Chapter 454: The Akihabara Incident
Between "Cherry Blossom Petals 2008" and "Loud Diamonds", AKB has not been able to release an official single for eight or nine months in history, and AKB has been mired in various disputes, and rumors have been circulating during this time that it may be disbanded.
In fact, such a rumor itself can exist zài, it should be regarded as proof of the high level of AKB, during that time, the so-called AKB that could not be sold, even the mainland media have reported the disbandment, if it is really a combination that no one knows, I am afraid that even Japan will not have any reports, let alone China.
Either way, this period in history has been the hardest for AKB.
Now the AKB under Zhou Xiao's control is different.
The problems facing the AKB now are...... The combination seems to be going to be red, but ...... Zhou Xiao is not ready!
Historically, AKB did not become popular until the end of 2009, and the operation side was of course ecstatic to AKB's popularity.
However, in mid-2008, AKB began to show signs of popularity.
AKB's two singles, "Lonely Starry Sky", which originally did not exist zài, and "baby! baby! baby! These two singles are the main MV, the previous "Lonely Starry Sky", the sixteen members of the selection team wore beautiful kimonos and staged a palace scheming in the exquisite picture, and, because of the similar types, Zhou Xiao directly used Ninagawa Minoru as the MV director in the MV part of this song. The name Minoru Ninagawa spread among most AKB meals, or because of the song "HeavyRotation" directed by her, this enthronement song of Yuko Oshima can be regarded as the first AKB face familiar to the general Japanese people in AKB, and the girl kiss shot in the MV also brought a lot of traffic. Before Yuko Oshima graduated, this song exceeded 100 million views, which can be said to be the best testimony to AKB's popular history.
Ninagawa Minoru Ninagawa's works have a very strong color table, whether it is her photography or her PV, illusory, gorgeous, and colorful world view is the eternal theme of her works, and the original MV of the song "Lonely Starry Sky" is not Ninagawa Minoru, but now that the work has changed from a single CW song to a main hit, it is natural that the director's level has improved.
At the level of AKB. Inviting Minoru Ninagawa to shoot the MV is actually a little bit worse now, but the level or something, this female director can't strictly speak about what level can be said, that is to say, as long as the AKB side pays a lot of money, there is no problem for Minoru Ninagawa to accept this work, not to mention, the invitation to Ninagawa Minoru was specially invited by Zhou Xiao by phone, Zhou Xiao's invitation. For her, not only will she accept it without hesitation, but there is more of a nervousness in her heart.
The song "Lonely Starry Sky" sold a total of 49,000 copies on the first day after its release at the end of May. This sales are not very high, at least compared to the previous "Cherry Blossom Petals 2008", it doesn't seem to be much better, but the momentum of this song is very sufficient, AKB's single sales. It is usually called "one fold the next day", which means that if you can sell 49,000 copies on the first day. On average, the next day AKB sells only about 4,900 copies.
However, the sales curve of this song is different from AKB's previous sales, 49,000 copies on the first day, and 11,000 copies of this song the next day, and not only the next day, but also 8,000 copies on the third day, and after a week of sales, everyone found that the sales of AKB's new single began to approach 100,000 copies! 100,000, how many artists in the Japanese entertainment industry are there now? Such an idol group has begun to approach 100,000 photos.
Because the sales momentum of this single is quite good, Zhou Xiao's "Flash Trip" even did a show around the girls as a promotion.
As for the content of the show, it's actually very simple, a group of girls wearing kimonos in the MV are scattered throughout Akihabara to distribute tissues and singles, and when they are almost done, they quickly organized under the convening of Zhou Xiao and held an open-air live outside the AKB Theater in Akihabara, which is also a very ordinary flash mob project
If it was just the AKB girls who did this project, the whole project might not be particularly brilliant, and the girls didn't have the ability to make the project particularly exciting. However, when the host of this show is Zhou Xiao, and in addition to Zhou Xiao, there are also three people invited by Yoshihiro and Zhou Xiao to participate in the show while complaining, the whole show will be very good-looking.
Hiroyuki Yuji has been participating in Zhou Xiao's shows for several years, and the show "Flash Trip" has signed him as a regular star, and since his comeback, his popularity has been getting better and better.
And Ryota Yamazato, there should be no one in AKB's meal who doesn't know him, in 2010, with the popularity of AKB, this funny artist who debuted in 2000 at the same time as Zhou Xiao also got quite a lot of program invitations with AKB's popularity, and successfully relied on this to get on the top.
