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Chapter 82. The Setting of Ripple Must Be Removed!
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Is this trash!?
If she could, Jolyne Cujoh really wanted to grab her industry peers by their collars, force their eyelids open, and make them watch the second episode of "Battle Tendency"!
Then, she'd loudly ask them, who's the real trash here!?
If someone of the caliber of Nobou Tobita can be considered trash, then are there any actors in the industry who aren't trash?... No! Most of them are probably even worse than trash!
That's why Jolyne was so angry!
It was because of these trashy peers!
Because she had easily trusted the judgment of these peers and treated Tobita as a useless actor!
Otherwise, why would she have hired such a renowned actor?
And do you even know how hard it is to write a few hundred words of experience summary!?
Students from a certain Eastern country, how many lies do they have to tell against their conscience to reach a word count of several hundred words?
Do you know?
No! You don't know at all!
Reflecting on her past efforts, Jolyne Cujoh repeated countless days and nights and watched "Phantom Blood" so many times before she finally wrote that few hundred words of experience summary.
Now that she saw that her painstakingly compiled summary hadn't yet yielded the promised success,
Because of interference from these industry bugs, she didn't even have a chance to verify it, and ended up avoiding bankruptcy with the help of the hidden master Tobita.
Do you honor my efforts!?
"Heh, at least now I don't need to worry about explaining to Dad why I'm continuing with "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure"'s third part, right?"
Like a dreamless salted fish, Jolyne slumped back into her chair with a foolish grin.
Actually, thinking carefully,
Why should she lose money?
Even though it was her intention to use the system's rule of losing more to earn more to eventually drain all her capital and earn more and more over time,
This way, she could surpass the SPW Foundation and Joestar Real Estate in wealth within a short time, making her hated dad bow down at her feet!
But now, it seemed she didn't want to spend so much effort just to confine Jotaro Kujo in the full-dive script world, letting her do whatever she wanted...
Thinking like this, abandoning her dream seemed quite nice... or not!
Jolyne quickly shook off these suddenly tempting thoughts from her mind.
Indeed, "Phantom Blood" made a lot of money for Green Dolphin Studio.
This essentially recouped her initial investment.
And from the current state of "Battle Tendency", it seemed to be following a similar trend.
But compared to the hundredfold returns offered by the system after losing money,
How much can she really earn?
Five times? Ten times?
At most, it would be like that.
After all, BD bonus sales only have large audiences and fans buying them right after they're sold.
Otherwise, in the past, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" wouldn't have been surpassed by "Uma Musume Pretty Derby" within a week, and the gap would be nearly two volumes.
So...
"I can't use Ripple anymore!"
Despite being tempted by the hundredfold returns, Jolyne regained some confidence with the encouragement of money and said: "Although I promised Mom to make "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" Part 3 and have Dad, the bastard, as the protagonist."
"But who says "JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" must use Ripple to fight? Which character in the name mentions Ripple!?"
"None! None at all!!"
Uh, Jolyne Cujoh now trusted no one.
Similarly, she seemed to understand why Pucci had such a good eye for actors.
It's not that Pucci was always lucky.
But the entire industry's actors had problems!
She had already carefully selected those in the industry who were least favored and considered the most useless for major roles.
Yet even these were unexpectedly formidable.
Just when the so-called industry trash actor made his debut, he was immediately hailed as having the potential for an Oscar-winning performance?!
If she was like this,
One can imagine how Pucci and his team felt when choosing actors.
Thus, the strategy of starting from where it fell and using a bunch of second-rate actors to create a fourth-rate work was impossible from the beginning.
Since that's the case,
Why not quickly adjust the strategy?
Simply put, if I can't change the actors, can't I change the script?!
Although both "Phantom Blood" and "Battle Tendency" appeared to have great potential in Jolyne's eyes,
The Ripple technique's setting was just too good!
It made these two works, which should have flopped, reach heights they shouldn't have!
After days of deep thought and watching "Phantom Blood" and "Battle Tendency" multiple times, Jolyne Cujoh finally wrote out another few hundred words of experience summary.
She was certain and said: "The hymn of humanity is the hymn of courage, the greatness of humanity is the greatness of courage... Uncle Zeppeli's words were the starting point."
"And what made him say this was the Ripple technique's setting—requiring a steady breathing rhythm to harness solar-like life energy."
"So those who learn Ripple must first control their fear. Only by controlling fear can their breathing remain steady. Ripple can thus be said to be a product of courage, the best manifestation of the golden spirit shining on JOJO and the others!"
Previously, she had just scanned through the comments on 2CH and related forums.
She found that viewers believed that the golden spirit of Straizo still existed not only in his actions but also in how he maintained steady breathing until his death, successfully using the vampire's body to channel the Ripple's power.
This final Ripple was proof of Straizo's remaining golden spirit!
So this most popular setting must be changed!
And it must be a major change!
"Hmm, this time it will definitely work!"
Thinking this, Jolyne, who had been in a bad mood, suddenly felt much better.
"I'm a genius; such a difficult problem didn't stump me at all!?"
"JOJO's Bizarre Adventure" Part 3.
It was a chance to both get revenge on her dad and profit from the system.
A double win!