Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 299: Cruel Hands
As soon as the article about Kitamura Hanamichi came out, many hip-hop fans, because they didn't believe that anyone on the idol talent show stage could perform such difficult moves, made a special trip to watch the full film...

They came with a skeptical attitude, and then left comments such as "I found myself kneeling when I finished watching it", "I cried when I could only do three after practicing for ten years", "Did I really come to the wrong set?", and left with a sad heart.

"Aren't veteran street dancers like Kitamura Hanamichi the ones who disdain the idol stage the most?"

"It's impossible for him to accept the money from the Burning Department... Is he joining the discussion to try to take advantage of our traffic?"

"In short, being able to break through the circle and attract traffic is certainly valuable, but why is it always Xia Fan..."

Turning his eyes away from the screen, Akimoto Manjiro felt a mixture of emotions.

The entertainment culture of District 11, from anime, Gundam, home consoles to idols, capital has deliberately created numerous rules and a long history, built high knowledge barriers, and focused on being self-contained and self-sustaining to avoid user loss.

All previous talent shows for male and female groups have spent a lot of money on publicity in an attempt to break out of the circle and attract traffic, but have rarely been successful. Instead, they have been criticized for their low talent level, greasy looks, and ugly money-making habits.

But this time, the "Idol Birth Festival" has attracted unprecedented fanatic fujoshi fans who only live in the second dimension since Xia Fan participated in the program...

The international version of the theme song MV, called "Demon's Dance", with Xia Fan as the center, has attracted many people in the abstract circle who are happy to make ghost-like secondary creations to "drain traffic for free".

In the first round of performances, the "deep sea fisherman"'s "authentic identification" of Xia Fan's high notes also converted many viewers who only watched music variety shows...

The second round of performances was even more exaggerated. Not only did it attract Kitamura Hanamichi, but the group of street dance enthusiasts who entertained themselves and thought that idol dance was "soft noodles" actually recharged their memberships and watched the full film...

The backend data cannot be false. This situation of breaking the circle several times in a row has to be said to be a miracle in the history of idol talent shows.

"This Xia Fan is simply an idol saint body that appears once in four thousand years. Why is he a burning type..."

"Souta, how is the effect of the topic I asked you to find a 'marketing team' to promote?"

With a sense of regret for "cruel destruction of an ass", Akimoto Manjiro asked softly.

"Don't worry, we have applied for a large amount of additional publicity and promotion funds from the company and found the best marketing team in the industry."

"Before the episode was aired, they had already prepared different versions of articles, rhetoric, and comments, arranged marketing accounts and water army accounts to lead the rhythm, and hyped the topic simultaneously on various platforms..."

"Look, these hyped words have already climbed into the top ten of the "Idol Birthday Festival" topic list."

Assistant Director Souta opened a row of web pages on his computer and showed them to him flatteringly...

Driven by marketing accounts and online trolls, keywords such as "Xia Fan Tianlongren", "District 11 should choose its own idol", and "Can't stand up after kneeling for too long" are becoming increasingly popular...

These various articles, some explicit, some implicit, and some satirical, all point out Xia Fan's identity as a "Dragon Countryman" from different angles, secretly stirring up national self-esteem and instilling in readers the idea that "the No. 1 idol in District 11 cannot be a Dragon Countryman"...

The netizens who commented on the article cited various classics, ranging from the cultural invasion of various countries after the defeat to the neglect of the small island of District 11 by Dragon Country as the suzerain country, and tried to use logically rigorous rhetoric to label Xia Fan as a "Celestial Dragon" who stood on the opposite side of "District 11".

"Hey, in the face of national justice, no matter how outstanding you are, Xia Fan, the audience will not easily buy into it..."

Akimoto Manjiro folded his arms across his chest and nodded calmly.

This move was the "extermination plan" he came up with after leaving the second round of performances. The people of District 11 have always been xenophobic. After being defeated in the war and deprived of their country's name and autonomy, they are even more sensitive and vulnerable to topics related to ethnicity.

As long as they make a fuss about Xia Fan's dragon nationality and put him in this dangerous political arena, they won't have any hope of getting "fanatic fans to come back", but at least they won't have any problem ruining his popularity in the second half of the show.

"So, the other trainees' votes should be narrowing the gap with Xia Fan, right?"

With a pleased look on his face, Akimoto Manjiro looked at the real-time popularity rankings expectantly...

Three days after the show is broadcast, the results of the second round of survival battle will be announced. At that time, about half of the trainees will be eliminated again based on the vote rankings. Now is the critical period for increasing votes.

"What's going on... the vote gap has gotten even bigger?!"

Strands of blood spread from the whites of his eyes like living things.

At this time, the name "Xia Fan" is still ranked first in the popularity ranking.

But his number of votes has reached a terrifying 14 million!
According to the careful calculations of the program team, even if Xia Fan received the upper limit of 3.5 million reward tickets, the current estimated number of votes is only over 10 million.

You know, even though Hirano Yuta, who ranked second, won with Xia Fan on the same team and received more than two million bonus tickets, and with the outstanding performance of the other side, he only barely broke through nine million votes...

"Where did these 4 million votes, which were more than predicted, come from? Did the Burning Department spend a lot of money to get them?!"

"With this kind of lead, even if Xia Fan loses the last performance, he will most likely still be number one!!!"

"We've hired a top marketing team to lead the discussion, and it's such a sensitive 'ethnic topic', so it can't be ineffective!"

Akimoto Manjiro grabbed Souta's collar with both hands and lifted him in front of him, and his saliva turned into a torrential rain along with his roar.

"Director... bah bah bah... The netizens' reactions to the 'ethnic topic' you designed... seem to be different from what you expected..."

Like a withered flower swaying in the wind and rain, Cao Tai grabbed the mouse like a life-saving straw, clicked on the comment section, and turned the computer screen towards the crazy director.

"no the same?"

"Impossible! As a native of District 11, I understand this mentality very well!"

Taking the phone, Akimoto Manjiro looked at it angrily.

After the defeat and surrender, the islanders in District 11, who looked up to the great powers and survived in the cracks, naturally had a contradictory and distorted mentality of "inferiority yet arrogance".

Although he seems to be working very hard and seriously in everything he does, he is actually callous, extreme and stubborn...

On the one hand, they worship foreign cultures and are servile to them; on the other hand, they have a "silent rejection" of foreign races.

The people in District 11, who maintain this contradictory mentality, cannot possibly not care about Xia Fan's identity as a "Dragon Countryman".

(End of this chapter)