"There's really little to eat, it's better for girls to be fat." Pu Chi Huiyi couldn't help but say worriedly.

"This kind of thinking is not common in China." Ako Suzuki smiled indifferently.

In recent years, I don't know why, women have generally begun to pursue body management, even if life is not satisfactory, they are willing to spend a lot of money on appearance to do their best.

"It is said that when the earthquake came, for every billboard that fell in Ginza, one out of ten girls hit was an idol." Ako Suzuki flipped the magazine she had just bought at the stall and placed it on Kamoike's table, pointing to the words on it.

"You're talking about this joke boring enough, right?" She explained.

"yes, I think it's interesting, I knew I should have gone to the restaurant in Ginza to see it, maybe it would hit us."

Compared to the joke in the magazine she just stated, Ako Suzuki felt that it was still Kamaike's statement that was more funny.

However, it is not unreasonable for a billboard to fall and hit ten people, one of whom is an idol joke.

Pu Chi Huiyi flipped several pages of the magazine in front of him, which was full of content about the idol entertainment circle.

He also knew the purpose of why Ako Suzuki stopped by the side of the road to buy a magazine just now, which is how to quickly understand the idol market.

Reading magazines is a good way, because magazines have a feature - "summary", looking at previous magazines, you can systematically understand most of the idol market through the content inside.

And watching the history of anime is not to mention, this is how Puchi Keiichi quickly understood the changes in the market before.

In the beginning, everyone had their own duties, and those who drew comics did the production of comics alone, and those who produced anime were responsible for using technology to change the form of comics, and then used them for marketing to obtain greater benefits.

Under the influence of Osamu Tezuka, more and more new manga artists were born, and manga was also influenced by the times, and began to move towards the direction of diversified development, derived from a variety of elements of manga themes, and black and white anime also began to transform into color animation.

In addition, due to the huge number of cartoonists, the original resource system is difficult to maintain the sharing of so many people, and the market has begun to show fierce competition.

The birth of idols in the entertainment industry and the development of new anime took place almost simultaneously, and in 1971, a show called "STAR! In the variety show of "Birth", three ancestral idols of Yamaguchi Baihui, Junko Sakurada, and Mori Masako were born.

From then to the past ten years, the idol profession has been extremely prosperous.

"Kamaike-san." Ako Suzuki suddenly asked him, "Aren't we an anime project, why do we need to know about the idol market?" ”

"You have to understand before you can make a conclusion." Kamaike Keiichi explained, and then added, "So, this kind of thing is troublesome for Suzuki-san. ”

Ako Suzuki comprehended, and calmly made an OK gesture, but still patiently said her thoughts, "Actually, using magazines to organize information is still the most troublesome way, and the most concise way is to find friends you know in the entertainment industry." ”

"Is that so?" Pu Chihui thought about it again and again, and said with a wry smile helplessly: "It seems that you can only use the stupidest method." ”

........

In the evening, two people walked out of the office with a sore back and stood under the bright street lamp, ready to go home from work.

"It's been a busy day, Kamachi-san... Is it a conclusion? Ako Suzuki asked with concern as she moved her joints.

"I don't know yet, but I have a question." Kamaike Keiichi looked at Ako Suzuki's face appreciatively and continued to ask about the clever assistant.

"You say, has the era of idols reached its peak now?"

"I don't know." Ako Suzuki shook her head and said. After thinking about it, "But I don't feel like it yet, according to my experience in foreign countries, the admiration for idols in China far exceeds that in foreign countries, which should indicate that idols may never disappear." ”

In other words, the young people around you feel like they represent everything, and the idol era has come...

While Kamaike Teiichi was pondering and thinking about this, Ako Suzuki suddenly smiled and said, "Kamaike-san may not know that two years ago, Yamaguchi Momoe was my idol. ”

He thought of the show where his girlfriend debuted, which he also saw in the magazine just now, and it was where Yamaguchi Momoe rose.

《STAR！ Birth" !!

This show, which began to be broadcast in 1971, gave birth to the three ancestor idols of Yamaguchi Momoe, Junko Sakurada, and Mori Masako, and laid the foundation for the idol tide of the next ten years, and officially came to an end.

From its launch in 1971 to the present, this show has attracted 600,000 girls to sign up, and among the girls who successfully debuted, there are "three groups of flowers", the first to be called by the media with the word "IDOL", Yamaguchi Momoe, Sakurada Junko, Mori Masako, and members of the "Flower 82 Group", the last brilliant Nakamori Akina and Koizumi Kyoko of this show.

But more, it was the "meteors" who briefly decorated the entertainment world and disappeared quickly.

To talk about the birth of this show, we must first mention a man named Jin Watanabe and his Watanabe PRO office. It's just that "STAR! Birth is not the handiwork of Watanabe PRO, but was born to fight Watanabe PRO.

Shin Watanabe started out as a bassist in a band called SIXJOZE, and when jazz was briefly on the rise of RB, their band was quite famous at the time.

After the jazz fever receded, Jin Watanabe and his wife Misa Watanabe founded Watanabe PRO Studio, which served as an agent liaison for the band, and gradually became a well-known figure in the music industry.

The relationship between television and entertainment should also be explained here.

RB started broadcasting television in 1953, and by 1960, there were 15.15 million televisions in the country, and television programs became very popular entertainment.

In 1964, the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo, and the number of televisions soared again in order to watch the Olympics. The age of television has officially arrived.

As a result, some of the rules of entertainment in the past have been broken, and what Watanabe PRO has done is to set new rules.

Watanabe PRO's start-up period coincided with the initial period of the TV station, and the producer of the TV station invited the already famous Watanabe PRO singers to participate in the program, and Watanabe PRO also took the opportunity to participate in the production of the TV program, becoming the largest office in the country at that time.

The energy is so great that it is equivalent to most of the RB entertainment industry is Watanabe PRO who has the final say.

Sitting firmly in the top spot, Watanabe PRO's attitude has also hardened. Later, because Watanabe PRO produced programs for TV Asahi and TV (RB TV) at the same time, the two programs were watched against each other, offending the first partner, Day TV, and the two became enemies.

Japanese TV held its breath and felt that the TV station could do a beautiful show without relying on Watanabe PRO's singers, so it began to brew a program against Watanabe PRO.

At this time, another little-known firm, HORIPRO, took the opportunity to move closer to Nippon TV, and in 1971, "STAR! Birth" was born.

In this show, the girls first passed the audition and got the opportunity to enter the studio, and then they were scored by the public judges and mentors on the spot. After entering the finals, the representatives of the brokerage companies in the audience raised their cards to bid, and after mutual selection, the final ownership was determined - this competition system is quite familiar, isn't it?

In his previous life, Shinichi Iwahashi sometimes wondered why the talent shows in China and South Korea were in full swing, but RB, who was across the sea, had never heard such a show. Now I know that it's not that they don't do it, it's that this set has been played decades ago.

In short, starting with this show, HORIPRO, who signed Momoe Yamaguchi, turned around in one fell swoop, and other firms also profited from it, signing many newcomers, and the situation of Watanabe PRO's dominance was broken.

Since then, all walks of life have come forward to kill, and the former leading boss has finally been left behind, and he is no longer what he was back then.