Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 414 Surprise again and again
  Hideki Hanyu is attending the launch ceremony of the Ultimate Creation Camp at the trainee training base.

He had no idea how powerful the chicken soup he poured into the four young men would be.

At this moment, he couldn't even think about it.

Because he and a group of senior officials were watching the students from the Ultimate Creation Camp enter the venue.

Although compared to the popularity of male students, there is a clear gap among female students overall.

However, after careful consideration, the program team decided to hold the launch ceremony of the Ultimate Creation Camp for both parties.

Although male and female students from the same area appear together, it can still be seen that the popularity of male students is significantly higher.

Although there are differences in the popularity of students in each region, they also have their own supporters.

This is the benefit of regional selection, which can fully mobilize the audience in each region.

But it is a pity that Hideki Hanyu is basically not familiar with the students who appeared in front of him.

Therefore, although the fans shouted enthusiastically, he felt that there was nothing interesting to watch.

However, when the nanny car with the words "Kyushu Creation Camp" appeared at the door, Hanyu Hideki clearly felt that the atmosphere at the scene became restless.

Kyushu Creation Camp was also the only section where he had watched the program.

So he knew that in this "Star Creation", the Kyushu Division was the most popular division.

When three male students from Jiuzhou Creation Camp stepped out of the nanny car.

Hideki Hanyu immediately recognized two of them, Masaharu Fukuyama and Kazuki Sawamura, whom he had seen on the show before.

The supporters at the scene were crazier than any other player before.

The flashes of media reporters are basically non-stop, and it is completely the treatment of a famous star.

But you can find it if you look closely.

Both the fans of the students and the media reporters focused their attention on Masaharu Fukuyama, who has a handsome appearance and a sunny smile.

Even Kazuki Sawamura, a popular contestant from the Kyushu Creation Camp, was completely unable to steal Masaharu Fukuyama’s limelight.

However, when Hanyu Hideki looked at Sawamura Kazuki, who was still a young brother with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he couldn't help but think of this guy's guest role in a later TV series.

It's the stupid bandit who licked a poisonous dagger and "committed suicide" in the late-night comedy "Yoshihiko the Brave and the Demon King's Castle".

As for the female students who were also from the Jiuzhou Creation Camp who got off the bus immediately, they did not pay that much attention.

At least Hanyu Hideki didn't know anyone.

However, although Kyushu Creation Camp is very popular and Fukuyama Masaharu is popular, it does not mean that students from other regions are not popular.

Following the Kyushu division, Osaka Prefecture Creation Camp, the second to last appearance, is quite popular.

Among the three male students, a handsome young man with a thick face that resembled a mixed-race man immediately attracted the attention of Hideki Hanyu.

No matter how he looked at it, it looked familiar.

But before he could recall who this person was, a female student from the Osaka Prefecture Creation Camp also appeared.

One of the girls with long legs and beautiful face, Hideki Hanyu recognized him immediately.

At this moment, Matsui Motoki, who had been following Hideki Hanyu, saw that Hideki Hanyu seemed to be interested in the Osaka Prefecture Creation Camp, and quickly introduced him in a low voice.

"President, the most popular students from the Osaka Prefecture Creation Camp are Yasushi Kitamura from the Boys' Creation Camp and Chisato Moritaka from the Girls' Creation Camp."

In fact, even if Matsui Motoki didn't remind him, Hanyu Hideki had already recalled the male student's information at this time.

Kitamura Yasushi, but the other party will have a stage name in the future, called Kitamura Ikki.

Known as Neon's "Yan Kuan", he is one of the four handsome guys in Osaka and is considered a well-known male artist of Neon.

When the other party first entered the entertainment industry, he was actually working as an agent. He became famous in the [-]s.

As for the female student Sentaka Qianli.

There's really nothing to say about this. Showa's "Leg Girl", the neon beauty recognized by Crayon Shin-chan, is known as the prototype character of Sailor Moon.

Historically, the other party should have participated in the Pocari Water selection this year to debut, but now he has come to participate in "Star Creation".

This girl was actually unsuccessful when she first debuted. She became popular after rebranding. If Yunshang Entertainment signed her, it would have to plan carefully.

These guys also said before that the popularity of female students was not high, so after watching Kyushu Creation Camp, Hanyu Hideki didn't pay much attention to other competition areas.

As a result, Sentaka Senri was chosen even though he said he was not high-ranking.

However, although Chisato Moritaka was born in Osaka, she grew up in Kumamoto, Kyushu. So why did she come to Osaka Prefecture to participate in this competition?

If this girl hadn't run around, Hideki Hanyu wouldn't have found out now that she had participated in "Star Creation".

