Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 54 Animation Industry
To say that in RB, comics are definitely one of the country's economic pillar industries, which is a bigger market than the game industry.

Speaking of comics, most countries have them, but only Japanese comics have become the country's economic pillar industry, which is unmatched by comics in other countries.

As a native of China, Lin Baicheng is deeply influenced by Japanese comics. He has read countless Japanese comics and loves them very much.

Of course, Lin Baicheng usually reads anime adapted from manga, and he reads less manga itself, but this does not affect his liking for manga and his familiarity with manga.

As for the specific plot of the comics, Lin Baicheng definitely can't remember clearly, but he still remembers the general plot of the comics he has read clearly.And this is enough to restore the comics.

Lin Baicheng asked the investigation company to investigate the current situation of the RB comics industry. He was going to buy a comic publishing house, and then he would come up with one or two comics that he was familiar with, and give a rough plot for the people below to fill in.

Of course, the most important style of painting must be consistent with the original version, otherwise no one can guarantee whether the painting will be completely different and will be accepted by the market.

In just one day, the investigation company handed over general information about the comics industry to Lin Baicheng.

Unlike other industries, during the economic crisis in the past few years, the comics industry not only was not damaged, but accelerated its development. At present, RB's comics industry is quite prosperous, which is a booming industry.

Shueisha, Shogakukan, Hakusensha, Kodansha, Kadokawa Shoten, Shinchosha, etc. These are RB's largest and most famous comic publishing houses today, and several publishing houses even belong to the same publishing group.

Two years ago, the annual sales of comic magazines in the entire comic market had reached hundreds of millions of copies, which was a market worth more than [-] billion yen.This is only the market of the comic magazine itself, and its derived animation, animated movies, toys, etc. These markets should not be underestimated, especially the toy industry.

Due to the high prosperity of the industry, RB has hundreds of comic publishing houses, but most of them are small local publishing houses. These publishing houses usually do not have their own serialized works, and rely on their own channels to publish other people's works to make money .

Since Lin Baicheng wants to enter this industry and now has some capital, he certainly won't buy such a small publishing house, but he can't afford to buy a big publishing house now, and those who buy it may not be willing to sell it.

Lin Baicheng's goal is small and medium-sized publishing houses. It is not required to have its own channels in the entire RB, as long as they have channels in big cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, and Nagoya.In other places, it is entirely possible to set up your own channels and distribute and sell through small publishing houses at the same time.

There are still quite a few small and medium-sized publishing houses. If they run well, they may make a lot of money, but if they run mediocre, they may not make much money, and even if they don’t manage well, they may be at a loss.

More importantly, whether the owner of the publishing house is willing to sell, if the other party does not want to sell the publishing house in his hand, then no matter what the business situation is, it is not Lin Baicheng's goal.

Therefore, Lin Baicheng had to entrust another investigation company to find him a suitable partner.This is not something that can be done in a day or two, but as long as you are willing to spend money, you can just hand it over to the investigation company, and I believe there will be a reply in a short time.

Yokoi Kinhei did not keep Lin Baicheng waiting too long, and gave Lin Baicheng a reply two days later, accepting his invitation to join Galaxy Games Company.

However, Junhei Yokoi is different from Sou Miyamoto. He has a contract with Nintendo and needs to pay compensation for resignation. Fortunately, he can only barely be regarded as a high-level executive at Nintendo. It is not a few years after he developed the red and white machine. , so the compensation is not very high, only 5000 million yen.

This amount of money is only 100 million in Hong Kong dollars. Lin Baicheng can afford it, and he must pay it.

Although he could leave Nintendo after paying the compensation, Yokoi Junhei didn't want to delay Nintendo's research and development work because of his own reasons, so he said that he would not leave until the handover was completed, and then he would join Galaxy Games.

Lin Baicheng did not force Yokoi Junhei, and promised to wait for him to complete the handover of work before joining Galaxy Games.

Although Yokoi Kinhei did not join the company immediately, but for Lin Baicheng, this is all right now.As long as the other party is willing to join the company, there is not much difference between a few days earlier and a few days later. After all, red and white machines cannot be developed in a short period of time.

Lin Baicheng knows what the Famicom is like, and he now has funds for research and development, but now he has nothing but the design and funds for the Famicom. It is so easy to develop the equipment in a short time.

Atari's equipment cost Atari about [-] million U.S. dollars, and it took more than a year to develop it.

Even if the successor has Atari VCS as a reference, at most it will save some time and avoid some detours, but this does not mean that everyone can make the same product in a short period of time.

And the Famicom machine that Lin Baicheng is going to make is a better product than Atari VCS, and the money and time required for it will definitely not be less.

Of course, the red and white machine is just Lin Baicheng's habitual name. After the product is developed, he will definitely not call it this name, but will name it another suitable name.

The main purpose of coming to RB was achieved. Lin Baicheng asked Miyamoto Soo to take him to famous scenic spots while waiting for the report of the investigation company.Within the range he listed, the research company will screen out publishing houses that are willing to sell within this range, and Lin Baicheng only needs to screen again after getting the report.

Before the vacation of Miyamoto Soo and others ended, the investigation company finally gave Lin Baicheng a reply and handed over a report to Lin Baicheng.In this report, there are more than a dozen publishing houses, some of which make a lot of money every year, and some of which lose money every year, but what these publishing houses have in common is that their market capitalization is within a certain range.

The market capitalization of these publishing houses ranges from a minimum of more than 30 million yen to a maximum of no more than 1000 billion yen.If it is converted into Hong Kong dollars, the minimum is about 6000 million Hong Kong dollars, and the maximum is no more than [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

It's not that Lin Baicheng doesn't have more money, but since he can't buy the largest publishing houses, he can buy small and medium-sized publishing houses with a market value at this price, and there is no need for it to be higher.

However, when Lin Baicheng was screening the publishing houses and thinking about which publishing house would be better to buy, a call from Xiangjiang forced him to temporarily change his decision and rush back to Xiangjiang.

For the acquisition of the comic publishing house, we can only wait for Lin Baicheng to deal with Xiangjiang's affairs before freeing up his hands.

　(Investment, collection, recommended tickets, monthly tickets!)
　　
　
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