Shueisha President Naoyoshi Tanida was sitting in his office at this time, looking at the financial statements in front of him with some distress for the second quarter of '92.

Although Shueisha's data is optimistic about this year's all-round situation, its magazines, especially "Weekly Shonen Jump", have reached an unprecedented sales of 5.8 million copies in one issue, and it is estimated that it will even exceed 6 million copies next year, a peak that no one in Fuso has ever reached.

However, Tanida Naoyoshi's expression was not easy, because Shueisha's losses in other industries, especially the huge losses in the investment in Tsuburaya Company, caused the financial statements of the first two quarters to be quite ugly, and Tanida Naoyoshi felt that he did not know how to explain to the shareholders.

Who can believe that a publishing group with an annual revenue of 40 billion yen had an actual profit of only 120 million yen in the first two quarters?

Obviously, there were 200 million last year.

In fact, the reason is also clear, because there is basically no copyright to sell today, and if you can't sell the copyright, you will naturally have insufficient income.

Just when Tanida Naoyoshi was distressed by this, his secretary suddenly knocked on the door and came in and reported to him, "President, there is a Chinese who wants to see you, and he said that he has a business with a net profit of 20 million yen and wants to talk to you!" ”

"I don't see ......" Tanida Shangyi refused without thinking about it, but just spit out two words, but swallowed them back stiffly.

Wait, a net profit of 20 million yen, is this true or fake?

"Is it true that he is talking about pure profit?" Tanida Naoyoshi confirmed it with his secretary.

"Yes, that's right!" The secretary nodded.

"Then invite this gentleman to the parlor!" Gu Tian Shangyi nodded, cleaned up his appearance a little, and saw Jia Yapeng who came to visit in the living room.

"Mr. Jia said that there is a net profit of 20 million yen, I don't know what kind of business cooperation it is?" Tanida asked with a smile.

"It's very simple, I have a manga that I want to serialize in Shueisha's "Weekly Shonen Jump" magazine, and if President Tanida agrees, I can pay 20 million yen in cash directly, which is really pure profit!" Jia Yapeng said with a smile.

"20 million yen, that's a lot of money." I have to admit that Tanida Naoyoshi is a little moved, but he also knows the rules and beliefs that Tanida Naoyoshi's "Weekly Shonen Jump" has always adhered to. It seems that breaking these rules for the sake of 20 million yen will make the editors dissatisfied! ”

Thinking of this, Tanida Shangyi hesitated a little.

"I need to discuss this with the editors!" Tanida Naoyoshi said hesitantly.

"30 million yen!" Jia Yapeng said without raising his head, "30 million yen, give me serialization, I don't want any reason to refuse me!" ”

"Suck!" Tanida Naoyoshi looked at this young man in shock, in order to serialize an issue of the magazine, he threw out 30 million yen, which son-in-law is this, he is so arrogant, he doesn't treat money as money.

No, this seems to be a Chinese person, have Chinese people been rich to this point?

"President Tanida, what is your opinion?" Jia Yapeng asked with a smile.

"30 million yen!" Tanida Naoyoshi instantly fell into anxiety in his heart, and 30 million yen, compared to Shueisha's annual sales of 50 billion yen, it seems not worth mentioning.

However, compared to the net profit of 120 million yen in the first half of this year, it is very important, so that the profit in the first half of the year can reach 150 million yen, which is much better in terms of face, and at least can explain to shareholders.

But in this case, I'm afraid I will be scolded by the editors below as an old dog!

Tanida Shangyi was very hesitant, swaying from side to side, very uncomfortable.

"That's it, a fixed price, 40 million yen, if President Tanida doesn't agree, I'll leave now and don't bother you anymore!" Jia Yapeng squinted his eyes and said.

Tanida Naoyoshi was completely shaken, and the 40 million yen was too tempting for him.

Tanida Naoyoshi is not the editor of the Eight Classics, he is a businessman, so the businessman will only think about profit. And in the eyes of Tanida Shangyi, 40 million is worth breaking some rules.

