Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Chapter 220 Mr. Fuyukawa is really talented
To be honest, at first Fuyukawa Che didn't really want Izumi Himawari to enter the entertainment industry.

That’s not to say that it can’t be protected, but it’s mainly that caring will lead to chaos.

It's like a parent would be extremely nervous when they see their child fall down. Because he was too concerned, Fuyukawa Che took these things too seriously and ignored that Izumi Himawari was actually almost twenty years old, and Snow Mountain was gradually moving from A+ to B.

The youngest girl in the family wants to go out and have a try. In this case, Fuyukawa Che naturally supports her strongly.

Without too much beeping, after interacting in Sistar's toilet, the refreshed Fuyukawa Teru took Izumi Himawari, whose cheeks were a little sore, to Sistar's president's office, and Sistar members who saw the two of them along the way. , and everyone bowed respectfully to greet them.

The tone was all respectful, but there was also an unconcealable joy in the respect!
At present, the acquisition contract between Fuyukawa Che and Sistar has not been signed, but it has reached the final financial review stage and is almost a done deal. The members and trainees within Sistar are also well aware that the company is about to change its boss.

They were all very nervous at first. After all, generally speaking, after a company is acquired, there will be major layoffs, and if there is a new boss, who knows what will happen in the future. But they never expected that Che Fuyukawa would acquire Sistar!

Fuyukawa Che is now famous in the industry. Not only because of his strong ability, but also because although working under Fuyukawa Che is stressful, he is willing to spend money. The company's welfare benefits and dividend ratio are much higher than those of his peers.

Big surprise!

The boss is rich, powerful, young and handsome!
Some younger female trainees didn't even dare to look up and look directly at Fuyukawa Che, and could only greet him with a blushing face. But it was obvious that Fuyukawa Che didn't care about the thoughts of these strange little lolita.

Under the admiring eyes of several little girls, he turned the corner of the corridor and came to the president's office. Since I had been interacting with Himawari Izumi in the bathroom for a long time, Ms. Mori and the president of Sistar, as well as the president of Bamboo Club, were already there.

The president of the Vanilla Club did not come, but this was within Fuyukawa Che's expectation.

The president is not exactly the same as the company boss. A president without a large holding is actually just a worker. The president is just a job title and is responsible for managing the company's business and daily operations. The real bosses are the shareholders behind it.

To describe it simply, Zhang San and Li Si took out the money to open a store, but because they did not know how to manage, they hired Wang Wu to be the store manager. The store manager Wang Wu raised the level by N times and became the president.

Of course, because the position of the president is very critical, most presidents are generally shareholders of the company. The presidents of Bamboo Club and Vanilla Club are also major shareholders of the company, but now their shares have been Che Fuyukawa acquired it.

Under normal circumstances, they should have exited at this time, but Fuyukawa Teru directly acquired the animation company because he did not have much energy to spend in the animation field and needed a wave of skilled people, and he chose to stay with Bamboo Society president.

No reason.

Although Zhuzi Club is small in size, it has been operating steadily over the years. However, due to a lack of funds and connections, as they mainly focus on the field of comic modification, they have never been able to produce top-notch products. The Vanilla Club started earlier and had stronger talent, financial connections, and connections. However, because of their president’s wrong strategic judgment, the Vanilla Club was now in a position to be acquired.

On the one hand, we want to develop even bigger and actively seek investment.

On the one hand, he was forced to sell the company to pay off his debts. In this case, Fuyukawa Che must have paid more attention to the president of Bamboo Club.

"Mr. Fuyukawa, there are times when we are far away and there are times when we are far away!"

"Hello Mr. Fuyukawa, I am Sakai, Fujiko Sakai, nice to meet you."

Needless to say, as soon as we entered the door, the president of Sistar and the female president of Bamboo Club, Sakai Fujiko, greeted us with smiles on their faces.

They didn't just greet Fuyukawa Che, they were all old foxes. Although Fuyukawa Che had not introduced Izumi Himawari yet, they were willing to bring her up on this occasion, which also reflected the status of Izumi Himawari in his heart. .

