sinovels Chapters 1339 and 1348: This is unfair competition!!
Chapters 1339 and 1348: This is unfair competition!!
Chapters 1339 and 1348: This is unfair competition!!
The second season of "Neon Voice" was the most popular music program at the end of Showa 62, and its popularity surpassed that of many TV stations' year-end plans.
Even shows like "Night Hit Year-End Special Edition," "Talent Show," "Annual Chinese Character," and "FNS Song Festival" failed to attract audiences with a group of amateur singers.
Each contestant selected by the mentors has their own unique voice and personality. Every time a mentor turns around, it causes a burst of gasps. The intrigue between the mentors is also full of novelty!
"The previous champion was one of my teammates, so I have the most experience in how to win the 'Neon Voice' competition!"
Miyuki Nakajima confidently tempted the contestants!
“That’s because I wasn’t in the last one!” Yumi Matsutoya retorted without holding back. “Come join my team, let’s work together and make history!”
"Like rock music? Then choose me, I'll teach you!"
Wearing sunglasses, Inoue Yosui spoke coolly to win over the contestants, revealing the clumsy sincerity of the godfather of rock.
"Come join my team!"
Tamaki Koji said,
"Safe Zone gives you a sense of security!"
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The show's numerous witty and memorable moments had viewers laughing out loud, significantly increasing its popularity.
One of the contestants, contestant number 7, Maki Ohguro, has garnered much attention for her powerful voice and fearless personality.
All four mentors turned their chairs for her, but in the end, she chose Miyuki Nakajima.
"I want to win the championship with my mentor!"
Such remarks should have been considered rude and disrespectful by conservative Japanese people. However, with economic development in recent years, the Japanese mindset has changed significantly, and this confidence and ambition has actually gained mainstream acceptance.
"What an energetic young girl!" "Very confident!" "Amazing!"
Surprisingly, the majority of viewers support Maki Ohguro!
Everyone is looking forward to seeing how she performs in the upcoming team competitions!
After recruiting Maki Ohguro into her team, Miyuki Nakajima began to coach her privately.
"Maki Ohguro, your voice is high-pitched and powerful. Your singing skills are also excellent, making you very suitable for singing powerful songs."
As a singer-songwriter, Miyuki Nakajima has written songs for many singers and has extensive experience in tailoring songs to the characteristics of different vocal styles.
"So in the next episode, I will choose the song that best suits your voice and let you go on stage first. Use your strongest singing skills to overwhelm all your competitors!"
Maki Ohguro nodded; as a newcomer to the music scene, she naturally held Miyuki Nakajima in high esteem.
"So, mentor, which song should I choose?"
"Well, let's choose "はじめまして(First Meeting)"!"
This song, "Hajimemashite (First Meeting)," is a song from Miyuki Nakajima's album two years ago. It incorporates rock elements and is very suitable for fast-paced singing.
Moreover, this song is also very suitable as an opening song!
Maki Ohguro had naturally heard this song before. After thinking for a moment, she nodded:
"Alright! Then let me, as a member of Mentor Nakajima's team, make my first appearance to the audience!!"
The excitement on television screens couldn't mask the turmoil within the entertainment industry itself. Ever since the new rules for the record awards were introduced, the competitors have started to make their moves!
First and foremost was Johnny & Associates, whose boy groups unsurprisingly began chanting in unison:
"Please support our junior, 'Hikaru Genji'! That's how you support us!"
And so, a large number of boy group fans began to turn their support to the newly debuted Hikari Genji group, causing Hikari Genji, who were already gaining fame, to continue to rise in popularity!
Other strong contenders naturally wouldn't lag behind. Seiko Matsuda immediately started offline fan meetings, asking fans to support "Strawberry Time," and even mobilized her husband, Masaki Kanda, to help promote it.
Other agencies also started using all sorts of methods, such as handshake tickets, autographed photos, and merchandise, which were distributed like they were free. All their announcements also played the victim card, with the sole purpose of: support me, vote for me!
Ken-On was no exception. Akina Nakamori's fan club quickly mobilized to help their idol achieve a three-peat. Even Yukiko Okada asked her fans to help support her good older sister, Akina Nakamori.
After all, Akina really saved her life, which led to Okada Yukiko's current situation.
The artists in the Tree Friends group are relatively stable, not because Shizuka Kudo and others don't want to compete, but because they all have a lot of fans!
However, after Masami Inada informed Naoki Nagayama that he supported his wife Akina Nakamori, they all backed down!
Our emperor has already surrendered, how can his subjects fight a war now!
Yeah, how could anyone possibly compete with the boss's wife?!
