Chapter 536: Graduate Students
Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Life Talk Classroom" came to an end two hours later.
After seeing off the contented two, Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned to the sofa in the living room and began to fall into deep thought.
Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino all joined Sony ahead of schedule for their own reasons.
And in this way, Kiyoshi Sakamoto came up with an idea.
In the not-too-distant future, Nogizaka 46, an idol group known as "AKB's formula rivals", will definitely hold it tightly in his hands.
And as the project producer of this idol girl group, Kiyoshi Sakamoto will definitely try his best to make Nogizaka 46 popular, and even surpass the mountain of AKB48!
In order to achieve this goal, Kiyoshi Sakamoto believes that Nogizaka is completely unnecessary, and like in his previous life, he must wait until 2011, when AKB is at its peak, to start forming.
Anyway, the future has already been changed beyond recognition by him, so if he continues to toss, it won't get worse.
So, this time, he's going to do something different!
He is going to find the core members of Qi Nogizaka in advance, and then conduct a period of all-round training, just like the trainee system of Korean brokerage companies, and finally wait until the time is ripe, and then launch it in one fell swoop, so as to achieve a blockbuster effect!
Actually, in Japan, there is a system like a trainee, which is called "graduate school".
Moreover, this "graduate student" system, Yasu Akimoto has already started playing in AKB!
For example, the future overlord of AKB who was transferred to SMA, "Sasi" refers to Hara Rino as a graduate student of AKB, who entered AKB...
However, this "graduate" system, for the AKB, is not very useful.
Kiyoshi Sakamoto believes that it is more because the concepts and styles of Nogizaka and AKB are different.
AKB's idol concept is that they can face each other, fans can see their own pushes, and they are down-to-earth and friendly idols who are slowly growing.
And Nogizaka's idol concept is,With a sense of distance from above.,Like a lady idol like a hollow valley orchid.γ
AKB has a dedicated theater where fans can come to the theater anytime and anywhere to watch performances and cheer for their supporters.
Nogizaka doesn't have a theater, and fans can only follow the group's every move through other channels, such as the title fangumi.
The fact that the members of Nogizaka cannot be seen often and the exposure is not guaranteed, which is also a disadvantage for Nogizaka.
To put it bluntly, AKB sells the process of members' growth, so that fans can participate in the growth of members, and thus generate a sense of accomplishment.
Therefore, Yasu Akimoto chose the so-called "rough stone" with a low degree of completion, and then through the joint carving of himself and his fans, it finally became a radiant gem!
However, Nogizaka could not do that.
Because,In doing so,,It will only be a second "AKB",And it won't be any different from the AKB sister groups.γγγ
Therefore, it is necessary for each member of the group to have the characteristics that can attract fans from the very beginning.
Only then will Nogizaka be able to stand out in the music scene where idol girl groups such as AKB, SKE, HKT, Momoiro Clover and so on are lined with idol girl groups with an idol style that is different from the "48 series"!
In this way, the members that Nogizaka needs are not "primordial stones", but "instant combat power"!
It's a "diamond" that has already been polished!
The "rough stone" cannot be cultivated in advance.
If you cultivate it in advance, you will lose the meaning of growing up with fans and members...
However, "instant combat power" can!
You don't see, many of those groups in South Korea are trainees who have practiced for many years before their debut.
It is precisely because of their long-term practice career that they can quickly attract the attention of the public with their outstanding dancing ability and singing ability as soon as they debut.
It's just that in the Korean music scene where all the members of the idol group are trainees, the power of the "graduate student" system is not very prominent.
However, if this system is moved to the Japanese idol industry, which only focuses on the growth process, Sakamoto Kiyoshi feels that it will definitely get very good results.
Especially when Yasushi Akimoto's AKB began to sweep Japan, at this time, if there is a cold girl group with a style different from AKB, the core member artists have a high degree of completion, and combined with Sony's huge publicity resources, it will inevitably become the focus of public attention in a short period of time!
That's why he thought of applying this system to Nogizaka.
He was also not whimsical, trying to recruit all Nogizaka students to Sony in advance, conduct training for a period of time, and then debut together.
That's not realistic.
He only needs to find a few core members of Nogizaka, and it will be enough.
These core members of Nogizaka, after all-round training, are enough for the initial Nogizaka to reach the level of competing with AKB's "Divine Seven" in the top combat power.
Even the candidates, he had already looked for them.
Nanawei HashimotoγNishino Nanase two,In the previous life, it was the girl of the big TOP of Nogizaka.γγγ
There is another girl, a girl he has long taken a fancy to.
A beautiful girl from Gunma Prefecture, the future "face of Nogizaka", Mai Shiraishi!
Speaking of which, Kiyoshi Sakamoto thought that this SMA audition would attract this cold girl to participate.
From the fact that Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino were both "blown up" by this audition, you can know how successful the publicity work of this audition was was.
However, who knows, in the third review of the four days, Kiyoshi Sakamoto did not see Mai Shiraishi.
It stands to reason that with Mai Shiraishi's appearance, even if you rely on beauty alone, you can easily enter the third review.
From this point of view, Mai Shiraishi did not sign up for this audition.
In this way, Sakamoto Kiyoshi felt that it was very necessary for him to go to Gunma.
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Two days later, Kiyoshi Sakamoto personally brought Hashimoto's mother, who had rushed from Hokkaido and Osaka, as well as Nishino's mother, and two curious girls to SMA and signed a new contract.
"That's ... Director Sakamoto?!"
"The two girls beside him are very eye-catching, not like the artists of our company... β
"I heard that those two girls are newcomers who Director Sakamoto personally signed into the company, and the contract is directly handled by him!"
"Really?!! then we're going to have to be nice to them. β
"Uh-huh... β
After signing the contract, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who took two girls and walked around SMA with a swagger, was very satisfied with the discussion caused by his move to the entire SMA.
That's what he wanted!
He wants the entire SMA, and even the entire Sony to know, that Nana Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino are covered by him!