Chapter 218: The contract was signed
"That's great!" Jia Yapeng stood up, walked around a few times excitedly, and then said, "Mr. Takahashi, I wonder if you can draw the character of the protagonist Muto Game right now?" ”
"It's coming!" Takahashi and Nozomi's heart moved, he knew that this was a test for Jia Yapeng to himself, if he couldn't create a character that satisfied him, then this door-to-door business might be gone.
So Takahashi and Hitti painted, and after about an hour of revision, they finally came up with a rough character for a Muto game.
"Sure enough, it's the Muto game!" After seeing the characters of Muto Games, Jia Yapeng couldn't help but sigh. Although at this time, there are still four years before Takahashi and Nozomi drew "Yu-Gi-Oh" in history, but the Muto game drawn by Takahashi and Nozomi is basically no different from the original Muto game, at least the face is exactly the same, but this hairstyle is not as individual as the Muto game.
But it doesn't matter, our Mr. Jia also picked up a gun and took a pen to modify Takahashi Kazuki's paintings, replacing the original unpretentious hairstyle of Muto Games with a super cool hairstyle with vertical triangles everywhere.
"Oh my God! It turns out that there can be such a magical and cool hairstyle in the comics!! Seeing Jia Yapeng's hairstyle for Muto Games, Takahashi and Nozomi were about to go crazy, he couldn't have imagined that there could be such a cool hairstyle in the world, and this hairstyle was already so cool that it was a little unreasonable.
"The guy who created this hairstyle is probably a madman!" Takahashi and Nozomi muttered in their hearts, and then glanced at Jia Yapeng secretly.
Jia Yapeng also glanced at Kazuki Takahashi, and muttered in his heart, "Don't look at me, this hairstyle is actually created by yourself, and it has nothing to do with me!" ”
"Okay, the character design of Wu Teng's game is so decided, and in addition, the other supporting characters can actually design some special hairstyles, which can not only highlight the personality of the characters, but also make readers remember these characters!" Jia Yapeng said with a smile, and Takahashi and Nozomi nodded.
Although I think the hairstyle created by Jia Yapeng is too exaggerated, I don't know why, Takahashi and Nozomi don't actually have any resistance in their hearts, on the contrary, they are a little eager to try.
"Then, let's clarify our respective rights and obligations!" Zhu Qiushui took out a contract that had been prepared a long time ago and handed it to Jia Yapeng, and Jia Yapeng handed it to Kazuki Takahashi, and said with a smile, "To put it simply, all the copyrights of this comic are in my hands, and the copyright of the script is also owned by me, Your Excellency is the author of this comic, there is no doubt about it!" ”
"After signing the contract, unless I allow it to be finished, at least more than 500 episodes of the plot must be drawn, and each episode must not be less than 25 pages including the cover, and I will pay you a minimum of 1,000 yen per page!"
"After the manga is released, if the average sales of a single volume of the manga exceed 50,000 per volume, then for each additional 10,000 volumes of average sales, you can get an additional 100 yen per page, with no upper limit!"
"In addition to manga, you can get a 3% profit share for income such as animation, card releases, toy goods, etc.!"
"But there is a restriction, that is, Mr. Kazuki Takahashi must sign a contract with our publishing house to become our contracted author, and you can only enjoy the above benefits during the period of signing an authorship, if you are no longer our contracted author, then all benefits will disappear, and the Yu-Gi-Oh manga will have nothing to do with you."
"However, the contract can also indicate that as long as Mr. Takahashi does not take the initiative to resign, or is passive and slackens, and delays the manuscript for more than a few months, then the company cannot terminate the contract with you until it closes down or you die personally!"
"That's pretty much it, I don't know if Mr. Takahashi agrees!"
"No problem, Mr. Jia, you are so generous, but I don't know if my comic volume can exceed 50,000 volumes, after all, this is the treatment that only popular comics can have, and when my comics are at their best, I bought less than 20,000 for one volume!" Takahashi and Nozomi said with a wry smile.
He was indeed very happy about Jia Yapeng's conditions, first of all, no matter what the final result was, the manuscript fee of 1,000 yen per page was an irresistible temptation for him, a street painter.
And after the average volume exceeds 50,000, the additional rewards and income, this is even more perfect, but Takahashi and Nozomi don't think that it is possible to reach the average volume of more than 50,000, which is a score that only 2% of manga artists in the whole of Fuso can achieve, and he will not make such idiotic fantasies.
But if you can write an average of 1 million and draw 400 words, based on 25 pages per sentence, won't you end up earning 100 million yen?
Stop, it's a dream, it's impossible!
As for the sharing of other peripheral income, he is actually working for Jia Yapeng, Jia Yapeng seems to be planning to rely on the hero card in it to earn money around him, then he can get 3% of the profit, which is probably a lot of income, how can there be a hundred thousand yen!
It's perfect!
The restriction that can't lift the contract, no matter how you look at it, is a restriction that is beneficial to yourself, so that you can find a lifelong job, and you can have a fixed income every month, which is simply the most conscientious employment contract in Fusang, is there such a perfect contract in the world?
Of course, Takahashi and Nozomi did not know that after the serialization of his "Yu-Gi-Oh" manga, a total of 38 volumes were published, and the final total sales reached 45 million copies, with an average volume sales of 1.18 million copies, and he was one of the few manga artists in Fuso who could enter the huge honor of one million volumes.
And the manuscript fee of the comics, plus the sales of various peripherals, Takahashi and Nozomi once became the tax king of Fuso, and the total income from the manuscript tax exceeded 2 billion yen, and the economic income brought by "Yu-Gi-Oh" has exceeded 80 billion yen, which can be called one of the money printing machines in the manga industry.
"But Mr. Jia, where are you going to publish my comic after I'm done?" After the excitement, Kazuki Takahashi asked a fairly realistic question.
"Weekly Shonen Jump, of course!" Jia Yapeng said with a smile, "Only "Weekly Shonen Jump" can create the most popular comic in Quanfusang, so my first goal is "Weekly Shonen Jump"! ”
"Hmm!" Kazuki Takahashi nodded vigorously, everyone in the Fuso manga industry knows that "Weekly Shonen Jump" is the strongest manga magazine in the universe...... Of course, after the rise of Marvel, this can only be Fusang's strongest.
"But Mr. Jia, if you want to be serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump", then I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome, because only after the editor's review, and the confirmation of the serialization meeting, can you be sure that you will be serialized on it, and if my comic level is not enough to pass the serialization meeting, it will not be serialized!"
"And since all the copyrights of my comics are already in your hands, then "Weekly Shonen Jump" magazine will never agree to serialize, because all the copyrights of comics must be in their hands!" Takahashi and Nozomi whispered.
"I know this, I'll find a way to solve the problem!" Jia Yapeng nodded, although Takahashi and Nozomi still had some doubts in their hearts, they didn't say anything, he felt that Jia Yapeng was too taken for granted, how could "Weekly Shonen Jump" agree to such a request!
"Okay, these are the questions I need to consider, you don't need to think about it, you can draw me a three-word sample as quickly as possible, and then we will go to the editor of "Weekly Shonen Jump" to talk about it!" Jia Yapeng smiled, and Takahashi and Nozomi could only nod in agreement.
It was also at this time that a young man suddenly broke into Takahashi and Nozomi's room, shouting as he walked, "Takahashi, you asked me to run over without even going to work, if there is nothing major, I won't borrow you to watch next week's "Weekly Shonen Jump"! ”
Oh, this guy who spoke, named Akiyuki Shinbo, is finally here.