As the saying goes, mothers are valued based on their children, and women are valued based on their husbands.

After Ms. Mori’s introduction, President Sistar and Fujiko Sakai came up to say hello very politely. And it is obvious that this little lolita Izumi Himawari is a bastard.

When facing Fuyukawa Che, she bared her teeth and claws, and even shouted "Xiao Kui will bite you off", but when facing such a formal occasion, she still seemed very reserved, and even looked at Fuyukawa Che with eyes asking for help.

Fuyukawa Che, who felt the pitiful look in Izumi Himawari's eyes, had a slight smile on his lips, but he didn't say much this time.

Although he said that he could protect her from making troubles in the entertainment industry, she would still have to experience these basic things like dealing with others. What's interesting is that seeing Fuyukawa Che not caring about him, the pitiful look in Izumi Himawari's eyes disappeared.

"Uncle! You don't care about Xiaokui!"

She glared at Fuyukawa Che angrily, then put on a fake smile on her face. She was a little unfamiliar at first, but she was not timid in saying polite words.

"This girl, you really can grow up if you push her hard."

It was quite an interesting scene. Fuyukawa Che secretly smiled and shook his head, and soon he was led by Ms. Maori to sit down on the sofa.

The Japanese also like to be polite. As soon as they sat down, Sakai Fujiko and others started talking about the car with a smile to warm up the place, but Fuyukawa Teru was too lazy to talk nonsense.

He took the cigarette respectfully handed over by Deputy Commander Tanaka who was the waiter next to him, lit it, crossed his legs and said, "Okay, I guess you two didn't come back just to drink tea and chat, so I won't make any detours. "

Let’s get down to business.

Ms. Mori and President Sistar both looked shocked, but there were not many unexpected emotions. After all, they had cooperated with Fuyukawa Cheru several times and knew his style. However, President Sakai of Bamboo Club was different. .

"No wonder he has achieved such an achievement at such a young age. He is really extraordinary."

Looking at the strong and capable Fuyukawa Teru, Sakai Fujiko, who is forty-three years old and still has some charm, flashed with admiration in her eyes.

But I can only appreciate it. After all, Fuyukawa Che's lustful reputation is well known in the industry. She, a forty-three-year-old lady, has no confidence to compete with a top beauty like Miyano Miwa for a man, even if she is two years younger. At ten years old, she didn't have that much confidence.

It has to be said that Bamboo Society deserves to be a riban. As soon as Fuyukawa Che said a word, Sakai Fujiko's thoughts ran away, but soon, as Fuyukawa Che's next words came out, she was instantly on the sofa. Sit up straight.

Fuyukawa Che crossed his legs and flicked the ashes on the ashtray, and said: "After that, all the employees of the Vanilla Club will be merged into the Bamboo Club. Well, there is no need to change the name. It will continue to be called the Bamboo Club. Then I need you to increase the number of employees as soon as possible. Expand to about 400 people, and they must be elites.”

Four hundred people? !

Sakai Fujiko was stunned!

Four hundred people doesn't sound very scary, but in fact, Japan's first-tier animation studio only has less than 300 people. Toei Animation, the largest, oldest and most top-notch company in Japan, only has more than 800 people, but Cheru Fuyukawa now actually asked her to expand the company to 400 people!
Be scared.

To be honest, when she first heard about the merger with the Vanilla Club, she thought Fuyukawa Che would come up with a wave of [cost reduction and efficiency improvement]. After all, the Vanilla Club and her Bamboo Club had nearly 300 employees. But now it’s even expanding!
Too surprised, Sakai Fujiko, a middle-aged lady who still has some charm, was speechless for a moment. Even Ms. Mori next to her looked at Fuyukawa Teru in shock.

Shocking, but normal.

After all, they didn't know that Fuyukawa Che's head was full of classic anime from his previous life, so he didn't need to worry about the company's poor performance or redundancy in the end. What he needed to consider most was how to monetize the things in his head.

