[2011.12.20] AKB48 Kohaku singing battle at Tokyo Dome City Hall

[YKT]

On December 5th, popular idol group AKB48 announced through their official blog that they will be holding their own “Kohaku singing battle”!

AKB48 has been confirmed to perform at the annual New Year’s Eve music show, “The 62nd Kohaku Uta Gassen“, and they have also been promoting the show as a “supporter”. To prepare themselves for the big event, the group has decided to hold their own “Kohaku singing battle” themselves. Just like the original program, the members will divide into teams of “red” and “white”, and compete against each other.

AKB48’s “Kohaku singing battle” will be held on December 20th at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL. Tickets and other information will be revealed through their official blog at a later date.

Source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/12/akb48-to-hold-kohaku-singing-battle/


Official blog just updated as follows:

We will be holding special tickets for 「Super long distance category」 for 「AKB48 紅白対抗歌合戦」　held on December 20 at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL.

More info: http://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-11100466137.html

[YKT]

Just announced at http://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-11107790481.html

RED TEAM

【紅組】

キャプテン 高橋みなみ

岩佐美咲・大家志津香・倉持明日香・小嶋陽菜・篠田麻里子・高城亜樹・仲川遥香・中田ちさと・仲谷明香・前田敦子・前田亜美・松原夏海・秋元才加・内田眞由美・梅田彩佳・田名部生来・中塚智実・仁藤萌乃・藤江れいな・宮澤佐江・米沢瑠美・石田晴香・河西智美・北原里英・小林香菜・小森美果・佐藤すみれ・佐藤夏希・鈴木まりや・近野莉菜・平嶋夏海・増田有華・阿部マリア・伊豆田莉奈・入山杏奈・加藤玲奈・永尾まりや・藤田奈那・小嶋菜月・名取稚菜・森川彩香・大森美優・佐々木優佳里・NMB48（16名）

WHITE TEAM

【白組】

キャプテン 大島優子

多田愛佳・片山陽加・指原莉乃・板野友美・菊地あやか・野中美郷・松井咲子・峯岸みなみ・横山由依・柏木由紀・佐藤亜美菜・鈴木紫帆里・宮崎美穂・渡辺麻友・市川美織・小林茉里奈・島崎遥香・島田晴香・竹内美宥・仲俣汐里・中村麻里子・山内鈴蘭・川栄李奈・岩田華怜・サイード横田絵玲奈・鈴木里香・高橋朱里・田野優花・平田梨奈・武藤十夢・13期研究生・SKE48（16名）・HKT48（16名）

[almond]

...am I reading correctly that the red team has Takamina, Akimoto Sayaka, Masuda Yuka and Kuramochi Asuka? ...is there even a contest at this point... 

[gekikarabuACE]

I jokingly considered the possibility of having all the heavy-hitters ending up together in one group, but Takamina, Yuka, Wasamin, Sayaka, Mochi together... they barely left anything for the other team, did they? 

[pastil]

Nacchi is in red team as well.
Also, NMB in red team and SKE and HKT in white team?

Anyway, Sakiko and Micha are in the white team → this girl is supporting white team till the end.

[Tanchan]

Well, even with almost all the best singers in Red Team, there's no 100% guarantee that they will win even though the percentage is definitely high. You guys must remember that this is voted by fans, not by professional judges, so the possibility that fans just vote for their favorite members regardless of their singing is still THERE. For example, if Rena ends up in team White, all her fans will vote for her no matter how bad she sings . Yep I know that Acchan is in team Red so they have an advantage but so is Yuko in White Team plus Yukirin plus Mayuyu. I think this is just another popularity contest in the form of singing. However, if by some miraculous magic the fans suddenly care about singing, then there's no doubt which team will win. However, I really doubt that.

[winner]

Going through the names, I was pretty sure White Team had a chance.
Till I saw KitaRie is in Red Team... they broke up SONE!! Oh wait, they already were broken up.

[winner]

They're broadcasting it live on youtube now. And I've missed 2 hours...

[hibachifinal]

Epic shit went down. some surprising shuffles! and... FFFFFFFacchan ;_;

[almond]

Credit - aakun at Everyday48

00. overture

-Zenza Girls-
01. New Song / DiVA
- DiVA new members introduction
02. Pedicure Day / no3b

-Main Event Start-
MC - Introduction MC
01. Dear J / Sashihara
02. Flower / Akimoto
03. Seifuku Resistance / Takayanagi · Shimada · Takeuchi
04. Itoshiki Natasha / Kasai · Nito · Fujie
05. Heart gata Virus / Shimazaki · Yamauchi · Kaoru
06. Nagisa no CHERRY / Kato R · Kojima N · Natori · Morikawa
07. Kuchi Utsushi Chocolate / Matsui R · Kikuchi · Sato A
08. Blue rose / Sato S · Abe · Nakagawa · Nagao

