Chapter 718: Happiness and Loss
"So what do you guys mean by looking at me like this?" Zhu Zi looked at everyone helplessly.
"Of course, it's a big surprise for Zhu Zijun and Sesame Sauce. Sakurai Sho didn't know where to get some champagne and poured it on Zhu Zi's body.
Later, the others also joined the battle group, and this group of guys tossed Zhu Zi and Masami Nagasawa into disbelief, and then left triumphantly.
Fang Xiang looked at the wet Masami Nagasawa and couldn't help but smile.
"Let's go, let's go home. Masami Nagasawa said softly.
It was a happy night for her.
And for the two girls, Haruka Ayase and Maki Horikita, it was a lost night.
After Haruka Ayase went home, she locked herself in her room, but what appeared in her mind was the process of getting to know Zhu Zi, and that unforgettable night.
It's just that she may never be able to be with Zhu Zi again.
He already has a fiancée.
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The next day, Zhu Zi's proposal to Masami Nagasawa detonated news and social networks in all sections.
Most fans sent their blessings to Zhu Zi and Masami Nagasawa, and there were also many fans of Masami Nagasawa who were quite disappointed.
The media also reviewed the relationship between the two and sent blessings.
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After the end of the second TV thank-you festival, most people's eyes stayed on the relationship between Zhu Zi and Masami Nagasawa.
At the same time, AKB48's thirty-fourth single was released.
The title of the single is "What If You Were in the Sycamore Tree", and the title song of the same name is a single sung by the top 16 members led by Surina Matsui, who won the 4th Guess Boxing Tournament on September 18, 2013, so the composition is very different from most AKB48 singles. It was released by King Records on December 11, 2013.
"What would happen to our relationship if we said to you on the road to the plane tree, "I dreamed of your smile", I continued to think about it for many days, and finally came to a conclusion with a little embarrassment.
The sales slogan of the single is "Youthful, always always remembering something." ”
The main A-side of this single was sung by AKB48 and its sister group members who finished in the top 16 at the "AKB48th 34th Single Guessing Contest" held at Nippon Budokan on September 18, 2013. This is the fourth in a series of works popularly known as "Guess the Fist Single", following "Order of Chance" (19th single) released in December 2010, "Adoring Mariko" (December 2011, 24th single) and "Eternal Pressure" (December 2012, 29th single).
Continuing the AKB48 group's tradition, this single will also be released in multiple versions of one single song, with a total of five different versions: Type-A, Type-S, Type-N, Type-H and theatrical version. Although it is a record work of AKB48, in addition to the main A-side song and the main B-side song "Mosh &Dive" of the same name as the record, the second B-side song included in the third track of each single version other than the theatrical version is sung by different sister groups, namely AKB48's "Party is over", SKE48's "Escape", and NMB48's " I Changed After I Met You" and HKT48's "Blink 3 Times". However, there are still several differences from the previous "Forever Pressure", one is that in the release of the single the year before, although SKE48, NMB48 and HKT48 all had exclusive representative songs, there was no equivalent AKB48 representative song at that time; Type-C and Type-D, but this new single has been renamed Type-A (AKB's A), Type-S (SKE's S), Type-N (NMB's N), and Type-H (HKT's H) in conjunction with the singers of the second B-side song included in the album, respectively, which is also the first time in the history of AKB48's single that a sister group has been named after the album version.
In addition, there is also a new approach to the members of the second B-side song in each version of the single. Unlike the sister group representative songs in "Eternal Pressure", which are all selected by high-profile members for the central position, this time in "If It's in the Sycamore Tree or something", the center of the representative songs of each sister group is all served by young members of each group who have not entered the selection group, namely Nanna Owada (AKB48 15th student), Mizuho Yamada (SKE48 Team KII, 5th term), Shibuya Nagisa (NMB48 4th term), and Yabuki Nako (HKT48 3rd term). In fact, with the exception of Mizuho Yamada, who was promoted from graduate school to full member on October 26, shortly before the album's release, the other three CENTER candidates were selected by one of the most senior graduate students in the group. Instead, the front-row candidates on either side of them are all high-profile members of the sister groups, including AKB48's Mayu Watanabe and Erika Ikuta, SKE48's Matsui Jurina and Kitahara Riei, NMB48's Aya Yamamoto and Miyuki Watanabe, and HKT48's Sakura Miyawaki and Haruka Kodama of HKT48.
As for the second B-sided song "Choose Rainbow" on the theater plate, it was the team "Little Ladybug Chu!" that consisted of a concert at Yahoo Dome Fukuoka on July 20, 2013. Singing. This is also the team's "Chu for You!" in AKB48's previous single "True Current". Chu! Chu!", the second original song.
The title of the A-side of this single was released on November 6, and there are a total of 76 characters, including kanji and kana, which is not only the longest song title in AKB's own history, but also a rarity in the history of Japanese pop music. Because the title of the song is so long, how to call it if it is mentioned in spoken language or when there is a space limit in the published product has become one of the hot topics of discussion among fans, and some enthusiasts have even privately proposed that Maria Suzuki should be used as the abbreviation of the new song, and it has been widely circulated. Later, on October 11, 2013, during the recording of "MUSIC JAPAN" and "AKB48 SHO!" at NHK Kaikan, the emcee and emcee Rina Matsui announced the official abbreviation of the A-side song, "If it's in the plane tree or something", but the AKB management team also emphasized that this abbreviation is strictly limited to spoken mentions, and the use of the full name is still preferred in written situations.
The A-side song was composed by renowned composer Tetsuro Oda, and it is the third piece Oda composed for AKB48 after "Because I Like You" and "Run! Penguin". Filmed by Ryuhei Kitamura, the music video for the new song is set in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, and tells the story of girls who spent their youth together at school and meet again at a class reunion ten years later. The title song was first released on October 21, 2013 on Nippon TV's live music program "BEST HIT Festival 2013".
The cover photo of the single album was taken by Shinjin Health Show, while the illustrations on the cover and the CD and DVD were illustrated by manga and illustrator Machiko Imyo.