Chapter 557: Ten Phases of Life and NMB
Although the road ahead is difficult and dangerous, Zhou Xiao's state of mind is very firm.
His soul is Chinese, he is a Chinese who likes the Japanese entertainment industry, so if in the distant future, it is his biggest dream to let the Chinese entertainment industry also have a part of the Japanese entertainment industry, this part of the things does not need too much, the Chinese entertainment industry will be a big circle, so that the whole circle of the Japanese entertainment industry playing small belly chicken intestines is overkill, but in Zhou Xiao's opinion, in fact, it is not too much, as long as he can master the aspect of the female idol group, Zhou Xiao's purpose is just so, He just hopes to see a relatively pure female idol in the Chinese entertainment industry.
This road will start with SNH, but Zhou Xiao hopes that SNH is just the beginning, he hopes that after SNH, there will be more girl groups that are more in line with the views of idols in his eyes, and he will be good as long as he runs this industry well in the future.
The development of foreign countries is only a prospect and preparation, and the development of China, because of the current strength of AKB, has also begun to enter the preparation period.
There are two aspects to this so-called domestic development, one is the selection of ten-term students, and the other is NMB48.
Let's talk about the ninth phase before talking about the tenth phase of the student, and now it has been more than half a year since the ninth term of the student joined, and the group of girls of the ninth term of the student are now facing a completely different situation from Zhou Xiao's previous life, and the ninth phase of the previous life is facing the eighth phase of the seniors who are said to be very useless, and there are even people who hate AKB mixed in, and now the ninth phase of the students are facing the eighth phase of the students led by Yamamoto Aya Yamamoto, which makes the girls receive a stricter and more competitive education from the beginning, And the first people to show themselves in this competition were Takashi Ishiguro and Yamauchi Suzuran.
Ishiguro is already a rather regrettable girl, even in a group with great potential and talent like the ninth term, Ishiguro is still the top one in appearance, so in this year's general election, although she has only been in the AKB for less than a year, she was able to win a position in the general election. That alone is enough to make people feel amazing.
However, such a girl eventually left AKB, because shortly after the general election, she was exposed to a headpost.
In this life, will it still be this result? And the most dilemma for Zhou Xiao is that if the girl's headpost is stabbed to herself again in this life, should he fire her?
You know, the current AKB has not fired anyone because of the time of the big sticker. Girls like Ayaka Kikuchi, who had had problems with headshots, have returned to the lineup after a long period of graduate school.
Zhou Xiao's final consideration is that Ishiguro is the key himself, and Ayaka Kikuchi did not leave AKB before, the main reason is that her so-called big head sticker was taken with a man before joining the group, and the girl herself has no bad deeds in AKB, and she finally returned to the main selection lineup because of her very hard work in her long graduate career, and AKB rice has also accepted her anew.
For Ishiguro, Zhou Xiao is also ready to adopt this method. It depends on the girl's own thoughts and actions to determine her final outcome, and if she only took such a picture with a man after entering the AKB, then the team still can't keep her.
In fact, Zhou Xiao herself doesn't care much about the fact that AKB members are in love, but the most important thing for a girl to stay is not whether she is in love or not, but that she can't leave a bad impression with AKB members. If other people think it's okay to fall in love, it's not okay to be allowed.
On the other hand, an idol who falls in love will actually produce negative value, if the value generated by an idol and her own importance are a number, falling in love will greatly reduce this number and it will be difficult to regain its heyday. At this time, it is very important how much capital an idol itself has, a powerful idol. If you go to a man's house for the night, you can continue to stay in the team, but the weak idols can only graduate gloomily, and they can't all say that they are running and taking care of the powerful idols, because the little idols themselves know very well that even if they stay in AKB, their road will not be easy to walk, because their original low scores have been completely reduced to zero or even plural, and there may still be many people who support her, but the most critical future has become bleak.
What can really be reversed like the original ...... There is no one in 10,000.
