Chapter 480: AX's work in four days
At the end of the four-day AX, Zhou Xiao appeared.
In fact, he was waiting in the background before the last song came out, Mayou and Airi The two little girls were quite moved by Zhou Xiao's arrival, this year's "First Day" in Group B can win the championship, in addition to the efforts of the members, of course, I would like to thank Brother Zhou Xiao for writing this song, the two who were moved faced with Zhou Xiao were red-eyed, and Zhou Xiao did not hesitate to pat the two of them and said: "I have worked hard for you in the past two years, and I have worked hard for everyone." ”
The members of Group B behind the two also nodded with tears in their eyes, and the B group led by the two girls, Mayu and Airi, was able to defeat Group A and Group K against the current, and even defeated "Loud Diamonds" with the entire AKB as the representative track, everyone was very proud.
After AX's final champion was announced, and encore was performed twice, and the new single "Ten Years Sakura" that will be released in March was released, Zhou Xiao appeared.
In the original plan, Zhou Xiao's appearance this time was to announce the general election that would be held around June, but the concert effect in the past few days is really good, such a good concert effect, Zhou Xiao came out to announce the general election, which is a bit embarrassing, so after thinking about it, he finally withdrew this announcement and replaced it with a more peaceful one, which can be regarded as a happy announcement.
That's ...... This year, AKB will produce two musicals.
Hiroyuki Ariyoshi once said that musicals are mostly a job that the contracted artists of the agency will do when they have nothing to do, because this thing wastes a lot of time, but the actual performance time is not long, and the advantage is that a lot of training will bring a lot of experience to the performers and a fairly good income.
AKB's idol musicals depend on the situation, and the effect of musicals in the rise of the team or the rise of members is relatively positive, and the effect of pushing the members is quite obvious. The musical in the process of decline basically satisfies the sentence of Ariyoshi Hiroyuki.
Now the idol musical in 2009 is undoubtedly a musical that is very much anticipated due to the rising period.
The members of the musical include Sae Miyazawa Akimoto Saika, Takahashi Minami, Kashiwagi Yuki, Minami Minegishi and many other members.
The specific members of the cast, Zhou Xiao did not announce it, but only said that he was going to be selected in the team, and did not announce that Zhou Xiao, who was a member of the team, really announced. is the name of two musicals.
"AKB49 ~Love Prohibition Ordinance~"! "If a Female Manager in High School Baseball Had Read Dulac's Management"!!
The works of the AKB department are really the favorite of online writers, and every name is so long......
AKB in Zhou Xiao's history actually had a musical staged in 2009, but that musical was not any of the two dramas announced by Zhou Xiao.
That one is called "∞? Infinity is a work in which Akimoto Saika, Miyazawa Sae, Takahashi Minami and Kashiwagi Yuki play the leading roles.
This "∞? Infinity", in terms of quality, is actually very average, especially the plot script of the show itself. It doesn't seem to be a work that the author loves and creates on his own, but a work that the author designed after getting a job, and this work is very old-fashioned in terms of plot. There doesn't seem to be anything new in the whole.
This kind of quality work can only be used by a pure idol group like AKB, not an organization that sells stories and performances.
Zhou Xiao didn't plan to use this work, but used two works that were originally derived from AKB's peripherals in later generations.
In both works, AKB49 depicts the story of a teenager disguised as a woman who infiltrates AKB. The comic's AKB49 Zhou Xiao hasn't found anyone to create yet, but he doesn't mind the musical version of AKB49 coming out first, originally. The comic book version of this work and the musical version are almost completely different stories, and the comic book version of AKB49 is a more thorough comic work, and the entire plot, length, and story progression are all based on the comics.
This is not the case with musicals, which are more than an hour long, and the real theme is only one, and the story that is really told is only one, and the purpose and construction of the two are completely different.
Outside of AKB49, the latter one has a long name, referred to as "If Dura", but the person who proposed the work is not Zhou Xiao.
A former AKB staff member named Natsumi Iwasaki recently proposed the synopsis of this story after leaving AKB operations, which was originally written in 2009, and with the help of Zhou Xiao, the rough skeleton of the story was quickly completed, and after having this skeleton, it is easier to write a book or adapt it into a musical.
Zhou Xiao naturally wouldn't covet the money that Natsumi Iwasaki had for writing this book, but if this work could be adapted into a musical, he would get the opportunity to get the members involved and gain experience that he wanted more, which was what he valued the most.
As for the cast members of these two musicals, it seems that only Sae Miyazawa is the only one among the AKB49 participants in the previous life, and now he is among the AKB members, and the other members are still children who have not joined AKB, if Dura has not been adapted into a musical at all in his previous life, so, the cast members will need to be re-selected, as for the four leading actors in the 2009 work in the previous life, Akimoto Saiga Miyazawa, Sae Takahashi, Minami Kashiwagi and Yuki Kashiwagi, Zhou Xiao feels that the first two are not the protagonists of AKB49, and as for the female characters, there are not many people worth cultivating among the current AKB members, so it depends on the effect of the selection.
