A few days after meeting with Yui Aragaki, a large-scale preparatory meeting was held with the entire crew.

The actors and directors who have cooperated many times, the company that has operated many times, and the unhesitating capital investment and the determination to work hard in one place, under so many advantages, the operation of the entire crew is very relaxed, the crew and the actors are as relaxed, plus Zhou Xiao specially paid for the lunch prepared for the crew Everyone chatted happily while eating, everyone felt that this may be a very happy and perfect drama, not that the plot of this drama is perfect. It's the filming process of this drama, which will be very happy and pleasant, and there are not many episodes that can do this.

In addition, in this "Legalhigh", there is another person who also participated in the whole filming, and this person is Reina Ono.

Ono, who is already scheduled to sing the theme song of this series, will also play a small cameo role in this drama.

At the beginning of the AKB, Ono and Maeda Oshima were the three most favored girls, and when the members of AKB first moved to the music company, these three people were also the first to be moved to Ota, the place most closely related to AKB, and the move of the three was regarded as the move of AKB's three ACEs at that time.

Such a Ono, coupled with the fact that she was not only not considered to be lower last year, but many people felt that it was not easy to achieve a final popularity ranking, Zhou Xiao gave her more opportunities, Ono in her previous life, in this drama, she only made a cameo appearance for a few seconds at the end, in this life, she will have a fixed role in the series, this role is not big, and it is at most half a minute in each episode, but this is enough for girls to be happy and excited, and there are not many AKB members who can star in Zhou Xiao's works, Before Ono. That is, Maeda Oshima and the like have this qualification, and it is difficult for others to get such good treatment even if they dream.

Now Ono, it can be said that she wants to make a show in this year's general election, and she actually knows very well that there are too many TOP members in AKB now, and the members in AKB feel that it is already very powerful to maintain last year's position, and there are constantly potential members coming in, but the older members have no intention of graduating, and there are more monks and less porridge. Every position seems so precious, even so, Ono still has the confidence and courage to move forward, this is because in the past year or so, the girl has received help and resources to get confidence, self-confidence, potential, coupled with Zhou Xiao's deliberate guidance from the operation, the girl is now even in the handshake party that she has not been good at in her previous life. also has a good enough appearance, so that the rice has completely recognized her popularity and position.

In the process of preparing for the new TV series, Zhou Xiao also took the time to care about another matter, which was considered small by many people at the time. It was incomprehensible why Zhou Xiao was interested in this, but he did just that.

Zhou Xiao cares about the ...... of his own website Mascot.

The Japanese are notoriously fond of mascots, as a very specialized industry. The economic benefits derived from the mascot every year are very huge.

In fact, it's not just mascots, like Pikachu, Sonic. Things derived from the game and animation industry, such as machine qì cats, also have great value.

Japan is a country that makes anything popular and popular into an entertainment industry, and the same is true for mascots, the audience for this thing is those women and children, so once it becomes popular, all kinds of derivative products are really sold softly, although it is difficult to become popular for a few years, but even if it is only a year or two years of popularity, it is very sufficient, and the popularity of this year or two, the money sold may be calculated in the level of billion, two billion.

And Zhou Xiaohui cared about the mascot market at this time, so he naturally took a fancy to this and wanted to take out the only mascot with super attraction in his mind.

This mascot is naturally the Funashi Fairy.

Originally born in 2011, the Funashi Fairy, in 12 to 13 years, created a legendary achievement, in just two years or so, the Funnashi Fairy conquered the Japanese audience with its interesting table, not only on the show to be soft, the most critical sales of various derivatives are also not inferior to those who have been famous for a long time, have their own animation and game works mascots.

But...... This thing can also be copied?

Usually speaking, the boat pear fairy is indeed not something that can be copied.

The birth of the Funashi fairy comes from two sources, one is the "funabashi" of Funabashi City, and the other is the "nashi" of the fruit pear that is abundant in Funabashi City.

Such a mascot will naturally have the appearance of a pear, and an external image spelled together by the two names of Funabashi City and Pear, if Zhou Xiao plagiarizes this image, how can he fulfill this lie? How do you find a reason for the appearance of the pear and the name of the funasshii?

If it is said that it is replaced by other mascots that become popular by their cute appearance or positioning, Zhou Xiao really can't plagiarize it, but this boat pear fairy is a little different, the thing created by Zhou Xiao will definitely not be called funasshii, and the appearance is definitely not the appearance of a yellow pear, what Zhou Xiao really wants to plagiarize is the positioning of this ship pear fairy and the way it became popular.

Generally, mascots or similar things are usually popular for two reasons, appearance, and whether the teacher is famous.

HelloKitty, Snoopy, Pikachu, Donald Duck...... Most of these images usually occupy one or both of these reasons.

