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Jul3 · « **Reply #260 on:** December 13, 2012, 02:50:28 PM »

NMB48 KKS Sato Sorai has announced her gradution.

Here's the blogpost: http://ameblo.jp/nmb48/entry-11426427188.html

She wants to concentrate on her studies and then become a teacher.

edit: her personal graduation blogpost: http://ameblo.jp/nmb48/entry-11426563716.html

t-motion · « **Reply #261 on:** December 13, 2012, 03:39:43 PM »

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NMB48 Team M member Hikawa Ayame to graduate from the group
http://ameblo.jp/nmb48/entry-11426436251.html

Reason: Foot injury.

poor NMB...

Rust · « **Reply #262 on:** December 13, 2012, 05:38:35 PM »

I guess this is news, so...

Shinoda Mariko’s handmade cookie sold for over one million

アイドルグループ・AKB48の篠田麻里子が、手作りしたクッキーがオークションで売買されたことを受け、自身の公式Twitter上でショックな気持ちを吐露している。
Idol Group AKB48 Shinoda Mariko revealed her shocked feelings on twitter regarding her handmade cookie being sold on Yahoo Auctions.

100万1000円で落札された篠田麻里子の手作りクッキー含む非売品グッズセット
Successful bid of 1.001 million for Shinoda Mariko handmade cookie goods set for sale.

　事の発端は8日、Yahoo!オークションに出品された篠田の手作りクッキーなどを含む非売品グッズが、100万円という驚きの価格で落札されてネット上で話題となった。出品されたグッズとは、5日に東京・代官山で行われた篠田がプロデュースするファッションブランド「ricori」のレセプションパーティーで関係者にのみ配られたノベルティーで、手作りクッキーのほかに、ネックレスやスケジュール帳などがセットになっていた。
It began on the 8th, where Shinoda’s handmade cookie which was a not for sale goods appeared on Yahoo!Auction and sold at such an amazing price of 1million, became a hot topic on the internet. This was a novelty only distributed for those involved in a reception party of the fashion brand 「ricori」 on the 5th at Tokyo, daikanyama. Aside from the handmade cookies, the set also came with a necklace and a schedule book.

　Twitterを通じ、自身の手作りクッキーがオークションで売買されたことを知った篠田は、「悲しい。一生懸命作ったのに」と、悲痛な思いを明かしたツイートを投稿。篠田は同パーティに向けて、公式ブログ上で「1日300枚焼きます（笑）」「朝までクッキー焼くぞー」と、クッキー作りに励む様子をつづっていただけに、驚異的な落札価格よりも、食べられずに売られてしまったことにショックを受けたようだ。
Through twitter, Shinoda who knew that her own handmade cookies was sold on the auctions revealed her bitter feelings via a tweet 「I’m sad. Even though I made it with all my heart」. Before the party, Shinoda said on her official blog 「baking 300 a day(laughs)」「baking until morning」 and showed how much she worked to bake the cookies, but as compared to the astounding bid price, she was more shocked that the guests did not eat it, but sold it instead.

　しかし、その後にフォロワーから落ち込む篠田を心配する声が寄せられると、「大丈夫、またクッキー作ろっと」とツイート。すでに立ち直った様子を明かしている。
However, after which her followers who was worried about this, Shinoda tweeted 「it’s okay. I’ll make cookies again. 」 Revealed that she had gotten over it.

Source: http://gekikaraclub.tumblr.com/post/37809819480/shinoda-marikos-handmade-cookie-sold-for-over-1million

Boy some fans are crazy...

WindCaliber · « **Reply #263 on:** December 13, 2012, 07:56:24 PM »

$12,000 for a cookie?

That probably went stale by the time it was sold.

YKT · « **Reply #264 on:** December 15, 2012, 09:16:44 AM »

Announced on Billboard Japan Music Awards telecast 5 mins ago, AKB48 won the Artist of the Year 2012 award.

Paruru, Yuko, Takamina, Mayuyu and Yukirin represented AKB48 in the thank you speech segment.

t-motion · « **Reply #265 on:** December 15, 2012, 11:28:11 AM »

^ Billboard Japan Music Awards speech segment video

Jul3 · « **Reply #266 on:** December 15, 2012, 04:42:20 PM »

Kashiwagi Yuki 2nd Solo Concert announced for 17th February 2013 at Tokyo International Forum Hall A

http://yukiring.jp/debut.html

Thanks sillythings for the heads-up

YKT · « **Reply #267 on:** December 16, 2012, 03:59:12 PM »

Ogino Risa will go on a temporary hiatus as her 5 year old sister is in hospital.

