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TAKAHASHI MINAMI'S DRAFT CONFERENCE
On the day of the draft conference on May 10th,
48 candidates were selected.
With the attention of the cast and crew,
Director Minami Takahashi had a clear view of her position.
As a trigger for the future development, what does she imagine the second draft conference to be like?
It's the 10th anniversary this year, so I want to move forward with everyone.
And I don't want to be satisfied with the 10th anniversary. I want to connect it to the 11th anniversary.
I'm announcing that I'm not going to be here this year.
I want to see an AKB group that doesn't have me.
I want to leave hope for the future.
What does Takahashi want to do?
I think what's missing right now is a sense of crisis.
There are fewer and fewer seniors.
I think it'll be easier for the younger ones to stay.
So if there's someone who's working hard, I think the older ones have to work hard.
And I think we need someone who can give us a sense of crisis.
TAKAHASHI TAKAHASHI
I don't want to put pressure on the girls in the draft.
It's not like we're going to pick players who have been active somewhere, like in a normal draft.
It's the same as the auditions so far.
The girls who came up with their dreams.
I'm sorry, but we're going to decide whether or not we want them on our team.
I don't want to put pressure on them.
But I think it's a big deal to have a brand that's been in the draft.
I think it's hard for the girls who are auditioning right now.
What kind of character do we want to be?
Let's go up as a member of AKB.
Let's be the selection.
It starts with looking for that kind of thing.
But the girls who came in the draft have a brand that says they're draft students.
I'm looking forward to seeing how they're going to make the most of it.
We're not going to leave our seniors behind.
I want to assist them so that they can grow up properly.
I think the draft meeting is really interesting as a new way of auditioning.
I felt that we had a lot of responsibility to choose ourselves.
We're the ones who got it, so we have to do it right.
I felt that a lot, so I felt sorry for the girls if they didn't know what they were doing.
In that sense, the scout system and what the same members felt were real.
I'm really happy that I can get a lot of information in that sense.
This time, a new scoutman system has been introduced.
It is a system that allows each team at each base to assign a scoutman to each team and inspect them directly.
AKB48
From Team A is Natsuki Kojima.
Team K is Maria Nagao.
Team B is Mayu Ogasawara and Juri Takahashi.
Team 4 is Miyon Mukaichi and Rio Okawa.
SKE48
From Team S is Mai Takeuchi and Miki Yakata.
Team K2 is Sarina Soda, a member of the draft class.
Team E is Makiko Saito.
NMB48
From Team N is Ririka Suto, a member of the draft class.
Team M is Sae Murase.
Team B2 is Kanako Kadowaki.
HKT48
From Team H is Riko Sakaguchi.
And Team K4 is Aoi Motomura.
The above 15 people will carry each team as scoutmen and go to battle to find talent.
Hello to all the draft candidates.
I'm Minami Takahashi, the general director of AKB48.
Thank you so much for accepting this audition.
I'm really looking forward to meeting you all.
I think there are still a lot of things that we can't do.
I think there are still a lot of things that we can't sing or dance.
What we're looking at is not what we can't do, but how hard we can do it.
I'm sure you'll be happy when you join AKB48.
I'm sure you'll fall over and over again.
There are a lot of things that I think are hard to do.
I'd like to find someone who can stand up and move forward.
This year is the 10th anniversary of AKB48.
I'd like to find someone who will run with me for the 11th and 12th years.
I think it's hard, but please do your best.