There is nothing you can buy right now that would enable you to participate in the upcoming online talk event. Unless they do a resale of the theater edition, you are going to have to wait until next single (which may or may not have online events). For the one using limited edition code, you get 5-10 seconds per ticket depend on the member. (In normal nationwide HS it's 3 second/ticket, but real life does not automatically cut when the time is up). For individual HS ticket (the one that come with theater edition), it's 10-15 seconds/ticket for online events. Real-world HS is 8-10 seconds/ticket. (Yes, I have timed all of them)
The Team 4 stage yesterday was sung live so I guess we can assume all the current team stages will be performed live. It was a nice change!
Yup. The K Stage was live too, which was a nice surprise tbh. (IxR stage didn't look like it was live so it's not like there are something preventing them from doing non-live version)
This year AKB18 15th anniversary will be held as a 98 song solo medley at AKB48 Theater to allow everyone to participate while also complying with covid-19 measure. The song each member will sing will be chosen by lottery, which will be live streamed on YouTube today (Nov 16) from 19:45 JST. https://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-12637948458.html
different name same group. i feel sad.... i've never experienced a kouhaku without akb so this is really weird also mods: you could have told me to edit to a thumbnail instead of deleting my post entirely and not notifying me, it's a bit rude lol edit 2: nope, i'm just dumb and posted in the wrong thread entirely lol
I think AKB in Kouhaku is justified; they did nothing this year. Either way, I'm waiting for a new single and the lottery for the 15th anniversary.
Not surprised... if you compared how NiziU and Babymetal did this year, 48G were the silent majority. Thanks for the salt... my popcorn needed extra
Yukirin commented on it https://twitter.com/Yukiriiiin__K/status/1328200119255068673 Honestly, it's amazing that she's the only AKB member to appear on kouhaku 11 years in a row, that's an incredible feat. She also seems pretty positive for next year so let's be positive too!
The end of AKB48 in the NHK Kouhaku might spell the end of the era, I suppose... This is the first time since 2008 there won't be AKB48 in the Kouhaku. (AKB48 performed in the Kouhaku back in 2007.) Are they going to become the next Morning Musume or something? For some it might be somewhat shocking, but I don't see anything real good from AKB48 that isn't KFC, and the Sakamichi groups are the thing over AKB48G these days, so it kinda makes sense, but it's still a sad day nonetheless to hear AKB48 is ousted from the Kouhaku, and maybe ever...
I am hoping it is spelling a wake-up call to the AKB48 management. Though there seems to be a lot of progressive development recently -- sadly, combined with COVID-19, the changes aren't coming fast enough.
as long as management can earn money, i dont think 48 will be disbanded. look at momusu, although the group is already irrelevant nowadays, idols(in japan) are still a thing even though public didnot support them that much. and for sure, they still made a lot of money unlike other disbanded idol. akb might survive but sister group probably depends on the management.
But at least they didn't sell less than a million copies! And they sing live! And... And... Enjoy this year's Kouhaku, @sscrla old man. I had so much more to say but some of you wouldn't like it. I feel sad for all those Indian or Thai idols that won't have a chance to shine.
I mean to be fair, this wasn’t really an AKB issue. Almost Every act appearing on Kohaku performs their most famous songs, not necessarily their newest release or even something that was released recently. It’s just that viewers want to hear the hit songs they already know and love. Kohaku isn’t really designed for people to discover new music. I mean, some of these enka acts have performed the same song every single time for the last 30+ years.
BNK is going pretty well in Thailand and Indian groups were on hiatus so idk what you are talking about. EDIT: Was saying Indian group disbanded --- fixed to say it's only on indefinite hiatus.
That's sad news :/ a few days ago, I saw the line-up for the upcoming FNS and AKB wasn't on it. I'm not sure if FNS release all the line-up at once or in different parts but so far AKB aren't on the performers list and that was already a sad news, but now they're excluded even for Kouhaku. Actually, if I'm completely honest, I expected them to stop being invited since last year so I'm not too surprised. But this is still sad to see that AKB is not being invited to big events anymore ._. However they are invited to perform on Best Artist 2020 so I guess that's at least one good news and something that we can look forward to. I've been thinking about this but it's really a waste that AKB didn't do anything when their b-side Saikyou Twintail became popular on TikTok. It's a b-side with Yahagi Moeka as center, it became popular while she was still in the group btw, and this song has all young new gens from 48 groups. The song had a little viral moment in TikTok and management did nothing... I don't understand :/ They could have performed it on TV, music show or anywhere. a lot of people actually knew the song without knowing that it's AKB's song. I feel like management is really not trying. They waste opportunities like this to have new hits. in comparison, every other group tries so much to have a song/dance to go viral on TikTok and promote like crazy...