Jiang Liumei was surprised that these five masters suddenly visited Kodansha.
But if you think about it for a moment, you can figure out that these five people should be here for the 26th Edogawa Ranpo Prize.
The Edogawa Ranpo Award is Japan's most important new mystery award, with 300 to 500 people submitting submissions every year.
As long as you win the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, you have a guarantee to become a professional writer!
Although there are so many submissions every year, the competition in the literary world is extremely fierce. Among these submissions, only one or two people can make it to the top of the literary world.
Because these manuscripts will first be screened by all editors of Kodansha, and then selected by the editor-in-chief of each department through cross-voting, which is the so-called shortlisting.
Finally, among the piles of manuscripts, the five strongest works were selected for the judges to make the final selection.
Because it is not a popular vote, but a jury selection.
Therefore, the judges of the Edogawa Ranpo Prize every year must be important figures in the literary world in order to convince the public!
But everyone's taste is subjective and cannot be completely objective.
Therefore, in order to ensure that the judges will not affect the reputation of the Edogawa Ranpo Prize due to their personal taste.
Several great masters including Edogawa Ranpo, Ohge Utaji, Kiki Takataro, and Matsumoto Seicho jointly developed a set of detailed selection criteria.
That is the "theory of later generations' influence"!
If the five judges have a dispute due to personal taste, or it is difficult to distinguish between the two works.
Then choose the most influential book!
This influence not only refers to sales, but also includes the impact of the book on the Japanese literary world after its publication, as well as the impact of other later authors!
To put it simply, whoever’s style is more capable of leading the times, whoever is more capable of being the standard-bearer of the new era and leading the Japanese literary world to a new height will win the Edogawa Ranpo Prize!
The reason why the five judges were arguing so fiercely on stage was because there must have been a work that could compete with "Astrology Killing Magic"!
Eryumi followed the crack in the door and looked at the people in Kodansha below the stage, intending to find Uyama Hinodeomi or editor-in-chief Naoki Akimoto to ask what the situation was.
However, he didn't expect to find Uyama Hinodeomi before, but he saw a little girl sitting in the crowd holding a little red riding hood and leading a yellow and white Akita dog.
Jiang Liumeili thought she had seen it wrong at first, but after rubbing her eyes, she discovered that the dog was indeed her pet dog "Watson"!
That girl is naturally my sister Jiang Rumimei!
"Why did this guy come here?"
Jiang Liumei raised her eyebrows in confusion, squeezed into the conference room while squatting, and moved towards Jiang Liumei Ya.
Fortunately, the five judges on the stage were noisy and did not notice Jiang Liumei sneaking in.
"Meiya, why are you here?"
"Where's mom? Didn't mom say she would take you to Yomiuri Paradise in Tokyo today?"
Jiang Liu's beautiful words made Jiang Liu's beautiful girl couldn't help but pout:
"Sister, don't mention this."
"I was already prepared and was about to leave."
"It turned out that a cartoonist named Usui Yoshito in my mother's company said that he had created a comic with a strange name called "Bad Department Store", and he wanted my mother to help with some suggestions."
"So the event at Yomiuri Land was cancelled. My mother wanted to prevent me from telling others the plot of the manga in advance, so I was sent here."
"Seeing that you were not here, my mother gave me to Dr. Pantry to take care of me."
Jiang Rumei pointed to the side with her fleshy hands.
Jiang Liumei raised her head, just in time to see Uyama Hinideomi, who was scratching the back of his head and looking embarrassed.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Yushan, this child..."
Uyama Himideomi may have been used to being called Dr. Tea Water. Hearing Eryu's beautiful words, he smiled and said:
"Miss Jiang Liu, please don't worry, Tong Yanwuji, I won't argue with children."
"I just didn't expect that Mrs. Jiangliu is actually the president of Shuangye Club. I was really surprised when I saw her sending Meiya over!"
Eryumei seemed unwilling to mention her mother too much. When she heard what Uyama Hinodeomi said, she just smiled, then pointed in the direction of the podium and changed the topic:
"Mr. Yushan, what's going on now?"
