Monday, 8 o'clock.
Weekly Shonen Jump is now on sale for 230 yen. It's inexpensive and has a wide variety of manga content. Many popular manga series often appear in this magazine.
Weekly Shonen Jump's distribution network spans across Japan, including school gates, newsstands, bookstores, and video stores. Each issue has a circulation of over 5 million copies.
On this day, Kojiro Asagi went to school with his schoolbag on his back.
As he passed the school gate, he suddenly stopped. He realized it was Monday, the day Weekly Shonen Jump was released.
"Go buy Weekly Shonen Jump magazine!"
Kojiro Makoto exclaimed excitedly in his heart.
He then turned and walked toward a store on his right called Worry-Free General Store, which mainly sold stationery, newspapers, comic magazines, and celebrity posters.
"Boss, I want to buy a copy of Weekly Shonen Jump!"
"230 yen."
The general store owner picked up a magazine and handed it to Kojiro Asago, stating the price as he did so.
Kojiro Asahi took out a wad of cash from his pocket, carefully counted out 230 yen, and handed it to the general store owner.
The two exchanged money for goods.
"Huh? Is this the Pokémon manga?" Kojiro Asuka glanced at the magazine cover, which featured Ash and Pikachu.
Unable to contain his excitement and curiosity, Kojiro Asuka immediately opened the magazine and soon saw the Pokémon manga series.
Kojiro Asuka is a huge fan of Pokémon. Every night, he sits in front of the TV without fail, not wanting to miss a single second of the Pokémon anime.
Moreover, he even begged his mother to buy him a "Qiongqi Home Game Console" specifically for playing Pokémon.
There are also more than a dozen Pokémon plush toys in the bedroom, including Ash, Pikachu, Charizard, Greninja, Blaziken, Mewtwo... and even some cheeky Team Rocket toy figures.
Seeing the Pokémon manga in Weekly Jump magazine made me incredibly happy. I cheered and jumped for joy as I walked through the school gate, which attracted the attention of nearby students.
Mikaze Kojima, a classmate of Kojiro Asuka, couldn't resist her curiosity when she saw his excited and happy expression. She called out, "Kojiro, what happened? Why are you so happy?"
Kojiro Asahi turned around and saw that it was his classmate, Mikazuki Kojima.
"Mikado Kojima, do you know what I've discovered?"
Kojiro Asuka picked up a copy of Weekly Shonen Jump and waved it excitedly, "Look!!! It's Ash and Pikachu on it! Weekly Shonen Jump released the Pokémon manga today!"
Mikako Kojima is also a fan of Pokémon. When she heard what Kojiro Asuka said, she immediately got excited and rushed towards him.
"Kojiro, let me see! Is there really a Pokémon manga in Weekly Shonen Jump?!"
"I haven't seen it yet, go buy it yourself if you want to see it!" Asuka Kojiro saw Kojima Mikazuki reach for his magazine, so he quickly hid it behind his back.
Kojima Mika stomped her foot angrily, pouted, and scolded, "Hmph! You stingy brat, I'll go buy it myself!"
The clueless, straight-laced Kojiro Asakusa drove the class beauty, Mikazuki Kojima, away, even though they were only eleven or twelve years old and still quite naive about some things...
On this day, Weekly Shonen Jump's sales surged, becoming a sensation among Japanese elementary and middle school students.
Although the storyline of the Pokémon manga is similar to that of the anime, children still love watching it and can't put it down. They want to watch it two, three, or even more times.
In addition, comics based on Dragon Quest, The Legend of Zelda, and Final Fantasy have also become popular. When players and fans see comics based on their favorite games in magazines, they are overjoyed and then spread the good news to like-minded friends.
On this day, four comics from China swept through the Japanese comic book world, causing a sensation.
On this day, the synergy between games and comics was particularly evident, resulting in a surge in magazine sales, a surge in sales of the "Qiongqi Home Game Console," and a surge in sales of game cartridges for four titles: Pokémon, Dragon Quest, The Legend of Zelda, and Final Fantasy!
Nintendo spent another day in anxiety.
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Bang!!!
Hiroshi Yamauchi threw the precious celadon teacup hard onto the ground, shattering it into pieces.
"Baka yarou!!!"
Hiroshi Yamauchi, speaking fluently and without any regard for his image, launched into a tirade of profanities in his office.
Unfortunately, this was just impotent rage, futile and unable to stop the rise of the "Qiongqi Home Game Console".
"waste!"
"They're all useless!"
"With so many of you, isn't there even one person who can come up with a way to snipe the 'Qiongqi Home Game Console'?"
The crowd stood in a row, heads bowed, enduring Hiroshi Yamauchi's roar.
"Get out, all of you, get the hell out!"
Nintendo angrily retorted.
Upon hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and quickly slipped away, rushing out of the office like lightning, afraid of being the last one to suffer the president's wrath alone.
The rise of the "Qiongqi Home Game Console" seems unstoppable.
But Hiroshi Yamauchi was not content with this. Now, the only way to firmly consolidate the FC's dominant position was to release more fun games.
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