Single AKB48 52nd [Teacher Teacher] (2018/05/30)

Yeah, but the battle this year is obviously between Jurina and Sakura.
They can't push them to the second row.

Heck, I'm even surprised Ogiyuka is there since she's the third contender.
I can't wait for her to snatch the crown and the whole of AKB management losing their sh**-

 

imo in a SSK single they should be bolder in experimenting, no one really cares if Jurina, Sakura is 2nd row in this single if they are not center anyways.

 

Maybe for you but this doesn't apply to everyone.
I think certain members require a minimum position even if they're not center (sorta like how it's hard to imagine nanase and maiyan in second row). Juri/saku are the current top members and they're not yet part of the senior citizens that you can move around wherever is convenient imo.

 

This is why AKB don't have a future if they can't even be gracious enough to spare one single to boost their young talents out up front and still have to stick to this regressive, conservative and profit-oriented thinking.

This is why we got the positions now and people are beetching about it.

 

I think though that they are being gracious enough to have a newish future talent like yuiyui center -- and another different current talent center the single before that.

Maybe the expectation for something new is different from someone like you who follows the group on a daily basis but I'm not sure that it's also wise to back-row the top members en masse (well, second row) in favor of a whole front line of scrubs. It's also debatable what the purpose of the singles are -- is it the place to promote new talent or is it the place to see the top talent? There's only four singles in a year but there's lots of other activities in a year.

 

It's dumb to put a first time senbatsu member for a single if they're gonna drop her for the ones after, like a one time thing that then crushes fan's and the girl's expectations.
The usual top senbatsu members are so many that they keep taking the spotlight from the ones who will be their succesors on their respective groups, management should have taken the risk for this voting single and put Yuiyui and most of the second row members as representatives for each SG on the first row instead of waiting till the top members graduate to start to heavily promote the younger ones as the top aces of their groups. They've changed things a bit but if they keep this model it'll only lead to more years without any young, real top aces.

 

Woah language there buddy

I say they are gracious enough to put Zukkii in this single, I give them that. yuiyui was way planned ahead with all those foreshadowing and torch passing hints. It was something bound to happen.

As a fan I really give two effs about general public what they think. Right now all AKB has as foundation support is their die hard fans and they should really listen to those voices instead of trying to kiss the public opinion's azz on getting their attention about AKB's new single line up. (or trying to make this AKB world thing a thing)

The single no matter what is gunna be over 1mill so I'd say its their best chance of the year to experience new stuff instead of maintaining status quo. They are trying all kinds of new stuff in their music genre then why not take another step in restructuring a possible visible future we can actually grasp, even for like a short period of time.

 

I would have slashed the entire fourth row, and also 3 from the first row to make 18.

I feel like the 4 blocks of 7 is something they'll stick to tho? It could be quite interesting.

 

Ah pardon, I was going to put second stringers but I thought scrubs was a more mysterious and maybe less offensive sports reference?

I'm not sure if it's just die hard fans supporting akb at this point which is why I think they still need to cater to non-everyday fans and sponsors who expect them to use most of their best members available. So while it's good that you're happy to see zukkii in this single, I don't now who this zukkii is and might regress to an every-month type of fan if the first two rows are made up of zukkiis (no offense to zukkii who I'll probably like if/when I get to know her). But yes I do see that everyday fans might become less interested too if their need for something new is not being satisfied.

Well, you also have to consider at what point is it fair/wise for a successor to steal the spotlight from the master who's still at the top. I think hkt/nmb are good examples where you have the master (sasshi/sayanee), the successor (sakura/mirurun) and successor to the successor (hana/aayan). But you're right that management should have foreseen that this was going to be a problem when the number of SGs increased to a certain level.

 

Well "scrubs" is common term used in gaming which is mainly used for insults now. It's a bad word, just don't use it unless you are trying to trigger some shea here. Other than that I think I made my opinions pretty clear so I won't add more to my answer.

Yamauchi Mizuki, current AKB 16th gen KKS. She is the last row center in this single just fyi.
http://www.stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/yamauchi-mizuki-zukkii.17063/

 

I could say Ogiyuka and most of NGT members are not really favored by AKS. They could have ignored her, even with her 5th position in SSK, if she did not win the 1st place in the preliminary and create a huge media buzz last year. The NGT member AKS (or more precisely, Aki-P) likes is Rikachan (and maybe Okappa in a small extent).

As for 4 rows of 7 members, it is similar to Keyakizaka in recent singles (just add an extra “charity” row): https://keyakizaka46discovery.com/senbatsu-formations/

 

I would have increased it to 32 (at least) like a proper SSK summer senbatsu and have Dasu, Furuhata Nao, Tanaka Miku and hell even Muto Tomu

 

Ogiyuka has an agency now. Kitarie has an agency and when her spot gone vacant, it's inherited NOT to NGT. Not even to Okappa or their first fave KTMN.

See where this lead?

 

Maybe. Though, I have never trusted HoriPro's influence on AKS. Most of their AKB members in the past were underdogs. But we have only a few members w/ agency now so it is hard to say.

 

We have Dasu in 52nd, or which Dasu you're talking about?

 

So she is, I stand corrected. For some reason I thought she wasn't being treated too well by AKS.

 

I'll say her fate in AKB48 is similar to Matsui Rena's. Jurina is still the most favored SKE member of all time

 

These days most SKE girls aren't being treated well tho

 

Fun fact: this is the first single since Kimi wa Melody to have a center who is still in high school!

Ages of centers from 2014 to now (based on the time of announcement)
35th: 25
36th: 20
37th: 20
38th: 20/16
39th: 26/23
40th: 21
41st: 22
42nd: 24
43rd: 17
44th: 18
45th: 23
46th: 22
47th: 28
48th: 20/19
49th: 24
50th: 23
51st: 20
52nd: 16