Chapter 772: Graduation (Finale)
After singing a song by three people, the three people on the stage, you look at me, I look at you, and finally Zhou Xiao picked up the microphone and said, "Eh...... They had to ask me to say something before they came up, so first...... I want to thank you for helping me today, so that I can sit here and talk to you now. ”
"It's nothing, you've helped us so much before, and it's only natural that we'll help you this time." Ah-chan said.
"As for graduation...... I don't think there's much to say...... Graduation or something, in fact, we all know that you will not really leave here, and we will still go on the road in the future.
Whether you're acting, releasing CDs, or participating in variety shows, remember that AKB will always be your home, AZX will always be your supporters, and those who are there, those outside who can't participate, but who come over, and those who are watching you in front of the TV and the computer, are all your supporters.
I'm the same with them.
So...... It's good to just enjoy it all. Zhou Xiaodao.
"Well...... Brother Zhou Xiao, are you serious? Maeda asked.
"Seriously, of course." Zhou Xiao nodded.
"Really...... Idiot, you obviously want everyone to spend money to watch our graduation performance, aren't you rushing everyone out like this? Yuko complained.
"Hey, they've already paid for it anyway, and we won't refund the tickets." Zhou Xiao waved his hand.
"Then you don't care about the idea of AKB activities from now on?"
"You're all graduating, so what's the matter?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"Of course! If you don't keep doing AKB, we won't let you go! ”
"Look, I'll just say that although these two guys graduated, their hearts are still in AKB, so you don't have to worry about it at all." Zhou Xiao spread his hands.
Does Maeda Oshima really care about AKB as much as he shows? In fact, it's not true, you do any job for seven or eight years, and the last three years are busy every day and want to die, to this extent. Even if you like the job, you will feel a little tired, and you will look forward to the work out there even more, because it is a new world.
But this doesn't necessarily mean that they have to say that, especially since they also know very well that they have been bound to AKB for the rest of their lives, and unless they can achieve far more than AKB in the future, they will never get rid of the former AKB name.
But AKB is now a super top artist in Japan, and it is almost impossible for them to surpass AKB or something, so slowly they also admit it, and they have been AKB all their lives. Even if you graduate, this burden or backer will not be unloaded.
One loss and one glory, these eight words, Zhou Xiao will tell every girl who graduated from AKB.
In the process of Zhou Xiao consciously using this kind of words to tell the girls all year round, the girls themselves gradually became aware of this.
This makes every girl try their best to protect AKB's reputation after graduation, and will never do anything bad for AKB, because they know very well that this is also a way to stay in office. Because AKB is their mother's backer, once they can't go on, they can definitely get help when they return to AZX.
On the AZX side, of course. Zhou Xiao also knew that he couldn't fool people by talking about it, so while repeatedly telling the girls about this, he also spent a lot of money to support the girls who graduated, and he couldn't make money to survive for the time being. He will give them a minimum living guarantee, and if there is a dispute with the company or the place where he is invited to perform, AZX will come forward to help solve it. This is a burden for AZX and an investment that AZX must make in order to give AKB a good name.
After chatting with the two girls at the stall, Zhou Xiao stepped down, and the real graduation ceremony began.
Most of the girls who participated in the performance walked on the stage, especially the first and second students who were familiar with the two girls occupied the middle position of the stage, their faces were full of reluctance and sadness, and tears began to become the main theme of this part.
The girls were full of reluctance to give speeches to the two, and many of them cried halfway through their speeches, first Minami Takahashi, then graduates Shinoda and Itano, Akimoto and Miyazawa from Group K...... In the previous life, Atsuko Maeda's graduation performance, although there was a super selection lineup, but generally speaking, it was just a group A performance, but now this double graduation performance has become the most unique one, there is no common performance sequence repertoire, and it is full of performances like Maeda and Yuko.
