Just popping in after a long time to remind everyone that this is just prelims. While it's certainly great news, if you didn't ask for someone...
How did a light-hearted joking post from @ABF48 earn so much ire from the poster above to warrant two hostile ramblings posts? :rolleyes: And...
Yes, we did. Getting beaten means we failed. And we got beaten because we didn't gather enough votes, simple as that, regardless whatever...
We failed her. Again. :( Damn depressed...
75k? As if :P I would be reallllyyy surprised if they actually managed to doubled their amount of votes last year.
Regarding the term oshimen, DD and MD: [spoiler]
Yuko never questioned or deny it, let's not twist her words :P Her "question" came together with that quote in SorrowAir's post, which she...
You are talking about the label (DefStar) that thought of and passed (initially, until the law got involved) that (in)famous 44 posters gimmick....
Oops, yes. I didn't remember the details so I was checking S48 wiki and completely forgot about the 2nd & 3rd Sousenkyo senbatsu's size (top 21...
Nope, unless you count Ikoma. Other than her, the closest one was Shibata Aya (Unranked -> Undergirl Center), but that's about it.
Why? Going by age, she'd probably be staying another 4-5 years. The current top guns (Sasshi, Mayuyu, Yukirin, Sayanee, Paruru) would probably...
@souchan48: yeah, that's why I said Arashi still beat them easily :P
Not that low, actually. Even ignore the voting code (= ignoring the SSK singles which usually sells for ~480-500k on Soundscan, based on Sayokuro...
At least ~684k, not counting the votes of girls who weren't ranked yet, so ~45-50%, way higher than last year in comparison (~518k over 1.460mil)
I believe he meant the Sousenkyo ranking / amount of votes. People were assuming that less big names attended = less votes = less sales, so...
