After Shota Yoshioka sat on the presidency.

Revenue gains are secondary.

After all, as one of the shareholders of cloud entertainment, even if it is only a small shareholder, Shota Yoshioka has already achieved financial freedom.

Last year, shareholders paid more than 1 billion yen in dividends alone.

At the suggestion of Hideki Hanyu, he bought a lot of real estate in Tokyo.

He also followed Asako Hirohashi and Shinsuke Ito to invest in Ai International.

Recently, I even pulled a few friends, plus goblins, to prepare an Italian restaurant.

Yoshioka Shota's family lives a simple life, and their expenses are far less than that of Hanyu Hideki.

As long as you don't invest indiscriminately, this money will definitely be enough to spend for a lifetime.

What's more, with the listing of Aiyi International, it is certain that the value of several friends has skyrocketed again.

Therefore, for Shota Yoshioka, serving as president brings an increase in social status.

Four of them friends.

Needless to say, Hideki Hanyu has a series of titles that can be written endlessly, which is enough to prove his social status.

What about Asako Hirahashi.

Because Hideki Hanyu is willing to be the shopkeeper, her presence and popularity in the neon media industry and the entertainment industry are much higher than Hideki Hanyu.

The helmsman of the cloud department is well deserved.

As for Shinsuke Ito, after winning the Neon Film Academy Award for Best Director, he is already a young master in the neon film industry.

What's more, the entire technical team of cloud painting was brought out by him from scratch.

Nowadays, from the cloud department to the technical personnel, it can be said that they are all disciples of Ito Shinsuke.

When the cloud system continues to develop, Shinsuke Ito will be the grandmaster-level figure who founded the sect.

There is only Shota Yoshioka, the oldest, who is conscientious, hard-working, and has made great contributions to the development of the cloud system.

But it has always been infamous, and its status is not up or down.

Now nearly forty years old, he is finally in charge of one of Neon's three major advertising agencies, which can be regarded as a success.

And Hideki Hanyu, who participated in the board of directors.

The work that I had accumulated before has finally come to an end.

Especially when it comes to the work of entertainment on the cloud.

This large-scale media group has had successes and failures.

But now, it has become like a train running on the tracks.

Even if you don't have the foresight of Hideki Hanyu, you can drive well.

Therefore, in the following time, in addition to engaging in creation, Hanyu Hideki went to the construction site of Wanshiya to have a look.

More often than not, he spends time at Elf Entertainment.

Monday, March 17.

One week after the conclusion of the Storm AD Board meeting.

The top floor of the Elf Entertainment Building.

Not long after Hideki Hanyu sat down in his office.

Eri Kitahara knocked on the door and entered.

Hanyu Hideki was a little surprised and said, "Huh? Kitahara-san is back, has the new office building been cleaned up? ”

Cloud Entertainment and Elf Entertainment, coupled with the copyright operation club jointly established by Cloud Culture, have begun intensive preparations.

In the Shimbashi area of Minato Ward, not far from Cloud Entertainment, Emiri Kitahara chose an office location for the club.

Originally, Eri Kitahara also considered continuing to keep the new company in the building of Elf Entertainment or Cloud Entertainment.

But Hideki Hanyu vetoed it.

Don't look at the two buildings, the place is not small.

But both clubs are still growing, and they are only going to get bigger.

Rather than squeezing together, which becomes more and more inconvenient in the end, it is better to separate them at the beginning.

After all, once the business of the new club is rolled out, it will also need a lot of space.

Of course, this is also related to another long-term plan of Hideki Hanyu.

That is, in Hanyu Hideki's view, whether it is cloud entertainment or elf entertainment, the current office location is just a transition.

In his heart, he had already helped all the clubs under the future plan the final headquarters location.

If the plan goes ahead, it will have a super park with a minimum area of more than 150,000 square meters in the port area.

However, it is still early to implement the plan, and if you say it now, the people around you will definitely think that he is nervous.

So, it's good to use the existing building for the transition now.

Recently, Eri Kitahara has been busy in the new office building, so Hideki Hanyu has not seen each other at Elf Entertainment.

"The property of the office building is more cooperative, the office area is almost busy, and then the staff is integrated, and some new employees are recruited, and the work can officially begin." Eri Kitahara replied.

Hideki Hanyu wanted to say that the property should cooperate, after all, he bought the office building two years ago.

