I push the kid!

Ogura Yuki continued, "You go to the theater every day, but you've never noticed the billboards on the roadside stores?"

"Absolutely not."

"Tsk." She patted her forehead and sighed, "Why do you think this unpopular comic adaptation has such a high popularity?"

"It turns out that it's not just because of the producers helping with the promotion." Makimura Taku thought.

“No matter how well-connected a producer is, it’s impossible for a comic adaptation starring three newcomers to be on the Twitter trending list for two or three days in a row, right?”

Makimura Taku confessed: "It's mainly because I didn't pay much attention to it."

"Can't you search yourself?"

"Why are you saying that?"

"Also?" Ogura Tomoki asked, and then she opened her mouth again, "Forget it, you idiot, I guess even if I ask you, you will probably just say 'because I'm not interested in this kind of thing', 'why bother doing this kind of thing', etc..." She imitated Makimura Taku's tone, "Just think of it as me quietly doing good things."

"I am also the lead actor..."

"It's really hard to hear some compliments from you."

Makimura Taku didn't know whether he should laugh or not, but the sight of Ogura Tomoki deliberately saying this in a complaining tone was indeed quite cute.

"Thank you, Miss Youxi. Thank you."

Ogura Yuki was stunned: "Let me make it clear in advance, I want to hear compliments, not words of thanks."

"So handsome."

"Do you think I'm a boy?" asked Tomoki Ogura dissatisfiedly.

They didn't chat for a long time, and when "The Disappearance of the Boring Girlfriend" was about to be aired, Tomoki Ogura said goodbye and idiot for the last time, and then he really died.

Taku Makimura leaned on the sofa and looked at the time. It was exactly eleven o'clock.

He turned on the TV and switched the channel to TV Tokyo. Both girls sent him messages - "It's about to start!", "Let me finish watching the show before going to bed."

He replied in unison: "Understood."

The series begins: a sunny spring day, a bicycle riding up a slope, cherry blossoms falling on the roadside, and a white beret rolling down.

【One day in spring, I met destiny again. 】

[The warm sunshine shines, the warm breeze blows, and the long slope where cherry blossom petals dance. 】

[Also, there is a girl standing on the slope. ]

[A girl whose name I don't know and I've never met before. ]

[The anticipation of a new opportunity made my heart leap with joy, at that moment...]

【At that time, I fell in love for the first time. 】

The shooting technique is not very sophisticated, but it produces an unrivaled quality that can be called a first-class work.

The twenty-five-minute plot, including the opening and ending credits, ended at about eleven-thirty.

The next day, July 11, was around six in the morning.

Taku Makimura turned off the alarm clock, got up, went to the bathroom to wash up carefully, and returned to the living room.

Bright light shone in from the window. He turned on his phone to check the weather forecast. It was going to be a sunny day after the plum rain.

There was an unfinished carton of milk in the refrigerator. He took it out, filled a cup, and swallowed it together with toast with strawberry jam as breakfast.

Just as he was about to listen to the English radio for a while, Katsaya Kaburagi called him.

"Mr. Producer, what's wrong?"

"You really didn't disappoint me, kid." Kaburagi Katsuya's voice sounded quite happy. "We filmed the first episode of the show last night, and the response was quite good. Now there is a lot of discussion about you on the Internet."

"Really? I haven't seen it yet..." said Taku Makimura.

"Hey, as an artist, you can't even search for yourself?" Kaburagi Katsuya asked him, "Even if you are not interested, as long as you open social media, you should be able to see your name listed there, right?"

"Because I just woke up and haven't had time yet."

"You're really calm, Makimura," Kaburagi Katsuya smiled, "As a newcomer, shouldn't you have been checking the internet since last night to see if there are any discussions about yourself? Even if you refresh the comment section under the broadcast every three seconds, I don't find it strange at all."

"It's too exaggerated."

"No, no, this is perfectly normal."

Although it was Thursday, Kaburagi Katsuya told him that all training arrangements for the remaining days of the week were cancelled.

On the one hand, it is to give the three people some time to relax after the filming, and on the other hand, it is to adjust their future training plans and programs.

The broadcast effect of "The Disappearance of the Boring Girlfriend" is better than expected, and it is very likely that it will receive a number of recording invitations for programs in the next month, whether it is a film and television drama or a variety show.

"That's the current situation."

"I understand." Makimura Taku hung up the phone.

He opened Twitter and saw that The Disappearance of the Boring Girlfriend was still number one in the island country’s trending rankings.

