My Animation Era

  Chapter 961 Superman and Dragon Ball GT

  The news that Weller Company is looking for a successor for the "Superman" series due to lack of money has already spread all over the world, and the price they expect is no secret.

  $250 million!

   No 998, no 98, only 250 million US dollars, equivalent to about 1.65 billion yuan, can bring home the world-famous "Superman" series.

  This price scares away many people.

  $250 million is definitely worth the money for the "Superman" series at its peak. After all, there were people who joked at that time: "One billion dollars can't buy a thigh of Superman!"

   But that was the peak period.

  As the old saying goes, everyone has a peak period, don't take a moment as forever!

  The "Superman" series has a history of 50 years, such an old IP, and the performance is so poor, how much value is left now?

  Spending so much money to buy the copyright of Superman, assuming a net profit of 25 million a year, it will take a full ten years to pay back.

   So here comes the problem.

   Can the entire series of "Superman" derivatives, including peripheral derivatives, earn 25 million dollars a year?

  The answer is no!

  The Superman series, which has entered the darkest hour, now has a very high global reputation, but the results are so bad, let alone 25 million a year, it can't earn 10 million U.S. dollars a year.

  So the offer made by Weller Company directly scared away 90% of the people, and most of the remaining companies that were very interested in "Superman" had the idea of ​​taking a gamble.

   What to bet?

   Of course, I bet that after I win "Superman", I can bring this series back to life.

   At any rate, it was a superhero anime character that was once a smash hit and enjoyed a high reputation all over the world. Although his life is hanging by a thread now, what if he can live out a second life?

   There are seven animation companies, film and television companies, and even comic companies that hold this idea. Among them, apart from Wanbao, which is a Chinese company, the remaining six are local companies in North America.

   Now it's interesting.

  Seven companies jointly sought to purchase the copyright of the entire series of "Superman", and only Wanbao was a foreign company. As soon as this news came out, many fans of the "Superman" series became anxious.

  Anyone who takes it is acceptable, but it must not be sold to the people of Huaguo!

  Thinking that Superman is very likely to become Huaguo Superman, and being labeled as Huaguo by Wanbao, many North American fans feel as sick as swallowing a fly.

   So, they organized a protest.

   But it’s obviously useless. Weller’s company only cares about money. No matter how much fans protest, they don’t care. On the contrary, they are very happy to see the appearance of Wanbao, a spoiler.

  Because other companies lack confidence in the "Superman" series, they repeatedly asked Wheeler to lower their quotations during the negotiations, and they bought it when it was cheaper.

   Only Wanbao is different.

  Wanbao did not raise any objection to the price, and also stated that even if the copyright is in their hands, the comics will still be handed over to the current author to create.

   Look, what is sincerity?

  Wanbao was so sincere that not only could it accept the offer from Weller, but it would even continue to hire the original author to create comics, which immediately impressed Weller.

  Even though outside fans continued to protest, and various media outlets were appealing that "Superman" must not be sold to a Huaguo animation company, the two parties still reached an agreement.

  【The "Superman" controversy has settled, do you expect the Superman made by the Chinese people? 】

【Shock! Wanbao actually...]

  Wanbao spent 250 million U.S. dollars to successfully purchase the copyright of the entire "Superman" series, and the news spread all over the world almost overnight.

  Huaguo netizens cheered.

  Although Wanbao bought the copyright of Superman, it cannot change anything, but as long as they think that Superman is a Superman belonging to the Chinese people, everyone will be very happy.

  In contrast to the attitude of North American netizens, it is not very friendly.

  Many North American fans even chanted the extreme slogans of "Boycott the comic animation of "Superman"" and "Superman is dead", calling on everyone not to buy the follow-up comics of "Superman", and not to watch the follow-up animation of "Superman" and movies and TV series.

   Not to mention, the momentum is quite huge.

   It's just that Gu Miao was not intimidated by them, on the contrary, he even felt that the current scene was a little indescribably funny.

   Boycott Superman? Don't watch Superman?

  I wondered, before Wanbao took over, you didn't support "Superman", did you? Otherwise, at that time, how could the results of the "Superman" series be so poor?

   "It's just a bunch of monsters."

  Gu Miao smiled, and didn't take these so-called boycott protests to heart.

   If the follow-up works of the "Superman" series are wonderful and good-looking, no matter how much you resist, you can get up. If the follow-up is also bad, does it make a difference if you resist or not?

  …

  Gu Miao stayed for five days.

  On the afternoon of the last day, he met with George, the chairman of Mardete Comic Company, and talked about the acquisition of Mardete.

   But this time there was still no result.

  Old man George is too greedy, perhaps because he learned that Gu Miao had just bought the copyright of the entire series of "Superman", not only did not lower the price, but actually increased the price.

   Are you talking about a hammer?

  Gu Miao is not mentally ill, how could she accept such a condition of sitting on the ground and flying back to her country that night.

  Perhaps it was Gu Miao's actions to fly back to China overnight, which made George, a poor old man, realize that he was too ugly to eat, so the second day after Gu Miao returned to Jiangchuan, he finally let go and lowered the price.

   "Tell him, I won't buy it."

Gu Miao was so angry that she directly said to Dave on the phone: "Now you are talking about sincerity with me, why did you go early? Just tell him that not only will Wanbao not acquire Mardete, but we will also sell Mardete in the North American market." Mardete fucked!"

   After winning the copyright of "Superman", Gu Miao said this with confidence.

  After all, "Superman" is a well-known anime character in the United States. If it can live a second life in the hands of Wanbao, the mere Mardete comic company can easily suppress it.

certainly!

   There are too many problems in the "Superman" series. Wanbao, who just won this IP, still needs to make some adjustments to address these problems. The progress of living the second life may not be so fast.

   But then again...

  Even if "Superman" won't be up for a while, it doesn't matter. After all, Wanbao Comics also has a "super popular" serial work-"Dragon Ball"!

   Just as the manga version of "Dragon Ball Z" is almost finished, it is time to release the manga version of "Dragon Ball GT" to give the manga company a wave of performance.

   Speaking of Dragon Ball GT…

   If Gu Miao remembers correctly, this thing is not a work created by Akira Toriyama, but a sequel to "Dragon Ball Z" produced by Aunt Dong after obtaining authorization?

   It's embarrassing!

  Other works in the Dragon Ball series are easy to talk about, but the legitimacy of "Dragon Ball GT" needs to be verified. Whether Akira Toriyama himself approves of this thing is also a question.

   The biggest problem with GT is that there are no manga...

  (end of this chapter)