2012-11-03, 23:05 | Link #242 |
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The huge eyebrows were the giveaway.
It's been months since the last post so... * SKE's Kumi Yagami (yes, she is Sonata) unexpectedly declared her intent to graduate anytime next year (hopefully to finish her seiyuu work, she plans to leave the entertainment scene for a while); later she made a formal announcement during a handshake event. * After a big send-off, four AKB members have been transferred to Jakarta and Shanghai for a six-month/1 year long cultural exchange program. * More graduations or resignations this year than any other. * RS/KKS Kaoru Mitsumune resigns due to recurring unspecified illness. * Despite low initial sales, UZA hits the 1-million mark after 2 days. * All AKB teams reshuffled after November 1, with the complete dissolution of Team 4, the inclusion of members from sister groups, and promotion of several research students. * And of course, Wreck-it Ralph.
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2012-11-18, 02:09 | Link #244 |
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Disbanded completely to pave the way for the major reshuffle of the other three teams, with each having 16 members (including each team having a member from a sister group), and at the same time absorbing the membership of what was left of the defunct Team 4.
Team 4 couldn't get as much status as the older but popular 3 teams, and worsened by some problems with leadership, which translates to less popularity and/or reduced earnings, so to end the confusion 4 had to go.
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2012-11-19, 02:28 | Link #246 |
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Actually there is no set number of limit on the number of members anymore.
Team A and K currently have 22 while B has 23 with members rotating for stage performances. (16 per performance) The popular theory (and I agree) is that each team will eventually have 24 per team which was the original blueprint when the groups started. (Original plan was 2 teams of 24, but that changed midway when they recruited 3rd gen members and became 3x16 and eventually 4x16)
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Guess the AKB management has taken it too far. Shaving a girl head as a punishment is too much. |
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As it is the practice of Japanese to admit guilt, it was her personal decision to to have her head shaved off, and management didn't told her to do so.
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Japanese value reputation very much, trust is a rare quantity, and if either of them are broken, they have to personally pay for it; appearing personally, they apologize publicly and profusely. It doesn't matter if it's a high school teacher, a cop, the heads running Tepco, or the past prime ministers before Shinzo Abe.
As much as outsiders -- especially Westerners who aren't used to the whole idol thing -- want the system changed, it's a damn dog's chance in hell. Frankly it takes a through understanding of the Japanese culture -- and without the Western politically-correct goggles -- in order to see how that system works. Sure, in k-pop, dating is allowed in some performing groups, but the fandom is far worse. Let's bring up theater manager Togasaki: Quote:
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2013-02-01, 02:16 | Link #255 |
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Goddamn, you still think the idol industry is like the Yakuza? Hey, they're getting paid well, they have their perks (not everyone gets to be an idol and the selection process is difficult), and yes sometimes they do have lapse of judgment, but this young woman had the balls to apologize in public in this unusual way; she's not Kim Kardashian.
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http://www.nikkansports.com/entertai...1-1079586.html
http://www.nihonbeat.com/2013/02/01/...mi-graduation/ Another big news regarding Tomochin.
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2013-02-01, 17:52 | Link #259 |
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Well, in the show must go on documentary, during a scene in backstage, you can hear staff trying to convince Acchan to go on stage even though she's hyperventilating. Afterwards, Takamina tells a interviewer that Acchan went on stage by her own accord while the staff suggested she shouldn't.
Was Takamin lying? I don't think so. She probably didn't really know what Acchan was told at the moment, and Acchan probably did say that it was her decision (and it probably was, but it doesn't change the fact that she was encouraged to do it by management first!!). At any rate, this shows that what SaintessHeart said does happen, so even if it was Miichan decision to shave her head, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that she was following a "suggestion" from management. That's how AKB works after all.
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Do you think a girl, without any influence, will shave her head bald? Sorry, but i am on SaintessHearts side. I dont believe that she did it on her own. Yes, maybe no one is forcing her to. But what if someone influence her? No one can tell right now except the staff and herself. And the video itself is unappropriate. |
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