Stage48 Countdown: Episode 237 (Members who are too pure for this world)

Stage48 Countdown (Episode 59) (Best Fall Songs) (2015 Edition)

Welcome everybody to Episode 59 of Stage48 Countdown. I'm Forrest Fuller. On todays episode we have the 2nd annual Best Fall Songs list. This is the 2015 Edition of this list. Will UZA remain #1, or will we have a new #1 this year? Let's find out, Before we began. Here on the 5 Songs just shy of making the list. Your Honorable Mentions.

Honorable Mentions
11) Kaze wa Fuiteiru (AKB48's 24th Single) (2011) (Last Year: 3rd) (37 Points)
12) Aitakatta (AKB48's 1st Single) (2006) (Last Year: --) (36 Points)
13) Must be now (NMB48's 13th Single) (2015) (Last Year: First Year Eligible) (35 Points)
14) Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara (AKB48's 14th Single Coupling Song) (Last Year: 6th) (2009) (31 Points)
15) Seifuku no Mannequin (Nogizaka46's 4th Single) (2012) Last Year: --) (30 Points)

Now onto the Top 10.
10) Heart Ereki (AKB48's 33rd Single) (2013) (Last Year: --) (38 points)
9) Kibouteki Refrain (AKB48's 38th Single) (2014) (Last Year: First Year Eligible) (39 Points)
8) Yuuhi wo Mitiru Ka? (AKB48's 6th Single) (2007) (Last Year: --) (42 Points)
7) Escape (AKB48's 34th Single Coupling Song: SKE48) (Last Year: 11th) (2013) (49 Points)
6) HA! (AKB48's 29th Single Coupling Song: NMB48) (Last Year: 8th) (2012) (54 Points)
5) Oogoe Diamond (AKB48's 10th Single) (Last Year: 5th) (2008) (68 Points)
4) UZA (AKB48's 28th Single (Last Year: 1st) (90 Points)
3) Beginner (AKB48's 18th Single) (Last Year: 2nd) (102 Points)
2) Nandome no Aozora Ka? (Nogizaka46's 10th Single) (Last Year: 9th) (105 Points)
1) River (AKB48's 14th Single) (Last Year: 7th) (111 Points)
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River takes the top spot this year as UZA (Last Years #1) is #4 this year. As you guys saw as well. I put where some of the songs were on last years list. Only one made the top 10 in it's first year (while Must be now made the Honorable Mention, keeping up with the latest song released making the cut. Pretty much 3 new songs in the top 10 this year. Will wonder how it will be in 2016? We will have to find out around this time in 2016. Anyways, time for the 60th Episode voting. A Topic I was wondering about.

Best Team

Since 2005, The 48 Groups members have been spilt into teams. It has started with the 1st Generation of AKB48 as the original Team A and the last team to be created was on April 17th with the formation of SNH48 Team X. Over time we have had some well known Teams. Some are known as the greatest teams. These are the 10 best teams of the 48 Groups. Of course these are for the groups who have teams (AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, JKT48, and SNH48) so no Nogizaka46, SDN48, Keyakizaka46, and NGT48 (Since they have no teams yet.)

Did want to mention the list of teams that are eligible

AKB48 Teams

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Team A
Original Team A (2005-2009)
Takahashi Team A (2009-2012)
Shinoda/Yokoyama Team A (2012-2014)
Takahashi Team A (Version 2) (2014-2015)
Yokoyama Team A (2015-Present)

Team K
Original Team K (2006-2009)
Akimoto Team K (2009-2012)
Oshima Team K (2012-2014)
Yokoyama Team K (2014-2015)
Minegishi Team K (2015-Present)

Team B
Original Team B (2007-2009)
Kashiwagi Team B (2009-2012)
Umeda Team B (2012-2014)
Kuramochi Team B (2014-2015)
Kizaki Team B (2015-Present)

Team 4
Oba Team 4 (2011-2012)
Minegishi Team 4 (2013-2014)
Minegishi Team 4 (V2) (2014-2015)
Takahashi Team 4 (2015-Present)

Team 8
Ota Team 8 (2014-Present)

SKE48 Teams

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Team S
Hirata Team S (2008-2012)
Nakanishi Team S (2013-2014)
Miyazawa Team S (2014-Present)

Team KII
Takayanagi Team KII (2009-2013)
Takayanagi Team KII (V2) (2013-2014)
Furukawa/Oba Team KII (2014-Present)

