Hopes, Fears, and Predictions for 2016 (HKT48)

I'm a bit skeptical about graduation makes the group grow. Nevertheless...

Hope:
- HKT keep their number of graduation member the lowest among sister group.
- More innovation, be it live concert, tour, or collaboration hits single.

Fear:
- All those hopes didn't happen.
- HKT getting stagnate, especially with pushed and senbatsu member.

Prediction
None. Keep be surprising, HKT!

 

Hopes

• 3 singles
• 4th gen
• Team TII
• Kenkyuuseis getting promoted
• Haruppi enters senbatsu in SSK
• New concept for a single (something like a cool badass song)
• Okapan in senbatsu
• Team H original stage

Fears

• A lot of members graduating
• Sasshi center
• Murashige doesn't enter senbatsu
• Haruppi still not entering senbatsu
• No new stage for Team KIV

Predictions

• Imamura Maria gets the gori push
• Nako ranks in SSK
• 2 singles
• Team TII debut
• 4th gen
• All singles center by Haruppi or double center with Sakura
• A Sakura center single

 

Hopes:

• sakura performs more with k4...
• 3 singles in a year,
• haruppi enters ssk, mio stays in UG,Aoi enters future girls
• shige back into senbatsu line up
• no graduations
• perhaps, more kenin for girls to boost their popularity, would like to see okada kanna kenin or aoi kenin.
• more exposure for miku

Fears:

• sakura move to akb,
• members graduating
• haruppi doens't enter senbatsu
• members move teams in the announcements ( out of hkt48)

predictions:

• 2 singles
• new team debut ( natsu lead would be nice)
• nako ranks in ssk

 

Predictions

• KKS (+ 4th gen) gets new stage - Maria centers.
• Sasshi announce in the election her graduation (45th single (election single) will be sasshi's last single in AKB48, 10th Single will be Sasshi's grad single from HKT48).
• 2016 release: 3 Singels (H stage delayed after Sasshi's grad).
• members who will make first senbatsu this year: Imamura Maria, Tanaka Natsumi, Aramaki Misaki & Murakawa Vivian.
• members who will return to senbatsu (not forever of course..): Ueki Nao, Murashige Anna, Okada Kanna, Wakatabe Haruka & Akiyoshi Yuka.
• We will get a Sakura solo center.
• New units.
• Kodama Haruka will get a first solo song.
• Team TII announced in the end of 2016.
• we will have 5 more members grad this year.

 

Hopes:
-Blueberry Pie gets a song with a MV
-Team TII
-An interesting senbatsu lineup like Must Be Now and Love Crescendo
-Ueki back in HKT senbatsu
-Eretan gets a spot in HKT senbatsu and more of a push
-Meru and Lovetan rank up
-Anai in Undergirls
-Piichan ranks again
-Nako and Eretan rank for the first time

Fears:
-Murashige dropped out of senbatsu
-Murashige doesn't rank again
-Madoka drops horrendously like she did last year
-Ueki and Aoi drop out of the rankings
-The ace of the 4th gen is yet again the tiniest and youngest one

Predictions:
-Sasshi wins SSK if she decides to run (sounds like she will?)
-Sasshi or Lovetan announces graduation
-At least one 1st gen member announces graduation
-Sakura remains in kami 7
-Haruppi ranks in senbatsu
-Mio is undergirls center
-Jiina ranks in undergirls
-Nakomiku rank

 

Hopes
-Senbatsu includes Shige, Boss, Eretan, Okapan, Nao at some point
-Haruppi joins SSK senbatsu!
-NakoMiku, Shige rank in SSK, Meru, Okapan, Jiina rank higher
-Meru gets to center a single this year (solo center or w/center with Haruppi or w/center with somebody new!)
-continue the trend of Team Songs being centered by "new" people (I'd love to see an Eretan or Okapan center
-HKT stops being seen as the new/worst/most one-dimensional group (I personally think they are capable of so so much variety in their performances)
-more collabs/experiments in music, performances, even like innovation in TV/radio presence would be nice

Fears
-KKS still don't get promoted
-Miku gets less push while Nako continues to get all the push
-Wakachan graduates
-4th generation being teeny confirms HKT48's reputation as loli-group and nothing else

Prediction
-pretty stable senbatsu with a few rotating members (so like 10 locks and the other 6 rotate)
-2 singles + album
-tour goes really well, HKT is known as the best concert group of 48G (is this a hope also? Maybe)
-Team TII towards the end of the year with MioMeru as the center
-Sakura's AKB activities increase, HKT activities decrease (I don't think full transfer yet, but she'll be bigger in AKB)

 

Hopes:

• 3 singles
• Sasshi center 1, haruppi center 1, sakura center 1
• Don't change music style
• 3rd team is finally formed

Fears:

• Sasshi graduation announcement
• No solo sakura center (at this point she deserves it)

Predictions:

• Sakura in 6th place
• Sasshi in 2nd place
• Haruppi in 15th place
• 2 singles
• 3rd team formed
• Music style stays the same

 

HKT48 Hopes:

• Sakura retains her position in the SSK (even better if her rank increases) and finally centers (solo) an HKT single
• Haruppi enters the Senbatsu at SSK
• Okapan increases her rank in SSK and re-enters HKT's senbatsu for the next single
• Aanya re-enters the top 80 in SSK
• Mikurin, Nako and Boss all rank in SSK
• New stages for Team H & KIV (please!!!!)
• First album
• New variety show

HKT48 Fears:

• Sasshi graduates
• Sales decline
• No new stages

HKT48 Predictions:

• New stages finally appear
• A mini-shuffle

 

HKT48 Hopes:

• Sales Rise
• HKT48 Own Album
• Team TII formation
  
• 3 Singles

Fears:

• 4 Gen being small
• Team TII isnt formed
  
• Only getting 1 or 2 singles

Predictions:

None!! I don't like predicting things.

I know is 2 months into 2016 but I wanted to throw my two sense in.