Chapter 1139: You have someone else's perfume on you!!!

"The first month's box office of *Ghost* has already exceeded 3 billion!"

In the office of the Tree Friend building, Shuichi Yin Tang announced very happily,

"If you also count the pre-sale box office together, the cumulative box office has already exceeded 4 billion!"

Originally, the pre-sale results of this movie were very high, and coupled with the requirement for major theater chains to increase screenings based on pre-sale results, *Ghost* almost occupied the entire Japanese cinema for more than half a month across the New Year!

So Naoki Nagayama was not surprised by such box office, and even a bit unsatisfied...

"When can the first month's box office of a movie exceed 10 billion~" Naoki Nagayama leaned on his boss chair and sighed, "One movie can exceed the total of all other movies..."

"Naoki-san, don't joke!" Shuichi Yin Tang shook his head with a smile, "What type of movie would have such appeal... this would require everyone in Japan to go to the cinema..."

"Animation movie!"

"Hahahaha~"

Shuichi Yin Tang seemed to have heard some joke,

"Animation? Something for children to watch? How is that possible!"

"Shuichi-san doesn't believe it?!" Naoki Nagayama sat up straight, crossed his hands to support his chin, and made the Gendo Ikari pose, "Then, do you want to make a bet?"

"I bet that in the future, there will be an animation movie with a rebellious child as the protagonist that can exceed 10 billion in box office, how about it?!"

"..." Shuichi Yin Tang looked at his good friend and suddenly felt that this bet he seemed to be bound to lose!

"Cough, cough... Naoki-san, didn't we agree when we started the business that we would absolutely not touch gambling or drugs! Let's forget about betting~"

Shuichi Yin Tang looked left and right, even moved out the rules they had set together early on, and then stared at Naoki Nagayama,

"However... Naoki-san, you actually said so... could it be..."

"You already have a plan to produce an animation movie?!"

He felt that since Naoki Nagayama was so confident, he must have already made plans~

"No!"

"I don't believe it!"

"Really no~"

"Hehe~ Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't!"

"Go to the club for a drink to relax tonight?"

"Damn it, changing the subject?!"

"Are you going or not?"

"Going!"

Little Shuichi, easily handled!

Actually, it's not that Naoki Nagayama doesn't want to film animation blockbusters, but with the technology of this era, it's completely impossible to achieve the effect of the future!

If you rely purely on hand-drawing, to achieve the effect of future animation, it might not be enough even if you lose the entire Tree Friend!

Shuichi Yin Tang, who shared the good news and also knew he was going to the club tonight, looked proud and relaxed, sipping hot tea.

"Naoki-san, speaking of which, the matter of the Tokyo Film Association..." Without stopping for a while, Shuichi Yin Tang suddenly opened his mouth, "Should we push it forward solidly?"

"How to push it forward?" Naoki Nagayama asked, "Have you talked to the Producers Association, Screenwriters Association, and Actors Association?"

"Major producers and screenwriters don't have any opinions, it's just joining a larger organization, but those actors' agencies..."

Shuichi Yin Tang shook his head. Agencies in Japan actually exploit actors, and they are powerful... The Japanese Actors Association actually has to look at the faces of these agencies, and basically doesn't have much power.

Naoki Nagayama has already communicated with some officials of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and they are actually very supportive of building a new Tokyo Film Association, and have also promised to initiate an initiative at an appropriate time.

"The Film Academy is also relatively supportive..." Shuichi Yin Tang also went to find his mentor, "So in terms of public opinion, everyone is generally supportive~"

"So... we still have to talk to major agencies!" Naoki Nagayama sighed. He looked at Shuichi Yin Tang, "Shuichi-san, do you think we should establish a support fund first? So that agencies can benefit? Only then can we grasp them?"

"Apply for funds from the government?"

"Of course, we are seeking welfare for the entire film industry, shouldn't the government support it?!"

"... Indeed..."

All other parties are just benefiting without cost... needing the agency's agreement, and also needing actual benefits.

Establishing a support fund to help with the filming of movies and television dramas, providing help to actors in difficulty, etc., this gives agencies a reason they have to participate~

"Applying for the budget shouldn't be a problem, but in terms of agencies, which one should we start with to attack..."

Naoki Nagayama suddenly thought of the Burning agency, which is only a medium-sized agency on the surface, but is intertwined in secret...

"Seems to have a connection with the underworld too..."

"Eh?" Naoki Nagayama patted his head, "Seems I have one too?"

"Don't know if there is any common topic!"

In the evening, Akina Nakamori said goodbye to Yoyo Ochi, with whom she went shopping and had dinner, and returned to Shanying Yuan.

