=LOVE (イコールラブ, イコラブ, ikorabu, eqlove)

Discussion in 'The STAGE48 Idol Emporium' started by fatrain, Jun 15, 2017.

  1. Rurouni

    Rurouni Stage48 Moderator Staff Member Stage48 Moderator

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    I see next week AKB48Show preview, which will be a Sasshi show (because her no.1 in SSK) and I see =LOVE performing in it (in the studio!) :^^;:
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    (no, you can't click it, it is just an image taken from the official AKB48show site).

    https://twitter.com/keikeikei9/status/906537648302559232
    (video of the next week preview)

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  2. David61

    David61 Under Girls Stage48 Donor

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    My copy of the single arrived today from CDJapan, I'm enjoying it very much! The bonus photo I received is one of Hana-chan:

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  3. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    Translation of "Start!" lyrics (Japanese lyrics are here)
    Lyrics: Sashihara Rino; Music: Tanabiki Tatsuya (田靡達也); Arrangement: Maeguchi Wataru (前口渉)


    if the video does not show watch the video here

    Let's go!

    Why is the scenery different from usual?
    The school, that I got used to, and the cafe -
    They all should have been the same.

    When I met you, you became my first friend,
    And I laughed, cried and got angry for the first time.

    "Friends are the most important thing" -
    I thought it was just a lame phrase,
    But thanks to you, I learned I was wrong.

    Being together with different friends will make you stronger.
    I can vow to look into their eyes -
    I want them to see my determination to chase my dream

    Let's go together (wow wow wow)
    Let's fight together (wow wow wow)

    I can do nothing by myself
    But together we can turn the stormy weather back to normal

    Everything in the city (wow wow wow)
    Looks shiny (wow wow wow)

    I want to write the first page
    Of a long life together with everyone

    I am glad (I am glad), that I met you (that I met you),
    I really (really) love you (love you)
    Let's start hand in hand


    I run away from the boring everyday.
    I don't even know how to stop anymore,
    Because I am with everyone.

    Will this feeling disappear when I grow up?
    I don't know, but it must be fleeting.

    It doesn't matter how many days we cried
    Or how tough the past was,
    We want to accept it all.

    Let's change! Let's become strong!
    I want to see you smile,
    Because I love you the way you are.

    Let's laugh together (wow wow wow)
    Let's dream together (wow wow wow)

    Turn the sad event into happy one
    And run right through it.

    From the day we've met (wow wow wow)
    We talked a lot (wow wow wow)

    I've seen different sides of you,
    But I like the most the way you are now.

    I am glad (I am glad), that I met you (that I met you),
    I am really (really) happy (happy)
    Let's make our rails together!


    Let's go together (wow wow wow)
    Let's fight together (wow wow wow)

    I can do nothing by myself
    But together we can turn the stormy weather back to normal

    Everything in the city (wow wow wow)
    Looks shiny (wow wow wow)

    I want to write the first page
    Of a long life together with everyone

    I am glad (I am glad), that I met you (that I met you),
    I really (really) love you (love you)
    Let's start hand in hand
     
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  4. tokidoki

    tokidoki Upcoming Girls

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  5. Arbios

    Arbios Future Girls

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    Does =LOVE also do handshake events?
     
  6. Trinu

    Trinu Under Girls

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    Yes.
    Each girl does 3 slots of 50 minutes each.

    It was discussed in the previous page.
     
  7. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    Risa, Naatan and Iori will appear on Tokyo FM radio "Yonpachi" on 9/15!

    http://equal-love.jp/news/0910_03.html

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    =LOVE will perform on HiruSon! music show on 9/25!
    http://equal-love.jp/news/0911_01.html

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    =LOVE ad trucks


    if the video does not show watch the video here

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    according to Billboard, =LOVE sold 22,015 copies in a week! 5th place
    http://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/55267/2

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    Tokyo Girls Update article in English about =LOVE's performance @ TIF!

    https://tokyogirlsupdate.com/love-debut-tokyo-idol-festival-2017-201709132610.html
     
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  8. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    cute video of Mirinya and Naatan

    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/907232715098828800/pu/vid/1280x720/o8Q7MeCcg13jjMrh.mp4

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    according to Oricon, =LOVE sold 18,746 in a week! 8th place.
    not bad, I thought there would be a bigger gap between Oricon and Billboard (22k).

    http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2017-09-18/
    http://www.m-on.press/music-news/0000121263?show_more=1

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    =LOVE members will voice additional characters of smartphone game "Station Memories"!
    finally, a first proper seiyuu job! :banana:

    http://www.mobilefactory.jp/newsrelease/2017/20170912
    http://equal-love.jp/news/0912_01.html
    https://games.yahoo.co.jp/news/item?n=20170912-00000009-ygame_gamedeets
     
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  9. Vivienne

    Vivienne Kenkyuusei

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    Thank god you mentioned it was a smartphone game! I seriously thought it was an anime, and I was wondering why the characters looked like that lol. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to it!
    Can anyone also tell me the difference between Oricon and Billboard? Why do they have different values?
     
