(Group) The AKB48 Thread

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AKB48  in Billboard JAPAN Music Awards

- Billboard JAPAN Artist of the Year 2011
- Billboard JAPAN Top Pop Artists 2011
- Billboard JAPAN Hot 100 of the Year 2011
- Billboard JAPAN Hot 100 Single Sales of the Year 2011

http://www.musicman-net.com/business/15658.html

[YKT]

Flying Get / Kaze wa Fuiteiru / Everyday, Katyusha

Airdate: March 3, 2012

Itano Tomomi, Kasai Tomomi, Kashiwagi Yuki, Kitahara Rie,
Kojima Haruna, Maeda Atsuko, Minegishi Minami, Miyazawa Sae,
Oshima Yuko, Sashihara Rino, Shimazaki Haruka, Shinoda Mariko,
Takahashi Minami, Takajo Aki, Yokoyama Yui, Watanabe Mayu

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AKB48  33rd Single

Rebirth  [2013.10.23]

Anna Iriyama, Juri Takahashi, Rina Kawaei, Karen Iwata

Yui Yokoyama, Haruka Shimazaki, Jurina Matsui, Rino Sashihara

Minami Minegishi, Mayu Watanabe (C), Miyuki Watanabe, Sayaka Yamamoto

Mina Oba, Kaoru Mitsumune, Rena Kato, Kanon Kimoto

This Senbetsu, I exclude 1991 or before born from the senbetsu

Just want to see AKB48 without them

Do you Like this team?

[Masa]

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[SomethingWild]

What is J-POP? ~ Exposing the myth of Japanese Music Phenomenon
By Marty Friedman

The first one is a group called AKB48, and right now this is absolutely the biggest thing in Japan. When I say the biggest thing in Japan to give you a little outline of what they are doing, they had 5 million selling singles last year and they just sell tons and tons of stuff. And they have fans of all ages, all origins, all sexes and all everything. But you‟ve got to watch this video clip from one of their songs and you can immediately see my attraction to Japanese music. This is a song called „Heavy Rotation‟ from AKB48.

[♪Music Video Playing „Heavy Rotation‟ from AKB48]

Marty: Now this is freaking rad man, this is just like everything that the antithesis of negativity, I mean you cannot be unhappy and watch this video, I‟m telling you. It‟s like pure sugar just going drilled into your teeth and if you can stand that it‟s the greatest thing. For me and my personal taste, when I see something like this, it`s just deep on every single level. I mean there‟s absolutely nothing, no part that I can say “well I don‟t like this about this I don‟t like that” about it. To me when I hear that, it reminds me of the Bay City Rollers, but with 48 of the cutest girls in the country singing it with a powerful 8 beat behind it. World-class production and it`s just the ultimate. When I hear that song it makes me go crazy. And this is just one of their many hit singles. This is the type of thing that you can hear all around Japan anywhere you go in the department stores, the restaurants, the streets and stuff like that.

There‟s 48 girls in this unit and that gives fans a lot of different things to argue about, a lot of different things to like, talk to their friends about and trade cards with. It‟s almost like a baseball team, who‟s your favorite player, who‟s your favorite singer and who‟s your favorite dancer. And on a business level nothing could be more genius than the AKB48 business. For one thing, the fans of AKB48, not only AKB48 but similar groups, will buy more than one version of the same song. They will buy more than one disc of the same album, they will buy more than one of everything even if they have the same version, they will buy like two or three. First of all they will buy one copy just to save it, so it doesn‟t get beat up. Then they‟ll get one copy to listen to and then there will be another version with a different cover, that will be like one red cover and one blue cover. And they will buy that as well, even though what‟s inside the CD is exactly the same. They may have a trading card that comes with the CD, and maybe one of those singers is in there. So if you keep buying CDs until you find that special trading card of your favorite singer you can buy 10-20 CDs before you have the CD that you want.
But these fans love to do it and it is not only because the girls are cute or because the marketing is good, it‟s because the product itself is really, really well done. I mean if you listen to the song, that song is extremely well done.

Full transcript: http://t.co/y8lmxyGD

[Datalanche]

I think Marty nailed it as far as my reasons for being into AKB48 goes... it's just fun. The variety, the music, the TV stuff... it's not about one particular part. It's about the fun around all of the aspects.

