Chapter 62: Yuan Shen of Light!
Dialing: President oppa.
After a moment of ringing, Jiang Shu's voice came through.
"Hello, Xiao Liu."
Hearing Jiang Shu's voice, Liu Zaishi and the other MCs all gathered around.
"President nim," Liu Zhimin called out feigning formality, while Zhang Yuanying, hearing this, raised her eyebrows and looked at Liu Zhimin with some surprise.
"What's up?" Jiang Shu's casual tone came through again; no one hearing this voice would associate it with the President of DM Entertainment.
He was too familiar, without any airs at all.
"What kind of person do you think you are?" Liu Zhimin thought for a moment and asked.
"What do you mean?" Jiang Shu's curious voice came through.
"How would you describe yourself?" Liu Zhimin held the phone, which was on speaker, with both hands and added.
"Handsome."
The camera suddenly zoomed out, showing everyone, and then replayed this shot.
As Jiang Shu's "Handsome" rang out, the scene immediately turned into a scorched earth; everyone covered their mouths, wanting to laugh but not daring to make a sound, and the cameraman even showed the staff of the production team, and although some people were mosaiced, it was still clear that the production team members were also laughing hysterically.
Jiang Shu, watching on TV, couldn't hold back either; he hadn't expected that looking at his own words from an outsider's perspective would be so...
The bullet comments also exploded, all filled with "hahaha" and "handsome."
"Anything else?" Liu Zhimin's speechless expression was captured by the camera.
"Gentle?" Jiang Shu's tentative voice came through.
"President nim! Don't say qualities you don't possess!" Liu Zhimin couldn't help but roll her eyes directly in front of the camera, saying exasperatedly.
But she and the other members of IVE didn't feel much, while the MCs and other artists on set all changed their expressions slightly, looking at the phone in Liu Zhimin's hand with some worry, afraid that Jiang Shu would be offended by Liu Zhimin's words, as the precedent was only a few minutes ago.
"How are you talking to the President nim?" Jiang Shu's smiling voice came through, and hearing this, the MCs slightly relaxed.
"Oh, President nim! Do you usually work out?"
"No, I don't."
Liu Zhimin's expression was somewhat numb.
"Oh, let me do it!" Zhang Yuanying reached out to take the phone, but Liu Zhimin dodged her.
"What are you going to ask? We only have one minute left."
"Don't worry, I have a way to make the President nim say the keyword!" Zhang Yuanying said confidently.
"Are you sure?" Liu Zhimin looked at Zhang Yuanying suspiciously and asked.
"Of course!" Zhang Yuanying raised her head and reached for the phone again; this time Liu Zhimin didn't dodge, letting her take the phone.
"President oppa!" Zhang Yuanying's clear voice rang out.
"Eh, what's up, Xiao Yuan?" Jiang Shu's voice came through.
This doting tone ignited the bullet comments; with his casual tone towards Liu Zhimin earlier, and now such a doting tone towards Zhang Yuanying, this made it even more prominent compared to the situation with the presidents of those two girl groups they had just seen.
"President oppa! I watched the nakeses you mentioned, what is Zhun Ge?" Zhang Yuanying said excitedly, holding the phone.
The bullet comments surged at this moment; before Jiang Shu even spoke, the screen was already covered with red bullet comments.
"A true man, Zhun Ge is a true man."
Along with Jiang Shu's words, red "Zhun Ge is a true man" bullet comments covered the entire TV screen, and in the picture, the IVE girls and the MCs on their team burst into enthusiastic cheers after Jiang Shu finished speaking.
"Yeah!!!"
The girls and the MCs on their team celebrated excitedly, while the MCs and artists from other teams looked enviously at the enthusiastically cheering crowd.
After celebrating for a while, Zhang Yuanying finally squatted down again and picked up the phone.
"We are filming 'Running Man' and playing a game; we need the President nim to say the keyword, and our keyword is 'true man'!" Zhang Yuanying said excitedly.
"So that's how it is."
"Chairman Jiang, I am Liu Zaishi, an MC from 'Running Man.' Thank you very much for your participation. Finally, do you have anything you want to say to IVE?"
At this moment, Liu Zaishi leaned over and spoke into the phone's receiver.
A line of crows flew across the screen.
"Chairman Jiang?" Liu Zaishi called out suspiciously.
"I'm here."
"Do you have anything you want to say to IVE?"
"I said it, I said silence." Jiang Shu's smiling voice came through.
The camera zoomed out again, showed everyone again, and repeated again, and the scene once again turned into scorched earth.
"Haha, no more jokes." Jiang Shu's voice rang out, "Kids, have fun on 'Running Man.'"
"Yes~~" The IVE girls responded in unison.
"Alright, that's all then, goodbye."
"Chairman Jiang (President oppa), goodbye!"
Jiang Shu happily watched this scene, then slowly picked up his phone and browsed the trending topics.
In just a few minutes, a lot of information was revealed. But compared to the good relationship between Jiang Shu and IVE's two centers, what attracted more attention was the nakeses mentioned by Zhang Yuanying and Jiang Shu.
K-pop is a niche group within one country, and ultraman is also a niche group within one country, but!
K-pop has a name in global entertainment culture, and the ultraman IP is the most famous IP in global tokusatsu, bar none. From the perspective of global popularity, putting k-pop and ultraman together somewhat smacks of piggybacking on popularity.
But when a k-pop idol links up with the ultraman community in a strange way, the chemical reaction produced is very wonderful.
The overlap between k-pop fans and ultraman fans is not very high, but what's good about niche circles is that when outsiders suddenly connect with their circle in a strange way, people in this niche circle always show great goodwill, or a filter, towards this outsider.
Just like now.
Jiang Shu and Zhang Yuanying's conversation only mentioned "nakeses" and "Zhun Ge is a true man," but these two words alone were enough to prove that these two people were not trying to establish a persona.
Many people in the ultraman community haven't even finished watching the entire series of nakeses, and "Zhun Ge is a true man" is a classic meme from nakeses.
It's not that no artists have adopted a tokusatsu persona, but such personas are usually associated with a few more famous ultraman.
nakeses?
Who is that?
It was precisely because of the rarity of nakeses that as soon as the show aired, the ultraman community immediately exploded and came to check it out.
The funniest thing is that Jiang Shu has already seen ultraman fan art of him and Zhang Yuanying.
He has very few photos, so there aren't many pictures, but Zhang Yuanying is different.
All sorts of meme pictures emerged endlessly, and there were also ones with both of them, with Zhang Yuanying Photoshopped as Leo, and Jiang Shu as the Crutch Alien, a classic ultraman scene where Jiang Shu drives into Zhang Yuanying.
The main theme is abstract.