Tatsuya Hirakawa and the three of them had already accumulated a lot of songs when they were active in the underground music circle as ABNORMAL.

During the hiatus of the band's activities and the reorganization of ZARD, they never stopped creating.

With so many songs in reserve, it's more than enough to make a full-fledged album.

The production team led by Shinichi Iwahashi and the members of the band had to select songs from dozens of demos that were suitable for inclusion on the same album.

After that, Sachiko Kamaike, who was assigned as a lyricist, was responsible for writing the lyrics for the song, and the members of the band were responsible for arranging the song.

Getting the piece ready is the first step, and there are still a lot of issues that need to be addressed before you can officially enter the studio.

Whether it's studio work that has just been signed or a co-juku trip to Karuizawa is the preparation before the official start begins.

An important feature of the band is their ability to create and produce on their own.

Therefore, the band members have more say in the style of the band than the average singer, and they have more autonomy in the production of the songs, they can decide the lyrics on the day they enter the studio, change the lyrics on the way to the recording, overturn the arrangements that have been made, and anything can happen.

A healthy band is a complete production team. If you have the ability to change, you will have the confidence to change.

Because of this characteristic of the band, the orthodox band puts independent production in the first place.

While there is no hard and fast rule that bands should never sing lyrics from other people, many bands collaborate with outside parties.

However, there are prerequisites for this freedom. It is based on the premise that the band itself has complete production capabilities and a fixed style.

If you have to rely on outside songwriters and arrangers, such a band will be seen as a "performance band".

Of course, even if it is a "performance band", it relies on external production in the early stage, and if it can complete the transformation through learning in the later stage, it will also transform gorgeously.

I am not afraid of a low starting point and poor ability when I debut, but I am afraid that I will always be content with the status quo.

......

The recording equipment was delivered to Watanabe's Manyumi villa in Karuizawa, where everything was ready, just waiting for the band and crew to move in.

Tatsuya Hirakawa and the three musicians are very familiar with each other, but they are polite and unfamiliar with Sachiko Kamaike.

However, this politeness comes from the strangeness that they have just met, and when they actually work together, the three musicians of the band have a good impression of the new lead singer.

From Haruko Akamatsu to Sachiko Kamaike, the band's two lead singers are outstanding beauties. However, beauty is a plus in the band, not a decisive item, and if you want to gain a firm foothold in the band and gain the recognition of your teammates, you still rely on strength and brains.

Sachiko Kamaike is a serious and solid person, with a good personality, not squeamish at all, and has the style of an athlete.

Although she is an outstanding beauty, when discussing work with her, her down-to-earth steadiness makes people put her beauty in a secondary position and focus on her thoughts and opinions.

Although she is a layman halfway, there are still many things to learn, and when she has a meeting, she dares to put forward even unrealistic layman's opinions, and she will boldly ask what she doesn't understand.

The three musicians of the band, in the face of such a new lead singer, all have a rather profound feeling of "finding the right person". Once I recognize her in my heart, I am willing to work with her and work hard to improve the integrity and tacit understanding of the band.

And one of the great benefits of Sachiko Kamaike's lyrics is also reflected at this time.

A complete song is indispensable for lyrics and songwriting. The composition and arrangement were handed over to the band, the lyrics were assigned to Sachiko Kamaike, the lyrics had to be in line with the tune, and the lyrics and the song had to be mutually recognized, so there had to be enough communication between the four of them.

A band can't be without any one person. As long as this matter is established, this complete production team can continue to operate healthily.

"Healthy operation", as long as it can be done, is enough.

The relationship between the members of the band is like this, don't deliberately pursue any intimacy and friendship.

The kind of buddy band that has been together since the beginning and decided to form a team because of a good relationship, or a band like him and Miwa-chan who are guardians and wards.

In most bands, as long as the members can be colleagues with a good relationship, it is already good to be able to work hard in one place, and there is no need to make friends. It doesn't matter what it's like outside of work.

......

On Monday of the new week, the band members, along with their staff, set off for Karuizawa.

