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

Chapter 285 Big Big Big

2024-07-13

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Following An Ziyao, the other three trainees also took turns standing in the center position and began to show off the dance moves they had polished during the day...

What disappointed Hirano Yuta was that the solo movements of these three people were still the arrangement and combination of ordinary dance movements, performed at double the speed, which was at most an "enhanced version" of Kishi Sho...

The overall visual effect and difficulty level are much worse than the original stage movements of "Oxygen Bomb".

However, this cannot be blamed on the trainees’ lack of dancing skills.

In today's idol market, most ordinary audiences still judge idols based on "how handsome they are". As long as the dancing moves can make people "feel awesome", it's fine. Spending time on deep dancing will only have "diminishing marginal returns". It's better to spend money on plastic surgery...

Therefore, the normal dancing level on idol stages has never been high.

Because of this, there hasn’t been a top male dance group like “Shining Star”, the original creator of “Oxygen Bomb”, in District 11 for ten years.

The fifth person to take the C position is Martin.

"As a professional dancer, I guarantee that I won't come up with anything like this to fool people."

"Move aside, Bro..."

I saw his tall, dark body, with a very strong flexibility, doing a backflip on the spot...

Then, Martin did a scissors kick, stood upside down, supported himself with his hands, and quickly did a few "bicycle" movements in the air, then stood up again and ended with a very hip-hop ending.

What he originally prepared was just a simple but intimidating set of handstand moves.

But under Xia Fan's influence, the set was temporarily changed to the current one in the afternoon, which has obviously more difficult movements.

Because practice time was limited and Martin was not 100% confident that he could perform stably, he took a bit of a risk.

"Wow!"

"So strong!"

After the round, An Ziyao and others who were standing at the back watching could only cheer in sour voices.

"Windmills and bicycles... finally something decent..."

Yuta Hirano, who has experience in overseas activities, also recognized this set of iconic street dance power moves and nodded in appreciation.

Because this set of SOLOs takes turns, the dance moves require rising levels of intensity, which slowly pushes up the audience's emotions until they are completely ignited in the end.

Therefore, if the movements of the people in front are too easy, it will ruin the viewing experience of the entire show...

If the difficulty is too high, it will create pressure on those behind to "not be able to climb up".

Martin's actions at this moment obviously put pressure on Yuta Hirano, who was in the second-to-last place.

"Humph, my activities on the West Coast in the past few years were not in vain..."

He squinted his eyes seriously, slid to the center position fluently, and suddenly "kowtowed" to the front, and his body turned upside down in the shape of the Chinese character "土"...

"Hey, this 'eternal runner-up' actually has a lightning dragon drill hidden in his hand?"

Seeing this, Martin finally realized...

The "knitted hat" that Yuta Hirano wore tonight is actually the "head-turning hat" commonly used by street dancers.

Without this equipment, if you rashly use the head turn, you may end up with a situation where "I become stronger, but also balder".

The head-turning move is only considered a medium-difficulty move in breakdancing, and is about the same difficulty as Martin's move just now...

Fortunately, Yuta Hirano's head drill is smooth and fast, and the visual effect does not feel "lacking".

"Hey, number one, it's your turn to finish, catch it..."

Rising from a high-speed rotation, Yuta Hirano gave up the C position to Xia Fan.

The six people who finished their solos moved around to finish their moves, while looking at Xia Fan, the "dance leader", with complicated eyes...

After two sets of movements by Martin and Yuta Hirano, the entire climax of the dance has been upgraded from "flowery punches and embroidered kicks" to "real punches".

Xia Fan's actions must be more difficult than the two in front of him in order to complete the task of "blowing up the scene".

"Xia Fan, how are you going to end this?"

"You won't mess it up, will you?"

"Instead of letting another guy take first place, it's better to make it to the next round and lose to me!"

Because of many factors including stage performance and popularity ranking, the trainees except Martin were both looking forward to him completing the task and hoping that he would not be able to complete it. Their feelings were extremely complicated.

“Don’t worry… If I mess up, Mr. Kitamura, who took the trouble to demonstrate, won’t let me off…”

Xia Fan took small steps and jumped to the center position. He leaned forward neatly with his hands on the ground, and began to spin with his legs straight...

"Thomas Maneuver?!"

"You start with a move of this difficulty, what are you going to do next?"

Seeing Xia Fan easily perform three Thomas turns at lightning speed, An Ziyao and the other two let out a low cry.

In their hearts, they originally thought that Xia Fan was as fragile as themselves, and that at most she could perform a set of "idol silky combo 4.0" to get by...

Unexpectedly, the opponent could perform the Thomas turn as easily as a gymnast.

"Shh, this is just the beginning, save the surprise for later..."

Martin held his fingers up in front of his thick lips and smiled expectantly.

At the same time, Xia Fan completed another Thomas spin, and suddenly thrust his lower back upwards, using the inertia of the rotation to stand upside down...

Driven by inertia, he supported himself with one hand, spread his legs in a V shape, and continued to spin in the air at a terrifying speed...

"big big big……"

"Back...back...back..."

At this moment, the teammates' expressions were completely frozen and their tongues were tied.

"Big loop?!"

