Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 84 Two Platinum Songs Two Gold Songs Five-Star Platinum Album

After leaving Toariu City, Takakura Bunta took the Shinkansen back to Tokyo.

Keiko Kanda was driving her Lincoln Continental and had been waiting near Tokyo Station in Marunouchi-1-chome, Chiyoda-ku.

Back in the car, Kanda Keiko gave Takakura Bunta the latest overseas market data.

"The global sales of the album "Kill, Miracle, Heart" exceed 5000 million copies? Has it been upgraded to a five-star platinum album?"

Takakura Bunta looked at the overseas market data. Among them, the sales volume of Red Earth Continent has broken the forecast record of authoritative music magazines such as "Japanese Pop Music".

"Ultraman Tiga produced by Magic City TV and "A Kiss" introduced by Jianghuai TV, these two TV series have become phenomenal TV series in the Red Earth Continent..."

Keiko Kanda explained to Bunta Takakura the major events that occurred in the entire Asian market during the filming of "High School".

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In the 20s, Shanghai TV and Jianghuai TV were the two local TV stations with the earliest development, the largest number of installations, and the greatest influence in the Red Earth Continent.

The prime-time ratings of these two TV stations are second only to CCTV’s prime-time ratings.

The first two episodes of "Ultraman Tiga" on Mordu TV received a ratings of 35%.

Jianghuai TV's "A Kiss", which was aired next, received a ratings of 38.9%.

"Ultraman Tiga" and "Love with a Kiss" completely dominated the Red Earth Continent market at the same time.

The two TV series took turns to occupy the first place in the ratings rankings, surpassing the third-placed TV series by more than 20 percentage points.

The combined ratings of the two TV series "Ultraman Tiga" and "Love with a Kiss" firmly accounted for more than 70% of the ratings.

In addition to the Red Earth Continent, the two TV series are also very popular in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Hong Kong and other markets.

In 1996, after Kimura Takuya's "Long Vacation", the whole of Asia once again set off a new round of Japanese drama craze...

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The first person to feel this overseas heat was Shoichi Furuya, who played the role of member Norui.

He earned a large bonus from playing marbles in Kamakura last time and successfully terminated his contract with Johnny.

Currently studying at the National University of Singapore Law School.

The National University of Singapore Law School is among the top 20 in the world in the QS World University Rankings for Law.

This school has cultivated many influential alumni in the legal community, including judges, lawyers, prosecutors and academics, etc., who play an important role in the legal community in Singapore and around the world.

When Shoichi Furuya was studying in the library, he was surrounded by a large number of classmates. The librarian even called the school security to maintain order.

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This enthusiasm in overseas markets is transformed into ratings and profits from peripheral products, and is transmitted back to Japan.

Hiroshi Nagano, Takami Yoshimoto, Mio Takaki and others also changed with their careers...

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Takami Yoshimoto's career has been on a decline since filming "Ultraman Tega".

After she lost her job as host of several variety shows, she even started working as a model for plastic photo magazines, shooting for the "Surfacing" photo album.

The overseas hit of "Ultraman Tiga" prompted the producers of NHK TV station to proactively find Takami Yoshimoto and invite her to be the host of the program "The Story of the Red Earth Continent Traveling on an Ancient Map".

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Gao Shumio suffered a bad health due to shooting a large number of art films in his early years and has been resting at home.

After the shutdown, exposure dropped, advertiser resources dropped sharply, and life began to become difficult.

With the popularity of "Ultraman Tiga" overseas, Gao Shumo has received a large number of corporate advertising endorsement invitations to enter Southeast Asia, South Korea, Hong Kong and other markets.

She also received a dubbing job for the radio drama "The Powerless King", the first masterpiece of youth literature and art from a Japanese radio station.

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The most embarrassing thing is the combination of Hiroshi Nagano and V6.

Originally, Hiroshi Nagano did not sign a continued cooperation agreement with Tsuburaya Co., Ltd. because he and Johnny's artist appearance fees could not be negotiated. In December, V12, a group to which Hiroshi Nagano belongs, held a New Year concert "New Year For The People" at Yoyogi National Stadium.