Whether they secretly harbored resentment and denounced the behind-the-scenes manipulation, the honey trap, the unscrupulous capitalists, and the betrayal of their own allies, remains to be seen.
At the same time, some strangers appeared in the suburbs, towns, and rural areas of the Shikoku region!
They set up a stall in the crowded market and began advertising:
"Come vote and you'll receive a great gift!!!"
"Support GENJI, and you can exchange your vote for five eggs!!"
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Tadao Murayama is an old man with gray hair. He has farmed for most of his life but has not saved much for retirement.
Normally, you have to wait ten days to half a month to eat meat, but now, you can get five eggs for free just by voting for that guy, Hikaru Genji?!
If we ask the old lady to come and get them too, wouldn't we be able to get ten?
In a short time, a crowd had gathered around the stall, and he quickly went up to ask:
"Are you really going to give us eggs? Do you have enough eggs?!"
The event company's staff member, Tadashi Sakai, had a big smile on his face:
"Of course we'll give it to you, as long as you vote!"
"As for eggs," he said, pointing to several boxes of eggs under the stall, "there will definitely be enough!!"
So Tadao Murayama quickly took the ballot form, filled in his information, and cast his vote for Hikaru Genji! Then he successfully received five fresh eggs from Tadashi Sakai!
Tadashi Sakai even patted the poster:
"We still have plenty of eggs! If you need more, we have more on our truck! Just vote for GENJI and you can get one!"
Upon seeing this, Tadao Murayama immediately headed home, intending to call on all the elderly people in the village to come and vote, in addition to his own wife!
Today, they're buying up all the eggs from this little stall!
As for what Hikari GENJI is, Tadao Murayama neither knows nor cares; judging from the poster, they seem to be a group of children who haven't grown up yet. However, voting for them will earn you eggs!
This is the most important!
Sakai Tadashi, satisfied, placed the ballot he had received from the committee into the ballot box. He had already collected several hundred votes in the past two days!
If it weren't for the rules of the Record Awards committee that mentioned there would be third-party ticket checks, he would have already arranged for someone to fill them out himself!
Wouldn't it be better to embezzle the funds themselves?! And then give them all to these old men and women.
Unbeknownst to him, a van had slowly pulled up to the market and, within minutes, set up a small stall nearby as well.
However, the posters hanging on the stall were of Akina Nakamori!
"Come on over, take a look! Vote for Nakamori Akina and you'll get a free egg!!!"
"Vote once, get ten eggs!!!"
This stall even used a loudspeaker to hawk its wares!! It immediately drew everyone away from the area around Hikaru Genji!!
Sakai Tadashi listened to the loudspeaker on the other end saying things like "One identity can only vote once" and "If you vote for Nakamori Akina, you can't vote for anyone else," and his face was full of confusion!
"There are people trying to steal our business here?!"
"Akina Nakamori's agency is starting to act like Johnny's in such a despicable way?!"
"And it's ten eggs! That's twice as much as what we have here!!!"
"This is clearly unfair competition!"
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After a moment of mental confusion, Sakai Tadashi finally came to his senses and quickly called his superior, Yoshikawa Kiyoshi.
"Yoshikawa-san, something terrible has happened! Someone's trying to steal my business!!"
"Akina Nakamori has started delivering eggs too!!"
Kiyoshi Yoshikawa, who was originally strategizing in the city center, was initially confused, but after his subordinates explained, he realized that Ken-On had also used the tactic of buying tickets with money!
As subordinates from other blocks began reporting competitors who were offering double the price to steal business, Kiyoshi Yoshikawa raised an eyebrow:
"Oh ho ho, this is going to be good!"
He immediately dialed the Johnny's contact person, and the message was relayed all the way to Mari Kitagawa's side.
"What? Akina Nakamori?"
Kitagawa Mary was slightly surprised.
"Ken-On actually wants to fight us?!"
"Can't they tell the difference between the King and Queen?!"
It's important to know that Johnny's Entertainment's market value is two or three times that of Ken-On, and they've made an immeasurable amount of money in recent years!
"Trying to compete with us with money?! Unless her husband, Naoki Nagayama, comes!"
In Kitagawa Mary's mind, no matter how rich Nagayama Naoki was, he would never spend money on Nakamori Akina because even if Nakamori Akina won the grand prize this time, it would be Ken-on who would benefit!
As far as she knew, Shuyou didn't own any shares in Yan-On, and besides, Shuyou had many artists under its management!
Having observed so many couples in the entertainment industry, Mari Kitagawa never believed that a husband would sacrifice his own interests to unconditionally spend so much money on his wife. Wasn't that just being a sucker?
There's no such thing as true love in the entertainment industry!
