2013-01-13, 11:34 | Link #2903 |
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AKB0048 15 - Live Across the Galaxy (Some Delays May Be Experienced)
Most of what I know about Japanese variety shows comes from anime. And even in the far of future world of 0048, they appear to be just as they are in the modern day. Full of large text overlays, possibly humiliating tests and a wild audience. So it made for a fun episode. Sonata seems to be the most suited to a variety show, while Makoto's "reaction technique" running gag only got funnier as the episode went along. Chieri was separated from the group for a long time, so I wonder if that explains her low ranking. She works best when she's with Nagisa, or something like that. Mimori stole the show in the two scenes she was in. The pudding and the dodgeball game both looked very exciting. Sexy exciting. A nice chance to get some breathing room after last week, but it also continued a bit of the tension that the last episode built up there at the end. Gonna need a few weeks to adjust to the new opening and ending. They're both fine songs, but the catchiness of the front half's themes are still in my head. |
2013-01-13, 11:49 | Link #2905 |
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I was under the impression 9th was a bad thing (out of 10, 9 seems like a pretty low number.) But thank you for the correction. I knew everyone had fallen silent in shock, I just wasn't sure if that was good or bad shock.
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2013-01-13, 12:01 | Link #2906 |
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I'll be disappointed if this season continues to put fanservice ahead of the story as the first couple of episodes have done. The plot developments are interesting ones, but they get easily lost amidst the array of T&A that seems to be the focus of this season so far. For me, at least, cute girls busting out of their clothes has less appeal than a good story.
Any opinions on why Chieri chose to use a picture of herself with such a sour expression for her poster? I expect Tsubasa/Mariko-sama will soon put two and two together once she thinks about who Chieri's father is. Photographer-san already made the point about corporate backing. Surely it shouldn't be all that hard to guess which corporation might be involved.
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2013-01-13, 12:12 | Link #2907 |
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Well, even if they knew, I don't know what they could do about it. Even if the sponsor is Zodiac, as long as they don't breach whatever contract they have going on, there shouldn't be any problems. Of course, Zodiac has some evil designs for Chieri but I don't see how Tsubasa would learn about that.
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2013-01-13, 12:42 | Link #2908 |
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To also put it in context, with 18 successors and 16 kenkyusei at least competing, this means Chieri, still a kenkyusei, was able to get ahead fo at least 10 successors and likely her fellow 15 kenkyusei.
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2013-01-13, 13:05 | Link #2910 |
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Mariko was announcing the Top 10, but the election covers everyone in the group. Assuming they have three full teams (even though we've only really seen one) plus two full generations of understudies and Kanade and Mimori, that's about 70 to 80 people. And since the top 12(? 16?) get a spot on the next single, Chieri's rank counts as a win.
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2013-01-13, 14:37 | Link #2912 |
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It took me a re-watch to understand everyone's reaction at the end was more of a "holy crap, already made it?" than "only 9th?" thing. Blame is probably on me and all others who got it wrong, though, for not being strong enough with their AKB-fu.
Also, I have to be the biggest moron in this thread. How did it take me so long to notice Chieri's kirara has her ponytail? Also, the little squeaks the kiraras make are their respective girl's name Anyway, back to the episode. PHEROMONES! Spoiler for Ep 15:
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"9th place...is that good? Bad?"
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I too was unclear on whether the reaction was supposed to be positive or negative to Chieri's ranking. Initially I thought 9th would be good. I mean, she's still a trainee and she's beating out successors in the rankings. But the long pause and looks of shock with no smiles made me wonder if maybe it was supposed to be bad instead. Oh, and Chieri's father smiles too much. I really hate those villains who always have that damned confident smile on their freaking faces. It makes me want to rip their mouths completely off their faces so they can't smile any more. Other than that, this was a lovely episode. Lots of nice reactions from the girls, poor Makoto having her issues as usual and getting her popularity because of how clearly legitimate and real she is, Nagisa's moping making me want to take her by the shoulders and shake her a bit, and Chieri's uncertainty making me want to hug her. I have to agree with Nagisa, Chieri looks magificent when she's dancing. That's where she's meant to be, and what she's meant to be doing. Chieri at her Chieriest, to paraphrase someone else.
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2013-01-13, 18:17 | Link #2917 |
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As an aside, it looks like Crunchyroll went full retard with the songs in their translation of episode 1 of Next Stage. Complete official lyrics for three of the four songs in that episode can be found in two seconds through Google... so why did the translator decide to do them by ear?
I only checked Pioneer, but there were laughable mistakes such as mishearing 都会 as 世界 or mistaking 初のトライ for 明日のトライ. They must have secured the rights to the songs, so why didn't someone think to use the official lyrics? Concerning the Kiraras, I believe Kakazu Yumi (the voice of Tsubasa and the Kirara) confirmed at one point that the Kiraras say the name of their associated member. You can pretty clearly hear Mimori's going "mimori mi~" this episode; same with Chieri's. Pay attention to the scene where she goes onstage to do impressions. "Chieri ri~"
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That part when she's alone with Nagisa and goes "you really think so?". THAT FACE. I think she would also like to sing, man. |
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The translator must be tone-deaf.
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Well, you know. Dance, sing, etc. Perform.
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