Chapter 654: Maeda's Bloom
What are the situations in which a person usually cries because of?
In general, sadness is often the most important reason people cry.
Secondly, sudden, unbearable pain is often also the cause of crying.
In addition to these two kinds of feelings, other feelings are generally difficult to cause crying, even if they are negative.
Especially if you are suffering from physical ailments or fatigue, the discomfort caused by this problem is usually prolonged, persistent, and rarely as tear-jerking as sudden pain.
But there are exceptions, and some people cry when the pain or fatigue exceeds a threshold that the body can bear.
That's what Maeda is facing.
The physical fatigue and pain brought to her seemed to be beyond the limit of what the girl could bear, so the girl cried out with a look of grievance and exhaustion.
This picture is actually very, very weird.
No one beat and scolded her, and even said that everyone was even surrounding her at this time, and the girl was indeed cooperating with the work of the staff, standing up when she was asked to stand up, and raising her hand when she was asked.
But she was crying, very sad, crying as if she was in pain.
In fact, Zhou Xiao had seen this kind of crying in his previous life on AKB's documentary, and after watching it, he had the heart to kill Akimoto Yasushi at that time.
But...... When he himself became the maker of the AKB and stood here, he did nothing like Yasushi Akimoto.
What can be done? Don't let the girls play? If it were changed to any time of the three-day concert, without Zhou Xiao opening his mouth, the staff would naturally let the girl rest for a few songs, in fact, Maeda had already been treated like this before this concert.
But only this time no.
The next song is the most important song of AKB's whole year, and it is also an important song for Atsuko Maeda's whole year and even her life.
Team ace. All eyes on it, regaining the championship, Chinese style, playing...... All kinds of conditions come together and bring everyone an extraordinary expectation, and the same is true for Maeda, she must not want to give up.
After a whole year of hard work, I finally got recognition, and the girl is not a person who is easy to shed tears, but on the stage of the general election. Her crumbling cry moved many others.
The championship in 2009 was actually nothing, the number of votes was small, the team was not popular, and the attention was low, even if Maeda won the championship, he didn't get much benefit in that whole year, but it was Yuko last year, who won the championship when the AKB group was just rising, and it was the whole year last year. Yuko's scenery is beyond Maeda's imagination, not to mention that there are more jobs and opportunities than her, Madame Tussauds in Japan even made a wax figure in the shape of a single for Yuko!
She's Atsuko Maeda! AKB has 17 singles in the five years since its founding. There is only such a center position that falls on Yuko, and she has become the representative of AKB48!
Even though the relationship between the two has always been good, the girl's heart is still weird, before 2010. Who knows Yuko Oshima? On the variety show at the beginning of the 10th year, I don't know how many variety shows have complained about AKB, only Maeda everyone knows it! But now? Although she still claims to be the absolute ace of AKB, but now. When people introduce it, they often bring Yuko with them, as if AKB has changed from Maeda's absolute ACE to a double ACE system!
For Maeda, this is not impossible, but the key is that there will be an imbalance in the heart! Maeda is not a sunny person, and Yuko's success makes it easy for her to feel that she is not good, so she has to share this ACE status with Yuko.
She didn't admit defeat, of course, she also wanted to snatch ACE back, so that she could always be an ACE, and she was the only ACE to save zài.
For a whole year, only Maeda herself knows how much she paid, and she accepted the results a month ago, and she did it with such a large difference in votes, this month, she finally unloaded the huge pressure of a whole year, and began to feel the excitement brought by the first selection, this time the general election is also, last year's concert of the general election, Yuko got the specifications this time she also has, and this new single, from the MV to the dance to the costumes of various choreography has also reached the limit that the AKB department can reach, A month of hard work, a month of anticipation, and now it's finally time to pay wages.
The girl who was crying and being fiddled with by the staff may not have a reluctant idea.
The girl's clothes and various accessories on the clothes are finally complete, and the next step must be on the stage.
"That's it! It's on! It's on! The staff shouted and brought Maeda to the door, urging the girls.
And Maeda was also pushed onto the field.
"Take a deep breath! Remember to take a deep breath! The staff yelled loudly behind the girls.
The first thing that resounded throughout the Seibu Dome was of course the roar of Minami Takahashi's neurosis.
“yeah!!!” The girl's voice was still full of neutrality.
With this shout, the girls in the selection group rushed out, and Zhou Xiao followed the girls to stand at the backstage exit, looking at the backs of the girls in golden clothes very worriedly.
"What do you think of the MV just now!?" Minami Takahashi asked aloud.
After a few seconds of loud cheering from the audience, Maeda put the microphone in front of him: "This song ......"
Before the performance, the girl had a whole line here to introduce the MV shooting of this song, but now she only said two or three scales and couldn't continue.
The girl gasped violently, and the snoring sound came out through the microphone, and the rice players may just feel that Maeda was breathing a little badly for a while without knowing the tragic situation in the background of the members, but Zhou Xiao was already distressed and anxious.
