Minegishi Minami (Miichan) / 1st Generation

Miichan's weekly YouTube video
it's a dance video this time ... BEGINNER ... performed with spades of attitude


if the video does not show watch the video here

(I do wonder how this works by the way, because I'm sure you would get a strike on your channel for sure if you used an AKB song in it's entirety if you are just some random YouTuber (and yes I know, Miichan is not just some random YouTuber , and yeah, the Beginner MV is on the AKB channel as well ) )

just rewatched the original MV, I can see why didn't go with that in the end ... it's a wee bit too gruesome

btw, didn't notice this before




I know the 'i' is missing, but ...Sasshii and Miichan are AKB's enemies?

 

Miichan's instagram (which I somehow don't check that often):

I did a bit of digging, but only thing I could turn up (from our own wiki) was that it was King Records' decision to pull the orginal version, Aki-P seems to have thought it was a good MV but he was overruled.
They screened the original MV at the Janken Takai that year and one or two more live events, the last tiem a King Records representative said that that would be the last time it would be shown as it was 'too strong visually' ...
I think too strong visually might be an understatement, but apart from Sasshii and Miichan the computer components is 'Stone records' ... so who knows, maybe it was a veiled dig at King Records, or they (King Records) perceived it as such?

(yeah, I know, going from 'Stone' to 'King' is a bit of a stretch)

 

well, you find something new everyday ...

https://twitter.com/Reireimoan/status/1280816724003127307

*those* are not real ...

 

No make-up video this week, in stead a visit to Miichan's long time personal hairdresser, Yuu-san (with fancy perspex facemask)

if the video does not show watch the video here

I gathered that the male hairdresser drying her hair was an AKB fan, ... but I guess an 'old school' fan as his oshimen was (of course) Acchan

I can't remember anyone coming straight out for having Miichan as oshimen on a TV show ... I remember the AKBingo celebration special where they visited fans ... Yuihan, Kitarie, Amina and Miichan, all of them had some fans, yuihan multiple times .... all of them except Miichan :/
(and ok, that was of course used as a running gag .... and she won the best sleeping spot janken in the end )

 

btw, notice her YouTube subscriber award behind her


And if she likes Disneyland ... she should come over here and I'll show her the Efteling, I'm pretty sure she'll like that as well

I (of course) googled the popcorn maker, I suspected it might be a Japan only gadget, but on the other hand, it's kinda large for the average Japanese home.
But you can order it via Amazon ... $79 ... which might not sound that bad .... till you find out you should add $106 shipping an import duties ???? well, no thank you ... (would not buy from Amazon anyway)

(and ... hurrah ... i managed to retrieve my old signature )

 

Sunday morning ... Miichan YouTube video time
(ok, it's evening in Japan )


if the video does not show watch the video here

well, I think it's a week of Miichan dieting, goal is to loose 3kg.
Starting with Miichan weighing herself at 48.5kg
btw. notice how she didn't have her YouTube subscriber plaque that day.
Next morning(?) ... the plaque is there and Miichan only just woke up it seems, kawaii
juu-man ... 10x10000
btw ... her BEGINNER video racked up 1.7million views.
not a big fan of vegetable juice in the early morning is seems ... and that for an original 野菜シスターズ
btw .. I might be mistaken, but her breakfast seems to be natto (for sure someone will point it out if I'm wrong) .... one of those dishes, or rather *the* dish, only Japanese people really appreciate ... and if you like it as a foreigner you're in a minority, it's an 'acquired taste' as I've been told.

well, it's seems there's natto in almost every dish.

not going to spoil the ending.

edit: just read Miichan's tweet, she was testing a hip trending diet 'mekabu natto'.
https://twitter.com/chan__31/status/1287320275067891712
Kinda funny how she does the obligatory 'sad before' pic, guess she picked that up in the Rizap campaign

ow, and what I thought was the morning of the second day was actually 1:30pm .... thats' not the time to say ohayou anymore tbh .... Miichan sleepyhead, still, kawaii

 

well, she did acknowledge it in the most recent video and I hope she'll be able to build her channel .... now alsmost every well known member has started their own channels as well

but I'd like to think Miichan is a bit more suited for this due to her 'variety persona'
btw apart from the BEGINNER video the colab with Sasshii did extremely well as well ... (but, yeah, that was Sasshii ... and Sasshii remains a force of nature )

I think most people can agree on that she did just that ... and she had been doing that ever since her demotion.

 

well if we're posting old videos today:


if the video does not show watch the video here

More 峯岸 チーム 4 goodness ....


ow ... just stumbled on a Yahoo! article about Miichan (and no! ... it's not a scandal!) :
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d82f921932c7a47bb8dac266344882ca04af9ca5

Spoiler: auto translated text

At the midnight of July 10, a radio station in Tokyo finished recording and came out with a beautiful long-haired black hair with slender arms and legs and a preeminent style. It is Minami Minegishi (27 years old) of AKB48.

[Photo] It looks just like Mirei Kiritani!? Minami Minegishi's full-body figure looks good with a thin skirt

Speaking of Minegishi, although she was the same early member as Atsuko Maeda (29 years old) and others, she was a member in charge of variety, as was her junior Sashihara Rino (27 years old), not Kami-7, who gained royal popularity. When the romance scandal was discovered seven and a half years ago, she cut the hair herself and delivered an apology video on YouTube.
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On the other hand, she also showed a semi-nude of a sharp body in a photo book and a gravure magazine, one entertainment reporter said, ``The real Minegishi is completely different from the third character on TV, more sexy than you think, It is well known that there are many hidden fans in the industry. In the past, I have been taken two shots with multiple handsome men, but it is said that it is convincing to be popular.”
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　In the past, I was made fun of like Gachapin and Minilla, but Lily Franky (56 years old) who is also a "beauty critic" praised me as "like Mirei Kiritani". The performing arts reporter mentioned earlier also said, "It's similar to Mr. Kiritani in that she has a delicate body but is unexpectedly rich in bust. In recent years, thanks to orthodontics, the chin line has become cleaner and the beauty has increased. I agreed.

Such Minegishi started on the official YouTube half a year ago, released makeup videos from makeup, and released a picture of a big rebound weight of 58 kg right after the CM of ``Rizap'' four years ago, and it is on sale as a bukkake character (this translation makes no sense) .. The best friend Sashihara has made 1.7 million guest appearances, and the “Dancing” video on July 5 has recorded more than 1.5 million views in just a few days, and is gaining popularity.
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AKB48 official said, "It's no wonder that the person who started a break on YouTube, a nightmare that was once reported as a social problem overseas by delivering a round-cut apology video, is a development for herself."
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I was planning to graduate from AKB48 in the spring, but the graduation concert is postponed due to the influence of the new coronavirus. However, the future after graduation is said to be bright.
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One TV station official said, "Although it is not as much as Mr. Sashihara, who is loved by Mr. Tamori and Mr. Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mr. Minegishi is also a good talker among the past AKB graduates. Will continue to play an active role."
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　Also, even after graduating from idol life, she has been banning alcohol for more than 200 days, and is demonstrating her willingness. Perhaps because of such an abstinence life, the nice body can be maintained, and there are a lot of rising eyes.
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After that, it is only possible to make a good image change without causing a useless male scandal. The entertainment reporter at the beginning said, "It was always a place of drinking that was taken with the opposite sex. If I could stop drinking like this, there could be a splendid transformation from a scandal idol like Mr. Sashihara." I am expecting.

edit: cleaned up the translation a bit

the struck through part is 'ぶっちゃけキャラで売り出し中' Butchake kyara de uridashi-chū. way above my Japanese level :/

anyway .... a really positive article about Miichan