Chapter 610 Ignite
Iwamoto Satoshi raised his head and saw the girl who took out the collectible Pokémon blind box. She was wearing a Japanese school uniform. She raised her arms excitedly and shook her hands. Pikachu figure.
The basic Pokémon blind boxes made by Bandai include Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Duckling, etc., while the collector’s editions have different shapes, or are dressed in fashionable clothes. There are Pokémon pose figures with different themes.
But the quantity will not be too much. After all, if everyone can buy it casually, who would care about blind boxes?
“Which blind box did you buy?”
"Where did you buy it?"
"Sister, do you want to keep it or transfer it? I am willing to pay 50,000 yen to buy it..."
"I will pay 70,000 yen. !”
Sakurai Yuna was surrounded by a group of girls, tightly holding the collectible figure in her hand. Not only the girls, but also the boys looked at the clothed Pokémon in her arms. , all a little greedy.
The two women who are obviously working as adults are competing for the price. They are constantly raising the price in order to compete for the collector's figure in Sakurai Yuna's hand.
Japan is a country where everyone enjoys animation. Even adults who go to work still watch animation. There are even production companies that specialize in the adult animation market.
Pokémon is currently on the air, and the ratings are constantly increasing. Naturally, its influence among Japanese female anime fans continues to soar.
Not only in anime, but also in games derived from Pokémon, the proportion of female game fans is far higher than that of other games. In a specific type of Pokémon game released by America, the proportion of female players reached 63%!
There are also counterfeit goods in other places, but in Japan, as the headquarters of Bandai, Pokémon peripherals, posters, figures, etc. can only be purchased from Bandai stores.
Seeing that the two women were competing for the collectible figure in their hands, they had already raised the price to 100,000 yen.
"I won't sell it!"
Sakurai Yuna hugged the figure in her arms tightly and said quickly. After hearing this, the two women reluctantly took another look at the figure. Before leaving, they didn’t know how many blind boxes they had to take apart before they could take out a collectible figure. Even as long as it was a limited edition, they were satisfied...
In the rest area, they took a look at the side. At the "Figure Gift Recycling Shop", Yuna Sakurai wanted to ask how much the collector's edition Pokémon in her hand was worth, but in the end she couldn't help it. She wanted to keep it. manage!
Nowadays, blind box figures are becoming a topic of conversation among the girls at Nippon School where Sakurai Yuuna is located. When a group of little sisters gather together, the most talked about is Pokémon and figures. Anyone who hasn’t bought a figure can’t get in the conversation!
Whoever opens a limited edition, collector's edition, rare Pokémon blind box, etc., will become the focus of attention. When school is over, whoever has a collector's model hanging on his schoolbag will walk to Wherever you go, you can become the center of attention and the object of envy.
Iwamoto Toshi looked at Sakurai Yuna's leaving figure. He didn't care about how much that figure was worth, but looked solemnly at the small shop with the sign of Figure Gift Recycling Shop.
Bandai’s store layout allows users to go home and slowly dismantle the blind boxes after purchasing them, or they can directly dismantle them on the spot in the rest area set up aside. If they can dismantle limited-edition figures, etc., they can dismantle them immediately. You can become the focus of the audience.
This kind of unboxing of a surprise blind box, and enjoying the envy of the audience, is no less than catching a twenty-pound cockroach in front of everyone, buying a lottery ticket at a lottery shop, and winning two hundred thousand on the spot. The feeling of appearing holy in front of others cannot be described in words, but it is definitely the highlight of life!
For the rest of my life, I will probably never forget the feeling I felt today, just like being ranked number one in high school and parading through the streets with the top prize!
Toshi Iwamoto of Laojianghu can tell at a glance that Bandai’s layout is obviously based on human nature. Anyone with a little vanity will probably not be able to escape this!
However, what concerned Iwamoto Satoshi even more was the inconspicuous figure gift recycling shop. He had seen this thing in another place, the Japanese pachinko parlor!
On the surface, gambling is not allowed in Japan. Of course, this is on the surface. In fact, Japan’s pachinko parlor is gambling, and it is a project that all people participate in. Japanese people spend a year on it. The money is several times more than in Las Vegas.
In order to avoid those rules and regulations, the prizes obtained in the Japanese pachinko parlor are just some props, but with the props, you can exchange them for money at the exchange shop next door.
Although this trick is equivalent to taking off your pants and farting, and everyone with a discerning eye knows what is going on, but the Japanese people play this way to avoid the risks of gambling.
Toshi Iwamoto saw that Bandai’s Bubble Mart blind boxes also learned this trick. If Bandai directly recycled the collectible figure blind boxes, wouldn’t that be equivalent to gambling?
However, recycling collectible figures through the nearby figure gift shop recycling shop has nothing to do with Bandai. It is just a figure enthusiast. It is made by a second-hand figure dealer. What does it have to do with Bandai?
