Event / Concert AKB48 49th Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo (17/06/17)

Youtube Queen did thaT.

It's really good actually, last year's looked like they were shooting for a brothel ad.

 

Sakura looks like she doesn't even want to be there.

 

Still salty about her rank

Glad to see Ogiyuka has taken over the long body spot recently vacated by Yukirin

 

She doesn't like sharing the spotlight

 

Yesss
Her swimsuit is the best looking one and one of the only ones that looks like a bikini people would actually wear

 

Oooh, Akarin looks nice! Sakura has such a pained expression but some of the other girls do too(Just not as obvious). I'm glad the bikinis look nice compared to last year's or previous year's, although I feel like I've seen these bikinis in a Target somewhere...

 

looks like she's going to do a cover version of 99 Luftballoons

 

NMBabes, Kitarie and Sasshi looks gorgeous..

 

Sasshi always knows how to rock a bikini~ she seems pretty confident in one too which probably adds to her hotness~

 

mizugi surprise offshots

 

Omg Sakura... I hope she smiled in the solo shots...

 

Damn sakura...can't ease yourself a bit, can you?
Also...

 

Yukirin will destroy her dream to be number one next year.

 

Is someone made Sakura sad?
This is the first time I saw her like that in photoshoot....
As if someone hurt her before this shoot

 

Like I said, she's salty about her ssk rank. She probably thinks she's making a statement by not looking happy about it. But it just makes her look kinda bitchy. Maybe she hopes she can convey her anger to her fans and they'll vote more next year. I dunno, it doesn't seem like a good choice to me, but at least it's something to talk about.

 

If Sakura is actually sulking because some newcomers are crowding her in K7 / she didn't get the rank she was expecting... seems a bit childish to me.

Then again... Sakura is neither inexperienced at this game, nor is she prone to lose control (she is after all, a Sasshi protegé -- and we all know the extent of Sasshi's abilities). But I can't think of a reason she'd purposely sulk at the camera because of SSK results... seems more like something that happened during the shoot itself, like maybe she didn't like the suit she's wearing, or other 'local' happening...?

She's the only one who seems inconvenienced to be in the shoot... which doesn't really put her in a good light, at least from my perspective.

 

I agree with @/stormy. I doubt she'll be unprofessional to the point where she'll show her emotions on a photoshoot that is basically a "gift" to the fans for voting.

 

If she's not sulking because of SSK results but sulking because of something that happened at the time...which reason is worse? To me, the latter would be a much smaller thing to sulk about and therefore probably not worth ruining a photoshoot over.

But she clearly is showing negative emotion. Whatever the reason, it's unprofessional. Sulk when the shoot is over, not before.

 

She is usually great in gravure, but there were 15 other girls in the cover, I'm gonna guess they just chose the best picture they could that flattered most of the members on the cover, unfortunately, maybe others look even more unflattering in other versions so they ended up with that one... sakura's expression is not so good, but I see others also struggling with posture, hair or whatever... not the best photo but I don't wanna believe that Sakura would purposefully put on a bad face because of her rank...