Anyway, all the other party asks for is serialization in the magazine.,It's not an excessive request.,Every month the magazine will appear new serialized comics.,There will also be serialized comics that will be cut in half.。

No matter which manga is serialized, it is serialized, and among the 18 manga on the magazine, there are more than 10 manga whose final fate is to be cut in half, and these manga basically can't bring any income to Shueisha, and the sales of a single book are difficult to break 10,000, and animation requires a lot of capital investment, and no one cares about the surroundings.

Serializing such comics not only does not bring any profit, but also loses a lot of money.

The pure profits of "Weekly Shonen Jump" are basically the income brought by head comics such as Dragon Ball, Oolong Police Station, and they are the real core of profits, as for other comics, they are just Gu worms used to raise Gu.

Of these Gu worms, only a small one was able to grow up and eventually become the money-printing machine of Shueisha. As for the other comics, they can only be thrown into the waste paper heap of history, and this waste paper heap accounts for more than 80% of the serialized manga in "Weekly Shonen Jump".

So for Shueisha and for Tanida Naoyoshi, serializing a "Yu-Gi-Oh" is indeed a good deal with a lot of profits, and there is no need to pay any price, it's just a matter of cutting a manga that hits the street and replacing it with another manga that may hit the street.

As for the quality of this comic, Tanida Naoyoshi doesn't matter even more, it's not that there haven't been extremely bad quality comics on "Weekly Shonen Jump", but as long as it's cut in half in time, then readers can still accept it.

What's more, Tanida Shangyi actually flipped through the comic "Yu-Gi-Oh" just now, although the painting style is still a little immature, but the story is undoubtedly interesting, such a comic is actually no different from those comics that have been cut in half, readers may not like it after reading it, and they will never get bored again.

Serializing "Yu-Gi-Oh" will not cause any losses, but it can make a profit of 40 million in vain, you must know that Shueisha sold the game rights of Dragon Ball back then, and it only sold 30 million yen. But how many manga like Dragon Ball are there in the world?

This "Yu-Gi-Oh" is equivalent to creating a profit of 40 million before it is put on the shelves, how many serialized comics can achieve this?

Tanida Naoyoshi finally made a wise decision.

"No problem, this matter is wrapped up in me, but there is one thing, if the serialization results are very bad, and even lead to bad reviews, then the serialization will last for a year at most, and it will be forced to be cut in half!" Tanida Shoyoshi said.

"It was a wise decision!" Jia Yapeng smiled slightly, and then sat down.

"The reason why Your Excellency is willing to spend so much money is probably to monopolize the copyright of this comic!" Tanida Shangyi is not stupid, no one at the bottom will spend so much money to buy a serialization qualification in vain, so Jia Yapeng must have a plan.

"Yes, Shueisha only owns the distribution authorization of the manga, and the other copyrights are all in my hands, and it has nothing to do with Shueisha!" Jia Yapeng nodded.

"The other copyrights can be given to you, but the distribution rights of the manga single book in the future must be in the hands of Shueisha, once this manga is serialized in Shueisha, it is absolutely not allowed to appear in the magazines of any other publishing house!" Tanida added that this is the most important point, that there can be no change in the exclusivity of Shueisha, which cannot be exchanged for any money.

"Yes!" Jia Yapeng nodded, "But it is limited to the copyright within Fuso, except for the Fuso area, all the copyright has nothing to do with Shueisha!" ”

"But I have a request.,That is, the next issue of "Weekly Shonen Jump" that has not yet been printed, must start serialization, and at the same time, there must be all the rights equivalent to normal serialized comics, and the editorial department must not have any partiality towards my comics!"

"No problem!" Tanida Shangyi nodded briskly, then took out two glasses of red wine from the bar in the living room, clinked glasses with Jia Yapeng slightly, and then smiled at the same time, "Happy cooperation, Mr. Jia Yapeng!" ”