In addition to Ishiguro, another opportunity during this period was Yamauchi Lily of the Valley.
The girl ...... It is a pity to say that it is better to blame herself for a certain process, or that she did not seize the greatest opportunity in her life that the god of fate gave her.
In the 2010 general election of Zhou Xiao's previous life, only two graduate students entered the final list of 40 people, one of which was the 40-ranked Ishiguro Takaji, and the other was the 36-ranked Yamauchi Suzuran, after the Ishiguro accident, Yamauchi Suzuran became the only graduate student to enter the general election, look at who is behind her, relying on salt to correspond to Haruka Shimazaki who finally won the AKB single center, and Yokoyama Yui who is the general supervisor of the second term...... Being able to get so much attention at this time actually shows her potential in itself.
What kind of girl is Yamauchi? In Zhou Xiao's eyes, Yamauchi Lily of the Valley is actually a bit like a Japanese specialty Ichihata funny artist.
There are three things that this girl is famous for, one is that she is a good counterpart to a angler at the handshake party, the second is her golf ability, and the third is that she is said to be rich in the family.
Relying on the positioning of the three roles, just like a funny artist becoming popular with a joke, Yamauchi Suzuran quickly won a lot of eyeballs, and even beat girls such as Miyu Takeuchi and Takashi Ishiguro, who had been in the front row at the beginning of the ninth period.
But alas...... It's like a funny artist's one-shot house.,This kind of example of becoming popular by character positioning,Of course, the continuity of the wheel is not comparable to the real ability.,Although Reina Yamauchi even had her own golf title show when she was at her most energetic.,But whether it's singing and dancing,Personality or MC are a little lackluster The girl finally declined.,In the end, I can only move to SKI to get a pension-like position.,It's a pity to sigh about fate.。
In addition to Yamauchi Suzuran and Ishiguro Takaji, the other members of the ninth phase have not yet shown their strength, especially Haruka Shimazaki and Yokoyama Yui, the former's appearance level is very high, but if you really want to take off, you have to wait for the line of salt correspondence to be released. And the latter's personal role also needs to be deepened, until the fans gradually understand her serious efforts and see her excellent performance on stage and handshakes.
With such a ninth-term student, the enrollment of tenth-term students is also exciting.
But the last person recruited by the tenth phase of the student is not satisfactory, although Zhou Xiao knows this, but he can't change anything, although he has always refused many girls who could have appeared in AKB to enter here for the sake of AKB, but the overall existence of the members of the first phase, Zhou Xiao still doesn't seem to be corrected.
AKB's 10th graduate status is actually quite embarrassing. Because the aura of the ninth phase of the student is too dazzling, on the other hand, you will feel that the "quality" of the tenth phase is really very ordinary.
Among the several qualified people in the tenth period,In addition to the two who failed to persevere,Among the other eight people,Anna Iriyama and Reina Kato should be the two with the highest potential,These two girls have a very top appearance Suzhì,In addition to Iriyama Kato,Abe Maria who takes the model route。 Mori Kobayashi on the otaku route, Nakamata Shiori, and the dark-skinned Nana Fujita are just passers-by in the team.
As for the remaining two, it is even more wonderful, one is a lemon character who has brushed a lot of deposits. But in fact, it's a hard worker's route.,After being fired from the office, Ichikawa Miori, who pretended to go to work every day and actually went to the park.,And Zhou Xiao never knew why he was able to enter AKB.,It's a good EV wife who can still mix (?) Rina Izuda......
Such a can only be regarded as barely able to get it. In the end, there are only a handful of ten students who really become talents, and they are even more ten students after the golden ninth period, so it is understandable that it is a relatively failed existence.
Although a certain course dù on the tenth period of life was not successful. But the selection was still held on time.
The establishment of NMB48 is a lot more troublesome for today's AZX.