Just when Hanyu Hideki was staring at Moritaka Chisato's long legs disappearing from the door.

The nanny van from the last division also arrived.

Tokyo Metropolitan Creation Camp.

It is also the competition area with the largest number of spectators.

Regarding this division, Hideki Hanyu has never watched a single program.

He only knew that Akina Nakamori had left his sister in this division. He heard that her sister's popularity was pretty good thanks to her fame.

Hanyu Hideki thought to himself, if the little fat girl hadn't been in Singapore to promote, he would probably come to the scene to cheer for his sister.

After all, even if she doesn't want to come, the program team will not let go of Nakamori Akina's inherent attention.

At this moment, Matsui and Ang also noticed that their president was not familiar with the students in the program, so they introduced them in a timely manner.

"President, the Tokyo Creation Camp is the competition area with the largest number of spectators. In terms of popularity, it is actually stronger than the Kyushu Division.

In the Kyushu Creation Camp, Masaharu Fukuyama, a contestant, was so popular that he boosted the popularity of the entire Creation Camp.

But among the students who were shortlisted for the Ultimate Creation Camp in Tokyo, although each student is not as tall as Masaharu Fukuyama, everyone's attention is not low.

Even Nakamori Akina's younger sister did not open a clear gap with other students.

And unlike other divisions where male students dominate, the popularity of male and female students in the Tokyo Division is the most balanced, which can be said to be about the same. "

While Matsui Motoki was talking, the three selected candidates of the Tokyo Boys' Creation Camp had already gotten out of the car.

Matsui Motoki's introduction sounded at the right time, "These three male students from near to far are Eguchi Yosuke, Osawa Takao, Oikawa Mitsuhiro..."

Hearing the name of the student read out by Matsui Motoki, he looked at the three people in front of him.

What else can Hideki Hanyu say, except that he is truly an all-star cast.

These three boys, who have a slightly immature temperament, are completely different from the traditional handsome young men who appeared before in terms of appearance.

Either tough, simple, or neutrally "coquettish".

But in Hanyu Hideki's memory, there are all male celebrities with bright neon lights.

Eguchi Yosuke, this guy is Suzuki Honami, the second male lead Kenichi Mikami in "Tokyo Love Story" starring Oda Yuji, or Satomi Shuji in "The White Tower".

In the original history, Eguchi Yosuke was still the husband of Chisato Moritaka who appeared before.

Osawa Takao is Shuichi Nagai in the TV series "Star Gold Coin" starring Noriko Sakai and Yutaka Takenouchi, but the most familiar one in China is undoubtedly the medical time-travel drama "Benevolent Doctor" in which he starred.

And last but not least, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, this handsome guy with "enchanting" appearance, not only appeared in the hit TV series "The White Tower", but also in the movie "The Eraser in My Brain", he partnered with a well-known man who cheated on his wife after getting engaged. Actress Kyoko Fukada.

Just when Hideki Hanyu felt that the male students at the Tokyo Creation Camp were so outstanding, the female students, except Akiho Nakamori, would bring him some surprises.

Following Matsui Motoki's introduction, three female students from the Tokyo Creation Camp appeared.

"...from near to far are Nakamori Akiho, Asaka Yui, and Kitajima Mai."

Hanyu Hideki directly ignored Nakamori Akiho, who only relied on his sister's popularity and the "unintentional" help from the office to enter the Ultimate Creation Camp.

After all, the other person's appearance is far different from her sister Akina Nakamori's.

Standing next to two beautiful girls, it is not enough to describe them as being dwarfed by them.

His attention was completely attracted by the other two girls.

Asaka Yui, from another time and space, together with Minamino Yoko, Kudo Shizuka, and Nakayama Miho, were known as the Four Idols in the neon entertainment industry in the late [-]s.

Thinking about the achievements of the other three, you can know how outstanding this one is.

As for Mai Kitashima, this girl is from a Chinese ethnic group in Kanagawa, a so-called neon aristocratic family. Her ancestors have produced many political celebrities.

Her father is the music producer Osamu Kitashima, and her mother is the popular actor Yoko Naito, so Mai Kitashima can be considered a family in the entertainment industry.

If I remember correctly, the other party went abroad when he was two years old. It seems that he only came back this year. He is a standard ABC with yellow skin and white heart.

Mai Kitashima is not popular in the neon entertainment industry, but why did Hideki Hanyu remember this information?

It's all because this woman's husband is Osawa Shuio, the leader of the most popular idol group Hikaru Genji in the [-]s in another time and space.

The two got married, but eventually divorced and left their children with Osawa Shusheng.

