[GENERAL] The Sakurazaka46 / Keyakizaka46 Thread

A page will come to an end after the audition...it makes me anxious lol.

However I'm confident about the futur "winners", when I see the numbers of inscription, the popularity of the group and the quality of Hiragana 2nd gen, we can expect to have some great talents.

 

I'm expecting Showrooms. I've seen no other aspect of any Keyakizaka audition, except for little clips of Neru auditioning. As I understand it, in the two Hiragana auditions, they selected a semi-final cut and those candidates did Showrooms. I've seen a post from someone claiming to be a candidate in the current auditions who was dropped, saying there will be Showrooms.

I'm expecting them to privately choose who they like and put them in groups before we hear the result -- hopefully largely in the group they have said they want to enter, but probably mainly according to what kind of new member management thinks each group needs. I think it could be bad all round if someone shows publicly that she wished she had got into one of the other two groups. But it could happen.

I expect some fantastic talent, since the Hiragana 2gens are so amazing. A hundred thousand candidates? At least one reportedly as young as 12? Those are things I've read. I think the call went out for candidates between 12 and 22. But I'm more than happy with who we have already, and I'm not that enthusiastic about disrupting the Keyaki groups. If they do go to senbatsu systems, it will create some terrible feelings. Even Kanji doesn't really need more members. I mean, the one who may be the worst singer in kanji is also the most popular handshake performer. Would they drop people who are good singers/dancers but not popular in handshake? They would if money talks. In mid-2016, that would have included Suzumoto....

 

sakamichi audition's candidates showroom's start tomorrow
https://twitter.com/SHOWROOM_jp/status/1028929633205415936

 

5pm Tokyo time Tuesday. I'll be watching.

@kanjo -- Yes, you're right. I'm still deeply worried about going to senbatsu, but I was just remembering my early disgust with other people's low estimation of Suzumoto. I simply did not get why she was put down by people so much. But management, as I think it often does, had good ideas in mind and stuck with them. Not that all their ideas are good, but just saying. Might it have been Suzumoto and Techi that helped lead management toward making this group emphasize dancing? Or even led them bring in Takahiro?

 

"I mean, the one who may be the worst singer in kanji is also the most popular handshake performer" -> Are you referring to Mon, or perhaps Berika?

 

Probably Naako. She sold out in the first round. Berika is probably a bit better than her in singing. Don't know about Suzumoto's singing though. Also Suzumoto isn't as popular in handshakes but she still sells out hers eventually.

 

It must be Neru. Even the other members agree she's bad at singing. And she really is. Always good HS results though.

 

Suzumon is a decent singer, she's one of the few girls that has their mic on whenever they perform on music shows. She just never had the chance to showcase that much i guess bc its her dancing thats her best quality

 

please clarify who you mean by this since "worst singer" is kinda subjective and there's a couple of members who fits the description of popular handshake performer(who is not that great at singing)

 

more boring grav incoming I guess

 

that is why many girls want to join these zaka46 groups nowadays..they want to do boring gravure rather than show-everything-i-have-so-that-lustful-men-can-rub-the-D-on-the-magazine and be happy..show less but gain more i guess..

 

That certainly used to be true. But these days it's more like don't show anything for free and make them buy my PB to see it. Still a lucrative business model.

 

pffft as glsone said they'll do it for a photobook, meanwhile they're stinking up the regular grav mags. Btw you presume all buyers of grav are male, nice misandry there.

 

lol.gravure is just another word for pictorial/photoshoot. but as your 1st statement, the way u describe it as 'boring gravure', definitely u mean that kind of lewd gravure where 98% males are the buyers, not female. yeah, zaka did lewd photoshoot in their own pb but it is quite rare.

 

got any official stats to back that figure up?

Given that I bought Neru and Berika's photobook I can confirm they both did many bikini shots but if you call what they did lewd then you must be pretty conservative.

 

To echo @Reveen here, I own those PBs as well, in addition to Sugai's - there are bikini shots, but I think they're rather tame. To each their own I suppose.

In unrelated note - you OG/Firing Squad or BC Elite? One wonders.

 

i dont mean how much pages in their OWN pb they did bikini shots, but instead in how many magazines they did that and how many times in a year. anyway, im quite conservative but im not closed minded. right now, we talked about how many girls try to audition zaka46 PROBABLY because they want to do boring gravure rather than not-so-boring gravure. of course, many other reasons unknown to us.