Chapter 21: Chapter 21 Alcoholic Musician
Song Jiang, a famous bandit leader in ancient China, once said: "Without sound, no matter how good the robbery is, it will not work."
And the famous internet celebrity Mr. Lu Xun also said: "Yes, this is not what I said."
This shows how important sound is to a movie. It can be said that the BGM of a movie is the most important tool to set off the movie scenes.
In fact, Nana's favorite music producer for "Kara no Kyoukai" is none other than Aunt Kajiura Yuki, although this music producer has a small problem that the music is very similar, and you may think it is the same song after listening to it too many times. However, the flaws do not outweigh the merits, and the music she created for Type-Moon, whether it is "Kara no Kyoukai" or the later "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" and "FATE" series, has left a deep impression on people.
However, it is not known whether it was the influence of the butterfly wings, but Nanaya has never been able to find the music producer Yuki Kajiura.
Although she became famous after Gundam Seed in 2002, she had already been active in the Japanese music industry before that. However, in this world, this musician seemed to have disappeared, and Nana couldn't find any information about her.
After searching in vain, Nanaya could only settle for the next best thing and invite other music producers. However, these guys all looked down on "Kara no Kyoukai" as a work with no funding, no big-name stars, and no famous director, and chose to reject all of them.
Of course, according to Subaru Ikeda, the main reason was that Nanaya didn't pay enough.
Fortunately, there is always a way out.
Nanaya found another option through the doujin games of Shonan. Since regular music producers were not good enough, he could look for doujin music creators. In 2000, many great artists had not yet emerged. Asking them to produce music would definitely be cheaper than those vampires in the music industry, and the quality would also be guaranteed.
The target that Nanaya chose was the game producer of "Touhou Kaidan" that Shonan was secretly playing - Ota Junya ZUN.
This guy, who is called the God Lord by his fans, can be said to be a legendary figure in the Japanese and even global fan circles. His "Touhou Project" series is known as one of the three major fan games in Japan, along with "Higurashi" and "Tsukihime".
If I have to say it, after 07 and Yuesha went commercial, the "Chawan", no, "Touhou" series has become a banner of the Japanese original fan community.
And ZUN, the game producer of "Chawan", bah, "Touhou", is an even more admirable game producer. After all, it is not something that everyone can do to complete a game program, graphics, music, and character design all by himself. What's more important is that except for the round-faced style that is more challenging in terms of compatibility, the "Touhou" series can be said to be perfect in other aspects.
Although the Eastern crowd gradually began to decline after the rise of the new generation hard-working Shimafuji in C84 in 2013, and was even dubbed the outdated group before Nanaya's rebirth, no one can ignore the Eastern crowd's heyday in CM.
I have no regrets about entering the East in this life, and I wish to live in Gensokyo in the next life. This sentence should be a true portrayal of many Oriental fans. Shunya Ota used his rich imagination to build a bizarre paradise where humans and demons coexist for everyone.
The most impressive element of the original game of "Touhou" for Nanaya, besides ZUN's almost paranoid round face style, is the game soundtrack. Nanaya still remembers the memory of being tortured by the screen full of bullet comments in order to listen to the game BGM several times. The passionate style of the background music of the game and the fast pace of the bullet commentary game can be said to be a perfect combination.
After finalizing his favorite music producer, Nanaya immediately found the game producer whom he once admired very much.
"Mr. Ota, I hope you can agree to our request."
Nanaya lowered his head and asked the thin, bespectacled game producer sitting opposite him.
"Don't be so serious, just call me ZUN." ZUN straightened his iconic baseball cap and said with some embarrassment, "Even if Director Kiryu asks me to do this, I don't think I can do it. After all, I'm just an ordinary doujin game producer. It's still a bit difficult to compose music for your movie."
"I've played ZUN's Touhou series. You have a talent for music that others can't match. I believe you can definitely do this job. And if Kara no Kyoukai is successful, ZUN as a music producer will also gain more popularity, right? In this way, the games you make will be known to more people."
Nanaya did not directly ask for money. He knew that the other party came from a well-off family and did not have much demand for money. However, as a fan creator, it was the other party's ideal to let more people like the games he made. Otherwise, ZUN would not have to spend energy making games, and it would be so much fun to drink beer at home all day.
ZUN was somewhat moved by Nanaya's words, but he still had some concerns: "But according to Director Kiryu, this movie called "Kara no Kyoukai" is a TV movie, right? Will this movie really be successful?"
