Chapter 320 "GANTZ" decision to become a real person!
Compared with Chinese dramas and other performances, which are only moderately popular in the market, tokusatsu dramas have a good market foundation and excellent performers, making Japan's live performance market always very popular, making it a paradise for performances.
Market statistics reached 500 billion yen in 2018, and it has risen to 700 billion yen in 2023. The market size is staggering.
But like many industries, although Japanese stage plays have a prosperous market, most of the practitioners are not doing well, and many theater troupes are still worried about money.
It is always the top few who make money, while others can only eat a bowl of porridge.
The team's main expenses include two items: venue fees and copyright fees.
Therefore, many stage plays use old plays that do not require copyright fees. They are drooling over popular film and television dramas and animation themes.
This time, "Working Cells" is a comic that is very suitable for adapting into a performance. Many performers can't sleep after reading it.
After they inquired anxiously, they really didn't expect that Oda Shingo would give a very low licensing fee, which was surprising.
What’s even more surprising is that Oda Shingo even gave the brief story plan and character design draft directly to the Tokyo stage drama team.
"Arigado, Oda sama!"
In the past, even if there was authorization, the other party would only give permission and would not have any substantive support for your stage play.
Please try to figure out the character's personality, hobbies, clothes, and little moves from the original work. It doesn’t matter whether you are tired or not, you only paid the licensing fee and did not give me the guidance fee.
Therefore, Oda Shingo is very kind to stage drama practitioners. Obtaining the official setting draft can greatly reduce the time the dramatist spends preparing props, and even reduce investment.
Therefore, the stage actors could not wait to kneel down and worship on the spot.
Anyway, according to tradition, the actors spontaneously added praises to Oda Shingo during the prayer session at the beginning of the play.
"Please bless Tianyu! Please bless Oda-sama!"
Tenyu is a goddess in Japanese legend who dances in front of the gods in front of the cave where Amaterasu is hidden.
She danced so hard that in the end her top came loose and she was completely shirtless. Only then did Amaterasu come out of the cave, and light returned to the world.
If Oda Shingo knew that he was juxtaposed with her, he might be filled with nostalgia. He wouldn't dance in public anyway.
Stage drama workers worked overtime overnight to reprocess the script and rehearse.
So, on the third day after "Working Cells" was serialized online, advertisements for stage plays appeared on the streets.
[The stage play of the popular comic "Working Cells" is in progress! Reservations are available for Saturn and Venus days later this month! 】
Stage play advertisements also expanded the influence of comics.
More and more parents and children know about this comic.
Not only that, more and more advertisements for "Cells at Work" in various forms began to appear spontaneously.
Immediately afterwards, the radio drama followed closely.
Japan's radio and CD industries have never cooled down. This may be related to high-quality radio programs. Many people, especially housewives, like to listen to the radio while doing housework.
Sound programs are very suitable for this type of audience. There are also various workers such as transport drivers, delivery people and toll booths, who are all loyal listeners of radio dramas.
Therefore, the educational entertainment of "Working Cells" has been extended to this group of people. Then, private short videos began to be released! There’s even a self-portrait skit on YouTube!
A work data report obtained by the Ministry of Culture during a public sample survey shows:
[Which work content or publicity project of the Department of Cultural Affairs are you most familiar with? 】
As a result, 43% of the people surveyed chose "Working Cells"! Even the 2023 annual work report of the Director of the Department of Culture does not have such a high audience, second only to the awareness of the Red and White Song Festival!
Of course, the Red and White Song Festival is an annual traditional program that almost everyone knows.
"Xinwu, another massive authorization request."
Now, as Toudo Xiangcheng's media assistant, when she opens her mailbox every day, she sees an overwhelming number of authorization requests.
"The physical peripheral products are handed over to Springfield Bookstore for operation, and the licensing of stage plays, radio plays, etc. are handed over to the business agent under Mrs. Yukino. Of course, the principles are still set by me."
Oda Shingo was already too busy to reply one by one.
He left the negotiations directly in the hands of a team of professional professionals he could trust.
Drawing comics well is your most important task. All other work is based on this, but it cannot be neglected.
"Xingo, this issue of "GANTZ" is the end of the battle between the Buddha Stars." Namikaze Yukaku was in a good mood and reported energetically.
Although many characters died in this battle, the busty girl she personally disliked also died.
And the girl with ponytail and thick lips who the protagonist used to vent his anger was also dead.
Naturally, Namikaze Yukaku didn't know the origin of the image of this girl with ponytail and thick lips. It was just the author of the original work expressing his fantasy about a game heroine.
Well, although it can't be said that the curse is enough to kill someone, when he thinks that the protagonist's feelings are about to turn to the real heroine with small breasts, Namikaze Yukaku can't suppress the happiness in his heart.
Speaking of which, it’s Todo Orange’s fault...
"Although the protagonist has lost all his companions, it will become more tense after a slight transition." Oda Shingo recalled the design of the original work, "It is time for the dwarf aliens to put more pressure on the protagonist."
The original work on Earth maintains a good rhythm, especially in terms of forcing the protagonist to reach its peak, making readers sweat for the protagonist at any time.
Because he is really dead! Kato, who is most like a traditional protagonist, is dead, Kishimoto Megumi, who is most like a traditional heroine, is dead, and he will die if he can't keep the Kurono plan!
Sure enough, after the release of this issue of "RED", readers got collectively excited by the plot of "GANTZ".
The powerful Buddha Starman and the protagonist team sniped in the middle, and died together one by one.
Especially the Thousand-Armed God Statue at the end directly makes the protagonist collapse in despair.
[Dead! All dead! Hahaha! ]
[Another crazy one! No, there's me too! ]
[Mashaka——? ! The big girl is dead! Tell me this isn't true! Which author would be willing to let such a bear-like female character die? ]
[The author Oda, the old thief, is rich and no longer plans to sell peripherals! ]
[But the plot is really good! I can't wait for half a month! ]
[Help, help! The dwarf star is so scary! The protagonist is really in danger! ]
[In other comics, you don’t need to worry about the protagonist at all, but not in "GANTZ"! The protagonist really could die! ]
Readers began to demand that "GANTZ" speed up its publication, adjust it to a regular publication, or double its serialization.
Gao Yelan, director of the supplement department of "RED", couldn't laugh or cry.
Popularity is a good thing, but why did they move the publication? Don't you like our "RED"? Now the circulation of the supplement has reached 900,000, okay!
Although she also admitted that the sales volume is really all due to "GANTZ"...
Oda Shingo is really ruthless, ruthless in giving benefits, ruthless in killing people, and even so ruthless in forcing the protagonist.
When you have dinner with Saburo Mikami tonight, let's talk to him about Oda Shingo again.
On the other side, Oda Shingo received a new message.
The "GANTZ" licensing negotiation entrusted to Mrs. Yukino's staff has been completed!
Tokyo Pictures acquired the rights to the live-action movie at a high price!
(End of chapter)