Sapporo. Japan's fifth largest city, located in the west of Hokkaido Island, is a city famous for its snow. The headquarters of the company that created the super-popular virtual singer idol "Hatsune Miku" that is popular around the world is in Sapporo Crip.
Dayton Future Media.
Speaking of the most successful virtual idol in the world, it is none other than "Hatsune Miku". Many people should be familiar with the image of this cute 16-year-old two-dimensional girl with blue-green twin tails. "Hatsune Miku" is not even in the limelight at all.
Second to the international first-line real singer.
Since its birth, Hatsune Miku has held more than 50 holographic concerts around the world, and of course, pseudo-holographic concerts.
Countless two-dimensional otaku fans are crazy about this virtual singer. Initially, Hatsune Miku was just a vocal processing software. It has become a hot "superstar" today, which can be described as a miracle in the animation industry.
Why Hatsune Miku is so popular? There are a lot of answers.
In fact, there were too many virtual idol plans before this, but now they have disappeared or been buried. Only the current Hatsune Miku is like a fierce hurricane, sweeping the world, and even affecting
It affects the real economy. For example, when the character structure collapses and fresh meat is rampant, virtual idols begin to compete for brand endorsement business.
Although Hatsune Miku originated in Japan, it has been favored by a large number of two-dimensional otaku fans around the world. It is also very popular in China. However, it is worth mentioning that in addition to Hatsune Miku, domestic virtual idols also
There is the rising star Luo Tianyi. If we trace the roots, Luo Tianyi was also born under the system of Cripton Future Media.
Luo Tianyi and Hatsune Miku may be the two most popular virtual idols in China at present, and they are also the only two virtual singers who have achieved profitability. For Ye Hua, they have to win both of them to win this one.
The resources in the field are integrated to serve the future strategic layout of Coastline Company.
In fact, as early as 2007, Cripton Future Media relied on Hatsune Miku to achieve a profit of 60 million yen, which was equivalent to about 3.7 million yuan based on the exchange rate at the time.
By 2012, the amount of consumption related to Hatsune Miku had already exceeded 500 million Soft Girl Coins. To this day, this girl with a pair of long blue-green ponytails and who is always only 16 years old has a net worth of 1.6 billion.
commercial value.
Hatsune Miku has also helped its parent company, Cripton Future Media, become a listed company with a market value of over US$700 million, and its prospects are quite good.
Even if Ye Hua simply acquires Cripton Future Media, it will still be a loss-free investment.
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Cripton Future Media Headquarters.
"President, we're coming. We'll be there in about five minutes." The assistant arrived at Hiroyuki Ito's office. At this moment, Hiroyuki Ito was pacing back and forth in the office. He was called the "Father of Hatsune Miku" and it was he
He created the image of a girl who is always only 16 years old, and he also created a miracle in the animation industry.
But at this moment, Hiroyuki Ito is obviously not calm, because as early as a week ago, Coastline Company contacted Cripton Future Media and formally launched a merger invitation to acquire 51% of its equity assets for US$393 million.
In fact, Coastline Technology has already taken action, and has now become the majority shareholder of Cripton Future Media. Ye Hua has already started to acquire the team and bought heavily in the stock market, and now owns 15% of Cripton.
shares, and is still continuing, thus pushing up Cripton's market value to break through the US$900 million mark, and then fell back to a market value of US$860 million.
The fluctuations in market value also made Clipton executives such as Hiroyuki Ito notice anomalies and confirmed that someone was shopping in the secondary market. This showed that the company had been targeted. Then Coastline Company officially contacted Ito through internal contacts last week.
Bozhi initiated a merger and acquisition invitation.
This made Hiroyuki Ito understand that the opponent was bound to win.
Coastline Company has only been established for more than a year, while Cripton has a history of more than 20 years. However, in the game of capital and shopping malls, it is always based on strength rather than qualifications. For more than 20 years, Cripton Future Media
The market capitalization is less than US$1 billion, and Coastline is an emerging super unicorn company that is now sought after by Wall Street, although Wall Street has not been able to gain much benefit from Coastline.
