84 For the Sake of a Perfect Song

‘Empress of the Ice’ wasn't exactly an unpopular manga.

That was why the budget assigned to Mah Studio, the production company selected for the project, was large enough to hire an A-list singer.

The company was also backing the project, and even internally, the quality of each scene completed so far had been extraordinary, so they had originally planned to commission a fairly famous Japanese singer for the tie-up.

“…What do you mean, a singer I've never even heard of?”

But things changed somewhat when the original author became involved.

Since the original author had enormous contractual authority, the production team had no choice but to accommodate any unreasonable demands from that side.

They might have been able to cut ties if the author had made an excessive demand, but all they wanted was for the opening tie-up to go to an internet singer named ‘Mikansei.’

“Maybe it's because the author is young…”

“Yeah. Honestly, I've never heard of them.”

Although Mikansei had a song barely hanging on at the bottom of the Billboard Japan chart, the employees had never heard of them because they had become popular mainly through TikTok...