AKB48: Welcome to Japan's Most Sophisticated Show (3rd thread)

[Bigtop]

By the way, the Senbatsu 2011-12 announcement should start nine hours away. (And by the time it's all over, there's still time to get back to Haneda Airport and catch that Delta flight around midnight back to LA! LOL )

Okay, now the album sales...

#1 as expected, but...

321,108?!

Well, that's quite decent, more than last year's Kamikyoukutachi, but shouldn't I see more than this...???

[OogoeDiamond]

- album was post poned a few times
- poeple just buy Kachusha like crazy - its too much AKB in short time
- Album dont has - new hit singles... and old songs are kinda forgotten by now...

Also its just frist day right? Hope they will be able to sell Million in the future...

[dreamland2.0]

^umm I don't think your third point is quite right. People are still buying Ponyshu, Hebirote and Beginner singles. The current singles have sold well because people like the old songs.

I'm so excited for election!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only about 7 more hours!!!!!!!!!!

[Amrai-chan]

Maybe people are saving up for Acchans single and then No Sleeves single. I think the sales are pretty good for album sales so far.

Yay the election is hours away!

Also for anyone going to the SDN show on Friday they are giving away 100 free autographed items to some people.

[LacusClyne]

my album came!!!!! the notebook is really cute!


[ここにいたこと」limited edition, with photobook and HMV version notebook
[Everyday, カチュウシャ」CD+DVD type A、HMV version photo

[Aspen]

Super excited for the election results ~

Quite funny how I disliked them at the start and slowly came to respect and admire them to the point where I'm eagerly wanting to know how well they fared .

[Polyrhythm]

KeyHole on!

Going to watch this election live! OMG! excited T_T

Or see the live updates on Twitter. w/e!

[omably]

where's the best place to check updates for the election?

[dreamland2.0]

Here is undergirls


#40 - Fujie Reina
#39 - Ichikawa Miori
#38 - Matsui Sakiko
#37 - Maeda Ami
#36 - Suda Aakri
#35 - Oba Mina
#34 - Sato Sumire
#33 - Hata Sawako
#32 - Komori Mika
#31 - Nito Moeno
#30 - Oya Masana
#29 - Oya Shizuka
#28 - Yamamoto Sayaka
#27 - Miyazaki Miho
#26 - Hirajima Natsumi
#25 - Ota Aika
#24 - Nakagawa Haruka
#23 - Takayanagi Akane
#22 - Umeda Ayaka

[Polyrhythm]

Just gonna say this now, this is going to be the ugliest media senbatsu ever.

WTF Myao out of senbatsu. WTF at Kasai. WTF at the amount of votes.

[Amrai-chan]

I can't even think much right now other than wow.

Originally Posted by omably

where's the best place to check updates for the election?

On Twitter akb48journal Is good.

[Polyrhythm]

The only good that happened was that Yukirin is #3. The worst thing, Sashihara is in media.

Tiny things made the butthurt better....Masuda Yuka (the talent of DiVA IMO made it)....Kuramochi's in...but overall...wtf.

[dreamland2.0]

Senbatsu

#21 - Kuramochi Asuka (12387 votes)
#20 - Masuda Yuka
#19 - Yokoyama Yui
#18 - Sato Amina (16574 votes)
#17 - Akimoto Sayaka (17154 votes)
#16 - Kasai Tomomi (22857 votes)
#15 - Minegishi Minami (26070 votes)
#14 - Matsui Jurina (27804 votes)
#13 - Kitahara Rie (27957 votes)
#12 - Takajo Aki (31009 votes)
#11 - Miyazawa Sae (33500 votes)
#10 - Matsui Rena (36929 votes)
#09 - Sashihara Rino (45227 votes)
#08 - Itano Tomomi (50403 votes)
#07 - Takahashi Minami (52790 votes)
#06 - Kojima Haruna (52920 votes)
#05 - Watanabe Mayu (59118 votes)
#04 - Shinoda Mariko (60539 votes)
#03 - Kashiwagi Yuki (74252 votes)
#02 - Oshima Yuko (122843 votes)
#01 - Maeda Atsuko (139892 votes)

QUEEN ACCHAN IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LacusClyne]

^ i saw that on twiter and akb facebook too.

hooray for Acchan!
my 2 votes are on her. (^_^)

though i saw on my facebook that i seem to be the only one who like acchan t o be number 1, the others are feling sad that yuko is number 2

[dreamland2.0]

^uhhhhhh 0_0 Look two posts up >_>

[bondingo]

My thoughts on senbatsu:

-I wanted Yuko to win :’( But yay for Acchan. She was so genuinely moved that she was elected first that I was happy for her.

-Yuki at 3 is surprising. Yay for her though. I've always liked her.

-4-6 were expected. Expected Tomochin in there somewhere though.

-7 isn’t bad for my oshi but I wish she would’ve ranked higher

-Had no idea Sashihara was so popular.

-Rena’s more popular than Jurina? This is also surprising to me.

-Didn’t know Takajo was so popular, but at least I like her.

-Minegishi's lower than I expected, which is too bad because I love her.

-Yay for Sayaka! 17 is great!

-I find it lolzy that Uchida Mayumi didn't make it into the top 40. CnJ clearly didnt help her popularity, but I'm fine with that since I don't care for her myself.

Also, did anyone see the pics of how PISSED Tomochin looks during Acchan's acceptance speech. They're ****ing hilarious

[Polyrhythm]

Acchan doesn't keep f'ing winning what are you ranting about o_o This is only the 3rd election and she has only won once before. I do agree it's weird though that Uchida didn't rank. I didn't like her as center, but she has a great personality and would have added nicely to that (now really horrible IMO) undergirls group. I can't believe Kobayashi didn't rank either...she was awesome in CnJ too....instead we get random, bland people like those SKE and NMB w/e's....oh well. I guess I can say by to Kobayashi soon since its obvious her career isn't going anywhere with AKB I cannot accept Sashihara. She's funny sometimes but she belongs in lower senbatsu, if not undergirls. Not media materia. Thank god there's no Ishida in sight, phew. I can't explain Tomochin's rank. I guess the other girls just became more popular, which is still sort of absurd to me. She had a crazy selling single. Oh well, it's not like she's going to die or w/e...I don't explain why she has to put on that crapface. Kind of annoying but I still like her. Mayuyu is just win win win for me. She finally grew up and took her rank gracefully...lovely speech. I didn't like her all that much since she seemed kind of conceited, but now I can see that isn't so. Yukirin.....

Side note, Jurina looked SO OLD in that moment and her legs were wobbling. Poor girl. Rena? I'll never understand why she's so popular but oh well, I'm over her. She looks scary at times but her personality is really likeable.

Those ugly portraits on stage are just....no no no though LOL.

[Mirrorcle Monster]

Why Tomochin that low?
Im totally disappointed with the results, i am so tired of Acchan being the centre of everything

[bondingo]

^^Edited my post before you even posted so I'm not sure how that still ended up in your post. What I originally meant by that was how she's always winning in terms of popularity whenever I see polls and stuff, even though she lost to Yuko last year. And it would still make sense to say that since she's won 2/3 elections, but I edited it anyways because I realized how that could be interpreted that she won three times in a row, which I know she didn't. I just don't see why she's the most popular when I think Yuko has 10x the personality she does.

EDIT: Forget the edit I just did to this post regarding Takamina and Kojiharu. I was watching the right top 5 videos for this year but 6 and 7 I was watching last year's I still can't find 6-12 from this year.

[NintendoHTF1242]

ngl, I was expecting this new album to shatter some records lmao. But it's doing very well on the charts. I gotta give it a listen sometime.