Minegishi Minami (Miichan) / 1st Generation

13 years .... Yukirin said in her tweet: I'm looking forward to the 14th year! ❤︎
Personally, I hope Miichan feels the same

To be honest ... although they are both *the* senior members of AKB now, and the only members of the 'original generations, they've only been together in team B for 5(?) months (although they of course had senbatsu activities together)
I personally never got the feeling that they were really close, ...

ow, wait .... now I think about it ... that's probably stupid as they did form Team Sancon :/ ......
still, I somehow don't see Miichan and Yukirin going out to dinner or shopping together, dunno why


and than there is this

Found these on twitter:
---- Green Flash


---- looking at the pics I concluded this must be Hebirote .... yep ヘビーローテーション

(although I've never seen Miichan near the front *and* the center in a Heavy Rotation performance )
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Miichan's twitter:
https://twitter.com/chan__31/status/1071401782792806400
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13周年記念公演ありがとうございました！歴代シングル全曲披露...リハ期間は挫けそうになるぐらい大変でしたが本当にやれてよかった。どの曲にも思い入れがある私は幸せ者だと改めて思いました。14年目を迎えるメンバー達の気合いが伝わっていたら嬉しいです。皆様いつもありがとう。いい日になった
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Thank you very much for the 13th anniversary performance! All the past singles show... The rehearsal period was hard enough to break, but it was really good to do it. I have a passion for every song. I thought again that I am a happy person. I am glad if the yell of the members who greet the 14th year is transmitted. Thank you for your time. It's been a good day.
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I think Miichan got a facial treatment .... because when I use the hash tag I get a post of familiar face (well, more the name ... ) and Miichan posted pics like those before (being a pretty well known idol has it's perks it seems)

https://twitter.com/chan__31/status/1073147536162996225
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ちょっと前の話になりますが、25歳ラストデーに #小顔科学研究所 に駆け込んできました。久しぶりだったけど、やはり顔が引き上がり目がぱっちりするという現象は無条件にとても嬉しい 26歳もよろしくお願いします。
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It was a little while ago, but I rushed to the last day of 25 years old #小顔科学研究所. Although it was a long time, the phenomenon that the face is still charming the fox is very glad to be ☺️ 26 years old unconditionally.
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Miichan reacted to Sasshii's graduation announcement, Yukirin, Shiichan and Myao, there are just those few left of the first generations ... an no more Team Suncon :/

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さっしー、おつかれさま。 前向きで清々しくてHKT愛を感じる空間でした。かっこよかった... 写真は今日じゃないです。
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Sasshii, thank you for your hard work.
It was a positive, refreshing space that felt HKT love. It was cool...

The photo is not today.
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Red and White song battle
https://twitter.com/chan__31/status/1074299632623054849
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AKB紅白歌合戦、今年も白熱しましたね〜ユニットは大好きな「クサイモノだらけ」朱里もゆいりもパフォーマンスを尊敬してる後輩なので一緒に歌えて嬉しかった！なかよし萌夏と、峯岸古参ファンのなつりこぴ（笑）あかりんからリップいただいた わーい 紅組優勝ありがとうございました
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AKB Red and white song battle, I was excited to sing together because it is a junior who also has a respect for the performance of the unit is a favorite [full of Kusai mono] Akari, too! Nakayoshi Moe Summer and the yay of the red-gumi , which was a rip from Akari (laughs)
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first one .... Miichan tapping into her motherly side, taking her kohai under her protective wings
And that look from her kohai on her right (our left) ...

Or, .... it might be Miichan being Shaku ... and cool .... "these two are mine!"

And those satin dresses look awesome .... AKB's costume designer haven been churning out load of these rather sophisticated designs lately, I can't see the skirt .. but I guess the hemline is under the knees?


ow, and it seems Miichan's team won?


finally had the chance to see part of the 13th anniversary show .... Yuuhi wo Miteiru ka? .... there's not much better then seeing Miichan opening it ... I kinda love that song to death :/ ... it's the song that reminds me of a nice sunny day biking along a river an through rice fields near Kurashiki or long summer evenings with the incessant chant of cicadas ...


ow, btw ... I said it was amazing to see Miichan in the front row of Hebirote, right?
Well, .... she was more then just in the front row .... she was center!


