The four-season indoor ski resort allows you to be in the world of ice and snow all year round!!”
In the advertising brochure, this slogan was deliberately enlarged, with an inspiring exclamation mark at the end of the sentence.
Tajima Takao only glanced at it and put the advertising brochure aside. He was not interested in man-made indoor ski resorts, and he would never go on a date with a girl at a ski resort. His skiing skills were too poor and he would only be embarrassed if he went there.
The focus of his concern was the letter from TV Asahi.
Tear open the envelope and pour out the contents. It is a piece of letter paper printed by a typewriter and an admission letter.
"Everyone from originallove, congratulations on being selected as candidates for the "Band Paradise" TV competition. Please go to TV Asahi before nine o'clock in the morning on September 27th to participate in the TV competition selection..."
Tajima Takao breathed a sigh of relief after reading the contents of the letter.
The band, which aims to perform alone at Meguro Romonukan, took the first step tonight and participated in a group performance at Meguro Romonukan.
Tajima Takao, whose goal is to appear in "Band Paradise" and appear in front of the public and win the championship, tonight received the acceptance letter from TV Asahi for the TV competition.
Although he still has to defeat other contestants before he can get the chance to perform on TV, this is undoubtedly the first step.
Tajima Takao is the kind of musician who is despised by those musicians in the underground music circle who insist on non-commercialization. He has been aiming to make a mainstream debut and become famous since he formed a group and started performing. However, he himself has never believed that commercialization is a problem.
wrong.
He came to Tokyo from his hometown in Fukushima Prefecture in order to stand out. His goal is clear and his intentions are simple. Even though there are many voices in the underground music circle saying that the band will be fooled if they appear on TV variety shows, he has no hesitation.
Not only that, Tajima Takao believes that people who say such things are superficial when he concludes that a program that has not yet been officially launched will fool the band.
Today is a day to move forward.
With this thought in mind, Tajima Takao fell asleep to the sound of the fan squeaking and turning.
The next afternoon, he gathered with his teammates in the rehearsal room and brought this letter from TV Asahi.
originallove partnered with another band to rent an old warehouse from a warehouse owner as a rehearsal room. The rent was shared equally by both parties, and of course, the practice time was equally divided.
The teammates circulated the letter one by one, and they all felt uplifted.
The teammates gathered together with Tajima Takao as the absolute center do not discuss their relationship, but they are basically unanimous in the general direction of the band.
"Okay, then let's practice with the goal of qualifying for the TV competition!"
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Tokyo, which can accommodate tens of millions of dreams and the wreckage of dreams, not only accepts Tajima Takao and his original love who are working hard to get the qualification to appear on TV, but also does not reject the efforts of other bands.
This center stage attracted Takao Tajima, who had always had hopes for Tokyo, and brought him here from Fukushima Prefecture. It also attracted people from places further away than Fukushima, where Tajima lives.
here.
The morning after Tajima Takao received the admission letter, in another apartment in Tokyo, before Wajima Shinji went out, he checked his mailbox.
Generally speaking, other people usually check their mailboxes when they get home, but Shinji Wajima is just the opposite of others when it comes to these things.
In addition to receiving letters, there are many little habits that are harmless but also make people feel different.
Shinji Wajima's hometown is in Aomori Prefecture in the northeast, which is a remote, cold, and poor place.
This is the birthplace of Tsugaru Shamisen. In the old days, blind artists in the Tsugaru area played the shamisen to beg for alms everywhere. They took the Seikan Ferry and crossed the Tsugaru Strait to as far away as Hokkaido.
Nowadays, the blind begging artists in the Tsugaru area have become a thing of the past. Masters like Takahashi Takeyama even went to the United States to perform in public last year.
After more than ten years of hard work, the undersea tunnel connecting Aomori and Hakodate is about to open to traffic.
Shamisen is no longer a tool for begging, skilled craftsmen can also become artists.
Transportation is developed, making it easy to travel from Aomori to Tokyo or anywhere in the world.
Two years ago, after graduating from high school, Shinji Wajima left Aomori and came to Tokyo to study Buddhism at Komazawa University.
Komazawa University was formerly a training institution for monks. Although he studied Buddhism, Shinji Wajima’s family did not have a temple to inherit. His father was not a great monk, but a Chinese teacher.
Therefore, there are many books by literary masters at home. Shinji Wajima was a quiet child when he was a child. He preferred to read in the study room instead of playing with other friends. He especially liked Edogawa Ranpo, Izumi Kyoka, and Dazai Osamu.
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"It is precisely because I am a Tsugaru native with pure blood that I can speak ill of Tsugaru so unscrupulously... (Original) No matter how you say it, I love Tsugaru deeply after all."
Aomori is also the hometown of literary giant Dazai Osamu.
Judging from his appearance, Shinji Wajima cannot be described as a handsome boy. His long hair is permed and curled. He is a bit old-looking, unsmiling, and a strange-looking young man who always looks like he is deep in thought. Sometimes people think he is down and out.
cultural people.
When Shinji Wajima was in middle school, he wrote a song called "Disqualified in the World", which used a heavy metal style like the Black Sabbath band, and the lyrics talked about the depravity of human nature.
Many years have passed since then. During this period, Shinji Wajima left Aomori for further education and went to Tokyo to study Buddhism. His horizons broadened, he thought about more things, and wrote more songs, but what he loved most was,
It's still the song "Disqualified in the World".
It was because he wrote the song "Disqualified in the World" that he grasped the most important thing, which was what kind of music he wanted to pursue and what kind of music he wanted.
It's something that takes the hard rock and heavy metal of the corrupt country style as its nourishment and grows the Japanese style on it.
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Shinji Wajima opened the mailbox and found a letter inside. The sender said TV Asahi.
He stared at the envelope and thought about it for a moment, remembering that he had indeed sent a video of the band's performance to TV Asahi's "Band Paradise" not long ago.
When he was in junior high school, Shinji Wajima met Kenichi Suzuki.
Aomori is a remote place, and even the distribution of records and magazines is a little later than in other places. If it is a record by an unpopular singer, you have to order it from a record store.
Under such circumstances, Shinji Wajima had a record that he wanted to listen to but was having trouble getting. He heard from a friend that there was a guy in the same grade named Suzuki Kenichi who had a lot of records at home.
Shinji Wajima approached Suzuki Kenichi with a trying attitude, but he didn't expect that the other person actually had this record. Not only that, he was also happy that he liked the singer too.
