Chapter 504 Welcome to the New Year

After the time entered February, the magic capital, and even the entire dragon country, gradually became busy.

For many industries, employees are on vacation during this time period, and the new round of Spring Festival travel in Longguo started as early as ten days ago.

Although there are a lot fewer people on the street, the so-called less is only relative to the usual. In fact, near Chu Yu's residence, if you don't go out at the right time, you will feel very crowded whether you are driving or walking.

After finishing the New Year's affairs, Chu Yu asked his two comic assistants and most of the animation studio to go back on vacation.

At the dinner party last night, a group of people were very drunk. Of course, after drinking, it was the much-anticipated bonus session.

For the whole year of 2023, Chu Yu's work on comics is only Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. After a year of serialization, the prequel serialization ended, and the main story serialization plan was opened in the middle of the year. This work is finally a little bit at the end of the year. After making Chu Yu satisfied for a while, he finally reached the fifth position in the more than 20 serial comics in Xuanjing Journal.

For a comic that has only been serialized for a year, this result is already very good, but after all, it is still far from Chu Yu's goal of reaching the top.

But there is no way to do it. Comics such as Hokage and Pirates in the parallel world are not at their peak as soon as they come out. The popularity of Slam Dunk was relatively sluggish at the beginning of the serialization. Some bad boy fighting scenes, revitalize the popularity! It was also during the serialization of this plot that the idea of ​​letting him play basketball came up. After all, comics have a long serialization cycle, and popularity and other things also slow down.

Animation is different. It is true that Chu Yu is so famous in Longguo now that he was even rated as one of the top ten outstanding young people in 2023 by Modu, mainly because of his achievements in animation.

For the whole year of 2023, Chu Yu produced the first season of the rebellious Lelouch, Magical Girl's small round theater version, the first season of White Album 2, the second season, Miss Kaguya Wants Me to Confess, etc. Animation, relying on these works, within a year, Chu Yu's income from broadcasting, peripheral sales, copyright sales, etc., is about four or five billion yuan a year, and even now Chu Yu doesn't do anything, his past cartoons , animation and other works, after calculating the revenue share, there will be millions of revenue in a month, and this revenue will continue for the next few years.

By the end of the year, Chu Yu will sum up the money in his various bank cards, excluding the estimated income of the second season of White Album 2 and the second season of Rebellious Lelouch. Only the past deposits plus the income during this period of time, Chu Yu's assets in the account have reached 680 million. Of course, the income in the past few months at the end of the year is mainly from the magical girl Madoka and the rebellious Lu Luxiu. The peripheral sales of this work are the largest, and the peripheral sales of White Album 2 are also good, but they are not quite as good as the previous two.

After all, the handsome figurine that Miao Yuan turned into the god of magic sells for more than 5,000 on the Internet. The various models in the rebellious Lelouch are like Lancelot, Red Lotus, Rogue and so on. Hundreds to thousands.

Even one day, Huang Ming asked Chu Yu to draw a sexy original picture of cc and said that it was for publicity. Who knew that Huang Ming would use this original picture to make a cc figure with water heart for his partner. The name of the original painting was promoted. Although it is true that the figure is really big and beautiful, and it is also very sexy and has various glare decorations, but Chu Yu feels that the price of more than 10,000 is a bit exaggerated, but it is even more outrageous. It's the kind of thing that a thousand people actually order.

Of course, only 1,000 of them were sold because the limited release quantity is 1,000. There is a feeling of hunger marketing, but fans just eat this set.

From Chu Yu's point of view, who would spend so much money on a toy? Chu Yu is so rich, he would not buy these, not because he thinks it's expensive, but because he thinks it's not worth it. . For a few dollars, he will buy it for collection!

But in fact, there are really a lot of rich people in Longguo, and not only in Longguo, but also in Europe and the United States when Lelouch was introduced, and after Xiaoyuan animation, these things also sold rapidly.

