Chapter 766: How could it be this character??

Less than a week before the New Year, the festive atmosphere of the New Year has begun to permeate every corner of Tokyo.

Taking advantage of the New Year, shopping malls have put up banners for large-scale price reductions and promotions, attracting people to buy New Year's goods; companies have started year-end summaries to finish this year's affairs; even schools have finished their final exams and are preparing to let students go home.

Housewives cleaned the inside and outside of the house, and some even hung a rope at the door to drive away ghosts.

Elementary school students who were already on winter vacation played in parks and alleys in the cold wind. Although the children wearing shorts had red faces from the cold, they played very happily.

This made Naoki Nagayama, as an adult, admire them...

Although it was just a pair of long pants, he had already put on fleece-lined ones~

"Sigh... getting older and less cold-resistant..." Naoki Nagayama drank hot tea and sighed looking out the window.

Black lines rose on Otomo Fangcun's forehead opposite:

"Naoki-san, you are twenty years old! How can you have the face to say such things?! (Where do you put me, an old man?!)"

"Sigh, Otomo-san, you don't understand this~" Naoki Nagayama shook his head, "Youth is a state of mind, and getting older is naturally the same... I think I'm already over fifty, so I'm an old man..."

Otomo Fangcun very much suspected that this guy was implying himself, he was over fifty!

"Fifty is the golden age for men, okay!!"

Naoki Nagayama said disdainfully: "Heh heh, Otomo-san, shall we run 5,000 meters... ah no, 1,000 meters to see?"

"You!!"

Confirmed, this guy is implying himself!

Just when Otomo Fangcun organized the words he wanted to counterattack, the office door was knocked open, and Riko Hayano walked in:

"Naoki-san, Otomo-san, this year's holiday arrangement is out..."

Saying that, she handed two documents to Naoki Nagayama and Otomo Fangcun.

"Holiday ah..."

Naoki Nagayama, who had been away from students and the workplace for too long, was actually not sensitive to holidays. Sometimes he wouldn't even realize it was the weekend.

Seeing this holiday arrangement, he was a bit novel.

"From December 25th to January 5th... twelve days, ah, the 25th is Christmas..." Naoki Nagayama was curious, "Why not release a little more and include Christmas Eve?"

Riko Hayano explained on the side: "Because after work on the 24th, it happens to be Christmas Eve... just right for dinner and dating..."

"And..." Otomo Fangcun closed the document, "Not that many companies release on Christmas..."

The legal New Year holiday in Nihon is only five days, but general enterprises will start releasing early. After all, under the lifetime employment system, the human touch is still a bit thicker. Besides, when the New Year comes, who will have the mood to work...

Tree Friend's twelve-day New Year holiday already belongs to a very high welfare~

Riko Hayano was still reporting: "General employees are released according to this holiday arrangement, but employees who are filming 'Ring 2', as well as some employees who need the nature of work, are released on the 31st, and the holiday is only three days..."

For example, Tree Friend's artists are the busiest during the New Year, so their agents also need to delay the holiday, and at most they can go home for a while on New Year's Day.

"Sure enough, working people are still hard!" Naoki Nagayama sighed, "In short... arrange the overtime pay..."

"Hai!"

Riko Hayano retired after Otomo Fangcun signed, and there were two people left in the office.

"Is Otomo-san going back to his hometown in Nagano this year?" Naoki Nagayama asked.

"Will go back to take a look..."

Otomo Fangcun nodded. Wealthy people not returning to their hometown is like wearing brocade clothes at night! Now he has become a billionaire, it would be too pity not to return to his hometown.

"What about Naoki-san?"

"Should also go back to take a look~" Although he brought Akina back a few days ago, that was not the New Year.

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized something: "It's Christmas in a few days!"

"What's wrong?" Otomo Fangcun was puzzled.

"I almost forgot to buy a gift..." Naoki Nagayama stood up, "Just right to buy!"

"......"

Looking at Naoki Nagayama who left in a hurry, Otomo Fangcun was speechless... Running so fast and still saying he is not a young man...

Then he suddenly remembered, he seemed to want to counterattack Naoki Nagayama just now!!!

He actually ran away?

Could it be intentional!

