Chapter 32
At around 3 o'clock the next afternoon, Masaki Nakamoto walked into Akimoto Yasushi's office and met the father of AKB48, who was also the man who once founded the Kitten Club.
In 1987, when the Kitten Club was disbanded, it was also the year when he came to the world. In the last year, when the Kitten Club in 1986 was a great success, it was still nurturing in his mother's belly.
Although the Kitten Club was established in 1985 and survived for only about 2 and a half years, it has a great impact. It can also be said that it is the basis for Akimoto Yasushi's later founding of AKB48.
The Kitten Club is a large RB girl group. The members of this group are generally female high school students, which lowers the threshold for the art world and enables more people to participate.
At this time, Akimoto Yasuhiro sat on his office chair. Even though he didn't stand up, he looked at Masaki Nakamori who came in from head to toe.
Not only did he see that the other party has the appearance of a handsome male star, but he also personally felt the other party's extraordinary temperament and special personality charm.
There was no such impression in Akimoto Yasushi's memory and said, "Hello, who are you looking for?"
"I'm here to come to you to discuss business cooperation." Masaki Nakamori sat down and said without being humble.
If Yasuhiro Akimoto recognized the famous brands he was wearing, he would not believe that such a young man would have the financial strength to cooperate with him, rather than looking for himself to enter the art world.
Masaki Nakamori knew for a long time that even if the AKB48 has some fame, it has not really turned losses into profits.
In order to create AKB48, Akimoto Yasushi invested a lot of money in the early stage but absolutely no money was recovered. There is not only his private part, but also money from other investors.
Next year, it will be the most difficult year for AKB48, or even a life-and-death year. If Yasuhiro Akimoto boldly launched the "Loud Diamond" launched by Matsui, who had just joined AKB48, was a newcomer, and was able to turn the tables. I'm afraid that he would have followed the footsteps of the Kitten Club and completely disbanded.
Jorina Matsui has a sense of being at the peak of her debut. After all, she was only 11 years old that year. Her appearance has not changed much. Whether it is this year or the next year, Yasuhiro Akimoto was not having a good life.
Even at the end of this year, AKB48 was fortunate to be on the stage of the Red and White Song Club for the first time, she still had to appear as the "Akihabara Circle" with Shoko Nakagawa, Lea, Diesan and others. In fact, AKB48 did not sing the complete song, but only half of it.
Akimoto Yasumi pondered for a long time before speaking again: "Aren't you kidding me?"
"Today is not April April Fool's Day," Nakamori Masaki said bluntly.
"What kind of cooperation do you want to seek?" Akimoto Yasushi became straightforward when he saw that the other party was not beaten around the bush.
"I want to post a promotional pictorial about our company at the ticket office of your AKB48 Theater. Only one is posted." Masaki Nakamori raised his right index finger and also indicated his purpose for coming this time.
After hearing what he said, Akimoto Yasumi thought to himself, but that's it. Although there is less mosquito meat, it is still meat. Anyway, I am short of money at the moment, so it's just a little bit if I can make more money, and there is no reason to give up.
"There is no problem. It's just that you need to pay a certain advertising fee for this. One million yen per month." Akimoto Yasushi also raised his right index finger and said clearly.
Masaki Nakamori agreed without saying a word: "The price you offer is not fair. I'll say that the price will be given, how do you listen?"
Seeing that he was going to bargain, Akimoto Yasushi said, "Please say it."
"Ten thousand yen a day, the cooperation period is ten years." Masaki Nakamori's right hand changed from index finger to five fingers, and he flipped it over and said seriously.
Akimoto Yasushi didn't mind his offer at the moment, but he was full of interest in asking for the ten-year period of cooperation: "You have to sign with us for such a long time at once, aren't you worried that we will disband if we last less than ten years?"
"Even if you disband after less than ten years, it will not bring me much loss. As long as you exist for a day, no matter whether the attendance rate is good or bad, or it is windy or rainy, I will pay at a price of 10,000 yen a day.
If you don’t exist, I don’t need to pay our advertising fees here at a price of 10,000 yen per day. If you become popular, we will make a profit.
By then, it would definitely not be the same price. To put it bluntly, this is the nature of a venture capital, or the nature of gambling is OK." Nakamori Masaki talked happily.
Akimoto Yasushi recognized his statement and said, "You are so confident in us?"
The reason why Masaki Nakamori had to sign a ten-year contract with him as soon as he came up was that he predicted that AKB48 would gradually become popular after the most difficult year in 2008.
By 2017, AKB48 had completely begun to decline. The most popular early-stage old members, Kanqi, would choose to graduate one by one. Starting from Atsuko Maeda, Yuko Oshima and others, to Yona Kojima, and Mato Watanabe...
"I mainly have confidence in you. The biggest difference between people who have accomplished nothing and those who can achieve careers is the difference they show when facing difficulties and setbacks.
The former will choose to give up immediately, while the latter will continue to advance under tremendous pressure, even if it is difficult, it will have to.
After so many years have passed since the disbandment of the Kitten Club, you are still thinking about creating a RB girl group that is like that or even larger. This can only show that your original intention has not changed and your spirit of moving forward has not been erased. You just want to prove your value to the entire RB art world." Masaki Nakamori said seriously.
Although Akimoto Yasushi was praised by this young man who had never met before, although he was not as glamorous as he was, there were also ripples in his heart.
My original intention of founding AKB48 is that even if I want to make money through this career, I also want to prove my talents.
He absolutely cannot guarantee that AKB48 will not follow the footsteps of the Kitten Club again. After all, some things can be imagined, but sometimes they can't even think of them.
"Is your offer a little low?" Akimoto Yasuhiro did not agree.
Masaki Nakamori understood that he wanted to raise some more price. He had no intention of making concessions at all and said, "I think the price I bought is very fair."
Chapter completed!