It has to be said that there is a certain reason and strength for Japan to become a major concern for the Chinese nation.
Ultimately, it is caused by Japan's geographical environment.
As a small country with a small population and scarce resources, it has to constantly think about outward expansion, invasion and development in order to make up for the exhausted resources.
Even after Japan's defeat in World War II, when it fell into a brief depression, it took advantage of the Korean War to provide logistics support for the U.S. and UN forces, and quickly accumulated a large number of military-industrial enterprises and technologies.
At the same time, with the United States as the emperor, while exploiting Japan's labor and production capacity, it also provides Japan with an opportunity to gradually recover and develop economic prosperity.
Through the U.S. market, Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Panasonic, Honda, etc. have directly expanded their commodity trade to markets around the world.
Economic prosperity and material abundance will inevitably lead to the further development and dissemination of spiritual culture.
This form of Japanese comics has spread rapidly in Japan as a new cultural form since World War II.
In the beginning, comics were just like Chinese picture books, a kind of childish cultural product.
However, with the release of an animated film "Space Battleship Yamato" in the 1970s, it directly created the box office myth of the year. More than 2.7 million people watched it in more than two months, and the box office revenue reached a terrifying 2.1 billion yen.
This marks a rapid shift in the Japanese anime readership from children to adults.
At the same time, such a huge economic effect also allowed Japan's Ministry of Culture to see the potential of comics as an economic pillar industry.
So since the 1960s and 1970s, governments at all levels in Japan have adopted various incentives to encourage cultural industries, especially the comics industry.
There are many comic magazines like Tomorrow Comics Weekly that have obtained land supply at low prices from the government.
However, these additional conditions are not something that ordinary comic magazines can meet.
The emergence of comic magazines has led to an industry that is booming but also has become extremely competitive.
A small bookstore would often deliver dozens or even hundreds of comic weekly issues.
With so many choices, it is difficult for ordinary comic magazines to stand out.
Even if some magazines occasionally publish hit comics, after the serialization ends, if there is no new comic to follow up, the comic will immediately be forgotten by the public.
therefore……
Just like the online novels written with millions or even tens of millions of words in later generations.
Whenever a comic becomes popular, the comic magazine will begin to put unlimited pressure on the comic authors and illustrators, asking them to constantly expand the length of the story.
Originally, the length of a novel may only be one hundred chapters, but it can only be serialized for less than a year. However, due to the survival pressure of the comic magazine, the comic authors are forced to develop the plot, and the novel may even reach more than a thousand chapters in the end.
Like the "One Piece" that later became popular all over the world, it has been serialized since 1997 and has more than a thousand episodes.
It can be said that a popular comic, under the catalysis of Japan's developed and mature comic industry, is a hen that continuously lays golden eggs.
A comic book, comprehensive magazine publishing, IP development, peripheral derivatives, etc., has made profits for many years, which is even not less than that of a well-established large-scale enterprise.
only……
It is now 1977, and the entire Japanese comics industry is just at the beginning of its prosperity.
The interests and profits of most comic works are still concentrated on the publishing and sales profits of comic magazines.
As for the subsequent animation and IP development, the manufacturing and sales of various peripheral products, a mature industrial chain has not yet been formed.
For the old families in Tokyo, the comics magazine industry is a completely insignificant industry compared to automobiles, machinery, and white goods.
so……
When the Tokugawa family in Tokyo heard that their youngest daughter, an incompetent Chinese son-in-law, had acquired a comic magazine company that was about to go bankrupt and was ridiculed by the industry, they immediately felt very embarrassed.
Strictly speaking, Tokugawa Iehata should be Lin Tongchun's elder brother-in-law, and also the leader of this generation of the Tokugawa family.
He heard people from his rival Fujiwara family talk about this at a high-end dinner party.
Fujiwara no Kaiichi, a member of the Fujiwara family's branch, transferred the big pit of "Tomorrow Manga Weekly" to Kobayashi Keiko, who had the blood of the Tokugawa family.
"Tokugawa-kun, it seems that the noble bloodline of your Tokugawa family has been polluted by that Chinese!
Is Miss Kobayashi Keiko blind? This is clearly a bottomless pit of loss.
Previously, our Kaiyi wanted to give away "Tomorrow's Weekly Comics" for free, but no one was willing to take it over.
Unexpectedly, Miss Keiko had a keen eye for talent and rushed to take over the business with 10 million yen.
Hahaha! I guess it must be your Tokugawa family, who have connections everywhere.
Can the Tokyo government ignore the previous preferential land policy and quietly take these three plots of land? "
Fujiwara no Jiro of the Fujiwara family held a red wine glass and said to Tokugawa Iehashi with a mocking look on his face.
When Tokugawa Iehatsu heard about this for the first time, he was completely confused. When he finally figured out what was going on, he went home and became furious.
Because the dignified Tokugawa family simply would not bother to use their political connections to secretly change some government policies and regulations in order to seek convenience for those small pieces of land.
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