Nanaya's face froze. He knew that his biggest weakness was that he had no successful experience. But it had come to this point and Nanaya couldn't just give up. He continued to try to persuade the other party: "I know I'm just a newcomer, but I'm confident that my movie will not lose to others in terms of story. But my movie lacks an outstanding music producer like you, ZUN. ZUN, you are also a creator, and you should know the importance of music to a work. I believe that with your participation, my movie will definitely be a success!"
"Um..."
ZUN rubbed his chin with his hand, thinking about the truth of Nanaya's words. As a currently unknown doujin game producer, he knew that asking him to produce music would definitely not be a big movie.
Seeing that the other party had not made a decision, Nanaya became anxious and immediately shouted, "If you agree to join, ZUN, I will give you plenty of beer!"
ZUN's eyes suddenly lit up: "What brand of beer?"
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Under the additional condition that Nanaya could drink as much as he wanted, ZUN was finally tricked into the post-production of "Kara no Kyoukai".
With the addition of this powerful music producer, Nanaya's post-production speed for the film suddenly increased by leaps and bounds.
As for the beer that Nanaya provided to ZUN, it was of course the famous Asahi unboxing beer.
Of course, there is also a small problem.
In order to ensure the harmony between the music and the scene, ZUN brought his own music creation equipment into the editing room, and the whole editing room was filled with the smell of alcohol.
This music producer, who can drink eight liters of beer in one breath without taking a breath, likes to work while drinking beer. The most piled things on his desk are not discarded musical scores but empty beer cans.
Especially the "unlimited beer" condition of Nanaya, which made ZUN take it as an excuse and drink to his heart's content.
Fortunately, unlike other guys who mess up their work due to drinking, ZUN is a special case where the more he drinks, the more efficient he works. Even though he holds a can all the time, his work progress is not slowed down.
Therefore, Nanaya turned a blind eye to all the minor problems that came with it. As long as ZUN could complete the work, Nanaya would expose his arm and bleed himself without hesitation, not to mention beer, even if he really drank blood-enhancing black tea like the eldest lady of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
The only thing worth noting is that the alcohol concentration in the editing room is too high, which can make people a little tipsy. This forced Nanaya to be extremely alert every time he edited, fearing that he would accidentally edit the wrong shot.
Of course, just because Nanaya could tolerate it didn't mean that others could tolerate it. Everyone else tried to reduce the time they spent in the editing room as much as possible.
Except for the 5 minutes a day when he reports on his work progress, Ori basically never sets foot in the editing room; although Subaru is always on standby nearby, he basically only moves around in the corridor outside; even Illya, who used to clamor to watch how post-production is done, disappeared after ZUN moved into the editing room. After all, the smell of alcohol is too stimulating for the little loli now.
Apart from the editing assistant Shonan who had to endure the increasingly heavy alcohol atmosphere with Nanaya, the only people who stayed in the studio were -
"Hey, no more wine."
ZUN threw the 12th empty can of garbage he had produced today to his right.
"Okay! Mr. Ota!"
Tamari took the empty can very skillfully and handed over a new can of opened ice beer.
"Um."
ZUN nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to work while drinking and creating.
Ori, who rarely came to hand over work, asked curiously: "Why is this guy here too?"
"This guy was fired by the company. I thought he was quite useful, so I temporarily hired him as everyone's assistant (runner)." Nanaya, who was watching the surveillance camera, explained, "Because Adachi broke the contract without permission, the company will put all the responsibility on him if they can't find that woman."
"A scapegoat?"
Looking at Tamari busying around for everyone present, Ori couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him.
Nanaya nodded: "That's about right, but they probably still don't think highly of us, so they're just fooling around. I don't believe they can't find that bitch."
You have to know that most of the agencies have underworld backgrounds, otherwise it would be difficult to control these artists who like to talk to themselves.
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"It's okay." Nanaya stared at the screen, but his tone revealed a fierceness, "I will succeed, I swear."
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Onigiri
Onigiri pS1: The sentence at the beginning of this chapter was said by Mr. Li Xuejian, who played Song Jiang in the 1998 version of "Water Margin", in the 2004 advertisement of Diao Yinhuang Lozenges. The original words were "Without sound, no matter how good the play is, it won't come out well."
pS2: ZUN is a well-known drunkard. For him, alcohol is just a refreshing thing. Coupled with the activeness of the second setting of Touhou, some people would tease him by saying "Who is ZUN? Does he understand Touhou? He is just a drunkard."
Of course, this is just a joke.
pS3: Nanaya serves Asahi draft beer, and "raw" in Japanese means without a condom.
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