Shinichi Iwahashi is busy in Tokyo, and even though he is a producer, it is impossible for him to spend every day with the band in Karuizawa. As the representative of the producer when he was not present, this time the staff of the production team followed.

The staff member is to record the progress of the band and report back to Shinichi Iwahashi.

Of course, it's not like throwing things to others like this, and every day or two, Iwahashi Shinichi has to go to Karuizawa to check the progress, have a meeting with the members, and ask for some opinions and find faults, so that they don't let themselves go.

On Monday, which was also the beginning of the new week, the members and staff of the band set off early in the morning, and Shinichi Iwahashi sat in the conference room of the record company to start the meeting at the beginning of the week.

After the record company was established and the band's Heavenly Kingdom entered a stable operation stage, Shinichi Iwahashi stopped attending Monday's summary meeting, and only attended the discussion meeting after that.

After the meeting on the record company's side, Shinichi Iwahashi returned to the office, and the clerk conveyed to him that Manyumi Watanabe had called.

Iwahashi Shin looked at the time and called back.

After Watanabe answered the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi said to her, "I just finished a meeting here. ”

Watanabe Manyumi on the other side of the phone replied similarly, "When I called you, I had just finished a meeting. ”

Getting such a reply made him laugh.

"What's the matter?" Iwahashi asked her.

"There's something to discuss with you. Watanabe said, "Originally, it was a matter from the office, but before that, wasn't there an actor training class? Izumi Inamura and Asami Mizuno both received acting training as students in the first phase. ”

"Oh. Iwahashi listened.

When it came to the affairs of the firm, he did not ask about the position. However, since Watanabe Manyumi took the initiative to tell him about the firm, the conversation would definitely turn to matters related to his interests.

This is the tacit understanding accumulated through cooperation all the time.

Asami Mizuno is now working as a magazine model, and after that, she is going to take on the role of a TV series...... Her development route has been planned, and an exclusive agent is in charge. "Watanabe Manyumi came the same.

"Then there's Izumi Inamura. It's true that actors have to hone their roles from small roles, but," she said, "I took a fancy to one and wanted to buy the rights to adapt the film and let her play the heroine." ”

"What?" Shinichi Iwahashi was genuinely surprised.

"Since we want to make a movie, the movie also has a theme song, a promotional song, and so on. Shen Yijun always emphasized the role of 'publicity' before, and I thought that I could use ZARD's tune as the theme song of the movie. ”

Watanabe Manyumi said that, and the topic really turned to the band again.

Although ZARD's agent is not in U-MIZ at Sage Office, she is the largest shareholder of the record company, and if the band can become popular, it will be undesirable for Watanabe Manyumi.

Now, when I was planning to make a film, I was thinking about how to make the most of my resources.

...... That's right.

However, Iwahashi Shinichi and Watanabe Manyumi, who made a movie for Izumi Inamura, praised her, and the accident was still greater than everything. In contrast, the things she mentioned about letting ZARD sing the theme song of the movie were put aside first.

After a while, he finished digesting Watanabe's thoughts, and then began to ask, "What is it?"

As a result, Watanabe Manyumi sold a pass, "Do you have time after that?" It's a bit troublesome to talk about on the phone. Let's meet and talk about it, okay?"

Iwahashi Shinichi flipped through the itinerary, "I'll go to Kawasaki's office later, I'm going to Shinano-cho in the afternoon, and I'm going to ...... in the evening" paused, "It shouldn't be inconvenient to talk while eating, right?"

When Watanabe heard this, she smiled, "It's perfect for chatting while eating." ”

When she said this, Shinichi Iwahashi was a little curious.

The two agreed on a time and place to meet. Putting down the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi sat there, pondering for a moment, wondering what kind of medicine was going to be sold in Watanabe Manyumi's gourd.

Not to mention anything else, with the current tragic situation of the film market, making movies is really a high-risk and low-reward thing. This point, Watanabe Manyumi must be clearer than Iwahashi Shinichi.

Knowing this, he still has to do it, which makes Iwahashi Shinichi scratch his head.

......

