The Akimoto Yasushi Thread

damn, a whole 4 of Yasusu's idol groups have disbanded this year...

Koukou 3-nen C-gumi
Yoshimotozaka46
The Coinlockers
High School Children (male seiyuu idols) https://hsc-jpn.com/information/news/post-839/

 

Actually, Yoshimoto are in hiatus. They will come back in February.
But, for the other groups, I didn't know they were from AKI-P and didn't know they were existing (Only Coinlockers because I follow them).

That's sad for the last one. I would love to follow a group like that.

 

No, Yoshimotozaka 46 is going on hiatus this coming February.

 

I think you're right - this is the news page concerned:
http://yoshimotozaka46.com/news/?id=267

Electronic translators are not particularly helpful for this page but their 'hibernation' does seem to be after the Anniversary Live in February and not before (I'll amend the post I made in the group's thread).

 

yep, they are going on hiatus after their Anniversary Live on February 5th

 

My bad !
But I'm so sad....

And when they said 'hiatus' we don't know if they will come back and I'm sad because that's the first group I really follow closely since Berryz Kobo's hiatus. (we all know that they disbanded, lot of them have left the entertainment since)

 

Appearance on Sasshi's Youtube channel


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Aki-P has composed and produced 'BANDWAGON', the first release by the winning unit protea from Last Idol Thailand:


if the video does not show watch the video here

 

He really saw how Thailand ate up BNK and CGM and said Let me bring my other franchises ffffff waiting for Khaosan46 at any moment.

 

Yeah, 46, if Sony wants to invest in Thaï

 

Aki-P's 'Gekidan $4.50' theater company has unveiled seven 2nd Gen members:


if the video does not show watch the video here

 

More news of the business project involving Aki-P and Will Smith:
https://deadline.com/2022/02/will-s...-japanese-series-hollywood-couple-1234955689/

 

Yasusu is going to publish a compilation of lyrics from 46 songs that he personally selected from Sakamichi series' discography. Congrats? lol
The book is titled こんなに美しい月の夜を君は知らない (You don't know such a beautiful moonlit night) and will be published on 2 March, 2022.

Spoiler: Yasusu's Sakamichi lyrics senbatsu

Arranged in the order that the lyrics are appearing in the book:

1. Kimi no na wa kibou (Nogizaka46)
2. Synchronicity (Nogizaka46)
3. Fukyouwaon (Keyakizaka46)
4. Kataru nara mirai wo... (Keyakizaka46)
5. Eien no hakusen (Hiragana Keyakizaka46)
6. Seifuku no Mannequin (Nogizaka46)
7. Futari Saison (Keyakizaka46)
8. Neko no namae (Keyakizaka46)
9. Kitai shite inai jibun (Hiragana Keyakizaka46)
10. Nichijou (Nogizaka46)
11. Fuusen wa ikite iru (Nogizaka46)
12. Kimi ga Inai (Keyakizaka46)
13. Getsuyoubi no asa, Skirt wo kirareta (Keyakizaka46)
14. Silent Majority (Keyakizaka46)
15. Kuroi hitsuji (Keyakizaka46)
16. Eccentric (Keyakizaka46)
17. Boku wa boku wo suki ni naru (Nogizaka46)
18. Kidzuitara kataomoi (Nogizaka46)
19. Sankaku no akichi (Nogizaka46)
20. Chinmoku shita koibito yo (Hiragana Keyakizaka46)
21. Natsu no hana wa himawari dake ja nai (Keyakizaka46)
22. My rule (Nogizaka46)
23. Naitatte ii ja nai ka? (Nogizaka46)
24. Dare ga sono kane wo narasu no ka? (Keyakizaka46)
25. Tsumetai mizu no naka (Nogizaka46)
26. Saisei suru saibou (Keyakizaka46)
27. Naimononedari (Nogizaka46)
28. Kanashimi no wasurekata (Nogizaka46)
29. Ichiban suki da to minna ni itte ita shousetsu no Title wo omoidasenai (Hinatazaka46)
30. Sukima (Nogizaka46)
31. Yukkuri to saku hana (Nogizaka46)
32. Kado wo magaru (Keyakizaka46)
33. Itsuka dekiru kara kyou dekiru (Nogizaka46)
34. Hane no kioku (Nogizaka46)
35. Kikkake (Nogizaka46)
36. Taiyou wa miageru hito wo erabanai (Keyakizaka46)
37. Soredemo aruiteru (Hiragana Keyakizaka46)
38. Nandome no aozora ka? (Nogizaka46)
39. Nando demo nando demo (Hinatazaka46)
40. NO WAR in the future (Hiragana Keyakizaka46)
41. Hiraishin (Keyakizaka46)
42. Sayonara no imi (Nogizaka46)
43. Ambivalent (Keyakizaka46)
44. Seishun no uma (Hinatazaka46)
45. Seifuku to taiyou (Keyakizaka46)
46. Sekaijuu no rinjin yo (Nogizaka46)

Book cover here: https://www.gentosha.jp/article/20497/

Spoiler: Random thoughts

• I'm guessing that the lyrics are arranged in thematic order, though I can't say how tightly or loosely (since I don't know every song here). We do get the canonically linked Getsuyoubi and SaiMajo together though.
• From 'Synchronicity' to 'Fukyouwaon' ... I see what you did there and I approve.
• Interesting that there are lots more Nogi B-sides than Nogi A-sides while the numbers of Keya A-sides and B-sides are more balanced.
• I wanted to say 'Ganbatte Yoshimotozaka (after your hibernation)' and 'Ganbatte Sakurazaka' but on second thought, if there's anyone who should work hard it's Aki-P himself. He wrote everything.
• Anyway, Otsukaresama deshita, Yasusu.

 

Oh, songs such as Futari Saison, Silent Majority, Seifuku to taiyou once lead me to become a 46G fan. To me it was unbelievable that all these great songs were written by just one man. Although I'm mostly a 48G fan today, I still love them so much.

 

For me, I remember being absolutely awed by Getsuyoubi no asa, Skirt wo kirareta (both the song, the lyrics and the performance) right from its first performance.
Hiraishin is another song I absolutely love and is some of the first lyrics I translated (though it might not have been a wise choice, the song's difficult for beginners lol).
Dare ga sono kane wo narasu no ka? is (in my opinion) very underappreciated in terms of lyrics; I wrote a mini-essay back then about how it complements/completes Silent Majority and is a wondrous choice for ending Keyakizaka (if it had to end; well, what's done is done now).
I'm less knowledgeable about the other Sakamichi groups' songs, but I like most of those that I know from the list. Maybe I'll take this list and listen to the those that I don't know. Good lyrics don't always guarantee a good song but it's a place to start. lol

 

Sorry for my random thought but, am I the only one who wants Yasusu to write or produce a song for a boy group idol? just a random Japanese boy group or the Korean one would be better too since many of them have debuted in Japan.

 

Akimoto sensei actually have created a new song for BTS. But because of some of their fans boycotted Aki-P (ofc it is because of politics and other nonsense), BTS and its company decided to cut ties with Aki-P and never released the song. Such an irony considering that Bang Shi Hyuk praised and high regarded Aki-P.

 

if the video does not show watch the video here
He did this. They are disbanded by the way.

 

he also suggested Sasshi to produce boy band, so this is definitely something that is on his mind

15:20-

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