RAP STAR

Chapter 75 [verse 13. Circle]

Next, surprisingly time-consuming task was related to Sangmi, her webtoon.

Around the end of August, Naver Webtoon service officially began, and Sangmi, as an amateur, started serializing her webtoon almost as the first mover. Thanks to Sanghyun's relentless persuasion about the growth potential of the webtoon market, Sangmi had quite a number of saved manuscripts.

Sangmi's debut was on the "Challenge Cartoonist" section.

The title was "888 Crew".

Originally, it started serialization with the title "888 X 888", but it seemed like there would be a barrier due to the difficult title. So, at Sanghyun's suggestion, the title was changed.

Other title candidates were "The Rapstar" and "Make Some Noise". However, "Make Some Noise" seemed too difficult, and Sangmi strongly opposed Sanghyun's fallback choice, "The Rapstar".

"Ew, what's 'The Rapstar'? It's so cheesy."

"Why? It's totally cool!"

"Is that cool? Isn't it more like 'sea squirt'?"

Sanghyun could only shut his mouth at Sangmi's reaction.

To Sanghyun, the word "rapstar" was like the ultimate aspiration that made his heart flutter, but since Sangmi disliked it, there was nothing he could do.

Anyway, Sanghyun ended up being in charge of the "story writer" position in Sangmi's webtoon.

In a way, it was natural.

Sangmi's webtoon dealt with stories about the 888 Crew. So, it was difficult for Sangmi, who was ignorant about music, to understand all the situations just by watching from the sidelines. Also, there were many things that happened behind Sangmi's back.

Sejong Musician's performance. Time to get moving on.

888 Crew's first meeting. Interview with the show business.

Sanghyun's inner thoughts. Bonding with crew members.

Antagonism towards show business or Golden Finger's Lee Kyungmin, and so on.

Sangmi, with Sanghyun's help, drew the webtoon by mixing about 80% of reality with about 20% of fiction, and the readers' reactions were quite positive.

Since the webtoon population was not yet large, it seemed like there was enough potential if the readership increased.

"When will writer Jo Seok's 'Sound of Heart' come out? It seems like people started gathering in the webtoon from around that time, right? And... with the spread of smartphones, it exploded, didn't it?"

As Sanghyun remembered, since the spread of smartphones, there would be hardly anyone in university lecture halls who hadn't read a webtoon even once.

Currently, Daum Webtoon was dominant, but Sanghyun stubbornly insisted, so Sangmi went to Naver. Therefore, he hoped that the Naver Webtoon market would grow as soon as possible.

"Sangmi, until you sign with Naver and start official serialization, just update once every two weeks."

"Why? Isn't it better to update more often to please the readers?"

"Anyway, crowd-pulling will start with famous writers hired by Naver. We shouldn't just suffer while pioneering the market and not get any fruits."

Sangmi didn't fully understand Sanghyun's words, but she obediently followed them.

She was still a bit stubborn and only knew her brother too well, but their bond was stronger than any family.

Lastly, the most time-consuming task for Sanghyun was working on songs with the crew members. It was a very natural task that had been going on for a long time, but there was a difference from the past.