Single AKB48 46th [High Tension] (16/11/16)

Glad with this senbatsu. Finally AKB dominate the senbatsu again and Team 4 power! Very glad for Komiharu!!!
Sad to see Tomu not included…

 

I only skimmed through a few pages of this stunning intellectual discourse, so forgive me if it's already been said, but there are a couple points that I don't usually see brought up in these discussions that can have a big impact on selection:

1- Politics. It's not always just about who sells or who could sell with some push. There's a big web of associates and potential associates AKS rubs elbows with in the entertainment industry (agencies, tv/movie/music/magazine production companies, media bigwigs, etc.) and some girls carry much more weight through the connections they've forged, or even started with in some cases, if they came from money. It can be more beneficial to AKS to maintain good relations with those outside associates, even if it means someone's push doesn't net as much money directly as another girl could.

We'll never know exactly what dealings they have behind the scenes but it certainly does go on, as it does in entertainment anywhere in the world; it's more about who you know than what you can do. Paruru is a good example here. Not that it's strange for her to be center, but when the question is why her over [insert other candidate], I would bet her ties to dramas and movies played a part, since that is an avenue AKS has been exploring more and more, and they'd love to have friends in that field.

There are probably a lot more cases than we realize where, if something looks off and you have to ask, "why her", the answer is politics.

(This is longer than I expected and I'm lazy. Gonna try to keep it short now)

2- When will the idol bubble pop? I think many of the gripes people have with management, and the same big names getting all the glory, and sister groups (in particular SKE and NMB) getting shafted might come down to AKS playing it safe because they don't think they can sustain the growth they have, and expect this bubble to pop soon.

When you anticipate that happening, the smart thing to do is milk what you have for all it's worth and spread out into new markets while you can make a quick return there, while ignoring slow growth markets like old groups that are already tapped for the near future.

 

Don't compare Yuria with Paruru or Dasu, different from Yuria, Paruru & Dasu actually showed good results and successfully proved haters they were wrong, specially Dasu with her almost non existent push.

Now instead of expecting her to rise with your black magic, you and your fandom should give her more than love next time, maybe some SSK votes so she doesn't look so bad

But yeah, she's a management fave so doesn't matter if she goes from #37 to unranked, they'll still put her in senbatsu what a shame

 

they would still have 3 though, sakura, harupi, and sashi are pretty much locked now

 

I was 100% convinced they would go with a double A-Side, a "pure" AKB formation and the A-Team of the 48 group. Like they were testing the water with the senkyo single and hey it worked so why not keep on doing it?

On Senbatsu, well no Miru or Tomu is weird other than that I like it.

 

So I've been reading the past pages of posts, and I normally don't post anything myself since I tend to be more of a lurker than a poster but I thought I would write my opinion for the 46th Single Senbatsu.
First off I am super happy that Komiyama is in the Senbatsu, and that I hope that means she will be featured more in shows (Variety or otherwise), and that she gains more and more fans, and that getting 21st in SSK wasn't a fluke or pity votes.

And this is just my opinion but I believe that each of the sister group has one representative in this Senbatsu.
It may not look like it when you first take a glance at the Senbatsu list but if you actually break it down, you can sort of see why I think this way.

First off this is an AKB single, so the majority of the Senbatsu will consist of AKB members.
There are 15 AKB members. But if you count kennins as part of AKB, which when they introduce themselves they will normally say for instance; Kodama Haruka HKT's Team H/AKB's Team K and Miyawaki Sakura HKT's Team KIV/AKB's Team A. So adding those two, it would be 17 AKB members.

Matsui Jurina and Yamamoto Sayaka both left their kennin positions, so they represent SKE and NMB. So if you add all the sister groups, SKE's Matsui Jurina, NMB's Yamamoto Sayaka, HKT's Matsuoka Hana, and NGT's Nakai Rika. That would be 21 members total so far.

And even though Sashihara Rino is part of HKT, she is also ranked #1, and it would be foolish not to include their top member in the whole AKB48 group.
So that's 22 members in total. So looking at it that way it seems each sister group has one representative, and that HKT doesn't really have 4 members even though they do.

And I also made a table from the past 11 Single Senbatsu to see how many Singles each member has appeared in. 16 of the 22 members have been in Senbatsu at least 5 or more times.

 

Even though kennin members do hold some sort of membership in AKB, they shouldn't be counted in AKB's pool. Besides Sasshi and Sakura, Haruppi barely does anything for AKB. It's just a name. Back then, when Sayanee was still a Team K kennin and participated in [some] songs without Miyuki (that means only Sayanee is representing NMB but she also has Team K kennin attached), does that mean there are no representatives coming from NMB?

I don't mind even if HKT has 3 members but if they add Hana in there, it's a problem. Don't get me wrong. I hold nothing against Hana but this is way too much of a push. To the point where they dropped Tomu, dropped Miichan, and dropped Kitarie. Even more so, it's a 23-nin senbatsu. The biggest by far (not including pre-ssk lineups and KR)!

 

So to sum everything up!

If Yuria was swapped with Tomu and Hana with Dasu/Ryoka everyone would be happy.

Yay!

Let's pray to Acchan for the next single.

 

Well, two of them are also AKB members so, technically, there are only 2 from HKT.

 

not to mention sashi was originally akb member so basically it's only hana lol

 

This senbatsu has 22 members.

 

I'm late to join party.
- I can deal with this selection. And pretty like it.

Positive
- a lot AKB new gen

Wtf
-Yuria. I have nothing to do with her. But her push is disturbing, at least from now. She is flop and not get any younger.

I pretty exited to this single

 

No, it's 22.

 

Okay, but how can you just not count KR (32 members)? This isn't even close to their biggest senbatsu "by far". Laborador Retriever had 36. You're being very selective about which songs "count".

 

I'm assuming this is at me?

Pretty sure you didn't read what I wrote lmao. I said, this is by far the largest lineup excluding pre-SSK songs and KR.

Pre-SSK lineups are bound to be large because they want to promote everyone from all the JPN48 groups. KR was an exception. Anyways, I'm more of talking about the past 21-nin and the current 16-nin

 

Possibly the silliest argument I've seen in this thread, and that's saying something.