Chapter 36: The First Handshake Meeting

Back in 2007, AKS and AKB were in turmoil, and even singles could not be released and could only be released underground, at that time, the three of them were still friends and collaborators who talked about everything, especially after Sony did not do anything, he was reluctant to pull down his face to beg for help because of the reputation of "literati", and it was these two people who were cheeky to contact everywhere, and finally found King Records as the new distributor of AKB, which made AKB Salted Fish turn over.

has survived the most difficult times, and finally reached the best times, but the relationship between the three has come to the point where it is now.

The disagreement on the business philosophy also plunged the company into a crisis.

If He Yue hadn't said Maeda's problem by mistake, Akimoto Yasu would really continue to suppress things until a few years later, and it was precisely because of the existence of her butterfly that things changed completely differently from her previous life.

Yasu Akimoto pierced that layer of window paper, and the sky inside AKS had changed several years earlier than in his previous life.

Although for the time being, the outside world has no idea what is going on inside the AKB, everything is going to unfold slowly.

After the 24th, there is no work to do except for the Red and White Song Club, He Yue simply makes up for herself at home, after the New Year, in addition to the work of AKB, she will also take the high school entrance examination, although she now has amazing learning and memory skills, but subjects such as history and society must at least make up for it, which she has almost never been exposed to before.

On the 30th, AKB won this year's RB Record Awards, He Yue watched the live broadcast at home, and the crying of Minami Takahashi and Atsuko Maeda on TV also became a record award, and even the classic shot of the RB entertainment industry for the next considerable period of time, AKB48, which started in Akihabara, was once regarded as an erotic edge ball, and the group itself was also regarded as a girl idol group that "only otaku like", and finally climbed to the top of the RB entertainment industry.

But all this has nothing to do with He Yue, AKB's current results, she was already happy in her previous life, and now she doesn't have any sense of honor, not long after joining AKB, she has not been able to completely unify herself and AKB members.

In a blink of an eye, it was the 31st, and like the 8th, He Yue and other thirteenth students gathered very early, and came to NHK very early before the TOP members.

It's a pity that they have nothing to do even if they come, today including the TOP members have more time, and the juniors don't need to practice on behalf of them, and they are too newcomers to take photos with those who participate in the red and white palaces for the time being, so the thirteenth students and other graduate students, and even other not-so-popular members hid in the large lounge specially assigned to them by NHKHALL, and it was not until the afternoon that they finally had the opportunity to rehearse on stage for half an hour.

This is He Yue's last job in 2011, at half past seven in the evening, the red and white song will begin, at seven fifty, AKB48 debuted, Maeda and Takahashi two people accepted a short interview, the selection team first sang "The Wind is Blowing", and then the official members took the stage to sing "Flying Start", and finally 210 people including JKT, SDN and other members appeared on the stage to sing "everyday headband", He Yue and most of the AKB Group members of the 2011 red and white journey ended.

Total stage time...... 90 seconds.

The TOP members still have their final stage and backup dancing work and can't leave, and they have to rush to participate in CDTV's New Year's Eve after the red and white, and the other members were disbanded early.

The next start time is on the morning of the 4th, which is the time off that even the busiest TOP members will have.

Back home, my mother had already prepared a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the 10,000 yen and five boxes of bento boxes brought back on Christmas Eve played a huge role, compared to the shy New Year in previous years, this year He Yue's family is much more generous, there is even fried chicken on the table, Hamaguchi Fumi opened the beer for the first time, He Yue also put a bottle of Coke on the table, and the two happily ushered in the New Year of 2012.

On January 4, 2012, He Yue and other 13 students welcomed one of their most important jobs at AKB48.

Handshake will.

The handshake party was not the first of AKB48, RB had an artist handshake party in the 80s, but it is undeniable that AKB popularized this word and this behavior, and it has become the standard configuration of almost all girl groups.

What's even more powerful about AKB is that in the entire RB entertainment industry, only they can support a huge handshake fan group with a huge volume of more than 200 or even 300 people, and then this fan group, in turn, will support the sales of AKB Group, and even their capital to stay in the RB entertainment industry.

Of course, none of the above has anything to do with the thirteenth students who have just joined here, and the girls are now only concerned about how they will perform in their first handshake.

Many years ago, when the AKB Group first held a handshake party, everything was very primitive, but after years of improvement, the current handshake meeting has become quite professional, especially now that AKB is so popular, the entire huge venue is stuffed with tens of thousands of people from 7 o'clock in the morning, like this kind of national handshake meeting, now it can receive at least 100,000 people all day, and such a handshake will be held by AKB Group basically every weekend.

The AKB Group's role as a "meeting idol" is that fans will have plenty of opportunities to meet idols, such as group photo tickets, mini live, games, and live broadcasts, which are mostly only included in the album.

Because it was the first official handshake meeting, the operation did not require the thirteenth students to wear their own private clothes, and the girls wore uniform graduate uniforms this time, and they were also the only little idols in uniform in the entire venue.

But this time their job wasn't just a handshake.

