Chapter 390: The Proposal Ends
One of the questions raised by Ayumi Orii's graduation is who will be the one who will lead the AKB, but this question is not a problem for Zhou Xiao, before the performance on the second day of Origei's graduation, Zhou Xiao specifically found Takahashi Minami and Ayumi Orii, on the one hand, let Ayumi Orui cultivate the little sister of Ayumi Takahashi in the month or so before graduation, and on the other hand, he also encouraged Minami Takahashi to bravely take on the leadership role after Ayumi Orii left.
At the end of the day, the third class students also took to the stage of the AKB Theater.
Mayou and Ai naturally stood in the center, and on their flanks were Tada Aika and Kikuchi Ayaka, as for Li Chun, she was arranged by Zhou Xiao in the second row, not to underestimate her, but her age and identity were a little sensitive, and Zhou Xiao felt that there was no need to push her to the forefront immediately.
The 17-person three-term students attracted a burst of cheers, for the second-term students, this group of third-term students is also a great help to them, and now it's just a third-term student as an alternate, and the first job is to take on the substitute work of the people who can't play in the team, and the historical TeamB, until April 07, will not start the official performance, and the real original performance, will not start until March 08.
In fact, although it seems that both AK groups have six performances and B groups have five performances, in fact, there are six performances in Group A, five in Group K, and only three in Group B.
When the girls appeared in front of the stage, Zhou Xiao hid on the edge of the stage and watched, AKB's foundation was born in the first three periods, and the so-called seven gods who later played a huge role in AKB's popularity were all produced in the first three periods, and now Zhou Xiao's AKB has some changes, and the biggest change is here in Group B, Airi Suzuki replaced Yuki Kashiwagi who has not yet been in Beijing, Group B in history. At first, it was the situation where Mayu Watanabe's family was dominant, and Yuki Kashiwagi was more like assisting her in the storage zài, and it was only after Kashiwagi's super leap forward and the third place in the general election that people really put her and Mayu Watanabe together psychologically.
But now Airi Suzuki and Mayou are different, in Zhou Xiao's plan, these two people were originally tied together, and the two will not be separated in the team, if there is really a god seven or something in the future, if these two people enter together, who will be excluded from the god seven?
This kind of thing will have its own answer in the future. Now, a few days after the announcement of the third term, five members of the third term have been dismissed by AKB's operations for the reason that they "failed to pass the examination".
Originally, Zhou Xiao thought that five people would dismiss four and keep one that happened to be combined with the three people who had migrated from Group A to form a group B of 16 people, but after a few days of training, the real third-term students found that the five people who were eliminated really everyone had their own reasons for being eliminated, some were found to be in love with men as soon as they entered, some were extremely unserious about training, and there was even a girl who secretly bullied Li Chun during training! Can you bear it? Absolutely intolerable. It's been a few days since I entered the AKB, and my true form has been revealed, not to mention how this person is, this IQ alone is already very worrying.
In the end, one is no more and one is not less. All five girls were still eliminated from AKB, and the third class had already lost five members before they even started a performance.
After five people were eliminated in these three phases, a problem arose.
Originally, the number of members in Zhou Xiao's AKB was very compact. Group A originally had 18 people, Group K had 16 people, and now Group B has 12 people. But when Orii Bu graduated, there were only 17 people left in Group A, and if three more people were moved, there would be only 14 people left in Group A, and the helpless Zhou Xiao had to reduce the three people who were scheduled to move to two people again, and finally formed a list of 15 people in Group A, 16 people in Group K, and 14 people in Group B.
Yes, that's right, even so, AKB is still three places short of the 16-man group that would have been the most suitable and suitable group.
Where are you going to dig up three more people? You can't let Nana Ozaki come back, right? If you want to say that Zhou Xiao can find out a suitable substitute, for the time being, there is only Daiba Mina.
But Dachang is the object that Zhou Xiao doesn't want to choose the most, she doesn't meet the level of AKB no matter what she sings and dances now, and reluctantly letting her go will only make the rice have a nasty love for AKB.
And a few days after the announcement of the third phase of the students, the situation of AKB's new single was also revealed within AKB.
"VeryBeauty" is a rare good song, but the girls also heard it in the sample, and this song is still a certain difficulty.
Along with this song, there is also a list of selection groups.
In the original AKB's fourth single, the selection members were members of groups A and K, and there were no members of group B, after all, although the members of group B have entered the team now, their understanding of them and the selection of the members of the strong promotion are still unclear.
In addition, there is also the reason for the content of the song, two standard dark songs, it is obviously not suitable for eleven or twelve-year-old girls to enter the selection, but now it is naturally no longer a problem to change to Zhou Xiao, Mayou and Airi are inevitable Group B center, and the original dark songs have also been replaced with two beautiful and inspirational songs, so that there is no problem in selecting the two girls into the selection group.
