Chapter 23 Boss, do it yourself? (2)
When Ai Fei returned home, he felt a little drowsy in his head. It seemed that his body could not adapt to the smell of sake!
"Ah, are you back?" Ai Shizuko hurried out from the kitchen: "Eh? Xiao Ai Jun has drunk?"
"Well, I met a friend and my mother knew him, Nishio-kun from the school club. I drank a few drinks with him."
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"It's that young, baby-faced guy."
"Eh?" Ai Shizuko then remembered: "Did you drink a lot?" But she felt that her son was a little funny when he was young.
"It's okay. Just a few glasses of sake." Ai Fei casually spoke to his mother and walked to his room: "Mom, I want to rest for a while."
"Hi Yi. Do you have to ask Xiao Ai Jun to get up and have a meal when you are putting it?"
"Let's talk about it later." Walking into his bedroom, Ai Fei lay on the tatami and was confused and thinking about his conversation with Nishio.
He did not lie, and had more than 500,000 yen in his hand, not including the income brought by the cooperation with Dongzhu Film. Such a fund can be done almost everything in such an era! The key question is whether it can develop according to its own animation studio and what difficulties will it encounter in the middle? He has to think about all possible situations and then start working - he does not care about the money he may lose, but time!
After thinking for a while, the alcoholic spirit was getting worse. Ai Fei sat up cross-legged, took the drawing board beside him, and started to record it with the white paper on it: First of all, the venue, if nothing unexpected happens, the so-called animation club will only have its own person for a period of time since its establishment, so even if it is done at home, it can be fully developed; secondly, comic works, which is not a big problem, your own ability... If it is published every issue per month, you can also deal with it; thirdly, printing and corresponding paper, which is the most brain-consuming item among all projects. What if you can cooperate with the schoolchildren's club? No, Fuji Takeuchi, as the daily manager of the schoolchildren's club, would be considered a ghost if he didn't bite a piece of meat from himself!
In the end, what Ai Fei considered was the sales issue! In addition to the first few issues that may have to be attached to the publication and distribution of a certain magazine or publication, the next few issues should be relatively smooth - he definitely has confidence in this regard! The comic works of later generations are all in his mind, and any book can cause a sensation in the current era! I am afraid that my biggest problem will be that I will be too busy at that time! If you look at it like this, the most important thing I should do in recent times is to save manuscripts. In addition, in his initial design, Ai Fei set the audience of his comics to certain high-income groups in Japan today, such as his classmate Nagasuke Aoba. The advantage of doing this is that in addition to setting prices higher, it can also reduce the printing volume as much as possible - as for the quality of the print, of course, the higher the better, the more refined the better!
When he thought about it, he always did his style. Put the drawing board aside, Ai Fei opened the door: "Mom, I'll go out!"
"Xiao Ai Jun, come back to eat..." Before Ai Shinko could finish her words, her son had run away without seeing anyone.
I took the tram to the schoolchildren club. The old man guarding the door was already very familiar with him, and he didn't even open the door for him before he even came out of the door. Ai Fei ran to the office area upstairs for a few steps. Of course, Xiou was not there, only the guy named Taoren Tsawano was busy: "Thank you for your hard work!"
"It's Ai Feijun? Thank you for your hard work. Is there something wrong with coming here today?"
"Yes. Is Mr. Fuji here?"
"I'm there. I want me to do it for you..."
"Oh, no, I can go in by myself, and I won't disturb your work." After a few words of politeness to Tetsuno Momoto, he knocked on the door of Mr. Fuji's office.
Ai Fei walked into the office, and Fuji was standing up from behind the seat: "Ai Feijun, long time no see."
"It's admonishing to be disturbed!" As he said that, Ai Fei bowed to him.
"Please sit down." Fuji was quite polite, pouring water for him and answered: "Remember that Ai Feijun likes to be with Baishui the most, right? Especially when talking about business with others?"
"Thank you very much." After taking the water cup from the other party, Ai Fei smiled: "Mr. Fuji, please don't get me wrong. This time I came here not to talk to you about the new work, but to ask about the possibility of cooperation between us."
"I'm very interested!" Fuji immediately said after being stunned, "I don't know that Ai Feijun wants to talk to me..."
"It's with the school children's club."
"Okay, I wonder what kind of cooperation Ai Feijun is going to have with the school children's club?"
"Simply put, I am responsible for drawing comic works and selling them through your company's sales channels."
Fuji moved his body on the chair and tidied up the hem of the suit: "Sorry, Ai Feijun, do you think this is different from the cooperation between our company and you now?"
"The main difference is that my works will be published in the form of "jump" magazine in the future, rather than your schoolchildren's magazine."
“"jump"?”
"This is the name of a brand new animation studio that I have recently prepared to set up."
Fuji Takeuchi was quite smart among the Japanese in this era, and immediately understood what he meant: "I understand. In other words, Ai Feijun was going to set up a comic club by himself? Is that true?"
"Yes. That's it."
"And the name of this comic club is "jump"?"
"There is something wrong. The name of the comic club is "Jiying Boy", and the magazine that publishes comics is "jump".
"Okay... Then..." Fuji was silent for a while, and slowly stretched out his arm to scratch his head: "What are the requirements for the publication of our club? What conditions can we give to our club?"
On the way here, Ai Fei roughly prepared his draft. He heard his question, and said calmly: "First of all, my works require all of them to be printed using coated paper. This is because the audience of my works are some elites in society..."
"Sorry, did Ai Feijun make a mistake? Do you think the so-called elites you mentioned like to read children's comics? Or do you prefer to read detective novels? Isn't this also Ai Feijun's strength?" After saying that, Fuji smiled humorously.
Ai Fei didn't think that his words were funny: "Please listen to me. In addition to printing on the coated paper, all color printing is required, and the pricing will be determined based on the final cost; second, my works will be sold with your magazines. This is my requirement. Now, I will propose the conditions I can give to your club: it is actually very simple, it can be finished in just one sentence. In addition to the necessary expenses shared by your club and I, I will allocate 40% of the advertising revenue of "jump" magazine to your club according to the monthly share."
Fuji laughed at his words, and took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it: "Ai Feijun, I know you are a very good cartoonist and novelist, which can be seen from your two completely different works, but I have to say that you are not a qualified businessman. Maybe you think your talent can determine everything. Actually, what about it? There is still a lot you need to learn!"
Chapter completed!