(So I changed it to the start time of the Ice Dog to the new quarter in April.) ）

On February 27th, AKB's 10th single "Cherry Blossom Petals 2008" was released.

In the previous life, this single was actually recorded as the eighth single, because AKB's first two singles were only sold underground, so the serial number of this single was only eight, but now it is different, and now AKB has been published by a record company since the first single, so until now, this single will be recorded as the tenth single instead of the eighth.

(However, the author may still forget to modify it in the future, please forgive me...... ）

The song "Cherry Blossom Petals" is a very special song in AKB's history, because this song has been released twice, once as the first single from AKB's underground period, and the second time is now released in early 2008, which has almost no changes to the arrangement, but has shot a very good music video version from the beginning.

If you want to say the biggest attraction of this single, it should be the MV of this song, this MV directed by Eiki Takahashi shot a very beautiful and cute MV, in the MV, the girls who have gradually faded to show their cute, beautiful and beautiful side.

In fact, AKB in later generations has filmed many ultra-long versions of MVs, but what Zhou Xiao appreciates the most is the MV of this single of about ten minutes.

Zhou Xiao back then, when he saw this single for the first time, it wasn't actually an AKB meal, and he didn't know any of the people in the MV, he just felt that this MV was shot very beautifully, very warm, and reminded people of his student days.

In fact, soon after the release of this song, it gained a certain popularity in China, no way, how could anyone not like the MV of dozens of beautiful girls. Zhou Xiao relied on this song to have his initial impression of this group when it was not an AKB meal at all.

Of course, no one cares about that right now.

In addition to the new version of the MV, this single still continues the handshake system that appeared a year in advance, because it is very close to the release time of the previous single, so when this single is released, the handshake of the previous single has not ended, and, unlike the previous life, AKB in the previous life transitioned to "Loud Diamond", the single that brought AKB back to life, after only one online delivery single in 2008.

So in the official record. The song "Loud Diamonds" is AKB's final release after nine months.

Now that AKB is in Zhou Xiao's hands, he is not ready to let AKB still have only one single in nine months, so his idea is to arrange a new single that does not belong to AKB in the world during this time.

So...... What is the choice of this song? In the later world, AKB's derivative groups, Momokusa, Nogizaka, etc., have a lot of good songs that can be used, but with Zhou Xiao's thoughts, he actually doesn't want to choose these songs, because these groups are likely to belong to his own company in the future. Sooner or later, it will be made out by its own side, and there is really no need to make it now.

But...... Many times, people's choice ideas are not necessarily completely meaningful, for example, this time, Zhou Xiao did not find one that suited his heart. A new single from AKB that is perfect for release at this time.

Why is this happening? If it was a year earlier or a year later, Zhou Xiao might be able to meet the requirements by choosing a random song, but now it is different, Zhou Xiao, who has experienced later generations, understands. AKB, which has already offered a handshake party, is on its way, and if the momentum is broken at this time, maybe the sales will be flat again. If that's the case, maybe it's even more humiliating than the dormancy and decline of the previous life.

Therefore, this song is very important, in terms of quality, this song may not need to be too good, the key is topicality, it is a feeling that can make people's eyes shine. What kind of song can meet this point? After thinking about the songs outside the group for a long time but failed, Zhou Xiao, who finally had to start thinking about AKB songs from scratch, finally chose the song name ...... "Lonely Starry Sky".

This is a very special song, and if it was AKB under the control of Yasushi Akimoto, it would be absolutely impossible to release this song as a single.

Why can a song become a singer's single, this choice of song is actually very particular, many AKB songs, you don't seem to be much better than other CW songs released on the same CD, and maybe even the CW songs are better than the officially released songs, using AKB as an example, AKB has a song called "The First Rabbit" that has been evaluated by many people as having good quality, why hasn't it become an official release single by AKB, and then there are legendary CW songs such as AKB, On AX every year, there is a higher ranking than the officially released single "Jun のことが好きだから" (referred to as Jun Hao. All of this type.

As for the reason, first of all, a song like "The First Rabbit" focuses on the background of the team, which means that the rice will be very moved when they hear this song and match the MV with the background of the AKB documentary, but ...... This kind of thing about the release of singles,Actually, it's mainly for floating fans or even people who aren't fans.,Such people don't particularly care about how miserable your AKB is.,Strictly speaking, how painful things are.,So it's better to make this song a simple CW song.,Most of the floating songs are only remembered CD songs.,And most of the rice won't bypass the CW songs.,So this song doesn't have to worry about not being discovered.。

And the song "Jun Hao", this song is actually really perfect, such an excellent song, it is very puzzling that it was not released as a single, in Zhou Xiao's speculation, it is likely that the single was released for some special reasons.

