AKB48: Welcome to Japan's Most Sophisticated Show (2nd thread)

[dreamland2.0]

Yay for what's going to be the most super awesome sub unit ever!!
And yay for Captain Sayaka!!

[Bigtop]

Congratulations Sayaka on your Team K captain reassignment and finishing the marathon! She's back in the business!

[Amrai-chan]

So for those who want to order the DiVA single

It's up on CD Japan HMV and Amazon.

[LacusClyne]

have everyone saw this?

it's a FAKE AKB48 in china's chinese new year show.
they translate aitakata into chinese with the same meaning and same dance moves.

the 'best' part?

the organiser actually advertise as AKB48 will be performing in their show, so fans were mislead them it's the REAL AKB48 will be performing, the china fans are very angry.

it's sounds awful.... ewww~~~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1DnIsaKnwQ

[Amrai-chan]

Wow it does sound bad.

That's really messed up that the organiser would mislead people like that

[dreamland2.0]

Hey I want to liven up the thread!!
How about we tell our favourite members!! That's always fun
I'll list top 10 though it's hard because I love so many of the members!

1. Uchida Mayumi
2. Miyazawa Sae
3. Maeda Atsuko
4. Takahashi Minami
5. Masuda Yuka
6. Oshima Yuko
7. Takajyo Aki
8. Katayama Haruka
9. Kasai Tomomi
10. Matsubara Natsumi

+ Ono Erena ;_____;

[Polyrhythm]

1. Ono Erena
2. Oshima Yuko
3. Miyazaki Miho
4. Matsubara Natsumi
5. Yonezawa Rumi
6. Kasai Tomomi
7. Takahashi Minami
8. Kashiwagi Yuki
9. Kuramochi Asuka
10. Maeda Atsuko

That's it.

SDN48:
1. Kato Mami
2. Akita Kazue
3. Kondo Sayaka
4. Ohori Megumi
5. Chen Qu
6. Akiwa Yuki

Hate list:
1. Ishida Haruka
2. Nacchu (SDN48)
3. Serena (SDN48)
4. Watanabe Mayu
5. Yokoyama Yui
6. Yamamoto Sayaka (NMB48)

[dreamland2.0]

^ Great top 10!!

Look covers and tracklist for new album!! Koko ni ita koto!
The covers are super cute!!

http://kingrecords.co.jp/akb48/#release

[Bigtop]

Ooh... AKB+SKE+NMB+SDN! It's going to be quite interesting! The covers, however, are kind of not appealing to me...

[visionfactory]

OMG is it their first original album as AKB48?! (Not couting team albums) If so I'm so excited please somebody tell me *_*

And I'm so glad Sayaka is captain again!

[dreamland2.0]

Yup yup it's an original album!

[Amrai-chan]

I used the AKBRanker.

1. Akimoto Sayaka
2. Miyazawa Sae
3. Takahashi Minami
4. Minegishi Minami
5. Kojima Haruna
6. Shinoda Mariko
7. Sashihara Rino
8. Oshima Yuko
9. Itano Tomomi
10. Maeda Atsuko
11. Kashiwagi Yuki (A tie)

The rest...

Spoiler:

12. Matsubara Natsumi
13. Kitahara Rie
14. Watanabe Mayu
15. Matsui Sakiko
16. Kasai Tomomi
17. Ono Erena
18. Oku Manami
19. Nito Moeno
20. Sato Natsuki
21. Kobayashi Kana
22. Nakata Chisato
23. Umeda Ayaka
24. Oya Shizuka
25. Fujie Reina
26. Maeda Ami
27. Kikuchi Ayaka
28. Ota Aika
29. Katayama Haruka
30. Kuramochi Asuka
31. Takajyo Aki
32. Nakagawa Haruka
33. Nakaya Sayaka
34. Uchida Mayumi
35. Tanabe Miku
36. Nakatsuka Tomomi
37. Nonaka Misato
38. Sato Amina
39. Suzuki Mariya
40. Yokoyama Yui
41. Iwasa Misaki
42. Miyazaki Miho
43. Chikano Rina
44. Yonezawa Rumi
45. Ishida Haruka
46. Sato Sumire
47. Hirajima Natsumi
48. Masuda Yuka
49. Komori Mika

The covers are too small. I'll wait for bigger versions.

