Chapter 310: Akita Bookstore
"No, Xiangbei actually lost."
"The protagonist's halo went to get it, I thought Xiangbei would always win to the end, but I didn't expect to lose."
"Me too, fortunately, the tickets for the national competition can be obtained by the top two, otherwise it will be an abuse of the master."
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After the end of the Hunan Sea War, naturally there are many comic fans who are dissatisfied, but they are just a little dissatisfied, in addition to the strength of Hainan is strong, in addition, there are two teams in the county competition. And in the lust of some people, they prayed in their hearts that Lingnan would defeat Hainan, and then Xiangbei would defeat Lingnan and Buri by a big margin, and the county championship at that time would not be Xiangbei's, but they were doomed to be disappointed.
Although Zhao Chen slightly changed "Slam Dunk", he did not change the plot, in his opinion, the plot of "Slam Dunk" was originally very outstanding, and there was no need to change it at all, his main change was to increase the charm of his personal character.
At the end of the Hunan Naval War, the sales of "Shonen: SORA" began to fix at around 6 million, which was significantly higher than other comic weeklies. You must know that the current second "Shonen Jump" only has more than 3 million sales per issue, and the gap between the two is getting wider and wider, and the gap will double if it continues like this.
It was such an unstoppable situation that the alliance between the three major societies began to speed up, using more contacts and some government ‖ to lobby so that the three major societies could successfully integrate.
Perhaps because of the unstoppable relationship of the integration of the three major societies, some comic clubs have also begun to form alliances in order to protect themselves.
Compared to these manga clubs that want to protect themselves, Kodansha and Tokugawa Shoten have not made any moves, perhaps in their opinion, as long as the alliance with Tianxia has not ended. Then even if the three major societies really merge, it is difficult to want to suppress them completely. What's more, the main business of the two major alliances of Tiantensha is not to engage in comics, Kodansha's main business is novels, and the focus of Tokugawa books is to develop entertainment, which is really laughable. Maybe for them. As long as it is stable, the rest is too lazy to care.
But compared to the two alliances, the world is making a move, and now the world wants to continue to accelerate the pace of expansion, although its own development is fast, but the fastest way is to acquire other comic companies, and the world has recently made such a plan.
Small and medium-sized comic societies naturally don't look down on it, even if it is an acquisition, it will not enhance the strength of the Tianxia Society, and it is more likely to lag behind. Therefore, the goal of Tianxia Club has always been on large comic clubs or comic giants.
Comic giants basically don't dare to think about it, after all, this kind of comic club not only has strong assets, but also will not be sold, even if the world club wants to acquire, I am afraid that it will hurt my muscles and bones for some time.
After some covert investigation, Zhao Chen finally set his sights on Akita Bookstore.
Akita Shoten is currently one of the largest publishing houses in the island country, and has a history of more than 30 years, with the publication of manga as the pillar, and Akita Shoten has always been strong. It is also under the comic giants, and it is one of the few large comic clubs. The total annual sales often account for several percentages of the total sales of the comic industry, which shows its strength.
However, this is the glorious history of the past, and since the development of the times has become more and more progressive, Akita Shoten has been a little unable to keep up with the pace of the times, and has always been unable to grasp the main direction, which directly leads to the decline of this large manga company. In particular, the arrival of Zhao Chen pushed it further into the abyss.
In the past two years, Akita Shoten's publications "TV Animation Magazine" and "MyAnimation" have entered the stage of suspension one after another, and the strength of the entire manga club has been greatly damaged, and the people's hearts have fluctuated, and such a decline has naturally caused a large number of employees to panic in their hearts. Thinking about the way back.
Similarly, with the rise of the Tianxia Society, the comic giants' encirclement of talents has further reached an unprecedented level, and it is really Zhao Chen who has done too much, digging up the cartoonists who would have shined in the past few years to the Tianxia Society, so as to guide several other comic giants to make changes, and then use various methods to dig up various comic talents from these large comic clubs, and then the large comic clubs that have suffered from poaching people put their ideas on small and medium-sized comic clubs, forming a situation where big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp. But even so, these large manga clubs still began to decline, although they poached the talents of small and medium-sized manga clubs, but they could not make up for the damage they suffered before, and Akita Bookstore was one of them.
