My Animation Era

The news that Weller Company is looking for a successor for the "Superman" series due to lack of money has already spread around the world, and the price they expect is no secret.

$250 million!

No 998, no 98, just US$250 million, equivalent to about 1.65 billion yuan, to bring home the world-famous "Superman" series.

This price scares away many people.

For the "Superman" series at its peak, $250 million was definitely worth the money. After all, at that time, some people still joked: "One billion dollars can't buy a leg of Superman!"

But that was the peak.

As the old saying goes, everyone has their prime, so don’t take a moment for eternity!

The "Superman" series has a history of 50 years. With such an old IP and such poor performance, how much value does it have left now?

Spending so much money to buy the copyright of Superman, assuming that you can make a net profit of 25 million a year, it will take a full ten years to recover the money.

Then here comes the problem.

Can the entire "Superman" series of derivatives, including peripheral derivatives, earn US$25 million a year?

The answer is no!

The Superman series, which has entered its darkest hour, now has a very high global reputation, but its performance is so bad that it cannot earn even 10 million US dollars a year, let alone 25 million US dollars a year.

Therefore, the offer put forward by Weller Company directly scared away 90% of the people. Among the remaining companies that were very interested in "Superman", most of them wanted to take a gamble.

What to bet on?

Of course, I bet that after winning "Superman", I can bring this series back to life.

After all, he is a superhero anime character who was once very popular and enjoys high popularity all over the world. Although his life is hanging by a thread now, what if he can live a second life?

There are a total of seven animation companies, film and television companies and even comic companies that hold this idea. Except for Wanbao, which is a Chinese company, the remaining six are all local companies in North America.

Now it gets interesting.

Seven companies jointly purchased the rights to the entire "Superman" series, and only Wanbao was a foreign company. As soon as this news came out, many fans who loved the "Superman" series began to become anxious.

Anyone can accept it, but it must not be sold to the Chinese!

When they think that Superman will most likely become a Chinese Superman and be labeled as a Chinese character by Wanbao, many North American fans feel as sick as if they had swallowed flies.

So, they organized a protest.

But this is obviously useless. Weller Company only cares about money. No matter how much fans protest, they don't care. On the contrary, they are happy to see the emergence of Wanbao, a disruptor.

Because other companies lacked confidence in the "Superman" series, they repeatedly asked Weller to lower their price during negotiations. If it was cheaper, they would buy it.

Only Wanbao is different.

Wanbao did not object to the price, and also stated that even if the copyright is in their hands, the comics will still be created by the current author.

Look, what is sincerity?

Wanbao was so sincere that not only would it accept the offer from Weller Company, but it would even continue to hire the original author to create comics. This impressed Weller Company.

Even though outside fans continued to protest and various media outlets called on them not to sell "Superman" to a Chinese animation company, the two parties still reached an agreement.

[The battle over "Superman" has settled, will you look forward to a Superman produced by Chinese people? 】

【Shock! Wanbao actually...]

The news that Wanbao spent US$250 million to successfully purchase the rights to the entire "Superman" series spread around the world almost overnight.

Chinese netizens cheered.

Although Wanbao bought the copyright of Superman, it can't change anything, but as long as they think that Superman belongs to the Chinese, everyone is secretly happy.

On the other hand, the attitude of North American netizens is not very friendly.

Many North American fans even shouted extreme slogans such as "Boycott Superman comics and animations" and "Superman is dead", calling on everyone not to buy subsequent comics of "Superman" and not to watch subsequent animations, movies and TV series of "Superman".

Not to mention, the momentum is quite huge.

But Gu Miao was not frightened by them. On the contrary, he even found this scene to be indescribably funny.

Boycott Superman? Don’t watch Superman?

I'm thinking that before Wanbao took over, you didn't support "Superman" either? Otherwise, why would the performance of the "Superman" series be so poor?

"It's just a bunch of mouth-crazy weirdos."

Gu Miao smiled and did not take these so-called boycotts and protests to heart.

If the follow-up works in the "Superman" series are exciting and good-looking, they can be resisted no matter how much they are resisted. If the follow-ups are also terrible, does it make any difference whether they can be resisted or not?

…

Gu Miao stayed for five days.

On the afternoon of the last day, he met with George, the chairman of Mardete Comics Company, and talked about the acquisition of Mardete Company.

But this time there was still no result.

Old George was too greedy. Perhaps after learning that Gu Miao had just purchased the copyrights for the entire "Superman" series, instead of lowering the price, he actually increased the price.

Are you talking about a hammer?

It's not like Gu Miao is mentally ill, so how could she accept such a condition of raising the price on the ground? She flew back to China that night.

Perhaps it was Gu Miao's overnight flight back to China that made George, a bad old man, realize that he looked too ugly, so the day after Gu Miao returned to Jiangchuan, he finally relented and lowered the price.

"Tell him I don't want to buy it."

Gu Miao was so angry that she directly said to Dave on the phone: "Now that you are sincere to me, why did you go there? Just tell him that not only will our Wanbao not acquire Mardete, but we will also expand it to the North American market." Mardete fucks you!"

After winning the copyright of "Superman", Gu Miao felt confident in saying this.

After all, "Superman" is a household name cartoon character in the United States. If it can live a second life in the hands of Mardete, Mardete Comics can easily suppress it.

certainly!

There are really too many problems in the "Superman" series. Wanbao, which has just acquired this IP, still needs to make some adjustments to address these problems. The progress of living in the second life may not be that fast.

But then again...

Even if "Superman" can't get up for a while, it won't have any impact. After all, Wanbao Comics also has a "super popular" serial work - "Dragon Ball"!

It just so happens that the comic version of "Dragon Ball Z" is almost finished. It is also time to release the comic version of "Dragon Ball GT" to boost the comic company's performance.

Speaking of Dragon Ball GT…

If Gu Miao remembers correctly, this thing is not a work created by Akira Toriyama, but a sequel to "Dragon Ball Z" produced by Aunt Azuma after obtaining authorization?

Quite embarrassing!

All other works in the Dragon Ball series are easy to say, but the legitimacy of "Dragon Ball GT" needs to be verified. Whether Toriyama Akira himself approves of this thing is also a question.

The biggest problem with GT is that there are no comics...