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Chapter 341 A Good Start
🕑 Added 2025-05-23 14:33:04 +0000 UTCWhen the Japanese Oscars were first held, they attracted a lot of interest from the audience because of their grand publicity and hype.
It’s a pity that as the controlling nature of the Japanese Oscars has been exposed, the audience for the Japanese Oscars, which has never had any suspense, has been shrinking.
In order to save the increasingly dismal ratings, NHK really put a lot of thought into this year's Japanese Oscars.
The first thing was to hype up Washimine and Hayashibo, that is, the war between "Fate" and "Sanchome", and to create a hot topic before the ceremony began.
Then, the award ceremony was made to be particularly lively, whether it was the grand red carpet ceremony at the beginning or the extremely gorgeous stage layout. While showing off NHK's wealth, it also made people feel that this year's Japanese Oscars was different from previous years in terms of face-saving project.
Of course, the biggest difference in style from previous events was that the organizers invited Fujimura Taiga, a female comedian who is currently very well-known in the Japanese entertainment industry, to be the host.
Although from Nanaya's point of view, it is a bit inappropriate to let a comedian participate in such a serious award ceremony.
But judging from the reactions of other people at the scene, they didn't seem to think anything was wrong.
Many movie stars with low sense of humor even laughed out loud.
"Hello everyone~ Do you still recognize me? I am the gentle and lovely Taiga Fujimura~"
Taiga was still the same, her voice full of energy, she slammed the tiger bamboo sword into the stage and shouted loudly to the movie stars in the audience.
"Let me tell you, I just had a super interesting adventure. I'll show it to you right here so you can admire my handsome and heroic appearance!"
As Taiga opened the show with her own unique signature performance, a video began playing on the big screen on the stage.
This video is a clip from this year's Japanese Oscar-nominated films, except that Taiga appears in all of them.
At award ceremonies like this, it's very common to play videos of the presenters edited into a movie, but usually they just cut the person into the clip or change their head and that's it.
However, this video of Taiga is very different from ordinary videos.
Because her style is different in each movie. For example, in "North Year Zero", Taiga wore a very vulgar cotton jacket and looked like a country girl; in "Nana", she replaced the heroine; and in "3-Chome", Taiga simply rolled around in the form of a line drawing, and even the dimension was different.
When it comes to the fate section, the selected clip is the scene where Taiga and Saber fight with bamboo swords in the dojo to decide whether Saber can live in Emiya's house.
Everyone knows that in this plot, Taiga was treated very badly.
But in the clip, after Taiga lost twice in a row, Taiga, wearing a dojo uniform, suddenly jumped out from the side.
Anyone who knows a little about Taiga knows that this is the costume of Tiger in her exclusive program [Tiger Dojo]. Many viewers who watched the live broadcast on TV burst into laughter when they saw Taiga in this look.
"You useless fellow!"
In the clip, Taiga pointed at his Fate self lying on the ground and shouted, "You can't even beat a mere Servant. What's the use of you? Watch me!"
Taiga said as he rushed towards Saber with the Tiger Bamboo Sword in hand.
Then he was killed in one move.
“Damn it!”
Tiger knelt on the floor of the dojo, holding the tiger bamboo sword with one hand. She raised her hand to wipe the wound at the corner of her mouth.
"Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous!"
Tiger was talking complete nonsense, and then she roared very powerfully.
"Disciple number one!"
Just like when the villain can’t defeat the protagonist and he summons his minions, Tiger directly calls out for his helpers.
"Yes, Master!"
Following a youthful answer, Illya, wearing a dojo uniform, also appeared in the video. She also held a tiger bamboo sword in her hand, but for some reason, a pair of sports shorts was hanging on the blade of the bamboo sword.
"Come on, I in this world and Disciple No. 1! Let's drive this woman of unknown origin out of the Emiya residence together!"
Then the two Taiga and Illya simultaneously raised their bamboo swords (Illya's sword was still covered with sports shorts) and rushed towards Saber -
Then all three of them were killed instantly by Saber.
“This is nonsense! Disappear! Excalibur——!”
In the video, Lily directly unfolded the holy sword and fired a beam of light directly at the Tiger Dojo trio.
“No—!”
Amidst a miserable scream, the entire video screen turned white.
Although the Tiger Dojo trio's fate in the video was very tragic, their funny and exaggerated expressions made them look more like a crosstalk, and the people in the audience applauded and laughed.
"Is this the clip of your trouble?"
Shion asked Nanaya quietly in between applause.
