Chapter Ninety-Eight: "Young SORA"
-- Kavin, please forgive me, mainly because I don't know much about the island countries of that era, so I checked the information for a long time, and the next chapter will be ready at about nine o'clock in the evening.
Outside the president's office, Zhao Chen knocked on the door, and it was a beautiful female secretary who opened the door. The president's office is divided into two places, the outermost is where the secretary works, and the inside is the president, mainly to prevent disturbances.
"May I ask if it's Zhao Chenjun?"
Zhao Chen nodded and did not speak.
"The president is inside, please come with me!"
Zhao Chen immediately followed behind the female secretary, looking at the female secretary's swaying and moving figure, Zhao Chen subconsciously touched his nose, and regarded the president as a fellow in his heart.
The current president of Shueisha is named Kakunan Tsuki, who looks like a lewd uncle in his forties and fifties, and is reading the newspaper when Zhao Chen comes in.
"You may be seated!"
The female secretary asked Zhao Chen to sit opposite Jiaonanfeng, and left the room after making a cup of tea skillfully.
Zhao Chen didn't speak, but sat there quietly, occasionally looking at the office of the president of Shueisha.
This office is nearly 100 square meters, and the decoration is relatively elegant, and the bookshelf in the corner is full of all kinds of books, and I don't know if it is used for decoration or if it is actually seen.
Just as Zhao Chen was looking around, Jiao Nanzheng finally put down the newspaper in his hand and looked up at Zhao Chen in front of him.
He heard of Zhao Chen a few months ago, when Xiangtian Zhenjian of the marketing department went to Xiangjiang to investigate, he appeared the comic "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", that is, when he acquired the comic book and exercised the rights, he reported some of Zhao Chen's information. At that time, Zhao Chen added a condition before signing the contract with Shueisha, and Aida Maken agreed to it only with his consent.
Who would have thought that in just half a year, Zhao Chen once again created "Football Player" and "Sailor Moon" that Shueisha coveted, which gave the president of Kakunan Attack a preliminary understanding of Zhao Chen's huge potential. At the same time, he wanted to acquire the exercise rights of the two comics, and hoped that Zhao Chen could join Shueisha, but he didn't expect to be rejected by Zhao Chen. It was at that time that Jiao Nan Attack began to pay attention to the young man in front of him.
In this short period of one month, Jiao Nan Attack didn't expect Zhao Chen to start reaching into the island country's comic market, which seemed to Jiao Nan Attack to be a dead or alive person. It's just that Zhao Chen's actions were beyond his expectations, he far underestimated Zhao Chen's financial resources, first acquired a publishing house, and then used high salaries to poach managers and editors of major comic companies.
These are not counted, and then an assistant contest was established, and the reward was no worse than the Tezuka Award, plus he didn't expect that the screenwriter and investor of "Happy Ghost", which is now popular in the island country, is also Zhao Chen, so combined with his age, all kinds of news add up, and initially open up the fame of Zhao Chen and Tianxia Society. And in the eyes of Jiaonan's attack, it seems to be a step-by-step premeditation, and it is precisely based on this that Jiaonan's attack seems to attach great importance to Zhao Chen.
"Your name is Zhao Chen, right, you're really so young, I'm still spending money at your age, I didn't expect that now you can earn a wealth that many people can't earn!"
Zhao Chen didn't know what the idea of Jiao Nan Attack in front of him was in his heart, but he still said with a humble face: "The president of Jiao Nan Attack praised it falsely!" ”
"Well, these are the facts! By the way, I don't know if you're interested in joining Shueisha, the treatment is not a problem! ”
"President Kakunan, I don't have this idea yet! I came to the president this time in the hope that your company would fulfill the terms of the contract. ”
Jiao Nan's cloudy eyes stared at Zhao Chen's half-salary, and his eyes flashed with admiration, he didn't expect the young man in front of him to be so calm, which was quite inconsistent with his age. But it is precisely because of this that Jiaonan Offensive began to pay more attention to Zhao Chen.
"The contract Shueisha will naturally fulfill it, you can rest assured of this! When the time comes, you just need to bring the manga magazines you need into Shueisha's warehouse, and we will distribute them with our magazines. ”
"Then Zhao Chen is here first, thank you president!"
Zhao Chen's heart moved, and the heart in his heart relaxed, fortunately, it was a comic club giant like Shueisha, so he naturally attached great importance to credibility, otherwise Zhao Chen was really afraid of turning his face and not admitting it.
After Zhao Chen left, the president's office fell silent again, and Jiao Nanzheng did not read the newspaper again this time, but pondered, and then picked up the phone.
"Hey, there's a company called Tianxiasha that wants to use our sales channel! Yes, just do it, but remember to bring me a copy of their comic magazine when it arrives. ”
When Jiao Nan put down the phone, his brows were still furrowed, and he had a faint bad feeling in his heart, he thought of Zhao Chen's comic level, if the manga magazines of Tianxia Society were really sold at that time, he would undoubtedly become the opponent of Shueisha.
"I didn't expect things to get so tricky, on the one hand, tearing up credit, on the other hand, to cultivate competitors, it's really like a joke, but it's not funny at all."
