Aoki Haruhi was the last to leave the conference room, and after everyone else had left, a trace of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He was smiling like a major villain.
Great, with the basic technology of 3D developed, the company could be considered to have fully stepped onto a new level.
Without exaggerating, it could at least lead the pack for 10 years.
If there was enough hardware support, Aoki Haruhi could instantly push things to the games of 2023.
Once these things were done, actually a byproduct would naturally be born—
3D skeletal animation, 3D rendering, motion capture...
All of these could pave the way for producing 3D animation and 3D movies in the future.
It was quite important 3D technology.
Moon River Company was not something simply set up by Nao Tsuda and him just to play around with.
...
Three days later, Aoki Haruhi handed two drawings to Sakata Taiji.
They were drawn by Aoki Haruhi while working overtime these past few days.
Both drawings were pictures of a girl drawn to life-size proportions.
One of them was a front view and the other was a side view.
The girl in the picture was extremely beautiful,
wearing a black long dress with her slender thighs exposed below the skirt.
She had silver-white shoulder-length short hair, and her face from the forehead all the way to the right cheek was covered with a black blindfold.
Leaving only her left eye and most of the other half of her face.
Her lip line was full and three-dimensional, her bridge of the nose was straight and upturned, she had a melon seed-shaped face, and her gaze was resolute yet alluring.
It possessed both the strong photographic feel of 3D and the typical face of a two-dimensional anime.
It could be considered a combination of both.
And they could be combined so perfectly.
This inevitably made Sakata Taiji feel incomparably amazed.
In fact, this was drawn one-to-one by Aoki Haruhi based on the popular character 2B Miss from NieR: Automata.
2B Miss, although an android, possessed super high popularity within the ACG circle and was definitely top-tier.
"So what is the president trying to do with this?"
"Make her into a 3D model," Aoki Haruhi said.
"Eh?" Sakata Taiji was slightly stunned.
No wonder there was one front view and one side view; this was also the standard 3D production process. As long as there were front and side views, the details of the model could be accurately measured.
"However, isn't this drawing... a bit too detailed?"
Sakata Taiji chuckled and asked tentatively, "Actually, we don't need to use such detailed drawings to make 3D models."
The current hardware standard could simply not support such a high-precision model. Calculated out, it would have at least several thousand polygons anyway.
If one wanted to make a one-to-one restoration, it would probably take tens of thousands of polygons or even more.
Therefore, Sakata Taiji felt that the president was completely showing off his skills.
It was completely using a butcher's knife to kill a chicken, and wouldn't even be used.
"The higher the model precision, the better," Aoki Haruhi said, "You just restore her to the maximum limit, starting the model from several thousand polygons. Doing tens of thousands of polygons is also fine."
"However, the machine can't handle something like this."
"What is wanted is precisely that it can't handle it."
"Eh?!"
Sakata Taiji was completely confused.
Either there was something wrong with him or something wrong with the president; anyway, one of the two definitely had a problem.
"Well... it's not that it can't handle it at all. It just needs to be able to display it first, and then it can crash afterwards," Aoki Haruhi said.
"Ah... this?" Sakata Taiji could no longer keep up with Aoki Haruhi's train of thought.
Making a model that the machine completely couldn't handle, which would crash as soon as it was loaded into the game—did a thing like that really have any meaning?
It would take quite a bit of time just to sculpt it, and afterwards they would have to color it, make material balls, and so on, and then what came out would be a scrapped item.
Sakata Taiji completely failed to understand where the meaning of doing this lay.
Wasn't this screwing over the art department?
"Rest assured," Aoki Haruhi comforted, "You just go ahead and make it, and I'll solve the issue of the machine not being able to handle it when the time comes."
"Oh, okay, alright."
Since the president had said so, Sakata Taiji had nothing more to say.
Terrifying.
If even this kind of model precision could be solved, what kind of game could not be made?
Could the president possibly be omnipotent?
There was no reason for that; what could he do, use magic?
Sakata Taiji was utterly baffled.
...
November 11, 1996.
On this Singles' Day, Fuji Television broadcasted the television drama produced by Moon River Company—
The final episode of proposal daisakusen.
