That magic attack hair ribbon is my favorite of their weapons so far.
Any theories about why no one, particularly Crunchyroll, chose to license
AKB0048? A couple of
news reports about their US concert tour suggests they have a reasonably large following over here. Maybe AKB's management demanded too high a licensing fee?
Rather surprisingly, the first episode is up on
YouTube with translations in multiple languages. Given how often anime gets removed from YouTube over infringement, I'm surprised these videos have yet to receive take-down requests. Even more, it's often the Japanese music rights holders that submit these requests, making their apparent benign acceptance of
AKB0048's carriage even more puzzling.