Ryota Yamazato is actually a very good funny artist, although he did rely on AKB to become popular on a certain Cheng dù, but it is undeniable that even if he doesn't rely on AKB, he also has a great chance of becoming popular, although in 2014, he has gradually faded out of the sight of AKB rice after about 15 years of debut, but Zhou Xiao knows very well that his ability is quite good, and now Ryota Yamazato has gradually begun to like AKB, and Zhou Xiao, who learned the news, was not ambiguous, Directly invite him to participate in AKB's show, there are some things that don't need to be said directly, just an invitation, the very smart Ryota Yamazato understands, this is what Zhou Xiao hopes he can help each other with AKB, Ryota Yamazato undoubtedly accepted Zhou Xiao's unspoken mentions, in his opinion, let's not talk about AKB first, just say that I can connect with Zhou Xiao, and Zhou Xiao's show is already a pretty good opportunity.
In the three people complaining to the monitor, the video of the girls outside is almost over.
With the shouts of the staff, the recording of this variety show came to an end. The next thing to be recorded is the part of the girls' mini live.
The staff of the zuò group ran downstairs to call the girls back, and Zhou Xiao started to rest here, and the next work, the zuò group will make various preparations for the live, and Zhou Xiao and a few others who appeared on the camera can rest and wait, and in the process of waiting, everyone can also have lunch or something.
"Feel free to do so, I'll write something." Zhou Xiao got up and said to Youji.
"Go get busy!" The two quickly stood up and said to Zhou Xiao.
got up and walked to another room, Zhou Xiao took out muted headphones and laptop from his carry-on bag and began to write. This is a habit he has formed over the years, at any time and in any place. In the gap between shooting, as long as there is a need, he will try to seize the time to code words to work on his own things. This kind of habit, if there are seniors on the shooting site, of course he will not do it, but if there are only peers or juniors on the scene, and for example, friends like Youji, who are almost half of his own family, Zhou Xiao is happy to be busy with his own affairs easily, and people like Ryota Ariyoshiyama also understand Zhou Xiao's behavior, in their opinion. Zhou Xiao, who has evolved from an artist to a great artist, is also very understandable that there is a little bit of weirdness, and this weird place is not a bad place, but such a healing and admirable work. This is all the more appreciated.
Zhou Xiao, who turned on his laptop, was going to create the script of his most likely next series, and his goal was to ...... "Housewife Sanda".
The original screenwriter of this work that created a ratings miracle was Kazuhiko Yukawa, who wrote the screenwriter of "The Queen's Classroom", and the producer was led by Yoshiki Tanaka. The whole drama revolves around an unsmiling, machine-like housewife, which is rare in Japanese dramas after 2010. The average rating is 25%+, and the drama can get 40%+ ratings in the final episode.
"Housewife...... What has Nanako been doing lately? When writing the script, Zhou Xiao thought of the starring Nanako Matsushima of this drama, if the filming of this drama started in the second half of 2008, Nanako Matsushima's schedule would be very important.
"Dididi!" At this time, the QQ in Zhou Xiao's computer called.
In fact, in Japan, the market share of instant messaging software like QQ is very small, and the only market is occupied by things like Yahoo Messenger and MSN, and the real share of instant messaging is still mobile phones with a very high penetration rate.
But Zhou Xiao has QQ in his computer, on the one hand, he is in contact with people in China such as Zhou Xiaowan, on the other hand, people who are very close to Zhou Xiao such as Yuko Ogura and Aoi Miyazaki have also learned to use QQ under his influence, Chinese companies are actually no worse than Japan in making this kind of thing, and Zhou Xiao is obviously more accustomed to using QQ.
The person who is talking to him now is Yuko Ogura, the girl seems to be using her mobile phone, and she came to talk to him when she saw Zhou Xiao.
"It seems that there is a murder notice in Akihabara!" Yuko Ogura's words sounded sensational.
"Really? Kill whom? Zhou Xiao replied casually. It's not like he's never seen a murder notice or something, not only has he seen someone else's, but even he himself has received quite a lot of murder notices, this thing is just too common.
"I think it's like what you're going to do in Akihabara, so you have to be careful." Yuko Ogura said.
"Don't worry, the bodyguards around me are not vegetarians." Zhou Xiao said that the two bodyguards around him, one Chinese and one Japanese, are both former special forces soldiers with a very good set of hands, and the soldiers of the two countries serve under Zhou Xiao together, which is also a very strange situation in China and Japan, and the soldiers of these two countries are mostly out of a state of complete confrontation.
"But, people are worried about you, you look at this notice, it's so scary." Yuko Ogura sent a website in a coquettish tone, and Zhou Xiao estimated that she herself might not be particularly concerned about this possible murder notice.
But since she came to tell herself very seriously, it was not appropriate not to care about it, so Zhou Xiao clicked on the link sent by the girl very casually.
What is published on the link is a very "ordinary" murder notice, which will be carried out at noon today, in Akihabara and other so-called notices, like this kind of notice, Zhou Xiao estimates that there will be one hundred and eighty in Japan in a year, and there are really people who will do it and do it successfully, usually there is no one.
Drag the web page with your hand. Zhou Xiao roughly browsed this murder teaser post.
