Crossover: Pen name: Dazai Osamu, Omega Kasumigaoka

"Now that you're ready, let's get started on the audition."

The biggest boss has spoken.

His subordinates naturally dared not neglect their duties and immediately went out to greet the actors who had come to audition...

……

The audition process is not complicated.

When he encounters a familiar face, Kitahara Shin will deliberately hook onto the name.

For unfamiliar faces, the producers and directors decide on everything.

He's not a professional, after all.

It's impossible to be perfect in every aspect.

As long as the lead actor is similar to the one in the previous life, it's fine.

It doesn't matter who plays the remaining minor roles.

It took a week.

After the House of Cards production team was fully assembled.

Kitahara Shin then flew back to Japan.

……

……

Next to Meiji University is the NN Big Data Algorithm Research Institute.

In the demonstration hall.

Sano Seiji demonstrated to Kitahara Makoto the results of the research institute's work, which had been going on for more than half a year.

A complete online secure payment system.

After the demonstration, Kitahara Shin asked.

"Is this ready for use?"

"Absolutely, President. We've leveraged the concept of online banking and partnered deeply with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Our online payment function is now fully mature!"

Kitahara Makoto smiled and patted Sano Seiji on the shoulder.

"Well done."

"You shouldn't stay here any longer."

"I'm giving you a new task: to start a new company."

"Let's call it NN Payment!"

"And you will be the general manager of the new company!"

"Yes, President!"

"I can't believe it," said Seiji Sano, his face beaming with excitement.

No one doesn't want more power.

He came here from headquarters.

It's simply because Kawamoto Yuta is keeping them in check at headquarters.

He wants to go any further unless Yuta Kawamoto retires.

He couldn't wait, so he came here hoping to find an opportunity.

Fortunately, I have finally gotten the opportunity.

After Sano Seiji left, Kitahara Makoto's eyes gleamed.

His internet empire can finally fill the most important gap!

……

The new company was formed very quickly.

Because the main staff are mostly from the Big Data Algorithm Research Institute and NicoNico headquarters.

Kitahara Makoto and Sano Seiji were not comfortable entrusting such an important thing as a payment tool to outsiders.

After the new company was established, it immediately began in-depth communication with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and went through all the various collection and transfer processes.

Following this, NicoNico Department Store announced a partnership with Sagawa Express, one of the top courier companies in Japan.

Sagawa Express will be fully responsible for the delivery of goods to NicoNico Department Store.

Building your own delivery system is a very expensive and time-consuming process.

Moreover, JD.com's express delivery system requires purchasing large amounts of land across the country to build warehouses, which costs even more money.

Therefore, Kitahara Shin doesn't intend to use his own money to build it.

Using shareholders' money to build it is the best option.

We'll use other courier companies for now.

Once NicoNico Department Store succeeds, then kick Sagawa Express aside.

Alternatively, they could directly acquire Sagawa Express to accelerate the incubation of NicoNico Department Store's own delivery system!

……

All is ready except for the opportunity.

March 1st.

NicoNico's traffic matrix is ​​activated.

NicoNico Animation, NN Chat, and NN Weibo—three major traffic drivers—simultaneously launched 'NicoNico Department Store' shopping website.

The advertising slogans of NicoNico Department Store are also posted in subways, buses, trams and other places with high population density.

"Shop on NicoNico online and buy your favorite items without leaving home, enjoying the fastest and most convenient service."

Like a tidal wave, the NicoNico shopping website quickly swept across Japan.

March 8th happens to be International Women's Day.

It has been said that children's and women's money is the easiest to earn in the world.

So NicoNico department store launched a carefully prepared 'Women's Day promotion'.

Cosmetics, designer clothes, snacks... everything is on sale.

March 8th.

After more than a week of pre-sales promotion, NicoNico Department Store successfully achieved an impressive sales figure of over 500 million yen.

This news caused an uproar in the industry, because this was an achievement that no physical supermarket or market could have made.

The incredibly profitable field of e-commerce has successfully entered people's field of vision.

As a pioneer in e-commerce in Japan, NicoNico Department Store naturally benefits the most.

NicoNico's market value immediately skyrocketed.

It quickly rose from over 12 billion US dollars to 13 billion US dollars, and it's still going up.

This directly increased the valuation by one billion dollars.

Kitahara Makoto finally understood what people meant when they said that.

Making money in the stock market is really easy!

……

The success of NicoNico department stores had a tremendous impact.

This directly revitalized the traffic within NicoNico's entire closed-loop ecosystem.

NicoNico, NN Chat, and NN Weibo—these three major traffic drivers have finally found new uses.

It shouldn't just be used as a regular tool for receiving ads and making money.

The emergence of NicoNico Department Store can be likened to a mecha finally having its own energy core.

Now, the behemoth that is NicoNico can finally go all out.

Build an unbreakable internet empire!

A month later, NicoNico's market value broke through the $14 billion mark.

Original companies like eBay and Amazon were completely crushed by NicoNico Department Store.

Unfortunately, NicoNico controls over 90% of online traffic.

Add to that Kitahara's business strategies, which have been ahead of the curve for over a decade, such as offering free coupons with no minimum purchase requirement upon registration, "get a discount by asking a friend" promotions, and daily sign-in rewards with fruit...

Once these tactics are employed, eBay and Amazon, those country bumpkins, are completely powerless to fight back...

Chapter 114: Dominating the Japanese Internet

July arrived in the blink of an eye.

House of Cards is a modern drama with no special effects or grand scenes.

So the filming was done very quickly.

Filming has wrapped and the production has entered the post-production stage.

For the past few months, Kitahara Makoto has been traveling back and forth between the two places.

In Japan, NicoNico anime, NicoNico chat, NicoNico Weibo, and NicoNico department stores are thriving.

NicoNico's reach extends to all aspects of society.

A colossal creature has taken shape.

In America.

The first project in our self-developed business is progressing smoothly.

At the same time, Kitahara Makoto instructed his subordinates to actively negotiate with independent film companies.

They acquired the online rights to some movies.

This has led to a slow but steady increase in the number of NicoNico users in North America.

……

More than a month later.

The first season of House of Cards has been completed.

After watching the full version, Kitahara Makoto was completely relieved.

Then, with a wave of his hand, he allocated a large budget to begin promoting and hyping up "House of Cards".

This includes advertising on television, in the subway, in various shopping malls, and on major websites like Google.

Moreover, in order to maintain the popularity of House of Cards.

Kitahara Makoto watched the first season of "House of Cards" for free.

You can watch it as long as you enter NicoNico Animation.

Then, by the fifth episode, the audience was completely captivated.

Add another condition: only registered users can continue to watch for free.

Of course, Kitahara Makoto only dared to do this because he had absolute confidence in the quality of "House of Cards".

Otherwise, if the content of the work is not good enough, it will just be a cheap attempt to attract attention and end up being a laughing stock.

Initially, neither Netflix nor YouTube believed that a web series produced by an outsider could overturn their dominance.

Everyone was waiting to see Kitahara Makoto and NicoNico's North American branch make a fool of themselves.

However, after House of Cards was released, the two companies were completely speechless.

In its first week, House of Cards didn't generate much buzz.

But by the second week, positive word-of-mouth began to take hold.