Why "Kirin Weekly" sells well has now become a topic that comics practitioners in Asia and the world must study.

The Japanese are the ones who can’t figure it out the most. There are more than 40 comics, and the most popular and influential ones are naturally the three comics weekly magazines.

But these three comic weekly magazines have all reached the point today after more than ten years and decades of hard work. They are not like "Qilin Weekly". The first issue sold 3 million copies, and the third issue was sold out 4 million copies. What does this mean?

The Japanese are very willing to calm down and carefully analyze something.

This time, the editors and editors of their major comic weekly magazines gathered together for the first time and held a brief discussion meeting. You know, when these people meet on weekdays, their first reaction is to strangle the other party to death, and then they can become king. This is definitely the first time they have joined forces to do things in peace.

They broke up the nine comics of "Qilin Weekly" one by one, took a look at them one by one, and studied them for two days before finally coming to the conclusion.

Among these nine comics, the most attractive ones at first glance are "Prince of Tennis", "Inuyasha" and "Saint Seiya", but in fact, "Conan" and "Cherry Maruko" are the best themes that can be serialized for a long time.

Although the theme of the remaining "Transformers" is a bit similar to "MSI Superman", someone asked this question in the first issue. They thought they had seized the handle of "Qilin Weekly", but when they asked TAKARA, they said that Qilin Culture Co., Ltd. had long purchased the derivative development rights, so there was no problem with comics.

The storyline of this "Transformers" should not have much advantage, but it is a battle between good and evil, and then the target of the battle is transformed from a human to a robot.

Wonderful is wonderful, good-looking is beautiful, but it is just like it for ordinary children and cannot catch the eye of this group of experienced editors.

In their eyes, at best, it is a bit eye-catching when the Autobot transforms.

but!

Nowadays, Japanese comic peripheral products have already started to be developed and produced, and TARAKA's "MSI Little Superman" has been in front of me. The cartoonists can see it at a glance, and I'm afraid "Transformers" is heading straight for the toy peripherals.

Think about the toys of the MSI Little Superman series, how much money has it earned for TARAKA. The "Transformers" is even more powerful in terms of playability and operability, and it can definitely surpass "MSI Little Superman"!

There is another movie "Tomb Raider", the plot of this beauty taking a adventure directly has not yet been fully launched, but it has also attracted a lot of attention.

Because there is no such comic book about women who are adventurers now, and the fighting movements of beautiful women are not inferior to men at all, which makes it even more interesting and can attract the attention of male and female book fans.

There is nothing special about "Oolong Courtyard" and "Hizzy Life in the Rain Forest", which is just a joke story. Good-looking, but the long-term development is definitely not good, and the quality should belong to the slightly weaker of these 9 comics.

But this is just relatively weak among these nine comics.

In fact, many book fans have now begun to worship "Lord Abu", and the four protagonists in "Oolongyuan" are also loved by everyone, and the popularity index of the two comics is very high.

"It is not surprising that we can create such a sales miracle in nine super classic comics. We respect Mr. Yin Jun's wild imagination very much, and we have decided to work hard from now on, and strive to make works as excellent as Mr. Yin Jun as soon as possible!"

Seeing this conclusion and publicity by the Japanese, Yin Jun laughed unconsciously.

In fact, these nine comics are a bit bullying.

Except for the no precedent comparison between Transformers and Tomb Raider in comics, each of them is a well-known existence.

Several of them are directly crushing opponents of the same period and directly allowing this manga artist to become a god.

Putting these nine books together in a comic weekly book is equivalent to integrating all the essence of other people's comics for ten years. How can these Japanese comic weekly magazines who are still exploring the issue?

Yin Jun has already discussed with Le Yiling.

Now the sales volume of "Qilin Weekly" is 7.2 million copies, which is basically saturated, so there is no need to print more for the time being, so let's stabilize the market.

Even if there are some places that are not enough, then wait for a while and see if the situation is moderately added.

The next step for Qilin Culture Co., Ltd. to take advantage of the victory, which needs to be considered now is two aspects.

The first one is a legitimate single-language book.

Japanese comic book is the best successful operation mode, and Yin Jun can use it directly after taking it.

Generally speaking, Japanese comics are about 200 pages, and more kind, such as "One Piece", which is usually about 220 pages - of course there are also three or five pages, and five pages are used to make some comic-related setting statements, or some authors say to readers, or explain some complex scenes or weapons.

In this way, the first issue of "Qilin Weekly" is a 50-page publication content. After four issues in a month, the circulation of a single book can be achieved.

Single-line books cannot be printed like comics.

Because single-line books are content that others have read, if you want to sell good sales, on the one hand, the content must be good, so that Japanese book fans can feel that they can read it together and repeatedly; on the other hand, the quality of single-line books must be well done, and the recycled paper and other things cannot be used anymore, and the layout must be more refined, so that others will be willing to buy and collect it.

As for advertising, it is definitely not possible.

After all, a single book costs 300 yen per book, and the price will continue to rise. After 2010, the price will cost 400 yen.

A comic weekly magazine now sells only 180 yuan, and it is still the latest content.

If you have already published content, you will be sold for 300 yuan. You will definitely not be able to lack sincerity.

Even some single-line books will use colored drawing paper on the first few pages, which will be considered as giving benefits.

If it is the current "Qilin Weekly", except for "Cherry Maruko", you can publish a single book in a month.

But in this way, the frequency is a bit too fast.

According to Japanese rules, it is generally more appropriate to publish a single book in two or three months. It is also a friendly behavior for book fans' wallets. After all, you cannot fish out the waters.

Therefore, Yin Jun arranged to publish the first single-line version in November, and eight comics were sold in time.