"Then go ahead!"
Kitagawa Mary said to Yoshikawa Kiyoshi of the event company.
"Let's see how much money the other side has to burn!"
Thus, the money-burning war between Johnny & Associates and Ken-On suddenly began, much like the three-way battle in the food delivery industry, with them starting to frantically throw money at subsidies!
The two companies' event teams started competing in every county town. Wherever there was a Johnny's booth, there would be a booth supporting Akina Nakamori within 50 meters!
Furthermore, the price will be twice as high!
As evening approached, Tadao Murayama, along with his wife and other elderly villagers, arrived at the market and witnessed this scene of two stalls competing for space.
They stared blankly for a while, then asked around and finally understood. It turned out that supporting Nakamori Akina would get them ten eggs!
Everyone immediately beamed with joy and formed a long queue at Akina Nakamori's stall!
Tadao Murayama looked rather unwell, especially after his wife brought back ten eggs. He felt he had been too hasty before!
So he walked up to Sakai Tadashi's empty stall:
"Can you give me back my ticket?!"
"?" Sakai Tadashi was speechless. "You already cast your ball and even took the egg!"
"But you have half the number of people over there!"
"I'm so angry," said Tadao Murayama.
"I don't care, you have to give me five more eggs, or give my vote back!!"
Seeing the old man's stubborn expression, Sakai Tadashi experienced for the first time what it meant to be helpless. In the end, he made up for the old man's five eggs himself.
Meanwhile, Akina Nakamori, the main character, accompanies her husband to Jurassic Island.
The annual meeting is tomorrow, and she doesn't want to fly over again on the same day. Besides, Naoki Nagayama's private jet will be bringing over with high-ranking members of the group, while the other invited staff will naturally be arriving by Shinkansen or directly by boat.
So I booked a room at the resort hotel a day in advance, ready to rest here!
Xiaoxia and Yingtaro naturally came along too. She remembered this familiar place; she recalled having a wonderful time here on her birthday.
So ever since we arrived, the two of them have been running around the hotel excitedly, practically wagging their tails!
"Mother."
Wearing a fluffy coat, Natsuka held up a seashell she had found on the beach to show Akina.
"shell."
"Ah, Hana-chan has found a treasure!"
Akina smiled and praised the little one.
"That's amazing!"
Yingtaro, standing nearby, shook his head and spat out a conch shell, only to be met with a twist of his ear from the mistress:
"Eitaro, these are hotel decorations, quickly return them!"
Seeing the little guy run back to the yard, a smile appeared on his face.
As evening approached and the film crew finished get off work, the resort hotel began to bustle with activity as the main actors, including Yuko Tanaka and Harrison Ford, all returned to the hotel to rest.
Most of the other members stayed in dormitories in the port town, as resort hotels are very expensive!
"Akina sauce!"
Tanaka Yuko naturally recognized Nakamori Akina, and she was also pleasantly surprised to see Natsuka.
"Hua Jiang has grown so much~~"
“Yes, children grow up very fast,” Akina said to Natsuka. “Hana-chan, come and greet Aunt Yuko~~”
Upon seeing a kind-looking adult, the little one sweetly called out:
"Auntie~"
Wow~~ So cute~~
At this moment, Yuko Tanaka couldn't suppress the urge to have a child of her own!
After playing with Xia Hua for a while, Tanaka Yuko finally asked:
"Is Akina-chan here for the company's annual party?"
"I don't want to rush things tomorrow."
Akina explained,
"Anyway, the hotel environment here is very good."
"Yes, this resort hotel is really nice."
"By the way, Yuko-san, has your Kenji Sawada come over yet?"
He won't arrive until tonight.
"Haha, the crew has a day off tomorrow, you guys can have a good get-together~"
"We need to rehearse for the performance."
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The two ladies' conversation naturally revolved around their respective men; Akina chatted with Yuko Tanaka while keeping an eye on her daughter.
Meanwhile, Naoki Nagayama was discussing work matters with Masataka Komori.
"The annual meeting is on holiday tomorrow. After it's over, I'll be taking some materials back to the Tree Friends Club on my way!"
"The computer room over there is all set up and ready. We're about to start some editing work so that the production of the special effects shots can begin as well!"
"Hi, I know!"
Masataka Komori nodded repeatedly.
"I will personally oversee the materials!"
"Well, in about two weeks, our location shooting will be almost finished."
Naoki Nagayama gazed at the vast Jurassic Island and sighed with emotion.
"The thought of leaving Jurassic Island is actually making me a little reluctant."
"Haha, after all, this island is the culmination of Naoki-san's hard work!"
"Too."
(End of this chapter)