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[goratnik]

Team: Kenkyuusei
Name: Saeed Yokota Erena (サイード横田絵玲奈)
Nickname: Erechan (えれちゃん)
Birthdate: April 15, 1997
Birthplace: Tokyo
Height: 158cm
Agency: AKS

Half Pakistani.

Her Team B oshi line is 'namae ga nagakute gomen nasai' which means 'sorry my name is so long' lol.

It is somewhat ironic, as her name is not even long, despite being two-part. Just imagine half-blood girl going by name Lanckoroński Takamatsu Kozakura. You all will be damned! And nevermind that pun btw.

Waiting to know more.

[mixedmedia]

Japanese generally don't have middle names so I guess by having one (or two last names like Erechan does) makes it long for Japanese? It looks long when you look at it written in katakana/kanji for sure!

I wonder if she's bilingual.

[Krusha]

She's also very flexible:



Here is her 2min intro video:

[Charlo]

I like this girl! Very interesting!

[dev-null]

Hah... I was almost correct when I thought she is probably half-Indian. Not that far off, at least.

[Yujin-chan]

Saeed is very weird name, as in my place we usually got Said or Syed, one name more to remember, it is hard to be a new fan of AKB members

Spoiler

not akb as a whole yet, it'll took a huge large of time to like them as AKB. As long as I like them a one individual is still fine for me than hating them

[MayaChanShiDae]

She's Kawaii! I already wish she was in team 4!

[Undirrast]

Mobile mail about her not participating in the AKB Kouhaku:

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Other members from the same generation gets to perform unit songs while I couldn't get to perform, few days ago the plan was to let me sing "Everyday Kachyusha", but suddenly because I'm not 16 yet so I can't perform...

But later on staff said that they'll let me perform as some back dancer, but on the day I was told that "there's no costume so you can't perform".

I was so disappointed that I almost cried. What do everyone else have that I don't? I spent a lot of time thinking about that.

My singing is so bad and there are a lot more places which I'm not as good as others... Though disappointed all I can do is cheer for the White Group. I tried my best and put in all my effort into cheering...

Frankly, when I was cheering there were times when my tears were about to drop, I tried hard not to cry. "This isn't worth crying.. this isn't worth crying.." I kept telling myself.

But now when I think about it my tears are starting to come out...

I feel really sad seeing other members from the same generation saying that it was very fun.

I don't really express my feelings in front of others, but yesterday I was so sad and disappointed...

From now on, without looking too awkward I will try my best to express myself better.

[Noriega]

Mobile mail about her not participating in the AKB Kouhaku:

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Other members from the same generation gets to perform unit songs while I couldn't get to perform, few days ago the plan was to let me sing "Everyday Kachyusha", but suddenly because I'm not 16 yet so blueI can't perform...

But later on staff said that they'll let me perform as some back dancer, but on the day I was told that "there's no costume so you can't perform".

I was so disappointed that I almost cried. What do everyone else have that I don't? I spent a lot of time thinking about that.

My singing is so bad and there are a lot more places which I'm not as good as others... Though disappointed all I can do is cheer for the White Group. I tried my best and put in all my effort into cheering...

Frankly, when I was cheering there were times when my tears were about to drop, I tried hard not to cry. "This isn't worth crying.. this isn't worth crying.." I kept telling myself.

But now when I think about it my tears are starting to come out...

I feel really sad seeing other members from the same generation saying that it was very fun.

I don't really express my feelings in front of others, but yesterday I was so sad and disappointed...

From now on, without looking too awkward I will try my best to express myself better.

Ganbatte!! Erena-Chan!

I'm here rooting for u to get pushed!!


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http://akb48matome.c...s/51792138.html

[satchan]

I don't have a lot of RS I pay much attention to, but Erena is one I do like to hear about. So this was very sad to read and I'm hoping things get better. I can't imagine how frustrating that whole experience would be.

But I'm kind of confused on what the 16-year-old limit is for "Everyday." Granted, I haven't seen the Kohaku performance yet, so I dunno. Even still, it just seems like an odd twist.

Best of luck, Ere-chan!

[Noriega]

I demand to see a public video of AkiP dishing out damedashi to those particular staff members Grr

[dev-null]

Not sure.. but it's probably a "working law" time limit... wasn't the Kachyusha performance rather at the end of the show? Some other younger girls "disappeared" at the end of the show too (NMB48 ranks where missing many girls, f.ex.).

I'm not sure how it works... but it's probably like "work after 8 PM, you need to be 16... work after 10PM you need to be 18" or such. E.g. you won't see U18 girls appearing on the LIVE show "Coming Soon" (which is broadcasted very late in the evening, AFAIK) — older girls sub for the younger girls then.

[Noriega]

Not sure.. but it's probably a "working law" time limit... wasn't the Kachyusha performance rather at the end of the show? Some other younger girls "disappeared" at the end of the show too (NMB48 ranks where missing many girls, f.ex.).

I'm not sure how it works... but it's probably like "work after 8 PM, you need to be 16... work after 10PM you need to be 18" or such. E.g. you won't see U18 girls appearing on the LIVE show "Coming Soon" (which is broadcasted very late in the evening, AFAIK) — older girls sub for the younger girls then.

If that's the case, shouldn't the staff reminded her of that?
If they did, I doubt this mail would be existing

[dev-null]

If that's the case, shouldn't the staff reminded her of that?
If they did, I doubt this mail would be existing

The first sentence doesn't confirm or deny this (at least in the translation; I don't know Japanese properly, so I can't tell if some bits got lost or slightly misinterpreted in the translated version).


What I believe is that she's not mad at the staff or something, she just wrote down the facts and told she was sad that she wasn't able to perform so in case a fan of hers was wondering.

There were lots of other girls that were not able to perform either. That's how it is in a big group like AKB.

[Noriega]

Why are u using Google+ to do your homework? lol
https://plus.google....sts/6b6cJ29zWyd

[goratnik]

For having threads bumped, lol.

May photodump.

[dev-null]

Why are u using Google+ to do your homework? lol
https://plus.google....sts/6b6cJ29zWyd

Did she wrote it was actual homework? All I see is a smart girl making proper use of their social media followers to solve a tricky or not so tricky math question.

[Noriega]

^
"I used wota on the internet to do my homework" sounds awesome to me
I wanna shake her hand because of this

If she has a ton of homework, she can bring it to a handshake event. Every fan that comes up to shake her hand, she'll ask One question per fan Hahahaha genius

[Krusha]

Erechan's 18 year old sister Nina is aiming for Olympic medal in the London games (rhythmic sports gymnastics):

http://www.tokyo-np....0202000086.html

Some photos of her:

[dev-null]

I guess the flexibility is in the family then

She's also very flexible:

The career choices/ paths of the sisters are interesting, I guess Erechan also did rhythmic sports gymnastics at some point, but since the older sister did it already as potential career choice she maybe had to move to a slightly different job where her talent/ quality could be useful. Good she ended up in AKB48.