Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 781
Regarding the signing of the contract between Momoko Kikuchi and Momoko Kikuchi, Shinichi Iwahashi, the agent, did not pay any additional attention to it other than making a few phone calls and communicating with Mr. Nozaki and Momoko Kikuchi.

He trusted Yanyin, and Yanyin agreed to accept people, which meant that the resources he wanted would be delivered to him in the future.

With one more friend who cooperates and win-win, the road ahead will be wider.

After letting Aunt Kikuchi Momoko's restaurant treat her for lunch, Iwahashi Shinichi never saw her again.However, the contract has not been fully completed, and I still have to call her to report the progress.

For the first time, Kikuchi Momoko insisted on inviting him to dinner, but she never invited him again after that.However, after finishing the business on the phone, she always had to tell Yanqiao Shinichi some of her "vacation experience" during this time, like a middle school student writing a summer vacation observation assignment.

Popular idols are always full of work, because of the characteristics of the idol profession, they are doomed to be able to do anything.He can both sing and act, and even after Akiko Matsumoto started making jokes, he can still be funny if he can let go.

Singers and actors only do one thing, but idols do two or three things, no wonder they are not busy.

"I went to sign up for the cooking class today." Momoko Kikuchi told him, "Learning to make kaiseki cuisine."

Yanqiao Shinichi was a little bit taken aback, "Really? Can you do this too?"

"I don't know yet..." She said a little troubled, "However, I will study hard in the future. I like cooking very much."

"Yeah." Yanqiao Shinichi still remembers that this is a person who might inherit his aunt's restaurant if he doesn't become an idol.

"In addition to the cooking class, I now go to acting classes four times a week." Kikuchi Momoko seemed worried about being regarded as a non-job, and added, "Whether it's cooking or acting, I will learn steadily. "

Yanqiao Shinichi is not her boss, so there is no point in reporting this to him.He heard it in his ears, and replied politely, "Then I wish you success in both cooking and acting."

Kikuchi Momoko said "Yeah!", "I will be very happy if I can see progress through hard work."

Kaiseki.

Yanqiao Shinichi put down the phone, thinking back, he felt that Kikuchi Momoko was quite powerful.Female idols are all talented.Even so, the emotion was over, and I didn't take it to my heart.

……

In the evening, Iwahashi Shinichi went to a date with the fat young man Yasushi Akimoto.

During this period of time, he has been busy with THE BLUE HEARTS, and he hasn't met this fat young man for a while, let alone have a drink together.

"Shinichi-kun is really terrible now." The fat young man Yasushi Akimoto squinted his small oily eyes, and teased, "Your time is coming."

It's a compliment when it comes out of someone else's mouth.However, from the point of view of this fat young man, even if he really thought so, there was a hint of playing tricks on people after getting drunk, waiting to see people get carried away and make a fool of themselves.

"Borrowing from Akimoto Sangji." Iwahashi Shinichi replied with a smile.

He was unhurried, neither complacent nor humble, which made Akimoto Yasushi feel like he was running out of space.This chubby young man wanted to tease Yanqiao Shinichi, but he either calmed down, or simply refused to accept the trick.

It would be boring to switch to someone else.But Yasushi Akimoto, the big loach, didn't think so.

As soon as he became famous, all aspects of Yanqiao Shenzhou's surroundings also changed.

Today, even when he comes to nightclubs, he is more popular among the hostesses than before, not losing to popular stars.

The current Yanqiao Shinichi's status in the industry is only higher than that of the fat young man.

It has not been a few years since he entered the industry. At the beginning, he was just a small manager who followed the little idol on the street. In order to convince the fat young people to help, he followed everywhere to socialize.

For Akimoto Yasushi who watched this guy walking all the way with bare hands, he saw his ability most intuitively.

Not only Yasushi Akimoto, his old acquaintance, looked at him slightly differently, but also the whole industry.

On the one hand, Shinichi Iwahashi's talents cannot be ignored, and on the other hand, he is young and promising, and the singer's records he produced are very popular, and his wallet should be bulging.Not only that, but he is still unmarried and has a handsome appearance, so you don't need to close your eyes when getting along with him...

Facing such a young producer, people in the industry have everything on their minds.

"By the way, there is one thing."

