[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

But there's no mention of AV lessons. How do you teach that anyway?

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AKB48 x =LOVE x ≠ME collaboration

 

Whole setlist of AKB48 on CDTV today (2023.09.16)

https://twitter.com/onigiridouga3/status/1703012972975841627

Translation:

Spoiler

Kage-ana: Oguri Yui, Sasaki Maika (=LOVE) and Tomita Nanaka (≠ME)
MC - Noguchi Iori (=LOVE)

overture
M01 Iiwake Maybe (Oguri Yui Center)
M02 Manatsu no Sounds good! (Oda Erina Center)
M03 Dare no Koto wo Ichiban Aishiteru? (Oguri Yui Center)
M04 Ne mo Ha mo Rumor (Kuranoo Narumi Center)
MC - Self intro
M05 - Flying Get (Okabe Rin Center)
M06 Namida Surprise (Oguri Yui & Chiba Erii WCenter)
M07 Skirt, Hirari (Oguri Yui & Yamauchi Mizuki WCenter)
MC - Noguchi Iori
M08 Idol Nanka Janakattara (Oguri Yui Center)
MC
M09 Oogoe Diamond (Mukaichi Mion Center)
M10 First Rabbit
M11 Only today
M12 Every, Kachuusha (Suzuki Kurumi Center)
MC
M13 10nen Sakura

 

AV is so 2018!

AKB48 is definitely a harsh place. The members trying to appeal as an individual while ikorabu & noimi members just like, "WE ARE =LOVE / ≠ME DESU!"
and they did Odaeri dirty! it was a nice collaboration tho. but still!

 

YouTube upload for the CDTV full 1 hour performance!
This was like a mini-concert ^^ it was really good


if the video does not show watch the video here

 

≠ME
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1703242511807139840/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/DaD_mN94FOhqlOm_.mp4?tag=12
=LOVE
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1703242574084091904/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/pr-8C5IxfkcODxb-.mp4?tag=12
AKB48
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1703242627477643264/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/-0zSAoVoXx5DbakI.mp4?tag=12

 

The group will be appearing at MUSIC TRIBE at Tokyo Dome City Hall on 11/22:
https://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-12820632079.html
https://twitter.com/artists_league/status/1703695469745225763

 

good show. kurumi replaced momo and ayamin for honda in the senbatsu spots. nice to see those 2 there.

I wonder why they went with the chair choreo for skirt hirari?

EDIT i can't think of any better resource than stage48.net to find out why those 2 where out

was there any announcement from momo or hitomi why they were out?

 

The "other" members are finally on Weverse
https://twitter.com/AKB48_staff/status/1704722163935367291

 

AKB48 on news, about the Shizuoka collab

if the video does not show watch the video here

This photo taking in Shizuoka was featured in the last week Saikin Kiita episode

 

A new 'Girls Drive' trailer has been released today;


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Honda Hitomi's graduation concert.

https://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-12822453964.html
https://twitter.com/AKB48_staff/status/1707727005826052106

2024/01/26, at Pacifico Yokohama.

Honda Hitomi, Omori Maho, Okabe Rin, Oguri Yui, Oda Erina, Kashiwagi Yuki, Kuranoo Narumi, Sato Airi, Shitao Miu, Takahashi Ayane, Taguchi Manaka, Chiba Erii, Nagano Serika, Hashimoto Haruna, Mukaichi Mion, Murayama Yuiri, Yamauchi Mizuki

Helpers: Akiyama Yuna, Narita Kohina


if the video does not show watch the video here

 

I honestly doubt they booked the venue for one single concert, but since they barely take any risks these days and teams don't exist anymore... I expect an AKB tandoku concert and that's it (a KKS one at most).

 

This is a bit random but I was curious about how AKB members were doing in terms of Instagram followers so I decided to check, I took the numbers on 30th August and then again one month later, on 1st October (yesterday). Here's a top 10 of the members with the biggest increase of followers for that period of time (this doesn't include members who will graduate):

01. Chiba Erii - 191,000 (+5459)
02. Sato Airi - 25,686 (+2858)
03. Oguri Yui - 254,229 (+2525)
04. Kashiwagi Yuki - 535,653 (+2062)
05. Suzuki Kurumi - 44,537 (+1709)
06. Mukaichi Mion - 209,513 (+993)
07. Onishi Momoka - 60,228 (+936)
08. Hirata Yuki - 28,487 (+925)
09. Yamauchi Mizuki - 76,136 (+914)
10. Omori Maho - 76,967 (+875)