More importantly, Coastline Company now has cash flow reserves that Cripton can't resist. If the other party really wants to launch a hostile merger, Ito Hiroyuki knows he can't handle it.
The assistant came over to report. Hiroyuki Ito quickly left the office and went out of the headquarters gate with a sad face to greet him. No matter what, no matter what the other party's intentions were, he had to meet before talking.
Ye Hua chose to come at this time because he had some considerations. The whole world is paying attention to the Tokyo Olympics at the moment. Without the interference of outside vision, the acquisition of Cripton is always relatively smooth.
A few minutes later, a motorcade slowly arrived. Upon seeing this, Hiroyuki Ito, who was waiting to greet them, was also restrained. The queue was quite large.
A group of bodyguards in black got out of the car first. In a luxury business car in the convoy, the driver got out of the car and went to the back seat to open the door. Ye Hua and his assistant Qiao Wei got out of the car one after another, while the other two
A group of people also got out of the car, including Ye Huelai's acquisition team, including Coastline's chief lawyer, Cheng Yangze, and others.
At home, Ye Hua would definitely not have such a high-profile lineup, but it is different when he goes abroad. It is other people's territory.
Not only is the security lineup impressive, but the consulate has also greeted them. Ye Hua is now considered a celebrity in the science and technology industry, and is considered the number one figure. More importantly, the military has come to visit them all along the coastline. This is different.
Already.
For such a person, I don't want him to cause any trouble on his own territory or cause a diplomatic incident.
Hiroyuki Ito saw Ye Hua walking slowly towards him. Even though he had already known that he was young through photos, he was still surprised by his youth when he saw the real owner. It was hard to imagine that he would have to deal with a junior next.
However, Ito Hiroyuki didn't dare to rely on his old skills to show off his old skills. In fact, he was more in awe of the strong than Yu Qiang. Based on the strength of Coastline, he competed against Cripton, and Coastline won completely.
At this time, Ye Hua locked eyes with Hiroyuki Ito, who was standing in front of the reception crowd. Faced with such business negotiations, he was now quite familiar with it.
Ye Hua, who was calm and determined, came to Ito Hiroyuki and immediately smiled and stretched out his hand to shake his hand, "Mr. Ito, you may not believe it, but in fact I am your loyal fan, and Miku is also my idol."
As he spoke, the translator beside Hiroyuki Ito immediately translated Ye Hua's words for him. Upon hearing this, Ito chuckled inwardly and replied in his heart: What's the point of saying it if you know I don't believe it?
But she replied with a surprised smile: "Really? It's surprising. Then you may be Hatsune's biggest fan. I feel extremely honored for her."
They are all drama queens.
Ye Hua couldn't help laughing after hearing the words of the translator beside him, and said jokingly: "Mr. Ito, you must know the purpose of my visit. As a loyal fan of Hatsune Miku, I not only hope to be a fan, but also hope to be the world's number one
Your Highness, Princess, please marry her home. There is a saying in our country that a girl should marry when she is young. Hatsune is already 20. Mr. Ito also hopes that she will find a good home, right?"
After listening to the translation, Ito Hiroyuki was a little at a loss for words, so he naturally heard the underlying meaning behind this intriguing remark.
The soul of Cripton's future media is Hatsune Miku, which is the world's number one virtual idol that he spent more than ten years of hard work to create. Without Hatsune Miku, Cripton's market value would not be compared to the current software of more than 5 billion.
I'm afraid I won't be able to support even 500 million yuan.
I heard Ye Hua say that he wanted to marry Hatsune Miku home. In fact, he was just using this tone to convey his intention to acquire Cripton Future Media, and... he made no secret of it.
After the first contact, several verbal exchanges made Ito Hiroyuki realize that this young Chinese man must not be treated as an ordinary young man. He was not a fuel-efficient lamp at first glance. After finishing his thinking, Ito Hiroyuki bowed slightly and stretched out his hand to signal.
: "We'd better go in first and discuss the negotiation in detail, Mr. Ye, please"
