Chapter 86 After the Awards Season

"Bang!"

Ori threw a gossip magazine at Nanaya's face as he lay in a chair and took a nap.

"What's going on?"

"Look for yourself!"

Ori snorted in annoyance.

"Let me take a look…Pfft—hahahaha!"

Nanaya picked up the magazine and glanced at an article before bursting out laughing.

In the entertainment section of this magazine, there was an article titled "New Director Suffered from Kidney Deficiency in His Early Years?"

But this is a photo of Nanaya going on stage to receive an award at the Japanese Oscars ceremony. In the photo, Nanaya's steps are unsteady, he is supporting his thigh with one hand, and his face has a very strange expression.

Of course this wasn't the reason why Nanaya wanted to laugh. Nanaya wanted to laugh because the article blamed Nanaya's weird behavior on Ori.

The article confidently stated that the reason why Nanaya was like this was because Ori over-exploited her as a boyfriend, causing Nanaya to suffer from kidney deficiency.

In order to support her point of view, the reporter of this gossip magazine found a photo of Ori's father Ryougi from somewhere and attached it to the middle of the article, saying that this skill of over-exploiting her husband was inherited by the women of the Ryougi family.

In the photo, Ryougi Shun had dark circles under his eyes and looked very tired.

The whole article was written with such earnest words that Nanaya might have believed it if he didn't know the inside story.

"Hahaha."

Nanaya kept pounding the table, as if he had never laughed in his life.

"Do you think that's funny?!"

Ori looked on with a gloomy expression, his "Nine Yin Bone Claw" was ready to go.

Nanaya quickly explained: "Don't take the content of Weekly Truth seriously. Apart from the title "Weekly Truth", none of the content is true. Everyone knows that it is just for fun."

Ori said angrily: "So why did you make that move when you received the award, Senior?"

Nanaya told the truth directly: "Because there is a bruise on my thigh, it hurts."

Ori cursed silently. He felt that Nanaya was blaming him for attacking him on the day of the award ceremony.

Nanaya shrugged without saying anything. At the Oscars ceremony a month ago, his walking posture was very strange because of the bruise on his thigh caused by the twisting of the tattoo.

This incident was recorded by the unscrupulous media, and then various reports began to appear.

Nanaya has seen several speculations these days. These guys with no bottom line say all kinds of things.

One media outlet said that Nanaya suffered domestic violence from Ori, which is the closest to the truth so far, but was refuted by fans with "How could my sister Ori hit people?"

In response to this, Nanaya said that your sister Ori not only beats people, but also beats them very painfully.

As for the final results of the Japanese Oscars, Nanaya's "Kara no Kyoukai" only won two trophies: Best Music and Best Art Direction.

By the way, that guy Shiki also won two awards, but the Best Cinematography and Best Newcomer awards he won were better than those of Nanayo.

Obviously, in the eyes of those old judges, the Four Seasons' movies are more to their taste.

Nanaya was a little unwilling to accept this, but there was nothing he could do. After all, his path was different from Siji's, and it was a blessing from God that he, a director of commercial films, could get two.

But no matter what, the 2000 awards season has passed, and even if Nanaya wants to take revenge, he will have to wait until November this year.

What's more, Seven Nights may not necessarily participate in the 2001 awards season. After all, it is still a question whether the big production "Goblin Slayer" can be released this year.

"Forget it, don't be angry." Nanaya comforted Ori, "If you have time to deal with such gossip, you might as well help me manage the studio. After all, the preparations for Goblin Slayer have basically taken up all my time. Especially starting from this month, I have to fly to several countries and have no time to deal with the studio."

"So this counts as running away?" Ori snorted helplessly.

"Haha... I'm going to work. Anyway," Nanaya said to Ori sincerely, "After I leave, the studio's affairs will be handed over to you."

Ori sighed helplessly: "I know, I was born to be a hard worker anyway, right?"

"Your work here is not complicated. You just need to ensure the special effects production of the last few episodes of "Magical Girl Illya" and the subsequent production of "The Solitary Gourmet". "

Shion Washimine paid Nanaya $200,000 for the director's fee, which is 23 million yen at the current exchange rate in 2001. The first 10 million yen has been deposited into the studio's account, which has greatly alleviated the current cash flow difficulties of [Erque Studio].

The first thing Nanaya did after becoming rich was to ask Subaru Ikeda to negotiate the copyright of "The Solitary Gourmet".

In fact, this comic, which was serialized in Fusosha's "Monthly ***JA" magazine from 1994 to 1996, is currently suspended. After all, in that era, healing food shows were not very popular, and hot-blooded and orthodox fighting food shows were obviously more popular.

Fortunately, the copyright fee for this comic was very cheap, and Subaru Ikeda bought it all without spending much money.

Yes, Nanaya asked Ikeda to buy the copyright of the entire comic, not just the TV adaptation rights. The advantage of doing this is that when the TV copyright is renewed in the future, Fusosha will ask for a high price. Anyway, it doesn't cost too much to buy the copyright of the entire comic now, so it's less troublesome.

Therefore, "The Solitary Gourmet" became the first work of [Erque Studio] with complete copyright. You should know that the copyright of "Kara no Kyoukai" and "Magical Illya" has to be shared equally between Erque and Lin Bao.

