Xueba Fengyun

Although Aunt Zhang's coquettish and changeable style made Liu Miao a little overwhelmed, but Aunt Zhang's execution ability was also very terrifying.After traveling in Japan for half a month, I directly chartered a plane and brought dozens of people back to China from Japan.Those who didn't know thought that the human-snake group brought the Japanese poor to China by smuggling.After all, anime editors and anime authors are standard otaku, even if they are women, they look like a thousand-year-old female ghost who hasn't come out to bask in the sun for hundreds of years.Liu Miao had received the list from Zhang's sister-in-law one day earlier, but the list shocked Liu Miao into a cold sweat.

Because everyone had investigated the animation industry in Japan before Zhang Meiqing went to Japan, and made a list of editors and a list of authors, so that Zhang's sister-in-law could be targeted.As a result, according to Zhang's current achievements, she almost alone hollowed out the backbone editors of major Japanese animation magazines, and at the same time poached more than two-thirds of Japan's top manga authors.Without him, as soon as Zhang Meiqing threw out the comics drawn by Liu Miao, this group of comic pioneers who didn't know what sub-camera was already crying and shouting to worship Liu Miao as their teacher.After Zhang Meiqing explained the definition and difference between juvenile manga and girl manga, as well as how to use dot paper and other skills that seem to be common in later generations, this group of cartoonists and editors completely surrendered at Liu Miao's feet.Although this group of Japanese came to work in China, they mostly had the mentality of coming to China for pilgrimage.In their eyes, Liu Miao is the king who can lead the comics out of a future; Liu Miao is the man who is destined to become the king of comics!

And Liu Miao didn't let them down either. When they took the serialized comics in "Youth" magazine, they suddenly discovered that Japanese comics lag behind Chinese comics not by a few years, but by a generation.At this time, Japanese comics were still sticking to irony and humor, and the occasional life themes were also small four-frame or essay-like content.For Liu Miao, the sub-camera of "Slam Dunk" is like a live broadcast of a ball game; while the comics of "Detective Bao Tsz" are like a suspense drama, which makes people want to stop; and "Versailles" "Rose" stunned a group of female editors and authors. The handsome face like an awl, and the use of dots that fill the sky with petals and hearts are simply the nirvana of all female creatures.

The working attitude of this group of Japanese is still very good, because they not only have the same salary as other editors of the Boys’ Club, but also because they have more or less additional overseas employment subsidies and air ticket subsidies for returning home twice a year , In addition, the working environment of the Boys' Club makes Japanese editors who are used to working in a cramped and small space feel as if they have come to heaven.For men, a large game room is a more beautiful existence than a girlfriend; for women, an aromatherapy spa massage that can be enjoyed at any time is a more intimate arrangement than a husband.As Japan, which is deeply influenced by Chinese culture, there is still a saying that scholars die for their confidants.With such a good treatment from the boss, what is it called if you don't work hard for the boss?Although the Youth Club gave them three days to overcome jet lag and settle themselves, they followed the Chinese editors from the second day and began to learn the editorial culture and related processes of the Youth Club.In the face of such enthusiastic working partners and competitors, Chinese editors also began to devote [-]% of their energy to deal with it.

At the welcome meeting for Japanese editors and writers, Liu Miao deliberately brought out the upcoming comic magazine.

"Ms. Zhang must have talked to you about my original classification of manga, that is, shounen manga for male readers and shojo manga for women. Of course, it is not reliable to distinguish by gender, because girls read There are many shounen manga magazines, and boys read shojo manga. However, our magazines are still divided according to these two methods. The first is the shounen manga magazine, "Sunday". Currently, this magazine is published biweekly. Published every two weeks on Sunday. I set three key words for the comics of "Sunday", friendship, hard work and victory. In the comics of "Sunday", we focus on the description of friendship, love, etc., do not need to be too In-depth portrayal; In addition, in our comics, the male protagonist is not impossible to be defeated, but the male protagonist will fall into a slump after being unable to defeat. He can wake up himself, or be scolded by others. In short, he loses more and more until he wins. That's right! Our "Sunday" absolutely cannot tolerate a failed male protagonist. A male protagonist must be a winner in everything, unless he doesn't care about this field. Secondly, our girl comic magazine is called "Fantasy Dreams". It is a bimonthly magazine, published at the beginning of every bimonthly month. Similarly, the comic works of "A Dream of Flowers" also have three key words, namely: love, girlfriends and sweetness. I don't need to say more about love, and "Sunday" does not allow too much However, "A Dream Over Flowers" welcomes all kinds of love descriptions. A girlfriend is a kind of friend, but it must be the closest friend of the heroine. It can be a man or a woman; at the same time, a girlfriend can also betray a woman. The main character. The following sweetness means that our hero and heroine must be together, and this cannot be changed. Finally, I will talk about my expectations for these two magazines. The first thing that must be completed is, Before the end of the year, "Sunday" will go from bi-weekly to weekly, and "Little Flowers" will go from bi-monthly to monthly. In addition, I also hope that we can publish "Sunday Supplement" and "Little Dreams" within two years. Why do we do "Sunday Bonus Issue" and "A Dream of Flowers"? First, I must announce a very cruel fact that "Sunday" only publishes 20 comic works in each issue, and at the same time we Reader survey forms must be arranged. If a certain work has been selected as the bottom three for three consecutive weeks, then this work must be removed from "Sunday". Then, other excellent works and those that are not liked by readers but What about the works that are still valuable? We will leave them in the "Sunday Supplement" and publish them. "A Dream of Flowers" publishes some non-mainstream romance comics, such as Lily and Danmei, or those that are not particularly special. Romance comics suitable for girls to read."

