Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 181 The Benefits of Falling from the Sky
After finishing the phone call with Eiichi Jinbo, Hideki Hanyu looked at Kyoko Koizumi who was still engrossed in her homework.

"What the hell are you doing, little fairy?"

"Doesn't the teacher like it?" Koizumi Kyoko said softly.

"It seems that during this period of time, because you are running publicity outside, I have too few classes."

After Mr. Hanyu finished speaking, he began to teach the little fairy by precepts and deeds.

……

For Hideki Hanyu, going to class is just an adjustment in life.

Most importantly, the buzz around his nomination for the Kate Greenway Award has finally died down.

He finally didn't need to worry about reporters chasing him, and he could go out and start activities.

However, because he had accumulated a lot of work, he devoted himself to work as soon as he came out.

The first is the release of Vitality Girl's fourth single. He mainly focuses on sales and word of mouth.

The first is sales, with the number of record reservations reaching a new high.

The number of reservations of nearly 50 copies proves that the popularity of Vitality Girl is still hot.

In the end, it was no surprise that with an initial sales volume of 54 in the first week, it airborne Oricon's weekly singles chart at No. .

In addition to the neon record market in the country, the first week of overseas shipments of records also exceeded 150 million.

The overwhelming reports and terrifying sales prove that Vitality Girls is still a neon phenomenon-level super idol group.

However, in sharp contrast to the booming sales, it is the polarized professional reputation.

The feedback of the new single overseas and the feedback from fans are not bad.

Although Neon professional music critics thought it was an excellent song, they disagreed on the integration of electronic music style.

But there is one thing that everyone did not expect.

That is, although the new single's professional reputation is polarized, the music of Vitality Girl, which has elements of electronic dance music, unexpectedly became popular in neon nightclubs.

Although Vitality Girl's first song is very popular, but because of the youthful and cute music, it is really not suitable for playing in nightclubs.

This time, the music containing electronic dance music elements, combined with the simple and dynamic dance design, made this song very popular in the night scene.

Hideki Hanyu originally just wanted to try some new elements, but unexpectedly catered to the trend of neon nightlife development.

The influence of the song spread beyond the fan base.

In the words of later generations, it is out of the circle.

The impact of going out of the circle is that the sales curve of this song is extremely weird.

After the sales of 54 copies in the first week, according to the performance of Vitality Girl's previous singles, the sales that should have started to decline sharply, unexpectedly walked out of a curve that almost did not decline.

In the second week, the song sold 47 copies in the Neon Benbang market.

It is a matter of course to continue to win the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.

It can be released for two weeks to break one million sales, which shocked countless people's jaws.

Even Vitality Girl's first three singles all exceeded one million sales.

But that also accumulated over time.

Basically, it was a big hit in the first week, and it was cut in half in the second week.

But what about the fourth single?

Obviously, the professional word-of-mouth is not as good as the first three songs, but just being able to dance in nightclubs, the sales are so explosive?

But for Hideki Hanyu.

The record sales are booming, and the fans have a good reputation. Although the professional reputation is polarized, it is acceptable because of trying new styles.

He was already very satisfied with this achievement.

Therefore, after the first week's sales were released, he actually didn't care much about the situation of Vitality Girl.

Next, apart from the occasional phone call with Jinbo Eiichi who is far away in Osaka to communicate the latest stock market situation, he mainly focused on Spirit Entertainment.

After entering February, the electronic pet Tamagotchi completed the modification according to his suggestion, formally confirmed the prototype, and delivered it to the foundry for production.

Due to the huge amount of stock required by Hideki Hanyu, the requirements for the quality control department are very high.

Outsiders may not know it, but Neon people don't know it yet. The so-called craftsman spirit that is boasted to the outside world is just bragging.

The FC produced by Nintendo itself has had quality problems.

Modifying data and deceiving people is the norm in large factories.

What's more, they are not cooperating with big factories.

Therefore, since mass production began, in order to ensure the production quality of the products, Junzhong Kusamura and the staff of the quality control department were stationed in the foundry every day.

Junzhong Kusamura personally inspected a batch of finished electronic pets before leaving the factory.

Once a quality problem is found, it is immediately required to return to the factory and will not be tolerated.

Because the order quantity of Elf Entertainment is huge, no matter if it is a semiconductor manufacturer, a material factory, or a foundry, they all follow their advice.

In addition to Junzhong Kusamura, Eri Kitahara will also go to the factory for spot checks from time to time.

Spirit Entertainment has only one requirement for the strategic product of Tuomagezi, and that is to be foolproof.

And just when the production of electronic pets is in full swing.

The sales promotion work of Tamagotchi before listing has also started.

The first shot was the "Spirit Cute" comic magazine.