[maliciel]

I think he gives the songs far too much credit.

At the end of the day, the fans are just fucking crazy.

[SomethingWild]

I think he gives the songs far too much credit.

I may have to agree with this to some extent. The process he describes about the process of elimination for song ideas seems a bit strange, because 1. a lot of the songs are hugely similar 2. some song are borderline plagiarism. Anyway, there are definitely some truly epic songs in AKB48's catalog, so perhaps not all songs go through that extensive process.

Anna Iriyama, Juri Takahashi, Rina Kawaei, Karen Iwata
Yui Yokoyama, Haruka Shimazaki, Jurina Matsui, Rino Sashihara
Minami Minegishi, Mayu Watanabe (C), Miyuki Watanabe, Sayaka Yamamoto
Mina Oba, Kaoru Mitsumune, Rena Kato, Kanon Kimoto

This Senbetsu, I exclude 1991 or before born from the senbetsu

Do you Like this team?

I gotta admit, this is a bit shocking. 
Only around six girls left who I'm into. Not sure if that will be enough to keep me interested
However, by the time some of the others will have developed and may have become new favorites.
I guess that's the whole idea behind idea groups anyway.

The thing is, AKB48 has power by numbers. The ace can graduate and it won't be the end of it. However, I wonder if, and if so, when the breaking point is. Is there a point when certain key players have graduated that the general public will lose interest? (assuming the girls in the group are the only variable for argument's sake).

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New Kagome CM 


 

http://news.walkerplus.com/2012/0528/2/

[Jul3]

Ice Cup Noodle Typing Game
With either Sasshi, Yuko, Mariko or KojiHaru
http://ice.cupnoodle.jp/typing/

On my first go (with Yuko) got 33,244 points, and second go got 54,464 points.
edit: couple more goes, 66,535 is my best. If I was used to typing Japanese words then this would be easier...

[YKT]

This explains why AKB48 is addictive 

AKB48 (drug)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



AKB48 (APINACA, N-(1-adamantyl)-1-pentyl-1H-indole-3-carboxamide) is a drug that presumably acts as a potent agonist for the cannabinoid receptors. It had never previously been reported in the scientific or patent literature, and was first identified by laboratories in Japan in March 2012 as an ingredient in synthetic cannabis smoking blends.[1] Structurally it closely resembles cannabinoid compounds from patent WO 2003/035005 but with a simple pentyl chain on the indazole 1-position, and AKB48 falls within the claims of this patent despite not being disclosed as an example. AKB48 was made illegal in Japan in 2012,[2] and was banned as a temporary class drug in New Zealand from 13th July 2012.[3]

Origin of the name

The drug is presumably named after the Japanese girl group AKB48

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48_(drug)


Wonder what are the side effects? 

[WindCaliber]

Ice Cup Noodle Typing Game
With either Sasshi, Yuko, Mariko or KojiHaru
http://ice.cupnoodle.jp/typing/

On my first go (with Yuko) got 33,244 points, and second go got 54,464 points.
edit: couple more goes, 66,535 is my best. If I was used to typing Japanese words then this would be easier...

I just tried this, and I got 42,061 on my first try. It's so weird trying to type Japanese.

EDIT: 57,192 on second try!

Wonder what are the side effects? 

You will lose all your money LoL!
 

[SomethingWild]

Updating all the threads is pretty painful:

First generation
- Itano Tomomi
- Kojima Haruna
- Takahashi Minami
- Maeda Atsuko
- Minegishi Minami
- Urano Kazumi (Team A --> Team B --> SDN48 --> WH7)


The new era AKB48 line-up:

Team A
Iriyama Anna
Iwata Karen
Izuta Rina
Kasai Tomomi
Kawaei Rina
Kikuchi Ayaka
Kobayashi Marina
Kotani Riho (+NMB48)
Matsui Sakiko
Morikawa Ayaka
Nakamata Shiori
Nakatsuka Tomomi
Nito Moeno
Oshima Ryoka
Sato Natsuki
Sato Sumire
Shinoda Mariko (Captain)
Takahashi Juri
Takahashi Minami (General Manager)
Tano Yuka
Watanabe Mayu
Yokoyama Yui (+NMB48)

