The AKB48 Group Thread

[Melina]

HKT has a new TV show called Chou Kagaku Idol Media HKTV!
So far 2 episodes have aired and both of them got subbed, here are streaming links!

 

[Stan BiSH]

meeting between Yuki Kashiwagi, Shizuka Oya and BiSH's Chittiii

 

[Stan BiSH]

BiSH x Yuki Kashiwagi - BAD TEMPER

 

[Stan BiSH]

BiSH were the first ones, the others are going to be publish in the next days / weeks

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Yuki Kashiwagi + all groups got new uniforms! they also unveiled the cover of their singles

EMPiRE x Yuki Kashiwagi

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MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN x Yuki Kashiwagi

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GO TO THE BEDS x Yuki Kashiwagi

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BiS x Yuki Kashiwagi

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ASP x Yuki Kashiwagi

(No single cover yet)

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PARADISES x Yuki Kashiwagi

Spoiler: Twitter links

 

[Stan BiSH]

"BAD TEMPER" is basically a BiSH song, the collab it's going to be Yuki Kashiwagi trying to be like any other member of each group,
since there are huge differences between the concepts of the groups is going to be fun watching Yuki try her hand at them

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going from the group pictures above, which one looks more interesting to fans of Yuki Kashiwagi?

i think she looks pretty good with EMPiRE (although they forgot to tell YK to put a bad bitch face), they are a EDM+Girl crush group and the best dancers of Wack, YK said that she was worried because she didn't know if she could keep it with the choreography, sounds like it's going to be a good challenge

something like this would be fun




i think this collab is the one i'm looking forward the most


i'm also interested in the collab with PARADISES, from all the groups they are by far the most similar to AKB, that's the one i hope it's the least like a Wack single, i think it would be a good idea to let YK have creative control




that said that giant cucumber song is probably going to take the spotlight

they could do something cute like this




but since it's going to be Kuro chan handling the production the single it's going to end like this (he is the blue dude...)

 

[Stan BiSH]

Yuki Kashiwagi x EMPiRE - Jikan ga Tarinai​

the scenes of the girl and the family were inspired by Yuki Kashiwagi's childhood

🍭 柏木由紀、「柏木由紀なりのEMPiRE -時間が足りない-」MV公開「不思議なMVに仕上がってます！」 - Pop'n'Roll(ポップンロール)

柏木由紀が、「柏木由紀なりのEMPiRE -時間が足りない-」のMVを公開した。

popnroll.tv

 

[Stan BiSH]

Yuki Kashiwagi x BiS - "ANYTiME ANYTHiNG"​

Yuki Kashiwagi says it literally took her 1 second to record her part in the video

 

[Stan BiSH]

Yuki Kashiwagi x MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN - Zutto Kininaru Zucchini​

 

[Stan BiSH]

Yuki Kashiwagi x GO TO THE BEDS - "TRUE SONG"​

Metal Yuki Kashiwagi!

 

[abra]

omg

 

[Melina]

AKB performed Ne mo Ha mo Rumor today at Best Hits Kayousai




NMB also performed, it's a new song and center is Shibuya Nagisa!

 

[Stan BiSH]

Yuki Kashiwagi x PARADISES - Natsu no Bakayarou​

unexpected coming from PARADISES

apparently the shooting was really complex because of the precise camera placing,
Yuki Kashiwagi thought the song was about a boy's unrequited love but Watanabe who wrote the song says it is from the point of view of a stalker



in any case only the ASP's single is left

 

[Stan BiSH]

Yuki Kashiwagi x ASP - "AGAiNST THE WORLD"​

final single from Yuki Kashiwagi's collab with Wack! all singles go out on November 30, on December 26th she is going to hold a concert Kashiwagi Yuki Nari no WACK EXHiBiTiON AND SELECT 7 at the Tokyo city hall along all the groups from Wack

during the concert they are going to announce the results of VOTE! WACK SELECT 7, a AKB48 style election, each copy of each single from the collab awards you the right to vote for a member, the 7 most voted members are going to become part of a new group produced by Yuki Kashiwagi

it's also ASP's Nayu final release with the group, on November 24th she is going to graduate both as a member of the group and as an idol, this is due to a leg injure

Yuki Kashiwagi says this is a concept she has never experienced before, she also stated that the director of the video Hiroshi Shinagawa is the best she has ever worked with, he was really nice to her and also taught her how to ride a motorcycle, properly hold a gun, etc

https://popnroll.tv/articles/21528

 

[abra]

front row seat at the NMB insurrection

 

[Melina]

HKT48's Unjo Hirona (Nappi) will release her first photobook! The concept film:

 

[Stan BiSH]

AKB48 has made available full versions of over 200+ of their MVs, they are available on their Youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/akb48/videos

...someone had to spend who knows how much time searching and uploading DAYS worth of videos

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the vote to pick the members of WACK's new unit (produced by Yuki Kashiwagi) has started

preliminary results (for the first day)



1st Usagi Tsukino (PARADISES)
2nd Miki (GTTB)
3rd Yua (GTTB)
4th Yumeka (ASP)
5th Terashima Yuka (PARADISES)
6th Coco (GTTB)
7th Momoko (BiSH)

pretty unexpected results so far

also in Yuki's channel the groups from WACK posted speeches appealing for votes (most just took the chance to basically shitpost)

Spoiler: speeches

BiSH members




EMPiRE members




MAMESHIBA members




BiS members




PARADISES members




GO TO THE BEDS members




ASP members

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Yuki Kashiwagi and WACK are holding a promotional campaign at TOWER RECORDS, it's going to last for most of December



here with Watanabe and members of EMPiRE






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also the other WACK collab, MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN held their concerts with STU48 and IxR, the next date is going to be with Coming Flavor

 

[Stan BiSH]

art


they announced the winners of Yuki Kashiwagi's "VOTE! WACK SELECT 7"

but before that, WACK's CEO Watanabe rigged the election, the night prior to the deadline he brought 10,000 singles and secretly gave the votes to a member



results



#1 Yui ga Dockson - GO TO THE BEDS (she received the 10,000 votes from Watanabe)
#2 Usagi Tsukino - PARADISES
#3 Terashima Yuka - PARADISES
#4 Hashiyasume Atsuko - BiSH
#5 Yamamishi Miki - GO TO THE BEDS
#6 Yumeno Yua - GO TO THE BEDS
#7 Cent Chihiro Chittiii - BiSH

full list



they are going to debut in a new group produced and managed by Yuki Kashiwagi, Yuki is also going to become a member of the unit

it was announced that a 2nd unit "WACK's Kuso / shitty unit" is also going to be created, is composed of members that failed to make it to the top 20, they are going to perform the B side song in the WACK7's debut single

 

[Melina]

AKB uploaded the full music videos of all their b-sides, check their channel!
This is for their upcoming RH that will happen in February. It's a special "coupling songs" RH!
The amount of views in the music videos will count in the final ranking for the RH.

The song that I recommend:

 

[Melina]

Kato Rena announced her graduation in mid-December. She will graduate in February.



Translation:



They did a whole live stream about Renacchi's career before her announcement, here:

 

[abra]

Cocona announced her graduation




sad
NMB can't catch a break