After entering the door, she saw Mrs. Mari Nonaka holding Xia Hua walking in the living room... Xia Hua at this age cannot crawl by herself for a long time, but already has strong curiosity, and will cry if she is held and stops.

"Mari-san..." Akina walked over and took the baby, a bit strange, "Why didn't I see Naoki-san? Shouldn't he have come back earlier than me?"

Akina didn't have many parties to go out to, so she played to her heart's content before coming back, which was also something she had discussed with Naoki Nagayama before.

Originally, she thought she would see Naoki Nagayama teasing the baby when she came back, but now he was nowhere to be seen~

"Naoki-san drank alcohol tonight, so little Xia Hua wouldn't let him hold her."

Mari Nonaka helped Akina Nakamori organize the shopping bags and moved the things she bought to the cloakroom,

"Seems to be in the study now."

"Study?"

Akina didn't have any opinion about her husband drinking a little alcohol, just had a lot of opinion about him not taking her to drink together... But now she is still in the breastfeeding period, and in order for Xia Hua not to get drunk, she hasn't drunk alcohol for a long time~

Holding Xia Hua, she walked to the second floor and walked towards the study.

She hadn't pushed the door open yet, when she heard strange sounds inside...

Akina subconsciously slowed down her pace, looked at Xia Hua in her arms, and put her finger on her lips to signal her not to make a sound:

"Shh~~"

Then she tilted her head and quietly put her ear to the door, and sure enough, she heard Naoki Nagayama's voice inside, it seemed to be...

"ムーンプリズムパワー! メークアップ!!! (Moon Prism Power! Make Up!!!)"

"Sailor Moon, the Sailor Guardian of Love and Justice!

I will represent the moon and eliminate you!!!"

The strange words made Akina confused, and for a moment she couldn't tell what her husband was doing inside.

And little Xia Hua in her arms looked at her mother's appearance and learned the same way, wanting to put her head to the door, but couldn't control her body all at once, and hit the door with a "bang"!

Akina was startled and hurriedly rubbed the head of little Xia Hua, who was already pouting: "Ah~~ Hua-chan be good~~ doesn't hurt, doesn't hurt..."

"Wa~~~"

Little Xia Hua still cried out aggrievedly. She just wanted to learn from her mother, what was wrong with her!

Why did she have to hit the door!

Bad door!

Just as Akina was coaxing the baby, the study door opened from the inside!

Naoki Nagayama walked out suspiciously, and seeing his wife coaxing little Xia Hua at the door, he was even more surprised:

"Akina is back... this is... what's wrong?!"

"Xia Hua wanted to knock on the door, and accidentally knocked with her head!"

Akina didn't feel guilty at all when telling lies now, and then asked back,

"What is Naoki-san doing sneakily in the study?"

"What sneakily... I am drawing prototype drawings!"

Naoki Nagayama, who drank alcohol at night, was a bit tipsy. At this time, his consciousness was very active, and he took Akina and little Xia Hua directly to the desk.

On the desktop was a piece of draft paper, with a character prototype drawing half-drawn.

A girl with golden twin tails, wearing a sailor suit and a crescent moon headband, with a round face and a pair of blue, watery big eyes... At this time, her hands were crossed and she made a strange pose, but she was pointing at the person looking at her...

There were lines next to it, written "Represent the moon to eliminate you"!

"This is? Manga character?" Akina looked at the sketch with some surprise, "Actually still colored?"

"Ah... I used Akina's old colored pens!"

Naoki Nagayama said with a smile,

"This is the project after *Slam Dunk* for the Tree Friend animation department... This is the protagonist!"

"Uh..."

Akina's look at Naoki Nagayama became a bit strange,

"This is... girl's manga?!"

"..." Worried about being misunderstood, Naoki Nagayama hurriedly pointed to little Xia Hua, who still had tears in her eyes but was already curiously looking at the drawing, "This is created for Xia Hua!"

"???"

"Wait until this manga is drawn and adapted into an animation, by that time Xia Hua will be more than two years old and will already be able to watch animations!"

Naoki Nagayama said with justification,

"By that time, Xia Hua can watch this excellent animation!"

"... Oh?"

Akina Nakamori felt that her husband was fooling people, but she had no evidence, so she could only make a noncommittal sound, and then continued to flip through other draft papers.

Among them were yellow kitten dolls with wings, pink hand wands with a small crescent moon on top...

"This is the Star Moon Wand, the transformation device for Sailor Moon!" Naoki Nagayama introduced to Akina, "As long as you hold this wand and shout 'Moon Prism Power! Transform!!!', you can transform into Sailor Moon in a burst of holy light!"

