Saturday, January 9th.

After negotiating the price and receiving the film's global partner TV station, the first episode of "Saint Seiya" was broadcast together.

Not surprisingly, the broadcast of "Saint Seiya", which has long been eagerly awaited by manga fans, immediately aroused a viewing frenzy among children and young people.

They are just like the three little leading actors of "Good Boy", they are fascinated by it, and they are reluctant to blink their eyes.

When the ratings of the first episode came out, the global animation industry, and even the TV industry, were shocked.

Average 22%!!

If it is refined into the category of animation theater, its ratings far exceed that of other cartoons, directly approaching 63%!

That's when many people began to wake up!

This is Saint Seiya!

An anime adapted from a classic manga with more than 200 million fans worldwide!

If it doesn't have good ratings, isn't it contemptuous of those 200 million people, or even more, potential viewers?

In the face of such a huge fan group, all those who despise everything should get out, and they should be completely kneeling and licking!

And the next day, the second episode on Sunday, the ratings rose again to 26.2%, almost another 20% increase in ratings, and it was even more amazing that there was nothing to say.

Of course, ratings are not everything, there is another important indicator, and that is good reviews.

Many well-known books have been adapted into movies and TV series, and at the beginning they relied on the support of hardcore fans, and the money-making effect was also very good, but once the reputation was bad, it was basically over, and it was no exaggeration to describe the results as plummeting.

Many consulting firms hired by TV stations gave their own investigation reports on Monday the 11th.

It turned out that for the anime "Saint Seiya", the praise of young people and children who watched it was as high as 88%!

Such a number is really, very good, and it shows that the changes in this cartoon are basically qualified in the hearts of comic fans!

With the good news of both ratings and praise, the planning department of Qilin Culture finally breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the current situation, even the Saint Seiya series of toys is not as super popular as the Transformers series, but the Kirin culture itself estimates that it can reach at least about 70% of the Transformers series.

70% of 40 million, that's $28 million.

Or is it the same sentence, in today's society, how many companies can earn close to $30 million a month?

With Saint Seiya Toys, the valuation of Kirin Group will increase by at least $1 billion.

It is not only the increase in valuation, but also the increase in such a huge cash flow every month, and the generation of so many profits, will make the banks and other creditors have double their confidence in the Kirin Group, not only will not urge them to repay the loan, but will support them more and do not want the Kirin Group to fall.

The largest creditor of the Kirin Group is HSBC.

With Shen Bi's appreciation of Yin Jun, coupled with the successful sale of the animation broadcast rights this time, maybe Shen Bi wants to continue to lend to Yin Jun!

With only about $3.2 billion, it is not a problem at all for HSBC, Asia's largest bank with deep pockets.

Not to mention that the Kirin Group is now the pride of Xiangjiang, how can Shen Bi, who regards Xiangjiang as his own territory, make people slap their faces and see the Kirin Group in trouble in the future?

Those who are looking forward to the Kirin Group's fiasco in Disney and United Arts films, and then waiting for the price of cabbage to buy the many comic rights of Kirin Culture, see the data of the great popularity of "Saint Seiya", and the frustration in their hearts must be indescribable!

It was not until this time that the personnel of the Qilin Cultural Planning Department once again admired Yin Junlai.

To be honest, they are a little worried about Yin Jun's cartoon before it has even started, so they actively recruited 4,300 workers to form the second division of Kirin Toys - Saint Seiya series.

Everyone thinks that Jun Shao can recruit hundreds or even a thousand people first, slowly make some puppet toys, and wait until the cartoon is broadcast and see the effect before deciding whether to expand the scale.

It would be very safe, not a waste of resources, and it would not discourage confidence.

But Yin Jun didn't pay attention to these people's suggestions at all, and he was generous at the beginning, just treating the IP of "Saint Seiya" as "Transformers".

The people in the planning department are privately saying that if the animation performance of "Saint Seiya" is not satisfactory and the mountains of toys cannot be sold, then they will really be laughed at by others.

Now it seems that compared to the thinking and determination of geniuses, these ordinary people are the real joke.

Yin Jun didn't have any special feelings.

The results of "Saint Seiya" in the previous life were actually not bad, especially after decades of fermentation, the sequel of Masami Sada has also achieved good results in Europe and the United States, which can show that in fact, Europe and the United States are very accepting of such cartoons.

It's just that when Masami Cheda first serialized "Saint Seiya", he didn't know if he could become popular, he just dreamed of being popular in Japan at that time, and never thought that he could gain tens of millions of super fans in the Chinese parliament by relying on pirated versions.

Yin Jun knew from the beginning that "Saint Seiya" would be popular, so the layout from the beginning was global.

It's the 80s, and even Europe and the United States don't have any good entertainment projects, comic books are one of the best pastimes in this era, and under Yin Jun's intentional cultivation market, "Saint Seiya" has been fermented for more than two years, and now it's time to reap the results.

