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Chapter 5 Dancing Prince

 Narita Sheng glanced at his watch. Fortunately, after doing so many things, it was not too late. It happened to catch up with the moment when the monarch was most popular. If it had been any later, the guests would have left one after another.

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It is now 1984, and this is just before the arrival of the bubble. On weekends, the discotheque is overcrowded. Thinking of the situation a few years later, Narita Masaru smiles.

"Manager!"

"Yeah."

Although he was walking through the back door of the Maharaja and did not want to attract too much attention, many waiters still recognized Narita Katsu and bowed to say hello.

He deliberately didn't go through the door, just saying that he didn't want too many people to feel the residual anger in him. After all, the work just now was not easy, and he still hadn't sorted out his mood for a while.

Besides, Narita Katsu still knows how charming he is.

Among the guests, many came here for him.

But whether it was Narita Masaru himself or the Maharaja himself, the hospitality was thorough. After three months of opening, although the performance had declined, it still maintained a steady growth trend. This turnover is for a discotheque with an average lifespan of only half a year.

It's already very good.

Look

Even though it is still raining lightly tonight, it does not affect the customers who come to the store to dance at all.

The bar was full of office workers, and the resident band we invited also played a few new songs. The singers who were on standby were also busy drinking one cup after another, trying to relieve their tension.

"A very novel song."

Narita Sheng was silently enjoying it in the audience, just one song, and applauded along with everyone.

"'Ten Commandments', this song is very popular this year. In order to adapt to the atmosphere of the dance hall, the band rearranged the song. Unfamiliar guests really can't hear it." Koike Min agreed.

"Your Majesty really needs to keep up with the trend. It seems that we have done a good job in this regard." Narita Masaru recalled the expressions of the guests in the audience just now. At least most of them could sing along and there would be no awkward atmosphere.
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"Among the most popular female idols at the moment, they are Seiko, Akina, and Kyoko."

"You know a lot about it." Due to the special nature of his profession, Narita Katsu had a lot of dealings with people in the entertainment industry before he became independent from Karuna. Although he was not very familiar with female stars, he still

They know more than ordinary people.

Discotheques like Maharaja sometimes rely on the fame of their artists to attract young people.

After listening to a few hot songs, I felt better. Narita Masaru joked: "Is Toshi-kun from the Seiko school or the Akina school?"

"Mingcai pie!"

The person who answered "Akina-pa" so positively was not Toshi Koike. In the darkness, before Narita Katsu could see clearly who the person was, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Tahara-san really shocked me."

"I finished work today and came to dance early, but I didn't expect Narita-san to be absent from work for so long, causing me to wait in vain for a while."

Koike Min has quick eyes and quick hands, and quickly poured champagne for them while the two were chatting.

"I've been expecting Tahara-san to visit the king, but you missed it. This glass is considered a penalty drink." Narita Katsu drank it all.

The visitor is Toshihiko Tahara, an artist affiliated with industry giant Johnny.

He debuted in 1980 and formed the boy group "Trio" with Kondo Masahiko and Nomura Yoshio, but unfortunately they didn't make any splash.

Later, Toshihiko Tahara went solo and released his first single "Sorrow", which became very popular from then on. He was one of the "two kings and two queens" in the idol world in the early 1980s. His music performance was far ahead, and his record was not released until many years later.

Broken by other artists.

The title of Dancing Prince is by no means unearned. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the killer of thousands of young girls.

In the 1990s, these superstars born in the late Showa era lost their former brilliance and became no longer eye-catching. Tickets for Toshihiko Tahara's personal dinner show remained high.

Narita Masaru remembered that when he was working in Karuna, on a lively night, it was snowing anyway, it was probably Christmas Eve, Tahara Toshihiko was surrounded by a group of men and walked into the store.

Clubs in Ginza either accept regular customers or only accept guests who have been introduced.

Obviously, Tahara Toshihiko is the latter, it is his first time to come to such a place.

Perhaps because of Christmas Eve, men without female companions spend money like water in Ginza, as if to dispel such loneliness. Compared with the overcrowded high-end Western restaurants and love hotels around, the liveliness and enthusiasm of the guests are not at all

Not inferior to those men and women who are obsessed with dating.

