"Next, number 20, Mai Shiraishi. The girl took the microphone handed over by the staff, and with a serious expression, she began to introduce herself.

"I'm Mai Shiraishi from Gunma Prefecture, 19 years old, I specialize in imitation and singing, and I joined Nogizaka 46 with the goal of becoming a good idol. "It's a very formulaic self-introduction, and if you change to someone else, you may lose a valuable opportunity, but this girl is obviously not ordinary.

"Then please show off your specialties and let us see. ”

Mai Shiraishi adjusted her mood and quickly entered the state. She imitated the stalks and jokes of several funny stars who are now more popular, and she still learned more decently.

The judges below were amazed. Mai Shiraishi, as her name suggests, has a fair complexion and translucent complexion, the focus is on her appearance, among the people who came here today, she has surpassed the others too much, it can be said that she has a feeling of standing out from the crowd, and she is the kind of beautiful girl who stands in the crowd and belongs to the kind that can attract attention.

After performing the funny joke, the judges asked her to perform the song she prepared again.

The judges in the audience were all seriously looking at Mai Shiraishi performing on stage, compared with the content of her performance, there was no doubt that she was more attractive in herself, only Yasuya Akimoto lowered his head, looking at Mai Shiraishi's information on the table, his expression was solemn, thinking.

"Mai Shiraishi, this girl can be said to be a very high-quality talent in terms of appearance and potential, but her innate conditions are too good, if she debuts as a singer and actress, it's not bad, but this is an idol group, maybe on the future stage, this girl's light will cover up her surroundings and even everyone, which is a big taboo. Yasu Akimoto pondered whether he should leave the name Mai Shiraishi.

After the performance, the judges signaled that the staff could replace the next one. Mai Shiraishi returned the microphone, and before leaving, she didn't forget to bow in the direction of the judges, and returned to the team. The judges below all chose to put the name Mai Shiraishi on the list in their hands, and the name Mai Shiraishi was marked behind. Akimoto Yasu saw this situation, and also took advantage of the situation to put a checkmark behind Mai Shiraishi on his list.

"Next, No. 21, Nanami Hashimoto. ”

Nanami Hashimoto's mood at this time was apprehensive, Mai Shiraishi introduced herself at No. 20 in front, and her appearance even Nanami Hashimoto felt beautiful and outstanding. She saw the performance of the judges below, Akimoto Yasu's bowing head and being silent, and the surprised eyes of others, all of which she saw in her eyes. When she was queuing up for the number plate this morning, she felt that the girl standing in front of her was really beautiful, and her current self beside her was completely compared, as if she were a noble white swan and an ugly ugly duckling. "Maybe some of the models came to the audition. "All of a sudden, there were a lot of thoughts.

Hearing the staff call his name, he thought that it was finally his turn, so he walked to the front and took the microphone and began to introduce himself.

"I'm Nanami Hashimoto, a first-year university student from Hokkaido, and I applied for this job to see how far I could go and how far I could expand. Nana Hashimoto's unprepared talent is singing, but it sounds like an ordinary KTV singer, but it can be seen that she is singing very hard, and the judges are also carefully observing her performance.

At the end of the singing, there was already a little cold sweat on Nana Hashimoto's forehead, and his performance, if you want to evaluate it yourself, it's really bad, it seems that several sentences are out of tune, and there are many places where the sound is not sung accurately, it's really bad. The uneasiness in Nanami Hashimoto's heart is getting heavier and heavier.

The judges asked a few more casual questions, and Nana Hashimoto nervously answered the questions raised by the judges, and the judges signaled that the staff could move on to the next person. Nana Hashimoto hurriedly returned the microphone to the staff and returned to the team. "Maybe it's not possible," Nanami Hashimoto, who returned to his original position, thought to himself.

The auditions continued, and the girls introduced themselves and performed themselves one after another, in order to achieve the few places they hoped or achieved. How many people will be chosen, and whether they will become one of those who are chosen, every girl present will ask themselves in their hearts.

