AKB48

AKB48‘s 37th single Kokoro no Placard  will be released on August 27. The short version of the MV and the covers have been unveiled. The center is Watanabe Mayu who won the AKB48 37th Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo election. AKB48 Team 8′s first original song 47 no Suteki na Machi e will be on this single. [more...]

On Saturday June 7th, 2013, AKB48 held the 37th Single Senbatsu General Election at Stadion Ajimoto. For the election this year, 296 members from AKB48 and sister group announce their election (AKB48: 126 member, SKE48: 59 member, NMB48: 62 member, HKT48: 46 member, JKT48: 1 member, SNH48: 2 member), and 80 top member will be [more...]

On April 24 the first of AKB48‘s new teams started its new stage: Team 4 performed the shonichi show of [Idol no Yoake], Team B’s 4th stage. It was also redone before by AKB48’s Kenkyuusei and by Team M. The new Team 4 is quite large with 23 members which meant that 7 members could not perform the [more...]

In November last year the AKB48 Group announced that they will introduce a new event, the AKB48 Group Pennant Race. And recently, April 22nd, AKB48 revealed the details on their pennant race ‘AKB48 Group Pennant Race ~AKB48 Group wa Kisoiatte Migakareru~’. The team shuffle, which was announced back in February, went into effect on April 22nd with NMB48’s new Team BII’s ‘Saka [more...]

On April 14, only one day after Kikuchi Ayaka had announced her graduation, Katayama Haruka did so as well. She wants to become a musical actress. Her last handshake event will be on September 23, the same day as Kikuchi Ayaka’s last one. Her graduation show has not been decided yet but it is planned for the time after that handshake event. [more...]

On April 13, AKB48 member Kikuchi Ayaka announced her graduation. She wants to pursue a career in fashion. Her graduation show will be Team A’s Senshuuraku on April 21 but she will continue to participate at handshake events until September 23. Kikuchi Ayaka first joined AKB48 in late 2006 as part of the 3rd Generation and became an original Team B member but had to leave [more...]

At Team B’s theater show on April 14, two new AKB48 members were revealed. Taniguchi Megu and Ino Masashi* who were tentative Kenkyuusei appeared as backdancers at the show and were promoted to full Kenkyuusei status. They are officially part of the 15th Generation. Something like this happened before: Okawa Rio and Tatsuya Makiho started as tentative Kenkyuusei too and were then promoted to 15th [more...]

AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 200 2014 (AKB48リクエストアワー　セットリストベスト200　2014) was held on January 23-26 at Tokyo Dome City Hall, and on April 6 at Saitama Super Arena. Minegishi Team 4′s Seijun Philosophy (清純フィロソフィー) was ranked 1st. Suzukake Nanchara (鈴懸なんちゃら) and Koi Suru Fortune Cookie (恋するフォーチュンクッキー) reached the 2nd and 3rd position. Check out the full results.   AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 200 2014 has [more...]