AZX took the opportunity of the company's selection to sign three girls, and almost no one outside the company knew about it.

Even if you know, I'm afraid no one cares, there are so many companies in Japan that there are ridiculously many artists signed every year, and there are fewer of these people who can really be cultivated, and even fewer can stay in the entertainment industry in the end.

Although Kana Nishino, Naomi Watanabe and Minami Takahashi were signed, the paths of these three people must be completely different.

Although it has been decided, but Takahashi Minami still has to participate in the selection of AKB again, Naomi Watanabe's debut can be carried out as much as possible, as long as she finds the right joke, of course, this so-called debut is only in the theater and various ordinary programs, and if she really wants to become a top artist, she still needs years of accumulation. And Kana Nishino, after signing the contract, will face two or three years of professional artist training.

As for the selection of other artists, it depends on whether they will appear in the AKB interview later.

AZX's first selection was very simple, and there were some wonders within the company, why did it do such a simple one, in the selection before the selection of idol groups, in the contributions of 17,000 people, the number of 30 people was determined only by contributions, and then in an interview, I signed contracts with three artists, no matter how you look at it, it's too child's play.

Zhou Xiao didn't explain much about this view, this is a selection method that only he can use, because only he knows that these three people will become great in the future.

After finishing the selection, Zhou Xiao is almost time to start school.

It's a little weird to say, after being a social person for more than ten years in his past life and this life, Zhou Xiao is going to start being a student again, but this time the students are much more free and casual, and there are no strict requirements for school or class time, Zhou Xiao estimates, let alone four years. Give him ten years, and he may not have time to finish college.

Although it is likely that it will take a long time to finish college, Zhou Xiao still has to participate in the opening ceremony of this first university, for Keio, it is also a thing that the school is very proud of to be able to recruit such an artist with countless honors, you know, in addition to Keio, Zhou Xiaoke did not participate in the entrance examination of Waseda or Tokyo University, he recognized the people of Keio's family.

Keio School didn't know that Zhou Xiao really only had time to take an entrance exam.

Zhou Xiao's appearance at the opening ceremony also attracted a lot of media attention and interviews. For the Japanese, the person who can be admitted to the best university in Japan is already very powerful, and Zhou Xiao is still in the case of having already achieved so many results, so the whole of Japan is also very concerned about Zhou Xiao's admission.

But Zhou Xiao himself didn't care much about this, after barely attending the opening ceremony and accepting an interview with a few questions, Zhou Xiao left the school as soon as possible, he has been very busy recently, as for classes? I'm afraid it will be at least until next year.

Zhou Xiao, who left school, went to see Yasu Akimoto for the first time, and now the selection of AZX has also ended. The two of them combined, and the establishment of AKZ is almost the same as the selection of idol groups.

"Don Quixote is almost there, the contract has been signed, and the next step is the design and decoration." Meet Yasushi Akimoto. Zhou Xiaoxian talked about the theater.

The theater was chosen by Zhou Xiao a long time ago, and the negotiation with Don Quixote had already begun, because he had enough time to spend it slowly with Don Quixote without worry, so the price negotiated in the end was not bad. The most important thing is that AZX did not send out its own key group peripheral market, Zhou Xiao's experience when the Mid-Autumn Festival Yuankang's AKB was subject to many, many aspects, but the AKB in his hand. Would definitely try to avoid this if I could.

"Then it's a matter of names." Akimoto said.

"Name? I haven't told you before? Zhou Xiao asked.

"No, did you mention the name?" Yasu Akimoto was surprised.

"Strange ......" Zhou Xiao scratched his head, could it be that the name AKB had been in his head for too long, so he didn't say the reason?

Speaking of which, there was no such thing as AKB48 in the first place.

In addition to the photo of Yasushi Akimoto, the name printed on the flyer of the first phase of AKB selection is "AKIBA48", that is, Akihabara 48, which is significantly more prominent than AKB48's directionality in Akihabara and serving the majority of otaku. It was later that I used it a lot, and the AKB48 point was not particularly obvious, and it was a more comfortable abbreviation to read.

In his previous life, Yasu Akimoto had a number of places to choose from, including Roppongi, in terms of theater location, so it is unlikely that in his previous life, the location of the theater was changed, and when the final abbreviation is made, AKB48 will also become RPG48 (Roppongi is Roppongi).

"I've actually thought of a name for a long time, and this name is ...... akb48。 Zhou Xiao said.

“akb？ 48？ AKB means Akihabara, right? What does this 48 mean? Yasu Akimoto asked.

48？ 48 originally had nothing to do with 48 people, the reason why it was 48 was because the pronunciation of Shiba Kotaro's surname "Shiba", who cooperated with Yasu Akimoto, was the Japanese voice of 48, which is why there is the number 48, but now, of course, Zhou Xiao will not say so.