At eight o'clock in the morning, when the official members in the venue began to shake hands, He Yue and the other thirteenth students came to the peripheral sales point outside the venue, and they wanted to help the staff sell the peripherals together.

Of course, they say that they help sell, but in fact, they don't need to collect money or shout, the girls just need to stand at the end of the "sales line", sell each piece of merchandise to fans, and say thank you with a huge smile.

Compared with practicing dance day and night to the point that he couldn't lift his legs, and compared with He Yue's social animal life in his previous life, this kind of work was simply too simple and easy, so He Yue didn't have any worries, but in the thirteenth life, girls like Ryoka Oshima who were not familiar with idol work were quite nervous when they went outside the venue.

"What will be the reaction of the rice when we show up, won't they all be excited to rush over, will they?

He Yue dismantled the stage and said: "Who are you eating outside? Most of them have seen Maeda Oshima's seniors more times than us! You have shaken hands with several of the Divine Seven? Most of them have spent more time chatting with the TOP members than all of us in the thirteenth phase combined! Those who are willing to come to shake hands have seen the world, and we want to please them!"

Indeed, the idols that can meet have lowered the threshold of idols, and the civilian idols are full of affinity, unlike the stars in China next door, it is difficult for fans to meet each other, so RB rarely has behaviors such as pick-up, and it is relatively simple to see stars in RB, especially if you want to see idols.

The agent of the thirteenth issue on the side also said: "That's right, the smile must be enough later, the correspondence must be good, this is your first close-up appearance, today the scene will take the initiative to contact you, most of them are hardcore fans, they will go back a lot of people will say their thoughts on the Internet, and this will also become the first impression of many of you, don't mess up!"

With apprehension, the girls came to the peripheral sales point.

Their appearance also caused a small commotion, but just as He Yue guessed, the well-informed rice players quickly recognized their identities, and the commotion quickly subsided.

The sixteen girls were each divided into eight booths, and He Yue was assigned to the girl born with Ryoka Oshima, who was born in the thirteenth period, Ryoka Oshima became an undoubted central member as soon as she debuted because of her appearance, and put He Yue by her side, more like a protector than her colleagues in the thirteenth period.

When He Yue and the others arrived in front of the stall selling AKB towels, a small group of people were also paying attention to them.

"How is it? This class of graduate students, who is more suitable for your eyes?" asked Mr. Memory's side, the innocent zombie.

There are seven or eight other people around these two, and they are obviously more interested in the fresh members than the average fans around who don't pay much attention to the 13th students.

Especially the two people in the center of everyone, the two people who are known as "Mr. Memory" and "Innocent Zombies" on the screen, both of whom have been mixed in the AKB fan circle for many years, are extremely famous not only in the fan circle, but even in the member circle.

But for the thirteenth students, the girls who just entered this circle rarely had avid AKB fans before, so they didn't know them.

Don't underestimate this small group of about ten people, fanatical meals, so-called meals, and even professional meals are all very influential and can even have a huge impact on the careers of little idols.

What's more, at a time when AKB is on fire all over the country, they rarely go to TOP members such as Iimaeda Oshima, and they usually support people who don't get much attention from the mass media in the theater, or who have just joined the AKB group.

The so-called graduate chefs, theater box pushers, etc., are talking about this group of people.

They like newcomers, they like the kind of immature, blunt, and easier to contact, and they are still going all out, and they are also the first batch of people in the world to contact and pay attention to newcomers, and for operations, they are also a key part of pushing newcomers and graduate students to the public.

The opinions of the two heads of the meal are undoubtedly very important.

"Oshima Lianghua is very good, the appearance is very cute, very suitable for being an idol, and the personality seems to be lively, I watched her dance performance before, the little girl was bouncing and very attractive. The innocent zombie said.

"It's true that Yurina Takashima is also good, and as for Shinobu Motegi, it looks like a seedling in Group K. Mr. Memory said.

Compared with the ordinary fans around who don't know the thirteenth phase of the students at all, they mentioned that the thirteenth phase was born quite like a few family treasures, which is too rare, you must know that the thirteenth phase of the students has only made an official public appearance in the anniversary performance so far.

As for the two red and white shows in the village and NHK, there is no close-up of them dancing with the crowd, and they are purely just human backgrounds.

"Are all the people with the surname Oshima this kind of petite?But Loli's body and big eyes are really suitable for being idols, hey, she waved at us!" said Mr. Memory.

"This kid has a lot of potential!" said the virgin zombie and the others on the side, waving happily in response to Lianghua.

"What are they selling? towels? I just don't have a pair of former Amada Mei, so I'm going to buy one!" Mr. Memory said.

What they didn't know was that when Ryoka Oshima beckoned, he was still whispering to He Yue: "Look at that group of otaku, the periphery of the body is almost stacked together! ”

"Don't call it an otaku, do you know it?" He Yue said.

"Yes, yes, of course I know it's rice, and I definitely wouldn't say that in front of them. "Ryoka Oshima doesn't like He Yue's nagging very much.

"I'm afraid that you are used to calling it, and it will be very good to accidentally shout it!"

"Huh, they're coming, do you want to buy towels, please, you have five or six towels wrapped around your neck, can you buy so many towels and hang them?" Ryoka Oshima whispered.

