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While the DVD sale is only 1,964 unit, the BD sales is pretty high at 5,345. A sign that the hardcore anime fans are supporting it and is a better indicator anyway for non-casual (daytime) titles. winhlp32 made a list in DVD/BD thread on volume 1 sales of this season's anime and it is currently at #3 spot, and only behind #1 Hyouka with 500 combine units and #2 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san released a week earlier on 6/22. And all this is done in a less than ideal airing situation with weird choice of stations. So I won't say the chance is bad, yet.... EDIT: Personally, I think that decision might come down to how No Name's CD do in Aug. With Mayuyu (2012 rank: 2) heading the group with Sato Amina (21) and popular SKE members Hata Sawako (25) and Yagami Kumi (28). If that CD does the usual 48 sub-groups number at 100,000 units it might change everything. Besides, the timing of release of August intrigues me, because it ties into the Fall season pretty nicely and it's sort of a down time of the year as far as group activity goes for 48-groups. Quote:
@kenjiharima: Just to clear something up, Sashihara don't have a boyfriend "now". The scandal from that tabloid magazine was about what happens over 3 years ago between the time she was a trainee and just got promote as regular member. (also a time where AKB is in trouble and in danger of disband) The story has a lot of holes in continuity and the photos they used are ambiguous at best for what they try to claim. Sashihara's claim was that he was just a friend that was introduced by a common friend. The general consensus is as usual somewhere in the middle that they did briefly date and had a relation but is over. If she has boyfriend "now", demoting to HKT is the last thing that would happen and she would be gone from the group.
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2012-07-04, 08:59 | Link #1943 |
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Well, it's practically confirmed now that Tsubasa was Mariko-sama, and that something strange happened to the Center Novae, which resulted in all of them save Miichan vanishing in light.
Kinda like what happened to Shin Kudo at the end of Macross Zero... ...so Kirara are living organic natural fold quartz?
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2012-07-04, 09:12 | Link #1945 |
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Kirara is an organic power source but there still need more explaination about how the Kirara work for the idol.
After watching this episode, the question about why the Kirara shine when it is with Chieri and Nagisa is because the bond the two have. If we look at the 2 of them, they are similar with Acchan and mariko, 2 very close friends. My guess is every Center Nova need a very close friend to make them shine even more. That happen to Acchan and possibly the same for Nagisa as well. Yuuko on the other hand is a loner, all she cares is just her dream and that could be the possible reason why she could not be a Center Nova. |
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2012-07-04, 10:36 | Link #1950 | ||
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To get an insight on disk sales, somewhere before in this thread SeijiSensei posted this article about sales numbers. According to it AKB0048 would be around this: Quote:
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Nothing to do with current story in this episode, but, I skipped episode 9 last week because stuff came up and ends up watching ep 10 on Sunday. Didn't really noticed it until now so I re-watched ep 9.
WHAT AN AWESOME EPISODE!!!!! The fact that both Heart Gata Virus and River are in it and both pretty much in it full version made my day. River is one of my top 5 if not top 3 AKB single and Heart Gata Virus is one of my favorite stage unit songs. Now if Takamina would do Bird in this show.... (Aishisa no Accel would work to.) Heart Gata Virus is one of my favorite stage unit song. Which reminds me, AKB's 2-5 man stage unit songs and team songs are almost all guarantee awesome. Though for Heart Gata, my farotie rendition is still the original with Kojiharu, Maimai, and CEO(Kawasaki Nozomi). This song is tailor made for them and completely take full use of their personality, voice, and looks. It is the only version I like even more than the No3b version despite the sub-unit is by far my favorite of AKB sub-group and all five members were 1st-gen members. It would also be great if Nagisa x Chieri would perform either yuri songs, "Kinji Rareta Ni-rin" (Forbidden Couple) or "Oshibe Tomeshibe to Yoru no ChoCho"(Male and Female Butterflies of the Night). Though both would probably be too much for anime. I'll be find with a A-chan performed Black Angel or a 5-man Shinkiro. Back to ep9 and 10 though: If it wasn't because there is only 3 episode left, I would have bid there are two more type with spade shapes and spade shapes. But I agree with most that heart shape now seem to denote idol potential/desire while diamond shape denotes those who lost it. The question here is like some mentioned before, are they visible to characters in series, if so are they caused by Kiraras? BTW, for those who are interested in the songs I mentioned, I'll post links on the AKB thread in music section for you...
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Still, this was pretty cheap so it may have been a sales factor...
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2012-07-04, 13:42 | Link #1953 | |
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or it could just be another of Kawamori's random pet like Shush in Aquarion. Mayuyu/Chieri duo slay as expected. And Acchan 3rd despite not even in the show except for the first 5 min of first ep
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I think the reason the relationship between Acchan and Mariko was highlighted was to establish that despite the risks Tsubasa might be willing to bring back the Center position to find out what happened to Acchan.
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So, how many eps again that this season will have with only 5 BD's being released by them(just recently browse it), 12? I kind of lazy to browse the previous pages since there's so many of them. I just hope the ending of this season is kind of conclusive but still has the continuity path to the next season.
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2012-07-04, 18:00 | Link #1956 | |
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BTW, I'll want to see offtakes or crossover gags like this:
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Maybe in Chieri and Nagisa case, it's because they're not as experienced as Acchan? Or maybe because both of them are missing things that the other have.
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But a 2nd season is possible. They probably split up 2 cour to test to see how the anime go, as well as schedule conflicts since AKB girls are really busy especially in August and Watanabe Mayu's solo works so they don't have time to record 26 ep in one go.
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