Chapter 211: Animation Screenwriter
"Your father told me too."
Hearing this, Shizue Weng also laughed and said, "Our Sakura has made progress and is now starting a business. It seems your website is doing quite well."
"The company has evaluated your website in all aspects, although the financial indicators haven't revealed much yet."
"But the growth potential, profitability, and transaction prices of similar corporate websites are very good, and it has great market prospects."
"And as it happens... the partner I want to discuss business with this time has some connection to your website."
"Some connection?"
Sakura was curious and asked, "Mom, who is your partner this time?"
"The largest producer of anime merchandise in the country."
Shizue Weng replied, "Mandai Company, and the person I'm meeting with this time is the president of the Tokyo region for Mandai. Are you interested?"
"Anime merchandise?"
Sakura suddenly remembered the grand plan Ren had laid out for the future of B Station.
With animation and videos related to ACG culture as the main content, supplemented by movies, series, and other types of videos, and with the incorporation of the short video format, with short, flat, and fast format options, after the emergence of live streaming and mobile software, an online mecca was created with ACG culture as the main attraction.
Subsequently, the corresponding online shopping platform was launched, which began to attract large amounts of money.
This was also a feat that B Station longed for but failed to achieve in its previous life.
On one hand, it was because B Station started online shopping too late. On the other hand, the peripheral online shopping it offered was unaffordable. Shopping online, especially for products related to ACG culture, is actually very reasonable if it's expensive.
But it can't all be expensive.
That's why B Station's online shopping was not liked by everyone.
And, in fact, it was a little late. The market has been divided, and the online shopping habits of domestic netizens have already been consolidated.
The formation of habits is fatal for a new merchant.
This means that, unconsciously, everyone will ignore you as a newcomer.
Furthermore, you have no advantage and you don't spend money on advertising or promotion.
All the money was used to buy live broadcasts of certain games, new episodes, and television series...
So it's not unreasonable that B Station failed so spectacularly in this aspect in its previous life...
But this time, B Station is different. This is the best era of the Internet, and anything is possible.
Because... the age of intelligence has arrived.
The popularity of smartphones will once again cause a major shift in the Internet landscape.
The current Internet companies, which are at their peak, seem invincible.
In the future, they could be defeated by emerging forces and finally have to stay in a corner.
Just like Nokia in the past, with its enthusiasm before the emergence of smartphones.
Simply, with the emergence of smartphones, it went wrong in the direction of research and development...
So it later became a Pingyang tiger that any well-known brand could beat...
B Station still has a chance. As long as it follows Ren's correct route, it will be a great success.
Sakura thought about what Ren said at that moment, so she took it seriously and said to Shizue Weng on the other end of the phone, "Then, Mom... when are you going to eat? Where are you? I'll find you...".
...
Akatsuki Editorial Department.
"Hey, is this Mr. Kitahashi? I saw the draft you just gave me."
Ayumi picked up the phone, looked at the draft, and said, "Well... yes, it's mainly because there are too many meaningless scenes with passersby in your manuscript."
"No, if the readers don't react, it's okay."
"But the popularity of Armed Thunder has dropped four times in the last two weeks! The readers are also very dissatisfied with this!"
"So this time you have to revise the manuscript, and the next plot has to go back to the main line! You've already drawn four daily transition episodes!"
After talking to the manga author about the revision, Ayumi hung up the phone.
She breathed a sigh of relief and finally got Mr. Kitahashi to revise the manuscript with some delicacy.
Ayumi is now a famous editor; after all, she has the merit of publishing Edgerunners.
After finishing Edgerunners, in addition to being responsible for Ren's new manga series, Chainsaw Man, the company assigned her two new mangakas.
This time, Ayumi was not as carefree as with Ren, and her work often worried her.
The plot and the drawings also worried her.
Ayumi relaxed a bit and planned to unwind.
Probably due to her frequent contact with Ren, she sometimes became lazy and started to learn how to relax.
All of this... is Amamiya-sensei's fault.
Ayumi sighed inwardly.
And just as she was sighing in her heart, this time her private number rang.
"I was so looking forward to you coming to clean the closets!"
Ayumi picked up the phone, looked at it, and was stunned.
But she still answered...
"Moshi Moshi, this is Ito Ayumi."
Ayumi directly used her hometown dialect to speak to the person on the other end of the phone.
"Hello! Ito-san, this is Oguri. What I told you last time...".
On the other end of the phone, Oguri Hira said enthusiastically but respectfully, "Have you asked?".
"I'm sorry."
Ayumi replied with a wry smile, "I haven't told the sensei about this yet, because he's been very busy lately, and you know that mangakas are usually very busy with their main jobs."
"Yes, our company understands that too, but..." Oguri said respectfully. "At Toei Company, we are very sincere in inviting the sensei to be the screenwriter for our next Kamen Rider. I really hope you can convey our sincerity to him."
Ayumi was silent for a while and then said, "Alright, I'll talk to the sensei next time, but please, don't get your hopes up...".
In fact, a long time ago, Oguri met Ayumi, a high school classmate, and explained the situation to her.
After the great success of Edgerunners, the industry also praised Ren's level as a screenwriter and supervisor.
Therefore, some animation companies plan to invite Ren as a supervisor or animation screenwriter.
This includes Toei Company. Furthermore, they discovered that one of their employees knew Ren's editor, so they quickly asked Oguri to contact Ayumi.
But Ayumi was a little uninterested.
The intellectual property of Kamen Rider didn't impress her much in her hometown.
Although Kamen Rider was a small hit in the Republic for a while, in each subsequent work, everyone realized they were all the same.
In essence, they couldn't escape the passionate routine of the righteous Kamen Rider defeating the monster.
Coupled with a wardrobe that basically didn't advance much, and special effects and explosions that at first glance seemed cheap and underfunded, Kamen Rider naturally declined little by little. To this day, there are still many die-hard fans who support it in its hometown, Japan.
So Ayumi didn't think such a declining intellectual property could attract Ren to take on the role of screenwriter in his busy schedule.
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