"Tomodai Kato......? The name...... It's like I've heard it somewhere. Zhou Xiao saw the name of the man who predicted that he was about to kill and thought.
And then...... He remembered something.
"Why do I have an impression of his name when a guy who makes a murder teaser? Could it be ......" Zhou Xiao suddenly thought of an idea that shocked him, that is...... If this guy's name has an impression on itself, it's obviously because this guy really made it......
This kind of murder prediction, and the target is Akihabara's ......
"Akihabara murder incident!" He finally thought of this incident that had shocked the whole of Japan!
Akihabara culture, Japan's otaku culture, did not really begin to be nationalized until 2000, and began to be known to the general public, but this Akihabara murder incident, this is called Kato Tomodai's goods. But it gave the entire Japanese Akihagen culture a blow to the head! This guy rushed into Akihabara by the car, hit and killed several people, and then got out of the car and slashed wildly, and finally caused a huge casualty of 7 dead and 10 injured!
According to legend, the rumors of the dissolution of AKB in the previous life were actually caused by the fact that this guy had too much impact on Akihabara!
And what really shocked and frightened Zhou Xiao was that unlike the previous life, today in the previous life, AKB obviously did not have an exterior location in Akihabara, but today. Now, AKB has a location! If this guy named Tomodai Kato really hurt the AKB girls......
He couldn't wait any longer, and he didn't even have time to say a word to Yuko Ogura, so he just got up and ran out of his room.
"Are the members back!?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Members? It's back partially. Shinoda and Kojima and a few others heard that they were taking a break for a while, so they went out shopping. A staff member replied.
"Shopping! How can you go shopping while working! Zhou Xiao's whole body exploded, and when he heard Zhou Xiao's words, the staff member who was scolded by him also wanted to roll his eyes. Zhou Xiao's indulgence of AKB girls is well-known in the industry, like the current situation, as long as it doesn't affect the work too much. Girls, not to mention shopping, even if they go out to fall in love, it is estimated that he will not care too much.
Zhou Xiao was already going crazy, and he said in a loud voice: "Call them!" Whatever you're doing, let them come back to me right away! ”
"Zhou Xiao, what's wrong?" The crazy Zhou Xiao also surprised the two Youji who were waiting, why was this guy suddenly excited?
"I saw today's murder notice against Akihabara on the Internet!" Zhou Xiao said.
"Most of the people who will send that kind of trailer are real-life losers, don't pay too much attention to it!" Ariyoshi said.
"But it's never wrong to be careful! Safety first! Still stunned what to do! Call me! Yamamoto! Zhou Ming! You two come down with me to pick them up! Zhou Xiao shouted, the two people he shouted were his two retired military bodyguards.
Although they didn't know what was going on, and they didn't think anything big could happen, the boss's words were the truth, and the two of them immediately took action after getting Zhou Xiao's instructions, stood up and ran downstairs with Zhou Xiao.
Where a group of people were in a building on the side of Akihabara Street that was used as a temporary video studio, Zhou Xiao and two bodyguards rushed all the way down to the second floor and stopped at the door.
took out his mobile phone, and Zhou Xiao began to call the girls who went out one by one.
"Yuko! Where are you? ”
"Brother Zhou Xiao? I'm shopping for crepes with Tomochin nearby. Yuko Oshima's very brisk voice came from the phone, Tomochin is Tomomi Kawanishi, who belongs to the same 2nd stage as Oshima, and is considered one of the people with the best relationship in Group K.
"I'll be right back!" Zhou Xiao shouted very sternly.
"Huh!? Good! Oshima is a very sensible girl, she heard Zhou Xiao's anxiety and anger at once, and she didn't even ask what was wrong, so she agreed directly.
"Hurry up! I'm waiting for you at the door! Zhou Xiao shouted.
"Yes!" The girl said.
The girls in AKB, in his previous life, Zhou Xiao was the first to recommend Yuko Oshima, but in this life, if you want to say that the people he cares about the most, there is no doubt that the two girls are Mayou and Airi, these two girls did not go out just now but have returned to the place where the show was filmed upstairs, so he will call Yuko Oshima first.
Hanging up Yuko's phone, Zhou Xiao continued to call other girls.
Within two minutes, Yuko Oshima ran back from a distance with Tomomi Kawanishi, and Zhou Xiao could see that she didn't even have a crepe in her hand.
"Come back soon, don't hear it!" Zhou Xiao shouted to the girl on the other end of the phone, and at the same time stretched out a finger to the two girls and asked them to go upstairs.
Hanging up the phone from another girl, he called again, this time to the upstairs staff.
"How's it going? Are they all connected?! Zhou Xiao asked.
"That's it...... It's almost Shinoda not in touch! The staff said.
"Shinoda!" Zhou Xiao was anxious.
At the same time, in the distance, he saw a car coming by. (To be continued......)