Tokyo Literary Godfather

"According to calculations by the statistics department, the average viewership of last night's first episode was 22.3%, and the highest viewership was 34%."

"What about the competitors?"

The staff swallowed and said, "The average rating over there is 27.8%, and the highest rating reached 50%."

"It's a lot different. What's the problem?"

"Maybe it's the actors...the other party's popularity is higher than ours."

"Don't blame everything on the actors."

"yes……"

Hidaka Junming looked at the ratings report and saw that it was five percentage points worse than Fukuyama Channel... But the strange thing was that he didn't feel anxious or depressed.

Not only do I not feel this way myself, but looking around, it seems that the creative team does not feel this way. Have you become calmer? No, Hidaka Junming himself doesn’t even want to admit it...

It's because he no longer feels any shame about losing to Kei Fujiwara, and subconsciously feels that losing to him is a normal thing.

This is also the first time that Junmei Hidaka has felt a sense of powerlessness when meeting someone, that is, no matter how hard you try to climb up, you can only feel that you are getting further and further away from the other person.

What's even more frightening is that he obviously started climbing first, but in just a moment, the opponent passed by him, and then climbed higher and faster.

This feeling of powerlessness has started since "Homeless Child" and reached its peak after the release of "Hansawa Naoki". Now he is used to this feeling.

After the morning meeting, Hidaka Junaki came to Ensuke Kato's office. There was a projection screen in the office, and the first episode of "Victory is Justice" was playing repeatedly.

Kato Ensuke couldn't help but nodded: "Yes, it turns out that I entered from this entry point, explored a profound theme, and also broke the legal drama out of the conventions of the detective genre. Comedy expression techniques can also weaken the The seriousness of the subject matter is emphasized, making it easier for the audience to accept it, which is really amazing.”

"Coupled with the fact that Miyata Takaharu and Kono Aoi are two very popular actors, the ratings of this drama must be better than ours. How much better? A lot?"

"About 5 percentage points," Rigao said helplessly, "the gap is huge."

"Don't worry too much." Kato Ensuke said, ""The Pioneer Lawyer" is a work that relies on plot to win, and the ratings will gradually increase in subsequent episodes. The other party's cast is stronger than ours, so the results in the first episode were better than ours. Okay, it’s reasonable. Let’s talk about a long-term war.”

"And didn't we also cause trouble for Fukuyamadai before? This time they are determined to regain the situation, and there is no other way except to actively challenge it. You, stop thinking of wrong ideas, that boy Fujiwara is not an innocent person Son, you dare to play tricks, he will be even more ruthless, why won’t that guy from Panasonic retaliate and lie in the nursing home with a crooked eye? I’m old..."

"Yes, it won't happen this time." Hidaka Junming said quickly.

"Well, call the screenwriters in for a meeting." Ensuke Kato said, "I plan to add more original plots to the script."

"Original plot... This is very risky, Mr. Kato." Hidaka Junming said.

"That's right, but "The Pioneer Lawyer" is a novel written 15 years ago after all. How can it attract the main audience of today's TV series without making changes? Although it is risky, it is worth a try."

The film and television adaptation of the original work will more or less make some changes, but special attention must be paid to the scale and precision of the changes, otherwise it will incur the anger of fans of the original work.

The reason why many adapted dramas have unsatisfactory results is because the screenwriters added a lot of original plots to the works. However, these original plots did not add color to the works. Instead, some fans of the original works felt that the works had become unfamiliar.

Therefore, during the adaptation process of this drama, great restraint was exercised in order to attract the audience to the greatest extent. And now Kato Ensuke has decided to make drastic changes, which also makes Hidaka Junaki a little worried. What if the changes are not good?

It doesn't matter if the ratings can't beat "Victory is Justice". Looking at the momentum, it should be no problem to maintain the ratings above 17%, but what if the ratings accidentally drop sharply?

"Teacher Kato, I think..."

"Hidaka, when did you become so cowardly?" Kato Ensuke suddenly looked at Hidaka Junaki, "If you really don't change well and are abandoned by the audience, I'll go and apologize in person. You don't need to worry about that. What more to do?"

Junaki Hidaka had nothing to say. Although he couldn't bear the thought of Kato apologizing for the poor performance of the TV series at his age, Ensuke Kato had no choice but to agree because of his firm look.

…

Once Kei Fujiwara's four dramas were aired, three of them firmly occupied the top five ratings for the first episodes of new dramas in the autumn season. Yamaguchi Citoyo looked at the ratings rankings of new dramas in the newspaper and was overjoyed.

Although only one episode has been aired and it has not triggered a particularly large-scale discussion, several TV magazines in Japan seem to have a strong interest in "Victory is Justice" and have dedicated pages in the magazines to discuss this movie. theme of the play.

However, some newspapers and periodicals fiercely criticized the bad ideas expressed in this drama.

"Kumimon Kensuke is the most meaningless protagonist in the history of Japanese legal dramas. The greed and selfishness he shows are just the screenwriter's sensationalism. Among all TV drama types, professional dramas undoubtedly have the greatest educational significance for the people. . But this "Victory is Justice" completely abandoned the significance of professional dramas, and instead tarnished the spiritual pastoral of some young viewers. The author is really sad that after "Naoki Hansawa", Mr. Kei Fujiwara came up with It is such a work without correct concepts. "Naoki Hansawa" awakened the spirit of Japanese lower-level employees to resist workplace bullying, while "Victory is Justice" tries to tell everyone that success can truly be achieved in this society. It’s people like Gumeimen Kensuke who put utilitarianism first.”

"A real legal drama should be like "The Pioneer Lawyer", which spreads the correct concepts of good and evil, and evil will eventually be brought to justice. This is the social mission that TV drama creators should shoulder, but Kei Fujiwara has abandoned this His mission is to spread the concept of "Everything is about money", which is despicable. He is not worthy of the name of a national teacher. A true national teacher is not worthy of inheriting the mantle of Mr. Ensuke Kato."

When Yamaguchi Citoyo saw this article, he was so angry that he wanted to curse on the spot. Damn it, he started writing some boring articles again to slander our lovely Fujiwara Kei.

This newspaper is an affiliated company of Fanxing TV, and this time "Furuhata Jinsaburo" happened to disrupt Fanxing TV's broadcast plan, causing one of the other party's ace dramas to be caught off guard by "Furahata Jinsaburo". It is probably with some expectations. The purpose of revenge is right there.

What's more, what this article expresses is almost the mainstream concept in society. In Japan, the status of TV series is higher than that of movies. This is also a feature of Japan's cultural industry. After all, in other countries, movies have a higher status.

This is partly because the movie market is not strong enough. In the United States, a good movie is no different than a money printing machine, but in Japan, even a very popular movie can only be sold for a fraction of what it is in Hollywood.

On the other hand, this is the reason why most viewers do prefer TV series. TV series have a wider audience, so society requires TV series to spread certain [correct concepts] and play a role in educating the people. Those who can do this are Became a "national teacher".

Because of "Naoki Hansawa", Kei Fujiwara has been labeled as a national teacher, but because he is too young, the media often does not call him that. Only the media from the Spring and Autumn Period and Fukuyama Department will keep calling the National Teacher one by one.

However, a trace of worry flashed across Yamaguchi Tsutoyo's eyes. To a certain extent, this article also reflects the views of many people in today's society. Will the ratings of "Victory is Justice" also be affected by this?