[EVENT] 3rd Senbatsu Election (Final results: 9th June)

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lol of course it wasn't. All the envelopes were sealed separately inside, so... XD

It took me a ton of time to sort my feelings and actually write it, but here's my blog post where I comment the elections. Should you wanna read it. XD

 

^ been eagerly awaiting this [clap]

And a good read too! Thanks for doing this.

 

I have to know this....

What's that song that plays when Mayuyu and Yukirin go up on stage?

That tiny snippet is kinda addictive.

 

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"Ren'ai circus" by Team B, it's on the new album.
Team A members had "Overtake" and Team K had "Boku ni dekiru koto", also from the album.
Iirc W Matsui had "Banzai Venus" playing.

 

Didn't listen to the album yet...but I was planning to buy it.....and now I KNOW I will be buying it.

Thanks for the info.

 

Watching this all I wanted to see was some crazy Wota make a desperate lunge for the Suitcase, that would of been great!

 

In the new AKB to XX theres some footage of some of the girls ranking

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kIh3MfOOEM[/yt]

 

So, I was reading an interview Yomiuri did to Aki-P. There are some pretty interesting points there (he cried when he heard Acchan's plea, the janken tournament was a fan's idea, etc), but the one that got me thinking was:

I wonder if Acchan's debut single was left after the senbatsu because he knew of the negative impact it would bring on her.

(Pasting this because Japanese links tend to disappear after a few months):

 

Well it was announced before and rumoured for months so I think it's just because everyone loves Acchan.

 

In the end it was him who decide to have Itano debut as a solo.

 

Aren't we already way past that outstrip the reality point?
Only doom has not come yet, but it will eventually...

Thanks ET920 for great article link.

 

I think he just brought out any possible reason he think of to explain Tomochin's drop except the real reason, her hardcore fans are not many and crazy than top7's

Her solo play a part by being so successful so she was expected by media to get higher rank even when she's already 8th.
This led her fans didn't throw their votes as much as possible like the one who's expected to fall (ie. Kojiharu, Mariko). And she's end up 8th.

On the other hand, Acchan's solo and her election campaign were designed to help each other out. It was planned to give her advantage than her rival as much as possible and using the result to help her solo plan later.

Her movie gave her on TV almost everyday during election period. Her upcoming solo gave her many solo magazine covers starting at 1st day of election. Those were used to cement her no.1 spot, even it's most likely to be her anyway without those.

And when the result came out, they used it to advertise her solo as "the solo debut of #1 girl of AKB48"

 

About Tomochin - let's see how her 2nd single will span out. If there will significant sales figure drop then she's in real trouble. Otherwise I don't see her dropping out from Aki-P front girls radar in foreseeable future.

 

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ozuUZiTTkw[/yt]

Thought you guys might like this. I really like the last part and wish I knew what was said.

 

btw this year's sousenkyo mizuki surprise pb is up
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-langu ... uage=en_JP

 

Statistics about the election were released: http://seijiyama.jp/investigation/inves ... akb48.html

• -The data comes from the CD post ballot questionnaire.

• -505,505 people filled the questionnaire out of 779,090 votes submitted by CDs.

• -Total votes were 1,166,145, meaning about 2/3 of the votes came from CDs.

• -The number of CDs sold with voting tickets was 1million as of June 8th, which means about 78% of CD purchases were used to vote.

• -1-3 is a chart showing the number of votes cast by date. May 25th had the most votes submitted. The last two days also had high voting counts.

• -1-4 a chart showing the time of day people voted. 8PM-10PM had the highest congestion.

• -2-1 shows gender and age demographics. 26.1% of voters said they were female while 70.9% of voters said they were male. The rest didn't answer. Age numbers show that most of AKB's fans are in their 10's and 20's.

• -2-2 is a table showing the number of votes cast from the different regions in Japan compared to the total population in those regions.

 

Well, this was interesting...MALE VOTERS!!!???

 

since the japan total is only 468781 of 505505 surveys completed
some portion of the remaining 36724 votes are from outside of japan
no wonder it's so hard to find other fans outside of forums...

 

Wasn't 1,166,145 the total for the first 40 positions only, and not the whole total? I remember someone doing the count and getting a really similar number.

 

I just watched the video again.

Jurina dropping to rank 14th was by design not by votes. Look where she is seating.. She's sitting ahead of Yuko and beside the center chair! ^^ Compared to Rena who is 10th, in the back row 2nd to the last, she's more visible in seat 14th.


I am not a hater. In fact, Jurina is my oshi.