Chapter 166 Current Situation and Conversation

6.03%

It is the average ratings of the twelfth episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Its highest instantaneous ratings were 6.39% at the end and the lowest at the beginning, still hovering in the 5.8% range.

But in the end.

This episode still broke 6% in ratings.

This is no longer a category in the animation field, but the TV series with the highest ratings from the TV series, variety shows, animations, movies, adventures, outdoor, documentaries and many other programs in the Dragon Kingdom’s summer market this year from April to June.

A truly phenomenal work in the Dragon Kingdom cultural works market this year.

The popularity of Puella Magi Madoka Magica grew so fast that the entire television and animation industries had no time to react. All they saw was that it was so popular that it left competing works of the same period far behind.

Even the employees in Xia Yan's company looked in disbelief at this time.

In fact, they were already dizzy when the unprecedented ratings data of the ninth episode of this animation appeared.

A group of stragglers in the animation industry, many of whom were unwanted by other companies and had a bad relationship with their leaders, got together and created such an animation.

It felt like being hit by a pie from the sky, making them dizzy.

Especially Yao Jiyong, the animation director of Magic Circle, do you know what the industry is saying about him now?

An animation wizard who is rare in ten years. He has been working in the industry for twenty years and has only sharpened his sword for the present.

Yao Jiyong himself didn't sleep last night. He spent the whole night watching the industry's comments praising him, which made him so embarrassed.

He knew very well that for the work he played in this animation, strictly speaking, he fulfilled most of the director's responsibilities, which were the basic skills of animation creation.

The art style of this work is determined, the painting style is determined, the performance of the battle scenes is determined, the music style is determined, and even the music creation is determined

Xia Yan was very involved in it.

Although he does not know much about animation production, he can give suggestions.

And it's not the kind of advice that a layman makes blindly. His suggestions, which determine the style of key parts of the work, have been proven by the market to be correct.

I don’t know how this animation layman can have such a vicious vision and understand nothing, but his suggestions are so useful.

Could it be said that he is also a genius in the field of animation production?

Yao Jiyong fell into deep thought.

However, the outside world does not know these things, and they all think they are due to him, the director Yao Jiyong.

He certainly enjoys being touted by the industry as well.

Yao Jiyong knew that his 20-year career in the industry was now over.

From today on, he will officially join the ranks of the first-line animation directors in the Dragon Kingdom animation industry.

He is the chief animation director of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. This background and resume are enough for him to enjoy the dividends of Madoka Magica's works in the industry until his retirement.

So when he came to the company today, the smile on his face when he saw Xia Yan, the company's chairman, definitely came from the bottom of his heart.

The three directors of the company, Xia Yan, Song Lingjun, and Tang Yin, were all present. There were only a few people in the company, so everyone was called to the conference room for a meeting.

At the meeting, the first words Xia Yan said made everyone excited.

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica's animation is a huge success. Everyone's bonuses will not be small."

With Puella Magi Madoka Magica achieving such excellent results, it can be said that the investment in the production of the work will be at least ten times in the animation market, and more than twenty times will be returned to the company.

There will definitely be employee bonuses.

And it will be rich.

Xia Yan is not a stingy person. He knows this very well. No matter how talented a stingy boss is, it is useless. The company will definitely not develop.

The dividends from the single book of his parasitic beast are basically all received now.

After being released for half a year, a total of six volumes of single volumes were sold, with an average sales of 5.6 million copies. The total sales volume of the entire single volume in the Dragon Kingdom was more than 33 million copies.

The money was not directly transferred to Xia Yan's personal bank account, but to "Blue Star Culture", a company established by Xia Yan's identity. Otherwise, the personal income tax of more than 30% will be deducted, which is too high.

The amount of money deposited into Xia Yan's company account was around 27 million.

As for the use of the money, Xia Yan lent it all from "Blue Star Culture" to "Xia Tang Animation" in the name of borrowing.

Reserved as production funds for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica Theatrical Animation "Rebel Story".

All in all, Xia Yan didn't understand these things, but the people in Liuli Publishing House's legal department did. They knew what rich novelists like them would do when they got the money, and they had already made some reasonable tax avoidance plans for them. ♦♦  ♦♦

"However, the bonus payment will be delayed for a period of time." Xia Yan made it clear.

"Because all the money in the company's account now will be used to produce the theatrical version of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's animated film "Rebellion Story."

As soon as this was said, the employees also expressed their understanding.

No matter how popular Magic Circle is, you will have to wait until the sales of the works in the peripheral and two-dimensional markets are released before you can make any profits.

The entire company has been established for half a year now, so far.

Not a penny came in, it was all supported by the three directors.

Tang Yin later borrowed another million from her father and friends to invest in the company. Later, Song Lingjun also made millions due to the popularity of his new novel "The Blade of the Other Side" and also borrowed this money. Gave it to Xia Yan.

After all, while the Magic Circle Animation was being broadcast on the TV station, Xia Yan still had as much money as he could, so he invested as much money into promoting the work and buying hot search terms on search websites.

The 16 million used to produce the main animation of Magic Circle was the copyright income from Xia Yan’s previous trip to the moon and the name of the unknown flower.

The subsequent purchase of 13 million TV stations was made up of Xia Yan's remaining money, the monthly passive income from each of his previous works, the remuneration for the serialization of Parasite Beast, and a few million borrowed from Song Lingjun.

Now that Magic Circle Animation has just finished, a large number of people from overseas countries are indeed flocking to discuss licensing cooperation with Xia Tang Animation for animation broadcast rights.

