Iwahashi Shinichi picked up the phone, and on the opposite side was Watanabe Manyumi.
"Did your performance go well today? How is your health?"
After hearing her greetings, Iwahashi Shinichi told her, "I'm fine now. After a performance, I'll sweat a little, which will make me feel more refreshed."
"That's good." Watanabe Manyumi replied.
Iwahashi Shinichi was a little puzzled and asked her, "What's the rush to call now?"
He didn't think Watanabe Wan Yumi called him specifically to ask how his illness was. This was not because he thought she was only business-minded, but rather because of the tacit understanding and understanding between him and her.
If it was really an urgent matter, the clerk would have told him to call back when he came back just now. If the matter was not urgent, he would go back to Tokyo tomorrow anyway and made a reservation to go to the record company first and then meet with Watanabe Manyumi.
The plan was all set, but when I received a call from her again, I was confused.
"Tonight, a special program is broadcast on TV Asahi." Watanabe Manyumi said, "I just turned the TV over."
Iwahashi Shinichi said "Ah", "Sapporo can't receive it now." He asked her, "How do you feel?"
"It's like a mother who is asked if her child is a good child. How should she answer?" Watanabe Manyumi was in a good mood and joked with him.
Iwahashi Shinichi answered her, "As a mother, you know better than anyone else whether your child is good or not."
"That's true." She agreed and answered him, "It feels pretty good, the rhythm is right, and the atmosphere is good. The guest now appearing is Matsumoto Akiko-san."
As an idol-turned-TV artist, Matsumoto Akiko is now very popular and well-liked. According to the plan, she will first be invited to participate in the special program as a guest. If the program can be regularized later, she will be promoted to the host.
"Oh." Iwahashi Shinichi listened.
Watanabe Manyumi asked him, "Do you want me to turn up the volume?"
"Forget it, I'll watch the videotape when I get back."
"Speaking of which, at this time, we are competing with NTV's baseball broadcast," Watanabe Manyumi said.
After hearing this, Iwahashi Shinichi laughed and said, "The ratings will be terrible."
Japanese TV stations broadcast countless sports programs in the summer, and the most popular among them is undoubtedly the national sport baseball. The time slot coincides with the baseball broadcast. Unless the program is very popular, it will be absolutely miserable.
While the housewife and children were enjoying watching a TV series or variety show, the father who returned home showed his majesty as the head of the family, snatched the remote control away and switched it to the broadcast of the football game. In the summer, this kind of thing happens in thousands of households.
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However, as a pilot special program, the impact of being wiped out by the baseball game in the ratings will also be taken into consideration when summarizing afterwards. Therefore, even saying "too bad" is actually within the tolerable range.
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"There will be another one next week. There will be no sports broadcasts next week."
The two were chatting about the show when Watanabe Manyumi suddenly mentioned something, "You and Yoshida-san were photographed."
"Huh?" Shinichi Iwahashi was stunned on the spot.
When Watanabe Wan Yumi heard his reaction through the phone, she was overjoyed as if she had expected it. It was as if she called him specifically to mention this matter just to punish him.
I was discussing the investors of the show with the planner of the prank show, and suddenly he pranked the planner of the show. It was okay.
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Even though I was photographed with Miwa-chan, it was not a prank, it was real.
On the streets of Sapporo late at night, Miwa-chan happily walked forward. She smiled brightly, turned her head, and talked and laughed with the man who was one or two steps behind her.
From the composition of the entire photo, the protagonist is obviously Miwa-chan.
When Iwahashi Shinichi saw the photo, his memory instantly came back to him. It happened that night when Miwa-chan was so full that she asked him to go out for a walk to eat.
He raised his eyelids and looked at Watanabe Mayumi who was sitting opposite. The domineering president looked like he was just watching the excitement and didn't take it too seriously. His eyes met and he gloated, "Congratulations for being photographed by reporters."
"..."
Iwahashi Shinichi was speechless. He threw the fax on the table and said, "As the boss of the band, is it okay to say this?"
Watanabe Manyumi smiled and didn't take it to heart, "I think it's okay."
"That's right." Iwahashi Shinichi sighed. If she hadn't wanted to keep him busy to watch the fun, Watanabe Wanyumi wouldn't have waited for him to return to Tokyo and called him first.
