Chapter 125: Reluctant request
Certainly, if accepting financing, Takayuki would probably immediately obtain several times more money than his own reserve funds.
Then, he could use this money to rapidly expand himself, and the pace of development should be even faster than now.
However, in that case, the company would gradually become a purely profit-driven tool.
That's not what Takayuki hopes for.
After chatting with Vice Director Kubo for a while and filling his stomach a little, he finally revealed the purpose of inviting Takayuki today.
Before, Takayuki already felt that Vice Director Kubo seemed to have some purpose, but couldn't guess it for a while.
"Takayuki, to be honest, I invited you today with a somewhat unpleasant request."
Takayuki remained composed: "Vice Director Kubo, you're too polite. If you have any requests, you can bring them up first. Let's hear what it is."
If it's about getting closer and then investing, he'd rather pass.
So, he needs to listen first.
"Previously, through personal channels, I learned about the cooperation between your company and Kasuga Corporation and achieved considerable success."
"Yeah, that's true. It's a win-win situation between us. Their magazine sells well, and our company's game promotion channels also expand."
Vice Director Kubo looked at Takayuki with a slightly eager expression and said, "Well, if you don't mind, our TV station actually hopes to obtain the same cooperation opportunity."
Takayuki was stunned.
This request truly caught him off guard.
Vice Director Kubo also seemed to feel that his request was too sudden. He explained somewhat awkwardly, "Actually, don't laugh at me, our Tokyo TV station is not doing well now. Although we're one of the six major TV stations, we've been marginalized for years and always hover on the edge of decline."
Takayuki nodded silently.
He is somewhat aware of this. It seems that in his past life, Tokyo TV station became a salted fish mode in the future because it was repeatedly ravaged by other TV stations, no longer struggling, reducing project expenses, increasing relatively cheaper investments in animation production, which gave Tokyo TV station a chance to breathe slowly by relying on otaku, but it forever remained the little brother under the feet of the other five TV stations.
"Vice Director Kubo, are you saying..."
"Just after the launch of the electronic game program suggested by you, our ratings actually showed a slight recovery, which we didn't dare to imagine before. So, if possible, our TV station's top management has also discussed it for a while and believes that we can deepen cooperation with you."
Takayuki asked, "How would this deepening of cooperation be achieved?"
"In simple terms, our Tokyo TV station can provide you with all publicity resources for free in the future, including the smaller TV stations under our Tokyo TV station. Also, your company plans to co-produce a Dragon Quest animation with Kasuga Corporation, right? We hope to secure the broadcast rights. In addition to these, we also hope to have the priority purchase right for all your company's future audiovisual broadcasts. Of course, I mean if there are buyers offering the same price to purchase your company's broadcast rights, you would consider us first."
Actually, in Vice Director Kubo's view, electronic games and TV stations shouldn't be at odds.
They should complement each other.
At the same time, TV stations also hope to earn money from more channels to maintain their operations.
This includes other investment methods, or directly buying high-quality content for shooting films and animations, and then selling peripheral products. In short, it's to expand the TV station's sources of income as much as possible, not to be limited to just ratings.
Otherwise, sooner or later, they may starve to death.
So far, many high-quality content outputs are already bound with other TV stations.
For them, Tokyo TV station is having trouble finding suitable content for shooting films and animations.
Now it seems that only electronic games have not been targeted by several other TV stations.
Perhaps this is a good opportunity for Tokyo TV station to revive.
Takayuki contemplated for a moment.
He's really considering this.
From the other party's tone, it seems that they only want the broadcast rights on TV, or the rights to distribute videotapes.
When the price offered by other bidders is the same, they just want to be given priority.
This seems acceptable.
Originally, he focused more on game production. These derivative industries can be followed up, but left to professionals to handle. He can just sit back and collect money. At most, he just needs to occasionally pay attention and ensure that these adaptations don't tarnish his reputation.
"Vice Director Kubo, are you saying that your TV station only needs the adaptation rights of some of our games, and after we agree, we still have the right to supervise continuously? If the quality of the work doesn't meet my standards, then I will directly refuse your adaptation rights."
When it comes to shooting TV dramas and animations, Takayuki is certainly not a professional.
But he at least knows what looks good and what doesn't.
Having watched many excellent TV dramas and animations in his past life, he is somewhat confident in this aspect.
He doesn't want his hard-earned works to be ruined by adaptations.
If that's the case, he'd rather not shoot anything at all.
There are too many pitfalls in game adaptation TV dramas in his past life. He must adhere to this principle. You must at least reach a passing score of seventy, otherwise, don't blame him for being rude.
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