Chapter Ninety-Eight: First, Mai Oshima!

Yuko Oshima is second, which means that Mai Oshima became the first place in this year's popularity survey! Yuko Oshima did not hide her expression of loss, she was suppressed by the girl with the same surname as herself after all, her goal has always been to surpass Atsuko Maeda and Mai Oshima, this time she won Atsuko Maeda, but lost to Mai Oshima, the one she didn't want to lose!

Mai Oshima's expression was calm, because she knew that this popularity survey was nothing, and the most important thing was that Kagawa Yu had not announced who the final first place was, so it would leave a bad impression on the members if she celebrated now! The members of Group A collectively breathed a sigh of relief that the first place in the popularity survey would eventually go to Group A, while the members of Group K regretted that they had not won Group A this time. As for the girls in Group B, they are silently watching the fierce battle for first place as spectators, and now they are far from Group K, let alone the superior Group A.

"First place, Mai Oshima!" Kagawa Yu called out the name of the first member cleanly, and as expected, Mai Oshima successfully reached the top, and the girl who was defeated in the last single completed a perfect counter-kill! In this top ten, except for her and Mariko Shinoda, the other eight people are all members of the selection of the previous single! The girl used such a result to tell Yasushi Akimoto why the results of the last single were so dismal!

Mai Oshima had a smile on her face, she clenched her fists tightly, and her friends around her whispered congratulations to her.

"I'll go. Maima, a stupid guy who can take the first place, I was only a fifth ......," muttered Yona Kojima.

"There's a saying that fools are blessed with fools, don't you know?" Itano Tomomi said with a smile.

"You two!" Mai Oshima glared at the two girls fiercely. But Yoona Kojima and Tomomi Itano are not the kind of masters who can be scared away with their eyes, and the two of them grimaced at Mai Oshima.

Kagawa Yu and Togasaki Tomonobu looked at the small movements of these three people funny.

"Among the members who entered the top 20 this time, there are a total of four people in Group B, including Natsumi Hirashima and Kazumi Urano, two first-term members! There were seven people in Group K, including Ami Sato's fourth-term student, and nine members in Group A, including Reina Matsui, who was fourth-term student, and seven of them in the top 10. Among them, Matsui's ranking is still eleventh. Togasaki Tomonobu said.

"Yes, the top members of Group A do far surpass the other two teams, but the overall strength of Group K is not much different from them. As for Group B, except for Watanabe and Shiraishi, the performance of the others was not satisfactory, especially Kashiwagi"

"Alright, that's all for today. Let's all disperse. You're going to have a Red and White Song Party! Prepare well! ”

"Thank you, Mr. Kagawa! Thank you, Mr. Tomonobu Togasaki! ”

AKB48's first popularity survey has not yet been formally established. But it also set the tone for the later general election system, and in the AKB48 general election after A, the apex basically belonged to the competition between Mai Oshima, Yuko Oshima and Atsuko Maeda, and it wasn't until these three members graduated that AKB48 ushered in the very famous melee of the gods later, which was the most competitive period within AKB, and the difference between the votes between the first and fifth places was even less than 10,000 votes!

At the same time, this popularity survey also established the leading position of Group A in the entire AKB48 series, even after several major cabinet formations later. Group A retains the lead.

Kagawa Yu has not appeared here since the last faint pavement of the AKB48 theater. Because he is going to lead the crew of "Hachiko the Loyal Dog" to Hokkaido to shoot a movie, and the filming time of the movie is expected to be in a month.

During the time he left, the entertainment industry seemed very calm, except for the release of Sakai Izumi's new single, there were basically no major events, and the biggest event was the approach of the Red and White Song Club.

Sakai Izumizu's new single was a very good release, eventually selling a staggering 850,000 copies, second only to S.MAP's 93 copies in the sales charts of all singles today.

In the Chinese pop music charts, this girl won the best original female singer with her original song "My Flower", and "Daoxiang" also won the best song award, and she was also shortlisted for the Hong Kong and Taiwan Best Female Singer Award and the most popular female singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan. But even so, Hoshino's achievements still aroused high praise among the people in China and Japan!

Time flew by, and soon it was January 2008. The members of AKB48 are still immersed in the joy of returning from the Red and White Song Party, but they don't know that their dark year is coming, and this winter is destined to be an unquiet winter for the girls of AKB48, and it can even be said that it is an unusually cold winter!

On January 11th, due to a contract dispute with a record company, AKB48's new single "baby! Baby! Baby! Forced to stop selling, Yasu Akimoto and AKS had no choice but to release this light-paced song by paying for it online, but the AKB48 members also began a life of acting without songs to sing for nearly a year!

The confidence of the members has been hit very hard, and they can't seem to see a clear sky at AKB48, and even Minami Mine Kishi and Tomomi Itano, who have always been very active, have become stuffy gourds!

Yasu Akimoto has brought the girls together many times and assured them that AKB48 will definitely get out of this predicament! At this time, AKB48's fifth student audition was also held as scheduled!

Kagawa Hachiko, who is far away in Hokkaido, finally ended the filming of the movie, and originally planned to shoot "Loyal Dog Hachiko" for a month, but I didn't expect that for various reasons, the final shooting of this movie took nearly two months to complete!

At the final banquet, everyone was very reluctant, especially the three women, Masami Nagasawa, Minami Takahashi and Nanako Matsushima, the three of them were very reluctant to give up the puppy. (To be continued......)