Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 302 The Real Asakura Minami
Akimoto Yasushi handed over a list to Matsui Motoki at the Yunshang Arts Training Base.

"Matsui-san, I'm sure it's these children."

Matsui Motoki took a look at the list and was surprised to find that none of the 21 trainees failed.

He asked strangely, "Does Akimoto-san need so many people?"

"This program is quite special, it is not the debut that Matsui-san thought."

After the player finished speaking, seeing Matsui Motoki's still puzzled expression, he explained a few more words.

"This program is in the name of recruiting amateur girls to become assistant hosts, so that girls can become members of the Kitten Club and participate in the program.

Whether the girls can make their debut is actually not important in terms of their own abilities, it is only related to the support of the audience. "

After listening to Akimoto Yasushi's explanation, Matsui Motoki looked at the list thoughtfully, as if he understood something.

"That is to say, even if you can participate in the show, it doesn't mean you will definitely be able to debut."

"That's right, and except for the first batch, the remaining children still need to compete with the real amateur girls invited by the show."

"Competing with pure amateurs, I think they will definitely have no problem."

For the children in the training base, Matsui Motoki is full of confidence.

Akimoto Yasushi shook his head secretly when he heard the words.

The other party didn't realize at all that on the stage of "Kitten Club", the audience might care about ability, but the main focus was definitely not ability.

unless……

Unless the ability is as strong as that of Sachiko Kuchi just now.

But obviously it is impossible.

And even if it is Sachiko Puchi, she must create a separate character design.

Being outstanding is not enough to stand out from the crowd.

However, Akimoto Yasushi did not explain this specific matter to Matsui Motoki.

Even if it is explained, the other party may not understand.

"When will the first episode start? Do I need to prepare anything?" Matsui Motoki asked.

"The recording will start the day after tomorrow, and it will be broadcast online in a week. When the children are on the show, I will give the list in advance."

Akimoto Yasushi replied.

"So fast!" Matsui Motoki was a little surprised.

"Preliminary preparations have already started, and we must broadcast it before the summer vacation, otherwise some program effects will not be able to be achieved."

"What program effect?"

"Go to school during the day and record the program at night."

Yasushi Akimoto and Motoki Matsui didn't say much, but they left immediately after explaining the members who were on the first episode.

The production cycle of the program is tight. As a producer, he is busy every day without stopping, and there is really no time to delay.

……

The work of "Kitten Club" is progressing steadily.

Hideki Hanyu also started the official signing tour.

At the same time, Nintendo in Kyoto.

Received a business cooperation inquiry letter from the United States.

When the secretary handed over the letter of inquiry to the president Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at the contents of the inquiry letter, feeling unprecedentedly surprised in his heart.

The content of the inquiry letter is very simple. America Elf Vision Company has launched a graphics processing chip called the Nitor series specially designed for games.

This chip has Nitor0110 and Nitor0130 products with different performances.

Elven Vision said that it can cooperate with Nintendo on these two graphics processing chips.

It can also be customized based on these two chips according to Nintendo's needs.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was a little confused.

If I remember correctly, Spirit Vision should be Hideki Hanyu's company.

At the end of the inquiry letter, it clearly stated that the graphics processing chip of ElvenVision has been successfully used in Pokeball 2 handhelds and PS consoles.

No matter from which angle you look at it, Nintendo is a competitor of Elf Entertainment.

Why did Spirit Entertainment agree with Spirit Vision to provide graphics processing chips to Nintendo?

This is so abnormal.

Yamauchi Hiroshi's first reaction was that there was a conspiracy in it.

He immediately called Masaya Uemura, who was in charge of developing the sixteen hosts, and Gunpei Yokoi, the person in charge of the first R&D department.

Then hand over the business cooperation inquiry letter sent by Spirit Vision to the two.

After the two of them finished reading the inquiry letter, Hiroshi Yamauchi inquired.

"What do you think?"

"I don't understand." Uemura Masa also said with a puzzled face.

"It's very unreasonable." Junpei Yokoi also felt the same way.

"You also think there is a problem, right? ElfVision is doing this, is there any conspiracy hidden, such as trying to use cooperation to delay the development progress of our host?"

Hiroshi Yamauchi spoke his mind.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was not surprised that Elf Entertainment guessed that Nintendo was developing a [-]-bit console.

Who would have thought Uemura Masaya shook her head, "I don't think so."

In Uemura Masaya's view, there is no reason for elf vision to be so stupid, and to use the conspiracy so openly.

Yokoi Gunpei next to him didn't mention the conspiracy, but instead asked Uemura Masaya a question.