The so-called special reason for this is the time and situation that AKB was facing at that time.

At that time, AKB was gaining momentum, but although sales had been growing, it had not grown enough to surprise the industry, and Yasuya Akimoto made the song "RIVER" at this time, and it was very suitable to use very simple and straightforward lyrics to give girls the motivation and courage to move forward.

Zhou Xiao even suspected that the song "RIVER" and "Jun Hao" were not ranked like this at the beginning, and the initial internal decision was to release "Jun Hao" and then "RIVER" to do CW songs, which is not impossible. The composer of "Junhao" is Tetsuro Oda, just in the name of a CW song, and he may not be able to invite him, and the composer of "RIVER" is Inoue ヨシマサ, this is the "own person" who produced a lot of other AKB songs, and it is said that it is no problem to be the author of CW songs occasionally.

Something like this is not entirely from Zhou Xiao's speculation, in fact, similar things did happen in Zhou Xiao's history, when Mariko Shinoda won the championship of the boxing competition, Yasuya Akimoto specially made a song "Mariko Gao" for her, as for the original guessing boxing list. I had to give it to Team4, which had just been established, and coincidentally, this song was also composed by Tetsuro Oda, that is, the song "Run, Penguin".

The song "Lonely Starry Sky" is also excellent, and the main reason why this song didn't make it a single may be simpler, because it's a very downright slow song.

Idol groups or something, works released as singles, are very taboo to use slow songs, for the production of zuò people. If you can, it's best for idol songs to be songs like "Gangnam Style", without musicality or difficulty. Just want it to be catchy, just want the song to be sung hundreds of times, and still won't get tired, but there is a feeling of being brainwashed, which is what idols usually need to release singles.

Looking at AKB's more than 30 singles, it can truly be called a slow song. There is only "Do You Remember the Sunset?" This one, the other songs, are all idols.

But the AKB controlled by Zhou Xiao. He chose this song "Lonely Starry Sky", which is a slow song, not only a slow song, but also a very ...... melody Hidden bitterness? It is indeed a grudge, the slow and leisurely style of the song, if you simply listen to the song and it is Chinese lyrics, Zhou Xiao estimates that it can be directly put into the palace fighting drama as background music, or the background music when the concubine was beaten into the cold palace.

Case...... Why did Zhou Xiao still choose this song as AKB's new single?

Most of the time, AKB's production team can't plan what kind of MV to shoot when choosing what single to release, and the MV is more often written by the MV director after the song is decided.

Therefore, what the music video will look like will not be a reason for AKB's new single to be released. But this is not a problem for him who has seen most of AKB's song MVs, he knows very well what AKB's song MVs look like, and the main reason why this song will be selected by him is the MV.

There are a few works in the AKB series that are full of Japanese style, usually such works, and the operation will be more inclined to be handed over to the NMB of later generations, because NMB is located in Kansai, like Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, is over there, and it is more suitable for works full of ancient style, such as NMB's debut single "Extermination of the Black-haired Girl" and "HA! It's all like this, and it's also a very good work.

And AKB also has such a work, and the song "Lonely Starry Sky" that Zhou Xiao took out is such a work.

This song in the previous life is a TeamA song paired with Mayou's new AKB single during the TeamA period, in which the girls put on very beautiful kimonos and staged a very beautiful MV in the MV like an ancient palace set, such an excellent work, in Zhou Xiao's opinion, it is enough to make people ignore the problem of some geographical restrictions in its slow songs.

And what are the positive reasons for choosing this song? This is a very "Japanese" song, as a freshly baked international director, Zhou Xiao seems to be a representative of the standard "promoting Japanese culture" in Japanese public opinion, no matter what he does at this time, as long as he is involved with Japan, he is expected to get a lot of attention, and these attentions, at the same time, will turn into awareness of AKB, and may not be able to see anything for a while, because it will take some time for recognition to be transformed into purchasing power, but when AKB gradually becomes popular in the future, This awareness can easily be converted into floating rice and contribute sales to AKB.

When the release of the single was completed, AKB's six-phase student audition was also completed.

The first four phases of AKB,Each issue has a new member who didn't belong to AKB.,Not to mention the first three phases.,In the fourth phase,Oba Mina has now entered AKB and is working hard as a graduate student.,The fifth-term student is Yuki Kashiwagi who joined after two periods late.。 Compared with the fourth-period students are more low-key, the fifth-period students now have a huge influence, and the same as the previous life, the five-phase Four Heavenly Kings still stand out, but the difference with the previous life is that there is a Kashiwagi Yuki above the so-called five-phase Four Heavenly Kings, and the storage of cypress is incomparable to the five-phase Four Heavenly Kings at this stage.