This television drama was adapted from the game of the same name.
The drama told the story of the male protagonist who had always secretly loved his childhood sweetheart but failed to confess, and during her wedding, used the power of a fairy to return to the past to complete his path of confession.
As soon as it was broadcast, it immediately caused a huge uproar.
Ever since it began broadcasting in September, the ratings and popularity had remained consistently high.
proposal daisakusen once again replicated the miracle of Kimura Takuya's Long Vacation.
Every Monday when off-work time arrived, everyone hurriedly rushed back home just to camp out and watch this television drama.
And today was the final grand finale.
From a production standpoint, it should actually be considered a special episode, because the grand finale had already finished airing the previous week, but the audience felt extremely unreconciled.
Because in the grand finale, Yoshida Li was not able to catch up to Iwase Ken, but instead watched him leave by taxi.
Upon returning to the church, Yoshida Li once again encountered the fairy who could change the timeline.
This was equivalent to leaving a suspense and a longing for everyone.
You could say that they later came together through Yoshida Li's efforts, but it could also be interpreted as nothing having changed at all.
Therefore, the audience was simply tortured to madness.
This quantum mechanics-style ending made people feel too miserable.
Fortunately, the official side quickly released news stating that there was still one special episode.
...
Therefore, tonight everyone returned home and watched television earnestly, simply not wanting to miss the content of this episode.
After the previous episode finished airing, countless viewers went crazy.
Beneath the proposal daisakusen section of Pokeni, countless viewers flooded in to denounce the production team.
"The grand finale of proposal daisakusen is simply too unbearable. In the end, whether the two people got together or not wasn't given a definite answer. I've been feeling miserable ever since I finished watching the television.
Too detestable, Moon River Company!"
This... Aoki Haruhi didn't quite understand.
Our Moon River Company also had its own official website and forum; did they have to squeeze into Pokeni's game section to chat?
"Seriously, proposal daisakusen is a television drama that I like very much, and I've been following it from its broadcast until now.
Kashiwabara Takashi's peerless good looks make my heart flutter."
At a glance, this netizen could be told was a miss, probably even a visual fan of Kashiwabara Takashi.
"Even though I like Kashiwabara Takashi so much, proposal daisakusen moved me to pieces. Seeing Kashiwabara Takashi and Uchida Yuki spending days and nights together, caring for each other, and treating each other as the most important people in their lives...
I am willing to say to Kashiwabara Takashi:
Kashiwabara Takashi, forget me, stay together well with Uchida, and accept my blessing.
You guys must definitely be happy!"
When Aoki Haruhi saw this comment, he thought to himself that this girl was truly crazy enough.
There being many yanderes in Japan really wasn't a joke.
If things went wrong, these two people failing to end up together might actually make these people storm Moon River Company.
You must know that Moon River currently, including both Aoki Haruhi and Nao Tsuda, only had a dozen or so employees.
What's more, neither Aoki Haruhi nor Nao Tsuda worked at the Moon River office.
If the staff members suffered any unexpected misfortunes, it wouldn't be very good.
Sure enough, flipping down further, one could see similar runaway comments:
"Detestable! Detestable Aoki Haruhi!
Why give us so much hope, but take it away in the end?
Couldn't you show some mercy, play the good guy once, and let the two main characters be together?
You just had to make a suspenseful ending, right?
So, guess whether I will send blade parcels to you guys or not?"
Aoki Haruhi had simply suffered an undeserved disaster.
He didn't know what these viewers were thinking; proposal daisakusen was clearly a television drama produced by Moon River Company, what did it mean for them to send blades to Pokeni?
After inquiring with concern about the situation over at Nao Tsuda's side, Aoki Haruhi breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Tsuda did not receive any blades.
Personal safety was still guaranteed.
However, for some reason, he always felt like something wasn't quite right.
...
Fortunately, he was wise enough back then to specially have Director Iwai Shunji produce a special episode, and had already emphasized that it must be broadcast within the first week after the grand finale.
Although November 11 always felt like it was satirizing something.
But if this special episode wasn't broadcast, Aoki Haruhi might very well find his own life in danger.
