Chapter 484: AKB's Variables
Atsuko Maeda's decision not only shocked all AKB48 fans and members, but also surprised everyone in the entertainment industry. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Atsuko Maeda announced her graduation, which also means that only one Yuko Oshima is still holding on to AKB48's three major ACEs.
But Yuko Oshima is also 24 years old this year, and no one knows when she will choose to leave, perhaps shortly after Atsuko Maeda's graduation.
In the eyes of many people, as the members of AKB48 Gold grow older, this idol group that has dominated the RB music scene for several years may have begun to go downhill.
AKB48 Gold Generation members. The only ones who are relatively young are Mayu Watanabe and Erika Ikuta.
Mayu Watanabe is 18 years old, and Erika Ikuta is 15 years old.
Most of the other members were over 20 years old.
Reina Matsui, Tomomi Itano, Yuki Kashiwagi, Minami Takahashi, and Tomomi Kawanishi are all 21 years old, the same age as Atsuko Maeda.
Mai Shiraishi and Rino Tsushihara are 20 years old.
Mariko Shinoda is 26 years old, and Yona Kojima and Yuko Oshima are 24 years old.
In other words, among the young members of the AKB, there is no girl who can play a leading role.
Haruka Shimazaki and Yui Yokoyama, two girls who have been re-pushed, are far from the TOP members in terms of popularity and ability.
There are different opinions about what kind of development AKB will have in the future.
But everyone is sure that after Atsuko Maeda announced her graduation and withdrawal from the general election, the winner of this year's general election has definitely belonged to Yuko Oshima.
The winner of the first general election in 2009 belonged to Mai Oshima, who swept almost all her opponents and won the general election by a very large margin
The winner of the 2010 second round of the general election went to Yuko Oshima, who reversed Mai Oshima at the last minute to win the overall election.
In 2011, after graduating from Mai Oshima's choice, Atsuko Maeda, who finished third for three consecutive years, finally won the championship in the general election as she wished, and left behind the classic quote "Please hate me, and don't hate AKB!"
With the graduation of Atsuko Maeda this year, there is no one who can pose a threat to Yuko Oshima's position as the champion of the overall election.
The only thing that remains in suspense is who will be the members of the runner-up?
Last year's third place Mai Shiraishi, Queen Mariko Shinoda, Group B ACE Mayu Watanabe or Rino Shihara and Yuki Kashiwagi?
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On the night after Atsuko Maeda announced her graduation, Zhu Zi, who was still busy with the crew, suddenly received a call from Tomomi Itano.
"What's wrong?Itano, do you want to graduate from AKB too?" Zhu Zi quipped.
"No, Teacher Zhu Zi. Today...... I had a big fight with A-chan, and then I seemed to think I was wrong. Itano muttered.
"Why are you arguing? Is it because of her graduation this time?"
"Yes, Teacher Zhu Zi. How do you know? ”
Zhu Zi knows more about Itano Yumi's character than the other members, and this is a very tsundere girl.
The most famous example is that this girl will easily quarrel with her partner, and later quarrel with Mariko Shinoha, that is, Tomomi Itano announced that she would graduate within the year as early as the beginning of the year, but Mariko Shinoda suddenly announced her graduation in the recent general election, Mariko's graduation idea once wanted to discuss with Atsuko Maeda, and told Minami Takahashi, Yonana Kojima also knew, but Tomomi Itano, who is also Yuan A, didn't know at all, so Tomomi Itano tweeted after the general election to complain about why Mariko Shinoda didn't tell her about the idea of graduation. From Shinoda's response, it can also be seen what the reason for the quarrel was.
This time, Atsuko Maeda apparently didn't tell Itano about her decision, so Itano got angry.
Atsuko Maeda and Tomomi Itano's relationship belongs to a very close group in Yuan A, and the two are both peers and the same "my pace" type. But why Maeda quarreled before graduation has not been determined. Maeda did not show their discord on stage, and fans determined that their quarrel was due to Tomomi Itano's statement in Maeda's final theater graduation confession. But there was no Itano Tomomi among the members invited to the fireworks festival later, which already made fans vaguely feel the problems of this pair of big relatives and friends. I remember that Itano had a conversation with Mariko Shinoda on Twitter, similar to Mariko who found out that Huya was also watching a fireworks show and invited her to come over, Itano replied very directly, "No, Atsuko didn't invite me", this passage is quite interesting, a very tsundere girl.
In Zhu Zi's impression, when Tomomi Itano later participated in a show, she revealed the reason why she quarreled with Atsuko Maeda.
AKB48 member Tomomi Itano told a little-known past between him and his friend Atsuko Maeda when she participated in a variety show on TBS TV on the 18th. In the program, Tomomi Itano recalled, "There was a time when I didn't talk to Maeda for about four months." In the VTR for the program, Itano also explained the reason for the quarrel, saying, "I feel a sense of loss and loneliness about Maeda's graduation, and I also feel a kind of anxiety about his early departure."
The purpose of the quarrel was not to destroy the relationship because relatives and friends were leaving, but because the situation of leaving caused trouble to Itano and made him feel uncomfortable inside. On the surface, it can be said that it is because he did not know the graduation situation in advance, but Itano's wavering attitude towards graduation and the future has troubled him.
Itano's style is the type of indecisive, and this characteristic can be seen in her graduation presentation. Her graduation was revealed in a later documentary, but the documentary was filmed very early, and she announced her desire to graduate after asking the staff when the documentary would air. But afterwards, she sent a text message to Yasusu Akimoto saying that the paragraph could be cut if the operation required it. But Yasu Akimoto replied to her that she would leave it like this, and it was like Itano's style to publish her graduation like this. So he stayed.
Including later, she was about to graduate, hesitated but still participated in the general election, maybe she wanted to graduate with a good ranking, but she ended up with the lowest ranking in history 11, and it can also be seen that she is a more impulsive and less mature girl.
At the beginning, the scenery of solo was no longer there, and the decline in the ranking year by year and the decline in the number of single sales made Itano gradually detached from the center in AKB, which has otaku as the main consumer group, as early as a few years ago, some Itano fans complained that Itano simply graduated well, and Itano should not have considered graduation in his heart. Itano wants to rely on graduation to broaden her route and rice group, but her determination is far from enough, so the time of graduation mentioned in the documentary is not determined. Some people even joked that Itano may have "announced his graduation at the beginning of the year and graduated on the last day of the year".
In general, Tomomi Itano is a little tsundere and a little childish, this girl has always been so simple, so in the course of these years, other members like Yona Kojima, Minami Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda and other girls have become mature, only she is still simple.
As an idol, this kind of simplicity is very necessary, but as an artist, Tomomi Itano is a little too simple, and if she wants to survive in the entertainment industry, she must make herself more mature.