Chapter 528: 7 Dragon Balls

Chapter 528: 7 Dragon Balls

Chapter 528: Dragon Ball

After reaching an investment agreement with Tsuburaya Productions, Yang Wendong called Fang Xianming and said, "In addition to the recent acquisitions of several companies in Hong Kong, please go and do a detailed investigation of the information of various types of companies in Japan.

Including retail, cinemas, real estate, and bookstore chains, which, in principle, can complement our existing businesses.”

"Okay." Fang Xianming agreed and asked, "Mr. Yang, are you ready to start investing in Japan?"

Yang Wendong nodded and said, "Yes, I have this idea, but the scale will not be very large at the beginning. It is just to facilitate the existing business to enter the Japanese market. This market will be very large in the future. Although it is not as big as the United States, it may be larger than the United States for some of our businesses."

After the development in the 50s and 60s, Japan's economy began to take off in the 70s, and its per capita income and total GDP began to grow rapidly. This is the most opportunity in the incremental market.

However, Japan's electronics, plastics, papermaking and other industries are also very developed, which is the foundation of their growth. Although these businesses under Changxing Group have the opportunity to develop in Japan, Yang Wendong is not sure if he can beat the local giants.
On the contrary, in terms of culture, although Japan's anime culture will become stronger and stronger in the next ten or twenty years, the competition among industries will not be so exclusive. Unlike TV, if you buy one, you will not buy that. As long as the comics and animations are good, consumers will watch both.
Therefore, in the next ten years, our priority will be to open up Japan's cultural market. If this is successful, we will gradually consider other industries, such as real estate. There is no need to touch it for the time being, because Japan's real estate took off in the 80s. Investing now will just waste money. It is better to invest in Hong Kong. As for retail, we are ready to follow the trend and see if there are any opportunities.

Fang Xianming said: "I understand. I will immediately arrange for someone to go to Japan to collect relevant information."

"Okay." Yang Wendong added: "For the cinema chain, pay attention to the fifth largest cinema chain in Japan with daily active users."

Yang Wendong was not very familiar with the history of Japanese film development, but he knew a lot about it from Hong Kong. The most famous future con man, Chen Songqing, once invested in Japan's Nikkatsu Film Company.

It is said that due to financial problems in the early 70s, the company had to turn to making certain types of movies that men liked, and even became a giant in this field;
Yang Wendong is not interested in Japanese movies. What he cares about is that Japanese film companies all own their own cinema chains, just like Hong Kong. As the fifth largest film company, Nikkatsu must own a lot of cinema chains.

If we can acquire shares or even acquire the company, it will not only prepare Hong Kong films for entering Japan in the future, but also allow us to wait for the appreciation of the Japanese real estate market in the future.

Fang Xianming agreed: "Okay."

A few days later, the lawyers of both parties successfully signed the contract in Japan, and Tsuburaya's account received $100 million from Changxing Group.
According to the agreement, after receiving the money, Tsuburaya Productions immediately started filming a new Ultraman series. At the same time, Changxing Culture would also send people to learn. Of course, it was not the filming of Ultraman, but other comic projects. Tsuburaya Productions did not only have Ultraman as its program.

On March 3, Yang Wendong came to the floor of Changxing Culture Company again;

After Zhang Zhiyuan took the boss for a tour, Yang Wendong smiled and said, "There are fewer people here. It seems that we can add more people to some of our core programs, right?"

Zhang Zhiyuan replied: "Yes, Peppa Pig has achieved some success overseas, so we are also stepping up the production of more plots, and the same is true for Black Cat Sheriff;
However, we also found that due to some language and cultural differences, our animations may be understood differently in Europe and the United States."

"So you want to set up a content creation center in Europe and the United States?" Yang Wendong is also a smart man and naturally understands his subordinates' intentions.

Zhang Zhiyuan replied: "Yes, although we try our best to attract Chinese from Southeast Asia in Hong Kong, the number is still too small compared to Europe and the United States, and the education level is better in Europe and the United States;

If we can have a content production center in Europe and the United States, and even produce comics there, it will speed up our creation process, but the downside is that labor costs in Europe and the United States will be much higher.”

"It doesn't matter. Not every industry cares about labor costs." Yang Wendong agreed and said, "We will set up two branches in the United States and the United Kingdom, and then recruit experienced people locally to create new plots."

