Nogizaka46 with Tachinaori Chuu

I know it's really, really, REALLY late but I still want to talk about this so bad!
I made the screenshots for this almost a year ago, so let's start!!

Well, it's Nogizaka46's Tachinaori Chuu which was a B-side of their single ''Inochi wa Utsukushii'', released in March 2015.

This was a B-side and only sung by 7 members, most of which belong to the older girls. They are Shiraishi Mai, Hashimoto Nanami, Fukagawa Mai, Eto Misa, Takayama Kazumi, Matsumura Sayuri and Akimoto Manatsu. They are also all pretty popular.

I will talk about the song in short: Tachinaori Chuu is quite slow and a bit sad. It's still a really beautiful and especially the chorus is lovely and makes you emotional and stuff. It's a pretty dreamy song and I love it!

Even though she isn't really appointed as center, Maiyan gets the only solo lones. I like her voice a lot, so this is really nice.

So let's take a look at the video:

At first we are in some kind of factory I would say

Here they are sewing clothes

A really old-fashioned Nanamin! So I guess this is playing in the past?

Oh no, this looks dangerous!!

Baby Nanamin

And her mother, who is apparently leaving

Nooo, how can you leave this baby?

She seems to remember this scene

NOOOO

But Maiyan saves her.
Glad you're here, Maiyan!

Nanami: What happened?

Maiyan: You almost cut your finger off!

The girls seem to have almost finished this day and they are talking

MaiMai looks pretty cool with this fashion

Manatsu and Kazu are looking quite bored

Maiyan is always so beautiful *-*

And Ringo is the cutest

Nanami seems to be a loner, since she isn't sitting with the others..
And now Maiyan is telling them all she wants to leave this factory..

They have an old television. So I'm guessing 60s/ 70s? (I'm really not good with guessing the time)

Maiyan telling everyone that she wants to leave to be a person, who's in TV.
テレビの中の人になりたい！

帰ろう？

Uuuh, this place looks really nice. I really want to go to the Japanese countryside one day :3

Nice shoes

Maiyan: You should talk with everyone more!

Nanami: I'm really bad at that!
So they are best friends, but it's hard for Nanami to talk with others and find new friends I guess?

And now Maiyan is showing Nanami a secret place

Wooow, this looks really beautiful. So much green!!

Yeay, Nanami is smiling for the first time!

And Maiyan is so cute ;3

They are happily caring about the plants

And now Nanami is also smiling at work

Oh, she found something

Nanami: Maiyan, I found something for you!

It's some kind of hair accessoire. Looks really beautiful and fits Mai really good!

Aaaaaaw, they are so cute ;3

Maiyan is having so much fun..

And Nanami is watching her. She looks so nice and caring!

Nanami: WTF?

What are they doing here?

Maiyan: I invited the others too!

Nanami: Bitch, what??
XD
No, I guess it's once again her being all shy

Nanami is looking sad!

Sayuri is taking lovely photos.. That smile <3

This is such a beautiful picture!
And they are all getting along!

In the end even Nanami!!
Maiyan wanted her to get out of her shelf to make friends and be happy.

So nice

MaiMai: Nihihihiii, how about some lipstick?

This looks like so much fun!

Maiyan: Yes, she is having fun and made other friends. Mission complete

NOPE

She isn't coming to the factory anymore..

And she isn't in the secret building

Nanamin is searching for Maiyan..

..and she finds her.

Maiyan! MAIYAN!!!

Mai: Bye, Bye
Nope :'(
She really left..

Nanami is working, working...

And there's Maiyan in the TV!! She made it!

Ah, Nanamin!!!

No one was there to stop her..

... so she's bleeding a bit now. At least you still have your finger, girl

But this is sad!

Maiyan finally being the Idol, she wanted to be all along

Oh, she still has this!

As we can see, Nanami is sitting with the others now

And she's looking at her old place? Or Maiyan's old place?

Once again the good-bye scene. I'm also crying!!!

She compares it to her mother.. T.T

Maiyan was so important to her!

Nanami has different glasses now, so some time must have passed

She looks s mature!

Ooooh, she has a child now.

And it's running.. how cute!

Yep, such a cute kid!!

No. NOOOOOOO..... Maiyan.. is BACK?

Maiyan: What's your name?

Nanami's daughter: Nanami.
They have the same name, okay XD

Here she is

Why are you so prettyyyy?

So serious..

Welcome home!
おかえり

I'm home!
ただいま

It's the person from inside the TV!
テレビの中の人だ。

And little Nanami is really confused.


Reaction: *cries*
Okay, so this is seriously a very, very beautiful, sad and lovely video! It's about some girls who are factory workers and mostly about Nanami and Maiyan. Nanamin is a really shy person who has only Maiyan as her friend. Maiyan is really open and friends with everyone and she wants to leave the factory to become famous. But she manages to spent a beautiful time at a secret place with Nanami before that, and even gets her to open up to get other friends as well!!! And then whenn she sees that Nanami can be happy without her, she leaves. It's still really, really sad, but I think it's just sooo lovely how she wants to pursue her dream only AFTER knowing her friend will also be happy. We can see that she indeed becomes famous and Nanami is happy while still thinking about Maiyan. Then, a few years after, Nanamin has a daughter and is walking with her to that secret place. There they meet Maiyan, who has come back and it's such a beautiful ending!!

Haaaaa~
Now, you know why I really wanted to talk about this video! It's like seriously one of the best videos ever and I'm still crying watching this almost one year after it was released. Nogi is simply so awesome, and I hope they always continue to do such amazing videos.. and the song is of course also perfect!!

So that's it for now.. by, bye~