Maeda was speechless, and helplessly cast his eyes on Takahashi Minami beside him.
"Yike...... Ah Sauce's body is a little unwell...... "Takahashi couldn't say anything anymore after he said a word, and her state may not be very good, and if you want to talk about temporary reactions, she is not very good.
"That...... In this song, we filmed a MV of Zhou Xiao's so-called Chinese style, and it was also very enjoyable to shoot fiercely. Yuko Oshima took over the topic at this time and said.
"Yes, I want to go to China to make martial arts movies!" Shinoda continued.
The two girls were obviously unplanned, so the on-site director cut the camera a little slower. Outside the big screen lens, Minami Takahashi leaned over and held Maeda.
"Don't worry, it's okay, pay attention to your breathing, you know? Come take a deep breath with me! Takahashi Minami said loudly.
This so-called loud voice was said without a microphone, so no one heard it except for the members on the stage and Zhou Xiao, who was closest to them.
Standing behind the sixteen selection groups, Zhou Xiao, who was pulling the backstage curtain, quietly tore his fists from his position to the position of the front field. The distance is not more than ten steps, but these ten steps are the eternal distance between Zhou Xiao and the girls.
At this moment, even Zhou Xiao, a straight man who opened a harem, couldn't help but curse in his heart......
", it would be nice if I were Pushan Minoru!" Zhou Xiao scolded.
This Minoru Urayama, the protagonist of the manga "AKB49", mixed AKB with men's clothes.
It's a pity he's not.
The stage and backstage, although only a few steps away. But the two sides seem to be separated by a bottomless abyss......
What he didn't know was that behind him, several cameras were faithfully recording his state at this moment.
The camera can't capture his face, but it doesn't matter. Under the shooting of several cameras, his state at this moment was completely recorded.
This section was also retained in the new AKB48 documentary to be released in 2012.
In the documentary, Zhou Xiao's own narration said: "I can guarantee it. I was really thinking about AKB48 wholeheartedly, and I'm sorry that there are some times. There are some things that the members have to carry out on their own, and I can't help them......"
While saying this, the picture was fixed on Zhou Xiao, who was tearing the backstage curtain, and several cameras tried their best to only shoot his seemingly expressionless side face, and the other camera caught his tightly gripped, bruised hands, and then, a slightly farther shot, showing his whole body.
The man's hands were on his chest, his body slightly arched, but his back was very tight and tight......
There is nothing in the world that can express that this person is nervous, anxious or excited, but Zhou Xiao's state at this moment is undoubtedly the best expression of his anxious mood.
Zhou Xiao has always been very satisfied with AKB's heart, and people in the industry who are familiar with AKB such as Yasuya Akimoto also have a high evaluation of him, and most people's evaluation of Zhou Xiao is: In the whole Japanese industry, only he can do it.
This picture has even improved the fans' evaluation of Zhou Xiao, and many of them ask themselves, even if they are themselves, they can't do this.
Of course, Zhou Xiao didn't know what was going on at this time, what he wanted at this moment was simply to rush out and bring Maeda back.
But he couldn't.
So he could only watch Maeda gasp and be comforted by Takahashi Minami not far away, and the girl finally calmed down with the help of Takahashi, but anyone could see that she was still so weak at the moment, as if a gust of wind could blow down and she could no longer stand up, such a girl...... How to dance?
But...... It's all at this time, and there's no way to wait for her to recover.
Yuko, Shinoda and the others quickly ended the rescue, and with the shouts of Takahashi Minami and Yuko, the 16 girls bowed again and thanked them, and Maeda also bent down with them.
But here's the difference...... After the members all straightened up, Maeda never managed to stand up straight!
It's just a movement to stand up straight, but now Maeda doesn't even seem to have the strength to do so!
In the end, the girl relied on the help of Minami Takahashi next to her to finally straighten up again!
Once again, it was dark in the room. In the dark, the girls began to take their positions, and Maeda also stepped back slightly with Yuko Kashiwagi in second and third place, standing later in the group.
"Maeda!" In the dark, Zhou Xiao stared closely at the body that was a little rickety when she walked backwards, and he watched her being pulled by Yuko to stand in his position, and then squatted down with difficulty.
Anyone who has ever exercised knows that when the body reaches its limits. Movement that relies on the inertia of the body is actually tolerable, but what is unbearable, or very difficult to do, is the kind of sudden change or explosive movement.
The threshold for this so-called explosive movement is actually very low, such as just squatting down and standing up again, which is actually an explosive action.
Zhou Xiao was really worried, worried that the girl would squat down like this...... At least I can't stand up on this stage anymore.
Even if the girl stood up in his previous life, he was still very worried at this time, because the girl's physical condition had always hung by a thread, even if it happened a hundred times again. If you can't get by, that's normal, and if you do, whether it's once or a hundred times, it's a miracle.
A series of light drumbeats sounded.