"If we use the Nitor series of graphics processing chips, will the development progress of the new host be improved?"

Uemura also nodded and said, "If the inquiry letter is not lying, this chip is indeed the one used by the PS console, even if the performance is slightly worse, our development cycle will definitely be accelerated."

Yokoi Gunpei looked at Hiroshi Yamauchi, "President, the letter of inquiry said that we are welcome to go to Elven Vision to investigate. If there is any conspiracy, we will find out by arranging a technician to investigate once."

"This..." Hiroshi Yamauchi still hesitated.

At this time, Masa Uemura also spoke, "President, I can personally lead the team to investigate."

"Then go have a look."

The temptation to shorten the R&D cycle is in front of him, and Hiroshi Yamauchi is somewhat tempted.

But even if he agreed, according to Hiroshi Yamauchi's business logic, he still didn't understand Hideki Hanyu's behavior.

However, if Hideki Hanyu knew about Hiroshi Yamauchi's thoughts, he would definitely tell Hiro Yamauchi what a pattern is.

In later generations, PS, XBOX, switch and other mainstream hosts almost all use Nvidia GPUs.

At that time, there was Nintendo as a demonstration, and no one understood it.

Selling consoles really relies on exclusive games.

The "little bully" performance of the Nintendo switch can be sold so well, do you really think that players are looking for the screen.

After the mid-80s, the semiconductor industry took off again, driven by the game industry.

Just take down Nintendo and Sega, plus your own sprite entertainment.

Then he would attract other manufacturers, but he was afraid that Elf Vision would not be able to develop.

As long as there is performance, large-scale research and development will be spent in the later stage, and other capital financing will be found, and it can be sold at a good price.

It will not be like Lao Huang in his previous life, whose shares in Nvidia were diluted to less than 90% in the late 5.00s.

……

June NO.18, Hideki Hanyu arrived in Nagoya City, the second stop of the signing event.

As soon as he arrived, he received a call from America.

The other end of the phone is 'Ball Flower' Monica Bellucci.

"Honey, the Supreme brand has been registered, and the first start-up funds have been transferred to the company's account. Those two gentlemen have already gone to New York to open a store."

"I see."

Hanyu Hideki responded, and then did not forget to emphasize, "When you report to me in the future, call me the boss."

"Okay, boss~"

Although the beautiful Italian girl called her the boss, her tone of voice still sounded unscrupulous.

"Boss, when are you going back to America? I miss you a little."

"I don't have time recently."

"Then I'll go to Nihong to find the boss, okay?"

"Remember, I kept you in America for work, and if something goes wrong, you know the consequences."

Hanyu Hideki finished speaking seriously.

Then his tone changed, "I just bought a house and a private beach in Hawaii. When I finish my work here, I will take you to the new house for vacation."

As the saying goes, give me a slap, and give me a sweet date.

When dealing with women, you should not be blindly enthusiastic, nor blindly indifferent.

Hanyu Hideki's slightly ruthless words in front of him made Qiuhua quite depressed.

But when Hanyu Hideki talked about the house and private beach in Hawaii, her mood immediately changed from cloudy to sunny.

He happily said to Hideki Hanyu, "Boss, I'll wait for you, so hurry up."

"I see."

After Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Women are not important at all, what he is thinking about at this moment is about the Supreme brand.

Supreme has the highest, supreme meaning.

Although Supreme, a trendy brand, has gone downhill when he crossed.

But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Supreme is still at the top of the trendy brand world, and there are many supporters.

The joint name with other companies is also very popular.

As the saying goes, everything can be Supreme.

However, although Supreme's reputation is loud, it is also deeply affected by counterfeit brands.

The Italian International Brand Firm (IBF), taking advantage of Supreme's failure to develop in Europe, registered a series of counterfeit brands in Europe.

In the end, it went international faster than Supreme.

At one time, even many celebrities wore counterfeit brands without knowing it.

Even Samsung only found out that the joint name was a copycat brand after it announced the launch of a joint product with Supreme.

Although Supreme fought international lawsuits for many years in the end, it finally won IBF.

But the proliferation of counterfeit brands has been powerless to stop.

Therefore, Hideki Hanyu plans to ask the legal department of Spirit Entertainment to help register related brands around the world after Yoshiyuki Ishizuka and the two open the store.

And once Supreme improves slightly, he doesn't intend to learn from Supreme's business practices in his previous life, and stay in America for more than ten years.

That way, of course, it can be used in niche circles.

But doing so is undoubtedly creating opportunities for the development of counterfeit brands.

