Don't think a ten-year contract is too exaggerated. In this weird place in Japan. Charts like AKB, Johnny's, and Nogizaka basically all sign long-term contracts. Unless you choose to graduate, as long as you are still an idol or an artist, you can only develop in your own company. Just when these judges finished their phone calls, they secretly cursed Ping Qingshan's bad luck. Another group of cute, youthful girls took to the stage. "Hello everyone, we are Liella!" After another round of high-quality performances. The judges below the stage fell silent. Everyone, you look at me, I look at you.

The emergence of such high-quality college idol groups one after another has somewhat broken their defenses. "Could it be that college idols are the next big thing?" When they pressed the green light again and learned that this group of girls had also been signed by Ping Qingshan, although the judges did not say anything on the surface, deep in their hearts, they had sighed countless times. "This Ping Qingshan is so lucky!!!" Chapter 137: School Idol The selection of college idols is still going on. Ping Qingshan didn't care too much about this. After all, at this stage, it was not yet time for them to shine. Also, before the entire Academy Idol competition begins. He had already read the profiles of all the girls on the contestant list. The contracts have also been signed. That's why he wasn't panicking at all. Anyway, under his management company, there are μ's, Liella!, Bang Dream, and the underground idol group Cham Jam. All are aces. Even though these girls cannot be on call 24/7 like professional idols due to their studies, the number of participants in the entire college idol competition is too large. They shine in the animation, and when they get together and compete with each other, the heat and enthusiasm they release will probably not be much lower than that of existing idol groups. So Ping Qingshan is not in a hurry at all. He just needs to make the entire college idol competition fair enough, and these girls will definitely stand out. Compared to school idols, the Sakura Girls Project is what Ping Qingshan is more concerned about at the moment. Since the beginning of the year, the rules of the Sakura Girls Project have been announced.

In the past month or two, whether it was the person in charge of the AKB department, the person in charge of Nogizaka, or the operation of Morning Musume, they all felt that the members' minds were particularly restless during this period. Especially after it was finally confirmed that there would be only 11 teams and 99 people participating in the formal recording, this impetuous mood became more and more obvious. More and more people came to find out how to form a team, openly or secretly. Among them, the girls in Nogizaka are the most active. The reason is very simple, because Nogizaka is a new group. They were only established last year, although they are backed by Sony. However, the group does not have many resources, and there is no theater in Nogizaka. Apart from the title-sponsored programs, the only thing that can increase popularity is the handshake event. But the problem is, no matter how good your reaction is at a handshake meeting, you can’t fool the otakus. The speed of accumulating popularity is still too slow. So the Sakura Girl cake naturally became a favorite among girls. And more importantly, the planning team of Sakura Girls is the Sony Building!!! As the saying goes, the moon is visible first from the tower above the water. Occasionally they would see Sakura Girls’ chief producer, Hira Kiyoshige, come and watch them dance. Of course the girls didn't know that Ping Qingshan went to watch the show purely out of curiosity, wanting to see what the lives of the little idols in their previous lives were like. The girls in the group just thought that he was here to observe the team and select candidates for the show, so every time Ping Qingshan came. The girls in Nogizaka are very serious when it comes to training. Some girls even figured out when Ping Qingshan would come every week, and would wear cooler skirts to attend training on that day. It's the same today. In the Nogizaka training room, a group of girls listened to the dance teacher's instruction while occasionally glancing at Hira Kiyoshige standing in the outer circle. You can do two things at once and still avoid making mistakes. It is already quite rare. "Shan-san, has the Sakura Girls Project officially begun?" As the manager of Nogizaka, Oizumi Imao stood next to Hira Kiyoshi. Even though he is older than Ping Qingshan in terms of age, he now treats Ping Qingshan with great respect. On the one hand, Ping Qingshan’s identity is involved, and on the other hand, it is also because Ping Qingshan now controls the resources of Sakura Girls. "Yes, the documents should have been sent to you. Have you selected the representative for Nogizaka?" Ping Qingshan crossed his arms and looked at the girl who was practicing dancing. I have to admit that the quality of the first-generation students in Nogizaka is really good. From their appearance to their talents, their quality is top-notch among idols. Compared to those girls in AKB who want nothing but can do nothing, there are quite a few girls in Nogizaka who can play musical instruments and have basic dance skills.