Yukirin was Aachan to Miichan's Yuko .... and Myao Mariko-sama ...
It would have been so easy for management to just put Miichan in a back row for most of the songs (like river where she's 3rd row extreme right) and let a senbatsu member center, but they gave her Hebirote
(and yeah, I guess the rest of the world knew all of this a long time ago )

 

Or I could argue that probably any original gen member would do that for each other ...

but after thinking about it I think Yukirin and Miichan are probably indeed friends, it's just not at the level that Miichan seems/seemed to have with Takamina, Acchan, Yuko, Nyan-Nyan and Mikki-chan.
But I'm just judging that on how often those turn up in Miichan's twitter

there's a moment i one of the documentaries where they are sitting together in the bus with Miichan doodling on the fogged up window ... non-friends wouldn't do that I guess

 

The theatre where Miichan's next play will be performed posted an interview with her on YouTube

https://twitter.com/meijiza_okuni/status/1076736760506281984
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コメント動画第2弾は笑顔がチャーミングな峯岸みなみさんです！ 幼い頃に能に魅了され、芸事を極めようとするお丹を、13歳からAKB48でファンの皆様を魅了している峯岸さんが演じます♬ 最後の峯岸さんがとっても可愛いのでぜひご覧ください♪ #明治座 #ふたり阿国 #峯岸みなみ
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Comment Video 2nd is Minegishi Minami smile is charming! She is fascinated by Noh at an early age, and is a very cute girl who has fascinated her fans with AKB48 since the age of 13, and is very pretty. ♬ ♪ #明治座 #ふたり阿国 #峯岸みな
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if the video does not show watch the video here

So it appears the play is based on Noh or it might even be straight up Noh, which would explain the look an feel of the costumes
Another tweet says: "Not to mention the musical number, I do not stop exciting music that includes various elements such as blues, rap, mood songs!" ... so, no .. it will not be traitional Noh

As an aside, I can't remember seeing Miichan ever with her hair parted in the middle (apart from when it was very short it has always been asymmetrically (which leads me to conclude she's pretty self conscious about the difference in the size of her eyes) )


In other news ... as I received my so called 13th month ..... I ordered Miichan's phonebooks, 'south' and 'watashi wa watashi'
(and yes ... that is really late, but better late then never)


Miichan tweeted something about forgetting her Christmas costume yesterday ?
Anyway ... she found it

https://twitter.com/chan__31/status/1077219486611075072
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メリークリスマス 特別な日に会いに来てくださった皆様、ありがとうございました。2018年の感謝も伝えられて、とてもいい時間を過ごせました。1年ありがとう。来年もよろしくです。 そして日付変わって25日は母の誕生日でもあります。いつもありがとう。ずっと健康で、ずっと幸せに
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Merry Christmas Thank you to everyone who came to see me on a special occasion. I was able to spend a very good time with Thanksgiving in 2018. Thank you for one year. I would like to meet you next year. and 25 days after the date is also my mother's birthday. Thank you always. Be healthy and be happy all the time
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Not sure if she means the 24th is her mum's birthday ... but it does sound like it, in that case おめでとうみいーちゃんの岡さん　(and yes that's probably not correct)

 

Miichan was at miyu-chan's graduation performace, the older gens are really getting rare :/
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みゆちゃん卒業おめでとう。 「神曲縛り」公演を通して距離が縮まって嬉しかった〜 優しい歌声と強い意志で自分だけの道を突き進んでいってね！！！！ この公演を好きでいてくれた皆さん、ありがとうございました。ヨシマサさんP公演、第2弾に期待かな... 今日はチームＫ公演 楽しむぞ〜
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Happy Graduation from Miyu-chan. I was glad that the distance shrank through the "Divine Comedy Restraints" Performance ~ I go on my own way with a gentle voice and strong will!!!! Thank you to everyone who liked this performance. I hope you'll be in the second edition of Yoshi's performance p... I'm enjoying the team K performance today !
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And it was Miichan's birthday celebration
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26歳の生誕祭、ありがとうございました 沢山のコールに包まれてスーパー楽しくパフォーマンスさせていただきました！！ステージ上でたくさん話させてもらったのでここでは多くは語りません！！笑 こみ、すんばらしいお手紙ありがとう。友達も観に来てくれて、幸せな日になりました♡はぁ♡
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26-year-old birthday festival, thank you a lot of calls are wrapped in a super fun performance!! We talked a lot on the stage, so we don't talk much here!! Hehe, thank you for your letter. My friends came to see me and it was a happy day ♡! ♡
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"And it was Miichan's birthday celebration"

Fellow Ks Kojimako and Moeka mentioned it.

