Japanese Entertainment: A Comeback Beginning from Bankrupt President

That morning, a music video was quietly released on YouTube.

Initially, no one paid attention to it. After all, the poster was a new account with a visibly small number of followers. The operators didn't pay much attention to this kind of account and went to sleep after letting the video go.

Coincidentally, the same thing happened to the operations staff at TikTok next door.

A new account with the same name appeared here and posted a youthful-looking dance video, but such new accounts and videos are perfectly normal here.

Because this is TikTok, a streaming platform that has been operating since 2014 and has now garnered 10 billion downloads worldwide, new accounts appear every day. Whether they can become outstanding original creators depends on their subsequent content.

Without a doubt, both accounts belong to Kazuya Sawashiro.

The video he released was a music video edited differently to suit the style and needs of different typhoons. He had finished editing it a long time ago and was just waiting for the song to be officially released today so that listeners could see the hard work he and his classmates had put in.

Of course, he did more than just that.

After confirming that the video had been successfully published, he contacted the president of Amano Aki's fan club and Tachibana Misaki, who was in charge of contacting other students, and asked them to notify everyone in their respective areas to bring out the videos that everyone had prepared.

To maintain the neatness of the lineup, all the videos were tagged with the new song, and links to Kazuya Sawashiro's account were also added to the descriptions and comments.

This is the first step.

The second step was the fan club's arrangement, which was planned in advance, to let people in the community recommend Amano Aki's debut single in places where they could exert influence, attracting more casual listeners to search for and download the song.

The third step is to hand over the work to Tachibana Misaki.

The National High School Dance Competition is currently underway, and this label naturally generates buzz on streaming platforms. Therefore, Kazuya Sawashiro hopes that Misaki Tachibana can coordinate with students from various school departments to find participating members and create promotional short videos using Aki Amano's songs.

Although Misaki Tachibana couldn't participate in the main competition, she easily managed to sneak into the backstage area of ​​the competition by virtue of her status as a substitute player.

Perhaps because she resembles her idol, Tachibana Misaki also has a very sunny and cheerful personality, and she has no problem communicating with her classmates, which is why Sawashiro Kazuya felt comfortable entrusting this task to her.

Watanabe Entertainment has terrestrial television, radio, streaming media, and extensive on-the-ground promotion because they are a large company with money, power, and connections.

Kazuya had nothing but these people who were willing to help him for free, so he had to be shameless.

...

The next day.

While mainstream media were still writing extensively about Watanabe Entertainment's girl group, the operators of various streaming media outlets noticed this song called "Gunjo".

When it was released, it was completely invisible, relegated to a corner that no one paid any attention to. But this very song broke through the bottom of the charts overnight and rose to the middle of the charts on various music apps.

Streaming platforms such as LINE Music, Apple Music, and Amazon Music Unlimited have noticed this song, which has seen an unusual surge in popularity despite having no streaming activity.

It's not in a very prominent position, but the upward trend is just too obvious.

When I clicked in to look at the artist's profile, it turned out to be the same person who was on the blacklist. After all, Watanabe Entertainment had already given us a heads-up, saying that Amano Aki might have a song released soon, and that if we saw it, we should remember to ban her.

"Keeping her dead" means not giving her any support or guidance, leaving her helpless and frustrated.

However, yesterday, Watanabe Entertainment released some news.

"It's all over now. That person's new song was stillborn; it didn't even pass the censorship."

If Watanabe Entertainment wasn't lying, then is the information registered in Tunecore Japan's backend fake? So there's a female singer with the same name, gender, and voice as Aki Amano, who debuted as a singer using the character "Aki"?

You're saying this isn't the "autumn" of Amano Akira?

You're kidding me!

The operations staff immediately reported to their superiors and requested instructions.

"What should we do? This song is very likely from the person Watanabe Entertainment specifically mentioned, but her stats are all pretty good, and it's trending towards becoming a hit. Should we still try to suppress it?"

"...Don't rush, let me report first." The superior was unsure of what to do, so he immediately called Watanabe Souta's secretary.

It is no coincidence.

Besides music platforms, Amano Aki's name finally appeared on the entertainment section of the search engine after four months.

#Amano Aki's new song debut...

Although it's not at the top, netizens who surf the internet can see these words as they scroll down the list.

Upon seeing these words, the strongest reaction came from Watanabe Entertainment's public relations team. They immediately called the Consumer Affairs Agency and the search engine company to report that Aki Amano had hired an online marketing company to create fake popularity and fabricate trending topics.

Of course, a report requires evidence, and Watanabe Entertainment certainly doesn't have that kind of thing.

They simply believed that someone like Amano Aki, who had disappeared from the screen for two years and whom even paparazzi considered a waste of their time to photograph, wouldn't have any legitimate means to generate such a high level of discussion, let alone climb the trending search list.

She's just a washed-up female celebrity!

The Consumer Affairs Agency received a complaint call, but they are not an ordinary organization that cooperates with Watanabe Entertainment; they are a formal and legitimate inspection department.

No evidence? What nonsense are you spouting?

"Yes, yes, yes... We will keep a close eye on this situation. Thank you for your report." The Consumer Affairs Agency rejected Watanabe Entertainment's unreasonable request with its usual response, while the search engine team immediately took down the trending topic.

evidence?

No way. Watanabe Entertainment is a major client of search engine companies; it's something that can be done with just one phone call.

The trending topic was taken down the minute after the phone call came in.

Watanabe Entertainment's PR team and Yahoo Japan's censorship department have once again completed a close collaboration. Little Amano Aki thought the word "ban" was a joke, completely unaware of the influence of a major agency.

Even without intervention from higher-ups, these middle-level managers can accomplish a great deal.

You think it's just ground waves?

Sorry, that was a lie. The internet does the same thing.

"We've done another good deed..." The head of the public relations team confirmed that the trending topic had disappeared and was about to report this good news to Watanabe Souta's secretary when he suddenly remembered the trending topic from earlier.

"Aki Amano's new song? Wasn't her new song rejected by NexTone?"

The person in charge, unwilling to believe it, opened his browser and entered the keywords "Amano Aki" and "new song" into the search bar. He immediately found a highly praised and commented tweet.

Following the tweet, he heard the song "Qunqing" and then found the distributor based on the copyright code.

Tunecore Japan came into view, not the nexTone mentioned in the intelligence.

"How could this be?" The person in charge's eyebrows were almost pressed against his nose. An unlikely but true answer came to mind: "The intelligence was false. Everyone was deceived by that woman."