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Chapter 142. Sit Down and Make Money
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Cujoh Jolyne admits it.
Previously, she was too hasty and didn't fully uand the situation!
She had doubted the reason why Green Dolphin Corporation never lost money and even suspected that Pucci was involved.
She eve as far as to separate Pucci from Akiyuki Shinb to dis who was loyal and who was treacherous?!
Although, strictly speaking, her method wasn't wrong.
But what she should never have done was cast suspi on Pucci!
How could the prime minister be a traitor!?
She oology to everyone for her suspi!
Does she even know what a genius strategist is?
Does she uand what it means to be incredibly wise?
How could she doubt that Pucci wouldn't direct a terrible show?!
That's right!
"Stardust Crusaders" is about to fail!
Even without Akiyuki Shinbo's experience, just as he feared, the way "Stardust Crusaders" feels and how Jotaro, the main character, pales in parison to Joseph—who makes a muemorable impression than even new character Avdol—made Jolyne realize this series was likely heading for trouble.
And it was big trouble!
With this realization, she quickly removed her full-dive helmet, stood up from her seat, ran to the office door, locked it, and pulled the curtains shut.
Only after pleting all this, like a guilty thief, did she put her full-dive helmet ba and start frantically searg on Google again!
Her search? Examples of series where the new protagonist was overshadowed by a former protagonist, and what their final oute was.
The more she searched, the more eous her grin became!
Because, in all the works she found, as long as a former protagonist made an appearance, uhey were just making a brief cameo… No! Even with a brief cameo, they immediately stole the spotlight from the current protagonist!
That's the allure of the former protagonist.
Or rather, if a series gets a sequel, it's because the inal was excellent.
Of course, the inal protagonist is going to be immensely popur—an i!
And even if they only made a cameo, they would still overshadow the new protagonist.
So what if the former protagonist art of the main cast a on adventures with the new one?
Just imagining the disastrous outes was enough to make Jolyne giddy with excitement!
Because "Stardust Crusaders" is exactly such a work, where the former protagonist bees a member of the main cast, going on adventures with the new protagonist!
Even though she hadn't seen the endihe way "Stardust Crusaders" erf now allowed Jolyo predict its eventual fate.
Most likely, Joseph would steal the spotlight, leading to a colpse of the plot!
With this in mind, Jolyne once agai a renewed sense of admiration for Pucci.
You see, even she was almost fooled by Pucci earlier, thinking he was secretly a genius director like Akiyuki Shinbo!
But now, clearly, she had beehinking it.
After all, unlike Akiyuki Shinbo, with his vast resume, Pucci's was as a bnk sheet of paper.
How could he be a genius?
Not everyone has a system like she does!
Satisfied after reviewing the viewers' ents and bullet ss for this episode of "Stardust Crusaders", and realizing it wasn't just her, but many viewers shared the same ses, Joly a sense of crity.
She was now even more motivated to approve funding for Pucci without fear that he would misuse it to betray her!
"But, this Stand must be that eology Pucci mentioned, right?"
"Although it's surprising they developed eology so quickly. I thought most of the funding would've been wasted."
"Still, even though it wasn't wasted, this eology doesn't seem all that special. Rounding things up, it still feels like a loss!"
Jolyne cheerfully tinued reviewing the funding approvals.
Of course, the teology developed by Pucd Kars wasn't as terrible as Jolyne made it sound.
The moment the "Stardust Crusaders" plot reached the point where Stand battles filmed using this eology were shown—like the se where [Magi's Red] fmes erupted, and the two non-Stand user police officers were shown panig, uo see the Stand—it immediately caught the attention of some industry experts!
In Jolyne's eyes, the success of eology depends on the project it's associated with.
Only a successful project showcase the advantages of eology and ence the industry to purchase the rights to use it.
She wasn't wrong about that.
Why do you think "Digital Domai getting bought out despite going bankrupt multiple times?
It's because the teology it owned was valuable enough to warrant it. If any project uses that teology, they must pay lisio "Digital Domain".
In other words, you could sit bad make money!
Simirly, the Stand teology.
Though its design was visually appealing and seemed to use some extured material, what good was that?
Do other studios want to shoot a Staed project too?
If "Stardust Crusaders" were a hit, other studios might follow suit.
But right now...
This eology is just something Jolyne enjoys herself—a money-losiure for now!
However, what if this eology wasn't just what it seemed on the surface?
"Did you… see it?"
Ign Kinoko's nonsense about watg new projects for inspiration, which had devolved into ziness, Gen Urobuchi, after repeatedly watg the se, finally excimed with a trembling voice.
"It's impossible to tell that any reshooting was done… but how? How did they even capture internal monologues on film?!"