Jiao Nan's psychology at this time was extremely vigilant against Zhao Chen, thinking that Zhao Chen's talent was enough to support the Tianxia Society, and if the timing was right, he might be able to take the Tianxia Society to soar into the sky and become a large-scale comic club. As for comparing with giants such as Shueisha, Kakunan Offensive didn't think about it.
As for the time of the "Shonen soRa" line, it was finally determined, because Shueisha's "Shonen Jump" was released on Mondays, and Shogakukan's "Shonen Sunday" and Kodansha's "Shonen Magazine" were all released on Wednesdays, so in order to avoid being affected, and in order to be able to compare with these three manga weeklies, Zhao Chen finally chose Tuesday.
The first batch of "Juvenile soRa" was directly customized with 100,000 copies, mainly because of the relationship between Shueisha's sales channels, otherwise Zhao Chen would not have been so much at once because the number of 100,000 has reached the sales of medium-sized manga weekly, and the island country is not his home field.
These 100,000 copies of "Shonen soRa" can be said to carry Zhao Chen's hope, as long as this issue of the manga weekly is successful, then it will be able to initially open the comic market with the help of Shueisha's hand.
"Shonen soRa" was delivered to Shueisha's warehouse at noon on Monday, and a staff member immediately took a copy from it and sent it to President Kakunan Tsukasaki.
"Tsk, this cover is good! I just don't know what the content is! ”
Jiao Nan's eyes lit up when he saw the cover, and he was sure that the cover was drawn by Zhao Chen, because the comic company that Tianxia Society, which had just been founded, was the only one who had this talent.
Kakunan Attack didn't expect his reaction after reading this comic weekly, and Kakunan Attack began to watch it at this time.
When he saw the delicate and abnormal painting style, Jiao Nan's attack hand shook, and the comic weekly in his hand almost fell, and when he saw Zhao Chen's author's signature, he had mixed feelings in his heart. He knew that Zhao Chen's painting was very good, but he didn't expect it to be so good that Cheng dù would be able to do so, just talking about the painting of this comic, it was enough for this comic to be successful.
Jiao Nan's expression suddenly became a lot more solemn, not at all as easy as before, and the evaluation of Zhao Chen in his heart was much higher again, it was rare to be able to draw this kind of painting in this era, not even there!
The more Jiao Nan saw the more dignified his face became, he knew that Zhao Chen's comics would not be bad, but he didn't expect it to be so exciting, the wonderful plot, the black-bellied protagonist, all kinds of beauties, war, wit, campus, plus the exquisite painting, the wonderful Cheng dù of this comic far exceeded the expectations of Jiao Nan's attack. Even if Jiao Nan has read the comics for so many years, after reading it, there is a feeling of anticipation in his heart.
"Bagaya Road, I shouldn't have agreed to him this condition half a year ago! With the wonderful Cheng dù of this comic, even if other comic works are rubbish, those comic fans will definitely chase it! What's more, there is also "Football Player" in it, it was miscalculated, it was really miscalculated! ”
Jiao Nanfeng's face turned pale, and he remembered the scene of agreeing to Zhao Chen's condition half a year ago, at that time, Zhao Chen's condition was a joke to him at all, who would have thought that it would change like this, he was simply playing for the tiger!
After all, Kakunan Tsuki is the president of Shueisha, and his psychological element is quite hard, so he picked up "Young SoRa" and continued to watch it.
The next article is "The Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", when I saw that there was Zhao Chen's name in addition to the name of Hojo Tsukasa in the author's column, Kakunan's face suddenly became solemn, Hojo Tsukasa was also familiar with him, and he had serialized short works in Shueisha before, but Zhao Chen was different, which made Kakunan's heart more uneasy.
This is a multi-protagonist manga, the protagonist is three sisters with wisdom and beauty, in order to find their father's collection and fight against various people, it can be said that it has a lot of charm. It's just that compared with Zhao Chen's "Rebellious Lelouxiu", the painting of this comic is undoubtedly a step worse. But this comic was selected as one of the 1oo most influential animation works of the last century in the island country in later generations, which shows its charm.
Based on this, Jiao Nan's face can be said to be quite unsightly. Fortunately, after watching the remaining few ordinary works, Jiaonan Attack was slightly relieved.
But even so, Kakunan Attack began to have a sense of crisis in his heart, and he can be regarded as self-aware, this "Shonen SoRa" is no worse than the current "Shonen Jump" in terms of overall quality.
"Even if I stop it now, it won't help, with the wonderful Cheng dù of this weekly, I can't stop it at all, at most, I can only suppress it, I can't stop it!"
Jiaonan touched his forehead and muttered to himself, but at the same time, he really attached importance to the newly founded comic company.
Although Jiao Nan Offensive still has to abide by the credit, he still makes some restrictions behind his back, and only part of the sales channels have been opened, and some large sellers have never been opened, which is the limit he can do.
Even though Shueisha only opened some of its sales channels, it still made most of the first issue of "Shonen soRa" booked. The reason why this is so is entirely because those sellers ordered more because of the quality of "Shonen soRa". As a businessman, profit comes first!
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