Okada Nana (Naachan) / 14th Generation

Pictures from this week 3 days HS event.



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1st day

2nd day

3rd day

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Since you can use HS tix from 3 previous HS event that she missed, her lane was really crowded and on the 3rd day they had to limit the use of transfer tix (if someone can't use all of their Naachan transfer HS tix, they will inform you later on what to do with it which is probably another transfer). http://akb.kingrecords.co.jp/info/002836.html
Hopefully she can have a rest on Monday because she was practically non stop doing HS. Even with the HS tix limit in place, I believe she still barely get any break.

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Some AKB48show offshot pictures

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http://www.nhk.or.jp/akb48show-blog/100/309736.html
https://twitter.com/ISHIHARAshin_/status/1066313012208779266
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Don't skip today's AKB48show opening skit!
Next week will be another 48Show remix. It should rebroadcast Namida no Hyomenchoryoku performance and Smile Kamigakushi (TTMC song from 2014!)

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AKB48 singing contest


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Previously, MNL48 member Ash (Ashley Cloud) said that Naachan is her oshi
https://twitter.com/mnl48official/status/1063370699992002560
Now AKB48 Team SH Zhu Ling posted this picture during her visit to AKB48 theater

https://www.weibo.com/6626748101/H4atg5Gnt?from=page_1005056626748101

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181125 AKB48Show (NWM + Opening skit)

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There's a break in 3th slot (12.00-13.30) though, but I don't know if delay from 1st & 2nd slot eat into that break.

 

She had breaks, but relatively short. Normally in between slots they have at least 1 empty slots so the member could rest (they split a day into 8 1hr30min slots and a member can only get 6 slots/day) and a mandatory break at 18:00 to 18:30 (between 6th and 7th slot). The problem is that there were too many transfers, thus her HS keep overflowing to the next slot.

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181127 Utacon
Heart no Ace ga Detekonai (Candies cover)

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NWM + Talk

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181128 Best Artist 2018
KFC
https://streamable.com/kxhpz

NWM + Talk
https://streamable.com/mm4zx

Otoko no Kunshou (as backdancer)
https://streamable.com/fyj5w

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Video on Gyao with Yukirin (answer the question in 8s)
https://twitter.com/YJ_videotopics/status/1067336564827508736
https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/player/02000/v00041/v0000000000000002551/
https://streamable.com/u5b5f

Best Artist 2018 tiktok video
https://t.tiktok.com/i18n/share/video/6628755960347233537/

Video after NWM CDTV recording (for 12/1 0:58)
https://twitter.com/TBSCDTV/status/1067978408720654336

Promoting FNS (12/5). Talking about they will perform NWM with the 3 IZ*ONE member. Also their collaboration with Hirose Kohmi and Mizuki Nana
https://twitter.com/fns_kayousai/status/1068142643744464897


She was also in Hokkaido yesterday (Thursday) performing for "Ima koso, hitotsu ni hokkaido live"
https://www.sapporo-community-plaza.jp/event.php?num=59
It will be broadcasted in Hokkaido at 12/14 and nationwide 1/8

She was also interviewed for AKB newspaper before performing on Best Artist. It will be released on Dec 21st.

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Today should be performing on Music Station.
12/1 is the final Stage Fighter senbatsu stage.
Of course you can see her on CDTV and AKB singing contest (AKB will be shown on 12/1).

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https://natalie.mu/music/pp/akb48_08
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This is why I personally don't want her to join this singing contest. There are several reasons
-big pressure on her because before the competition even started they already labeled her as the best singer
-people tend to judge singing based on technicality

The pressure might prevented her from producing her best performance. The song choice definitely didn't help which I'm not really convinced that song was her first choice. But the biggest annoyance with the song is not the difficulty of the song but because people will compare it to Masuda Yuka and automatically judge it to be not good enough because Yuka did it better.
If you look at the songs for the other top 15, Naachan's song probably has the highest difficulty. This is not a song that you can pull of perfectly without practicing unless you already sing it countless of times. Naachan probably focused on delivering the song's message and putting a lot of soul into her singing which is what Naachan good at and this is reflected in the judges comments. She sing like the song is her own. With probably a very limited practice time, I think it is good that she focused on delivering the message instead of trying to produce a technically better performance. Of course I'm hoping for both but practice time is a luxury for her.
Basically Naachan and Yuka is a different type of singer. Even if Naachan practiced more I don't think she would produce a performance similar to Yuka and she doesn't have to. But this is a contest and it is easier for people to judge a performance based on technicality which is back to my first line where I don't want her to join this contest because I know I would be annoyed by people idea that a good singer is someone with high notes or someone that can do difficult runs or other technical vocal acrobatic stuff but those people almost never mentioned about soul. Of course it is hard to quantify a soul but at the same time it is probably the most important aspect of an artist if you want to have a chance in the real world.

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Of course it won't stop people comparing her performance with Yuka's performance (which I'm fine with) and anti will be coming out and say that it is rigged, exactly like what I thought it would be if Naachan decided to join the contest.

anyway, when I say focused on delivering the message probably I should show an example of the opposite (someone that focused on delivering a perfect vocal performance)
Someone in the contest thread commenting about they hated ASH, but the thing is that when I hear Okumoto Hinano's performance my immediate thought is that she has received singing lessons. It doesn't mean that other singers don't receive lessons but I need something other than someone cleanly hitting the notes to differentiate her in the sea of singers which I think it is one of the judges consideration when they scored them.
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And I just find this suspicious lol.

• Nov 5 -- Singing No.1 Project announced, winner prize still concealed.
• Nov 8 -- Naachan seitansai, she wanted to solo debut.
• Some days later -- Prize announced as solo debut

I am not saying that it is rigged -- but it looks like like this is designed to give opportunity to Naachan, a lot.