After the story of Tamagotchi coming to reality begins, it is followed by a publicity campaign to draw lucky readers and obtain electronic lives.

As long as you send back the questionnaire according to the requirements of the event, you will have a chance to obtain an unprecedented electronic life.

At first, comic fans thought it was just a magazine stunt.

As a result, among the readers who sent back the questionnaire, the first winner appeared, who really got an electronic pet.

And after being tracked and reported by the game magazine "Game Base".

Everyone unexpectedly discovered that there really is such a thing as electronic life.

In the continuous follow-up report of "Game Base", various news about electronic life are continuously released.

And after winning readers' love for electronic life, everyone gradually became curious about this so-called electronic life.

Driven by curiosity, everyone began to buy the weekly "Elf Cute" comics because they couldn't buy electronic life for the time being.

They want to use the opportunity of the questionnaire to get the magical electronic life in the report that makes players want to stop.

As a result, in a short period of time, the circulation of "Elf Cute" quickly doubled from a little over 20 copies, directly surpassing copies.

And as more and more players won prizes in the questionnaires, news of getting electronic lives began to spread.

Media other than "Game Base" also began to report on the miraculous "electronic life".

The news spread, everyone paid attention to electronic life, and the sales of "Game Base" increased.

The sales of "Game Base" increased, and the detailed reports made everyone interested in electronic life, and they bought "Cute".

Trying to rely on questionnaires to obtain electronic life.

Then I found that electronic life is really fun, spread its influence, and then attracted other media reports.

As a result, more and more people pay attention to electronic life, and more and more people buy "Game Base" and "Elf Cute".

Everyone found that these two magazines are very good.

Gamers can find the latest game introduction strategy in "Game Base".

There are also leaderboards based on sales, market share and ratings.

Comics fans also found that the three serialized comics in the previously unknown comic magazine "Spirit Cute" are also very interesting.

The witty and funny "Mario Brothers".

The friendly and passionate "Kung Fu".

Everyday cute "Tama Gezi".

For a while, the sales of the two magazines began to soar.

The sharp increase in magazine sales has further driven the attention of related games.

The game substrate of "Mario Brothers" has exceeded orders in a single week.

Not to mention "Tama Gezi", under the hype of the media, everyone is already looking forward to the magical electronic life.

Even for "Kung Fu", which has just begun to be tested, there are already regular customers of Elf Entertainment asking when it will be released for sale.

When the time came to the end of February, under the command of Hideki Hanyu, "Game Base" started the promotional campaign of the first "Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Show".

Star advertisements featuring Genki Girls, Nakamori Akina, Matsuda Seiko, MAKE-UP band, and Koizumi Kyoko.

Began to appear frequently in newspapers, magazines, and on television.

Tokyo Cultural Hall, on March th, the first "Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Show" will kick off.

At this time, it is the time when the spring break of the major schools of Neon begins.

Hideki Hanyu set the time at this time, hoping to attract more young people to participate.

Relying on the status of "Game Base" in the field of game promotion, this exhibition attracted more than manufacturers to participate.

Although they are mainly neon game manufacturers, several overseas manufacturers also accepted the invitation.

Many game manufacturers have used "Game Base" to announce that they will announce the next stage of new games at the exhibition.

For example, Elven Entertainment is promoting with great fanfare. At that time, two cross-generational games will be released, and the long-awaited electronic life will be unveiled publicly.

Such a grand event in the game industry has not only attracted the attention of many players, but also attracted the attention of many practitioners.

For example, the buyers of major chain game halls and game sellers will definitely not miss such a grand event.

There is also a manufacturer that is holding back its energy and preparing to make a big move, so it is naturally tempted.

The manufacturer is none other than Nintendo.

Although the stock price in Osaka has been rising recently, Hiroshi Yamauchi, the head of Nintendo, is confused and worried.

But for this Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Show, he certainly didn't want to miss it.

After all, when the exhibition opens, the new factory for the Nintendo FC console will also be completed.

Nintendo's ambitious work, the FC console, also needs a platform to release some news to players.

In the eager anticipation of many game fans, and in the preparations of sellers and manufacturers, Hideki Hanyu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.

In the Yunshang Cultural President's Office, Hideki Hanyu has just approved the layout plan for the exhibition site.

Immediately afterwards, I read the test reports of "Kung Fu" and "Knocking Ice".

These two games are the ones he intends to reveal at the exhibition.

Judging from the test report, Sacred Studios and Mythic Studios have done quite well in terms of game completion.

As for the specifics, he still needs to take the time to see for himself.

Recently, he has to control the overall situation, so he is really busy, and he hasn't been to the studio for a while.

In addition to the test report, Divine Studio and Miracle Studio also submitted their new game development application together.

