” However, the publishing industry, after all, relies on the system of “first-in-one-selling and re-selling the library version” to maintain its business. Moreover, there are still many readers who still have feelings about this form of the book. .
However, Ota feels that this traditional management system should also face the time of change. Needless to say, it is the long-standing decline in the publishing industry since the beginning of the 21st century. The book is not sold. Especially in this aspect of the book, no matter which publisher, it can not be sold completely. .
So, more and more novels that are not light novels have come out of the library. Because the publisher feels that cheap books, there are hopes of selling. However, Ota heard that the sales of these new libraries have also declined recently.
(At the same time, the traditional publishers regarded the light novels that ruined the single book, but under the pressure of the depression in the publishing industry, they began to sell the book. Especially the online novels that already have a group of fixed readers, published in the physical book. Most of them are in the form of a single book. The reason is probably “there are so many loyal readers who will spend money on works that can be read for free, and earn more is a little.”
In this case, why do publishers have to pay a single book? Because the single-line price is high, once you have a best-selling book, you can earn more. Please take a look at the newspaper advertisements in the newspapers. All of them are propaganda words such as “breaking through ○ million!” “○○ ranked first!” Nowadays, even the magazines can’t sell them. These best-selling books are the pillars of the publishing house. .
However, of course, publishers can’t predict what kind of books will sell well. The book that I thought I could sell well was not interested, and I felt that the work of this ghost book would be fired. Under this circumstance, what publishers and writers can do is only “in short, a single book.” .
That is to say, now, the book is published in the form of a single book, which contains the voice that “this book may sell well, and you must sell it.” If the gambling is naturally happy, if you don’t gamble, you will be branded as “There is no way to calculate the library.” .
So returning to the topic, the question of the reader “Is it right at the beginning of the library?” Ota gives the answer: “I understand your mood, but please let me gamble.” .
Ota also has doubts and feels that this system may not last forever. Including the electronic books, the publishing industry needs a large-scale innovation, and even the form of the publishing house will change, and the form of the book may be different. .
However, in the end, Ota said his own personal thoughts: he likes the form of a single book, and does not want the single book to disappear. .
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