"How could that be? It doesn't make sense!" Boss Jia shook his head. "You're a popular manga artist. Even if Youngermen Jump doesn't like your work, they shouldn't have banned you. It doesn't make sense!"
Hearing Boss Jia's question, Kazuki Takahashi didn't say anything. He just looked at Boss Jia meaningfully.
"Could it be because of me?" Boss Jia was stunned for a moment. After thinking about it for a while, he roughly understood the reason. "Is Youngermen Jump regretting handing over the copyright of Yu-Gi-Oh to me?"
Youngermen Jump wasn't just regretting it, it was regretting it so much that even its intestines were turning green. Back then, Shueisha agreed to let Yu-Gi-Oh serialize in Youngermen Jump for 50 million yen. At the same time, they didn't ask for any copyright.
Youngermen Jump originally thought that it had made a profit because 90% of the manga couldn't bring more than 50 million yen in profit to Youngermen Jump. And Yu-Gi-Oh drawn by Kazuki Takahashi, a shoddy manga artist, didn't look like it would sell well no matter how you looked at it.
Everyone knew the results after that. In the two years that Yu-Gi-Oh was published, it generated more than 100 billion yen in direct income in Fusang. In addition, through selling peripheral licensing and other means, the indirect income was more than 150 billion yen. If the value of other industries that Yu-Gi-Oh had secretly increased, the value of the manga could even exceed 300 billion yen.
Youngermen Jump was regretting it now, wasn't it?
Of course, Youngermen Jump habitually ignored how much money and effort the Daqian Group had spent on marketing. In Youngermen Jump's eyes, wasn't it just an animation? Wasn't it the same as playing a game if Youngermen Jump wanted to animate a manga?
Therefore, as long as Youngermen Jump insisted on the copyright of Yu-Gi-Oh, they would be the ones making the most out of it.
Even an idiot could tell that Youngermen Jump was wishful thinking and flawed logic.
The simplest reason was that if Youngermen Jump hadn't agreed to allow Yu-Gi-Oh to be serialized, Yu-Gi-Oh wouldn't have chosen to enter Youngermen Jump, and Youngermen Jump wouldn't have been able to have Yu-Gi-Oh as their source of income.
However, money blinded people. Youngermen Jump could not see this at all. He only saw that he had lost tens of billions of yen in profits. It was said that the president of Shueisha, who agreed to the deal with Boss Jia, was demoted by the board of directors and retired early.
After that, Shueisha's headquarters issued a strict order. From then on, no one was allowed to interfere with Youngermen Jump's published manga. The copyright of related manga had to be firmly in the hands of Youngermen Jump.
At the same time, Youngermen Jump also took out a new contract, requiring all manga artists who wanted to be serialized in Youngermen Jump to sign this contract.
This new contract stipulated that once a manga artist signed a contract with Youngermen Jump, Youngermen Jump would use its various channels and means to help the manga artist promote their manga.
All the copyrights of manga after transmigration belonged to Youngermen Jump magazine. Whether it was the manga copyright, the novel "Unsafe", the animation copyright, the electronic copyright, the movie copyright, etc., all the copyrights belonged to Youngermen Jump.
The manga artist would receive 20% of the income as remuneration, and the rest would belong to Youngermen Jump.
It wasn't just Youngermen Jump. All the manga magazines in Fusang followed the same pattern.
How is it? Doesn't it sound familiar? Anyway, all the crows in the world are equally black. What seems to be new now is something that has long been abandoned by others.
Take Boss Jia's Dengeki Bunko as an example. The contract signed by Dengeki Bunko and the author was basically the same.
Anyway, in terms of capital, I can give you more money, but I must firmly control the copyright.
These were all basic operations.
In short, Youngermen Jump didn't want to see such a god-level copyright fall into the hands of other capital. Kazuki Takahashi, a manga artist with a criminal record, also disgusted Youngermen Jump.
Most importantly, they found out that the script of Yu-Gi-Oh was all provided by Daqian, and Kazuki Takahashi was only responsible for the drawing. This made Youngermen Jump believe that Kazuki Takahashi was just a manga artist with decent drawing skills, but no talent.
In addition, Youngermen Jump wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, so they directly banned Kazuki Takahashi and prohibited any magazine under Shueisha from publishing Kazuki Takahashi's manga. However, because Yu-Gi-Oh was still in the contract period, and the income of the manga was in the hands of Youngermen Jump, Youngermen Jump didn't do anything to Kazuki Takahashi. They were just waiting for Yu-Gi-Oh to end.
Of course, this information was obtained by Kazuki Takahashi through some of his good friends, so Kazuki Takahashi was very anxious. He wanted to ask Boss Jia if Yu-Gi-Oh was really going to end soon.
"I'm sorry to have caused trouble for Takahashi sensei!" Boss Jia said after hearing this.
"Mr. Jia, if it weren't for you, I would still be a poor worker in a precarious situation. I wouldn't have a net worth of hundreds of millions now. Actually, I can still live well without drawing manga. I just feel that life has lost its brilliance! "Kazuki Takahashi sighed.
"I'm afraid Youngermen Jump has no good ideas. I'll try and see if I can buy him!" Boss Jia laughed.
"Buy Youngermen Jump!" Kazuki Takahashi was stunned. Boss Jia's spending was too f * cking shocking! How much money would it take to buy Youngermen Jump!
"But I'm afraid the other party won't be willing to sell it. It doesn't matter. Youngermen Jump isn't the only magazine in the world. Why don't Mr. Takahashi change to another magazine!" Boss Jia said this with some self-awareness.
"Sigh, Mr. Jia, you don't know. Now, the main shonen magazines in the country are in the hands of Shueisha. If I'm banned, I'll be banned by all the mainstream manga magazines. But if it's just some small magazines, I won't be satisfied!" Kazuki Takahashi shook his head.
"If that's the case, why don't you come to my place to draw manga!" Boss Jia pondered for a moment, then laughed.
"Oh, the Daqian also has a manga magazine!" Kazuki Takahashi asked in surprise.
"Not yet …" Boss Jia shook his head.
"Then what do you mean by this …"
"There wasn't before, but there is now!" Boss Jia smiled. "No hurry. I'll apply to start a manga magazine tomorrow. Next month, I'll be able to churn out the first issue of the manga magazine. At that time, Mr. Takahashi will be the first to move in!"
"A new one …" Kazuki Takahashi couldn't help but hesitate. Wouldn't this new magazine not be as good as those small manga magazines that had already existed? If this was the case, then he could have found a new owner long ago. There was no need to look for Boss Jia.
God knows how far this newly launched magazine could go. If it didn't even have one percent of the circulation of Youngermen Jump, then wouldn't he have stepped into a dead end?
Just when Kazuki Takahashi's heart was in a mess, he suddenly saw Boss Jia's half-smiling face.
That's right. How did I lose my head? This magazine was not founded by someone else. This was a magazine founded by Mr. Jia. He was a god-like character. Even if the magazine he founded was bad, it should not be bad to this extent.
As long as it could have one-tenth of the sales of Youngermen Jump in the future, he wouldn't lose anything!
So Kazuki Takahashi made the most important decision in his life. He immediately took Boss Jia's hand and shouted excitedly, "Hello, boss!"
"Well, since you called me boss, then let me ask you. Do you know where a female high school student needs help around here?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.
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