instant noodle richest man

Shueisha President Tanida Naoyoshi was sitting in his office at this time, looking at the financial statements for the second quarter of 1992 in front of him with some distress.

Although Shueisha's various data this year are overall promising, its magazines, especially "Weekly Shonen Jump", have reached an unprecedented sales volume of 5.8 million copies in one issue, and it is estimated that it will even exceed 6 million copies next year. This Fuso has never

The pinnacle a person has ever reached.

But Tanida Naoyoshi's expression was not relaxed, because Shueisha's losses in other industries, especially its investment in Tsuburaya Company, caused huge losses, which resulted in the financial statements for the first two quarters being quite ugly. Tanida Naoyoshi felt that he

I don’t even know how to explain it to shareholders.

For a publishing group with an annual revenue of 40 billion yen, its actual profit in the first two quarters was only a mere 120 million yen. Who would believe this?

Obviously there were still 200 million last year.

In fact, he knows the reason, because basically no copyrights are sold today, and if the copyrights cannot be sold, the income will naturally be insufficient.

Just when Tanida Naoyi was worried about this, his secretary suddenly knocked on the door and came in and reported to him, "President, there is a Chinese who wants to see you. He said that he has a business with a net profit of 20 million yen.

Want to talk to you!"

"No..." Tanada Naoyi refused without thinking, but just after spitting out the two words, he swallowed them back.

Wait, the net profit of 20 million yen, is this true or false?

"He is indeed talking about pure profit?" Tanada Naoyi confirmed with his secretary.

"Yes, that's right!" The secretary nodded.

"Then please invite this gentleman to the living room!" Gutian Shangyi nodded, cleaned up his appearance a little, and saw Jia Yapeng who came to visit in the living room.

"Mr. Jia said there was a net profit of 20 million yen. I wonder what kind of business cooperation it is?" Tanida Naoyoshi asked with a smile.

"It's very simple. I have a comic that I hope to serialize in Shueisha's "Weekly Shonen Jump" magazine. If President Tanita agrees, I can directly pay 20 million yen in cash. This is indeed a pure profit!"

Jia Yapeng smiled.

"20 million yen, what a big deal." He had to admit that Tanida Naoyi was a little moved, but he also knew the rules and beliefs that Tanida Naoyi had always adhered to in "Weekly Shonen Jump". It seemed that just for 20 million yen,

Violating these rules will make editors dissatisfied!"

Thinking of this, Tanita Shangyi hesitated a little.

"I need to discuss this matter with the editors!" Tanada Naoyoshi said hesitantly.

"30 million yen!" Jia Yapeng said without raising his head, "30 million yen, give me a serialization, I don't want any reason to reject you!"

"Suck!" Tanita Naoyi looked at this young man in shock. In order to serialize a magazine, he spent 30 million yen. Whose young man is this? He is so heroic and does not regard money as money.

arrive.

No, this seems to be a Chinese. Are Chinese people already so rich?

"President Tanita, what's your opinion?" Jia Yapeng asked with a smile.

"30 million yen!" Tanida Naoyi suddenly fell into anxiety deep in his heart. 30 million yen seemed to be nothing compared to Shueisha's annual sales of 50 billion yen.

But compared with the total net profit of only 120 million yen in the first half of this year, it is very important. In this way, the profit in the first half of the year can reach 150 million yen. At any rate, it looks much better in appearance, at least

I can give an explanation to the shareholders.

But in this case, I'm afraid I will be scolded like an old dog by the editors below!

Tanita Naoyi was very hesitant, wavering left and right, and felt very uncomfortable.

"Let's do this, the fixed price is 40 million yen. If President Tanita doesn't agree, I'll leave now and won't bother you anymore!" Jia Yapeng said with squinted eyes.

Tanita Naoyoshi was completely shaken. The 40 million yen was really too tempting for him.

Tanita Naoyoshi is not a serious editor. He is a businessman, and a businessman only considers profits. In the eyes of Tanita Naoyoshi, 40 million is worth breaking some rules.

