Chapter 60, Yasushi Akimoto's Reflections

Akihabara, Don Quixote Building, AKB48 Theater. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Yasu Akimoto was sitting in his place, looking at the data compiled by the staff, and his face was very ugly.

Nogizaka 46 has the support of Sony, so naturally he doesn't have to worry, in fact, it's not his turn to worry, this girl idol group has caused a small trend in the Tokyo circle, and there are many AKB fans who retweet it, and some fans like both, and they quickly accumulated a certain amount of popularity.

What's more, as mentioned earlier, the idols made by Yasushi Akimoto have offended many people in the process, those old-fashioned musicians, those singers and bands who are no longer glamorous, and those old-school forces who like the atmosphere of the old-fashioned music scene.

The most typical situation is that the 48 family is increasingly difficult to buy songs, AKB48 headquarters can rely on high invitation fees to obtain better quality songs, and NMB48 in Osaka can also use Yoshimoto's connections and connections to invite songs.

The problem is SKE, Jingle can be said to have basically no connections in the entertainment industry, and they can't afford to pay a high invitation fee, so the quality of this group's songs is constantly declining, and Akimoto Yasu has nothing to do about it.

Of course, none of the above is what Akimoto is worried about, what Akimoto is worried about is about the branch of the group in Hakata, Fukuoka, Kyushu, the situation of HKT48.

HKT48 selected Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, as the third part of the nationwide expansion, is AKB48, SDN48, SKE48, and NMB48 after AKB48 based in Akihabara, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, SKE48, Sakae-based SKE48 in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, and NMB48 in Namba, Osaka Prefecture. The main area of activity is the Kyushu area, and there is an exclusive performance theater in Fukuoka Hawks Town in the center of Fukuoka. In 2011, he started recruiting members and made his debut in the fall of 2011. Most of the members are from Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture.

The name "HKT" of the group is named after Hakata, Fukuoka City, where the theater is located, just like the above three groups. In addition, HKT48 Theater is not located in Hakata Ward, but in Chuo Ward.

After HKT's debut, it was impossible for Yasu Akimoto to keep running to Kyushu due to the high ground and the distance, and in fact, he didn't like to leave Tokyo, so he didn't care so much about this newly established group.

Here's the problem, after a period of market research and the reaction of HKT's doctors, it was found that after the establishment of HKT, in fact, more than half of the fans are still the fans of the Tokyo circle, and the local promotion of HKT is not smooth, Kyushu has a large number of Jigen idols, the number is very amazing, and the local promotion of HKT is very unsmooth, and the locals have said: "This is something made by Tokyo people, not something we do in Kyushu." ”

And as the center of Yasuya Akimoto, Kodama Haruka, behaves a little average, and can't say it's bad, but there's nothing brilliant about it.

HKT, there is still a lack of a bigwig-level member who can hold down the field.

But who would want to go? Going to that kind of place, even if it is a part-time job, is like exile, as long as the girl is not a fool, it is impossible to agree, and the level of the girl who may agree is too much worse, Akimoto Yasusu covered his head in pain.

In particular, HKT was established after consultation with the local government, and unlike SKE and NMB, this group is not protected by local forces, so it is almost always supported by food from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

The power of the old-school family in Kyushu is very strong, it is one of the first two feudal clans to fall at the end of the shogunate, the seat of the Satsuma domain, the Satsuma Shimazu family is the core Chinese family, and it is also one of the five most powerful Chinese clans, the family is very high, the current head of the family Shimazu Shuhisa, graduated from the Faculty of Law of Chuo University, and was the former chairman of the Kagoshima Prefecture Public Security Commission. He is currently the chairman of Shimadzu Corporation, the chairman of the Shimadzu Manifestation Association, and the secretary of the Tsuruling Shrine, Terukuni Shrine, and Hiramatsu Shrine.

And this kind of old Chinese people don't have any good feelings about what Akimoto Yasushi did, and it is impossible to talk about helping HKT.

In fact, don't talk about the Shimazu family in Kyushu, these old aristocrats all over Japan have no good impression of Akimoto Yasu, Akimoto Yasu's "evil virtue commercial law" itself is to break other people's rice bowls, to make yourself full, not only to eat yourself, but also to eat, eat until there is nothing left, in this process, it is normal to offend many people.

Thinking of this, Akimoto Yasushi felt very painful, out of the Tokyo circle, his connections are not very useful, AKS in other places is not even as strong as Nogizaka 46, as the project leader, Uesugi Soyuki wherever this guy goes, there are local Chinese or academic bigwigs to find a relationship, AKS has hit a wall again and again.

What makes Yasusu Akimoto even more envious is that after Uesugi Soyuki and Sony add up, Nogizaka 46 has some resources that AKS does not have.

For example, the most typical is the co-acting problem with Kansai Genesys.

As we all know, the Kansai Genesys Office is divided into two factions, no, to be specific, it should be three factions.