But it will take at least a month or two for the money to arrive.

But the production of Magic Circle animation must not only be done quickly, but also be done well.

We have to take advantage of the popularity of Magic Circle and quickly launch it within three months of its peak popularity after the completion of the TV animation, in order to maximize profits.

Part of the more than 20 million yuan of Parasite's single-book remuneration will be reserved as animation production funds, and part will be reserved as promotional funds for Puella Magi Madoka Magica's theatrical version, TV animation bd, and peripheral sales.

The rent for the company's office building is due, and it has to raise millions to pay the rent.

After all, the rent here is ridiculously expensive in this magical city.

Xia Yan really couldn't spare the funds to pay bonuses to employees.

He had wanted to buy a handsome sports car since before he entered college, but it was still just a concept.

Really, no money

Only now did Xia Yan realize the difficulties faced by those entrepreneurs. Every time they took a step forward and the company expanded its business, the funds required increased exponentially.

He, Xia Yan, has been able to earn tens of millions of dollars from several consecutive works. Even if he is so poor, let alone those who are self-made.

But we only need to persist for two more months, until the animation revenue from Magic Circle comes in one after another.

That's completely different.

The revenue of Magic Circle Animation is at least measured in hundreds of millions.

After all, the market size of Dragon Kingdom, or the size of the two-dimensional market in this world, is so large. Compared with the market of 100 million people in the parallel world island country, that is the comparison between adults and children, not on the same level.

The content of the meeting will not only explain the company's development goals and directions in the next few months.

The most important thing is to recruit people.

The Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV animation itself has only a small amount of funds, and there is no other way to do it. How much money can be done?

But the theatrical version of "The Story of Rebellion" is different. The production team will be strengthened if it can be strengthened. Even if there are not enough people for animation production, it should be outsourced and find some good companies to do it. Don't be like the fourth episode of Magic Circle. Episode seven is the same as episode eight. Although it is some uncritical scenes and does not involve the protagonist, the outsourcing team's painting made people's faces collapse, and Xia Yan also felt extremely awkward.

After a meeting, everyone in the company left full of fighting spirit.

Xia Yan, Song Lingjun and Tang Yin were the only three people left in the conference room.

"Where should we go shopping together?" Tang Yin looked at the two of them with a smile on her fair and beautiful face.

"I don't care. There are no elective courses this afternoon. Where are you, Song Lingjun?" Xia Yan looked at the time and said.

"It doesn't matter to me. I'll just skip class when the time comes." Song Lingjun thought for a moment and said.

"Hey, you, a person who has just entered school and is now ranked first in our major, don't say such things lightly. I will feel guilty." Xia Yan complained decisively after hearing this.

"Guilt?" Song Lingjun looked at Xia Yan in confusion.

"Before you met me, you must have never skipped a class in your life. This makes me seem like a bad friend, leading you to learn bad things." Xia Yan said.

"Well, that's true." Song Lingyun thought carefully, nodded, then looked at Xia Yan's stiff expression, and smiled slightly.

"However, that's what I chose to learn from."

"Come on, why don't you just skip the elective class and make a big deal out of it?" Tang Yin curled her lips.

For several months, Xia Yan and Tang Yin were busy with the Magic Yuan broadcast. Song Lingjun, in addition to routinely participating in voting as a company director, was also busy with the serialization of his new novel The Hidden Blade. To be honest, the three of them had free time together like this. When we gathered together, it went back to half a year ago.

The three of them came to the commercial street near the company, eating, drinking, having fun and shopping, of course on the way.

Both Xia Yan and Song Lingjun met fans who knew them on the road and asked to take photos.

Xia Yan and the two quickly bought masks and brought them with them, otherwise some news might be spread by fans in the Longguo Novel Forum community tomorrow.

In the amusement park, Xia Yan controlled the joystick and played with the claw machine.

"Xia Yan, what are your plans next?"

Tang Yin sat on the chair next to her, looked at the grappling hook controlled by Xia Yan, and suddenly asked.

"Plan?" Xia Yan replied to Tang Yin, but the movements of his hands were not affected.

"What's the meaning."

"The company now has a total of seventy-one people from top to bottom. There are basically no new people. They are all backbone personnel in the industry and their salaries are not low. Their monthly salary expenses exceed one million, plus the company's rent, water, electricity, and equipment , the operating costs have not been low this year. Although the income of Puella Magi Madoka Magica is high, we cannot just sit back and rest on our laurels. It will not take long for the theatrical version of this work to be produced, so we have to think about it. After turning over the book, the direction of the company’s operations has changed.”

Song Lingjun was drinking milk tea next to him, with her ears slightly tilted, listening carefully to the conversation between the two.

Indeed, as the operator of a company, at least the company's operating direction must be decided a long time in advance.

Madoka Magica became a god in the animation industry, and Xia Tang Animation also became popular with Madoka Magica.

At this time, if Xia Yan wants to have a more ambitious development in the animation industry, he must plan ahead now.

Xia Yan put the coin into the claw machine again, and his eyes condensed.

"I know."

Starting a company and starting a business are different from Xia Yan writing a novel. After the light novel is finished, it is normal for the author to have no new works in Longguo for half a year or a year.

But animation companies are different. The cost of employees is very high.

"I am so poor now that I can't even afford a car I like, so how can I have extra money to support idle people." Xia Yan smiled.

"I will come up with a new animation script as soon as possible."