But the funnashi fairy is different, what the hell is Funabashi City, the mascot from a small city, it must not be regarded as a famous teacher, in terms of appearance, an amateur person makes zuò, and even Funabashi City or Funabashi City is a mascot that many people in Funabashi City can't look down on.

But this strange pear is just red.

The popularity of the Funashi fairy, first of all, is that it is the efforts of this maker, after taking the official path to take a different path, this maker began to seek other routes, uploaded a lot of strange video clips to promote Funabashi City and himself, gradually, these short films became popular, and then he began to appear on variety shows. At first, it should have been just an attempt for the program team to invite him, but this guy's performance on the variety show is really good, with a strange voice and intonation, exaggerated movements, and energetic movements, the Japanese people found that this ship of pear fairies is really interesting!

Since it's very interesting, it's easy to do, and the popularity after seizing the opportunity is already a matter of course, and with the help of modern and old media, the funnashi fairy has become popular all over Japan at the fastest speed.

What Zhou Xiao really wants to learn. It's the character traits of the ship pear fairy and the table in the show.

In the copy he handed over to AZX to make zuò, which will be used as the mascot image of AZX itself in the future, it did not involve the appearance or name of the mascot, but described in detail the personality traits of this mascot, the way of speaking, and even what kind of person to choose to play this role. Make a few things that basically meet the requirements, and after Zhou Xiao finalizes them, they will officially start to be promoted.

Obviously it doesn't matter, why do you suddenly want to get involved in the mascot industry?

First of all. Nature is a mascot, and it is an industry that has almost no threshold at all.

What exactly are the preferences of the people? This doesn't change depending on how much power you have, the next thing that is popular is something that all those in the industry dream of grasping, but can only guess and have no way to confirm.

If Zhou Xiao is a guy who has an understanding of the popular fashion industry in his previous life. Maybe even if you come up with something popular a week in advance every time, you can earn a lot of value in this regard, but it's a pity that Zhou Xiao was an ordinary dead otaku in his previous life. Jeans plaid shirt or something is his standard outfit, at most a few AKB-related accessories are hung on his body, such goods can't understand fashion trends very well, and the shippear fairy is already the only fashion he knows.

It is true that you can make a lot of money by making this mascot, the income of the ship pear fairy in the previous life, Zhou Xiao estimated that 200 million is a conservative statement, with this guy's popularity, just on variety shows, maybe there will be almost 200 million income in more than two years, if it is an ordinary artist, the most popular on TV is to make some derivative peripherals, no matter how much the people like artists, the desire to buy these peripherals will not be particularly huge, but the essence of mascots is the peripheral industry, all kinds of dolls, stationery, Even anything you can think of with the head of the Funnashi Fairy can bring income to the maker of the Funnashi Fairy, and it is a super huge income.

As an image maker, the maker of the boat pear fairy gets an even larger share than the songwriter of a song like Zhou Xiao, Zhou Xiao estimates that a super popular mascot is likely to sell for one or two hundred billion yen in a year, that is, an income of one or two hundred million US dollars, and as a maker, the share may also be as high as one billion or even two or three billion, which is already a very huge number, enough for the author to enjoy life without doing anything in the rest of his life.

But for Zhou Xiao, or for AZX, Zhou Xiao is a super-rich, and AZX can be regarded as a company with quite a lot of assets, this money is very tempting, and it will also become a very big income point for the company, but a super popular mascot, I am afraid that this is the help for a person, but it can be of greater help to a company.

The popular company mascot may not be able to get the opportunity to appear on the show as casually as Zhou Xiao's previous life as the ship pear goblin, but the mascot can still help the company gain huge attention, and the publicity effect of a super popular mascot is much more powerful than the company's advertising in any media.

And the mascot itself, if it is like a mascot like the fairy of the ship pear in the previous life, it is destined to only have a few years of life like an artist in Yifa House, because he does not have a background that people can support for a long time, but if it becomes the mascot of the company, it is different, as long as AZX stores zài, the mascot will save zài, and the two help each other and influence each other, which is the satisfactory effect that Zhou Xiao wants most.

There are many things like mascots that have been arranged by Zhou Xiao casually, such as the new single of Takuya Kimura and the four girls of AKB, which is another jaw-dropping success story.

Just like Kitagawa allowed Genesis to use the blog at the beginning, Kimura Takuya's cooperation with AKB is also a case that is not favored by Kitagawa, but was influenced by Zhou Xiao, and finally the ghost messenger agreed to Kimura's appearance, and the final result of this case is that Kimura's new single with the four girls of AKB sold 70,000 copies a week.

