Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 533 Graduate Students

Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Life Counseling Classroom" came to an end after two hours.

After seeing off the satisfied two people, Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned to the sofa in the living room and began to fall into deep thought.

Hashimoto Nanami and Nishino Nanase both joined Sony in advance due to their own reasons.

And in this way, Kiyoshi Sakamoto came up with an idea.

In the not-too-distant future, Nogizaka46, the idol group known as "AKB's official opponent", will definitely hold it tightly in his hands.

As the project producer of this idol girl group, Kiyoshi Sakamoto will definitely try his best to make Nogizaka46 popular, even surpassing the mountain of AKB48!

In order to achieve this goal, Kiyoshi Sakamoto believes that Nogizaka is completely unnecessary. Like in his previous life, he must wait until 2011, when AKB was at its peak, before starting to form.

Anyway, the future has already been changed beyond recognition by him, so if he continues to torment, it won't get worse.

So, this time, he is going to do something different!

He plans to find the core members of Nogizaka in advance, and then conduct a period of comprehensive training, just like the trainee system of a Korean brokerage company, and finally wait until the time is right, and then launch it in one fell swoop, so as to achieve a blockbuster effect!

In fact, there is also a system like trainees in Japan, which is called "graduate student".

Moreover, this entire "postgraduate" system was also borrowed from Japan by South Korea. . .

Previous top idols such as Matsuda Seiko, Nakamori Akina, Yamaguchi Momoe, also made their debut with a radiant attitude after a period of training!

It can be said that after Akimoto Yasushi started to form a girl group, idols began to pay attention to the process of growth.

However, although the current idols are all amateurs without pre-training, it does not mean that there are no talents among AKB graduate students.

Among the graduate students of AKB, there are still some good seedlings.

For example, the future overlord of AKB who was transferred to SMA, "Saxi" refers to Yuan Lino who entered AKB as a graduate student in the fifth phase of AKB. . .

However, this "postgraduate" system does not have a great effect on AKB.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto believes that it is more because of the different concepts and styles of Nogizaka and AKB.

AKB's idol concept is that they can face each other, fans can see their own tweets, and slowly grow up to be a down-to-earth and kind idol.

And Nogizaka's idol concept is, with a sense of high distance, like a young lady idol like an orchid in the empty valley.

AKB has a special theater, fans can come to the theater to watch performances anytime and anywhere, and cheer for the members they support.

Nogizaka does not have a theater, and fans can only pay attention to the group's every move through other means, such as naming the fan group.

Not being able to see the members of Nogizaka often, and the exposure cannot be guaranteed, is also a disadvantage of Nogizaka.

To put it bluntly, AKB is the process of selling members' growth, so that fans can participate in the growth of members, thereby creating a sense of accomplishment.

That's why Yasushi Akimoto chose the so-called "raw stone" with a low degree of completion, and then through the joint carving of himself and fans, it finally became a radiant gem!

However, Nogizaka could not do this.

Because, if you do this, it will only be a second "AKB", and it will not be any different from the sister groups of AKB. . .

Therefore, this requires each member of Nogizaka's group to have the characteristics that can attract fans from the very beginning.

Only in this way, Nogizaka can rely on the idol style different from the "48 series" to stand out in the music scene where there are many idol girl groups such as AKB, SKE, HKT, Momoiro Clover, etc.!

In this way, the members that Nogizaka needs are not "raw stones", but "instant combat power"!
It is a "diamond" that has been polished!
And "raw stone" cannot be cultivated in advance.

If it is cultivated in advance, it will lose the meaning of growing up with fans and members. . .

However, "instant combat power" can!

Don't you see, many of those Korean groups are trainees who have practiced for many years before their debut.

It is precisely because of their long-term practice career that they can quickly attract the attention of the public with their outstanding dancing and singing abilities as soon as they debut.

However, in the Korean music scene where all idol groups are trainees, the power of the "graduate student" system is not very prominent.

However, if this system is moved to the current Japanese idol world that only focuses on the growth process, Kiyoshi Sakamoto thinks that it will definitely get very good results.

Especially when Yasushi Akimoto's AKB began to sweep Japan. At this time, if there is a high-cold girl group with a style different from AKB and a high degree of completion of core members and artists, coupled with Sony's huge publicity resources, it will definitely be popular in the short term. Time, become the focus of public attention!
That's why he thought of applying this system to Nogizaka.

He also didn't have a whimsical idea, trying to recruit all Nogizaka's first-year students into Sony in advance, conduct a period of training, and then debut together.

That's not realistic.

He only needs to find a few core members of Nogizaka, that's enough.

These core members of Nogizaka, after comprehensive training, are enough for the early Nogizaka to reach the level of competing with AKB's "Shenzhen Seven" in the top combat power.

Even the candidate, he has already scouted.

Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino were girls from Nogizaka Dai TOP in their previous lives. . .

There was another girl whom he had long set his eyes on.

A beautiful girl from Gunma Prefecture, the future "Nogizaka face", Mai Shiraishi!

Speaking of which, Kiyomoto Sakamoto thought that this time the SMA audition would attract this high-cold girl to attend.

From the fact that Hashimoto Nanami and Nishino Nanase were both "bombed" by this audition, we can know how successful the promotion work of this audition was.

But, who knows, during the third review in four days, Kiyoshi Sakamoto did not see Mai Shiraishi.

Logically speaking, with Mai Shiraishi's appearance, even relying solely on her beauty, she could easily enter the third review.

From this point of view, Mai Shiraishi did not sign up for this selection meeting.

In this way, Kiyoshi Sakamoto felt that it was very necessary for him to go to Gunma.

. . . . . .

Two days later, Kiyoshi Sakamoto brought Mama Hashimoto, Mama Nishino, and two curious girls who came from Hokkaido and Osaka, to SMA and signed a newcomer contract.

"That's... Director Sakamoto?!"

"The two girls next to him are very unfamiliar, they don't look like artists from our company..."

"I heard that those two girls are new recruits who were signed into the company by Director Sakamoto himself, and the contract was also directly handled by him!"

"Really?!! Then we have to treat them better..."

"Uh-huh..."

After signing the contract, Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked swaggeringly around SMA with the two girls, and was very satisfied with the discussion that his move had caused to the entire SMA.

What he wanted was this effect!
He wants the entire SMA, and even the entire Sony, to know that Nanami Hashimoto and Nanase Nishino are under his cover!
　In this article, the description of the trainee system in Japan and South Korea may be a bit inaccurate.

　　Therefore, the author made some revisions with the help of enthusiastic readers.

　　
　
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