Even Hirano Yuta, who was originally a little unconvinced, was so shocked that he forgot to control his expression and stood with his mouth open in a daze.

"In just one afternoon, his movements have become so much smoother and more stable. He really has a monstrous talent..."

Martin, who had seen Xia Fan demonstrate this move, was still shocked when he saw it again.

Following the rhythm of the background music, Xia Fan's arm muscles swelled with blood, and with his waist as the axis and his legs driving his body, he kept spinning without stopping, like a tireless windmill.

Compared to his initial practice at noon, he has become more proficient in balance, rotation speed and stability, and has made great progress.

After an unknown amount of time, the background music suddenly stopped, and Xia Fan naturally retracted his legs and landed on the ground, finishing with a handsome sideways squat facing forward.

"Hey, are you guys..."

"Did you forget to come and do the ENDING together?"

He turned around and found that his teammates were standing there with dazed expressions on their faces, and did not gather together to complete the closing formation as planned.

"Dan, Bu Rou, the background music is over. You overdid it just now. You did 20 or 20 of them!"

Martin took a step forward and patted Xia Fan's shoulder vigorously.

"Hey, hey, you kept saying things like 'taking street dance lessons' and 'not having enough time to learn difficult moves'..."

"This is all a lie. How can someone do 20 giant loops in one go after taking some tutoring?!"

"Are you the kind of 'school bitch' who has been secretly practicing hip-hop since childhood, wanting to quietly amaze everyone?"

Several teammates also gathered around him and excitedly joined in the “merciless beating” of him.

Chapter 286 The Strength of All Dancers

2024-07-13

If Xia Fan's moves just now appeared in a professional street dance competition, it wouldn't be too surprising...

After all, the world record for the giant loop has been repeatedly broken by countless street dancers over the years, reaching a terrifying number of more than 100 at a time...

However, this level of performance on the idol audition stage is simply a dimensionality reduction attack.

This set of ending moves was more difficult than the original version of "Oxygen Bomb", which dispelled everyone's concerns about the overall stage effect.

“It hurts, it hurts… Did I turn my head just now? Sorry, sorry… I will pay attention to the beat next time.”

After taking a full set of "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms", Xia Fan rubbed his shoulders with a grimace.

"Xia Fan... I always thought his dancing was just 'idol level'..."

"He can even perform a move like a giant loop with ease. Why have I never heard of this pervert in District 11 before I came back?"

Yuta Hirano stared at Xia Fan in a daze, his eyes gradually changing from surprise to loneliness.

Ever since he participated in the talent show, he was quite dissatisfied with the fact that Xia Fan had left him behind with an exaggerated number of votes...

He believed that there was not much difference between the two in terms of all-round strength.

But now, Xia Fan's terrifying strength in dancing, vocal music and other aspects has been revealed bit by bit, making Hirano Yuta taste the despair brought by the gap between people.

"The Great Devil... This guy is the real Great Devil..."

An Ziyao, who was standing aside, turned even paler and completely lost the idea of ​​competing with Xia Fan.

In his mind, the only thing left was the weird image of Xia Fan doing a big loop and singing the high note E8, which is the ceiling for human performance.

……

Two hours later.

Thanks to Xia Fan's "big comeback", everyone had full confidence in the stage effects and their enthusiasm for rehearsal was also increased.

However, after adding the difficult movements in the climax part, the intensity of the rehearsal was greatly increased.

"Yuta, is that about enough?"

"No, the official performance will be tomorrow afternoon, do it again a hundred million times!"

"If this continues, I will probably die suddenly before the performance..."

"I feel... my body is so heavy... my soul is so light... everything is dark before my eyes..."

"Don't find excuses to sleep in. Return your soul to your place!"

The trainees' strength was quickly exhausted. Even Yuta Hirano, who was used to high-intensity rehearsals, ran out of energy and was only supported by his "captain's dignity."

Even Xia Fan, who was strong and energetic, was breathing heavily after training hard.

"Hey, come and take a look at this. This is the opponent team's practice video. A trainee from the same company secretly sent it to me..."

During the break, a trainee suddenly cried out in a low voice and opened a video on his phone.

"Oh? You actually have such connections..."

"Come and see how they are practicing?"

The others came over quickly.

In the video, Takahashi Yu's team of trainees were rehearsing in front of the dance mirror with calm expressions.

Because of their confidence in being the "all-member dance leader", they did not make any changes to the classic "sword dance" part of "Oxygen Bomb".

Whether in terms of singing rhythm or uniformity of movements, the opponents' performance was obviously slightly higher than Xia Fan's team, but they were still evenly matched.

As the rhythm of the song gets stronger, the trainees in the video stand back to back and form a big circle...

"Here they come... What tricks will these dance students come up with?"

Knowing that the most crucial individual SOLO was about to begin, everyone looked serious and didn't even dare to blink...

The first trainee performed a series of smooth dance moves and ended with a flexible split.

“This is the original move…”

An Ziyao, who was in the same position, suddenly felt ashamed.

"The first move was not adapted..."

"In other words, they believe that the difficulty of their overall movements will not be lower than the original stage of 'Oxygen Bomb'."