Okada Nana (Naachan) / 14th Generation

Showroom with Yuiri


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as I see it, Nana and management have discussed this kennin for a long time and Nana wanted to be a kennin only, but management probably wanted her to fully transfer that's why they suddenly gave her a captain position yesterday to give her a bit of a push in the transfer direction. that's probably how Nana sees it too - if she becomes a captain, she'll have to transfer to STU eventually, so she declined it.
+ Sasshi said that she'll teach Nana everything she can and then entrust the group to her, so that's another indication, that management wants to fully transfer Nana to STU (even though she also said that it's not management's intention, but her own)

 

Eeeeh… I hope she changes her mind, I really want to see a captain Nana.

On a different (off-) topic: can't believe we'll have a proper Nemousu! It's been what, years?

 

Like this?
http://nagatsukinura119.tumblr.com/image/157655264906

 

Nana's haircut with the uniform is badazz tho :O

Hope she gets like scouted for war movie after this hahaha

 

Yuiri was subbing for Haruppi in the Shoot Sign perf in kojimatsuri d2. The nana-yuiri having parallel positions was beautiful AF i hope we can see the yuunaa combi in future senbatsu but even though yuiri is on senbatsu level already i dont think mngmnt will put her in senbatsu unless she participates in ssk. Right now naachan has parallel positions with haruppi and the only thing that comes to my mind is they theyre the short hair combi in senbatsu.

Anyways I hope the kennin thingy with STU wont make her lose momentum (although the reason for naaachan and sasshi being there is to media play STU and naachan) Things are going great for her in AKB so transferring right now would be a bad idea.

 

On the contrary, this can only help her gain even more momentum.

She's gonna be everywhere in the next few months, and next to Sasshi. If that isn't great publicity, I don't know what is lol

About the captaincy.
I understand her position, tbh. She feels it's not right for someone who can only devote half her time to STU to actually lead it, hence why she isn't sure about the appointment.
On the other hand, the vice-captain will be a STU original, and what's the job of a vice if not to step in when the captain isn't there?

I feel like management wants her to fall in love with STU and eventually transfer.
Something like Harugon devoting herself to JKT or Sae declining her Team K kennin to do nothing work with SNH.

But they don't know if that will happen, so... a kennin is the only possible solution that can work for everyone (for now).

I think this is going to be great for her.
If NGT helped Kitarie rank back into senbatsu after two years in UG, STU could help Naachan jump into Kami 7.

 

This is going to be a good boost, we all know that, i mean, STU just for the concept alone is getting atention, so i'm pretty sure we will be seeing Naachan scale a few positions in the SSK.
Hope we see them debut any time soon, on my calculations, based on how long they took with NGT, we will be seeing them on the SSK concert, i hope.

 

Sorry! I was reading about Hirajima before and Nacchan got in my head lol

Yeah, I think giving her the center (and Sasshi winning the election if she enters) would give STU a great push from the start.

I only feel bad about Kojimako. She was groomed as the next big thing and girl just can't catch a break lol
Hope she ranks in senbatsu this year though.

 

Kojimako never quite found a character she was happy with, and that was what broke her compared to Miki or Naachan. But that's just my opinion. I love that girl but she kind of faded to the background between the two brighter lights.

Center does mean something though. As they're saying in the Keyaki single thread, it's exhausting because you go on media, and people will be expecting you to be the spokesperson. At least now there's a captain to help Hirate… but AKB is another story, the singles don't belong to teams, so nobody cares about captains. When Takamina was around it was she and the center. Now it's basically Sasshi and the center, or when Sasshi is the center, Sasshi and Mayuyu, or very rarely Sasshi and Yui.

Naachan's fans are always afraid she can't deal with pressure. We've seen her break before. I prefer to think it won't happen again, that she's stronger and learned how to take care of herself… but we can't shrug it off as being just symbolic, the pressure is pretty real.

I'll have unfortunately to align with the camp that believes she'll never get a center. I don't think it fits her image, as much as she deserves it, and I'm with the group who think she's being groomed for soukantoku.

Nothing against Yui but… Yui-Sasshi and Yui-Mayu never quite gelled the way Takamina-Acchan and Takamina-Yuko did. They know Naachan-Mayu have good enough chemistry, now they're trying Naachan-Sasshi. Maybe they know something we don't about Yokoyama-san's medium-short-term plans.

Edit: eh, that came out pretty trollish not the intention. No hate intended on Kojimako, Miki, Hirate, Yui, the management, or especially Naachan. (Well, maybe a bit on the management.) I'm just a strong believer on girls playing to her strengths rather than trying all to fit the same mold… diversity is what 48G is all about, after all. I wouldn't want my favourite Sakamichi member (Oda) to center a single (although a coupling maybe) — it just doesn't feel right for her career.

A solo, though… hmm. Yeah, give us a Naachan solo as a coupling. I'll buy that.

 

Forcing the captain role on her will make it alot easier to slowly make the group grow only and eventually asking for a transfer. Which is obviousty their intention. If she is a senbatsu staple which I think she is, she wont lose being full STU.

 

Naachan is strong, I can not doubt that. And, yes, for me it is ready to be a center. If Hana and Riripon have been able, why not her?

 

It's not about being ready. She's been ready for years. And it's not about whether I think she should get one. Is that I think she won't. Doesn't seem to be the direction management wants to take her.

Like they dangled a center in front of Takamina for literally a decade until she was about to graduate… despite how for all practical purposes RIVER is a Takamina song period.

 

Maybe they'll give her an A-side double center down the road, but i agree that a solo center seems unlikely. I would like to be wrong tho.