09. Oh my God! / SKE48
10. Pareo wa Emerald / NMB48

MC - Ayaman JAPAN

11. Kuchibiru Furezu... / Takajyo · Miyazawa · Kitahara
12. Pera Pera Perao / Kashiwagi · Miyazaki · Ota · Nonaka

13. Kinjirareta Futari / Kuramochi · Komori
14. Ame no Pianist / Minegishi · Katayama · Suzuki H

15. Te wo Tsunaginagara / HKT48
16. Aitakatta (Indoenesian ver.) / JKT48

17. Skirt, Hirari / Kimoto · Iwata · Kawaei · Takahashi J · Kodama · Kizaki · Tano
18. GLASS no I LOVE YOU / Iriyama · Jo · Sasaki · Omori
19. Ame no Doubutsuen / Ichikawa · Hata · Suda · Hirata · Motou · Nakamata · Nakamura · Kobayashi M
20. Dakishimeraretara / Yamamoto · Watanabe Mi · Yamada

00. Sakiko Piano Solo
21. Anata to Christmas Eve / Yokoyama · Matsui S (Live and Live Piano)
22. Noel no Yoru / Akagumi Theater Girls

23. Yokaze no Shiawaza / Itano (live)
24. Beginner (Acoustic solo version.) / Takahashi M (live)
25. Temodemo no Namida / Watanabe Ma · Matsui J
26. Tonari no Banana / Kojima · Shinoda

27. Itoshisa no Accel / Oshima
28. Kareha no Station / Maeda Ats (live)

29. Flying Get / Team B
30. Heavy Rotation / Team K
31. Kaze wa Fuiteiru / Team A
32. Ue kara Mariko (Janken Senbatsu)
33. Everyday, Kachuusha (ALL)

34. Dareka no Tame ni (ALL)

[winner]

at least I got to see the final 6 battle songs. Yuko x Itoshisa no Accel = BOSS

funny. when they only revealed the first 2 scores (a bunch of scores still needed to be added), and Mayuyu said "great, let's end it like this"

[gekikarabuACE]

Ah, Akagumi... what a waste of talent they did.  I was prepared to vote for them (even though most of my favorites are in Shirogumi) because objectively speaking, they have the best singers in the 48 family and thus expected better performances. But no, they had to misuse their members. They give their mediocre singers (like Acchan and Tomochin) solos and stuck Yuttan, Nacchi, and Wasamin in a big ass group. What is that travesty?! And to think they started out strong with Sayaka's solo! Shirogumi, on the other hand, played their cards excellently and mixed and matched the weak singers with good ones. Rena's, Yuki's, Yui & Sakiko's...  And Yuko's solo was so freakin' awesome. Her yakuza outfit was . Ended up voting for them.

Anyway, it was a very nice show, nevertheless. There were some great shuffles in there. I hope they do this again next year.

P.S. I wonder how Rena felt hearing/watching Acchan butcher her song? I swear I was ready to die from second-hand embarrassment while watching it. Acchan, why u forget the lyrics?   

[SomethingWild]

01. Dear J / Sashihara
03. Seifuku Resistance / Takayanagi · Shimada · Takeuchi
07. Kuchi Utsushi Chocolate / Matsui R · Kikuchi · Sato A
13. Kinjirareta Futari / Kuramochi · Komori
25. Temodemo no Namida / Watanabe Ma · Matsui J
28. Kareha no Station / Maeda Ats (live)

Holy crap. These are some of the wildest and most interesting shuffles I've seen in ages!
..and I didn't see any of them!    We need rips!

[deH]

awesome ><

I just started to watch at Ame no Pianist... definitely need rips!

Yuko's Itoshisa no Accel was the best thing ever, I went crazy *0*

And didn't like Acchan's Kareha no Station... don't no, it sounded weird '-' she sang... somehow... slowly? really weird...

Sakiko and Yui sounded weird too... I think their voices don't match '-'

Oh, Yuko and Takamina voting was awesome too! the crossing thing was beautiful *-* loved it~

[Zorr]

^
^Thats exactly how I felt when I saw that.  I totally forgot this was today and only just noticed when someone posted about it in the Yuko thread.  I was all 'what the hell, I missed that!!!'

Hopefully the rips wont be far away.

[Masa]

[gekikarabuACE]

^
^
^ Some people are suggesting that maybe she had trouble singing because of: 1. the loud crowd; 2. the unstable rolling stage they put her in. I guess it makes sense, though. It's hard to hear herself and the accompanying music amidst that thundering crowd she was wheeled into, which would explain why she was off-beat (and off-tune) most of the time. I actually felt bad for right her at the end. She sounded like she was about to burst into tears, judging from how her voice cracked.

[Masa]

More videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/MOHSBEST

[deH]

^
^yeah, I feel sorry for that >< even Takamina solo sounded different for me... awesome though, love her voice

it makes senses... loud crowd + unstable stage... yeah, that's difficult ><

that's a pity, when I saw Acchan was going to sing Kareha I really got excited ><
but the live was great, hours of AKB seems like paradise xD

[SomethingWild]

OK, screw it. I've been looking at this milestone post for weeks now 

I'm dedicating my 14000th post to one of the most awesome AKB48 members performing one of the catchiest singles of the year: