The last time I came to the Budokan was for the opening ceremony of Tokyo University, this time it was to participate in the "Pinky Festival" held by Rino Sashihara.
Rino Sashihara participated in championships and concerts of other idol groups everywhere, and sent out invitations, which eventually led to such a concert that brought together girl groups from the Tokyo area. Invited girl groups include private Ebisu Junior High School, Nogizaka46, PASSPO☆, IDOLING!!!, Momoiro Clover Z, AKB's sub-unit Team 7, and Good Morning Family's group Buono!, etc.
Idols with all kinds of strange styles arrived one after another, which was dazzling.
Nogizaka46 is a junior among them and doesn’t know many people. After greeting the seniors, they started rehearsing. During the rehearsal break, Nakata Hana, Saito Yuri, Matsumura Sayuri, Wakazuki Yumi, Sakurai Reika and others did not recognize strangers at all, and they quickly became familiar with several people from Momogusa. Sandwiched in the middle, Amamiya Soi, Shiraishi Mai, Takayama Kazumi and others watched quietly as they danced to Momogusa's music, like outsiders.
The producer pointed out that Rino Hara was smiling when she came to say hello and even touched Rina Ikoma. She seemed to be in a good mood.
In the subsequent group photo session, Amamiya Sugawara was quite popular, along with Buono!'s Momoko Tsunaga, Natsuki Masaru, Suzuki Airi, the Momogusa crowd wearing Zaku suits, IDOLING!!!'s eldest sister, and Ebisu Junior High School students. The killers all took photos separately.
Manager Yu Kikuchi drew No. 2, and Nogizaka appeared in the second group. The performance this time was 2 singles, but the performance lineup was selected members of 3 singles.
On the stage, Ebisu Middle School was the first to perform. Backstage, Nogizaka was nervously making final preparations.
"Wait a minute, the stage goes up, then turn on the lights. After the music starts, follow my instructions, 1234, and then start." Ikoma Rina took the initiative to assume the responsibility of leading the team and warned everyone. The members nodded.
As the lights dimmed and then came back on, Nogizaka members came to the stage in order and formed their formation.
"Thank you!" "Thank you everyone!" The members waved and greeted the fans in the audience.
"Hello everyone!" Sakurai Reika started.
"Get ready~ We are Nogizaka46, please take care of us!"
Fans responded enthusiastically.
"Hi, today we are able to participate in the commemorative first Pinky Festival. I am really happy. We have only debuted for four months. I never dreamed that we could be on this stage so quickly. I am really nervous now. Still We are immature, so please take care of us today." Reika Sakurai played the role of captain and got off to a good start.
"Please take care of me~" the members echoed.
"There must be a lot of people who haven't heard our songs yet. Please be sure to get high with us! Please!"
"So, without further ado, let's enjoy "Come on Shampoo"."
Accompanied by familiar music, Nogizaka members danced to the second single. Although it is far from as high as the previous group, it is enough to make the audience's emotions high.
After a short section in the middle where the MC talked about the confrontation between the two singles, the members performed their debut single "Surrounded by Curtains".
"Thank you everyone~"
"It's really cute, come here, come here." After the performance, Rino Sashihara and the host Okada greeted the girls from Nogizaka to come to them.
"We talked a lot about memories with Sashihara-san. We are good friends now, right?" Asked the wretched Okada.
"We have a good relationship, we are mail friends!" Rino Sashihara extended her hand to Ikoma Rina, and Ikoma also came forward to shake hands with her. The two of them exchanged text messages.
"What do you think, facing such a large audience?" Shihara continued to ask.
"There are so many people!" "Yes, yes, yes~" "Thank you everyone~" The girls waved to the audience around them.
The Budokan was filled with fans, more than 10,000 people, which is the largest number of fans Nogizaka has ever participated in.
"It's really amazing, thank you everyone!" Captain Sakurai expressed his gratitude.
"So, finally, please tell me what kind of idol you will aim to be in the future!" Rino Sashihara asked after the scene quieted down.
"Well, we are a group formed as the official rivals of AKB48. We hope to one day become rivals worthy of AKB. It would be great to become such an idol!" Sakurai's answer was very appropriate.
Sashihara: "It's really good, it's really a good motivation!"
Okada: "Yes. Everyone should support them!"
There was applause.
After thanking him repeatedly, the members walked backstage one after another.
"It's such a refreshing wind. It's so different from your wind." The wretched Okada sighed as he looked at the elegant Nogizaka.
"No, no, no, why are you comparing! Please don't compare?" Shihara smiled helplessly. Although she was not a serious idol before, but after Bunchun, she suddenly became evil and could not be washed away. The kind that fell off.
The members who got off the stage breathed a sigh of relief, because it was rest time for more than an hour.
At the end of the concert, more than a hundred idols wore encore T-shirts and sang "Heavy Rotation" together.
"I didn't expect that my first performance at the Budokan would be like this." Mai Shiraishi sighed on the minibus back.
She had not debuted at the beginning of the year. When she was visiting a shrine, she told the camera her wish to have a live show at a Budokan. I didn't expect it to be realized so quickly, although in an unexpected form.
Many of the idol groups participating today have never been to a Budokan before, and the selection criteria all depended on Rino Sashihara's preferences.
"Because the goal is set too small, it may be easier to achieve it!" Amamiya Soi said boldly.
"What a small goal! It's very rare to fill a venue with 14,000 people for one-third of the seats if we hold a live show alone." Mai Shiraishi shook her head, thinking that Amamiya Shiori was bragging.
"If you ask me, you might as well set a small goal first, for example, drive him for three days." Amamiya Sugawara bragging is not too big a deal.
"Ahem~" Shiraishi Mai just drank some water and almost spit it out.
"Xiao Zhi, you don't have a fever, do you?" Shiraishi Mai touched Amamiya Zhi's forehead, and then touched her own forehead.
"I don't have a fever, I'm sober." Amamiya Sori continued to paint a grand picture, "Then the next goal is to study at National University, and the next goal is to go abroad, and attend the Sydney Opera House and the Bird's Nest."
"I think you have a serious fever." Mai Shiraishi touched Amamiya Shiori's forehead, closed her eyes, and looked like the child was hopeless. "Not to mention the last few options that are simply impossible, the national level is outrageous. They only open a concert once a year. Only national groups like ARASHI and AKB can hold it!"
"You have to have a goal. I'm not saying you have to reach the sky in one step. Things have to take your time."
"Instead of thinking about these, I think it's better to think about when our next live will be."
"Well..." Amamiya Suga thought for a moment. The main factor that troubles Nogizaka now is that there are too few songs. The two singles add up to only about ten songs, which can't sustain a two-hour concert.
"This depends on whether Teacher Akimoto is diligent or not." She did not hesitate to shift the responsibility to the producer who composed the lyrics like drinking water.