Above the Seibu Dome, eight computer-controlled lights hit the center of the stage at the same time.
"Maeda!" Zhou Xiao couldn't help but shout again.
In the midst of his shouting, the figure that had crouched down a moment ago as if he could never get up again stood up in the light!
On the big screen of the Seibu Dome, it was clear that the girl was a little shy. But full of innocence and cute smiles!
The crying Ah Chan backstage, the one on the stage who was out of breath and cast his eyes on the Ah Chan of his teammates around him. In the dark, the Ah chan who seemed to be unable to stand up after squatting down seemed to be all gone at this moment!
Standing on the stage at this moment is the legendary full-power Ah Sauce! It's the one who can't be called a captivating city, but he captures everyone with a smile! It's the national's!
A smile bloomed across her face. The steaming and somewhat distorted camera shot of Tong Guò was hit on the big screen and into everyone's hearts!
"It's done!" Behind Zhou Xiao, the staff clapped their hands excitedly. This is the penultimate song of Seibu Dome this time, and it is also the last song that Maeda must sing, as long as she can complete the performance of this song, it is no problem not to appear in the future, and Maeda's current performance is obviously a success! She persevered!
In the dark, Zhou Xiao let go of his hand, he let out a long breath and retreated slightly, and turned his body after looking deeply at the girl who was singing and moving on the stage again.
"Someone! After the song is over, pull Ah-chan back and send it to the hospital! I know that there are a lot of problems in this concert, and I know that many of these problems are force majeure, but I tell you that this situation is absolutely! No! Again! Second!!!! Zhou Xiao's roar was heard even by the girls in the last row who were performing on the stage in front of him!
After saying this, Zhou Xiao left, he had to leave, because he didn't want to be seen by these people and the members of the group with tears in their eyes.
The girls on the stage finally finished their performances, and the members of the selection team appeared on the big screen, and the staff rushed to the stage and took Maeda back to rest and heal.
The Seibu Dome concert is basically over here.
The remaining members of AKB, including Takahashi, Yuko and others, finally completed the performance of the last song.
After saying goodbye, the girls returned backstage for the last time in batches.
Seibu Dome, the concert that has been recorded in the history of the AKB48 Group, has finally come to an end.
This concert has a lot of problems, the operation of the concert held in such a huge venue for the first time is very inexperienced, and many of the processes and preparations for the concert are extremely chaotic, even if it is greatly corrected after the first performance, there are still many problems, the director is a waste of manpower and the members are exhausted.
However, this concert also taught everyone a lot of things, and the operation of AKB has been able to control the stadium of tens of thousands of people from now on.
The members of AKB have also been officially promoted to the legendary Zài who appeared in the Dome concert.
The problem with the first concert, and the remaining two concerts, the perseverance and tenacity of the members, as well as the magical expressions of Maeda, Takahashi and other girls on this stage, have become the most vivid memories of AKB's big era.
Ordinary people, and even a considerable part of floating rice, may not know these at all, but someone knows, and someone remembers.
Tens of thousands of viewers at Seibu Dome remember, AKB48 documentary viewers remember, Japan core rice bowls remember, and most of the people in China and the rest of the world who may never even see AKB members in their lifetime!
I remember that in the summer of 2011, on the stage of Seibu Dome, a girl named Atsuko Maeda, with more than 100 girls like her, braved the heat and great pain and fatigue to perform a performance that they and their meals will never forget!
This is not a war, and it does not contribute much to the construction of capitalism with Japanese characteristics, and there are indeed some educational significance, but they burn themselves at this moment, igniting at least the group of people who call themselves AKB rice.
Maybe that's enough.
Ten years later, twenty years later, Atsuko Maeda, and the girls who may have gone their separate ways, but who were indeed called AKB before, and those who were once infatuated with their youthful appearance, there will definitely be some people who will still remember this day, remember Atsuko Maeda's smile, remember the performances of the girls on stage, and remember the fiery youth that seems to burn people to death. (To be continued......)
PS: Let's talk about the plot of these chapters.
Maeda breathing, as well as Minami Takahashi, Yuki Kashiwagi The series of episodes that took place in the second scene of Seibu Dome in history, because of the pursuit of cleanliness and tension in the plot, I moved this paragraph to the end of the third scene.
But some of the main processes in the plot are basically similar to my description.
What AKB experienced at Seibu Dome was undoubtedly very touching and worth removal, but I didn't want too many scenes like this, because this kind of thing, in my opinion, is obviously overdrawing the whole team, AKB Group, and the problems encountered in this concert are actually a kind of damage rather than success, and the girls will probably only think that this concert is a nightmare concert when they think about it.
Of course, for me, although I don't like to let girls go through such hardships selfishly, I still have to record it in the novel.
I just hope that while you are touched by Maeda, you will not forget what kind of pain they have experienced, not only to be moved by their success, but to empathize with the pain they have experienced.
In my opinion, this should be the real way to remember this concert.