Watanabe Manyumi guessed what he was thinking and told him, "I was also surprised when I received the fax from the weekly magazine. I didn't expect anyone to take pictures of Yoshida-san." She also brought along Iwahashi who went out with her in the middle of the night to wander around.
Shinichi.
"The person who took the photo was a reporter from Sapporo. Sapporo doesn't usually make any big news, so the band's concert there this time was a very high-profile event. Besides, it's Yoshida-san's hometown."
If this were Tokyo, the weekly reporters wouldn't bother to take the initiative to follow Miwa-chan unless they heard some scandal about her. After all, for her, a powerful band lead singer, it doesn't matter whether she is in love or married.
Regardless of the relationship, no one cares about what she wears in private, whether she goes to play small steel balls, or just patronizes Cowherd's shop.
As long as she doesn't cause any scandals like being in two different places or having an affair with a married man, no one cares what she does.
But it's different when I return to Sapporo. The "Warmly Welcome Hokkaido Miwa-chan's Homecoming Gift Pack" prepared by Sapporo also includes special greetings from reporters. After all, this is a big star in Hokkaido.
Watanabe Manyumi explained, "However, the other party was not sure of your identity, so before publishing it, I sent a fax to the office to ask about you."
"I've already replied here, it's the person in charge of Yoshida-san from the office."
Iwahashi Shinichi said "Oh", "What magazine is it?"
Watanabe Mayumi reported the name of the last weekly magazine. Iwahashi Shinichi reacted, but felt it was familiar, but couldn't remember it. Watanabe Mayumi told him that it was a magazine originally published in the Hokkaido and Tohoku regions.
I probably saw that magazine when I was in Sapporo.
"So, I'll just board it there." He didn't care anymore.
"It is also possible to sell it to a few nationally distributed magazines in the future. Local reporters have cooperated with many in Tokyo." Watanabe Manyumi said.
However, this kind of photos without explosive points have no publication value and may be discarded directly.
If you accidentally take a photo of Yoshida Miwa's love interest, the photo will be worth some money. Although you won't make much money, after all, for a 24-year-old powerful band lead singer, falling in love is as common as eating and drinking.
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If it were just a staff member, or her friends and classmates in Sapporo, it would be even less valuable. I could only publish this photo in a magazine to satisfy the public's curiosity about her private appearance in order not to waste material.
Although Tomi and Ka-chan are happy to let themselves go on stage, there are probably not many people who would be curious about what she is like in private.
"At that time, the photos will probably be used to fill in the layout." Watanabe Mayumi said, "As for Shinichi-kun, because you are not an artist, your portrait rights are protected, so..."
He would be confused by the mosaic. Iwahashi Shin knew how he would be treated if he thought about it.
"If I had known that night, I wouldn't have gone out and ran around with Miwa-chan." He had no choice. First he caught a cold, and then the reporter photographed the two of them going out for a walk.
Iwahashi Shinichi could not have imagined that his identity in the magazine for the first time would be "Staff-san" whose face was blurred by mosaic.
As for Watanabe Manyumi, after hearing him explain the ins and outs of this photo, she laughed again and said to him seriously: "This is something you and Yoshida-san can do."
"Is this too?" Shinichi Iwahashi thought she was making a fuss.
Watanabe Manyumi didn't think so, "I really can't think of anyone else who could do such a stupid thing except you two."
Being ridiculed like this, Shinichi Iwahashi showed an expression as if he had been hit by something.
Putting this trivial matter aside, the two of them continued talking about yesterday's topic.
Watanabe Manyumi told him that the program's trial ratings were 12.6. As far as the program time was concerned, even considering that the ratings were washed away by the baseball game, this number could only be said to be quite satisfactory, and it could not be said to be a great success.
"The good news is that looking at the details, the audience's channel switching rate is not high." In other words, the ratings figures are not the result of viewers getting bored after watching it, then changing channels, and then falling all the way.
But on the other hand, it means that the number of viewers who came to this show from the beginning was not as large as expected.
"The ratings for the summer season are already the worst of the year," Watanabe Manyumi said.
Shinichi Iwahashi heard this and joked with her about what she had said, "This is the statement of a mother who speaks for her children."
"Why are you so vindictive?" Watanabe Manyumi smiled and said sarcastically to him.
