AKB48 Question & Answer

Eh? Which girls have strabismus?

 

For example Ogino Yuka and Kojima Mako

 

Strabismus is when the 2 eyeballs don't point in the same direction at the object the person is trying to look at. Mako and Ogiyuka do not have strabismus, it just looks that way due to their epicanthic folds (which many east asian people have). If you look at close up pics of their faces, the directions of their pupils are lined up just fine. Here, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudostrabismus

 

Tzatziki, thanks for explanation!!

 

The only girl that I can remember that really looked strabic was Yagami Kumi.

 

I caught up with every 46 related so now I'm at 3-4 episodes a week which is meagre.

How do I get into akb48, what show do I watch first?
I'm also interested in the other 48 groups if they are good at variety, that's mainly what I enjoy about this.

 

The best AKB48 show is Akbingo. Here is a list of all the subbed episodes (I hope it is allowed to post the link).

Here are the other shows, though I'm not sure how updated the link is. Personally, I really enjoy SKE48 Ebi series (Ebi Friday Night, Ebisho, Ebi Calcio), though the show stopped running a few years ago, so it's all old episodes.

 

I'd definitely recommend AKBINGO as well.
As for other groups, I didn't watch all of it but HKT48 no Odekake is very good.

 

AKB AKBINGO, SKE Ebi series, NMB Geinin, HKT Odekake, NGT Niigata Furendo, STU Setobingo, Team 8 Bunbun Eito are the fundamentals for every group and they are all excellent in a completely different way

 

I would also echo AKBINGO as a great familiarizing tool for AKB (and sometimes other groups when they come on as guests). AKB SHOW is also pretty good for skits and performance features. Though the Tentoumuchu subunit is no longer functional, their one-season variety show "Tentoumuchu no sekai wo muchuu ni sasemasu sengen" was amazing and nearly all of the members are still around. I highly recommend it if you like variety.

My favorite HKT show was Hyakkaten, and fortunately many of the featured members from the first and second seasons are still in the group so that's a great show for familiarizing yourself with HKT.

Unfortunately for SKE, the Ebi series (their best show) features a lot of members who are no longer in the group. But it's still entertaining.

 

thanks for all the helpful answers! Noted them all down in my notepad.

 

I've been wondering for a while, but how do you guys keep updated with the latest news?
Especially when it comes to 48G in general.

 

Hi. Is someone here good at SDN48? They were about to disband when I come here so I have very hard to recognise them. I'm updating me own page about Revival Concert 2011 with names and other stuff. Now I'm stuck at Awajishima no Tamanegi. Who's performing it at that concert? What I think I have found so far is: Nachu, Kaida, Okouchi, Hosoda, ?, Oyama, Aikawa, ?, Imayoshi, ?. Am I right? 3 questionmarks as you can see. Somebody knows them? I also want them in the order they stand at the start.

 

@Cristafari The lineup was close but there are changes. Akiko was missing at the concert so she must be replaced by someone and so on. Some of the members are easy to recognise like Kaida Juri but other are more difficult. If I have the lineup it's more easy to watch them during the performance.

Edit: I can produce scans if it's necessary.
More edit: I was wrong, Akiko was there.

 

Here are some vlcsnaps to freshen your memories. First the start lineup. I count the members from left to right, Nachu is #0. #1 is Kaida Juri, no doubt.


Pic 2. Show #2 Okoucha Misa? and #3 Hosoda Miyuu?


Pic 3. #4 ?, #5 Oyama Aimi behind Nachu and #6 Akiko?Edit.


Pic 4. #7 ?, #8 Imayoshi Megumi? and #9?


It's hard to take good snapshots because they don't stand still.

 

I also went through all the 46 content which led me into the 48 world. I started with AKB 1:59 Fun and 0:59 Fun which is just AKBingo before it got its real name.

The whole story and everything around AKB is pretty epic though and there's a lot to the story that you don't get from AKBingo in the same way Keyaki and Nogi have Keyakite and Nogidoko/Nogichuu. So I highly recommend watching stuff like the documentaries, the Kin Sma special, Mechaike AKB specials, getting some familiarity with the sousenkyos and how they affect the overall situation and such in a rough chronological order if possible. You'll likely have to use the torrents from aidoru-online if you're not already doing that and just streaming 46 stuff.

The whole history and experience is a lot different than the 46 groups(far more dramatic overall, different concept, very harsh world compared to something like Keyaki), but it helps give you a different perspective and puts the 46 groups in a whole new context knowing the trail that was blazed for them from AKB.