Chapter 6 Problematic Team

"That's too much, you guys..."

The man who was untied by several people shook his long bangs and complained: "Why don't you let me communicate with the representative of [Lin Bao]? Maybe the other party will be convinced by my charm and give me an extra 10 million budget~?"

"Shut up! If you communicate directly with the other party, it is not impossible to directly deduct 10 million from the budget!"

Nanaya had long been immune to the nonsense of this guy with a delusional middle school mentality, but the domestic manager of Linbao certainly had not. If this guy's nonsense scared people and caused them to bear a grudge, it would be troublesome if the movie budget was blocked.

The guy in front of him, who called himself "His Royal Highness the Prince", was wearing a pure white jacket and trousers, a crimson shirt, a gold necklace around his neck, and dressed like a Ginza gigolo. His name was Shonan Rantaro.

Although this sounds like the online pseudonym of a otaku from the last century, it is actually this guy's real name.

This guy is famous for being lazy in the crew. Whenever he has free time, he likes to take out his handheld game console and play games.

However, compared to the uneducated guy Hyakumekusa, this guy is not only excellent in his job of sound effects, but also very good at lighting, camera, editing and most of the behind-the-scenes things. He can be called an all-rounder.

Judging from his appearance, Shonan still has a certain appeal to women. Nanaya feels that the term "disgustingly handsome" is tailor-made for this guy.

And unlike the gigolo who really harassed women, this guy looked like a gigolo and spoke like a gigolo, but he was basically just talking nonsense. Nanaya knew that this guy who said all day long that he would "make all the girls in the world crazy about him" was actually still a virgin.

but--

"Really, Nanaya-san, why don't you just ask me to find the heroine? Maybe under my charm, the heroine will star in the movie for free~? It might become a good story then~?" Shonan Rantaro said in a tone that felt more frivolous than hydrogen while smoothing his bangs with his hand.

"I'm being laughed at! This guy has no common sense, so give me some limits!"

Nanaya clenched his fists and waved them at this guy who was missing something in his brain. If no one else had held him back, Nanaya swore that he would definitely cut off this guy's bangs.

A young man with a baby face patted Nanaya's chest to signal him to calm down: "Well, Mr. Kiryu, calm down a little. This is a rare opportunity for us to make a movie together. We all need to work together."

This guy who looks like a little bottom is called Ikeda Subaru. Although he looks like a legitimate shota, he is actually a legitimate shota. However, this old shota is three years older than Nanaya, and he is already married and has children. He is a typical winner in life.

"Indeed, Ki-chan, instead of picking on this Chuunibyou, shouldn't you focus on your work now?"

A plump middle-aged woman held her cheek with one hand and complained, her face full of regret: "Compared to this ugly guy, why didn't Ki-chan let Ori-chan be the protagonist? You two are senior and junior, one is the director and the other is the actor, you can be said to be a match made in heaven~~"

This elder sister is called Katsura Mamako, and she is nicknamed "Katsura Mama". She is the makeup artist hired by Nanaya. As for the Ori-chan she mentioned——

"Um... Sister Katsura, I'm a boy."

Ori-chan, who was named by Katsura's mother, had a dark face. He clenched his hands and refuted the senior. His name is Ryougi Ori, who is not only a junior of Nanaya, but also the props and costume designer of the current crew.

If you only look at Ryougi Ori's appearance, her slender figure and quiet and pretty face are full of intellectual beauty, and she looks very eye-catching even in a crew full of handsome men and beautiful women. As long as he takes a stroll on the street, Nanaya believes that people on the street, both men and women, will stop to admire Ori's appearance.

No wonder the manager in the mainland would subconsciously mistake this guy for the heroine of the movie.

But unfortunately, as mentioned before, Ori is a boy.

That's right, she's so pretty but turns out to be a boy.

The result was a boy!

Important things should be said three times!

Anyway, Nanaya still doesn't dare to believe the gender of his lovely junior. If it weren't for the fact that the other person's name had a greater impact on him than the gender when they first met, he felt that he might not be able to withstand the temptation and would have done a gender check on Ori.

In addition, since the other person was wearing a black kimono all day, it was really hard to think that he was a boy.

But what was even more terrifying was Katsura Mamako's reaction.

In response to Ori's complaint, she nodded even more vigorously: "I know, it's because you two are boys that I'm looking forward to it even more. Obviously, that experiment video was filmed so well."

Ori cried and grabbed the corner of Katsura's clothes: "Please stop talking, I regret agreeing to star in his experimental short film!"