Akita Shoten, like Tianxiasha, is also located in Chiyoda Ward, and the two are not far apart, so the two companies usually have a relationship. Therefore, for the current Akita Bookstore, Tianxia Society still knows the roots, at least when talking about acquisitions, it will not be pitted.
After all, Akita Shoten is one of the large manga companies, with total assets of around 100 million US dollars, and the performance of this manga company last year was not as good as before, and its total sales were only 10% of that of Tianxia Society, and it did not even reach 10 billion yen. In such a situation, the direct guide zhì Akita Bookstore has a feeling of sunset, you must know that a few years ago, Akita Bookstore was almost able to compare with the White Spring Society.
Although Akita Bookstore is not as good as before, its overall framework is there, and there are still a few well-known cartoonists who still stay loyal to Akita Bookstore, and for a manga club, these are the most important, as for the total sales, as long as there are good cartoonists and manga serials, it doesn't take much time to restore the vitality, of course, this is only for Zhao Chen.
Now Akita Bookstore can take the hand of manga artists Yokoyama Guang Guang and Mizushima Shinji, Yokoyama Guang is a manga artist specializing in historical series, and ultimately a manga master, and this kind of manga artist Tianxia is the most lacking. As for Shinji Mizushima, he is a well-known cartoonist who specializes in creating baseball comics, and his Koshien paintings are indeed quite outstanding, although there are many such cartoonists in the world, but only Anda Chong can compete, Zhao Chen will naturally not let go of such professionals, because baseball is the first sport in the island country, and there are many audiences, and there are also many baseball fans in the United States. If the two are used according to the market development of Tianxiashe, there is no doubt that the value of the two will rise in an all-round way, which is an undoubted fact.
The Tianxia Society already has the ability to create gods.,This ability is getting stronger and stronger with the development of the Tianxia Society.,In fact, other comic giants also have this ability.,It's just that the premise of wanting to create a god is that the cartoonist himself is excellent and needs an excellent work to support it.,Otherwise, if you don't even have a foundation.,How can you use guò propaganda offensive to create gods.。 Similarly, the main weekly magazines of each comic giant are most suitable for creating gods, because the circulation of the main weekly magazines is millions of sales at every turn, and such a high sales volume can naturally get a good reputation from a large number of comic fans as long as the quality of the works is good, just like Zhao Chen, the reason why Zhao Chen can have his current reputation is that in addition to the good enough works, there is also "Young SORA" in it.
In addition to wanting to acquire Akita Bookstore, Zhao Chen also has another acquisition plan, which is also a comic club, but the nature of this comic club is similar to that of Baiquan Society, which is mainly based on girls' comics, and it is Fangwen Society.
Like Akita Shoten, this manga club also has a long history, and its scale has reached the level of a large manga club, and it is also one of the few large manga clubs that focuses on shoujo manga.
Maybe many people don't know about this comic club, but as long as you have seen or heard the following works, you will know the strength of this comic club, that is, "Light Girl", "Magical Girl Madoka", "Achannel" and many other classic shoujo comics. Also in the eyes of many comic fans who love shoujo comics, Fangwen Society is simply the conscience of the industry in the lily industry, specializing in lily comics for decades.
Of course, it is precisely because of this that the Fangwen Society of later generations will be remembered, although it is not at the level of a comic giant, but it does not seem to be much worse than the Baiquan Society in terms of popularity in later generations.
Of course, the current Fangwen Society is not so famous, but this girl's comic club has enough foundation, as long as it is acquired, it can be directly merged into the Tianxia Society, and when the time comes, the Tianxia Society in the girl's comics can also compete with the Baiquan Society. (To be continued......)