"Takiichi-chan, are you a fan of hkt48? I didn't mean to hear you and Nako-chan chatting about the Grand Assembly Festival just now."

As the most well-known girl group in Sakura Country and currently active, the 48-series girl groups can be found all over the country, although the majority of their fans are male.

But in fact, there are still many female fans who want to become one of them.

The sub-group that Nako and Sakura belong to is based in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and the group has its own performance theater in Kaiying City.

"Fans?... Not all, it's just that a lot of akb48's songs were written by me and sent to Mr. Akimoto's company, and then they were adopted."

The corner of Takiyi's mouth curled up, but he actually missed a sentence.

Because of his father's huge connections, Hirai Takiichi once studied lyric writing with Akimoto Yasushi for a period of time under the introduction of another elder.

Only then did he become an independent musician and anchor on Niconico Animation.

Some of the concepts and plans in akb48 were proposed by Takichi, taking advantage of his age and deliberately pretending to be naive.

But these are just some superficial things, which coincide with what Akimoto Yasushi thought, and were subsequently perfected.

In the previous phone call with Nako, he told Nako that the reason why he didn't go to watch was because of the so-called consultation heart in his heart.

On the other hand, he didn't want Sakura to know that he went to the scene, as that would definitely affect her performance.

The so-called Daisukaku Festival is a large-scale personnel change held by the 48-generation Sakura Country national idol group in various places in Tokyo every once in a while.

So far, Takiichi has participated in two major cabinet formation festivals, the "akb104 Selection of Members" held on August 23, 2009, and the "1830m Dream" held by akb48 at the Tokyo Dome on August 24, 2012.

This time, "'Times have changed. But, we can only move forward!" During the Grand Gukaku Festival, Sakura was announced to have joined teamkiv, and became the vice-captain and concurrently serving as akb48 team a.

Along with the two MCs present, Koyuki Tsuchida, Keiko Toda, and Yuko Oshima who was responsible for the commentary, the moment the results were announced.

Takiichi, who stood in the audience and stood up to applaud, understood that Shino let Sakura into the eyes of more people, and it started from that moment on.

If it hadn't been for this grand group festival, Sakura's name as "Sakura" would not have been known to more overseas star-chasers in the future.

"Hey? It turns out that Takiichi-chan is so good that he even wrote a song for them...Which song is it?"

Little sister Wu Bai held her chin and looked up and down Taki Yi's body.

The little girl doesn't have too many complicated thoughts, she just simply thinks that Takichi Hirai has more and more shining points.

"Not many, I just wrote three songs, "Infinite Replay", "Let's Fly", "The Wind Keeps Blowing"..."

Takiichi introduced it calmly, appearing very nonchalant, as if these songs he wrote were not worth mentioning at all in his eyes.

In fact, this is the case. Even when the song was published, his real name was used as the lyricist and composer, and it did not attract media attention or harassment.

All of this was because he asked Akimoto Yasu not to reveal too much of his personal information.

"Really? I remember these three songs were once on the Oricon Chart of Sakura Country, right? Takiichi-chan is really amazing~"

The expression on the little girl's face instantly turned cute.

Perhaps for her at this age, she can no longer find other expressions to express her mood at the moment.

Each of these three songs can be hummed by any young person from Sakura Country.

After so many years of singing, it has long become akb48’s masterpiece that must be mentioned.

Not to mention "Infinite Replay", it is the most well-known among overseas fans.

In 2011, it won the first place in the karaoke annual list in the same ranking. It has also become a masterpiece that many other countries will play when introducing the group akb48 on TV.

"Let's Fly" ranked first on the Oricon Singles Chart in 2011. After its release, this single topped multiple music charts.

In addition, since the Oricon Chart began to calculate sales on a daily basis, "Flying" was the first music work to achieve one million sales in the summer, successfully breaking the charts' first-day and first-week sales records at that time.

akb48 won the 53rd Sakura National Record Award for this song.

This is the third time it has been won by a girl group after DY's "UIFO" in 1978 and Wink's "Lonely Tropical Fish" in 1989.

As for "The Wind Keeps Blowing", it is the 23rd single released by akb48.

This song revolves around the theme of "first bit by bit, moving forward" and later became an earthquake revival support song.

At that time, Takiichi wrote these three songs in three periods: 2007, 2008, and 2009. The main reason was to thank Akimoto Yasushi for taking care of him in all aspects of life.

After the strong response of these three songs and the profits they brought around the world, Yasushi Akimoto, as the chief producer, even gave Taki a red envelope of 1.1 billion yen as a reward.

Not to mention in 2014, even in the period after the song was released, this was a huge amount of money.

But Hirai Takichi did not accept all of it, he only took 10 million.

He knew what kind of person Akimoto Yasushi was. He could not be called stingy, but he was definitely not generous.

Takiichi is very rational and clear that the three songs "Infinite Replay", "Flying" and "The Wind Keeps Blowing" are not worth 100 million yen just by looking at the songs themselves.

A good song needs a suitable singer to sing it, and only through strong packaging and promotion can its value be realized.

AKB48 was already a national girl group at that time, and their influence was so great that even Kara and Girls' Generation, who were invaded by the Korean Wave, failed to shake their status.

Without akb48, whether these three songs would be popular and whether they would be able to create so much peripheral income and records in the future is a question.

In addition, the lyrics of these three songs are all mixed with a strong "Akimoto style".

When others hear it, they will think that Yasushi Akimoto made it for akb48, so it is very popular.

The other 90 million to 40 million will be used by Akimoto Yasu himself to fill the gap in expenses for running this large group. After all, the eight sister groups combined have more than 400 people.

Clothing fees, promotion fees, album production, three meals during performances, etc., are definitely not something that ordinary companies can afford.

In South Korea, where idol culture is also flourishing, such combined expenses are enough to bring down a company.

The remaining 50 million is for Yasushi Akimoto to distribute, which is nominally a reward, but is actually distributed to the members of akb48 and hkt48 as an income to support their lives.

Even Akimoto Yasuo was surprised by his decision at the time.

It is rare for an underage boy who is only a teenager to be able to refuse the temptation of money, fame and fortune under the influence of the entertainment industry.

Because of this, Yasushi Akimoto saw clearly that Hirai Takiichi was not the kind of person who cared about money or was greedy for money.

Because he knows how to make choices, this incident also made him completely famous among all akb48 groups.

Ninety million was missing. Of the ten million in remuneration, Hirai Takiichi left one million yen as 'pocket money'.

I also gave 500,000 yen to my two sisters in South Korea respectively, which were converted into Korean won and remitted as living expenses.
Chapter completed!