Chapter 195

Unlike the situation where almost all were praise for *Furuhata Ninzaburo* in the newspaper, the evaluation on the internet was much messier, and even some people criticized this work.

Yuto Akiwara frowned, looked at some of the criticism content, and felt very speechless in his heart.

The vast majority of these critical posts were published by readers of another work.

Someone claimed that compared with the detective *Detective Kamimura* currently being serialized in *Tokyo Youth*, *Furuhata Ninzaburo* was far behind in both character design and plot.

But Yuto Akiwara also found that there were various counter-attacking comments under these critical posts.

"Is this person crazy? *Detective Kamimura* is such an old-fashioned work; I wanted to sleep after watching it for three seconds."

"I think he is just picking on it; I watched the recent issues of *Furuhata Ninzaburo*, and it's very good!"

"Shut up! I suspect you haven't watched this work at all, so don't come here to be scolded."

"Does the administrator care? Such a post is just put here?"

"Reading books and having a sense of superiority? It's simply brain-dead; I really don't know why there are such people."

"Everyone disperse, the other party is a *M*, the more scolded, the happier..."

The style of the following words changed, and some even discussed the plot of *Furuhata Ninzaburo*, guessing what the direction of the next issue would be. Some even complained about *Detective Murakami*, thinking that the other party had been serialized for dozens of issues, and it was basically the same routine.

Yuto Akiwara looked at it for two glances, registered a "Sanchin" account, and also watered a few replies below. After all, he had just finished soaking in the hot spring and had nothing to do now.

He replied to a few simply, then looked at the posts again, and found that besides the critical posts, there were hundreds of posts praising *Furuhata Ninzaburo*.

Some even posted to establish a Furuhata Ninzaburo fan club.

Under the post about the club, although the popularity was not very high, hundreds of people had built a building.

After reading these posts, Yuto Akiwara was satisfied; after all, these readers who would post on the internet were undoubtedly the core fans of *Furuhata Ninzaburo*!

With core fans, they would also recommend this work to others! In this way, the sales of *April Youth* would undoubtedly get higher and higher!

Very good, everything now is developing on the expected track!

When Yuto Akiwara felt happy, a 50-year-old uncle with a beard was staring at the line "Furuhata Ninzaburo" on the magazine page, showing an irritable expression.

His name is Furuya Masaaki, and he is an author signed with the magazine. And the manuscript he is currently serializing is *Detective Kamimura*.

He has been creating this work for almost 5 years now.

And in these 4 years, he has published more than 60 issues one after another and constructed more than 60 murder detective stories.

Because of the continuation of the story, his work has quite a few loyal reader groups and has become one of the signboards of his current signed magazine *Tokyo Youth*.

But he is not without distress; after all, although *Detective Kamimura* is a detective story in unit form, it also requires the independence and excitement of each story.

Because of the constant serialization all year round, he felt that his foundation was almost hollowed out, and he didn't know how to write the next murderer and trick.

If the trick is not novel enough or even old-fashioned, then some readers will definitely sneer at him. If he wants to suspend serialization to ponder carefully, the editorial department will send people to urge him.

To be honest, he actually knows the solution, which is to end this serialization and let it fall at the most perfect moment.

But the editorial department of *Tokyo Youth* will definitely not agree; after all, many readers have now formed the habit of reading this work. Once this work stops serialization, the magazine will lose these readers.

This made Furuya Masaaki feel that although he also held the name of a signboard writer, he was just a salaryman with a high salary! There was no freedom of creation at all!

In fact, because he forced himself to create this series of stories, many characters became increasingly stereotypical and routine. This made many book critics publicly criticize him in the newspaper!

Whenever he saw these criticisms, he wanted to scold them back directly!

You stupid book critics, why don't you write it yourself, just know to scold in the newspaper!

Use your pig brains to think, where is there any detective series that can be serialized for more than 60 issues!

You don't understand my pain at all!

Furuya Masaaki sighed, then lowered his head to look at the magazine in his hand, feeling even more irritable in his heart.

He had always wanted to stop the serialization, but this Yuto Akiwara found by *April Youth* had released a series of similar works.

Under this situation, the editorial department of *Tokyo Youth* would be even less likely to agree to his request.

Besides this, with *Furuhata Ninzaburo* as a comparison, many book critics and readers had reasons to attack and criticize him again!

Damn, this guy's fame was quite big before, but I want to see what exactly the other party wrote?

He sat on the sofa, took a sip of coffee, and then continued to read. While watching, he kept picking on it in his mind.

The protagonist is called Furuhata Ninzaburo, likes to bully subordinates; isn't this clearly workplace bullying? And he is slow when solving cases, without any professional spirit at all!

And the story explains the murderer's murder method at the beginning; how can there be suspense for readers?

Are those book critics crazy? This thing is better than what I wrote?!

He wanted to put down the book in his hand, but thought about it and continued to read. Immediately after, the plot of Furuhata Ninzaburo setting traps for the murderer through various means appeared before his eyes.

These plots were things he hadn't thought of before, so he couldn't help but enter the rhythm and follow the plot.

Oh? Can you still fool the murderer like this? The portrayal of the murderer is quite interesting; that guy named Akiwara probably checked a lot of information, right?

Well, Furuhata Ninzaburo's intention is here; why doesn't he directly expose the other party...

Well, what is this, the gentleness of a police officer? For the murderer, you still have to do this; isn't it directly bringing them to justice?

What this person wrote seems to be different from his own!

2 hours passed quickly, and during this time, Furuya Masaaki finished reading the first to fourth issues of *Furuhata Ninzaburo*, but the more he looked, the more he felt a sense of powerlessness.

From the perspective of trick design, the other party's work is not inferior to *Detective Kamimura*, and some are even better.

From the perspective of human portrayal, this work not only explains the logic between the murderer and the victim clearly, but also portrays the sympathy between the protagonist and the murderer.

From the perspective of character setting, Furuhata Ninzaburo is even more charming than his own protagonist, not a fixed template that only knows reasoning and solving cases.

Damn, although I'm not reconciled, I have to admit that this work is indeed better than *Detective Kamimura*.

No, I am a writer, how can I praise a competitor; the other party is just a junior after all. I have to think about whether there are any problems in it...

Furuya Masaaki frowned and pondered for a long time, but found that he couldn't pick any flaws at all, and could only say that the other party's article was a bit monotonous and boring in terms of wording.

But this is not a big problem; after all, for detective reasoning, the most important thing is the trick and humanity, as well as the excitement of the story!

The more he thought, the more he felt powerless, the more he felt that his work and the other party's gap was large, and the feeling of irritability in his heart surged up.

After a while, he scratched his messy hair and made a decision!

When tomorrow comes, I must go to the editorial department to mention ending the serialization!

Although I am not reconciled to admit it, I have indeed lost!

Bastard, why didn't this guy write something else, he had to pick a subject the same as mine!