"Alright, alright... I'll notify the typesetting department right away..."
"Yes, the Newcomer Grand Prize will appear on the cover of this issue, and the second cover will be given to Kenji-san to promote the serialization."
"This time, the first interview with the mangaka will be for Kuxuan-san! Don't make a mistake!"
"Haruto-san, you need to print more this time!"
The editorial department of Akatsuki Cultural Company.
Every time the magazine is confirmed to be typeset and about to be printed, the company gets busy.
Ayumi is the most idle one at the moment, as she's a new editor and only has one mangaka under her: Ren Amamiya.
In front of her desk is the "Edgerunners" manuscript that Ren gave her previously.
Currently, there are only chapters 1 to 6, and she has read them all.
After reading these six chapters, Ayumi has full confidence in Ren and "Edgerunners".
The content of chapters 1 to 6, under Ren's direction, covers the part where David meets Lucy and they begin to collaborate.
Due to the large amount of introduction that needs to be inserted during this period, the plot's progress is much slower.
However, in terms of drawing, it can be said that Ren has reproduced the animation scenes in great detail.
In any case, it didn't take him much effort. The existence of the master-level kaleidoscope painting skill allowed him to draw like a god, with the same precision and speed.
But this was Ayumi's first time handling the serialization of a rookie mangaka, so she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
'It must be... Ren-san and I... we will definitely succeed!' She looked at the draft on the table with eyes full of determination and said silently.
Soon, the new issue of "Manga World Gogo" was printed and sent to various cities across Japan.
Weekend, Kobe.
In an ordinary working-class family.
"Son! Come down and help me get the newspaper and your magazine, by the way!"
"Okay!" Fan Siwei, a middle school student sitting at the computer desk, immediately perked up and ran downstairs to sign for today's newspaper and a new manga magazine from the mail.
After returning home and placing his father's newspaper on the table, Fan Siwei took his manga magazine and returned to his room.
He is also a loyal reader of "Manga World Gogo". He has been reading "Manga World Gogo" since junior high school in bookstores or stalls near the school.
In junior high, he talked to his father that if he ranked in the top ten in his class every month, he would subscribe to the "Manga World Gogo" weekly.
Moreover, he is very hardworking. After all, in this current world, when smartphones are not yet popular, entertainment options are quite limited.
Fan Siwei's family has a computer, but as a high school student, he can't play on it for long, even on weekends.
Therefore, reading manga magazines has become one of the few ways to entertain himself during holidays.
For this, he must study hard.
"Light Judgment! Light Judgment! And The Cursed King! I can finally read the latest issue!"
His current favorite works are these two. Whenever there's a popularity poll, he votes for them. Every time the popularity ranking is completed, these two works are first and second.
In fact, this is the same as most "Manga World Gogo" readers. They all subscribe to manga for one or two of these works.
After finishing one of his favorite works, he would read others in the magazine.
Fan Siwei did the same. He looked directly at the magazine's table of contents and finished the latest series of "Light Energy Judgment" and "Spell King".
"Next time we'll have to deal with that devil bishop, right?! How exciting!"
"This issue of Curse King is so watered down. Ah Zhu hasn't even gone to save anyone, and he's still reminiscing here?!"
After reading the latest serials of "Light Energy Judgment" and "Curse King", Fan Siwei couldn't help but complain.
But it was just a complaint, and he turned to the next page.
"Huh? A new Grand Prix work? Another new work..."
Fan Siwei had no other intentions, so he continued reading.
"Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners... The name is long and strange. What is Cyberpunk? 2077? That's the year, right? The background of future 2077, is it a science fiction manga?"
He couldn't help but complain upon seeing the name.
However, upon seeing the next manga, Fan Siwei couldn't help but marvel.
This newcomer manga... The artwork is exquisite.
The accurate reproduction of the anime screen, coupled with the powerful kaleidoscope painting ability, makes the screen of the "Edgerunners" manga exquisite.
The opening scene is the protagonist, David Martinez's, monologue on the suspended train.
"In 2077, the city I live in was rated as the worst area in America."
"Why? Violent crimes are countless..."
"The number of people living below the poverty line is the highest in America..."
At the same time, the manga shows high-tech urban scenes that seem to come from the future, with maglev cars, holographic projection technology, trains running through the city, and...
semi-transformed people with mechanical human organs.
"It's an undeniable fact, but people are still flocking in. This city always gives you a glimmer of hope..."
"It might be a lie or an illusion, but it's so close that it seems to be within reach... Despair!"
Then there's a scene where a cyberpsycho goes mad, and prosthetic transformation and cyberpsychosis are introduced.
Finally, the protagonist David Martinez, after seeing Black Super Dream, talks to the black market doctor with a happy face: "Great! Doctor! Your Black Super Dream is amazing!"
End of episode.
Compared to an animation episode, a manga episode is quite limited, and "Edgerunners" has to insert the "Cyberpunk 2077" trailer and introduce prosthetics and cyberpsychosis.
So the first episode of "Edgerunners" can only stop here.
Ren completed all the plots of the first episode of the original animation in the fourth episode.
However, the first episode of the manga still made Fan Siwei feel good, especially the first episode which introduces a battle plot between cyberpsychosis and the Night City police.
"This new work... isn't bad! Future technology, prosthetics, cyberpsychosis; it's the first time I've seen something like this," Fan Siwei said excitedly.
He silently recalled the work "Edgerunners" and then proceeded to read other manga serialized in the magazine.
This was also the impression of most manga fans after the first episode of "Edgerunners".
After all, it was the first chapter, and Ren was still a newcomer.
A rookie mangaka's first chapter becoming a big hit could only happen in novels.
And let alone rookies, even famous works by great mangaka, which one could succeed in the first chapter?
Those famous manga improved and their popularity steadily rose during a long period of serialization, and finally... they became sought after by thousands of people!