Japan Expo Thailand 2019 Live https://www.facebook.com/japanexpothailand/videos/237832963799075/ https://www.facebook.com/japanexpothailand/videos/394364231108058/ https://www.facebook.com/japanexpothailand/videos/368728957260350/
https://udictionaryblog.com/2019/01...uthorized-mobile-game-akb48-cherry-bay-blaze/ AKB48 game??? In english??? MUST. PLAY! Also, do they perhaps mistaken pre registration as pre order? I signed my email up but nothing happened to my inbox.
JAPAN COUNTDOWN (AKB48 - STU48) (2019-01-27) https://48idol.com/video/12882 Nekojita SHOWROOM (AKB48) (2019-01-25) https://48idol.com/video/12861
Jurina winning sousenkyo DONE 47 winning rikuawa DONE What's still not done yet? Well Yuihan wants 48 group concert in Tokyo Dome again.
Same song / Team / sister group winning RH 3 times in a row So & So beating Sasshi's SSK records Original stages for each Team (oversea Sister groups included) Original songs for oversea sister groups World being more than Asia in AKS's minds
You probably can scratch the one for original song since JKT will finally have their first original song this year. (after 7 years of waiting, man..) Hopefully other overseas groups will have their own soon after this. Source
This is a review of a not-into-J-pop-culture westerner on BNK48 as he perceived through the documentary film, Girls Don't Cry by Nawapol Thamrongratanarit, which can also be applied onto AKB48. (The person is a Greek film critic watching the film in Rotterdam International Film Festival.) AKB48 has been a cultural phenomenon in Japan since the beginning of the decade, and currently, is among the highest-earning musical performers in Japan. BNK48 is their Thai sister group and the third international sister group, following Indonesia’s JKT48 and China’s SNH48. Thamrongrattanarit, through interviews with a number of the members, highlights the procedure of selection, the thoughts and feelings of the girls, explaining in the process, why such a concept is so popular. Initially, and for most of the duration of the documentary, the “confessions” are scary to the point of shocking. The girls (aged from 12-22) sketch a picture of extreme antagonism even among friends, as the basic line-up, called the Senbatsu, changes quite frequently, and according to the performances of the girls, who feel the need to improve constantly. This improvement, however, has more to do with the popularity on social media rather than their hard work or their talent, in a rather harsh testament to the superficiality of the world of entertainment (to say the least), where image seems to be everything. Even scarier is the fact that their eagerness to succeed and their subsequent fear of failing, makes them endure all that pressure and rules (no boyfriends allowed for example) and even going to extremes to achieve just that, which, in this case, even includes changing their personality in order to be more appealing to the fans. Thamrongrattanarit seems perplexed, shocked and even appalled at the things he hears in the beginning, but as time passes, he seems to enjoy the interaction with the girls, with the same actually occurring to the spectator of the documentary, as their personalities actually rise above the whole concept of the AKB48,. In that fashion, and despite the fact that the inhumane conditions of the whole concept of the idol group are quite eloquently presented, he succeeds in also highlighting the individuality of the girls, who prove to be much more than just members of a group. The result comment is rather complex and ambiguous, since the director seems to state that we live in a world where image and popularity is everything and actual “substance” means very little, but at the same time seems to “excuse” the advocates of this concept, as victims of their environment. This is a review by a random user of a film website echoing the same message. Second half devolves a bit into repetitive, hagiographical territory, but first half is a very fascinating, at times borderline-casual-horror look into what it takes to shape and twist oneselves into a very specific image, to be sold as mass commodity, with the inherent conflict that it is also your intimate passion. The section about each member's ranking in top facebook likes/instagram followers (and each one's method to stand out for those) feels compellingly, queasily like Black Mirror's "Nosedive" episode come to horrifying, present life.
Just a note. Today is twin tails day (2/2), so check out your favorites. Here is my oshi. https://twitter.com/akane29_o8o/status/1091558743815286784