Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 43 The older generation of king-level idols
  "Topping the Oricon Weekly Chart for three consecutive weeks."

"As expected of Kondo Masahiko, this is the calmness and calmness of the older generation of king-level idols. Even in the eye of the storm of public opinion, he still remains firmly at the top of the Oricon list."

At the headquarters of Kadokawa Bookstore, Hideyuki Kadokawa, the head of the audio and video sales department, was drinking coffee, looking at the department's weekly sales plan, and calculating the order quantity for Sony's new single.

"Sony Records wants to temporarily jump in and release the new single this week to confront Masahiko Kondo, who is back on the rise?"

"It's really too hasty... Maybe it's because the collaboration with independent musicians is announced, they are independent of each other, and they don't want to invest too many resources..."

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As one of the largest comprehensive publishing houses in Tokyo, Kadokawa Shoten mainly publishes light novels, comics, animations, movies, etc. It also has departments responsible for editing and publishing magazines and records. Its sales network covers the whole country, including Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and South Korea. There is an office.

Hideyuki Kadokawa, the head of the audiovisual sales department, adjusts the sales plan every week based on the data from the Oricon charts, regarding the record order volume of branches in Tokyo and nationwide.
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Real-time dynamic updates of Oricon rankings, mainly daily and weekly rankings.

The daily list is the sales volume of the day before the day's announcement. That is, Tuesday’s sales will be announced on Wednesday, and Sunday’s sales will be announced on Monday;
  The weekly list counts and publishes the sales volume of the past week from Monday to Sunday every Tuesday;
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So, the audiovisual sales department of Kadokawa Shoten.

On the one hand, the Oricon sales statistics method must be taken into account, and on the other hand, it must meet the requirement of simultaneous distribution across the country and predict the sales trend of new records.

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Kondo Masahiko, the veteran king of the 80s, succeeded Matsuda Seiko's "Missing You~" which had held the top spot on the Oricon weekly chart for seven weeks with this song "Yuyaki no Song". .

Coupled with the scandal between him and Seiko Matsuda in Los Angeles, Kondo Masahiko's current popularity has suddenly risen from the ashes and returned to the peak of the king level.

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The professional judgment of Hideyuki Kadokawa, Director of the Audiovisual Sales Department of Kadokawa Shoten, is undoubtedly correct.

In this dark star world, the Japanese entertainment music industry in 1996 was extremely competitive.

Mr. Children (Mr. Children) is a rock band of RB, with the single "シーソーゲームBrave Love Song" (Adventure Game Brave Love Song);

"Between the Sky and You" by the legendary singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima;
  "Try Me" by super newcomer Namie Amuro, who left the four-member girl group "SUPER MONKEY'S" and debuted as a solo singer;

There is also Matsuda Seiko’s “Missing You~” which has topped the Oricon charts for seven consecutive weeks;
  This large number of classic songs, veteran king and queen-level singers, legendary rock bands, palace-level singer-songwriters, and super newcomer Namie Wang Amuro, had a super brawl...

According to the historical line of the original plane, Amuro Namie should have won the 32nd RB Golden Sword Award for this song, and in the same year, she became the youngest solo female singer to participate in the Kohaku Song Festival.

However, in this dark star world, Amuro Namie was pushed down from the Oricon weekly rankings after a short stay of one week...

In the Dark Star world, the transition between old and new generations has slowed down...

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The song "Yuyaki no Song" itself is good, but it can suppress a group of strong people. More importantly, Kondo Masahiko has other super abilities besides music.

Kondo Masahiko is a veteran of RB's largest agency, Johnny's. He has been very good at working in the workplace since he was a child and trying to please the senior management.

President Kitagawa's sister, Vice President Mary, is particularly fond of him.

When he was 16 years old, he was given a special Kondo Masahiko room in the Kitagawa family villa.

The most amazing thing is that after Kondo Masahiko entered the villa for training, President Kitagawa also began to like Kondo Masahiko.

This violates the "choose one from two" law within Johnny & Associates - "You can only get one of the favors of Johnny Kitagawa and Mary Kitagawa."

However, Kondo Masahiko, like no one before or after him, did it, both rain and dew were touched, and he was loved by both...      …

This status within Johnny & Associates makes Kondo Masahiko a senior figure in front of Kimura Takuya, Higashiyama Noriyuki, Takizawa Hideaki, Nagano Hiroshi and others.

Kondo Masahiko can easily mobilize the largest resources within Johnny & Associates.

While "Yuyaki no Uta" was dominating the Oricon Charts, boy groups such as SMAP, V6, and Kinki Kids all postponed the release of new songs...

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In addition, in this dark world, the social atmosphere has completely deteriorated compared to the previous life.

As Keiko Kanda said: "This crazy era where garbage is everywhere!"

Kondo Masahiko is in a relationship with Showa's number one singer and super idol star, Nakamori Akina.

During this period, she, together with female artists such as Mariko Ishihara and Mariko Fuji, were photographed bombarding the wedding apartment purchased by Akina Nakamori for 8000 million yen and purchased by Masahiko Kondo.

At the same time, he set up a branch in Xiangjiang and fell in love with the king-level female singer Mei Yanfang. He used a 100 Hong Kong dollar moissanite brooch to play with her for three years.

Recently, she spent Christmas in Los Angeles with Akina Nakamori’s biggest rival, the singing witch Seiko Matsuda.

If it were a previous life, people like Kondo Masahiko would have been ruined.

But in this dark star world, Kondo Masahiko's popularity skyrocketed, and he suddenly became a super idol who won three Asian queens...

When Kondo Masahiko was promoting "Yuyaki no Song", he even talked about the joy of having a boudoir with three divas, which earned him a lot of traffic.

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Kanda Keiko once asked Takakura Bunta if she could find a club to kill him.

Takakura Bunta consulted his VIP client, the fourth generation general manager of the fishing house, Emiri Aramaki.

The answer is no.

This guy is so popular that he has transcended the gray area between the underground world and the surface world.

Of course, if you are dealing with expired idols.

Whether it is sold as a pet in Thailand, Myanmar, or the Middle East, or sunk in Tokyo Bay, it can be easily done.

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"Kill that Tokyo guy? What the hell? It couldn't be that he was in collusion with the Shinrikyo cult, right?"

Kadokawa Hideyuki saw the title of Sony's single on the form, frowned, and put down his coffee cup.

He changed several sets of data in the department's weekly sales plan, but Sony Records still had to give face. He planned to order 5 copies of the "Kill That Tokyo Man" record.

If it were an ordinary small record company, such an unknown newcomer, Kadokawa Shoten would generally only give an order of up to 1 records.

Ding ding ding... ding ding...

The landline phone in Minister Kadokawa Hideyuki's office rang rapidly.

(End of this chapter)