Thinking of this, Fuyukawa Che took another puff of cigarette, narrowed his eyes and said, "By the way, from now on, the Bamboo Club will not use temporary workers. Either they will be hired directly, or they will not be hired at all."

"Ah?!"

Wave after wave!
The scale of the company with 400 people had already shocked Fujiko Sakai, but this sentence "No temporary workers" made her completely numb.

It's the same everywhere. There are temporary workers in Japan, and the animation industry is the hardest hit area.

According to last year's statistics, only 30% of the Japanese animation industry's regular employees are part-time workers, which means that seven out of ten people are casual workers who don't know where their next meal will be and are always ready to take the blame.

The core reason is that the output of the content industry is very unstable. No one can guarantee that their works will be popular. Once subsequent works hit the market, they will face huge financial pressure caused by redundant staff and layoffs.

Of course, Fuyukawa Che's use of formal workers was not entirely out of good intentions.

How much money you get, how much effort you put in, how much future you have and how much effort you put into it. Temporary workers seem to save the company's costs, but "all seemingly gifts from fate have secretly marked prices".

The side effects of this cost will be directly passed on to the quality of the works. This is one of the reasons why the number of high-quality Japanese animations has become less and less in recent years. What Fuyukawa Teru wants to do is a big IP, and the animation sector responsible for expanding influence must not Shoddy.

To be honest, this decision was an exaggeration, but now that the company has been sold to Fuyukawa Teru, Sakai Fujiko didn't say anything more. She just frowned slightly to express concern, but before she was worried for two seconds, her little heart started to pound again. There was a sharp contraction.

Fuyukawa Cheru said: "As for the members, you have to deal with it as soon as possible. After the rectification is completed, report to me as soon as possible, and then prepare to produce Fate's animation."

"Fate?!"

Sakai Fujiko's eyes widened again.

Although she had been mentally prepared before, after hearing this answer, she still couldn't sit still!
Bamboo Club has been established for more than ten years and has always been known for the exquisite quality of its works. It has a good reputation in the industry and among users.

But for so many years, Bamboo Society has never been able to go further, because her own financial resources are not enough to build her own novel website like KyoAni to prepare scripts, and she cannot obtain the adaptation rights of big IPs. But now, Cheru Fuyukawa has given them the right to adapt Fate!

Although the current Fate cannot be called a phenomenon-level IP, it can be considered a quasi-first-line IP in the two-dimensional field, and the characteristic of Galgame is that although the track is small, the user stickiness is extremely high!

excitement!
Fujiko Sakai became excited and quickly stood up and bowed ninety degrees, "Thank you very much, Chairman, for your trust. Sakai will never let you down!"

Needless to say, although Fujiko Sakai is already forty-three years old, her skin is well maintained, her charm is still there, and the scale of the snow mountain is not small. Now bowing at ninety degrees, Fuyukawa Che subconsciously glanced at the snow-white shirt.

It was really just a subconscious glance. After all, Fuyukawa Che did like sexy mature women, but mature women in their forties were obviously not on the menu. But in the end, Izumi Himawari pinched her thigh hard. "Uncle Sexy!"

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This is also jealous.

Fuyukawa Che rolled his eyes at this little loli in amusement, and then turned to look at Sakai Fujiko, "There's no need to say these words, everything from now on will depend on performance."

"Hai! Sakai understands."

Although he just bowed ninety degrees, Sakai Fujiko still captured Fuyukawa Che's eyes and his small interaction with Izumi Himawari.

Mr. Fuyukawa is indeed as lustful as the rumors say.

It's a pity, I wish I were twenty years younger.

Needless to say, Fuyukawa Che's charm is indeed great, especially for mature women.

But Fuyukawa Cheru didn't know what she was thinking. After talking about the anime adaptation of Fate, he turned to look at Ms. Mori and the president of Sistar, "During this period, you select some outstanding girl group members, and then go and kill Honda Kojiro." That guy came and I was going to make an idol game.”

