Chapter 139 The Appearance of “Glasses Factory” and Acquisition Target
In May of [-], Hanyu Hideki originally had a lot of work arrangements.

As a result, Xiao Mingcai debuted at the beginning of the month, and he ran to cheer in the rain, made himself sick, and delayed his rest at home for a few days.

As a result, his girlfriend Hitomi Kuroki asked for leave to accompany him in Tokyo. After returning to Takarazuka City, he was criticized by the opera troupe.

If it weren’t for Daichi Mao’s strong protection, the road to the chief maidservant would probably be cut off.

And after he got better, he quickly got into work.

Because no matter whether it is his identity as a writer or Yunyang Pictures, there are still a lot of things waiting for him.

For writers, May is the peak of awards for various awards in the neon children’s literature circle.

The Sankei Children’s Publishing Culture Award received from meeting Empress Xiangchun at the beginning of the month is just the beginning.

Followed by the Kodansha Picture Book Award, as the name suggests, this is an award organized by Kodansha.

Even if they belong to different publishing houses, this award must bear Hideki Hanyu’s name.

After all, throughout 1981, Hideki Hanyu was a newcomer picture book writer who absolutely couldn’t get around.

After Hideki Hanyu participated in the Kodansha Picture Book Award, he went to receive another award non-stop.

‘Picture Book Neon Awards’.

This award was established by the Mainichi News Agency in the early 60s, and was later renamed the “Neon Picture Book Award” in [-], which is considered the highest honor in the neon picture book industry.

Such an award, Hideki Hanyu naturally couldn’t be left behind, and won the grand prize without any surprise.

In addition to these two more important awards, there are other awards such as Iwatani Xiaobo Literature and Art Award and Neon Children’s Literature Pioneer Award.

Hanyu Hideki couldn’t spare to accept the award, so he had to ask Eri Kitahara to accept it on his behalf.

Because as “Love, Go Home” is getting closer and closer to the release, the publicity has also become intensive.

Although he is an original author, he doesn’t need to appear too frequently.

But helplessly, the protagonists are all amateurs, so they really can’t attract attention, and it’s impossible for him not to come out to promote it.

Fortunately, it is an adaptation of the best-selling original book after all. With the popularity of the novel, at least there is no need to worry about the first wave of box office.

When word-of-mouth of the movie spreads, the follow-up long-term follow-up will not be so busy.

After all, if a neon movie is released, the basic cycle is more than three months.

It is not surprising that the box office is relatively good, and it is not surprising that it will stay in theaters for more than half a year. Even if it is a starring role, it is impossible to promote it for such a long time.

And when Hideki Hanyu was busy with publicity, the time came to May [-], [-].

On this day, Hideki Hanyu rushed to Yunying Pictures early in the morning, and began to discuss the promotion work of “Love, Home” with the publicity team.

Observers also included Akina Nakamori and the publicity team.

As the release approaches, the music video of the theme song “Future” will also be officially broadcast on TV. As the lead singer, Akina Nakamori will naturally cooperate with the promotion.

It has been almost two weeks since Akina Nakamori’s debut, although under the series of operations of Yunshang Entertainment, I have received a lot of attention.

Yesterday, with the help of Koichi Koichi, I went to ‘Ye HIT’ to swipe my face.

Unfortunately, the sales of the debut song “Slow Motion” have not been tepid.

Originally, in the circle, watching Yun Shang’s pictures to push people in various ways, some people wanted to do something behind their backs and do bad things.

Seeing that Akina Nakamori’s records were selling so mediocrely, everyone immediately gave up these thoughts and started laughing at Yun Ying Hua instead.

Everyone in the circle is talking about Yunying Pictures, saying that they have put in so much effort, but in the end they have come up with such an idol who can’t sell records.

Those firms that competed with Yunshang Entertainment for Nakamori Akina before are also beginning to feel lucky at this time, thankful that Yunshang Pictures helped them test the water once.

They feel that Warner Pioneer spent so much money, recording records in Los Angeles, and shooting photos overseas.

And Yunshang Yi Neng even made such a big battle, but they failed to win it in the end. If it was in their hands, the sales of this single would be even worse.

Influenced by the outside world, Nakamori Akina’s team also wanted to take advantage of the popularity of “Love, Go Home” to help Nakamori Akina promote it again.

After all, the film promotion team has industry giants like Shochiku Films, and the resources they can bring must be unmatched by them.

