At the end of November, after the second selection of AKB third-term students, a total of 70 girls were selected to enter the final selection, under Zhou Xiao's intervention, the list of third-term students was also very different from before, but almost the same as the first-term students, in the first-term students, Zhou Xiao left Yonezawa Rumi after repeated entanglements, and in the third-term students, Zhou Xiao also left Yonezawa Rumi.

(When I wrote this book, I only said that Zhou Xiao was from 2014, but I didn't say what month and day it was from 2014, so I just thought he was from December 31, 2014...... ）

On the morning of December 9th, as if it had already happened twice, a training ground in Tokyo was ready, and seventy cute girls of the right age were already waiting for them, surrounded by a large number of cameras in addition to various staff, recording almost all of their every move.

Although they arrived, the judges did not come, and several teachers actually took them to learn the dances that would be used in today's assessment.

This dance, of course, is AKB's catchy and very easy "I Want to See You", which has just been released.

In fact, for this kind of investigation, one aspect of the knowledge of the examination of its dance, the key is to look at the person's potential and idolity, and most importantly, whether the girl has enough desire for the idol industry, in fact, there are many girls who have no experience in this dance inspection, but there are also many girls who have practiced dance for many years are brushed down in this review, because some girls are not serious about the review, thinking that their ability is enough to pass the dance review.

After practicing the dance for an hour, the judges, including Zhou Xiaoqiu and Yuankang, finally arrived.

A row of six or seven judges sat down, each of the six or seven holding a stack of texts printed with the information of the seventy girls present.

Zhou Xiao also sat down with a straight face, and as soon as he sat down, he felt a very special gaze, as if someone was staring at him with burning eyes.

Look up. It was easy to see that the two girls, Airi and Mayou, were secretly greeting him.

Zhou Xiao didn't dare to respond to them, if they really responded and were found out, it would not be good for the two girls to be treated differently.

After the judges were seated, the selection began, and the 70 girls were divided into five groups to perform the dance that had been practiced within an hour.

The dance review ended quickly, and each group officially danced for more than a minute at most, and the judges recorded the materials in front of them while watching, and quickly completed the first stage of the review work.

The girls went out to eat and rest, and Zhou Xiao, Qiu Yuankang and others began to discuss the girls' stay.

"This Katayama Yoga, it's okay to stay, right?" Someone asked about the information in hand. Yoka Katayama was originally one of the members of the third phase of AKB. And she is a very good dancing girl, so there is no problem in keeping her at this stage.

"Where's this Akika Nakaya?" Someone asked. Atsuko Maeda's junior high school classmate, Akika Nakaya, just now has a relatively ordinary appearance and no bright spots, and he looks very weak.

"Let's stay and see." Akimoto said.

The list of members is determined one by one, and there are very few stupid people present, so in this process of determining the list, there are three people who almost do not need to be discussed, Mayu Watanabe, Airi Suzuki and Li Jun, three girls who have signed with AZX before are bound to enter AKB.

Even if it has to be discussed. These three girls are also enough to enter the final singing review, the three girls are all very beautiful and cute types, although they don't see any advantages in dance, they also meet the most basic requirements of "hard work and seriousness", especially the first two. Although it can be seen that he has not trained too much dance, he can already see a pretty good aura when he raises his hand and throws his feet, as for Li Chun in the back, a girl who has traveled thousands of miles across the sea. Even if someone objects, at least wait for the final judgment to be completed.

Eventually, after nearly 20 or so people were eliminated in the dance review section. The remaining 50 or so girls entered the final singing review part, and for most of the next half day, they will sing in front of the judges one by one to complete their own review.

The No. 1 candidate who first started the review was Aika Tada.

Don't look at Tada Aika many years later because of her poor popularity, she can only go to AKB's sub-group HKT to develop industry, but now Tada is very optimistic about everyone, including Yasu Akimoto, and this optimism will even continue until the original performance of Group B begins to be created, Yasu Akimoto wrote the first performance of Group B, and even set Tada Duo as the team's ace!

It's a pity that this optimism came to an abrupt end after arriving at this stage, and Aika Tada only got the center position of the first UNIT in the B2 performance, and since then she has been in decline, gradually becoming a less important member of Group B, leaving only a legend that "once competed with Mayu Watanabe for the ACE position......

Such a little Tada Aijia is still a little girl who is favored by everyone, she can't sing very well, but her voice is delicate and cute, and her little face looks very immature, and anyone who sees it will like it very much.

"This kid is very good." Qiu Yuankang sat beside Zhou Xiao and nodded repeatedly.

"yes, it's good, it's very potential." Zhou Xiao also said that he was telling the truth, Tada Aika does have potential, but the two weaknesses of becoming fat and personal personality made her gradually out of the track of ACE, so that Mayu Watanabe, who is more perfect in character and more serious about the idol profession, has become the face of AKB and Group B in the future.

