The richest man

Chapter 44 Gambling
When they arrived at the Peninsula Hotel, Watanabe Nomura led Zhang Jun and others to a private room, and then introduced Zhang Jun to Shogakukan Ito Takehiro and Shueisha Yokota Ichiro.

The two sides exchanged pleasantries.

Kenhiro Ito and Ichiro Yokota began to introduce the strength of their own publishing houses.

Shogakukan and Shueisha are the two largest manga magazine publishers in RB.

The manga periodicals under Shogakukan are mainly "Shounen SUNDAY" and "Girls Comic".

The comic periodical of Shueisha is mainly "Weekly Shonen Jump", which is also the serial comic magazine with the highest circulation of RB. "RIBON" is RB Shueisha's monthly magazine for girls with the largest circulation.

Listening to their introduction, Zhang Jun suddenly found that his magazine didn't have shoujo manga. After going back secretly, he had to instruct Li Yu to prepare a shoujo manga magazine.

"Zhang Junjun, our Xiaoguan is very willing to cooperate with you, and wants to publish "Slam Dunk" and "One Piece" to RB." After introducing his publishing house, Ito Kenhiro said solemnly.

Yokota Ichiro said in a deep voice: "Shueisha can serialize "Dragon Ball" and "Zhu Xian" on "Weekly Shonen Jump"!"

The two apparently had already discussed the distribution of comics in private.One family allocated two comics to avoid competition.

"I have no objection in principle, but what conditions do you offer?" Zhang Jun nodded and asked.

Takehiro Ito and Ichiro Yokota looked at each other, and then Takehiro Ito said, "One page of a comic is serialized for 5 yen per week, and 20 pages are serialized every week."

Hearing this, Zhang Jun made a quick calculation in his heart.

There is 100 million yen a week, which is almost 2.5 Hong Kong dollars.The total weekly income of the four comics is 10 Hong Kong dollars.

Zhang Jun frowned slightly.

Takehiro Ito said again, "Then release a single book, and each book enjoys a 10% royalty. The animation adaptation and peripherals are divided into 50%."

After Zhang Jun heard this, he immediately shook his head, very dissatisfied with these conditions.

"The price of 5 yen for a serialized page is too low, it must be increased to 20 yen. The royalties for the booklet are increased to 15%. As for the animation adaptation and peripheral income..."

Zhang Jun paused, and after careful consideration, he felt that if he lived on his own in the surrounding income, the other party would definitely not want to cooperate.To make these four comics quickly popular in RB, the promotion of Shogakukan and Shueisha is indispensable.

But Zhang Jun was a little bit reluctant to give up such a large profit.

Tangled ah.

"I only need 50% of the profit from the animation adaptation, but I want to take 75% of the peripheral income."

The main income of comics lies in single books and peripheral income.

比如《海贼王》的作者尾田荣一郎，他的年收入达到31亿日元（约合1.9亿人民币），其中单行本版税收入为13.6亿日元（约合8325万元人民币），周边：15亿日元（约合9182万人民币）。

At present, the main income of RB cartoonists is still from publishing booklets, and the peripheral development is not as developed as in later generations, and the income is relatively low.

Cartoons are actually very profitable, but cartoonists often sell copyrights at a low price, and then rely on cartoons to promote their own comics, and then profit from it.

However, Zhang Jun himself is a big boss, so he naturally has to participate in animation production in order to earn the maximum profit.

When Ito Jianhiro and Yokota Ichiro heard what Zhang Jun said, they couldn't help but looked at each other.

Unexpectedly, the conditions proposed by Zhang Jun were so harsh that they almost wanted to leave the meeting.

"Zhang Junjun, isn't your condition too outrageous? I'm sorry for the small school's difficulty in agreeing to it!" Ito Jianhiro said slightly angrily.

Yokota Ichiro didn't speak, but his face turned cold.

Zhang Jun laughed softly: "Everyone, these conditions I put forward are not unrealistic. Once the "Hong Kong Youth Comic Weekly" was released, it became popular all over Hong Kong. This is enough to show that the four comics serialized on it are very good!"

"But the comics that Hong Kong people like to read may not be liked by RB people." Yokota Ichiro immediately retorted, "It's not that your Hong Kong comics were not released to RB before, but it turned out that no one cares about them!"

Zhang Jun heard this, smiled, and said: "The comics you mentioned are not liked by RB people, mainly because of the style of the comics. But the comics serialized on "Hong Kong Youth Comics Weekly" have a style very similar to your RBs. , I don't believe you can't see it."

Kenhiro Ito and Ichiro Yokota have been engaged in the comics industry for many years, and their appreciation of comics is very good. It is natural to see how excellent the four comics "Dragon Ball" are.Otherwise, they would not be eager to win the RB copyright of these four comics.

They thought that they had already offered a high price, and the other party would definitely agree to it ecstatically.

But unexpectedly, the other party's appetite was a bit surprising.

Kenhiro Ito shook his head and said, "It doesn't mean that comics with similar styles can sell well. RB also has many comics that are not popular. Who can guarantee that your comics will be popular?"

Zhang Jun was silent for a while, then smiled and said, "If you are worried that my comics will not be popular, we can bet against each other!"

VAM agreements are relatively rare in this era, and Takehiro Ito and Ichiro Yokota were both surprised and puzzled.

Zhang Jun introduced: "We can agree on a range. If my comics can't meet this requirement, I will follow the conditions you just said. But if it exceeds, then I will follow my requirements. What do you think?"

"Zhang Junjun, are you so confident?" Yokota Ichiro couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"Of course!"

"Okay, Shueisha is willing to bet against you. As for this range, we still need to discuss carefully, and we must achieve very hot sales."

"It's natural."

Seeing that Yokota Ichiro had already agreed, Ito Kenhiro nodded and said, "My Elementary School is also betting against you!"

"it is good!"

After the two parties reached a preliminary intention, the next step was to relax, pushing cups and changing cups, toasting and interlacing, and exchanging feelings.

three days later.

After much negotiation.

Zhang Jun formally signed a gambling agreement with Xiao Xiao Guan and Ji Ying She Da.

Shogakukan and Shueisha will successively arrange these four comics to be published in their own comic periodicals according to the actual situation.

In addition, Zhang Jun also signed a contract with Dongbao Co., Ltd. to take the lead in producing "Dragon Ball" cartoons.

Although Zhang Jun's animation company has not yet been established, he already has a plan to acquire an animation company - Risheng Club.

In the previous life, Risheng Club was a well-known and veteran player in the RB animation industry.

But now, they have only been established for a year, and they are very short of funds.

Zhang Jun is still relatively sure of acquiring this company.

After Zhang Jun had arranged everything, he was ready to go on a business trip to RB.

Going to RB this time is not only for the acquisition of Sunrise Club, he is also planning to recruit talents for Legendary Game Company.At the same time, it is also preparing to set up a group branch in RB to coordinate and manage all branches of RB.

(End of this chapter)