"Next, No. 27, Nanase Nishino. ”

"Please advise, I'm Nanase Nishino, 19 years old, sophomore in high school, 17 years old..." And dance... When I was a child, I learned some piano, and the purpose of joining Nogizaka was to become a person who could shine, hoping to make friends and get more people to know me... Preparatory... Talent... It's singing... The song is Yui Aragaki's "Red い糸". Nanase Nishino's voice was very small, and he kept his head down when he sang, not daring to look at the judges in front of him, one of the judges shook his head about this, but Yasu Akimoto had a different opinion.

"Too nervous, kid. Yasu Akimoto looked at her and remembered that a few years ago, at the sixth application site of AKB, there was such a girl who gave him the same feeling. Weak, but inadvertently revealed playful cuteness. Now that girl has become the center of AKB48's ninth term, thinking of this, Akimoto smiled. "Maybe it's a rough stone, and you can see in her some of the light that might bloom later. Unconsciously, the girl performing in front of me coincided with the figure of another girl that appeared in Akimotoyasu's mind, and this feeling would not be wrong. Although the girl's performance was not ideal, what Akimoto saw was something more and deeper.

After asking a few questions as usual, the judges asked Nanase Nishino to return to the line and move on to the next one.

"What should I do, I really can't do it...... I've really been working hard......" Thinking of this, Nanase Nishino's eyes moistened.

For a whole morning, from the first person called to the end of the last one, the judges carefully watched the performances of every girl who came to the scene to participate in the final review, and compared with the information they had already obtained, they gradually had an answer.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the judging was over, and the girls were called by the staff to another large conference room to wait for the results, and they were notified that the judges were conducting the final comparison check, and half an hour later, they would come out and announce the list of people who were born in the first phase of Nogizaka, so please sit here and wait patiently now.

Everyone was sitting in their seats nervously, some of the girls were sitting closer to the staff next to them, and some were chatting with the staff without saying a word, hoping to know something. Some girls play with their phones in their seats, but their minds are clearly not on their phones. There are also girls who don't seem to be too stressed, after this morning, they already have new friends, and the people next to them are whispering, everyone is nervous, Ikuta Erika is praying, Nishino Nanase's eyes are red, and she may have thought about the worst outcome. But there are a few people who don't seem to have the right style of painting...

Rina Ikoma stared at a place in front of her with a serious face, and the whole person had not moved for a long time......

Mai Shiraishi... It seems to be very irritable......

Nanami Hashimoto... I guess I'm too tired from a part-time job, and I can't get enough rest......

As the minutes passed, the sense of unease in the crowd grew stronger. The girls knew that their fate would have to be decided in the room just now, but they themselves could not do anything about it, because the opportunity they could fight for was over, and what they could do now was to wait for the decision of the judges in the room.

Selection site.

"Hehe, these girls are all okay, many of them have experience in piano and ballet, what an accident. ”

"In the preliminary review, consciously raise the overall requirements of the selection, after all, only a few people can be selected, and the quantity has been stipulated, so we should work the quality, and we can select high-quality girls, and the team development and professional training will be much easier accordingly. We are now past the best time, and now for us, time is the most precious, and we need some girls who can grow up quickly to become the idol of Nogizaka 46, otherwise the official opponent of AKB48 is just a dream. ”

"That's for sure, it's hard to imagine that there will be an idol girl group that can surpass AKB48 now, and besides, the producer of Nogizaka 46, isn't he still Mr. Akimoto," after speaking, he turned his head to look at Yasushi Akimoto, who looked down and thought seriously.

"But the production company is our Sony Music, more or less, it will be different, if we can recruit good students, it is not completely impossible to catch up with AKB48 in the future. ”

The two judges were discussing in a whisper, and the rest of the people were also waiting, waiting for Yasushi Akimoto to finish thinking and make a final decision on the first student. Each judge has actually marked the name of the person who thinks it can be on the list in his hand, as long as the list is collected, and then the common list is sorted out in a unified manner, almost the approximate personnel will come out, but, in the end, whether to use it, whether it can be used, still depends on Akimoto Yasu, his opinion. No one else has the right to make a decision on this matter.

The producer of the group Nogizaka 46 is Yasu Akimoto.