The Daily Life of a Salted Fish Assassin in Anime Crossovers

Apart from those animation companies with deep pockets or those backed by large corporations, there are plenty of animation companies with spare time who are willing to take on this job.

However, even then, you would still need to spend time monitoring the animation company's production progress and status to prevent issues such as a drop in quality or shoddy workmanship in the final product.

Such situations often occur with so-called co-produced animations: investors spend a lot of money to invest in an animation company for production, only to have that company outsource most of the episodes at a low price, acting as a middleman to make a profit. As a result, the final animation is simply appalling, and the investors have no recourse.

After all, the industry environment is not as good as imagined, and not all animation production companies can be Musashino Animation.

In addition, without investment from TV stations, you have to go to TV stations or websites to negotiate the broadcast of the animation yourself. Without advertisers to invest in the animation, you have to do the pre-production promotion yourself. Without toy manufacturers to invest, you have to contact manufacturers to produce and sell the merchandise yourself.

In the end, not only did it break the rules of the industry, but it also required a lot of effort to put into animation production.

Just listening to Phoenix Wright's explanation gave Jiang Hang a headache.

If Jiang Hang could leverage the financial resources of his background, anything would be possible. He could build a completely new "animation group" from scratch, or even overturn the industry and do his own thing.

But Jianghang only has one billion yuan now, which is enough to enter the industry, but it's far from enough to overturn the table.

Jiang Hang originally planned to invest this money in Musashino Animation, but now it seems he was overthinking things.

One billion yen is not enough to acquire Musashino Animation, and it is estimated that the owner of Musashino Animation has no intention of selling the company at present.

As for investment, if things are done according to industry norms, Jiang Hang can at most participate in the production committee under the name of an advertiser, and the amount he can invest in the end will probably only be a few million yen.

Jiang Hang could easily earn more money by helping a few elderly women cross the street.

The thought that he had worked hard for more than half a month to earn 1 billion yuan, and now he still couldn't spend it, made Jiang Hang feel a little melancholy.

However, things took a turn for the better at this time.

When Jiang Hang occasionally complained to Professor Agasa about his failed plan to invest in an animation company, Professor Agasa opened up a new idea for him.

According to Dr. Agasa, he has a friend who is a tokusatsu director. In recent years, the tokusatsu works and movies produced by his film and television company have been critically acclaimed but not commercially successful. The company's owner is also on the verge of bankruptcy and is currently looking for someone willing to take over.

Then Jiang Hang immediately became interested.

The animation industry is so difficult to please, I don't have the power to overturn the table yet, so I'm not playing with you guys anymore. Wouldn't it be better to test the waters in the tokusatsu circle first?

Chapter 136: Chapter 135: System, are you there? Lend me ten billion.

The development of tokusatsu films in this world started much later than in the world before Jiang Hang's time travel; in fact, the earliest tokusatsu films are only about twenty years old.

There were also many tokusatsu shows that were popular with audiences during this era, such as "Kamen Rider Platinum Raijin" produced by Kyoeku Co., Ltd. and "Oedo Warriors: Great Shogun" produced by Edo Studio, both of which were high-quality hero tokusatsu shows.

However, most of the tokusatsu in this world are life-size tokusatsu, while giant tokusatsu are rather rare.

Perhaps because the world of tokusatsu films started relatively late, and because technological advancements have led to a continuous decrease in the cost of computer-generated special effects, it's more profitable to use the same budget to make special effects movies rather than spending huge sums of money to produce giant tokusatsu films.

Therefore, no giant hero tokusatsu series like Ultraman has appeared in this world to this day, and there are only a handful of monster tokusatsu series.

The film company Jiang Hang was going to this time was Da Bao Film Company, which was the first tokusatsu monster movie "Gomera" to be released ten years ago.

To be honest, when Jiang Hang heard about Gomeila and Dabao Film and Television Company, he almost spat out his water.

After all, just hearing the name "Da Bao" made him feel inexplicably out of place.

He knew, of course, that this "big treasure" was completely different from the "treasure" he was familiar with.

It was obvious that this company had a significant connection with Toho Co., Ltd., a major player in the film and television industry that he knew well before his transmigration.

Toho Co., Ltd. produced the world's first tokusatsu monster movie, "Godzilla," early in its history, and this giant monster has remained popular to this day.

From this perspective, Dongbao and Dabao seem to be very similar, but in reality, their development is completely different.

From its inception, Toho was managed by financial tycoons, making it incredibly well-funded. In the year Godzilla was released, it brought in directors like Hiroshi Inagaki and Akira Kurosawa to create classic films such as *Miyamoto Musashi* and *Seven Samurai*. Later, after entering the animated film industry, it became the producer of theatrical versions of popular series like *Detective Conan* and *Doraemon*. It's no exaggeration to say that Toho is a major player in the Japanese film industry.

However, Daibo wasn't so lucky: its establishment was fraught with difficulties, and after a few years of success pioneering monster movies, it hasn't released any memorable works since, apart from Gomera. Moreover, while its recent films have received good reviews, their box office performance has been lackluster. Coupled with the high costs of giant-scale tokusatsu sets and models, the company has been constantly on the verge of bankruptcy.

Originally, the boss of DaBao Films wanted to see if one last Gomera movie could turn things around. He even invested unprecedented funds in the filming of this movie as a last-ditch effort. If it failed, he would simply seal up the "Gomera" IP and honestly focus on making life-size tokusatsu films with relatively lower costs.

The result of his "all-out gamble" was that when the film was almost finished and he was about to enter the more time-consuming and expensive post-production stage, his cash flow couldn't hold up and he was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Then he was faced with two choices: the first choice was to continue to seek investment, or grit his teeth, sell everything he owned, borrow money to keep going, and gamble on the box office success of "Gomera" after it was completed, so as to make a brilliant comeback.

However, Gomera has shown no signs of making money in the past few years, and he and the producers have already exhausted all the investment they could have made.

On the contrary, Dabao Film Company still owes the bank 1 billion yuan. If Gomela is not profitable after its release, he doesn't even know how to repay this huge debt. He might only have the option of bankruptcy and jumping off a building.

The second option is to sell the company while it still has some value so that someone else can take over and he won't have to worry about the company's debts.

However, just like the previous option, Gomera is not profitable at all, and the tokusatsu community now unanimously believes that giant tokusatsu has no future, and no one is willing to acquire this company with no future.

The boss of Dabao Film and Television was at a loss, but just then, Jiang Hang brought Cheng Butang Longyi over to discuss the acquisition.

Without much hesitation, he quickly reached an agreement with Jiang Hang on the acquisition.

Even when Jiang Hang asked him if he wanted to keep some shares as a memento, he immediately shook his head, indicating that he had no desire to consider making tokusatsu films anymore.

Back then, Tsuburaya Productions, which produced Ultraman, owed banks billions of yen and couldn't repay them, so they sold off most of their shares at a low price. Now, Dabao Films owes banks a billion yen, and the only valuable thing the company has is Gomera. So, when Jiang Hang acquired the entire Dabao Films, it only cost him a few hundred million yen, which is less than 20 million yuan.

Of course, now that he has acquired the company, Jiang Hang will have to pay for the nearly one billion yen bank loan and the subsequent production costs of Gomera's latest movie himself.

Jiang Hang naturally had no problem with this. He was very interested in tokusatsu culture, and with the system's industry template providing him with automatic money-making opportunities, he didn't need to worry about losing money at all.

Since we won't lose money, then Jiang Hang can do whatever he wants.

Jiang Hang was somewhat dissatisfied, however, as he couldn't repay the bank loan with the money he had.

He is nominally the heir to a foundation worth hundreds of billions of US dollars, but now he can't even pay off a loan of 1 billion yen. Is that respectable?

Thinking of this, and with the idea that the system was on his side and that it was better to owe the system money than the bank, Jiang Hang directly asked the system in his head.

"System, are you there? Lend me 1 billion to pay back the money."

The system slowly replied with a "?".

The system is still the system after all. Although it was somewhat dissatisfied with Jiang Hang's attitude, it ultimately agreed to Jiang Hang's request.

Of course, this is also due to its own considerations.

As a veteran system born several eras ago, it had to admit that it was somewhat out of touch with the times. All the hosts it had nurtured in the past were ruthless and decisive. It knew exactly how to cultivate hosts with this kind of personality: keep replies brief, and simultaneously apply system rewards and the threat of "elimination."

Of course, as a legitimate system, it's impossible to completely erase everything. At most, it can only deceive the hosts and give them a sense of urgency when they are doing tasks. If a task fails, it will quietly modify the task objective and then rewind time to before the task started, until the hosts complete the task.

However, given that Jiang Hang is a homebody host, and because of his own mistakes, in order not to lose the title of "excellent system" in this era, it cannot apply for punishment. As a result, it doesn't know what kind of "detective" Jiang Hang should be trained into.

After much hesitation, it decided to set aside its dignity as a senior system.

So it cautiously posted on the two-dimensional system forum, asking other systems if they had any suitable detective templates to recommend. Among a bunch of meaningless answers, it finally settled on the "Batman" template recommended to it by the dimensional lottery system that had been mingling in the world of American comics for many years.