Kashiwagi used to participate in the selection of the Good Morning Girl group and entered the latter part of the process, but Junjun eliminated her in the end, and now after entering the AKB. After another two years of growth, the girl became more beautiful.

The pure and invincible Kashiwagi and the lovely character, with these two weapons, Kashiwagi at the beginning of joining, the popularity of all graduate students was the best, not to mention any graduate student performances, many times when she participated in the performance on behalf of the official members, his voice was the biggest one.

Before the recruitment of the sixth phase of students began, the outstanding members of the fourth phase of the students were also promoted one after another, and on February 3, Mika Saeki was promoted to the B team. On March 4, Asuka Kuramochi was upgraded to TeamK, and on March 24, Risa Naruse was promoted to TeamA. On April 15th, Ami Sato was promoted to TeamA, and so far, AKB has formed a large group of 49 full members (17 in Group K). Originally, AKB at this time would try its best to ensure a group of 48 people, but Zhou Xiao had no worries. Later, the AKB had already broken through the number limit, so now in his opinion, there is no need to insist so much, but it is better to deliberately not be so neat now.

In addition to the complete formal members, the graduate students are also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in the fourth phase of the students, the useless members have been eliminated, and the remaining five people are Yuka Nakanishi, Exit Yang, Chichi Nakata, Shizuka and Mina Oba, the first two of these five people will become the first generation members of SKE, and the third four will become the backbone of AKB.

In addition to the fourth phase of the students, the fifth phase of the students is also very complete, under the superhuman Kashiwagi is the so-called Four Heavenly Kings, and then the five members of the inner heaven below also became official members of the AKB, compared with the official members, the experience of the fourth and fifth students as graduate students makes their relationship very good, especially the export of the fourth phase of the student Yang Nakanishi Yuka Sato Amina, and the fifth term of the three of them even lived together, forming a relationship like roommates when they were in school, This kind of relationship will make them have a very good relationship in the future, even when they go their separate ways, and they will help each other a lot.

AKB, which is actually in a very good situation recently, it stands to reason that there is no need to recruit new members like in the previous life, but Zhou Xiao still did it, he did it for just one person, that is, Takashiro Yashu.

Takashiro Aki is actually not a member of AKB who is very successful in later generations, and it is precisely because of this that Zhou Xiao has always felt sorry for this girl.

The announcement time of the sixth term of Zhou Xiao's history is April 28th, and the first appearance of Takashiro Aki is on October 19th, and the promotion time of Takagi Aki in history is December 29th, and it only took 71 days to change from a graduate student to an official member of the acting member, and also became the fastest rising member in AKB history.

From this point, you can see her potential.

Takashiro Aki is indeed very potential, she is very tall and has a very cute appearance at the same time, and she has a silly temperament, and this temperament is precisely the favorite trait of otaku, so the operation also attaches great importance to her, but unfortunately, history proves that if you want to mix in the entertainment industry, all the natural stays that mix well are not really stupid, and all the natural stays that are not mixed well are not really stupid...... It's really stupid.,Komori Mika is like this.,So is Takashiro Aki.,This girl who is not very smart is actually a little better than Komori.,But it's useless to be just a little better.,So the girl has experienced the ups and downs of popularity in the process of selling stupidity day after day.,The first general election,23rd,2nd,13th,3rd,12th,4th,17th,5th,20th,6th...... 26-bit ......

Takashiro Aki is undoubtedly hardworking, otherwise she would not have given up her career in Japan, which is difficult to advance, and went to Indonesia, a country like a monkey, to join JKT, but Takashiro Aki is undoubtedly very stupid, she can't learn the maturity behind Nakagawa Haruka's innocence, so she can only return to China safely and become a member of AKB from scratch.

This girl is not Zhou Xiao's push, and she has never been, but this does not prevent Zhou Xiao from liking her and regretting her experience.

Originally, Zhou Xiao could simply not recruit the sixth phase of students, AKB is now fully staffed and strong, and there is no need to fill in other members to enter, but he finally chose to recruit, not only that, but he also gave this girl a big gift very directly and simply!

No one expected this big gift, when this gift was announced, both within and outside the AKB rice group, it received a lot of attention, especially in the AKB rice group, and the huge discussion appeared almost immediately after Zhou Xiao's announcement! (To be continued......)