Japanese Entertainment: A Comeback Beginning from Bankrupt President

"What's this guy thinking?" Watanabe Souta spread his hands, his questioning eyes beneath his arched eyebrows fixed on the secretary. "Doesn't he know we're watching him? Why would he do something that gives us leverage against him? Is something wrong with his head?"

Although it's easy to find fault with this, Watanabe Souta is genuinely scared now.

What if Ze Cheng and Kazuya have set some kind of trap here? If he walks into it without thinking, won't he be ripped off again?

Can not be done.

Not only did he fail to deliver a heavy blow to the enemy, but he also provided support to them. Watanabe Sōta has learned his lesson from the past and will not make decisions on things lightly; he will always think things through carefully before acting.

"Yes...it feels strange," the secretary was actually also overwhelmed, but she didn't show it in front of Watanabe Sota. "Besides, the other party's official account just announced during the day that they were making a mini-album with an additional new song, so they shouldn't have time to mess around in a place like this."

"Mini album...Yagami Hayato..." Watanabe Souta pondered the connection between the two things.

Simply put, since Hayato Yagami is a songwriter, he can definitely write a song for Kazuya Sawashiro.

But if he writes songs, then he writes songs. If he really does write songs, there's nothing Watanabe Sota can do. Watanabe Sota couldn't even control Aki Amano, let alone Hayato Yagami who has no restrictions. So why would he do something like this?

Didn't they realize that pursuing this matter would affect Amano Aki's side?

An agent is another side of an artist.

If something goes wrong with the agent, the artist will also be affected. And now is such a tense time. All the artists are like kittens whose tails have been stepped on, even eating is done carefully for fear of making a mistake.

After thinking for a long time, Watanabe Souta came up with a bold idea.

"Do you think he did this on purpose, just to let me know and test whether I would dwell on such a trivial matter?"

"Very likely," Watanabe Sōta said. While he was thinking, his secretary was not daydreaming. He took the opportunity to express his thoughts, "Perhaps this is just a small test to see our reaction before deciding what move to make next. They have malicious intentions."

It's only right that they take a jab at Kazuya Sawashiro.

They each serve their own master.

If the secretary were working underwater right now, he would definitely be cursing Watanabe Sōta eighteen times every few days. The secretary, who prides himself on being a good servant, is well aware of the simple truth of what one is doing because of who one is paid for.

"That's right, this person is really wicked!" The secretary's words struck a chord with Watanabe Sōta.

The villain, Kazuya Sawashiro, should be dragged away and given fifty lashes.

...

"A famous agent instigated an amateur... Yes, you lost!" Kazuya Sawashiro waved his phone excitedly, smugly passing in front of Hayato Yagami. "You have to write a song for my Amano, and it has to be better than Yuko Yoshioka's."

"Damn it... Watanabe Entertainment is so stingy!" Yagami Hayato slammed his fist into his knee in regret.

Who would have thought that you'd have to tell a magazine about something like this? It's like you guys really hate this person... Although Yagami Hayato sometimes finds Sawashiro Kazuya a bit annoying, like this smug look he's doing right now.

"Hmph... Watanabe Entertainment really wants to skin him alive, you've fallen for their trap!" Amano Aki sat down casually beside him, with paper and pen prepared in advance in her hand. "Come on, I'm also looking forward to Yagami-san's work."

"No, no, just call me Xiao Ba."

"Hachi? Is that okay?" Amano Aki leaned closer, blinked, and asked, "I heard that guy say it's a nickname only close friends can use. We've only met twice today, and although I want to show my affection, but..."

Amano Aki's gaze shifted to the face of Sawashiro Kazuya on the other side.

Kazuya Sawashiro's eyes widened immediately, and he relaxed his body, saying, "Why are you looking at me? That Hachi is a junior, he's just expressing his respect for his senior. What's wrong with that? I would definitely give it my full support."

Amano Aki understood and immediately expressed goodwill to Yagami Hayato: "Yagami, don't play these inexplicable bets with him next time. You can't outsmart him. You'll be sold out and he'll still be counting the money for you."

"If it were before, I would have said you were overthinking it..." Yagami Hayato smiled, standing on the same side as Amano Aki, "But now, after this happened, I really feel terrified."

The fear is fake, but the decision to take sides is real.

Faced with his partner who painstakingly belittles him, and Yagami Hayato who seizes every opportunity to climb the social ladder, Sawashiro Kazuya's answer is to eliminate them all.

"Belittling me will only make me assign you more work. You won't even have time to eat properly, let alone have the energy to count money," he said, first targeting Amano Aki and then reminding Yagami Hayato, "I need to prepare for the movie's release in the next few days, so I'll leave the creative work to you."

Get back to work and stop overthinking.

After all that trouble, the movie is finally ready for release.

Although Kazuya Sawashiro's film was scheduled to be released on streaming platforms, he did not completely abandon physical screens. He spent money to rent several screens scattered across the country and invited ordinary people to watch the films by renting out entire theaters.

The ticket price is half the price of a streaming subscription service, making it easily accessible even to high school students.

The main purpose of doing this is to give back to our fans while promoting our products.

In some regions and among some people, streaming media is not yet as popular, and they still prefer to watch movies in theaters. However, Kazuya Sawashiro has no chance to enter theaters like Toei, so he can only pay out of his own pocket to rent those small theaters and then symbolically collect a movie ticket fee.

Renting a venue for a day would cost over 100,000 yen, while movie tickets would only fetch a few tens of thousands of yen at most, so Kazuya Sawashiro is purely doing charity work here.

Even so, they didn't manage to book many venues.

Many more venues were booked by others, including Watanabe Entertainment. These venues were able to become available because of the recent uproar surrounding Yoshioka Yuko, and they didn't want anyone causing trouble at this time.

Having too many lice isn't a burden, but it can still be annoying.

Closer to home.

Upon hearing that Ze Cheng was also busy with film matters, Amano Aki became much more obedient and stopped causing trouble.

Hayato Yagami wasn't completely clueless. He should have been alone and quiet at this moment, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that there was something he needed to explain to Kazuya Sawashiro, or at least hear his thoughts.

"Want to come this way? I want to talk about the new song." Yagami Hayato pointed to the balcony of the agency, where the lights were dim.

"Sure... but wait for me," Kazuya Sawashiro turned around and stopped the restless Aki Amano. "You should have your own things to do, like learning how to sing the new song I gave you. Now is our time as creators."

"Tsk..." Amano Aki waved his fist, feeling quite dissatisfied.

You wait, wait until I write a good song too!