"Ah?! Idol Games, is the chairman planning to make a sequel to "I'm Surrounded by Beauties"! Si Guo pinched~"

The president of Sistar is a short and stocky man who looks very happy. His facial expression management is also very similar to that of Japanese dramas, and his facial features are extremely expressive. Especially at this time, his face was full of joy, which gave Che Fuyukawa the feeling of "I am watching the executive director of Owada".

Not only him, but also the Maori lady next to him had a look of joy on his face. Although the company has now been sold to Fuyukawa Che, they still hold 10% of the shares. If they can make a work with sales comparable to "I Am Surrounded by Beautiful Women", they can make a lot of money!

Everyone looked expectantly, but Fuyukawa Che just shook his head and said seriously: "Instead of making a sequel to "I'm Surrounded by Beauties", I'm going to create a game tailor-made for the girl group. And this time it's a big investment, production The cost may be in the tens of millions of dollars, so you must be fully prepared.”

new game.

Ten million US dollars is the unit of calculation.

As soon as these two keywords came out, the entire president's room fell silent instantly.

The president of Sistar leaned forward with a look of disbelief on his face, "Sorry, Chairman, I didn't hear you clearly just now. You mean...a tens-million-dollar idol game?!"

"Yes."

After receiving his confirmation, the entire president's office exploded instantly!
Vice-President Tanaka, who was waiting next to her, succumbed to her legs and knocked over the vase on the cabinet. However, at this time, Sistar's president and Ms. Mori ignored her and looked at Fuyukawa Cheru with some trembling.

Cost of tens of millions of dollars.

This is already an exaggeration. After all, the music industry is not big. Last year, the global music industry’s overall profit was only more than 10 billion US dollars, while the gaming industry is reaching more than 100 billion US dollars.

For AAA games, the production cost of tens of millions of dollars is not a lot of money, but for Sistar, an entertainment company that focuses on music, it is an astronomical figure.

The most important thing is that this is just a counting unit!
Looking at President Sistar who was trembling and drinking coffee, Fuyukawa Che didn't say anything. He just smoked a cigarette and gave them time to digest.

This is not to brag, he does have plans for this.

Idol games are very niche for Chinese players and cannot open up much market in Europe and the United States. However, in Japan, the idol culture is very strong.

According to last year's statistics, the market size of Japan's idol industry has exceeded 75000 billion yuan. What is this concept? Last year, the size of China's game market was only billion yuan. Moreover, among all the otaku culture consumer groups in Japan, idol otaku firmly occupies the top position in the second dimension list with a per capita expenditure of yen.

The prospects of this market are very big, even bigger than the music industry itself. This is why Sistar would rather take such a big risk and follow NTsoft to make a mobile game for light-music girls.

The reason why the market is so big is because Japan’s idol culture is not the kind of simple star-chasing and concert viewing that is understood in China, but more like a development culture similar to [Pokémon], and fans can almost participate in it. Every aspect of an idol’s growth includes, of course, membership, rewards, and the like.

To use a less appropriate description, Japanese idol groups are actually more like domestic Internet celebrity live broadcast groups.

Of course, there are some differences. For example, the big brother on the list is more likely to go directly to the next three roads, while many simple idol nerds really want to support the career of the person they like.

But idols are also human beings, and they cannot be around 24 hours a day. Therefore, many companies in Japan are now beginning to develop into virtual idols. The world's number one princess, Hatsune Miku, is the most typical example. , before he Fuyukawa Che traveled through time, this IP could still generate more than 10 billion yen in revenue for her parent company every year.

In Japan, there is another idol IP that can make more money - Idol Master.

Idol Master is an arcade platform development game released by Bandai Namco in 05. The content is actually not complicated at all, just raise idols as Pokémon, develop their various skills, and finally go out to perform.

It's just that compared to Pokémon, girls are definitely better at developing plots, such as dreams and so on.

But just like Cheru Fuyukawa regards Fate as [Yuyin], the game Idol Master is actually [Yuyin]. After Idol Master became popular, her parent company immediately began to link the game with real-life girl groups and even voice actors, holding various concerts and offline activities.

