AKB48 held a release event for their latest single, “Beginner,” at Saitama Super Arena on November 7th and 13,000 fans rushed to the event. This event was also for their variety show, “AKB48 Nemousu TV Season 5.”
This is the first time for them to hold an event at the Saitama Super Arena, where 16 members showed up at the event …
AKB48 member Itano Tomomi released the 3rd volume of her fashion magazine, “TOMOCAWAII!” on October 8th, but finally held the unveiling event on November 6th. “TOMOCAWAII” is a special project of Itano’s, as it was produced and edited by the star.
At the press conference before the event, Itano confessed that she didn’t like her “duck mouth”, which is ironically known as …
AKB48 member, Uchida Mayumi, will make a charming appearance in LGMonkees’s new PV, “Life feat.Noa“.
In the PV, Uchida competes with LGMonkees in a ‘Janken’ match, a game that is well within the AKB48 member’s element. Uchida, a member of ‘Team K’, was the winner of ”Janken Senbatsu“, which was held on September 21st to select members for AKB48’s 19th single …
YTV will be holding their annual music awards presentation of the “Best Hit Kayousai 2010” on November 25th. The show will be broadcast through NTV, and they have finally announced their nominations for the “Gold Artist Award.”
Currently, the artists nominated for the prestegious award are ICONIQ, Ikimonogakari, Uemura Kana, EXILE, AKB48, GIRL NEXT DOOR, Koda Kumi, Nishino Kana, …
On AKB48’s November 3rd broadcast of their variety show, “AKBINGO!“, the members played a round of “Muchaburi dodgeball“, which has the same rules as regular dodgeball, but doles out ridiculous penalties.
For this round of “Muchaburi dodgeball”, the AKB48 members had to…
Eat a live octopus
Wear embarrassing make-up
Complete embarrassing missions at a restaurant alone
Eat odd food (salamander）
Drink milk with a super long straw
Eat ‘Inaba …
It’s been announced that three of the AKB48 members, Ohshima Yuko, Kojima Haruna, and Shinoda Mariko, will star in a CM for “HYTHIOL-B” (medicine for acne). In the CM, they show funny facial expressions after discovering a pimple on their faces.
The new CM titled, “AKB! Nikibi!!” will start airing on November 8th, but you can check the making of the CM …
Ex-AKB48 member, Ono Erena just released her graduation photo book “Erepyon” on November 3rd, and held a release event for this photo book. She will go on hiatus after this day (she will also close her official blog on 11/4), and will focus on her studies abroad. However, she promised to fans, “Although I will go on hiatus to study …
Oricon has just revealed its monthly charts for October.
You will likely see what you expected to see below.
In the tradition of wearing costumes at the annual event held by VAMPS, BREAKERZ always seems to outdo themselves. In the past two years, BREAKERZ dressed up as popular pop artists (Shuuchishin, Oohashi Nozomi with Fujioka Fujimaki duo) and this year was no exception.
To celebrate the the festive day, the band came out and performed as one of Japan’s top pop …
AKB48 will be starring in a CM for 7-Eleven Japan’s Christmas cakes. The girls showed up at the press conference in Santa Claus costumes on November 1st for this announcement.
AKB48 will promote the “Macaron cake” in which AKB48 members produced themselves. At the press conference, they were asked about their plan for Christmas, and Ohshima Yuko answered that they will have …
NHK’s music program, MUSIC JAPAN, has broadcasted yet another episode for October 31st.
The artists of this week were…
AKB48 – “Beginner”
Group damashii – “Berobero”
JUJU – “Hello, Again~Mukashi kara Aru Basho~”
BREAKERZ – “BUNNY LOVE”
Porno Graffitti – “Kimi wa 100%”
Check out the episode below!
Source: MUSIC JAPAN Official Site
Late night music program, Countdown TV was broadcasted on October 31st, and featured AKB48 and Porno Graffitti as this week’s guests. For the episode, Ikimonogakari’s upcoming album “Ikimonobakari” was discussed over the air (set to release November 3rd), and the hosts also delivered the top 10 ranking of best albums, as well as the weekly top 30 singles ranking.
Check out the …
AKB48 member, Ohshima Yuko professed that she’s a huge fan of clothing brand, A BATHING APE.
Yuko recently wrote on her blog, “I’m a APE girl today, both my T-shirt and hoodie. A lot of Milo-san’s (the character of BAPE). I am now relaxing at home after the shoot.”
The brand is internationally renown for its original graphics and designs; in …
Popular music program, “MUSIC FAIR“, aired this week’s episode with Go Hiromi, Kuraki Mai, and AKB48 as guests. This was the first time that AKB48 made an appearance on the show. Check out the video below! (Writer’s Note: Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any videos of Go Hiromi and Kuraki Mai’s performances)
Otokonoko Onnanoko (Go Hiromi in1972) – Go Hiromi×AKB48
Hana to Mitsubachi …
AKB48 sub-unit Mini Skirt has started promoting the new game machine, “Pretty Rhythm,” culminating in a newly released CM on television in the Kanto and Kansai areas.
Mini Skirt is made up of Takeuchi Miyu, Mori Anna, and Shimada Haruka, all research students for AKB48. The trio has been cast as the promoters for the new …
