Normally, Yin Tian would never have expected anyone to acquire Tianxing in its current state!
So although he knew the company's shareholders were unhappy with him, he didn't care!
It wasn't easy to find someone willing to take over!
But Chu Yu had been meeting with Tianxing's shareholders so often that there was no way to keep it secret!
Before long, word of it began spreading among the upper echelons of Modu's animation industry.
When people heard the news, their first reaction was: What exactly was Chu Yu planning? Their second was: Did that guy even have that much money? Then they immediately realized what would happen when the anime IPs in Chu Yu's hands were combined with Tianxing's industry clout and production chain—the resulting chemistry would be explosive.
Tianxing's IP development department had racked up a total loss of four billion over the past five years. But that wasn't because Tianxing's teams were incompetent. The main problem was that the works they developed weren't popular enough!
For example, two years ago, Tianxing partnered with the Dragon Country LBA league. The Lan Feng anime was only the first step. Once it had generated enough buzz, they planned to use its story as a template and launch a game featuring the real-life teams.
Unfortunately, Lan Feng had been hit too hard by Slam Dunk. The industry widely considered Lan Feng trash compared with Slam Dunk. So after Tianxing spent over a hundred million producing Lan Feng and another two hundred million promoting it, the market rejected it outright. The public simply wasn't interested.
There had been plenty of examples like that over the past few years. But no matter how much Tianxing lost, nobody in the industry doubted the abilities of its production teams or marketing department. That was there for