Chapter 20: HALO personal studio, are you going to be the Master Chief?

The meeting the next day was very harmonious. After all, the previous cooperation was good, and the future prospects could be foreseen.

The sharing could still be 3:7 as before. Naoki Nagayama did not ask to increase the sharing because of the good effect before.

After all, it already belongs to a relatively high level in the industry.

But if it is a long-term commercial contract of more than one year, the previous cooperation contract cannot be used. This time, Otomo Yoshimura and Naoki Nagayama mainly talked about joining the STARTLIGHT office.

"Otomo-san, I really don't want to limit my personal career to the office~" Naoki Nagayama was a little embarrassed. He really didn't want to join an office. After all, he became a worker as soon as he went in.

"Is that so, Nagayama-san? The conditions of our STARTLIGHT office are very good, and the relevant clauses can also be negotiated." Otomo Yoshimura still wanted to save it, "Personally, I still have the authority to adjust the contract clauses."

After all, it is a big contract of more than one year. If a commercial is 50 million, the annual turnover will be at least 600 million. For such a big order, the office of course hopes to control the model in its own hands.

If you join the office, you are your own person, and there will be ten thousand ways to make him listen to orders obediently.

"Hai, I also know Otomo-san's sincerity, but I still insist on my own ideas in this regard. I am a person who has never had the idea of developing in the entertainment industry." Talking about business, of course, is to open the price and pay back the money.

"Damn it, I clearly went on a TV show..." Otomo Yoshimura's office of course secretly investigated Naoki Nagayama's background, and also knew that this young man was talking about conditions, so he could only slander in his heart.

"Nagayama-san, do you have any concerns about the office? Everything can be talked about. In addition, for large-scale business, personal share income is also a problem in terms of taxation. If you join the office, these complicated things will be handled by someone."

With this custom in Japan, after having a formal job, you are tied to the company for a long time. Especially the office in the entertainment industry, which is simply a dark force, with countless unspoken rules...

"Otomo-san, forget about joining the office. If my family knows that I joined another office, they might break my legs." Naoki Nagayama used the excuse of a gang family background again.

In fact, the Yamaguchi-gumi did extend its tentacles into the entertainment industry. As a member of the gang, if it were not for joining their own office, it is possible to be asked to cut off fingers.

However, for the relatives and friends of the gang, it is just a matter of good or bad relationships.

However, outsiders don't know, so this tiger skin can still be borrowed~

Otomo Yoshimura remembered the scene where he was scared by Naoki Nagayama before: "Ah, didn't Nagayama-san say last time that the family would not object..."

"Ha, Otomo-san, I heard that a practice called personal studio is popular abroad now. You can undertake various businesses in your own name, and you can also handle tax matters." Naoki Nagayama revealed his plan.

Personal studios are not new. In Japan, personal studios generally appear in other industries such as architecture and manga. Like the entertainment industry, even top big stars do not have the saying of establishing a personal studio.

Because advertising agencies, magazine offices, TV stations, etc., have had exposure channels firmly controlled by major offices for decades. Retiring from the office is equivalent to retiring. Without the background of a big office, you don't even have a passerby role, let alone business. Establishing a personal studio is equivalent to a dead end.

However, Naoki Nagayama's situation is a bit special. He himself didn't want to develop in the entertainment industry. This time, the other party was begging him, so of course he could use it~

"Ah, is Nagayama-san planning to cooperate with us in the name of a personal studio?" This is not a replica of the last cooperation, but just changed from an individual to a studio.

"Hai, I think this method is most beneficial to future development!"

Beneficial to future development? That's a joke. After this commercial cooperation, who will give business to an unknown personal studio?

But Otomo Yoshimura obviously had no choice. Who told the client to recognize Naoki Nagayama this time, and in the new commercial plan, Naoki Nagayama is also a very important role...

"So desu ne, Nagayama-san, I understand. Then let's sign the contract in the name of a personal studio." Otomo Yoshimura finally compromised,

"Then, what is the name of Nagayama-san's personal studio?"

"Ah, regarding this, it hasn't been established yet. I still need to trouble Otomo-san to help register a shell company~"

"Ah?" You actually want us to help register???

Is this kind of operation okay?

A few days later, Naoki Nagayama's personal studio HALO signed a contract with the STARTLIGHT office.

"HALO, halo? Are you going to be the Master Chief? Hahaha~" Full of bad taste.

So Naoki Nagayama met the producer Shuichi Ido, who was full of literary style, and he was still the part-time director.

Sure enough, the relationship is deep!

After communication, Shuichi Ido explained the entire series of commercials, which consists of 4 parts, corresponding to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and also corresponding to different flavors.

It is already February, so the next soda is cherry blossom flavor... Is it actually cherry blossom flavor instead of cherry flavor? It's really novel~

Listening to Shuichi Ido introduce the plot of the commercial:

In the cherry blossom season, the two hide from the light rain under the eaves in front of the convenience store. The cherry blossoms under the cherry tree next to them fall one after another, turning into cherry blossom-flavored soda of Tomomasu Beverage. This pair of passersby finally became lovers. The narrator's line is: "What does cherry blossom taste like?"

Naoki Nagayama listened to his description and couldn't help but slowly become fascinated.

Two young strangers, hiding from the rain under the eaves, the cherry blossoms next to them, becoming lovers... It seems to have hooked up with a certain place in the past, and the memory screen flowed into his mind like a spring.

"Sakura sakura aitai yo iya da kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo"

(Cherry blossom, cherry blossom, want to see you, I want to see you right now)

Daijoubu mou nakanaide watashi wa kaze anata o tsutsumu de iru yo

(It's okay, don't cry anymore, I am the wind, surrounding you)

"Sakura sakura aitai yo iya da kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo"

(Cherry blossom, cherry blossom, want to see you, I want to see you right now)

A beautiful, sad, and hopeful "Sakura ~Anata ni Deaete Yokatta~" (Cherry Blossom Cherry Blossom, Want to See You) began to echo in his ears, and even the MV screen he had seen surged in with the melody.

"Nagayama-kun... Nagayama-kun!" Shuichi Ido's tone was slightly dissatisfied, "Are you listening? Do you have any opinions?"

"Hai, I'm listening!" Naoki Nagayama came back to his senses.

"Sou ka, then what opinions do you have about the plot of the commercial?" Shuichi Ido thought he was perfunctory and insisted on him saying something.

"Ano... Ido-san~ Actually, I do have a little idea." Having just remembered a song, he had a vague idea in his mind. ===== CHAPTER 21 =====