"Yes." When talking about the selection of players, Oizumi Imao's expression became more enthusiastic. Sakura Girl's Rules. In fact, it can be understood as a football league. AKB, SKE, HKT, Morning Musume, Momoiro Clover Z, and Nogizaka each take up one spot, which makes a total of 6 spots. Subsequently, the top three in the idol academy competition and the first place in the underground idol competition. There are a total of 99 girls in ten teams. This is how it was formed. Nogizaka has one of the 12 places, which means it can select 9 people to compete. But anyone who has watched the Sakura Girls Idol Contest project knows that in addition to these ten teams, there are many other projects in the show that will feature revenge teams. That is, those who were not selected also have a chance to appear on the show as a team of Avengers. However, it is questionable as to which specific idol group should form the revenge team. This is exactly what Oizumi Imao wants. "In terms of combat capability, our Nogizaka is still stronger..." Oizumi Kon-o first talked about his own advantages, and then began to complain in a roundabout way. "We don't have a theater, so the members can only practice here on weekdays. Compared to AKB, our promotional efforts are still far behind AKB." What Oizumi Kon'o said is partly true and partly false. Nogizaka46 does not have a theater and does not have any performances. But it's not because Nogizaka can't do it, but because they don't want to do it. Sony is not interested in this kind of small theater either. Moreover, with the operation of AKB and the rise of underground idols, the atmosphere of small theaters has become worse and worse, and there is a lack of a good environment, so they simply stopped doing it. The starting point of the 46 series itself is higher than that of the 48 series. Sony does not need this kind of small theater to accumulate original popularity. The trend of female idols has already been driven by AKB. Sony also prefers to be the so-called "orthodox idol". Nogizaka still has some of AKB's entertainment factors and image-destroying elements in it. When it comes to the next "Keyakizaka" in the 46 series, Sony will be making a very serious and orthodox idol. However, in Ping Qingshan's opinion, this is not a good idea. The more serious and orthodox something is, the more solemn it is and the less there is to play with. These days, it is no longer the era of the early 1980s when super idols like Yamaguchi Momoe, Matsuda Seiko, and Nakamori Akina dominated the music scene. After the Cat Club's exhaustion, most of today's idols are defective and obsolete. To put it bluntly, they choose idols with the lowest threshold because they are unable to do anything else and want to make it in the entertainment industry. If Sony's brand wasn't so big that many girls who originally had no intention of entering the entertainment industry would be tempted to do so, Nogizaka wouldn't have been able to recruit such high-quality first-term students. Of course, he wouldn't say this here. In response to Oizumi Imao's pity talk, he just said a few perfunctory words and quickly turned the topic to business.

Chapter 138 Waste of Talent "Stop, stop!" After the performance, many girls' faces were covered in sweat. Ping Qingshan's presence today made the girls particularly serious. The dance teacher checked the time. "Everyone go touch up your makeup first and come back in fifteen minutes." Fifteen minutes later, the girls reappeared on the training ground. Compared with their slightly embarrassed appearance just now, the girls' image was undoubtedly much better now. Moreover, Oizumi Imao discovered a detail that many girls who had just been training and were only wearing loose training clothes had actually changed into beautiful dresses after putting on their makeup. Oizumi Imao knew very well what it was for. But he didn't think there was anything wrong with this matter. On the contrary, he supports the members' actions. He just thinks that the members are still too conservative. What's the point of changing into a skirt? Just go to Ping Qingshan's office when no one is around!!! If any member of the Naituan really managed to climb up the social ladder, things would be much better for him when he asked Ping Qingshan for resources. Of course, he was just thinking about this in his mind. Sony is not Johnny's. If members have ideas about Ping Qingshan, they can support them, but they will never instigate them. As the girls walked into the training ground. Soon after, two or three photography teams followed. Seeing these cameras and thinking about the little details they had just been asked to touch up their makeup, the girls from Nogizaka quickly realized something. "I have one thing to announce. When we record Where to Go to Nogizaka later, we will announce the candidate who will represent Nogizaka46 in the Sakura Girls match..." ~~~ Time flies and several days have passed. The Sakura Girls' plan went smoothly. Each group has basically completed the internal selection, and the college idols have also entered the final stage. Taking advantage of this gap, Ping Qingshan also completed the initial script of "I'm the Big Brother". The only problem is that his personal production team is currently filming "Reversal Detective" and cannot spare time to shoot a TV series. Therefore, Ping Qingshan was also thinking about whether to wait until Osawa and his group finished filming the variety show before starting the "I'm the Big Brother" project, or to go directly to Tokyo TV to ask for people. The former can maximize profits, while the latter can be like a battle royale. After filming the TV series, you can recruit some people to join your own company. I believe that with his current cooperative relationship with Tokyo TV, there will be no problem as long as they don't poach all of his people. ~~~ After the beginning of this year.

Except for the two idol press conferences held by Johnny's and Hirayama at the beginning of the year, the rest of the time was relatively calm overall. Come to the year 11. Television broadcasting as a whole is showing a downward trend, but in Japan, it is not as direct a collapse as in China. Overall, Japanese television stations still occupy a large share of the Japanese entertainment industry.