Chapter 2: The Meeting

(Sunday, 02:15 PM - 05/04/2009)

I knock the front door, they open the door and invite us to come in. 1 of the workers ask me what is my intention to come there. I say that i need to meet with the editor we have arrange an appointment for a new magazine, around 2-3 minutes the editor come and we 3 sit down to discuss about it. Maybe I add a little bit but this is the exact conversation that I remember:

Editor: So...what do we have here..?

Me: Ok first of all this is his(Raen) artwork book u can take a look then give us your opinion..

Raen: ....................

Me: So what do u think about his drawing, is it good?

Editor: hmmmm...its kinda good but we don't do this.

Me: Err...can u explain more..I not sure I understand what u mean by that.

Raen: ...............

Editor: Our company process a book/magazine for education, of course some of that need a little bit illustration/images but his drawing have no originality. Take a look of some of our books from local artist, it show that we proud of our origin not some imitation like this.

Raen: ...........................

Me: But u also need to know what people will buy and what people really like to read this time, even in our country they is plenty magazine produce a manga style drawing. The television also start to advertise anime on their channel, can't u see it. If we make this happen maybe some company will take this manga to become anime, international people will accept this kind of thing. We not only makes people happy we also make some profit for it.

Editor: I still have my own opinion on this kind of drawing, our local artist also makes their way to international without manga style drawing. So I'm  sorry to say that this is my final answer, we can't produce this manga not in our magazine.

Raen: ....................................

Me: .....ok...but I still want to know if u can make a new magazine based on manga, we will not take any pays until your company roll back the money from this magazine. Is it possible? 

Editor: Sorry, its a no from me. I'll not put my money on this, I don't think anybody would if u still do a manga style.

Me: Its not ok to say like that, we only do this because we  know what people likes and what people need. So the best things now is to follow the flow not goes against it.

Editor: So if people jump over the sea would u follow them?

Raen: ......................

Me: ........................

Me: .............................Ok then nevermind, thanks for your time.

That's how the meeting going, it only takes around 10-15 minutes. So we head  back home with empty hand, no good news. But the situation in the car is not silent like before, its full of cursing to the editor and the magazine company . Even its the first company I call and get the appointment, but I can get the picture that its hard to convince others company in my country to advertise/produce Celestial Saga manga. I have enough with magazine company, nevertheless I still not giving up on Celestial Saga manga. 

How the website idea came from? Its all in the next chapter.Thanks for reading