Iwahashi Shinichi raised his head, and Hamasaki Ayumi handed him a letter.
"I would like to ask you to take a look at this." After Hamasaki finished speaking, he couldn't help but ask: "Don't you want me to check these letters?"
Her tone was actually not thorny, but rather a little confused.
But Shinichi Iwahashi was attracted by the letter, and he was already accustomed to her sudden and thorny way of speaking. He simply ignored her question, took the letter out of her hand, and looked at the envelope. It was a child's handwriting.
On the envelope, the sender's name is "Maiko Haruyama".
There is an elementary school student living at home, and Shinichi Iwahashi's ability to identify the child's handwriting has greatly improved recently.
Shinichi Iwahashi looked at the letter, wondering why Hamasaki sent this letter in particular. Hamasaki couldn't take his eyes off Shinichi Iwahashi, who was thoughtful about the letter.
Previously, Iwahashi Shinichi told her that in this era, the audiences who still send letters deliberately are loyal supporters of the company. Although Hamasaki is verbally contradicting him, the more she reads, the more she understands why.
Shinichi Iwahashi said this.
Reading letters from viewers often makes Hamasaki feel strong emotions from people he has never met. In the process, he seems to begin to understand what Shinichi Iwahashi is doing when he runs a record company.
thing.
Among the letters from the audience that he read, this one made Ayumi Hamasaki realize the most what “music” is.
When he decided to come to Tokyo, Ayumi Hamasaki mentioned singing, and all he thought about was "singing for Shinichi Iwahashi." But while reading letters from the audience, Hamasaki began to think about what would happen after a song was sung.
What will it bring to the audience?
She belatedly had a question, why did Iwahashi Shinichi want her to sing when he wanted her to become a singer?
At this time, the door of the office was knocked again. Utada Hikaru poked his head out and blinked, "Iwahashi-san, Ayu-chan~" Two girls came over one after another. Iwahashi Shinichi looked at Utada Hikaru, showing a slightly helpless expression.
expression.
These two children seemed to have made an agreement to haunt him.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought so in his heart, but from Hamasaki Ayumi's point of view, it seemed that he was being deliberately targeted by Utada Hikaru. Whether Utada Hikari wanted to work in the company or was chasing after her, it was all an attack from Utada Hikaru.
But the two of them had the same secret, and when they met Utada Hikari's eyes, Hamasaki had nothing to say. This awkward girl handed the handle to Utada Hikari, but was pinched by a child.
However, Hamasaki Ayumi shared the same secret with her not because he was worried about Hikari Utada snitching.
"Is this a letter addressed to Iwahashi-san?" Hikaru Utada came to Shinichi Iwahashi's side.
Iwahashi Shinichi opened the letter and said, "It's a letter from the audience." Looking at the handwriting, it seemed that it was a child about the same age as Utada Hikaru.
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After the new school year, Mayiko is already a third-grade elementary school student. From an emotional point of view, she is already a little adult. She hangs the key to her home around her neck. After school every day, she leaves school with her close classmates and returns home.
At the fork in the road in front of her home, several children waved goodbye, and then she returned home by herself.
Every day was normal. Mayiko did well in school and was very popular. She was a child who never let people worry about her. After raising such a daughter, the neighbors looked at Junko with admiration and sympathy.
In the bleak era after the bubble burst, although Junko worked harder than before, her income did not increase, and even what she already had now was in jeopardy.
When the wind of depression blows in the world, the hardships faced by a single mother and her young daughter are indescribable.
Kabukicho's custom places, in order to attract single mothers, set up a nursery at the workplace as a welfare for employees. While the children are being taken care of downstairs, the mother will be laughing upstairs.
The strict operation of this society has prepared traps for such families waiting for them to fall. There is always a way to eat up those who unfortunately fall and wipe them clean. The easier the road seems to be, the more dangerous it is.
This pair of mother and daughter depended on each other, relying on each other through the prosperous era that had nothing to do with them, and relying on each other closely to face this bleak era where they didn't know the way forward.
Junko and her daughter depend on each other for life, and no matter how difficult it is, they can only wipe away their tears. In this era, if a single mother does not behave like this, she will fall into endless consumption until she is squeezed out.
When a storm comes, women are like grass that falls in the wind. But in the storm, grass is the most tenacious.
In the new year, one thing Junko and Mayiko are looking forward to most is DREAMS E TRUE's outdoor concert after four years.
After the band announced its new structure, Giraffe Man could only be seen on this tour. When the band held its first outdoor concert, Maiko was still a young child and had no chance to go there.
Junko and Mayiko have been preparing for their dream concert for four years.
When Maiko was still younger, she wrote a letter to the giraffe man of DREAMS E TRUE and received a reply from him. That reply from the giraffe man was like a shining star that decorated Maiko's childhood.
It is precisely because a star once lit up in her heart when she was young. Deep in Maizi's heart, she retains an innocence that no one else has, as if she believed that Santa Claus really exists in a world without God.
Her mother, Junko, taught her not to be too greedy but to be patient at the same time.
For Junko and Maiko, the most indispensable thing in life is "music". They heard DREAMS E TRUE's "So happy! So happy! I love it so much!" on TV and were inspired by this song.
, mother and daughter have a tacit understanding of being happy for the same song.
In an era when more and more money was used to express love, they expressed their love through songs in a simple way. In the era of depression, music was even more indispensable for this family that needed encouragement more than anyone else.
On TV, the number of music programs has been greatly reduced, and it is difficult to watch the programs of your favorite singers on TV at any time like in the past. But no matter how tight the money is, Junko will still take her daughter to the record store and buy a record.
In the past few years, mother and daughter have been loyal fans and supported DREAMS OCME TRUE, but they have also fallen in love with other singers and become intoxicated by the music of other singers.
For this mother and daughter who depend on each other for life, it takes ten times more courage than others to not give up.
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After school, Maiko went home with a female classmate who lived nearby. Children of this age have nothing to say on the way home. Whether it is their comments after watching a variety show or a seemingly understanding speech about a romantic TV series, they often arrive.
Even at the fork in the road, we are still reluctant to leave.
However, Junko would come home late, and after Maiko returned home, she had to look after the house. She returned to the apartment and took out the key hanging around her neck. Before opening the door, she habitually checked the mailbox.
