area51novel Chapter 589 Supporting Role
Chapter 589 Supporting Role
Chapter 589 Supporting Role
Hikigaya Hachiman believed that he could see the evil behind this article, and there was no reason why the fox-like strategist could not think of it. As a lonely observer, although he could no longer be called lonely, he was still very excited to encounter such a big event and even participate in it in person.
They were all high school students, 16 or 17 years old. Other students were still peeking under the skirts of girls upstairs through the gaps in the stair railings, robbing elementary school students for pocket money in the alleys, and hiding from the dean of discipline to protect their beautiful hair, but they could see their big brother being scolded in the newspaper. What a wonderful feeling. This was not an ordinary tabloid, but a giant newspaper group with a circulation of over 2 million copies nationwide (Hikigaya, who has rich experience in delivering newspapers, can guarantee that there are definitely not 2 million copies! It's just bragging!).
Of course, it is the eldest brother's own business to be in the spotlight. They are proud of it. When they go out to pick up girls, they can say, "Do you know Hojo sensei? I'm your eldest brother, and he beats me up every day!" This is the supreme guide to picking up girls taught by Senior Onizuka, and it is said to be always effective.
However, doing so is also risky. After all, the eldest brother is too dazzling, and it is difficult for girls to take their eyes off him. If they get tired of being entangled with him, they will say, "It's Hojo teacher who is awesome. What use are you?"
Hikigaya Hachiman himself has a friend who was approached by a pretty girl from another school. The two of them had a great conversation and Hikigaya's friend thought spring was finally coming. But before he could get ready to get rid of his single status, the girl made an unwelcome request. She asked him and his friend to introduce a handsome guy in the class.
Hikigaya learned a lesson from his friend. Just as "a movie has only one main character", so does life. But Hikigaya doesn't think this is a bad thing, because if a movie has too many main characters, it would be a disaster. The "main character" enjoys the best treatment and bears the heaviest responsibility.
The success of a movie is all on the shoulders of the lead actor. If the movie is bad at the box office, it is the lead actor's fault. If it gets bad reviews, it is the lead actor's fault. But what about the supporting actors? Even if the movie is as bad as shit, there will still be people who will say that the only bright spot in the movie is the supporting actors.
Yes, I, Hikigaya Hachiman, want to sing praises to the supporting characters!
Being unknown, you don’t need to be as brilliant as the protagonist, and you don’t even have a few lines on stage, but you can still realize your dream. Not playing the leading role means you don’t need to be responsible for the film. No matter whether the film is successful or not, even if the box office falls to the bottom, no one will blame a mere supporting role.
This also means that the supporting roles will have unlimited room to play!
I have done all kinds of evil things, I will break the law that Big Brother dare not break! I will kick the old man that Big Brother dare not kick! I will step on the pits on the road and I will bear the knives that fall from the sky!
Even if someone thinks the supporting character is too cruel, the first person to blame him is definitely the boss. The supporting character who is not noticed has the opportunity to correct the wrongs and rebel...
Ahem, of course, Hikigaya would never do such a thing. He believed that the military strategist Tetsuta Kisaki could do those things well and become the number one subordinate of the general, and he, Hachiman Hikigaya, would become the military strategist's capable assistant! Being a supporting role also carries the risk of being implicated by the protagonist, but the supporting role of the supporting role, cute big tits!
Of course, what he really wanted to say was—
This is war!
The enemy has appeared and launched a fierce attack on the General Manager. We can't remain indifferent. Even a rational person like him was furious after reading this article, not to mention those idiots in the organization who have no brains but only gasoline.
And he, Hikigaya Hachiman, as one of the brains... cells of the runaway angel, is bound to become an important part of this war.
The secret taught by Onizuka-senpai can also be further improved from "I get beaten by my elder brother every day" to "When my elder brother is beaten, I try my best to protect him."
Get involved! Get involved!
If you can't become a legend, become part of the legend!
I put down the newspaper and picked up my phone to open the chat group of the Crazy Angel. As expected, everyone was cursing at the same time. Then I switched to the general director's personal website. It was good. A considerable amount of traffic was also transferred to discussing this matter. Occasionally, there were rational people who praised Matsumoto Motohiro from his perspective as a writer with a real sense of social responsibility. But most of them were cursing. After all, although the website now gathers many online fun people, it is still the base camp of Hojo Kyousuke fans.
