Hong Kong Comic Master

“……

Seiya, you are all brave boys!

Seiya, tomorrow's warrior!

Seiya, you are just like Pegasus!

Seiya, spread your wings now!

…”

Coming out of the bedroom, Chung Chuhong found Li Wannian sitting on the sofa watching TV.

He was so serious that he completely ignored the fact that his son was holding a watercolor pen and painting a mask on his face.

Sure enough, it's good to be alive when a father takes care of the baby!

“Little ancestor, what are you doing again? Wannian, is this how you take care of your child?”

Quickly came to the sofa in the living room and picked up his son from the carpet. At this time, his son's face could be described in one word, that is... colorful!

“Hey, what are you doing?”

In the past, Chung Chuhong would scold Li Wannian and he would respond immediately.

But this time, Chung Chuhong didn't wait for Li Wannian's response for a long time, so she looked over curiously and found that Li Wannian was still watching TV intently.

"Ah? What?"

Finally, Li Wannian came back to his senses and looked at Chung Chuhong with a puzzled look.

"What are you watching so seriously? Cartoons?"

At this time, Chung Chuhong turned her head to look at the TV and found that it was a cartoon.

"You watch a cartoon so seriously, and it's a TVB cartoon?"

"This is a Japanese cartoon!"

"So what? Doesn't TVB always broadcast Japanese cartoons?"

Faced with Chung Chuhong's confusion, Li Wannian did not continue to explain, but continued to watch TV.

"Forget it, I'd better wash the child! It's so dirty!"

Seeing that Li Wannian looked absent-minded at the moment, Chung Chuhong was too lazy to pay attention to him, so she took the child to the bathroom, leaving Li Wannian still sitting there, looking at the TV with gloomy eyebrows.

In fact, let alone Chung Chuhong, even in the whole Hong Kong Island, no one cared about the Japanese cartoons broadcast by TVB, even TVB itself!

Over the years, TVB has fallen behind in the competition with Phoenix TV. The most important point is that the children who used to watch Li Wannian's animation have grown up, and many of them have even started their own families and have their own children.

In addition, the older generation has passed away, so under the renewal driven by time, the number of users of TVB has begun to decrease, while the number of users of Phoenix TV has increased, and the market share has also expanded.

As for ATV, it had already begun to decline long before the Qiu family sold its shares to the Lin family, and now its market share is almost less than 15%.

TVB naturally does not want to follow in the footsteps of ATV, so it saves itself from all aspects.

Don't say, with their three axes cut down, the effect is actually quite good.

The animation part is mainly based on the introduction of Japanese animation, which has snatched a part of Phoenix TV's share.

In fact, TVB began to introduce Japanese animation more than ten years ago.

It's just that when the effect was not obvious at that time, TVB reduced the expenses in this regard, resulting in them not being able to introduce a few Japanese animations a year, which is not enough to defeat Phoenix TV's dominant position in the animation market.

So, they gave up on this market completely. Although the TV producers in the station are still working hard, they don't have much money, so they can't make any good works and can only survive there.

However, since last year, the wireless station has discovered that the future of the TV station can be controlled by young people, which makes them pay attention to the youth market again, so they spend a lot of money to buy the latest and most popular animations from Japan.

Don't say it, it really works!

And this "Saint Seiya" is one of the best!

The animation "Saint Seiya" is adapted from the comic of the same name by Japanese cartoonist Masami Kurumada, produced by Toei Animation, and started broadcasting in December 1986.

As for the original comic, it was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" in December 1985.

In fact, at the beginning, Li Wannian also wanted to copy this comic, but he had too much work at the time and had no time to draw it.

Later, Li Wannian also considered poaching the author Masami Kurumada to "Weekly Shonen Century", but Masami Kurumada had serialized comics in "Weekly Shonen Jump" as early as 1974, and her relationship with Shueisha was not something that Li Wannian could poach!

In fact, although Li Wannian had tried very hard to fleece the Japanese comics, they were really wealthy and powerful. Even if he did so, they still had a lot of wealth, and they still had excellent comics such as "Fist of the North Star", "Urusei Yatsura", and "Saint Seiya".

So, after Li Wannian relied on his own strength to resist the Japanese comics throughout the 1980s, when it was about to enter the 1990s, the Japanese comics still relied on their scale advantages to spread into Hong Kong Island.

Maybe for others, this is a trivial matter, but for Li Wannian, it is not a trivial matter.

Because this represents a signal, that is, the Japanese comics industry has sounded the clarion call for a counterattack.

"It's over, why are you still watching?"

After an unknown amount of time, Chung Chuhong came out of the bathroom holding her washed son and saw Li Wannian still sitting on the sofa watching TV, while the cartoon on TV had ended and GG was playing.

Obviously, Li Wannian was not watching TV at all.

"Huh? Oh, it's over!"

Li Wannian, who had just reacted, switched the TV station to Phoenix TV.

"You, you have been worried since just now, what happened?"

Chung Chu-hung, who had finished her work at this time, sat beside Li Wannian with her son in her arms and said with concern.

"Nothing, I'm just worried that the comics industry in Hong Kong will be impacted by Japan!"

"What's this? Hasn't it always been impacted? What's there to worry about?"

"Forget it, I can't explain it to you clearly. What's the result of the "Ulongyuan" incident?"

"It has been signed. Under our insistence, Zhu Yanping had no way to object. He just delayed for two days and finally signed the contract reluctantly."

Speaking of this, Chung Chu-hung recalled the scene of the signing, especially Zhu Yanping's expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry, which made her laugh.

"He can make money from this, it's just that he makes less money, why would he be unwilling?"

At this point, Li Wannian sighed and continued: "People always fight for the little profits in front of them!"

"You always worry about things that haven't happened yet!"

At this time, Zhong Chuhong tapped Li Wannian's tight brows with her finger.

"Okay, okay, I'm not worried!"

Looking at Zhong Chuhong comforting himself, Li Wannian smiled back and stretched out his right hand to Zhong Chuhong.

"Hey, what are you doing? The child is still here!"