Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 57 "Try Me"

In the second week, Johnny & Associates turned "The End of the World" (Until the End of the World) into a swan song through infinite retrospection, triggering a rush to buy.

As a result, Kondo Masahiko's "Yuyaki no Song" album has topped the Oricon Chart for consecutive weeks.

However, Mr. Children's rock band's album "Sweet Love Song ~ Brave Love Song ~" (adventure game Brave Love Song) is not in second place.

The second best-selling album on the Oricon Chart is the album "Try Me" by super-popular newcomer Namie Amuro.

The album's weekly sales volume is 79, which is 11 more than the Mr. Children rock band's album.

The main reason is the release of the movie "The Biggest Cheating War in History" starring Namie Amuro.

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This movie tells the story of Professor Uda, who teaches organic chemistry at RB Polytechnic University. He is called a devil teacher. Once he discovers students cheating on exams, he will punish them severely.

However, Professor Uda is not a noble person.

On the one hand, he plagiarizes other people's scientific research articles and takes other people's results as his own;

On the other hand, he accepted bribes and planned to demolish the dormitory building with a long history and convert it into a hotel;
  In order to protect the dormitory, Kimura played by Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Yumi played by Namie Amuro, and several other problem students reached an agreement with Professor Uda.

As long as they all get A's on their exams, they can keep their dorms.

But for those who don't study seriously, this requirement is undoubtedly a bit harsh.

In order to achieve their goals, they used their brains to launch the largest cheating war in history...

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This is a youth-themed movie starring two idols, Namie Amuro and Tatsuya Yamaguchi.

Bunta Takakura and Ayumi Hamasaki went to see one. The overall setting of the movie was consistent with those of later youth-themed movies.

However, this kind of youth-themed movies, songs and movies are the flammable agents of two dangerous chemicals called youth hormones, which are very easy to produce chemical reactions and create golden songs.

For example: "Those Years", the theme song of the movie "The Girls We Chased"

The heavy rain that I missed in those years
  those years of missed love
  I really want to hug you

Embrace the courage to miss

ever wanted to conquer the world
  I only found out when I looked back at the end
  This world is all about you
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There is also the promotional song "Later" for the youth-themed movie "To Youth: So You're Still Here".

I finally learned how to love

It's a pity that you are gone long ago

disappear into the crowd

I finally understood in tears
  Some people will never miss it once they miss it
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As the promotional song for this movie, "Try Me" naturally took advantage of the national publicity of the movie, and its sales suddenly reached the second place on the Oricon list.

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Of course, in addition to the movie factors, Amuro Namie's own strength cannot be underestimated.

During this period in her previous life, Namie Amuro released two albums and a selection, as well as five consecutive million-dollar singles.

This made Amuro Namie reach the pinnacle of Asian solo female singers in a flash.

The rise of Namie Amuro is certainly due to her mentor Tetsuya Komuro.

In the 1990s, Komuro Tetsuya was just cheating, hitting every hit, releasing millions of singles, and was invincible on the Oricon charts.

However, Amuro Namie's physical fitness, personality traits and innate talents are also the prerequisites for her to become an epoch-making queen in this field.

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In the dark star world, at this time in 1996, no one except Takakura Bunta could have predicted that this dark and small female singer would dominate the RB music scene for 25 years and retire as a legend.

Namie Amuro came into the world at the right time, place, and people. Just like the Queen of Hong Kong, Wang Fei, who has worked with Namie Amuro, said:

"Amuro Namie is a superstar that only appears once in a hundred years."

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Kondo Masahiko signed the "Dark Gambling Agreement" which topped the Oricon charts for 12 consecutive years. He really picked the wrong time, which can be said to be a bad year.

Having just repelled the offline ground offensive of the Mr. Children rock band, Namie Amuro took advantage of the momentum of the movie announcement to launch an attack on the weekly championship. Of course, Johnny & Associates, which monopolizes the male idol market, took decisive action.

The male protagonist of "The Biggest Cheating War in History" and the bassist of the Johnny & Associates boy band TOKIO, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, suddenly announced that he was unable to participate in the film promotion work due to illness.

It can be regarded as revenge against Namie Amuro and the Tetsuya Komuro family behind her.

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Tetsuya Komuro is the largest investor and producer of "The Biggest Cheating War in History".

The male protagonist does not participate in the national promotion of the movie, which is a huge negative impact on the box office for this kind of dual-idol youth-themed movie that focuses on the fan economy.

In addition, Mari Kitagawa also called major advertisers and requested to stop business cooperation with Namie Amuro.

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Both sides began to chase each other anxiously.

By the fifth week, Kondo Masahiko achieved the fifth consecutive weekly sales number one on the Oricon Chart, with cumulative sales exceeding 100 million.

However, the weekly sales of Namie Amuro's "Try Me" followed closely. The difference between the two is only 6000 albums, and the cumulative sales also exceeded 100 million.

It took such a long time since the album was released, and the cumulative sales exceeded one million, and both parties began to fall into despair.

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At this time, a brand called "Ghost Island" began to appear in the public eye...

This brand and Amuro Namie have launched a joint "lipstick".

When you purchase the "Try Me" album, you can receive a lucky draw of "Amuro Namie's co-branded lipstick".

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There are four versions of Amuro Namie's co-branded lipstick, divided into swastika version, Guihao version, Shijie version, and Hoshizhang version.

The grade positioning of this kind of lipstick corresponds to the Plus, Max, Pro and Mini of later Apple mobile phones, using different quality materials, electronic components and outer packaging.

It focuses on high-end cosmetics brands comparable to La Mer, Dior, Estee Lauder, and Chanel.

The scale effect of Mizuno Electronics Co., Ltd. keeps the cost under control at 2200 yen.

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The core ideas were very clear when Bunta Takakura and Namie Amuro communicated with the team.

No matter who is beating Kondo Masahiko, our 358th group must help the situation...

We promised to give away 1 Star Editions, 5000 Shijie Editions, 3000 Guilin Editions, and 500 Swastika Editions.

In return, Amuro Namie and Onishima signed the "Onishima Cosmetics Lifetime Co-branded Cooperation Agreement" and provided an annual endorsement fee of 1000 million yen.

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It's a win-win deal.

Namie Amuro broke through the commercial ban imposed by Mari Kitagawa and also boosted album sales.

Onigashima's cosmetics also cleared the production capacity and inventory of Mizuno Electronics Factory, gained a brand promotion opportunity, and gained a future diva-level spokesperson.

A few years later, Namie Amuro was paid 8000 million yen to shoot a CM commercial, and brand endorsements easily cost hundreds of millions of yen per year.

As for this kind of lifelong joint cooperation agreement, it is simply impossible to sign it.

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Meeting room on the 24th floor, Shibaura Building, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Kanda Keiko listed out the latest data report, reported a set of data to Takakura Bunta, and said excitedly:
  "The failure rate of the shadow bank's dark gambling agreement with Masahiko Kondo dropped from 61% to 25% after the last successful suppression of the Mr. Children rock band."

"In the past week, the failure rate given by the market has continued to rise from 25% to 89%."

"After we reached a cooperation agreement with Namie Amuro, the failure rate of Kondo Masahiko's dark gambling agreement reached 93%!!"

"This bastard is finally done."

ding ding ding...

Kanda Keiko's cell phone rang, and after hearing the content on the phone, the head of Takakura Bunta Studio's face gradually became serious. .

(End of this chapter)