Author Topic: (Group) The AKB48 Thread (Read 712055 times)

aznnerd · « **Reply #2760 on:** October 18, 2010, 07:19:35 AM »

From all the translations and summaries floating around, she sticks by to her statement that nothing happened. The reason he was over was work related and he fell asleep. Funny thing is, apparently Umechan lives/stays at the same place and is getting no heat whatsoever. She feels guilty about the whole thing too :l

As for the whole stepping down thing, the only thing I can come up with is the Japanese culture aspect. Bring shame to the family? Well commit seppuku.....I think I've been reading too many mangas/watching too many anime, but the analogy is still there. Sayaka's always striked me as as serious, passionate person (re: a taller, more athletic version of Takamina). With this scandal, she probably doesn't feel worthy of having the captain title (even though the position isn't really much on scene, it probably holds more weight behind the scenes).

I'm curious if management is gonna keep the spot empty or put someone else in it O:

Meania · « **Reply #2761 on:** October 18, 2010, 07:30:11 PM »

Damn... poor Sayaka... D:
Perhaps this work related- maybe she's stepping down so she can work on other things?? That being the reason he was there, they were discussing a job she could do- that would take up quite alot of time...?

Most likely Sae will take her spot, or possibly Yuko?? (though Yuko may be too busy with being the most popular voted member lately, and promoting AKB48...)

Masa · « **Reply #2762 on:** October 18, 2010, 07:37:10 PM »

Quote from: Meania on October 18, 2010, 07:30:11 PM

Most likely Sae will take her spot, or possibly Yuko?? (though Yuko may be too busy with being the most popular voted member lately, and promoting AKB48...)

(18:44:50) maliciel: 1. masa posts his milestone
(18:44:54) maliciel: 2. sayaka scandal
(18:44:59) maliciel: 3. sayaka steps down
(18:45:07) maliciel: 4. ???
(18:45:12) maliciel: 5. umeda captain
(18:45:24) maliciel: THIS IS ALL PART OF HIS PLAN.

* Masa reps Team Umeda

Meania · « **Reply #2763 on:** October 18, 2010, 07:56:50 PM »

AHH- Please ignore my theory about her having a project now- I've lurked around Stage48 and realise now what's going on a bit better!

;;

I found this quoted while lurking, Sayaka's Resignation:
“I am responsible for the earlier report about the rumor with Hiroi Ouji-san. He is the stage director who I respect, I have asked Hiroi-san for help on stage performance of “Izumi Kyouka” since this summer. I’ve been to his house, and he has been to my house. I did not think anything of it, because Hiroi-san lives with his daughter, and I live with Umeda Ayaka. Moreover, since Hiroi-san is older than my father, I have never thought of him as a male. The day, we promised to have dinner together for discussions about acting, but my work finished too late, therefore he came over to my house. We kept talking about acting, but he fell asleep after a while, so I and Ume-chan decided to let him keep sleeping. I am woeful that it sounds like I’m making excuses. I’m sorry for all the fans who support me, and also for AKB members… I’m sorry. This became such a big issue, and it is all my fault. I should be the role model for other members, but I’m not qualified as a captain anymore. Therefore, I will resign as the captain of team K.”
Found here translated on tokyo-hive from what she said on AKB no All Night Nippon!

winner · « **Reply #2764 on:** October 19, 2010, 07:39:13 AM »

Yuko handling both front-running (or whatever you call it) for Team K and leading at the same time sounds like a crazy workload, which is probably why they normally choose the "solid" girl for leader and never the fan-fave/poster girl to balance the work.
Sae is a natural choice. But she's so carefree. I'd hate to see her be uneasy from the responsibilities.

That's why Umeda filling in the spot for now sounds like such a great idea. She'd be awesome~

One question. Ever since Umeda had that leg injury a few years back, is it still a problem to her during performances? Or has she totally recovered from it?

SomethingWild · « **Reply #2765 on:** October 19, 2010, 11:05:03 AM »

^From what I've seen I think she made a full recovery.

Not sure about the whole captain thing. The girls probably will support Sayaka and may have a 'let's keep the position open' attitude, but if the management does not name a new captain then that could mean that the title is pretty meaningless...