Akimoto Yasushi was somewhat jealous of the famous Iwahashi Shinichi.However, it's not that he's jealous of his fame and fortune and has become a sought-after golden bachelor in the industry, but that he's jealous of his ability to act.

But he is definitely not the kind of person who will hold a grudge.

Although this fat young man is a businessman in essence, he still has the demeanor of a wit. Even if he was envious of Shinichi Iwahashi's beautiful handwriting for a while, and he was jealous of his ability to do things like this, he immediately resolved it afterwards.

Not only that, but because I saw his talent, I started to have higher expectations for him.Working with Shinichi Iwahashi must be more exciting than working with other people, and for the same thing, if you cooperate with Shinichi Iwahashi, you may be able to get different results.

Yasushi Akimoto's way of resolving jealousy is to turn it into appreciation and the possibility of future cooperation and work together.

Even so, with his naughty personality, he must still have a mouth addiction, digging a hole in his mouth quietly, wanting to see him fall, just to tease him.I can't make fun of it, and I don't feel annoyed. After drinking a glass of wine, I turn the page again.

Just because the fat young man is such a person, this guy is like a fish in water in the industry, and he is a friend everywhere.

Of course, Iwahashi Shinichi is also his friend.

"What?" Yanqiao Shenyi listened.

Yasushi Akimoto told him, "Kato Kazuya-kun—Misora ​​Hibari-san's adopted son." He paused, "I'm dealing with Misora-san's relics. Would you like to buy one too, Shinichi-kun?"

"A relic?" Shinichi Yanqiao didn't expect that the fat young man told him such a thing.

A generation of enka queens must have accumulated a lot of wealth.Of course, inheritance tax is definitely not a small amount.However, even so, it would not allow Kato Kazuya to sell the relics of his adoptive mother to make ends meet, not to mention the royalties that will be credited to the account every year thereafter.

As long as this adopted son doesn't get too hot-headed to invest, he can rely on Hibari Misora's name to eat and drink for the rest of his life.Therefore, the disposal of relics at this stage is definitely not because of the rush to cash them into money.

"Columbia Records plans to build a memorial museum for Miku-san, and part of her relics and costumes from previous performances will be publicly displayed."

"In addition, people in the entertainment industry hope to express their nostalgia for Misora-san by purchasing her belongings. Therefore, Kazuya-kun took out some of them." Akimoto Yasushi told him.

"I see." Yanqiao Shinichi suddenly understood.

Buying the relics of Hibari Misora ​​is a pretense, and it is my heart to take this opportunity to continue to build momentum.

Hibari Misora ​​loves beauty very much. During her lifetime, she had thousands of kimonos at least. It is said that she couldn’t fit them in her home in Meguro, so she even bought an apartment for her kimonos.

Catch up with the bubble era, land prices are rolling upwards, and the apartment where the kimono is placed also appreciates in value.

Kimonos are expensive, and thousands of sets of kimonos alone are worth hundreds of millions of yen.In addition, there are her collections, her works of art-whether there is artistic value is another matter.

All in all, the biggest jewel in the crown of the singing world has fallen. Judging by the energy of the people in the singing world, they want to build this momentum until the end of the year.

The end of the year.

The last day of the Record Awards.

……

The only time this singing queen won the record award in her life was in 1965. After divorcing the big star Kobayashi Xu, the single "Soft" released was very popular, selling 180 million copies, and she deserved the award.

In the next few years, she was deeply involved in the "Skylark Scandal", was boycotted by the people, and her career was hit hard.Until the end of his life, there was no chance to reproduce the glory of the year.

In the ten years before her death, the best-selling single was her posthumous work "The Stream Never Ends".

Posthumous work bonus, coupled with the deliberate support of the enka world—since her death, some enka singers have sung this song in music programs in the name of Hibari Misora ​​from time to time.

As a result, the popularity of this single has not diminished, and its sales have also increased steadily. So far, this year's sales have exceeded 50 copies, and it continues to maintain its position on the charts. ten thousand.

This achievement, in the generally declining enka world, is beyond the reach of most living enka singers.

55 copies sold, plus it is the posthumous work of Queen Enka.

If you want to win the record award, you must not make trouble for no reason, right?