They intend to join forces and use the story background of "Kung Fu" comics.

Introduce the mechanism of the scroll game, and develop a more difficult horizontal scroll game, Kung Fu Breakthrough game.

The moment he saw the game settings, Hanyu Hideki immediately remembered the later version of "Jackie Chan Kicking the Hall".

For the ambitions of the two studios, Hideki Hanyu is very supportive.

However, he is not very satisfied with the setting of the game mechanism, thinking that it lacks selling points.

However, he did not directly give the setting, but just wrote down the name of Bruce Lee's classic movie "Game of Death".

He hopes that the two studios can learn more from the elements of this movie.

Hideki Hanyu didn't care about whether the final game could be sold well after it was developed.

After all, it is impossible to exercise the team's game development ability without independent training.

The production of "Break the Ice" was stumbling, and how to develop the more difficult "Super Mario Bros."

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a horizontal scrolling game to practice hands first.

Even if you fail, you have to pay the tuition fee.

Besides, the later version of "Jackie Chan Kicks the Pavilion" has sold more than 300 million copies on the FC console.

Even if his high imitation version is no good, it should be no problem to sell it back.

After finishing the work in hand, Hanyu Hideki looked up at his watch, it was past twelve noon.

Unknowingly, the whole morning was busy again.

Getting up and stretching, he was about to have lunch when there was a knock on the office door.

"Please come in."

After he finished speaking, Eri Kitahara pushed the door in.

"Is Kitahara-san going to have lunch too?"

"In fact, I just came back and went to Datian District in the morning to see the progress of the new factory building."

"How is the completion?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

"The surrounding toy factory is already finishing up, and the production machinery is also being debugged. It will be handed over in a few days and workers will be arranged to enter the factory."

"What about the electronics factory?"

"Because the electronics factory is being built from scratch, the construction requirements are relatively high, and the completion will not be until mid-April at the earliest."

"Wouldn't it be May before the official start of production?"

"Counting the recruitment and training of workers, it is not bad to be able to start work in mid-May." Kitahara Eri said.

"That's the only way to go. It seems that Caocun-san will have to work hard for a while."

Hideki Hanyu knew very well that after the completion of the electronics factory, Junchu Kusamura would not only watch over the quality control of the foundry, but also be responsible for the training of employees.

Hard work, that's for sure.

But it's time for that guy to pick a few employees with good abilities to train and promote them to share the pressure.

Later, the scale of production was expanded again, but not only in neon.

In the west, plus North America, Junchu Kusamura can still run on both sides in Tokyo.

But no matter how powerful Kusamura Junchu is, it is impossible for him to learn the avatar technique and run around the world.

Of course, it is not enough to rely on the current employees. We must learn from Hirohashi Asako's practice of painting in the cloud and recruit more backup forces.

Although Yun Shang Pictures still seems to be short of manpower, if you observe carefully, you will find that there are often more than one person in the key positions.

The cultivation of newcomers is going on non-stop.

According to the current training speed, before the bubble economy comes, the talents of Yunying Painting will be self-sufficient.

The same is true for cloud culture.

He had already told Eri Kitahara about this.

Eri Kitahara also ran to talk to Asako Hirohashi about this matter.

Although Hanyu Hideki didn't know what the two strong women said, he had already discovered that Eri Kitahara was making a recruitment plan for the graduation season.

In this way, Hideki Hanyu was very relieved.

Whether it is Yunshang Films or Yunshang Culture, he hopes to lay a solid foundation before the bubble economy starts.

To save yourself from being caught off guard by the sudden burst of the bubble economy.

At that time, the competition for talents was not as easy as it is now.

Famous college students come to apply for a job once, as long as they can catch their eyes, they don't have a lot of money and various benefits, so they don't even try to impress them.

Thinking of this, he took out a document that he had just written during the day and handed it to Eri Kitahara.

"Kitahara-san, take a look."

"what?"

Eri Kitahara took the document and flipped through it, showing a surprised expression.

"Hanyu-san is going to help them buy a house?"

"It's not a direct purchase, but the club advances the down payment and subsidizes part of the loan. It's a benefit and a constraint to prevent core employees from quitting."

Hideki Hanyu explained.

The document he gave to Eri Kitahara was exactly the loan house purchase welfare system that Hirohashi Asako helped formulate.

After Hirohashi Asako formulated the part of Yunshang's picture, he made the part of Yunshang culture based on his reference.

Eri Kitahara joked, "No wonder Hanyu-san helped me buy a house before, because he was afraid that I would quit."

"That's right, of course I can't let a talent like Kitahara-san go easily."

Of course Hideki Hanyu knew that Eri Kitahara was joking.