That being said, Shinichi Iwahashi, who had been teased by her continuously since yesterday in Hokkaido, and who was ridiculed one after another today, wanted to seize the opportunity to fight back.
"It's true that I'm speaking for the children." She admitted at first, and then changed the topic, "But it is also true that the ratings in the summer season are generally not good. In addition to sports, there are more outdoor activities in the summer."
Sports events, firework displays, beach outings, and various festivals, outdoor activities in summer are too abundant. In this season, at night, instead of staying at home and watching people messing around on TV, I want to go out and play.
"Then there is the feedback from the audience after the show is broadcast." She brought the topic back.
After the program aired, the phone calls to the TV station were mixed, with those who gave positive reviews saying it was lighthearted and interesting, while those who gave negative reviews thought it was not interesting enough.
In the current environment of the Japanese television industry, variety shows either spend a lot of money and are as exaggerated as they want, or they are so tasteful that one needs to refer to Chaozi's saying that "the entertainment industry is fundamentally illegal."
“Not flavorful enough.”
The two programs were produced at the same time and broadcast separately. Now, they can only wait for next week to see the ratings and audience feedback, and then negotiate with TV Asahi to see if it is worth regularizing.
"We'll find out next week."
Watanabe Manyumi thought of something and mentioned it to him, "After watching the show, my mother said that the difficulty of this project is to find the right sense of balance."
"A sense of balance." Shinichi Iwahashi repeated with a smile, "As expected of Misao-san."
Misa Watanabe hits the mark. This project uses ordinary people as the targets of pranks, and in turn lets celebrities act as the pranksters. In this way, overdoing it is not good, but tickling makes the audience feel bored even more.
"But," Shinichi Iwahashi asked, "Does Misao-san also watch the show?" When I asked, I felt bored at first. After all, it was a project led by Watanabe Wan Yumi's agency, and it is impossible for the Watanabe family behind her to do so.
Don't listen or ask.
Watanabe Wan Yumi told him: "My mother also asked me to say hello to you on her behalf."
"My mother said that it is a good idea to try to create new programs. Eight out of ten inspirations for variety shows on TV are invalid. However, the eight invalid ones are not just thrown into the garbage.
bucket, but will inspire new inspiration later. Television allows failure. The inspiration that is effective when you think of it is a gift from the god of inspiration. The inspiration that is invalid but can inspire new inspiration is something that a TV producer can truly hold in hand.
inner."
"Of course," she smiled, "Mother doesn't mean to badmouth you."
Of course Iwahashi Shinichi didn't think so, but from what Misa Watanabe said, he could sense her old-school implicit way of encouragement. He also smiled and said, "Of course."
Even if it was for Mayumi Watanabe to succeed, Misa Watanabe would not want Shinichi Iwahashi to fail.
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After returning to Tokyo from Hokkaido, I was busy all the time. In the evening, Shinichi Iwahashi finally returned home, bringing back with him the videotape of yesterday's prank show that the staff helped record.
However, he was tired from traveling, got sick again, attended a concert, and had another meeting when he came back. He was exhausted both physically and mentally, so he just wanted to take a shower and go to bed early.
As Miwa-chan's background, she was photographed in a magazine with a mosaic on her head.
When Iwahashi Shin thought of this incident, he felt it was ridiculous. Later, this incident reached the ears of Miwa-chan and Nakamura-chan, and the two of them must have joked about it for a while.
Speaking of which, when they fell in love with that Taopu Star, they were both very careful and consciously tried not to let anyone find out. They had actually hidden it from everyone until now.
Of course, we usually spend less time together and more separation, and each is busy with his or her own business. In fact, we don’t actually spend much time together.
Miwa-chan and I had nothing to do, so we went out for a walk without even thinking about whether there were paparazzi around. To be honest, if we weren't in Sapporo, people probably wouldn't take them seriously.
This trip to Sapporo can be said to be a wonderful trip.
Shinichi Iwahashi was thinking about something, but suddenly, the phone at home rang. He walked over, picked up the receiver, "Hey, hey -"
"Good evening, Shinichi." Akina Nakamori's voice came from the other end of the phone.
He smiled, thinking about being in Tokyo with her, the distance getting closer, and he felt happy, "I'm back."
As a result, she burst into laughter on the other end of the phone.