The cooperation between Nogizaka and Sashihara Rino is comprehensive.
The first is personal PV. Nogizaka's second single comes with a 34-person PV bonus, and it is still a collaboration between members and 34 directors. The theme this time is dating, filming a video of a date with a member from the perspective of a boyfriend, similar to a delusional short play. Sashihara Rino also filmed 34 date-themed PV bonuses, which are attached to the CD of her personal single.
Secondly, Nogizaka took advantage of the promotion period to appear on several AKB programs. For example, at the beginning of the month, the Seven Lucky Gods appeared on AKB's first-ever AKB Republic, Ariyoshi Hiroyuki and Kojima Haruna's MCs, and played several confrontation games with a team of losers composed of Rino Sashihara. .
In addition, the promotional location for Nogizaka's second single was also chosen to be Rino Sashihara's hometown, Oita Prefecture on Kyushu Island. Rino Sashihara herself will follow the same routine and go back to her hometown to promote the single before it is officially released.
All in all, highlighting a 1V34 puts Sashihara Rino at a disadvantage in terms of strength.
After the new single is released, there will be reconciliation between the two parties, and Sashihara will invite Nogizaka to participate in the "Pinky Festival" concert she personally prepared in June.
In addition to the TV series starring her that is being broadcast on NTV, after this combination, the most popular person in AKB at present, besides Maeda Atsuko who just announced her graduation in March, is Sashihara Rino.
It’s good for Sashihara, and it’s certainly good for Nogizaka. It's a win-win situation.
On a weekend in late April, the selected members carried out part of the promotion plan and took a domestic flight to Kyushu.
Oita Prefecture is located in the eastern part of Kyushu Island, facing the Seto Inland Sea. It has beautiful mountains and clear waters, pleasant scenery, and is famous for its rich hot spring resources. Although the environment is good, the crowds are relatively sparse.
In such a small and remote county, the most famous person that has emerged in recent years, apart from former Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi, is Rino Shihara. She has promoted her hometown on various occasions since her debut, and the local government and people also support her. After all, Sashihara's activity can bring more publicity to Oita and even Kyushu, and help local economic development. Similar to the traditional advantageous constituencies of Diet members in the political field, Oita Prefecture is like the total vote base and base of Rino Hara.
It’s a bit inappropriate for Nogizaka to come here to promote it, saying that it’s a stolen home. After all, Nogizaka itself has members who are from Oita. For example, Hatanaka Seira and Eto Mica, they were originally members of the same local idol group in Kyushu. It is a pity that Micai Eto, one of the two, did not enter the selection and could not return to her hometown in glory.
As soon as they left the airport, the 17 people were divided into three teams and headed to various places in Oita. Amamiya Souri is in a group with Takayama Kazumi, Hoshino Minami, Hashimoto Nami, Inoue Sayuri and Ikoma Rina. The places they are going to are Oita's famous tourist spots, Mount Takasaki Zoo and Umi no Egg Aquarium.
The task of the last promotion included handing out tissues. This time, in order to match the title song, it was changed to handing out shampoo in bags. Because there are no rigid targets like last time, and the tasks of each team are not heavy, so everyone is more focused. Like coming for an outing.
Although it was the weekend, it was raining lightly, so there were not many people visiting the zoo.
A group of six people plus the accompanying film crew, wearing raincoats, took the cable car up the mountain.
"There are little monkeys, little monkeys." Nana Hashimoto pointed out the window.
"Ah - so cute!" Ikoma Rina stood up and couldn't help but scream when she saw the monkey walking leisurely on the grass. "They are so small. They are so small. They are so cute."
Is it really that cute? Amamiya Suga squinted and glanced at the monkey outside the window.
It seemed that Rina Ikoma was the most excited in the entire carriage. The younger Hoshino Minami was very quiet and clutched Amamiya Shiori's white raincoat.
"Konan?" Amamiya Shiori tilted his head.
Hoshino Minami said nothing, but fear could be seen in her expression.
Takayama Kazumi, who was sitting next to her, immediately understood and patted her back to express comfort.
"Someone is so scared, here~" Kazumi Takayama said with a smile when the cameraman turned the camera.
"Monkeys, monkeys are scary." Although Hoshino Minami responded with a smile, her tone revealed her fear.
"It's okay, it's okay." Takayama smiled like an old mother.
Seeing Hoshino Minami's scared look, Amamiya Sōri took the initiative to hold her arm like a sister, hoping to give her some comfort.
"No." Looking at a monkey sticking out its butt outside the window, Hoshino Minami shook his head.
"We are also primates. We have the same origin. It is because of them that we evolved into what we are now." Rina Ikoma looked very understanding and said that Hoshino Minami should not be afraid.
But Hoshino Minami just shook his head with disgust.
The more Amamiya Sōri watched the interaction between the two, the more funny he found it. It feels like a neighbor's child who has just entered elementary school is showing off the knowledge he just learned in school in front of his friends. It is very childish and cute.
When the cable car arrived, the members put on their raincoats and hats and set off together.
"I feel like my little brother when I was little." Rina Ikoma said, pointing to the monkeys sitting on the ground in the rain.
Among the six people, she and Sayuri Inoue were the most excited. They kept talking about how cute they were as they passed through the monkey group.
To be honest, Amamiya was wary of these monkeys at first. After all, she had also had the experience of being robbed of snacks and drinks by bandit monkeys on the mountain while traveling.
But now it seems that these monkeys are relatively well-behaved. Even if it rains, they are still rummaging around on the ground looking for some chewable food, and they don't come up to them to eat without seeing anyone.
"It's okay, they didn't hurt anyone." Amamiya Sori comforted. She and Takayama Kazumi protected Hoshino Minami on the left and right in the middle.
"There seems to be nothing except monkeys..." Ikoma Rina said awkwardly after walking for a long distance and only saw monkeys and no people.
It seems that the program team did not consider the weather and time factors when promoting it. During the last promotion, Amamiya Shiori and her team also went to the mountains early in the morning, and there was no one there. Then they flew to Sapporo and there was another blizzard, so the conditions for outdoor activities were poor.
This time we came to the rainy mountain early in the morning again, and I knew with my head that there wouldn’t be many tourists.
After walking around for a while, I finally met a pair of sisters at the cable car ride.
When they finally met tourists, they hurried forward to say hello, shake hands, and offer bags of shampoo.
I have to say that Rino Sashihara is really popular in Oita. These sisters are fans of Shihara, and they also got to know Nogizaka because of the recent publicity.
Kazumi Takayama had the courage to ask the older sister of the two sisters who she would buy if Rino Sashihara and Nogizaka's CDs were released together.
The elder sister with high emotional intelligence used her younger sister to buy Sashihara's CD, and her elder sister bought Nogizaka's CD, cleverly avoiding embarrassment. The harmless statement from both sides made everyone at the scene smile.
