Chapter 59 Award Ceremony

Tokyo Prince Hotel is a long-established luxury hotel located in the center of Tokyo.

Not only is it close to the city center, but JR Roppongi Station is only a 2-minute walk away. As a high-end tourist hotel, its location is simply perfect.

Of course, for people in the entertainment industry, this hotel is the venue for the Hochi Film Awards ceremony held here every December.

This banquet hall, which has been hosting its annual awards ceremony since 1976, once again became the focus of Japanese media tonight.

The Western-style setting filled the entire banquet hall. Although there were only 6 awards to be presented during the ceremony, the hall was still packed with guests. Almost all the big names in the entertainment industry were present, including actors, comedians, reporters from major media outlets, and agency leaders. Nanaya even saw a few novelists joining in the fun.

Although in terms of value, the Hochi Film Award can only be regarded as the last of all the major awards in Japan, but as the beginning of the annual awards season, the Hochi Film Award still attracts a lot of attention.

Therefore, even if it is just to catch the attention, people in the circle will choose to attend this dinner if they have the chance.

However, Nanaya didn't need to run in front of these big guys to show off his face. Hanai Ryuichi had already greeted him before the banquet started. In the middle of the banquet, he would take Nanaya to meet the big guys in the circle and get familiar with them.

An old man in the family is like a treasure. With the old man leading him, Nanaya was much better than those guys who kept handing out business cards in the venue.

So for Nanaya, the food at this banquet was more attractive to him than the award ceremony.

As for the reason, of course it was because he had no right to receive the award.

"It's such a shame. We put so much effort into this and only won the Best Actress award."

Nanaya, who rushed over from the film set, hid in a corner of the banquet hall with several people from Erque Studio. Looking at the list of winners in their hands, they felt a little uncomfortable.

Because the newcomer award of the Hochi Film Awards will not be established until 2009, the current awards of the Hochi Film Awards only include Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor and Best Director.

As a newcomer, Nanaya has to compete with directors all year long, so the chances of winning an award are too low. After all, there are so many veterans, but a young boy won the Best Director award. Does this mean that there is no one in the Japanese film industry?

Even though Japan's live-action film industry can no longer beat animated films at the box office, it doesn't mean that some things can break the rules.

"What a bullshit rule! It's obvious that these old guys are just upset that a little kid like me is running ahead of them."

Unlike other film awards that announce the winners at the awards ceremony, the Hochi Film Awards announces the winners first and then holds the awards ceremony. In other words, all the guests attending this dinner already knew the results before entering the venue.

"There are only six award spots in total. It's already good enough that we can win a Best Actress award!"

Unlike Nanaya who kept complaining, Ikeda Subaru was very happy. His hard work during this period finally paid off, and he was very happy that Ori could stand on the podium.

"If it weren't for the advantage of gender, Ori probably wouldn't have had a chance."

In Nanaya's memory, the Best Actress award at the 2000 Hochi Film Awards was originally given to the ordinary-looking older sister Naomi Fujiyama.

Although Ori's performance was indeed outstanding, it would not have been easy for Ori to win this award if his gender had not given him extra points in the eyes of the judges and if the audience had not been fascinated by the appearance of Ryougi Shiki, played by him.

Apart from anything else, Ms. Fujiyama Naomi is far better than Ori in acting. If it weren't for the fact that the role of Ryougi Shiki is almost perfectly suited to Ori, Ori, as an actor who changed careers, would have been completely crushed by the other actor.

"That's enough, stop talking to me about gender. It will be troublesome if someone else hears it." Ori quickly stopped Nanaya from talking any further. After all, only a few people knew about this. If a reporter from an entertainment gossip magazine heard about it and spread it widely, it would be a big joke.

Ori is in a very complicated mood now. On the one hand, as a boy, he won the Best Actress trophy, which made him feel very, very uncomfortable. Although he has always dressed himself in a neutral way, he has no misunderstanding of his gender.

But on the other hand, he was very happy that he won the Best Actress award, which can be said to be the pinnacle award for actors. Even if the Hochi Film Award is not of high quality, it is still a national award, isn't it?

More importantly,

"My mother and sister should be very happy with this award, right?"

"What did you say?"

Ori's voice when he talked to himself was so low that Nanaya didn't hear clearly what he said.

"Nothing, I was just saying that you have bad intentions, senior!" Ori stopped talking immediately after realizing that he had said something wrong. He bared his teeth and said to Nanaya.

"No matter how evil she is, she's better than Illya right now." Nanaya seemed to have thought of something. He shuddered and complained, "She's been going too far on the set lately."