After Osawa Shusheng raised the child to the age of sixteen, he discovered through a paternity test that the child was not his own.

And there are rumors that the father of this child is actually Akasaka Akira, Osawa's teammate of Hikaru Genji.

This is a wonderful and bloody story about a husband being cuckolded by his teammates, his wife cheating on him before marriage, and abandoning her husband and son.

The impression on Hanyu Hideki was so profound that it is difficult not to remember it.

Let’s think about Kyoko Fukada who has a fiancé worth tens of billions and is cheating on her.

And other scumbag men and women in the neon entertainment industry.

Hideki Hanyu said that as a senior time traveler, it is necessary to remind younger generations who may be able to travel through time.

If you really travel to Neon like him and develop in the entertainment industry, it's best not to find a woman in the entertainment industry as your wife, or to be more discerning. Some women are really untouchable.

If you take it too seriously, you will be the one who gets hurt in the end.

As the students from the Tokyo Creation Camp disappeared through the gate, the admission of all students was completed.

Hideki Hanyu really didn't expect that the first "Star Creation" would attract so many future stars.

But having too many talents is also a problem.

To train so many people requires not only sufficient resources, but also reasonable deployment and marketing.

Fortunately, nowadays, cloud entertainers have great careers, and with the popularity of the program "Star Creation" increasing, it is not a problem to make these people famous.

And if you pay, you will naturally get something.

With such a group of people at hand, Yunshang Entertainment will not be short of artists even in the [-]s.

Moreover, he was worried that Johnny & Associates would revive again through GENJI.

Now it seems that if he puts together the 'Eguchi Yosuke, Osawa Takao, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Kitamura Kazuki, Fukuyama Masaharu, and Sawamura Kazuki' who appeared in this creation camp, he will form a seven-person group.

In addition, he has already poached Chuck and Asuka, the record producers of Hikari Genji.

He was directly pulled out and had a head-on confrontation with Johnny & Associates in the late [-]s.

This kind of all-star lineup can only be described in one word, that is 'luxury'!

Refer to the original Vitality Girls and the current 'F4' group.

It's probably another crushing existence.

Just think about it, that picture is simply not too beautiful.

The ceremony at the door ended and the senior officials walked back.

Matsui Motoki also told an interesting story about Asaka Yui.

"Actually, Asaka is the only one I still remember. During the New Year's Eve period from 1984 to 1985, she participated in our last open audition.

The other party participated in the selection in Kyushu. When it was confirmed that he could come to Tokyo, he withdrew temporarily due to changes in his family.

Originally, we had promised that when the New Year selection starts in 1985, she could come to Tokyo directly without participating in the local selection.

As a result, we stopped the selection last year and organized star creation instead, so we directly asked her if she wanted to participate and could arrange for her to enter the Kyushu Creation Camp.

But the girl refused, saying that if we promised her that she could come to Tokyo, she would enter the Tokyo Metropolitan Creation Camp. "Hideki Hanyu heard what Motoki Matsui said, and finally understood why Yui Asaka, who was supposed to have debuted in 1985 in history, appeared in the Tokyo division of this year's "Star Creation".

It is interesting to say that Yui Asaka and Chisato Moritaka are two girls living in Kyushu. One is running for office in Tokyo and the other is running for office in Osaka Prefecture.

If both of them stay on Kyushu Island, and cooperate with the most popular Masaharu Fukuyama, the Tokyo Division, which has a large number of people, may not be able to suppress the Kyushu Division.

As everyone entered the theater.

The launch ceremony of the Ultimate Creation Camp continues.

Media interviews, personal declarations, and finally a collective singing of the show's theme song "Fighting for Dreams" composed by Chuck and Birds.

Hideki Hanyu had never heard of this song in his previous life, and it was probably specially composed by Chuck and Asuka for the show.

The style is as always, young, public, inspiring and passionate.

When the students were singing the theme song of the show, Hideki Hanyu had already left first.

After all, the appearance has been completed.

There's nothing interesting to see next.

Also leaving with him were Asako Hirohashi and Mitsuo Iijima.

The three of them got into Asako Hirohashi's stretched Rolls Royce.

As we chatted, we started talking about Crescent Cinema.

The first is the stock price, which has risen to fifty-five yen.

Compared with the issue price, the increase has more than doubled.

The reason for this is that several recent movies of Yunshang Entertainment have performed very well.

The box office of "Cat Story" exceeded [-] billion yen.

The second theatrical version of Saint Seiya also had a box office of over [-] billion.

In order to increase its stock price, Crescent Cinema not only continued its aggressive acquisitions in Neon.