At the beginning, there is no need to expect others to be so high. One episode can have 1 million copies, which is a very good sales volume. "One Piece" ranked first in Japan's single-line book sales in 2014, with 11.89 million copies, but this is the sales volume of 5 episodes of single-line book, which is actually about 2 million copies per episode. And this is the peak "One Piece" that has developed to the peak!

The sales champion "Cherry Maruko" in 1990 has only 2.65 million copies, and only a little over 500,000 copies per episode.

The eight comics of "Kirin Weekly" are not only sold in Japan, but also in South Korea, Baodao, Hong Kong, Aomen, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, so the total of 1 million copies should not be an exaggeration.

They are all classics among classics, and they will not seem to be powerless because of the changes of time.

In August, Yin Jun told Le Yiling about the single-book, but at that time, Le Yiling directly denied it to Yin Jun, saying that it has not been released now, how do you know whether it is easy to sell? It is popular or not, and you have to prepare the single-book in a hurry. This is completely a joke!

Yin Jun was speechless.

He couldn't tell Leyiling that this was a fact verified by hundreds of millions of anime fans, so he could only wait for the follow-up.

The first issue is best-selling, the second issue is very popular, the third issue is very popular...

It was not until the third period of sales that Le Yiling finally talked to Yin Jun about the single-book issue. After setting the scheduled release time, quantity and specifications, she immediately contacted Heidelberg Company, pulp mills and paper mills in Malaysia, as well as various ink and consumables, etc.

Seeing Le Yiling skillfully communicating and negotiating with people from these companies, Yin Jun sighed for Zhou Yuping, let’s take a look, once negotiations and exchanges gave Sister Le the ability to negotiate alone, and she played like this. If she only cared about this, you would be kicked aside soon.

Leyiling doesn’t like to procrastinate when doing things, so she set all new machines, paper and other raw materials in two days. It is expected to arrive in mid-October, and energy production will definitely be successful in November.

The maximum productivity set this time is that three shifts a month can print 20 million single-line books. In this way, even if there are many sales in the future, it will not be as fast as buying machines immediately.

On the other hand, Le Yiling also discussed with Zhou Yuping that there is enough site and pollution protection equipment in the factory, and it is no problem to build a factory workshop, but the manpower needs to be recruited. The previous recruitment was a bit oversupply, and it was originally intended to prepare for future production expansion.

The manpower requires about 600 people. Zhou Yuping originally thought that 400 people would be enough, but considering that it is possible to expand the capacity in the future. With the help of skilled workers, it will naturally reduce the running-in period and improve production efficiency, so it was finally set to 600 people.

After getting done with the single-line book, another aspect of pursuing victory is about the supplementary issue.

Supplements, that is, at some point, are particularly added due to certain events or holidays, and are not always available.

Yin Jun wanted to make a supplement, not to make more money while "Qilin Weekly" is making money, but to make more money for a longer-term and broader layout.

The first comic in the supplement is called

"resident Evil"!!

As this planet, there has never been a game that has such a huge industrial chain as "Resident Evil".

It not only dominates the sales and rankings of horror games, but most importantly, it has set off a craze in both TV series and movies.

Especially the movie series, the six-part "Resident Evil", won 1.5 billion US dollars in a single shot, which is a very dazzling box office result!

But in Yin Jun's opinion, at least the first three movies of "Resident Evil" are a waste of the potential of this super series. If the production is more refined and the cast is stronger, it will not be a problem for the first three movies to double the box office!

The key is that "Resident Evil" can not only be a box office hit, but also lasts 15 years, making many stars famous, and is definitely the first among zombie movies. This cannot be missed for Yin Jun, who wants to dominate the film industry.

However, there is no comic version of "Resident Evil".

The original appearance of "Resident Evil" was in 1996, launched by Japanese gaming company Capcom, which is 17 years away.

Nowadays, electronic game technology has far from breaking through the bottleneck, and Microsoft's WINDOWS platform is not the best carrier, so it is definitely unrealistic for Yin Jun to make a video game "Resident Evil" in a short period of time.

It is OK to make a TV series or movie, and get the copyright first.

However, the current film production technology is far from enough to support the scenes, makeup, layout, etc. required by "Resident Evil". Yin Jun will definitely not allow a bad movie like "Interstellar Blunt", which ruins the classics like "Resident Evil" in his mind.

It is OK to publish books on "Resident Evil", but this kind of doomsday and zombie books cannot give people sensory stimulation and cannot achieve shocking effects.

So, he had long thought of using the story of "Resident Evil" to make comics.

Like books, movies and TV, foreign comics are also classified.

"Resident Evil" is directly marked as 18X, so it can be put on sale. However, adults don't like what they don't like, but they will definitely like it so much.

Especially in countries like Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, they like vampires, werewolfs, zombies and other subjects, and have a large group of loyal fans.

To take a step back, "Resident Evil" has not sold very well, but after a long period of subtle influence, tens of millions of viewers have been watching this comic. In the future, when it is adapted into a game, a TV series, or a big movie, it will definitely receive support.

The original film "Resident Evil" is so imperfect, mostly because the production company did not take too much attention when making up stories, but just served the game.

So the later movie screenwriters couldn't do it well, they could only set it around the game.

There are many contradictory or inconsistent aspects here.

Simply put, it lacks many foreshadowings and layouts, and even the structure of the entire worldview is not so perfect.

But this was not a problem for Yin Jun. He read the comments and suggestions of the bigwigs on many forums and knew how to write stories to better write them.

His version of "Resident Evil" will definitely be much better in setting.

I started working hard on the market now, just for the harvest in 20 or even 30 years. Only Yin Jun can do such things that require patience and perseverance!
Chapter completed!