Then, on other social platforms, such as the MSN Sankei Shimbun website, Matsumoto Motohiro, who sounded the charge to attack Big Brother, published several blogs in succession, analyzing the harm of Big Brother's existence to Japan, the world, and the earth from multiple angles and levels. Although MSN's traffic is far from comparable to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, the advantage of being a niche is that users are more loyal, so here there are more people who support Sankei Shimbun and Matsumoto Motohiro.
A bunch of extremists followed suit, saying that Hojo Kyosuke was a clown who was seeking to attract attention and had no brains but to rely on such little tricks for marketing. Some people even responded to Matsumoto Motohiro's call, saying that they would definitely tell everyone around them not to buy Hojo Kyosuke's books, and even if they had bought them before, they would burn them all.
The celebrities who had previously been taking advantage of Hojo Kyosuke saw that they would not get any good results if they continued along the same path, so some of them who were smart and capable took risky moves and started shouting as well.
For example, a stage actor named Shenmu Guang saw that the male lead of a third-rate and inferior TV series could become famous because of Hojo Kyosuke. He was very enterprising and immediately followed up and began to promote the troupe's new play. Unexpectedly, netizens did not buy it at all, saying that his acting was disgusting and asked him to die quickly, saying that he was not even as good as a toe of Hojo teacher and yet he came to take advantage of the popularity, which was really shameless.
He didn't care, after all, being black and red is also red, he immediately bowed and apologized and said that he would work hard to become a better self. But netizens still didn't buy it, saying that you are more disgusting than the ex-husband in "The Devotion of Suspect X", at least he died and you are not dead.
Shenmu Guang couldn't understand why fans would tolerate Hojo Kyosuke, who had multiple relationships, and netizens would even fight online to help their fans win the position of legal wife, while he, a high-quality actor who broke up with every girl he dated, was treated like this. But he didn't say anything, just secretly hated it in his heart.
Now that he saw that someone had finally discovered the true face of Hojo Kyosuke, he was overjoyed and saw an opportunity. He immediately put up a banner and shouted loudly, first recounting how he was cyberbullied by Hojo Kyosuke's fans, criticizing the current Internet environment as being too bad. Then he lamented that just a few posters and comics could confuse so many netizens, and finally called on everyone to wake up and stop being stupid.
Not to mention, there are many people who are jealous of Hojo Kyosuke's popularity just like him. He immediately gained 30,000 followers on Twitter, and a large number of people came to comment on his updates.
The most important thing is that the famous writer Motohiro Matsumoto actually followed him and affirmed his ideas.
Humph, your name is Hojo Kyosuke? I don't need to ride on your popularity to get in touch with the literary world. This is what they call watching him build a mansion, watching him entertain guests, and watching his mansion collapse, right?
Kamiki Hikaru thought excitedly, and then actively responded to the new fans, saying that he got a lot of inspiration from this farce, and that he would work with Mr. Motohiro Matsumoto to create a drama to discuss the chaos on the Internet, so please look forward to it.
Hikigaya Hachiman frowned and clicked the report button with resentment in his eyes. He also logged into his father's account and left a few angry words, which slightly calmed his anger.
What the hell? I haven't even gotten on this train yet, and you, who are just trying to get attention, want to be the protagonist? I think you're going to get killed!
He no longer looked at other places, but opened a chat room. There were not many people in the chat room, only 23 members. This was the think tank of the Rage Angels, and the discussions there were quite heated, no less than those in the Rage Angels group.
After a quick glance, I realized that the things I had just read had been summarized by a special intelligence officer into documents and sent to the chat room. There was also a lot of detailed private information, such as the sales of the Sankei Shimbun today, the personal information of the writer Matsumoto Motohiro, the drama actor Kamiki Hikaru, and the various relationships behind them. And the names of other tabloids and magazines that followed suit... All kinds of information were continuously gathered in this chat room with only 23 people like water.
Although there are only 23 of them, the power they can command is quite large. Not to mention the hundreds of people directly under the Rampage Angel, a loyal army that can make Tokyo lively in the middle of the night, and other small organizations or members who are affiliated with them also have many fans. Not to mention the extremely large number of people in the Hojo Kyousuke Supporters Association.
