Shosetsu O S01E01 - Partners

Toyotaka Yoshida (Alan Shirahama), a novelist who made a hit with his debut work 'Blank Method', but then didn't make a living with a family restaurant's part-time job. He brought a new novel to a publishing company and was treated ill-mannered, and was ridiculed as a 'former novelist teacher' at his part-time job.
On the other hand, Shuntaro Koyanagi (Yu Koyanagi) is an employee of a major publishing company, Kagura. He was assigned to the literature club from sales as a long-cherished desire. However, he is confronted with the reality of the publishing industry, saying, 'Literature is a muddy ship, novels can no longer be sold.' Shuntaro is told by the editor-in-chief, Sakakida (Zen Kajihara), to attend a meeting with the great writer Mitsunori Uchiyama (Tokuma Nishioka) on the first day of his assignment. When asked by Uchiyama what kind of book he wants to make, Shuntaro replies, 'I want to work with a writer named Toyotaka Yoshida.' When I heard the name, Haruko (Nanami Sakuraba) of the literary bar 'Kelly' stopped unexpectedly.
To Shuntaro, who joined a publishing company to write a novel with Toyotaka Yoshida, but didn't even know where he was, Uchiyama said, 'If you really want to write a novel, find out Toyotataka Yoshida and bring him here right now.' I say an unreasonable problem. Shuntaro searches for Toyotaka's whereabouts by doing everything he can think of. However, Toyotaka completely lost his confidence and was desperate, saying, 'I'm quitting the novelist.'