[News] HKT48 Shuffle!

[SomethingWild]

Can't have a big solo concert without a shuffle! This is the new HKT48 line-up:

Team H:
- Anai Chihiro (C)
- Tashima Meru
- Akiyoshi Yuuka
- Matsuoka Natsumi
- Okamoto Naoko
- Nakanishi Chiyori
- Sakaguchi Riko
- Komada Hiroka
- Yamada Marina
- Tanaka Natsumi
- Wakatabe Haruka
- Umemoto Izumi
- Kodama Haruka
- Inoue Yuriya
- Kojina Yui
- Sashihara Rino

Team K4:
- Oota Aika (C)
- Miyawaki Sakura
- Motomura Aoi
- Imada Mina
- Ueki Nao
- Kumazawa Serina,
- Moriyasu Madoka
- Fuchigami Mai
- Murashige Anna
- Tani Marika
- Goto Izumi
- Tomiyoshi Asuka
- Shimono Yuki
- Tomonaga Mio
- Okada Kanna
- Tanaka Yuka


First impressions:
- Very glad they split up MeruMio. I think this will benefit Mio, especially.
- Haruppi has to compete with Meru now for team H ace.
- Sakura, Mio and Aoi lethal trio in team K4. Super awesome.
- Tani and Murashige in the same team. Also awesome.
- They split up pretty much all the typical pairings. Smart move.
- Would have liked Naoko and Yuriya in K4, but I can't complain really. Perfect shuffle.
- Congrats to Lovesan for making captain! This is why she transfered to HKT48 for, to become a Takamina-like figure to the new girls and boost her own career.
- First generation member Fukugawa Maiko still hasn't been promoted.

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 source: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2032880/full/

[SomethingWild]

Sasshi made the announcement in a fancy jacket 



As theater manager, I wonder how much say she had in the actual line-up.
She's smart enough and I think they definitely value her input a lot.

[kuro808]

 

I agree with the first impressions that were brought out by Barrie.  I think for them the emotions would kill anyone but congrads to the kks that have made it and lovetan becoming a captain (now it won't seem that it was that bad of a move)  They still have SakurAnna for KIV.  Anyways what it does is open up the competition again for team aces.

Sasshi and the jacket for the win