"In the future, this can also be used as a peripheral toy. I believe that after the animation is aired, there will definitely be many little girls who want to buy it!"

"..."

Listening to Naoki Nagayama speaking with reason and evidence, Akina finally understood that her husband was for real!

He really wants to produce a girl's manga/animation!

"Naoki-san..." Akina paused, but still said, "Even if you are a genius... but girl's manga, it's really better for girls to draw, right!"

"What are you saying!"

Naoki Nagayama glanced at Akina,

"Akina, don't you know that the initiator of girl's manga is Osamu Tezuka?! He is a dignified man!"

"... Nani?!"

What? The girl's manga she has always liked to watch was actually created by a man?!

Akina would rather she had never heard such cold knowledge!!!

This makes her unable to look squarely at the manga she likes to watch in the future!

"But don't worry, I will let Gosho Aoyama recruit more female painters later..." Naoki Nagayama said, "When drawing manga, I will find female painters to draw!"

"..."

Just when the two were still talking, little Xia Hua in her arms was unhappy. She made humming sounds, wanting her parents to take her to move around. It's boring to always be in one place!

"Hua-chan also likes this idea, right?!"

Naoki Nagayama laughed, reached out and held the baby and shook her,

"When you grow up, you can watch *Sailor Moon*!"

"..."

Smelling the alcohol still on Dad, little Xia Hua felt uncomfortable again, her mouth pouted, and she cried out again!

"Wa~~~"

"Eh eh eh?"

"What's going on, why does she always cry when I hold Xia Hua these two days?!!"

Naoki Nagayama hurriedly sent the child back to Akina's arms,

"Didn't they say daughters are most attached to Dad?!"

"There's alcohol on you, right?!"

After Akina took the child, she leaned her head over and sniffed... and then, besides the alcohol smell, there was a very familiar smell—rose-scented perfume!!!

Akina's eyes suddenly became sharp:

"Naoki-san! Besides drinking alcohol at night, what else did you do?!"

"Why do you have someone else's perfume on you!!!"

"Ah?!"

Clubs, young ladies, seeing a handsome and rich celebrity, they will naturally be more enthusiastic... This is also understandable, right!

Naoki Nagayama hurriedly raised three fingers:

"Akina! I swear, I absolutely didn't provoke anyone! It's all Shuichi-san, he insisted on finding someone to accompany him to drink!!! Otherwise, he couldn't drink!!!"

(Shuichi Yin Tang, who was drowsy at home, suddenly sneezed!)

"Hehehe!"

Akina walked out holding Xia Hua,

"Naoki-san, I will sleep with Xia Hua tonight!!"

"Hmm? Then what about me?!"

"Naoki-san can do whatever!"

"... Don't!"

Naoki Nagayama, who was empty and lonely at night, deeply realized one point.

After going out to drink, the first thing when returning home must be to take a bath!

In the editing room of the Tree Friend building, Masataka Komori had been working overtime for almost half a month.

The original huge workload had already been completed by almost half...

"Komori-san." Tomiyuki Nishimoto, who came to be an assistant and learn by the way, said to Masataka Komori, "Now we can edit a pilot trailer!"

"Ah..." Masataka Komori yawned and patted his head to make himself more awake, "Trailer, right, trailer!"

You can't not promote at all during the editing process!

Before, when filming, borrowing the fame of Tomoko Aoyama and Gongbing Shibata, coupled with the previous hot broadcast of *Tiger of Ginza*, made Hong Kong star Leslie Cheung loved by the Japanese, making *Once a Thief* already slightly famous.

And now, we must keep this heat going, and then pull the audience's expectations to the highest before the screening, so that they will walk into the cinema to pay.

"Then let's prepare to edit the trailer... and also notify the leads to promote during public activities..."

Masataka Komori wanted to start immediately, but as soon as he stood up, his head felt a burst of chaos.

"Komori-san, it's already too late today... let's start tomorrow!" Tomiyuki Nishimoto advised, "By the way, you can talk to the publicity department about the promotion plan!"

"Right, right..."

Masataka Komori nodded vaguely,

"Also need to talk about pre-sales... no reason *Ghost* can, and we can't!"

"However, it's already a bit late today, let's rest first!"

Saying that, he wanted to open the door and go out, but at this time, a burst of weakness surged into his head, and Masataka Komori only felt his consciousness blur all at once...

Vaguely, he could hear someone exclaiming:

"Komori-san! Komori-san, what's wrong with you?!"

"Komori-san... hold on!"

"Go call an ambulance quickly!"

"..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1140 =====