“Ms. Hanyu will go to Tetsuko’s room next time. We have already communicated well. We will try our best to promote the movie, and…”

“As for Ming Caijiang’s itinerary, it still has to be determined based on the feedback after the music video is broadcast in the future.”

……

As the person in charge of the publicity team, Kiyoshi Shimadzu is making arrangements for the publicity work.

At the end of the meeting, Kiyoshi Shimadzu said politely to Hideki Hanyu, “Mr. Hanyu, I will trouble you for this promotion.”

It’s not good to be rude, Hideki Hanyu has collected all the awards in the neon children’s literature circle in less than a week.

People outside the circle may not realize anything, but feel that Hideki Hanyu keeps appearing on the list of winners in news reports, and his popularity has increased.

But the circle is very clear that this young writer, who has just debuted for more than a year, has once again raised his status in the industry by more than a little.

“Shimadzu production is welcome. After all, this is a film adapted from my novel, and it is also appropriate to participate in the promotion.”

Of course, this is just a scene for everyone to hear. He is the major shareholder of Yunying Pictures.

The higher the box office of “Love, Go Home”, the higher his income, how could he not care about it.

However, he has won so many awards recently, and his compulsion has suddenly become too high.

Therefore, no matter how much you want to make money in your heart, you still have to maintain your demeanor in public, and you can’t keep talking about money.

Saying goodbye to Kiyoshi Shimadzu, he was about to leave Yunying Painting.

Relying on the serialization of “Saint Seiya”, the sales volume of “Weekly Shonen Sunday” has continued to rise, and the latest issue has approached 300 million.

Recently, “Saint Seiya” has become the hottest topic in the neon comics world. As a comic script writer, he naturally attracted the attention of many people.

However, many people value the interests of this comic more than these concerns.

With the theme of bloody battles and all kinds of extremely gorgeous holy clothes, no matter how you look at it, “Saint Seiya” has the potential to sell its peripherals.

Among these people, Bandai was the most enthusiastic.

Bandai and Toei Animation are planning to package all peripheral authorizations and animation shooting rights, and the cooperation application has been submitted to Constellation Culture several times.

However, Hideki Hanyu was either sick or busy accepting awards, which delayed the cooperation meeting of Constellation Culture several times.

Seeing that “Saint Seiya” is becoming more and more popular over there, a lot of yen is waving at them, and I don’t know how many times I have been urged.

Hideki Hanyu couldn’t help being urged, and finally managed to spare some time today, and made an appointment to meet in the afternoon to discuss the peripheral development of “Saint Seiya”.

But before Hideki Hanyu left, Shota Yoshioka hurriedly pulled him back.

“What happened?”

Hideki Hanyu was led by Shota Yoshioka all the way to Asako Hirohashi’s office, and asked suspiciously.

“Let Asako-san speak.”

“Asako-san, what happened?” Hideki Hanyu was a little surprised.

Hirohashi Asako said, “It’s about Akina Nakamori.”

“Ming Caijiang, what’s the matter with her, didn’t she go to Yokohama TV to participate in the program?”

“It’s not him, it’s her family.”

As soon as Hirohashi Asako said this, Hanyu Hideki immediately remembered what kind of people Nakamori Akina’s family was, and tried to ask.

“Could it be Ming Caijiang’s family who came to ask for money?”

“Although it’s not asking for money, it’s about the same.”

Asako Hirohashi spoke and began to explain.

“I thought that Ming Caijiang’s income would be high in the future, and paying taxes would be a big problem, so I wanted to help Ming Caijiang register a personal office to avoid taxes.”

“It is not good?”

“But the problem is that due to Ming Caijiang’s age, the establishment of the firm requires the consent of her family members. We went to her family members, but her mother hoped that after the establishment of the firm, all the family members would be given a job to get a salary.”

Speaking of this, Hirohashi Asako showed an absurd expression.

“Hehe, Akina-chan just debuted. Do they think how much money Akina-chan makes? They thought that mother loved Akina-chan so much, but she said such things.” Yoshioka Shota sneered and mocked.

“I asked someone to inquire. The father of Ming Caijiang took the contract money before, and it seemed to be some kind of financial investment. In the end, he lost everything. He even sold his new car.”

Asako Hirohashi shook her head helplessly when she said this, and felt that Akina Nakamori’s family members were too bad.

