This is a big success for someone like Akari. If say, Kojiharu sold this much then yea not the best, but since this is Akari's first photobook-anything it's quite good. Also, make-up/style-books don't actually sell that well in general, so this is a big success in general. And she did announce another one is coming so looks like the management see's her as a big potential to reach all the young women out there (and men too).
It appears our girl is getting into fashion, as well as make-up. Akari looks adorable as she models several different outfits and accessories in her newest YouTube video.
If I'm reading these figures correctly, it appears Akari's book is still selling quite well---- 2,960 copies last week, which gets her to 30,304 in just 5 weeks.
Another 2,664 copies sold last week. Through six weeks, the total comes to 32,968. Tomochin's photo book's opening week was 5,000+ compared to Akari's 17,000+ in her first week. (Having said that, Tomochin looks absolutely fantastic these days.)
Let's wrap up! Code: ┌────────────┬────────┬────┬─────────┐ │ date │ sales │ PB │ fashion │ ├────────────┼────────┼────┼─────────┤ │ 2017-07-31 │ 17145 │ 1 │ 1 │ │ 2017-08-07 │ 4531 │ 3 │ 4 │ │ 2017-08-14 │ 2256 │ 5 │ 9 │ │ 2017-08-21 │ 3412 │ 4 │ 6 │ │ 2017-08-28 │ 2960 │ 4 │ 4 │ │ 2017-09-04 │ 2664 │ 4 │ 9 │ │ 2017-09-11 │ 2341 │ 7 │ - │ ├────────────┼────────┼────┼─────────┤ │ total │ 35309 │ 1 │ 1 │ └────────────┴────────┴────┴─────────┘ 17145 + 4531 + 2256 + 3412 + 2960 + 2664 + 2341 Not that really slowing down for an idol good... --- She is on cover with Mirurun: Young Magazine 2017.09.18 No.40 is not going to be for me, too hard to get...
Akari oozes with confidence at Kansai Collection fashion show. Most girls who walked the runway are sousenkyo elected members, Mayu, Ogui Yui, Serika, Shiroma to name a few. vid no longer available.
Since she was the last girl to walk the runway, she got, by far, the most camera time. The last minute plus was all Akari. And you're right, she looks like she's been doing it for years.
Thanks to everyone who's posted this video. I can't get enough of it. I think I've watched it two dozen times already.
Another news about photobook: 7th place in photobooks with 2341 copies and total 35309. Unranked in fashion - over thousand copies more would have been necessary. http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/obp/w/2017-09-11/ Table with sales in post above updated.
I crunched some numbers, but have absolutely no idea what they mean. (I used U.S. dollars). If each book is selling for $14.88, 35,300 books means a little over $525,000 generated by the sales of Akari's photo book. Anybody want to hazard a guess as to how much of that amount goes to the lovely author? A quarter? 10%? I wouldn't even pretend to have the slightest idea about Japanese book sales. (In the U.S. a first time author usually gets zero in advance and 10% of the proceeds which is doled out quarterly.) Thanks in advance for any and all opinions.
tbh nobody really knows unless they're in the business. It's really hush-hush over in Japan's entertainment business how much they make. It's safe to assume she made a good chunk of that money since photobooks are divided up a lot more differently than other idol-goods. The author/photographer probably makes around what u assume; maybe even more, but not a shit ton. Another good chunk would go to her company/the distributor/the retailers for putting her book out. Then u gotta divide money for clothes and makeup and other stuff like the props/sets/lighting/crew. In Hello Project they do stuff a little more frugal lol. I only know this cause I've seen so many like Backstage vids and other personal vids from the women, but it's like the company pays for the photographer/their destinations (nowhere crazy...like Okinawa is the furthest they send them lol)/the clothes/makeup, and it's really personal. It's not like a fancy studio or anything. It's like taking pics at the park or taking pics at the beach (free area's mostly lol). It's cheaper in the end so the dividing up of money is a lot more "reasonable" I'd imagine. Akari's stylebook was a lot more professionally done (a lot of AKB+sister groups photobooks are). Atsuko's last real photobook was like 1-week in Paris. It was like half a vacation and half work. And she had a whole mini crew with her. But it's safe to assume everyone got paid pretty well with this stylebook. Enough to warrant another one lol~ Maybe not the same photographer tho cause they rarely do the same one twice in a row.
One thing is how much of that cash makes to the publisher - here in Poland that can be as low as half of the price... That has to cover printing, publisher's costs/interest and only the rest goes to the author (in Akari's case agency likely gets a cut from her part as another step down the ladder, not to say that we don't know which side is paying for the staff like photographers).
I'ts great news management still consider her a senbatsu member outsidde the ssk senbatsu single which is determined only by fans.
Management has to be impressed with that runway appearance a few days ago. I thought it was really stellar. Konno A. mentioned how confident she looked that evening---like she absolutely belonged up there with Mayuyu and the rest. So true. Our girl has come a long way in what seems like the blink of an eye.
i think the success of her pb had a lot to do with her being picked 4 senbatsus in a row wow GO AKARIN!
An update about Twitter, following this post. Akari has started this month with 463 thousands of followers, what is an increase of around 40 thousands - almost constant growth over past months, so by end of this month she might pass half a million. Complete list of changes has been included. Spoiler: Changes in followers of _yoshida_akari 2016-03-01 222613 2016-04-01 227298 2016-05-01 230619 2016-06-01 233964 2016-07-03 237875 2016-08-01 243785 2016-09-01 249838 2016-10-01 253940 2016-11-03 258754 2016-12-01 264016 2017-01-01 275805 2017-01-31 290284 2017-03-01 300920 2017-04-01 310776 2017-05-01 321531 2017-06-01 330307 2017-06-16 335944 2017-07-02 377449 2017-08-05 425699 2017-09-01 463601