Since Hiroshi Wuki won the record award in 1984, the award has never been given to enka singers.However, not sending it to enka singers is not because the industry intends to target it, but because the opponent is too strong.

The younger generation is not interested in enka, and it is a reality that enka is declining.But even so, the Engepai would never admit this, not only that, but would do their best to save face.

This group of Enge School who still maintain the master-apprentice system and are quite similar to the Jidao, take their face very seriously.

In the past few years, first Nakamori Akina's three consecutive championships, followed by Nagabuchi Takeshi's famous song "Cheers"... this year will soon be.

We can't let the Enka faction fail to win the grand prize medal for five consecutive years, right?

……

Whether it's a pretense or another conspiracy, not everyone is qualified to buy Hibari Misora's relics.

Hibari Misora ​​has passed away, and his soul is sent far away by the never-ending river of life.But the signboard she left in Yangshi can still be used in different ways.

Kato Kazuya is just a student, and he listens to all the people in the office, as well as his adoptive mother's sister and his biological aunt, Sato Setsuko.

Sato Utsuko has no idea. After her older sister Hibari Misora ​​became popular, her mother arranged her to debut with her sister's fame.Afterwards, my grades were not satisfactory, and I had no attachment to the entertainment industry, so I left the industry, returned to my hometown in Yokohama, got married, opened a music classroom, and taught amateurs to sing.

Now, all the brothers and sisters of Kato's family have passed away except her. In order to help her sister's funeral and take care of her nephew Kazuya, she travels back and forth between Yokohama and Tokyo every few days.

However, she didn't mean to talk too much, and it was up to the people in the firm and the record company to plan.

What was reported in the news was "the construction of the Hibari Misora ​​Memorial Hall", but what did not appear in the camera was the "commemoration" of Hibari Misora, which was facilitated by the agency, the record company, and the music industry.

Sato Shitsuko had no objection, and Kato Kazuya was even more happy in his heart.In his opinion, it is not a big deal to just sell a little kimono of his adoptive mother and a collection of artworks.

Anyway, it's useless to put the kimono there... Besides, there are thousands of kimonos, even if you sell a hundred, it's just a little bit.

Not only that, the words "to express the memory of Skylark-san" told him by the people in the office made this young man, out of pride for his adoptive mother, willing to cooperate with them in selling the relics of his adoptive mother.

……

The closer to the end of the year, the more complicated things become.

As far as the industry is concerned, as soon as October enters, many things have to be prepared.Different fields, different factions, everyone does their own thing, and in the same day, countless things are planned at the same time.

When the fat young man mentioned this matter, Shin Iwashi forgot as soon as he hadn't heard it, and told Wanyumi Watanabe later.However, [-]% of the time, Wanyumi Watanabe would mention it to him without him having to say it.The news couldn't be hidden from her.

Not only that, but the two of them thought of being together.

"'Eyes to me' will not be officially released until the end of October, when it will actually sell a million copies."

Mayumi Watanabe nodded, "It's still the first million-dollar single in the Heisei era, and so far, it's the only million-dollar single this year."

If this single fails to win the Record Awards, the Awards Formulation Association will definitely receive a lot of voices questioning the fairness.But if this single won the Record Award, it would be a severe offense to Enge Pai.

If we only talk about performance, "Eyes to me" outsells "Continuous Flow". In terms of influence this year, "Continuous Flow" is indeed a phenomenal song this year. To some extent, it is higher than this song "Eyes to "me"——

But the popularity of "Eyes to me" is not low this year, it's just not as high as "Endless Stream".

Insisting on handing out the grand prize to "The Endless Stream" is not considered to be an act of entertainment by the Enka School, but the public will not be convinced either.

After all, not everyone is feeling "life is like a stream" for Hibari Misora's death.

Besides, as long as the title of Heisei's first million-dollar single is won, this single will also be written into the history of Japanese pop music.

"It's really troublesome." Yanqiao Shinichi complained.

Hearing what he said, Watanabe Wanyumi laughed.Looking at Shen Yanqiao's inquisitive gaze, he said, "Compared to this, it's not that troublesome this time, is it?"

Yanqiao Shinichi told her to tease her neither soft nor hard, but did not answer her words.After a while, he spoke again: "There must be a way to resolve it."

"However," he turned around and asked, "What does Wanyumi-san want?"

(End of this chapter)