Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

  Chapter 35 A down-and-out cartoonist

  The so-called formula book is a set of game settings. It is a series of detailed introductions to the in-game worldview, characters, creatures, equipment, etc. that assist the game itself. It is the favorite of die-hard fans and sophisticated fans.

  Take Yusei originally wanted to talk about the setting directly, but expressing it in the formula book of the comic industry will make Ikeda Daigo clearer.

  Ikeda Daigo was surprised.

   "Zhuyou-kun, you said that you still need to assist in the compilation of the formula book? This...this is not a simple propaganda painting, right?"

  Zhu Yuxing nodded: "Yes, what I want to do is video games, and video games, the settings will even exceed ordinary comics, so I need long-term partners, and preferably have a certain reputation."

  Assist in the writing of the formula book, which is no longer a small project for a cartoonist.

   It’s just that no one ever asked a cartoonist to do this kind of thing in the past.

  No, not at all.

   Even in the current movies, there is no such formula book. At most, it is just a detailed record of some of the director's own essays. No one will deliberately hire an outsider to make a formula book.

   "That Zhuyou-kun, I want to ask, what is the video game you're talking about?"

"This is a brand-new form of entertainment. I can't explain it to you in a short time. If you want to know more, I will give you an address. You tell the boss there that I introduced it, and he will give you the spot. Show what video games really are."

   Brand new entertainment? Ikeda Daigo pondered.

   "Well, I give two conditions to choose one, one of which is that I will hire a manga teacher for a year at a monthly salary of 500,000 yen, and we can continue to talk after a year."

   "The second condition is that I give a basic salary of 180,000 a month, but the cartoonist can get 5% of the future of the entire series of the game."

   If it is Zhu Yuxing, he will definitely choose the second one, because he can foresee how huge the development of the game will be in the future.

   And if possible, Zhu Yuxing also hopes that the other party can choose this, because this will completely bind a cartoonist, at least twenty or thirty years without worrying about problems.

   But, this is equivalent to giving people an invisible empty check, so Zhu Yuxing returned the first choice.

   Let you be willing to cooperate with me in the first year, and then you can seriously consider the issue of share in the second year, but you will earn less of the share of the first year.

  500,000 yen.

  Ikeda Daigo was a little surprised.

   He doesn't yet understand what a video game is, but he roughly understands that it's going to be a very complicated thing.

   In today's Japan, if a college student can find a job after graduation, it is about 180,000 yen.

  Under normal circumstances, 300,000 yen is a relatively positive benefit, and the average income of regular employees of the company after working for four or five years.

   This income in Japan has barely fluctuated for more than 20 years since the bubble burst.

   This is also one of the reasons why many people call it the lost twenty or thirty years.

   And Zhu Yuxing, willing to give a salary of 500,000 yen at the beginning, this level is enough to make a down-and-out manga artist's heart move.

   By the way, a down-and-out cartoonist, and a little famous...

   Ikeda Daigo instantly remembered Mr. Tsuchiya who was chatting with the editor earlier.

   The first work plummeted after its peak.

  Although he has not yet reached the level of making ends meet, his life is gradually getting worse. Some famous cartoonists are very generous at the beginning, and some of them are even heavily in debt after the bubble burst, and eventually they are crushed.

   Mr. Tugu was lucky. On the eve of the bubble burst, when the quality of his comics was not very high, he devoted himself to studying how to draw comics well, and he didn’t spend much money.

   In other words, this is another kind of luck.

  If you can help him find this job, at least for a short period of time, he will no longer have to worry about starving to death without comic income.

   After a while of precipitation, if Mr. Tugu makes a comeback, maybe his grades will skyrocket again.

   Thinking of this, Ikeda Daigo said immediately: "If it is this salary, then I have nothing to say. I don't think anyone will refuse this kind of payment."

   If a stranger suddenly approached him and said the words just now, he would probably be regarded as a liar or a lunatic.

   However, this is Mr. Masako's child. Just by virtue of Mr. Masako's reputation, it is absolutely impossible for his child to deceive people because of this trivial matter.

   So, he was ready to introduce Mr. Tsuchiya to Take Yusei.

   "Tsuchiya Sansuke, Takeyou-kun, have you heard of this teacher? He has a relatively famous comic work."

   "No, I don't know much."

   He doesn't know much about many celebrities in this world.

  This is equivalent to the parallel world of his previous life. Many celebrities are different, and after crossing over, he devoted most of his time to making games, and he didn't have time to study those celebrities in this world.

   That's why he thought about asking his mother to help him find a suitable candidate.

   "I think this Mr. Tugu should meet your standards very well and has a certain reputation, but... the quality of the works in recent years has not been very good, so the popularity has gradually declined."

   Take Yusei immediately understood.

   There are not a few cartoonists who made their debut and peaked in their previous lives.

   This kind of cartoonist is often not bad at drawing, and most of them have problems in the writing of the story.

  Manga sometimes really eats talent.

  Some cartoonists who are neurotic can attract people with their neurotic stories, and their drawing skills don’t necessarily need to be very good.

   However, some cartoonists tried their best to study the plot, but in the end they could only stop at the entry level, which was disappointing. In the end, they could only improve their drawing skills painstakingly, but it was difficult to stop the decline.

   "I'll give you Mr. Tugu's contact information... No, I'll contact him now, or go to your place."

   Such an opportunity to make money, Daigo Ikeda is not willing to give up easily.

   He must win it for Mr. Tugu.

   After all, Mr. Tugu was trained by him, and he didn’t want Mr. Tugu to be completely down.

   "Don't be so polite, let's meet at the magazine office. It's good for both parties, otherwise I'll show that I don't respect the teacher too much."

   "Okay, then I'll contact Mr. Tugu now."

   Take Yuxing agreed to meet at the magazine, which is what Ikeda Daigo wanted to see most.

   Because he also wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of person Zhu Yuxing was.

   Judging from Masako-sensei's age, I'm afraid Take Yuxing will be very young.

   Starting a business at such a young age and seeming to be starting a whole new kind of entertainment sounds amazing.

   And he also wanted to see what the so-called formula book would be.

   (end of this chapter)