But packing up your new office is a small thing, and it's how you get the job done is what matters.

Don't look at what Eiri Kitahara said, if the new company wants to start working immediately, it will definitely take a while to run in.

After all, the employees are all drawn from Cloud Entertainment and Genie Entertainment, plus the new employees recruited.

Eri Kitahara's real work is yet to come.

"Actually, apart from you, Satoshi Iwata has often not seen anyone recently." Hideki Hanyu said.

"What ...... Iwata-san is busy with?"

When Eri Kitahara's words were spoken, he seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said, "Look at me, I forgot that I was busy, the Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Exhibition is about to start on the 20th, and it must be for this matter." ”

"That's right, he's been in the pavilion lately." Hideki Hanyu said.

"Is Hanyu-san ready to announce it at the exhibition?"

Eri Kitahara didn't say anything about the announcement.

But how could Hideki Hanyu not hear it.

"Yes, the things that have been decided, there is no need to delay it any longer, just to give Satoshi Iwata a big stage."

What the two of them said and wanted to announce was the appointment of Satoshi Iwata as the president of Elf Entertainment.

Experienced the sale of PS consoles in Neon.

Iwata's performance has been recognized by Genie Entertainment up and down.

It's time to turn the other party's "generation" title into a regular one.

When the two said this, Eri Kitahara suddenly took out a newspaper from his bag and put it in front of Hideki Hanyu.

"I just talked and forgot to congratulate Hanyu-san."

Hideki Hanyu looked at the newspaper when he heard this.

The headline was "Congratulations to Hideki Hanyu for being nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award."

The specific content is basically to say that he relied on the picture book "My Snowman Friend" released last year.

Nominated for this year's Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, will he be able to win the award as he wishes......

"I don't necessarily win the award, and it's too early to congratulate you."

This award has been nominated for three times in a row, and then accompanied by the runner every time.

Now that he is nominated, let alone him, even the public is a little numb.

In short, starting with the Hans Christian Andersen Award nominations at the beginning of the year.

List of candidates for the Order of Culture by the end of the year.

One after the other, echoing from beginning to end.

Everyone is basically having fun.

If you run again this year, it will be a triple accompaniment.

Belch......

Abbreviated as "escort".

In the face of Hanyu Hideki's disapproval, Eri Kitahara, as a former person in the publishing industry.

Still said very seriously, "Nomination is also an honor, Hanyu-san can't be so indifferent outside, after all, it's not easy for others to get a nomination." ”

"Don't worry, I still know what I can and can't say outside, and I'm not an outspoken idiot."

Speaking of being open-mouthed, Hanyu Hideki couldn't help but think of the Ni family father and son who were banned by him in Xiangjiang.

But for more than half a month, the other side couldn't bear it anymore, and began to ask someone to intercede.

said that he would come to Neon to apologize in person, and publicly apologized in the media in Neon and Xiangjiang.

It's just that Hideki Hanyu hasn't bothered with it.

As he spoke, he asked Eri Kitahara curiously, "Kitahara-san is here today, isn't it just to congratulate me?" ”

"Of course not, I'm here to tell Hanyu-san that I've already talked to Naito Securities with Editor-in-Chief Takida, and they suggested that if the game base is listed, it's best to put it next year."

"Why?" Hideki Hanyu is a little strange.

The young female consultant at Naito Securities said that the game base is not as attractive as Crescent Cinemas in terms of assets, and she judged that the market will be better next year, and when it is launched, the IPO will perform better.

Eri Kitahara explained.

"Is that so......"

Hideki Hanyu thought secretly.

If the young female advisor in the mouth of Eri Kitahara is Haruko Naito.

That Hanyu Hideki must admit that the eldest lady is really keen on the judgment of the neon market.

Although the Plaza Accord was signed in 1985, the heyday of the neon bubble began in December 1986.

Don't look at the fact that stock prices and land prices have begun to skyrocket.

But compared to eight or six years later, that was really a drop in the bucket.

Since the Plaza Accord was signed, neon land prices have increased by about 20 percent.

Then between now and the end of the year, the increase in land prices will be about 23 percent.

But in 1987, in just one year, the price of neon land rose by more than 60%.

It's more exaggerated than from 1984 to 1986 combined.

The Nikkei is now only 13,000 points.

