Chapter 338

Meng Huo only stayed in Tokyo for half a day. After assigning the work of setting up a new editorial department, he was ready to leave.

However, Meng Huo just walked out of Sakura animation company, and a scene that surprised him appeared. Twenty or thirty cartoonists stood at the door of Sakura animation company. They looked excited, and each of them had a happy face. When they saw Meng Huo coming out, these cartoonists poured in. They expressed their gratitude to Meng Huo excitedly, and several female cartoonists almost cried.

"Teacher He Xi, thank you for giving us the chance!"

"Teacher He Xi, your decision is too timely!"

Meng Huo was a little surprised. When he learned the specific reason, he was sweating behind his back.

He didn't pay much attention to the situation of comics before. He didn't expect that the competition of Phoenix company's comics had become so terrible that he almost drove all the new cartoonists away, which made Meng Huo a little afraid. But at the same time, he was also glad that he made the action to expand the magazine in time, otherwise Phoenix company would lose a lot.

He comforted the cartoonists and returned to Ninghai.

After returning to Ninghai, the senior management of Phoenix company continued to discuss the details of the magazine, but they met with very big differences on the specific classification criteria. At last, on the proposal of Meng Huo and Xu Jing, everyone reached a not very satisfied but qualified result, and the new magazine was smoothly submitted to the government for approval.

Let's talk about the final result. Because Ninghai publishing house and the editorial department tried their best to keep the magazine, the editorial department of weekly youth continued to stay in Ninghai. The magazine's positioning was clear. In the future, it mainly included hot-blooded youth comics of "fantasy", "battle", "friendship" and "victory", which was also the best-selling type of comics, "The pirate king" and "dream eater" continue to be serialized above.

The editorial department of weekly girls moved to Suhua, focusing on the kingly elements of girls' comics such as "love", "Idol" and "Romance", while the real life version of YINGLAN university men's public relations department and other comics continued to be serialized in weekly girls.

There are also two new magazines. These two new magazines will use the same name - "weekly Gemini". Weekly Gemini is divided into men's edition and women's edition. For the convenience of work and sales statistics, the serial time of these two magazines is Monday and Tuesday《 Su Hua's new company is in charge of the men's edition of Gemini, while Sakura's company is in charge of the women's edition.

Gemini weekly is different from the previous two magazines in its kingly orientation. It absorbs a wider range of subjects, and will accept any subject matter, preferring to explore the charm of minority subjects《 Detective Conan, as a popular detective cartoon, was moved to the men's edition of Gemini weekly. Phoenix hopes this work can open the market of Gemini weekly.

The pirate king and Detective Conan stay in the same magazine. It's not cost-effective to compete with each other. This time they are serialized separately, which is also conducive to long-term stability.

The final decision has been made. Although there are still many problems, it has stabilized on the whole. The editorial departments of the four magazines are located in different regions, but they are closely related to each other. Except for the different publishing locations, the sales channels are unified. Moreover, the editorial departments of the three regions all have a very important responsibility - delivering manuscripts.

This is the main reason for Meng Huo to disperse the editorial department. Cartoonists in each region, no matter what type of cartoons they are, can submit their manuscripts nearby, and the editorial department should deliver these manuscripts to the corresponding editorial department to form a system of mutual cooperation. In order to reduce the friction of these editorial departments, Meng Huo also specially asked the personnel department to strengthen the personnel flow of these editorial departments.

Subsequently, Phoenix company officially announced the addition of new magazines.

As soon as the news came out, the whole cartoon industry was scared. Even people who were not in the cartoon industry were also shocked by the news.

"Phoenix company will launch two new magazines at once. This step is too big!" Li Ming, the editor in chief of Longteng's novels, is one of them. He jumped up as soon as he got the news. Later, Li Ming sent a congratulatory letter to Meng Huo, and then invited Ye Xiong, chief editor of Phoenix comics, to dinner.

"Who made the decision?"