1. Shojotachiyo
2.Overtake (Team A)
3.Boku ni dekiru koto (Team K) Awesome.

4. Renai Circus (Team B) Circus. Interesting.

5. Kaze no Yukue (Kuramochi, Sashihara, Takahashi, Oshima, Minegishi, Kashiwagi)
I wonder what this will be like.

6. Wagamama Collection (Oota, Maeda Am, Komori, Sato S, Watanabe, Matsui J)
7. Ningyo no Bakansu (Takajo, Nito, Yokoyama, Kasai, Kitahara, Sato A, Masuda)
8. Kimi to Boku no Kankei (Maeda At, Itano)

9. Iikagen no Susume (Katayama, Kojima, Shinoda, Akimoto, Miyazawa, Matsui R) I NEED TO HEAR IT.

10.High school days (Team RS)

A KK song what!? Awesome.

11.Team B Oshi (Team B)
lol kinda seems randomly put there but okay
12. Chance no Junban
13. Beginner　
14. Ponytail to Shushu
15. Heavy Rotation
16. Koko ni Ita Koto (AKB48 + SKE48 + SDN48 + NMB48)

Everyone!? Cool.

In short *explodes*! kjhgfdsadfghj.

[dreamland2.0]

By the way are you on Stage48 Amrai-chan??

I can't wait to see the photobook! It looks like a circus theme which is awesome!

[Amrai-chan]

Yeah I am. I'm Amrai there.

Okay so I saw the bigger versions of the covers and yeah I don't like them that much. LOL Takamina's mustache.

[Polyrhythm]

The limited cover is not disgustingly bad but it is in no way good. A pretty good concept that was executed horribly. The regular edition is another variant of the ****** Janken single covers....the theater cover is nice. I might get that one some day cause I wanna hear the SDN48 song. They could have done so much better....and for reals? What's with those stupid Matsui's stealing cover space from actual AKB girls? So over them seriously.

[dreamland2.0]

You mean the one where every 48 group is singing together?
And yah I like the theatre cover the most too!! But I'm excited because the limited is going to have some cool packaging I'd imagine~

[tbarnes10]

I don't really understand how this group works. Do all 48 members sing together, or do only some of them sing and the rest are like dancers or something, or do they rotate? I was also kinda wondering what SKE AKB SDN NMB are. Are they all different bands that work for the same company? Are they like the Johnny groups (I don't really understand how they work either btw) where you have like a Jr. group or whatever it is and you move up to a real band later or however that works? Sorry, I've never really listened to any of the idol groups so I don't know how they work but I've always been curious. Thanks

[dreamland2.0]

The main group that is popular right now is AKB48. They have about 56 members or so now. They are divided up into 3 teams A, K and B all of about 16 girls. These three teams each perform their own 'stages' at the AKB theatre.
There is also a 'research student' team that perform at the theatre as well and also substitute for one of the girls in the AKB teams. These research students eventually get promoted to be in one of the three main teams.
For singles the most popular members are chosen to sing the A-side. The B-side is sung by 'the undergirls" who are the next most popular members.

And yes the sister groups SKE, SDN, NMB are the same concept with the three teams but they release separately and perform their own stages, etc. They are all under the same 'company' which is called AKS I think. SKE performs in Nagoya and NMB is performing in Osaka. SDN performs at the AKB theatre in Akihabara but they perform on Saturday nights for an 18+ show that's more mature than the other groups.
However all the groups have different record labels that release their music. Also each girl's promotional activities are not handled by the 'big company' but by different promotional companies.

I hope I explained it well ^^;

[Amrai-chan]

^ Sounds explained well to me.

I'm watching the Tokyo Aki Matsuri karaoke part and there's a part where Wasamin show's her version of Ayu's vibrato. It's spot on haha.

[NintendoHTF1242]

I just bought Kamikyokutachi (CD+DVD) from Hot Topic! For only 13 bucks! What a steal! Can't wait to listen to it (: