The king of dramas was its ads - Maru heard these words before. A drama with a sturdy scenario, godly acting, and incredible direction did not look for viewers, but advertisers. The individuals that created the drama are said to participate in its production with the ideal to create something worth watching, but the objective of the sum of those ideals was ultimately the ads.

The food he was eating in a drama, the clothes she was wearing in the drama, the location they went to, the life they enjoyed. All of that became products and subsidized into ads.

“I hope you can concentrate on the acting of the actors while the shoot is running. Watching them in real life gives you a different enjoyment than watching through a screen.”

The tourists that were guided to one side of the set nodded as they listened to the staff’s explanation.

There was no way the production team wanted to let tourists in when the drama production stage had many sensitive actors. This was also a facet of advertising. The things they hear and see here would be spread to many other people in the form of stories and rumors. If the viewership went past 30%, the costs of ads would increase as well after all.

Maru had a look at the expression of the actors. They didn’t seem flustered since they seemed to have...