Narita Katsu has noticed Tahara Toshihiko from the beginning. He has not been infected by the environment at all. Compared with the uncles around him, he is much younger and low-key.

Perhaps he is not old enough to be able to navigate between women with ease.

Adhering to the principle of "the customer is God", Narita Masaru took the initiative to chat with him. The two were similar in age and were very interested in each other, and they quickly became familiar with each other.

After that, every time Tahara Toshihiko went to Ginza to relax and have fun, he would call Narita Katsutsu and have a drink together.

It’s hard to say how true or false the friends you make in a nightclub are.

Despite this, Narita Katsu felt that it was a pleasure to associate with him, and he also learned a lot of anecdotes about the entertainment industry.

"However, this is the first time I know that Tahara-san is an Akina sect. If Seiko-san finds out, I'm afraid you will inevitably be 'targeted' on the show."

The pairing of Toshihiko Tahara and Seiko Matsuda was so popular even on television that many young people believed it to be true. To the regret of the audience, the two failed to get together in the end. In the spring of 1985, Seiko Matsuda announced

She announced her own marriage and married the then "housewife killer" Kanda Masaki.

"Spare me." Tahara Toshihiko smashed the bar, feeling helpless at Narita Katsu's joke.

No matter what the outside world says, only the parties themselves can know their emotional status.

After a few cups of yellow soup, the unfamiliarity of not seeing each other for a long time evaporated along with the alcohol, and the conversation between the two became more and more lively. In fact, Narita Sheng had noticed early on that this top male idol seemed to be very distressed at work. In other words

To put it bluntly, it’s starting to go downhill.

In the past, Toshihiko Tahara would only be domineering in the second half of the game, but like today, for the first time, he came to him for a drink before midnight.

Being busy is the norm in the entertainment industry.

What I fear most is not being busy.

Compared with the days when he was so busy that he slept on the road every day in the early days of his debut, Tahara Toshihiko's workload this year is much less, and he gradually doesn't want to go home. Instead of turning on the TV at home and watching the female idols singing and acting with high spirits, he still goes out every day.

Entertainment venues where young women are lively and laughing are more interesting and more confusing.

"By the way, has Narita-san ever thought about debuting as a singer?"

"Tahara-san, are you kidding me? I don't even know music, how can I sing?"

"No, no, no, I mean, my intuition tells me that most of the female friends who come to dance with Maharaja are here for you. If Narita-san stands in the middle of the stage and performs with the band again, I'm afraid the effect will be

It will be better. Maybe in the next time, the business will be booming and the business will be overcrowded."

"Really?"

"There are bands all over Tokyo now. Maybe someday we old idols will have to give way to them."

Tahara Toshihiko's words were full of resentment. Although he pointed the finger at the band, in the final analysis, he was actually referring to Sang and Huai. The anxiety and anger hidden in his heart were mixed with the uneasiness about the future, and they burned together into a troubled anger.

Roast him and make him restless.

So, who is Toshihiko Tahara scolding?

Narita Sheng's thoughts changed.

"If Tahara-san doesn't dislike me as a layman, it's okay to talk about it. Anyway, I've invited you to drink tonight. If you want to drink until tomorrow morning, there's no problem." He pointed to his ear and said with a smile, "Just

Can't get in or out."

Tahara Toshihiko laughed and drank the remaining wine in his glass, "He is indeed the youngest manager in the history of Ginza! He is really generous and generous!"

Koike Satoshi hid silently in the darkness, guarding the two of them. He was indeed very smart, and he knew that the following conversation must not be heard by any "unimportant" person without being reminded by Narita Masaru.

Once the unscrupulous reporter exposes it, the prince will face the same credit crisis as Thisus.

As for Narita Masaru, it’s unclear whether he is so kind and willing to be someone else’s temporary trash can.

After all, he is still a businessman at heart.

Tahara Toshihiko lit a cigarette for himself.

"Mahiko Kondo-san,
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