The best spots inside the venue had been divided among various circles and famous independent artists. This was also one of the liveliest areas in the entire exhibition.
Eriri walked in front, Sato followed behind her, and the others trailed after him. Naturally, such a strange group drew plenty of attention along the way.
"Damn! Bringing a bunch of beautiful girls to Comiket? Is this guy serious?!"
"That's insane."
"Hmph, what if they're all his sisters?"
Someone said sourly.
The people around him looked at him strangely.
Brother, your jealousy has transcended dimensions, hasn't it?!
No matter how you looked at it, none of those girls resembled siblings at all!
But suddenly, someone nearby became excited.
"Wouldn't it be even better if they were his sisters?!"
Ugh! That's seriously disgusting!
The crowd looked at him with contempt while secretly burning with envy.
...
The central hall was packed with people.
As the busiest area, almost every booth had long lines in front of it. Large promotional posters stood nearby, making it completely different from the isolated booths around the edges and corners.
Some of the posters looked perfectly normal.
Others were bold enough to make people blush.
Yuuki Asuna and Katou Megumi followed behind with slightly red faces, their gazes wandering awkwardly around as if they had no idea where they were supposed to look.
Eventually, everyone arrived at a very large booth.
The booth had over a dozen sales counters, and behind them were towering stacks of doujinshi. At a glance, there were probably no fewer than tens of thousands of copies there, making it one of the largest booths in the entire venue.
Several banners stood around the booth with the words Touhou Gensoukyou written vertically on them.
"Hm? Boss!"
A young man working busily inside the booth suddenly spotted Sato and hurried over.
"So it's Hashima."
Sato glanced at the approaching person before casually picking up a few doujinshi from the counter and flipping through them.
Behind him, Katou Megumi and Yuuki Asuna looked at each other in confusion.
Boss?
"How are sales doing so far?"
After casually flipping through a few pages, Sato asked without much concern.
Although Kosaka Akane's rouge en rouge circle had now become part of the company, that section remained under Kosaka Akane's direct management.
Just like how the website's editors and moderation teams were all his people, this was another small understanding between the two of them. However, that did not mean the company had split into opposing factions. In reality, the entire company functioned quite harmoniously.
Kosaka Akane handled most of the practical operations, while Sato focused on pioneering broader directions.
Hashima Iori glanced at the beautiful girls behind Sato and inwardly sighed that the boss truly was amazing before respectfully replying,
"Sales are doing quite well. Out of the fifty thousand copies we prepared, we've already sold over ten thousand. We should be able to sell around thirty thousand today."
"Around thirty thousand?"
Sato raised an eyebrow before silently nodding.
High-quality doujinshi were not cheap, especially works produced by major circles like this one.
And Winter Comiket lasted more than just one day. Sales would likely increase even more over the next few days. All of that revenue now belonged to the company, which meant the more they sold, the more money he technically earned, even though he personally would not receive any of it.
The Gensoukyou website was growing larger and more valuable by the day, but at the moment it was still essentially burning money. In other words, the company was currently being sustained largely through doujinshi sales.
However, once the website began generating real profits, the money from doujinshi would become insignificant in comparison.
"Then please continue working hard."
After glancing at the eager crowd behind them, Sato spoke.
There were still many customers waiting, and he had no intention of disturbing them any longer.
"Yes!"
Hashima Iori nodded respectfully.
In the eyes of outsiders, he was already considered highly capable and talented, having become the second-generation representative of the former rouge en rouge circle at such a young age.
But only he himself knew just how many monsters existed in this world who far surpassed him.
For example, the people before him...
Although he did not recognize two of them, the remaining three were already famous figures within the industry.
Miyabi-sensei, the strongest rookie representative in history, who had ascended to godhood with a single work after only two years since debut. Across fourteen volumes, his series had sold nineteen million copies and was rapidly approaching twenty million.
Kasumi Utako-sensei, representative of the new generation of youth romance authors and a genius who debuted while still in high school.
Kashiwagi Eri, a master-level figure in the 18x doujinshi world and one of the absolute top artists in the field. Recently, she had successfully gone mainstream, and her new work's popularity had exploded to the point that physical publication was already being planned.
Each of these people possessed enormous status within their respective fields.
As for him... if he had been a first-generation founder like Kosaka Akane, his position would have been respectable enough. But as merely a second-generation representative, without the backing of Touhou Gensoukyou Company's doujin production division, he essentially had no voice at all.
...
After leaving the Gensoukyou booth,
Sato's group continued wandering around and browsing the surrounding exhibits. Besides doujinshi, the venue also sold games, novels, and other merchandise.
After all, this was a grand event for ACGN culture. It could not possibly consist of only doujinshi, even if, for many people, only the 18x doujinshi truly mattered.
As for the games and novels, Katou Megumi and Yuuki Asuna gradually became interested as well.
Especially the beautiful illustration posters and entertaining manga. By the end of the trip, both girls had bought quite a few things, clearly demonstrating the immense appeal of ACGN culture.
Without exaggeration, more than seventy percent of young people in this world were either direct or hidden consumers of ACGN culture.
"Hey! Sato, look!!"
Suddenly, Eriri, who was walking ahead, seemed to discover something. Excitedly, she pointed in a certain direction.
"Look, that's Eromanga-sensei's booth!"
Sato looked up and saw a massive poster hanging above a personal booth with the words "Eromanga-sensei's New Work" written across it.
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