"48 means 48 people, and my goal is to build three teams, each team of 16 people, a total of 48 people take turns to perform!" Zhou Xiao said.

In fact, this idea is also different from Zhou Xiao's previous life, Qiu Yuanyasu's initial idea, at the beginning of AKB only established a team and the initial number of people in that team was 2O, and the reason why it later became a system of three groups of 16 people is because the girls are too tired now. Many girls in AKB were in school at the time, going to school during the day, training began after school at half past three, and performing at night, this kind of life is not carried by the gods, so simply expand the recruitment, and soon the second phase of the students will enter the team, this time the number of qualified people is 17 people, and the time between the first phase of the students announced on December 8, 2oo5 and the final review of the second phase of the students, the time between the period is at most less than three months.

"48 people!" Although he was the founder of the 48 series in his previous life, now he heard Zhou Xiao directly say this plan instead of realizing it himself, so Akimoto Yasushi still feels that this number is a bit too big?

"Not big. That's not a big number at all, or rather, it's not the limit. Zhou Xiao said.

"Oh?" Akimoto wondered, isn't this number still big?

"It is impossible for there to be exactly 16 people among the 48 people every day, especially after a few years of debut, these 48 people will inevitably be divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the most popular part will have more work every day, such as TV stations or magazines, so another group of substitutes will be recruited in the future, so the whole adds up. I think at least sixty or even sixty-four people are considered a relatively stable number of people in this group. ”

What Zhou Xiao said is actually very conservative, in the future, the four sub-groups of AKB will have a total of 200 to 300 people, and AKB's own family alone will have four teams with at least 2O people in each team, plus the number of graduate students over 80 people.

"Well, now that you've decided on the name, the next step should be the selection." Akimoto said.

"Yes, I'm going to publish the selection notice and the application form in several magazines or newspapers, and it's okay to have your photo and name on it, right?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"What do you want to do?" Yasu Akimoto asked.

"It's an advertisement that says, 'AKB48, an idol group jointly created by Yasu Akimoto and Zhou Xiao, is starting to enroll'. Then write down the direction and goals of the group, etc. below. Zhou Xiao said.

"Okay, that doesn't sound like a problem, so I'll give it to me when you get the copywriting out. I'll just take a look. Akimoto said.

"At that time, the selection of AKB will also trouble Mr. Akimoto, you will be the judge." Zhou Xiao said.

"Of course, no problem, I'm a little embarrassed right now, you've done too much. I'm holding the shares, but I don't seem to be doing anything. ”

"You'll be busy in the future, such as making a lot of songs." Zhou Xiao said.

"Songs? Speaking of which. How did you prepare for the performance? Yasu Akimoto asked.

"Ready? I'm almost ready, do you want me to leave it to you now to start filling in the words? Zhou Xiao asked.

"If anything, I'm looking forward to what kind of music you can make." Akimoto said.

"No, no, no, Mr. Akimoto, you'd better not have this kind of expectation, it's impossible for a group like AKB to have too good tunes." Zhou Xiao said. In AKB's performances in the future, although it is claimed that the quality of the performance songs is higher than that of singles, in fact, it is just like that, it is not a combination that pursues musicality, you create some songs that are difficult to interpret, and it is impossible for girls to sing to the point, so although Zhou Xiao has a lot of tunes from various other singer groups in his mind, he rarely changes AKB's performance repertoire, just like in his previous life, continuing those ordinary levels, but at least he can listen to them many times and still don't feel unpleasant.

However, although the song was already in his head, Zhou Xiao did not immediately hand over the song to Qiu Yuanyasu.

"Mr. Akimoto, although the song is available now, I want to wait until I recruit the people in the first issue, read their plain zhì, and then decide on the final single, and then ask you to match the song with lyrics that are suitable for them."

"In that case, the time aspect ......" Akimoto Yasu's concern is the time aspect.

"There should be no problem with the time, I plan to start the audition in April and May, then start the recruitment of members in June, select the first batch of qualified candidates at the end of September, and then start the performance in December, so that after the selection of qualified candidates and the start of the performance, we can also have a good relationship with these members in these two months." Zhou Xiao said.

"It's okay, if I see people, my lyrics should be much easier to write." Yasu Akimoto also said.

After chatting with Qiu Yuankang about AKB's preparations, Zhou Xiao returned to the company and called the people from the network department to start surfing the Internet, and they began to study AKB's network promotion, AKB in his previous life, he didn't care much about network promotion at first, and even the group blog was ordinary, the content was just a routine report on the preparation of the combination, and Zhou Xiao, who knew the role of the network for AKB in the future, would certainly not let such a big platform not be used, in his opinion, instead of desperately promoting in the media, it is better to rely on the Internet, Relying on the fact that AKB gradually became popular, it is better to spread the word of mouth on the Internet.

