text; un:✨🕵️GOLDEN WEEK SPECIAL RELEASE

[paperpusher]

Happy Golden Week, everyone! Natori Shuuichi here, hoping everyone is doing well-- especially our new faces! Please let us know if we can help you adjust.

I'm excited to announce that my new movie Fiance of the Funeral Procession, the second film in the Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou series, is now available in theaters! It's a historical mystery involving a beautiful woman and her beautiful fiance and the dark secrets that they keep. Each film in the series stars a new case with only the detective as the recurring character, so you don't have to have seen the first one! It would mean a lot to me if you could support my coworkers by watching the film.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy ✨

[What Natori didn't make clear is that he is playing Akeboshi Koutarou, though that becomes obvious to anyone who know what he looks like as soon as they come across a movie poster. Shockingly, this is canonically a good movie. A summary of the plot is available here! Feel free to have characters already seen posters/seen the movie if you'd like.]

Comments

[paperpusher]

I'd say it certainly sounds like something supernatural could be going on, but it's not the sort of thing that the characters will consider! A friend of mine said afterwards that he kept assuming several of the characters were ayakashi, and it made it difficult for him to discuss the plot when talking to his classmates who are unaware of all of this. Watching it here might raise questions about why they don't consider ghosts or spirits as a possibility, so that's the context I want to give!

Really? That's a shame. I had a lot of fun playing a detective, so I'd like to think other people would have fun reading/watching them.

[enlighteneds]

Ahaha, perfect. You're quite a storyteller, but I should've expected it from the chosen actor himself! You've got yourself another fan in the making ♡

Don't get me wrong about it, I do love them myself. But the hype was all about reincarnation and absurdly fraudulent power level genres and the rest of them simply got buried by that gigantic flavor of the month. As someone who published most of them, it was quite an experience to see the boom, to say the least.

[ To the point that it actually kind of getting boring for her to read and choose the same genre over and over again （︶^︶） ]

[paperpusher]

Thank you, I'm honored! But especially to hear such praise from someone involved in publishing? You must be far more knowledgeable about the genre than I am!

[enlighteneds]

Oh no no, you might be overestimating us a bit on that end. Publishers like me might read a lot, but ultimately, all the filtering went to the editors, though some of them often moved the wheel for their own gains.

Surely you've read a lot of case like that, no? When a story's plot went into a bad direction out of sudden?