While I'm at it, I'll share, in spoiler, the full ranking with the follower count on 1st October, just for reference!
If you want links to their Instagram, it's all here: http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/Social_Networks#AKB48

Spoiler

01. Kashiwagi Yuki - 535,653
02. Oguri Yui - 254,229
03. Mukaichi Mion - 209,513
04. Chiba Erii - 191,000 (+ side-account 25,392)
05. Komiyama Haruka - 127,924
06. Shitao Miu - 111,930
07. Taniguchi Megu - 110,874
08. Okabe Rin - 110,304
09. Omori Maho - 76,967
10. Yamauchi Mizuki - 76,136
11. Kuranoo Narumi - 73,819
12. Ma Chia-Ling - 66,444
13. Iwatate Saho - 65,844
14. Shinozaki Ayana - 63,042
15. Oda Erina - 62,345
16. Onishi Momoka - 60,228
17. Gyoten Yurina - 52,320
18. Fukuoka Seina - 51,321
19. Nagano Serika - 49,110
20. Suzuki Kurumi - 44,537
21. Muto Orin - 39,894
22. Yamane Suzuha - 39,501
23. Takahashi Ayane - 35,843
24. Hashimoto Haruna - 34,737
25. Taguchi Manaka - 30,104
26. Hirata Yuki - 28,487
27. Sasaki Yukari - 28,025
28. Sato Airi - 25,686
29. Yamada Kyoka - 25,660
30. Sato Minami - 21,702
31. Nagatomo Ayami - 21,454
32. Tokunaga Remi - 17,888
33. Shimoguchi Hinana - 15,276
34. Otake Hitomi - 12,279
35. Mizushima Miyuu - 10,877
36. Yamazaki Sora - 9251
37. Sakagawa Hiyuka - 8960
38. Hashimoto Eriko - 7141
39. Yoshihashi Yuzuka - 6895
40. Kohama Kokone - 6320
41. Kurosu Haruka - 6293
42. Saito Haruna - 6248
43. Ota Yuki - 5602
44. Hotei Moka - 5355
45. Masai Mayuu - 5186
46. Hatakeyama Nozomi - 4852

Note: Yuiri and the 18th generation don't have Instagram accounts.

 

Late responses, but I feel the need to address few things from the previous page:

To be fair you can also say similarly regarding SSK. Between NGT, PD48, lack of rivalry storyline, and Jurina's unwellness post-SSK '18, I wonder if it was too a financial strain long-term.

Assuming he's still alive and there's zero legacy-shattering scandal by that time. And you have to pay attention to his other vanity projects he's trying to do that barely sticks.

 

An official mook for the 'Girls Drive' movie will be released on 10/20:
https://twitter.com/girlsdrive2023/status/1709840874824413550



Promotional video:


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EDIT: More info from 'PR Times':
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002322.000006568.html

Limited edition cover from Amazon:



Bonus clear files from Rakuten:

 

Message video for CDTV with YuiYui, Aichan and Miion - 'In my next life... I want to be born as my favorite food':


if the video does not show watch the video here

 

Just it's the reason AKB48 exists in the 1st place.
"Idols you can meet"
Every days after their performance (at least in their early years)
It's their Headquarter their fundation, why it would be a bad idea to abandon it.

^
This !!
Zest looks more willing to take risks where DH has become too shy, too conservative.
Right now, SKE48's management has more of AKB48's early spirit than AKB48 itself.

 

After all of those release day events i had over 25 copies of AB+C editions that i left for the hotel trash. (I separated the jewel cases from the media and print materials) probably something hotel staff hadn’t seen since the height of the group 5 years ago ( I consider Jiwaru Days to be the end of plateau. I guess most people would say its earlier, but sustainable, and shitsuren both hit the million mark after Jiwaru, maybe the peak was fortune cookie ((2013))? Idrk) i did leave the cleanup crew a nice gift I brought from home.

How can AKB48 move forward with digital sales and rely less in bulky sales materials? Tower Records is long gone from its origins in my hometown of Sacramento CA. How long will Japan prop up the CD market?

 

HEY! I didn't mean that theater is something bad nowadays, unnecessary. I mean if management would not to do something for the theater's exist (like new stages) like SKE48 did, I don’t see any factors of the existence of the theater as being significant at all for the group in this reality.