Chapter 328: Anti-Akiwara Faction

Shimochiku Kazuo's accusation that Akiwara Yuto hired a ghostwriter soon spread like wildfire in public opinion and also brought about various different reactions.

Some people were worried, some were disappointed, some were gloating, and some were burdened with worries.

But in internet forums like 2ch, this matter began to ferment extremely and quickly divided into two factions, which were called the "Anti-Akiwara Faction" and the "Pro-Akiwara Faction."

As the name suggested, the "Anti-Akiwara Faction" insisted that Akiwara Yuto achieved today's achievements through plagiarism or ghostwriting, and their views were basically the same as Shimochiku Kazuo's.

First of all, Akiwara Yuto wrote so many different types of works in less than three years since his debut, and every one of them could be a bestseller, which was undoubtedly very unreasonable.

One had to know that many writers only wrote ten or twenty books in their lifetime, and perhaps only one or two of them would become classics and bestsellers.

Not to mention that Akiwara Yuto's writing style was particularly changeable, making people feel very incredible.

Some people even imagined that Akiwara Yuto was a spokesperson for a certain interest group. This interest group was composed of capital and a group of writers, who created a talented writer and achieved bestsellers by hanging the works under his name.

Regarding this "conspiracy theory," the people of the "Pro-Akiwara Faction" naturally came out to refute it.

Most of them were Akiwara Yuto's loyal reader group and had always considered him a writer they "loved."

And the views they raised were also similar to Toyama Shuichi's method.

Akiwara Yuto came from a welfare academy in Hokkaido, his family background was poor, and he could only come to Tokyo to work; these materials could be found in previous newspapers.

So with such a background, what capital did he have to find ghostwriters to ghostwrite for his works?

And Akiwara Yuto had debuted for so long, and the detective literary world basically had no writers coming out to refute him, and even awarded him the Detective Writers Association Newcomer Award and the Uemura Award.

This undoubtedly proved that he possessed real talent.

If Akiwara Yuto really hired a large number of representatives to create, then why couldn't these writers see it and hide it for him?

In the dispute between the "Anti-Akiwara Faction" and the "Pro-Akiwara Faction," more and more people started to join and discuss related topics.

And with the fermentation of the topic, besides newspapers, television and radio also started to report further.

In an 8:00 PM program on NHK, a female host specifically invited two experts to discuss the possibility of Akiwara Yuto hiring someone to ghostwrite.

"Professor Ikawa, Professor Ueno, regarding the recent topic of Akiwara Yuto's ghostwriting, how do you two view it?"

The two professors looked at each other, and one hesitated and said, "From the current perspective, the possibility of hiring someone to ghostwrite is relatively low, but it's not completely impossible."

The female host was dissatisfied, but she couldn't force a question, so she could only follow the words, "Please Professor Ikawa, tell us more."

Professor Ikawa pondered for a while and said, "If it was only one or two works with different writing styles, in the literary world, besides Teacher Akiwara, there are other writers who can do it. But the styles of so many works are not unified, which is a bit strange."

The female host was satisfied and intended to express a point of view, but didn't expect this Professor Ikawa to say again, "But Teacher Shimochiku believes that there is a huge ghostwriting group behind Teacher Akiwara, which is also very unrealistic."

The female host was speechless; what kind of bullshit experts did the station invite?

But fortunately, this matter was a hot spot that the public was concerned about now, otherwise the ratings would really plummet.

Helplessly, she had to play it safe.

In fact, this program on NHK was just one of the shadows of many media, but unlike the restraint of big TV stations like NHK, some local TV stations or radio stations directly believed that Akiwara Yuto hired someone to ghostwrite, otherwise how could there be such a talented person.

And the Keihan Society, seeing this, additionally approved a budget and kept pushing the waves.

Under the public opinion on both sides, the public was also confused; did Akiwara Yuto hire someone to ghostwrite or not?

Tsutaya Bookstore Publishing originally wanted to find a public relations company to guide the situation, and even intended to invest a few large advertising fees to defend Akiwara, but was suppressed by Akiwara Yuto.

After all, whether it was bookstore operations or the subsequent filming of "Japan Sinks," a large amount of funds was needed, and there was no need to waste it on this.

By the time his "plan" was executed, all doubts would vanish into thin air.

But what surprised him was that just the day before he was about to hold a press conference, another piece of bad news popped out; a man named Funehiki Kuji believed that Akiwara Yuto plagiarized his manuscript.

On the front page headline of that evening's "Tokyo Shimbun," the transcript of the other party's interview was published.

"Akiwara Yuto's "Death of a Detective" is very similar to a work I submitted to the Mantan Society before; both describe the story of a detective dying and leaving behind a huge inheritance, and his juniors starting to fight for the inheritance in order to obtain the inheritance."

"But my work was rejected at that time, and just at that time, Akiwara Yuto left the Mantan Society and relied on "Death of a Detective" to win the Detective Writers Association Detective Literature Newcomer Award!"

"So I believe that Akiwara Yuto obtained the manuscript of this work from the Mantan Society through specific channels and plagiarized and modified it!"

"This made me feel very painful and uncomfortable, and I even went to see a doctor and opened a lot of medicine to treat depression... but the biggest problem is that my writing inspiration has completely disappeared, and I have therefore been unable to write any excellent works!"

"So Akiwara Yuto is not a talented person at all! He is just a despicable thief, a plagiarist!"

"I want him to apologize to me publicly, apologize to everyone he plagiarized..."

Akiwara Yuto didn't read it anymore after seeing this and threw it aside directly.

People who seek attention appear every year, didn't expect another one to pop up here.

He felt that the other party was simply suffering from hysteria.

If it were other works, he would probably consider whether it was a similar work in a parallel world.

But "Death of a Detective" was adapted by him based on a Hollywood movie, and the ideas were completely different from the detective methods of Nihon, so what the hell did it have to do with him.

But having said that, Nihon society was a society that sympathized with the weak.

After this "Funehiki Kuji" jumped out, it was estimated that there would still be many people who believed him, right?

Asano and Nishijima had been having darker circles under their eyes recently.

Even Chairman Kawai and others had recently called to comfort him.

Forget it, he shouldn't let them continue to worry anymore.

It was time to end these damn rumors! ===== CHAPTER 329 =====