2012-08-03, 17:39 | Link #2502 |
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I guess, but she did get a lot of popularity out of it. Considering that she really don't have that idol-look nor feel to her, and age isn't on her side as well, the gorilla-chara sort of extended her idol career and also allows her to be used in variety shows. Without that, she might not even be able to crack into that 2nd-tier members group in AKB, as sad as it sounds...
Though, "Uhho-Uhhoho" is a pretty great song. BTW: Found the full Live MV, about 5:30 long, quality isn't super great, but it'll do. I did pre-order Type A through HMV but it was in the same order as my 1830m pre-order so I'll still got a few week to wait... Personally I wish the anime version was given as much care as this one.
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2012-08-03, 17:49 | Link #2503 | |
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2012-08-03, 20:05 | Link #2504 | |
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2012-08-03, 20:53 | Link #2505 |
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Yeah, she got more of a diva (no pun intended) look than your traditional idol. She is also extremely athletic with a fit body (she, Yuo along with a few other members even went through Korean Special Force boot camp as part of a variety special). That's is how she got the gorilla nickname. (That and from a certain angle and expression her face does look a bit monkey-ish.)
But she can be very girl like. She mentioned openly that she rather been called cute than beautiful or cool, for a while she spend over 20,000 yen (about $250) every month on fashion magazines. (She was consider among core members who are not fashionable along with Takamina, Yukirin, Sae, and Yokoyama Yui) Incidentally, also due to their kind personality, she, Sae and Takamina are the three girls in the group that often being treated as boys with plenty of members (AKB or sister groups) openly mentioned that if they were men, they'd be ideal boyfriend/husbands. (Which adds the yuri points for the group...)
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2012-08-03, 21:33 | Link #2506 | |
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2012-08-04, 09:48 | Link #2507 |
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Okay... some new content on the site:
* Three books (I think they're more like "mooks") and what looked to be Guardian Angel posters. * Some updates on the character list.
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2012-08-04, 10:42 | Link #2508 |
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I think these are going to be released at Comiket 82.
http://akb0048.jp/news/ Chieri and Mayuyu. Why it doesn't surprise me? EDIT: actually it seems they're covering Chieri and Mayuyu MK3 because they were the winners on the handshake poll. btw Chieri looks beautiful on that cover!! I hope we'll get scans of at least this one. It's 30 pages of Chieri goodness. EDIT2: samples: http://www.satelight.co.jp/news/cate...ost_002255.php Now I'm drooling all over my keyboard. XDD Chieri~~~~
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2012-08-04, 15:54 | Link #2511 | |
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2012-08-05, 22:47 | Link #2512 |
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With the recent announcement of an upcoming dating simulator, it makes me wonder if -- for this show -- there's also a similar game in the works. No surprises if most will want to date Chieri.
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2012-08-05, 22:59 | Link #2513 | |
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2012-08-06, 00:09 | Link #2514 | |
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2012-08-06, 14:18 | Link #2515 |
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It's Limited Edition of the game. It's was a similar bundle to the past two AKB games. For the last game, AKB 1/48+10 Idol to Guam de Koi Shitara, it featured:
10 photos, 48-posters, UMD video of unused footage (117mins), 4-behind the scene DVD set, a 90mins Team 4 special DVD to promote Team 4, voucher for 48 custom PSP themes, and finally a BD disc with the endings from the first AKB 1/48 game. It costs about $160 (after conversion), but was a monster box. You can probably still find that for about $100-150 online or ebay. That being said it was fairly usual for high profile game in Japan to have limited edition boxes. The differences is that compare to U.S., Japan's LE Box are usually MUCH more amazing.
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2012-08-06, 15:58 | Link #2516 | |
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2012-08-08, 07:04 | Link #2518 | |
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Sales data? Came from here by way of Yaraon, but it's a week ago.
Once again a mutual friend did an analysis of the figures and here's his assessment: http://stage48.net/forum/viewtopic.p...585851#p585043 Quote:
---- As for the single, NO NAME's debut release as a sub-unit comes at a respectable number three (46,598 copies), with SMAP's Moment (in the #1 slot with 136,727 copies; they're kind of AKB's "elder uncles" in their profession, if you're going to ask me) and Nana Mizuki's Bright Stream (#2 slot with 75,379 copies; she's a goddess among some of AKB's anime fans, including Mayuyu) just ahead of them. For more info: http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2012-08-13/
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2012-08-17, 22:22 | Link #2520 |
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I am Legend. Got the idea of making this set of 'Chops after reading Maeda's blog entry (she talked about her impending departure from the group, which will happen about a week from now).
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