I'm in denial. Can't believe I won't see 18ki performing Watashitachi no Reason and 17+18ki Seijun Philosophy. Two kamikyoku. Performed by amazing members. And I won't see it.
Late info! 18ki recently had their debut in Nemousu TV! Titled: "18ki Debut! Nemousu Trial/Judgement!" Basically it's a mock trial revealing each other's "hidden" personalities, quirks, etc. Yunachan got the judge position because she has experience being Class President and Student Council Vice-President, as well as the basketball club captain in her school. (screencap) Then they got the chance to accuse each other: For example here Hinano is accusing Azu of the "crime" of trying to hide her "un-smart" character, acting like a honor student in front of others Also they show evidence like the video of where Azu can't read "Baka" kanji, ask witnesses, etc The accused can also defend themselves and retaliate. Some of the "accusations": Hinano acts sweet and talks softly but actually uses strong words and speaks fast behind the scenes? Kohi is just acting like a 18ki big sister to get the benefits from that position? Yumemin always do strange funny faces and invented new strange phrases that spread to other 18ki? Yuichi often exaggerates her talks, even supplements them with her imagination? Hinano and Kohi are way too pampering towards Yuichi? It's pretty entertaining and funny, while learning more about them too! Nemousu videos tend to get deleted fast so watch quickly lol First Half : (Sep 28) S41 ep 3 https://48idol.tv/video/762650 Second Half (Oct 4) S41 ep 4 if the video does not show watch the video here or https://48idol.tv/video/763315 Excellent 18ki group photo at the end full size : https://i.imgur.com/RxM3Z1K.png -------------------------- Also Happy Half-Anniversary for 18ki! (Apr 9 - Oct 9 2023) Full size https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1711374788932087883 https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1711360902992429370
New 18ki Instagram accounts. Akiyama Yuna: https://www.instagram.com/yuna.a_1212 Arai Sae: https://www.instagram.com/saechan_akb48 Kudo Kasumi: https://www.instagram.com/kasumin_akb48 Kubo Hinano: https://www.instagram.com/hiinachan_akb48 Sako Yumemi: https://www.instagram.com/yumemi_sako0205 Narita Kohina: https://www.instagram.com/k0hina_33 Yagi Azuki: https://www.instagram.com/azuki_yagi0322 Yamaguchi Yui: https://www.instagram.com/yuichi_akb48
I assume this is best posted here: [EitoSubs] 230928 AKB48 Nemousu TV Season 41 Ep03 Translation and Timing: GEES Visual Typesetting and Q&A: Lusankya@EitoSubs The new 18th gens get to participate in a game similar to Shoujiki Shogi, except instead of lie detector acting Judge Yuna will decide the cases of the girls in a court of law. https://twitter.com/EitoSubs/status/1713552990236242094
There was an AKB KKS Ranking organized by international fans this month and here are the results: https://stanyuzu.netlify.app/post/2023-10-16-the-absolute-akb-kks-ranking/ 36 people voted for this! ^^ 18th gen are still new but it's interesting to see their popularity so far. This is the 3rd time that this ranking is done, next time will be in 6 months or so, things will change!
[EitoSubs] 231005 AKB48 Nemousu TV Season 41 Ep04 Translation and Timing: GEES Visual Typesetting and Q&A: Lusankya@EitoSubs It's part 2 of the 18th gens Courtroom session and the girls are throwing around even more accusations. Also Azuki is the best member of all time. https://twitter.com/EitoSubs/status/1715737662517035432
Kenkyuusei Group Photos from Budokan Concerts 2023! Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 full sizes https://imgur.com/a/EGMP1q7 sources (uncropped) Spoiler https://twitter.com/airi_sato0624/status/1715359577007587679 https://twitter.com/erichan_akb48/status/1715712226735382751 https://twitter.com/CoyoteKos/status/1716045463823233419 18ki (and 17ki) centered some songs on Day 3 on the lottery units part! pic from https://twitter.com/yuiyuihan/status/1716021533259464736 Azu even got the grand prize, solo unit, as the first person who drew on the lottery. Yuna and Yuichi got center positions too. Rigged or luck is really favoring KKS? will always be a mystery like Mariko, Jurina, and Mirukii's Janken ------------ Also they didn't cry when 19ki audition was announced. That's bad actually, no juicy stuff to be discussed in show/theater MC later.
