Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 42 AYUMI?

The two finalized the album samples, and Keiko Kanda then contacted the factory to place an order.

Because it was a surprise battle against the veteran Johnny Kondo King Masahiko Kondo.

Sony Records' agent has not yet determined a release date. Once the order is 30% completed, it will immediately start to distribute the goods and place additional orders for production.

Keiko Kanda also managed Takakura Bunta on a variety show "Late Night!" through her relationship with TV Asahi producer Seiko Uchiyama.スーパーアドベンチャー" (Late Night! Super Adventure) to promote the new song.

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"late at night! "スーパーアドベンチャー" This program is mainly a real-life large-scale spoof.

This episode is about a convenience store in RB late at night. When a male customer was checking out, he was suddenly grabbed by a beautiful cashier, so he could observe the reaction of the male customer.

The first two beauties successfully assassinated ten late-night convenience store customers. When the third beauty guest-starred as a store clerk, she was too embarrassed to take out the eggs when checking out, and faced four customers in a row. Can't let go...

This made the executive director very angry and pulled the poor girl backstage and cursed her.

"AYUMI!!! What are you doing!"

"Having played a supporting role in a TV series once, do you really think you are a big star?!"

"Baga! I took so many photos!"

"The garbage eliminated by Burning Production, I don't know what you have to pretend to be? Have you never seen a bird egg?"

"If you can't make it, don't accept the script, just get out!"

The executive director replaced the girl and replaced her with another to continue filming the variety show.

At the end of the variety show, the executive director brought three girls who played convenience store clerks.

On the streets of Tokyo late at night, cup noodles and hot milk were given to office workers who worked overtime until two or three in the morning, and to homeless people whose houses were auctioned off by the judiciary.

Under such a shot, Takakura Bunta appeared from behind on the street and sang "Kill That Tokyo Man".

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1: a.m. にRetirementし、シャツのネクタイを解く
  Get off work at 1am, take off your shirt and tie
  Izakaya をtan して, senior とビールを何杯かDRINK みます

Find an izakaya and have a few beers with your seniors
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ビルが壊するまで30年働いた

Work like this for 30 years until the building collapses
  Hand Tsuna's 1-headed horse and -headed horse are in the middle.

Ten thousand runaway horses were running in his mind...

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After Takakura Bunta finished singing the song and was changing clothes on the set, he found the filming aisle of TV Asahi. Under the dim lights, the girl who was dismissed by the executive director was squatting in the corner, like a painting that had lost its color.

"Well..."

Takakura Bunta brought the Kotobuki fish ramen in front of this girl.

"Ok?"

The girl who was sobbing looked up at Bunta Takakura, was stunned, and wiped her red and swollen eyes, like a pitiful and helpless stray kitten.

She met Takakura Bunta when she was discussing the script on the program team.

The venue manager said that this is an independent singer who collaborates with Sony Records and will come to "Late Night!" "スーパーアドベンチャー" releases new song.

"This is the cup noodles that the crew didn't send out after the filming. I used them as a late-night snack. You can have some."

Takakura Bunta squatted down and chatted with this girl dressed in hot girl style.

"It's so spicy...cough..." The girl just took a mouthful of ramen and choked and coughed.

Kotobuki fish ramen uses a mellow spicy tonkotsu soup base and adds a lot of chili peppers and special spicy fish noodles. This is a very popular late-night snack recently.

"Milk." Takakura Bunta took out the convenience store milk from his backpack and gave it to her.

"Thank you." The girl said thanks. She poured the milk into the instant noodles and ate them with relish.

Bunta Takakura: “……”   ……

"I heard that you are an independent singer signed with Sony Records?"

The girl ate half a bowl of Kotobuki fish ramen mixed with milk in one go, and said to Takakura Bunta, who was stunned.

Takakura Bunta thought to himself that if Goro, who likes to eat delicious food the most, would definitely complain when he saw this guy eating like this.

Takakura Bunta: "Well, my name is Takakura Bunta. Are you AYUMI?"

The girl wiped her mouth and said awkwardly: "This stage name has been taken back by Burning Production. I now use my own name, Hamasaki Ayumi..."

Bunta Takakura: "Ayumi Hamasaki?"

Hamasaki tilted her head and looked curiously at this mysterious new singer. She could sign an independent music cooperation agreement with Sony Records. According to her memory, no one in the country had done so.

In North America, there are new singers like Avril Lavigne and Beyoncé, who have signed independent musician cooperation agreements with Sony Records.

Musicians in this cooperation agreement have established their own studios and have great autonomy, which is equivalent to the vassal daimyo of the Sony Entertainment Empire.

The two chatted for a while, and Takakura Bunta had some understanding of the unfortunate situation that this future famous pop music queen and diva in the Asian music scene is currently facing.

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Ayumi Hamasaki's father abandoned the family and ran away when she was 2 years old, and there is no news from her. Her impression of her father is very vague. Hamasaki Ayumi spent her childhood with her mother and grandmother.

In order to support his family when he was 7 years old, Hamasaki already worked as a model for Fukuoka Central Bank and Iwataya. Until middle school, Hamasaki continued to work as a model to help support his family.

When Ayumi Hamasaki was in school, she had a rebellious personality and wore trendy clothes. She was busy with her modeling work and often missed classes.

In middle school, when faced with an advertiser's unclean hands and feet, Hamasaki slashed the advertiser's neck with a razor blade, and the matter reached the local police station and child protection center.

This advertiser always likes to invite girls dressed as hot girls to be models, and he also likes to do it.

These students dressed as hot girls look like bad girls with bad tempers.

But in fact, he is relatively marginalized in school, family and society, and even if he suffers a loss, it will not make the matter bigger.

As a result, he met Hamasaki Ayumi, who received a knife blade on his neck, suffered massive arterial bleeding, and almost lost his life.

This incident made her a problem student in the eyes of her teachers. She was also regarded as a bad girl by the local residents, and their children were not allowed to approach her.

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After transferring to another school, Ayumi Hamasaki, who was in the second grade of junior high school, received an invitation from a talent scout affiliated with the "SOS model agency" to audition for the TV Asahi TV series "Twin Teachers", and finally won a role named "Tachibana Momo" supporting role.

This is what the executive director said about his experience of "playing a supporting role in a TV series once."

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After graduating from junior high school, Hamasaki left his hometown of Fukuoka and entered the Tokyo entertainment industry alone.

After arriving in Tokyo, he started working part-time. While studying at Horikoshi High School, he participated in some low-cost dramas and used "Kumi Hamasaki" as his stage name, but later changed his name to "Ayumi Hamasaki".

Last year, Hamasaki signed a contract with Burning Production and released his first mini-album of the same name "NOTHING FROM NOTHING" under the name "AYUMI".

Due to a complete lack of publicity, record sales collapsed and all money was lost.

Ayumi Hamasaki was abandoned by Burning Production and stripped of his stage name "AYUMI" and changed back to "Ayumi Hamasaki".

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The two chatted in the corridor of TV Asahi for an hour and a half, and Bunta Takakura handed her a business card from the Night Tokyo Charity Welfare Institute.

"If you don't have a job for the time being, you can come to the welfare home as a caring resident. I'll say hello to the director."

Hamasaki bowed and said: "Thank you, Mr. Takakura."

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The next day, Chiyoda District, Tokyo, Kadokawa Bookstore headquarters, audio and video sales department.

Minister Kadokawa Hideyuki was in the office, making a cup of coffee and looking at the latest weekly record sales plan...

(End of this chapter)