Zhou Xiao watched the girls' words very hard in this paragraph, in fact, the girls couldn't say too many nutritious things, such as Maeda, who were really familiar with Maeda, such as Haruka Nakagawa and Akika Nakatani, were not qualified to give speeches on this occasion, and among the remaining people who were qualified to speak, the ones who were really familiar with Maeda may be a limited number of people such as Yuko and Takahashi Minami.
After the girls finished speaking, the two girls faced the audience and Zhou Xiao and began their last speech today.
"Before I graduated, I talked to Yuko about how I felt about this place, and it was a bit surprising that our first feeling for theater was not very good.
When I first came here, the theater was not completely renovated, it was a mess full of dust, everyone had to wear masks when practicing, and the most exaggerated thing was that there were two big pillars in the theater that obviously needed to be open, so I thought it was really okay...... Although I have confidence in Brother Zhou Xiao, I still have some concerns in my heart, can this place really carry our dreams? Ah-chan said.
"As for me, when I first came here, I greeted the seniors in Group A, and Mr. Zhou Xiao told us that we are friends and rivals, but when I went to meet the seniors, I had a preconceived impression, I felt that the seniors were so terrible, and I couldn't wait to defeat us immediately." Yuko Road.
"But...... Over time, this place has gradually become our home, and it has become the place where we can feel the most at ease. ”
"In the past eight years, I have experienced a lot of things, countless times I want to graduate and want to leave, countless times I am so tired that I lie in bed and never want to get up the next day, but ...... We persevered. ”
"The reason for being able to persevere, the company of the comrades-in-arms around me is very important, the help of Brother Zhou Xiao, and more importantly, the support of everyone at the seat. These are the main reasons why we have been able to hold on to where we are now. ”
The two girls said one by one.
After a long silence, Maeda continued, "It was very difficult to make the choice to graduate, but ...... What makes us feel very happy is that in the more than eight years we have been at AKB, we have challenged many things, performing on stage, participating in movies and TV series, and even performing funny skits...... Idol artists in the past few years, up to now, I can say with a smile. It's really nice to be AKB48, we've done everything we can and tried everything we can see in the past eight years...... Thanks to everyone's care, we are really happy. ”
In the 90-degree bow of the two girls, everyone at the scene and even outside Akihabara burst into applause.
Straightening up, the two girls looked at each other and then stretched out their hands to hold each other and said, "Thank you all for today, thank you for being able to end your time at AKB at your favorite theater, thank you!" ”
Behind them. The other girls who participated in the performance also bowed with them and thanked them.
"Ahh Yuko! Ah-chan! Yuko! The call of the two rang out both at the scene and outside.
"Listen to the ...... Today's real last song ...... "Cherry Blossom Petals". ”
This song is AKB's debut single, another sense of AKB origin, Yasu Akimoto once had the idea of letting every girl who graduated sing this song once and put it in a suitable single, and later found out that AKB is so big. There are so many people who have graduated that they can't sing at all.
But there is no doubt that ending this song is something that AKB girls must do after graduation.
In the midst of the singing, the staff of AZX outside were busy preparing for the next work of the two girls, while inside the theater. Zhou Xiao ushered in the end of the performance with the fans.
"By the window of the classroom, the bright sunlight ......" "Moving forward towards their own futures, behind each other." The wings of dreams are stretched out...... "The cherry blossoms are fluttering, and the bell of hope is ringing......"
The camera glides over the expressions of the girls, especially the two girls Maeda Oshima, their eyes have tears and yearning, which makes their eyes shine like stars, and pieces of pink petals float down above the stage, and the girls look back faintly in the bell of the background music, leaving an indelible impression in people's hearts.
Maeda and Yuko bowed deeply in thanks.
"Ahh Yuko! I will support you all my life! The sound of a meal sounded in the theater.
"A lifetime of support!" The rice cooks shouted.
"Thank you so much for the past eight years! From now on, please continue to support us and support Atsuko Maeda, Yuko Oshima, and AKB48! The two girls said.