Of course, this number cannot be compared with that of AKB. It's not even comparable to SMAP, but the number of 70,000 is quite a lot, if it is an artist who has worked hard from the bottom, this number already means that he has become a top singer in the Japanese entertainment industry.

What's even more frightening is the huge repercussions this song has caused in Japanese society. In the song MV, Kimura played very high with the four girls, and made a lot of exaggerated plays, and with the release of the song, the four people including Minegan Fingerhara also appeared in a lot of variety shows and field performances, although almost no Kimura appeared, but these performances also played a very good effect. Especially the nonsense in the middle of the song, at first Zhou Xiao was worried that the four girls couldn't play as exaggerated as the golden explosion in their previous life, but later Zhou Xiao found that although the girls definitely couldn't play so exaggerated or even obscene, but many times, as long as they played a little exaggerated, even if they couldn't compare with the golden explosion at all, they could get huge cheers from the audience. After all, they are girls, and compared to men, there is a natural difference in the open rank.

A week after the release of Kimura Ka AKB's single, "Sakura Bookmark" was released.

AKB's last single was "RIVER". It's been a few months since the release of the last single, and these are the months when AKB has made great strides in all of Japan. Even many people in Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia have really known this combination in the past few months. Moreover, AKB has been on a lot of variety shows in the past few months, such as "SMAPXSMAP" and 99's programs, which have been in Japan for many years, and can be called the national fan group programs, with a very wide audience, as long as they are broadcast, they can get quite a big response from the audience.

With a lot of attention comes a lot of sales, and the Japanese rice, which has accumulated quite a lot of anticipation, contributed to the explosive sales of this single.

In the previous life, the sales of "Sakura Bookmark" were ordinary 300,000 in the first week, but this time the sales of "Sakura Bookmark" scared people.

Not only the ordinary people were scared, but even the staff of AZX were scared.

First day sales...... Forty...... Twenty thousand!

How can it be so high!?

Before the release of this single, the number of theater plates with handshake tickets was indeed good, and the sales volume of theater plates was about 300,000, which means that AKB already had nearly 100,000 core meals at this time, which is still AKB has just become popular, Zhou Xiao estimates that when the next single is released, the number of 100,000 core meals can rise to 150,000, and the theater sales of 450,000 will be very scary by then.

But what is even more surprising is AKB's appeal among floating fans at this time, with sales of 120,000 on the first day, and if you count the number of core rice divided by three, AKB's normal sales without handshake coupons have reached about 220,000 at this time!

This is still the first day of sales!

It's exaggerated to the point that it's a little scary! The current sales of "RIVER" are only about 2780,000, and "Sakura Bookmark" is not only the cumulative sales number of "RIVER" so far, but also a figure that exceeds about 150,000 in a very light way.

And the explosion of exaggerated numbers is not over, after 420,000 on the first day, "Sakura Bookmark" sold 60,000 copies again on the second day, 480,000 in two days, and everyone found out that AKB's sales are about to cross the 500,000 mark!

Where is the limit of AKB? All of a sudden, various Japanese media began to discuss this issue!

It's impossible for them not to pay attention to it, physical CD sales, is an important area that the Japanese entertainment industry has never wanted to abandon, in fact, before AKB, AZX has already had people who have become popular without relying on physical CD sales, Kana Nishino as an AZX artist who has gradually become a top first-line singer, her oricon list numbers have not been very good, but when it really became popular, it also won millions of sales on the list of computing network delivery downloads.

But people tend to ignore this, in the eyes of many people, the so-called sales, the only manifestation is oricon, if you don't succeed on this list, you can never be considered really popular.

AKB is doing just that.

And...... It's really done in this day and age.

It can be said that the idols of this era, not only AKB, but also Arashi, are the ones who have guaranteed the face of Japanese CD sales, and if these two combinations were not present, the Japanese CD industry might have died.

Look at the 2010 Japanese singles annual chart in the previous life, the top ten were occupied by AKB and Arashi, if there were no them, the highest number on the annual list would be KAT-TUN's 430,000, and even if all idols were removed, the highest annual list was 310,000 by Fuyumi Sakamoto, and then think about ten years ago, when Zhou Xiao just debuted, he sold more than two million singles, but he couldn't get the first place on the annual list that year, and the decline in the past ten years can be seen.

This is actually the real status quo of the Japanese CD industry, removing AKB and Arashi, it seems that only part of the sales have been removed, but in fact, AKB and Arashi represent a trend, if you really want to only remove them and still have this trend, there will naturally be other combinations to replace them to lead this trend to get sales that can be called a "cancer", and if you remove the idol trend and idol era, it is equivalent to removing AKB, peach clover, idoling!! , Good Morning Girl Group, Arashi, KAT-TUN, Sekihachi and even SMAP all the sales!

That's not just a number of sales for two combinations. (To be continued......)