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Discussion in 'General AKB48 Discussion' started by arrowisland, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. gotbild

    gotbild Member Stage48 Donor

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    Maybe the debate have run of the track a bit. :D My question was just around Gugutasu no sora and why they used one set of costumes before the single release and then another set for the rest of time. My thoughts might be they didn't want to show the real dresses before the release or if they changed their mind. Of course I know about other dress changes but this is a bit special. In my opinion is the "real" costumes the best.
     
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    OK getting back on track.
    At first i thought that maybe the MV was filmed after the concert and that the costume just wasn't available then.
    But apparently this is not the case. The MV seems to have been shot before with members seemingly being allowed to share pics of the costumes.
    http://blog.livedoor.jp/akb48houdou/archives/6808314.html
    That would make the 'confidential' theory unlikely.

    So I'd also say that this is another case of 'alternate costume forgotten in time'.
     
  3. gotbild

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    Thanks @Puni for some real facts. As I have understand the MV:s are often shot several month before the single releases, so the Saitama costumes might only have been used to fool the audience? But I'm sure they are hanging somewhere in the costume magasines, these are huge.
     
  4. Trinu

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    They very rarely use the PV outfits for actual performances though, so I don't understand your reasoning?
     
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    And one of the reasons is, that during concerts they need to be able to change into new costumes quickly, hence also the 'double layer' costumes which make you think "did my Oshimen put on weigth?"
     
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    I really don't think it has any other reason other than just wanting to use a different costume for the sake of it. I happened to watch those exact concerts over the past few days as well. They open with GIVE ME FIVE on Day 1 (and play it as the second song on Day 3), and also use a different costume than in the MV or on the CD jacket. It's just a new costume because they could afford it easily back then, I guess.

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    (I apologise for the horrendous image quality. I couldn't open the proper file of the concert any longer because it exceeded the allowed playbacks, and could only find a low quality version on Youtube).
     

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    @bonjourmarlene Ok, there can be different reasons and I don't think we can clarify it here now. Regarding the example you showed here must be that they used the same costume for a couple of songs and couldn't change so quickly. Gugutasu so sora was the first song in encore and after that came a 5 minutes MC. They could have had time to change to anything.

    But your bad pic led to my last question regarding Saitama concert, and that's also about clothes. You can see it on Akicha in your pic but I can show a better pic below and the question is, why was so many girls dressed up in the colours of UK flag, Union Jack?
    saitama1.jpg saitama2.jpg

    And now when I'm writing, it's more errors in AKB ga ippai. Team K first song after encore was not Heavy rotation but Boku ni dekiru koto. Not a single letter is right.:D I will check the rest of the songs soon.

    EN01 Boku ni dekiru koto.
    EN02 ALIVE.
    EN03 Koko ni ita koto.
    EN04 Korogaru ishi ni nare.

    I hope it's ok to write this here.
     
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    I just think that there is no big reason. They just have multiple costumes. I also don't think there is any deeper meaning behind the Union Jack flag.
     
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    I wonder if it had anything to do with the London Olympics which were held that year? I've found a blog with some pictures of a performance of Hebirote from FNS in 2012 with Union Jack costumes:

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    The blog says that the costume is a 'London Olympics Version':
    https://blog.goo.ne.jp/fkm26742/e/25fa22240647d98bdbe170656ad2aeee
     
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    There is... literally no reasoning behind most of their costumes. Shinobu just made something up and they wore it.

    The UK flag is just another fashion item these days. Ayumi released this:

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    And there is no reference to the UK, England or London anywhere in the album.
     
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    One more example of the UK flag as a fashion item, from Kpop rookie group Secret Number:

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    I have a copy of the CD and there's no reference to the UK or to anywhere in it.
     
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    The Union Jack is on many more flags than just Great Britain. Thanks to long ago empire building.

    And I am sure Shinobu/Osare have rhyme and reason behind their costume design choices. Sometimes not very good ones, but they are there.

    They did put out a book on most of the outfits. Maybe some answers in it.
     
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    Let me disagree!
     
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    I do have a copy of the book, I've been going through it tonight (it was published in 2017 and has 288 pages) but there's no examples in it of any costumes with Union Jacks.
     
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    "outfits" "some" "answers". Left that part intentionally vague to cover a wider scope of the design philosophies that go into 48G costumes, not just the one element. ;)
     
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    Who is the one on the farthest right at the very end of this video?
    if the video does not show watch the video here
     
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    (wish the video was higher res tho :lol:)
     
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    Why does it look scandalous?
     

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