They even gave up their sectarian views and accepted movies from any company for screening without affecting the film schedule of cloud video distribution.

"Police Story", which Uncle Long held a celebration party before, was released by Toei, but it was also released at Crescent Cinema.

When several people talked about this, Hirohashi Asako said.

"In the short term, the growth momentum of Crescent Cinemas shows no sign of stopping. Therefore, there is no need to acquire Hanyu-san's Asian cinemas for the time being."

Hanyu Hideki nodded and said, "There is no need to worry, but the inspection work in Europe cannot be stopped. If there is a chance to take action, we at least need to have a target."

Although Hideki Hanyu can't remember exactly when America's stock market crash occurred next year, he remembers that after the stock market crash in America, the whole world was affected.

In that case, no one can protect themselves, and Crescent Cinema will definitely find an opportunity.

As for why we only inspected Europe and not America.

That's because of America's antitrust issues, and distribution and production companies cannot operate theaters.

Yunshang Pictures is now developing in Hollywood with great fanfare, so it is naturally impossible to personally provide evidence to the Federal Trade Commission.

Of course, Hanyu Hideki has a way to get around it.

But the problem is that theater chains in America are different from theater chains in other regions.

In the industry chain, America's cinema operators are not only at a disadvantage when facing studios and distributors, but also lack the right to speak.

Heavy on assets, poor profitability, and expensive to upgrade and maintain.

If you buy it without being able to promote it in a big way, and if you can't push up the stock price, it's totally not worth the gain.

So there is no need to go to great lengths to find guilt.

Watching Hideki Hanyu and Asako Hirohashi talking about Crescent Cinema.

Although Miji Iijima also subscribed for shares in Crescent Cinema Line, he did not know much about the securities market.

So when she heard this, she asked curiously.

“Crescent Cinema wants to acquire, even if the target is an Asian cinema, it probably doesn’t have enough funds.

Now that the stock price is so low, would it be uneconomical to issue additional shares? Do we need to pledge the shares? "

The shares issued by Crescent Cinemas only account for [-]% of the minimum standard.

The money from the financing has almost been spent on Neon.

If you want to acquire Asian theater chains, even if Hideki Hanyu doesn't make money, the funds are completely insufficient.

As soon as Iijima Mitochi's words came out, Hanyu Hideki and Hirohashi Asako smiled at the same time.

Hanyu Hideki personally explained, "If it is just a simple external issuance of financing, then the higher the stock price, the better. But if we are doing a private placement, it will be bad if the stock price is too high."

Hanyu Hideki didn't need to explain too clearly, he believed Iijima Sanzhi understood.

Neither he nor Yunshang Entertainment is sure about the money.

Now they use their own money to spread the business, and they will earn more when the stock price rises later.

And Hideki Hanyu still had something he didn’t say.

That is the acquisition of Asian Cinemas by Crescent Cinemas, which is expected to be carried out through mergers and acquisitions. At that time, Hanyu-san's overseas investment company controlling Asian Cinemas will become the new major shareholder of Crescent Cinemas.

Then with the help of Jinbo Eiichi's operation, we can find a way to include Crescent Cinema Line into the infinite nesting dolls.

The operation involved is too troublesome to talk about, and there is not enough time to explain it in detail.

After Mijima Iijima understood it, he didn't have too much entanglement. The topic changed and he talked about another TV series that has recently become popular on the cloud.

That is the TV series "Falling Rabbit" starring Yuji Oda and Ayumi Hamasaki and adapted from the novel of the same name by Hanyu Hideki.

"The highest ratings of Falling Rabbit on Neon Channel have exceeded 17%. According to Neon Channel's predictions, the highest ratings will definitely exceed [-]%. They can't wait to book the second season."

Mijima Iijima's tone was excited.

When Hanyu Hideki heard this, he was quite calm.

After all, in Neon, you can't actually make much money just by filming TV series. Even if the broadcast rights are sold to other parts of Asia, you won't make much money.

If a TV series with this kind of ratings were released in China more than ten years later, it might be able to earn hundreds of millions just by selling the broadcast rights.

But in Neon, we only rely on the money from selling dramas and a little advertising share from TV stations.

In fact, the income is not as much as using a TV series to make an artist popular and then making money from the artist's commission.

So he just asked, "How are the actors doing?"

The two leading actors in this TV series, whether it is Oda Yuji or Hamasaki Ayumi, are very important to Yunshang Entertainment.

"Ayumi Hamasaki has been criticized by some professional commentators because of her acting skills, but because of her cuteness and beauty, she is very popular with advertisers and has been very busy recently."