After saying this, except for the two girls Maeda Oshima, all the other members left the scene, and the lights on the scene also dimmed, leaving only two lights shining on Maeda and Yuko.
"In the past eight years, I have really been taken care of by everyone, thanks to everyone's blessings, today we graduated, and continue to support us!" After speaking, the two bowed deeply again, and after this final bow, they finally turned around and walked off the stage to the background music of "Cherry Blossom Petals".
"It's over...... Finally...... Didn't miss it......" Zhou Xiao was on the edge of the stage, and he watched the final graduation ceremony of the two girls almost without a glance.
watched the last bow of the two girls, and then watched the two girls reluctantly walk off the stage while waving frequently, and then at a moment when the audience couldn't see it, the two girls threw down the microphone and pounced as if they had made an appointment! Even Ah Chan pounced!
"Oh? Oooh oh! Zhou Xiao stretched out his hand in surprise and caught the two girls a little embarrassed.
"Woooooooooo......oo Graduated......" Zhou Xiao hugged the two girls for a few seconds, and felt that their faces were already wet on his chest.
Crying so fiercely......
At most, they were choked up on the stage, and they no longer held back their emotions after the camera.
They actually want to graduate, and they have a lot of expectations for the future, but this does not prevent them from liking AKB and not being able to bear to graduate, after all, this is an environment that they have lived in for nearly ten years, and life in the team is still more comfortable on the whole, especially when they think of the loneliness of being able to participate in various activities alone after graduation, these are the reasons why they cry.
"Alright, alright...... Don't cry, I'm going to go out to say hello to the food outside......" Zhou Xiao gently patted the heads of the two girls and said.
After persuading for a while, the two girls were finally in a better mood, and at this time the staff was already waiting very anxiously.
The outside eaters have left. The whole Don Quixote has already begun to enter the process of clearance.
Zhou Xiao straightened the hair of the two girls and said, "Go outside, your final work is not over yet." ”
"Yes!"
With the two girls, the three of them were guided by the staff to the back door of the Don Quixote building, and from there they got into a car specially prepared for today.
Next, the car will drive from Don Quixote to Akihabara Station, where the two girls will make their final parade of the day.
"Are you alright?" Zhou Xiao, who came to the driving position, asked.
"That's it! Let's go! Maeda and Yuko came to the back seat and opened the skylight, from which they stood up and leaned out of the skylight.
"Then let's go!" Zhou Xiao said and started the car.
On the streets of Akihabara across the first floor, it is an unprecedented time to see how many tens of thousands of people gather on the streets of Akihabara, and it is still early, for Tokyo, a city that never sleeps. Eight o'clock is the most vibrant time in the city, and the streets of Akihabara at this time feel like they are experiencing a Christmas tour. Lines the same.
What's more, young people are the main force on the streets of Akihabara at this time, but if you look closely, there are a lot of children and old people, and it's even more exaggerated that there are a lot of foreigners among them. You will find that these foreigners are basically coming to AKB.
AKB's influence is now not only in Japan and China, but also in almost every country in the world, and these foreigners with facial features completely different from those of Asians are quite obvious in the crowd. But their behavior ...... It would have been strange if it had been put somewhere else, but now that I put it here, staring at the big screen and crying and shouting, "Ah-chan, I will support you for the rest of my life!" It's really not surprising that it's everywhere here.
After the graduation performance. The crowd did not disperse, and most of them had already received the news that there was an event tonight, and everyone was waiting for the Maeda and Oshima duo to appear in front of everyone again.
A commotion came from afar. Everyone looked over, and a car was driving from a distance, and the people in the car were all too familiar.
As the two girls passed, there were bursts of cheers on the street, and the two girls stood in the car and waved to the food.
Oooo The rice crowd was in a commotion, and instinctively, almost everyone gathered.
