Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 385 AKS in the Post-Sony Era
conference room.

"Akimoto-san, if Sony quits, what shall we do?" An operation member's face was full of sorrow. He is a new operation member who joined AKS. He just entered AKS and encountered such a desperate situation. Terrible.

"You know, our current funds can only last for a few months. If we can't find new investors as soon as possible, then we, AKS and AKB, have only one way to dissolve!" As the daughter of Ota Office, Kumiko Isono also couldn't hide the deep worry in her tone.

As Yasushi Akimoto's disciple for nearly 20 years, Kumiko Isono of Ota Office's position in AKS operation is also second only to the Big Three.

Speaking of which, the relationship between Ota Office and AKB is a bit interesting.

The time goes back to 05, before AKB was established.

Akimoto Yasushi wanted to start a new female idol group, and he had the idea of ​​a hero and three gangs, so he found his friend Yasushi Kubota for many years, and Yasushi Kubota found Kotaro Shiba, and finally, the three of them got together With the initials of their three surnames, Akimoto, Kubota, and Shiba established AKS.

Among these three people, Akimoto Yasushi is undoubtedly mainly responsible for the planning, Kubota Yasushi is responsible for the money and connections, and it is Shiba Kotaro who established office48.

On the one hand, the money is paid, and on the other hand, it is responsible for the early member affairs, so the rest of the huge chores must be done by people.

Who will do it?
And the person who stepped forward at this time to do these complicated tasks was none other than Yasushi Akimoto's disciple, Kumiko Isino from Ota.

In AKB's related video, in the list of scholar-bureaucrats broadcast, the name of "Kumiko Isono" is listed in the producer column.

In other words, Kumiko Isono is not only a member of the Ota Office, but also a scholar-bureaucrat of AKS.

It can be seen that, in fact, since the establishment of AKB, Ota Office has already been involved in the girl group of AKB.

Come earlier than other firms.

This is also the reason why Ota Office has benefited the most from the wave of AKB immigration.

I will talk about it later.

. . .

"Sony just leaves, we can find other companies to inject capital..." A relatively simple operating member said a little angrily.

As soon as the voice fell, this child who was too innocent was immediately stunned.

"Are you an idiot?! Let's put it nicely now, and we can last for a few months. Put it bluntly, if we don't have a lot of money coming in in a short period of time, we will all be done!"

"Under such a crisis situation, and since our establishment, our books have been in the red. Those companies have no time to hide. How can they be so kind and come to us to inject capital?!" An AKS The old operation member said with a look of hesitation.

"What did you say?!" The unlucky boy was so angry that he stood up abruptly with an angry expression on his face.

Seeing that the two of them were almost performing martial arts, Yasushi Akimoto, who kept his eyes closed and pressed his temples with his hands, opened his eyes, stretched out his hand, and slapped it on the table.

Snapped!
"Quiet!"

Don't look at the fat face that Akimoto Yasushi has always been, "I want to maintain my majesty, so I have to be expressionless".

People who can't see emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy are likely to be people with extremely deep palaces.

Yasushi Akimoto is such a person.

In the entertainment industry, Akimoto Yasushi and Jun Jun, the producer of the Zaoan family, are also experts in female idols and gold medal producers.

And in his twenties, Yasushi Akimoto became a well-known all-round producer in the entertainment industry.

Whether it is writing lyrics, directing screenwriters, supervising programs, or even writing books, he will.

Such a person, in more than [-] years of production career, has never seen such a big storm.

Now, he is very dissatisfied when he sees his subordinates start to show ugly faces when they encounter difficulties.

In his opinion, even if Sony withdrew from AKB, it was not the time to give up because of the connections and huge influence he had accumulated over the years in the entertainment industry, Yasushi Akimoto.

So, he took action to stop his subordinates from showing embarrassment.

As for Yasushi Akimoto, who is the core of AKS, when he spoke, the meeting room fell silent.

Akimoto Yasushi opened his small eyes hidden under the black-rimmed glasses, and scanned the crowd.

After going back and forth twice, he spoke.

"Right now, it's not our hopeless situation."

"Togazaki."

"Yes!" The person who agreed was sitting on the right seat, AKB's theater director Tomobu Kazaki.

This is a middle-aged man with a calm demeanor and thick eyebrows and big eyes, making people feel, "This man is reliable!"

"Next, you must stabilize the members of AKB, and you must not stop the performance in the theater. Everything must continue as usual, understand?"

"Yes!"

"Kumiko."

The next one is Yasushi Akimoto's long-time disciple, direct descendant, Kumiko Isino.

"Yes, Teacher Qiuyuan."

