Stage48 Countdown: Episode 237 (Members who are too pure for this world)

1. Yamamoto Sayaka
2. Watanabe Miyuki
3. Yamada Nana
4. Ogasawara Mayu
5. Jonishi Kei
6. Yagura Fuuko
7. Shiroma Miru
8. Kotani Riho
9. Jo Eriko
10. Shibuya Nagisa

 

01. Kinoshita Momoka
02. Ogasawara Mayu
03. Watanabe Miyuki
04. Yamamoto Sayaka
05. Shiroma Miru
06. Yamada Nana
07. Kotani Riho
08. Jo Eriko
09. Kondo Rina
10. Yagura Fuuko

 

I'm confused about these best homegrown members ? Are we supposed to just rank our favourite members? Or should we rank them based on how important we perceive them to be for the group?

 

1. Watanabe Miyuki
NMB48 1st Singles Center, my oshi, the only reason I followed NMB48

2.Yamamoto Sayaka
The group's Center, Captain, and big brother lol

3. Yamada Nana
NMB's top 3, baabaa

4. Yagura Fuuko
Team M's Lifesaver

5. Yabushita Shu
BII center and promotion board

6. Yogi Keira
Great girl, my fav, could've been a future star if she hadn't bailed out

7. Yoshida Akari
Hard worker, gorgeous legs.

8. Mita Mao
The whole reason I even know NMB existed (by taking part in AKB0048)

9. Shiroma Miru
Hard worker that finally gets what she deserved

10. Ota Yuuri
Has always been in the shadows, but now she got some limelight, Team BII's lifer IMO

Notables: Keicchi, Jo, Emichii, Ainyan, Yuipon, Momoka, Renapyon

 

Anyway you want. Whatever way you want to is fine.

 

Based on my dream senbatsu crew

1.milky
2.sayanee
3.mirurun
4.Nana
5.Keira
6.yuuri
7.renapyon
8.fuuchan
9.Jo
10.akarin

Notable mentions:
11.shuu
12.Keicchi
13.nagisa
14.emichii
15.haruu

 

1. Watanabe Miyuki
2. Ogasawara Mayu
3. Matsuda Shiori
4. Jonishi Kei
5. Jo Eriko
6. Takano Yui
7. Yagura Fuuko
8. Yogi Keira
9. Kawakami Rena
10. Yamamoto Sayaka

 

Well let me try

1. Yamamoto Sayaka
2. Watanabe Miyuki
3. Ogasawara Mayu
4. Yamada Nana
5. Kotani Riho
6. Jo Eriko
7. Yabushita Shu
8. Kamieda Emika
   
9. Kinoshita Momoka
10. Shimada Rena

 

1. Yamamoto Sayaka
2. Watanabe Miyuki
3. Yamada Nana
4. Ogasawara Mayu
5. Kotani Riho
6. Kinoshita Momoka
7. Fukumoto Aina
8. Shiroma Miru
9. Jonishi Kei
10. Yoshida Akari

 

1. Yamamoto Sayaka
2. Watanabe Miyuki
3. Yamada Nana
4. Ogasawara Mayu
5. Kotani Riho
6. Jonishi Kei
7. Kinoshita Momoka
8. Yagura Fuuko
9. Yabushita Shu
10. Shiroma Miru

 

1. Watanabe Miyuki
2. Yamamoto Sayaka
3. Jo Eriko
4. Yamada Nana
5. Kotani Riho
6. Fukumoto Aina
7. Shibuya Nagisa
8. Shiroma Miru
9. Ogasawara Mayu
10. Jonishi Kei

 

So many votes for miorin?

 

1. Yamada Nana -> not only because she's my kami oshi, she also leads many young NMB girls.
even she often seen comforting sayanee when she cried.
2. Yamamoto Sayaka -> obviously, the ace of the group also the leader.
3. Watanabe Miyuki -> the original center of NMB.
4. Yagura Fuko -> future ace of NMB. i can see she's trying her best to embrace the title.
5. Jo Eriko -> her comeback made history of NMB. i believe she would be next candidate of future ace once she's ready.
6. Ogasawara Mayu -> along with sayaka, i think it's a pity they remove her from NMB since she has the geinin material which is NMB's image.
7. Fukumoto Aina -> same reason with maachun.
8. Kotani Riho -> she has mix personality, in my view. and she's getting more interesting nowadays which i believe, bring NMB benefits.
9. Shiroma Miru -> her sudden rise in popularity will bring NMB many benefits, also candidate of future ace. i personally enjoy her rivalry with fuuchan.
10. Shibuya Nagisa -> because of her contribution in Tentoumu Chu! i think she managed to bring some people to have interest in NMB.

 

I will try to come up with a list of members who had/have great impact in the group - "made NMB what it is today". A favourite ranking is totally pointless.

1.) Yamamoto Sayaka
2.) Yamada Nana
3.) Watanabe Milky
4.) Fukumoto Aina
5.) Ogasawara Mayu
6.) Shimada Rena
7.) Kinoshita Momoka
8.) Kamieda Emika
9.) Yagura Fuuko
10.) Yabushita Shu

Honorable mentions go to: Jo Eriko, Jonishi Kei, Yoshida Akari and Kawakami Rena.

 

I do feel the members that has made the biggest impact in terms of NMB the way it is today is definitely their top 3 (I guess the order they come in is debatable though). Since it's about establishing NMB, I had to give top 10 to mostly 1st gen.