“It is estimated that the family has seen that Akina-chan has received a lot of attention recently, and thinks that Akina-chan is already a big star, but they don’t know that Warner Pioneer is almost worried about the sales of Nakamori Akina, and they are already thinking about going back to the youthful sex route.”

Shota Yoshioka snorted coldly when he heard the words, “It’s useless to talk to them. They think that Akina Nakamori is going to become famous and will definitely make a lot of money, but their lives haven’t changed yet, and they can’t wait.”

“But we signed the contract before. We can live for several years even if we don’t work in Tokyo. In the end, we spent it in less than half a year.” Hirohashi Asako was also speechless to the family.

His father is a rotten person, his brothers and sisters are all worthless, and his mother is soft-hearted and eccentric. Whenever the family asks, they come to Nakamori Akina for money.

Akina Nakamori lived in her home, and she knew that Akina Nakamori’s salary for the first few months was all managed by her mother.

But in the end, the mother got the money on the front foot, and the back foot distributed it to the family.

He said he loves Akina Nakamori, but in fact he likes the other children the most.

When faced with the choice between one and five, he chose five with peace of mind, without considering the feelings of that one at all.

After being pulled in, Hideki Hanyu knew exactly what happened after hearing what the two said, but he was not surprised at all.

After all, Nakamori Akina’s family has done more bizarre things than this in their previous life, and now it can only be regarded as normal operation.

“Since this is the case, let’s not run the personal office. Anyway, Ming Caijiang’s income is not needed now. As for Ming Caijiang’s family affairs, we will leave it alone for the time being.”

Hearing Hideki Hanyu’s words, Shota Yoshioka was a little worried, “If we don’t care, it will only be worse if Akina-chan handles it by himself, and it will definitely affect work.”

“I mean don’t worry about it for the time being, let’s see the situation first, and when it’s too bad for Ming Caijiang to handle, don’t forget the additional terms in the contract we signed with Ming Cai Jiang.”

How could Hideki Hanyu, who had expected such a thing to happen, not prepare in advance.

“So Hanyu-san expected this kind of thing to happen at that time?”

Asako Hirohashi remembered the clause that Hideki Hanyu asked to add, that the firm had the right to help Akina Nakamori with her financial management.

“That’s right. When Iijima-san was asked to investigate, I knew what Akina-chan’s family was like. I made preparations in advance. I didn’t expect it to be useful.”

“Then do as Hanyu-san said first.” Hirohashi Asako made a decision.

After bidding farewell to Asako Hirohashi and Shota Yoshioka, Hideki Hanyu continued to Shogakukan.

In the afternoon, in the meeting room of the Xiaoxiaoguan building, a meeting about the development of “Saint Seiya” peripherals was about to be held.

Representatives of the four shareholders of Constellation Culture, which is responsible for the copyright operation of “Saint Seiya”, began to arrive one after another.

The host Xiaokan was naturally the first to arrive. Their representatives were the head of the sales department, Naoaki Yagyu, and the senior screenwriter Kumagai Gennori of “Weekly Shonen Sunday”.

Hitotsubashi Publishing Group didn’t pay much attention to the meeting and just sent a representative to attend.

Seeing that the sales of “Weekly Shonen Sunday” are getting better and better, Shueisha wants to take the lead in copyright operations.

But helplessly, as long as Shogakukan does not want to turn against Hideki Hanyu, he will definitely support Hideki Hanyu in the copyright operation of “Saint Seiya”.

So Shueisha can only watch “Weekly Shonen Sunday” sell well, anxious but helpless.

The last shareholder to arrive at the meeting was Hideki Hanyu.

As soon as he entered the arena, the representatives present got up to say hello to him one after another.

Aside from the fact that he’s been too aggressive lately, it’s because of being the boss of Yunshang Culture.

After all, everyone sent representatives, and only Yunshang Culture, the boss, came in person.

Hideki Hanyu felt that with more and more things about Yunshang Culture, he still had to find a manager for Yunshang Pictures.

Otherwise, if he had to deal with everything, wouldn’t he, the boss, be exhausted.

And this meeting, in addition to several shareholders of Constellation Culture, also participated in the meeting were clubs that were interested in cooperation around “Saint Seiya”.

The first to arrive was the representative of Bandai.

As the most famous entertainment club of Neon, Bandai has always been a partner of Hitotsubashi Publishing Group, and this time it is also full of confidence in winning the peripheral copyright of “Saint Seiya”.

