Everyone overlooked the true potential impact of Ace Attorney.
Perhaps even Takayuki didn't anticipate it.
However, he did have a keen insight into the trend of social networks.
Social networks are the future.
So, he invited the founder of Facebook, Bob, to expand the business to the Japanese region.
With him as a major shareholder and the background of Japanese capital, there are very few American companies.
The Japanese government was particularly pleased to hear this, so Facebook almost entered the Japanese market without any obstacles.
And such a mature social network entering Japan was like a modern army entering the Stone Age, it was simply overwhelming, quickly crushing each struggling Japanese social network.
But that's how business is, if you don't strive to advance, you'll eventually be beaten by others.
Takayuki also took the opportunity to search for more information through social networks.
He could also obtain some useful information more intuitively.
For example, players' more intuitive feedback, as well as some fan creations and interesting stories related to the game.
Now, Facebook is a huge treasure trove.
In just under ten days, several hard drives' worth of content related to Ace Attorney was filtered out.
These are all publicly available content on the social square, and others can easily find them too.
Then he ordered his employees to take out all the collected items and hand them over to the production team of Tokyo TV.
He wanted to shoot a relatively short documentary with these things, which would focus on the records of those people on social networks, and occasionally send out the production team to contact some bloggers with interesting content and shoot more about them.
Sometimes documentaries can also be used as a means of promotion, and Tokyo TV, which lacks shooting materials, quickly approved his content and ideas.
On the other hand, the screenwriters who shot the depression group as a TV drama now feel a bit depressed themselves.
The ratings for the second week have already come out.
The ratings for this week must have increased compared to last week.
If in the past, the achievements of the TV drama they worked hard on would have made them very happy.
Perhaps they could also gain massive praise through this drama and then expand their influence.
But now, only a few people are really discussing the plot itself and the social effects of this drama.
Many others are discussing the bet with Gamestar Entertainment.
Every day, people argue fiercely about who will win and who will lose.
Especially after the Ace Attorney TV drama achieved almost the same ratings as them this week, the intensity of the discussion became even higher.
Supporters of these screenwriters spare no effort to promote this drama on various platforms, claiming that this drama is the best they have ever seen in their lives and it depicts the daily lives of a group of marginalized people very realistically. Such socially responsible dramas are quite rare.
But perhaps because it's ultimately just a TV drama, people always know that much of it is for show, so they can never completely immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the plot.
On the contrary, the content they discuss about the Ace Attorney TV drama and game is diverse.
There are discussions about the gameplay itself, discussions about game strategies, and at the same time, people are exploring the plot relevance of the movie-game collaboration, digging out the plot relevance between the TV drama and the game.
There is also discussion about the two male leads in the game and TV drama, because they are so topical. Both male leads sometimes behave very exaggeratedly in their respective stories, but it makes people unable to stop and want to know the next plot story.
As time goes by, the first batch of players who played Ace Attorney have basically finished the game, and now they are discussing more about the hidden buttons in the plot, and they hope Ace Attorney 2 will be made soon. The production team can't rest even for a moment. Please make the next one quickly! We are willing to pay for it.
A good story can attract players to continue spending money on it. Even though the development cost of Ace Attorney is very low, there are still many players willing to pay for it.
"Damn it, why can this garbage TV drama and game be discussed by so many people? What's interesting about it?"
"It must be that guy named Takayuki cheating. I heard he is actually one of the major shareholders of a social network. Obviously, they should have used some network methods to expand their influence."
"Yeah, that must be it."
In an office of NHK TV station, these screenwriters gathered to discuss recent events.
Because of the relentless pursuit of Ace Attorney, they were under immense pressure.
This forced them to put in their best effort to write their TV drama story well, so they could barely maintain their advantage.
Their screenwriting abilities are undeniable, otherwise, they wouldn't always be able to maintain a slight advantage.
But this relentless pursuit was really uncomfortable.
They originally thought they had a great advantage, naturally standing in an invincible position.
But damn it, the Ace Attorney TV drama turned out to be so popular.
They didn't understand why such a non-nutritive TV drama could be so popular.
Now they can only promote their works through newspapers, magazines, and subtly mock the Ace Attorney game and TV drama as fast-food stuff, completely devoid of social significance, and the people have not been properly educated.
And the people do need a guide, this TV drama and game are just simply amusing to the audience, without driving or leading the society.
In short, they tried to occupy the moral high ground as much as possible, belittling the game and TV drama of Ace Attorney.
And these screenwriters have quite a strong background.
They could persuade many magazines and newspapers to publish these articles, using these traditional media channels to belittle the game and TV drama of Ace Attorney.
But they didn't realize that the real audience is not on these platforms, and many people have even started to not read magazines and newspapers much anymore.
These articles simply did not affect the enthusiasm of Ace Attorney fans.
But there are also people who refute them, including the editor who has always supported electronic games, Tian Chong.
He used the Japan Economic News newspaper to criticize those screenwriters for deliberately belittling games and the Ace Attorney TV drama.
Obviously, the eyes of the masses are bright, just looking at the game sales and ratings can prove that this collaborative work is special.
But they were still criticized as worthless by these screenwriters.
Seeing such rebuttals, these screenwriters were even more pleased, immediately organizing a new round of attacks, attacking Tian Chong editor through multiple media outlets.
For a small editor, this pressure is actually quite large, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted. However, he didn't know how long he could hold on.
However, he seems not to need to persist anymore, because Takayuki's killer move, which was released completely after the game's sales in the third week, after the end of the Ace Attorney TV drama, was ready.
It was a documentary about Ace Attorney, a documentary that recorded many interesting things.