Big Manga

Xia Chuan really stood at the gate of an orphanage, staring blankly at the gate.

"Is this where I'm performing today?"

She turned her head and asked. The staff behind her were unloading various instruments from the truck. Ryoko Xia Chuan was supervising them. After hearing her daughter's question, she replied with a smile: "Yes, we will be here today. Charity show."

A charity performance is a performance that does not charge any fees. Although this is not Xia Chuanzhen's first charity performance, she is a big star. Usually, even charity performances will be arranged on a large stage. In recent years, there have been almost no Been to such a small place.

"Why here?" Xia Chuanzhen was a little puzzled.

"This is the company's arrangement." Xiachuan Liangzi smiled and said, "This orphanage is funded by Teacher He Xi. I think it's good for you to come to this place occasionally."

"My brother's support?" Xia Chuan was really surprised: "But isn't this Tokyo?"

She had heard a long time ago that Meng Huo had set up a charitable fund to support various juvenile welfare homes and poor places. However, the fund was established not long ago. How could it expand to Tokyo so quickly?

Xia Chuanliangzi explained to her daughter with a smile that after several years of development, Meng Huo’s charity fund can no longer be said to be his personal fund. He Xi’s actions have led to the cooperation of many cartoonists, including animation companies, and the fund has now changed. It has become a special fund shared by the comics industry.

Due to the expansion of funding sources, the development speed of the fund has been increasing. Tokyo is not considered a remote city, and coupled with the strong manga atmosphere here, the orphanage here will naturally receive support.

But after listening to his mother's explanation, Xia Chuanzhen still couldn't believe it: "Why do you want to help Teacher He Xi?"

"It's not helping." Xiachuan Liangzi replied: "At the beginning, it was Teacher He Xi who drove the donations from the cartoonists in our company to take care of these cartoonists. After getting Teacher He Xi's consent, Ms. changed in nature.”

When this charitable fund still focuses on He Xi, cartoonists and companies from other companies will naturally not be interested. But Alice has slowly spun it off into a separate company over the past two years. The situation is different if it is positioned as a company used by the entire comics industry to support charity.

In fact, the shareholding structure of this fund is no longer He Xi's sole proprietorship, but divided into many shares. Even Zhongxia Company has invested a lot, and it has become a charitable company recognized by the comics industry.

Of course, the reason why everyone is enthusiastic,

This is also related to the company's business. Although it is called charity, nearly half of the charity's aid is devoted to training new cartoonists and painters.

The vigorous development of Huaxia comics has led to a serious shortage of painters in the entire industry. However, the speed of change in higher education schools is still a step slower. In order to meet the greater demand in the future, charitable companies provide comprehensive manga training for many physically handicapped or poor children, so that they can at least become an artist after they come out.

In fact, the entire comics industry has been looking for such a channel, and He Xi's charity fund just satisfies the urgent need. Many companies use this fund to train artists in different places, and now they have achieved initial results.

"The children in this orphanage may become our company's painters in a few years." Xiachuan Liangzi said with a smile: "I heard that some people have been trained to work in the company."

In all departments of Phoenix Company, whether it is animation, comics, games, publicity or other related industries, the demand for painters is quite high. And Meng Huo was already one step ahead of other companies, and now he has obtained a new artist who had been trained two years ago.

Xia Chuanzhen didn't think about it at all, but in fact, she often saw the shortage of painters. Take her performance as an example. As an animation voice actress, she always needs some animation-related posters and venue layouts for each performance. These should have been done by her own team, but there are very few painters in her team , so those things have to be transported from the company thousands of miles before each performance.

Phoenix Company has a special department to prepare performance posters for these voice actors. It is said that the number of this department is as high as 200 people, but in order to support so many voice actors. They work more than ten hours a day.

The needs of illustrators are not limited to manga and animation, but all activities and companies related to these two. Both require a large number of painters, which is the reason for the "painter shortage".

But even so. Xia Chuanzhen was really worried: "Brother, is it okay to do this? Isn't this restricting other people's choices? Will they be questioned..."

"What's the question?" Xiachuan Liangzi shook his head: "Not every child has to become a painter. They can choose whether to accept it or not, but there are still many people who accept it."

In her view, so-called charity is not unreasonable support. It would be great if the charity company established by Meng Huo can use half of the funds for poverty alleviation support, and there is nothing wrong with using the remaining half for training talents.

He didn't deprive others of their right to choose, but gave them one more right to choose. Those children can choose to accept or not. If you accept it, you will have the opportunity to gain a skill, and if you don't accept it, you will lose nothing.

"But do we need so many painters?" Xia Chuan was really puzzled, "What if there are too many painters in the future?"

This is not impossible. There may be a shortage of illustrators now, but comic education in China is also popularizing. Perhaps in five or six years, when the comic industry stabilizes, the number of illustrators will be saturated.

If too many painters are trained, the Phoenix Company cannot absorb them. Isn't this harmful?

Xia Chuan Liangzi patted his daughter's face and said, "You can think of what you are worried about. Are you afraid that Teacher He Xi can't think of it?"

"If the needs of painters are almost met, this fund will become a real charity fund." She said with a smile. Although the main purpose of the fund is to train painters, as long as there are enough painters, then this purpose will naturally be fulfilled. would not exist.

At that time, the funds used to train painters will be used to support these children to learn other job skills, just like ordinary charitable funds. At this stage, however, it doesn't make sense to think about these things.

"Okay. Let's go, let's go in!"

Xiachuan Liangzi looked back and saw that the instruments needed for singing were almost moved, so she took her daughter's hand. Go to the orphanage. Their performance this time is actually not only a charity performance. Or to give a message to the outside world: Xia Chuanzhen has no problem with the relationship between Phoenix Company.