But next year, the Nikkei will exceed 26,000 points at its peak.

If it weren't for the impact of America's 1987 stock market crash, it would have fallen back to 21,000 points.

Next year, the Nikkei index will be able to double and skyrocket.

Pity......

Hideki Hanyu didn't know much about the financial markets of the eighties.

Unless it involves something specific, such as the Nintendo FC console, such as the Atari crash.

Otherwise, you can only give a rough picture.

Therefore, I know that there will be a stock market crash in America next year, but I don't know the specific time of the outbreak.

So there is no way to make money by taking advantage of the stock market crash.

Otherwise, with the funds he has now, he will definitely be able to make a lot of money by participating in this stock market crash.

But no matter how good you think about it now, it's useless.

I don't know the specific time to get involved, and his little money will be 100% swallowed up by the giants of Wall Street.

So, just think about it.

It's better to make money in the neon market with peace of mind.

Thinking of this, Hideki Hanyu said to Eri Kitahara, "Then let's do what Naito Securities wants." ”

"Okay, I'm going to go downstairs to handle work, so I won't bother Hanyu-san."

"Well, goodbye."

Eri Kitahara and Hideki Hanyu said goodbye, turned around and walked out of the office.

However, as soon as he arrived at the door, he suddenly turned around and returned.

She took out a magazine from her bag and placed it in front of Hideki Hanyu.

"I almost forgot, Miura-san asked me to bring this to Hanyu-san because of his encouragement."

After the magazine was blocked, Eri Kitahara left the office.

Hanyu Hideki looked at the magazine in front of him, it was the latest issue of the comic book magazine issued by Elf Press.

Monthly magazine "Elf Luna".

On the cover of this issue of "Elf Luna", there is a girl comic book character he doesn't know.

But that's not the point.

The focus is on an inconspicuous line of textual introduction.

[Manga artist Sakurako's latest work "Cherry Maruko" is on board! 】

Lenovo said what Eri Kitahara said when he put down the magazine.

Hideki Hanyu understands that Miki Miura, who was brought from her hometown by Eri Kitahara, has officially established her pen name "Cherry Child".

began serializing her masterpieces.

In his previous life, Hideki Hanyu liked the ordinary and trivial, but warm and optimistic story style in this comic.

Follow the table of contents to turn to the page where the comic is located.

After a brief introduction, then the first page of the story.

"My name is Cherry Child, and I am a third-grade student in elementary school, and because I am small and have a round body, everyone calls me Maruko......"

This is where the story begins.

"Hehe......" Hideki Hanyu smiled knowingly.

I started to enjoy the manga slowly.

Although the painting is sloppy and the story is still very immature, the familiar feeling still makes Hanyu Hideki devote himself to it.

Soon, the four-word story was read by him.

Putting down the magazine with a sigh of relief, Hideki Hanyu reached out to get the phone.

He plans to suggest to the second editor-in-chief of Odaka City that Komaruko go directly to the weekly magazine.

But when his hand just touched the microphone, it immediately retracted.

He suddenly realized whether he was doing this for Cherry.

It can be seen that the story of "Cherry Maruko" is not yet mature.

The testing and competition of monthly magazines can undoubtedly help authors and comics grow.

He is likely to do bad things with good intentions and backfire.

"Let's go with the flow......"

Hideki Hanyu muttered, and then put the magazine sent by Mikito Kitahara into his bag.

"Cherry Maruko" began to be serialized, and it was just an episode for him.

For Genie Press, it's just the icing on the cake.

Today's Genie Publishing House is full of talent.

The popularity of the veteran Misanjia manga "Mario Brothers", "Kung Fu", and "Takuma Songs" has not diminished.

There are also popular comics such as "Dragon Ball", "Pokémon", and "Boys Over Flowers" continue to help magazines soar sales.

The two major weekly magazines have already put Kodansha's "Shonen Magazine" under their feet.

It's a pity that Genie Publishing was born with the original intention of not being a pure comic publishing house.

It was founded for the entertainment of elves and to perfect the game's background worldview.

This doomed it to an alternative identity in the comic industry.

Therefore, when its comic magazine serializes those comics with game backgrounds, the story must serve the game, and you can't draw whatever you want.

This kind of practice of not catering to comic fans will inevitably lose some of its popularity.