How does this child compare to the two children you raised? Akimoto asked with a smile.

"You'll find out later." Zhou Xiao also smiled. He didn't say that my two were much better than these girls who were still amateurs, and that there were some things that were more convincing to see than to say them.

Zhou Xiao's two little girls have not yet appeared, and among the people who appeared after Aika Tada, the first person to attract attention was Mina Oba.

Kindness...... Because she sings so badly......

The voice is not the sweet and soft voice that a girl should have, coupled with the nervous and increasingly excessive out-of-tune, so far, there are many AKB or AZX members who Zhou Xiao has decided on his own, this is the first time, even Zhou Xiao is a little embarrassed to recruit her into AKB.

If you really talk about the so-called "variety shows" in AKB, you will find that most of the girls in these variety shows are actually quite good at singing. Nakanishi Tomoyo Pear and Gu Zhenjia, as well as Ogasawara Mayu and Yuka Tanano, these girls who seem to be hanging on variety shows, everyone sings quite well, Zhou Xiao is full of appreciation for such girls, such girls take the route of variety shows, pretend to be ugly on stage, and are complained about, because they are not cute enough, they don't have the faces of those top idols who can win attention by standing there cutely. So they had to work harder and even go off the rails.

Such a woman,It's unfair from the time of the selection.,Cute girls may not need to say anything or do anything when they participate in the audition.,Maybe even forget the words.,Choose the wrong song.,Mess up a qiē.,They will also be evaluated as simple and cute.,So as to enter the final selection.,But for them who are not particularly cute girls.。 You have to do your best, variety shows or something, you may not be able to see it when you first participate in the audition, so you must have other things to attract the judges. And this thing can only be singing.

But such a prerequisite is not possible here in Oba Mina, because she sings or dances and looks good. can't meet the minimum requirements of an idol group, you know, AKB is trying to sing as hard as possible now. Especially when there are enough microphones in the theater, this kind of singing in the big field is simply too much for the audience......

What to do? Stay in the big field or abandon her or AZX sign her and still put her in the ninth phase?

Akimoto Yasushi also saw Zhou Xiao's struggle, but he felt a little strange in his heart, is there anything worth Zhou Xiao's struggle for this ordinary girl named Daba Mina?

"Where did you like her?" Yasu Akimoto asked after finishing the performance at the big stage.

"I think she will have the potential for more variety shows in the future." Zhou Xiao said.

"You can see that, too?" Yasu Akimoto asked, is the potential of variety shows so easy to see?

"It's just that I feel like this......" Zhou Xiao couldn't say that he could see anything, so he had to say so.

"And what do you want to do?" Akimoto asked, after all, this is Zhou Xiao's AKB, what to do, in the end, you have to listen to him.

"There's really no way......" Zhou Xiao is struggling, there is no problem with him leaving Dachang on his own, the key is that after the third phase of the students is announced, with the current singing and dancing of the big field, it is a way to meet the requirements of the third phase of the students' performances, and it is impossible for the team to start lip-synching because of her alone, and where is the meal, if they really leave the big field, what will they think of such an ugly idol who sings? The current meal is not many years later, but will treat singing ugly as a cute meal, not to mention that Dachang is now recruiting for the third term, and if she wants to stay in the future, she will be made a member of the third term.

"No, at least for now, this precedent can't be set." Zhou Xiao finally figured out how to deal with the big field.

Beckoning over a staff member and said: "Dachang question, leave her after the audition is over, ask her if she is interested in signing with AZX instead of signing with AKB, and then the third phase of the student will not let her go for the time being, and let her participate in the fourth phase of the student selection after AZX internal training she has reached a certain level." Zhou Xiaodao.

"Fourth-term students?" Not only did the staff not know, but even Qiu Yuankang on Zhou Xiao's side was stunned, these three students have not been recruited and they have started to look for four students? And according to AKB's current recruitment rate, the recruitment time of the fourth phase of students will not be too late, under a year or a few months of training, the progress of the field may not be too large, in this case, what is the difference between the third phase of students and the fourth phase of students?

Zhou Xiao saw that the people on the side didn't quite understand, so he explained: "The first three students will eventually become the main body of the three groups A, K, and B, but the fourth period students are different, after there is already a main body, the fourth period of students will gradually be added to the three groups, and before they are not added, they will go through a period of substitution period, this Shi Qi We can call their state a graduate student, a girl like Dachang, it may be more difficult to become a full member, but it should be no problem to become a graduate student and slowly cultivate." ”

"Understood, but Zhou Xiao...... You even thought of that Cheng dù? Fourth-term students? Yasu Akimoto asked.

"The future is still vague, but you always have to think a little more." Zhou Xiao said.

