Fuji TV did not invite the press to the joint press conference for the drama series.
TBS normally had reporters from various media in attendance, and even spectators. Fuji, on the other hand, allowed spectators but not media reporters. The press conference was broadcast simultaneously from the same station, with transcripts and photos of the conference. It is whispered that the reason for this was due to various unforeseen “adult circumstances.
Of course, Matsuoka’s marriage four days before the press conference was unexpected, but it seems that there were other sensitive issues as well.
Yamada-san, who belongs to the same “JUMP” as Arioka-san who married Matsuoka-san, was present at the press conference. It seems that Mr. Yamada’s office did not want to be asked about Mr. Arioka. Some fans were rough on the Internet in response to Mr. Arioka’s marriage, so they did not want to provoke “JUMP” fans any further.
In addition, Ms. Koike, who starred in “Shinjuku Field Hospital,” filed a lawsuit in July ’10 seeking damages and an apology ad from a certain sports newspaper that wrote an article about her and her husband, Wataru Sakata, 51, a former fighter, on the verge of divorce in December ’09, and He won the lawsuit in December 2001. Since then, he has been “banned” from that sports paper. However, a joint press conference cannot involve other firms.
Furthermore, Ms. Arimura and Kaito Takahashi (25) of King & Prince were reported to be dating at the end of last year, but she has yet to comment publicly. Therefore, it is rumored that they may have taken a “precautionary measure” to avoid disturbing questions from the assembled press.
The next day, the media reported on the joint press conference, but since there were no reporters or cameramen on site and it was made up of only text data and photos sent to them, the articles in all media did not look very different from each other.
Even so, the amount of text data Fuji sent us was enormous, and some media outlets ran as many as five articles. It was a big event with 15 actors, but it was broadcast only on Saturday morning, June 29, in the Kanto region. I honestly wonder how much of the event was a publicity stunt. There was some criticism internally, saying, “If they didn’t invite the press, was it necessary to imitate TBS and hold a joint press conference?
Perhaps a press conference for each production would have been better for both the drama and the viewers.
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