However, Bandai does not lack competitors. After all, Bandai is not the only one who can see the potential of “Saint Seiya”.

Sony’s Aniplex Co., Ltd., also known as ANX, also attended the conference this time.

Backed by Sony Entertainment, ANX is rich in resources, but it doesn’t mind one more “Saint Seiya”.

Following Sony, there is another club that intends to cooperate.

As soon as the representative of the other party entered the door, the assistant Reiko Uemura, who was sitting next to Hideki Hanyu, immediately told Hideki Hanyu about the club.

Compared to the previous two giants, the last club to be present was just a little Xiami who came to try their luck.

It was founded by founder Yasushi Matsuda in [-], and it has only been five years since then.

The name of this club was originally Fengrong Industrial Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tianwu City. It does not sound like an entertainment club, but a real estate company.

At the beginning of its establishment, Yasushi Matsuda hugged the thigh of Hayao Nakayama, the big man who would buy Sega in the future, while operating imported jukeboxes, while making copycat arcade games.

But after a few years, Yasushi Matsuda found that he couldn’t make money by doing small things, so he moved the headquarters of the company to Nakano District, Tokyo this year, hoping to further develop.

In addition to relocating the headquarters, Yasushi Matsuda also changed the name of the original Fengrong Sangyo company to Coreland Technology Co., Ltd., making the company more like a game entertainment company.

Hideki Hanyu looked at the information on Coreland Technology Co., Ltd. that his assistant Reiko Uemura handed him, and found the LOGO that looked like glasses.

He suddenly remembered, isn’t this the “glasses factory” that was once at its peak in later generations?

In Hideki Hanyu’s memory, even after the club moved its headquarters to Tokyo and changed its name, it still developed very generally.

It wasn’t until Hayao Nakayama acquired Sega in 1983 that Yasushi Matsuda boarded the big ship of Sega by virtue of his relationship with Hayao Nakayama, and then by helping Sega make games, his development had a little improvement.

It’s a pity that his own strength is still limited, and he can’t do anything to help Sega against Nintendo, so he is gradually abandoned by Sega.

By 1989, the “glasses factory” had a debt of 15 billion and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Bandai acquired part of its shares.

Then, through Bandai’s IP injection, “Glass Factory” became brilliant for a time, and the famous “Machine Warfare” was the work of “Glass Factory”.

“Glasses Factory” relies on Bandai’s IP authorization, and has flourished in peripheral fields such as figures and toys.

“Dragon Ball”, “One Piece”, “Crayon Shin-chan” and other well-known comics’ hand-made toys are produced and distributed by him.

At its peak, it was even called the three major brands of neon figure toys together with Bandai and Sony ANX.

But Bandai’s rescue of the ‘glasses factory’ is not for poverty alleviation.

After rescuing the ‘glasses factory’ and helping it to go public, Bandai completely completed its acquisition.

Then, after extracting enough benefits, Bandai gradually dismembered and annexed the ‘glasses factory’.

In the end, in 2019, the “glasses factory” was completely disbanded by Bandai, and all of them were merged into Bandai.

The “glasses factory”, which was once at the peak of the hand-made toys field, finally became history.

“Mr. Hanyu, this is our first meeting. I am Yasushi Matsuda, President of Coreland Technology Co., Ltd.”

When Hideki Hanyu was thinking about the information about the “glasses factory”, the representative of the “glasses factory” came up to say hello to him and handed him a business card.

Hanyu Hideki did not expect that this representative turned out to be Yasushi Matsuda, the president of the “glasses factory”.

“President Matsuda, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Hanyu Hideki looked at Matsuda Yasushi in front of him, with a hint of interest in his eyes.

He is not interested in Yasushi Matsuda, but the “glasses factory” Coreland Technology Co., Ltd. he founded.

Whether it is the peripheral development of “Saint Seiya”, or the operation of “Pokémon” in the future, as well as so many ideas in his mind, a game entertainment company is needed to realize them.

It is naturally impossible to always rely on others, but it is too troublesome to build from scratch.

Whether it is production staff or sales channels, it takes a lot of time to build them.

He wanted to compete with Nakayama Hayao and buy Sega directly, but he was too small to do such a thing as Snake Tunxiang.

After seeing Yasushi Matsuda now, he found that the “glasses factory” seemed to be a good acquisition target.

(End of this chapter)