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

Chapter 97 The Little Things About Enrolling (Part 1) (Seeking monthly votes and subscriptions!)

Time flies, and a month has passed in no time.

For Jun Sakurada, this past month has been rather uneventful, with few major ups and downs. It mainly involved pushing forward with the various projects and plans that had already been laid out.

Firstly, regarding games, Jun Sakurada's Hakimi Studio is finally no longer a lone force.

With the help of Hypergryph, Jun Sakurada recruited several recent graduates in China and set up Hakimi Studio.

The studio's only task at present is to populate content and fix bugs for Yokai Survivors, which is still in Early Access.

Originally, these were all Jun Sakurada's own jobs, but now he has too many things to take care of, so he has to hire a few more people to do the work.

Let's use the development of Yokai Survivors to give these greenhorns some practice. Once Sakurada Jun has blown up the cesspool, we can start developing some more substantial projects.

For example, the masterpiece "Joker" from 2024 swept almost every award that indie games could win and was nominated for multiple Game of the Year awards.

If it weren't for this mess in the entertainment industry, Jun Sakurada would probably already be developing Joker and striving to be the 2020 Indie Game of the Year.

As usual, Jun Sakurada maintained his generous attitude towards pay when running the studio, providing excellent benefits despite it being a small studio.

The group of workers, now fully motivated after receiving the money, were eager to make Hakimi Studios' name resound throughout the world...

Can you please not use the money you've received to buy merchandise of your boss's idol and hang it up like a Buddha statue?

In terms of live streaming, after a month, Jun Sakurada's channel has also begun to transform from a purely gaming channel into a comprehensive channel.

Regarding the special effects, Xu Feng himself is temporarily unable to appear on camera due to work commitments, but he recommended two heavyweight friends:

Amuse is associated with Kamen Rider Ooo, and features Hideki Watanabe, who plays Eiji Hino, and Ryosuke Miura, who plays Ankh.

OZ isn't particularly popular in China, but it's a high-quality work from the Heisei era, and Eiji Hino and Ankh are a pair that holds a very high place in the hearts of tokusatsu fans.

At this time, before the release of the OOO 10th Anniversary theatrical version, which is considered disgusting, being able to invite these two to the live stream is quite a surprise for the fans.

More and more fans are starting to call Jun Sakurada the "King of Japanese Connections".

In addition to this, Jun Sakurada also did another rather outrageous thing: speedrunning Sekiro.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the Game of the Year of 2019 and a masterpiece by Hidetaka Miyazaki, became a global sensation as soon as it was released. It is widely loved for its extremely difficult but visually stunning sword-fighting combat.

On his very first day streaming this game, Jun Sakurada pulled off an incredibly impressive feat:

In the plot-driven kill in the prologue, he directly triggered the hidden plot of defeating Genichiro Ashina in one go.

When Genichiro's two blood vessels were completely depleted, and he was forced to rely on a sneak attack to cut off the wolf's hand during the cutscene, the live stream room fell silent.

The first encounter was killed by Genichiro in the prologue, a plot-driven death? Is it open?

Actually, it wasn't activated. It was just the succubus's reflexes combined with my experience playing Sekiro in my previous life; that was all.

However, precisely because the game went too smoothly, without the suffering that most streamers experience, Jun Sakurada's Sekiro stream was only so-so in terms of entertainment value, and he didn't gain many new fans. Instead, his human identity was questioned by fans.

Johnny's Entertainment hasn't been in a hurry to give Jun Sakurada any new work lately. They just took him to take about ten idol-style photos and then told Jun Sakurada to wait for his paycheck.

Sakurada Jun, whose face was frozen from smiling, hadn't yet figured out what Takizawa Hideaki meant when he received the notification a few days later:

The merchandise featuring his headshot... no, to put it more elegantly, was snapped up by his enthusiastic fans.

All I can say is that Japanese girls who are obsessed with celebrities are actually terrifying.

As for recording the song, it took about a week of work. Vaundy and Jun Sakurada worked together to produce the revised version of "Dinner Song".

Compared to the original version, which is relatively simple in production and arrangement, Vaundy's version has a richer listening experience, but it doesn't lose the slightly naive core of the original Dinner Song.

In terms of sound quality and overall quality, it surpasses even the original version of the dinner song from Jun Sakurada's previous life.

It's safe to say that this chubby kid, who rose to the top of Japanese music purely through talent, truly defies the heavens.

But the chubby boy clearly had no concept of his own value, and was still happily grinning at the 800,000 yen salary plus 200,000 yen hard-earnings bonus that Sakurada Jun gave him.

A production cost of one million yen per song is a price that only top-tier professional studios can afford. For a college student to be able to get it is, in his opinion, an incredible stroke of luck.

His respect for Jun Sakurada has only grown deeper.

Little did he know that if Sakurada Jun came to him every night for even a year, this price wouldn't even be enough to buy a consultation opportunity, let alone a song.

