[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

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I'm hoping the AKBINGO revival will allow those variety-dols to gain some popularity in the fandom tbh. I feel like we use to have quite a few popular variety-dols back in the golden era, but that really went to shit

Edit: ya'll can fight me, but Oya Shizuka was one of the funniest idols we ever had and I demand better for her

 

I hope they know how much people love AKBINGO. When the #AnataNoAKBDare hashtag was trending (~how did you find out about AKB48), I sent them a tweet saying "In 2015, I wanted to start learning Japanese so I watched a variety show. That variety show was AKBINGO! Since then, I love the members." and the official AKB48 account liked my tweet.

Obviously one person won't bring back a show (especially not me, a foreigner with no access to the actual channel that broadcasts the show), but I really hope that the revival will be a success and show them how much people need their variety shows to get to know members.

 

Variety shows are crucial for idols. Morning Musume really did A LOT back in the day and it was how I got invested and we use to have quite a few fans who would translate stuff too. It was actually one of the biggest complaints for fans of H!P when they got rid of all their variety stuff. Ogawa Makoto was a variety queen imo but she was not very captivating as a performer and I mean look no further than Sayu-chan and Momochi who revived H!P during the platinum era. AKB's management needs to get some regular members on local shows. Sasshi is gone and tbh I can't really name a current 48-idol who is even close to her level on TV shows or movies.

Edit: I will say tho Nogi has been doing really well tho...so like they have a formula.

 

I have my suspicion back then that if SDN member were to rank that'll have some impact to love ban rule (if I remember correctly they didn't have love ban rule right?)

 

How is that related to SDN? I genuinely don't know much about them except the members who were originally AKB members... were SDN members publicly dating?

And as for AKB, as far as I know, they have never had (and still don't) an official love ban, but I feel like back then, members who were found out to be dating were chastised a lot more. I feel like they cooled down a lot with their punishments after the Miichan incident. Look at how many members graduated or were demoted back then because of scandals.

Spoiler: Timeline of scandals that I can remember

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• 2008 – Kikuchi Ayaka dismissed because of a scandal
• 2010 – Akimoto Sayaka resigned as captain of Team K because of a scandal
• 2011 – Oba Mina is removed as captain of Team 4 and goes on hiatus because of a scandal
• 2011 – Shimada Rena is temporarily suspended because of a scandal
• 2011 – Watanabe Miyuki is dropped from senbatsu for Oh My God after a scandal
• 2012 – Hirajima Natsumi graduates because of a scandal
• 2012 – Yonezawa Rumi graduates because of a scandal
• 2012 – Masuda Yuka graduates because of a scandal
• 2012 – Sashihara Rino is moved to HKT48 because of a scandal
• 2013 – Minegishi Minami is demoted to Kenkyuusei after a scandal
• 2014 – Watanabe Miyuki is involved in a scandal for sleeping over at a male model's house. Two months later, she's part of her first SKE48 senbatsu
• 2014 – Murashige Anna is caught on a date with a JOHNNY member. I don't think anything changed for her.
• 2015 – Kashiwagi Yuki + possible former boyfriend have their pictures released. Five days later, she has her highest ever sousenkyo position (#2).
• 2016 – Kinoshita Haruna is caught in an affair with a married mad. Graduated five months later.
• 2017 – Tano Yuka is seen on a possible date with a male costar. Nothing happens
• 2018 – Chiba Erii is privately talking to fans on SNS private messages. I personally don't think it's a big deal but it raised some eyebrows, but nothing happened
• 2018 – Tano Ayaka and Nishigata Marina are found out to have been building relationships with fans that might have potentially led to another member being endangered. Ayaka graduated 2.5 years later
• 2018 – Kato Minami is demoted to Kenkyuusei after talking badly about the above incident in an accidentally public instagram post
• 2019 – Yahagi Moeka + former boyfriend have their pictures released. 3 months later she receives her first A-side center for Sustainable despite being a fairly new member
• 2020 – Mogi Shinobu is rumoured to be dating a girl. Nobody says anything and it dies down

There was also a scandal about Kasai Tomomi sleeping over at the house of the head of AKS (2013) and another sleep over scandal including Takajo Aki (2016), but both of these were revealed a few days after the girls already announced graduation, so I'm not sure if they're related. But who knows.

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@lionel90 gave me a great idea. Once the pandemic is over, in 2024, AKB should hold twelve concerts based on the astrological signs. What would the lineups look like?

 

Scandals aren't the same so their treatment isn't the same. Not all punishments are explicit, denial of outside work for example

Spoiler: Timeline of scandals that I can remember

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• 2014 – Watanabe Miyuki is involved in a scandal for sleeping over at a male model's house. Two months later, she's part of her first SKE48 senbatsu [/HIDE]

Regarding this, you might be taking it from an English translation. They were both photographed coming out of the same apartment building in Tokyo, not a house. And they were never pictured together iirc. I think she was really upset by bunshun making 2 + 2 =5. Bursting into tears at the first SKE stage she did indicated she wasn't exactly ecstatic at her kennin being transferred to SKE.

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  [HIDE]2014 – Murashige Anna is caught on a date with a JOHNNY member. I don't think anything changed for her.[/HIDE]

things definitely changed for her. She got a yellow card and wasn't given any outside work for a year, she could only do theater stages.

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  [HIDE]2015 – Kashiwagi Yuki + possible former boyfriend have their pictures released. Five days later, she has her highest ever sousenkyo position (#2)..[/HIDE]

And then the next year she lost 80k votes. In any case she's old

 

I get you and I understand that, but I think management became a lot more lenient on the girls.

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The SDN members still had to adhere to the idol standards...I don't think any were in a public relationship until they left the group. The early 2010's was still very much strict on "no dating" even if it wasn't explicitly said. The SDN members most definitely had boyfriends or girlfriends - as most idols do - but no one really cared cause they catered themselves as the adult-AKB.

I did not hear about that Mogi one tho. But yea those golden years they were much stricter about dating. Once that passed, management was more lenient I'd say.

 

in one of Annin's either q&a or "x things about..." videos, she says there's no love ban rule whatsoever, but considering the amount of time they spend on their idol related activities, there's just no way on earth they have the time to put up with dating too

 

One of the members was literally married before she even joined the group.

 

Do you remember who?? But still I feel like the fans of SDN didn't care at all what they did privately.

 

I think it was Chen Qu who was married while she was in the group?

 

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Ninomiya Yuka, if memory serves right

 

I think she did and didn't lolol. I know she said she was getting married during that special stage they did on their anniversary (same with Rachel - whom I LOVED so much and miss).

Edit: oh no wait...I think Rachel said she was getting married in 2019 not 2013. My bad

I don't even remember this woman lol. She left before their disbandment it seems tho

 

I thought that since back then the love ban rule was quite strict having SDN member rank in ssk will make others to think "Oh look at them they could date and still rank, why shouldn't I?"

 

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