When Nanaya thought about how the little girl had teased him on the set a few hours ago to retaliate against him for not bringing her to the awards ceremony, he felt angry and helpless.

Although the focus of Erque Studio's work during this period has been on award season public relations, the award season is not everything after all. Nanaya still has to continue filming "Magical Girl Illya".

After filming another original episode of subduing the false heroic spirit and fighting against the Fourth Generation Hassan of the Hundred Faces, the story of "MagicaI" has finally developed to the end of the first half. After the battle with the Berserker Beowulf, Miyu finally officially joined Illya's team and became her partner (harem).

However, these plots have not yet been officially broadcast on TV stations. The crew of "Magical" has only completed production and handed it over to the TV station.

However, Nanaya had already started producing the first two episodes of the second half of the season, which were the plots in which Kuro-chan appeared.

Speaking of which, Illya's Kuro-chan's costume really amazed Nanaya. Although he had seen it in comics in his previous life, he didn't expect that the three-dimensional effect would be more shocking than he imagined.

Even though I only changed my skin color and hair color, the feeling I give people is completely different.

In particular, I don't know why every time Illya changes into Kuro's costume, she likes to stick to others. In addition to Nanaya, Yumi, Rin, Luvia and even Ori have all fallen into her trap.

Even though Nanaya changed the plot of replenishing magic from kissing to caressing the other person's belly with hands in order to pass the review, Illya is always able to perform in a different style, which is really terrifying.

"Is it because black skin has the attributes of a little gangster? Or is it that Illya's personality is like that of Kuro-chan? Has she always been pretending to be a good child?" Nanaya always felt that he seemed to have discovered some truth unconsciously. "Tsk, let's not talk about this, I'm going to eat."

It's a rare opportunity to attend a high-end banquet, so it would be stupid to squat in a corner with an empty stomach.

Anyway, my teacher hasn't come yet, so I should take this opportunity to eat more good food. Otherwise, when the old man takes me to pay respect to the mountain, I won't have time to eat.

The banquet had already started for a while, and the big guys were toasting and chatting, mostly in groups of two or three, while the younger ones were moving among the big guys to get to know each other.

But these had nothing to do with Nanaya. He came to the buffet area alone, put some tuna sushi, fried shrimp tempura and bone-in beef short ribs on a plate, then poured himself a glass of orange juice, intending to find a quiet place to satisfy his stomach first.

Because he had to communicate with the boss later, Nanaya didn't dare to take the sushi with his hands. He could only pick up a piece of tuna sushi with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.

"Hmm... Not bad, it's indeed tuna sushi from a high-end hotel."

The plump tuna meat made Nanaya feel that it was worthwhile to come here tonight. Unlike the frozen tuna meat in those cheap sushi restaurants, the tuna meat in Nanaya's mouth was fresh, smooth and soft, with a perfect ratio of lean meat to fat, neither greasy nor woody. With the slightly sour and sweet vinegar rice, Nanaya felt a sense of happiness from the bottom of his heart when he tasted it.

"Well, let's go get some more later."

But before Nanaya finished the food on his plate, a familiar male voice sounded behind him: "Nanaya, why are you eating here alone? Didn't your Ori come to accompany you?"

Nanaya turned his head and found that there was a young man standing behind him.

The other party was a handsome man who looked very young and dressed very fashionably. His brown hair and half-long side-parted hair made him look very energetic, but he was somewhat out of place in this high-end banquet venue.

Nanaya was full of black lines on his head and complained to this guy: "Shiki, you still have the nerve to criticize me. You dress like this for this kind of occasion. Are you a rock singer from somewhere?"

"Tsk, forget it." The man sat down next to Nanaya and started complaining to him, "If my actor hadn't won an award, I wouldn't want to come to a place like this. Everyone is dressed the same. It's really boring."

"If you want to stand out, you can come here wearing only a loincloth. I'm sure you will attract a lot of attention." Nanaya rolled his eyes at the man and continued to eat with his head down.

"No way, it's too cold." The man scooped a piece of beef ribs from Nanaya's plate with his fingers. He pinched the bone with his hand and stuffed the steak into his mouth.

[Isn't it because of shame? ]

Nanaya had a new understanding of the eccentricity of this bad friend.

"If you really wear a loincloth, your father will probably throw you off the rooftop of Tokyo Prince Hotel for the sake of justice."

"Don't talk about me. You're not much better. You're hiding here eating alone at a banquet like this. You're really a country bumpkin from Shimane Prefecture."

"Same here, you rebellious brat from the Matsuno family."

After insulting each other, the two men smiled at each other, then immediately started to finish the food on Nanaya's plate.