Chapter 403: Sales Showdown, Fiasco!
It's December, and the weather is starting to get colder.
As the New Year approaches, the work of artists also begins to get busy. Especially the artists who have become famous in the entertainment industry this year frequently participate in various variety shows and entertainment activities.
For example, Rino Shihara, who caused news this year, also received various invitations after her death at the end of this year, even more than members of the orthodox faction such as Nami Okumanami and Mayu Watanabe. Of course, after being on the show, many people also joked about her things, pointing out that Hara Rinai was not angry, and she might be a little uncomfortable at first, but after getting used to it, even she made fun of these things.
After months of introspection and hard work, Rino has now become an official member of HKT48, which is very good for her. HKT48's little lolias have a lot of respect for her senior in private, and they don't look at her with disdain because of her package of things. If you put it in AKB, it is estimated that she will have to be a person with her tail between her legs, and in the past six months in Fukuoka, she has slowly become more like a manager from an artist, and her personality has become much calmer.
"Sakura is starting to become more like an ACE, Eryu has not made any significant progress in the past six months, compared to Sakura, this guy has slowly fallen behind, as for the little monkey, although the little fart Sue trains very hard, but the weight begins to slowly increase If this continues, Kagawa Yu will definitely be dissatisfied, forget it, after sending these things to Kagawa-san, let him make a decision." Referring to the original Rino muttering in her mouth, she kept writing something with a pen in her hand.
"By the way, why don't I use a computer?" "Forget it, it makes it even more like I've been half-truthful for the past few months. Mr. Kagawa is so happy that he may open a few new shows for me. ”
Referring to the original Rinai's mouth, she is full of beautiful yearning and expectation for her future
On December 15th, AKB48's 29th single is their guessing single "Eternal Pressure" and Nogizaka 46's tenth single "Ho Du Mu の青" were released on the same day, originally this was just a simple release date, but under the hype of other media, this day became a battlefield for AKB48 and Nogizaka to face off!
The posture of the members of both teams was very low. But everyone was hoping to beat each other in this matchup, and even the members who didn't make it to the singles selection, such as Yona Kojima, Yuko Oshima, Minami Takahashi, and Mariko Shinoda, were hoping that their team would be able to beat Nogizaka 46.
However, according to the data released by the public trust chart and the Record Association in the morning, AKB48 sold less than 300,000 copies in the morning, which was unimaginable before, and their rival Nogizaka 46 had already sold more than 300,000 copies in the morning, which made the members and AKS people a little anxious.
In particular, the members who were all selected for the first time made it to their social media sites publicly advertised and urged fans to buy their singles.
In the evening, when the sales data was about to be announced, Haruka Shimazaki, Moe Nito, and Yui Yokoyama, the main players who entered the selection this time, as well as several team captains Minami Takahashi, Mariko Shinoda, Yuko Oshima, Ayaka Umeda and other members were waiting for the announcement of today's sales data in the theater.
At eight o'clock, Togasaki Tomonobu arrived at the theater, and the girl wanted to see something in his expression. But to their disappointment, Togasaki Tomonobu had no joy on his face, and he couldn't see any change in expression on his face.
"Today's single sales results have come out, AKB48 singles sold 720,000 copies, and Nogizaka sold 461.08 million copies."
After Togasaki finished speaking, he ignored the girls' exclamations and left the theater directly.
Haruka Shimazaki, Yui Yokoyama and other girls are at a loss, they finally entered the first selection and suffered such a blow, no matter how hard they try in the future, but they can't change this fact. Especially Haruka Shimazaki as a C-position. Less ambitiously wants to use this single to reshape AKB's dominance, and wants to prove that he is actually no worse than his predecessors such as Mayu Watanabe, Nami Okumana, and Surina Matsui. But reality ruthlessly shattered her ambitions.
Yuko Oshima, Mariko Shinoda, Yuko Oshima, Ayaka Umeda and several others also have very ugly faces.
"It's so ugly to lose?!" Minami Takahashi muttered, her eyes were a little rosy, and she couldn't understand her love for AKB, so it can be said that she put too much effort into AKB. When she saw AKB48 kicked into the abyss by her opponent like this, the discomfort in her heart was incomprehensible to others.
"AKB is going to change, it's hard for me to accept this." Yuko Oshima muttered.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Shinoda's mouth, and she suddenly walked in front of Haruka Shimazaki and Yui Yokoyama. Minami Takahashi, Yuko Oshima, and Ayaka Umeda looked at Mariko Shinoda in surprise.
"Rubbish! You waste, you don't even have the minimum bottom line of one million, so I said let's make way for you waste, it's really a pity to have these resources! See? If you didn't have those resources, you'd be nothing, you're really just a bunch of waste. Since you can't lead the AKB well, then obediently roll to the back row in the future, or you can take off this uniform, you don't deserve the AKB uniform! ”
Everyone was stunned by Mariko Shinohada's words, and Mariko Shinoda left the theater without looking back.
"Mariko," Minami Takahashi muttered, and Yuko Oshima pulled her and Ayaka Umeda.
"Let's go."
After several senior members such as Mariko Shinoda, Yuko Oshima, Minami Takahashi, and Ayaka Umeda left, the girls in the theater finally couldn't help crying in a low voice, and Haruka Shimazaki showed a lot of confusion and helplessness in her eyes.
"Am I really not fit to be in this position? How far do I have to keep up with you, or I can't keep up with you? Haruka Shimazaki muttered, letting her tears wet her uniform, at this moment, the girl was full of confusion about her future, and even had the idea of quitting AKB at a certain moment
Yokoyama Yui looked at his companions around him, and his gaze became more determined.
"I'll try harder!" (To be continued......)