There have been a lot of rumors about Xia Chuan's truth recently, and there is even a lot of news that she will terminate the contract with Phoenix Company. Even her family has heard about it, which makes Xia Chuan Liangzi a little vigilant.

"Who is playing tricks?" she thought, she didn't want her daughter to change jobs, she was already very satisfied with her current achievements, and she didn't want to see her leave Phoenix Company, even if... that would make her become everything. A big star sought after by people.

superstar. Now Xia Chuanzhen is already a big star in terms of popularity, but her status is still not widely recognized.

This is because she is not a star in the traditional sense. Nearly half of Xia Chuan's real popularity is obtained from animation dubbing, and the stage performance only accounts for half. Many singers said sourly that she is not a real singer, and many artists do not recognize her status.

The real big star in Huaxia is not a singer, but an actor. The status of an actor is even more noble than that of a singer. There is a saying in the entertainment industry that top-notch stars are a combination of actors and singers, second-rate stars are popular actors, and popular singers are only third-rate.

Xia Chuan's real popularity can be compared to that of a first-class singer, but she is not recognized as a real singer. Many people say that her popularity comes entirely from anime and anime songs, not herself. Therefore, she was regarded as a nouveau riche in the entertainment industry - in fact, it was not only her, Shen Jie and Long Xue were the same.

"Seiyuu is a new industry after all. It is impossible to gain recognition in just a few years..." Alice sighed on the phone, and it was Meng Huo who called her, and he told the truth about Xia Chuan's real rumors Alice, then aroused her emotion.

Voice actors are just like manga, no - the industry's rise is even shorter than manga, so the status of voice actors is still not in the eyes of many celebrity experts.

This status quo cannot be changed immediately, it can only be proved by time, just like comics. The speed at which these two industries have been accepted by the world has actually made other industries dumbfounded, and their popularity has already risen. After a few years, it will not be a problem to log into Dayazhitang.

The problem is now...

"I also thought that when the seiyuu became a voice actor, someone would poach her, but I didn't expect it to be so fast." Alice said. What Xia Chuan is really facing is poaching. Although it is only a prelude, she can guess the follow-up development.

The person who was really interested in Xia Chuan this time was not a single company, but to Meng Huo's surprise, there were at least three companies spreading the rumors—and these three companies were the top three companies in Huaxia Star Company.

If three companies do one thing at the same time, things will not be simple.

"They must feel that they can cultivate the truth into a superstar!" Alice said: "It is the kind of national-level superstar who can make the whole country boil, and it is more crazy than any star now."

Meng Huo didn't think of this: "Can it be done?"

"Yes." Alice did not hesitate: "There are two people in this world who can do it. Their popularity has reached the standard of first-line stars. In addition, they do not have the characteristics of other stars. Their personal qualities are also very good, and their image is quite it is good."

"Shen Jie... is it real?"

Meng Huo seemed to have guessed these two people.

"right."

Alice nodded. The two super popular voice actors cultivated by her and Meng Huo have actually made history. Because He Xi has long been regarded as a "cleanliness" standard for voice actors, voice actors are a group of "clean" stars in the hearts of fans.

The quality of 'clean' is quite difficult to find in the entertainment industry. Although star companies always try to say how clean their artists are, the impressions accumulated over the years have actually prevented people from believing in the character of stars. .

But voice actors are an exception. They have risen in a short period of time and are out of tune with the entertainment industry, and they always give fans a good impression.

Among them, Shen Jie and Xia Chuanzhen are the most representative. They are super popular and have excellent personal qualities. If they can be poached for further training and shaping, they have a good chance of producing superstars who are popular all over the country.

"Perhaps it was because of Shen Jie's transformation that they set their first sight on Xia Chuanzhen." Alice explained, but what puzzled Meng Huo was: "What about Long Xue? Why is it true?"

"Long Xue can't."

Alice shook her head. The two most valuable voice actors of Phoenix Company are Xia Chuanzhen and Shen Jie, because they have outstanding characteristics and are young enough. Long Xue's age is slightly older, and the room for cultivation and advancement has become smaller - but Xia Chuanzhen and Shen Jie are full of possibilities.

Two such young women already have such huge popularity, so what's the future?

Of course, what Alice didn't say clearly was Meng Huo, he was the real super popular star, if he gave up being a cartoonist, no matter how high the price was, there would surely be people vying for it - but that was obviously impossible.

So she didn't mention this matter, but told Meng Huo that this matter would not end with Xia Chuanzhen.

"Since the truth has been noticed, and the three companies are behind the scenes...then soon, other seiyuu should also encounter a similar situation." Alice said: "We must be prepared, we can't let the past Job hopping happened."

The male voice actor's job-hopping incident once made Phoenix Company seem very passive, and Alice didn't want the same thing to happen.

Meng Huo frowned: "We have improved a lot in the past few years, and also increased restrictions. They won't change jobs easily, right?"

"That might be..." Alice disagreed with Meng Huo's words: "Whether to change jobs or not depends on whether the conditions proposed by the other party are attractive. Suppose someone proposes to pay a mid-level seiyuu in the company to let him participate in the main role of a popular TV series." The show ... I think there's a good chance he'll jump away."

She was just giving an example, but this is very likely to happen. The top three companies in Huaxia also made plans to Xia Chuanzhen at the same time, which proves that there are more than one voice actors who are targeting voice actors. They may want to dig out the mainstay of voice actors. In short, the conditions must be much better than when the male voice actors switched jobs back then.

If you can transform into an actor or singer after leaving Phoenix Company, enjoy better remuneration, and continue your career as a voice actress—many people will be moved.

This is the time to test the voice actors' loyalty to the Phoenix Company. (to be continued)