Me and @otabe wrote posts with the 18th gen members 100 Q&A answers! You can learn a lot about each girl by reading those posts, it's also fun to read ^^ I'll link all of them here: Akiyama Yuna: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/akiyama-yuna-yunachan.24406/#post-1811334 Arai Sae: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/arai-sae-saechan.24407/page-2#post-1811650 Kudo Kasumi: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/kudo-kasumi-kasumin.24408/#post-1813147 Kubo Hinano: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/kubo-hinano-chanhina.24409/page-2#post-1811901 Sako Yumemi: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/sako-yumemi-yumemin.24410/#post-1813095 Narita Kohina: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/narita-kohina-kohi.24411/#post-1811739 Yagi Azuki: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/yagi-azuki-azu.24412/page-2#post-1811515 Yamaguchi Yui: http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/yamaguchi-yui-yuichi.24413/page-2#post-1813270 Please check it out
Next week (Nov 23) Nemousu episode is 18ki girls (minus Kohi and Sae) doing training for ALSOK company (a security services provider company)! Seems like there will be some relatively harsh trainings? I remember some 18ki said they were tired and had muscle pains from the day job vid : https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_vide.../vid/avc1/750x418/GYHdns-uthCsWsTf.mp4?tag=12 Finally Nemousu is starting to sound like old Nemousu stuffs again. I'm still puzzled though, they spent quite a sum of money for these projects, Ogi and staff salary, etc, but there's virtually no marketing for Nemousu TV?? The twitter, youtube, and even the official FamiGeki site stopped updating a while ago Pretty sad since the content is actually good for fans who want to see AKB variety stuffs. So it seems the 17ki vs 18ki athletic competition was shot recently but will be aired on later dates, maybe next month?
Are we sure this is actually Nemousu content? I am just wondering because they usually wear Nemousu t-shirts on the show when doing athletic stuff.
Not sure yet, I'm pretty sure no one clearly said it was Nemousu. But from the leaked nametags I'm pretty sure it's Nemousu design, commonly seen there. taken from Mayuu's post about offshot pics : post1 post2 RokeRoke has different designs: But yeah they often use Nemousu t-shirt inside, the only episodes where I see they didn't use those are the very old ones or the SKE team competition one, that one also has the red headbands: (taken from source) Therefore I'm pretty sure we'll see it in NemousuTV. Maybe Or here too, anywhere is okay since we will get the content anyway
Anyways, regardless of where this is aired the true tragedy is that apparently Sae is missing this competition and won't be able to destroy the 17ths.
Some 18ki-chans having fun in the backstage of today's Makuhari Messe Akushukai https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1726175477063381063 https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1726184249278284178
Today was AKB48 Chou-Tenkaichi HADOkai Day 12 Finale, Which means it's revenge time for 18ki vs DWANGO team! On July 10 HADOkai, 18ki lost the match would've given them the 3million yen ad spot at the front page of NicoNico. They've been training for 5 months to win the revenge match! This time with Yunachan, ChanHina and Kasumin! full size& credits : https://twitter.com/lalahappy0723/status/1726936164203213310 Team huddle before the match: (video)https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1726909216529719807 If they win this one, they'll get the 3 million yen ad spot! (it's funny how the exhibition match reward is higher than the main event ) Now if they lose this one, the DWANGO CEO will make 18ki girls debut on NicoNico as Odorite/Dancer to YOASOBI's Idol song. Result?? Did they get the Ad spot worth 3 Million yen?? Spoiler: Result They got it Congrats!! Looking forward for the ads! Hopefully the NicoNico debut too Aftermatch video: https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1726915877990547475 Plus, it was announced that HADOkai will get another season! And on the next season it will be Draft system with 4 teams, and 18ki girls will be eligible to be chosen to join the main event as well!
