Chapter 48: Just Act Cute

Although Nanaya had feelings for Yumi in his heart, he did not show it.

God had no idea what kind of expression the woman in front of him would have after he revealed his attitude.

So after everyone exchanged a few pleasantries, Nanaya arranged a relatively simple audition for Yumi.

Basically, it is just to let this little Loli perform some simple performances and dances in front of the camera, so that the child can show her talents.

"Yumi performed very well. I will send this video material to the crew."

At the entrance of the office building, Nanaya said as he said goodbye to the mother and daughter. To be honest, Yumi's performance was only acceptable, but it basically met Nanaya's requirements, so Nanaya still gave this little girl a big red circle in his heart.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Agent."

Yumi's mother was about to leave with her daughter. She kept bowing and thanking Nana and Shonan (who was the one who took the picture just now).

"I believe that Yumi, a good kid, will become a great actor."

After saying that, Nanaya lowered his head and carefully looked at the little girl with rosy cheeks. He didn't know whether the red color was due to shyness or caused by the exercise during the audition just now.

"Yumi, big brother, I believe in your ability. Just treat this job as the starting point for you to become a big star."

"Um... Big Brother, thank you."

The little girl buried her head in her arms and nodded very slightly.

"Thank you very much." Yumi's mother said apologetically, "Although I really want to communicate with you, Mr. Agent, for a while longer, but unfortunately we have to go back. The child's father rarely works overtime today, so we have to go home early."

Nanaya nodded carefully: "Then Mrs. Sakutsuki, we will seriously consider Yumi's matter."

From the conversation between several people just now, Nanaya knew the other party's last name. Although he was a little surprised that the other party's last name was Sakutsuki, since even Illya already knew it, such a small matter was not important.

But a surname alone is not enough to influence Nanaya's decision. Now Nanaya only has one concern about hiring Yumi - the reason why this woman trained her daughter to become a child star.

"Hey, Mr. Sada." After Sakutsuki and her daughter left, Nanaya asked Yumi's agent, "Why did she want her daughter to become a child star? Is it for money?"

Nanaya frowned. If it was really as he guessed, then at most he would give Yumi a role with lines. Nanaya didn't want to have any dealings with those parents who were obsessed with money. The farther away from them, the better.

In Nanaya's opinion, such parents have completely lost their qualifications as parents, and it might be a blessing if their children do not become famous.

"Hmm... it shouldn't be this. You know, the annual training cost of Sakutsuki Yumi is basically at the level of one million yen. If it was for the money, she should have given up long ago." Sada scratched her hair in distress, "How should I put it... it should be called [Mother's Obsession]."

Nanaya motioned for Sada to continue.

"To be honest, Yumi herself didn't really like being a child star, it was just her mother who kept forcing her to do so. And in terms of conditions, the girl wasn't ordinary, but she didn't have anything particularly brilliant either. Plus, she herself was very confused about becoming a child star, so she was always in this half-baked state."

"Huh? This kid's basic skills are obviously pretty good?" Tamari felt a little confused.

Sada sighed: "Because this child has been sent here by her mother since she was 5 years old. Even if she lacks talent, her basic skills are still no problem."

"Did you ever think about it for so long..."

Nanaya gestured. A child star who had been trying to get into the industry since she was 5 years old was now 12 years old. For so long, had Sada and the others never thought of persuading Yumi to quit? The agency was not a charity. A child who had not shown any talent for so long should have been dismissed long ago.

"If we could, we would have done it a long time ago. After all, every time we see Yumi in so much pain, we feel helpless." Sada said distressedly, "But Mrs. Sakutsuki is too persistent. As long as we mention that Yumi is not okay, she will lose her temper, which makes everyone in the office a little worried."

Tamari also felt that the mother was a little too much: "If I explain it clearly to this mother..."

"It's impossible. That woman (Yumi's mother) has been planning for a long time to make her daughter a star, even before Yumi was born. Did you know that in order to get her child into the child star training center, she even spent 8 years and finally hooked up a man from Dentsu to marry."

"Is this true or false?"

Nanaya was frightened by this woman's paranoia. No, it shouldn't be called paranoia at all. It was already a morbid pursuit.

If Linbao is the leader of the Japanese film industry, then Dentsu is the leader of Japanese media. It is not only the largest advertising and communication group in Japan, but also half of the controller of the Japanese entertainment industry.

In terms of scale, Dentsu is a super-large company with a turnover of trillions of yen, and its performance is ahead of all other entertainment companies in Japan. In terms of industry status, Dentsu is the leader of the entire entertainment industry, and it is so powerful that any TV station and agency must listen to it.

It can be said that in Japan, if a TV station must look to a certain company for its services, that company is Dentsu.

If we really compare, even Illya's grandfather's [Lin Bao] cannot compare to this monster company.

Yumi's mother has gone to great lengths to make her child a child star. You have to know that people from Dentsu can be said to be the social elite in Japan, and being married to a man from Dentsu requires some ability.

