Chapter 1465 The pillar of the Kirin Group
Yin Jun has a lot of fixed work content to do every year.
For example, he will consider giving Kirin TV and ATV a TV series at the end of the year.
For example, he will start thinking about adding new comics to "Qilin Weekly" in May and June.
This year marks the fourth year of the publication of "Qilin Weekly". After three years of development, it is said that "Qilin Weekly" is the world's number one comic weekly, surpassing all similar works in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. No one dares to object.
The number of publications in each issue of "Qilin Weekly" has increased to 33 million copies, and its Chinese version has already 10 million copies, accounting for almost one-third.
Japan and China are not yet aging in population, and they are just the time to enjoy the final demographic dividend.
Therefore, there are many young people and many students, which naturally brings a large number of comic book fans.
The remaining South Korea, Baodao, Hong Kong and Singapore are still the main players.
The remaining Chinese people in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and other places also strongly supported "Qilin Weekly".
"Qilin Weekly" itself is not very profitable.
In order to adapt to the addition of more and more comics, its page count has increased from 500 pages to 600 pages, an increase of 20% of the content, but the price has not changed.
It only sold for HKD 5 per volume in Hong Kong, and the Japanese version also maintained the original price.
Moreover, in order to adapt to the new comics in 1983, the number of advertising pages this year has also been compressed. By September, the ad pages were only about 80 pages, which was reduced by about one-third.
Such a kind comic weekly has also won the unanimous likes of comic fans.
However, "Qilin Weekly" makes a lot of money in single-line books.
As the influence of these comics spreads more and more, orders in Europe and the United States are increasing.
The sales volume of 100 million copies of the first episode of "Dragon Ball" was sold by Pearson Group, which sold 60 million copies to Europe, North America and even South America.
By doing so, Kirin Weekly's pre-tax profit soared to HK$700 million in one month, an increase of about 100% from two years ago.
Don't think this is what you earn the most.
Just like the Hollywood film industry, Kirin Culture earns the most is not the comics themselves, but the peripheral derivatives of the comics.
This includes Transformers toys and Saint Seiya dolls, as well as the right to play seven or eight cartoons, and the sale of clothes, toys, etc. of other comics.
They brought Kirin Culture 130 million US dollars in pre-tax profits in one month.
Kirin Group's pre-tax profit in one month is only about HK$2 billion, while Kirin Culture contributed 16 Hong Kong dollars, accounting for 80% of the share.
It can be seen from this that it is not an exaggeration to be called "the backbone of the Qilin Group".
Yin Jun naturally attaches great importance to such cash cows.
The three comics he prepared for "Qilin Weekly" this year are also heavyweight.
The first part is "Slam Dunk".
This comic is almost everyone knows, and represents the pinnacle of basketball comics and even sports comics.
"The Prince of Tennis" and "The Young Football Player" are so well-known, but in terms of influence and spiritual temperament, they are far inferior to "Slam Dunk".
Whether it is the first protagonist, Sakuragi Hanamichi, the second protagonist, Rukawa Kaede, the third protagonist, Akagi Takaki, or Mitsui Shou... etc., they are all like people who come out of the comics, vivid and charming.
Even opponents like Yuzhu and Xiandao were talked about for decades later, and were drawn out to compare with the Xiangnan fives again and again.
Yuhiko Inoue directly became a god with this comic and ate it for a lifetime.
But he also ended up being scolded for his life because of forcibly entering the national competition, and he was scolded for countless resentments.
To a certain extent, Yuhiko Inoue is even more hateful than the old thief Tokuyaki.
At least, Fu Jian Laozhe has the complete work "Youyou Baishu", and although "Full-time Hunter" is slow, he is always painting, and young people always consume his work.
But Yuhiko Inoue announced that "Slam Dunk" was completed in the 1990s and will never continue writing. This is a manifestation of the extreme crime.
The reason why Yin Jun did not take out "Slam Dunk" from the beginning of 1979 is that he did not figure out how to deal with the national competition back then.
In fact, after winning the county championship, "Slam Dunk" has already written everything that can be written to the extreme.
Going to the national competition again is actually a similar battle process and cannot have any new ideas.
Unless Yuhiko Inoue can add foreign elements to the national competition, he can only repeat the previous plots.
For Yuhiko Inoue, "Slam Dunk" has become the most important work in his heart, just like his own son.
If you repeat those plots to delay the length and make more money, it is destroying this classic.
So, Yuhiko Inoue simply wrote a supplementary game in the national competition, eliminating last year's champion Sanno team, and then exhausted all his strength and was eliminated in the next game.
Such a tragedy and incompleteness may be an interpretation of the sports spirit!
Yin Jun decided to release "Slam Dunk", because the screenwriters of "Qilin Weekly" finally completed the content of the national competition that Yin Jun wanted in more than a year.
