In the first month of 2014, the PV shooting for the eighth single was completed.
The title song is called "Unrequited Love When You Realize It", with a melodious style and soft lyrics. The PV tells the story of a girl who is "life-connected" with a dandelion. With the help of her companions, she completes her final performance and turns into a floating dandelion seed.
In the second month, the members were mainly busy recording the second season of nogibingo. The level of spoofing in the second season is much lower than that in the first season. The punishment game is very small and no longer disgusting. Compared with the original akbingo, it has taken a different path. All 12 episodes of the second season have been recorded and are being broadcast step by step.
Then there are eight single prayers. This time the prayer venue was chosen overseas, and the content was to select seven members, including center Nishino Nanase, to go to Macau's landmark Macau Tower with Shitara and Himura to challenge the 233m bungee jump.
Once they heard that they could go abroad for filming, some members didn't even care about bungee jumping and signed up enthusiastically. In the end, Rina Ikoma, Erika Ikuta and Kazumi Takayama, who were absent from the seven single prayers, plus center Nishino Nanase, Maya Wada and Sayuri Matsumura who took the initiative to fight for opportunities, and Nana Hashimoto who did not take the initiative formed the prayer group. Team.
Not long after the praying team returned, rehearsals for the second anniversary live began non-stop. The venue for this live performance was the Yokohama Arena, and more than 13,000 spectators came to the scene. The three-and-a-half-hour performance was the longest so far in Nogizaka Live. At the end of the performance, graduates Yumiko Iwase and Narira Miyazawa also took the stage to sing "Poetry of Nogizaka" with the members.
The second anniversary live is over, and there is nothing major to be busy with during the eight singles period. Amamiya Sugawara, who had entered the intelligence field as he wished, devoted himself entirely to company affairs. The day after the live event ended, TikTok was officially launched on the iOS App Store.
At present, Amamiya Shiori does not have enough funds to set up his own server cluster, so he temporarily rents Amazon's cloud server. Although it has just been launched, TikTok does not have enough users for the cloud server to cover the requirements, but Amamiya Shiori knows that with the increase in users, the construction of a data center is indispensable.
So Amamiya Soi began to attract investments while managing the company's affairs. She approached several venture capital firms. The first time I interacted with a salesperson from an investment company, Amamiya Sori's experience could only be said to be not good.
Seeing that she was so young, some salesmen didn't read the business plan seriously at all. When Amamiya Shiori introduced it, she interrupted her repeatedly, which made her furious.
Some of them had ulterior motives, not only asking for her mobile phone number, but also wanting her Line number, and by the way, they wanted to invite her to dinner. Amamiya Sugawara didn't look good throughout the entire process.
Others receive the project plan and are ready to send the guests off, saying that they need to study it internally and can only give an answer after discussion.
It's fun when investors throw money, but it's not so fun when you ask investors to throw money. Before making any achievements, Amamiya Shiori was already prepared not to get angel investment.
If it doesn't work, take a government loan first. Amamiya Shiori is already studying the relevant regulations. The Japanese government still has certain support for entrepreneurial projects. For example, Japan’s Policy Finance Corporation has a low-interest loan policy for female entrepreneurs, 72 million yen, with an interest rate of about 2%, part of which is required to be repaid within 7 years, and the remaining 20 years. For Amamiya Shiori, Still acceptable.
Tiktok has only been online for two days and there are still very few users, mainly young people. At the beginning, the short videos they uploaded were very rudimentary. Most of the content consisted of a few photos paired with music and text. The usage was very similar to that of Instagram.
Gradually, some people began to take selfies, with various built-in beautification or funny special effects. Then it progressed to shooting dancing, scenery, small animals, daily life and other content.
It is still far from the various dazzling shooting techniques, outrageous special effects, and all kinds of strange themes used by later short video creators, but it has already taken shape.
At the current level of these tiktokers, the editing tools that come with the software are enough.
There is no need for any deliberate guidance, and all kinds of popular themes emerge naturally.
After a busy day, Amamiya Shiori was very satisfied with the rapid growth in the number of users in the background.
It's late at night, but the lights are still bright in the company, and the employees responsible for operation, maintenance and software development are still working hard. Although Amamiya Shiori is not forced to work overtime, after all, in the early stages of starting a business, she still has to work hard overtime.
Amamiya Shiori gave them a big picture, and coupled with the good performance of the app after it was launched, the company's employees became very motivated.
Suddenly, a phone call came. Amamiya Sohiro thought it was an investor who had responded, but it turned out to be the manager Sakiko Nonaka, which made Amamiya Sohiro look forward to one.
Nonaka asked Amamiya Shiori to come to the SME building early tomorrow, and Konano would explain to everyone about his concurrent duties.
"Part-time job? What part-time job?" Amamiya Shiori came to the corridor and asked doubtfully.
"It was announced tonight that Ikoma-chan is going to take up a part-time role in AKB. It's been three hours since the live TV broadcast. You don't know about it until now, right?"
"Uh, I didn't watch TV." Amamiya Shizaki casually prevaricated, and she just took on the concurrent role, and she didn't care much.
"Then you must not have watched Line either."
"Feel sorry."
"In short, it has been decided that Ikoma-chan will take on the concurrent role. Correspondingly, AKB will also send Matsui Rena-san from SKE48 to Nogizaka to work as a member for a period of time. We must get along well with each other then."
"Oh I see."
The call ended inexplicably. Amamiya Sugaru searched the news and found out that tonight AKB48G held an event called the Grand Group Festival. Members of AKB and each subgroup were called together, then they were broken up, reorganized, and assigned to In each regiment, in each unit.
Some were transferred from SKE to AKB, some were transferred from AKB to NMB, and some were members of multiple groups. They were both members of AKB and sub-groups, participating in performances and singles of multiple groups.
The above are all personnel changes that have been made within AKB48G, and have been experienced twice before.
What is special this time is that Nogizaka, who does not belong to AKB48G, also participated in forming the cabinet. As the former center of Nogizaka, Rina Ikoma will also serve as AKB48, join teamB, and become Mayu Watanabe's teammate. Reina Matsui of SKE48 will also serve as Nogizaka and become a member of Nogizaka.
It’s no wonder that Yoshio Konno specially informed Tomorrow to explain. After all, Nogizaka, which has always been advertised as surpassing AKB, was actually regarded as a sub-group of the former. Many of the ambitious members were probably furious.
When you open Line, the Line group containing all members is deathly silent, but the small groups containing different members are particularly popular, with 99+ messages filling several small groups. Especially a small group that included older members was already very noisy.
