351 The Final Selection of the Third Phase [Part 2]
After four rounds of selection, the whole day has actually passed. Although the final selection started at 8 o'clock in the morning, it is already past 7 o'clock in the evening. Not to mention the candidates, even the judges can't stand it.
In order to shorten the time, candidates' meals are taken turns, while the judges continue to review while eating. However, after the four rounds of selection, the judges already knew which girls were hopeless. After all, their basic skills were not up to date. No matter how they performed exceptionally in the final comprehensive ability interview, they would not attract the attention of the judges.
In the interview with comprehensive abilities, two things are basically determined: whether the girls who are on the verge of elimination have the potential to be worthy of operation and training and absorb them; and whether the girls who have already determined whether to be qualified will be assigned to Team B or stay in graduate students. If you can enter Group B, you will naturally have to consider combat power, while when you enter a graduate student, you will have to consider her multiple potentials.
The first person to appear in the final selection was Aika Tada. At this time, Aika Tada was not the "outdated female idol" who was forced to leave HKT48 in the later generations. Now Aika Tada was unanimously favored by the judges present, and even was designated as the "ACE reserve" by Yasuhiro Aika.
But Akimoto Yasuhiro is a bit "killed and buried". The resources he gave Tada Aika's identity as "ACE Reserve" is just a UNIT song. There is not even a performance song with her as the C position, so how can it fit the positioning of "ACE Reserve"? Fans' impression of Tada Aika is also limited to "warabian Mato's enemy".
In this plane, Lin Junshui will not praise Aika Tada too high. She will be the backbone of Group B, but she will definitely not be ACE. When she needs to expand her territory in the future, she will be the main player of the headquarters. There are too many strong players on the stage in Tokyo, and maybe Fukuoka is her stage.
"This child scores very high, and has a natural idol face!" Akimoto Yasuhiro commented softly to Lin Junxiu. At this time, Aika Tada was indeed a cute and pure appearance, which was very in line with the aesthetic requirements of Japanese otaku for idols. "This child is worth our efforts to cultivate."
"She is indeed worth cultivating, but I think it's difficult for her to make a fortune in AKB48." Lin Junxiu knew that Aika Tada's shortcomings are her personality.
AKB48 is the most dazzling idol girl group in Japan, but it is also the most cruel idol Shura field in Japan. Idols who can gain a foothold in AKB48 and climb to the selection group or even the ACE position are definitely not enough to rely solely on strength, and luck and personality are indispensable.
If Aika Tada is just a member of the selection group or Under Girls, then she will be at ease in AKB48. But if she wants to compete for "Shen Qi" or even ACE, Aika Tada will definitely repeat the same mistakes, so Lin Junsoo is not ready to give too many resources.
"Akimoto-san, this child is suitable for the expatriate power when we develop local sister groups, and she is not suitable for staying in Tokyo."
Akimoto Yasuke looked at Aika Tada, but didn't know how much he heard about Lin Junxiu's words. After Aika Tada, several of them performed a little badly, and then several girls who were later AKB48 variety shows appeared. However, at this time, AKB48 had not yet established a special variety show department, so these girls were naturally wiped out.
However, Lin Junxiu asked her assistant to talk to the girl who wrote, expressing her hope that they can participate in the next four episodes of student selection. According to Lin Junxiu's idea, in addition to having its own idol program, AKB48 should also form a team to sweep their faces at major variety shows. The ratings of Japanese variety shows are not only high and stable, but also importantly, they basically do not overlap with the idol program ratings, which is conducive to AKB48's expansion of influence outside the circle.
"Do you have expectations for those girls just now?" Akimoto Yasu sat next to Lin Junxiu, and of course he heard Lin Junxiu's instructions.
"Yes." Lin Junxiu did not hide her thoughts, "In fact, the 4th group of cute groups and 8th group of Yujie after Ace Group A, Yuanqi Group B, and Literary Group K are relatively vague positions. After these five groups, how should we select girls? In fact, in addition to being candidates for the five groups, the current graduate student group can also train them to go on the routes of models, actors, variety shows, etc. alone.
Since SMAP, the path of traditional idols has actually been broadened. If we have members who can succeed in the fields of modeling, actors and variety shows, then AKB48's survival ability in the Japanese art circle will be infinitely enhanced. Akimoto-san, my ambition is not just to be a girl idol group that has been in the red for ten years, my goal is twenty years, or even thirty years!
Even if I have announced that I will withdraw from the art circle one day, I still hope that the teenagers at that time will still like AKB48. Therefore, I must make the members of AKB48 have unlimited possibilities."
"I didn't expect Lin Jun to think that it was so far away." Akimoto Katsura smiled awkwardly.
Although Akimoto Yasushi said that idols are his dream! Career! But after getting along for a long time, I knew that this guy still wanted to make money after he put it bluntly, but he just wanted to build a good archway.
The highlights of the final selection this time are actually focused on two people. One is Yuki Kashiki who is very optimistic about Lin Junshu, and the other is Mayo Watanabe who entered the final selection list through normal selection.
To be honest, if it weren't for seeing the list of people like Watanabe Mai, Lin Junsoo really planned to fire all the people in charge of the selection. It would be fine if Kashiki Yuki missed it, Watanabe Mai is the "Next Generation ACE" you have decided on yourself! As for who will have better results, the others are also holding back their anger.