In other news, I found some interesting age stats on the roda:

Sayange · « **Reply #2766 on:** October 20, 2010, 02:03:43 AM »

As for Sayaka's "scandal", I've made a summary of ANN and there are translations of the AKB girls (team k new and old, really) support comments for her in my blog.

z3144228 · « **Reply #2767 on:** October 20, 2010, 06:39:46 AM »

Suddenly

Yonechan releases her 1st Photobook
Title: Yone Yone Yone
Release Date: 12/11/2010
Price: 2800 yen
HMV

winner · « **Reply #2768 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:00:33 PM »

HikariTV site: http://www.hikaritv.net/akb/

CM and making:

Individual Member clips:
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Masa · « **Reply #2769 on:** November 03, 2010, 04:16:17 PM »

2010 idol group 1st week single sales:

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*826,989←527,336←513,453←317,828　AKB48
*84,911←*80,871　Perfume
*80,128　チームドラゴン from AKB48
*66,203←*44,907　少女時代
*62,078←*34,747　SKE48
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*40,983　フレンチ・キス
*38,021←*39,552←*27,441　渡り廊下走り隊
*34,122←*36,169　モーニング娘。
*30,819←*26,287　ノースリーブス
*30,247←*27,707←*17,098　アイドリング!!!
*29,238　KARA
*27,533←**9,304←*12,359←*16,672　SCANDAL
*22,537　ももいろクローバー
*21,677←*19,431←*18,665　℃-ute
*21,179　Queen & Elizabeth
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*17,998←*18,987←*20,438　スマイレージ
*13,958←*25,197　Berryz工房
*13,640←*13,339←*14,736　真野恵里菜
*13,220　Buono!
*10,290　ガーディアンズ4/しゅごキャラエッグ!
**7,336　むてん娘。(モーニング娘。)

Domination, baby!

panickofpain · « **Reply #2770 on:** November 08, 2010, 05:58:19 PM »

I watched the repeat of J-Melo's show last night.

I don't know if it was posted here but checked two pages back and none yet.
(if ever someone posted this already, tell me. Since I don't really know where to post this...)

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J-Melo (2010.11.8 )

In last nights J-Melo show, Nikkei Entertainment! Editor-in-Chief, Hirozumi Yoshioka commented about today’s teenage pop groups. He mentioned that AKB48 is one of the famous pop groups in Japanese pop music. He also mentioned SKE48 as AKB48’s little sister. He then said that these sister groups have probable rivals and these are Hello! Project’s S/Mileage, and Stardust Promotion’s Momoiro Clover.

According to Yoshioka, these teenage pop groups (not only the said groups above), would need to produce big hit songs or singles for them or generally, Japanese pop, to not die. He commented more about AKB. He said that AKB48 is currently on top of all the Pop groups this year with their high selling single, “Beginner”.

*They showed short portions of each groups’ singles in this order, SKE48, S/Mileage, Momoiro Clover then AKB48 (with Beginner).

Watarirouka Hashiritai’s newest single, “Gyu” was also showed in yesterday’s J-Melo with a little comment from the members about the single.

Some of the words are not really what he said since I didn't get to take note of all of it but this is what I remember from what I watched, 10mins ago. Hope I don't mess up...

SomethingWild · « **Reply #2771 on:** November 13, 2010, 11:54:43 AM »

You probably heard it already, but AKB48 is in the Guinness Book of Records as the pop group with the most members

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/entertainment/81969/

Anariel · « **Reply #2772 on:** November 25, 2010, 11:00:17 AM »

Dunno why but I think I must announce it. Now I know all AKB48 girls (teams A, K, B). Last girl I remember was Nonaka Misato. Gz me!

Anariel · « **Reply #2773 on:** November 27, 2010, 04:44:28 PM »

official blog

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Ｑ３　昔の劇場公演ＣＤをリリースして欲しい

Ａ３　大人の事情でなかなか公演ＣＤを出す事が出来ないでおりましたが

　　　来年にはリリース出来そうな流れになっております。詳細につきましては

　　　わかり次第、ブログでお伝えするので今しばらくお待ちください。

Q: I like AKB48 bla bla bla and old songs too, do you want to release old stage albums?
A: We had problems with our Record Studio, but now all is ok. B1 B2 B3 H1 H2 A4 K4 studio albums will appear in 2011.

