I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 235: Get the money today and do the job today. I, Kitagawa Hide, will never procrastinate!

The next day.

The New Filmmakers Newspaper headquarters building, the editorial office of the Broadcasting Criticism Forum.

"Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Beichuan's reply has arrived!" The male editor trotted through the corridor and breathlessly handed a postal letter to the editor-in-chief who was sitting in the office.

The second editor-in-chief was reviewing the TV drama scripts broadcast by major TV stations in recent months. Upon hearing this, he quickly stood up and took the letter.

"Thank you for your hard work, Hayakawa. Go get busy."

After sending the young editor away, Er returned to his boss's chair, told his secretary to close the door, and nervously opened the sealed letter.

The idea of ​​asking Mr. Beichuan to write a review for the winning works of the Starry Sky Award came to him on a whim.

The Starry Sky Award is a comprehensive award established by the Broadcasting Critics Association in 1963 and is held once a year.

As a comprehensive and authoritative award in Japan's domestic television and broadcasting industry, the Star Awards is also known as the highest honor award for domestic radio and television programs in Japan, equivalent to the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards next door.

It is divided into four departments: television, radio, advertising, and news reporting, and each department also issues monthly awards every month.

其中电视剧部门每年会评选出1大赏、3优秀赏、10选奖、1特别赏、1个人赏、1创新赏，都由恳谈会的常驻会员投票评选得出，权威性很高。

Not long ago, the 34th Galaxy Award Television Category Individual Award was presented to Nagatsumi Tadahiro.

Nagatsuka Tadahiro is a well-known second-generation film star. Both his parents are famous actors in the television industry. He got a lot of resources last year and finally lived up to expectations and won the Starry Award as promised.

One of the TV dramas he filmed last year was a Taiga war film that could barely be compared to Kitagawa Hide's war literature.

Seeing that even the Prime Minister's Office has stepped out to cheer for Mr. Kitagawa recently, I had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the popularity.

He had just heard that "Wenyi" was about to break the monthly sales mark of 250 million copies, and he was worried that the cost of asking Mr. Beichuan to write articles would be extremely high.

After the blank check in the letter fell out, Er's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.

1100 million yen is not a small amount, but for the wealthy New Film Newspaper Industry, it is just a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, this money must be allocated by the newspaper industry, and will not be used from the small treasury they use to broadcast criticism forums, so there is no need to worry about funding shortages.

Paying 1100 million yen for a touted review may sound like a fantasy, but this is something that top award selection committees can do.

After all, the other party is a new "number one" who has caused a sensation in the Japanese literary world at the age of only 24!
Those unqualified editors under him may not be able to appreciate how high Kitagawa Hide's status in the entertainment industry is, but he, the experienced editor-in-chief, knows it well.

In Japan's entertainment industry, the most popular is the animation industry, followed by games, music, then TV series and movies, and finally novels.

This is a ranking based on worldwide influence.

But the foundation of all entertainment works is textual products, and those big guys who create texts basically grew up being influenced by the works of pure literary writers.

Moreover, literature is the only cultural and entertainment industry that can be completely linked to politics, and pure literature is the most dazzling pearl on the crown of literature.

Not to mention anything else, the Academy, which is well-known in the Japanese academic community, only has seats for academicians in literature, and there are no other messy seats for academicians in literature and entertainment. This shows how high the status of writers is in Japanese society.

As long as Kitagawa Hide doesn't do anything stupid in the future, or if he encounters an unexpected disaster and dies young, he will definitely be able to enter the Academy of Bachelor's Degrees and become an academician!

It’s really worth it to pay 1100 million yen to ask a candidate academician and “one of the best” to write a review!

Of course, I didn’t know before that this review would be worth a fortune in the future, and its true value would not be exaggerating even if we added another zero to the end!
"Since we have received such a great favor from Mr. Kitagawa, let's raise the award standard for "Long Vacation" in March next year."

Secondly, we had originally planned to give an award selection as a gesture. After all, there are only a few awards in the Starry Awards, and the six major TV stations have so many programs throughout the year that they can't even divide them all up. If we give some to the miscellaneous production teams, it will be even less than enough.

Now that he thought about it carefully, he felt more and more that Kitagawa Hide had a bright future in the Japanese literary world. At this moment, he had not yet fully established himself, so providing timely assistance would be much more useful than adding icing on the cake!

He gritted his teeth and decided to cancel an already scheduled TV series and nominated "Long Vacation" as one of the three outstanding awards.

"Huh? Why is this envelope so thick?" Er had made up his mind and was about to make an internal call to the president, but when he looked down, he found that the letter was bulging and there seemed to be something inside.

He poured it out and was shocked to find it was a stack of written reviews.

Look again.

It turned out to be a review of the Taiga drama by Nagatomi Tadayoshi!
Kitagawa Hide wrote 3,000 to 4,000 words, in which he not only commented on the Taiga drama, but also praised Nagatomi Tadahiro's acting skills. "I've heard that Kitagawa-sensei's writing efficiency is extremely high, but this is too high!"

