Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

  Chapter 165 The market decides everything

   In this era, who is the most powerful character in the Hong Kong comics industry?

   So there is no doubt that it is Huang Yulang who has produced countless classic comics.

   This person in the Hong Kong comics industry is the same as the hero Jin Yong in the novel world. The two are well-deserved and undisputed first people in their respective fields.

  Jin Yong founded Ming Pao, the No. 1 newspaper in Hong Kong, relying on his novels, while Huang Yulang founded his Yulang International by relying on his comics.

   However, it is quite possible that such a great man encountered a turning point in his life in the late 1980s.

   First, his painters Feng Zhiming and Ma Rongcheng left and established "Fengyunren" and "World", which directly broke the unified situation of Huang Yulang in the Hong Kong comics industry for several years.

   Immediately afterwards, he was arrested in prison for a crime.

   Affected by this, the Japanese comic industry took this opportunity to frantically flood into Hong Kong, and Japanese comics headed by "Dragon Ball" once again entered the Hong Kong market strongly.

   The people of Hong Kong who have been deeply influenced by Hong Kong comics for a long time may have started to try to receive Japanese comics because of visual aesthetic fatigue.

  New elements are sometimes eye-catching. For a time, Japanese comics became the mainstream of the Xiangjiang market, so that the Xiangjiang comic industry began to decline.

   Later, in the 21st century, the early arrival of the Internet era made the development of Xiangjiang comics full of twists and turns.

  Although there is a huge market waiting to be developed in the mainland, the emerging entertainment mode mainly based on video games diverts most of the once loyal comic readers.

  The sales of comics dropped sharply, the income of cartoonists began to shrink, and some cartoonists even fell into a situation where they could not survive.

  In order to survive, some cartoonists had no choice but to change careers, and when the older generation of cartoonists retired one after another.

  Xiangjiang comics industry has fallen into a state of inexorability, and since then, like Xiangjiang movies, it has flourished and declined.

   In fact, having said so much, the reason for the final failure of Xiangjiang comics industry is nothing more than a market problem. At any time, the market determines the development of an industry.

  The reason why Japanese comics can be so prosperous is nothing more than the huge market behind it.

  Compared with Japan's hundreds of millions of people, Hong Kong is only a few million people when it is full. Even if you add Wanwan and Southeast Asian Chinese, it can't compare to Japan's huge domestic market.

   This is a fight with a strong man who is five big and three thick and a small young man. The young man even beats and kicks a dozen times, but he can't cause much damage to the strong man.

   But as long as the strong man seizes the opportunity, the opponent can knock the young man down with one punch, and he can never get up again.

   Therefore, whether it is Heung Kong Movies or Heung Kong Comics, the fundamental reason why they will lose in the end is because there is no huge ticket market behind them.

  Hollywood movies have the support of the entire US imperial market. They can afford the money they spend, no matter how expensive the actor is, they can afford it.

   The same is true for Japanese comics. They have many cartoonists and more domestic readers. Most of the cartoons exported are market-tested.

  The difference in strength is huge, the winner and loser are obvious, and there is no need to compare.

   Instead of saving Hong Kong comics, which will be lonely sooner or later, it is better to spend more effort, earn more money from foreigners, and invest in the inland.

   When the inland economy has developed and the people have become rich, any industry can develop rapidly as long as the country slightly tilts its policy.

   Just look at the Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf that the post-00s liked in later generations. Which one is the sheep and the tragic wolf who never eats the sheep.

   is such a cartoon. It continuously beat up all the dissatisfaction, and directly drove all foreign cartoons back to their hometown.

  The manpower is poor, no matter how good a person is, it is impossible to resist the trend of an era.

   He does anything, enters any industry, and has only one purpose, and it is very clear, which is to make money, to make money from other countries.

  Since Naruto and One Piece are destined to be popular, he has no reason to keep it in his head and not take it out to make money from the Japanese.

   As for saving Hong Kong comics or something, for the sake of millions of people, he leaves more than a billion people in the inland alone, so there is nothing wrong with his brain.

  Compared to these entertainments, what is more important than the inland construction and development at this stage?

   A generation has a mission for a generation, movies, comics, etc. It doesn’t matter if you lose now, leave it to future generations to work hard, and sooner or later they will come back.

   He does not have the ability, nor the strength to wrestle with the first and second largest economies of this era, so he can only wait for the account to be calculated slowly later.

   Now it's good to make a fortune in silence. For the rest, just do your best. As for how long it can be blocked, he doesn't know.

   After all, his head is not a computer, so he can remember so many things.

   Watching Xu Siqi close the comic book, Yang Chen smiled and said, "Sister, how is it? Have you made a decision?"

  Xu Siqi blinked, stared at Yang Chen and said, "What do you want me to do, just say it, I can consider it after I finish speaking."

   Seeing what the other party said, Yang Chen didn't hide it at all, and said bluntly: "Actually, I asked Yu Fei to contact you, Senior Sister, in order to ask Senior Sister to be in charge of the comics club I set up next.

   I am a person, you may not know, but Yu Fei knows it very well, that is, she does not like to manage things. After the preliminary work is arranged, I will directly deal with the later work and let others manage it. "

  Li Siqi was stunned when he heard the words, and some couldn't believe it: "You mean, you want me to be responsible for helping you manage the comics club?"

Yang Chen nodded and said: "Yes, not only the management, but also the work of setting up a comic club, you have to be responsible, I am only responsible for providing the early comic outline, paying for the establishment of a comic club, helping the company to improve its sales channels, and recruiting comics. Home and managing their day-to-day work, you will be in charge of you, senior."

   Hearing this, Xu Siqi felt somewhat at ease. If it was just recruiting cartoonists and daily management, there would be no problem.

   As long as she doesn't have to worry about what to sell after the comics come out, a lot of troubles will do.

   For a while, Xu Siqi wanted to give it a try.

  Although he was a little cautious, Xu Siqi couldn't help but ask Yang Chen, "Aren't you afraid that I will screw things up?"

  Yang Chen said nonchalantly: "What are you afraid of? It's just to supervise a group of cartoonists to work, and it's not a hard thing to do. Even if you screw up, I'll just hire someone who is reliable."

   Seeing Yang Chen's indifferent attitude and indifferent tone, Xu Siqi couldn't help but feel anxious.

   She was still a little hesitant, but it disappeared at once, but she wanted to see what Yang Chen had to say after she completed the comics.

  In this way, Yang Chen's small calculation allowed him to successfully recruit him. Later generations, Xu Siqi, who was respected by countless comic fans as the mother of comics, worked hard for him all his life.

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   (end of this chapter)