Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

In RB, comics are definitely one of the country's economic pillar industries. This is a bigger market than the game industry.

When it comes to comics, most countries have them, but only Japanese comics have become the country's economic pillar industry. This is unmatched by comics from other countries.

As a Chinese, Lin Baicheng is deeply influenced by Japanese comics. He has read countless Japanese comics and loves them very much.

Of course, Lin Baicheng usually watches anime adapted from comics, and he rarely reads comics, but this does not affect his love for comics and his familiarity with comics.

Lin Baicheng certainly couldn't remember the specific plot of the comic clearly, but he could still remember the general plot of the comic he had read very clearly. And this is enough to restore the comics.

Lin Baicheng asked the investigation company to investigate the current situation of the RB comics industry. He planned to acquire a comic publishing house, and then he would take out one or two comics that he was familiar with that were popular in later generations, give a rough plot, and let the people below fill in the details.

Of course, the most important painting style must be consistent with the original version. Otherwise, no one can guarantee whether the painting will look different and whether it will be accepted by the market.

In just one day, the investigation company handed over general information on the comics industry to Lin Baicheng.

Unlike other industries, during the economic crisis in the past few years, the comics industry not only did not suffer, but accelerated its development. Currently, RB's comics industry is quite prosperous, and it is a high-prosperity industry.

Shueisha, Shogakukan, Hakusensha, Kodansha, Kadokawa Shoten, Shinchosha, etc., these are the largest and most famous comic publishing houses in RB today, and several publishers are even affiliated with the same publishing group.

Two years ago, the annual sales of comic magazines in the entire comics market reached hundreds of millions of copies, which is a market of more than 100 billion yen. This is only the market for comic magazines themselves. The markets derived from them include animations, animated movies, toys, etc. These markets cannot be underestimated, especially the toy industry.

Due to the high prosperity of the industry, there are hundreds of comic publishing houses in RB, but most of them are small local publishing houses. These publishing houses usually do not serialize their own works and make money by publishing other people's works through their own channels. .

Since Lin Baicheng wants to enter this industry and now has some capital, he will certainly not acquire such a small publishing house. However, he cannot afford to acquire a large publishing house now, and if he can afford it, he may not be willing to sell it.

Lin Baicheng's goal is small and medium-sized publishing houses. He does not require that he have his own channels throughout RB. He only needs to have channels in big cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, and Nagoya. In other places, you can set up your own channels and distribute and sell them through small publishing houses.

There are still many small and medium-sized publishing houses. If they are well run, they may make a lot of money, while if they are run well, they may not make much money. Some of them may even be in the red if they are not well run.

What's more important is whether the owner of the publishing house is willing to sell. If the other party does not want to sell the publishing house, then it is not Lin Baicheng's goal regardless of the operating conditions.

Therefore, Lin Baicheng had to commission another investigation company to find his suitable partner. This cannot be done in a day or two, but as long as you are willing to spend money and leave it to the investigation company, I believe it will not take long for a reply.

Yokoi Junpei didn't let Lin Baicheng wait too long. He gave Lin Baicheng a reply two days later and accepted his invitation to join Galaxy Games Company.

However, Yokoi Junpei is different from Miyamoto. He has a contract with Nintendo and needs to pay compensation when he leaves. Fortunately, he can only be regarded as a senior executive at Nintendo. It is not yet a few years after he developed the Famicom. , so the compensation is not very high, only 50 million yen.

This amount of money is only 1 million Hong Kong dollars. If Lin Baicheng can afford it, he must pay it.

Although he could leave Nintendo after paying compensation, Junpei Yokoi did not want to delay Nintendo's research and development work due to his own reasons, so he said that he would not leave until the handover was completed, and then join Galaxy Games.

Lin Baicheng did not force Yokoi Junpei and promised to wait until he completed the handover of work before joining Galaxy Games.

Although Junpei Yokoi did not join the company immediately, for Lin Baicheng, this is enough now. As long as the other party is willing to join the company, it doesn't make much difference whether it's a few days earlier or a few days later. After all, the Famicom can't be developed in a short time.

Lin Baicheng knows what the Famicom is like, and he now has the funds to develop it. However, he has nothing but the design and funds for the Famicom. It is not that easy to develop the device in a short time.

Atari's equipment cost Atari about US$100 million and took more than a year to develop.

Even if the successors have Atari VCS as a reference, at most they can save some time and avoid detours, but this does not mean that everyone can make the same product in a short time.

The red and white machine that Lin Baicheng wants to make is a better product than Atari VCS, and it will definitely require no less money and time.

Of course, Famicom is just Lin Baicheng's habitual name. After the product is developed, he will definitely not call it this name, but will give it another suitable name.

The main purpose of coming to RB was achieved. Lin Baicheng asked Miyamoto to take him to famous attractions while waiting for the report of the investigation company. Within the range he listed, the research company will screen out publishing houses that are willing to sell within this range. After Lin Baicheng gets the report, he only needs to screen again.

Before Miyamoto and others' vacation ended, the investigation company finally gave Lin Baicheng a reply and handed a report to Lin Baicheng. In this report, there are more than a dozen publishing houses, some of which make a lot of profits every year, and some of which lose some money every year, but the same thing about these publishing houses is that their market value is within a certain range.

The market value of these publishing houses ranges from the lowest to more than 500 million yen, and the highest to no more than 3 billion yen. In Hong Kong dollars, the minimum is about 10 million Hong Kong dollars and the maximum is no more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars.

It's not that Lin Baicheng doesn't have more money, but since he can't acquire the largest publishing houses, he can just acquire small and medium-sized publishing houses with a market value of this price. If it's higher, there's no need for it.

But just when Lin Baicheng was screening publishing houses and thinking about which publishing house would be better to acquire, a phone call from Xiangjiang forced him to change his decision temporarily and rush back to Xiangjiang.

The acquisition of the comic publishing house can only wait for Lin Baicheng to deal with the affairs in Xiangjiang before he can free up his hands.

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