Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 871 871. There is a way to go
It is impossible for Wanyumi Watanabe not to be present at the celebration meeting.

Shinichi Yanqiao greeted her with a smile, turned his head, and introduced Shunichi Baba to her, "This is the horse farm manager of VERMILLION Records."

On official occasions, he was polite and called "Watanabe-san".

Watanabe Manyumi saw Shinichi Iwahashi's enthusiastic introduction, and she knew it well, handed over her business card, and reported it to her family.The situation became two-on-one, and Shunichi Baba was also very knowledgeable, chatted a few words, said goodbye and walked away.

"VERMILLION is a record company founded by President Nagato of BEING." There were only the two of them left, and Shinichi Iwahashi was serious, and introduced the history of this record company to Wanyumi Watanabe.

Mayumi Watanabe nodded, knowingly asked, "And then?"

"That's it." Yanqiao Shinichi said nothing had happened.

Watanabe Wanyumi said of him, "I was so enthusiastic just now, I thought it was something important."...Ninety-nine percent of the time he didn't want to deal with the imperial envoy from BURNING, and it happened that she came to help him escape.

There was something in her words, and Yanqiao Shenyi accepted her sarcasm and said with a smile, "It's not an unimportant matter to introduce you to the manager of the racecourse."

Looking at what position Shunichi Baba holds in VERMILLION, one can roughly guess how deeply this record company is involved with BURNING, and what role BURNING plays in it.

"Too."

Watanabe Mayumi accepted the remarks.She was thoughtful, but Yanqiao Shinichi suddenly asked, "Where is Manyumi-san, is there anything you want to tell me?"

Mayumi Watanabe said "Huh?"

Yanqiao Shenyi looked at her, and began to ask knowingly, "Did I guess wrong?"

Wanyumi Watanabe smiled, and followed his words and said, "It just so happens that there are people I want to introduce to you."

Those present tonight are not only the staff of Fuji TV, the Japanese animation production company and the people related to "RIBON" magazine, but also the BEING who has transformed into VERMILLION records, and the people of GENZO, and even those who are closely related to Fuji TV People in the arts.

Wanyumi Watanabe just finished exchanging business cards with Michiyo Yamada, the president of entertainment agency PAPADO.

Michiyo Yamada used to be a staff member of the film production company Kitty Films. In 1982, she became independent from her old club and established the firm PAPADO.

Boli Jiayin, a subsidiary of Fuji Sankei, has been serving as the distributor of Kitty Films for many years. Therefore, the relationship between Kitty Films and Fuji TV is also quite good.The president of Michiyo Yamada, who was born in Kitty Films, has received a lot of care from Fuji TV by virtue of this relationship, and he has managed the actor business well.

The cadres of Fuji TV intend to introduce President Michiyo Yamada to Shinichi Iwahashi and Mayumi Watanabe, and invite her as a related party. It just so happens that both parties can take the opportunity to expand their contacts in the industry.

Kitty Films, a film production company, at the beginning of its establishment, mainly engaged in live-action films. It produced "Infinite Approximately Transparent Blue" written and directed by Ryu Murakami, which failed so badly at the box office that it was recorded in history.The company loves Ryu Murakami deeply, and after finishing this film, it invested in a larger production and continued to shoot Ryu Murakami's "Don't Worry, My Friend", but this time it suffered even worse and almost went bankrupt.

The president of the film production company, Hidenori Taga, was first a director of POLYDOR.KK and established the film production company Kitty Films and the associated record company Kitty Records in the late 70s.

The producer of Taga loves movies deeply, and invests all the money he earns from selling records into movies. He earns money like flowing water, spends like floods, and through hard work in making movies, the company is almost bankrupt——

"Don't worry, my friend."

At the critical moment, because the animation "Fuxing Boy" that he participated in the production was very popular, and later, he cooperated with Toho to produce the animation "Miyuki Miyuki", the company not only came back to life, but also stepped into prosperity.

After that, the company rescued by animation gradually began to abandon live-action film production and switch to the embrace of the animation market. Two years ago, the OVA animation of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" produced became a hit again, relying on animation to earn a lot of money .

Because Kitty Films has its own record company and animation production company, when producing "Fuxing Kid", the production of animation and theme songs should be outsourced to the "Kitty Department". Starting from this animation, I tried to reform, using pop music as the opening and ending songs of the animation.

This attempt was rewarded handsomely in "Miyuki Miyuki" produced by Kitty Films. The ending song of the animation "想い出がいっぱい" (full of memories) became a big hit. It has become a masterpiece in the history of Japanese pop music.

