Tokyo: My obsession with China led me to become the king of Japanese entertainment.

"Well... that's all for today's live stream. If you encounter any bugs or have any issues while playing, please feel free to leave feedback in the comments or via private message. See you next time!"

About an hour later, seemingly unable to contain his emotions, Jun Sakurada ended the live stream early, leaving the viewers with a slightly forlorn silhouette.

However, as soon as the signal was cut off, all the negative emotions on the boy's face vanished almost instantly.

His slightly hunched posture quickly straightened after a yawn, and with a long sigh, Jun Sakurada glanced at the doorway, a playful smile on his face.

"Finished watching? With acting skills like mine, it shouldn't be too much to ask for a role, right?"

The two heads peeking through the door looked at each other, and the monkey head gave a sullen smile, pulling the still bewildered Ze Muqing out.

"Xiao Qing, you saw it, right? Don't easily make your senior brother angry in the future. That kid is incredibly ruthless!" Monkey said earnestly.

Still in a daze, Sawaki Ao nodded vigorously, feeling that his understanding of Sakurada Jun had been completely refreshed.

Today, she watched as Sakurada Jun transformed from a spirited and confident person into a dejected one in just three minutes before the live broadcast, without makeup and relying solely on a little emotional build-up.

She had never seen such acting skills before, not even at an artist training school.

"Teacher," she hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage to ask, "What...what exactly is my senior brother going to do?"

"What for?" Taka seemed to remember something and grinned mischievously. "Probably to give some old fogies a little internet shock?"

Ze Muqing seemed to understand, but not quite.

Regardless of what the two people outside the door said, Jun Sakurada was in a very good mood at this moment.

It has to be said that the effect of this killer move by Xinchuanghua was so outstanding that it was even better than what Jun Sakurada himself came up with.

Originally, Jun Sakurada planned to mobilize Chinese fans to cause trouble, but he didn't have the ability to create such a big stir.

In order to counter the Empress's faction, Jun Sakurada plans to take a risk and expose some of Sakurai Sho's treacherous actions against China.

For example, he once recommended news such as the Japanese anti-war fantasy comic "Aircraft Carrier Ibuki" on a variety show, thereby blocking ARASHI's path to China as much as possible.

Using this method to attack the Empress's faction would naturally be more destructive, but it would also be riskier.

Putting aside other issues, if the domestic government were to take a blanket approach and ban the entire Johnny's Entertainment group along with Hiroshi Nagano, the consequences would be very troublesome.

New Creation offered their brilliant proposal: temporarily remove Ultraman Tiga content!

Jun Sakurada remembers this scene.

In September of 2021, Ultraman Tiga was also taken off the air once, because it was reported.

Five months ago, in April 2021, a provincial consumer association released an animation report targeting parents, which specifically named several animations and tokusatsu series, including Ultraman Tiga.

Five months later, Ultraman Tiga was suddenly taken off the shelves.

How significant will the long-term impact of this removal be?

The related topic garnered an astonishing 5 billion views on Weibo that very day, practically igniting the emotions of the entire internet overnight.

Five billion views... How terrifying would that be in Japan?

Moreover, simply having a large number of page views is not enough.

On the day of the incident, the Consumer Association, which had previously been named, immediately issued a statement saying that the removal of the product from shelves had nothing to do with them. That evening, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television also issued a statement.

In the following days, major official media outlets and numerous websites followed up with reports, and the entire rectification process was completed in just three days.

Undoubtedly, this incident caused quite a stir and had a far-reaching impact, fully demonstrating just how terrifyingly popular and well-known the Ultraman Tiga IP is in China.

If we can attract the attention of some big shots... hehe.

Someone's going to be in trouble, and I won't say who.

Most importantly, because the cause of the matter is relatively less sensitive, even if Johnny's Entertainment is dealt a harsh blow, it generally won't lead to collective punishment or complete annihilation.

At most, it will just cause some people a little pain...

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Compared to the calm of the parties involved, netizens were obviously much more agitated, especially since Ultraman Tiga was taken down without warning, which completely ignited everyone's anger.

Currently, regarding the Ultraman Tiga incident, all official information maintains a delicate balance:

No one has provided any concrete evidence, yet everyone can easily conjure up a perfectly logical conspiracy theory.

Someone asked Aunt Jie about this, and Aunt Jie was also at a loss.

Although the idea that Johnny's pressure led to the removal of Ultraman Tiga from domestic shelves sounds like a complete fantasy.

But when you think back to how ruthless Aunt Keiko and Mary Den were when they cleaned up Iijima a few years ago, no one can guarantee that they weren't the ones who did it.

They could dismantle SMAP, so what's so special about targeting V6?

The beauty of conspiracy theories lies in their airtight logic and stimulating appeal, making people subconsciously willing to believe they are the truth.

Then public opinion exploded.

If the removal of content from the original timeline was due to issues involving conflicts between parents and children, as well as other internal conflicts, making it difficult to reach a consensus, then...

This time, it seems there's no reason to stop angry netizens from uniting against a common enemy.

Immediately, public sentiment was agitated.

From Jun Sakurada's apology to the internal strife within Johnny's Entertainment, a series of evidence was quickly turned into a brainwashing narrative by several top content creators in the tokusatsu (special effects) section and began to spread. The involvement of marketing accounts also brought this fact to the attention of groups who were not usually fond of browsing forums and online communities.

Factional struggles, heroes being tarnished, internal suppression, and the Japanese bullying China—each of these phrases is enough to ignite a wave of fervor among a large number of people.

What else is there to say? Let's grab our weapons and take on Johnny's!

Angry netizens quickly united and began searching for Johnny & Associates' official accounts, planning to launch a major attack.

Then they encountered their first problem: Johnny's Entertainment doesn't have an official account, at least not in China.

As of early 2019, Johnny's only two official social media accounts in China, which are also their only two official social media accounts worldwide, belonged to Tomohisa Yamashita and Takuya Kimura.

Both of them are considered staunch supporters of the Iijima faction within Johnny's Entertainment.

But would the bloodthirsty Chinese care about such a small detail? Since you've only opened this one window, then we can only run wild here.

Thus, the Weibo accounts of Tomohisa Yamashita and Takuya Kimura, which had been relatively peaceful, experienced a surge in traffic that was many times more intense than the day they opened their accounts.

The shouting and cursing left the fans completely bewildered.

No, you were bullied by the Empress's men, why are you coming to us to vent your anger?