[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

AKB introduced their 17th generation today! There are 11 members!
Here is a video from oricon with a summary of the introduction show:


if the video does not show watch the video here


(click on the picture to see a bigger version)

Join us at the 17th gen discussion thread
http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/akb48-17th-generation.23735/

 

KR dramas are probably very popular among them. But how about TW dramas ? Do any of them watch it ?

 

In the early 2000s there was a big Taiwanese wave in Japan and East Asia in general, but I don't know if nowadays they are still tuning in (probably not).

 

In my country, it seems to died down after 2010s. Today hardly anyone talking about Taiwanese drama here.

Off topic: When I was a student, I sit near a girl who was a big fan of both Taiwanese wave and Hallyu. Hardly a day passed without she talking to me or to someone else about either her beloved Taiwanese actor or her favorite K-Pop singer. I was a K-Pop fan so it was OK to me.
Back then because I had no internet access, I thought J-Pop was something obscure and mediocre. Only much later, I realized I was dead wrong.

 

Dance cover of ‘Flying Get’ by SERIOUS FLAVOR:


if the video does not show watch the video here

 

AKB48 members current girlfriend and former girlfriend.

Note that this doesn't mean oshimen, although in some cases it is.

In the website they also say the reason. Sometimes being an ex-girlfriend is a compliment.

Eitos are included in the AKB4 teams.

https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/19/5月18日　akb48-今カノ元カノ総選挙-チームa　　
https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/19/5月18日　bayfm-柱night-akb48-今カノ元カノ総選挙-チームk　　
https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/19/5月18日　bayfm-柱night-akb48-今カノ元カノ総選挙-チームb　
https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/19/5月18日　bayfm-柱night-akb48-今カノ元カノ総選挙-チーム４　
https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/19/5月18日　bayfm-柱night-akb48-今カノ元カノ総選挙-17期研究生-　
https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/19/5月18日　bayfm-柱night-akb48-今カノ元カノ総選挙-関係者　

Member: current girlfriend / ex-girlfriend

Iwatate Saho: Muto Orin / Muto Tomu
Otake Hitomi: Kobayashi Ran / Yoshihashi Yuzuka
Okada Nana: Murayama Yuiri / Taniguchi Megu
Okabe Rin: Tokunaga Remi / Oguri Yui
Komiyama Haruka: Onishi Momoka / Okada Nana
Shimizu Maria: Tokunaga Remi / Mogi Kasumi
Takahashi Sayaka: Murayama Yuiri / Hama Sayuna
Chiba Erii: Nagatomo Ayami / Shinozaki Ayana
Nakanishi Chiyori: Mukaichi Mion / Yoshikawa Nanase
Nagano Serika: Fujizono Rei / Yoshida Karen
Fukuoka Seina: Oda Erina / Ichikawa Manami
Honda Hitomi: Chiba Erii and Yamauchi Mizuki / Oda Erina
Ma Chia-Ling: Sasaki Yukari / Fukuoka Seina
Michieda Saki: Suzuki Kurumi / Yasuda Kana
Mitomo Mashiro: Chiba Erii / Oguri Yui
Mukaichi Mion: Mogi Shinobu / Komiyama Haruka
Muto Orin: Mogi Shinobu / Inagaki Kaori
Yoshihashi Yuzuka: Kashiwagi Yuki / Okada Rina

Ichikawa Manami: Shinozaki Ayana / Mukaichi Mion
Uemi Sorano: Sakaguchi Nagisa / Oguri Yui
Onishi Momoka: Doesn't have one, everyone is a cute girlfriend / Doesn't have one, because everyone is a girlfriend now
Okuhara Hinako: Kuranoo Narumi / Onishi Momoka
Oda Erina: Tokunaga Remi / Yamada Kyoka
Kobayashi Ran: Shitao Miu / Okada Rina
Shimoguchi Hinana: Oda Erina / Komiyama Haruka
Takahashi Ayane: Hattori Yuna / Murayama Yuiri
Taguchi Manaka: Yamauchi Mizuki / Kashiwagi Yuki
Hattori Yuna: Takahashi Sayaka / Shitao Miu
Hama Sayuna: Oda Erina and Nagano Serika / Sakaguchi Nagisa
Muto Tomu: Iwatate Saho / Takahashi Ayane
Mogi Shinobu: Mukaichi Mion / Iwatate Saho
Yamauchi Mizuki: Asai Nanami / Taguchi Manaka
Yamane Suzuha: Inagaki Kaori / Suzuki Kurumi
Yamabe Ayu: Ma Chia-Ling / Kashiwagi Yuki
Yumoto Ami: Komiyama Haruka / Nagatomo Ayami

