Graduation announcements thread

^Definitely not. And it's good that things are slowly but surely getting better.

 

Do you realize that they already do performances with several members on stage at once? AKB is doing stages with less members than usual but they did TV performances in usual numbers, and that's AKB, coming from Tokyo were infected numbers are highest. STU, for example, is doing an outdoor live event where all extracurricular units will perform in a single day (so essentially the entire STU minus Naachan, albeit probably only 6 members on stage at a single time). And now NMB announced those concerts. It's not like they couldn't have other members perform at the girls' grad concerts if they held them. Though I guess it might be a smarter idea to focus on units or a limited number of people on stage at the same time (16-20-ish people, as is usual for song) rather than those huge songs that everyone from the group is performing at the same time squeezed super close.

As for the dangers of fans getting infected, well, that's a problem everywhere. It's impossible to completely prevent infection but they can lower the chance by checking everyone's temperature, mandatory masks, enough distance between seats etc., the usual precautions done in Japan these days. Also, infection from 1st concert to 2nd concert in a day isn't likely as long as they disinfect the seats in between. During this summer, I worked in a restaurant in a tourist-y place in Japan. We would disinfect seats and tables after every customer, something that can be done in less than 1 minute per table once you get used to it. If they did 2 concerts in one day, they can leave a few hours between them to disinfect the seats and change the air in the place (or do it outside like STU lives). Each staff member can disinfect several seats per minute, so even in a large venue it wouldn't really be a problem to do it.

 

So after October, there will be only one Akarin in 48 Group. After 2022, unless a new member choose Akarin as her nickname, there will be none.

 

Officially, it's Aachan. However, Akarin has been a nickname for Watanabe Akari since before becoming an HKT member.

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And chances are pretty good she stays beyond 2022.

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fingerscrossed

 

And that's why I don't use Akarin when referring to any of the members.

 

I remember seeing a ‘making’ video of a 48G concert with one scene where Yoshida and Suda are standing together backstage and they both introduce themselves to the camera as ‘Akarin desu’

 

English wiki needs an update on their nickname. Satou Akari and Fukuda Akari's are inaccurate.

 

So no graduation single then?

Assuming Suda graduates when she turns 30...

 

Can't even imagine how Akarin has never centered an NMB single, perhaps won't be.

 

pls not Karin

 

I wonder what happened there. They were all part of the newer Team 8 "generation" as well, right? They've barely even participated in AKB activities yet

 

It is a very bad affair if social accounts are deleted.

 

They always are.

 

you can see my post in the Team 8 topic for some more info - all solid stuff (unless I mistranslated sth), without any speculations whatsoever!
http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?...u-project-x-toyota.7094/page-549#post-1686772