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I'm confused. Which one is Yukirin? Can someone kindly post me a picture?

As for the Japanese recap

企画スタートは一年半ほど前
・大月が河森に「AKBでアニメを作りませんか」と話を持って行った
・その後2週間くらいして今の設定が書かれた企画書が上がって来た
・AKBという存在にこれだけ踏み込んだ設定なので「僕（大月）が責任を取ります」
　とスタッフに話して秋元に企画を見せに行った
・（秋元は）「襲名制というのがいい、これやろうと！」と二つ返事
・（秋元は）岡田さんの脚本を読んで「この脚本はすごい、
　自分はすごい脚本家といっぱい仕事をしてきたけど、この脚本家はそれを超えている」
・AKBは今の資本主義のリアリズム
・（AKBグループ内の）オーディションで「声優になりたかった」というメンバーが本当に多い
・声優になるためにAKBに入ったメンバーもいる
・選考では人気メンバーだからとかそういう裏交渉は全くなし

秋元インタビュー
・この企画に乗ったのは岡田磨里さんのすばらしさ
・初めてプロットを読んだ時も第一稿を読んだ時も、もうこの人だったら何やってもいい
　全部任せられると思った
・岡田さんは天才
・仕事柄膨大な数の脚本を読んできたけど、あそこまで上手く書ける人はいない
・岡田さんや河森さんに任せておけば問題ないと思った
・アニメの世界にAKBを渡すので好きになって下さいというコンセプト
・河森さんや岡田さんは「この人たちは本気だ」とすぐわかった
・アニメの話を頂いて一回会おうってなった時に（二人とも）語る語る
・（アニメの）仕事場で一日中（AKBを）流してるらしい
・福岡でやったHKT48の初日にわざわざ来てくれたので
　「この人たち本気だな」と感動して、お願いすることにした

Plans were started about a year and a half ago.
- Otsuki (I might have the name wrong) went to Kawamori asking him if he would make an anime with AKB as a part of it.
- About 2 weeks later the plans for the premise were completed.
- Otsuki said to the staff he would take responsibility for changing what everyone knows as AKB this much as he took the plan to Akimoto.
- Akimoto said two things. "I like the idea of succession, LET'S DO IT!"
- Akimoto also said. "This script by Okada is fantastic. I've worked with plenty of great script writers in my line of work, but this is clearly on a different level."
- They wanted to keep some aspects of the current AKB in the anime.
- There are many girls who say in their internal group auditions that they want to be a voice actor.
- There are members of AKB who joined specifically because they wanted to become a voice actor.
- There were no backroom deals to pick on the most popular members for roles in the anime.

Akimoto interview:
- The plan was completed thanks to the marvelous efforts of Okada Mari.
- When I (Akimoto) first read this plot, and from the very first draft, I was confident that I could leave this person in charge of everything.
- Okada is a genius
- I've read many many scripts on the job, but I've never seen something as great as this.
- I have no doubts leaving Okada and Kawamori in charge of this project.
- I'm handing AKB over to the anime world. I hope that more people will come to like AKB. (*sorry kind of confused by this line)
- It didn't take long for me to realize that Kawamori and Okada were very serious about this project.
- After accepting the job for this anime, Kawamori and Okada were deep in discussion from the first meeting.
- I heard that they played AKB songs for the whole day at the production work place.
- Kawamori and Okada showed up for the HKT48 debut day in Fukuoka. I was moved by their sincerity and I decided then to entrust this project to them.