Tokyo Literary Godfather

"Confession?!" Ogata Shinyo suddenly became excited, "Have you promised him?"

"Of course not..." Togada Nanako shook her head.

"I've known for a long time that Iwai-senpai has thoughts about you." Ogata Shinyo showed a look that has seen through everything. "But what do you think? Do you plan to think about it again?"

Nanako Togada shook her head: "I don't have any special feelings about Iwai-senpai, and I'm not even familiar with him as a person..." She looked a little distressed, "But he said that when he gets the trophy from the peer film festival, After that, he will confess to me in public again.”

"Wow, so romantic!" Ogata Shinyo said with his hands clasped together.

Togata Nanako frowned and said: "But I don't think it was because I didn't want to embarrass him too much at the time, so I didn't refuse simply enough. I thought, should I call him out again and make my words more clear... "

"It shouldn't be necessary." Ogata Shinyo said as he stuffed sushi into his mouth.

"Why?"

"Didn't he say that he would only confess to you if he won the commendation ceremony award? But there is only one first-place award. With this one here, it's probably not easy for Mr. Iwai to win."

As he spoke, Ogata Shinyo pouted in the direction of Fujiwara Kei.

Nanako Togada also looked in the direction of Kei Fujiwara and said nothing for a moment. Indeed, although she has not seen all the completed films, judging from the script and story alone, "Looking Back" is indeed better than "Lucky" .

Nanako Togada also has a strange sense of trust in Kei Fujiwara, whether it is out of experience or intuition. This is indeed the case. Whether it is in the novel world or the broadcast world, Fujiwara-sensei has never lost. I just don’t know if he has moved to the film industry. Can such an unbeaten record be maintained?

"Hey, Nanako, let me ask you a question." Ogata Shinyo suddenly asked in a mean tone, "If you were the reviewer of a film exhibition and had to choose between Iwai-senpai and Fujiwara-sensei, would you put your Who do you want to vote for?”

"I will vote for "Suddenly Looking Back"." Nanako Togada said, "I like this story."

"Then regardless of the movie, from a selfish point of view, who of these two people do you hope will win?"

Only then did Togata realize that this woman had no good intentions, and quickly turned his head away, "No matter what movie, I choose." But he actually had the answer silently in his heart.

It took Ohno Nagaharu another whole day to finally edit the entire film. Kei Fujiwara ran to his home, watched it several times, and made some minor modifications before finalizing the film.

On the last day of the peer film festival organizer's deadline, Ohno Nagaharu burned the film into a videotape and handed it over to the organizer's organizing committee.

The organizer will go through a round of review and first exclude some videos that do not meet the regulations. For example, videos with no plot, broadcast content that violates the law, or plots that are too large in scale.

Then select some films that can be called films... Since the peer film festival is a newcomer film festival, although there will occasionally be masterpieces, the overall level is relatively low, and sometimes there will even be very weird content, such as last year There was once an old man who recorded a four-hour video of various animals mating. The name of the video was "The Initial Form of Life."

Therefore, for the first round of reviewers, choosing films to participate in the exhibition is not about digging for gold in the sand, but picking maggots among the shit. It is an unexpected blessing to encounter five masterpieces in one film festival.

The first round of review will take about one to two months. After the film festival officially starts, "Homeless Children" will be completed.

Soon, it will be Sunday again.

The ratings report statistics for the next day showed that the average time-sharing rating of that day was 31.7%, and the ratings of "Gemini Detective" also unexpectedly experienced a sharp drop, only 26.8%.

The gap of nearly five percentage points also marks that "Homeless Children" has completely surpassed the drama "Gemini Detective". It is almost impossible to overtake it later.

The results of this ratings war, which has caused a stir in the broadcasting industry, are now somewhat clear.

It seems that Kei Fujiwara, the dark horse, is really not easy. Even a valiant veteran like Hidaka Junaki was at a disadvantage in a direct confrontation.

Some people in the broadcasting industry who lost the bet were unconvinced and felt that the reason why Hidaka Junmei lost was an accident. Because the wrong people were used, there was a broadcast accident later on, which led to a complete collapse in ratings, and there was no possibility of surpassing "Homeless Children".

Another group of people dismissed this statement.

Although the screenwriter wrote the script, aren't the directors and producers responsible for reviewing it? He made a stupid move for the sake of ratings. It was obvious that he was forced by his opponent and his mentality was disturbed, which accelerated the defeat.

But no matter how much you argue, the actual ratings data are irrefutable facts.

Just when "Homeless Child" was in full swing, "The Clock Museum Incident" of "Genius Detective Mitarashi Kiyoshi" also ushered in the last serialization chapter.

"The Clock Museum Incident" is the highest masterpiece of the famous [Pavilion Series], both in terms of story and plot, it is of the highest level. After the publication of the last chapter, the enthusiasm of readers was unprecedented. Although Toani has not yet announced the animation production decision, I don’t know where the news leaked out. Some readers were very excited when they heard that the novel was about to be adapted into a TV series.

As of now, "Genius Detective Mitarashi Kyousuke" has published three chapters, namely [The Bandage Monster Incident], [Astrology Killing Magic] and [The Clock Museum Incident]. The stories of the three chapters taken together are enough for a single book. Volume up.

"Genius Detective Mitarai" will be released next week, and the first printing has reached an astonishing 150,000 copies.

For the sake of insurance, Kawaguchi has reduced the number of first printings. Otherwise, with the excellent serial performance of this novel and the popularity created by [Astrology Killing Magic], the number of first prints can be doubled again.

Before the book was officially released, the posters of "The Genius Detective Mitarai" were also posted in the most conspicuous places of major bookstores.

Both the bookstore operator and the publishing house have high confidence in the sales of this book. In fact, Sima Keita is still just a new writer.

It's been less than two years since debut, and the serialization of the second novel has just ended. Isn't this a rookie writer?

However, under the name of a new writer, there are frightening achievements. The total sales volume of "White Night Journey" has exceeded 2 million copies, and it has also won the highest award in the popular novel world [Naoki Award]. The Japanese author who has achieved this achievement , Counting those who have passed away, you can count them with your fingers. And Kei Fujiwara is the youngest among these writers, not one of them.

Soon, "Genius Detective Mitarashi" was put on the shelves of major bookstores.

150,000 copies, sold out within five days.

Fortunately, the publishing house was well prepared. They sent investigators to make real-time statistics on the sales of this novel. After the investigators randomly selected a bookstore, they stood in front of the cashier and counted the sales of "Genius Detective Mitarashiro" within a certain period of time.

However, he found that among the customers who came to check out at the checkout counter, at least three out of ten books were this book, so he didn't bother to count the specific number and went to other bookstores to observe.

I found that the situation is similar in almost every bookstore. Not only large bookstores like Junkyudo, but also any small bookstore with only hundreds of stacks, the sales of this novel are equally hot.

And it is especially popular among students. The writing style of this novel was intentionally based on light novels by Kei Fujiwara, and the young and handsome genius detective portrayed in the book also gave teenagers a sense of "substitution". 30% of the readers are minors.

So the investigator hurriedly called to report his investigation situation, and gave his own suggestion: quickly print it! A mere 150,000 volumes won't even last a week!