Japanese Entertainment: From special effects actor to action superstar

Chapter 192 Japanese Partner

Since it is not a listed company and has no stock market equity, its operations rely entirely on internal voices.

In high-end terms, this is called a board seat.

In a low-end way of speaking, this is called a partner.

After being a partner for half a year, Wan Gu'ao found that this crappy company was really a scam!

Now that he realized Gu Ming's intention, he immediately prepared to sell it.

But it is impossible to give it away for free at this price.

"I invested over 10 million yen back then. If Furuya-kun wants it, he'll need at least 8 million yen."

Gu Ming's hand trembled.

Eight million yen is not a lot, but it is definitely not a small amount either.

He quickly estimated the current profit in his mind.

The director of Kamen Rider Shazhen is paid 1 million yen per episode for directing the protagonist, 150,000 of which is his own salary and the rest is the profit of the agency.

Maoyan charges 500,000 yen per episode, and Gu Ming only takes 50,000 yen out of the 500,000 yen, and the rest is all profit for the agency.

Because Gu Ming is considered a partner, he owns other copyrights.

At present, Maoyan's comics have been entrusted to Hojo Tsukasa, who was also beaten up.

However, since the comics have not yet been released, there is no possibility of profitability for the time being.

"Currently, both Maoyan and Kamen Rider have filmed more than one quarter, with fifteen episodes for Maoyan and fourteen episodes for Kamen Rider."

Kamen Rider's total revenue is 14 million, and Maoyan's is 7.5 million.

It seems that the profit is close to 20 million yen, but in fact, most of it belongs to the agency's income. The only funds that really belong to Gu Ming himself are the 3 million yen in remuneration from both sides.

It's not that it's impossible to withdraw funds from the firm, but because of hiring the accountant Yuko Matsuzawa, Gu Ming realized one thing.

Funds for different purposes must be calculated separately, otherwise it will be very troublesome when they become bigger.

"Sorry, wait a moment."

Gu Ming said this and prepared to run out to make a consultation call.

Wan Gu'ao was not in a hurry and continued to drink peacefully.

However, Wan Gu'ao suddenly felt that his life was full of hope.

Great.

The money-losing item, Endai, was finally sold!
Although he felt a little sorry for Gu Ming, Wan Gu'ao didn't want to keep this money-losing item in his hands.

Gu Ming borrowed the phone from the izakaya, spun the roulette wheel, and connected with Matsuzawa Yuko.

"Hello? Is this Yuko Matsuzawa? I'm Akira Furuya. I have some questions..."

Gu Ming briefly told us about his story.

"Excuse me for being blunt." Matsuzawa Yuko pointed out the crux of the matter very swiftly: "Do you want to invest privately, or do you want to invest through a firm?"

"Is there a difference?"

"There's a huge difference. If you use the firm's funds to invest, then it must be counted as firm assets. This way, the assets are effectively registered under the firm's name. Right now, you're the only one running the firm, but if you have other shareholders or partners in the future, then you'll also need to share in the profits from the assets."

"If you invest on your own, you won't have these problems. It's your private property and you can do whatever you want with it."

Gu Ming couldn't help scratching his head: "So I can't directly take money from the firm to invest, even though the money in the firm is also my money."

"That's right. Using the public account means that the money belongs to the firm. Even if you are the only boss of the firm, you must follow the procedures if you want to withdraw the money." After this explanation, Gu Ming understood the situation.

All the regulations that seem inhumane or even outrageous are very important.

Otherwise, if you don't follow the rules, you'll be in trouble when things get out of hand.

Even if he wanted to withdraw money from the firm, he could just go to the bank to withdraw it, but he still had to follow the calculation procedures.

"So you want to withdraw your recent profits, right? The firm's current profitability is healthy, but to ensure operational stability, I still recommend that you retain a portion of operating funds to ensure that you can maintain operations in the event of a future capital shortage. In this case... I suggest you don't withdraw more than 5 million yen. Of course, this is just a suggestion."

Even if Gu Mingquan took it away, it had nothing to do with her.

Gu Ming didn't care: "Then let's listen to the professionals."

Five hundred plus the money he had saved during this period, eight hundred was more than enough.

After a brief silence, Matsuzawa Yuko reminded them, "I don't know what investment you're considering, but if possible, you'd better first investigate the company's operations and financial situation to see if it will burden you with debt and whether it can achieve profitability quickly. Otherwise, if you make an investment but don't get the expected return, the money might as well just sit there in a bank account and earn interest."

Gu Ming then laughed: "Then you can rest assured, this company's current operating conditions are terrible!"

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One of the most terrifying situations is having multiple orders issued to different departments.

The fear is that everyone has opinions, and everyone is a brain, so there will be no place for the hands and feet to move.

This is the current situation with Japanese toys.

Although they joined forces with the other two companies to withstand the oppression of large companies, it was equivalent to chronic death for Endai.

Unless a reliable profit point can be found, the end of the Yuandai will be disbandment.

Tokyo, Endai Headquarters.

It is called the headquarters, but in fact it is a one-story building that is not even as good as Wangu’s two-story building. It was directly converted from a factory building.

"Wangu is totally unreliable. Those broken toys in the warehouse haven't been sold yet!"

"Wake up! What does this have to do with Banku? After all, it's Ultraman's copyright. It's us who can't keep the costs down. The costs are too high, so the selling price is also high. Even if the selling price is high, it's still difficult to recoup the costs, and consumers don't want to buy such expensive toys."

"I shouldn't have bought that crappy plastics factory in the first place! Wouldn't it be better to just focus on making dolls?"

"Stop arguing!"

Naoji Yamashina took off his shoes and slammed them on the table.

He is already a sixty-year-old man this year, with sparse hair and a shiny scalp, but he still has the same bad temper as when he was young.

"Guests are coming soon. It would be disgraceful if they saw you like this! Don't we have any manners?"

As soon as Yamashina Naoharu spoke, the others fell silent.

The sense of oppression from this old man is still very strong.

Naoji Yamashina was well-versed in ancient books and originally planned to name the company "Bandai" based on the ancient books, which means "unchanging for ten thousand generations", that is, it will not change even after being passed down for ten thousand generations.

But when naming it, he casually mentioned that "you have to earn at least 10,000 yen a day", and the fool in charge of registration wrote it as 円代.

Maybe it’s because of the bad name that Endai looks like it will go bankrupt at any time.

Yamashina Naoji thinks that if it had been called Bandai back then, it would have definitely made a lot of money now!

(End of this chapter)