After the discussion about the big field ended, the selection continued, and after a few relatively inconsequential selections, another girl who was noticed walked in front of Zhou Xiao and the others.

"Hello everyone, I'm Kazuko Hasa No. XX, from Osaka. Eighteen years old......" the girl said with her head bowed with the microphone.

"Huh? What the? Qiu Yuankang asked, no wonder he would ask this, among the people present, except for Zhou Xiao, who had been prepared, almost none of the others heard Qin Zuo and Zi speak clearly, and the eighteen-year-old girl's voice was too small.

"I'm Kazuko Hasasa, eighteen years old from Osaka." Qin Zuo and Zi repeated his words again, and this time it was finally a little clearer.

"It's not like a girl from Osaka at all......" one of the judges sighed.

Osaka's aunt is notoriously unrestrained, and Osaka is also the home of Yoshimoto Kogyoto, a famous funny city in Japan. Such a region and city are a bit like Northeast China, but it's really strange that the girls who come out here are so shy.

After the other judges casually asked a few questions, Zhou Xiao said, "Let's start your performance." ”

Qin Zuo and Zi chose an anime song, and the girl sang at a loud volume, it can be seen that although she is shy, she is not afraid of performing, but her voice is a little shaky when she sings, and her voice is not stable at all, so that the judges can hear it very lightly, this girl has hardly done the slightest professional training.

"How's this?" Zhou Xiao asked.

"Well...... It's not bad, but is it really okay to be so shy? Someone asked.

"Shy? That's how fun it is. When such a girl appears on the stage, it makes people want to bully it, and have you forgotten what it means to be contrasting and cute? The more girls like this, the more they will feel the contrast after cultivating a wail that is somewhat different from their own image. Zhou Xiao said.

"Zhou Xiao. How do I feel that your ability to be a person is more powerful than that of you as a singer. Akimoto said.

After Zhou Xiao's explanation, everyone also accepted the possibility of Qin Zuo Kazuko entering the team, this girl may not be the apex of the whole team, but as a member with a clear role. She should also be able to occupy a pretty good position in the team.

The members who had not been in their previous lives entered the sight of Zhou Xiao and the other judges one by one, asked questions, and then sang. In the end, the decision of whether to enter the third phase was made, and the members completed their appearances one by one, and finally it was time for only two people to stay.

These two people are naturally Mayu Watanabe and Airi Suzuki.

Putting these two people at the end is actually Zhou Xiao's good intentions, not for these two girls, but for other girls.

Mayu Watanabe first appeared with a microphone.

12-year-old little Watanabe Mayu, in the later AKB rice group evaluation is "monkey", that's right, this morale Mayu is a little monkey form Watanabe Mayu, not uncute and not beautiful, but her thin and small appearance is indeed very much like a little monkey.

Little Watanabe Mayu stood in front of everyone with the microphone, stared at Zhou Xiao with his eyes and said, "Hello everyone, my name is Watanabe Mayou, and I am 12 years old this year. ”

"Mayu Watanabe? Why did you come to the AKB audition? Akimoto asked casually.

"I liked it so much, so I gave it a try." Of course, Xiao Mayou would not say that he had been preparing for today for many years, so he had to say so.

"And what do you think is your advantage?" Yasu Akimoto continued to ask.

"Advantages? It's singing......" the girl said.

"Okay, then you can get started." Akimoto said.

Mayu Watanabe operated the karaoke machine in front of her, and the music came out quickly, and the song she chose was neither AKB's nor Zhou Xiao's brother's, but a song "kissorkiss" by Nana Kitade

This girl named Nana Kitade also sings pop rock, and one of her songs became the ending song of "Fullmetal Alchemist", and Mayu Watanabe's choice of this animated singer's song undoubtedly highlights her otaku attributes.

As for the song itself, there is nothing special about it, but the special thing is Mayu Watanabe's singing.

The original singer sang this song with a faint electronic tone and a lazy style, while Mayu Watanabe sang this song with a steady outrageous appearance, as if the person singing this song was not a 12-year-old girl but a female singer who had been in the entertainment industry for many years.

"Awesome!" The judges all heard it.,Mayu Watanabe is obviously after years of systematic vocal training.,For vocal reasons,When she sings, there won't be a sense of heaviness in the second phase of her life.,AKB's very famous singer Masuda Yuhua.,But a girl with a delicate voice doesn't mean that singing can't have singing skills.,Xiao Mayou's voice is still a girl's cute voice.,But in terms of singing skills,To put it mildly,From today's third-term student selection to push back,All the girls are added together, Her singing skills are still the best! Not one of them!

Such Watanabe Mayu, such excellent singing skills, even if it is Watanabe Mayu nine years later, maybe there is still a little bit of a gap from the current little Mayou!

Everyone's hearts couldn't help but think: "Zhou Xiao really picked up a treasure this time!" (To be continued......)