It can be said that even without using various marketing means, just with the power in his hands, Hojo Kyosuke can secure a seat on the bestseller list as long as he publishes a book.
Hikigaya was very disappointed that the chat room had no name, but it didn't matter. In his heart he called it the "Twenty-three Brain Club", indicating that they were the brains of the runaway angels and controlled this huge robot.
There would be a notification when everyone in the chat room came online, so as soon as Hikigaya entered, someone greeted him and he responded with a smile.
He was about to ask what his mission was when he saw the chat room owner, Tetsuta Kisaki, appear.
The message sent was a picture, the same as the one Hikigaya had sent to the group before, all of which were news from the newspaper.
The Asahi Shimbun has a daily circulation of over 8 million copies, which is four times as much as the Sankei Shimbun even if it is not exaggerating (Hikigaya, who has extensive experience in delivering newspapers, said that the 8 million figure is also inflated, but not by much, which is much more respectable than the Sankei Shimbun).
It is also a social commentary, with bold and black font - Hojo Kyosuke.
The article is titled "A Writer's Sincerity"
"Everyone, please read this article carefully, and the following activities will be centered around it." - Tetsuta Kisaki
After seeing the boss's speech, everyone immediately replied to express their understanding, and Hikigaya was no exception.
The author of the article is named Futami Jiraiya. The Hikigaya family did not subscribe to the Asahi Shimbun, so he had never added this name. I searched for it first.
Wow, compared to the Matsumoto Motohiro of Sankei Shimbun, this Futami teacher has a much better resume. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo and a best-selling author, and he has translated many foreign masterpieces. You should know that the previous Matsumoto Motohiro, although he also had some works, most of them were serious literary books, and the sales were terrible, but he still called it normal, and ordinary people without sufficient literary cultivation could not understand his books.
After reading the title of the article and combining it with what the military advisor said, Hikigaya knew that this must be a writer who was on the same side as him, so he adjusted his sitting position and leaned comfortably on the sofa to start reading.
The beginning of the article is similar to that of Matsumoto Motohiro, both of them sound like gossip. Futami said that he went to the bookstore to wander around "for food" as usual, and then he saw the poster of Hojo's new work "Dreams and Death of Writer K", and was shocked at the first sight.
The Yomiuri Shimbun, the No. 1 newspaper in Japan, started out as a serialized novel. The Asahi Shimbun also has its own special stories. From the beginning, it has been supplemented with a large number of illustrations and even annotated with pseudonyms, so that illiterate people and children can also enjoy reading. On the other hand, while being close to the grassroots, the Asahi Shimbun has also achieved the appeal of both the elite and the masses. The families who subscribe to their newspapers rank first among the major Japanese newspapers in terms of annual income and education level, which also allows them to earn advertising fees far exceeding the first place with the second place in sales.
The reason why high-level intellectuals also like to subscribe to this newspaper can be seen from the writer Futami Jiraiya. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo, a best-selling author, and a translator. Who would not like to read such a person who writes social commentaries and writes articles that are appealing to both the elite and the masses?
For example, now, when it comes to posters, three illustrations are revealed. They are not small pieces of tofu, but large pictures with clear details. It can be said that they are quite bright, and Hikigaya Hachiman took a breath when he saw them.
The military advisor has spent a lot of money this time, right? How much does such a large advertisement cost? It would be great if I had this money, so that I could post big brother's small advertisements all over the streets and alleys of Tokyo!
Keep reading, here is Mr. Erjian’s appreciation of these posters:
"…The only light in the whole painting is the man lying on the ground like a lamb to be slaughtered…"
Jiraiya Futami's appreciation this time was much more detailed and of a higher level than what he said at the door of the bookstore. He quoted various classics and used more than a dozen world-famous paintings as examples to illustrate the techniques and expressions used in the poster. He first showed off his extraordinary aesthetic accomplishment in a show of skill.
Hikigaya was stunned. As a core member of the Rampage Angels and a person who was planning to retire in "Carbonate" in the future, he knew who created these posters.
Similarly, in Ruyi Liao, Eriri also became the focus.
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(End of this chapter)