[Discuss] The Best Vocals in AKB48

[SomethingWild]

tomichin

That's a keeper 

(it's Tomochin)

[cielly]

I typed it wrong. Sorry! xDD

Tomochin, yeah! 

[yic17]

Personally, my favorite voices are: Takamina, Yukirin, Kojiharu, and Wasamin.

I like how Takamina has a wide range of voices - she can go soft or strong.
I love Yukirin's soothing/feminine voice.
Kojiharu has very nice feminine voice as well. Love her Cloudy Sky solo.
Wasamin - the queen of enka. =D

Other good voices: Yuka, Yui, Natsuki

Yuka has a good voice that's for sure - but a bit too strong for my taste.
Yui has a nice voice, too - from her karaoke competition thingy.
Natsuki can sing well, too. I really liked her combo singing with Yuka in the karaoke tournament.

[oist]

Yuka fo sho.

And then in order in terms of likeness..
Kasai (unexpectedly good in the karaoke)
Mii-chan
Haruna
Natsuki

[jafeijai]

Gotta love that Yukapella

[winner]

^+1
Started playing AKB 1/48. Ripped Yuka's Kachusha (Takoyaki Meccha-sukiyane ver.)

[Amplifier]

The lack of Wasamin in this thread is disturbing. She rocked this single, and the live performance(s).

[jafeijai]

Started playing AKB 1/48. Ripped Yuka's Kachusha (Takoyaki Meccha-sukiyane ver.)

y i no got PSP?! D:

[Scatterbrain]

After hearing Wasamin solo stuff, I think she has the best vocals of all AKB48.

[boykun]

So is Yuka considered the best by the AKBar? I've been thinking, if Aki-P makes a media senbatsu sized group of the best singers(for a single B-side or whatever), who would be in it?

I guess only consider actual skill and technique, and not how nice her voice is when singing. I assume Masuda Yuka and Sato Natsuki would be in the group.

What do you guys think?

[sakura_drop_]

In no particular order:

Iwasa Misaki
Takahashi Minami
Katayama Haruka
Maeda Atsuko(?)
Akimoto Sayaka
Yokoyama Yui
Kasai Tomomi
Kashiwagi Yuki
Sato Natsuki
Masuda Yuka
Ono Haruka
Kuwabara Mizuki(?)
Deguchi Aki
Sato Mieko
Takayanagi Akane(?)
Furukawa Airi
Yamamoto Sayaka
(not sure about other ooo48 members)
Iwata Karen
(not sure about other Kenkyuusei members)

that's my opinion...

(Though I'd love to add Yuko-sama to the list, as I love her sweet voice...)

[jafeijai]

AKBINGO! - 12.03.07「DIVAチャン」 - 视频 - 优酷视频 - 在线观看
Even AKBINGO is keen on finding out who is the best singer in AKB (though from a rather limited pool selection)!

[boykun]

Great timing I guess on the episode

Masuda Yuka making a killing.

[Deaglezero]

To judge who has the best vocals....well it depends on the genre of music you want them to sing:

Because we're talking about akb, an idol group, obviously Yukirin has the best vocals for pop songs ESPECIALLY ballads. OMG. Her tone progression is AMAZING; her voice still sounds clear and soothing on high notes.

But seeing as I don't listen much to R & B and am not that big a fan of DiVA as I am with French Kiss, Sayaka and Yuka would rank lower (even though of course their voices fit perfectly with R & B).

I would say Takamina ranks between Yukirin and these two.

And after watching Wasamin's clip above, I would say she's on the same level as Takamina, but would be perfectly suited to enka/old-style 80s jpop.

And everyone else in AKB (at least 80% of the group) can't sing. Special mention in this respect goes to Tomochin who I cannot believe has a solo career.

[How's that for criticism guys?]

[SomethingWild]

I guess only consider actual skill and technique, and not how nice her voice is when singing.

I think most of us are too n00b to actually recognize skill and technique. Besides, how her voice sounds is probably more important than technique... I mean, ideally you want both, but if someone has epic technique but still sounds like a chainsaw then I wouldn't want to listen to her.

Anyway, if I were to select a senbatsu sized team of the best singers in AKB48 only, I'd pick:

Iwasa Misaki
Katayama Haruka
Kojima Haruna
Maeda Atsuko
Nakaya Sayaka
Akimoto Sayaka
Kasai Tomomi
Kashiwagi Yuki
Masuda Yuka
Sato Amina
Sato Natsuki
Iwata Karen

Acchan may be a personal bias, but I found her singing on her solo single very soothing.

I didn't list Takahashi Minami because she sounds way too nasally for my taste. She does add some power to AKB48's sounds, which is great, but I wouldn't want a solo single. Since we're talking about technique as well, I noticed Takamina doesn't seem to have that much stamina. She sounds out of breath after one song when she sings live, which makes me wonder about her singing technique. Of course Takamina does have her moments, I've seen perfs of Bird and Itoshisa no Accel which were very nice. She's good, but not top 12 worthy imo.

[Deaglezero]

Oh yeah with reference to jafeijai's post above, guess who won that competition?

[lolym]

If it's AKB48 only then my favorite vocals (in no particular order) are:


Kashiwagi Yuki
Iwasa Misaki
Masuda Yuka
Sato Natsuki
Kojima Haruna
Takahashi Minami

[pastil]

Micha may not have as amazing technique as Yuka or Nacchi but my fuckin god does she have the softest and nicest voice ever. Not one those squeky high voices.
Akimoto - since she's getting all that promo now anyway... solo single kthxbye

[pastil]

Okay to post SKE too?



Aki's voice has such a unique sound. And her vibrato is epic.

[SRA48]

for me is yuttan, akigori, no3b

all no3b member had a great voices, best sub unit