Chapter 117: Millions of Sales on the First Day
"Very good, the story is quite good, the plot is very vivid!"
Anda swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and the excitement on his face couldn't be hidden.
"That's okay, I'll draw a storyboard in the future, you can draw, I believe this comic will be a success, what do you think?"
"Yes, it does have the ingredients for success, and I will do my best to draw this manga, and I will definitely not disappoint the president!"
The excitement on Andachong's face disappeared, and he turned into a solemn face, showing determination.
Just as the two were talking, there was a knock on the closed door, Zhao Chen hurriedly said please come in, and asked after seeing that it was an employee who counted sales: "Is the sales count out?" ”
It's no wonder that Zhao Chen said this, after all, this is the first time that Tianxia Society has made a single comic book, and a good start can be said to be quite important, and if the results achieved reach a certain height, it is equivalent to a reassuring pill for other cartoonists and editors.
An Dachong, who was sitting opposite, also stared at the staff, after all, at this time, he had joined the Tianxia Society, and the Tianxia Society belonged to a prosperous relationship, and he naturally hoped that the Tianxia Society would be as soon as possible.
"President, the statistics are good, this is the sales volume of today's single book of "Rebellious Lelouch!"
Zhao Chen took the statistical sheet, just glanced at it a few times, the light and breezy expression on his face suddenly disappeared, and the hand holding the statistical sheet couldn't help but tremble, not that the sales were too bad, but that the sales were too good!
"Seven digits, no, it should be dazzling, count again!"
Looking at the final statistical sales, Zhao Chen was excited, but at the same time, he still felt that he had read it wrong.
But after counting it again, the expression on Zhao Chen's face was replaced by excitement, that's right. Seven figures, indeed, and even though it's just in the early stages, it's certainly pretty good, and it's only the first day.
Although Zhao Chen could guess that Lu Luxiu would be able to obtain more than one million sales of a single book, he did not expect to reach this goal on the first day. Day one sales are no worse than some classic comics. Although this sales are not as good as Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" and "Firebird" back then, but I think that as long as it takes a few more days, even if there is a gap in sales, it will not be too big, after all, Osamu Tezuka's two classic comics have sales of about 100 million, and every time a single book is released, there are almost three million total sales.
Even if it is also a classic comic. The sales gap is also relatively obvious, and the highest average sales are naturally "Dragon Ball", "One Piece" and several other popular classic manga, each of which has an astonishing sales of about five million on average. However, even if the sales of classic comics are low, their average single book sales are basically maintained at more than two million, and Zhao Chen's goal is two million.
Of course, it is undoubtedly difficult to reach an average of two million single book sales. This is mainly due to the fact that Tianxiashe is far from being able to compare with those comic giants, and the weekly magazine "Youth soRa" may have received a lot of sales due to Zhao Chen's relationship with the Nebula Award, but there is still a certain distance from millions of sales. Correspondingly, the comics serialized on it naturally cannot fully release their potential.
"Well done, you go down first! And remember that even if you work overtime, you must let the publishing house complete the tasks of these few days! ”
"Yes, President!"
After watching the staff leave. Anda Chong spoke again: "Now it seems that I want to congratulate the president, I didn't expect to get such a high start on the first day!" ”
"Where, it's all thanks to everyone!"
"President, I'll draw this part of the mirror with my heart, but I don't know if it's serialized in "Shonen soRa", or if the president is going to open another comic magazine?"
When Andachong said this, his eyes were firmly fixed on Zhao Chen, for fear that Zhao Chen was going to reopen a comic magazine, which would be quite unfavorable to him.
"A good work like Baseball Heroes wants to be the best. How could I possibly put it in other magazines, of course, it has to be "Juvenile soRa". However, the other manga artists who are still serialized on "Shonen soRa" are not ready to finish, and it seems that the time will come to learn from Shueisha's "Shonen Jump" to cut their works in half! Mr. Andachong, I will carry out this initiative during this time, you just need to do your own work. Serialized things don't need to be thought about. ”
Zhao Chen's face was slightly embarrassed, he naturally had a little headache for this, and the waist cut work was too strict for the cartoonist himself, almost vetoing the work created by the cartoonist with his hard work. But you can't help but do it, after all, this will not only promote the quality of the serialized comics, but also take the opportunity to insert the potential works collected during this time. Shueisha's "Shonen Jump" is selling more and more, and this aspect of the decision is partly to blame.