The minority is not such a game.

The existence of counterfeit brands proves that there is demand in the market.

In order to force the style to ignore the demand.

In the end, it wasn’t the copycat brands that ruined the brand.

Even in the later stage, many people complained that the product design of Supreme itself is not aggressive, and it is not as good as the copycat brand.

This is the consequence of complacency.

Being a niche does not mean refusing communication and progress.

When Supreme becomes more famous, it will open a branch in Tokyo first.

He felt that Supreme's money spray gun was very in line with the flashy temperament of neon and money fans during the bubble period.

Everyone has a lot of money to spend, so if you spray it at various parties, the sales will definitely be good.

After Hideki Hanyu was busy with the signing event in Nagoya, he left behind a group of housewife fans who were fascinated by him.

On June NO.20, he led the team to Kyoto.

On the first day, his autograph meeting caused thousands of people to line up in Kyoto.

Even though the book fans at the back knew that they might not get Hideki Hanyu's autograph, they still came for the slim chance.

And some book fans didn't come here to sign autographs at all, but just to be able to take a look at Hideki Hanyu in person.

Such a scenario of a writer's signing event is completely unprecedented in Neon.

Those who don't know may think that some top idol will hold the handshake meeting.

It can be seen that it was not unreasonable for the media to label Hanyu Hideki as an "idol writer".

Hideki Hanyu naturally knew the thoughts of these book fans.

Especially after the number of cities was reduced in this signing, many book fans came from far away cities just to see him.

Because after the normal signing session ended, Hideki Hanyu did not leave directly.

For these supporters who came from afar, he deliberately walked along the line of book fans and greeted everyone in person.

Although everyone was very excited to see him.

But he is not an idol after all, and the overall age of book fans is relatively old.

Although everyone will scream and cheer with excitement, or shout at him to express affection.

But there was no confusion.

Even if he sometimes deliberately stretched out his palm to touch the fans, everyone showed relative restraint.

"Hanyu-kun, I will always support you!"

"Hanyu-san, I love you!"

"Mr. Hanyu, I want to marry you!"

In a sentence of love expressed by book fans, the first day of the book signing in Kyoto came to an end.

After Hideki Hanyu got in the car back to the hotel, he heard his assistant Zhihui Ishihara tell him.

"Mr. Hanyu, according to the latest data from Tokyo, the total sales volume of the sixth volume of Miraculous Snack Shop has exceeded 200 million copies."

"not bad."

On Hideki Hanyu's face, the situation was calm.

Still quite happy in my heart.

It sold 200 million copies in five days, another record-breaking figure.

What broke was his own sales figures.

The "Love Letter", which held the record before, was also released during the signing session.

It sold 280 million copies in half a month.

This time, it broke 200 million in five days. I am afraid that when the whole signing event is over, the sales volume will be an extremely terrifying figure.

The reason is so high.

First of all, it has to do with his previous popularity of public opinion.

In addition, the sixth part of "Magic Snack Shop" is a sequel.

It is still a popular sequel that was released after a year and a half.

The sequel itself has a fixed group of book fans, coupled with the long-awaited book fans, the accumulated enthusiasm burst out in an instant, and the sales explosion is also reasonable.

Now the retail price of "Magic Snack Shop" has been raised to 1650 yen.

200 million copies is more than 30 billion in sales.

According to Hideki Hanyu's current royalties.

Over one billion yen was credited in five days.

This kind of money making speed is really faster than robbing a bank.

Most importantly, this is just the beginning.

This kind of terrifying ability to absorb money, looking at the entire neon literature circle, only Hideki Hanyu can do it alone.

National teacher, idol writer, popular favorite, housewife's love...

Look at those fans who party wildly just to catch a glimpse of him.

He didn't even believe that he made money purely because of his works.

It's no wonder that in the neon literary world, there are still people who don't like him.

He secretly said that he was not a traditional writer at all.

The sour words such as relying on face and selling fame have never stopped.

But Hideki Hanyu didn't care about these.

As many people like it, so many people hate it.

Could it be that because someone else said a few words, he just let go of the money and stopped making money.

Tired from a busy day.

Hanyu Hideki returned to the hotel where he lived.

But as soon as he returned to the suite, he ushered in an unexpected guest.

"Today, why are you here?"

Knocked on the door of his room, and it was none other than Kyoko Koizumi who quickly slipped in.

The goblin hooked Hanyu Hideki's neck with both hands, and said coquettishly.