Will the rest of Group B disagree with this question? It's very simple, if any of you can surpass any of the two in any of the three links of singing, appearance and dancing, we will consider you to enter the selection group, but it turns out that even the best dancer in the team, Yoka Katayama, is still a little bit away from the dance of the two, who has let these two girls go through so many kinds of professional training in the past few years.
The members of the selection team decided to shoot the music video and recorded the song.
Because it's a new song, the content of the MV is naturally new, and Zhou Xiao didn't directly use the idea of the B version of the MV, H! P company's MV investment in its Good Morning Niang, B Gong and other groups has always been low, and many songs are simply recorded in the studio for song and dance versions, more exaggerated such as Mayno Erina's song, and also used the MV with only a girl's face throughout the whole process, when I saw this kind of MV, Zhou Xiao was of course stared at by Mano Eeri for a few minutes and was quite comfortable. But after the song ends, it is inevitable to complain, this budget is too low......
Zhou Xiao, who couldn't find any familiar directors for a while, directly found Qiu Yuan Yasu and asked him to recommend it, Qiu Yuan Yasu's relationship in the industry is not ordinary, and it was easy to find a director to produce the single, this person is Sunaga Hideaki, in fact, the fourth single of AKB in the previous life was directed by this director, and now although the producer has changed the song and changed, the director position of AKB's four singles still fell into his hands by mistake.
The members of Group B have met both AK groups before. But the members of the three groups have not had any joint practice with each other for the time being, and they are not familiar with each other, and on the day of the recording, they are the first time they have seen Mayou and Airi.
The previous AK two groups may have heard that there were two little girls in group B who were super good at singing, but they had no idea how powerful these two girls were, and as soon as the single was recorded, the girls in the AK two groups were completely calmed down, because they found that the sample of the single is expected to be released in January next year. It was recorded by these two girls! When did they record when they just joined the team!?
Not only did I not know when they recorded, but the real strength of the two of them also shocked the girls present.
It sounded like they had picked two octave transpositions in a row, and the two of them sang it easily, turning a thousand times in one lyric. There are many ups and downs in a row, and the person who sings seems to have a heart fluttering with it!
The song "Verybeauty" made them sing so beautifully, it was really convincing.
Although the two little girls sang very well. When the members of the AK two groups were more relieved, Zhou Xiao did not have the plan to push them to the front so quickly, and the two little girls were placed in the most corner of the song. In the end, after the recording of the song, the voices of the two girls were not obvious, as if they only appeared in the selection of this single as representatives of the third phase of the students.
Of course, there are some subtexts that can't be spoken, and the girls in both AK groups are very clear, that is, these two girls are afraid that they have an internal relationship with AKB or even AZX before they enter the group, otherwise it is impossible to directly let them sing song samples.
And this is what Zhou Xiao has thought about a long time ago, I may not push the two girls to the front now, but you don't think that the two of them can bully the order casually, these two little girls are my people, and they are the people who operate.
At the same time that the dust has finally settled on AKB's affairs this year, the finale of "Marriage Proposal" has also arrived.
The original work coupled with Zhou Xiao's own efforts has made the ratings of this show quite good, and it is not only this, the huge audience of Zhou Xiao's works has made this drama liked by many people, especially the sentence "Hallelujah ~chance~" in the play has gained huge popularity, in mid-December, Tomohisa Yamashita even participated in this year's Buzzword Awards, because of this line, he brought him a trophy for this year's Buzzword Awards that he didn't know whether it should belong to him or Zhou Xiao.
With such a huge amount of attention, the 11-episode "Marriage Proposal" finally came to the final episode.
A passage at the wedding of the male protagonist Ken Iwase attracted the emotion of many boys, and the heroine looked at the boys' efforts again and again in the slides, and the confession of awakening also made many girls feel love and pity for the person who had lived up to them.
Awakening such regrets and making the audience truly empathize has become the biggest advantage of Zhou Xiao's drama.
Although the "Marriage Proposal" in the previous life was a masterpiece, it was broadcast on such a big stage as Yuejiu, but in the end it was still so bad in terms of attention, and now it is replaced by Zhou Xiao, and its own high attention and the excellence of the work have finally succeeded in making this Zhou Xiao's favorite work Nirvana, and made a leap on the basis of 20% ratings!
From the middle of the broadcast, the topicality plus attention, coupled with the quality of its own work, the ratings of "The Marriage Proposal" began to soar based on 20%, 25%, 27%, and then ...... 30%!