  10. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    ^ I think, Oricon doesn't count more than 20 copies per sale, so bulk sales whose main purpose is getting HS tickets or SSK voting codes are heavily reduced.
    there are probably other differences, like maybe they get their data from different stores, but I don't know them.

    more nicknames of =LOVE fans:
    Saitou Kiara - Kiarabu [Kiara Love/Kiara Club] (きあらぶ/きあら部)
    Saitou Nagisa - Naatan's (な一たん's)
    Takiwaki Shouko - Shokora [Chocolat] (しよこら)
    Takamatsu Hitomi - eyes
    Satake Nonno - Oretachi ga Mamoru Kai [We are a party that will protect you] (俺たちが守る会)
    Morohashi Sana - Tsun Zoku [Tsun Band] (つん族)
     
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  11. tokidoki

    tokidoki Upcoming Girls

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  12. CutePanda

    CutePanda Next Girls

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    episode 3 of MV shooting & rehearsal for TIF2017


    if the video does not show watch the video here
     
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  13. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    ^ it's great, that contents of documentary and making of MV from single's DVD didn't overlap! :approve:

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    there was a lot of news today!

    =LOVE and Sweets Paradise collaboration got a continuation and redesign of coasters.
    https://twitter.com/Equal_LOVE_12/status/908527224978006016

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    =LOVE will appear on Buzz Rhythm on 9/29!
    https://twitter.com/Equal_LOVE_12/status/908614473463644160

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    today's Tokyo FM YonPachi

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    if the video does not show watch the video here

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    =LOVE corner @ Shinjuku Tower Records
    Nogi -> Keyaki -> =LOVE
    somehow it resembles the flow of fans ^^;

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    they will also appear on the last episode of Kono Yubi Tomare today!
     
  14. DeJure

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    Everyone posts a ton of info here, it's great to see. Lots of Sasshi fans too, which is not a suprise ^^
    As this is the only thread I figure I can post my experience here as well.

    It's that I went to the first of their two Single debut lives at LaQua in Tokyo. The one on the 5th Sept.
    My trip dates were already fixed when I saw those events announced. I notified my friend in HK that I was planning to go and he extended his trip for it too lol.

    The event itself was set to be a mini live, and afterwards a national style handshake with the girls in three lanes.

    On the 4th I got a warmup with finding these fresh off the press at Harajuku:
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    Then on the 5th itself I went to the Shibuya Tsutaya to get some singles, as you needed one for each handshake lane.
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    So in the end I got 3 CDs. One CD ticket also acted as an entry for the mini live before the handshake event. At Tsutaya you also got a poster per CD you bought. It was funny seeing our group afterwards at the event loaded with surplus posters lol. In the end I kept one poster for myself and gave the two others away at AKB HS event at Intex Osaka later to spread the word lol.

    The time to exchange my ticket came closer so went to LaQua (it's near Tokyo Dome) about 2-1,5hr before cutoff hour. Just when I exited the subway this rolled by, another omen:
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    I went to exchange my ticket for the live amongst a horde of stares as I was the only obvious foreigner there lol. I also bought a Saito Kiara uchiwa, because I liked her the most at first impression. All my stuff:
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    Then came the waiting time. I joined my friend and his other JP buddies at a table and sat there for an hour. Waiting until the time came to line up for the live. When it was, we all were made to stand on the elevated gallery to wait for security and enter the live zone in front of the LaQua stage. I spotted these folks:
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    The first thing I have to say about the live itself is that the songs really are made with calls in mind. The calls and penlight moves are really fun and bring the songs to a way higher level. When I listened to them on CD, the songs were nice but nothing I'd say really special. But when brought live with a crowd, wow do they pop off. They make you want to shout your lungs out. The loudest "WOW WOW WOW"s of my life during スタート! lol. But on the other side the calls are also very intuitive, they almost come naturally. Really well thought out.
    The live took about 20-25 minutes? Including a some slightly nervous but rather funny MC. Best in singing was Iori, impressive.