"I will solve the problem of funds as soon as possible. I must not let the outside world know that there is not much left on our books. The more this time, the more we cannot give other people the opportunity to make trouble. Do you understand?" Qiu Yuankang Pushing the glasses on the bridge of the nose, there was no doubt in his tone.

"Yes, I understand."

In this way, Yasushi Akimoto gave specific instructions to the operation members who were in charge of all aspects of AKS affairs one by one.

At last.

"I know that this is a critical time for AKS and probably the most difficult time."

"However, just because Sony gave up, it doesn't mean that we have to give up."

"I will figure out a solution as soon as possible to solve it."

"So, Mina-san, come on!"

Rarely, Qiu Yuankang uttered some very encouraging words, but his face was still the paralyzed face that could not show any emotion or anger. . .

However, seeing Yasushi Akimoto's words, the operation members shouted excitedly.

"Ok!"

"Yosie, goddammit!"

It was not Yasushi Akimoto's words that aroused everyone's emotions, but Yasushi Akimoto's statement.

After all, the fat man in a suit standing in front of them is an omnipotent god-level producer!

If even Akimoto Yasushi was unable to turn the tide, they felt that no one else could.

. . .

Meetings resumed as normal operational meetings.

However, at this time, Togazaki Tomonobu, AKB's theater master, seemed to have thought of something, and brought up a matter that seemed to be ignored by everyone.

"By the way, since we have terminated our cooperation with Sony, shouldn't we, as Sony's people, continue to let them stay in the operation?"

"People from Sony" refers to Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Masaki Chiba.

"This..." Togazaki Zhixin's words once again aroused everyone's debate.

In the end, it was Yasushi Akimoto who once again suppressed the lively discussion of the crowd.

"I don't think Kiyoya Sakamoto needs to be kicked out even if Sony quits."

"After all, with Kiyoshi Sakamoto's current popularity and popularity, it is likely to become a weapon that we AKB may rely on in the future. Moreover, I have to say that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's creative ability is not inferior to mine at all."

"Keep him, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."

"As for Mr. Qianye, he was not a member of the operation team. He was just a young man who studied with me in private. He can be regarded as half of my disciple. It's not bad if he is there or not."

After everyone listened, they also nodded frequently, expressing their agreement.

In this way, AKS in the "post-Sony era" ended its first and most important operation meeting. . .

the next day.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who learned the news from Chiba Masaki, also lamented Yasushi Akimoto's shrewdness.

After all, at the beginning, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's identity was equivalent to the special commissioner sent by Sony to supervise.

For everyone in AKS, Kiyoshi Sakamoto must be an outsider.

Sakamoto Kiyoshi originally thought that his status as an AKB music producer would be revoked with Sony's withdrawal.

However, because Sakamoto Kiyoshi, the rising future king, is still needed to help AKB, finally, after AKS's discussion, it was decided to keep Sakamoto Kiyoshi as the music producer.

Chiba Masaki also continued to serve as AKB's music producer with the personal support of Akimoto Yasushi.

But not in front of the stage, but behind the scenes.

However, Chiba Masaki was delighted that he could continue to study with Akimoto Yasushi.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto directly exposed his true heart.

"I think you are not happy because you can continue to study with Akimoto-san, but because you can continue to hang out in the AKB theater and be called "Chiba-kun" by the girls, so you are so happy..."

"How do you know?!" Masaki Chiba looked at Kiyoshi Sakamoto in surprise.

"Please wipe the saliva from the corner of your mouth when you are talking about this, so that you can cut..."

"Hey hey hey..."

. . . . . .

Tokyo Ginza.

In the private room of a certain Japanese restaurant, there were two old and young people who hadn't seen each other for a long time, Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Yasushi Akimoto.

Although the decision to withdraw from AKB was not made by him, and he worked hard to prevent it from happening.

However, Sakamoto Kiyoshi still felt that he should express his feelings to Akimoto Yasushi.

This is the only thing I can do.

That's why he asked Yasushi Akimoto to meet in private to express his deepest apology.

"Akimoto-san, I'm really sorry. Although I argued with President Kitagawa to make him continue to trust you, I still couldn't stop Sony from withdrawing."

"I'm really sorry!"

And Yasushi Akimoto was also very moved by Kiyoshi Sakamoto's words, and instead comforted Kiyoshi Sakamoto, saying, "Hehe, Mr. Sakamoto, it's not your fault. After all, you are just an artist under Sony, and you can't do anything about high-level decisions. . .”

"And, according to President Kitagawa, you are still in front of him, supporting me with all your strength."

Not only that, Yasushi Akimoto showed a rare smile on his face, "Although AKB's record company is no longer owned by Sony, you can also come to the theater often."

"We can also discuss creation together."

"After all, you are still AKB's music producer..."

(End of this chapter)