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荻野利沙21:00 - Mobile - 一般公開
研究生の、荻野利沙です。
いつも、たくさんの応援をしていただき
ありがとうございます。

私から皆様にご報告があります。

私、荻野利沙は12月から、
SKE48の活動を
一時、休止させていただくことになりました。
現在私の5歳の妹が入院してしまい
今は家族みんなで団結し、
妹の病気の看病をしていこうと
決心しました。
スタッフの皆さんと相談し
一時、活動を休止するという選択を
とらせていただきました。

いつも応援してくれるファンの皆様
そしていつも支えてくれるメンバーには
本当に申し訳ないと思っています。

妹の容態や、家の方が落ち着き次第
また、みなさんの前で活動復帰とともに
パフォーマンスができるよう
今は家族と、妹の看病に
全力を注ぎたいと思います。

今後も応援宜しくお願いします。

Posted also on her thread http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=31512.0

YKT · « **Reply #268 on:** December 17, 2012, 02:25:22 AM »

Not really news but guess who dominated

WindCaliber · « **Reply #269 on:** December 17, 2012, 03:32:34 AM »

Quote from: YKT on December 15, 2012, 09:16:44 AM

Announced on Billboard Japan Music Awards telecast 5 mins ago, AKB48 won the Artist of the Year 2012 award.

Article by TokyoHive:

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On December 15th, Billboad Japan announced the winners of their “Billboard JAPAN Music Awards
2012.”

Billboard JAPAN established this award festival back in 2009. There are two sections for the awards;
“Artist Awards” which nominates artists who have topped the Billboard Charts throughout the year, and
the winners are chosen by adding up votes submitted through cell phones and the internet along with
the points from the weekly charts. The other section is “Chart Awards” that they give to the songs that
topped their respective yearly chart.

The grand prize is the ”Artist of the Year” award and this year it was given to AKB48! This is the
second consecutive year for AKB48 to receive not only the “Artist of the Year”, but also the awards for
“Top Pop Artist”, “Hot 100 of the Year”, and “Hot Singles Sales of the Year.”

Below are the winners for the “Billboard JAPAN Music Awards 2012″!

=====

<Artist Awards>

Artist of the Year 2012
- AKB48

Top Pop Artist 2012
- AKB48
- Mr. Children
- Arashi
- EXILE
- Amuro Namie

Jazz Artist of the Year 2012
- Norah Jones

Classic Artist of the Year 2012
- Tsujii Nobuyuki

Animation Artist of the Year 2012
- Mizuki Nana

Independent Artist of the Year 2012
- Golden Bomber

Active Artist of the Year 2012 presented by Daiwa House
- BIGMAMA

New Artist of the Year 2012
- Ieiri Leo

—–

<Chart Awards>

Hot 100 of the Year 2012
“Manatsu no Sounds good!” – AKB48

Top Album of the Year 2012
“Mr. Children 2005-2010 <Macro>” – Mr. Children

Hot Top Airplay of the Year 2012
“Good Time” – Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen

Hot Singles Sales of the Year 2012
“Manatsu no Sounds good!” – AKB48

Digital & Airplay Overseas of the Year 2012
“Good Time” – Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen

Hot Animation of the Year 2012
“Ikiteru Ikiteku” – Fukuyama Masaharu

Adult Contemporary Airplay of the Year 2012
“Happy Pills” – Norah Jones

Top Jazz Albums of the Year 2012
“MOVE” – Uehara Hiromi The Trio Project

Top Classical Albums of the Year 2012
“Kokyuu suru Piano” – Matsui Sakiko

Top Independent Albums & Singles of the Year 2012
“The beginning” – Ayaka

Top Overseas Soundtrack Albums of the Year 2012
“Disney Date ~Koe no Oujisama” – Disney

YKT · « **Reply #270 on:** December 18, 2012, 10:10:17 AM »

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7 AKB48 members create new menu for the AKB48 Cafe

On December 16, an event for the new menu at the “AKB48 Café & Shop” which was collaboratively created by 7 of AKB48 members including Oshima Yuko (24) and Watanabe Mayu (18), was held in Akihabara, Tokyo.

100 fans taste-tested two items – Mayu’s “Kinoko tappuri Tonjiru Udon,” which combined her favorite foods mushroom and pork miso soup along with Shinoda Mariko’s (26) “Curry Panda Plate,” which combined her favorite food curry and her favorite motif of pandas. They will improve these dishes after taking the fans opinion into consideration, and it will be served in restaurants starting on December 26.

