Chapter 707: AKB to make money, two countries to fight in the dark
A lot of times things are so delicate.
The relationship between Zhou Xiao and Yuko Oshima, Mariko Shinoda, Yona Kojima and others is by no means super secret, and the risk of being discovered is not completely absent.
However, the relationship between Zhou Xiao and AKB members has been well hidden, and the current situation is about that, as one of the parties, only a small part of the absolute core of the meal will know a little bit of the wind and shadows, and most of the rice is completely unclear about what kind of relationship Zhou Xiao and AKB girls have.
Even if he knew, he only knew a little bit of what Zhou Xiao was willing to disclose, such as the fact that he and Ma Youaili had known this kind of thing for a long time.
Obviously, the protection here is very good, but the village flower was photographed here.
The person who took the picture of Zhou Xiao and Village Flower is not a reporter but just an ordinary person who came to see the shooting, but people who don't know professional photography at all can sometimes take flash photos, Zhou Xiao and Village Flower This photo, the two are very close, plus a full of affection to look at each other, this kind of photo, although the two were only photographed in the workplace, although there is nothing that can immediately prove that the two sides really have any relationship, but ......
The expression, the distance, the subtle atmosphere...... It's a bit empty to say that it doesn't matter at all......
For Zhou Xiao, he doesn't care about the reaction of the media, the reaction of fans, etc., but ...... How can he tell the AKB girls?
This became the most embarrassing thing for him.
Especially for Yuko, how can I explain the reality that the two hooked up after just filming a TV series with Muraka for a few months, and the number of collaborations actually didn't take long?
Embarrassed, the embarrassed Zhou Xiao had to bury all his thoughts in the filming of the ama in the next few days, and even took Jun Arimura to no longer accept any interviews.
What the hell do Zhou Xiao and Village Flower have, if this ordinary person who secretly took pictures of the two is willing to sell the photos to the gossip media, magazines like Wenchun may not publish them immediately, but secretly start to run the line of Zhou Xiao and Village Flower. At that time, maybe the hidden relationship between the two may really be revealed.
Fortunately, the layman did not do this, but directly published the photo, and the result of this is that although many people are curious about the relationship between Zhou Xiao and Muraka, the real relationship is still only in everyone's speculation and has not been completely pierced.
This gave Zhou Xiao some room for activities.
For the ordinary person who posted a photo of Zhou Xiao and Youcun Zhen, Zhou Xiao didn't take any action, and he had no reason to do anything, otherwise maybe it would be easy to be attacked by others because he was annoyed and angry, and as an ordinary person, it was normal to do this kind of thing, unless he was a reporter or had other identities in the industry, Zhou Xiao could move him.
And then. Regarding the relationship with the village flower, Zhou Xiao did not make any changes, he didn't seem to be ready to avoid suspicion and keep a distance from the village flower, so for several days, there were new interactive photos of Zhou Xiao and the village flower on the Internet every day.
Zhou Xiao even considered finding a photographer to take two beautiful shots of him working with Muraka, if he didn't think it was too deliberate, he might really do it.
Secretly, he deleted some of the originally arranged village flower scenes, and then arranged a harder job for her, that is, the dance practice of the performance.
After a week of disturbances. Most people lost interest in this because they found out that it might be exactly what AKB was expecting, because after a week...... Murahana performed on the stage.
The girls don't dance and sing very well. The effect of cooperating with the girls in Group B is relatively ordinary, but as soon as this incident came out, everyone had an idea that was led by Zhou Xiao step by step and went with the flow.
Murahana's affair with him. It's not big news that the layman finds out at all, it's hype and propaganda on the side of AZX!
Hype and propaganda are often exaggerated in the Chinese entertainment industry. Some hype propaganda is simply formulated with the audience's ugly psychology as the goal, which is a very common phenomenon in an immature entertainment industry.
But in the Japanese entertainment industry, this kind of hype is relatively less, because Japan is a society that is relatively harsh on many things, not that Japan is good like this, the ugliness and hype in the Chinese entertainment industry is absolutely dross, but the low tolerance of many things in the Japanese entertainment industry is definitely not a good phenomenon.
For example, some artists are forced to formally apologize if they have a little bit of inappropriate speech, and the artist is excessive, of course, he has to apologize, but many times the artist himself is not malicious, and may even be kind, but some direct speeches will be forced to apologize, which will make people feel very ugly.
Everything Zhou Xiao did at this time made people think that he was hype, which would make many people feel unhappy, because this kind of publicity and hype is not the right way after all, but for Zhou Xiao, this choice is indeed something he must make, compared to the hype and being hated, it is obvious that it is more dangerous to have something to do with the village flower.
Especially in the past week, Zhou Xiao can clearly feel that there are more paparazzi around him and Muraka, and it is obvious that the gossip media is also curious about his relationship with Muraka, and he must get rid of this curiosity as soon as possible, otherwise he won't want to stop filming in the remaining months.
As for the AKB interior, the most delicate thing is the relationship between the village flower and the members, the village flower went to the B group performance, and Kashiwagi and Mayu Airi welcomed her at the performance, but after the performance, the village flower had little to do with almost everyone, ...... This is also normal, Brother Zhou Xiao is the person everyone longs for, and now that you have an inexplicable relationship with him, it is understandable that everyone will be unhappy with you.
Muraka herself is also working hard to pull down her hair to please the girls of AKB, her identity and status don't need to do this, actresses are always more influential than little idols, but on Zhou Xiao's side, even Muraka herself knows that AKB will always be Zhou Xiao's home.
So she is really working hard, not only every time she goes to the performance, she will bring condolences over, but also patiently answers the questions of girls who are interested in theater, as an artist from AZX theater, she has no problem guiding AKB girls in these aspects.
The girl would even invite the members to her home to watch movies, which were recommended to her by Zhou Xiao. She needs to figure it out after watching it, and of course, the girl will definitely not say that to the members.
Soon in late September, AKB was on TV as usual, holding handshakes, shooting commercials, and earning a lot of money.
Zhou Xiao's investment in AKB was very high, but in the craziest two years of AKB, the most exaggerated half a year was only that half a year. It recovered all the investment that Zhou Xiao made in the entire AKB from 2005.
Huge monster groups, the way to earn money is not just to sell a CD.
For example, in the six months from June to December 2012, AKB published a book that tells the trajectory of the entire AKB Group members from childhood to adulthood, an official tour of the country, an official guide to AKB0048 animation, an official formula book for Tokyo Dome, an official guide to the Guess the Tournament, and a summary of the Guess the Tournament. AKB Perpetual Preservation Edition by Pachinko, the official guide to the AKB1/149 love game......
This is not including the part of the photo album.,The photo album also has the water of this year's general election.,The green and yellow books of AKB friends.。 In addition, there is a 13-year calendar, the AKB48 murder manga by Aoyama Gosho......
As for various magazine serials with table paper, in terms of games, PSP games, 3DS's AKB48+me. Murder Game ...... for PS3
In addition, if you really want to make money, this is even a small head, because of a big cooperation in the second half of 12 years. It was AZX and Kyoraku that had a pachinko bet that lasted for several years. Boji cooperated and made a surprise team performance.
The CD of this performance is a single release and does not count towards AKB's own single release, but that's not the point, the real power is the pachinko gambling machines, 400,000 bets. In one go, Kyoraku built 200,000 units and sold them to every corner of Japan, and the sales volume in this area alone was about 80 billion yen.
As a partner and spokesperson of Jingle, AZX also took a lot of shares in this.
has worked hard at the bottom for several years, and the idol itself is not a long-term business in everyone's impression, so in the two most popular years, everyone has worked hard to make money, and many people have hidden the idea that there will be no store in this village after the village.
In such an environment, some things happen that have nothing to do with AKB, but have a lot to do with Japan and China as a whole.
A small island in the south was "nationalized" by Japan, and a huge upsurge of walking broke out among the Chinese people, and in dozens of cities, countless Chinese people waved their national flags in protest with enthusiasm......
In such a period of time, the feelings of the Chinese towards this matter affect almost every Chinese person, but for Japan, which is separated by a sea, the only people who care about this matter are often only those who care about politics.
At the Akihabara Theater, in between the AKB girls' dance practice, you would never have heard this group of girls say anything about it.
Then, Shar Pei, who had a relationship with Zhou Xiao before, defeated the other four people and became the president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
This is just his first step, and when his party wins the House of Representatives election in December, he will rightfully become prime minister again.
This is his second time.
The Japanese prime minister changes very often, but he will be in office for a long time.
Maybe it's the longest after Koizumi.
By the way, he and Koizumi, they are both from the same party, and they are also from the same faction within the party, so they can be called the most orthodox successors of Koizumi.
Zhou Xiao has always been the most reluctant to have anything to do with these things, but his identity determines everything, so he and Abe, and Abe's party still have a lot of battles to fight in the coming days, and Abe's coming to power can be regarded as another battle cry.
For the girls in the AKB, they probably didn't care about it all the time, and many of them didn't even know the prime minister's name.
But for Zhou Xiao, no matter how much he dodge, it is impossible to avoid the impact of this incident, and he definitely can't avoid the covetousness of the Japanese high-level who are destined to attack the impression of the Chinese in the eyes of the Japanese because of these things.
The previous events, the doubts about him, the public or private attacks and slanders that happened around AKB and even just the disclosure of facts, may not be anything compared to what may happen in the future.
National events are not something that any ordinary businessman can influence. No matter how big a businessman is, when faced with such a state apparatus...... Kindness...... It can't be said that it can't be influenced at all, but several major families in Japan can indeed influence, and there are actually such families in China and the United States.
But Zhou Xiao is a person who has worked hard, don't look at it to this extent, if those families are pressed down, the resistance he can carry out will not be much better than that of ordinary people.
Zhou Xiao, who knew this well, of course couldn't wait for the other party's general trend to come over.
Around him and his industry, even his image, what he stands for behind it. The dark war began.
The demonstrations on the mainland have risen, and many Japanese manufacturers who have invested in China have been impacted, and SNH has been affected even more than Zhou Xiao knew in his previous life.
To a certain extent, this is caused by him, because of the attention caused by his many publicity and fame, SNH is already popular even before a performance Chinese the whole people are about to know, especially Zhao Jiamin and Tang Min's rampaging trip in Japan, which has attracted a lot of attention.
In such an environment, Zhou Xiao and Pan Jiale met in a very secret way.
With his relationship with Pan Jiale, it is usually not necessary to be so cautious when it comes to meeting. But what the two wanted to talk about this time was more important, so he had to choose a cautious way to meet.
In the face of Zhou Xiao's request, Pan Jiale was also a little worried.
"The form of the country in the past two years has been relatively strong on this side. Those walks in the country are actually not spontaneous by ordinary people at all, but specially instigated to put pressure on that side, so the ...... you proposed" Pan Jiale wanted to speak and stopped.
Zhou Xiao proposed to Pan Jiale this time. He hoped that the state, while publicizing the dispute, would do well also publicize the difficulties of people like him caught in the middle.
"But ......," Pan Jiale hesitated.
"Also, don't forget, I'm not just asking for the entertainment industry like AKB and SNH. AZX still has several branches, and according to the report, some people in China have even begun to incite a boycott of our company's League of Legends!
If it's just the entertainment industry, we can wait, but if the promotion of games doesn't keep up in a month or even a week, it may be a popularity and a recession, and there may be billions of dollars in the value of the industry in the end, and I have to fight for this aspect. Zhou Xiao said seriously.
"League of Legends" has a lot of opponents, this game is one of the most important industries of AZX, at this stage, it is indeed AKB more profitable, but in the next few years, "LOL" will become a super game, so he must definitely go all out to fight for it.
"Okay, I see...... I'll respond to your question as soon as possible. Pan Jiale also understood Zhou Xiao's seriousness.
"In addition, our company's future is not just such a game, we also have a game that will be announced soon, and that game will also be operated on a large scale in China in the future, Pan Jiale, we have known each other for ten years, if you don't do this well, maybe our company will be ruined in this matter, you know?" Zhou Xiao continued to press down the chips.
"Okay, okay, I know, I'm really scared of you, I'll book a plane back home." Pan Jiale said helplessly.
The day after Pan Jiale returned to China, Zhou Xiao finally released a new game.
This game is called ...... League of Legends Legends......
Kindness...... Basically, it's a game where you can choose a few popular League of Legends characters as the main characters, and make cards of various skills, characters, and creatures from the original setting to fight.
Historically, the background of this game is "World of Warcraft", and the official name is "Hearthstone - Legend of Warcraft......
Now in 2012, this game must have started production within Blizzard, but there is still about a year before Blizzard's original closed beta time, but AZX released a completely different style of painting, and the quality of the game is very complete.
Even if Blizzard thinks that AZX has preempted their idea, it doesn't make sense at all, because although the games on both sides are similar, anyone can see that the completion of the games released by AZX is amazing, and many of Blizzard's side are still in the original setting, even if they are copied, they can only be copied by Blizzard.
Hearthstone's ability to make money in this game is very strong, among tens of millions of users, there are many people who buy 328 RMB card packs at a time, and there are very few people who can really play for free and play very well, coupled with the endless variety of expansions and the relatively easy production of the game itself, it can be said that this is the most suitable game for companies like AZX.
League of Legends, along with League of Legends Legends, are two games that will be a very important cash harvester for AZX in the years to come.
With the support of these two games, AKB will also get more free and free development space, AKB can still continue its development method without focusing on making money in the present, and accumulate enough strength to get a better take-off in the future. (To be continued......)