Yangdong High School.
It’s one of the few schools in Japan that has a performing arts departnt in middle and high school, and it’s the school where Duanmu Huai and Ruby will attend. Naturally, they both chose the performing arts departnt.
For Duanmu Huai, the reason is simple—lower scores for the performing arts departnt!
Reborn to attend school, and still have to study hard? What kind of nightmare is this?!
Being a teacher is one thing, being a student is another matter, okay!
Duanmu Huai’s enrollnt also stirred quite a commotion at Yangdong High School.
Conversely, Ruby made no waves at all.
This is quite simple, in Japan’s entertainnt industry, actors are at the top tier, and within the actors’ hierarchy, Kabuki actors rank first, movie actors second, and TV actors last.
Duanmu Huai has been acting in movies since childhood, with a stable output, averaging one movie every year or two, and even won several movie awards. Although not many lead roles, more often playing villains or bosses, he is a well-known movie star in Japan.
By the way, below the actors in the hierarchy are singers, entertainers, and then idols.
That’s right, in the entertainnt industry’s chain of disdain, idols are the lowest tier, completely at the bottom. Even those codic stars on variety shows, half-naked, have a higher status than idols.
This is why when Xingye Ai was shooting a TV series, despite her excellent performance, she was cut down to just one scene.
On one hand, she was too unrestrained; on the other hand, she was an idol, basically on par with gravure models viewed as adult video actresses. As for the leading lady in a TV series, even if she’s not famous, she’s still a TV actress, which is not the sa level as an idol.
It’s like a little palace maid trying to steal the queen’s lilight, is that possible? Of course not.
The reason idols have low status is simple; there’s no threshold, anyone can be one.
Like gravure models, as long as they have big breasts and a nice figure, it’s fine.
Unlike singers or actors or even entertainers, they all have their own skill sets.
Actors have acting skills, singers sing, and even among singers, those who can compose have a higher status than those who can only sing. As for entertainers, not just anyone has the talent to host variety shows.
But idols—anyone could do it, of course, how far they can go is another matter.
Moreover, compared to other people in the entertainnt circle, idols have quite a significant weakness.
That is the team effect.
Since the occupation of idol appeared, they almost always appeared in groups, aning an idol’s popularity is tied to the team. But conversely, once an idol separates from the group and goes solo, their fa drops more than a couple of notches. This is the biggest weakness of idols, unlike actors and singers who work solo, being self-reliant, problems are easier to solve since they’re personal.
But idols are different, imagine a team of ten people, nine are excellent, yet one has a scandal.
Then it’s over, the whole team suffers, no matter how well they perform, others will only think "They’re part of the sa team, if XX did it, how could OO not know? She probably did it too."
The reason B Komachi was forced to disband was the sa, Xingye Ai, as the center position, had a scandal about being stabbed by fans due to an underground affair. Of course, the fans would think, if Xingye Ai, the center, is so indiscreet, aren’t the others even wilder?
So after that, no matter how hard the mbers of B Komachi worked, it was useless. When people saw B Komachi, the first thought in their minds was "Their center got stabbed by fans over an underground affair," so they inferred the other mbers might also have n?
Then who would want to support them?
There are so many idol groups, it’s not like they’re essential.
So B Komachi ultimately had to disband as well.
Duanmu Huai did analyze the pros and cons with Ruby, he actually preferred Ruby to debut as a singer; it would be even better if she learned to write her own music. But Ruby insisted on starting as an idol aiming to beco like Xingye Ai, so Duanmu Huai couldn’t do anything.
He’s suspicious, is she truly reincarnated? How co her ntal age feels like a child’s? And the older she gets, the more she lives like she’s regressing?
Anyway, he still encouraged Ruby to learn more about dance and singing, regardless of whether she becos an idol; at least as a singer, Ruby needs to have solo capability. She can’t end up like those idol groups that vanish without a trace when going solo, not even a shadow found.
On the other hand, Duanmu Huai’s path seems relatively easy for ordinary people to enter the entertainnt circle; rarity is precious, young children who can act are rare, those with presence even rarer. As long as they perform well, don’t act arrogant, and avoid lousy teammates, entering the higher levels of the film industry is not difficult.
But ordinary kids aren’t reincarnated, they can’t have Duanmu Huai’s character, they’d float once praised, explode once floated, naturally leaving no follow-up.
Duanmu Huai had invested quite a bit; child stars are paid well, he saved up his filming fees and bought a moderately-sized film company, becoming the boss, thus getting the right to choose scripts. The advantage of being the boss is Duanmu Huai doesn’t rely on filming fees, he simply earns from box office shares.
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