Team E
Umemoto Team E (2010-2013)
Matsui Team E (2013-2014)
Suda Team E (2014-Present)

NMB48 Teams

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Team N
Yamamoto Team N (2011-2014)
Yamamoto Team N (V2) (2014-Present)

Team M
Shimada Team M (2012-2014)
Yamada/Fujie Team M (2014-Present)

Team BII
Kamieda Team BII (2012-2014)
Kamieda Team BII (V2) (2014-Present)

HKT48 Teams

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Team H
Original Team H (Anai Team H) (2012-2014)
Anai Team H (V2) (2014-Present)

Team KIV
Ota Team KIV (2014-Present)

JKT48 Teams

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Team J
Original Team J (2012-2013)
Putri Team J (2013-2015)
Junianatha Team J (2015-Present)

Team KIII
Naomi Team KIII (2013-2015)
Putri Team KIII (2015-Present)

Team T
Nakagawa Team T (2015-Present)

SNH48 Teams

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Team SII
Mo Han Team SII (2012-2015)
Dai Meng Team SII (2015-present)

Team NII
Xu YanYu Team NII (2012-2014)
Feng XinDou (2014-present)

Team HII
Wang Lu Team HII (2014-present)

Team X
Li Jing Team X (2015-present)

Some I went with a V2 for ones that didn't change captains (like Minegishi Team 4) since it did become a different team after the Shuffle. Also will be allowing Team 8 (and naming it Ota Team 8) since she is the unofficial captain of the group (wish they would make that official already tbh). Also like with ones where the captain/leader graduated, I added the name to the girl who took over (like Shinoda/Yokoyama Team A). Also let me know if I made any mistakes (was trying to get the right years on the other teams in SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, JKT48, and SNH48) and I'll fix them.

Voting Begins Now
Voting Ends on October 25th

 

1. Ori Team K
2. Ori Team N
3. Akimoto Team K
4. Ori Team A
5. Minegishi Team 4 (V1)
6. Oshima Team K
7. Kashiwagi Team B
8. Ori Team H
9. Shinoda/Yokoyama Team A
10. Shimada Team M

 

Original Team S (2008-2009)
Hirata Team S (2009-2012)

Technically the same no?

 

These 4 new teams havent done an official stage except participated in the sport festival lol

Yokoyama Team A (2015-Present)
Minegishi Team K (2015-Present)
Kizaki Team B (2015-Present)
Takahashi Team 4 (2015-Present)

 

Somewhat, But am counting it from the time Team KII began (May 2009) and they did have a former Team S member.) Plus not really counting the girls who were promoted and join Team S as an Team S Original.

But still will count them (even though I'm expecting 0 votes for all of them tbh lol.)

 

well i will vote for Kizaki Team B on my list

1) Original Team A
2) Original Team K
3) Original Team B
4) Oba Team 4
5) Hirata Team S
6) Oshima Team K
7) Takahashi Team A
8) Kashiwagi Team B
9) Kizaki Team B (just for the support)
10) Akimoto Team K

 

Wouldn't that apply to Original Team A as well? When Team B was created, some of A members got moved to Team B. The change happened around the himawari gumi stages, before A4.

 

For the record, while AKB teams refer to their teams this way, I believe that all the teams for the sister groups still simply refer to them as Team S, KII, E, N, M, BII, J, KIII, T, SII, H, KIV, NII, HII. Not as "Captains Name" Team.


Also I'm not ranking i quit keeping track of teams since they shuffle them to frequently.

 

1. Suda Team E
2. Hirata Team S
3. Kizaki Team B
4. Fujie Team M
5. Yokoyama Team A v2
6. Minegishi Team K
7. Akimoto Team K
8. Miyazawa Team S
9. Takahashi Team A v1
10. Oba Team KII

 

Actually looking back on it (You were right). I did get rid of the Original Team S choice and just put Hirata Team S (2008-2012).

