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

Chapter 88 Hostility and Accidental Intrusion (Please subscribe and vote!)

"Is it a lot? I think it's alright. It's just that Sakurada-kun is on the internet route, so he has more discretion in this regard?"

"After all, we have a lot of influence in Takizawa Kabuki."

Raoul's remarks remained quite cautious.

"That's true, but think about it, Takizawa-senpai didn't come to any of the twenty or so Kabuki shows in Yokohama last month."

Sakuma Daisuke's tone carried a slightly sarcastic, complaining tone.

"That festival is named after him and has been passed down for so many years. He even served as its head last year!"

"He's only been out of office for a few months, and he can't even attend performances in person anymore."

"I've been performing in Takizawa Kabuki for so many years, and this is the first time I've heard of President Takizawa being so indifferent to this program!"

It's no wonder he broke down; after following Hideaki Takizawa for so many years, this was the first time he had ever felt so neglected.

Daisuke Sakuma, born in 1992, is 27 years old. He is a trainee at Johnny & Associates and a former member of Snowman.

In 2005, Jun Sakurada joined Johnny & Associates when he was only two years old, and then stayed as a trainee for a full fourteen years.

Starting in 2010, he participated as a junior member in the original musical stage play "Takizawa Kabuki," which was co-starred and directed by Hideaki Takizawa, and performed there for ten years.

In 2012, along with five other trainees, he was given the group name "Snowman" by Hideaki Takizawa, becoming one of the founding members of Snowman.

Although they were considered old flops who had been struggling for fourteen years without making a debut, the group Snowman was indeed highly valued within Johnny's Entertainment. Especially after Hideaki Takizawa moved from the spotlight to behind the scenes, Snowman and Rokuten became two of the most important groups in Johnny's Entertainment's purview for their potential debut, and their treatment was no less than that of a typical debuting boy group.

Among them, Yukito took over the position of director of "Takizawa Kabuki" after Hideaki Takizawa retired, becoming a permanent lead actor without fail, and can be considered one of Hideaki Takizawa's most trusted confidants.

There have even been recent rumors within Johnny & Associates that this group of trainees, which has been together for seven years and whose members are generally over 25 years old, is finally about to make their debut.

Logically speaking, this should be their most triumphant time.

However, at this very moment, Takizawa Hideaki, the patriarch who had raised them from the ground up, was absent and went off to work on some "China-specific project".

Moreover, besides the senior members of V6, the core of the project also includes a trainee who just joined the company?

It's perfectly normal for Daisuke Sakuma to have objections.

Listening to his senior's incessant complaints, Raul tried to shrink himself into a quail and avoid speaking as much as possible.

Although he is also a member of Snowman, he was transferred to Snowman from another trainee group, "Shonen Ninja," in January of this year, and the adjustment period with the other members has only just begun.

He's only two months older than Jun Sakurada, and is of mixed Japanese and Venezuelan descent, so he knows a little less about the inner workings of Johnny's Entertainment, especially Snowman Entertainment.

In addition, being young, he didn't have the resentment of someone who hadn't debuted for over a decade, so he wasn't nearly as hostile towards his suddenly appearing peer, Jun Sakurada, as his teammates.

However, given his age and seniority, he wouldn't dare to act presumptuously in front of Daisuke Sakuma.

"Logically speaking, Sakurada only joined the agency this year, right? There's no coverage of him on IslandTV. Isn't it a bit much for Mr. Takizawa to be so biased towards him?"

Daisuke Sakuma kept talking.

Raulu thought to himself, "Isn't it because he's handsome? With Jun Sakurada's stunningly handsome face, he already has a huge natural advantage in the idol industry."

It's so much better than Daisuke Sakuma's plain and swollen face, the kind of face that would require plastic surgery to even qualify him as a trainee in China or South Korea.

What's wrong with having more resources at such a young age? He's only two months older than Jun Sakurada, and he's already on the verge of debuting. Isn't that normal?

But what they really think, they certainly wouldn't dare say out loud; they could only grumble a bit.

To be fair, if it weren't for the fact that he was a teammate and senior, Raul, being a handsome 15-year-old as well, would definitely have had a much better first impression of Jun Sakurada than Daisuke Sakuma.

While Sakuma Daisuke was catching his breath, Raul stole a moment to open ISLANDTV on his computer. Before Sakuma could even speak, Raul exclaimed, "It's on! Sakurada's personal page!"

Daisuke Sakuma quickly went over to take a look, and his face darkened again.

On the website that Hideaki Takizawa reserved for Johnny's Jr., the only homepage featured prominently, a spot that should have been reserved for important activities of top trainee groups like Yukitsubasa, was instead occupied by a brightly smiling headshot of someone.

Upon clicking, it turned out to be Jun Sakurada's personal homepage.

"This kind of exposure isn't considered a privilege—" Daisuke Sakuma muttered even more vehemently.

"Let me see—" Raulu ignored his senior's complaints and carefully read through Jun Sakurada's personal profile. Coincidentally, he chose to read it aloud: "Jun Sakurada, fifteen years old, special skills include singing, dancing, rap, basketball, and game production. Before joining the company, he was an indie game producer and online blogger."

"The game 'Yokai Survivor,' which I made when I was 15, has sold over 1000000 copies on Steam, with 95% of the sales coming from overseas."

Of those 95%, over 30% are from Europe and America, and he himself has over a million followers on overseas platforms.

The further down the text was read, the louder Raulu's voice became, while Sakuma Daisuke's mutterings became softer.

If it were a year later, Snowman, who had already debuted, relied on Johnny's idol business model of exploiting fans to achieve an impressive first-week sales record of 700,000 copies of their debut CD, they would be able to hold their own a little bit more against Jun Sakurada's million-copy sales, which relied entirely on his own efforts.