This was the first time that Liu Miao explained his concept of running a comic magazine very clearly. The Chinese editors and Japanese editors in charge listened very carefully.An editor suddenly raised his hand and asked: "Dr. Liu, you can fire such a high salary for the manga author. As manga people, we are naturally happy. But since I am now the editor of the manga department of the Boys' Club, I have to do it for you. Considering the operation of the Youth Club, if you can maintain such a high investment, can we get enough returns and benefits?"

In fact, this question is not only a doubt of the editors of the comics department, but the text department has long been worried.In this era when the remuneration for novels is generally only 30 to [-] yuan per thousand words, the remuneration of the Youth Club is as high as [-] yuan per thousand words.This is just the remuneration for ordinary contracted authors of the Youth Club. Once one becomes a senior or senior contracted author of the Youth Club, the remuneration can rise to [-] yuan per thousand characters.In particular, Liu Miao also promised that this remuneration is only a guaranteed base price, and there is no ceiling for outstanding works.This brought a large number of high-quality manuscripts to the Youth Club, but also made the Finance Department of the Youth Club crazy, and the editors were also worried about this practice.

In fact, Liu Miao knew everyone's worries a long time ago, so he said with a smile: "Please note that our contract with the authors is unique in the industry. Since we paid a high remuneration, we will ask for the right to adapt the work for the next ten years." and related derivative rights are naturally reasonable. What we bought is not just the exclusive publishing right of the work for three months, but the rights to various developments of the work in the next ten years. Of course, I also It must be admitted that more than 1% of the works we have been exposed to have no adaptation value; and of the remaining 1% of the works, I am afraid that less than [-]% of the works will be a great success after adaptation, bringing us super high profits. Therefore, we are indeed betting on when these [-]% platinum works will appear. But please rest assured that we still have considerable advantages in film and television adaptation and overseas publishing, although not everyone will be adapted into scripts or overseas. distribution, but our vast copyright library will eventually become a valuable asset for our youth club to stand on."

Liu Miao's explanation more or less reduced the internal worries, but the outside world was worried about the juvenile club's only ace magazine being split into four just after its establishment.However, there may not be many people who are really worried here, and most of them are smeared by competitors. The aggressiveness of the first issue of "Youth" scared the major publishing houses and magazines into a cold sweat. Fortunately, due to the limited capabilities of Huadu Culture itself, "Youth" was not able to make "Youth" a big seller in China, but only in their traditional South China, Hot sale in Central China market.However, according to the analysis of the investigators below, in terms of the second phase, the east and southeast markets are estimated to be unsustainable.However, according to the analysis report of a publishing research agency, it may only take half a year for "Youth" to sell well in the whole country, and in half a year, an agency distribution agency outside the number will come to discuss the overseas distribution of "Youth" and the authorization of the overseas edition. up.

In this time and space, the Chinese language has obviously replaced the existence of English. Although English is the common language in Europe and the United States, it is better than Chinese in the world.Even in Europe and the United States, Chinese is the first choice of foreign language subjects for students.Therefore, European and American agencies are stationed in China all the year round, just to find domestic popular magazines that can be sold to their countries.Don't think that this kind of overseas release is just a small matter, just use "Rose" as an example.In the traditional Chinese-speaking overseas market, Southeast Asia, "Rose" can easily win the sales of 20 copies, which is almost equivalent to more than half of the domestic sales.In the main Japanese and Korean markets, "Rose" once achieved sales of over one million in the next issue of Japan by virtue of their Japanese style, forcing the Ministry of Culture of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to issue a "Chinese restriction order", that is, Chinese The higher the sales volume of the magazine in Japan, the higher the distribution tax it will bear.This deceitful decree was also copied by the Koreans, so the Japanese and Korean markets, which used to be the main sales volume of Chinese magazines in overseas markets, were gradually regarded by Chinese publishers as a weak existence.Because if you sell well, you can't make much money, and if you don't sell, you will appear to have no confidence.

On the contrary, the emerging European and American markets are appreciated by Huaxia publishers. There is a large population and high average income there, which is really a big gold mine.In addition, some established domestic magazines even dare to have good sales in Oceania, the Caribbean and Latin America.Of course, Africa and the Middle East are regions that Chinese culture has not yet covered.It is precisely because of the support of overseas markets that Liu Miao feels that copyright operations are promising.