After all, he bought a house for Eri Kitahara before, and he didn't sign any agreement.

If other employees want to enjoy this benefit, they need to sign a very strict agreement.

Otherwise, Hideki Hanyu is not the Holy Mother, not to prevent them from quitting, so why spend so much money on them.

"There is a list of the first batch of employees who can enjoy benefits at the back of the document. Kitahara-san, take a look. Is there anything you need to add?"

Eri Kitahara turned to the back to check the list carefully, and because there were not many people, she finished it quickly.

Pointing to the list, she asked, "Why is Toshihiko Nakago's name on it? Didn't he pay more than 5000 million for his studio?"

"At that time, Kitahara-san did the formalities, but Kitahara-san didn't even know that he didn't own the studio alone, and the money he could get was only more than 1000 million yuan, which was not enough to buy a house in Tokyo."

"Is that so? I went to Osaka after the talk, and didn't pay attention to the rest of the matter."

Eri Kitahara closed the document, "I have no objection to the list."

"Then leave the rest to Kitahara-san."

"no problem."

"After talking about the business, I'll treat Kitahara-san to lunch. What do you want to eat, though..."

Hanyu Hideki hadn't finished speaking when the phone rang suddenly.

He picked up the phone, and Jinbo Eiichi's voice came from the receiver.

"Boss, Marubeni's fund has started!"

When Hanyu Hideki heard this, he quickly made a helpless expression to Kitahara Eri.

Seeing this, Eri Kitahara knew that Hideki Hanyu's dinner party had failed again.

She smiled slightly, stopped bothering Hideki Hanyu to answer the phone, and left the office on her own initiative.

"What did you do, tell me carefully."

"After Nintendo's stock price reached 340 yen today, Marubeni started to ship in small quantities."

"Didn't I let you catch them all?"

"But the price is already more than double what we paid for it after we entered the venue. Do we still have to accept it?"

Eiichi Jinbo felt that Hideki Hanyu was crazy.

It more than doubled and still took over.

"I'm the boss, I order you to pick up as many as you want!"

According to reports in memory, Nintendo’s stock price peaked at more than 6300 yen two months after the FC console went public.

Don't say it doubled, even if it doubled again, he would dare to pick it up.

"I see, boss."

Eiichi Jinbo could only follow Hideki Hanyu's orders.

……

At the same time, in a mansion in Tokyo, Haruko Naito was sitting with her uncle, listening to reports from her subordinates.

"President, all the orders we sent out for trial have been accepted."

The uncle heard the words and said calmly, "Continue to test, increase the price, and double the order."

"Yes." The subordinate left.

Haruko Naito smiled and said, "Uncle is really cautious."

"The shopping mall is like a battlefield. Even if you are sure, you must proceed with caution."

Not long after the two finished speaking, the subordinate returned to report again.

"President, our order has been accepted again."

Hearing the report from his subordinates, the uncle who had a calm expression just now finally showed a hint of joy.

After all, just these two trials allowed them to earn millions of yen.

The scale of Marubeni is huge, so of course he doesn't pay attention to millions of yen.

But this feeling of making money in the stock market, where everything is under control, made him extremely enjoy it.

But he is not in a hurry, "380 yen, the same single-quantity trial."

"Yes." The subordinate left.

The subordinates came back again and Hui reported, "All have been taken over."

The uncle was finally relieved at this moment, waved his big hand and said, "Follow the plan."

"Yes."

Seeing his subordinate leave, the uncle turned to look at Haruko Naito and asked, "I don't know how much the other party can take?"

Haruko Naito smiled obediently, "Uncle shouldn't be disappointed."

Although Haruko Naito didn't know how much cash Hideki Hanyu had raised.

However, they found out through their relationship that the other party had applied for a mortgage at Dongyang Sogo Bank.

As for how much is mortgaged?Have you paid it off now?

Because Hanyu Hideki is a major client, and Dongyang Sogo Bank does not belong to the No. Bank Consortium.

So even she couldn't find out the specific situation.

But if her judgment is not wrong.

Hideki Hanyu is interested in Nintendo, and that small amount of money is definitely not enough.

The other party probably pledged all the shares of Yunshang Pictures and Yunshang Culture.

Now because of her instigation, my uncle has driven up Nintendo's stock price so much.

The other party dared to put all their eggs in one basket to continue.

As expected of the man she was interested in, he was so courageous.

……

Yunshang Culture, President's Office.

Hideki Hanyu, who hung up the phone call of Hideo Jinbo, sat on the chair, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help talking to himself.

"Fortunately, I made a fortune by shorting Warner Communications. Otherwise, I really have no money to catch the benefits that fell from the sky."

　Thanks for the reward of slow travel book sea
　　
　
(End of this chapter)