Chapter 24: Maeda's Pressure

Grandma Monkey's real role in the theater is called "Theater Publicity and Public Relations", and in terms of specific responsibilities, in addition to publicity, she is also responsible for managing the affairs of the members in the theater in addition to stage performances.

In addition to this, as someone who has been working here since the beginning of AKB's establishment, and who has been connected with Yasusu Akimoto and his company even before AKB was founded, she can still speak in the operation sequence.

She also knows a lot of secrets that she will never tell the members and will never be revealed.

In this respect, she is even closer to the real management than Tomonobu Togasaki, the theater manager, after all, Togasaki was recruited to manage the theater professionally when AKB was established.

So after hearing He Yue's words, she was also very surprised.

Maeda's process of taking over "Boys Over Flowers 2011" is actually very "fantastic".

It all started in 2010.

Last year, AKB became popular all RB, and at the end of the year, Yuko Oshima said on various occasions that this year was a perfect year for them, trying all kinds of things that they couldn't try, and sales and popularity were also rising.

In the popularity of AKB, Atsuko Maeda, as the absolute CENTER and ACE, naturally gained the most attention, and the girl tried everything that she never dreamed of before.

Becoming the heroine of the drama "Q10" is the biggest opportunity in Atsuko Maeda's idol career.

Even not only the idol career, Grandma Monkey knows that this drama is a big change for Maeda's life.

AKB in 2010 was very happy, and as AKB's ACE, Atsuko Maeda was also very happy.

Then it was 2011.

Compared with the happiness brought by becoming popular, the girls found that the burden of becoming popular gradually became heavier.

In 10 years, the popular members slept for two hours a day, after all, everyone still had a sense of freshness, and they had saved up five years of waiting and turned into a desperate effort in 2010.

But after more than half a year of popularity, by 11 years, the hardships brought by becoming popular finally gradually appeared, and girls generally fell into the double dilemma of sleep and lack of physical strength.

Maeda is under tremendous pressure.

Losing the championship in 10 years was a huge blow to her, but fortunately, she quickly picked up "Q10", which was a consolation for her.

In 2011, as the absolute center of AKB, people pursued AKB, and while people were chasing AKB, many nitpicks about AKB gradually appeared.

Arrogant and don't know etiquette, it's not very cute when you look closely, fake singing, acting is too bad, etc., although others will bear some of these pressures, but in the end most of them fall on Maeda.

Even if Yuko Oshima won the championship last year, this is still the case.

Then there is Yoyogi in March.

A concert that remains in the history of AKB48, the poor performance on the first day made Yasu Akimoto angry directly, and the dead fat man who has always been moody and invisible, scolded directly after the concert, which made the girls "spontaneously" stay and practice after the first day, and came to Yoyogi very early on the second day.

And if you want to talk about hard work, of course, Maeda, who participated in the most songs, was the hardest.

This also directly led to the fact that Maeda couldn't stand it in the back.

The so-called "moment of the arrival of the idol god" is legendary to the outside world, and the experiencer himself knows that at that moment when he was so tired that he wanted to die, Maeda used great perseverance and overcame great pain to stand up and dance the whole song.

To be sure, 99.9% of people outside of Maeda will give up on playing when they stand in that position.

Don't talk about others, let's just say that the seven members of AKB basically said in private, and in a situation like Ah Sauce, I'm afraid they would give up if they were different.

Maeda was under tremendous pressure, and operations began to think about AKB's future.

Everyone knows that sooner or later the tide will pass, and how to maintain this trend and delay the decline as much as possible is something that the operation wants to break through now.

Among them, Maeda's exposure is the most important.

Variety shows are not something Maeda is good at, and respecting his wishes, the operation began to look for opportunities for Maeda to star in TV dramas.

But the opportunity is not so easy to get, the filming of Japanese dramas, don't look at the filming that is being broadcast almost at the same time, in fact, the preparation period may have started as early as a year or even two years ago.

AKB's popularity has only been around for about a year, and according to the normal process, it is difficult to find a TV series starring Maeda in 11 years.

But the operation really wants to let Maeda master the drama, in order to achieve this goal, the price must be paid, and the process of finding starring opportunities in the operation is too "hungry", so some people who see this, and even some people at the top take advantage of this opportunity to find such a TV series.

Yasusu Akimoto very much disagrees with Maeda's acting in this drama.

Not only him, but most people in the operation could see that it was not appropriate to let Maeda star in this drama, but some people at the top of the operation finally strongly approved Maeda's plan to star.

Yasu Akimoto may have objected, but he can't control everything about AKB after all.

As for Maeda's wrestling with the top management, the artist herself has no right to speak, unless she is so determined that she is not afraid of offending the high-level, she can only pinch her nose and continue to act.

It's also ironic to say that although AKB's popularity is gratifying, it seems to be a situation where everyone has money to earn together, but in essence, at the operational level, everyone's minds can't all be together.

You have the members you support that I like, and the members themselves are actually okay, but the gangs at the operational level are more serious, Maeda received the right script and gained higher popularity, which seems to be a happy situation for everyone, but it may not be, and there are so few people who may even want her popularity to be cold.

The only consolation with the operation so far is that at least the reaction of the members is normal, and there are not many people who can see the cause of the incident when they go to the members who know almost everything at the operational level.

However, what happened today made Grandma Monkey's heart chill, an ordinary graduate student member who had just joined could see the problem, but what about the others? Could it be that the operation has been speculating about the members' thoughts all along, maybe some adjustments should be made!

Especially Maeda, if her mind changes, it will have a great impact on the next operation of the operation!

Thinking like this, Kyoko Nishiyama, the monkey grandmother, walked into Yasushi Akimoto's lounge worriedly.

Among the staff of the AKB theater, she is one of the few people who can talk directly to Yasushi Akimoto, although she doesn't have much authority, but in fact she is an old man who has been working together with Yasuya Akimoto for a long time.