[GENERAL] The AKB48 Thread

This happened months ago. Further, there is nothing to indicate that these are the same company. Aside from the name they have nothing in common.

That's Vernalossom. AKB's DH is managed by "Uchimura Kazuki", who also the CEO of Osare Company.

That said, Yoshinari is the "pachinko lady" Reveen was referring to.

 

Kayano Shinobu who has been involved with AKB48 since 2005 when she joined the costume staff, has been the creative director of the costume department of the Osare Company since 2014.

 

I still wonder how AKB could pump out new stages in a few months back in 2006 - 2008 but only pump out one stage since 2012 shuffle

 

Because Aki-p didn’t have 35 other acts to write lyrics for at the same time.

 

iirc back in 2014 or 2015 he said the lyrics were all done and blamed the delay in new stages on other aspects of the production staff/creative team. (Or maybe he wasn't the the one who blamed it on them, but someone did.)

 

They are 2 different companies. The company which is managing AKB48 is a brand-new company. DH means 48 (D=4, H=8).

 

I think someone pointed out to me once about the production cost might be expensive. I could understand if that were the case for AKB since they have hundreds of member but for other group? Like I know the producing a full album, concept, and performance material might be expensive but I found it hard to believe that they could not release at least one or two new stage (at least one new stage in the case of HKT and SKE)

 

The stage talk infuriates me. They can talk about costs all they want, but I doubt it's very expensive to wrap the girls in plastic costumes, no matter how much Shinobu thinks it's couture.

The stages were what gave the teams an identity, but with teams being constantly shuffled and kennin-ed and the theatre performances being now for random setlists made of songs from everywhere... it's pointless. It feels like when you're mixing crayons on a paper and you get that ugly brown. You can only start again.

Stages would also help separate the current AKB from the past.
Morning Musume suffered from this. They kept performing Love Machine and Renai Revolution over and over and over again... until they didn't. If you check their last tours (like this one or this one), you'll see they don't touch much of that era, and instead focus on performing their newer stuff with some Platinum Era songs thrown in there. And that's helped the group differentiate itself from... itself (but from the past).

AKB right now is what A-Teens were to ABBA, an official cover group performing 10 year old songs wherever they go. And they have to change that if they want to continue.

 

I've heard someone said that aki-p had accidentally given nogi two of AKB songs and AKB two of Nogi songs is this true?

 

Never heard that. There was a 2ch hoax about SaiMajo being intended for Team A's 7th stage, but the interview that it was supposedly sourced from said nothing of the sort.

 

Ahh I see thank you for telling me my mind was really confused when thinking about it

 

Yes, it's very true!

Sentimental Train was supposed to be a Nogi song!


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On the other hand, Jikochuu de Ikou! was supposed to be an AKB summer single!


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Also, Keyaki's Fukyouwaon was supposed to be a Team K song called How Come? ~Part II~ and you can see the similarities in both songs:


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And many more!

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This is all obviously fake.
The reality is that AkiP works with the same composers over and over again for all his groups and many songs end up being quite similar. The most recent example being how Sakurazaka's Buddies has basically the same chorus as AKB's Sustainable.

 

There's another one??? Guys pls dun forget the OG

if the video does not show watch the video here

 

aaaah yes, I remembered there was an NMB one as well but somehow my mind was hellbent in thinking it was Rashikunai. Which obviously wasn't when I checked.

 

Bloody hell these groups need some new composers. Talk about "Stop me if you've heard this one before".

 

IMO there's quite a bit of similarity between the first 15-20 seconds of that and AKB48's NEW SHIP:


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The ending of the Nogi song is also very similar to Suzukake Nanchara


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So yeah, similarities in songs are gonna abound when the same family of groups release hundreds of songs a year (not applicable to 2020, for obvious reasons).

 

AKB48 members will perform 365 Nichi and KFC on BS TV Tokyo Kayo FESTIVAL tonight (12/16, 7.00-9.54 pm JST):
https://thetv.jp/news/detail/1014177/

 

Alas, only two songs in their performance. So, no Aitakatta.

 

For 1-billionth times. Gaaaah