But Lin Junxiu didn't care, because he knew that Watanabe Mayou was one of the few cases where parallel plane operations were not missed. However, the operation put the title of "Next Generation ACE" on Watanabe Mayou early, which caused a lot of hatred for her early development. Naturally, this kind of thing would not happen again in this plane, because Lin Junxiu had already set the ACE inheritance of AKB48, and he would not allow any more trouble.
AKB48 will have SMAP, which has the so-called Leader and ACE, which is the "double TOP system". The Leader is of course Takahashi Minami, and she will be the solid defender of AKB48. No matter how big the problem AKB48 is, as long as Takahashi Minami is still there, Lin Junshui will know that AKB48 can set sail again. ACE will be a battle between two kings. The first generation of the two kings will be Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima; the second generation will be Maeda Mato and Reino Ishihara; as for the third generation, there may be Jorina Matsui, but her opponents may not appear yet.
Lin Junxiu will not allow the second generation of double kings to usurp the throne when the first generation of double kings is still in power, because this is completely destroying the popularity and reputation of the second generation of double kings. Although it sounds a bit ridiculous to be in an orderly manner, if we want to ensure the smooth transition of AKB48, then such an arrangement is obviously necessary.
"Tsk, the Kashiki Yuki you chose is a bit inferior to the Mai Watanabe." After the two highly-watched candidates left, Akimoto Yasui complained to Lin Junxiu with some gloating. "With a little training, this little Maiya can become the second Atsuko Maeda."
"I have known that Yuki Kashiki's strength ceiling is there for a long time. I chose her not because she has the ability to become the next generation of ACE, but because she will be the irreplaceable one in our AKB48." Lin Junsoo explained to Akimoto Yasu, "In the operation and training AKB48 in the end, I wish I could have a lot of ace members. As a result, the entire AKB48 became an inverted pyramid. Do you think this way can be stable?
If we start from a business perspective, we hope that the more backbone members, the better. This can reduce the quota of bottom members, which can reduce costs, and at the same time increase the success rate of ace members, and make more money. So AKB48 will develop into an olive shape, but it still cannot stand it! Akimoto-san, we should be more tolerant of bottom members and allow these members who seem to be mediocre. After all, the mediocre people in our eyes are their favorite in the eyes of fans.
At the same time, we must also cultivate some players in the middle layer. When the ace charges in front, the middle layer also needs to lead everyone to open up a new front in the second battlefield, right? Watanabe Mato was found to charge, but I found people like Yuki Kashiki and Aika Tada to open up a second battlefield. Our goals are different, and the selection criteria are naturally different.
Akimoto-san, I said at the beginning that unless the operation goes the wrong way, I will never interfere with your operation strategy. This promise is still effective and I do it. Even if something unpleasant happened in this third-phase student selection, please believe that I am targeting things but not you. What I want to correct is the matter itself, not someone."
Lin Junxiu's words made Akimoto Katsu much more relieved. After seeing Lin Junxiu's power, Akimoto Katsu was also very afraid of him. Who knows if he would be kicked out by Lin Junxiu one day? Especially in this third-phase student selection, Akimoto Katsu was almost trembling. However, after getting Lin Junxiu's exact statement, Akimoto Katsu also felt relieved and began to carefully examine his list.
According to the plan, Team B will also select 20 people, but in the future, it may only retain one captain and 16 team members. In addition to the 20 official members, 10 of the remaining 50 people will be shortlisted for the graduate team. After the list is confirmed, there will be a press conference for Group B, the first performance and the preparation of the fourth single. In short, there are really too many things about AKB48.
In parallel planes, AKB48's fourth single is "Uniformity is Really Intrusive", while the fifth single is "Love Is Disdained". The themes of these two singles are "Girl Aid" and "School Bullying", which are very serious themes, so they are not particularly consistent with the positioning of a girl idol like AKB48. In addition, Akimoto Yasushi was also worried that AKB48 was not popular for a long time, so the lyrics were written particularly darkly.
To be honest, the Japanese entertainment industry is still very tolerant of creation. It is not strange for idols to sing songs with serious themes. There are even some underground idols who sing songs like "Down with Capitalism". But the problem is that you should do serious themes well. Why do you have to let AKB48 sing these songs in the name of negative images such as "responsible girls"?
If these songs become popular, it would be fine, at least I can praise you AKB48. But the problem is that AKB48 made such a huge sacrifice but still did not become popular. So these two singles became the dark history of AKB48. Lin Junsu would never allow AKB48 to sing these two singles. Even if she really wants to produce singles with serious themes in the future, she must not sing them from a negative image.
If you don’t use the two songs in the history of AKB48, Lin Junshui thought of finding two songs from Nogizaka 46 to supplement it. Although there are differences in styles between AKB48 and Nogizaka 46, both are girl idols after all. There is no problem with AKB48 singing songs like Nogizaka 46 occasionally.
Lin Junsoo thought about it and decided to take the two singles of Nogizaka 46's "Benz! Bicycle" and "Your Name is Hope" to AKB48. "Benz! Bicycle" is a single with a campus love style, and there is no problem when it comes to AKB48; and "Your Name is Hope" is an early hit song from Nogizaka 46. It is not only the champion single but also the 78th week of the chart, but also played Yamashita Tomohisa who was on the charts at the same time. With sales of nearly 50,000 copies per week, it put Yamashita Tomohisa in the runner-up position, so you can imagine the quality of this single. Moreover, the song "Your Name is Hope" is full of positive energy, which is very in line with the mainstream expectations of idols in society. Thinking of this, Lin Junsoo decided to take the time to get these two songs out and register the copyright.
Chapter completed!