The first episode of "Century of Love" was finally played~
The handsome male protagonist Hideki Saijo attracted the attention of the audience as soon as he appeared on the scene. Especially when he restored his long hair style, it filled old fans with memories.
And the young and cute Momoko Kikuchi also made the viewers in front of the TV shine.
The wonderful relationship between urban men and women begins when they can't get on the last tram...
Nagayama Naoki hugged his girlfriend and looked at the picture on the TV screen, a little fascinated... Although I have seen the preliminary edited version, this official version with the opening and closing cutscenes and the theme song is still
Enjoyed watching it.
"Hey! It's been cut off! It's been cut off!" Akina Nakamori exclaimed while biting potato chips, "Hideki-san's hair was cut off!"
"...."
Nagayama Naoki looked at his girlfriend in his arms slightly speechlessly,
"Akina... Do you artists, when you see a character in a TV series, connect him with his real identity?"
Akina Nakamori glanced at Naoki Nagayama unexpectedly:
"Naoki-san, aren't you also an artist? When you meet a real person, you are more recognizable than the character, so of course you will bring it in."
"I changed my career..." Nagayama Naoki complained, "So Akina-chan thinks Saijo Hideki-san has many of his own characteristics, right?"
"Hi! That's it~" Akina Nakamori nodded, "But it's still very interesting!"
"I see..." Naoki Nagayama kept it in mind and decided to have a chat with Kyū Kijima to make improvements in the following episodes.
"What do Akina think of this TV series?" Naoki Nagayama asked at the end.
"It feels very relaxing and interesting..." Akina Nakamori said, "Although I have never worked before, this is probably what the life of a white-collar worker is like~"
"White-collar workers..." Naoki Nagayama's lips twitched slightly, "They are the people who are in jail in cubicles..."
"Hey, is it so scary?"
"Let me tell you Akina...Don't envy white-collar workers. If you stay in a cubicle for a long time, you will suffer from lumbar muscle strain, shoulder and neck pain, high blood pressure and fatty liver..."
Nagayama Naoki spoke from experience and finally concluded,
"In the end, when you get older, you will be kicked out of the company, and all the money you earn will be spent on medical treatment...Ah, wait, it seems that there is a lifetime employment system in Neon...
.”
"..."
Nakamori Akina looked at her boyfriend in confusion. She didn't know why Naoki-san knew so much about white-collar workers...it was obvious that he had never worked before~
.......
At the same time, thousands of households are watching Fuji TV’s prime time TV series~
In the exaggerated but realistic work, the long hair retained by the male protagonist Teppei Katagiri is like the remaining stubbornness of a young social animal, which resonates with many people.
The moment the long hair was cut off, the hero's uniqueness and stubbornness were removed, and it seemed to be cut into the hearts of the audience.
"That's too much!" "Why is Riko like this?!" "I will definitely not be able to speak to such a person in the future!"
Various discussions came out from the audience. I originally thought it was an ordinary love story. After meeting by chance at night, they would naturally get to know each other and fall in love!
And this move at the end made people's attention to this TV series suddenly rise a lot...
"What's going to happen next?"
"Is it forcible to clean up?"
Countless spectators were thinking like this in their heads and gradually fell into sleep~
Early the next morning, even though it was a weekend, there seemed to be a cat's paw twitching in my heart...
What will happen next? What will happen?
.........
TV stations don’t have weekends.
Nagayama Naoki received a call from Sugiura Oitai at home:
"Naoki-san, as you expected, the average ratings for the first episode reached about 22%, and the highest instant ratings were really during the hair-cutting scene!"
"Haha, I must have followed the fame of Saijo Hideki and Kikuchi Momoko when I first started. Coupled with the audience of Fuji TV itself, I got such a high starting point."
Naoki Nagayama analyzed,
"But the next episode will depend on the appeal of this TV series."
"Hey, don't worry, Naoki-san..." Sugiura Oyasu said excitedly, "Since yesterday's broadcast, the TV station has received many hotline calls from viewers, and as of this morning, there are still many people asking.
"
"That's great!"
Nagayama Naoki himself has no doubts about the excellence of "Century of Love", because apart from the love in the office, the complicated and confusing emotional lines in it are enough to attract most boring women...
