(NEWS) NGT48 Shuffle at Tandoku Concert

Yes the teams seem well balanced! And thank the heavens the kenkyuusei members finally got promoted and that most of them made it through that long period (I hope Ayanyan comes back well and healthy)

 

Top members of team NIII: Katomina, Ogiyuka, Yukirin, Okappa
Top members of team G: Rika, Hinatan

I mean, it's kind of not fair. I think they should have moved Yukirin to team G.

 

She's probably gonna get her kenning cancelled soon so whats the point

 

NIII also has Gatanee, one of the top HS seller.
G also has Mahohon. And future-aces: Tsugumin, Ayutarou.

 

Team G has the most popular kks,Mahohon and also Tsugumin

 

Should the top member in NIII include Gatanee too

 

I wish Gatanee went to G so we can have a proper sexy team with Rikahime, Gatanee and Mahohon but well... Looks like the captain-role is now euphemism for consolation prize. Let's see who they want to give up on more, Rikahime or Ciabatta.

 

Man oh man, thanks for getting me more and more thrilled for the amount of ass to be kicked by your ''consolation prize''. I mean, i was excited already, but now, oh my blood is pumping.

 

am I the only one who's disappointed that they split the KKS? I mean after all they've been through, they should've been given a Team of their own


But I guess the team division is quite fair

I hope a 2nd gen will center Team G tho. Promote all Draftees to NIII and fill the vacant spots in G with 2nd gens

 

I think the balance goes something like this:
NIII - G
Ogiyuka - Hinatan or Rika
Katomina - Rika or Hinatan
Okappa - Tsugumin
Gatanee - Mahohon
Ayanyan - Ayutarou
Ayakani - Mofu
Nanako - Miharu
Noepii - Rittan
Anju - Renapon
Reinya - Kado
Mao - Ainya

If you remove those top members, I find Team G stronger with girls like Mahohon, Ayutarou, Miharu, Rittan, Tsugumin and Renapon.

 

I have reason to say that NGT members always hated this division in the first place, and even the management itself came to regret it after a while. That's why the members always preferred to call themselves 1st Generation, rather than make distinctions between Kenkyuusei and regular members, after all.

Spoiler

Off the top of my head, recently on ANN Kitarie recalled how the only time she ever got angry after entering NGT was in the early days, when the management decided they had to split members between NIII and Kenkyuusei, and Kitarie herself was strongly opposed to the idea. (Apparently Yukirin told the same story also during the Home Party special, but I haven't watched it in full yet)
On yesterday's Showroom, Gatanee also talked about she disliked this division, since she always saw themselves as just 1st Generation. To such a degree that she always refrained from ever using the word "Kenkyuusei" in mobame mails and during MCs.
Even on the latest LINE blog by Etsuro, he spent one whole paragraph admitting how "When the theater's opening members were decided, the 1st Generation was divided between Kenkyuusei and Team NIII, but as everyone knows, as time went by the gap between the various members in terms of capabilites diminished until it disappeared". Also, that the Kenkyuusei team ended up becoming "truly NGT48's biggest weapon, and my greatest pride".
I can probably find more quotes if only I'll start searching back, but you get the point.

So, yeah, I think that making such a distinction even more blurred by shuffling members around through the two new teams can only be a happy news.

If anything, what I'm disappointed about is that they still put Gatanee and Miharu into different groups. Poor Piyo, when I saw MahoRiko together I hoped they'd keep all these big sister/little sister relationships united. (｀・ω・´)

 

It does make NGT48 seem more like a complete 1st gen, than NIII vs kks.
It distributes the popularity, and breaks Team NIII's ~superior~ image.