Doing hunger marketing was good; it could indeed increase anticipation and pull in a wave of ratings, but having danger associated with it wasn't good.
Although making money was important, one shouldn't joke with their life.
Therefore, under Aoki Haruhi's persistence, the special episode was broadcast on time.
...
In the evening, Furukawa Hirozawa and Yukitake Junna sat together on the sofa, watching "proposal daisakusen".
Although Furukawa had already played the game and knew the plot in advance, while watching the live-action version, his heart was still filled with anticipation.
This was probably the live-action production that best matched his ideals.
The male protagonist, Kashiwabara Takashi, was extremely handsome, far surpassing the image of Iwase Ken in the game.
Furukawa Hirozawa had never seen a man who could look so good-looking.
Uchida Yuki's role perfectly fit his imagination of Yoshida Li.
With shoulder-length short hair, she smiled exceptionally sweetly.
Her smile could captivate a city, and her two eyes were just like crescent moons.
Thinking of this, Furukawa Hirozawa involuntarily cast his gaze to look at Yukitake Junna next to him.
Junna was actually quite pretty among ordinary people, but compared to Uchida Yuki, there was still a gap.
However, a star is a star, and Junna is Junna.
In Furukawa's mind, Yukitake Junna was unique and irreplaceable.
In this world, there might be many people prettier than Junna, but Junna was the only one, and she held an incomparable position in his heart.
At this moment, Junna, who was engrossed in watching TV, also noticed Furukawa's gaze and couldn't help turning her head.
"Hmm? Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Ahem, nothing."
Furukawa Hirozawa felt a pang of panic. Honestly speaking, until now, he had never watched TV so intimately with any girl on the sofa at past 9 PM.
"You have a hair here."
He reached out and gently picked up a stray hair from the side of Junna's head, wanting to use this to cover up his inner panic.
With a snap.
"Ah, it hurts!"
Yukitake Junna looked at him with some reproach.
There were two more hairs in Furukawa's hand.
Good grief, he accidentally plucked out good hair!!!!
...
The two of them bantered for a couple of sentences and continued watching TV.
On the television, Uchida Yuki had caught up with Kashiwabara Takashi.
"Eh?"
"Why are you pushing a taxi?"
Uchida Yuki, wearing a wedding dress, took two steps forward to the side of the male protagonist.
The stubborn-mouthed Iwa put his hands in his pockets and took a step to the side, "Because I'm very idle."
"Being idle means pushing a taxi along?"
...
Seeing the two people bickering with each other, Yukitake Junna also smiled happily.
"Hey, Kousawa-kun, don't you think we are quite similar to them?"
"Hmm?"
Furukawa Hirozawa's heart beat heavily.
What did this mean? Was Junna hinting at something?
The two of us childhood sweethearts should have actually been together long ago, right?
But...
Honestly speaking, although he had re-established contact with Yukitake, the two of them could always meet whenever they had time.
However...
Until now, Junna never mentioned anything about liking him, nor had she ever said words like "I came to Tokyo because of you" to him.
Furukawa Hirozawa unexpectedly lacked the courage to verify it now.
Several times he mustered the courage to confess, but due to twists of fate, he failed each time.
Speaking of which, they really were a bit like the two protagonists.
...
"Um..." Furukawa Hirozawa turned back to look at Yukitake Junna.
In the dark space, Junna's eyelashes were long and dense, and her pair of lively, large eyes stared unblinkingly at the television.
"It's getting very late now, why don't you not go back tonight?"
Furukawa Hirozawa mustered up the courage to say.
However, his voice was covered up by the television.
"Ah! It's ending, it's ending! Kashiwabara Takashi should be getting together with Uchida Yuki, right?"
Junna shouted excitedly.
On the television, it had entered the final conclusion:
By the vast seaside, the seawater gently retreated, licking the male protagonist's toes.
Kashiwabara Takashi gently picked up his shoes and then squatted down in front of Uchida Yuki.
"Alright, get on up."
Eh?
Uchida Yuki was stunned for a moment, then smiled happily, climbed onto Iwase Ken's back, and wrapped her hands around his neck.
Damn it...