"What are these masters of reasoning arguing about?"
Seeing Jiang Liu's beauty and asking this question, Uyama Hinodechan changed his smile just now and said with a stern expression:
"Miss Edome, you may not know something. Kodansha is the most important publisher of long-form mystery novels, and the Edogawa Ranpo Prize is naturally its foundation."
"Although the Edogawa Ranpo Prize always announces the winners in September every year."
"But this year, something is different! Faced with this unexpected situation, all the senior management of Otowa Group decided to add a special reward to the Edogawa Ranpo Prize!"
"This grand prize was originally supposed to be the 26th Edogawa Ranpo Prize, but because the interval between the last prize and the last prize was just one hundred days."
"So the newly added Edogawa Ranpo Prize this time is named, 'Dragon Climbing Prize'!"
When Jiang Liumei saw Uyama Himideomiya being so serious, she naturally knew that this emergency was not a trivial matter, so she curiously asked:
"Is it because of Teacher Maicheng's "Astrology Killing Magic"?"
Uyama Hinideomi nodded solemnly, then shook his head subconsciously:
"Yes, and no, the reason why Otonyu Group holds the Dragon Climbing Award is indeed related to Mr. Maicheng's "Astrology Killing Magic"!"
"But genius is a wonderful thing. Otherwise, there won't be a genius for decades. But if a genius is born, another genius will inevitably appear!"
"Just like the story of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", with Zhuge Liang, there will also be Zhou Yu!"
"And this time, several literary reasoning masters are arguing about who is the Zhuge Liang and who is the slightly inferior Zhou Yu!"
As soon as Uyama Hinodechen finished speaking, Eryu Meimei could not wait to ask who the other genius was.
Suddenly there was a loud "Bang!" on the podium!
Not only was Jiang Liumei so frightened that she burped, but Jiang Liumei Ya was also so frightened that she hugged "Watson" tightly!
On the conference room stage.
Miyoshi Toru pressed the red and swollen palms from hitting the table, raised his eyebrows and looked at Takao Tsuchiya aside and said:
"Teacher Takao Tsuchiya, I know that you have a heart that wants to continue your life for Honkaku-sect reasoning!"
"But you can't think that Maijo Kyousuke's "Astrology Killing Magic" is better than Izawa Motohiko's "Sarumaru Vision"!"
"You know I started out as a journalist, and the books I write are all historical or spy-type mystery novels. What I care about most is the rigor of mystery novels!"
""Astrological Killing Magic" may seem to you to be a good book, but the rigor and feasibility of it are really poor!"
"As the chairman of the Japanese Mystery Writers Association, I naturally believe that this 'Dragon Award' must be awarded to Izawa Motohiko's "Sarumaru's Vision"!"
Takao Tsuchiya was older, and he was obviously very angry when he heard Miyoshi Toru's words. He pointed at Miyoshi Toru with a trembling hand and said:
"San Hao! Don't think that just because you are the chairman of the Japanese Mystery Writers Association, you can use this title to overwhelm others!"
“The Edogawa Ranpo Prize is Edogawa-sensei’s most important legacy!”
"I was trained by Mr. Edogawa in my early years. Even if the socialists become popular, I will still stick to the future of original reasoning!"
"If Edogawa-sensei were still alive, he would definitely choose "Astrology Killing Magic" instead of "Sarumaru Vision"!"
As soon as Takao Tsuchiya finished speaking, the master of historical reasoning Chen Shunchen also spoke slowly:
"Although I am a historical mystery writer, I do not support "Sarumaru's Vision", which also involves historical reasoning. On the contrary, I admire "Astrology Murder Magic" more!"
"Because mystery novels have developed for nearly 140 years, it's time to make changes!"
"Didn't Mr. Masashi Henggou once say that the future of mystery novels should fly into the sky!"
"When reading "Sarumaru's Vision", I can really feel the genius of Izawa Motohiko."
"But the huge trick devised by Maijo Kyousuke and the brilliant answer that surpassed all other people really made my feet leave the ground and fly into the sky!"