Team K
Abe Maria
Akimoto Sayaka
Chikano Rina
Fujita Nana
Itano Tomomi
Kitahara Rie (+SKE48)
Kobayashi Kana
Kuramochi Asuka
Maeda Ami
Masuda Yuka
Matsubara Natsumi
Matsui Jurina (+SKE48)
Mitsumune Kaoru
Miyazaki Miho
Muto Tomu
Nagao Mariya
Nakata Chisato
Nakaya Sayaka
Oshima Yuko (Captain)
Sato Amina
Shimada Haruka
Suzuki Shihori
Uchida Mayumi

Team B
Fujie Reina
Ichikawa Miori
Ishida Anna (+SKE48)
Ishida Haruka
Iwasa Misaki
Kashiwagi Yuki
Katayama Haruka
Kato Rena
Kojima Haruna
Kojima Natsuki
Komori Mika
Minegishi Minami
Nakamura Mariko
Natori Wakana
Nonaka Misato
Oba Mina
Ooya Shizuka
Shimazaki Haruka
Takeuchi Miyu
Tanabe Miku
Umeda Ayaka (Captain)
Watanabe Miyuki (+NMB48)
Yamauchi Suzuran

Team Kenkyuusei

12th Generation
Omori Miyu
Saeed-Yokota Erena
Sasaki Yukari
Hirata Rina

13th Generation
Aigase Moe
Iwatate Saho
Kitazawa Saki
Mogi Shinobu
Muramaya Yuiri
Okada Ayaka
Shinozaki Ayana
Takashima Yurina
Umeta Ayano

14th Generation
Hashimoto Hikari
Kojima Mako
Maeda Mitsuki
Nishino Miki
Okada Nana
Uchiyama Natsuki


You can find Sae, Mariyannu, Akicha, Haruka and Lovetan in the 0048 Section from now on.
The Picture Threads and Birthday site will eventually be updated as well.

[YKT]

^GJ 


From Msta's autograph board

[SomethingWild]

Just for fun: CDJapan now has a thousand AKB48 items listed! (excluding sister units)

[winner]

Watching old Gintama episodes and saw another AKB reference.
Gintama ep227 (Gintama x SKET Dance special). Picking on SKET Dance's 1st OP sung by French Kiss.





Since it was a collab, there are a load of in-jokes about the seiyuu and how they've appeared in both shows. And how the two shows story/characters overlap.
And since it's Gintama, there's the joke about eating special fruit to instantly become popular but the side-effect of turning their crotch into a hammer.

Can try watching the episode here:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/gintama/episode-227-speaking-of-crossovers-dont-forget-about-alien-vs-predator-583696
[noembed]http://video.mthai.com/player.php?id=18M1317035520M0[/noembed]

[YKT]

AKB48 and Go Hiromi FNS 2012



Backup

EDIT gifs by akb48gifs

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mek7xnCeSC1r31n4zo2_250.gif
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[CtrlZee]

Since December 8, 2005,

You've been through thick and thin and everything in between.
You've revolutionized a lot of Japan and even some fans from overseas by your music.
You've shown the world the beauty and essence of "idol" of Japan.
You've even reached your ultimate goal, to hold a concert in the Tokyo Dome.
But your legend just won't end anytime soon.

And today marks a milestone of your longing presence.

Happy 7th Anniversary AKB48!

Thank you for all that you've done and bearing with us crazy fans . Keep it up, cause we're always here supporting you, and stay awesome

[Masa]

Happy 7th Anniversary!

[YKT]

Yasushi Akimoto (English page)

To all the fans who gave their support to the AKB48,

The theater that opened on the 8th day of December in the year 2005 has already reached its 7th year.

We may have done things over and over through trial and error, and we may have done a lot of things
imperfectly that would make you think that our management is "good-for-nothing".
However, it’s because of the fans’ understanding and support that we have reached this far.
Thank you very much.

The members and the staff did a great job as well.

I think I also did a great job.

AKB48 is still halfway to reaching their dreams
We will continue to do our best.

I know that I still have to do something very important now.. and it’s going to be due soon.
This year, we will give our very best and start a performance anew.
Please continue supporting us.

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