Looking down, Hoshino Ai's name is in third place, followed by Ogura Tomoki, whose name is in fifth place.

Makimura Taku groaned, twisted his neck, chose a comfortable position to sit on the sofa, and browsed through the contents on the trend one by one.

"A comic adaptation that exceeded expectations." Under the bold title was a paragraph of content, "I am a fan of the original comics, and I was quite surprised when I heard that it was going to be adapted into a TV series. But then I found out that the cast was all new, so I didn't think it was strange. I just hope that the work won't be ruined too much. I didn't expect... well, the acting skills and appearance of the leading actors are both online, and the content not only restores the original work, but also exceeds the original in some places. Don't be too surprised..."

"Looks good." Short review.

"very funny!"

"I'm following the whole drama for one male lead. Where did the director find this handsome guy?"

"If it keeps this standard, I will keep watching it. By the way, are these leading actors really new?"

“Give me an update ASAP!!”

"No one is complaining about the heroine? She's pretty, but if she's too pretty, she won't fit the description of a 'passerby heroine' at all..."

The reply to the above comment: "Without this level of beauty, I wouldn't even click in..."

There are also many negative reviews: "It's not good to look at."

"What's so interesting about it? There's no fantasy element involved, so there's nothing to watch. If it doesn't work, just add the suspense tag to the campus theme."

"Not for my age."

"I felt nothing during the whole show. One star is for the female lead. She has a nice smile and beautiful eyes."

Most of the people who commented on the topic of Hoshino Ai's name are fans who love her looks.

Many people also mentioned that her smile has a special appeal, giving people a feeling of being bathed in spring breeze.

There weren't many people praising his acting skills, but there were quite a few complaints, and some even refuted these comments.

Makimura Taku looked at it for a while, then clicked on Ogura Tomoki's topic, which was full of off-topic content -

"It is said that this person is very rich?"

"I searched for some information and didn't expect that it was a daughter of a wealthy family who was acting in the play. No wonder there were so many advertisements about it before."

"I want to be kept." The reply below: "It's so funny, I can't even dream of such a good thing."

"Sister Youxi, please step on me, thank you." Reply: "Where are you from? Go to the back and line up."

Discussions about acting and plot rarely come up.

Makimura Taku clicked on his own topic.

"Why is Makimura the best male protagonist of the year? First of all..."

Chapter 96 The Tricked Man

Chapter 96 95. The one being fooled

At around eight o'clock, Taku Makimura finished washing the clothes manually and hung them all out on the windowsill where the sun was shining.

I just dried my hands with paper and was about to go to the library to read Daniel Keyes's "Flowers for Algernon".

Hoshino Ai sent him a message, asking if they could meet at noon, around 11:30, any place was fine.

When asked if Makimura Takuai had something urgent to do, Hoshino Ai said no, but they would come out over there.

"Watanabe Mai?"

"Yes." Hoshino Ai replied, "If you are free, can you come out at noon?"

Makimura Taku was a little confused.

If it was just Hoshino Ai who invited him, he would just consider it a date.

But when it comes to people like Mai Watanabe and Ritsuko Ninomiya, he can't think of what they can get together to do.

While I was hesitating, the doorbell suddenly rang.

He didn't reply to the message for the time being, and ran to the entrance to open the door.

Tomoki Ogura, wearing a white round-neck top with black letters printed on it and high-waisted denim hot pants, hugged her chest and looked at him from the doorway.

She wore a light yellow sunhat on her head, and her long hair fell straight down like when they first met.

Makimura Taku looked at her and felt that her hair was longer than before.

I can’t tell how much it has grown exactly. It was just up to my shoulders originally, but now it’s gone past them and has probably sunk to my collarbone.

"I have something to talk to you about." She said before entering the door.

"what?"

"Go downstairs first."

"I was just about to..."

"Can you please stop being so fussy?"

After saying this, Tomoki Ogura turned around without giving Taku Makimura any chance to refuse, looking like a decisive young lady from a wealthy family.

While thinking that if he pretended not to hear and just closed the door, would Ogura Tomoki come back and kick the door in two minutes, Makimura Taku changed his shoes at the entrance and left the house carrying the garbage.

Before going down to the first floor, Hoshino Ai sent another message, asking if it was okay to meet at noon. If possible, let's meet at the cafe first.

Taku Makimura typed some messages and deleted them, and finally replied that he was not sure yet, but if he went, he would tell her at ten o'clock at the latest.