First of all, I'm so happy to see the forum and site back up and running again! We are back with a new issue, this time the fanzine focuses on the music part of the 48 groups. I hope you like the new layout for the cover, foreword and table of contents page. Had a lot of fun designing it, and again, @donjonnie and @otabe were great help. It was also fun to have a new section for the fanzine from my fellow Swede Frida aka. @Yumenotobiira! You can read it on dothedancefanzine.blogspot.com
I thought the first issue was wonderful so I'm really looking forward to sitting down this weekend to read issue #02. Fantastic work, thank you
Thank you so much @David B! I'm so happy to hear that, thanks for the comment. I would've been happy with an update what thought about #02 later when you have read it
And now, #03 is out! DO THE DANCE - AKB48 FANZINE: DO THE DANCE #03 out now! (dothedancefanzine.blogspot.com)
Finally got a weekend free to read it and I thought it was fantastic, just as good as issue one. Really looking forward to issue three when I get some spare time (I'm on holiday early in September so think I'll save it for then, to savour fully ). Really appreciate the focus on the 17th and 18th generations as it's helped me put some names to faces; it reminds me of when I first got into AKB 12 years ago and I was trying to figure out who everyone was Some thoughts/suggestions for future issues/articles (with apologies if any of these are already in issue three ): Retro on the variety shows of the past (AKBingo, Bimyo, etc.) Retro on the drama shows (Majisuka, Horror Night, Crows Blood, etc). History of the Sousenkyo (will we ever see it return!!) History of the Janken Taigai Scandals (not just Minegishi's ) and controversies Focus on forgotten/overlooked past members (like the wonderful piece on Meetan in issue one)
I'm so happy to hear that David! By then you can probably read issue 4 as well, since I'm working on it right now (but after that I HAVE to take a longer break) That's what I was hopeing for, and wanted with the NEW SHIP section. Maybe the older gens gets less recognition though. But I felt this part of the fanzine was important to introduce them. It was the first part I started with in issue 01 to be honest. I'm still trying to learn all the names... it goes slowly. Especially since I have learned so many of the past members names over the past 5 years. It's nice to hear this from a person who have been in this fandom for such long time Haha, this is pretty much what's issue 03 is about. Not all the shows, obviously, but I talk about some of them in my article Thank you Mikichan. And we have a feature on NMB48 Geinin, so some retro variety. And they will come back in future issues as well. I will probably write some more about it at least Next issue will also feature the article Takamina VS Variety Shows which TLW-48 have written. Newer dramas in issue 03 as well. But I'm planning on doing a horror special around Helloween/winter, where we feature a lot of all the horror shows from the 48G's. I also want to do a Majisuka and Majimuri special someday, since that was the first drama I saw with them. And as a big wrestling fan I also love Tofu Pro Wrestling and want to do a review of that, and the real wrestling matches some of the girls participated in. The rest I have to find people help me write, even though I can probably research about some of the themes myself and write something. I asked contributor Far East to write about the NGT controversies, but I totally understand that he didn't want to touch it. Since the NGT fans have worked hard on to help the group get established again. But it's something I would like to read too. You at least had two small articles about the Janken in the first issue I'm so happy to have found that post about Meetan on reddit, since I also love that piece. I could probably think of a few names I could do something with at least. Thanks for the comment, I was looking forward to it but thought you maybe forgot. But now I know that you will read the next issue on your holiday
Finally got some time to give my feedback on issue three Easily my favourite issue so far as I loved the retrospectives on all the past TV shows. I especially loved the piece on NMB48 Geinin!.....I've not watched it for far too long, so since I'll be recuperating from a minor operation at the start of next month, it's given me a good prompt to binge watch all three series and both movies Plus I'll also get caught up on issue four. Still mightily impressed by the high standard.....thanks again to everyone for all the hard work that has gone into these
Thanks for the feedback @David B ! Oh, nice - that probably means you liked my article Thank you Mikichan, as well, hehe. I agree, it was a really fun and informative article (Guga will do a retrospective on the SKE48 Ebi shows too in an upcoming issue, so look forward to that). I had a blast designing and taking all the screenshots for the article, heavy focus on my oshis Sayanee and Milky Have fun rewatching the show and movies, and good luck with your operation!
