Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 38 Crazy Era
  Juntendo Hospital Affiliated to the School of Medicine, Juntendo University, No. 1-3, Hongo Sanmachi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

This hospital has high-level medical skills and medical teams in Tokyo and is one of the hospitals trusted by the royal family and members of parliament.

Emperor Akihito underwent coronary artery bypass surgery at Junten Hospital.

The prognosis of the operation was very good, and Professor Amano’s medical skills were highly recognized and evaluated by Juntendo Hospital, bringing supreme honor to the hospital.

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At the 7-11 convenience store across the street from Juntendo Hospital, Bunta Takakura held a paper food box with more than a dozen sausage rolls inside.

This is a new hot food product launched by 7-11 convenience store.

It consists of hot dog sausages and soft rolls and is cheap at only 150 yen each.

The taste is tender and juicy, and the soft and glutinous texture of the bread is very delicious.

ding dong...

The electric door of 7-11 moved away, and Keiko Kanda entered the store with a tired look on her face.

She glanced around the store and saw Bunta Takakura sitting there, eating a sausage roll, and walked over.

"How is the situation?" Takakura Bunta asked.

"Fortunately, you reminded me and sent him to the hospital in time."

Kanda Keiko used to be sparkling, but now her eyes were sunken, showing deep fatigue. She picked up a sausage roll, dipped it in the cheese sauce from the carton, and said:

"When Ming Nai saw the news on TV, she lost all hope. She was preparing to decorate the wedding room in the apartment they bought together..."

"After receiving your call, I immediately called Akina. No one answered the phone, so I contacted her agent."

"The injury on her wrist was so deep that the bones were visible. It took the chief physician of Suntang Hospital six hours to snatch her away from death..."

Takakura Bunta listened silently, and when Kanda Keiko was eating her third sausage roll, she stood up and asked:

"Would you like a Nissin CUP NOODLE soy sauce original cup noodles? I'm going to have a bowl."

Kanda Keiko said: "Give me one with fish fat and rich soy sauce."

When Bunta Takakura went to buy two portions of Nissin Cup Noodles.

Keiko Kanda answered a call with an excited tone. Finally, she pressed the call button on Motorola's phone and threw the phone directly on the table.

"what happened?"

Takakura Bunta returned to the table with two cups of noodles and looked at Kanda Keiko who was emotional and her chest was heaving violently.

"Matsuda Seiko's "Missing You~" (I really want to see you) has broken its record of staying at the top of the Oricon weekly charts for seven weeks, and now it has lost its top spot."

Kanda Keiko's answer confused Takakura Bunta and said, "Is this bad news?"

Keiko Kanda opened the cup noodles with rich fish-fat soy sauce, stirred it a few times with a fork, and said: "Mahihiko Kondo's new song "Yuyaki no Uta" has topped the Oricon chart."

Takakura Bunta: "..."

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This cover version of "Yuyaki no Song" was very famous in the previous life, and the song is very nice.

There are also two versions of "Qian Qian Que Song" sung by Priscilla Chan and Leslie Cheung, as well as "Song of the Sunset" by Mei Yanfang of the same name.

The life experience brought by "Song of Evening Fire".

In my previous life, whenever I particularly liked a Cantonese song, I would always look for the original Japanese singer...

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Kondo Masahiko is very successful as an idol.

When he was 16 years old, he formed the "Tahara Trio" with Toshihiko Tahara and Yoshio Nomura.

Johnny & Associates hopes that they can once again lead the boy band idols to glory like the "New Royal Sanjia" in the 70s.

I sang it for a year with no response.

As a result, the group disbanded and Kondo Masahiko officially went solo.

Later, he entered the entertainment industry as a solo singer.

This is a more difficult road and places higher demands on the singer's comprehensive abilities.

………   At the end of the same year when the group disbanded, 16-year-old Kondo Masahiko released his first solo single "sneaker blues".

"Sneaker Blues" topped the Oricon chart in the first week of its release.

Kondo Masahiko became the first male singer in the history of RB music to win the first place on the Oricon chart with his debut single.

Then, Kondo Masahiko was out of control.

14 consecutive singles have won the first place on the Oricon Chart, and they have appeared on the NHK Red and White Song Festival, which is as influential as the "Spring Festival Gala" in RB.

In 1987, he won the Grand Prize at the RB Record Awards with "The Fool", and his influence spread throughout Asia.

In Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and other regions, many young people are rushing to imitate Fuji Masahiko's "match head" style.

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Takakura Bunta opened the hot cup of noodles, comforted the angry Kanda Keiko, and said:
  "When this kind of negative news breaks out... "Yuyaki no Uta" ranks first on the Oricon chart, it may just be a round trip."

Kanda Keiko ate the rich and chewy noodles and said:
  "Oh, a round trip?"

"According to the analysis of the marketing department, this song "Song of the Evening Fire" may dominate the charts for several weeks, with sales expected to exceed one million..."

Takakura Bunta said incredulously: "Is this an analysis after the scandal broke out?"

Keiko Kanda buried a sausage roll in the cup noodles and said: "In this era, people like this kind of emotional conqueror."

"Two of the top three singers of the Showa era, as well as Mei Yanfang, the three kings and queens of Xiangjiang. There are already many fans, and they are looking forward to him going to conquer Kyoko Koizumi."

Takakura Bunta was silent for a moment and said: "This is really a crazy world..."

Kanda Keiko finished drinking the noodle soup, wiped her mouth, and looked at Takakura Bunta as if she were an idiot.

This guy also filmed "Ultraman Tega".

This Ultraman is the first work of Tsuburaya's "Adult Series Heisei Ultraman" (Adult Series Heisei Ultraman).

Therefore, Bunta Takakura can be considered an official artist.

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Bunta Takakura somewhat understands this dark world and the underlying logic of the entertainment industry.

The mainstream culture of the entire society has subtly changed people's values.

The popular culture of this dark world is unprecedentedly prosperous, accounting for 94.2% of the entertainment market.

This causes ordinary people in this world to be more open and impulsive than in previous lives.

Mizuno Tangyue is an example.

As for the entertainment industry, which is a bare-bones vanity fair, the insiders will become even crazier and have no bottom line.

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Bunta Takakura finished his cup noodles and looked at the front page headlines of the newspaper, as well as the news that the sales of "Yuyaki no Uta" exceeded one million in its first week.

He thought of all the experiences he had in this dark star world...

It seems that I still have the moral constraints of my previous life and have not achieved the awareness of a dark superstar.

He remembered the lines from "Let the Bullets Fly":

Madam: I don’t care, brother, you’re welcome.

Zhang Mazi: Am I polite?

Madam: You’re welcome!

Zhang Mazi: Isn’t this polite?

Madam: You are too polite!

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This dark age.

Takakura Bunta is too damn polite.

He is so polite that he is even a little shy, a little innocent, a little silly...

(End of this chapter)