The ticket price of the concert has been increased several times, and it is more popular than the previous concerts of the V6 group. It is still hard to get a ticket.

A large number of fans requested to sing "The Miracle Reappears", and only then did they discover that there were tens of thousands of overseas fans at the venue.

The embarrassed V6 group could only sing the Japanese version of Ultraman Tiga's theme song "TAKE ME HIGHER" to cope...

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This incident made Johnny & Associates aware of the huge overseas market.

Due to the popularity of Tsuburaya Co., Ltd. in overseas markets, a large number of TV stations came to purchase the broadcast rights of previous Ultraman games.

There is also a share of the peripheral IP co-branded products such as models and dolls provided by Bandai Co., Ltd....

This made Tsuburaya Co., Ltd. successfully resurrected with full blood, and the price for Nagano Hiroshi to continue to participate in the show became acceptable.

The two parties finally reached an agreement, and Johnny & Associates gave Hiroshi Nagano the largest discount in history for his subsequent appearance.

But the subsequent Ultraman theme song must be sung by V6.

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Of course, in the Japanese entertainment industry on the dark star plane, the biggest beneficiary of this wave of overseas "Ultraman Tega" craze is Takakura Bunta.

Also following the two TV series that became popular in Asia, there are also two songs "The Miracle Comes Again" and "Clouds and Smoke Turn into Rain".

The sales of the "Kill, Miracle, Heart" album, which contains these two songs, suddenly surged.

Kanda Keiko was keenly aware of the opportunities inside.

She used video materials of the Beasts rock band’s live house tour in four cities: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama.

Through the editing of the audio and video materials of the tour concert, under the supervision of Kanda Keiko, Sony Records' production department rushed to produce the single albums of "Miracle Reappearance" and "Clouds and Smoke", which were sold in the Red Earth Continent, Southeast Asia, and South Korea...

These two singles topped the major music charts in a short period of time, with global sales exceeding 1000 million copies.

It even counterattacked and surpassed the album's other two songs that focused on the local market, "Kill That Tokyo Man" and "Heart Made" (Psychological Effect).

"Heart Made" (Psychological Effect) has dominated the Oricon charts for six weeks, with cumulative sales of 770 million. The current weekly sales can maintain more than 50 copies, and the cumulative sales next year are expected to exceed 1000 million...

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The 1996 "Kill, Miracle, Heart" album included two platinum singles with sales of 1000 million and two gold singles with sales of more than 100 million.

The sales of the album itself also exceeded 5000 million, becoming the best-selling album in Japan in 1996 and the only five-star platinum album in Asia this year.

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A large flat-floor apartment on the 32nd floor of the Shibaura Building in Minato-ku, Tokyo metropolitan area.

Takakura Bunta was leaning on the sofa in the living room, with a dozen smoking and scrapped Sailor Moon Sailor Moon and Tsukino Usagi dolls thrown aside.

He lit a Peace cigarette and was in a state of relaxation.

Illusion! !

This thing is indeed very powerful. No wonder UNODC sent a working group to Tokyo to promote this withdrawal method globally.

A working group has been dispatched to Tokyo to investigate, and this withdrawal therapy may be promoted globally in the future.

"The illusion created by Fairy Magic, Magic and Toad, the combat power of the characters created in it is too consistent with the original work. Especially this latest model of Sailor Moon's Moon Hare, even I need an average of four or five to eat it. Meat……"

"I'm afraid ordinary people can't beat it at all. They can only watch Sailor Moon's transformation, look at the plum blossoms to quench their thirst, and quench their greed."

"The unprecedented prosperity of culture and entertainment in the dark star plane has made Japan's two-dimensional industry larger than in previous generations... Ladies all like cosplay very much."

"The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's highest-selling newspaper, according to market statistics, 94.8% of girls in Japan have played cosplay."

"If we can tap into the market potential of this part, let them enter the illusion enchantment of fairy magic, magic, and toad singing, and engage in online battles..."

Bunta Takakura looked at the year-end edition of the "Nissan Economic News" on his desk, and his mind was filled with thoughts...

(End of this chapter)