Depressive Screenwriter

As the New Year approached, the temperature dropped, but Lelouch's popularity remained as high as ever.

However, in terms of viewership ratings, there was no room for further growth.

Su Yan had been famous in Xia for so many years that both those who liked him and those who didn't knew of his existence.

Those who were willing to watch Lelouch and those who weren't had basically learned about the work through the promotion over the past half-year.

A viewership rating of 7.3% was basically the upper limit in the era of the rising Internet. Unless several online broadcasting platforms collectively experienced code problems and shut down for a month or two, it would be impossible to drive the tens of millions of people who watched dramas online to television sets.

Su Yan knew this, and the TV station knew this, but everyone didn't care. They were still throwing large amounts of publicity funds into the market. It didn't matter that there wasn't much room for viewership growth, but the sales growth space in the surrounding market was not small. For Lelouch alone, the profit from selling broadcasting rights and online broadcasting shares was not as good as the sales share of surrounding merchandise during the same period.

Although the TV station did not have the copyright to Lelouch, Su Yan placed a considerable portion of the surrounding sales channels on the official websites of China Xia TV and its various online shopping platforms for sale. In the sales process, China Xia TV, as the platform party, also received a lot of revenue, so naturally, it was putting in its best effort.

Moreover, seeing the popularity of Lelouch in the global surrounding market, several TV stations, and even a bunch of foreign online broadcasting platforms, also began to actively run to Tokyo to discuss cooperation with C-Dimension Film and Television Company.

In terms of the work's IP, Su Yan would definitely not let inexplicable capital come to take a share. He was not short of money, but if an IP was to be made big, Su Yan couldn't just eat the whole cake alone. Otherwise, a group of capital in the market would not sit idly by and watch Su Yan eat alone, and then everyone would attack him.

Su Yan would not allow other capital to intervene in the production of works and surrounding merchandise, but he would not establish another platform for sales in the distribution channels and sales of surrounding merchandise.

Just like making movies, Su Yan's works were so prolific that he was fully capable of forming his own distribution company, and his company had a good relationship with the senior management of major cinema chains. However, every time his film was released, Su Yan would bring in Xia's largest film distributor, and the revenue share would be fully in accordance with market rules. He would not arbitrarily cut prices or engage in harsh contracts just because he was now a popular figure in the market. He earned his producer revenue, and Su Yan's distribution partners would block any ill-intentioned competitors who wanted to use insidious tricks.

Similarly, the best way for his own works to explore the foreign market was to distribute some of the profits from the sales channel to the leading foreign industry players, so that they could become his friends and help make the IP bigger. This was much better than Su Yan earning all the money and then discovering that the whole world was full of hostile peers.

As long as the copyright was 100% in his own hands, he could replace downstream partners whenever their strength was insufficient.

Although Gundam would not be broadcast until at least the second half of next year, the relevant capital operation had already begun at the end of this year.

Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi had been exhausted these days from working on these things.

"When will these things simply be handled by professional managers?" Su Yan muttered in his office, looking at the pile of documents on his desk that needed to be signed.

"Are you serious? To my knowledge, there are very few examples at home and abroad where a company is handed over to that group of people and the company still develops well," Shinozaki Ikumi squinted her eyes.

"Just kidding," Su Yan said.

"That sentence was just expressing my complaint about the busyness of work."

If an IP company was handed over to professional managers, they would not bear any responsibility. If they made money, they would share the profits, and if they lost money, they would leave. Su Yan couldn't imagine what this group of people would make Gundam into.

Shinozaki Ikumi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this.

"However, the company is developing bigger and bigger. The direct employees of various departments such as TV dramas, movies, games, peripherals, and operations add up to almost 700 people. In addition, thousands of people from large, medium, and small cooperative companies are all following us, and the core development of the company is all concentrated on you and your works. This kind of busyness is estimated to accompany you for a long time."

"I can only get used to it slowly," Su Yan sighed.

His situation was now somewhat similar to Hayao Miyazaki and his studio in his previous life, but Su Yan was much more prolific and the company scale was much larger than Miyazaki's.

"But instead of complaining about the heavy workload, you should hurry up and find someone. You're almost 28, and you can't spend such a big fortune alone. You have to have a spendthrift to help you spend it," Shinozaki Ikumi chuckled.

"Same to you," Su Yan replied immediately without politeness.

"New Year's and Spring Festival are very important festivals in Sakurajima. Think about how to deal with your parents when you go home in early January."

Shinozaki Ikumi immediately felt a burst of suffocation in her chest and couldn't laugh.

Su Yan was the only one in his family, so he didn't have any pressure at all.

"After Lelouch is over..." Su Yan didn't stimulate Shinozaki Ikumi too much on this topic.

He paused and said.

"I may take out some scripts and try to get the company to produce some super-long works."

"At that time, we will be busy. You have to be prepared."

"Super long?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked.

"You've mentioned this concept many times. What does it mean?"

"At least a large TV series that can be broadcast continuously for ten or even more seasons."

For the current Su Yan, it was still a bit difficult to exchange for works of the level of Naruto, One Piece, and Dragon Ball in his previous life at one time, but the system was not so inhumane. These works can be exchanged in stages, but at least dozens or hundreds of episodes have to be exchanged at one time.

After Lelouch is over, the emotional value accumulated by Su Yan is also in place.

In Su Yan's previous life, there was a live-action drama of One Piece, and its viewership ratings ranked among the top in more than a dozen countries around the world during the broadcast period.

From Su Yan's perspective, the current production strength of his C-Dimension Film and Television Company was much stronger than those live-action adaptation companies in his previous life. As long as the casting was appropriate, he was very confident in doing these long dramas.

"You haven't even made your Gundam IP successful, and you're thinking about this kind of thing?" Shinozaki Ikumi blinked her eyes when she heard this.

"I call this foresight. Next year, the company will mainly promote the Gundam series. From the year after that, until the next ten years, several long TV series will be launched one after another, and some movies and derivative games will be invested in the market." Su Yan paused here, then smiled bitterly.

"At least, strive to finish the long works that are prepared to be launched next year when I am fifty years old."

"..." Shinozaki Ikumi.

"Have you thought about it for so long? Aren't you worried that your long work plan will be broadcast for one or two seasons, and the fans will lose their freshness and don't want to watch it anymore? And fifty years old..."

"There is absolutely no such possibility."

Su Yan smiled, and the confidence in his eyes made Shinozaki Ikumi's words stuck, and the mood of sarcasm and sarcasm subsided, replaced by curiosity.

Super long works?

Is this really feasible?