For industries with higher profits, such as automobiles, high-end beverages such as Red Bull, the film industry, and the cultural industry, they do not really care about the difference in labor costs. In the past, many of these companies were also in developed countries.
In fact, if these industries want to do well, they will definitely need a large number of talents, and places where a large number of talents gather will inevitably have high rents, high living costs, and high labor costs;

As long as the development direction is correct, even the labor costs in Europe, America and even Northern Europe will not matter. Northern Europe in this era also has a large manufacturing industry.

Zhang Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

Yang Wendong added: "The company's multiple comics are developing well now. Both the funds and manpower are sufficient. I want to prepare to make the next comic. Please call Wu Hailin over and discuss it together." The comic industry is the easiest cultural industry to succeed, and it does not have to rely on others. Even if it is someone else's idea, the copyright of the comics launched during the work for the company belongs to the company. The main customers of comics are children and teenagers. They generally do not have a sense of home and country, and they like whatever looks good. This also makes it convenient to open up markets in various countries;
On the contrary, it is very difficult for television and movies to overcome the thinking limitations of adults of other nations. Even Hollywood cannot do this in this era. It was not until the rise of blockbusters in the 90s that they were considered successful by relying on various high-tech special effects. However, such movies are also extremely costly and risky.
As for Hong Kong movies, they can barely do it by relying on Li Xiaolong and several future top stars, but they are heavily dependent on these people, especially Li Xiaolong.

Although he would certainly cooperate with Li Xiaolong on a mutually beneficial basis, it was unsafe for a company's industry to be heavily dependent on one person. However, this was the way the film industry was, and there was nothing that could be done about it.

"I'll prepare it right away. Mr. Yang, please go to the meeting room and wait." After Zhang Zhiyuan finished speaking, he hurried to call someone.

Soon, Zhang Zhiyuan, Wu Hailin and several other project managers in charge of content came to the meeting room;

Yang Wendong first asked, "Is Journey to the West completely finished?"

A few years ago, Yang Wendong asked Changxing Culture Company to produce Journey to the West, and he occasionally participated in it, just to roughly copy the CCTV version of Journey to the West in the 90s. Although it can't be exactly the same, it's almost enough;

This comic is not short in length, but after all, it is not like "Detective Conan" where the plot can be endlessly expanded, so it is about time to end after a few years.

Wu Hailin replied: "Yes, it ended during the Chinese New Year, when Tang Seng and his three companions reached Lingshan and obtained the true scriptures, and the story ended there."

"Then we will start preparing for animation production. This comic has achieved good results. If it is made into an animation, it will definitely be popular, at least in the Chinese community." Yang Wendong said with a smile.

In the past, the live-action version of Journey to the West in the 80s and the animated version in the 90s were both very popular and were played countless times in the mainland.

Now that there is no mainland market, we can only rely on overseas Chinese. The market is not super big, but it is enough.

Wu Hailin said, "Okay, Mr. Yang, we have the original comics, and we have started preparing to shoot the animation a long time ago. It will probably be on TV by the middle of the year."

"Okay, in the future, our comics will basically be gradually shown on TV." Yang Wendong asked again: "Now that the mainland doesn't cooperate with us, it takes a lot of manpower to produce animations. Is this a problem?"

Wu Hailin replied: "Don't worry, Mr. Yang, there is no problem at the moment. The comics school we established three years ago now compensates more than a hundred professional painters every year. Their creative ability may not be very good, but they can still repeat the painting according to the requirements."

It is not difficult to convert comics into animations. Most of the drawings are repeated. At most, the mouth and eyes move a little and the voice is coordinated.
But there is too much content, the workload is too heavy and very tedious, so it is very appropriate to hand these things over to new graduates.

“Okay, then I’ll wait to see the cartoon on TVB.” Yang Wendong nodded, then formally said, “Everyone, a high-quality comic company must have constantly innovative themes;
"Journey to the West" has ended, and there must be a follow-up, so I am preparing to release a different "Journey to the West." "

"A different Journey to the West?" Many people, including Wu Hailin, were stunned, not understanding what the boss meant.

Wu Hailin asked: "Mr. Yang, what is this different Journey to the West like?"

"It has the same background as modern society, and there are also Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and others. It can be regarded as a modified version." Yang Wendong smiled and said, "The storyline is like this. There is a mythical beast between heaven and earth, called the Shenlong. It can fulfill any wish. As long as someone gathers seven dragon balls, it can be summoned.

The story begins with Sun Wukong, but he is just a child, he..."

This new story is, of course, Dragon Ball, the masterpiece of former Japanese manga master Akira Toriyama;
Now that Changxing Culture has developed over the years, it already has many experienced story writers, painters, channels, etc., so it is time to take out some classic comics from previous lives and let them play freely.

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