Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 186 Takakura Group
Having said that, Takakura Bunta couldn't just say, "Then you wait a little longer" and turn around to open the car door.

"Oh, how about taking my car?"

"thank you."

This is what Mai Kuraki was waiting for. After Takakura Bunta finished speaking, he got into the car with his assistant.

After finding out Mai Kuraki's home address, Takakura Bunta couldn't help but tease as he watched the two people gradually recover in the car.

"You are the mainstay of Giza Studio, but you have to temporarily arrange for a nanny car."

"Hey, it's hard to put it into words."

Mai Kuraki started learning the electronic organ at the age of four, and was exposed to songs by Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and others during elementary and junior high school.

Last year, she sent her demo tape to Giza studio, and took this opportunity to sign a contract with Giza studio and go to the United States to receive music training.

In October of that year, Mai-K released her first English single "Baby I Like" in the United States. The song was released by the American independent label Bip Records and was released in Japan as a "foreign import disc" and sold out.

This led Giza studio to devote resources to training Mai Kuraki and suggested that she return to Japan for development.

However, Giza studio itself is a small to medium-sized firm with weak capabilities and average hardware in all aspects.

Moreover, this agency is a subsidiary of the super old evil force - Burning Production Agency, and has to pay 50% of its profits to Burning Production Agency every year.

Under this level of blood sucking, they are always in a state of neither being full nor starving, and are completely unable to expand...

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Burning Production rose rapidly in the 20s under the leadership of Ikuo Suho, the "commander-in-chief of the dark entertainment world."

Through investment, holding, mergers and acquisitions, etc., Ikuo Suho controlled 40% of the small and medium-sized firms in the Japanese entertainment industry, and formed a burning army that occupied half of the Japanese entertainment industry.

The reason for President Suho Ikuo's success is that he used to be the driver of Tanaka faction member Hamada Yukiichi, so he knows politics inside out and has extensive connections in Congress.

In addition, they are excellent in their unique way of dealing with people and their sensitive sense of money, and have created an extremely complex network of relationships.

At the same time, Burning Production also has considerable influence in the dark world and the financial community. With its combination of kindness and power, no one in the television industry and media relations dares to say no to it.

In addition to the entertainment industry, Suho Ikuo is also involved in publishing, bookstore management, restaurant management, real estate rental, and even production waste recycling industry...

This is the most "non-specialized" entertainment agency among all the entertainment agencies in Japan.

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In this model, the agencies under the Burning Series are actually all blood bags of Suho Ikuo who are involved in social groups, politics, and the financial industry, and the artists under them are the small blood bags inside the big blood bags.

The large intestine is wrapped around the small intestine, giving people a sense of the impermanence of life.

Of course, it is actually very simple for female artists under the Burning Series to rise to the top.

As long as Ikuo Suho is happy, that's all.

For example, the famous "Okinawa Female Giant" in the previous life was originally an unknown person in a small firm under the Burning Department.

With a desperate fight, he successfully rose to the top and became one of the three pillars of Japanese dramas in the millennium.

Left a comment of "from Okinawa, passionate, loud, disturbing the neighbors"...

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"I heard that your studio has been upgraded to an entertainment company?"

Mai Kuraki has always been dissatisfied with her agency. When she met Bunta Takakura this time, she set her sights on him.

"If you want to sign with One Piece Entertainment, I welcome it. However, it depends on your sincerity. As far as I know, Suho Ikuo thinks highly of you and signed a 1 million yen penalty."

Takakura Bunta didn't mind taking Kuraki Mai under his wing.

Takakura Bunta happened to have a bad relationship with Burning Production, and he wanted to ease the relationship through Seibu Group and Tanaka Group last time. But the dark game couldn't help it, and the "water prison game" made Sawaguchi Yasuko drink 1250 ml of milk foam.

This means that the relationship between the Yuki Support Group, Hatoyama Support Group, and Murayama Support Group under PAC (Political Action Committee) controlled by Totland Capital and the Tanaka faction has completely lost room for maneuver.

If Mai Kuraki is signed, it will weaken Burning Production and indirectly hit the funds and reputation of the Tanaka group.

This is good business.

But the rules cannot be broken, and the other party must show a certain degree of sincerity.

After all, it's 1 million yen in liquidated damages.

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When Mai Kuraki heard Takakura Bunta mention the penalty for breach of contract, she was suddenly conflicted.

She has been studying music since she was a child and has been exposed to the rules of the entertainment industry. Of course, she understands what Takakura Bunta means.

After the success of the first album.

Although her position as the pillar of Giza studio is still somewhat shaky.

But Mai Kuraki's horizons also broadened.

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"Let's not talk about this. I heard that you have a good relationship with Metaverse Planning Co., Ltd."

Mai Kuraki absentmindedly changed the subject and started asking gossiping questions.

Metaverse Planning Co., Ltd. is now a rising supernova in the Japanese business community. Many financial industry leaders believe that this company will become an industry giant comparable to Warner Bros., Disney, and Sony in the future.

I heard that Metaverse Planning Co., Ltd. was quite generous and all advertising fees were paid in full upfront and calculated based on the top-level status.

Artists formerly under Takakura Bunta's studio often appear in Metaverse Planning Co., Ltd.'s promotional activities and commercial advertisements. It is rumored in the industry that Takakura Bunta has a close relationship with Metaverse Co., Ltd.

Takakura stepped on the accelerator and said, "That's the company I control."

Kuraki Mai: “…”

The assistant beside Mai Kuraki silently used her mobile phone to ask her classmate, who is a senior reporter of the Industrial Economic News, about the situation of One Piece Entertainment, which was upgraded from Takakura Bunta Studio, and the information of its affiliated industries...

The assistant looked at the text message received on the Nokia, his pupils dilated, and silently handed the phone to Kuraki Mai.

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At this time, Mai Kuraki was chatting with Bunta Takakura about her music career, the next album, where she was going to hold a concert, the level of her appearance fee and endorsement, etc.

Takakura Bunta was driving and didn't mention the contract again. He was chatting perfunctorily with Kuraki Mai.

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While chatting with Takakura Bunta, Kuraki Mai saw the text message handed to her by her assistant. Suddenly, she lost her grip on the phone and it fell under the car...

In the narrow space inside the car, while bending down to grab her cell phone, Mai Kuraki looked at Takakura Bunta who was concentrating on racing, and gradually she began to understand what was going on.

If the content of the investigation by this senior reporter of Industrial Economic News is true.

Magazines, newspapers, social software, PMC, Metaverse, Chip Factory, Totland Capital, Hokkaido Bank, Sapporo Bitcoin Exchange, Miki Law Firm...

The dark star business can only be said to be a hobby of Takakura Bunta...

This Takakura Bunta Studio was not upgraded to an entertainment company, but unknowingly became a new financial group...

Takakura Group!!!

(End of this chapter)