Chapter 154

"Next, it's about the variety show project tentatively named 'Mystery Show Joint Festival' - the general manager is me, Kiriya Aoi." Kiriya Aoi took over from Saesakusa Kii, who was previously in charge of the 'Improvisational Performance Project', and stood on the podium, switching the slides to the content of the project that everyone needs to discuss next, "The core of this project is to make the main characters of each mystery show active again and interact with each other -"

“So, after the last meeting, I collected all the relevant works from all the members of the firm. Please see the slides for details.”

"Super Bad Police Superintendent" Aoi Kiriya; "Chocolate Popcorn Detective" Otoshiro Sera, Saesusa Kii; "Phantom Thief Otoya Lupin Activity Record" series, Tokiya Locke, Masao, Shinomiya Tride, Kurusu Stan, Otoya Lupin, Cecilia, Lian Yadi; "The Master is Addicted to Reasoning" Tojo Shiki, Sajima Toru——

"And the newly joined Animusphia Office reported the "Nuisant Holmes" Sherlock, Holmes, Old Moriarty, William, Moriarty and Watson." Kiriya Aoi continued to add, "The discs of the series have been sent to the dormitory of Starlight Academy. If you need to confirm, please find me after the meeting to register, and I will send the discs in order."

"First of all, there are only so many people here - and everyone is basically a professional, so I don't think our plan needs to consider the audience's perspective that variety show plans actually need to face." The representative of GOD took the lead in speaking, reminding everyone, "Don't forget that we originally established this meeting system to improve our own professionalism, not to actually make a show."

"Thank you for your speech, Mr. Reni." Kiriya Aoi nodded to Kamisaka Reni who sat elegantly, and explained the situation to the new member, "In fact, our plan is mainly made to try out various ideas that originally had no chance to be realized. Even if the plan is fully mature, it is only a plan that can be realized here."

"Understood." Fujimaru Ritsuka walked over to the microphone corresponding to her seat and replied to Kiriya Aoi.

"The 'Mystery Program Joint Festival' project has only tentatively confirmed the cast, and the specific program flow has not yet been determined." Kiriya Aoi smiled as she spoke, raising her hand to lift her hair that was blocking her view, "So the goal of our discussion this time is to roughly confirm the program flow - feel free to share any ideas you have."

"Everything here is based on the existence of idol elements, so can we try not to consider the financial issue?" Saesusa Kii briefly exchanged opinions with her companions, raised her hand to confirm the details of the plan with Kiriya Aoi, "Because the plan is jointly executed by all members, Xiaokong conveyed the designer's ideas to us--"

"The designer wants to have no restrictions on the cost of the clothing."

"The proposer is Rurikawa Yuki from the Mankai Theater's summer group." Sora Fuzawa relayed the proposal that the designers had agreed on to the members who were in charge of production. "Yuki's proposal was based on the idea that improving the quality of clothing materials would also improve the effect of the entire show. In addition, the designers hope that the show scripts can have different themes."

"Understood." Kiriya Aoi thought for a moment and gave an answer. "As for funding, although it cannot be said to be unlimited, it should be enough if everyone pools their money together - is there no one who can propose a program schedule!?"

"Since it's a 'mystery show joint festival', it can be like 'School Idol Festival Love Live!'" said the school uniform girl with purple low ponytails. "'School Idol Festival Love Live!' is a festival for school idols, and all school idols will perform at the festival - so the core of the 'mystery show joint festival' should be reasoning and solving cases."

“Perhaps this mode will be more like the game ‘Close your eyes when it’s dark’.”

"That means the real murderer has to hide himself from others, or others have to successfully find the real murderer."

"I have a proposal." Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately spoke up, "Just like Ms. Tojo said, the core of the 'mystery series joint festival' is to solve cases through reasoning - then, in addition to suspects and murderers, we can actually add detectives and detective assistants, just like the most classic 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'."

"The cases in the show can refer to the cases that have already occurred in various mystery shows, or the cases in classic mystery works - of course, they can also be written by the screenwriter." Fujimaru Ritsuka paused and continued to express his thoughts, "However, considering the characteristics of variety shows, it will gradually lose its freshness if only the main characters of the original shows appear."

"Not only from the audience's perspective, but also from the perspective of the actors themselves - playing the same role or the same type of role for a long time will trap the actors in their comfort zone and prevent them from making further breakthroughs." Fujimaru Ritsuka tapped his pen on his notebook, "So in this case, there will be two modes of program flow."

