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"Although China's comic industry is not as good as that of the island countries, it has developed very fast in recent years."

"Although our company started relatively late, it now occupies a large market share. Our IP "Under One Man" has already generated nearly [-] million in revenue. You must have heard of this comic, right?"

"Well, "Under One Man" is doing very well. There are also many readers in the island country. The content of the story is very interesting."

Tao Yiming laughed and said, "This story was also provided by our boss, and the design of the main characters is also our boss' idea."

"real?!"

"En." Tao Yiming nodded.

The three of them looked at each other and became more and more curious about Shaoyang.

"Now our company has more than 200 employees. In addition to comics, we are also doing animation. The project we are currently working on is an animation film, which is almost finished. By the way... Shaoyang called you to come , Which project are you in charge of?"

Tao Yiming asked proactively.

Eiichiro Oda immediately told Tao Yiming the story of his first meeting with Shaoyang.

After Tao Yiming listened, he also asked with interest: "Can you show us your work?"

Tao Yiming was also very curious about what kind of works would allow Shaoyang to bring his colleagues from the three island countries back to China.

"of course."

Eiichiro Oda took out his laptop from his backpack, turned it on, found the saved file, clicked on it, and gave the place to Tao Yiming.

Tao Yiming leaned forward, swipe the touchpad, and looked up.

There are quite a lot of manuscripts drawn, at least twenty times, and the previous ones have been colored.

The painting skills are very good, and it can be seen that there is a deep foundation.

But the popularity of a manga does not depend on how well it draws. There are too many people who can draw these days. If you just pull a college student from the Academy of Fine Arts, he can draw very well. The key is to read manga. story content.

Eiichiro Oda named his work One Piece. There was no bright story in front of it, and it was mainly foreshadowing. This may be the reason why this work was rejected in the island country.

Nowadays, the pace of life is getting faster and faster. Whether it is novels, movies, or TV series, everyone is willing to watch faster paced ones.

At least from the current content, this work did not attract Tao Yiming, but Tao Yiming was willing to believe in Shaoyang's vision, and he was about to say a few words of praise.

Shaoyang is here.

"How about it?"

Shao Yang stepped forward and asked, "Is the company environment okay?"

Tao Yiming helped translate.

Eiichiro Oda quickly nodded and said, "Very good."

"Brother Tao, I will hand over the three of them to you, and I will find more people to help them. I want their works to be launched on our own comic website as quickly as possible."

"No problem, I'll arrange it."

Shao Yang nodded, took out his mobile phone and called Xiaomeng from the administration department. Although she is the manager of the administration department of Yiyang Brokerage, she is now in charge of many things in this building.

Within a few minutes, Xiao Meng rushed downstairs.

Shaoyang asked directly: "Xiaomeng, I remember that there is a special staff dormitory in our building, right?"

"Ah."

"Are there any vacant dormitories?"

"some."

Shao Yang pointed to Eiichiro Oda, Shota Kimura, and Yuo Hasegawa and said, "Then you arrange a place for them to live."

"it is good."

Shaoyang said to the three of them again: "From now on, this is where you will work. You will also live in this building. There are shopping malls and supermarkets nearby. Our company also has its own cafeteria. If you need anything, you can contact Tao directly. The eldest brother said, of course, you can also find me directly, but it is more convenient to find him, after all, I don’t speak Japanese.”

Tao Yiming translated, and the three of them bowed and thanked after listening.

Watching Xiaomeng take them away, Tao Yiming quickly asked: "Shaoyang, how much should we pay them?"

"How much is the salary of a cartoonist in the island country?"

"There is no comparison. The annual salary of ordinary people may be around one million yen, but the annual salary of famous people can reach hundreds of millions of yen or even higher. However, the competition in the comics industry in the island country is very fierce. It's the middle and lower classes."

"How about giving them an annual salary of 20?"

Tao Yiming nodded and said, "20 is about 390 million yen, and the company also includes food and lodging. This salary is considered very high in an island country."

"so be it."

……

With the support of Fuyao Culture, "One Piece" was launched on the website in just one week.

In the first week, it was directly updated ten times.

It will be updated twice in the next week, on Saturday and Sunday.

It happened that Nezha's project was coming to an end, so Tao Yiming sent all the extra people to help the three of them, mainly doing some work on coloring the line draft.

Eiichiro Oda, Shota Kimura, and Yuu Hasegawa seemed to have found the value of their own existence. They came to the company every day before going to work, and they were basically the last to leave at night.

In the first month, there were not many people who paid attention to "One Piece", but with the update of the content, there have been more and more people who are collecting or urging updates, and the growth rate is amazing.

Many people, including Tao Yiming, never imagined that comics of this kind would be so popular in China.

But after "One Piece" became popular, Penguin couldn't sit still.

Fuyao Culture began to have "Under One Man", and now the popularity of "Under One Man" is about to drop, and you have "One Piece" again, how can this work?

As a result, the wealthy Penguin Company immediately increased its investment in the comics industry.

In late May, Penguin Comics issued a statement, stating that it has signed licensing contracts with many comic companies in the island country, and that many popular comics in the island country will be launched in China soon.

This news made domestic comic fans cheer up.

"Finally, I don't have to wait for the subtitle team to translate."

"It's great, you can read cartoons from island countries in China."

"I hope the update will be faster."

""Ghost Blade", "Hunting Soul", and "Mischievous Girlfriend" are all island comics I am following, please launch them as soon as possible."

"..."

As soon as Tao Yiming saw the news, he sent it to Shaoyang, but Shaoyang didn't panic at all, and replied flatly: "Don't worry, we have "One Piece" and that's enough."

A week later.

Many island manga works have been launched in Penguin Comics.

On that day, the downloads and traffic of Penguin comics hit a new high, but the strange thing is that Fuyao culture does not seem to be greatly affected. Instead, "One Piece" was updated until Luffy defeated Crick, Sanji (Sanji) After joining the group, Cui Geng broke the previous record again.

After Eiichiro Oda learned that many island manga were launched in China, he ran directly to Tao Yiming's office and said firmly, "I want to add more."

"Gageng?" Tao Yiming looked puzzled, after all, manga is already updated twice a week.

Eiichiro Oda quickly stated his reasons for adding updates.

Shueisha, which cooperates with Penguin Comics, is the comic company that rejected the manuscript of "One Piece".

The reason why Eiichiro Oda took the initiative to ask for a change is to let Shueisha know: 30 years in Hato, 30 years in Hexi, don't bully the young and poor!

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