Reborn Xiangjiang as a Tycoon

Chapter 54 Animation Industry

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, which 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 for the comics he had read, he still remembered the general plot very clearly. And this was enough to restore the comic.

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 it in.

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 of 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 comic market had reached hundreds of millions, which is a market of more than 100 billion yen. This is only the market of comic magazines themselves, and their derived animations, animated movies, and toys

Wait, these markets should not be underestimated, especially the toy industry.

Due to the high prosperity of the industry, there are hundreds of comic publishing houses throughout RB, but most of them are small local publishing houses. These publishing houses usually do not have their own serialized works and rely on their own channels to publish other people's works to make money.

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Since Lin Baicheng wants to enter this industry and now has some capital, of course he will 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, he can set up his own channels while passing through

Published and sold by 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 moderately, they may not make much. There are even some that are poorly run and incur losses.

More importantly, the owner of the publishing house is willing to sell it. 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 has to entrust an investigation company to find a suitable partner for him. This cannot be done in a day or two, but as long as you are willing to spend money and hand it over to the investigation company, I believe it will not take too long to get a reply.

Yokoi Junpei did not keep Lin Baicheng waiting for too long, and gave Lin Baicheng a reply two days later, accepting his invitation to join Galaxy Games Company.

However, Junhei Yokoi 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 right away, for Lin Baicheng, it is enough now. As long as the other party is willing to join the company, it does not make much difference whether it is a few days earlier or a few days later. After all, the red and white machines are not available in a short time.

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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 the money and time required will definitely not be less.

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 scenic spots while waiting for the report of the research company. Within the range he listed, the survey company will screen out those who are willing to sell within this range.

As a publishing house, Lin Baicheng only needs to screen the report after getting it.

Before Miyamoto and others' vacation ended, the investigation company finally gave Lin Baicheng a reply and handed Lin Baicheng a report. In this report, there were more than a dozen publishing houses, some of which made huge profits every year.

Some 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 lowest is about 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and the highest 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.

However, 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 comics publishing house can only wait for Lin Baicheng to deal with the affairs in Xiangjiang before he can free up his hands.

(Investment, collection, recommendation ticket, monthly ticket!)

(End of chapter)