That makes more sense than blaming the entirety of their losses on the yakkai. A big chunk of it was definitely their own negligence and ineptitude.
There is going to be a SDN48 10th anniversary show (debut July 2009). SDN 48, which graduated after a concert at the NHK Hall, will be regrouped for one night only !!! It will be held at the Akihabara AKB48 theater, where the group debuted, The ten year anniversary of Yuuwaku no Garter!! ......................................................... ■ Name of the performance SDN 48 10th anniversary commemoration "Yuuwaku no Garter" special performance ■ date and time 18:30 on August 1, 2019 Cast members (I don't have time to translate) 1期生 穐田和恵 伊藤花菜 今吉めぐみ 梅田悠 大河内美紗 甲斐田樹里 加藤雅美 河内麻沙美 芹那 手束真知子 なちゅ 西国原礼子 畠山智妃 三ツ井裕美 2期生 相川友希 大山愛未 木本夕貴 KONAN たかはしゆい 二宮悠嘉 福田朱子 福山咲良 藤社優美 細田海友 3期生 光上せあら 駒谷仁美 尻無浜冴美 シヨン 戸島花 miray https://ameblo.jp/sdn48official/entry-12491757160.html Information ban! ! SDN 48 will be reorganized for one night after about six years. The 10th anniversary of their debut on August 1st, it will be held next month 8/1 (Thursday) Akihabara AKB 48 theater Yuuwaku no Garter performance. <Ticket application> http: // ticket.akb48-group.com/home/top.php https://twitter.com/hiromi_mitsui/status/1148154821616128001 My bad. Lionel put them all in a post in the SDN48 News thread (that I somehow overlooked). http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?...thread-no-discussion.2678/page-2#post-1609356
56th single pls, Akb is so quiet and silent this year. What’s happening? We need a new bop! Hoping for another Okada nana center or a yahagi moeka center
It's not much of a surprise that with the NGT ongoing scandal prompting them to not hold the election they also chose not to invest in launching the usual Late May/Early June AKB48 single that comes with voting codes and by extension there won't be the subsequent Late August/Month of September Election Results AKB48 single. The likelihood has become, that if we see another AKB48 single this year, by all logic and in accordance with prior release year schedules, it'll be released in October at the earliest. They could feasibly hold off until November then enter another quiet period until as far as April 2020 and not hold the election next year either and repeat this year's process if the heat over the NGT scandal persists. An album however is an obvious solution that they are ignoring. Or can AKB48 at this point not even release an album without all of its sister groups involved?
AKB48 lineup for SUMMER STATION... https://ameblo.jp/akihabara48/entry-12484277532.html [日時] 2019年7月15日(月・祝) 開場15:30/開演16:00 [場所] SUMMER STATION LIVEアリーナ (SUMMER STATION LIVE Arena) (六本木ヒルズアリーナ)(Roppongi Hills Arena) [出演メンバー] 西川怜、向井地美音、込山榛香、武藤十夢、岩立沙穂、柏木由紀、久保怜音、佐々木優佳里、谷口めぐ、福岡聖菜、村山彩希、山内瑞葵、岡部麟、小栗有以、倉野尾成美、坂口渚沙 Nishikawa Rei, Mukaichi Mion, Komiyama Haruka, Muto Tomu, Iwatate Saho, Kashiwagi Yuki, Kubo Satone, Sasaki Yukari, Taniguchi Megu, Fukuoka Seina, Murayama Yuiri, Yamauchi Mizuki, Okabe Rin, Oguri Yui, Kuranoo Narumi, Sakaguchi Nagisa It's the same lineup as the senbatsu of the Zenkoku Tour. Team 8 will also perform on the 21st.
She can't because she is already scheduled to perform on the boat theater in Tokyo http://www.stu48.com/schedule/detail/4545
On the new single talk... when are the last HS events for Jiwaru Days? Maybe we’ll get something there. The circumstances are obviously not ideal, but I’ve been hoping for years that they’d ease on the crazy release schedule for a bit, cause the whole HS schedule was nuts. We’ll see with the SKE/NMB releases how the sales fare without AKB and the SSK cannibalising their sales (although I haven’t seen any HS charts for that one?). If anything, this would be the ideal time to debut new stages, just for them to have something.
Aug 10-12, which is really, really late. There are always HS on that date (which is always long weekend due to mountain day holiday), and it always hold the Janken prelims (so by then it will be too late for Janken, probably). Last year Sentimental Train release date was Sep 19, which was already later than normal (usually the after election single would be last week of Aug or first week of Sep). But even with Sep 19 release date, the HS applications began on Aug 6. There really need to be announcement real soon if there were to be end of Aug single, and within weeks even for mid-Sep single. There was no HS in February this year (normally there would be some kind of Shamekai, but since there's no album...), and both members and fans were already complaining. And TBH, I never really see anyone complain about too frequent HS (except maybe about money). On the contrary, lots of member really wants HS.
I wouldn't be surprised if they indeed waited until then to announce it, and it could come out during October. They need to start planning the next HS and whatnot, so I'm sure they have something in mind. Well, I have! Still, I think they missed the chance to reinvigorate the fandom with new original stages. If they aren't sure about the general public buying their products, at least they could give the fans who are staying by them something.
End-of-October would be skipping 2 singles. I sure hope that isn't what they are planning.... I did some calculation a few years ago, and I found that with this amount of groups Aki-P compose song for (back then it was only JPN48/46, but now we also have Last Idol, 22/7, that girls band, etc), he is actually composing way more songs per year than back in like 2008 when we get frequent new original stages. While I can't fault him on this (except when he broken the promises), well, maybe a secondary composer is needed.