Mijima Iijima's answer made Hanyu Hideki frown, "For us, although making money is important, we must also pay attention to the growth of our children, whether it is psychological or physical, control the workload, and arrange her life well. study."

For Hideki Hanyu, Ayumi Hamasaki's position is not just an ordinary actor, but the future top singer of Yunshang Music and the successor of Xiaopangcai.

Therefore, he still attaches great importance to Hamasaki's growth.

"Okay, I will explain it to the people below and try my best to arrange Hamasaki Ayumi's work." Mijima Iijima agreed quickly.

"Where is Oda Yuji?" Hanyu Hideki asked again.

“Boys Over Flowers and Fallen Rabbit have been successful continuously, and Yuji Oda is now completely popular.

Recently, there have been some business cooperation invitations. Instead of inviting the F4 group at the same time, Oda Yuji was invited alone.

According to this situation, I feel that F4 will have problems sooner or later. "

Mijima Iijima's words revealed deep worry.

As the saying goes, do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequity.

Mijima Iijima naturally knows this.

There are many groups that have good development momentum but are disbanded due to uneven income distribution among members.

Although the 'F4' combination is still in the contract period with fixed wages.

But Cloud Entertainment has a special work red envelope system.

Therefore, the more Oda Yuji works, the more money he will make, and other teammates will be dissatisfied sooner or later.

Regarding Mijima Iijima's worries, Hanyu Hideki had no fluctuation in his heart.

"In the beginning, F4 was positioned as a limited cast group. According to the progress of the comics, the TV series should be finished with another season.

Even if there is nothing else, this group will not be able to continue. After all, we position them as actors, not idols. "

But Hanyu Hideki's words obviously could not dispel Mijima Iijima's worries.

"Considering its influence in other parts of Asia, Cloud Entertainment cannot allow F4 to disband for the time being. And even in Neon's home market, we still need the F4 group."

In Mijima Iijima's opinion, the F4 combination is really irreplaceable now.

Put aside the bands that Nagato Daiko created by playing "permutation combination" at MF Records.

Nowadays, apart from F4, the only real boy group under Yunshang Entertainment is Sons of the Sun.

But the problem is that the rebellious and "non-mainstream" style of "Children of the Sun" only has a market among young people and is destined to fail to become mainstream.

If F4 disbands, Yunshang Entertainment will really not have a boy group that can support its appearance, whether it is overseas or local.

"Instead of considering barely maintaining a group, Iijima-san should think about whether he can find other ways to make up for the disbandment of the F4 group in the future."

As soon as Hanyu Hideki said this, Hirohashi Asako, who had been silent next to him, smiled and immediately said to Mishima Iijima.

"President Iijima, based on my understanding of Hanyu-san, since he said this, he must have already thought of a solution in his mind."

After hearing this, Sanchi Iijima hurriedly said to Hideki Hanyu, "Master Hanyu, please teach me."

"Asako-san will really find trouble for me."

Hideki Hanyu glanced at Asako Hirohashi helplessly, and then explained to Mishima Iijima.

"In my opinion, the best way to solve your problem is today's star creation program."

"Star creation?"

Mijima Iijima muttered to himself first, and then seemed to understand something.

"What Mr. Hanyu means is that we can select people from today's children to form a new group as the successor of F4."

"That's right, while F4 is still popular, we can let them introduce the old to the new, and then use the popularity accumulated in the show. If they are arranged to debut next year, the chance of success is still very high."

Ohanyu Hideki's words still cannot fully solve the dilemma of Mijima Iijima.

She continued, "Children who come out of the creation camp may be successful in the domestic market, but it will be difficult overseas. After all, there are no new TV series to increase the popularity of the new group."

At this point, Iijima Mitochi asked Hanyu Hideki out of curiosity, "Could it be that Mr. Hanyu has created a new work similar to Boys Over Flowers, which is suitable for adapting and performing it for newcomers?"

Hearing this, Hanyu Hideki smiled bitterly and said, "You think the suitable work is cabbage in the field. You can have it if you want."

Mijima Iijima asked in confusion, "What does Hanyu-sensei mean?"

Hanyu Hideki said slowly.

"I have said that the solution must be solved by star creation. Since the creation camp model can work in Neon, we can also try to cooperate with local companies in other regions to launch their creation camps."

Mijima Iijima asked, "What Mr. Hanyu means is that since it is difficult to promote our artists overseas, we should simply train new talents directly in overseas markets."

"Yes."

Hanyu Hideki nodded.

　Today I failed to fish again and only had [-] left.

　　Thanks to Oaks20210815 for the tip

　　
  　
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