Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 35 A down-and-out cartoonist

The so-called formula book is the game setting set, which is a series of detailed introductions to the in-game worldview, characters, creatures, equipment, etc. that assist the game itself. It is the favorite of die-hard fans and sophisticated fans.

Zhu Yuxing originally wanted to talk about the setting directly, but expressing it in the formula book of the manga world will make Ikeda Daigo clearer.

Ikeda Daigo was surprised.

"Zhuyou-kun, you said that you still need to assist in the compilation of the formula book? This... this is not a simple propaganda painting, right?"

Zhu Yuxing nodded: "That's right, what I want to do is video games, and video games have settings that go beyond ordinary comics, so I need a long-term partner, and preferably someone with a certain reputation."

Assisting in the preparation of the formula book is not a small project for a cartoonist.

It's just that no one ever asked a cartoonist to do this kind of thing in the past.

No, not at all.

Even in the current movies, there is no such formula book. At most, it is just a detailed record of some of the director's own essays. No one will deliberately find an outsider to make a formula book.

"That Zhuyou-kun, I want to ask, what is the video game you're talking about?"

"This is a brand-new form of entertainment. I can't explain it to you in a short time. If you want to know more, I will give you an address. You tell the boss there that I introduced it, and he will give you the spot. Show what video games really are."

Brand new entertainment?Ikeda Daigo pondered.

"Well, I give two conditions to choose one, one of which is that I will hire a manga teacher for a year at a monthly salary of 50 yen, and we can continue to talk after a year."

"The second condition is that I will give a basic salary of 18 a month, but the cartoonist can get a 5.00% share of the entire game series in the future."

If it is Zhu Yuxing, he will definitely choose the second one, because he can foresee how huge the development of the game will be in the future.

And if possible, Zhu Youxing also hopes that the other party can choose this, because it will completely bind a cartoonist, and at least two or 30 years will not have to worry about problems.

However, this is equivalent to giving people an invisible empty check, so Zhu Yuxing also gave the first choice.

Let you be willing to cooperate with me in the first year, and then you can seriously consider the issue of sharing in the second year, but you will earn less of the first year's share.

50 million yen.

Ikeda Daigo was a little surprised.

He doesn't yet understand what a video game is, but roughly understands that it's going to be a very complex thing.

In today's Japan, if an average college student can find a job after graduating, 18 yen is about the same.

Under normal circumstances, 30 yen is the average income of regular employees of the company after four or five years of work with relatively positive benefits.

This income has hardly fluctuated in Japan for more than 20 years since the bubble burst.

This is one of the reasons why many people call it the lost 30 or [-] years.

And Zhu Yuxing is willing to give a salary of 50 yen from the beginning, which is enough to make a down-and-out manga artist excited.

By the way, a down-and-out cartoonist, and a little famous...

Daigo Ikeda instantly remembered Mr. Tsuchiya, who was chatting with the editor earlier.

After the first work debuted at the peak, it plummeted.

Although he has not yet reached the level of making ends meet, life has gradually become a little bit worse. Some famous cartoonists were very generous at the beginning, and some even went into debt after the bubble burst and eventually collapsed.

Mr. Tugu was lucky. On the eve of the bubble burst, when the quality of his comics was not very high, he devoted himself to studying how to draw comics well, and he did not spend much money.

Or, this is another kind of luck.

If you can help him find this job, at least for a short time, he will no longer have to worry about starving to death without comic income.

After a while of precipitation, if Mr. Tugu makes a comeback, perhaps his grades will skyrocket again.

Thinking of this, Dawu Ikeda immediately said: "If it is this salary, then I have nothing to say. I don't think anyone will refuse this kind of payment."

If a stranger suddenly approached him and said what he had just said, he would probably be regarded as a liar, or a lunatic.

However, this is Mr. Yazi's child, and just by virtue of Mr. Yazi's reputation, his child is absolutely impossible to deceive people because of this trivial matter.

So, he was ready to introduce Mr. Tugu to Zhu Yuxing.

"Tsuchiya Sansuke, Zhuyou-kun, have you heard of this teacher? He has a relatively famous comic work."

"No, I don't really understand."

He doesn't know much about many famous people in this world.

This is equivalent to the parallel world of his previous life. Many celebrities are different, and after crossing over, he has devoted most of his time to making games, and has no time to study those celebrities in this world.

Therefore, he would think of asking his mother to help him find a suitable candidate.

"I think this teacher Tugu should meet your standards very well and has a certain reputation, but... the quality of the works in recent years has not been very good, so the popularity has gradually declined."

Zhu Yuxing understood immediately.

In the past life, there are not a few cartoonists who made their debut at the peak.

This kind of cartoonist is often not bad at drawing, and most of them have problems in the writing of the story.

Comics can really eat talent sometimes.

Some cartoonists who are neurotic can attract people with neurotic stories, but their drawing skills don't necessarily need to be very good.

However, some cartoonists have tried their best to study the plot, but in the end they can only stop at the entry level, which is disappointing. In the end, they can only improve their drawing skills painstakingly, but it is difficult to stop the decline.

"I'll give you Mr. Tugu's contact information... No, I'll contact him now, or go to your place."

Daigo Ikeda is reluctant to give up such an opportunity to make money.

He must win it for Mr. Tugu.

After all, Mr. Tugu was trained by him once, and he didn't want Mr. Tugu to be completely devastated.

"Don't be so polite. We'll meet at the magazine office. It's good for both parties. Otherwise, it will appear that I disrespect the teacher too much."

"Okay, then I'll contact Mr. Tugu now."

Zhu Yuxing agreed to meet at the magazine, which is what Ikeda Daigo wanted to see most.

Because he also wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of person Zhu Youxing was.

Judging from the age of Master Masako, I am afraid that Zhu Yuxing will be very young.

Starting a business at such a young age and seeming to be starting a whole new kind of entertainment sounds amazing.

And he also really wanted to see what the so-called formula book would be.

(End of this chapter)