After Zhou Xiao announced the musical, AKB's first CON in 2009 was over, from the end of 2008 to the beginning of 2009, AKB held three consecutive CON concerts for a total of 12 concerts, although they are all only HALL concert hall level concerts, it may be able to afford this level of concerts in a row and can reach full capacity in terms of attendance, it can be said that AKB has no problem even if it opens a stadium-level concert.
In fact, in the summer of 2009 in Zhou Xiao's history, AKB did hold their first gymnasium-level concert - the Budokan Selection and Formation Festival, and if an artist or a group of artists can reach this level, it can basically be said that this artist is a first-line artist in Japan.
Three cons in two months, and many major events were also announced, and in the Japanese entertainment industry at the beginning of 2009, some media and entertainment companies were already exclaiming "AKB is coming". The media coverage of AX is very large, which is the reason why AKB has indeed begun to become popular, and another reason is Zhou Xiao, Zhou Xiao AX has done something that few people in the world have done in a few days.
He was on the front line of the concert and used his Twitter to follow the whole live in real time!
Four days, no, not just four days, including the rehearsals before the concert, almost a week. Zhou Xiao followed AKB, took photos or videos with his camera and mobile phone and posted them on Twitter, from taking the photo to finally seeing it on Twitter, the whole process will not take more than 5 minutes!
From the creation of "media", radio, television, computers, to the Internet, people have been receiving information at a faster rate. From 911 in 2001 to the earthquake and Olympics in 2008, the speed of the media has always been getting faster and faster, and nowadays. Zhou Xiao's report raised this speed to a new level, and most importantly, the media and users discovered what Zhou Xiao could do. They can also do it, and this kind of ability for individual users to become media and broadcast at any time is the first time in history that ordinary people have!
Zhou Xiao's live broadcast on Twitter will naturally attract the attention of AKB fans. In the few days when AX was held, almost everyone who couldn't go to the scene to watch but could access the Internet would open Zhou Xiao's Twitter to follow Zhou Xiao's report, and even the audience who had gone to the AX venue, many people were also paying attention to Zhou Xiao's report at the same time, because what he reported, what he reported in the background, and what he reported during rehearsals was difficult for ordinary people to see even if they reported on the spot.
If Zhou Xiao's so many reports were changed to any other media, the operation would not agree, because the amount of reports is too large and there is too much attention to Cheng dù, which may cause all kinds of problems, but if Zhou Xiao came to do it, no one would say so, and more importantly, Zhou Xiao did not make these reports all for AKB, the most essential reason for doing these things is actually on Twitter!
Compared with this purpose, which can be said to be related to the future development of AZX, it is just a report on a concert, and the reporter is the absolute boss, so the operation will naturally not raise objections.
During the four days, when the members were rehearsing or preparing backstage, Zhou Xiao shuttled in front of and behind the scenes to bring various first-hand reports, occasionally interviewed the members, and published some photos of the members holding scissorhands when they were preparing backstage.
In the whole four days, the meals were changed four times, and the AKB person holding the camera at the front of the stage had never been changed, and after the four-day concert, Zhou Xiao felt that his neck was already sore and about to get cervical spondylosis!
Zhou Xiao's efforts are not fruitless, after the end of the four-day AX, the number of registrations on Twitter Japan has increased by more than 70%, in fact, the number of Twitter users is not much, but the operation is very optimistic about the future of Twitter, because the increase of more than 70% of users, after the survey, mainly comes from two aspects, one is the young people who pay attention to AKB, and the other group is mainly reporters and practitioners of various media and users with very senior network experience!
These two groups are actually very valuable, the former is mainly school students, students are the most energetic, the fastest to accept new things, in this kind of group to promote a lot of things is the best effect, and media practitioners not to mention, as the cornerstone of the entertainment industry, their storage zài can basically affect a lot of people!
Zhou Xiao's AX report, in terms of evaluation, is not only of great significance to AKB, but also has important significance for Twitter and even the history of media entertainment, in fact, not to mention Japan, even many media in Europe and the United States have noticed Zhou Xiao's behavior, in the European and American circles where Twitter has better soil, Zhou Xiao's real-time report has also attracted a lot of attention, before Zhou Xiao, although super-famous users such as Obama are also using Twitter, but many of the things they bring are ready, They deliberately announced it to the public, but Zhou Xiao's report this time was different, his report this time was real-time and very fast. People realize that as ordinary people, one day they can also become a field reporter.