And at this point, those who didn't pay attention to this film couldn't help but start paying attention, and people found that Zhou Xiao in the past two years seems to have become the same character as Takuya Kimura a few years ago. People began to stop thinking about whether his works would look good, but directly considered how to look at them, who to look at, and when to look at them.
There's no way, who let this guy never shoot a "more ordinary" level of work, his works, each has a new perspective, each one is a unique story, so he, which screenwriter compares with the director?
After getting 30% of the ratings, "Marriage Proposal" did not stop its pace, and finally, the finale of episode 11. This production got a super high rating of 36%, and under the super high ratings, every Monday at 9 o'clock, if someone is in a TV monopoly position in a big shopping mall, or in any place with a lot of TVs such as Express Hotel, you will find that almost every TV set is playing the same content at that time!
Frankly speaking, Zhou Xiao himself doesn't care very much about ratings, high or low, these are all works that he will inevitably create. But he is very happy to get such a high rating, and the ratings far exceed the original work, because this is undoubtedly equivalent to his hard work being recognized, and his work is better than the original. This is also very important, although he is the only one in the world who can confirm it.
The super high ratings also made the members of AKB fall in love with Zhou Xiao's worship of the five bodies, and their brother who made the zuò people could have such a huge success while leading them to work hard. It's really fascinating, and what makes it a little unbearable for these girls is where they are now.
Zhou Xiao's movies and Japanese dramas this year have achieved quite good results, but anyone with a discerning eye can see it. Most of Zhou Xiao's thoughts are actually on the idol group AKB48 he founded.
And what is unacceptable is that the AKB composed of this group of girls is okay if they have good grades, but now? The single sales of this group of girls are less than a fraction of Zhou Xiao's works, and even more so in terms of fame, if you ask a random person on the street of Tokyo, all 100 people may know Zhou Xiao, but there is a high probability that none of them know what AKB is.
Zhou Xiao's ability is no longer questioned, no matter what Zhou Xiao does, ordinary people will think that Zhou Xiao must be able to do a good job, so why is this group of girls' appearance not good? Obviously, this group of girls is not good enough, Zhou Xiao's songs, Zhou Xiao's plans, are undoubtedly very good, it is your lack of ability and strength that makes Zhou Xiao's plan not see the effect for a long time, in short, it is your fault.
This kind of attack put the girls under tremendous pressure, and for them, they actually have similar suspicions, why is Brother Zhou Xiao so good at doing other things, and the AKB of his own group can't become popular? Sure enough, it's still your own problem, right?
I thought about it so much that the girls themselves believed it.
Zhou Xiao soon received a reminder from AKB's operations, and the operation staff who were observing the girls all the time asked Zhou Xiao to go over and enlighten the girls, otherwise, these girls may become more unconfident and even lose their fighting spirit.
After hearing the staff's request, Zhou Xiao also attached great importance to it, although his appearance made many girls proud, but it also made them lose a lot of fighting spirit, which was also unexpected by him.
On this day's performance, Zhou Xiao came to the theater to watch it in person.
Because it was approaching the end of the year, the whole of Tokyo, Akihabara, and the Don Quixote building began to be decorated with Christmas and New Year atmosphere, Zhou Xiao did not go backstage but went directly to the audience and sat in the theater where he had reserved a place for him, where he was ready to watch today's girls' performance.
Zhou Xiao's appearance caused a burst of exclamations from the otaku, this group of otaku should be a group that has no respect for Zhou Xiao in the Japanese entertainment industry, because Zhou Xiao really has no shelf in the theater, and he will come out to chat with people at every turn and ask for their opinions on AKB, so he doesn't look like a super artist at all, just a modest person who has just debuted in a girl group.
"Zhou Xiaosang! Red and white MC, congratulations! An otaku suddenly shouted loudly.
"Congratulations!" Others shouted,
Zhou Xiao was a little flattered and quickly stood up and bowed to thank him, he didn't expect these otaku to congratulate him, in fact, for these otaku, they are not blind and stupid, Zhou Xiao has indeed done a lot of things for AKB this year, and he is wholeheartedly running such a group that is not very good in terms of talent, if you are wholeheartedly devoted to them, they will naturally thank you for what you have done for AKB and what you have brought them.
After bowing in a circle and thanking the people present, Zhou Xiao finally sat down and began to watch the girls' performances.
Today's performance in the theater is a surprise performance of Group A, and the songs are selected to be put together with some songs performed by Group A and the singles that have been released, and as soon as the girls appeared on the stage, Zhou Xiao saw that behind the lineup, two little men, but their eyes were flashing and searching for the figure under the stage while dancing.
It seems that today Mayu Watanabe and Airi Suzuki, two little girls, are substitutes for the members of Group A for a performance. (To be continued......)