Toshi Iwamoto feels that through this kind of recycling, it can also indirectly stabilize the price of Bandai collectible figures. If this kind of figure gift shop recycles a collectible figure, the price will be 10,000 yen. If other individual enthusiasts want to buy it, they will need to pay more than 20,000 yen! In this case, the collection value of the figures will continue to increase, and the transaction price will continue to soar. Eventually, there will be cases of sky-high price figure transactions, attracting more people to buy the figures!
Even, it is impossible to say, it can attract the gamblers from the Japanese pachinko parlor to buy blind boxes to make a small fortune...
Iwamoto Satoshi It feels like Bandai’s Bubble Mart blind box, this industrial chain is already quite mature and has obviously been carefully designed. As long as the recycling price of collectible figures does not collapse, basic figures can be released at will. It’s even more exaggerated than printing Japanese yen money!
Japanese yen banknote printing also requires an anchor, either gold or the US dollar, and market reaction, stock prices, housing prices, etc. also need to be considered. But blind boxes do not need these. As long as the market price of the collector's model is stable, the basic blind box can be powerful. Sell, as long as there are still people buying!
Of course, if Bandai doesn’t want to be like the electronic pet machine and destroy the market in one or two years, it definitely needs to be more careful and control the frequency of cutting leeks. If you cut too many times, leeks will become special. It’s too much to bear.
Toshi Iwamoto stayed in the Bandai store for more than half an hour. When he saw the buyers coming in, the store almost never stopped. It was always full.
When he picked a blind box, he saw a person who made seven or eight trips back and forth between the rest area and the store. After each purchase, he went to the rest area to open it until all his pocket money was used up. , and then left reluctantly.
Out of the store, Satoshi Iwamoto saw that the number of people queuing up outside, waiting to enter the store to buy blind boxes, not only did not decrease, but instead grew to more than a hundred people.
Standing outside the store, he glanced at the blind box in his hand, then at the Pokémon poster posted at the door, and finally at the Bandai sign. Iwamoto turned around and left. He knew clearly that Nakamura Nakamura had a peck on his eye. , Wandai cannot survive!
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"President, I need to tell you that the new project of Bandai and Donglin Hi-tech is a blind box, a Bubble Mart blind box. This will completely Change the entire Nippon figure market!”
The next day, as soon as he arrived at Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, Toshi Iwamoto went straight to Nakamura’s office.
Hearing what Iwamoto Satoshi encountered at the Bandai Akihabara store yesterday, Nakamura Nakamura also had a surprised look on his face.
Then he turned on his computer and saw the stock price of Bandai, which made Nakamura stunned.
Toshi Iwamoto took a step forward. When he saw Bandai’s stock price on the screen, he couldn’t help but open his mouth. Not long after the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened, Bandai’s stock price had soared 21%, hitting a daily record The highest single-day rise in the history of the benzene stock market!
Of course, this is related to the fact that Bandai’s stock price has been very low in recent years, but Bandai’s rise today has not ended yet, and it is still making history. It is obvious that major investment institutions in Japan are frantically grabbing Bandai’s stock price. Bandai stock chips on the market were almost wiped out.
Wife Nakamura looked at the rising Bandai stock price on the screen. Apart from being surprised, he only had one thought in his mind: Was Bandai’s blind box project really provided by Tanglin Hi-Tech?
“Pokemon, produced by Bandai, reached a ratings of 17.7% yesterday, setting another record high.
A person from Bandai’s animation production department announced that Bandai has decided to make the Pokémon anime a series! "
"Influenced by the popularity of Pokémon, the Pokémon theme song "Aiming to be a Pokémon Master" album was also released in Tokyo yesterday, with sales exceeding 12,000 album sales on the first day! "
"Bandai's Bubble Mart blind box was first launched in Tokyo, earning 124.8 million yen in a single day, which is approximately 1.2 million US dollars! "
" Bandai Marketing Manager Ikezawa Nae announced that after the Bandai Fashion Exhibition completes its tour in Japan, it will go to Siam, Singapore and other places! ”
In Nippon SoftBank, Son Masayoshi also watched the news on TV that suddenly increased related to Bandai. Today, the focus of Nippon Finance and the investment industry is undoubtedly Bandai.
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When no one expected, Bandai suddenly exploded, and Masayoshi Son also did not expect that Bandai, which had been said by the Japanese media to be close to closing, suddenly exploded like a shot of chicken blood.
“At the opening of trading today, Bandai’s stock price soared 21%. Nomura and many other securities companies, including Hong Kong City, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as investment institutions such as Wall Street, have announced that they will increase Bandai’s stock price in line with the next quarter’s operating results. Received as expected.”
After reporting the news, Son saw a large group of people queuing up in front of the Bandai store on the TV screen.
“This is the scene in front of Bandai’s largest store in Osaka. There are currently more than 400 people queuing up, and the store is completely full!
But this may not have reached its peak yet. During the period, we can see that among the people queuing up, there are not only teenagers, but also many adults, housewives, etc. This shows that the audience group of Bandai figures is undergoing great changes..."
(End of this chapter)