Asai Nanami: Yamauchi Mizuki / Muto Orin
Ishiwata Sena: Omori Maho / Taguchi Manaka
Inagaki Kaori: Yamane Suzuha / Takahashi Juri
Omori Maho: Komiyama Haruka / Yoshihashi Yuzuka
Oguri Yui: Murayama Yuiri / Sakaguchi Nagisa
Kashiwagi Yuki: Honda Hitomi / Murayama Yuiri
Kitazawa Saki: Ishiwata Sena / Iwatate Saho
Sakaguchi Nagisa: Yamada Kyoka / -
Sato Minami: Taguchi Manaka / Nagatomo Ayami
Shinozaki Ayana: Suzuki Kurumi / Murayama Yuiri
Suzuki Kurumi: Kobayashi Ran / Taguchi Manaka
Tokunaga Remi: Oguri Yui / Sakagawa Hiyuka
Nagano Megumi: Tada Kyoka / Nakanishi Chiyori
Hashimoto Haruna: Okada Rina / Ichikawa Manami
Hidaritomo Ayaka: Fujizono Rei / Yoshikawa Nanase
Fukutome Mitsuho: Yamada Kyoka / Tokunaga Remi
Fujizono Rei: Nagano Serika / Itano Tomomi
Yamada Kyoka: Saito Haruna / Fukutome Mitsuho

Omori Miyuu: Sakagawa Hiyuka / Inagaki Kaori
Okada Rina: Hashimoto Haruna / Murayama Yuiri
Gyoten Yurina: Kuranoo Narumi / Iwatate Saho
Kuranoo Narumi: Gyoten Yurina / Okada Nana
Kurosu Haruka: Mukaichi Mion / Shimoguchi Hinana
Kawahara Misaki: Hama Sayuna / Honda Hitomi
Sasaki Yukari: Ma Chia-Ling / Inagaki Kaori
Sakagawa Hiyuka: Oguri Yui / Kuranoo Narumi
Sato Kiara: Sato Airi / Onishi Momoka
Shitao Miu: Kobayashi Ran / Sakaguchi Nagisa
Takaoka Kaoru: Takahashi Sayaka / Hattori Yuna
Tada Kyoka: Ishiwata Sena / Murayama Yuiri
Taniguchi Megu: Oda Erina / Okada Nana
Nagatomo Ayami: Mukaichi Mion / Muto Tomu
Murayama Yuiri: Yamauchi Mizuki / Kashiwagi Yuki
Yoshikawa Nanase: Hattori Yuna / Hidaritomo Ayaka
Yoshida Karen: Oda Erina / Taniguchi Megu

Ota Yuki: Murayama Yuiri / Mogi Shinobu
Kohama Kokone: Chiba Erii / Kashiwagi Yuki
Sato Airi: Onishi Momoka / Oshima Yuko
Hashimoto Eriko: Hotei Moka / Maeda Atsuko
Hasegawa Niina: Sakaguchi Nagisa / Oguri Yui
Hatakeyama Nozomi: Okada Nana / Doesn't have
Hirata Yuki: Onishi Momoka / Kashiwagi Yuki
Hotei Moka: Yamazaki Sora / Watanabe Mayu
Masai Mayuu: Oguri Yui / Yamauchi Mizuki
Mizushima Miyuu: Hirata Yuki / Shimazaki Haruka
Yamazaki Sora: Oguri Yui / Okada Nana

Mouri Shinobu: Omori Maho / Watanabe Miyuki
Hiroyuko: Mukaichi Mion / Kashiwagi Yuki
Okada Takashi: Murayama Yuiri / None of the current members
Kitagawa Kenji: Honda Hitomi / Kashiwagi Yuki
Kayano Shinobu: 17th Generation / Maeda Atsuko and Oshima Yuko
Yuasa Junji: Shitao Miu / Muto Tomu
Yoshitaka Gunji: Murayama Yuiri / Komiyama Haruka
Yoshida Ryuo: Murayama Yuiri / Sato Sumire
Anonymous theatre cameraman number one: guy on acid
Kishimoto Ai: Sato Minami / Kasai Tomomi
Anonymous Team A chief manager: Can't think of any / Can't think of any (also on acid)
Uchiki Yuma: Taguchi Manaka / Komiyama Haruka
Kimura Momoka: Muto Tomu / Hattori Yuna
Tsuji Keita: Suzuki Kurumi / Hattori Yuna
Somei Yuzuke: Inagaki Kaori / Yamauchi Mizuki
Ono Moe: Oguri Yui / Komiyama Haruka
Kato Erina: Hattori Yuna and Yoshikawa Nanase / Murayama Yuiri and Inagaki Kaori
Hato Madoka: Onishi Momoka / Yumoto Ami
Imai Ryo: Mukaichi Mion / Kashiwagi Yuki

 

Miyu

 

Having seeing the "why SSK was discontinued" talk pages ago I thought that in 2019 it would be a Naachan landslide victory if it that happened that year.

 

Not a chance. Maybe if they held another in 2023 after all the remaining nihonbashira accounts expire.

Fix Onishi.

 

What member you want to be?