Because NMB is going to be established in Osaka, that city and all the places around that city called "Kansai" are the base camp of Yoshimoto Kogyo, even if Yoshimoto Kogyoto's main business is the entertainment and comedy industry, even if female idols and other things have never been their main direction, but AZX wants to enter Osaka, it is still impossible to get rid of Yoshimoto to run alone in Osaka.
Therefore, AZX had to cooperate with Yoshimoto Kogye, but one of the most critical issues in cooperation was ...... Who's in charge?
Yoshimoto and AKS in the previous life, it is obvious that Yoshimoto Kogyo dominates the entire NMB, which also makes NMB the most special one in the AKB group, SKE first belonged to Kyraku as a whole, and later was bought by AKS as a whole, HKT belonged to AKS from the beginning, and in terms of the group's record company, AKB is naturally Sony's office transferred to KingRecords, SKE is Ai Hui, HKT is Universal, only the NMB group belongs to Yoshimoto Kogyo from the beginningEven the record company is Yoshimoto Kogye's own company.
It was impossible for Zhou Xiao to allow this kind of thing to happen.
No matter what Yoshimoto said and what he put in, the minimum proportion of AZX's idol group in Osaka must definitely be more than 51%, which is the basis for everyone to continue talking, and if they can't even agree to this, there will be no need to talk about the cooperation between the two sides in the future.
The relationship between Zhou Xiao and Yoshimoto Xingye is actually more delicate, on the one hand, he has a lot of cooperation with Yoshimoto Xingye's artists, or rather, in the Japanese entertainment industry, Yoshimoto Xingye's artists are almost inseparable, even if you can avoid Genesys, it is impossible to avoid Yoshimoto, and artists are different from artists, can Genesy compare with Yoshimoto? Zhou Xiao seems that if he really wants to compare, if he really wants to tear his face, Janis will be very troublesome.
Even if it is Genesys's idols, such as Nakaju Masahiro are still rare, and most of the other idols are absolutely weak in variety show ability, but Yoshimoto's comedians, who rely on one mouth to make money by eating, don't sing, don't dance, don't act, and don't even have requirements for appearance, Jennis's idols lack comedians to "hold", maybe it will be a lot of trouble, but Yoshimoto's comedians don't need to cooperate with Jennis's idols at all, and in the supply and demand relationship between the two sides, Yoshimoto Xingye has a huge advantage.
AZX is actually the same, in fact, Yoshimoto's influence on AZX is already very small, because in addition to Zhou Xiao's own ability, AZX has always been familiar with artists in the Kanto circle, such as Ota Ariyoshi and others, and artists from offices such as human resources, but even such AZX. still cooperates with Yoshimoto, such as Black Minnaise, who has been starring in Zhou Xiao's title show, and Jun Tamura, who has a very good relationship with Zhou Xiao.
When Zhou Xiao contacted such Yoshimoto, not to mention Tamura Jun, even Shimada Shinsuke and saury were not qualified to attend, and the lowest level of Yoshimoto that Zhou Xiao contacted was their president Hiroshi Osaki.
In fact, it can't be said that the saury is completely speechless in this situation, because Zhou Xiao saw Osaki Yang, and the person Zhou Xiao brought was Uncle Inoue. Osaki Yoshi's side accompanied him to attend was saury and Higashino Koji.
Needless to say, Koji Higashino and his partner are also a pair of artists that Zhou Xiao likes very much, if Zhou Xiao meets these two in other jobs in the entertainment industry, he will definitely do things as a junior, for example, when the two of them come, Zhou Xiao will immediately stand on the side, bow and say hello, etc., but in this environment, Zhou Xiao will not do this at all, after seeing the two, Zhou Xiao just shook his hand lightly. At most, when calling the other person's name, there is an honorific title "San" after it.
In this environment, the status of the two sides is actually unequal, Zhou Xiao and Osaki Yang are equal parties, and as artists under Osaki Yang. At most, the two of them can only accompany the prince to study.
No matter how much Yoshimoto needs to rely on the ability of the two, no matter how high the status of the saury in the company is, this status on the surface cannot be changed.
