Chapter 17: Layout Cooperation

"Teacher, you have indeed been a great genius, artist, pioneer over the past few decades. But you are not a qualified businessman. Kamachi Teruichi joked.

"Hui Yijun, in the past two days, you have pointed out so many shortcomings of the company, and I have also realized that although I am your teacher, I really don't know where to start." Osamu Tezuka smiled bitterly.

"The animation production of "Naruto" can be used as a starting point, the company strictly controls the production, can no longer reduce the number of frames to reduce costs, and to reach a cooperation with the TV station, we must get a viewing share in addition to the copyright fee, so that the TV station realizes that the copyright belongs to us."

"What about the refusal of the TV station?"

"With the help of the power of the media and the power of magazines to put pressure on TV stations, they dare not go against the will of the people."

"Like the 'madman' in the Akatsuki organization?" Osamu Tezuka narrowed his eyes.

"Not only that, but to give hints that they are not that important to us is going to require the two companies to drag their time more than anyone else. After the transaction is concluded, it is necessary to focus on building IP, and new peripherals and publicity are indispensable. ”

"In the past, the purpose of the club has always been to trade copyrights, but now we need to contact the acquisition factories to make the corresponding products and produce them ourselves, while owning the copyrights."

"If this is the case, the production cost of the animation may not be able to continue if it drags on with the TV station." Osamu Tezuka's eyes are very solemn.

"Here is the most important point, the comics revenue brought by weekly magazines can maintain the flow of funds, but it is not domestic, we need to transfer the economic chain to Hong Kong, so that comics can flourish in Hong Kong."

In fact, Pu Chi Hui knows in his heart that this model is the capital operation model that is common in Toei in the 21st century, and he has been eating the copyright of anime characters to create his own IP. But he still needs to work hard to build another layer on top of that.

"The teacher must have seen that success is possible. But what I said before was just commercial innovation, and now if you want anime to rise again, you still have to start from the essence of production. ”

In fact, most fully capable companies are just blinded by immediate interests and are willing to fall. We just need to be willing to invest money and wash the whole market, and then they will trade high risk for high returns like us. In the process, the interests are no longer in our minds, and manga and anime will return to the top. ”

Osamu Tezuka seems to have seen a chess game, and Kamachi Teruichi and he disrupt all the chess pieces and rearrange them in the chaos, ring by ring. He couldn't help but be amazed by Kamaike Keiichi's thoughtful thinking.

"Hui Yijun is really a genius."

"No one is a genius, and when we bloody the entire market, we will be faced with embattlement, and I don't know if the teacher is ready." Ka Chi Teiichi smiled and put the plan on the table.

"Hahaha, as long as people live." Osamu Tezuka seems to have thought of something.

"Does that ally of ours have the strength to face the "embattled"? ”

"He? , he is already embattled. Pu Chihui saw that the conversation was almost over, so he got up and prepared to leave.

Opening the door, he looked back after a little thought, "Oh yes, Sensei, his name is Hayao Miyazaki." ”

Osamu Tezuka's pupils looked at the doorway, and suddenly fell into a memory.

I remembered the first time I met Miyazaki at Toei Animation in 1963, when Miyazaki was still a very young animator; In 71, he followed him to the animation department of Insect Production Co., Ltd., and witnessed the bankruptcy of the company.

There is also the end of 79 when I heard about the animated film "The City of Lupin the Third Carriostro" directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which really made his eyes shine at the time, but the result was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Osamu Tezuka really admires Hayao Miyazaki, and even saw Miyazaki's dedication to "Love" last year, he wanted to help him fulfill his wish, but the years were not good, and this person who pursues artistic anime seems to have been "embattled".

He lost his first battle as a feature-length director, and the capitalists were more allergic to him as a union secretary. Therefore, the adaptation of "Love" has never passed the resolution of Toei Film Shinsha Company, and no one will invest in it.

Unexpectedly, Kamaike Teruichi actually took a fancy to Hayao Miyazaki, and Osamu Tezuka couldn't help but be curious about the future.

A few days later, in the afternoon, Kamoike finally found Miyazaki in a wooden house in the woods of Tokyo. Miyazaki was also a little strange why the young man in front of him would find him, an unknown director.

Looking at the character portraits of various later classics on the wall, Kamaike Teiichi firmly believes that the decadent middle-aged man in front of him is Hayao Miyazaki, and there will be no mistake.

"Has Miyazaki-san spent his whole life drawing manga in such a secluded place?"

Hayao Miyazaki frowned and looked at Kamaike Keiichi, who put the "Your Name" manga in front of the middle-aged man, "My name is Kabaike Keiichi, and I know that Miyazaki-san is very obsessed with "Love", but I need your help. I respect you, and I want to help you fulfill your wishes. I'm sorry that I was rude. ”

The skeptical Miyazaki flipped through the manga on the table, and the afternoon was always comfortable and long. Ka Chi Teiichi looked at the comic plots on the drawing boards in front of him, and marveled at Miyazaki-san's artistic techniques, magical narrative methods and plot development skills that made him admire.

Hayao Miyazaki flips through the manga as he pushes the plot on the paper with a pencil and closes the manga. He had to face up to what Kamachi Teiichi had just said. Although "Your Name" tells the love story of a boy and a girl who "struggles beautifully" in this cruel world, the connotation of this comic goes far beyond the scope of art, and the narrative technique is also a minimal fragmentary interlude, starting from the perspective of the two protagonists, and finally connecting together. For Miyazaki, it was a fresh refresh in his mind.

"Where did the comics come from?"

"I drew it."

Hayao Miyazaki exhaled, "Why are you looking for me, young man." ”

"A new era of comics, we're better together, and only you can help me."

"Really? Kamaike-san, I promise you, but I will still insist on adapting the manga "Love". Hayao Miyazaki said cautiously.

"As far as I know, capitalists are not willing to help you in the market, and it is very difficult to get the copyright. Since the adaptation is not possible without copyright, why didn't Miyazaki-san use "Love" as a blueprint and redraw an RB version. In this way, the adaptation of the cartoon comes naturally. Katsuchi said.

"No way, it's opportunistic."

"Yes, noble ends and despicable means do sometimes need to be balanced in one person."

Miyazaki's eyes narrowed slightly, remembering the hard work he had put into "Love" over the years, and it really sounded like a joke.

He laughed at himself for a long time, "If it is published in the form of a manga, then I will make this work unprecedented, so that it cannot be adapted into an anime." ”

"I'm looking forward to that day." Pu Chi Hui smiled, is it really a speechless contradiction, is it a manga artist's quirk?