Even Nanaya had to admire this woman's vision and execution. If her husband was not from Dentsu, he probably wouldn't be able to afford such expenses to raise their daughter year after year.

"No wonder she is so anxious when her husband comes home early." Qi Ye finally understood why the woman rushed back. He guessed that this was the first day her husband didn't have to work overtime after all their marriages.

Dentsu is a company known for its high salaries and high-intensity work. Other companies would at most "work as hard as you can," but at Dentsu, you have to work as long as you are alive.

Almost every year, people in the industry hear about people dying suddenly from working overtime at Dentsu, but because Dentsu is too powerful, no one dares to speak out.

To be honest, as a company that regards "overtime" as a job responsibility, it would be news if there were no deaths at Dentsu.

"But since Yumi's father is an employee of Dentsu, why hasn't Yumi gotten the opportunity yet?"

"Because Mr. Sakutsuki is just an ordinary employee. He is not yet in a position to provide resources for his daughter. To be honest, we all hope that Mr. Sakutsuki can get promoted soon so that we can have an easier time." Sada sighed.

But even though she was just a small employee of Dentsu, the agency where Sada worked did not dare to dismiss his daughter. This shows how much the industry is afraid of Dentsu people.

Seeing that Nanaya and the other two looked unhappy, Sada quickly apologized, "Sorry, this topic is a bit too heavy. I have a few outstanding kids here. Director Kiryu, are you interested in auditioning?"

"No, I've already decided on Yumi." Nanaya said with a smile, "I'll take the other kids too. After all, this TV show requires quite a few kids. I'll let Yuli bring you the shooting schedule."

Sada opened his mouth wide. He didn't expect that Nanaya would actually fall in love with that child who had no shining points at all.

"Really...Yumi might be getting lucky."

Looking at Nanaya's departing back, Sada couldn't help but sigh. At the same time, he also felt sorry for the children who left first, perhaps they didn't know what kind of opportunity they would lose this time.

But it's their own choice, isn't it?

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After countless preparations, "Magical Girl Illya" finally entered the official filming stage.

Like most ordinary Japanese dramas, in order to cope with the tight shooting schedule, Nanaya chose to shoot one episode after another.

Therefore, Nanaya concentrated most of the shots of the first episode at four locations: Illya's house, Homurahara Academy, Fuyuki City Bridge, and the woods, so that the crew could concentrate on filming.

In Nanaya's plan, her "Magical Girl Illya" has a total of 26 episodes. In terms of plot progress, Nanaya plans to start from when Rin and Luvia come to Fuyuki City to collect cards, and end with the duel with Gilgamesh at the end of the second season of the original manga.

The collection of the first seven cards is used as the interval point of the plot, the first season of the comics is used as the content of the first half, and the appearance of Kuro-chan later is used as the content of the second half.

However, Nanaya made substantial changes to the entire plot development process, especially the content of the first half of the season, which was the focus of Nanaya's changes.

Although the script revised by Nanaya still shows the shadow of the first season of the "Magic Idol" manga, there are differences in many places.

First of all, let's talk about the Heroic Spirits that appear on the cards. Because when "Magic Idol" first appeared as a fan comic, the selection of Heroic Spirits basically used the servants that appeared in FSN (except Hassan who was a fourth war) to gain popularity.

It is also because of this that, unlike FSN which conducts in-depth research on every Servant that appears, the Heroic Spirits on most of the cards in "Magic I" basically serve as tools.

Taking into account the possibility that he might film FSN in the future, and in order to avoid aesthetic fatigue among the audience, Nanaya replaced all the heroes except Big Dog, Red A and Hassan.

After all, it's such a good platform to showcase heroes to the audience, and it would be a waste to just play all the good cards in your hand.

At the beginning, the author of the manga "Imouto Kamisama" Hiroyama Hiroshi had no plan to write a long novel, and the plot of the first season of the manga was very short, so short that even the rhythm expert Onuma Shin could only barely put together 10 episodes, which did not meet the requirement of 13 episodes per season at all.

So in order to add more plot, Nanaya had to expand the plot.

Because of these reasons, Nanaya directly planned to introduce more heroes to the audience, just as a satellite launch.

Anyway, the satellites launched by Type-Moon in the previous life have already filled the lunar orbit. Nanaya feels that his little trick can't even reach a fraction of the mushroom.

"Is this why you wrote the script like this?"

On the set, Ori looked at the script that Nanaya handed to him, and his handsome face was full of black lines.

"'Illya should be shown acting cute here, please let the actors act cute for 3 minutes at their discretion'? What the hell is this?! Then are you going to write 'Illya and Miyu will be entangled for 10 minutes here' in the script later?!!"

"It's just the literal meaning." Nanaya shamelessly puffed out his chest and explained, "You want me, a grown man, to write about how a lolita is cute. Do you think I'm a pervert?"

"Aren't you?!"

Ori was so angry that he slapped the script on Nanaya's face.