"I just happened to be in Kyoto to promote the record. I knew that the teacher was here to hold a signing event, so I came here to find the teacher. I haven't seen the teacher for so long. I miss the teacher so much."

"Well, I miss you too."

Just like that, Hideki Hanyu, who had been busy all day, had to teach the little fairies at night.

After the little goblin stayed with Hideki Hanyu for two days in Kyoto, because the next stop was going to a different place, she reluctantly bid farewell.

In this way, Hideki Hanyu continued his journey to the signing event.

After the promotion in Kyoto, he went to Osaka.

After the two-day signing event in Osaka, he took a plane to Kyushu Island and came to the penultimate stop of the signing event.

Fukuoka City.

On the day he arrived in Fukuoka, he had a rare day off because there was no activity schedule.

After sleeping late in the morning, getting up and exercising in the hotel's gym, he had nothing to do, and he really didn't want to spend most of the day in the hotel, so he decided to go out for a walk.

Pretending to be good, I didn't bring many people with me on this trip, I only followed assistants Ishihara Zhihui and Marco.

It is not the first time he has come to Fukuoka City.

But almost every time I come here, I am in a hurry, and I haven't had a good time shopping.

In 1985, Fukuoka had many international sea routes because of its unique geographical location.

It is already the most prosperous city in Kyushu.

However, the Fukuoka Tower, the landmark building built on the seaside Momochi Center that was reclaimed from the sea to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the city, has not yet started construction.

Hideki Hanyu lost a place to view the streetscape of Fukuoka City and Hakata Bay.

But this is just for hanging out, and there is no need to go to a place.

Sitting in the car prepared by the local host, Hideki Hanyu wandered aimlessly.

Soon we arrived at the most famous commercial street of Tenjin in Fukuoka.

After finding a western restaurant, Hanyu Hideki was going to settle for lunch.

After sitting down and ordering food, while waiting for the food to be served, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the window facing the street.

Looking out through the window, I found that there seemed to be some activities on the opposite side, and there were many young girls around the door.

Just when Hideki Hanyu was wondering what he was doing.

The waiter in the restaurant happened to come to serve him.

Seeing Hideki Hanyu looking across the street, he took the initiative to explain.

"This guest, a selection event is being held opposite."

"What selection activity?" Hanyu Hideki asked casually.

In Neon, the most indispensable thing is various draft activities.

TV stations, economic offices, movie clubs, various publishing houses...

As long as the organization can get involved, almost all of them will carry out their own draft activities.

"Have you read the comic book baseball hero sir?"

"Of course I did."

"This selection is to select the girl who is most like the manga heroine Minami Asakura. It is said that the final winner will become the poster girl for this year's Hagar."

The waiter brother explained in detail.

But in fact, when the other party named the baseball hero, Hanyu Hideki knew what was going on across the street.

Obviously, the "Real Asakura South" selection activity jointly organized by Yunshang Entertainment, Shogakukan and Asahi Shimbun has begun.

It's just that he didn't expect that an event to be decided by default would cover such a wide range, even Kyushu Island could participate in the selection.

Seeing those girls walking into the registration point with yearning expressions, Hanyu Hideki was inexplicably moved.

These kids have no idea that no matter how good they are, the end result won't change.

After all, the reason why this event appeared was because Yunshang Entertainment wanted to praise Saito Yuki.

Thinking of this, Hideki Hanyu no longer cared about the hustle and bustle across the street.

But when he looked away, he saw two people from the corner of his eye.

A middle-aged woman was leading a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl.

Inexplicably, he felt that the girl's appearance was somewhat familiar.

But when he wanted to take a closer look.

But found that the two had already entered the registration point.

Didn't see clearly, Hanyu Hideki didn't bother much.

He quickly put this matter behind him and concentrated on lunch.

Across the street.

Authentic Asakura Minami Selection Event, Fukuoka City Registration Center.

The girl who lined up with her mother held her mother's hand nervously.

Although she is only a stepmother, the girl trusts her very much because of her gentleness and concern for her.

The mother seemed to feel her daughter's nervousness, and said to her daughter with a smile.

"Don't be nervous, my daughter is the best."

Hearing her mother's words, the tension in the girl's heart subsided a lot, she nodded slightly, and said "hmm".

At this moment, the staff in charge of registration shouted, "The next one."

Seeing that the people in line in front of her had already registered, the girl hurried up.

Then she heard the voice of the staff asking.

"Hello, please tell me your name."

"Noriko Sakai."

　Thank you Yan Bo Hao Miao for your reward
　　I have something to do at home today and I really don’t have time. There is only so much left. I will try to write more tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)