"Thank you Mi - chan always
And congratulations again.
Mi - chan birthday festival and the last K show this year!
Thank you very much ❤︎❤︎❤︎"
https://twitter.com/mak0_k0jima/status/1077916824455409664





instastory

Edit: Story at TechInsight and more seitansai pics.

http://japan.techinsight.jp/2018/12/maki12272027.html







https://twitter.com/AKB48_LODstaff/status/1077927612008194048
https://twitter.com/sunMOONtruth_/status/1077888535477215238
https://twitter.com/kolice48/status/1077898358985904129

 

I'm aware I'm crossposting, posted this in the no3b thread: the 10th anniversary show will be re-broadcasted, see https://www.bs-sptv.com/program/4405/

 

The party made the news.

"Reported that former AKB 48 Takahashi Minami opened a year-end party with the new and old members of AKB 48 belonging to the same office. Published images including Kojima Haruna, Watanabe Mayu, Minegishi Minami, Mukaichi Mion, Kato Rena, and the fans are delighted.

"It was a year-end party of the office" cut out , Production Ogi and related company, Mama & Son 's year-end party was held."

https://www.musicvoice.jp/news/201812280110792/

[Production Ogi is No Sleeves' agency; they also represent Ota Aika and Ichikawa Miori; they also used to represent Iwasa Misaki, Nakagawa Haruka, and other former AKB48 Group members]
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/プロダクション尾木#所属タレント・アーティスト

 

The situation is a bit vague because Talamina, Nyan-nyan and Miichan are still (mainly) listed as talents of Production Ogi (and probably are still signed there) but they are also listed as talents of Mama & Son (under business partner ship with Production Ogi)
Mama&Son's only exclusive talents seem to be Renacchi, Myon and Sawako Himeno, the rest are co-signed.
And then the no3b 10th anniversary concert was organised by M&S or was it OgiPro .... I'm sooooooo confused right now

when M&S was announced it looked like a No3b vehicle, or a company headed by no3b

otoh ... they have been pretty active the last months ... so that is good
(and they have a job opening for a manager .... so if you're interested in managing some idols, this is your change )



ok, that is weird ... I didn't know/forgot Mayuyu was signed with OgiPro ... so I was looking for her profile ...
and looked .... and looked again .... and then discovered that what I supposed to be Takamina was Mayuyu, because in the thumbnails at first glance they look almost identical :/

 

Yuu-san (Miichan's, Miki-chan's and Kitarie's ( and probably more) hairdresser's) twitter



And it seems Miichan's name came up in a program with Sasshii, Miki-chan and Ariyoshi.
Google makes a complete mess of the translation but one thing it seems Sasshii said was that Miki-chan's character was made/formed by Miichan.
指原莉乃、元AKB48の後輩・西野未姫のキャラは「峯岸が作った」
Sashihara Rino, moto AKB 48 no kōhai Nishino Miki no kyara wa `Minegishi ga tsukutta'

I have read that Miichan and Sasshii consulted each other a lot about their kohai when Miichan was Team 4 captain.

update: yeay my ordered photobooks arrived today
(I guess I need to start learning to read kanji now )


ow, and my workplace is now officially complete


ow, and Miichan closed the year with a showroom (I think she cooked something)
(and I was an hour too late )

 

There was a end-of-year party of Mama&Son, short video in the link.

https://twitter.com/ms_staff/status/1079739633334857728

did, I say that the relation between Production Ogi and M&S is a bit vague ... look at the new years greeting by M&S


To which Agency is Mayuyu signed ? ... Production Ogi or M&S ?

and then there's this?
Sasshii's twitter
https://twitter.com/345__chan/status/1079657673467940864
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紅白の会見で「プロダクション尾木さんからの差し入れの尾木汁が好きだ！」と話したらわざわざ尾木社長が差し入れしにきてくださいました優しい…。
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Talking to Kohaku 's interview "If you like the tailed juice from Production Ogi' s placement!" All the time the president Oki brought in and put it in. Gentle ....
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I'm not sure if they gifted her the food or the cooker(?) ... but the president of Production Ogi presenting a gift ... Sasshii's signed with Otha Pro ... right?