The founder of the Genesys office, the old man Kitagawa, is more than eighty years old due to his advanced age, and his control over the firm is constantly weakening, and the SMAP that was originally going to be abandoned suddenly succeeded and rose to become a national idol group, so that Iijima Sanchi, as the agent of SMAP, has a strong capital to confront Fujishima Keiko, who originally planned to succeed him, so the Genesys office is divided into three factions, namely the grandfather faction, the Fujishima faction and the Iijima faction, of which the grandfather faction belongs to neutrality, and the Iijima faction and the Fujishima faction are fighting endlessly。

Among them, the relationship between Iijima faction and AKB is more intimate, and the two have had a lot of co-performances, and AKB often appears on SMAP programs, and the two support each other, and many AKB fans even hope that some members may be able to marry SMAP members after graduation, and with the strength of SMAP, they will definitely be able to take good care of them.

Uesugi Soyuki complained: Don't be funny, how can SMAP of the National Heavenly Group look down on these little idols.

Although it is a fantasy, it also shows that AKB and the Iijima faction have a good relationship.

And what about the Fujijima faction? It's not so good.

Fujishima Keiko hates the 48 family, she hates this style very much, there are many male artists in the Fujishima faction, and it is very unrealistic to co-star in NG with AKB48 (that is, refuse to appear in the show together), however, as the ace group under his command, Arashi has always co-starred in NG with the 48 family, and only those large group companies, such as Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, etc., will have the opportunity to co-perform.

The previous SMAP was still in the late stage of its peak, but, since the beginning of this year, SMAP has declined significantly, and the prime-time fan group of the TV station is either controlled by big-name funny artists, or mastered by the male idols of the Fujishima system, and SMAP only has one program left by the captain Nakami Masahiro as a reserved place.

Don't look at AKB48 so popular, so popular, singles have millions of sales, as long as you are a discerning person, you can see that their status in the entertainment industry is not so high, for example, AKB48 has its own title group on the five major TV stations, but they didn't even hold a prime-time group, and as long as they watch the girls on the show seriously (of course, it's not the title group that they play behind closed doors), then, except for AKB48's special, everyone can see that the host's attention to them, as well as the attitude of other artists, are much worse than imagined。

There are also many girls who have been harassed by some "seniors" in the entertainment industry for various reasons, if the status of the girls is really high, these so-called "seniors" may naturally be greatly reduced.

What surprised Yasu Akimoto was that the Fujishima faction hated the 48 family, but they had a good attitude towards Nogizaka 46, as long as there were co-performers, the artists of this faction took more care of Nogizaka 46, and even seemed to wait until the second single of this group was promoted, and Uesugi Soyuki would arrange for them to "hand it over to Arashi!" last time.

That's the trump card of the Fujishima system, Arashi's title group, and many people can't get on it if they want to.

This proves that Uesugi Soyuki does have a lot of resources that Yasushi Akimoto or AKS does not have, and this is evidenced by the fact that since the establishment of Nogizaka 46, people in the academic world, who have always been indifferent to the idol world, have come out to speak.

How can we dig up some resources from Sony and Uesugi Soyuki?

Yasusu Akimoto's own connections and resources have already shown some signs of overuse at the beginning of AKB's establishment, and the resources in his hands are not very sufficient now, and for AKS, his influence is already limited, as for those allies of the firm, not their own artists, they will not be willing to invest so many resources.

Yasu Akimoto is the most solid supporter of the group is the Maeda Takahashi faction.

Fudo C, Atsuko Maeda, captain of Group A, Minami Takahashi.

Atsuko Maeda is about to graduate, which hurts Yasushi Akimoto's forces a lot, because although Minami Takahashi is a supporter of Yasushi Akimoto, she also has the soul of AKB, the spiritual leader of AKB, and she will prioritize the interests of AKB, so Yasu Akimoto definitely can't rely on him completely.

And those first-term veterans are gradually leaving their camp.

What Akimoto Yasusu needs now is to support another pro-himself ACE to come out.

Who will be better to support?

In fact, Akimoto Yasushi already had the answer in his heart.

That's a girl he's always liked, very optimistic, this girl's appearance is outstanding, the temperament is very special, in Akimoto Yasu's view, this girl has the characteristics that can become popular, especially after the development of a new method "salt correspondence", he feels that this girl can walk out of her own, a special ACE road.

And she has a good relationship with herself, and recently the Ran Department has found herself and wants her to move to the office of the Ran Department, which makes Akimoto Yasu feel excited, and being able to be looked at by the Ran Department shows that this child's ability has been recognized.

If this child can be cultivated into the next ACE, Yasushi Akimoto's position will become much more stable.

"Speaking of which, in a few days, I'm going to prepare the list for Nogizaka 46's second single audition. ”

"Why don't you take Shimazaki to Uesugi and see if he can help pull this kid?"