The first is that the program screenwriter prepares the script and roles first, and then lets the performers draw lots, and then starts the case based on the roles they draw; the second is that the performers write down the roles they want themselves, and then give it to the screenwriter to write the cases based on these roles... The only problem is the cost of the screenwriter.

"…Also, if it's the second process, you need to decide who will be doing the recording in advance - because it's impossible for the participants to remain completely unchanged from the first episode to the last episode."

"In this case, the complete process is also out--" Saesusa Kii looked at Kiriya Aoi, "Just like the plot in every series, the protagonist surveys the scene to obtain clues, and then conducts case reasoning. He can also conduct a one-on-one interrogation of the suspect like Xiaokui's superintendent..."

"The final step is to reveal the real murderer."

"Then we'll go to the Mankai Theater Company for a meeting after the meeting." Kiriya Aoi smiled helplessly, "The Prop Masters Association and the Scriptwriters Association are both there - by the way, does anyone have any new project proposals to announce?"

"Here are two draft plans from Animusphia Office." Kirshtalia replaced Fujimaru Ritsuka as the spokesperson for the Animusphia Office and asked Mash to hand over the plans they had worked on overnight to the podium. "These are plans that are only for members of the office to participate in."

One is a late night radio project, tentatively named "A Story Written for You" - the performers are the AMP48's Wandering Wonderland Team, and the initial plan is to broadcast a radio program that reads fairy tales from 8pm to 10pm every day. The other is a Japanese history science drama project performed by the AMP48's Gut Gut Designated Team, tentatively named "Gut Designated", and the name of the first science drama in the project is tentatively "Gut Gut Honnoji".

“…That’s all.” Kirshtalia nodded to Kiriya Aoi who was standing on the podium, and sat down with Mash who had returned to her seat.

"Okay, then this meeting is over."

Representatives from various offices began to organize the meeting materials and then left in an orderly manner. When Ritsuka Fujimaru led Kirshtalia and Mashu out of the venue, they met Sfin and Flat who were handing out flyers.

Fujimaru Ritsuka picked up the flyer and saw at first glance that it said that Shining Agency and Mankai Theater Company were co-organizing a joint exhibition - Shining Masterpiece Show, Lost Alice, would be opened simultaneously with the second performance of the Spring Group, "Young Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", and every audience was sincerely invited to follow Alice into Wonderland.

"Let's jump into the rabbit hole together..." Fujimaru Ritsuka turned the flyer over and successfully found the cast list of "Young Alice in Wonderland" and Lost Alice on the back, "Young Alice: Usui Masumi, Mad Hatter: Chigasaki Shi... Charles: Shinomiya Natsuki, Mad Hatter: Seikawa Shinto - Alice is all boys!!!"

"Do you want to go and see it?" Kirshtalia smiled and turned her head to ask Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Even if the plan is approved, it won't be possible to start the performance so soon - or should we go back and prepare a new plan? After all, there are still many people staying in the Chaldea "Office" waiting for work."

"Actually, I have some ideas for the new project." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head and looked at Mashu who was walking beside him, "Because although Type-Moon is a world with high military power as a whole, it also has branches in the everyday world - like XXX's meal today. But it should be made into a joint project like theirs, and some training sessions can be mixed in..."

"But I want to make a plan for Mashu first."

The next day, Lost Alice, a part of Shining Masterpiece Show, officially began. Some of the members of Chaldea who were temporarily unemployed went to the Shining Masterpiece Show, while others went to Mankai Theater to watch the Mankai Theater's Spring Group stage play.

"…Charles fell into Wonderland through the rabbit hole, and the residents of Wonderland called him Alice—"

After Ritsuka Fujimaru's agency announced the future development direction of the Wandering in Wonderland team, Shining Agency, which received the news, arranged for the five people who came to help to work as narrators in different areas. After hearing their voices, the members of other teams who came to the exhibition changed their expressions slightly and shifted their attention to the idols of Shining Agency.

At the tea party that the King of Hearts ordered to never stop, Charles, who was mistaken for Alice by everyone, proposed the idea of ​​rebelling against the king; and after encountering two poker soldiers who painted white roses red, he wanted to escape from Wonderland even more frantically; finally, Charles rebelled against the king in the court.

"…The dream came to an abrupt end at this moment." Andersen looked at the final ending printed on the script and complained in the gaps when there was no need for narration, "This is really a bad story for me - the child grew up at that moment and completely lost the opportunity to visit Wonderland again."

"But if it hadn't ended that way, it would have been as bad as my entire life - I would have had nothing but those empty stories."