Chapter 394: The Fully Evolved Bond
With the level of Sun Shengwan and Kang Seul-gi, who wouldn't be at a loss?
As for the Main Dancer, that's even simpler.
Any one of the nine people picked at random would be Main Dancer level.
Firstly, the level of these nine people is not low, and secondly, the strength of artists nowadays is indeed not great. Among the nine people Jiang Shu found, if you had to say, only the most popular Liu Yuan was a bit lacking; the others were completely unrelated to a lack of strength.
For condition four, Liu Zhimin, Zhang Yuanying, and Shin Ryujin are enough.
ITZY may have exploded, but the individual members have not. Especially Shin Ryujin, who has always been cultivated as the absolute core, her popularity still remains at the top tier in the industry. Although she was suppressed by Kim Minju, Sakura, and Ahn Yujin, three of IZONE's four Cs, she still hasn't fallen out of the top-tier level.
So, three popularity tops are not difficult either.
Condition five has Bae Joo-hyun.
Condition six is even more obvious; DM Entertainment is now the industry leader.
Although the six conditions seem difficult, they are not a problem for DM Entertainment, which has already developed.
Jiang Shu had thought about finding the original Girls' Generation members before, but then he thought, forget it. Instead of finding these nine people, it would be better to think about how to improve the company's level and then finalize this non-exclusive version of the Nine Empresses.
Facts prove that the latter is indeed simpler than the former.
After these six conditions are met, Nine Empresses (Non-Exclusive) will be activated.
Nine Empresses (Non-Exclusive)
Effect One: After activation, the team will gain top-tier popularity.
Effect Two: After activation, the knife-point choreography ability will be greatly improved.
Effect Three: All members' individual bonds are shared. (Note: Main Vocalist, divine beauty, and other innate bonds, as well as exclusive bonds, are excluded.)
Effect Four: Member bond effects are greatly enhanced.
Effect Five: Adaptable to any style of comeback.
Effect Six: Once this bond is activated, the top three members in popularity will permanently gain all effects except Effect Seven.
In reality, the reason why the two top-tier bonds and other bonds can be distinguished is not because the other effects of these two top-tier bonds are so powerful. Of course, the other effects are indeed very strong, but the fundamental reason comes from a common effect shared by these two top-tier bonds.
Effect Seven: Immune to all negative effects of bonds.
Yes, immune to all negative effects.
Every bond has negative effects, but the reason why top-tier bonds are top-tier bonds is that only these two exist. Even IZONE's twelve stars. fantasy fairy tale has negative effects.
But these two don't.
Girls' Generation's bond is inclined towards versatility, adapting to everything.
TWICE's bond, on the other hand, focuses on developing a specific direction.
The focus is different, but it is clear that Jiang Shu prefers Girls' Generation's Nine Empresses.
Putting aside Effect Seven, which grants immunity to all negative effects, Effect Three and Effect Six are truly too good.
Especially Effect Three, although bonds like Main Vocalist, divine beauty, Trustworthy Tae, and Kirin cannot be shared, just the shared C-position is exaggerated enough.
IZONE's four Cs are already at the ceiling level of popularity; Nine Empresses directly gives you nine Cs, with all members being C-positions.
And after immunity to negative effects, only the top-tier popularity of the C-position bond is retained, while the negative effect of teammates being ignored is immunized.
Well, everyone is a C-position, so whether this negative effect is immune or not makes no difference.
Similarly, Xue Yun and Shin Ryujin's Special Forces bond means all members gain greatly enhanced stamina, elevating them to the pinnacle of girl groups, while also avoiding another unlucky person like Choi Ji-soo in the team.
Kang Seul-gi's ACE sharing is a completely bug-level effect. Her singing and dancing abilities are greatly improved, and she is immune to the negative effect of not being able to reach a top-tier level. This means that the team will have a bunch of first-tier dancers plus two super-singing Main Vocalists.
Then there's Zhang Yuanying's Yuan Ying's Gathering. After immunity to negative effects, only the options of suitable makeup and styling and greatly enhanced idol charm remain, and the negative effect of 'pouring oil' no longer appears.
Bae Joo-hyun and Kang Seul-gi's exclusive Kirin bond can also avoid reducing the popularity of the less popular party and the idle state of only being activatable once a year.
Bae Joo-hyun's divine beauty bond is fine; she hasn't adjusted much, so the negative effect of Effect One is almost non-existent, but the restriction on strength improvement in Effect Two is useful.
The best is Effect Three, which can effectively reduce the birth of toxic solo fans.
As for Kim Tae-yeon and Sun Shengwan's Main Vocalist bond, it removes the negative effect of their popularity level being at most second in the group, giving Sun Shengwan a chance to try to enter the upper circle.
Of course, there's a greater chance that Kim Tae-yeon will challenge Liu Yuan.
As for Trustworthy Tae and Limit Break, there's nothing to say about these two Kim Tae-yeon bonds. They are bonds where negative effects are inherently difficult to trigger, so the improvement is not too great.
In fact, the most cost-effective is still the C-position. The shared effect of nine C-positions is simply too exaggerated.
While Jiang Shu was pondering, Zheng Xu also finished reading the 'reasons' for these nine people's selection. Although they were made up, upon closer inspection, they seemed quite plausible, making Zheng Xu feel that the feasibility was very good after reading them.
"Not bad." Zheng Xu closed the folder and handed it to Jiang Shu. "I see from the document that this plan will be launched next year?"
"Yes, after the new girl group debuts next year." Jiang Shu took the folder and turned to look at Zhang Yuanying, meeting her curious gaze.
"Don't look anymore." Jiang Shu chuckled and handed the folder in his hand to Zhang Yuanying.
"Take it and read it."
"Hehe, thank you, Chairman Oppa!" Zhang Yuanying immediately beamed, stood up, took the document with both hands, sat down, and began to read.
Zheng Xu noticed Zhang Yuanying's address to Jiang Shu, his eyes flickered slightly. He glanced at Zhang Yuanying, then looked at Jiang Shu, and a complex expression appeared in his eyes.
"Chairman Jiang, what resources does JYP need to provide?"
"You decide." Jiang Shu wasn't too concerned. Anyway, it was for Xue Yun. JYP might not care if the limited group was popular or not, but they definitely cared if Xue Yun was popular.
So, even if DM Entertainment didn't inquire about such resources, JYP wouldn't be perfunctory or mess around.
Zheng Xu nodded upon hearing this, raised his hand to check the time, and then spoke.
"It's getting late, I'll head back first."
"Aren't you staying to have a meal with us?" Jiang Shu said with a smile.
"No, Chairman Park Jin-young is still waiting for me to report back." Zheng Xu casually found an excuse.
Currently, he, as the President, handles all major and minor affairs at JYP, and reporting to Park Jin-young is purely a pretext.
"Then I won't keep President Jung." Jiang Shu stood up and said with a smile.
"Chairman Jiang, goodbye."
"President Jung, take care."
Jiang Shu pressed down on Zhang Yuanying, who wanted to get up, and together with Li Duohui, saw Zheng Xu off to the elevator hall.