In order to cooperate with these efforts, Zhou Xiao's blog has become the most important window.

Because it was established at the earliest. ameba is its own industry, so Zhou Xiao's blog has the highest number of views and attention in ameba, according to the habits of artists in the future, Zhou Xiao, who runs a blog every once in a while, will focus on answering some users' questions on the blog, and the various text and pictures updated each time are also carefully prepared, if it weren't for the slightly worse update, maybe the three updates were added together like crazy guys, and the number of views and attention was not as high as Zhou Xiao.

A few days later, a fax signed by AKZ Media reached the major media outlets.

"AKZ is a subsidiary of AZX, a media, economic and entertainment company founded by Zhou Xiao's AZX and Yasushi Akimoto's Yasushi Akimoto, and the goal of the company's founding. It is hoped that we can create a new idol group suitable for the Internet era......"

"Oh, I see." The response from the various offices was not violent.

The relationship between Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang has been obvious in recent years, and the two are obviously very good New Year's friends, otherwise it is impossible for Qiu Yuankang to be pulled out to travel when Zhou Xiao's show is broadcast, he is not a funny artist, unless he wants to, this kind of thing on the show will not find him in the name of work.

So since Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang have a good relationship, the two sides have a purpose, and everyone knows very well what Qiu Yuankang has done in his life. After these two people hooked up, it was unsurprising to be an idol or something.

It's just that......

"Yasu Akimoto is too bad! Isn't this our Zhou Xiao's money! ”

"That's it! Qiu Yuankang must have fooled Zhou Xiao's money because he was young and ignorant! ”

"How can this be! Now that the record industry has begun to decline, still drumming for Zhou Xiao to enter the industry, a new idol group? Good morning, I'm almost out of food. It's also a Mao idol group! ”

Forehead...... Good Morning is actually still a complete national idol group, but that's it, without the life-sustaining ability of AKB's huge group, Good Morning will quickly leave the audience's sight after losing exposure. Fell into an ordinary idol group.

Most of the people who shouted that Qiu Yuankang was harming Zhou Xiao were Zhou Xiao's fans, and they didn't blame them for shouting like this, Qiu Yuankang's little squinting eyes and Zhou Xiao, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, looked like a traitorous revolutionary. Zhou Xiao is such a sincere person, he must have lost his heart by hooking up, so he will be this Laoshizi idol group.

And along with this fax, some print media also received another thing, which was an application to have a 1/4 page ad in next month's magazine or newspaper, and even a large magazine like Firday simply received an application for a full-page ad in AKZ.

The day after receiving the application, AKZ staff quickly went to the various magazines to sign the advertising contract and brought the advertising text that had been designed.

If people who are familiar with AKB in later generations see this advertisement, they will be familiar with it, because this advertisement is almost the same as the advertisement published by the AKB operator in the previous life, the difference is that the "Akihabara 48" at the beginning has become the current "AKB48", and the original position where the photo of Akimoto Yasushi was printed, now there are photos of Akimoto Yasushi and Zhou Xiao side by side.

AKB's enrollment is no different from the previous life.,As long as it's 1O to 25 years old, girls can apply.,The application is for photos.,There are no requirements for the applicant's singing.,Dancing and acting.。

It's just that what is not said in the advertisement is that the selection of AKB this time actually used two methods, one is social audition and selection, and the other is the recommendation from relevant personnel, these related personnel, including Zhou Xiao and Qiu Yuankang and other staff involved in the AKB plan, but it is obvious that this so-called staff recommendation is simply to facilitate Zhou Xiao, such as Takahashi Minami, who has now signed a secret contract with AKZ, will directly enter the second round of interview and selection in this way.

In addition to Takahashi Minami, Zhou Xiao arranged this for another person, that person is Itano Tomomi who still needs two months to terminate the contract with the company, Itano Tomomi, who was fooled by Zhou Xiao at the Red and White Song Party, has never broken off contact with Zhou Xiao, and the girl has already been agreed by Zhou Xiao, just waiting to terminate the contract with the company, she will defect to AZX.

In fact...... Itano's termination of the contract with EXI1e's company RhythmZone is obviously that RhythmZone doesn't want Itano Tomomi, that is, she was fired by the company. Now Zhou Xiao treats the little artist that rhythmzone doesn't want to fool like a treasure, which makes Itano Tomomi have a change that Zhou Xiao has a little unexpected change, that is, Zhou Xiao appeared in the conversation with the girl, and after comparing Zhou Xiao's kindness to her, Itano Tomomi actually hated rhythmzone, especially the exi1e she used to like very much, this kind of hatred that I don't know what Cheng dù is makes Zhou Xiao a little strange, Itano Yumi in the previous life didn't have this kind of mood, such Itano Yumi, I don't know if I'll be able to get together with Takahiro from EXI1E at the time nine years later...... (To be continued......)

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