It's just that toys don't go out so quickly.

For example, it has just started broadcasting "Galactic Wars", and at first it didn't even fight in the ring, at least until the five Xiaoqiang all made their gorgeous debuts, and then they could launch the first wave of bronze Saint Seiya puppet toys.

Then next, the Silver Saint Seiya appeared, followed by the first big high dynasty - the Golden Saint Seiya appeared one by one.

The release progress of toys must be adjusted according to the broadcast plot of the animation in order to best achieve the purpose of sales.

It's not that you can't take them all out, but if you can keep launching new dolls in a more appropriate way, then young people and children will continue to buy pocket money.

In fact, Yin Jun doesn't plan to broadcast only two episodes a week, but it's a habit to broadcast weekly, and the production speed of Toei Animation is not fast, only one episode a week, if four episodes are broadcast a week, it won't be long before it will be out of gear, which is definitely a fatal blow to a popular cartoon.

Therefore, two episodes a week is a good choice, but at this speed, it is necessary to urge Toei Animation to increase manpower to speed up.

With a production team of more than 70 people, there is no problem at all to cope with one episode a week, but two episodes must be inadequate, especially when Yin Jun's requirements are so detailed.

Of course, Toei Animation has worked very hard, and compared to the production team of "Tomb Raider" at Huhai Fine Arts Film Studio, their efficiency is already terrifyingly high.

The production team of "Tomb Raider" is only inefficient.

It's been 9 months since they took over the task, and the number of episodes that can be made is only 12 episodes, which is almost a quarter of the Toei animation.

But Yin Jun looked at the production effect of "Tomb Raider", it was indeed very delicate and beautiful, and even the experts of Toei Animation sighed to themselves when they saw it.

Fortunately, Shangmei Factory also has a sense of proportion, knowing that "Tomb Raider" is a commercial cartoon, and it is impossible to take every episode to them to be meticulously crafted, so they just spent a lot of time on preliminary preparation and preparation, and at the end of last year, they who had already completed the run-in, obviously accelerated their speed, and produced three episodes a month, which should not be a big problem.

How else can artists and businessmen have different views and visions?

Huhai Fine Arts Film Studio has already worked hard to produce "Tomb Raider", mobilized resources from all parties, and even felt that I was a little overwhelmed.

But Toei Animation, after seeing such a good animation performance of "Saint Seiya", they immediately called Yin Jun, hoping to continue to adapt the best-selling manga of "Kirin Weekly" into an anime.

They just want Dragon Ball when they open their mouths.

Since the serialization of "Dragon Ball" began in September, its popularity has grown insanely, more than any manga before.

Not only in Asia, but also in Europe and the United States, "Dragon Ball" is also very popular, and Pearson Group has made several requests in a row to buy another 3 million copies of "Dragon Ball" alone, which can be imagined how explosive it is in Europe and the United States.

You know, "Dragon Ball" has only been serialized for only four months, and the length is only on the "World Martial Arts Conference", and the truly wonderful first summoning of the dragon has not yet come, and it has already had such a sensational effect, which can really make people see its divine potential.

Even if the length of "Dragon Ball" is at most seven or eight episodes, Toei Animation can take a greater initiative if it is scheduled now.

Yin Jun naturally refused.

"Dragon Ball" will not really show its power until at least the "Namek Star Chapter", and if it is to be talked about, it will be at least at the end of this year.

"Dragon Ball" was rejected, and Toei Animation was not lost, and they went on to propose animation rights for "Cherry Maruko", "Inuyasha", and "Prince of Tennis".

This time, Yin Jun did not refuse at the first time.

So far, Kirin Culture has been very difficult to produce the animation of "Transformers", and in 1982, at most, a new animation production will be opened, and it will definitely be impossible to do the redundant.

However, it is a waste to put the rights and interests of these manga adaptations there, but with the help of Toei Animation, they can be launched to the market first to further expand the golden sign and influence of "Kirin Weekly".

Yin Jun doesn't have that patience, and it takes decades to slowly build a comic brand.

After all, the most important goal of a teenager is to dominate the world in the entertainment industry.

After "Kirin Weekly" hollowed out the stories in Yin Jun's mind, Yin Jun would let it start to develop on its own, and would not use a layman to command an insider.

But if you want to develop Kylin Weekly well, good cartoonists are absolutely indispensable.

Only when "Kirin Weekly" is so quickly strong that there is no opponent, those cartoonists will come to submit articles in an endless stream, thus driving the development of "Kirin Weekly"!

Yin Jun hopes that by that time, not only Japanese cartoonists will be gathered under the banner of "Kirin Weekly", but if there are also excellent cartoonists in the mainland who can come up with excellent works, it will be gratifying!!