Furukawa Hirozawa thought to himself, did it have to be at this time?
But?
"Please stay, live here tonight?"
Such a request, after saying it once, one lost the courage to say it a second time.
Furukawa Hirozawa silently touched his cheeks, which were burning hot.
Ah ~ Damn it.
How do those boys spend their first times?
Weren't I very impressive when playing the game?
However, putting it into actual practice was completely a different experience.
Reality was indeed too difficult!
Furukawa Hirozawa felt bitter in his heart.
This was simply hell-difficulty, much, much harder than playing a game.
He finally understood what kind of experience those people in the forum were talking about when they said "Don't look down on Brother Jian, actually, oneself in reality is even more useless than Iwase Ken".
Some words were truly impossible to say out loud.
Until now, a single "I like you" was truly as difficult as ascending to heaven.
...
The proposal daisakusen TV series played to its final scene:
Kashiwabara Takashi stood up with Uchida Yuki on his back.
The long hem of the wedding dress dragged all the way to the ground.
The seawater slapped the beach, kissing Iwase Ken's feet.
The afterglow of the setting sun cast the shadows of the two people onto the beach.
It was truly extremely romantic.
"Hey, it would be great if we wrote our names and addresses on the high heels," Yoshida Li said with a smile.
"Huh? Are you still talking about this now, Miss Moon?"
"The person who didn't find the shoes is you, Mr. River, right?"
"One day I will find them back for you."
"Huh? If you can help me find that shoe, then I will marry you."
"Even if I search the whole world, I will help you find the shoe back!"
"That's what you said, oh..."
At this time, the sun had already set, and the moon rose into the sky.
Round and full, casting a bright moonlight on the sea surface.
On the road paved by moonlight, Iwase Ken carried Yoshida Li on his back, walking on the beach.
One wearing a suit, one wearing a wedding dress.
Leaving behind two small shadows.
...
"Ah! That's wonderful."
Yukitake Junna let out a sigh and smiled happily.
Furukawa Hirozawa looked back and only then discovered that this fellow had cried.
He quickly pulled out a tissue from the table and handed it to her.
In a game otaku's home, anything could be lacking, but tissues definitely wouldn't be lacking.
Yet Yukitake Junna grabbed him in an embrace, resting her head on his shoulder.
Furukawa Hirozawa was completely stunned.
This...
What kind of development is this?
How is this somewhat different from playing a game?
Were the favorability points farmed enough?
Just because of handing a tissue?
"So, do you want to stay..."
"I'm sorry." Junna gently pushed him away, sat up straight, and gazed at Furukawa Hirozawa.
"Eh?"
"I was too insincere." Yukitake Junna wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes.
"Mm, mm?"
"Kousawa-kun, actually, I have always, always liked you," Yukitake Junna said seriously.
Eh?!
Furukawa Hirozawa was startled in his heart.
"Me too..."
The next second, before he could react.
He was tackled down onto the sofa, only feeling a wave of passion rushing towards him, making him completely unable to breathe.
This sudden blow was like being hit in the waist by happiness; Furukawa Hirozawa had never expected such a development.
Was I actively confessed to by Junna just now?
Happiness came far too abruptly.
But...
Kissing right after confessing, isn't this pace a bit too fast?
Are ordinary couples like this?
Did I count as having accepted Junna's confession just now?
Don't know...
Completely don't know.
The current Furukawa Hirozawa only felt that the scent on Junna's body smelled really good.
And Junna's taste was also exceptionally delicious.
Ah!
What made Junna muster the courage to take the initiative to confess?
Could it be because of proposal daisakusen?!
Was Junna moved after watching proposal daisakusen and at the same time understood its true meaning?
Just like when he cleared the game back then, producing the impulse to go find his first love along with his friends?
It must be like this!
Furukawa Hirozawa's mind was blank at this moment, unable to think so much anymore, being kissed by Yukitake Junna until he couldn't breathe.
He pulled out one hand from the sofa and made a peace sign in the air!
"proposal daisakusen"
Saikou!!!
Pokeni!
Saikou!!!
Aoki Haruhi!!!
Saikou!!!!!
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