What to buy for a Christmas gift... Naoki Nagayama thought about it, and then drove to the handicraft area in Sumida Ward.

"Speaking of Christmas gifts... then it must be a crystal apple!"

Now "Love Generation" has not been filmed, although there are crystal apples, they have not become popular, so Naoki Nagayama wanted to find a special one first, preferably custom-made~

Glass, also known as "Nito" in Nihon, besides direct shaping, there is also a "cut" method in the production process, which can make glass crafts with rich colors and unique patterns.

Naoki Nagayama came to Sumida Ward. There are many glass workshops here, and the windows are also full of colorful glass products.

"Manager-san, what I want is a unique custom-made product." Naoki Nagayama said, "Made with glass of different colors, it needs to look low-key but reveal a unique design..."

"So... the glass apple the customer wants!"

This manager seems to be very bad at doing business, directly using the simplest sentences to describe the customer's needs.

"It is a specially customized craft apple, with a natural and smooth shape. Besides the material being glass, it is just like a real apple!" Naoki Nagayama continued to explain.

"So... the shape of the glass apple should be the same as a real one?" Manager-san said concisely.

"It's the kind of art that looks the same, but is actually more perfect than a real apple, shining in the light!"

"So... the polishing of the glass apple should be more delicate?"

"........"

"Manager-san, it's better to call it a crystal apple. Glass apple sounds really a bit low..."

"Then why don't you just use crystal to make an apple?" The manager, who was dressed casually, wore glasses and had long hair, and was very artistic, "Naoki-san shouldn't lack money, right?"

"Uh..." It is very normal to be recognized, Naoki Nagayama didn't disguise himself today, but being so understated still made Naoki Nagayama a bit surprised, "You know me?"

"Often appear in newspapers, it's hard not to know..." The manager spoke very calmly, "However, today you are just an ordinary customer~"

"..... Manager-san is atmospheric, I am Naoki Nagayama, please take care of me!" Naoki Nagayama was very optimistic about this manager and introduced himself directly.

"I am Shoji Kazuma, please take care of me."

Manager Shoji Kazuma bowed and shook hands, then returned to the original topic: "Why doesn't Naoki-san just carve one with crystal? The texture of crystal is hard, and it can shine at any angle in the sun. As a craft, it is much better than glass."

"I just didn't find a crystal carving workshop..." Naoki Nagayama was in a fixed mindset, subconsciously looking for glass crafts.

"I have a friend who makes crystal crafts. Does Naoki-san want me to help contact him?"

"..... Manager Shoji, you are pushing business away~"

"All friends..."

Naoki Nagayama thought about it, but still didn't want to trouble: "Still don't... Manager Shoji, you help me place the order directly... 8cm transparent crystal apple... and smaller crystal apple pendants 2-3cm... red crystal, transparent crystal, and other colored crystals, randomly come five~"

"All crystal?" This is more than a dozen crafts at once, which is a big order.

"Well... needs to be polished delicately... I want to accept it!" Naoki Nagayama smiled, we have money, "Before Christmas!"

"..... Hai, I will contact him to make it immediately!"

Only two days... However, in this era, as long as there are raw materials, it is very fast with the help of a polishing machine.

After fixing the gift, seeing that the time was still early, Naoki Nagayama continued to drive toward Ota Ward. He wanted to see the filming progress of "Ring 2".

Fuji TV's production bureau, Minister Kazuki Takano, was watching the edited "New Word Buzzword Competition". He was a bit surprised to see the final result.

"'New'?" Kazuki Takano muttered to himself, and said to the program Kimura Fumio next to him, "How could it be this character?"

"Because the character 'poison' cannot be voted for~"

Kimura Fumio said that the event that had the greatest impact on Nihon this year was actually the Glico Morinaga case, and because the case could not be solved, the popularity had not gone down. Plus the food poisoning incident of Kumamoto specialty mustard lotus root caused 11 deaths, the number of people voting for the character 'poison' was very large.

However, because the case was not solved and it might stimulate the criminal's motivation, the character 'poison' could not appear, so there was the word 'new'.

"There is a new word this year, 'new human'... and the new version of the 10,000 yen bill started to be issued, printed with Fukuzawa Yukichi..." Kimura Fumio continued to explain, "And some new inventions, new processes... led to this 'new' character being considered the representative character of Showa 59."