Shin Iwahashi knew very little about Kitty Films. The first time he knew about this company was before the establishment of the record company. Considering the broad prospects of animation music in the future, he wanted to seek cooperation with an animation production company. When collecting information, he scanned Take a look at this company.

However, with the background of POLYDOR.KK, its own label and its own record company, such Kitty Films will definitely not be the cooperation partner he and Wanyumi Watanabe can seek, so he glanced at it and quickly skipped it.

But today, at the celebration banquet for the hot sale of "Let's Dance Together", Watanabe Wanyumi, who first met Michiyo Yamada, introduced PAPADO in advance, and learned about the history of Kitty Films' fortune and prodigal history from her.

Wanyumi Watanabe said that she wanted to introduce Michiyo Yamada to him. In fact, this kind of rhetoric was more like a reply to what Shinichi Iwahashi said just now about introducing Shunichi Baba to her.

After all, on today's occasion, it's the first time either side has met.

As female presidents, Michiyo Yamada and Mayumi Watanabe are two completely different types—of course, President Yamada is always nearly 40 years old, and he is a generation behind Mayumi Watanabe.

Manyumi Watanabe looked capable, but Michiyo Yamada looked very gentle, not like a president at all.

PAPADO has been a small firm since it was established, and it is very low-key in the industry. Even Wanyumi Watanabe, the second generation of the entertainment industry, has never heard of it.

Even, according to the officials of Fuji TV who introduced Michiyo Yamada, when the firm recruits new recruits, it adopts the "acquaintance introduction system" and does not open external selection.The more it sounds, the more it looks like some kind of mysterious organization.

However, the artists under the banner have never been short of acting.The firm is currently recommending the actor Yosuke Eguchi. Michiyo Yamada is very talkative. When he smiles, the corners of his eyes are piled up with fine lines that make people can't help but let go of his defense.

Watanabe Wanyumi didn't know about PAPADO, but Yamada Michiyo knew about Watanabe Wanyumi's details. As soon as she opened her mouth, she mentioned Inamura Izumi, whom the firm was promoting, and praised her for her excellent acting skills and good temperament.

Compared with dealing with Shunichi Baba just now, dealing with Michiyo Yamada was easier—at least in terms of communication experience.

Of course, the good impression of Michiyo Yamada is not wishful thinking or an illusion.While chatting with each other, I got a piece of news from her mouth.

Fuji TV is planning to adapt Fumi Saimon's manga "Tokyo Love Story" into a TV series.The project has not yet officially started, but if nothing unexpected happens, it should be a certainty.

Tokyo Love Story.

Tokyo Love Story...

Iwahashi Shinichi pricked up his ears, waiting for Michiyo Yamada to reveal more information.However, after the other party finished speaking, he smiled and stopped.

Is that all?
These are already quite a few.

The comics of "Tokyo Love Story" are still in the serialization state, and the project has not yet officially started. If each agency wants to win a role for its actors, they should know it earlier, so that it will be easier to arrange it earlier.

This comic is a popular work in recent years. If it is to be adapted, it is impossible to put it in the late-night time slot when no one cares about it. However, in the context of the prevalence of urban white-collar fashion dramas, it is very likely that it will be broadcast. The ninth paragraph of the play.

Month [-] is the Kanban schedule of Fuji TV. If you can get a good role, you will take a big step forward in your career as an actor.

Michiyo Yamada's PAPADO is now promoting the actor Yosuke Eguchi, and Manyumi Watanabe's office is all famous actresses, and there is no competition between the two parties, so it is naturally enjoyable.

What's more, Wanyumi Watanabe is in the industry, and there are many ordinary staff who don't know that she is Miss Watanabe Producer's Second, but they don't know that she is the company leader of Miss Watanabe Producer's Second, probably not many.

……

Today's celebration banquet, as soon as Baba Shun arrived, Nagato Taiyuki had no reason not to come.

Iwahashi Shinichi and Nagato Taiyuki met face to face, and congratulated each other politely. By the way, they looked forward to the broad prospects of "Let's Dance Together", and the atmosphere was harmonious and cordial.

After all kinds of things were settled, Nagato Taiko saw Iwahashi Shinichi again, and the hatred for this slippery boy faded in his heart.It's not so much that it fades away, or it should be said that I first write down the sum after sum, and then count slowly.