1. Yamamoto Sayaka - Captain and ace
2. Watanabe Miyuki - Ace and center
3. Yamada Nana - Baba and has played unofficial co-captain role to Sayanee in NMB
4. Ogasawara Mayu - NMB's former top comedian & MC
5. Fukumoto Aina - NMB's former sports queen and variety specialist
6. Kinoshita Momoka - Craziest NMB member
7. Shimada Rena - Former captain of Team M and made her team a loving home and from her team established some of NMB's strongest characters
8. Kotani Riho - NMB's resident hetare and scaredy cat with great TV reactions
9. Kawakami Rena - One of NMB's strongest charas with Udon
10. Jonishi Kei - NMB's resident alien (her impersonations) who has sometimes creepylike behaviour but often said to have a calming presence

Honourable mentions: Kamieda Erika, Yoshida Akari, Kadowaki Kanako, Kinoshita Haruna, Jo Eriko, Kishino Rika, Kondo Rina, Shiroma Miru, Yagura Fuuko, Yabushita Shu, Shibuya Nagisa

 

1. Yamamoto Sayaka
2. Watanabe Miyuki
3. Yamada Nana

Top 3 is duh.

4. Kinoshita Momoka (The only and only girl who is like that in the entire idol industry)

5. Fukumoto Aina
6. Ogasawara Mayu

Both of them are undeniably important, where their move out really helped the group progress. What a shame Mayu is struggling to remain relevant now.

7. Jo Eriko (only because her push was so controversial and then her comeback)
8. Kawakami Rena (The definition of a hard worker, who persevered and made a name for herself all by herself)
9. Shibuya Nagisa (The future ace of NMB imo and she's important in bringing NMB closer to AKB in a sense, NMB is so distant from AKB in general but she kinda integrates the two.)
10. Kotani Riho (same as 5&6)

 

1. Yamada Nana
2. Watanabe Miyuki
3. Yamamoto Sayaka
4. Jonishi Kei
5. Yabushita Shuu
6. Shiroma Miru
7. Kotani Riho
8. Shibuya Nagisa
9. Ogasawara Mayu
10. Yagura Fuuko

 

LAST DAY TO VOTE!

 

So this is my list: I tried to remove all bias and thought a bit on what members I think made the most impact on NMB as a group and I wrote my reasons why as well.

1. Yamamoto Sayaka - Sayanee is first for obvious reasons so I'm not going to go into it, but being the ace and the captain are the main reasons.

2. Watanabe Miyuki - The original center for NMB and she's a member who helped form the image of NMB as one of their frontgirls. Again, also obvious reasons so I won't expand on this.

3. Kamieda Emika - The captain of 3rd gen and both the original and current BII. She put in so much work for original BII to be noticed after they were the only team who failed to filled out the BII1 performance of A2 in the Minogashita Kimitachi E concerts. She put so much effort and love into her team, helped encourage them and the fact that she retained her captaincy post-shuffle over more senior members I think speaks a lot about her personality and her skills as a captain.

4. Shimada Rena - The now graduated captain of original Team M. Team M were a bunch of misfits when they were first put together, and were labelled a team that could do nothing right who were constantly compared to the all-stars Team N. By extension of that Shimarena wasn't labelled as a captain-type either, but under Shimarena's care she helped Team M thrive into the strong team that they are today.

5. Nakagawa Hiromi - I know Hirorin's graduated but I feel like she was such an important member and a huge loss for NMB. I don't think a lot of people know about her so I'll give a little background. She was firstly a huge pillar of the theater and she acted as a super sub for all teams, she actually performed in Team M's Idol no Yoake stage 91 times alone (out of 145 stages I think), and she hit 282 performances all together when she graduated. Along with this, she grew from becoming a shy and quiet member to the de facto leader of the kenkyuusei, and really managed to shape them into becoming a team and this may be a stretch but I don't think NMB's kenkyuusei would be the way that they are if it wasn't for her.

6. Yamada Nana - Nana is of course a huge member as she's part of the original Top 3 of the group and is still a really important member in terms of their image. More than that though, she's been a huge support for Sayanee in leading the group, as well as a terrific performer. Being in NMB also helped grow her variety skills, she's one of the most experienced members in terms of regular appearances on television and radio.

7. Kinoshita Momoka - I was hesitant about putting Momoka because I was thinking it could just be oshi bias, but I think she does belong on this list. She started out as a member who wasn't selected for the shonichi first generation kenkyuusei performance or original Team N. She realised she needed to do something different, played up her character with her blog entries (I think one of them has over 10,000 comments?) and managed to catapult herself into one of the mainstays of Team M due to a really strong and unique character. And now she's managed to appear in shows despite not being a senbatsu regular, directed short movies, is appearing in a drama and made it back into senbatsu.

8. Ogasawara Mayu - Despite not being part of the group anymore, I think Maachun should be brought up here because I think NMB really helped her grow her talents and skills as an idol with great MC abilities and comedic timing, and her character was huge in establishing NMB as the 'funny' group.

9. Shiroma Miru

10. Yagura Fuuko

Miru and Fuuchan are here because I think they're members who weren't original management pushes but managed to make their way to the front organically. Miru was always a solid mid tier senbatsu member but was never pushed to the extent other members were, and didn't get to center her own unit in N3. Fuuchan was slightly pushed when she was first debuted but she was lower in rank than Jo, Keira and Airi, she didn't center a unit in ori M and was dropped from Virginity senbatsu. Both girls have managed to transform their situations around though and are comfortably in the Top3 of Team M, as well as centering Rashikunai.

(Honourable mentions: Ainyan, Jo, Rikanyan, Renapyon. I really did want to include them, but I had no idea who I should bump out.

Also I was shocked at the amount of people who put Miorin? I love her but I took homegrown as the definition literally and homegrown means: grown or produced in one's own garden or country so!)