I received a clip of tonight's Romeo and Juliet performance via the Akiyoshi fan committee. (Sorry, I can't share it. Although it looks like they allowed cameras at the show, so there should be videos popping up pretty soon) Anyway, Yuka-chan was singing, dancing, jumping around. No limp detected at all. She was also wearing heels. It seems her foot has recovered nicely.
Akiyoshi came in 73rd place in the senbatsu sousenkyo with 19,371 votes. This is the first time she's ranked when I voted for her so I'm pretty happy. She showed off some of her multilingual skills in her acceptance speech. Was that Mandarin she was speaking?
Congrats to Yukachan. Her reaction to being called was awesome! BTW, most of my votes went for her. In fact, given the small amount of votes that she beat out the 74th rank, it looks like my votes DID make a difference. (I'm glad I didn't sell my votes, which I was seriously considering) A couple of interesting notes. Her vote count far exceeded the estimate predicted by her fan committee. Granted, there are a lot of votes that come from outside that "inner circle" Given their own exit poll, we knew she would rank somewhere the moment Shiichan's vote total was announced, but were worried she wouldn't crack her goal of 80th. Oh, and before the event the committee predicted a rank of #72. All in all an amazing prediction!
Yukachan and HKT performing at some golf tournament the other day... if the video does not show watch the video here
Yukachan will be taking part in AKB48G Singing Contest Team H: Akiyoshi Yuka, Ueno Haruka, Kojina Yui, Sakaguchi Riko, Tashima Meru, Tanaka Miku, Toyonaga Aki http://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/oshirase/2018_1109_2100.html
TGC event SR 191213 if the video does not show watch the video here SR 191214 [dead link] SR 191218 [dead link] https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1207333518663012352/pu/vid/1280x720/xZaHN3OJznMOrK8M.mp4 https://twitter.com/akiyoshi_hkt48/status/1207333752063442945
Playing soccer http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/general-the-hkt48-thread.4558/page-379#post-1716743
A solo song for Yukachan... if the video does not show watch the video here 記憶 -memorize- / 秋吉優花(HKT48) The song is from the film Meguri Awase no Hōsoku. The movie was first screened late last year in Kyushu, and there will be screenings in Tokyo in July. Apparently this wasn't a widely released film, as the promotional pages indicate DVDs of the film were sold at the screenings. In any case, I think it's a nice song, and she sounds and looks great.
Trailer for a TV Nishinippon show 'I want to make a music program in Fukuoka!' to be broadcast on 8/3 which includes Yukachan: if the video does not show watch the video here The video starts with a clip of her singing with popular singer-songwriter Ieiri Leo.
A few weeks ago on her X Yukachan posted that she'd created a new original song with guitar called 'Shukufuku' ('Blessing'): https://twitter.com/akiyoshi_hkt48/status/1717488938120831306 The post includes a 2'20" video of part of the song. I've just found a fan-taken video of her performing the full song live on stage yesterday at FOTFES in Fukuoka: if the video does not show watch the video here It seems she did a longer stage, here's another fan-taken video: if the video does not show watch the video here