    The crowd was rather diverse. Ofc still a lot of guys but less than usual. Varied ages too. There were also a couple of Team 8 style jumping wota lol. Anna fans.

    After that a little wait before they set up the lanes and we were off for the HS event.
    lanes.jpg
    We decided to go to lane one first because that had the youngest ones and they'd need to go at 20:00. Me and my friend from HK decided to go right after another to hit them with the Hong Kong + Belgium foreign double lol. We also noticed that they were filming the first lane when we went in so... maybe stay tuned.

    Anyway from the first girl (Emiri) it became clear that they were really eager and good at handshakes, at least what we could experience. Despite the one-after-another nature of these lanes.
    They were clearly kind of flabbergasted to see foreigners at their debut. When I told Saito Kiara that she was my favorite she jumped up and down, real cute.

    Then the next lane, no.2. Here my friend pulled a fast one on me by telling them name lol. One by one they were all like "YO DUDE." Now it was my turn to be flabbergasted, really funny. They went with it like pros. Also Saito Nagisa has some funny expressions.
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    Lane no.3 was the one with my friend's favorite (Iori) and the other girl I liked from before, Otoshima Risa. She was an HKT 4th gen but got dropped bc contract issues, and now she's blossoming here. First off was also Risa. I told her I was from Belgium and her face lighted up like others did. I told her I was really glad I could now meet her here (with all the HKT stuff). And when I walked to the next one in the lane she kept turned towards me and did a heart pose and threw a kiss at me. Indeed what a fisher. And well I did get fished bc she stuck in my mind lol. After that were Iori and Hitomi, both with strong grips. Lastly you had Sana, the favorite of the girl we had in our group. Sana was probably the funniest. She blurted out some silly English and began to act all bubbly lol.
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    My friends went for another round of lane 3, with all their favorites while chilled out as I had used up all my stuff. Then we proceeded to celebrate with dinner, and the classic pics that go with it:
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    (I said I couldn't get her out of my head)

    So yeah it was great. Speaks for itself that I'll try to catch any event they have when I'm around next time.
     
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  15. hermionepj1

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    ^ thanks for the report!


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  16. nakotteiijan

    nakotteiijan Upcoming Girls

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    Opened a blog on Tumblr dedicated to both translating and just uploading all of their pictures. Feel free to follow! equaloves.tumblr.com
     
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  17. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    @DeJure thanks a lot, very interesting report!

    @Renappon wow, thanks!

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    today =LOVE had a HS event

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    yesterday's Kono Yubi Tomare!
    ah, it was fun as always. great show, too bad it ends.
    Sasshi is sooo good with assigning characters to members!)) when I watched Naatan's showrooms I thought nothing of her "daisuki" (maybe because I got used to similar style of pro showroomer Kaho (STU)?), but in shows her daisukis became a great asset and always raise laugh.

    http://48videodouga.net/index.php?poste=5446

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    today =LOVE will perform @ Sashihara SHOW
     
  18. hermionepj1

    hermionepj1 Member

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    i went to the handshake event yesterday and i noticed a happy birthday flower bouquet behind risa's booth, but her birthday was a month ago so i didn't even mentioned to her, kiara is my favorite member and i had the chance so tell her that, she was really happy, close second are anna and iiori and best handshake was hitomi, theres was a good turnout and was very well organized.


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  19. tokidoki

    tokidoki Upcoming Girls

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  20. fatrain

    fatrain Under Girls

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    interesting statistics that show "what other group except =LOVE fans like"
    http://ikorabu.livedoor.biz/archives/18716948.html

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    AKB - 19.2%
    SKE - 3.8%
    NMB - 7.7%
    HKT - 36.5%
    NGT - 9.6%
    STU - 7.7%
    SasshiP only - 13.5%
    Nogi - 30.8%
    Keyaki - 51.9%
    No (=LOVE only) - 7.7%
    Other - 17.3%

    even though the number of pollees are small, these stats could be quite accurate, from what I've seen on Twitter, since there are LOTS of accounts with triangles (sakamichi mark) and unexpectedly little accounts of Sasshi's fans (well, it's understandable, since groups have more fans than individual members, even if that members is Sasshi).
    many fans of other groups (especially 46g) talk about becoming =LOVE fan (not necessarily oshihen, but rather oshimashi) and about =LOVE swamp, meaning that it's hard to get out once you get interested in them.
     
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