moletonttu

I'm 23. The way I fell in love is pretty funny: I was just searching youtube one day for funny clips from japanese shows and ran across a couple of episodes of AKBingo. To my surprise I was able to understand much of the content although I had been studying japanese for only 3 years. I liked the show and loved the girls because they were so funny so I kept watching all the episodes, skipping all the song performances because the music sounded so fake and too happy for me. After watching a lot of episodes the songs were literally forced into my head and I realized they're not actually that bad. Then I found the best stage songs and there was no turning back.

Now I've imported every single and album they've released (even subgroups and spinoffs). Guess I fell victim to the marketing machine But I'm proud I did.

That was during the beginning of 2009 so it's really been a joy to watch their rise to success (even though I'm pretty sure I'll never get to see them now). I don't know what it'll take to stop me from following them, I guess even if Takamina graduated I'd still keep following. The worst scenario would be that they fall in to the same patterns and become predictable, then it'll become boring to be a fan.

Also: if I had searched for funny japanese clips a couple of weeks later, the akbingo episodes would have been already taken down because of copyrighting issues and I probably would have never even taken a look at AKB. Scary

I refuse to believe that there is an AKB show that Hello!Onliners would miss. I do not wish to live in such a world I am waiting for the excuses.

I'm a bit disappointed to be honest. It's her body and she gets to decide what to do with it but I don't really understand what the point is.

I don't really like Gomen ne Summer that much. The song or the pv. I love Shojo wa......... though. Good song and good pv with a lot of Yukko lol.

Yeah I think they got really lazy with the main single, it's basically ponytail rearranged. Loving the undergirls song though.

Yeah of course acchan will be back on top, it's just good to see some kind of change every now and then. She is a good front-face for AKB but she's never really had much personality which is why I haven't understood the rabid fan-base for her. Yuko on the other hand has too much character for the number one spot so this could be interesting Even if this whole election is pretty disgusting in a way.

Rankings aside, Takamina is still the queen of AKB

P.S. It's all love