Before that, everyone was stupid.

Because most Japanese writers have all kinds of quirks, and almost everyone has the bad habit of procrastinating on submitting their manuscripts, he deliberately did not set any word limits, content, or deadline for Kitagawa Hide, hoping that he could give it to him before the New Year.

did not expect!
The invitation letter just arrived yesterday, and I have already finished writing the review today!

No wonder people in the publishing and literary circles mention Kitagawa Hide as if he were a ghost. They try to avoid him for fear of provoking him.

Who can stand writing so quickly and well?
Didn’t you say you were still working on two novels?
Even just watching that Taiga drama will take some time, right?

Before I finished writing, I suddenly worried that this was a "speculated draft" and quickly picked up the manuscript and read it carefully.

Many writers are like those university graduate school supervisors. They just put their names on the list if they like, and then ask their disciples to write an article to fill in the gaps.

Kitagawa Hide is so famous that he must have a lot of registered disciples. If he buys a "gun manuscript" for 1100 million yen, he will have a lot of trouble.

But soon, all of Er's previous doubts were dispelled.

This is a top-notch TV drama review!

Just talking about the quality of the manuscript, it can be scored 8.8-9.2 points. After using the pen name of Kitagawa Hide, the full score is 10 points, starting from 12 points!
"So there really are omnipotent geniuses in this world." Er was holding the draft of the commentary and was about to make an internal call, but after thinking about it, he decided to call Nagatomi Tadahiro's private phone first to tell his best friend the good news and make him happy too.

Tadahiro Nagatsumi never dreamed that his Taiga drama would receive personal comments from Mr. Kitagawa.

Taiga drama is a very famous historical drama in Japan. Generally, top actors will rely on it to enhance their national popularity and status.

If you have been successful before but fail in the Taiga drama in the end, all your efforts will be wasted.

On the contrary, you were faltering before, but the Taiga drama became unexpectedly popular and had a miraculous effect!
This time it’s really stable!
Nagatsumi Tadahiro knew that Kimura Takuya's TV series, which was ratings poison, was brought back to popularity by Mr. Kitagawa with the TV series "No Longer Human". For an artist like him who had never made any mistakes, he would surely take off on the spot.

He thought about inviting Mr. Kitagawa to dinner, but the entertainment and literary circles did not have much overlap. He could call the shots here, but was almost useless as a servant serving tea and water there.

After thinking about it, Nagatomi Tadahiro planned to ask his retired parents to establish some upper-class connections, starting with the consortium, and invite Mr. Kitagawa to dinner. If he could successfully hold on to this strong thigh, his career would be stable in the future!

There was just one thing that confused him: Did Mr. Kitagawa himself like watching Taiga dramas?
Otherwise, how could one watch the TV series he starred in so thoroughly in just one night?

Kitagawa Hide doesn't watch Taiga dramas. His understanding of Japanese dramas is still limited to workplace dramas like "White Tower" and "Unnatural".

But Yumeko and Jabami Rei are both die-hard fans of Taiga dramas, especially the latter. She has piles of Taiga drama videotapes at home, which are known as "Jabami Rei's most precious personal possessions" along with her collection of books!
The amount of the check was changed last night. Kitagawa Hide didn't want to dwell on these trivial matters, so he simply asked Mengzi to call over the sharp-tongued women and let them guide him in writing a review.

Snake Rei came over happily and was shocked by their new nest.

As expected of a house worth hundreds of millions of yen, she sat down and declared that she would look for a husband who could afford such a mansion in the future!

Of course, this is just talk.

A mansion worth hundreds of millions of yen would cost two to three million yen a year for all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, which would almost drain the annual income of an ordinary office worker. It is simply not something that ordinary people can afford.

If she continues to be popular at Toei for another ten or eight years, she might be able to afford a mansion like this.

The three of them finished the review that evening and, as they had done in the past, sat around a low table and talked about literature.

Jabami Rei sighed as she thought about how she had rushed to their rental house half a year ago and insisted on driving away Kitagawa Hide, the useless "son-in-law" in the manner of a "mother-in-law".

The parasite in her memory that only sucked Mengzi's blood and even coveted her body has completely changed.

It's hard to say whether this is good or bad, she just has an inexplicable feeling of being an old mother.

In this way, the unreliable Kitagawa Hide has finally become reliable, and it seems that his relationship with Yumeko has warmed up to a sufficient level. The next step is to get married, right?
She didn't mention this, and somehow turned the topic to Kitagawa Hide's new book.

Perhaps influenced by Kitagawa Hide, the friends around him are now more competitive than each other. While they are still working on the job in their hands, their minds are already thinking about the next job.

Jabami Rei just asked casually, but she didn't expect Kitagawa Hide to actually make a plan!

(End of this chapter)