Eating is just an excuse. Li Ming pays more attention to the details behind the scenes: "suddenly add two new magazines. You are standing opposite Longteng company this time. It's not like Chairman Xu's courage!"

The significance of Phoenix's adding two new magazines is extraordinary. The magazine is the cornerstone of all the business of the cartoon company. With the expansion of two magazines, the number of cartoonists represented by Phoenix company is close to that of Zhongxia company. The number of cartoonists is the driving force for the development of the company. With enough cartoonists, Phoenix company has a real threat to Zhongxia company.

With the huge reserve of cartoonists and He Xi, if two new magazines of Phoenix company develop, it will be hard to be knocked down again. But this is also a very dangerous step. The risk of developing new magazines is quite great. Not only Zhongxia company, but also many other cartoon companies will pour out a sense of fear, which is likely to trigger collective confrontation."That's what you know." Ye Xiong said with a smile, "Teacher He Xi is the only one who can make this decision, right?"

“……”

Li Ming was a little surprised. The answer is not hard to guess, even easy to say.

Years ago, it was rumored that He Xi would control Phoenix company, but the subtext of that news was different from that of now. Although everyone said He Xi was the new owner of Phoenix company, there were not many people who actually believed in him. In other words, we all think that although he Xi controls the two branches at this stage, the principal of Phoenix company will be Xu Jing in a few years.

However, as soon as this incident happened, people's thoughts were shocked. Phoenix company hasn't officially started work in Suhua, but the decision to add a new magazine was made in Ninghai. According to principle, it was Xu Jingcai who decided the magazine. Li Ming was surprised when he told ye Xiong the truth. He Xi took power earlier than he and everyone imagined.

"Teacher He Xi really goes further and further..." Li Ming drinks tea and says with some regret. He was expecting to let He Xi write a novel again, but this time he completely gave up. As a controller of a cartoon company, that young man can no longer switch to another company.

"Is he not afraid of the suppression of Zhongxia?"

He couldn't help asking, and then felt that his question was very silly: "forget it, when I didn't ask, teacher He Xi was not afraid of midsummer before, and now there's no reason to be afraid of them."

Ye Xiong nodded.

"Zhongxia company has obtained the copyright of Mr. He Xi's" clannad "animation. They want to make up with our company." After a pause, he continued: "I don't think they can come out and make trouble at this time. If they do this, they will tear their face with teacher He Xi. Teacher He Xi will be very angry."

He saw through Zhongxia's unwillingness to offend He Xi. In fact, from the moment he bought "clannad", Zhongxia had no chance to confront Meng Huo.

In Zhongxia company, Ding Yanghua only broke his teeth to swallow after hearing the news. He was drinking cold water in the office, pacing around, constantly comforting himself: "it doesn't matter, it's just two new magazines, nothing big can happen... I can't get angry, I can't turn over with He Xi at this critical moment!"

It's not easy to get back together. Even if Phoenix company launches two new magazines, Zhongxia company will hold back its panic. They can't lose both sides with He Xi any more. The next few years will be the golden age of the comic industry. If they miss this era of rapid development, they won't have another chance in the next 100 years.

"Genius, in the final analysis, is still the problem of cartoon genius!"

Ding Yanghua calms down. He Xi can appear in the comic circle. Then there may be a second one. Zhongxia just needs to wait, and then dig out a cartoonist with such talent as He Xi in a few years. Relying on their huge financial resources and perfect packaging, that cartoonist will surely be more popular than He Xi. Zhongxia still has great hope.

"I have to persuade the second young master, what kind of animated movies he plays there, how can his achievements in that field be comparable to those in comics..."

This idea flashed through Ding Yanghua's mind.

Then two more days passed. On February 13, Phoenix company officially opened its business. On February 14, Shina was on sale. At noon on the same day, Meng Huo and Alice got on the high-speed railway to Suhua.

This is the beginning of the most turbulent year in the history of comics