After purchasing the copyright, the first thing Nanaya did was to resume publication of the comic. He first found the creator of the comic, Masayuki Hisami, and confirmed with him the matters concerning the resumption of publication of the comic "The Solitary Gourmet".

By the way, Nanaya, the guy who took advantage of others, also signed a music composition agreement for the TV series "The Solitary Gourmet" with the bald uncle who was given the title of "freeloader author" by fans.

Anyway, this uncle is also in the original book, Nanaya believes that he can complete the task well.

Masayuki Kusumi himself was also very interested in Nanaya's proposal. After all, he can only be regarded as a mediocre comic creator now, although the comic "Junior High School Diary" co-created by him and his younger brother Takuya Kusumi won the 45th Bungeishunju Manga Award a few years ago.

But compared to those great comic book writers whose sales are in the tens of millions, Hisumi Masayuki's achievement is nothing.

Someone was willing to make a TV series based on his comics, and Masayuki Kusumi himself was in favor of it.

After reaching a cooperative relationship with the creator himself, Nanaya found Kodansha, which had a good relationship with Lin Bao, through Lin Bao's connections, and persuaded the other party to resume serialization of "The Solitary Gourmet" in its monthly magazine "AFTERNOON".

Nanaya chose this comic magazine because the style of this monthly work is similar to that of "The Solitary Gourmet".

The works it publishes are delicate in style, serious in theme, mature in content, and fresh in style. Manga such as Mushishi, My Goddess, and Genshiken are all famous works on AFTERNOON.

Of course, Nanaya's doing this is not without cost. Since the popularity of this comic was not very high before, Kodansha only agreed to give "The Solitary Gourmet" three issues. If "The Solitary Gourmet" fails to cross the cancellation line after three issues, then they can only say sorry.

Of course, for the sake of Nanaya, the new great director, "The Solitary Gourmet" will not be cut off before the end of the TV series, but if it wants to continue serialization, Nanaya will have to spend money to buy a position.

Nanaya had no choice but to agree to the money-hungry guys from the publishing house. After all, Nanaya believed that this would not be a big deal after the TV series was aired.

After all the preliminary preparations were completed, Nanaya began to explain to Ori how to shoot this TV series.

In fact, "The Solitary Gourmet" has undergone many changes from the first season to the seventh season. After several seasons of exploration, the crew finally had a fixed formula by the seventh season.

In fact, this routine has been used since the fifth season.

Basically, every episode begins with a short story about Goro's work, and then three consecutive "dong dong dong" sounds start the meal-hunting mode, he goes to the restaurant to order food and eats, and then plays a war song at the end.

The process was very smooth, with Goro's insights into food and life as well as his occasional cute gestures being topics that the audience enjoyed talking about.

As long as he grasps these key points, Nanaya believes that Ori's basic skills should not be a problem.

In fact, after the audition, the preliminary preparations for Goblin Slayer had already begun. Under the coordination of Washimine, all the main actors, including Rin, Luvia, and Gawain, were sent abroad by Nanaya for preliminary training.

After all, as a Western fantasy film, accent training and weapon movement training for actors are necessary.

It is impossible to do all these miscellaneous preparatory work after the filming starts. After all, when the crew gathers to start filming, the manpower cost of all staff members is calculated in tens of thousands of dollars per day. How can there be time for you to do such things?

Now that the actors are undergoing preliminary training, Nanaya has some free time, so he is working hard to pave the way for his junior brother's first TV series.

After all, he still has a lot of time in Japan, and he still has time to help Ori deal with some problems. When he goes to New Zealand in a few days, he really won't have any free time.

"Ori, don't be nervous." Seeing that Ori was not very confident, Nanaya encouraged her, "With your basic skills, plus the advice I gave you, there will be no problem."

"But last time I filmed 'Magical Girl Illya' for my senior, there were a lot of shots that needed to be re-shot in the end." Ori said with a pout.

When Nanaya was working on the script, he asked Ori to take his place in filming for a week.

After Nanaya finished the script and returned to the crew, he checked the shots shot by Ori.

To be fair, the pictures taken by Ori are all okay, but many of the details don't quite match Nanaya's style.

So after checking all the shots, Nanaya re-shot many scenes.

But now it seems that my behavior has made me a little less confident.

Because of the environment he grew up in, Ori has always been a very insecure child. Nanaya's modification of his own shots made Ori think that he was very dissatisfied with his work results.

"Well, the reason I reshot it is because of my own habits. It has nothing to do with your level." Nanaya sighed inwardly. He could only imitate the way he coaxed a child and touch Ori's head with his hand.

"Um."

Ori was not very interested in Nanaya's explanation. He lowered his head and remained silent.

Nanaya could understand Ori's anxiety. After all, he had felt the same way before filming "Kara no Kyoukai".

Originally, Nanaya had planned to take Ori to shoot two episodes first, but unfortunately he really doesn't have time now.

The early stages of filming for Goblin Slayer have already begun, with Shonan already taking some of the crew to New Zealand to set the scene.

"By the way, Senior. Will those guys go to New Zealand with you then?"

Ori suddenly thought of something, and he pointed to the large group of foreigners who had recently moved into the studio and asked.