"Well, everyone, please calm down, if you still crowd the event like this, you won't be able to do it, please listen to the staff, okay?" Zhou Xiao's voice came from the car, and everyone realized that the person driving the car turned out to be Zhou Xiao.
Hundreds of staff came over and started to open the road, and after forcing a road for vehicles to drive in the middle of Akihabara, Zhou Xiao drove the car and began to move.
"Ahh Yuko! ”
"Congratulations on graduation!"
"Please be happy!"
"I'll always support you!"
The rice eaters shouted loudly, and the two girls in the car also waved their hands to greet the rice fans.
This kind of seeming swimming. The event is really quite rare, and the Japanese media people are also very surprised to see it, you must know that Maeda Oshima's graduation performance is live, although it is only a live webcast, but with the influence of AKB now, hundreds of thousands of viewers are still very easy to stay in front of the computer, and the live broadcast is not over yet, that is to say, the audience in front of the computer has also seen what is happening in Akihabara at this moment.
For the audience, what is happening at this moment is so amazing.
The idol graduated, the small theater held a graduation performance, and tens of thousands of people saw them off, before this graduation performance, there was something like Zhou Xiao that happened! How many years has it been since there been such a powerful idol in the Japanese entertainment industry?! The graduation at the peak of his life has received so much attention, and what is happening in Akihabara now can be said to be completely no inferior to the departure of Yamaguchi Momoe back then!
On TV, the two girls sat in Zhou Xiao's brother's car, and accepted the crazy worship of thousands of people below, it can be said that the previous graduation performance was at most just a very beautiful thing for their graduation, and now this parade sought after by tens of millions of people is the one thing that really wrote them into the history of the Japanese entertainment industry.
The media workers present were also very aware of this matter, so when Zhou Xiao drove out with the two girls. These reporters with cameras and cameras are going crazy, they are frantically photographing what is happening at this moment, and they are unwilling to let go of every shot that belongs to Maeda Oshima or Zhou Xiao.
The short distance from the Don Quixote building to Akihabara Station is usually easy to walk in two or three minutes, but this time Zhou Xiao's car walked for more than twenty minutes to reach the place originally scheduled by AZX, and there were too many people chasing the two girls with a crazy mood, but this road has an end after all, and Akihabara Station has finally arrived.
It's nothing to just graduate in the theater, and now outside, watching these tens of thousands of people go crazy for themselves. Looking at the photos of themselves posted on every building in Akihabara, the two girls were smiling most of the time, but the tears still flowed uncontrollably.
After all, not to mention eight years ago, even four years ago, they were still little girls who were about the same as ordinary people, and at that time they were so-called idols in the huge city of Tokyo, which may not even know one percent of the people, and it was unthinkable to be sought after by tens of thousands of people like now.
Celebrities, in fact, to put it bluntly, isn't it such a moment?
AKB has indeed made their dream come true. It can even be said that the reality of what AKB has done is even brighter than the dreams of the past.
It's a very refreshing feeling to be sought after.
That feeling of standing on stage and tens of thousands of people cheering for you alone is addictive.
For Maeda, Zhou Xiao didn't know her every thought. can know Dadao and Zhou Xiao very well.
Yuko is the kind of girl who has a great obsession with acting, but even if she is like this, she will be very reluctant to feel like being sought after by many people when she talks about graduation.
Winter in Tokyo is already cool. However, the heat on the streets of Akihabara seems to dispel the bitter cold.
In particular, the two girls from Maeda Oshima were walking in the middle of the road in a car, surrounded by crowds and lights, and looked at them from above. They were like twinkling stars in the night, not small stars but stars that shone like supernovas.
It's a pity that the shine of the two girls can't last forever, although the on-site meals are very reluctant, the girls' short parade still comes to the end.
Zhou Xiao's car stopped.
The two girls got out of the car with Zhou Xiao under the guidance of the staff, waved their hands and shed tears, and walked into an all-black car, they were finally leaving, leaving Akihabara, and leaving the idol work.