The reason in the site.

https://www.bayfm.co.jp/program/akb/2022/05/22/柱night-akb48-向井地美音-新コーナー-総監督は知っている

Member → Who she wants to be

Iwatate Saho → Chiba Erii
Otake Hitomi → Honda Hitomi
Okada Nana → Yumoto Ami
Okabe Rin → Kashiwagi Yuki
Komiyama Haruka → Oguri Yui
Shimizu Maria → Sakaguchi Nagisa
Takahashi Sayaka → Onishi Momoka
Nagano Serika → Mukaichi Mion
Chiba Erii → Mukaichi Mion
Nakanishi Chiyori → Chiba Erii
Fukuoka Seina → Yamauchi Mizuki
Honda Hitomi → "I'm so hot"
Ma Chia-Ling → Muto Tomu
Michieda Saki → Kashiwagi Yuki
Mitomo Mashiro → Honda Hitomi
Mukaichi Mion → Oda Erina
Muto Orin → Mukaichi Mion
Yoshihashi Yuzuka → Komiyama Haruka

Ichikawa Manami → Sakaguchi Nagisa
Uemi Sorano → Oguri Yui
Onishi Momoka → Oda Erina
Okuhara Hinako → Mukaichi Mion
Oda Erina → Okada Nana
Kobayashi Ran → Oguri Yui
Shimoguchi Hinana → Kuranoo Narumi
Takahashi Ayane → Gyoten Yurina
Taguchi Manaka → Shitao Miu
Hattori Yuna → Mukaichi Mion
Hama Sayuna → Murayama Yuiri
Muto Tomu → Muto Tomu
Mogi Shinobu → Okada Nana
Yamauchi Mizuki → Honda Hitomi
Yamane Suzuha → Yamauchi Mizuki
Yamabe Ayu → Yoshihashi Yuzuka
Yumoto Ami → Murayama Yuiri

Asai Nanami → Muto Tomu
Ishiwata Sena → Mukaichi Mion
Inagaki Kaori → Kashiwagi Yuki
Omori Maho → Kashiwagi Yuki
Oguri Yui → Murayama Yuiri and Yoshikawa Nanase
Kashiwagi Yuki → Okada Nana
Kitazawa Saki → Kobayashi Ran
Sakaguchi Nagisa → Okada Nana
Sato Minami → Chiba Erii
Shinozaki Ayana → Mukaichi Mion
Suzuki Kurumi → Okada Nana
Tokunaga Remi → Murayama Yuiri
Nagano Megumi → Kobayashi Ran
Hashimoto Haruna → Kashiwagi Yuki
Hidaritomo Ayaka → Yoshikawa Nanase
Fukutome Mitsuho → Oguri Yui
Fujizono Rei → Honda Hitomi
Yamada Kyoka → Oda Erina

Utada Hatsuka → Yoshikawa Nanase
Omori Miyuu → Yoshikawa Nanase
Okada Rina → Nakanishi Chiyori
Kawahara Misaki → Okada Nana
Gyoten Yurina → Oguri Yui
Kuranoo Narumi → Shitao Miu
Kurosu Haruka → Kashiwagi Yuki
Sakagawa Hiyuka → Honda Hitomi
Sasaki Yukari → Kashiwagi Yuki
Sato Kiara → Okada Nana
Shitao Miu → Kuranoo Narumi
Takaoka Kaoru → Fujizono Rei
Tada Kyoka → Okada Nana
Taniguchi Megu → Oda Erina
Nagatomo Ayami → Kashiwagi Yuki and Murayama Yuiri
Murayama Yuiri → Mogi Shinobu
Yoshikawa Nanase → Kashiwagi Yuki
Yoshida Karen → Yoshikawa Nanase

Ota Yuki → Murayama Yuiri
Kohama Kokona → Honda Hitomi
Sato Airi → Honda Hitomi
Hashimoto Eriko → Maeda Atsuko
Hasegawa Niina → Mukaichi Mion
Hatakeyama Nozomi → Okada Nana and Honda Hitomi
Hirata Yuki → Chiba Erii
Hotei Moka → Mukaichi Mion
Masai Mayuu → Onishi Momoka
Mizushima Miyuu → Shitao Miu
Yamazaki Sora → Okada Nana

 

Just stumbled upon this on twitter while randomly checking 48G stuff..

It's AKB48 x MNL48 in a MP Charity Event, Tochigi.. looks like just a few days ago.

 

On TikTok, someone claiming to be a former AKB48 member has accused Akimoto Yasushi of forcing her to have sex (無理矢理性行為) and said she would reveal what he did later.
She said:
私は元AKBメンバーです。 今回はある重大な事 す。 私はあの秋元康に無理矢理性行為をさせられました。 信じられない もしれないど本当の話で す。 しかも20歳になる 前の話です
を暴露したいと思いま
I am a former member of AKB. This time, I have a serious problem. I was forced to have sex by Akimoto Yasushi. It may be hard to believe, but it is true. And this was before I turned 20 years old.
I would like to reveal the truth.

Her account is https://www.tiktok.com/@ggkaj2 but the cited message was deleted.

 

It's the Manny Pacquiao Charity Marathon Suzuki 2022:
https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainm...join-akb48-in-charity-marathon-event-in-japan

I haven't seen many reports about it but here's a video from the event with Coleen and Amy from MNL48 performing KFC on stage with AKB48 members (credit to uploader):


if the video does not show watch the video here