I am the Entertainment Tycoon

"Yes, boss!" Everyone replied with passion.

They wanted to prove their worth to their boss. Everyone there had experience with coordinating voice actors, so they weren't afraid of the challenge.

"Good! Tomorrow there will be a meeting where you will meet the voice actors. We can discuss further details by then. Now I want to see what you guys are working with." Theo smiled.

Just like that, Theo spent his entire morning working and helping the sound engineers of his Sound Department. He corrected some mistakes and made suggestions for better methods.

The sound engineers were surprised to find that their boss was extremely knowledgeable in sound engineering. Even more than them!

So, they gladly accepted his suggestions.

At 11:35 am, Theo still was by the Sound Department when he felt his cellphone ringing. Someone was calling him.

He picked up the phone and smiled when he saw who was the caller.

"Hey, cupcake." Theo answered the phone with a smile.

"Big brother! Are you coming home to have lunch with me?" Aurora asked with her sweet voice.

"Yes, I will be there shortly. You don't need to ask Sylph to get your lunch." Theo replied.

The two of them talked for a while longer before they hung up the phone.

Theo saw there was no need to stay in the Sound Department anymore. Everyone here was talented and experienced, so with his latest suggestions they would be able to work without any problems.

Theo bade goodbye to them before he left the department and headed to Ryoko's office.

After the sudden influx of money from Moonlight's streams, Theo decided to use part of the money to invest in his streaming service.

A while later, Theo arrived in front of her office.

"Hey, Amber. Is she busy right now?" Theo asked Ryoko's assistant.

"Good morning, boss! Miss Riverdale has just come from another department, so I don't think she is busy." Amber replied.

"Okay, thank you." Theo nodded with a smile before he knocked on Ryoko's office door.

Knock! Knock!

"Come on in!" A female voice came from inside.

Theo promptly entered the office with a smile on his face.

"Good morning, Ryoko. How's everything going this morning?" Theo greeted her with a smile.

Ryoko smiled and answered, "Good morning, Theo. The production is progressing, as usual, this morning. So everything is okay."

"You have something to tell me?" She asked.

"Yes, I do. If I gave you another 30 million dollars to buy copyrights of more animes to put in the streaming service, do you think it would be possible to buy the copyrights from younger animes?" Theo asked the question he had when he decided to invest in his streaming service with the money he was making as Moonlight.

Ryoko was the one taking care of the anime copyright purchases, so she was the person who knew the best the price of these copyrights.

Before, Theo gave Ryoko 10 million dollars to buy the copyright from old animes. This amount of money was not enough to buy newer animes. So, the two of them decided to fill the streaming service with old animes. They were much cheaper to buy, and this way they would be able to fill the streaming service catalog with animes for the subscribers to watch.

But now, Theo had extra money to invest in the streaming service. So, he decided to put some new animes in it.

Nevertheless, he still had to ask Ryoko's opinion on the subject.

Ryoko has a thoughtful expression for a while before she answered, "Hmm, it is possible to buy the rights to transmit some new animes. However, the contract module we would have to sign to get these rights would be different from the old animes we are currently buying."

"How so?" He asked.

"How can I explain?" Ryoko mumbled.

"Oh, imagine that these old animes are old products. Everyone already watched these products, and everyone already has these products. This means that these products can't produce more profit for the studios who produced them. The only way for them to produce profit is by selling their copyrights to someone else. These copyrights we are buying give us the right to put these animes in our platform and don't pay any royalties to the studios we bought these animes from. Even if there is a bunch of people watching these animes. The studios already tested these animes on other platforms and nobody watched them. That's why they don't care about giving us 100% copyrights."

"On another hand, we would not be able to buy the copyrights of newer animes. For example, animes from 10 years ago are still new in the eyes of the public. This means that the studios would never sell the anime copyrights, only the rights to transmit them. We would have to sign a contract where for a determinate amount of time we would be able to place their anime on our platform. And we would have to share some of our profits in proportion to the number of views these animes would generate monthly. The more people watch their anime, the more we would have to pay them." Ryoko finished her explanation as she watched for Theo's reaction.

Theo was silent for a while as he weighed the pros and cons of this new endeavor.

"Do you think it's worth buying these rights?" Theo asked for her opinion.

"It depends on how you want to manage the streaming service. If you want to steer the platform with only original works, we would have a slow beginning. But if we buy the rights for these newer animes, our initial success would be much bigger." Ryoko replied thoughtfully.

Theo thought for a while before he said, "How about we bring together the two sides? We can buy the rights for only one or two years. This way we can buy more anime rights and have a huge jump start. And when these contracts end one or two years later, we would already have produced our top-selling animes."

Ryoko's eyes lit up when she heard Theo's idea.

"It's brilliant, Theo! This way we can rely on others' animes in the initial phase, and when we launch our top-selling animes we will discard their animes and rely on just ourselves!" Ryoko said with an excited voice.

"So, is it doable?" Theo asked with a happy smile.

"Yes, I believe it's doable." Ryoko replied with certainty.

"Then I will send the 30 million at the end of January. You can already start searching and talking around to know the prices of the rights of the newer animes. You can choose everything, but choose animes that are at least 10 years old. Nothing younger or I believe that even with this money we won't be able to buy more than a few." Theo suggested.

Ryoko nodded and brainstormed ideas of which and how many animes she would pick and choose.

The two of them talked for a while longer about the details of the operation before Theo bade goodbye to her.

He had lunch to prepare for his sister.

And Moonlight would perform that afternoon!