The black car started, and the three Zhou Xiao in the car quieted down.
"Are you going to the celebration later?" Zhou Xiao looked outside and asked.
Sitting in the car, they could clearly see outside, the crowd in Akihabara seemed to be reluctant to disperse even after the three of them left, and the graduation of the two girls was undoubtedly a success, and their influence and attention had spread throughout Japan.
"No...... Go home and sleep! Yuko said after taking a look at Ah Chan.
"I'm going home too, I didn't feel it just now, but now I find myself so tired......"
"Then I'll send you home, henceforth...... I was able to sleep well. Zhou Xiao said.
"yes...... It won't be so busy in the future. Yuko said with some distraction.
There is a big difference between the busyness of idols and the number of jobs of actors and singers, even if it is a model worker such as Yuko, his rest time will increase a lot after not being an idol.
"By the way, the agent told you about tonight's arrangement, right?" Zhou Xiao asked.
"By the way, is this the last job as an idol?" Yuko asked.
"No, it's your first job as an actor." Zhou Xiaodao.
"Well, if it's the previous statement, I still want to complain that I've been shouting all the time, but in the end, it's endless." Yuko Road.
"No, in fact, you're already an actor now, idols or something, they don't exist since you got on this car." Zhou Xiaodao.
Atsuko Maeda, Yuko Oshima, two of the top girl idols in this era, their idol road, finally came to an end on December 8, 2013, the future world of Japanese girl idols, may be born as dominant idols as they are, but this will not hinder their brilliance.
Their names will be comparable to the existence of Momoe Yamaguchi, Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori.
From 2010 to 2015, and maybe even to 2020, when people look at this decade in the future, they may give this decade a title such as "the era of female idols", and they will become a well-deserved representative of such an era, no matter how many millennium idols come out later, these people will definitely not be able to cover up the light of the two of them.
The night went by.
As a city that never sleeps, when the lights go out, it's not that it's getting late, it's the morning light that lights up the city.
Sunlight poured in through the window and hit the bed next to it, and the body on the bed moved, as if it were hiding from the sun.
And in the living room next to the side of this bedroom, there was movement on the bed almost at the same time, a staff member in the living room trembled and opened her eyes wide, she stared at the monitor tightly while pulling another sleepy man next to her: "Boss! There's movement! ”
"Really!?" Zhou Xiao finally woke up, he propped up his body and stared at the monitor with the female photographer next to him.
On the bed in the bedroom, a slender arm stretched out, groped around the pillow to find the mobile phone, and then, a girl's head poked out from the pillow, hair and the quilt, looked at the phone, and after confirming the time, the girl slowly pushed away the quilt on her body and sat up from the bed.
"Nice ......," Zhou Xiao exclaimed, staring at a monitor.
From his monitor, you can clearly see the footage taken at this time.
The girl sat up from the bed and just blocked half of the rising sun, and the sunlight was shining through her hair, as if gilding the girl's entire body. Then, the girl stretched out her hand and straightened her hair, so that the camera could fully capture her beautiful side face and beautiful body curves.
For this picture, in fact, he brought the photographer to Ah Chan's house a week earlier.
Not only Ah Chan's home, but on the other side, Yuko's bedroom also has such a set of shooting equipment, and this picture of the two girls is to be used in future AKB documentaries.
Maeda in the bedroom was awake at this time, and she walked out of the bedroom after looking at about seven or eight cameras placed at various angles around her.
"Boss, didn't you say that I finished the last job of my idol yesterday? This should be counted in idol work, right? Ah-chan asked with a smile.
"Of course not, this is your first job as an actor, remember to sign a new contract with the company when you go to the company today, this is the job, AZX invited you to star in the new documentary of AKB48." Zhou Xiao said with a smile.
"Really? Isn't that more profitable? The girl asked with a smile.
"Of course, the company will never treat you badly." (To be continued.) )