Boss Jia did not expect Takeshi Aoyama to choose Daqian because of Dynasty Animation.
In fact, Boss Jia had underestimated the influence of Dynasty Animation in Fusang. Through the Legend of the Three Kingdoms series, Water Margin Heroes series, Yu-Gi-Oh, Four-wheel Brothers series, and the popular Pokemon series, all of Dynasty Animation's popularity in Fusang became popular.
All the animations produced by Dynasty Animation had become popular animations in Japan. Since 1991, the number one spot in the Japanese animation ratings ranking was basically exclusive to Dynasty Animation. The animations produced by Dynasty Animation would take turns to take the top spot.
Everyone in the animation industry knew that Dynasty Animation's products were the best. At the same time, it was the dream of many Fusang animators to join Dynasty Animation and become a member of Dynasty Animation.
In any case, there were two animation companies in Fu Sang that the people of Fu Sang Animation wanted to join. One was Ghibli, and the other was Dynasty Animation.
Ghibli's standards were too high and it was extremely difficult to join.
On the other hand, there was no way to join Dynasty Animation. Their headquarters was in Hua Xia. Ordinary Fusang animators could not even enter.
However, there were still dozens of Fusang animators who tried their best to join Dynasty Animation. Dynasty Animation became the company with the most Fusang employees in the country. Boss Jia only found out about this when he checked the staff composition of Dynasty Animation.
All in all, Takeshi Aoyama lived up to his reputation as the author of Detective Conan. His logical thinking and shrewdness were unparalleled.
He knew very well that if a comic wanted to become popular and become a national comic, it had to go through the steps of animation. It had to become an animation that everyone could watch on TV.
And the quality of the animation would determine the fate of the animation. Otherwise, even if you had the plot and content of Spirited Away, if you were to hand it over to a company like Mei Fei Mei to produce, it would still be a flop. Who knew if the quality of the Detective Conan manga would be ruined because of this, and it would no longer be able to become a top-notch manga.
It wasn't that there were no such examples. On the contrary, there were many such examples. Therefore, animation was the most important thing for a comic. Only by handing it over to the best animation company could the comic's influence be maximized.
Tsuyoshi Aoyama even felt that the animation was more important than the platform. Even on a platform like Youngermen Jump, if the animation was terrible, it would be irreversible.
On the contrary, if he could get the production of a God-level company, then the manga that was originally not famous would become popular in an instant.
The most famous example was probably the Ghost Destroyer Blade in the future.
To be honest, before the anime was broadcasted, although it was serialized in Youngermen Jump, it was basically at the bottom of the list. Basically, no one in China was talking about it. Even in Fusang, there were very few people who cared about it. The sales of the standalone volumes were not even 2 million copies.
Every year, Youngermen Jump would have one or two compilation issues. In the compilation issue, all the manga characters that were being serialized would be gathered into one big picture.
In the 2018 big picture, according to convention, the more famous the IP character was, the more prominent and eye-catching it would be.
For example, Shinigami's Shinozaki Ichigo, One Piece's Luffy, and so on.
As for Ghost Destroyer Blade?
Sorry, he was only a character who could show his face among the many characters. He couldn't even see Tan Zhiro's face clearly.
For example, in the various new introductory videos produced by Bilibili's UP, Ghost Destroyer Blade was only mentioned in a few words. No one had really paid attention to this work.
Then, after three episodes of the god-like anime, Blade of the Demon Destroyer became the king of comics in 2019. Even a comic like Sea of Dead Flames had to make way for Tan Zhiro in the 2019 year-end compilation picture, making Tan Zhiro the most eye-catching character in the picture.
Therefore, animation was extremely important for a manga. Tsuyoshi Aoyama's decision to give up Shonen Sunday and choose a new platform because of Dynasty Animation was enough to prove this point.
Of course, the best example was Kazuki Takahashi.
