Since ancient times, games and movies had never achieved good results. Therefore, Yamauchi didn't care much about the Titanic game. He gave it a sales figure of 100,000 and ignored it.
"Oh right, Jia Yapeng said that he prepared 5 games. That means there's still a console game!" Yamauchi remembered Boss Jia's words and began to look forward to the 5th console game.
Sure enough, Boss Jia immediately announced the 5th game. The name of the game was very strange. It was called Fated Night – Holy Grail War.
Yamauchi was at a loss when he heard that Boss Jia's last game was actually such a game. According to Boss Jia's introduction on the stage, this was actually a game that was purely interactive with text. It only contained a little bit of combat elements, which was also the legendary Meijin game.
There was actually a game company releasing a Mami game on their console. If it wasn't for the Daqian company, Yamauchi would've smashed it with a hammer.
The games that Yamauchi hated the most were dating games. In Yamauchi's eyes, these type of games that only let men fantasize about Mami, and most of them even had an H plot, were simply a disgrace to the gaming industry. It was a game that was destined to be nailed on the pillar of shame in history. Therefore, when Yamauchi was in power, he strictly prohibited any Mami games from appearing on FC … Even though it was a Mami game that saved FC's sales.
But when he saw that the game was released by Daqian Games, Yamauchi pondered for a bit and decided to close his mouth and pretend that he didn't see it. After all, Daqian Games had contributed 3 excellent console games this time. Maybe there will be a godly game in the future. Therefore, Yamauchi decided to ignore it and treat it as giving face to Boss Jia.
Boss Jia also seemed to have realized that the console wasn't the best platform for dating games. Therefore, Boss Jia announced that this game would be released on PC in the future. This game would be released on both platforms at the same time. Everyone would be able to play this game on both platforms at the same time.
At the same time, Boss Jia also announced that when Fated Night – Holy Grail War was released, its 48-episode anime would be broadcasted worldwide.
"This Daqian company is taking this game so seriously!" Yamauchi was shocked when he heard that Daqian was going to release a 48-episode anime at the same time.
Daqian had announced so many games before, but they never said that they would prepare an anime for any of them. Fated Night was the first game released with an anime at the same time.
The last game that received such treatment was Pokemon.
Since it was a game produced by Da Qian, the animation company that came along with it would definitely be Dynasty Animation. Now, Dynasty Animation was simply awesome to the extreme.
Ever since Dynasty Animation entered Fusang, they had defeated all the other Fusang animation companies. For three consecutive years, they had dominated Fusang's animation industry and became the number one animation company in the East.
Later on, Hideaki Anno swore that she would produce New Age Evangelion to revive Fusang's animation industry. Hideaki Anno seemed to have done it. After New Age Evangelion was broadcasted, it didn't receive a very good reputation at the beginning. When it was broadcasted on TV, the ratings were only average.
However, when the last few episodes of New Age Evangelion were broadcasted, the unbelievable core shocked the audience. Especially the 45 seconds of silence at the end, which could be said to be historical, it stunned all the Fusang's audience.
Boss Jia originally thought that the 45 seconds of silence would not appear in this world. In his previous life, the 45 seconds of silence only appeared because Hideaki Anno's budget was insufficient. In order to make enough time for one episode of the animation, she made the 45 seconds of silence.
However, history proved that Hideaki Anno was idealistic. With the support of Dynasty Animation, Hideaki Anno was determined to freeze the entire animation for 45 seconds. In the end, she let Machine No.1 crush the human body in its hand. That was one of the most shocking scenes in New Age Evangelion.
In the end, when New Age Evangelion was broadcasted on TV and the VCD players were sold, there was an extremely shocking scene.
In a short span of three months, "New Age Evangelion" actually sold 100,000 discs. As a heavily copyrighted product, New Age Evangelion's VCD player set had a total of 12 discs. The total price was 14999 yen, which was less than 15000 yen.
This price was set by Hideaki Anno. When the other people in Gainax heard this news, they thought Hideaki Anno was crazy.
The current market price of a VCD player was about 200 yen. Although Guangying Supermarket did not limit the price of VCD players, most of the VCD players were priced at this price. If the price was more than 200 yen, it would be impossible to sell it.
However, Hideaki Anno set the price of each VCD player at 1,250 yen. That was five times the price. It would be strange if the VCD players could sell it.
"This is the only price we can break even!" Hideaki Anno proudly told her companions, "Although Dynasty Animation helped us with the production for free, I still calculated the cost for them. Their drawing cost is about 200 million yen. Together with our own costs, the actual cost of 'New Age Evangelion' is about 500 million yen! This is the most expensive 24-episode animation in Fusang's history. "
"Although the Daqian is paying for this, I want to tell the Daqian that our product can break even. I want to return the money to him. I want him to understand that the pride of the Fusang people is not something that can be bought with money!" After Hideaki Anno finished speaking, everyone thought he was crazy.
However, it turned out that Hideaki Anno's confidence was not without reason. Even though a VCD set was worth 15,000 yen, the sales in three months had reached 100,000 units. In other words, 100,000 people in Japan had bought the entire set of "New Age Evangelion". This allowed the sales of "New Age Evangelion" to reach 1.5 billion yen just by selling the VCD!!
Of course, according to Guangying Supermarket's rules, after deducting the production cost of the discs, 30% of the profits would be given to Guangying Supermarket as a channel fee. But even so, Gainax still made more than 1 billion yen from the discs. This was twice the production cost.
If other peripheral and advertising fees were included, the income would exceed 1.2 billion yen.
If one were to count in the future, where there would be an endless stream of income, this would be a living treasure bowl!
Therefore, the next day, under the complicated gazes of everyone in Gainax, Hideaki Anno returned 500 million yen as the production cost of New Age Evangelion to Jia Yapeng.
At that time, Boss Jia happened to be in Fusang. After hearing about Hideaki Anno's plan, he smiled and met Hideaki Anno. Then, he accepted the 500 million yen profit without any hesitation.
"Anno-kun, you've really made me look at you in a new light!" Boss Jia said with a smile.
But when Boss Jia was about to continue flattering Hideaki Anno, Hideaki Anno suddenly took out a letter from his pocket and gave it to Jia Yapeng.
"What is this?" Jia Yapeng's expression turned ugly.
"This is my resignation letter!" Hideaki Anno said stiffly, "I want to resign from all my positions in Gainax. I hope the president can approve it!"
"President!" Hearing Hideaki Anno's words, the other people in Gainax were shocked. They had just taken the first place in Fusang for the year and set an unprecedented sales record. Why did Hideaki Anno want to resign?
"You don't have to persuade me. Have you forgotten our goal? Our goal is to use our own strength in Fusang to produce an anime that surpasses Dynasty Animation! " Hideaki Anno looked at Jia Yapeng and said proudly, "I've already proven myself once. But this time, my proof wasn't perfect enough. So, I want to prove myself a second time. I hope President Jia won't stop me from achieving my dream!"
"…" Boss Jia tried to persuade him, but it was impossible to persuade Hideaki Anno. Helpless, Boss Jia could only approve Hideaki Anno's resignation.
Hideaki Anano also sold all her remaining shares in Gainax and left Gainax with a year's worth of performance bonuses, a total of 200 million yen. She didn't even look back.
After Hideaki Anno left, about 23% of Gainax's employees left to pursue their dreams with Hideaki Anno. As a result, Gainax was unable to operate. In the end, Boss Jia directly merged Dynasty Animation into the Fusang branch of Dynasty Animation. Only then did Gainax barely recover its ability to produce anime.
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