The problem is that although Snowman is currently popular, they haven't officially debuted yet. Without a debut, there are no sales figures, so there aren't many concrete data to show.

Compared to Jun Sakurada's track record of not giving any leeway whatsoever, it naturally pales in comparison.

"—Is the agency really willing to spend so much money to promote a newcomer?" Daisuke Sakuma stared at the arrogant number for a long time before finally managing to utter that sentence.

"Senior—I don't think our agency has the ability to get overseas fans, especially those in Europe and America, to buy millions of copies of the game—that would conservatively cost hundreds of millions of yen—"

Raulu's quiet remark completely shattered Daisuke Sakuma's reason for being stubborn.

"He really doesn't know how to respect his seniors—" Daisuke Sakuma muttered, then turned back to look at the introduction with a sullen expression, trying to find some weakness in Jun Sakurada.

However, after reading for a long time, I couldn't find a single weakness. Instead, the details between the lines were exaggerated one after another.

What about being fluent in three languages? What about leading a junior high school team to a crushing victory over a high school basketball team? What about scaring away a bear in the Qiuyou Mountains?

It sounds like some kind of Superman story.

Finally, just when his eyes were about to ache, he finally saw something familiar.

"Murakami, who's currently attending Horikoshi High School, wouldn't he be your classmate?" Daisuke Sakuma's eyes suddenly lit up.

The fifteen-year-old boy, whose Japanese name was Murakami Shinji and English name was Raulu, nodded quickly: "Yes, I guess so?"

Horikoshi High School only offers one arts class per year, and Jun Sakurada and Rauru are close in age, so they are basically classmates without fail.

"That's great! When you go back to school, why don't you try and find out about Sakurada?"

"Who? Me?" Raulu pointed to himself.

I'm testing him?! A ruthless man who can scare away a bear?

"Yes, as a member of Snowman, it's only right that you represent us to introduce this new colleague, isn't it?"

Daisuke Sakuma displayed the authority befitting a senior.

"————Okay, I understand, I'll give it a try." Having been in the Snowman for less than a month and being more than ten years younger than the others, Raulu ultimately didn't dare to disobey Sakuma's wishes and nodded in agreement.

Alright, let's make contact then. We're classmates anyway, we'll run into each other all the time, and we can't disobey our senior's orders.

But Raul knows Yemen perfectly well. It's fine for him to test the waters and get to know Sakurada Jun, but as for targeting or scheming against him at school, well, he's not capable of that.

Taralu is still young and doesn't want to provoke such a formidable enemy of his own age.

"Hey! It's a 1v1 male-on-male battle! What are you doing here?! This isn't fair!"

If Daisuke Sakuma hadn't chosen to leave Jun Sakurada's livestream so quickly, perhaps his mood would have improved much sooner.

There are quite a few.

Because not long after he quit the live stream, Jun Sakurada went to jail.

In order to generate buzz and create a good show, he chose to pay tribute to the top laner who won the 18 World Championship and decisively picked Vayne to start ganking the opposing top laner.

However, the fun of military training didn't last long, as the opposing jungler started ganking the top lane.

Although Jun Sakurada has a physique far superior to that of ordinary people and a very fast reaction time, he doesn't play LOL much in his daily life. He has poor awareness and is aggressive, basically the type of jungler who is willing to die if the enemy comes to him.

Within 20 minutes of the start, 1-7 were successfully developed, and the zombie virus infection was completed.

At this moment, Jun Sakurada's screams, while partly a tribute to GimGoon for entertainment purposes, also contained a great deal of genuine emotion.

When has he ever suffered such injustice in real life? And for the sake of his last shred of image, he can't even swear in the live stream.

As for his long-cherished idea of ​​breaking the filter and getting closer to his fans, it certainly had an effect, but it was a bit too good.

The audience's nickname for him has gradually changed from "Run Shen" to "Run Ge" and "Run Zai," and now it is trending towards "Run÷" and "Run Gou."

This is unbearable.

"Vote! Vote! We've been fed up with the Elo rating, there's no other way!" Seeing his teammates start voting to surrender again, Jun Sakurada knew that the situation was hopeless and decisively chose to vote "yes" amidst a barrage of question marks and taunts in the chat, ending this torturous round.

Looking at his appalling 1-7 record, he blushed, immediately closed the game interface, and cleared his throat seriously: "Well, I'll type 'Recruitment GG' at the end of the stream, okay?"

"Since the streamer is currently juggling multiple roles and is quite busy, there is an urgent need for manpower to help share some of the workload, so we have specially recruited an operations manager to handle this."

"My job is to help the streamer manage these game accounts in China. The requirements are to have a certain understanding of account management, to understand the national conditions of China and Japan, and to be able to read, write and use both languages ​​fluently."

"Excellent compensation package! Those interested are welcome to apply through the host's business contact information!"

After saying that, ignoring the barrage of question marks and "I will never tolerate cowards" in the comments, he awkwardly chose to end the broadcast.

"Damn it, I haven't played LOL in so long since I transmigrated, I'm really rusty—" Sakurada Jun made up an excuse for himself with a flushed face. Just as he was about to take a break, there was a knock on the door.

Who could be knocking on the door at this hour? Could it be that Hideaki Takizawa watched the live stream and came knocking on the door?

Thinking about the potential damage that live stream might have caused to his idol's image, Sakurada Jun moved to the doorway feeling somewhat guilty.

When he opened the door, he saw Ze Muqing looking at him timidly with her innocent big eyes.

"Xiao Qing? What are you doing here?" Sakurada Jun was taken aback.

"Let's go to class!"

"But we don't have classes today, do we?"

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