Chapter 323 Goes on Sale
And Boss Jia's other heavy punch is the series of animations of "Yu-Gi-Oh".
After the TV animation of "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" ended, the animation of "Yu-Gi-Oh" was directly broadcast.
Although Honda Ichiro proposed that "Yu-Gi-Oh" be played directly in the name of the prequel of "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", it was rejected by Boss Jia, and he did not want too strong a prequel relationship between the two.
On the other hand, because the animation of "Yu-Gi-Oh" is a bit rushed, and there are as many as 56 episodes in the first season, plus the dynasty has another more important animation to do, so the animation of "Yu-Gi-Oh" is inevitably a little rough.
But even if it's rough, it's stronger than all Fuso's current animations, but the beginning of "Yu-Gi-Oh" didn't detonate the audience directly like "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", and the popularity was not very high.
But as readers gradually discovered the connection between "Yu-Gi-Oh" and "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", the ratings of "Yu-Gi-Oh" began to climb gradually.
At the same time, because "Yu-Gi-Oh" is stronger than "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" in terms of plot quality, so gradually, the popularity and ratings of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" animation have also risen to more than 25%, although it did not break the threshold of 30% in the end, but this is already a great achievement.
And before the broadcast of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" animation, in fact, the first volume of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" comics had already been listed, and the TV animation had little impact on the comics, and the second volume of the comics was launched in February.
In fact, this sales drive effect can be seen in the first volume that has already been released.
Before the anime was released, the first volume of the manga had already surpassed one million sales, and it achieved another achievement that is extremely difficult for any manga to achieve, and that is the million sales achievement.
After the second volume of the manga went on sale, it exceeded 500,000 within a week and 1 million within a month, doubling the achievement of the first volume.
Now the combined sales of the first and second volumes of the two manga have reached 3 million, with an average sales of 1.5 million, which can already rank among the top 20 in the average sales list of Fuso manga.
This basically means that "Yu-Gi-Oh" has reached the status of a first-line comic in Fuso.
What does this status mean?
For example, at this time, the only comics that can be ranked among the first-line comics and are also serialized are "Sailor Moon", "Dragon Ball", "Doraemon", "Saint Seiya", "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" and "Slam Dunk", which can be called first-line comics.
In another world, it took four years for "Yu-Gi-Oh" to reach the top line, with an average of 1 million sales, but now, Yu-Gi-Oh only took four months.
On March 15, 1993, this was the day when the "Yu-Gi-Oh" series of cards was officially sold in Fuso.
And this time, not only the 7-Eleven convenience store, but also the coarse dim sum store of Quanfuso has also put the "Yu-Gi-Oh" series of cards on the shelves.
The Coarse Confectionery Association was completely disbanded last month, and now almost all coarse confectionery shops in the country rely on the new Coarse Confectionery Store Manager Association to procure.
This association, which is made up entirely of coarse confectionery store managers, is different from the previous coarse confectionery association, which puts the income of its member companies in the most important position.
The Association of Coarse Dim Sum Store Managers naturally puts the income of coarse dim sum shops in the first place, so now coarse dim sum shops are no longer just selling coarse dim sum, and many things that have nothing to do with coarse dim sum can now be sold in the store in a grand manner.
And this time, after learning the news that the "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards were going on sale, the people from the Coarse Dim Sum Store Manager Association took the initiative to come to the door, hoping that these cards could also be sold in the Coarse Dim Sum Shop.
Previously, because of the neglect of the elves' crisp noodles, the benefits of tens of billions of yen that originally belonged to them were all deprived of the convenience store, which made the managers of the coarse dim sum store very angry.
However, because the elf crispy noodles had signed an exclusive sales contract with 7-Eleven convenience stores, they could not be sold at any other store, so although the new coarse dim sum store manager association was very enthusiastic, it was still rejected and could not sell the elf crispy noodles.
Now after learning that the "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards are in the same vein as the previous elves, and the relevant selling point is also cards, the Coarse Dim Sum Store Manager Association couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to find Daqian, asking the Coarse Dim Sum Store to sell cards as well.
In fact, convenience stores are not the best choice for Daqian, after all, children are more accustomed to shopping in coarse snack stores and putting them in convenience stores to sell, just forced to helpless.
Now that the Coarse Dim Sum Store Manager Association has taken the initiative to come to the door, Daqian will naturally not refuse, so this time the "Yu-Gi-Oh" card sales have become a joint sales plan between the Coarse Dim Sum Association and 7-Eleven convenience stores.
And after the official sales began, Boss Jia, Ichiro Honda and others were a little apprehensive, although they had already done everything they could, such as constantly hinting at the relationship between "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" and "Yu-Gi-Oh" through various media.
At the same time, the "Yu-Gi-Oh" card release was advertised on all platforms, and what happened next, it seems that only God will see it.
If Jia Yapeng knew at this time that there were already a large number of citizens queuing at the entrance of various 7-Eleven convenience stores in Tokyo, then I think Boss Jia's heart should be able to put it in his stomach.
The pre-sale time of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" card is 10 o'clock in the morning, and it is 8 o'clock in the morning, even if the convenience store is still open at this time, but the true face of the "Yu-Gi-Oh" card has never been seen, but on the display stand at the gate of the 7-Eleven convenience store, there is a small display table covered with dark red, with an obscure magic array and magic tyrants painted on it, and a mysterious and strange red cloth is born.
At the same time, the interior of the 7-Eleven convenience store is also hung with promotional posters of "Yu-Gi-Oh", and at the entrance of some key stores, there is even a life-size statue of the protagonist of Muto Games, and a strong impetuous atmosphere floats throughout the convenience store.
Outside the convenience store, there were at least dozens of players, looking at the cloth-covered display stand, looking forward to the mysterious "Yu-Gi-Oh" card inside.
At the same time, not only 7-Eleven convenience stores, but also coarse confectionery stores in Tokyo, there are also mysterious counters covered by the red cloth of the magic array, which is naturally Jia Yapeng's request, in order to create a mysterious and unpredictable magical feeling.
Sure enough, passers-by looked curiously at this red cloth full of magical power, not to mention those readers who had been waiting for the release of "Yu-Gi-Oh" cards for a long time.
There are many anxious people who are already urging the clerk or the boss to sell quickly, but Daqian has already signed an agreement with them, everything must be sold after 10 o'clock in the morning, otherwise Daqian will be compensated 10 million yen in compensation, and no one wants to take such a risk to sell in advance.
Therefore, the customers who were anxiously waiting could only continue to wait anxiously, and at the same time made their sanity a little irrational.
Finally, the bell rang at 10 o'clock in the morning, and the "Yu-Gi-Oh" card was finally shown to the world for the first time.
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