And once the hatred for him is put aside for the time being, as practitioners in the record industry, and they just collaborated on a hit single together, naturally they only have a smile on their faces, all good words in their mouths, and go their separate ways after the politeness. Yes, that's all.

After eleven o'clock, both Shinichi Iwahashi and Mayumi Watanabe were about to leave.Before leaving, he took the initiative to invite Mayumi Watanabe to find a place to sit.

The two escaped from the lively banquet, and went to the members-only club for a drink.

The most important thing is to say what you have to say first.

Iwahashi Shinichi was still thinking about that PAPADO. To be precise, he was thinking about the Kitty Films that Michiyo Yamada played for. When he opened his mouth, he said the same thing, "The single "Let's Dance Together" is a big hit, which proves that it passed We can also work on the road of cooperating with animation to produce theme songs.”

Kitty Films, a model that combines animation production with music production, is ten years ahead of Iwahashi Shinichi.Because of this, there are many things that can be learned and worth learning from this "Kitty Department".The only thing you don’t need to learn is to invest the money you earn from music into big-budget movies——

Watanabe Wanyumi's low-cost productions that specialize in promoting newcomers are not within this scope.

Shinichi Iwahashi's main business is a record company, but it is a brother company with the Japanese animation production company. If this advantage can be used, the cooperation with the brother will be closer and more detailed...

It may not be impossible to take the "Kitty series" road, and even make this road wider.

The more Shinichi Iwahashi thought about it, the more feasible he felt, and he couldn't help but talk to Wanyumi Watanabe first, "If we deepen the cooperation with Japanese animation production companies, and then learn from the 'Kitty series' approach, we will also take the path of animation music. If it works, the future is boundless.”

"Not only the theme song of the animation, but also the soundtrack. Even," he mentioned, "it's not impossible to release a single for the protagonist of the animation, or the voice actor of the character. If you can sell [-] copies, you can get back your money."

Wanyumi Watanabe listened patiently, neither objecting nor supporting, "Can you do it?"

"Then we have to bring up the old story again." Yanqiao Shinichi said to her, "Almost, we should also consider expanding the scale."

Mayumi Watanabe nodded, but said nothing.Iwahashi Shinichi didn't intend to deepen the topic at this time, instead he talked about other things, "If I didn't want to be close to the animation production industry, I wouldn't choose Taketa Printing Company.... Earlier, Mineshima also mentioned that the mainstream Many musicians who have no hope of success in the music industry have switched to the animation and game industries."

Yanqiao Shen paused, "The current animation musicians are worthless."

"Ah." Wanyumi Watanabe responded, knowing what he meant, "So, buy first while the price is low."

Yanqiao Shen nodded, "That's the thing, I have been doing this consciously all the time. Otherwise, the animation soundtrack of "Chibi Maruko-chan" would become a problem."

GENZO got the music of "Chibi Maruko", not just the theme song.On the one hand, the right to produce the theme song was outsourced to BEING, and on the other hand, the animation musician he raised was responsible for writing the soundtrack.

"I plan to recruit another batch of musicians." Yanqiao Shinichi said.

Wanyumi Watanabe didn't get involved in recruiting new recruits, so she just said what he said.Instead of continuing this topic, she brought up another matter, "The TV adaptation of "Tokyo Love Story" by Yamada-san from PAPADO..."

Iwahashi Shinichi thought to himself, Michiyo Yamada contributed to the topic all night.But he didn't want to interrupt Mayumi Watanabe's words, so he just thought about it in his heart and gave up.

"I've seen the comic," she said.

Yanqiao Shinichi said "Oh", "How do you feel?"

Wanyumi Watanabe thought for a while, "This manga is perfect because it was born in this era."

Yanqiao Shinichi laughed at her comment, "That sounds really mysterious."

"Really?" Wanyumi Watanabe also smiled.

However, laughing, she really thought so, "It is only in this era that such comics can appear, and it is also because this comic appeared in this era, it can be said to be perfect."

Manyumi Watanabe said something that was a little tricky.

"However, manga adaptations to TV series are half and half." She said to Iwahashi Shinichi.

"Half and half?"

"You either succeed or you fail."

Iwahashi Shinichi found it interesting, "If you say that, isn't there something like 'half and half'?"

Mayumi Watanabe asked him to ask this question, and couldn't help smiling.But I smiled and answered him, "Compared with the original script, the adapted script is still different."

"It sounds like the experience of making a movie adaptation of a novel." Iwahashi Shin half-joked.

(End of this chapter)