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[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

Discussion in 'General AKB48 Discussion' started by Kyobu, Jun 16, 2007.

  1. STS

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    yes. I stop to listen all my favorite NGT songs.
     
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  5. ForrestFuller

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  6. innosu

    innosu Stage48 Moderator Staff Member Stage48 Moderator

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    Wow. Feel sad for the mod here.

    Edit: well, that's one way to deal with it lol.
     
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    Jurina winning sousenkyo DONE

    47 winning rikuawa DONE

    What's still not done yet? Well Yuihan wants 48 group concert in Tokyo Dome again.
     
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  8. lionel90

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    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
     
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  9. Astro48

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    I forgot about Olympics but TBH I wanted to see Hatsune Miku more but both.jpg
     
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  10. razgriz1011

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    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
     
  11. lionel90

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    yep, I know this. ;)
    You may have noticed that I wrote groupS
     
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    Is asking for a proper resolution to Mahohon's case too much to ask for?
     
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    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.
     
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    and your point is
     
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    under the sun, nothing new.
    Any link maybe ?
     
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  18. welp

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    And, the point of your post is?
     
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    Pointing the pointlessness of yours.
     
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