Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 235 Grouping
"Of course I have no problem treating you... But since Basong has made it into the top ten, should we also treat him to a meal?"

Xia Fan agreed with a smile, and then skillfully shifted the blame to someone else.

"That's right, Basong. Even though you're ranked 10th and won't be on the main stage, you're still the 'number two' among the international trainees. I have to swipe your card this time!"

Jack and Martin nodded in agreement with resentful looks on their faces.

Thanks to the sexy women's clothing in his personal interview videos, Basong has unknowingly gathered a large number of male fans with a strange XP.

These male fans called themselves "Song Baoren" and shouted slogans online and offline such as "You vote and I vote, Sister Song will debut today", "If you don't vote and I don't vote, who will make up for Sister Song's women's clothing?", etc., and they pushed Basong from outside the top 20 at the beginning to the top 10, and she almost had one foot on the main stage...

The ninth-ranked trainee was so scared that he was worried about being blown up from behind by the little Thai girl, and he tossed and turned all night.

As for Jack, although he is a standard European and American youthful and handsome VOCAL, he still lacks popularity in his home region of District 11 and only ranked 20th.

As one of the "few non-Chinese contestants on the show", Martin finally got enough screen time this time, his name was remembered, and he escaped the fate of always being at the bottom of the list and made it out to be outside the top 30.

"Dear trainees, please find a TV nearby and watch the program announcement in three minutes..."

"Dear trainees, please find a TV nearby and watch the program announcement in three minutes..."

Assistant Director Souta's voice came from the loudspeaker in the corner.

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"Hello, fellow trainees. I am your producer representative, Kimura Goro..."

Three minutes later, Goro Kimura's figure appeared simultaneously on every television in the trainee accommodation area.

"Your unremitting efforts during this period have been seen by me and the producers in front of the TV..."

"Next, let me announce the final popularity ranking of the theme song's personal straight shots. This also represents the degree of recognition of you by the producers in front of the screen."

Following Kimura Goro's announcement, a popularity ranking list of trainees appeared on the screen, just like the college entrance examination results.

Ranked first is naturally the name "Xia Fan", followed by the despairing popularity value of 1.35 million.

The second place, Yuta Hirano, only got 600,000, not even half of Xia Fan's.

After that, from the third to the ninth place, they are all local trainees from District 11, and their popularity values ​​are very close to each other.

The real-time ranking results can also be viewed through the official website of the program, so the trainees were not too surprised.

"Based on the popularity statistics above, we divided the trainees into the "local group" and the "international group". The group popularity ranking results are as follows..."

But the next second, the ranking list changed slightly and turned into two lists: "local" and "international".

"Group? Reorder?"

"What's going on? Aren't the groups divided into groups only after the first performance? Why are they divided into groups in advance?"

"Could it be that……"

Looking at the two newly arranged tables, some trainees seemed to realize something, with a gleam of surprise in their eyes.

In the "local group" table, in addition to Yuta Hirano who took the first place, subsequent "five-star trainees" such as Yu Takahashi, Kaito Nagase, etc. are still among the top, with not much difference from before.

Because the original overall ranking of international trainees was much lower than that of local trainees, the ranking of the "International Group" table has undergone a drastic change...

The first place is naturally Xia Fan who is "far ahead", the second place is Basong who was originally ranked tenth, and even Jack rushed to fourth place. "That's right, from this moment on, the trainees will be officially divided into "local group" and "international group", recording the theme song MV for the program's 'international version' and 'local version' respectively!"

"The top nine trainees in each group will stand on the main stage in the corresponding version of the MV."

"The official recording time is this afternoon. Please prepare yourself and face the camera in your best condition."

Goro Kimura announced the recording schedule of the theme song in a loud voice, then bowed and disappeared.

"what?!"

"Record two versions?"

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the trainees.

Of course, the original nine main stage positions suddenly became eighteen, and most of the trainees were naturally happy.

In particular, many international trainees who thought they had no chance were ecstatic when they suddenly got the opportunity to stand on the main stage.

"This... is what... pity me?"

Because Xia Fan went to the "International Group" and it was the turn of C position Hirano Yuta, he didn't look happy at all, and his face became even darker.

Although the program team previously announced that there would be a division into "local group" and "international group" in the rules, that was during the first performance stage elimination phase of the next episode...

Now that they have been divided into groups in advance and the theme song has been recorded in different versions according to nationality, it is obvious that this is a "temporary arrangement" made by the program team for the appearance position of the company's "seed players" and for "Xia Fan" who is leading by a large margin.

"The theme song of the international version... Xia Jun, it's not fair to divide the groups now."

Martin slammed the table indignantly.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the secret behind this "temporary rule" of the program team was a little too obvious in its targeting of Xia Fan.

"I think this is great. This way, Basong and Jack can also stand on the main stage, right?"

“With half the number of people recording, even if we are not on the main stage, we can be filmed more clearly and get more shots.”

"Besides, the ultimate result of the show still depends on winning popularity through strength. Isn't it for this reason that you compete for the C role in the theme song and appear in the show?"

Xia Fan didn't care and ate rice with relish.

Originally, he just wanted to get some popularity, but he didn't expect that with the "god's blessing" his popularity would soar...

In this situation, it is normal for the program team whose plans have been disrupted not to make some "rules" against themselves.

However, since so many people supported him with actual actions, Xia Fan didn't dare to continue to play badly with the attitude of "just trying to get by for a while". He decided to try his best and go as far as he could.

"It seems that this is indeed the truth?"

"Mr. Xia really sees things clearly..."

The three roommates savored it for a while, and suddenly felt that Xia Fan's figure, who was concentrating on eating, became unfathomable...

This should be the person in the history of District 11's talent show who forced the program team to fine-tune the rules and created eight "jobs" for international trainees.

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(End of this chapter)