However, after creating "Dinner Song," Jun Sakurada did not release it directly. Instead, he created a new account with the ID "Hachimi" and uploaded the song as a faceless singer.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows. Since Johnny's Entertainment has its eye on me, it's essential to prepare some countermeasures in advance.

Filming for "The Mystery of the Corpse Manor" has begun, and as an important actor, Jun Sakurada naturally attended the opening ceremony.

But at least for the next few days, his participation is not required for filming.

The scene currently being filmed is the main part of the murder case in the villa in the Corpse Manor Mystery Case.

Meanwhile, during this time, Kyosuke Akechi, played by Jun Sakurada... was probably wandering around outside the manor with countless zombies.

There will be content that requires his filming when we go on location in a few days.

It's quite a sight to see the second male lead reach this level.

Finally, as time went by, a problem, neither too big nor too small, began to appear before Jun Sakurada:

In Japan, the new school year begins in early April.

Although Jun Sakurada attends the Trait program at Horikoshi High School, he is no different from a regular high school student in terms of starting school.

He has to go to school.

……

"Good morning, Sakurada-san!"

"Good morning, teacher."

At the subway station entrance in Nakano Ward, Jun Sakurada's lips twitched uncontrollably as he looked at the teacher who greeted him.

When he came to class, he didn't take high school courses seriously. He thought, "It's just a private high school, what could be so special about it?"

Looking at it now, he realized he had never seen anything like it before.

Because there are specialized artist courses, nearly 5% of the students are professional artists, or celebrities, Horikoshi is quite strict in managing his students.

Especially in preventing early romantic relationships, they have been so strict as to be almost insane.

The routes from Nakano Ward subway station to the school are divided into six routes, with boys and girls from each of the three grades assigned to their own routes. There is no overlap between the routes, and students are strictly prohibited from taking the wrong route.

Every few dozen meters along the road, a teacher stands to supervise the students and prevent them from misbehaving, as well as to keep out paparazzi with ill intentions from coming up to interview them.

However, they don't seem to care much about being secretly filmed.

Even more miraculously, perhaps because of the extraordinary things he had done before enrolling in school,

Along the way, every teacher Jun Sakurada encountered greeted him warmly, only to be immediately bombarded with photos by paparazzi.

Jun Sakurada felt that his headshot would be appearing on the pages of various tabloids tomorrow.

"Although I had some expectations on the day I signed the contract, it's still hard to keep my composure when it gets this abstract..." Jun Sakurada muttered to himself.

"...Sakurada-kun?" Just then, a voice sounded from behind.

Sakurada Jun turned around and his gaze sharpened slightly.

Having traveled through time for so long, this is the first time I've encountered someone my age whom I have to look up to.

Wearing a Horikoshi school uniform and sporting blond hair, she clearly possessed a privilege reserved for celebrity students.

His height is estimated to be over 185cm, which would make him stand out in Japan, even making Sakurada Jun, who is 178cm, look slightly inferior.

However, looking at his distinctly exotic mixed-race face, his height doesn't seem so strange.

"...Raul of Snowman?" Jun Sakurada raised an eyebrow.

He recognized the man before him: Raul Murakami, the youngest of the Snowman brothers, who couldn't even pronounce his own English name correctly, calling Raul "Raoul the God of Gods."

"Nice to meet you, Sakurada-kun." Raulu took two steps forward and stood next to Sakurada Jun, speaking in a friendly tone: "I've played your 'Yokai Survivor,' and it's incredibly addictive."

Jun Sakurada narrowed his eyes slightly; he had done some research on the person in front of him.

Originally a member of the Johnny's Jr. group "Shonen Ninja", he was transferred to Snowman in January of this year by Hideaki Takizawa as a replacement for the dance team.

She is two months older than Jun Sakurada and is of Venezuelan descent.

In the memory of Johnny's that Jun Sakurada obtained, Raul, despite being in the shady group Snowman, had a surprisingly good reputation.

There are no concrete scandals, and very few gossip stories. The few scandals that do occur are due to speaking too bluntly during interviews, which is seen as disrespectful to seniors and leads to criticism.

Simply put, he's a straightforward person.

Jun Sakurada didn't have much affection for Snowman himself, but that was mainly directed at those few geniuses and unrecyclable trash led by Daisuke Sakuma.

Raulu didn't leave a bad impression on him, and considering that they would most likely be classmates in the future... he should still socialize with him.

"Murakami-kun, you're too kind. Thank you for your support of Studio Hakimi and Yokai Survivor... Is there anything I can help you with?"

Raul laughed and said, "No, it's just that we'll be classmates soon, and we're all Johnny's Jr., so I thought I'd get to know each other and make friends, which will be convenient for everyone in the future."

As he said this, Jun Sakurada was subtly observing Raul, but the latter remained quite natural, at least on the surface, nothing seemed amiss.

"...Then please guide me, Murakami-kun."

Please give me your guidance!