Visit http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/12/7-akb48-members-create-new-menu-for-the-akb48-cafe/ for pics of said menu

t-motion · « **Reply #271 on:** December 18, 2012, 08:23:00 PM »

Takahashi Minami solo debut single will be theme song for Nakama Yukie's upcoming drama 「サキ」(Saki)

FujiTV , Tuesday 10:00 pm, starts 2013 Jan 8th

http://tower.jp/article/news/2012/12/19/n01

Jul3 · « **Reply #272 on:** December 19, 2012, 01:07:01 AM »

Not quite sure what these awards are, but you can vote in them: http://www.jpopasia.com/awards/

t-motion · « **Reply #273 on:** December 19, 2012, 11:44:09 AM »

Yokoyama Yui appeared today NMB48 Team N performance

Announced:
Yui-han team N member
new stage in next year

t-motion · « **Reply #274 on:** December 19, 2012, 05:59:31 PM »

AKB48 15th gen Audition started.

http://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-11430440788.html

YKT · « **Reply #275 on:** December 20, 2012, 08:25:10 AM »

AKB48 TeamOgi official site (http://akb48teamogi.jp) has been updated. Less dark

If you have an Android phone, check out AKB48 TeamOgi Live Wall Paper https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.nanomedia.AKB.TeamOgi_LWP001

YKT · « **Reply #276 on:** December 21, 2012, 04:05:05 AM »

Per http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/2012/musicrank1220/index.html the usual suspects made the TOP 5 for 2012:

1 Manatsu no Sounds good
2 GIVE ME FIVE
3 Gingham Check
4 UZA
5 Eien Pressure

Akira Hitoshi found a figure to the above $$$

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01 – AKB48 # 19,098,000,000 Yen (approx. $226,441,166 USD)

02 – EXILE # 12,177,000,000 Yen (approx. $144,380,253 USD)

03 – Arashi # 10,454,000,000 Yen (approx. $123,950,987 USD)

04 – Mr.Children # 9,947,000,000 Yen (approx. $117,939,589 USD)

05 – Kanjani8 # 4,916,000,000 Yen (approx. $58,288,028 USD)

EDIT: 6 members of AKB48 collected the awards for the above achievement per http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2012/12/21/kiji/K20121221004820010.html

I posted news caps at the respective member's picture thread.

YKT · « **Reply #277 on:** December 21, 2012, 10:11:05 AM »

Credit to Mr Ankou for the effort to translate:

Quote from: Mr Ankou

Oricon's Top 100 single for 2012.

01 – “Manatsu no Sounds good!” – AKB48 : (1,820,056)
02 – “GIVE ME FIVE!” – AKB48 : (1,436,519)
03 – “Gingham Check” – AKB48 : (1,303,407)
04 – “UZA” – AKB48 : (1,215,079)
05 – “Eien Pressure” – AKB48 : (1,073,499)
...
08 – “Kataomoi Finally” – SKE48 : (592,947)
09 – “Kiss Datte Hidarikiki” – SKE48 : (587,993)
10 – “Ai Shite Love Ru!” – SKE48 : (581,612)
...
12 – “Nagiichi” – NMB48 : (449,098)
13 – “Virginity” – NMB48 : (390,896)
14 – “Junjou U-19″ – NMB48 : (376,302)
...
17 – “Kitagawa Kenji” – NMB48 : (353,160)
...
26 – “Hashire! Bicycle” – Nogizaka46 : (240,973)
...
28 – “Oide Shampoo” – Nogizaka46 : (221,193)
29 – “Guru Guru Curtain” – Nogizaka46 : (210,513)
...
42 – “Suika BABY” – Not yet : (171,574)
43 – “Kimi wa Boku da” – Maeda Atsuko : (170,640)
...
50 – “Synchro Tokimeki” – Watanabe Mayu : (158,132)
51 – “Soredemo Suki da yo” – Sashihara Rino : (151,724)
...
64 – “Pedicure Day” – No3b : (115,763)
...
69 – “Hikaru Monotachi” – Watanabe Mayu : (112,877)
...
73 – “Otona Jelly Beans” – Watanabe Mayu : (109,309)
...
75 – “Ue Kara Mariko” – AKB48 : (106,039)
...
81 – “Romance Privacy” – French Kiss : (92,214)
...
85 – “10 nen go no Kimi he” – Itano Tomomi : (94,039)
...
88 – “Makeoshimi Congratulation” – SDN48 : (90,507)
...
93 – “Ikuji Nashi Masquarade” – Sashihara Rino : (84,618)
...
98 – “Shonen yo uso wo tsuke” – Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 : (80,843)

and for the albums

03 – “1830m” – AKB48 : (1,029,954)
...
40 - "Kono Hi no Chime wo Wasurenai" - SKE48 : (143,648)

http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/2012/musicrank1220/index01.html#topphoto

KudoShinichi · « **Reply #278 on:** December 23, 2012, 03:15:01 PM »

NMB48 First Album Scheduled for release on 27th February 2013

AKBfan26 · « **Reply #279 on:** December 24, 2012, 01:55:24 AM »

JKT48 got a Team J and a debut CD out soon:

http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/12/jkt48-to-make-their-cd-debut-in-indonesia-team-j-announced/

Akicha and Harugon are in it and the leader is this girl:

http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=31990.0

If we go by tradition, she is also the leader of the whole group.