Shizune Miyahara took a general look at the book and found that it was definitely a real EVA project. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The above is the description of the story, which is exactly the same as his impression of Eva.

Gainax and Ryunoko co-produced, supervised and screened by Hideaki Anno, and character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, a total of 26 episodes of TV animation, and the total amount of money required for the project was 800 million yen.

Since EVA's plans and investment have been pulled to small publishing houses like Hibiscus, it is predictable how difficult it will be for them to raise funds.

The fact is obvious, if the funds are easy to raise, then GAINAX will not bother to create a production committee system.

The so-called production committee system, to put it bluntly, is to seek joint investment from a number of investors, and everyone earns money together, and if everyone loses money, there will not be a situation where once a company loses money when it is a sole proprietorship, it will lose to the point of breaking the bones.

Miyahara skipped the previous content and went directly to the last page of the proposal book, which sure enough, there was the contact information of Gainax.

He picked up the phone on Yoshishi Kubo's desk and decisively dialed the contact information.

Soon, the phone was connected.

"Hello, is it gainax? Recently, we received your projecteva TV animation project, and we are very interested in this project and your production committee system. ”

"Identity on our side? It's rude, we are Hibiscus Society, a publishing house that publishes comics and publishes books, so you can check whether you really sent us a proposal book. ”

There was no sound on the other side of the phone for about two or three minutes, and it seemed that they were indeed checking whether they had submitted a proposal to a publishing house called Hibiscus.

"Yes, we're interested, interviews? Yes, no problem next Wednesday, okay...... I am the acting president of Hibiscus Society, and my name is Shizushi Miyahara...... Ok bye. ”

After hanging up the phone, Miyahara Jing couldn't hold back her excitement, she didn't expect that she would have the opportunity to insert a foot in EVA's project.

To be able to become a beneficiary of the "Human Circle Money Plan" and become a member of the "New Century Money Circle Warriors" is of course something worth exciting.

Since GAYAX is really so lacking in funds, then Miyahara Jing's goal will be magnified, if it's just to invest in GAINAX, then don't even talk about it, GAINAX will definitely accept it happily, but Miyahara Jing wants more than just EVA's revenue share of TV animation, he wants to take the opportunity to bite off part of EVA's copyright.

EVA's TV animation income is of course super objective,But compared to the follow-up income brought by being able to obtain EVA's copyright,These benefits are nothing.,If you get part of EVA's copyright,Then Anno Hideaki has to bring Hibiscus Society every subsequent lap.,Otherwise, the copyright dispute alone is enough to make Anno Hideaki close down at home.。

You must know that the average sales of EVA's TV animation volume have long been entrenched in the first place in the Japanese TV animation sales list, and the average volume sales of the first first version of the original VHS+LD (note) alone is 112,000 pieces, and if you add the DVD version after that, BOX03, 07 version, Blu-ray BOX2015 version, EVA's average volume sales are even more astonishing to 204,000 pieces.

This shows (Japan) his dedication to EVA.

However, it is not easy to obtain the copyright of EVA, although according to the copyright law of Japan, the funder has the right to enjoy the copyright of the work. For example, if Hibiscus Corporations contributes 10% to EVA, it should enjoy 10% of the copyright, but this is not absolute, and it needs to be negotiated with the creator, that is, GAINAX.

Eva's copyright should theoretically belong to the production committee, but all indications in the past life show that this is not the case. For example, the production committee of the TV version of EVA is Projecteva, and the theatrical version becomes the EVA Production Committee, and the change of the name means that the funding composition of the TV version and the theatrical version is different, which can confirm the fact that the funder did not share the copyright, otherwise it would not be possible to explain the fact that as an obvious project that can make money and has a high return, why the original funder will transfer the right to contribute to the new investor.

An even more obvious piece of evidence is that a dispute between a member of the EVA Production Committee and GAINAX over a monopoly on the merchandising rights of EVA-related merchandise, which ended in the member's concession.

All of these are indications of the extent to which GAINAX has a strong grip on EVA's copyrights – until 2006, when Hideaki Anno took Eva's copyrights to form a new company, Khara.

The most important reason why GAINAX is so obsessed with EVA's copyright is that it has been a victim of copyright disputes before EVA.

Although Gainax's most well-known and acclaimed work is Eva, if he were asked to choose Gainax's only masterpiece, his answer would be "Wang Li's Space Army", not Eva, and Miyahara felt that the former was more representative of Gainax's production level than the famous Eva, and he personally preferred the former.

Wang Li Space Army was produced in 1987, this work at the time for its delicate painting style, art depiction and full of realistic plot is known, its production effect greatly surpassed the animation works at that time, its overall world view and the charm of the expression technique, brought great shock to the animation industry, although Wang Li Space Army failed miserably at the box office, and even the production cost was not recovered, but it has become one of the benchmark works in the Japanese animation industry.

Looking through the production list of Wang Li's Space Army, you can see a large number of well-known figures in the Japanese animation industry in the future, such as Hiroyuki Yamaga, Dou Sifu Okada, Shigeru Watanabe, Hideaki Anno, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto......

The initial plan of GAINAX was to dissolve the Wang Li Space Army as soon as it was completed, and all the copyrights of the Wang Li Space Army belonged to its investor, Bandai.

No matter how good the quality of the work is, Wang Li's Space Army is a loss-making business, and without bringing in enough revenue, Gainax doesn't realize the harm of not having the copyright of the work, until they come across the Sapphire Mystery work.

The plan for the animation Sapphire Mystery was proposed by NHK Television, and NHK subcontracted the work to a private company called Vision, which in turn packaged the project to Toho, who in turn packaged it to GroupTac, and through GroupTac, GAINAX obtained the production rights.

And after continuous handovers, the production costs at this time have been very pitiful.

After the Sapphire Mystery was in the hands of Gainax, the story was changed drastically, and it can be said that it had little to do with the original project, which was also an important factor in its success.

However, in a legal sense, the sapphire mystery is the work of NHK, and it has nothing to do with either copyright or merchandising rights. Sapphire Mystery was called "never such a lucrative work" at the time, but apart from the pitiful production fee, Gainax never received a penny more.

Since then, GAINAX has finally understood the importance of copyright, so it will firmly guard EVA's copyright like a dog looking at a bone.

As an animation company, there's nothing wrong with valuing your copyrights, or it's the right thing to do, but it's not a good thing for Miyahara Shizune, which means it's much more difficult for him to get some of Eva's rights.

While Miyahara was thinking about how to obtain EVA's copyright reasonably and correctly, Yoshishi Kubo, who was beside him, was already frowning deeply.

For Shizu Miyahara, who has experienced later generations, he knows the success of EVA, so injecting capital into EVA is bound to make unprecedented profits.

If Shizune Miyahara takes Eva's success for granted, then Yoshishi Kubo thinks it's a project that will inevitably not pay off, unless a miracle happens.

Yoshishi Kubo felt that investing in original animation was a 100% loss of money, and he didn't see any hope of making a profit, but now he realized that Miyahara Shizune was not just talking, but really had plans to invest in this EVA.

So he had to stop this ridiculous idea of Shizune Miyahara.

He was a little annoyed that he had put this proposal in such a prominent position, if Miyahara hadn't seen it, there wouldn't have been so many things.

After getting along for a while, Yoshishi Kubo already knew that although Miyahara Shizune was young, he was a very assertive person, and once he made up his mind, it was difficult to be persuaded by contrary opinions.

"Jingjun, do you really want to invest in this animation project? I don't think that's the right thing to do, do you understand the original animation market right now? With the current environment, I don't see any possibility of monetizing such an original animation with no readership. Yoshishi Kubo's tone was very serious, and he hoped that Miyahara would quickly dispel this unrealistic idea.

Only then did Miyahara realize that her emotions were too obvious, completely ignoring the feelings of Yoshishi Kubo beside her.

Note: VHS is a video tape, LD is the abbreviation of LaserDisc, translated into Chinese as laser disc or laser disc, this image storage medium was popular in the 80s and mid-90s before the advent and popularity of DVD, and the box in animation release refers to a collection containing the entire set of animation.