Very exaggerated.

Idol Master's offline live concert, a football stadium that can accommodate 60,000 to 70,000 people on two floors, was filled to capacity, and the fluorescent lights formed a sea. It was still hard to get a ticket.

Various online and offline linkages, game DLC, animation, and peripheral doll figures, etc., the Idol Master IP can bring 60 billion yen in revenue to Bandai Namco every year. And this is despite the fact that the game Idol Master does not have much gameplay.

Although this type of game is actually similar to Pokémon, it doesn’t need too gorgeous graphics or too complicated game mechanics. It just needs to make players immersed in it. But Fuyukawa Che felt that an IP that could bring in 60 billion yen in revenue every year still deserves to be made more refined, and he wanted to connect the game characters with offline female trainees from the beginning.

Let’s go hand in hand!

The cost involved is not a small number.

Fuyukawa Che was thinking carefully, and soon, Sistar's president and Ms. Mori also came to their senses.

Ms. Maori was still a little excited. She took a sip from her tea cup and said, "We understand what the chairman means. We will report the list of trainees and their personality measurements to Minister Miyano as soon as possible, and then you will have a look at it in person. Yes. By the way, is Xiaokui-chan taking the C position this time?”

In her opinion, after Fuyukawa Che has done so much, the C position will definitely go to Izumi Himawari. She just asked this question to give Fuyukawa Che a way to "buy people's hearts".

But in her puzzled eyes, Fuyukawa Che just smiled and rubbed Izumi Himawari's little head, and said with a smile: "She will be incorporated into the background story of this game, but there will be no controllable character for her. C For the candidate, you can nominate others.”

"That's it"

For unknown reasons, Ms. Maori just nodded in agreement without saying anything more. After all, those who get involved in the relationship between men and women often die miserably.

At this moment, under the watchful eyes of several people, Fuyukawa Che took the briefcase and pulled out a dozen pieces of sheet music, "You should hurry up on selecting the members of the girl group, but Xiaokui is also preparing to make a comeback. This time It’s her new comeback album, let’s check it out.”

Are you writing songs again?

Ms. Maori quickly reached out and took the sheet music, and then, the names of more than a dozen songs suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

"MY ALL", "Cycle of Love", "Turn the Wheel of Fortune", "Little Bits of Dreams", "Stay with Me", "Snow Blossoms", "Wrecked Ship". "Future" (Towards the future) , "Ride on the Back of the Silver Dragon".

"this!"

As soon as she looked at the music score, Ms. Maori's old eyes suddenly widened!

As an old man who has been in the music industry for more than 40 years, she can no longer sing, but her level of singing is quite high!

Even just looking at the music scores, she could feel the exaggerated quality of the scores in her hands, especially the last "Mirai" and "Ride on the Back of the Silver Dragon".

Even just reading the music score, she was immediately brought into the world of music and couldn't help but follow the notes!

It's not her fault.

"Mirai", many people may not have heard of this song, but probably no one in the country has heard of her cover - "Later".

"Ride on the Back of the Silver Dragon", the cover version of this song was also popular all over the world - "The First Dream".

Both songs are classics that can resonate strongly with listeners no matter what era they are placed in. Compared with the Chinese covers, the original versions are even better in terms of concept!

What's more, this album can be said to be a classic. It includes many masterpieces by top singers from many eras, including Ayumi Hamasaki, Izumi Sakai, Takako Matsu, Daima Aoyama, Akina Nakamori, etc.!

To put it bluntly, Hamasaki Ayumi's "MY ALL" alone is enough to blow a big hole in the current Japanese music scene, and there are twelve songs on the same level or even better than this song in this album. head!
Feeling numb, she flipped through the music scores one by one. After a long time, Ms. Maori sighed and shook her head. She raised her head and looked at Fuyukawa Cheru with eyes that looked like a god or a monster.

"Mr. Fuyukawa. He is indeed a great talent."

(End of this chapter)