This also makes the manga magazine of Genie Publishing House inseparable from "Weekly Shonen SUNDAY" and "Weekly Shonen Jump", and it is difficult to get rid of sales.

However, maintaining a consistent style will also increase the loyalty of old comic book fans, so that the magazine's sales are very stable.

It can be said that there are gains and losses.

And relying on the persistent comic story serialization, it has helped Elf Entertainment create an excellent game background.

Let the player have a very good sense of substitution.

It also improves the player's stickiness to the game.

It has also cultivated a large number of potential game consumers.

And the benefits far outweigh the loss of sales for comic magazines.

Because the parent company, Genie Entertainment, does not fancy the benefits brought by the sales of comics.

Therefore, when it comes to non-game background comics, there is very little control.

Not only does it give the signed cartoonist a great degree of freedom, but also has very generous sharing conditions.

In this case, although the sales of manga by Genie Press are not all in the world.

But the attraction to cartoonists is far beyond that of their peers.

The last time Hanyu Hideki went to the Elf Publishing House, he found a lot of future god-level manga artists.

I haven't been there for so long, and I don't know how many acquaintances have joined.

In this regard, Hanyu Hideki always has a kind of happiness in opening the blind box.

After a while, he went through the list of signed cartoonists of Elf Publishing House to see if there were any future celebrities.

And the benefits that Elf Entertainment has achieved by relying on the comics of the background story of the serialized game to help the game are also seen by the opponents.

Both Nintendo and Sega imitated it.

Both of the main games are co-located with different publishers.

Nintendo's partner is Kodansha.

Sega's partner is Kadokawa Shoten, which launched the manga magazine "Monthly Asuka" just last year.

It's just that compared to Elf Entertainment, which can directly control the Elf Publishing House.

As partners, these two are much less effective.

Genie Entertainment can force magazines to create comics around games, regardless of sales.

But the manga magazines of Kodansha and Kadokawa Shoten, but what they are looking for is sales.

The stories they create are designed to appeal to their readers.

As a result, players will find that the backstory of the game is very different from that of the comics.

But no matter what the outcome is, this wave of game comics, which was brought up by Elf Entertainment, is not available in another time and space.

It can be regarded as one of the influences that Hideki Hanyu has had on this life.

……

The main purpose of Hideki Hanyu's recent visit to Genie Entertainment is to care about game development.

Kombat Whirlwind at Sacred Studios.

Contra by Mythology Studios.

Both of these games, which were developed according to his plans, have now completed preliminary development work.

After he checked it, although there were slight differences from the version in his previous life, there was not much change overall.

The two games were announced at the Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Expo and the E3 Exhibition without any problems.

Of course, both are arcade versions, and the next thing to do is naturally the porting of consoles and handhelds.

Naturally, he didn't need to stare at these jobs.

What he cares about most now is naturally "Sonic" developed by Fantastic Studios.

After all, this is the second ace game of Elf Entertainment after Super Mario Bros.

Because of the Elven Vision, he knew that Sega and Nintendo were working on their respective sixteen-bit consoles.

Although it is not known when these two will release new hosts.

But "Sonic" is the killer feature he prepared to deal with the new consoles of Sega and Nintendo.

After meeting Eri Kitahara, Hideki Hanyu spent most of his time at Fantastic Studios.

Help Yuji Naka solve the problems in the development of "Sonic".

As for Toshihiko Nakago, the head of Magic Studio.

The other party is taking two newcomers who were recruited into Elf Entertainment under the arrangement of Hanyu Hideki, Takashi Tezuka and Eiji Aonuma.

Partnered with Yukitsugu Ryumori of Mythology Studios to reorganize the joint development team and develop the sequel to Super Mario Bros.

Wednesday, March 19.

The day before the Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Hideki Hanyu was busy in the studio with Yuji Naka.

Satoshi Iwata's assistant suddenly finds him.

"President Hanyu, Iwata-san is looking for you on the phone."

When Hideki Hanyu heard this, he picked up the phone in the studio and contacted Satoshi Iwata, who was at the exhibition site.

On the phone, he listened to a few words from Satoshi Iwata, and hung up the phone with a strange expression.

Then he said to Nakayuji, "Nakayu-san, I have something to go to the exhibition site, and I will deal with it later if I have a problem." ”

Thank you if the cloud knows, slow travel book sea for the tip.

(End of chapter)