"Is that so..." Kazuki Takano thought about it, and then showed a smile, "This shows that the public felt the ever-changing country!"

This is a very positive character. As the first annual character of Nihon, both he and the Ministry of Culture have light on their faces!

"Minister Takano, tomorrow is the time to invite the host of the temple to write!"

Kazuki Takano nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you can use the form of live broadcast! Invite the media to visit! Invite some artists to watch the ceremony!

You can also invite people from the Ministry of Culture to watch the ceremony, I will go to say hello... wait, there are representatives from Shogakukan and Jiyu Kokuminsha..."

"By the way, there is also Naoki Nagayama!"

Kazuki Takano thought of this true program initiator. He felt that if Naoki Nagayama was there, even if any trouble occurred, it could be solved at any time!

"Hai!"

Kimura Fumio nodded. Actually, the stars and media had already been arranged by their program team. Shogakukan and Jiyu Kokuminsha had been cooperating, so naturally there was no problem.

As for the people from the Ministry of Culture, they would be arranged by the senior management of Fuji TV. As for Naoki Nagayama...

Kimura Fumio, who left the office, sighed:

"Still can't get rid of Naoki Nagayama's mark!"

Since he took over this program, he keenly realized that this program would be long-lived... This would also become a highlight on his resume as a program producer.

However, the initial planner was Naoki Nagayama, which was still a bit annoying!

"If you want to invite Naoki Nagayama... go find Daitai-san!"

Thinking this way, Kimura Fumio walked to the office of the first group of the production bureau, knocked on the door, and found that the people in the office were brainstorming.

"Kimura-san... are you looking for me?" Sugiura Daitai asked curiously.

"Hai, there is something I want to ask you." Kimura Fumio looked at the words on the blackboard, "Am I not coming at the right time?"

"No no, we are almost finished." Sugiura Daitai signaled others to dismiss, walked over to Kimura Fumio and said, "We were just discussing the program plan for next year. Discussing which star couple to find next year~"

Although the ratings of "Twilight Meow Meow" still maintained a certain level, the people in the program team knew that it was powerless, so now they focused on new love variety shows.

The previous "Love Journey" received widespread praise, and fan letters from the audience were constant. Those passing attractions even became check-in spots for couples...

The popularity of the program was so high that other variety shows would take out the content inside to discuss. Sugiura Daitai thought that the content in the future could perhaps be linked with other variety shows.

"Oh? Who are you going to invite?" Kimura Fumio asked.

"Originally the first one was a top female idol like Akina Mori. If I want to continue, I originally wanted to invite Seiko Matsuda..." Sugiura Daitai sighed, "But it seems that the relationship between Seiko Matsuda and Hiromi Go has a problem..."

"Eh? A problem? Broke up?"

"Should not be yet... but I heard they quarreled many times." Sugiura Daitai said, "We went to ask acquaintances in the agency to know."

"Ah... this..."

"Thinking of inviting other couples... if Momoe Yamaguchi could make a comeback!"

Sugiura Daitai shook his head. If Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura came to participate together, then this program would definitely become a landmark explosive program next year.

"Haha, Daitai-san is joking~"

Since Momoe Yamaguchi got married and retired, except for a statement issued after her son was born, the media couldn't even take photos.

"By the way, what's the matter with Kimura-san looking for me?" Sugiura Daitai looked at Kimura Fumio.

"Ah... that..." Kimura Fumio organized the language, "The annual character of the 'New Word Buzzword Awards' is out, and I want to invite Naoki Nagayama-san to come and watch the ceremony during the live broadcast."

"Because I'm not familiar with Naoki-san, I came to ask Daitai-san for help." Kimura Fumio said.

"Of course there is no problem with this."

Sugiura Daitai smiled. This little thing is of course no problem. Just watch the ceremony. Naoki-san is still very easy to talk to in his program.

"I will let Rumi Nishi help contact later... just tell her the specific time."

"Arigato~"

"By the way, what is the annual character?" Sugiura Daitai was curious. He had also paid attention to Naoki Nagayama's program for a long time.

"It's 'New'!"

"It's actually this character..."

The two program producers chatted in a low voice~ ===== CHAPTER 767 =====