Kazuki Takahashi's Yu-Gi-Oh was also invisible before it was animated. However, after it was animated, Yu-Gi-Oh became a godly work of the era.
From this decision, Tsuyoshi Aoyama's reasoning was clear. One could also see Tsuyoshi Aoyama's strong sense of reason. After all, even if many people understood the importance of animation, they would still hold on to the best platform, instinctively unwilling to let go.
"Mr. Jia …" After listening to Tsuyoshi Aoyama's words, Kazuki Takahashi glanced at Jia Yapeng hesitantly.
"Mr. Aoyama, this is the rule of our magazine!" Boss Jia smiled and said, "We do have a very close relationship with Dynasty Animation. Dynasty Animation has also promised us that they'll give our magazine three animations every year."
"In other words, within a year, our magazine will have the opportunity to have three comics produced by Dynasty Animation. However, these three places only belong to the three comics with the best results. Therefore, as long as you're capable enough, I think animations won't be a problem! "
"Alright!" Tsuyoshi Aoyama nodded conceitedly. If he couldn't even get into the top three in this newbie magazine, then what was the point of drawing comics? He might as well commit suicide.
In Tsuyoshi Aoyama's eyes, the king of this new Weekly Dengeki Shōnen was definitely him.
Soon, the two parties signed a serialization contract. Thus, the three most important comics were confirmed.
"Mr. Takahashi, can you tell me the real identity of this assistant next to you now?" After signing the contract, Tsuyoshi Aoyama smiled and asked Kazuki Takahashi.
It turned out that Tsuyoshi Aoyama had already noticed that there was something wrong with Boss Jia's identity. However, he couldn't figure out Boss Jia's identity.
"This …" Kazuki Takahashi looked at Jia Yapeng. Jia Yapeng nodded and asked with a smile, "I have a question too. If Mr. Aoyama is willing to answer me, I don't mind telling you my real identity!"
"Please go ahead!" Tsuyoshi Aoyama nodded.
"As far as I know, you almost published your comic in Shōnen Sunday in January, but you failed in the end. Why?" Boss Jia asked curiously.
"Because of the cover …" Tsuyoshi Aoyama's face turned cold. "They gave the cover that was originally intended for me to a football player, Masashi Nakayama. They didn't take me seriously!" When Boss Jia was talking, he asked someone to inquire about Tsuyoshi Aoyama's background. He found out that Detective Conan had finished the first ten chapters in January of 1994. Even the draft of the first chapter had been given to Shōnen Sunday for printing. However, Shōnen Sunday didn't serialize Detective Conan in the end, which made Boss Jia very curious.
Hearing Tsuyoshi Aoyama's words, Boss Jia suddenly remembered an interesting story when a reporter interviewed Tsuyoshi Aoyama and his editor.
It turned out that when Tsuyoshi Aoyama's Detective Conan was serialized for the first time in the magazine, the magazine originally planned to use the entire cover of Detective Conan for publicity.
However, at the last minute, because the magazine had a last-minute interview with the football player, Masashi Nakayama, the magazine changed the cover to Masashi Nakayama's big face. In the end, poor Shinichi Kudo could only make a classic gesture in the corner of the cover.
Masashi Nakayama was not an ordinary person. He was the football player who had scored the first goal for Fusang in the World Cup. At that time, he was the absolute top football player for Fusang, so it was not embarrassing for Tsuyoshi Aoyama to make way for him.
However, according to Tsuyoshi Aoyama's own interview, he was furious at that time. He even blocked the editor in the editorial department and scolded him. Shōnen Sunday was scolded by Tsuyoshi Aoyama from beginning to end. It was not until the next issue of the magazine that the cover of Detective Conan was quickly changed.
However, in the previous life, Tsuyoshi Aoyama had chosen to endure it. This time, however, it seemed that Tsuyoshi Aoyama and Shōnen Sunday had completely broken up. The Detective Conan manga had been covered in dust until now, until Boss Jia appeared.
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