Coupled with some cos suits, Blu-ray discs, toys, etc. In this copyrighted world, the income channels of these works are various, and they are far more profitable than the parallel world.

This is also the reason why Chu Yu's wealth has grown so fast this year, 15 to 60 percent are the proceeds from the two works of Mo Yuan and Lu Lu Xiu. .

To be honest, sometimes Chu Yu felt that he was getting money faster than he was stealing money. After all, if a robber robbed one million a day, he wouldn't be able to steal that much money in a year! And with his current assets, the interest in the bank is several million a year.

Therefore, Chu Yu naturally wouldn't care too much about going to the studio for dinner and drinking last night and giving out bonuses by the way.

Originally, Chu Yu said that it would be done by simply punching their card, but Huang Ming strongly advocated finding gold, because from his previous work experience, the money punched in the card didn't feel like it, as if the number had increased, but there were Once, Jiuxing was so excited when he found out that Jin was giving him a bonus!

So Chu Yu listened to Huang Ming, and at the scheduled time, he went to the bank to get hundreds of jins of 100-yuan Dragon National Coins, and Huang Ming and Huang Ming were so tired that they carried them to the place where the dinner was held. Second bonus.

To be honest, the two big sacks of money in front of him were indeed a bit shocking. It was clearly only a small sum of less than 10 million in Chu Yu's eyes, but when he saw such a pile of money, he was stunned for a few seconds. , Chu Yu really felt the meaning of Huang Ming's number theory, and it is indeed exciting to see real objects in front of them.

Some of the animation studio employees who received the money did tremble when they held a few stacks of bonuses in their hands.

There is no way to do this. Although the Dragon Kingdom animation industry is different from the parallel world, it is the improvement of copyright awareness, but one thing is the same. The salary of animation staff is the same as that in the parallel world.

In the animation industry of Longguo, a young painter who just graduated is not exhausted, earning a salary of three or five k, but still working in 997, like Chu Yu, if their animation studio has created so many films Works, but the situation of huge profits, the whole dragon country is the only case.

After all, the works that Chu Yu came up with are all works that have been tested by the parallel world market. He really has no interest in doing ordinary works, and it is natural to have such a rate of return.

But in fact, in the animation world, how can it be so beautiful? Many works are produced at a loss, and some peripherals and the like may be added to barely save the capital. Just like the film market, the annual highest box office film may be 5 or 6 billion. Box office But perhaps, the total box office of the Longguo film market for that whole year was only 50 to 60 billion.

One work occupies one-tenth of the annual revenue of the entire market, but in a whole year, Dragon Kingdom may produce thousands of movies but those hundreds of movies that lose money, who cares?

In all corners of the magic capital, there are many animation works that cannot be recovered after the cost is made, and it is a small animation studio that cannot afford three or four thousand salaries during the New Year.

As for people like Chu Yu, the per capita bonus of 100,000 yuan may not be available in those large animation salaries.

Although Chu Yu felt that the money he made was nothing compared to what he earned, the employees felt that Chu Yu was the Buddha, and he could only sigh.

There were seventy to eighty people in the animation studio. Anyway, in the end, Chu Yu could sense from the enthusiasm of the studio members who were toasting at the dinner party. These people seemed to really like him, and they looked at him with dismay. Light.

This night, everyone was very drunk, but Chu Yu, who had already prepared, booked a room at a nearby hotel before drinking, and asked a few girls who didn't drink and the hotel waiter to help everyone fall asleep before taking a taxi back. home

But no matter what, the staff dinner had passed the next day, and Chu Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Early in the morning, Chu Yu got up and started his long-awaited game time, with the sound of the keyboard crackling throughout.

Although there are still three or four days to celebrate the New Year, for Chu Yu, in 2023, his Lunar Year of the Rabbit has ended.

The manga work, the animation work, is over.

In the next time, he can rest well for more than a week, be a salted fish essence, think about nothing, do nothing, just stay at home lying dead or play games.