"I know, president, then I won't disturb your work!"
Zhao Chen looked at the back of Anda Chong leaving, pulled out a list from the drawer, looked at the number on the list, and didn't know what he was thinking.
This list is actually the "Young soRa" reader questionnaire counted by the staff in each issue, of which the top three are still "Rebellious Lelouch", "Football Player" and "Cat's Eye Three Sisters", and the latter are a bunch of comic works that are not very famous, and the bottom of this issue is "Armed Poker" by Araki Hiruhiko.
Zhao Chen sighed lightly, and then put the form back in the drawer, preparing to announce the halving to his cartoonists in the next few days, as for which work to cut in half at that time, he can only wait for him and other editors to discuss before making a decision. As for now, it is still the most in the act of a single book.
"Juvenile soRa" has been serialized for more than three months now, and the twelve existing comics in it now have enough pages in a single book, Zhao Chen naturally will not give up, but the line must be separated, and strive to stimulate the potential of each comic, so that the sales can be perfectly reflected.
"Rebellious Lelouch" belongs to the vanguard general, in order to be a blockbuster, from now on, this comic is still quite successful, so as to be able to stabilize the status of the Tianxia Society in the island comic industry, not to be despised by other comic clubs.
Facts speak louder than words, and as soon as the news of the million-day sales of "Rebellious Lelouch" came out, almost all manga companies heard about it, even comic giants such as Shueisha. They may have guessed that Lelouch's sales would not be low, but this sales volume still exceeded the psychological expectations of most brick families.
That is to say, the Tianxia Society has initially possessed the qualifications to become a large-scale comic club, as long as it continues like this, it may not be long before it directly becomes a rare large-scale comic club in the island country.
The exhibition of the Tianxia Society is naturally jealous of its peers, and the exhibition is even more ferocious than the Baiquan Society a few years ago, but they seem helpless, because as long as they are insiders who know the Tianxia Society, they know the main reason, that is, Zhao Chen, the current president of the Tianxia Society and a cartoonist.
If other cartoonists are the pillars of the Tianxia Society, it is okay to poach people with various interests, just like the way Zhao Chen dug Anda Chong back then. But Zhao Chen, as the president and pillar of the Tianxia Society, makes money every day, even several major comic giants have to think that this is impossible.
It has to be said here that the reason why comic giants are difficult to decay is that they have a strong attraction to cartoonists, and often as long as there are powerful cartoonists in other comic clubs, they can make good use of their fame to attract these cartoonists to join, so that it is difficult for other comic clubs to get enough exhibitions, which is also the reason why there have always been only so many comic giants in the island country.
After all, comics are one of the main industries in the island country, and after the sales of "Rebellious Lelouch" came out on the first day, many media rushed to report it and praise Zhao Chen with various meaty words.
This is another free publicity, and the direct guide zhì is still in hot sales in the next few days, and it is getting closer and closer to two million sales, and from this trend, it is not much of a problem to break through two million.
But during this period, I have to mention one of Zhao Chen's measures, that is, even if its medium-sized publishing house is running to the extreme, it is completely dependent on the overtime of the staff to barely complete the expansion of Lu Luxiu's printing work. In desperation, Zhao Chen could only use the profits of Tianxia Society during this period to expand the scale of the publishing house.
Expanding the publishing house is relatively simple, that is, buying various machines and recruiting the corresponding technical personnel. Naturally, there are other subordinates to worry about in this regard, and what Zhao Chen has to do is nothing more than coordinate and pay money.
Among them, the purchase of machines is the most expensive, these cheap machines only cost hundreds of thousands of yen, but the assembly line is tens of millions of yen, it is really very expensive, but I have to buy it, otherwise if it continues like this, the publishing house will not be able to cope with the increasing sales of Tianxiasha.
In order to avoid this problem in a short period of time, Zhao Chen directly invested most of the profits of Tianxia Society during this time, except for the profits earned by the two comic magazines, the remaining part was all the profits of Lu Luxiu in the past few days, and it can be said that the degree of money earned by a single comic book is not much worse than that of a comic magazine.
When Lelouch began to slowly cool down, Tianxia Club attacked again, taking advantage of the craze of Nebula Reward that had not completely dissipated, followed closely with the single book of "Football Player".
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