Fuck yeah!

SomethingWild · « **Reply #2774 on:** November 27, 2010, 04:51:10 PM »

^Epic news! Finally a proper B3 recording!! And Faint

Sayange · « **Reply #2775 on:** November 27, 2010, 09:05:52 PM »

Quote from: Anariel on November 27, 2010, 04:44:28 PM

A: We had problems with our Record Studio, but now all is ok. B1 B2 B3 H1 H2 A4 K4 studio albums will appear in 2011.

Well, he didn't really specify which albums will be released. He just said the "old ones".

In case they don't release the H's.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #2776 on:** December 03, 2010, 09:37:26 PM »

"Kamikyoku Tachi [CD+DVD]" ranked #98 in CDJapan's top 100 sold items in 2010.

This seems.... low? None of the akb singles are listed either

Masa · « **Reply #2777 on:** December 08, 2010, 04:30:14 AM »

Twissie posted this in the postwhoring thread:

Quote from: twissie on December 07, 2010, 11:21:55 PM

Hahaha, anyone else picked up on the fact that "AKB48" made it onto the list of "Words of 2010" in Japan? It's a yearly thing where they award new words, or expressions that have become trendy/surfaced/defined the last year~

The list looks like this:

1. ゲゲゲの〜 gegege no

2. いい質問ですねえ！ ii shitsumon desu nee (That's a good question!)

3. イクメン ikumen (Men on daddy leave)

4. AKB48

5. 女子会 joshikai (Girl gatherings)

6. 脱小沢 datsu Ozawa (Away from Ozawa)

7. 食べるラー油 taberu raa-yu (chewable chilli oil)

8. ととのいました totonoimashita - (It fits!)

9. 〜なう。-nau. (now)

10. 無縁社会 muen-shakai (Relation-less society)

source: http://singo.jiyu.co.jp/

DOMINATION!

Anariel · « **Reply #2778 on:** December 09, 2010, 03:41:39 PM »

I dunno where I can post it, just for LULZ

http://www.akbn.tv/index.html
http://www.akbn.tv/member.html
http://ameblo.jp/akbn0/

Masa · « **Reply #2779 on:** December 12, 2010, 07:25:07 PM »

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Yahoo! Japan users vote for 2010's best, including AKB48, Kazunari Ninomiya

Sun, December 12, 2010 (10:49am EST)

Yahoo! Japan recently announced the results of its Net Banzuke 2010 rankings. The website, which is accessed by over 50 million users each month, conducted the rankings over a 9-day period from November 24 to December 2, and a total of more than 1.11 million votes were cast across all the categories.

Nominees were based on Yahoo!'s music rankings over the past year, as well as keyword searches performed through the website.

The winners are:

* Best Japanese Artist: AKB48 (78,768 votes)
* Best Foreign Artist: Lady Gaga (30,588 votes)
* Best New Artist: ICONIQ (20,314 votes)
* Best Single: Arigatou - Ikimono Gakari (56,839)
* Best Album: FUNKY MONKEY BABYS BEST - FUNKY MONKEY BABYS (35,429)
* Best Film: Toy Story 3 (8,441 votes)
* Best Actor: Kazunari Ninomiya (7,263 votes)
* Best Actress: Eri Fukatsu (6,781 votes)
* Best Foreign Actor/Actress: Johnny Depp (8,812 votes)
* Best Drama: JIN (15,361 votes)
* Best Variety Show: Ame Talk (17,793 votes)
* Best Video Game: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (12,412 votes)
* Best Video Game Character: Mario (9,862 votes)

Awards were also voted on in several other categories, including web videos, sports, and cars. Yahoo! also conducted rankings in some categories secretly, including:

* Best AKB48 Single (since their debut): Heavy Rotation (8,391 votes)
* Worst Fashion: Britney Spears (4,341 votes)
* Best Digital Goods: iPad (6,736 votes)
* Best Female Prime Minister: Renho (5,052 votes)
* Most Surprising Tweet: Sora Aoi (4,900 votes)
* Best iPhone App: Skype (2,493 votes)

The complete list of awards can be found on the official website.

http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-7147