Hidden in the shadows, his actions are similar to those of an assassin, and he is also a skilled detective. Moreover, Jiang Hang's ideals are somewhat similar to his.

Isn't this exactly what it needs?

After confirming this, it privately messaged the system to ask what Batman's most distinctive features were.

Then it received a reply from the other side.

"rich".

In its understanding, Batman practically controls the economic lifeline of a city, and since it wants to develop Jianghang in the direction of Batman, it naturally hopes that Jianghang can reach that level.

Now that it sees Jiang Hang has the idea of ​​entering a new industry and is asking it for money, it feels that its cultivation of Jiang Hang has taken a big step forward, so it agreed to Jiang Hang's request without much hesitation.

Although the industry Jiang Hang entered was slightly different from what he had envisioned, it didn't matter.

The host's development is proceeding smoothly and is entirely within the system's plan.

The legendary assassin system, a seasoned veteran of the system, thought to itself.

Chapter 137: Chapter 136: From now on, all of Gomera's filming will be paid for by Young Master Jiang.

Jiang Hang had no idea that the thought process behind his own system was so complex.

He was somewhat surprised that the system's older brother had generously lent him 1 billion.

He was just joking with his system, but he didn't expect the system to be so straightforward as to transfer money to him.

However, now that the money has already been transferred to his account, there's no reason to return it.

After silently praising the system for its generosity, Jiang Hang had already reached an agreement with the owner of Dabao Films on the acquisition. As for the subsequent contract issues, those would have to be handled by lawyers.

"Phoenix Wright, you should be fine leaving the rest to me, right?" Jiang Hang asked Phoenix Wright.

He knew that Phoenix Wright was "skilled" in criminal cases, but he had no idea whether Phoenix Wright was reliable in this area.

Phoenix Wright seemed a little uncertain as well, scratching the back of his head and giving Jiang Hang an awkward smile: "Um... I have helped Chihiro-sensei with this kind of matter before, but this is really the first time I've taken on a contract worth hundreds of millions. Maybe I should contact Chihiro-sensei?"

Jiang Hang told Cheng Butang Longyi to consider it himself. After the contract issues were basically settled, he still needed to meet with the staff of the film and television company.

Dabao Film & Television is a small company with only 70 or 80 employees, of whom more than 90% are film crews.

In such a company, almost any slight disturbance will quickly become known to everyone in the company.

Jiang Hang had barely stepped into the boss's office when news broke that the company was about to be acquired by someone else.

When Jiang Hang walked out of the boss's office with a smile on his face, everyone in the company looked at him with a strange expression.

The way the costume actors looked at Jiang Hang was especially eerie.

Jiang Hang himself didn't know what they meant by looking at him like that.

He's now going to see Professor Agasa. He came here today to discuss the acquisition, and Professor Agasa, who introduced him, naturally came along with him.

Then, somehow they found out about this news, and the Junior Detective League dragged Conan over to visit the Gomera filming location.

Just then, a man in a suit, wearing glasses, and with a smile walked up to Jiang Hang and extended his hand to him.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang Hang, I am Osamu Kamei, the producer of this film, 'Giant Monster Gomera'."

Jiang Hang could clearly sense that this producer wasn't very popular on set. When he walked up to him, someone even let out a disdainful snort.

However, seeing the other person's smiling face, Jiang Hang shook hands with him briefly.

"I'm here to see the filming of Gomera. You're the film's producer, what are your thoughts on filming Gomera?"

“Gomera…” A smile appeared on Kamei Osamu’s face, but it carried a hint of mockery. “Don’t worry, Mr. Jiang Hang, this film is Gomera’s last. Our staff has been working very hard to give Gomera a ‘perfect’ farewell ceremony…”

He offered a somewhat insincere compliment to Gomera, then quickly changed the subject, bringing up another project he had on hand: "Mr. Jiang Hang, I have an even better project in my hands. Would you be interested in taking a look? It won't require you to invest too much money. If you're interested, how about we find some time to talk about it?"

However, compared to the project that Kamei Osamu mentioned, Jiang Hang was more concerned about what was going on with Gomera's farewell ceremony.

He watched Gomera at home for a few days and thought the filming was quite to his liking, so he decided to acquire the company and prepare to make a big splash in the tokusatsu circle for a while. How come it sounds like Gomera is about to leave the scene now?

He declined the producer's invitation with a few words, and to the surprise of the producer, he went to the filming location, greeted Professor Agasa, and said that he had already reached an agreement on his side.