It cannot be said to be completely complete.
Yin Jun was still in the main setting, letting Sakuragi Hanamichi and others fall into the semi-finals and fail to even make the finals.
But relatively speaking, the screenwriters wrote a total of 6 episodes of their plots in the national competition.
From the group stage to the semifinals, the opponents encountered in the six games have different characteristics, including foreign students joining, which adds highlights and does not repeat them in a single way.
In this way, in Yin Jun's opinion, it was a dog-tailed squid, barely filling in the gap in the middle.
As for why Sakuragi Hanamichi and the others won the final victory, I am afraid this is also a kind of tribute from Yin Jun to Inoue Yuhiko.
The second added work
Name is
"Yu-Gi"
To be honest, the comics of "Yu Gay" are not that outstanding. From the storyline, the above "Slam Dunk" can crush it with just one little finger.
But "Yu-Gi" is one of the most successful commercial development among all comics.
Since it has animated and started selling card games and game cards in 1998, it has dominated the sales champion of card games for more than 20 years, and it is also the hottest selling peripheral products.
Disney's proud "Racing Story" doesn't sell as well.
Even seven years after the end of the comic, in 2011, the authentic sales of "Yu-Gi-Oh" card still reached 25.1 billion!
There are also revenue from games, animations, etc. The authors Takahashi Kazuki made a lot of money, ranking first after two great gods, Eiichiro Oda and Akira Toriyama. The third richest man in the animation industry.
The card success of "Yu-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi
There are countless children and half-aged middle school students, and on average, they have several sets of sets of "Yu-Gi-Gi-Oh" cards, and they are excited to play games.
If young people in China don’t understand how popular "Yu-Gi-Oh" is, then they can be described as an example.
For example, in basketball, the status and popularity of "Yu-Gi-Oh" in the world is NBA, while the "Three Kingdoms Kill" that we Chinese like is Ba.
The gap is so big.
According to statistics on a game peripheral in 2020, the overall output value of "Yu Gay" has exceeded 15 billion US dollars in more than 20 years since its release.
$15 billion...
Well, Sohu Network's market value in the US stock market in 2018 was US$1.5 billion.
That is the output value of 10 Sohu.
But this number is definitely not the ultimate of "Yu-Gi-Gi-Oh".
As a developer of games and cards, Korome does not have much strength to promote "Yu-Gi-Oh".
If it were replaced by Disney, it would be easy to double the output value by two or three times.
It just so happened that Yin Jun had Disney in this life.
Not only that, he also owns the largest TV station in Asia, and is about to own ab, one of the three major TV networks in the United States.
With these two weapons, when "Yu Gaming" is changed into an animation, it will definitely be promoted to the maximum extent, so that children can like the various cards in "Yu Gaming" and enjoy it.
Calculate the time. If you start publishing a comic now and then make it into a cartoon after two or three years, and spend a year to spread and promote it, it will take you around 1988 to officially bear fruit.
Therefore, we can't delay it anymore. Now we start working on "Yu-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-Gi-
As for the third part, it is not inferior to the first two parts.
Its name is
"bleah".
Chinese comic fans call it "Death"!
right!
It is the super popular classic that is known as the three major migrant workers' comics!!
Although the comic "Death" ranks at the bottom among the three major migrant workers' comics, it is mainly due to its style limitations.
"Death" takes a cold, cruel and cruel route. It is not as passionate as "Naruto" and "One Piece", and it pays so much attention to the various beauty of the world, so the audience is not as good as the previous two.
Those who like "Death" are probably older readers, and even many middle-aged people will read with relish.
"Death" was originally a work in 2002, almost 20 years later.
If you take it out ten years later, you don’t have to worry about the original author drawing a draft.
The reason why Yin Jun took out one of the three major migrant workers' comics so early and chose "Death" is that "Qilin Weekly" needs to constantly use ace works to consolidate and expand its influence.
He simply disdains to use ordinary comics to join "Qilin Weekly".
Moreover, in the next few years, Kirin Group will focus on the development of the United States, Xiangjiang, and the mainland, with great financial pressure and many other pressures.
As the backbone of the Qilin Group, "Qilin Weekly" can only become stronger and stronger, so powerful that it makes all opponents desperate and make all conspirators sigh, so that they can best ensure that the expansion of the Qilin Group will not be affected.
Even if it fails temporarily, as long as you watch "Qilin Weekly" still dominate the world, sweep all opponents in the same field, and earn astronomical money for Qilin Group every day, everyone will feel at ease.
Therefore, not just "Death", Yin Jun will also add those same heavyweight comics in the next three to five years.
Only in this way, "Qilin Weekly" constantly exudes the light of a king can the Qilin Group have more confidence to face future challenges!
Chapter completed!