In four days, as the most followed user on the Japanese version of Twitter, Zhou Xiao also got a large number of fans, and the number of followers can be said to be Twitter, the biggest difference between things like Weibo and previous blogs, Zhou Xiao is naturally not ambiguous here, behind him, there is actually a five-person Twitter maintenance lineup. These people are responsible for screening people who follow Zhou Xiao every day, people who talk to Zhou Xiao, relying on the help of these people, as long as users follow Zhou Xiao, it is easy to get Zhou Xiao's reply, plus he is almost the first celebrity in Japan to open a Twitter account, and he is the small boss of Twitter, unregistered users can see the recommendation that Zhou Xiao has registered Twitter as soon as they enter Twitter, and it takes less than a month to go. Especially after four days of AX, the number of his followers has exceeded one million, and when Zhou Xiao opened AMEBA before, it was always the most read, and Shangdi Xiongpu. Nozomi Tsuji is a level, and now when it comes to Twitter, it has rushed to the top of the number of followers for the first time, and the Japanese media can see that Zhou Xiao is going to turn Twitter into the second MEBA. Although Twitter is not his own, as a small boss, as long as this thing can become popular in Japan. He's also getting quite a bit of a benefit.
After finally completing the four-day concert, even if Zhou Xiao didn't perform, he was tired enough, and after barely chatting with the members, he ran back to his lounge, and the whole person was paralyzed there and didn't want to move.
Within two minutes of slumping on the couch, there was a knock on the door to the lounge.
"Come in." Zhou Xiao said, it is said that he should stand up to greet him, but he was too tired today, so when the people outside came in, Zhou Xiao closed his eyes and said, "I'm too tired to greet you today, let's talk about something." ”
"Zhou Xiao, I've worked hard for you these past few days." A familiar voice said.
"It's Uncle Inoue, what's going on?" Zhou Xiao said hello, if it was Uncle Inoue, he wouldn't have gotten up.
"You...... Do you know HIRO? Uncle Inoue asked suddenly.
“HIRO? You mean the EXILE one? Zhou Xiao asked.
"That's right." Uncle Inoue replied.
In fact, HIRO has many meanings in Japan, such as female singers, male funny artists and the like all use this name, but with Zhou Xiao's current ability, the one who can connect with him is the most likely, that is, EXILE's HIRO.
This HIRO is also a legend, she used to be just a little backup dancer, but she has been in the entertainment industry for a long time, and gradually has her own company, especially after being promoted by her former friend, Katsuto Matsuura, the head of Ai Hui, the combination of EXILE is quite strong in the Japanese entertainment industry.
"What's wrong with him?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"HIRO wants to meet you." Uncle Inoue said.
"He wants to see me?" Although Zhou Xiao was surprised, it was not very strange, although she and Hiro were not particularly familiar with each other before, but they were also in the same industry as each other, and it was impossible not to know each other completely.
"yes, I don't know what's going on with her." Uncle Inoue said.
"What's the matter with him, just go and go." Zhou Xiao said.
THE APPOINTMENT WITH HIRO WAS QUICKLY ANSWERED, AND TWO DAYS LATER, AT A HIGH-END CLUB IN TOKYO, ZHOU XIAO MET HIRO.
"HIRO-san! Look up for a long time, look up for a long time! When HIRO came in, Zhou Xiao stood up and said hello.
"Zhou Xiao! I'm here for a long time! HIRO ALSO SAID WITH A SMILE, ALTHOUGH HE IS MIXED IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, BUT ZHOU XIAO AND HIRO'S LUCK ARE TWO EXTREMES, ALTHOUGH ZHOU XIAO HAS A HEIGHT OF MORE THAN ONE METER EIGHT, BUT HIS YOUNG FACE LOOKS LIKE A CREAM BOY OR AN IT WORKER, SVEN, AND HIRO IS OLDER, WITH A STRONG BODY AND DARK SKIN, IT LOOKS LIKE THE UNDERWORLD CAME FROM SOMEWHERE.
AFTER THE TWO SAT TOGETHER, THEY CHATTED QUICKLY, ALTHOUGH IT LOOKED TERRIBLE, HIRO WAS STILL VERY KIND, AND CHATTED WITH ZHOU XIAO A LOT EASILY, AND IN THE FIRST HALF HOUR OF THE MEAL, THE TWO OF THEM BARELY SAID ANYTHING USEFUL.
HALF AN HOUR LATER, HIRO PUT THE CHOPSTICKS DOWN AND SAID, "ZHOU XIAO......"
"Here we are." LOOKING AT HIRO'S MOVEMENTS, ZHOU XIAO KNEW THAT TODAY'S DRAMA WAS COMING.
"You say." He also put down the chopsticks in his hand and said.
"You have a few girls from my side in the past, right?" HIRO SAID.
"yes." Zhou Xiao replied seemingly casually.
Aya Takamoto, Mami Nakajima, and Tomomi Itano, these are the people from AKB who are now from HIRO's side.
"I actually want to ask, among these members, Aya Takamoto and Mami Nakajima...... Can you consider transferring back to our company? HIRO ASKED CAUTIOUSLY. (To be continued......)