Chapter 312: SIC series

The latest website: Neon, PD branch.
A meeting concerning the fate of the branch is being held. Participants include PD (Neon) President Ono Jiro, Art Director Ishimori Shotaro, and several senior executives.
"The revenue this quarter is very bleak..."
President Ono said with a heavy heart: "After V3 is over, Kamen Rider X is expensive to produce, but it does not bring equivalent returns."
The belt is not easy to sell!
The practice of changing the color of the belt as an "upgrade" can make a big profit, but now it doesn't work. The new X knight belt has been on the market for nearly two months, and the neon market has shipped less than 30,000 copies.
It's not that the new style is bad, but...
The market is almost saturated!
Within three years, the children bought two or three belts. Because the homogeneity is too serious, their interest in the new belts is greatly reduced.
Unless you are not short of money, buy it and keep it at home. Otherwise, a belt is enough for playing. With the money saved, you can buy a super bracelet!
Ultraman is very strong...
From the beta magic wand to the Ultra glasses, to today's super bracelets, the design and gameplay of each generation of Ultraman are very different.
The Cavaliers are miserable.
You bought a new X belt and met a friend who didn't know the goods. Maybe it was a V3 belt or even the original belt. After all, these three belts are too homogeneous in terms of design language.
"Subsequent belts will change the design!"
Shi Sen pondered: "Different design styles will indeed arouse consumers' desire to buy."
For example, Apple...
The previous generations of products have completely followed the classic design. Although X’s bangs were spit on the Internet, the final sales proved that after the design changes, many people had the urge to "change phones".
The X-Knight belt is like the embarrassing fruit 8. Although the product is excellent, users say that the fruit 6 in his hand can still fight for another three years. Anyway, the looks are the same, the old model with a "camouflage shell" is considered a new model.
PD needs an Apple X!
The design must be understood at a glance, you are a new belt, so as to stimulate sales.
But this is a follow-up arrangement.
The problem now is that the ratings of X Knights are good, but the derivative products cannot sell. Without making money, the new Cavaliers will not have enough budget.
PD head office?
Thinking of this, Ono felt sorrow in his heart. When he called Mr. Meng to apply for "financial assistance", Mr. Meng asked him: "Are you a rice bucket?"
All of PD's overseas income belongs to the local branch. The only areas under the jurisdiction of the head office are the "Greater China" and the areas where there are no overseas branches, such as the country...
Neon is the second biggest cornucopia of PD. Meng Lang didn't ask them for money, but they came to Meng Lang for money? What is this not a rice bucket?
Ono is very wronged!
Branches in other regions sit and collect money. A lot of income, but only "salary and rent, water and electricity" expenditure.
But what about the Neon branch?
To make Kamen Rider, to complete the neon version of the dubbing of many PD works, and to repair Kyoto Paradise... Even if the neon area has a high revenue, second only to the Greater China area, it can't hold it!
If it is the V3 hit period, with the strong appeal of V3, it is not difficult for Neon PD to maintain the status quo. But the current X Cavaliers are not as profitable as V3, so it's normal to be short of money.
President Meng is too ruthless...
The head office of the group was unreliable, and Mr. Meng was thinking of his son Altman, and he didn't care about the life or death of the knight. After Ono understood this, he held this "self-help" conference decisively.
"Everyone, Mr. Meng is unreliable!"
"We can only rely on our own hands to fight for a better future for Kamen Rider. Everyone think about it, how to solve the current dilemma?"
As soon as President Ono's voice fell, the conference room entered a state of dead silence that "needle dropping could be heard".
After waiting for several minutes, Takeya Takayuki from the production department first expressed his opinion: "President, I have noticed that the toy figures of the previous "Kamen Rider V3" have sold very well!"
Do you want to do it?
Ono groaned: "There is a market with great potential, but the figures that customers like are mainly kawaii girls..."
Such as "YOYO Mother"!
Or is it magical girl?
Kamen Rider's figures have always been sold out. Even the popular king V3 did not sell many figures.
Takeya Takayuki smiled: "President, I think this is a design problem. The people we want to cater to are not children, but young people aged 16-26."
"We overlooked a group of Kamen Rider audiences. Many of them are young men between the ages of 16 and 26. Their consumption potential is not worse than that of children."
"They need a Kamen Rider derivative product that is not so naive and full of playability."
Ono became interested and asked: "Do you have a specific product plan?"
"some!"
Takeya Takayuki turned on the projector, connected to his laptop, and called up the original document to introduce to everyone: "This is a prototype scrap case created for the Kamen Rider series after I communicated with Mr. Ishimori..."
Ishimori said in amazement: "Kun Taketani, I remember that the abolition case was not like this, did you modify it again?"
"Hi!"
Taketani smiled and said, "Although the design has not been adopted, I don't want to just give it up. I revised the abandoned case based on the knight's look."
"Awesome work..."
Compared with the image of a knight in TV dramas, Taketani's design is very bold based on the modified knight of the abolished case. It weakens the sense of the leather case, adds many mechanical details that the prototype does not have, and the appearance is quite cool.
Not only the original manuscript, Takegu also made a 3D rendering model, the effect is more intuitive. Movable joints, diversified accessory weapons, battle armor full of alloy elements...
This doll is comparable to a real person!
"You can make a batch and try it out!"
Ono made up his mind and said: "Taketani-kun, since you put forward this idea, I beg you!"
After the "self-help" conference was over, Takeya Takayuki gained great authority. He directed the various departments of PD (Neon) to complete the mass production of the work.
The name of the product is confirmed ~EbookFREE.me~ abbreviated as sic, which means "super alloy with stunning scenes". Taketani Takayuki is the product modeling supervisor, Ishimori Akitaro is responsible for the scenario design, and PD is authorized for production by cooperative enterprises.
This is a new series!
The main "cool" SIC movable Kamen Rider doll has a lot of accessories and movable parts, and the price is affordable. After the first batch of Kamen Rider X and the Apollo suits for GOD officials were released, they were quickly sold out by enthusiastic fans.
The set contains two SIC dolls of Kamen Rider X and Apollo. It comes with a "volcano" scene and an "accessory weapon pack" with cool shapes and perfect details. 5000 yen is really not expensive!
After all, the product is well done!
The mask of Kamen Rider X can be removed, not to mention, it can still be mounted on the face of the villain "Apollo Geist", which perfectly embodies the basis of the setting of "the same origin as our enemy".
"PD's conscience!"