354. The Wide World
With a circulation of nearly 500,000 copies of a comprehensive magazine, the publicity effect of such an article is undoubtedly huge.
Even if you remove the readers who have no interest in this section, the readers who don't pay any attention to the music, and the readers who don't react after reading it...... And so on and so forth, and in the end, the remaining readers who are curious about Chisato Moritaka and are willing to take action and satisfy this curiosity themselves can have one-tenth of these 500,000, which is quite a considerable number.
This is an unprecedented advertisement.
Who is Chisato Moritaka and how can he impress Kichiichiro Kawabata and inspire him to write this article and get him so praised?
The ancestral idol Nanshaori is beautiful and will always remain in people's youthful memories, which is a "fact" that does not need to be said, therefore, no matter how Kawabata Kichiichiro praises Nanshaori, or because Nanshaori gets inspiration, for the public, there is a trace of naturalness.
Who doesn't like that kind of Nansha weaving?
But Chisato Moritaka is different. The name seems so unfamiliar, she covered the famous song of her eternal idol Nanshaori, and it was bold to cover the famous song, but that Kawabata Kichiichiro actually praised her like that, and it can even be said that he gained inspiration from her.
What is her charm and what kind of magic is she?
Is she really as good as Kichiichiro Kawahata writes in his article, or is it just Kichiichiro Kawahata's momentary sensibility?
Shingo Nakagawa, an employee of a communications company, had such a question in his mind.
Shingo Nakagawa is twenty-four years old, and this is his second year with the company.
His family is an ordinary working-class person in Gunma Prefecture, and in addition to his parents and him, he has an older brother who is six years older than him and a younger sister who is four years younger.
My brother has a good mind and is good at sports, and he is the so-called Fengyun in school. In contrast, his younger brother's, although his grades are average and upper, are quite good, but they are not as easy as his brother's, and his physical education is average, so he hates physical education classes the most.
When I was young, I had a big family of five people, and I relied on my father to support the family alone, and the economic conditions were not well-off, and Shingo Nakagawa had to wear the clothes worn by my brother. The elder brother is physically strong, and his clothes look empty when he wears it on Shingo Nakagawa, as if to tell outsiders that Shingo Nakagawa is not as good as his brother.
All kinds of excellent brothers, on the one hand, Nakagawa Shingo is very respectful, on the other hand, ill-fitting clothes, and all kinds of little things in life, also make Nakagawa Shingo often feel unconvinced, thinking about how to do it, when can I win my brother once?
My brother, who had excellent grades, was later admitted to a university in Tokyo, but when he was about to find a job, the aftermath of the oil crisis was still lingering, the economy was sluggish, and it was difficult to find a job.
Shingo Nakagawa was in his hometown in Gunma, and he heard from his parents about his brother's employment, and while he was a little secretly and despicably happy because his brother was deflated, he was happy that he had found a suitable job.
However, behind the cheerfulness and joy, there is a deep fear - even my brother is so difficult, what will he do when he takes office?
However, when Shingo Nakagawa also went to study at university in Tokyo, the world quietly changed. By the time he approached his inauguration, he had entered an unprecedented era.
The sluggish era was perfectly avoided, and the golden age unfolded before him. You don't have to bother looking for a job yourself, but there are multiple companies that come to your door to eat and drink well, just to sign a letter of intent with him.
Both brothers are now in Tokyo, and Shingo Nakagawa sometimes goes to his brother's house for dinner, and when he talks about the current situation, his brother always laughs and says that he is lucky.
Is it lucky? Shingo Nakagawa does not deny it. But isn't luck part of the equation?
In sumo wrestling matches, a weak fighter may be able to successfully challenge a fighter who is several times stronger than himself, and isn't this the greatest charm of sumo wrestling?
The time and place are favorable, and Shingo Nakagawa believes that standing at this high starting point, the reversed life starts here.
Among the companies that reached out to him, he chose his current company, and when he joined the company, he bought a car in installments and rented it to live a chic life in Tokyo. The company organizes yacht banquets from time to time, and he and his colleagues socialize with the company's dispatched staff and go disco dancing together.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, every night is colorful.
Shingo Nakagawa is full of gratitude for this era that has allowed him to regain his self-confidence, and he is moved by Kichiichiro Kawahata's description of the era, and because of this, his curiosity about Chisato Moritaka is even deeper.
Curiosity leads to action、This is the era when my ability to act is higher than ever。
When Nansha weaving was popular, he was still a primary school student. saw her singing and dancing in a MINI skirt on TV, and from the bottom of my heart, I felt that Nansha weaving was beautiful and cute, which was longing.
And the elder brother, who is about to enter high school, is a real fan of Nansha weaving, and will save money to buy her tapes, and the two brothers share the same room, and the elder brother pastes the poster of Nansha weaving on his wall.
Now in the curiosity of Sentaka Chisa, is there also a refusal to admit defeat to his brother?
On the day I read Kichichiro Kawahata's article, Shingo Nakagawa went to the record store and found this "17 Years Old" by Chisato Moritaka. When I got home, I put the record in the record player.
When the rhythmic prelude sounded, Shingo Nakagawa thought to himself, what a kindness!
It's kindness, not nostalgia. This arrangement makes people find no trace of relevance to "17 Years Old" seventeen years ago, but closely follows the current fashion, without the slightest sense of outdated, old-fashioned, nostalgic or anything like that.
After the prelude, the voice of Chisato Moritaka came out.
The melody is still a familiar one, but, with a new arrangement, it seems to have become a new song. Shingo Nakagawa didn't even feel like he was listening to an old song from seventeen years ago, but as if he was listening to a new song that had just appeared.
However, in this "new song", there is a subtle shadow of the past.
Listening to such "17 Years Old", he can understand why Kichiichiro Kawahata can have such feelings. This is an unprecedented era, and only such an era can make "17 Years Old" shine again.
My brother's favorite Nansha weaving is outdated, and now is the era when you dance fast-paced and don't lose the beat.
If you are still like before, sooner or later you will be abandoned.
Listening to this song, Shingo Nakagawa seemed to see the self who had finally come out of the competition with his brother and stepped into the current wide world.
Senri Moritaka's "17 Years Old" is the "17 Years Old" in his heart.