Rantaro on the side put one foot on the table and pretended to be ready for a sailing trip and said, "So, let me go and seduce the right heroine~? I will definitely find you a superb woman~?"

"Shut up! Instead of wasting time on this, you might as well ask me to prepare the sound effects in advance!" The angry Nanaya strangled the idiot's neck.

"It's okay, Nanaya-san! Please trust my abilities~?"

"It's because of you that I don't believe it at all!"

Looking at the messy office, a certain bottom suddenly felt that his future was bleak: "Is this really going to work?"

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Hanai Ryuichi sent Kaiuchi all the way to the school gate. Before leaving, he shook his hand vigorously and said goodbye: "Kaiuchi, I really trouble you this time."

"Well, after all, we are old friends. I remember that the first time I served as a production manager was for your movie, and Director Hanai took great care of me at that time. Don't worry, I will do my best to help your disciple." Kaiuchi said respectfully. He knew very well that although this movie was nominally invested by [Lin Bao], the actual investor was the person standing in front of him.

However, Kaiuchi still expressed his concerns about Nanaya's ability: "But Ryuichi-san, I am still a little worried. After all, Nanaya's age..."

The Japanese workplace environment places great emphasis on seniority. The relationship between seniors and juniors can almost be said to be absolute. Seniors can give orders to juniors and even arrange a lot of completely unnecessary work for them.

In this situation, generally speaking, as long as it is not too extreme, the younger generation can only accept it silently. Even if you want to resist, the overall environment will basically not have anyone stand up for you, after all, everyone has been through this.

Why can't you, as a latecomer, experience the same hardships that we have experienced?

Generally speaking, there are only two ways to change this situation. One is to accumulate seniority. When you become a senior from a junior, you can turn around and exploit the new juniors. The other is to demonstrate extraordinary talent (or internal connections) so that you can be promoted directly to the management level and be managed by your seniors without being able to control you.

In the entertainment industry, this phenomenon is even more serious. Unless you have connections, if you want to become a director, you can only slowly work your way up, starting with odd jobs, and doing all the jobs related to film production, such as lighting, sound effects, photography, screenwriting, etc. You don't have to do all the jobs, but at least you have to do most of them.

Although the latter path is a bit rigid, it also lays a solid foundation for the director, so that he or she will at least not make some low-level mistakes when shooting movies. But again, this path takes a very long time, and basically by the time you really sit in the position of director, you are usually already middle-aged.

As a newcomer with no reputation, although Kaiuchi does not doubt his talent, experience can only be accumulated to achieve a qualitative leap. After all, not everyone is Michael Bay, who can come up with a super successful commercial movie like "Bad Boys" at the first try.

Even Michael Bay became famous as a commercial and MV director before turning to film directing. Nanaya is really too young. Although the crew members are all his own people, it is hard to say whether the actors will listen to him.

Ryuichi was also somewhat helpless after hearing Kaiuchi's concerns: "I also know about the child's age, but you know what? After that child came to my crew during college, he spent almost all of his extracurricular time on work. No one in the crew can compare with him in terms of seriousness. I know his talent and hard work better than anyone else, so I hope his efforts will be rewarded. As his teacher, I am willing to create opportunities for him to succeed. Even if he fails this time, this experience is very rare."

Kaiuchi was still a little worried: "This circle is very realistic. If a newcomer with no foundation like this fails, it will be a devastating blow to his future. It is very likely that he will never be able to get investment again in the future?"

Ryuichi didn't care: "If he fails, I will let him continue to hone his skills by my side. When I retire, he can at least take over my job. I believe that by then, he will have grown into a great director."

"I understand." Kaiuchi bowed to express his respect for this selfless teacher, "I will do my best to help him, Ryuichi, don't worry."

Ryuichi said gratefully: "I'll take care of everything."

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"What the hell!"

In the distance, Hyakumekusa looked at Director Hanai who was parting with Kaiuchi, and felt extremely angry. Now the whole crew was spreading rumors that Nanaya was going to become a movie director. Although it was just a TV movie, everyone who knew Nanaya's talent believed that this would be the beginning of Nanaya's rise.

These compliments made Hyakumekusa furious. In his eyes, Nanaya, a country bumpkin, would never succeed. He had to know that he had already said that the country bumpkin was not worthy of being a director. If the movie was successful, wouldn't that be a slap in his face?

Not to mention the conflict between himself and the other party. Once the other party succeeds, he will definitely humiliate himself. This is something that the arrogant Hyakumekusa will never allow.

"We must not let that guy get away with it!"

Hyakumekusa rolled his eyes and came up with a plan. He picked up the phone and called his agent: "Hello, it's me. I want you to check something for me."