The Akimoto Yasushi Thread

Don't think his idea will be AKB-centric for the Olympics out here... I mean, he's done plenty of other things in his career outside of AKB.

Happy birthday to Mr. Akimoto. Hope that all is well; he appeared on Bokura no Ongaku recently and appears to have put on a lot of weight.

 

Happy Birthday!!!

He's really a genius in writing songs and I love whats he's done all the years. Hope he won't graduate soon.

 

I hope Aki-P isn't too cold sensitive (at 1:18)...

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Interesting that the performers will be selected in North America.

 

It's surprising how he has enough time to do that too...

 

Really would like to know how he spends the day with work and so on. He has so much to do and to see him debating on 755 so much. Wow he has my full respect!

 

Looks like a chinese reporter show little respect toward Aki-p. Very unprofessionnal.

"Chinese reporter insults Akimoto Yasushi, AKB48 and SNH48"

 

It's extremely unprofessional to interview someone without bothering to do any research beforehand and then to compound it by insulting the interviewee afterwards.

The "reporter" is probably anti-Japanese anyway which added to her obvious stupidity makes her someone worthy of derision. Unfortunately this is the kind of lacky that chinese state media chooses to employ.

 

Source AkiP 755, translation: http://akb48-omg.blogspot.no/2014/12/aki-p-it-is-ok-to-graduate.html

 

That is a very mature and humble stance to take. Aki-P always impresses me like that. And it shows he's really concerned about nurturing the talent under him, rather than just seeing the girls as stacks of money of various heights.

 

More people should read that post instead of just judge him: if there's someone who understands ands tries to do his best for the girls. (not always with the best results) is him: the fans just watch a minimal percentage of what happens, no matter how honest our idols seem or talks about certain topics.

 

I am leaving this here:

 

eh?
So, now this is official?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...group-for-olympics-phillipines-spinoff/.83756

 

This is the article Animenewsnetwork is claiming to be the original source of their article. I can't read it, maybe someone who can would be willing to verify or contradict AnimeNN claims?

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20150127-00000008-tospoweb-ent

 

I read it, its really only talking about making a JPN48 for the olympics, after which it seems everything will go back to normal.　It talks of wanting to make a "super-senbatsu" from all the groups from Hokkaido all the way down to Okinawa to make JPN48 (like a supergroup). This will be able to show idol culture to the world.


The top comment haha:

もう斜陽かと思いますがどうぞご勝手に結成して下さい。
ただし！お願いだから五輪の開閉会式には絡まないで。。

I thought they were already on the decline. But go ahead, form as many as you want to.
But! Please, don't be involved in the opening and closing ceremonies...

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I think the Animenewsnetwork article translates the Yahoo article pretty well. it's just that yahoo is always citing some unnamed insiders, and I am never quite sure how serious we should take that. so should it be considered "official", if we don't know where the info is actually coming from? I guess it depends on how trustworthy you find Yahoo news.
Aki-P himself did write on 755 that SPR48 might still happen, though, and also that there are plans for other projects going on right now. and the news about the Philippines and Manila actually popped up a while ago, but I forgot if Aki-P commented on that himself as well. so there is definitely truth to what Yahoo news says.

 

Yahoo news is a mixed bag in my experience. But that is limited to Yahoo.com, Yahoo.co.jp I have every little experience with due to language barrier. I don't know if the are under the same umbrella or if they are relatively separate entities. But i treat most mainstream news outlets the same, assume they have their own agenda and that it colors the version of the news. So I take it with a large grain of salt, always.

 

http://7gogo.jp/lp/0lwsnpA3SdaWkVIvojdMdG==/5174

Aki-P shooting down the "JPN48 for Olympics" rumor. so much for the question of how reliable Yahoo News is

 

Another Sky 150220


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Didn't want to make a new topic since it's not been officially announced but does anyone know if this is real?
AkiP to Rena Nozawa @ 755
"I heard you did well in Jakarta's concert, well done. Next one up is in New York, ganbare"
Source: pic.twitter.com/Ky9OpV6wgE