The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 113 Upgrading the Animation Base

The effect of shocking the world with just one sentence, probably looked like this. Zhou Yu didn’t want little Muli to leave the village. Of course, he had also asked little Muli’s opinion before. And the answer he got was that she didn’t want to leave everyone.

This may be related to little Muli’s personality. Although her profession was an idol, she was shy by nature and slightly introverted. She seemed to be hesitant about her future career, and eventually, she still asked Zhou Yu to help her do decide.

Zhou Yu knew this very well, so he would not be so naive as to think that this was little Muli’s original intention. It’s any girl’s nature to look forward to the shining stage. Although little Muli was hiding in Zhou Yu’s pocket, she still looked down at the crowd with her small face from time to time, which showed how much she still liked the feeling of being noticed.

If mini Luhua Village was not a place where he could raise his own idol, Zhou Yu would certainly not hesitate to encourage little Muli to leave the village bravely.

After all, she could still come home from time to time. But since he had this ability now, there was no need to ask his kid to leave home. No matter how good those companies were, it still couldn’t be compared with how he would treat little Muli. Of course, there were also some of his personal interests as well.

In the meeting room, chaos rose again, but some small management companies were relieved secretly. Originally, the likelihood of getting the popular newcomer was low, so they were no very disappointed since they didn’t have much hope, to begin with. Now that little Muli decided not to join any management companies and would act as a freelancer, everyone was happy, since no one was able to sign her up.

Xia Huan of Beidou company was also very happy, because he had the best relationship with Luhua Village in Star Light City. If he wanted to cooperate, it naturally wouldn’t be a problem. And little Muli became a freelancer, was the best result for him. Although Fruit Pirates bought Beidou a lot of profits, it was basically impossible to pay a fee of nearly 200,000 Moe Coins.

The one that was frustrated was Zhang Quan of Nandou company. With the economic strength of Nandou, it would not be a problem for them to pay the fee at all. But he didn’t expect that the owner of Luhua Village wanted to raise the idol himself, which gave him a lot of headaches. A strange human being from the real world, no matter how powerful Nandou was, it still couldn’t compete with the person from the real world.

Some people were disappointed, and some people were relieved, but the press conference still continued.

Luhua Village would create its own movie studio and raise their own idols. Although it would not refuse to cooperate with other management companies, the works would be mainly published in the real world, however, the distribution right of the ACG world could still be discussed.

After the explanation, Zhou Yu left the meeting room with little Muli. The press conference was originally held in a hurry. He did not make any preparations at all. So it was normal for him to skip the step of letting those people asking him questions.

Gradually, the crowded crowd dispersed, like a storm, coming quickly and disappearing quickly.

Of course, many management companies didn’t want to give up so easily. They left all kinds of contact information before leaving, hoping Zhou Yu would change his mind in the future. Then he would be able to use those methods to contact them. The only ones left behind were Xia Huan and Little Niannian, as well as Wen Qu, who looked like an adviser.

Seeing little Niannian, Zhou Yu inevitably felt a little bit guilty. The main reason why Little Niannian’s attributes were so poor was that Mini Luhua Village was very poor at that time. If Little Niannian were born now, even if he would not have such abnormal attributes as little Muli, he would at least be an idol with better attributes.

It was okay if there was no little Muli. But now his little sister Muli had such shocking attributes, that when she was born, she immediately received a lot of attention from Star Light City. The gap between them was too big. Zhou Yu felt guilty. He felt that he owed little Niannian, but he didn’t know what to do to compensate Little Niannian.

Perhaps, after the movie studio was built, and when the fund was abundant, he could get little Niannian back. Even if little Niannian’s attributes couldn’t be increased, he would not need to worry about not having any chances of getting acting roles in his own home. Besides, the most important thing for a family is that it needs to be complete and together. He couldn’t just let Little Niannian wander outside all the time.

Seeing little Muli, little Niannian’s behavior as an older brother was very appropriate. He patted little Muli’s head without having any resentment towards Zhou Yu, and laughed, “father’s luck is still that bad. It took him a year to finally raise an idol sister for me. Now I can finally boat about my sister to everyone.”

After that, he even gave a small gift to little Muli. It made little Muli jump around happily.

Talking about bearing, Zhou Yu couldn’t compete with Little Niannian at all.

Xia Huan also stayed. But he did not talk about business. They only talked about other things, which was very much to Zhou Yu’s appetite. Although it might be intentional, it was still much better than those management companies that were constantly taking about selling little Muli in front of him.

“Fruit Pirate” was naturally very popular in the real world. Sweeping the entire domestic movie market, it was unstoppable. Zhou Yu even heard that the penguin company and the Otaku Gaming Portal wanted to introduce the movie to the western market. Zhou Yu never cared about the operation of the business. If someone informed him to collect money, he would just collect it. Other notices would naturally be ignored. After all, it was clearly stated in the original agreement already.

However, in the ACG world, the film was rated B only. Using an A-rated director, an A-rated script, an A-rated singer, but in the end, the movie only got this rating. Saying that Nandou did not use their dirty tricks, no one would believe it. It was no wonder that Xia Huan would scold Nandou non-stop whenever he talked about Nandou. The feeling of being targeted was really unpleasant.

However, Beidou still earned a lot of money from the movie “Fruit Pirates”, which made them a little famous in Star Light City. Besides, he had several talents who even made Nandou drooling. So it was only a matter of time before Beidou became successful again.

Working with someone familiar was always better than working with some strangers. At least, the cooperation between Zhou Yu and Xia Huan was quite pleasant. Zhou Yu said that he wanted to build a big movie studio. It might sound great, but in fact, there were many problems. First of all, the problem of the cast. Even if the animation base had a full team, but there was only one actor. And if the whole movie had only one actor, it absolutely required a good script, but Mimi Luhua Village didn’t have any scriptwriter.

So, working with Beidou, at least, Zhou Yu would have a good number of actors. In terms of the distribution right of the movie, it would be the same as the last time. In the ACG world, it belonged to Beidou, and in the real world, it belonged to Luhua Village. They both would save a lot of money in many aspects, which was perfect. Of course, it would not be limited to Beidou, if other management companies also had good scripts, Zhou Yu would also consider them as well. After all, he still liked to watch good anime.

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If Zhou Yu wanted to build a movie studio, the first step was to upgrade the animation base, otherwise, he could only have the three tiers of animations that were automatically produced and adopted by the animation base. Although 5000 Moe coins were quite expensive, Xia Huan had just sent a `cooperation fund’, and Nandou and several other management companies had also given him some coins, hoping to establish the relationship. So it would not be a problem.

Clicking on the animation base, and then clicking on the ‘upgrade’ option, Zhou Yu could see that all the conditions for the upgrade had been ticked. He just needed to click the bottom to confirm that it could be upgraded.

Originally he thought that it would be an “instant” upgrade, but unexpectedly, the carpenter beaver needed to remodify it, and the time required was 24 hours.

He could only wait now.

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Early the next morning, the carpenter beaver came back. However, it was not that the upgrade had been completed, but the last step needed to be completed by the owner of the animation base himself.

This last step was naming.

The former animation base had no name, so the animated movie produced by it only had a list of actors and no massage like “made by XXX studio”. After the naming, it meant that the movie would have a name tag attach to it, which also meant that he must be even more careful in producing movies in the future. If he was not careful enough, he might ruin his own brand.

But at the moment, Zhou Yu was more concerned about which name he should give.