[GENERAL] The Sakamichi Series group thread

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The Sakamichis look so good in this MV.

 

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Wow, Neru center. Personally I think it'd be better if one of AKB group centering this, but Neru is fine as well.

Beautiful PVs. Nice song (though the progression gets stale after a while).

What I like the most is the costumes. So AKB-ish, Nogi-ish, and Keya-ish.

Legit thought that was Asuka with Miona, only to know it's Asuka and Sakura. Huh nobody will notice the differences anyway. Jk.

Edit:
Aaaah I noticed something! At the beginning when the row of girls from each AKB, Nogi, and Keya showed up, each of the row were referencing gestures from their respective groups' dance number!!

AKB -> 35 nichi no Kami Hikouki?? (idk, please someone confirm this)
Nogi -> Seifuku no Mannequin
Keya -> Idk, but pretty sure I saw this pose before

 

Princess Asuka killin it. Simply elegant.

 

@vshav yes you got it and its from 365nichi no kamihikouki

 

Looked like the hand gestures from the opening bit of Sekai ni wa Ai Shika Na to me.

 

i rewatch the Sekai ni wa Ai Shika mv and the hand gesture was from 2:08 of the mv.




chibi pairing (Zuumin + Mion)

 

Not enough Yamashita if you ask me...

Sounds alright to me...

Yamashita's in it. I just may get...

 

Thanks @CutePanda @glsone !

By the way, I am not impressed with the linguistic aesthetic of the lyrics. I understand the meaning Aki-P wants to give, but the quality of the lyrics is just low in my opinion. It looks like someone in school can write.

When we translate it to English, it does look nice (albeit cheesy). But in Japanese I think it's just a collection of simple sentences with generic phrases combined together. Lots of Nogizaka coupling songs did better. The previous SakamichiAKB song did better. What's wrong Aki-P?? Too many songs to write lately??

There will be happiness and unhappiness.
The world goes around.
I hear a voice.
Aren't we comrades?

*shudder

I am not an expert in Japanese linguistic, but I believe people who has been learning Japanese for a while might understand what I'm saying. What do you think?

 

That center reveal shot is pretty cool. Especially when you really don't expect it.

 

Now that you mention, it is on the more generic side as far as Aki-P songs and definitely inferior to a lot of the interesting and brooding lyrics in the songs that for eg, Keyaki regularly releases. It's probably in line with a lot of AKB's current content though. I mean have you had a chance to hear the A-side lyrics?
JA-BA-JA
JA-BA-JA IN DA CLUB

 

Haha, I think you're being a little harsh on Aki-P. The sentences themselves aren't great, and are even on the cliche side, but what makes the lyrics work aren't the meanings, but how they sound. They're a bit more complex than they seem. There's a lot of end rhymes and internal rhymes going on, and assonance and consonance as well.

kanashii koto mo ureshii koto mo arudarou (I love this first part. Lots of "o" sounds, and the "a" and "da" rhyme on the stresses in "arudarou" )
soredemo tomarazu / sekai wa mawaru ( "a" and "u" rhymes in "tomarazu" and "mawaru", and the "wa-ma-wa (ru)" part flows nicely)
mou sugu yoakeda / dareka no koe ga suru ( "yoakeda / dareka" is a neat consonance flourish, and it continues the "u" rhymes of the previous lines)
ikite sae ireba (this one's a bit iffy, but there's still the "i"-"e" pairing of "kite" and "ire")
nakama janai ka (lots of "a" sounds, and ends the stanza in a couplet--"ireba" and "ka")

I'm also not very good with Japanese, but I feel like rhythm and flow fairly universal, so I can apply a little about what I know about that to analyzing lyrics, at least. To me, the song has a really, really nice flow when it comes to how the words sound.

 

Was there ever any information released about whether or not Aki-P works with a team for writing lyrics? It seems to be presumed that he must, right?

 

https://twitter.com/aaa_46_movie/status/972151252292222976?s=19

New Auditions!! For Sakamichi overall!!!!

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D R A F T ???

 

so hiragana keyaki is a separate group now?

 

It's been treated as such for a little while now. This is the confirmation we needed to know for sure though.

Seems a bit soon, but management must know of more girls leaving than we do at this point. I'd be surprised if each group got more than 4 or 5 new girls though.

 

Looks like a draft. It's gonna be awkward to be drafted into Kanji keyakizaka.

 

wow...whats going on today ? 46 news all over the place !!!! 46G draft event ?

i wonder which group the future draftee wants to join ? probably Nogi46 and Keyaki46....

 

Girls who will be drafted to Kanji will be unfair for Hiragana.. Like, "for what sake we're struggling?"

And for Nogi, since they have missed four members, maybe they'll add about 4 or a bit more? I prefer if they have a 4th Gen batch, having a new collection of beautiful girls and get promoted together.. Like what they did with 3rd Gen

But we need more details.

 

Who would want to be drafted there and just be another back up dancer? But same with Hiragana.
Be a Kanji = additional back-up dancer
Be a Hiragana = additional member of plan B aka substitute team when something goes wrong with Kanji
Nogizaka = LUCKY!!!
I wish though it's a completely whole new Saka group.

 

So true! Lol
Being drafted to Nogizaka is the most rewarding atm.