There's a "fresh senbatsu" performance at TIF as well (August 4th) which supposedly includes 16th gen and draftees.
Ooooh, I see. I imagine they'll include Hiiwatan and Satopii in there as well. Also, I just saw Team 8 got their own performance and I imagine it'll bee the bee song senbatsu.
Hiwatan is on hiatus. For Team 8 senbatsu, bee song senbatsu is possible, but that would exclude those PD48 eito members that are not in PD48 anymore (so no Odaeri, Ikumin, Serika). I'm pretty sure it it will not be 100% bee song senbatsu, more like your regular popular eito senbatsu.
I'm on going on 3rd (AKB senbatsu, STU) and 5th (SKE, HKT, NGT) but decided to skip 4th (AKB fresh senbatsu, Team 8, NMB, BNK). Ideally I'd go all days but considering these events are quite expensive and exhausting, and I'm also going to kanshasai earlier that week, I decided to skip out on that one. I wish I could trade that NGT on 5th for AKB fresh senbatsu or even NMB, but oh well
Oh well, can't win all. The price is...lets just say, Sasshi's vote level I want to go to all three days, but considering the price and train ticket for 3 days to Odaiba. I'd rather to go for rank 17-100 SSK appreciation concert and all 4 stages of the day of 8. The total price is not that different. And since you said that you didn't get any for NMB concert, enjoy the TIF
Any P48 member in any of the lineups? I notice Mogichan who is already out of the show so anyone who's already free from the competition wouldn't have any reason not to attend if selected. The remaining girls, on the other hand... I don't really know if they would be in Korea that week so that would automatically make them ineligible.
No, the members who are still in Produce 48 aren't in the lineup (well, fresh senbatsu and Team 8 lineup has not been announced yet afaik). They could either be in Korea or management just doesn't want to overwork them. Remember, there are kanshasai concerts just before TIF and the ranked girls will have to participate in those, so I think they will be busy enough with that.
The Wagakki Band version of Senbonzakura is lit as well if the video does not show watch the video here I kind of wish AKB would do official covers sometimes. It's nice that their music is all original but the only time we see covers is rarely during live concerts or, most commonly, AKB kouhaku. I suppose as idols it might be hard to make an appeal for yourself by singing someone else's song? More concerts like Kouhaku that incorporate covers of others' songs and different arrangements of AKB songs would be nice.
Well, there is of course the off chance that the fans of the original artist(s) won't take kindly to that, some people weren't all to happy about 'Pick me up' at MAMA Japan (but that had more to do with the original group being disbanded I think) But rabid fans ... can be rabid :/.
AKB fresh senbatsu line up for TIF https://twitter.com/AKB48_staff/status/1022678266400915456 If you don't know half of them you need to brush up your AKB knowledge
Yoshimasa is still making this grad member project happen >__> 4 hours left until poll closes to vote for their group name https://twitter.com/everydayyoshim1/status/1022449025562230785
I still don't quite understand what's so great about a project that claims it wants to take down AKB .... but that's just me I guess.