Anyway, the answer will be revealed in the evening. He couldn't think of a clue, so he simply didn't want to. Pack up, leave the record company, and go to Kawasaki's office to take care of the work there.

The office on Kawasaki's side will not expire until the end of the year, and the search for a new house has already begun, and it is still Terahashi who entrusts Kanzaki Real Estate. During this period, Iwahashi Shinichi had to continue to run at both ends, which was troublesome.

It's also interesting to say that when I chose Kawasaki as the company address, I didn't think much of it, but once I had a plan to change places, I started to feel hard about running from Tokyo to the suburbs.

People are monsters.

When he got to Kawasaki, the clerk brought him the accumulated letters. Iwahashi Shinichi was in this and saw a letter from Akina Nakamori.

If you check the postmark, it will undoubtedly be sent after the meeting that night.

When he opened the letter, it contained the "tasting impression card" that he had attached when he sent the record before.

Seeing this piece of paper, Shinichi Iwahashi remembered the night she was sent home, and she said how she looked when she had to answer the questionnaire carefully since she had received it.

On the return letter in her hand, she also confirmed that it was serious, and filled it with her freewheeling handwriting.

Iwahashi Shinichi carefully read the impressions she wrote, and on the one hand, I felt the seriousness of her personality, and on the other hand, from her feelings, I also realized from her unique vision of music as a singer.

In addition to the tasting impressions of the children in the shopping street, the letter also has the same whimsical idea as before, Akina Nakamori's east and west sentences, which match her freewheeling handwriting.

She writes about the fact that she has been watching the band Heaven, and from the Band Heaven to the band that Shinichi Iwahashi is making.

Shinichi Iwahashi looked at what she had written about the band and remembered that night, Akina Nakamori held out her hand to him and high-fived him.

After Iwahashi Shinichi slapped her palm, Akina Nakamori didn't say anything more, said goodnight to him, and then got out of the car and walked into the apartment.

......

There are various ways to celebrate, and high-fives are the only way for him and Akina Nakamori to understand.

Iwahashi imagined that when she learned in the letter that he had opened a record label, she might have been thinking about when she would meet him and celebrate like this.

Imagine that she unexpectedly met with him that night because of Yukiko Okada, and had dinner with him again. From meeting to sending her home, I kept thinking about finding the right opportunity, but it was delayed until the moment I got out of the car.

Waiting for the right moment with the idea of wanting to celebrate, and then stretching out his palm.

Iwahashi Shinichi hit it from the bottom of his heart, and thought that such a Nakamori Akina was quite cute.

However, when he thought of the way to celebrate, he suddenly remembered that he was also celebrating the establishment of the record company, and the way he celebrated with Akina Nakamori was a high-five, and the way to celebrate with Manyumi Watanabe was to shake hands.

Akina Nakamori, who naughtily stretches out her palm, and Manyumi Watanabe, who maintains restraint at all times.

In the evening, what kind of topic is Watanabe going to talk about, what is she going to shoot, how is she going to shoot, what is she going to do?

Once you hold that hand, you have to keep this pace with Watanabe Manyumi.

Shinichi Iwahashi retracted his thoughts, put aside the questions that could only wait for Watanabe to be answered, and refocused his attention on the letterhead.

At the end of the letter, Akina Nakamori wrote down the address of her apartment.

Shinichi Iwahashi took out his itinerary book and copied the addresses. After that, I put Akina Nakamori's letter in an envelope and put it aside, and I took care of the work at hand first.

Wait until the backlog is taken care of, and you can finally be free.

At this time, Iwahashi Shinichi took the letter again and read it again. Then, he found the letter paper, picked up the pen, and wrote a reply to Akina Nakamori.

After writing the letter, he filled in the new sending address on the envelope against the address he had written down.

I was just about to fold the letter and put it in the envelope, when I remembered that there was something I hadn't done yet. Then he took up his pen and wrote the address of his apartment in the letter.

Then, the letter was put into the envelope again.

......

On this day, Iwahashi Shinichi was busy. In the evening, when he finally got out of work, he went to the restaurant he had made an appointment on time.