 

1. Original K
Well this is obvious isn't it? Before people start bitching at me for being biased (even though all of these topics are based on subjective opinions ) I'll tell why it's my favourite team: It was a wacky team full of girls with distinct, unique personalities who were all unified and bonded anyway. And about the distinct and unique part; there was 23 year old ero-ero nee-san Ohori on the same team as 10 year old Oku, some of the best singers in all 48g history in Masuda and Nacchi, gorgeous Mocchi, amazing dancers like Umeda and Matsubara, strawberry-voiced Chiyuu, and of course the "soulmate trio" Yuko, Sae, Sayaka. To name a few. And no I wasn't around for it (I was too young to know idols anyway) but videos and stuff are a thing

2. Miyazawa S
If you see the shows you'll know that their performances are super energetic and cool and this team is overflowing with personality as well. I think the dynamic and bond of the team got better over time and now I love everyone, I'm particularly endeared to the ones that have a mama-baby thing with my oshi like Chikako, Yumechi, Jurina, and of course Uha. But really she is everyone's mama there, d'aww. lol. My favourite part of the shows is the Mangekyou crew MC; between Masanya's tsukommi, MiyaMiya competing to out-dumb or out-lame eachother and Maimai being a magical girl, there's some antics that go on lol.

3. Furukawa/Oba KII
The only other Team apart from S that I follow consistently (now and then I'll have a rotating third team, but I tend to lose interest). People like to cite them as the "weak team" since they never have members in AKB sembatsu, but they are not weak lol, their stage is one of the most fun in all 48g. Hidaka Yuzuki and Arai Yuki (aka Alpaca) are some of the most energetic dancers ever. Sally is an impeccable ballerina and I'll miss Goudo's legs in Manazashi Sayonara and of course the big names are Churi, Kaotan and Nao who are awesome girls. Overall the members have a lot of talent and passion, I love them.

4. Kashiwagi B
5. Akimoto K
6. Original A
7. Kamieda BII v2
8. Original N
9. Original B
10. Takahashi A

@mieniem idk if it's any kind of authority since it's also fan-run, but the 48pedia also uses the captain's names for the SKE teams. It's a mechanism for defining the specific version of that team so I don't see why they wouldn't.
and btw @ForrestFuller I'm not sure if there's something I don't know since I've never followed HKT's theater ever, but you listed Team H as Chihiro H while all the others have the captain's surname, maybe that might cause some confusion (unless, like I said, I might be missing something.)

 

1.) Ori Team K
2.) Akimoto Team K
3.) Ori Team A
4.) Kashiwagi Team B
5.) Suda Team E
6.) Oshima Team K
7.) Shinoda/Yokoyama Team A
8.) Takahashi Team A
9.) Minegishi Team 4
10.)Takayanagi Team KII (V2)

 

Fixed .

 

1. Original Team K
2.Oba Team 4
3.Original Team H
4.Original Team N
5.Takahashi Team A ver. 2
6.Kashiwagi Team B
7.Original Team A
8.Hirata Team S
9.Umemoto Team E
10.Matsui Team E

 

1. Original Team B
2. Original Team A
3. Oba Team 4
4. Minegishi Team 4(2013-2014)
5. Original Team K
6. Hirata Team S(2008-2012)
7. Takayanagi Team KII(2009-2013)
8. Matsui Team E
9. Original Team N
10. Shimada Team M

 

1. Kashiwagi Team B
2. Original Team K
3. Original Team A
4. Original Team B
5. Matsui Team E
6. Oshima Team K
7. Suda Team E
8. Shimada Team M
9. Akimoto Team K
10. Original Team H

 

1) Original Team A
2) Team HII
3) Team X
4) Original Team N
5) Original Team K
6) Team 8
7) Yokoyama Team A (2015-Present)
8) Yamada/Fujie Team M (2014-Present)
9) Feng XinDuo Team NII
10) Dai Meng Team SII

@ForrestFuller You forgot Team X on the list of all Teams.

 

Lol how do you propose telling them apart then? Oh wait you're not even voting.

@ForrestFuller thanks for making the changes! I was having problems cause even though Team M is still my favourite team, the differences between Yamada Team M and Fujie Team M are kinda big due to the huge number of graduations. I guess it is better to make clear distinctions based on when shuffles are made.

 

1. Original Team A
2. Original Team K
3. Kashiwagi Team B
4. Original Team J
5. Original Team B
6. Akimoto Team K
7. Matsui Team E
8. Minegishi Team 4
9. Yamada/Fujie Team M
10. Miyazawa Team S

 

1. Original Team A
2. Shinoda/Yokoyama Team A
3. Takahashi Team A (Ver.2)
4. Yokoyama Team A (2015-Present)
5. Ota Team 8
6. Takahashi Team A
7. Oba Team 4 (Original)
8. Original Team B
9. Umeda Team B
10. Kuramochi Team B