Anyway, what the other party asked for was just to be serialized in the magazine. This was not an excessive request. New serialized comics would appear in the magazine every month, and there would also be comic strips that were cut in half.

No matter which comic is serialized, it is serialized. Among the 18 comics in the magazine, more than 10 comics have the final fate of being cut in half. These comics basically cannot bring any income to Shueisha, and it is difficult to sell single volumes.

Over 10,000, animation requires a lot of capital investment, and no one cares about the surrounding areas.

Serializing such comics not only fails to bring any profit, but also costs a lot of money.

The net profit of "Weekly Shonen Jump" is actually basically the income brought by top comics such as Dragon Ball and Oolong Police Station. They are the real profit core. As for other comics, they are just used to feed Gu.

Just a worm.

Among these worms, only a small number can grow up and eventually become Shueisha's money-printing machine. As for other comics, they can only be thrown into the waste paper pile of history, and such a waste paper pile accounts for

More than 80% of the comics serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump".

Therefore, for Shueisha and Tanida Naoyi, serializing a "Yu-Gi-Oh!" is indeed a good business with huge profits. There is no need to pay any price. It is just to cut off a street comic and replace it with another one with a lot of profit.

Maybe it’s just a comic that was thrown off the street.

As for the quality of this comic, Tanida Naoyoshi is even more indifferent. "Weekly Shonen Jump" has comics of extremely poor quality, but as long as it is cut in half in time, readers can still accept it.

More importantly, Tanida Naoyoshi actually just flipped through the comic "Yu-Gi-Oh!". Although the style of painting is still a bit immature, the story is undoubtedly interesting. Such comics are actually no different from those comics that have been cut in half. Readers

You may not like it after watching it, but you will never get bored again.

Serializing "Yu-Gi-Oh!" will not cause any losses, but it can make a profit of 40 million in vain. You must know that when Shueisha sold the copyright of Dragon Ball game, it only sold for 30 million yen. But how can there be such a thing in the world?

How many comics like "Dragon Ball" are there?

This "Yu-Gi-Oh!" is equivalent to creating a profit of 40 million yuan before it is put on the shelves. How many comic strips can achieve this?

Tanada Naoyoshi finally made a wise decision.

"No problem, this matter is taken care of by me, but there is one thing. If the serialization results are very bad and even leads to continuous bad reviews, then the serialization will be forcibly cut in half if it lasts for up to one year!" said Tanida Naoyoshi.

"This is a wise decision!" Jia Yapeng smiled slightly and sat down.

"The reason why you are willing to spend so much money is probably to monopolize the copyright of this comic!" Tanita Naoyi is not stupid. No one here will spend so much money to buy a serialization license, so Jia Yapeng must have something.

picture.

"Yes, Shueisha only has the authorization to publish comics. All other copyrights are in my hands and have nothing to do with Shueisha!" Jia Yapeng nodded.

"Other copyrights can be given to you, but the distribution rights of future comic book volumes must be in the hands of Shueisha. Once this comic is serialized in Shueisha, it will never be allowed to appear in any other publisher's magazine!" Tanida Naoyoshi added, this

The most important point is that Shueisha’s exclusivity cannot be changed in any way. This cannot be bought with any money?

"Yes!" Jia Yapeng nodded, "But it is limited to the copyright within Fuso. Except for the Fuso area, all copyrights have nothing to do with Shueisha!"

"But I have a request, which is that the next issue of "Weekly Shonen Jump" that has not yet been printed must start serialization, and at the same time, it must have all the rights equivalent to normal serialized comics. The editorial department must not have any preference for my comics.

!”

"No problem!" Gutian Shangyi nodded cheerfully, then took out two glasses of red wine from the bar in the living room, clinked the glasses with Jia Yapeng, and at the same time smiled and said, "Happy cooperation, Mr. Jia Yapeng!!"