With Kohi's new post I'm now 100% sure it's Nemousu content https://twitter.com/kohina_narita/status/1727529888167678006 =============================== A few more photos from HADO : ChanHina piggybacking on Yunachan, plus a slightly jealous Kasumin sources: https://twitter.com/eightkun_osi/status/1727319541041291380 https://twitter.com/akb_trainee48/status/1727181388091392142 ====================== Magazine news, Yunachan and Azu, alongside with 17ki's Aichan will be on BIG ONE GIRLS January issue, on sale Nov 30 ! Also Yuiri is on the cover page, and Mahopyon has pages too: https://twitter.com/SCREEN__STORE/status/1727251605836444040 https://twitter.com/BIGONEGIRLS/status/1726626546251976957 =================== Recent IPPACHI ROOM #29 (Nov 21) if the video does not show watch the video here Yuichi is bigger than Sae now? Sae says Yuichi is growing so much lately that she has the chance to become the tallest in 18ki. One of the sections talks about what part of them should you praise if you want to make them happy. I'll translate some so maybe you guys can do that in the talk/handshake events Azu : Your hair is so smooth/silky! or Your performance is great! Sae : Your smile is sparkling! or Your singing is great! Yuichi : has quite a lot written down: Your dance is great! You are very genki/energetic! You are very dependable! (justification by other 18ki : she's only very dependable on helping others with dancing ) Your growth is so fast!! Your ponytail is cute! (she forgot to write this) Another section is about translating English proverbs into Japanese ones They'll normally get hints that open up the blocked words. But Saechan actually knows them before even the hints are given LOL Amazing, especially the question E which only has "is" revealed. She answered that without hint video clip of the moment : https://twitter.com/6AgagzYHDArjuyS/status/1726931045092901233
It's almost December, it's Christmas! AKB48 members are writing their wishes for Gunji Santa! (Gunji-san is theater chief staff of sort) Those wishes are posted on the theater. 18ki part: Light translations: Yunachan: I wish for Ice Cream present! Please grant my wish, Gunji Santa! Saechan: I wish for Juice present! Soda drink would be nice~ Kasumin: Thank you for always delivering the bentous! I wish for meat (bento)! Looking forward to it, Gunji Santa-san! ChanHina: I wish for a big stuffed toy, as well as a big stuffed toy backpack! Like a bear.... Yumemin: I wish to be hypnotized! (wot girl?) Kohi: After theater show, I wish to drink Caramel Macchiato with extra large serving of caramel! Please and Thank you! Azu: Please let me appear in many theater shows!!!! Pretty please~ Yuichi: I wish to, at any cost, appear on TV....! (Song program, TV show, etc) Please!
Update: Yunachan, Azu and Aichan will be featured on the back cover! https://twitter.com/SCREEN__STORE/status/1728601823764963678 EDIT: apparently there's another version too https://yy18ki.fc2.page/2023/11/26/927/ =============== On the Dobon anniversary competiton rank, seems like no 18ki will get in.... There's a chance for Kasumin to get in if Yukitan manages to get into the 14th (therefore Kasumin will get the 2nd seat from the activity rank)
Congratulations for Yuna and Azu for making it to Senbatsu for 63rd single! The firsts among 18ki, while not as fast as Aichan, announced to be senbatsu members within 8 months of debuting while still being KKS is quite a feat! Moments of Yunachan and Azu being chosen, cropped from VR footages: (thanks @jmo42 for the Yunachan footage!) Yunachan (with announcement footage) https://twitter.com/yuiiriii/status/1733335352725717498 Azu (leftmost position) https://twitter.com/KobaR335/status/1733317627043557811 The rest of 18ki all posted similar messages, happy for them but also very kuyashii Well that's the route to the dream in AKB, some people will be further ahead even though everyone had the same starting line.... ----------------------- Also Azu won the Best Rookie of the Year! Mostly thanks to her strong solo performance on Budokan! ======================== Kohi posted some great group pictures from the recent online talk event: Let's do some counting with 18ki! one... two... three... four... five... six... seven... Are we forgetting someone?? Ah right, Yumemin was sick on that day..... Not with the power of technology! (thanks to ChanHina for editing it) Full sizes: https://twitter.com/kohina_narita/status/1733833043046220254 -------------------------- Also they took a tiktok video from that event: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNVuSFcN/ youtube non-official: if the video does not show watch the video here ======================== Some off shots: https://twitter.com/yunachan_akb48/status/1730360285427532237 https://twitter.com/BIGONEGIRLS/status/1734218982792606166 ===================================== 16 members of KKS will be on <Happy New Year! Idol Hatsuyume Live> (謹賀新年!アイドル初夢ライブ supported by @ JAM) 6 members of 18ki will be there, excluding Kohi and Yuichi. (ignore the pic haha) details on 17ki thread here ---> http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/akb48-17th-generation.23735/page-45#post-1815782
