Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 197
"Four seasons indoor ski resort, let you be in the world of ice and snow all year round!!"

In the advertising brochure, this slogan was specially enlarged, followed by an inspiring exclamation point.

Takao Tajima only glanced at it, and put the advertisement brochure aside. He is not interested in man-made indoor ski resorts, and he will never go on a date with a girl on a ski resort—the ski skills are too bad, and he will only shame.

The focus of his concern was the letter from TV Asahi.

Tear open the envelope and pour out the contents. It is a letter printed out by a typewriter and an admission letter.

"Everyone from ORIGINAL LOVE, congratulations on being selected as candidates for the "Band Paradise" TV competition. Please go to TV Asahi to participate in the TV competition selection before nine o'clock in the morning on September 27th..."

After reading the contents of the letter, Takao Tajima let out a sigh of relief.

The band whose goal is to perform solo at the Meguro Shikanarakikan took the first step tonight and participated in a platter performance at the Meguro Shikanarakikan.

The goal is to appear in "Band Paradise" and appear in front of the public. Takao Tajima, who won the championship, received the TV Asahi TV selection letter tonight.

Although he has to beat other contestants to get the opportunity to perform on TV, this is undoubtedly the first step.

Tajima Takao is the kind of musician who is despised by those musicians who insist on not commercializing in the underground music circle, and aims to make a mainstream debut and become famous since the beginning of the performance of the team. However, he himself never thinks that commercialization has wrong.

From his hometown in Fukushima Prefecture, he came to Tokyo in order to get ahead. His goal is clear and his heart is very simple.Even though there are many voices in the underground music circle saying that the band will be fooled when they appear on TV variety shows, but he has no hesitation.

Not only that, Tajima Takao thinks that people who say such things are superficial for the conclusion that a program that has not officially started broadcasting will fool the band.

Today is a day to move forward.

With this thought in mind, Tajima Takao fell asleep amid the sound of the fan creaking and turning.

The next afternoon, he gathered with his teammates in the rehearsal room with the letter from TV Asahi.

ORIGINAL LOVE and another band partnered to rent an old warehouse from a warehouse owner as a rehearsal room. The rent was shared equally by both parties. Of course, the practice time was also equally divided.

The teammates passed the letters one by one, and they all felt excited.

The teammates gathered together with Tajima Takao as the absolute center did not discuss the relationship, but they were basically consistent in the general direction of the band.

"Okay, then let's practice with the goal of qualifying for the TV competition!"

……

Tokyo, which can accommodate tens of millions of dreams and the wreckage of dreams, not only accepts Takao Tajima and his ORIGINAL LOVE, but also does not reject the efforts of other bands.

This center stage has attracted Takao Tajima, who has always had expectations for Tokyo, and brought him here from Fukushima Prefecture. Similarly, it also attracts people from places farther away than Fukushima, where Takao Tajima is located. here.

The morning after Takao Tajima received the admission letter, he was in another apartment in Tokyo, and Shinji Kazushima checked the mailbox by the way before going out.

Generally speaking, other people usually check the mailbox when they go home, but Shinji Kazushima is just the opposite of others when it comes to these things.

In addition to receiving letters, there are many other small habits that are harmless but also make people feel different.

Shinji Wadajima's hometown is in Aomori County in the northeast, which is a remote, cold and poor place.

This is the birthplace of the Tsugaru shamisen. In the old days, blind artists in the Tsugaru area played the shamisen and begged everywhere. They took the Seikan ferry, crossed the Tsugaru Strait, and traveled as far as Hokkaido.

Nowadays, blind entertainers begging in the Tsugaru area have also become history. Masters like Takahashi Takeyama went to the United States to perform publicly last year.

After more than ten years of hard work, the subsea tunnel connecting Aomori and Hakodate is about to open to traffic.

Shamisen is no longer a tool for begging, and skilled entertainers can also become artists.

With well-developed transportation, it is easy to go from Aomori to Tokyo, and to every place in the world.

Two years ago, after graduating from high school, Shinji Wadajima set out from Aomori and came to Tokyo to study Buddhism at Komazawa University.

Komazawa University was formerly a monk training institution. Although he chose Buddhism, Shinji Wadajima’s family did not have a temple to inherit. His father was not a monk, but a Chinese teacher.

Therefore, there are many books of literary masters at home.Hejima Shinji was a quiet child when he was a child. He liked reading in the study room more than playing with other friends, especially Edogawa Ranpo, Izumi Kyoka, and Osamu Dazai.

"It is precisely because I am a Tsugaru of pure blood that I can speak ill of Tsugaru so unscrupulously. ... (Omitted) Anyway, I love Tsugaru very much after all."

Aomori is also the hometown of the writer Dazai Osamu.

Looking at the appearance, Shinjima Kazushima has nothing to do with the word "handsome guy". The long hair in the shawl is permed in small curls. He is a bit old-fashioned, unsmiling, and always looks like a strange young man who is thinking thoughtfully. Sometimes he feels like a down-and-out cultural people.

When Hejima Shinji was in middle school, he wrote a song called "Disqualification in the World", which used the heavy metal style of the Black Sabbath band, and the lyrics were about the depravity of human nature.

Many years have passed since then. During this period, Shinji Wadajima entered school and left Aomori to study Buddhism in Tokyo. He broadened his horizons, thought more things, and wrote more songs. But his favorite, Or this song "Disqualification in the World".

It was because he wrote the song "Disqualification in the World" that he grasped the most important thing, that is, what kind of music he wanted to pursue, and what kind of music he wanted.

It takes the hard rock and heavy metal of the rotten national style as nourishment, and plants Japanese things on it.

……

Shinji Hejima opened the mailbox, and there was a letter lying in it, and the sender wrote TV Asahi.

He stared at the envelope and thought about it, and remembered that not long ago, he did send the band's performance video to TV Asahi's "Band Paradise".

Shinji Kazushima met Kenichi Suzuki when he was in junior high school.

Aomori is located in a remote place, and even the distribution of records and magazines is a little later than other places. If it is a record of an unpopular singer, you have to order it from the record store.

Under such circumstances, Shinji Wadajima, who wanted to listen to a record but couldn’t get it, heard from a friend that there was a student in the same grade named Kenichi Suzuki who had many records at home.

Shinji Kazushima went to talk to Suzuki Kenichi with an attitude of trying, but he didn't expect that the other party actually had this record. Not only that, but he was also happy that he could like this singer.

Everything starts here.

(End of this chapter)