Coupled with Xicheng Hideki's handsome appearance that suits all sizes, he will definitely be able to win over a large number of fans.
"We are looking forward to the next broadcast..." Otasu Sugiura continued, "By the way, Naoki-san, many viewers have called to ask what the meaning of the crystal apple in the TV series is..."
"..." Nagayama Naoki was helpless, "It symbolizes love! Love like crystal...what else could it be?"
Sugiura Otai was silent: "I thought it symbolized the apple in the Garden of Eden that tempted Adam and Eve to eat..."
Nagayama Naoki smiled:
"We need to treat the audience as children. There are too many metaphors that others cannot see. Simple and crude is the last word!"
"...What Naoki-san said makes sense..."
After chatting with Otae Sugiura, Nagayama Naoki calmed down and prepared to spend a leisurely weekend.
As everyone knows, the trend about crystal apples has begun to spread in Neon...
.......
Workday, studio.
"What is this?" Shuichi Itou curiously took the document bag from Naoki Nagayama's hand.
"Script, this is the script!" Nagayama Naoki said with a smile, "Didn't Shuichi-san ask me to give you a good script before?"
"?!!"
Itou Shuichi was extremely surprised,
"Naoki-san, I just asked you for a script last week, right? To write one so quickly? Are you possessed by a monster?!"
"...It's so noisy!" Naoki Nagayama squinted at Itou Shuichi, "Don't look at geniuses with your own eyes..."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk~" Itou Shuichi opened the document bag and saw a few big words clearly written on the title of the document - "Squid Game".
Nagayama Naoki then began to explain:
"I just found this script over the weekend while digging through the box... I wrote it during the filming of "The Summer of Kikujiro"... but because the plot is too advanced and very bloody and violent
, that’s why I stayed at the bottom of the box..."
"Last time, Shuichi-san said he wanted to shoot something a little different, so he remembered this script... so he took it over~"
Itou Shuichi had already turned to the summary and was immediately attracted by the background introduction of the story.
Bet your life, participate in a game where you will die if you fail, and you can get hundreds of millions of bonuses if you live... Once you participate, you can never quit!
"This setting..." Shuichi Itou touched his chin carefully, "It's just asking you how much your life is worth?"
"Also... we need to explore the changes in human nature under extreme circumstances and inner choices..." Naoki Nagayama talked endlessly about the pros and cons of the script, and then said, "There is one more thing...
..very bloody and violent...very exciting!”
"That is, being able to attract the audience..."
Itou Shuichi added the next sentence, and then continued reading with interest. He had never seen such a script in current movies and TV series.
Moreover, the point of "games at the cost of life" seems to have great potential, and it is possible to create a subdivision of movies!
"As expected, it's Naoki-san, but his actions are different..."
Nagayama Naoki shook his head. Originally, he wanted to deliver "Battle Royale", but now the neon bubble has not yet risen, let alone the unemployment, depression, and loss of people's confidence after the bubble burst...
...
Without such a social background, "Battle Royale" would be just an ordinary plasma film.
At this moment, Yoshimura Otomo, who had been listening next to him, suddenly asked:
"Naoki-san, you wrote this script while filming "Kikujiro's Summer"?"
"Well, Tanaka Yuko-san happened to be there at that time, and I got the idea while chatting with her..." Naoki Nagayama explained a little.
"...I actually wrote a violent and bloody script while filming a warm comedy...and I got the inspiration from chatting with a very charming lady...
..”
Yoshimura Otomo's eyes became more and more strange, and he said to Itou Shuichi who was looking closely:
"Shuichi-san, our Naoki-san's head is really different from that of a normal person! Do you think we two have to be careful? He might be thinking about some murder plot now!"
"..." Nagayama Naoki was speechless.
And Itou Shuichi said nonchalantly:
"Otomo-san, look at it... at least we are in the same camp as Naoki-san now. If one day Naoki-san turns into a serial killer, as long as we surrender quickly, we will definitely survive to the end!"
"Hahaha~ That makes sense!"
Listening to the banter of the two guys, Naoki Nagayama made two paper airplanes with manuscript paper:
"I will let the plane hit you and kill you!"
"Ah...I'm dead~"
Otomo Yoshimura who was hit pretended to be dead. The atmosphere in the office suddenly became much more relaxed.
Next, when Itou Shuichi read the script, Yoshimura Otomo and Nagayama Naoki chatted about the current development of Shuyu's idols.
"Junko-chan has nothing to say. Your career as an idol can last for a few more years...but then you have to consider a real career change...maybe it's also possible to retire directly." Yoshimura Otomo started the conversation.
The idol with the most seniority.
"Well...if the idol wants to get married and retire, our agency will definitely support it!"
Nagayama Naoki itself does not regard idols as commodities, and does not have the habit of crazily squeezing artists like other agencies. In fact, at the very beginning, Shuyu did not want to sign female idols at all...
It was simply Naoki Nagayama who raised the wrong card...and Naoki Nagayama also put a lot of effort into compensating Junko Ito afterwards.
The three Maoyan sisters are purely a girl group experiment~
However, later Yuki Saito, Momoko Kikuchi, and Kaoru Obitari were all signed for making movies. Chiko Aoyama did it for the sake of her neighbors... As for Shizuka Kudo and Rie Miyazawa, they were completely
The attitude of herding a sheep versus herding a flock of sheep.
"Peach-chan is busy with "Century of Love", and the others are more or less free..." Yoshimura Otomo said, "Naoki-san, do you have any plans for them?"
"Well... Shizuka Kudo and Rie Miyazawa, let's train them like idols first!" Naoki Nagayama said, "I think they have potential..."
"As for the others..."
Nagayama Naoki thought of "Umi Street Diary"...there happened to be four sisters in it!
"Yuki-chan, Chikoko-chan, Kaoru-chan...will participate in the filming of a movie this year, "Umi Street Diary"~" Naoki Nagayama arranged work for several people.
"As for the three Maoyan sisters..."
Nagayama Naoki is in trouble. These three members were actually models in adult magazines. Although one of them must have white skin, good looks and long legs, they are older and their potential is almost there...
"What they said... I haven't thought about it yet... Let's just hang out in the show first~ Participate in more TV series and be a supporting role..."
"Hi, I understand~"
Yoshimura Otomo sighed, he still had feelings for the Wild Cats.
Nagayama Naoki saw it, and he said with a smile: "If Otomo-san still wants to try a girl group, you can try to run it yourself..."
"This...I will consider it!"
Fangcun Dayu is now at the top of the tree friends. If you want to support a girl group, you can...
.......
Naoki Nagayama was just here to deliver a script. After chatting in the office for more than an hour, he was ready to leave.
When I walked out, I happened to see Xing Jiahua and Suzuki Yuka receiving a large package at the front desk....
"Hana-chan, Yunka-chan...did you buy anything?" Nagayama Naoki stopped to watch curiously, "Such a big bag..."
"It's crystal apples!" Yukika Suzuki rushed to say, "In the fan club managed by tree friends, many people were discussing crystal apples, so I bought a lot of them as prizes..."
In addition to selling the idol's peripherals, you should also hold activities in the fan club to stimulate stickiness!
"Oh? Many people discussed it?"
Nagayama Naoki took out a crystal apple from the box. The production level was not as high as the one he customized, but it was still crystal clear and very beautiful.
"Hi!" Xing Jiahua also replied, "Naoshu-san, you don't know that since the weekend, my friends have been discussing "Century of Love" and the crystal apple in it..."
"When contacting other agencies, they learned that "Century of Love" was produced by Shuyou, and many people asked about the crystal apple..."
The popularity of the book "Century of Love" that the two little girls excitedly taught Nagayama Naoki about surprised him.
Obviously when communicating with Fuji TV, they only talked about the relatively good popularity!
Xing Jiahua finally said:
"Now almost all handicraft stores in shopping streets in Tokyo have crystal apples on display. Everyone is saying that crystal apples are a symbol of love... so couples are buying them!"
"...."
Obviously the TV series hasn’t shown the love plot yet!
Nagayama Naoki felt that he seemed to have overlooked something... What on earth made Crystal Apple suddenly so popular?!
He felt that he had to go to Fuji TV to find out...