As for the saury duo, they have long been accustomed to Zhou Xiao's cunning. This is a special guy who can't be measured by common sense, and anyone who doesn't balance his position because of his age has long since died of jealousy.
In fact, Zhou Xiao hates business negotiation the most, for the final goal. The two parties strive for the greatest interests and cooperation possibilities, intrigue and kill time at the same time, Zhou Xiao has never relied on these to make money, if he has a choice, he would prefer to sit in front of the computer, drink Coke for his next work to code thousands of words, and not want to sit in the best restaurant in Japan with Osaki and others to eat kaiseki dishes made by top chefs at the same time.
But these tasks must be done, after all, it is related to the future development of NMB and the most important relationship between AZX and Yoshimoto Kogy.
Therefore, Zhou Xiao still came with his nose, fortunately there was Uncle Inoue by his side, Uncle Inoue, who knew that Zhou Xiao didn't like these, took over most of the negotiation work, and Osaki Yang didn't seem surprised by this, Zhou Xiao's personality seems to be understood by many people, and these people don't expect too much from Zhou Xiao to negotiate contracts.
Yoshimoto is not Kyoto in the end, Yoshimoto, who has too much understanding and control of the entertainment industry, can come up with something far from being comparable to a small steel ball manufacturer like Kyoto, whether it is an advertising contract or a movie or TV series or even a title program, even the cooperation with Yoshimoto artists can be taken out as a bargaining chip, not a cooperation with saury, as long as the newly established NMB cooperates with some local artists in Osaka, it is already a basic and great help, You must know that the newly established AKE and even SKE do not have such good treatment.
A meeting is far from being able to negotiate things, for a whole month from April, Zhou Xiao almost ran to Tokyo and Osaka, not only him, Osaki Yang also came to Tokyo to talk to Zhou Xiao many times and even came to AZX to visit, this kind of exchange between the two companies can not be concealed at all, for a time the entire Japanese entertainment industry is circulating the news that AZX is going to cooperate with Yoshimoto Kogye.
By the beginning of May, the dust had finally settled.
The establishment of NMB48 is finally starting to be put on the agenda, and this time NMB is still a complete AZX system idol, although Yoshimoto has invested a part, but it can still only be regarded as an investor and collaborator, at this point, Akimoto Yasu's control of AKB is far less than that of a wealthy guy like Zhou Xiao.
And to be able to talk about NMB at a price that Zhou Xiao is satisfied with is also related to AKB's strength during this time,In mid-April,AKB's second album release once again shocked the spirit of the Japanese entertainment industry,This album called "Divine Comedy たち" sold 400,000 copies in the first week, this result is more than 100,000 copies higher than the first week of the album sold in Zhou Xiao's previous life, this result is indeed because of the help of some plug-ins, in addition to the additional photo coupon, the album also attached an AKB event coupon for this year's summer festival, But the floating rice that buys this album is still the main buying force, after all, the price of the album is much higher than the single, and the real core rice rarely has the money to buy the album in large quantities.
400,000 sales also means another thing, the momentum of the album is much higher than the single, the first week sales of AKB singles often represent 70% or even more than 80% of the total sales, but the 400,000 sales of the album are likely to account for less than 50% of the total sales, which means that the final sales of this album are likely to reach more than 800,000 copies, if AKB has a chance to become popular in recent months, maybe 800,000 can't be beaten.
Such a booming AKB's recent situation is undoubtedly Zhou Xiao and AZX's biggest reliance during negotiations, and even Uncle Inoue specially came up with AKB's plan for the next single in the future to Yoshimoto, which means very simply, now our cooperation is this requirement, and after a month, we will release the general menu and it will be a swimsuit list, and if there is another wave of sales, it will not be this cooperation requirement!
Under this coercion and temptation, Yoshimoto finally relented, signed a cooperation agreement with AZX, and officially stepped on the female idol ship helmed by Zhou Xiao. (To be continued......)