"Yeah, not only this segment was prepared specifically for the Japanese Oscars, but there were also commercials for several actors that I shot as well." Nanaya nodded in acknowledgement, "It's a pity that the sunscreen commercial hasn't been filmed yet because UBW hasn't been released yet."
"Are you still struggling with that thing?"
A drop of cold sweat ran down Shion's temple. Of course, she had heard about Nanaya's idea of paying attention to the Unlimited Blade sunscreen advertisement, but she originally thought it was just a joke. She didn't expect that Nanaya really planned to make it into a commercial.
"Of course." Nanaya replied mercenarily, "Advertising is a good business that pays back quickly. Look, the Transformers project has just been launched and they have already received tens of millions of dollars in advertising fees."
Shion shook her head and said, "I think you should finish our own commercial first. Will will be released in November this year. Remember to find time to shoot the concept commercial for the game console."
Although Washimine's current-generation console JGC has managed to maintain its position by relying on diversified entertainment operations, it will never be possible for him to make a comeback with this console.
So naturally, when the current generation of game consoles entered its final stage, Washimine turned his attention to the next generation of consoles.
At present, the development of will has been basically finalized, and most of the first games have been basically confirmed, and it is time to enter the promotion period.
According to the promotional strategy for the game console formulated by Washimine's game department, Satoru decided to announce the console and the epoch-making somatosensory control handle that comes with the console at this year's E3 exhibition.
In order to achieve the best publicity effect, Satoru hopes that Shion will ask Washimine Entertainment to shoot a promotional concept video of will and play it at E3.
In order to save costs, Shion plans to let Nanaya shoot this commercial.
After all, having a world-class director shoot an advertisement for a game console is a topic in itself that is very worthy of discussion.
There are many people who started out in the advertising industry and later became big-name film directors. Michael Bay and Zack Snyder both followed this path.
However, Nanaya, who has become a famous director, turned to shooting commercials, which is something that is rarely seen.
It's like an actor who has already made a name for himself in the film industry returning to the small screen TV drama platform, which is a very rare situation.
From this we can see that Shion and her husband, a director, are also capitalist types who only care about money.
"Don't worry, I've already thought of a similar concept." Nanaya said confidently, "It happens to require a lot of actors from FZ and FSN, so when the crew starts filming, we can just shoot it right away."
"Okay." Shion nodded and she focused her attention back on the stage.
At this time, Taiga on the stage was scratching her head helplessly. She said helplessly: "Oh, that last one was really too tragic."
"It's all because you are useless, Master!" Illya, who was standing next to Taiga, hit Taiga on the head with a knife.
Nanaya didn't notice when Illya came on stage. It seemed that she secretly walked onto the stage from behind the scenes when everyone's attention was focused on the video.
As a result, this year's Japanese Oscars ceremony became a rare two-host format.
"Why didn't I see Illya? I thought she was sitting with her parents." Nanaya shook his head helplessly, "Are we here to watch the award ceremony or the crosstalk..."
Looking at the two comedians who had already started performing manzai on the stage, Nanaya was really speechless.
Fortunately, Taiga and Illya did not forget their jobs. After performing a short impromptu crosstalk, they invited last year's Best Supporting Actor Joe Odagiri as the award presenter.
"Then the first award will be for Best Supporting Actress!"
With a gentle smile, Odagiri Joe gave the award speech to everyone: "Although the supporting actresses are not the center of the film, it is their outstanding performances that prevent the protagonists from having to perform a lonely one-man show. Regardless of supporting roles or protagonists, they are all participants in the filmmaking."
Odagiri Joe paused for a moment, then said, "Then, the nominees for the Best Supporting Actress Award are Yakushimaru Hiroko (Sanchome), Yoshinaga Yukari (Fate), Ohkusu Michiyo (Spring Snow), Ishihara Satomi (North Year Zero), and Terajima Shinobu (Tokyo Tower)."
Every time a name was announced, the actress whose name was called walked up to the award stage.
In fact, when Nanaya applied for the Best Supporting Actress, she nominated three people in total, Lily, Yukari and Sakura, but it was Yukari who was finally nominated.
Since Sakura has too little screen time, we can only say that there is nothing we can do.
However, the judging panel deliberately let go of Lily, who was very popular in Europe and the United States, and instead kowtowing Sayuri Yoshinaga's niece.
Although Nanaya himself believed that Yukari was indeed better than Lily in terms of acting skills, he could still feel the xenophobia in the Japanese entertainment industry.
"Then the winner of Best Supporting Actress is——"
Odagiri Joe put the microphone to his lips, and after whetting everyone's appetite, he said: "Fate Stay Night - Yoshinaga Yukari!"