He Yue covered her face helplessly, if she wanted to say what made her feel most disillusioned in the short period of being an idol, the first thing should be to know some of the true personalities of the girls.

The little idol he met when he was having a puppet dinner is almost two completely different creatures from the idol he knows now!

It's a bit too much to complain about a poisonous tongue like this.

He Yue knew that Lianghua actually had no malicious intent, and her willingness to tell He Yue also represented her belief in He Yue.

"You better don't say this kind of thing, after all, we wouldn't exist without them. ”

Speaking of which, a group of people who greeted Ryoka Oshima had already come over, and the two of them could no longer whisper.

The girl turned to greet the fans: "Hello, first meeting, I'm Ryoka Oshima!"

The perfect idol smile, slightly raised his head with the upper eyeline, and the cuteness is four and a half stars!

He Yue also greeted everyone: "Hello, I'm He Yue!"

With a height of more than 167 cm and wearing semi-high-heeled small leather shoes, with the help of a straight back, He Yue looked down slightly at the group of otaku who were not tall and slightly hunchbacked.

Coupled with a slightly magnetic and hoarse voice, Meng Li ...... Minus two stars.

For idol rice, it is just a moment to distinguish the level of the two.

Everyone turned their eyes to Ryoka Oshima, and He Yue was ignored gorgeously!

However, He Yue has also been prepared for this, looking at herself from an objective point of view, He Yue feels that it is impossible for her to push herself in her previous life, there is a cute girl, which straight man will like He Yue, a member who is obviously not a member of the cute line?

The surrounding sales were carried out for about half an hour, at half past eight, the thirteenth students returned to the handshake venue, the time was very short but there was no way, now it is January, although the thirteenth students are wearing flesh-colored warm stockings, and there are several warm babies in the place where they can't see, but the cold wind still blows people's bones hurt, and maybe someone will be frostbitten if they stand for half an hour.

The people who returned to the venue each held a cup of boiling water for a while before they eased up, and then by ten o'clock in the morning, it was finally their turn to shake hands.

The first handshake meeting of the thirteenth students was not separated, but sixteen girls fought in a row, and the rice was shaken from Guangzong Kaoru on the far left, and everyone shook it again, until He Yue ended at the end.

Each person can get about five seconds, basically in addition to greeting, the conversation that can be carried out is only two or three sentences, this is still the data generated on the basis of the normal dialogue between the two sides, when the real handshake, He Yue found that those who can talk and greet normally, and they will not be excited and nervous when they see them are not much.

More rice can be seen from the time of queuing, I have already thought about what to say and repeated it in my heart, but as soon as I got in front of the little idol, all the words that had been rehearsed in my mind I don't know how many times flew away, and only the big eyes of the little idol were left in my eyes, and the whole world seemed to disappear in this instant.

"Plus...... Come on!"

"Morning ...... Good morning!"

"Good...... It's so cute!"

Generally, a conversation like this shows that the fan's sanity has returned to zero, and the words spoken are just the remaining politeness in the daily mind.

Most of the people who come to shake hands at the beginning of the disclosure are die-hard fans or graduate students who have greeted everyone before, but the reason when facing the little idol is not something that you can get back if you eat long enough, and some people have shaken a lot of people at a glance, but it is still easy to lose their minds when shaking hands.

The sixteen girls shook each other for an hour and a half, and at half past eleven the girls went backstage for dinner, and the handshake part was over today, but they had not yet left work, and in the afternoon, they had to go to the stage of the venue to perform.

Don't look at it as just an hour and a half handshake meeting, for these girls who are new to this job, this hour and a half of physical energy is not inferior to dance class.

For an hour and a half, they kept saying hello and chatting, and everyone felt that their throats were a little smoky, and their hands were also very tired because of the constant handshake.

Murayama Saiki sat next to He Yue, poured a whole bottle of water first, and then said, "Kashiwagi and Oshima seniors are really amazing!How can they hold it for so long!?"

AKB at its peak, the TOP members' personal handshake per single can be up to 36, and like today's national handshake, the first sixteen people at the top of the handshake can afford at least half of the handshake, Kashiwagi Oshima's existence, that is the type that can be held from 8 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock in the evening, and after years of shaking down, basically there are few voices that are not dumb until the next day, and the right hand, arm and shoulder are also plagued by "occupational diseases" such as tenosynovitis!

He Yue's performance is not much better than Murayama, he came to participate in the handshake party in his last life, and he has become a handshake person in this life, his experience is more profound, in an hour and a half, He Yue even thought about graduation more than once!

This work is not only physically tiring for her, but also mentally devastating!

Who made her have the soul of a straight man!

After resting for a while, it was also noon, and sixteen people gathered together to have lunch.

Suddenly, Aigasa Meng shouted: "Look, there is an evaluation of us on the Internet!"

Everyone looked up and saw that the mobile phone held by Aikasa Meng was the 2ch underground idol plate.

He Yue can see the title on his phone: "Just came out of the venue, talk about the newcomers, about the thirteenth idol drug test." ”