September 1st, 2003
After the release of two animated movies of Aladdin and The Toy Story, people applauded saying these were one of the best animated movies. In these few months Disney was finally established and it had the same logo like it had in the previous life of John. John even started searching for Bob Chapek and Kevin Feige to take over the helm of Disney when the time was right.
[Ding
Total fan value achieved - 150,800,000
Urging the host to work hard.]
Even though the fan values weren't the same like the lion king he was happy about it. He earned a lot from these two movies crossing the mark of 2 billion dollars. Soon he brought some copies at the expense of some fan values. These copies were important for the next phase of his plans.
In the morning of September 2nd, the family of three went to Tokyo. Jameson was surprised when his son asked him to take him to Tokyo. He didn't know what plans he had but he still supported him on his ventures.
On a chilly night of Tokyo they landed at the airport and went straight for the hotel. Such a long journey was tiring for everybody and they needed rest.
On the next morning, John took the family to Studio Pierrot with a lawyer and a translator as he would need them during negotiations. Soon they arranged a meeting with the CEO of the studio.
The CEO was pretty surprised and excited when he heard the famous creator behind those animated movies was going to meet him so he cleared his schedule for this meeting. Soon John arrived with his family and headed towards the meeting room.
"Hello Michiyuki Honma-san. It's nice to meet you. Hope we didn't disturb you by arranging such a hasty meeting" John said with a smile. The translator helped him convey his words to Honma.
"No no, it's our honor to welcome such a famous animation movie creator to our premises. I am just surprised that you would come to our studio" Honma said.
"Well Mr. Honma we are actually here to have a cooperative relationship with your studio and joining our hands we would like to depict a wonderful story in animation. The reason I chose Japan instead of USA because I believe that the story I have will appeal to Japanese audience more than Americans" John said.
Hanmo was skeptical to this point. He knew the animation industry in Japan and it can probably said as the top industry of animation in the whole world. Even though he had his doubts but he didn't express.
"I know you have your doubts about this so let me give you a present. I didn't bring any other presents with so I can only give you these 10 chapters of manga that I drew by myself. We can discuss the business terms after you read these" John added and gave him 10 chapters of manga he drew.
Hanmo started reading and the first page was the image of a cliff side of a mountain with image of few faces plastered on the mountain. It looked almost like the famous Mt. Rushmore only in this case the faces were different. He then saw the image of boy which cat like whiskers on both sides of the cheeks and he was drawing all kinds of weird faces and signs on the faces of the mountains.
Yes this is the famous story of Naruto. John knew that in order to be on top of the world he needed a strong background. And after much contemplation he chose the story of Naruto because he was afraid of choosing Bleach as the world of bleach might coincide with hell dimension. He wasn't sure if this world had Mephisto or even the real goddess Death, and the world of One piece is too complicated and the story didn't even finish so he chose the world template of Naruto. And he had a hunch that the cost of Bleach and others will be costlier than Naruto.
John knew that for bringing the whole world of Naruto to Earth it would start a storm but he already had a plan from the beginning to fight this in a peaceful way. John also speculated that bringing the whole world would cost him a lot of fan values but he was ready to pay the price and no matter how much time it took.
Hanmo read through the chapters and he understood that this story had a huge potential. Soon he decided to accept any kind of proposal because he knew that if the story went right it would be world famous. Hanmo believed that John would already have the whole story in his mind and he trusted his own judgement for the story submitted by John.
"Mr. John we would love to negotiate with you for acquiring the rights to make an animation of the story" Hanmo said with sincerity.
"Sure Mr. Hanmo we would love to co-operate. Disney and your studio will co-operate in this regard. Your company will have full freedom to make the animation and Disney will only be responsible for it's publication globally and other merchandise associated with it. 60% of the profits would be for your studio and this deal with continue even in future animation works. How does that sound?" John asked Hanmo.