The preliminary result will be announced today at 7pm JST (as in, about 1.30 hrs from now). And the voting require you sending a postcard to AKB48 Shimbun office. It's not fun cutting and pasting and hand-writing the postcard, tbh. Way more tedious than SSK/RH/etc. At least the newspaper is easier to discard than then the CD.
ah right, the votings goes until 11/21. Spoiler: New heroïne, preliminary 1 - Yamasaki Amiru 2 - Okada Rina 3 - Yokono Sumire 4 - Ando Chikana 5 - Oki Yuka 6 - Omori Maho 7 - Morohashi Hinata 8 - Shinano Soraha 9 - Kobayashi Ran 10 - Sato Ami 10 - Ishibashi Ibuki 10 - Watanabe Akari 13 - Ota Riona 13 - Shinzawa Nao https://twitter.com/48timesJP/status/1190935360840159234 Spoiler: Fan grand prix, preliminary 1 - Nakamura Ayuka 2 - Hashimoto Haruna 3 - Oda Ayaka 4 - Jonishi Rei 5 - Nishimura Nanako 6 - Takeda Tomoka 7 - Yamane Suzuha 8 - Jitoe Nene 9 - Iwatate Saho 10 - Muto Tomu 10 - Shibuya Nagisa https://twitter.com/48timesJP/status/1190935505426235392
^Great list! Really puts into perspective how amazing Moeka's idol stint was lol, and look at how stable Yuihan has been! that's a success in itself. I hope the Mion, Naachan, Tomu!!, and Yuiyui become mainstay senbatsu girls just like Yuihan
It is an announcement for the 2nd singing contest final These are bits of the final contestants qualification performances and their comments. Thread below http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/2nd-akb48-group-singing-contest-2019-10-31.22987/
Live RKBラジオ Yokoyama Yui, Tanaka Miku, Nishimura Nanako, Sakaguchi Riko https://www.pscp.tv/w/1PlJQVZqdNBxE
They don't announce them all at once, but will be dripfeeding the performers over the next month and a half.
But NHK still casually invited akb to their weekly music show (11/12) https://www4.nhk.or.jp/utacon/x/2019-11-12/21/983/1850389/
"Oh please, you're always welcome to our shows!" https://toyota-team8.jp/news/list/20191106-863557738201457.php "But don't you dare to show your faces on Kouhaku!!!"
I don't suprise. The number of Aki-P's producing group which can perform on Koukaku every year is 3. This year Nogizaka, Keyakizaka, Hinatazaka and IZONE is very hot. And AKB get so much problem with publicity. Last year BTS's name was removed by nuclear bomb's shirt. So 2019 AKB's case is the same