Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 67 Missing Kondo Masahiko

Kondo Masahiko's distress call to Nakamori Akina was forcefully interrupted by Takakura Bunta...

The next day, Johnny & Associates quietly removed Kondo Masahiko's peripherals and exposure materials from the shelves. Kondo Masahiko disappeared as if he had evaporated...

A few months later, Kondo Masahiko completely disappeared, as if he had never appeared in the Japanese entertainment industry.

This is success and failure, and the entertainment industry has no memory.

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Bunta Takakura curiously asked about the punishment for failing the Dark Gambling Agreement, and Keiko Kanda gave the explanation as "another world".

The losers of the dark gambling agreement will be exiled to the other world...

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Dark Star Entertainment has established a stable biological chain system based on the "United Convention on the Protection of Copyright".

Whether you are an upper-class person or a lower-class person, you can get the greatest satisfaction in entertainment and life in Dark Star.

However, ordinary peripheral consumer goods cannot satisfy the top 1% of the big shots.

Because human desires are unlimited...

The threshold increase is almost irreversible, just like the entropy increase in nature is irreversible.

Threshold is, in a sense, resistance.

The higher the threshold, the stronger the resistance.

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If you watch a man's video too many times, your reaction will not be as strong as the first time you watch it again;
  If women often watch idol dramas, it will be difficult for them to be attracted to the men around them;

The mismatch between appearance, income and desires is a tragedy for most people.

The solution for ordinary people is also very simple.

Watching too many video tapes and idol dramas will increase your threshold. You can also go to charity institutions in Osaka and Shinjuku to raise hundreds of millions.

New thresholds to meet thresholds through new growth points…

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However, for the big shots at the top, there is a lot of sensuality and dissipation every day.

Everyone in the entertainment industry has experienced, played, and met, making their threshold extremely high. Ordinary charity activities cannot calm the restlessness of the soul at all...

Thus, the other world was born...

The inner world is the third-level world under the normal world and underground world of Dark Star.

The darkest, deepest, magical and twisted corner of the entire Dark Star.

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A few years later, Wulang went to Southeast Asia to complete an import and export trade business.

The partner is Hasbro's largest foundry in Southeast Asia.

This foundry mainly produces My Little Pony Princess dolls.

The dolls in the My Little Pony Princess series are made in life-size sizes, and the 132 internal rotor motors have all been upgraded to flat linear motors.

In the past, low-cost rotary motors were used.

The vibration of the rotor motor is loose and weak, and it is slow to start and stop. This kind of motor was used in early smartphones.

The dolls in the My Little Pony Princess series are the first dolls to use linear motors, using this new component 8 years earlier than Apple mobile phones.

Across North America, one-third of boys own a set of 185cm My Little Pony Princess dolls.

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After the business talks were over, a local Hasbro executive, a 1.9-meter-tall black manager, invited Goro to a local high-end hotel.

You can buy a ticket to watch "Idol in a Bottle" for $2000.

In addition, there are karaoke tickets priced at US$1 each, and milkshake feeding tickets priced at US$10 each.

When Goro entered the hotel's exhibition hall, he saw Kondo Masahiko in the center of the stage.

To be precise, it’s Kondo Masahiko’s head…

Kondo Masahiko's limbs were broken off and put into a vase half as tall as a man.

Elegant and beautiful blue and white porcelain, with Kondo Masahiko's neck and handsome facial features exposed at the mouth of the bottle.

………   “Want to experience it? Mr. Wulang. I heard that this is a superstar in your country?”

The Heige executive warmly invited Wulang and said.

"Well... so be it. He was very popular in the 20s..."

Goro looked at Kondo Masahiko in front of him, and suddenly started to speak "Song of the Evening Fire", which shocked him.

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ゆらゆらと俺の頬に焼きつく

The setting sun flickers on my cheeks
  あの瀼と同じ夜焼け空
  The sunset is the same as that time, which makes people feel emotional
  Earth seat したいほど
  Even if you kneel down and pray

Love and desire

I just want love
  ああ春夏秋も
  Spring passes and summer passes and autumn comes again

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"Ah haha, it's amazing. Someone paid for the song." The executive explained with a smile while drinking beer.

The black man took out a milkshake feeding ticket and asked Goro if he wanted to play.

"Don't worry, all his teeth have been removed. It's safe..." The executive loosened his belt, looking eager to try.

"You go play, Jason. I'd better just listen to the music."

Wulang took a sip of beer and tried to calm his inner turmoil.

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Human sorrows and joys are not interlinked.

After Kondo Masahiko disappeared, the Beasts rock band began to be busy with livehouse tours in four cities: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama.

During the time when "Kill, Miracle, Heart" was released.

Takakura Bunta and others have never been idle. They maintain their exposure through variety shows, media interviews, radio promotions, etc., and try to take advantage of this wave of dividends as much as possible.

At the end of 1996. The total sales of "Kill, Miracle, Heart" officially exceeded the 1000 million mark.

Among them, 690 million were sold in Japan, 140 million in South Korea, 60 in Hong Kong, and 110 million in Southeast Asia...

"Kill, Miracle, Heart" has also become the best-selling new album in the Asian music scene so far this year.

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In addition, with the introduction of "Ultraman Tiga" and "Love with a Kiss" to the Red Earth Continent, Asia's largest film and television music consumer market.

The album "Kill, Miracle, Heart" began to be sold in the Red Earth Continent through the channels of Sony Records, and became popular all over the country with the two TV series.

Taking into account the huge population base of the Red Earth Continent, Sony Records' marketing department analyzed that the sales of the "Kill, Miracle, Heart" album may reach 3000 million copies.

This will be the first album to exceed 3000 million copies in the Heisei era.

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However, Keiko Kanda is relatively conservative. Selling 3000 million records is the kind of achievement only an international superstar can achieve.

For an album of this intensity, quality and popularity are certainly important reasons, but luck is the most important factor.

After all, luck is also part of strength.

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Beasts Rock Band, Yokohama Station, Livehouse.

Bunta Takakura, Akina Nakamori, and Tony Futaki sang twelve songs, four of which were songs by Akina Nakamori, and four songs authorized by Sony Records.

The Livehouse performance and the album signing session ended at 11:25 pm.

Tony Futaki is busy taking photos with fans. Recently, his popularity has soared by relying on the popularity of his movie partner, superstar Ikuko Iijima.

Akina Nakamori is a diva-level singer in her own right. Now that she has become famous again, her fan base is even stronger.

In contrast, Bunta Takakura's signing and photo taking process only took 20 minutes to complete.

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Bunta Takakura finished first. After changing clothes in the locker room, he lit a cigarette at the back door of the Livehouse bar.

Prepare to go back to the hotel where you are stationed.

At this time, a strange girl blocked Takakura Bunta's way...

(End of this chapter)