[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

The 48 Circle website is closing today.
After, the 48 groups international portal will keep providing news on Facebook and X
https://twitter.com/48_circle/status/1774338533026877705

 

Ahead of the group's appearance tomorrow on CDTV LIVE LIVE, Naru, Zukkii and Miion answer the question "What is your 6th favourite vegetable?":


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YASAI SISTERS COMEBACK CONFIRMED

 

Finally they officially uploaded the 2024 Spring concert intro footage!!
It was so mesmerizing and I love it!

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Finally back to Music Station on April 12th!
https://twitter.com/akb48_staff/status/1776173014159413344

They will perform Colorcon and one more song that will be voted by the audience.
Eligible songs to be voted are Flying Get, Iiwake Maybe, and 10 nen Sakura

 

I REMINDED MYSELF TO CHECK MSTA WEBSITE TODAY CUZ I KNOW THEY'D POST THE GUEST LINE UP FOR NEXT WK AND I WAS SO SO SO SOOOO HAPPY TO SEE AKB ON THE LIST AND SPECIFYING IT AS A YUKIRIN SPECIAL SINCE SHE WILL CENTRE BOTH SONGS OMG THE ATTENTION SHE DESERVES!

 

News today of a new collaboration between t-shirt manufacturer UP-T and AKB48 with Hiroyuki which involves clothing (including hoodies and towels) with designs by group members - campaign page with ordering: https://up-t.jp/akb48



There's a series of nine 15-second commercials of three basic types. Oricon News has posted a compilation video showing each of the basic types plus a 21'45" 'making' video:


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Each of the nine CMs can be viewed individually on UP-T's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@up-tyoutube7066/videos

Oricon also has some videos from a campaign launch presentation which took place today in Tokyo:


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Message video for tonight's appearance on Mste:


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AKB48 Spring Concert 2024 in Pia Arena MM Behind The Scenes:


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The Dorama announced on the Pia Arena Concert "Stardust Telepath" with AKB members will start airing on 25th of June, every Tuesday at 24:30 JST

https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/hoshitele_drama/
https://twitter.com/hoshitele_drama/status/1780068605326987571

 

Five members (Ayane, Harupyon, Serika, Orin and Chanhina) will be appearing in Malaysia on 5/18 & 19 at the Sakura Festival at LaLaport BUKIT BINTANG CITY CENTRE: Facebook link

 

https://nantejapan.com/oricon-releases-its-charts-for-the-/

Where is AKB?

 

They appear twice on the ranking for singles:

 

I'm not emotional about this article, where non-Japanese BTS is displayed between Japanese groups, but they forget about Taylor Swift...

In general metodology of this Chart is so dumb and I've more important things than to be emotional about it

 

Taylor swift is not that big and popular in Japan LOL. Most people who care abt taylor swift there are swifties from the rest of the world. Aka tourists and foreigners. Many of my JP friends never even heard of taylor swift. And they are in the 20s. Maybe only the 10s ever heard

 

She literally performed 4 days in a row in Tokyo Dome two months ago. All 4 days were sold out. I don't know who your JP friends are but they must be living under a rock.

Taylor Swift mania sweeps Tokyo for sold-out concerts, with all eyes on return trip to Super Bowl
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/07/asia/taylor-swift-japan-tokyo-eras-tour-intl-hnk/index.html

 

As I said, most are swifties who cannot get the ticket elsewhere. I am not saying Taylor Swift isn't popular but just being realistic

 

WowKorea FAN had a livestream earlier from Gimpo Airport in Seoul for the group members' arrival for tomorrow's Korean fan event - after a long wait the members finally appeared near the end of the video at 1:47:00:


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EDIT: The channel has just uploaded a shorter edited video of their arrival:


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SECOND EDIT: One from Newsen with clearer views of the members:


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And one from a channel called TV10 Asia which includes some of the members waving from their bus before it departs:


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Pretty neat dance cover of Doushitemo kimi ga suki da

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