SakamichiAKB 2018 -- Members' details (names, ages, groups, prefectures)

SakamichiAKB 2018 -- Members' details

Sugai Yuuka   1995/11/29　Keyaki(01gen) Tokyo age22
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Hori Miona　　1996/10/15　Nogi(02gen)　Gifu age21
Okabe Rin　　1996/11/07　AKB Team8(orig) Ibaraki age21
Matsui Jurina　1997/03/08　SKE(1gen)　Aichi age21
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Okada Nana　　1997/11/07　AKB(14gen)/STU　Kanagawa age20
Mukaichi Mion　1998/01/29　AKB(15gen)　Saitama age20
Katou Shiho☆　1998/02/02　Hiragana Keyaki(01gen)　Tokyo age20
Miyawaki Sakura　　1998/03/19　HKT(01gen)　Kagoshima age 19
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Watanabe Risa　　1998/07/27　Keyaki(01gen)　Ibaraki age19
Saitou Asuka　　1998/08/10　Nogi(01gen)　Tokyo age19
Nagahama Neru　　1998/09/04　Keyaki(1.5gen)　Nagasaki age19
Imaizumi Yui　　1998/09/30　Keyaki(01gen)　Kanagawa age19
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Yamashita Mizuki☆　1999/07/26　Nogi(03gen)　Tokyo age18
Ozono Momoko☆　1999/09/13　Nogi(03gen)　Kagoshima age18
Kobayashi Yui☆　1999/10/23　Keyaki(01gen)　Saitama age18
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Yoda Yuki☆　2000/11/01　Nogi(03gen)　Fukuoka age17
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Kubo Shiori☆2001/07/14　Nogi(03gen)　Miyagi age16
Ogura Yui　　2001/12/26　AKB_8(orig)　Tokyo age16

☆starred members new this year

Nagahama Neru blog: 200 posts!

Turbid-looking,  200

Nagahama Neru
2017.05.26


Good evening!

Today is my 200th blog update.
Ehhh! ( ˙࿁˙ )

Blog... 200...

!!!

In AKB Weekly, around six years sgo,
Sashihara Rino-san had her legendary plan
To update her blog 200 times in a day!!!!

I've gone back and read over all of them again!

In an extraordinarily busy period
To update 200 times in a day...
And to have all the updates interesting....

For me to do 200 in just under two years is not much.

I was tremendously moved.

Kakizaki Memi blog: Woken by my guardian spirit

Guardian spirit

Kakizaki Memi
2017.05.26


Good evening,
It's Kakizaki Memi.


Today, I woke up ten minutes before I absolutely had to leave home.

I sort of remember
The alarm going off an hour before, and me turning it off...

I went back to sleep ～(*˘ｰωｰ˘*)

But to wake up ten minutes before was a miracle.

Lately, there have lots of things like that.
It seems as if my guardian spirit woke me with ten minutes to spare.

My guardian spirit is very capable  (`･ω･´)✧*｡

Nagahama Neru blog: magazines and Sakamichi AKB

[From blt graph magazine]

Cat,   172

Nagahama Neru
2017.03.02


Good evening ~


Recently I've been walking around with an instant camera.
It's so much fun to get a print right away ~

Click, click


Now on sale:

blt graph

I've been given the cover!
Kuwajima Tomoki-san took the photos,
And all the outfits were cute ~
I'd be very happy if you made a point of looking at it.


Weekly Young Jump

I was given the back cover and the back gravure.
The front cover is Tecchan!
It's a weekly so it will be gone quickly ~
Don't let it go by (｡-_-｡)

Keyakizaka46 members seeing members of AKB, TGS, SuperGirls

In the members' blogs just now there is a run of two-shots of Keyakizaka46 members with members of other idol groups: Oda Nana with Kawamoto Saya of AKB48. Nagasawa Nanako with Shouji Mei of Tokyo Girls' Style. Ishimori Nijika with Watanabe Koume of SUPER☆GiRLS -- and with Ikoma Rina of Nogizaka46.

Oda says she went out to eat recently with Sayaya, and that they are the same age (18), so it's easy to talk:

Oda Nana (r) with Kawamoto Saya of AKB48

Keyakizaka Photos from FNS -- friends and idols

Keyakizaka46 members have produced some great blog posts about the second night of the FNS song festival on Wednesday, but there are so many that I've had trouble deciding what to do with them. Finally, in desperation, here are some photos of Keyaki-chans with friends and idols from the idol world -- with captions bringing in some of what the members said.

The first photo isn't from a blog, but had to be shown: Hirate Yurina with Watanabe Mayu -- Techi and Mayuyu -- in a mixed group of idol all-stars doing AKB's Heavy Rotation:

Sugai Yuuka with Matsuno Rina and Mayama Rika of Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku (Ebichu):

Triumphant FNS: Neru, Akanen, Hirate, Ozeki all shine

It was another step up the hill for Keyakizaka46 Wednesday night at the second night of Fuji TV's FNS Song Festival.

• Hirate sang with the Gospellers
• Akanen won a 50m footrace with other idols
• Neru centred the combined forces of the Hiraganas and Nogizaka46's 3rd gen to begin a great Nogi/Keyaki combined version of Seifuku no Mannequin that was the best idol performance of the evening
• Ozeki's sunny smile won hearts when she was singing with HKT's Miyawaki Sakura 

Neru was the big winner, in my opinion. In beginning Mannequin, she was preceded by two beautiful young members of Nogi 3gen...but when Neru came forward with her unsmiling smile, she brought an aura of peace and power. And she proved by her sharp dancing there that she actually can be a centre. Search stats show she was by far the most searched member of the new groups.

Miyawake Sakura and Yamazaki Rena talk about Keyakizaka46 in their blogs

In her blog for Tuesday, Miyawake Sakura of AKB48 and HKT48 says:

The other day, Keyakizaka46
Performed Otona wa Shinjite Kurenai.
It was totally cool.

Berisa was outstanding.
Techi was terrific.
I loved the line of Berisa, Berika and Neru.
And Suzumoto-chan was really cool.

While we're on the subject
Memi-chan of Hiragana Keyaki
Is so cute.


The performance she's referring to was at the end of KeyaKake on Sunday night, and everything she says is true.

Aki-P talks about Keyakizaka46

This is from the October issue of Nikkei Entertainment magazine. A couple of points from the article have been mentioned in English, but I don't think the whole thing has been translated. There are more ideas here that I find interesting, and that give us a glimpse of the big boss's thinking.

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Special Interview -- Akimoto Yasushi

Akimoto Yasushi is the general producer of both the AKB48 groups and the Sakamichi Series groups. He differentiates between them with the keywords "energetic, powerful, tough" for AKB, and "lycéennes" [French for "high school girls"] for Nogizaka46. As for Keyakizaka46, which debuted in April and has had a rocket start, what sort of vision does he have for them?

In over 40 years doing this kind of work, if I start with the idea in my mind "let's go with this kind of theme," things have never gone well. With Nogizaka46, it was only after writing various kinds of music for them that I realized: "Oh, I've been writing as if they were French schoolgirls."

With Keyakizaka46, whether it was while speaking with the girls who had been selected in the auditions or when I was choosing songs for them, I gradually came to realize what I wanted to do. I didn't write Silent Majority thinking of making idols who don't smile.

SaiMajo #5 on Billboard Hot 100 for First Half of 2016. Harujion #2!

Silent Majority has come in at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first half of 2016, behind only AKB48, Nogizaka46, and two songs by Arashi. This is heady company for a new group's first single.

In another triumph for the Sakamichi group, Harujion ga Saku Koro was #2. And 48/46 groups took six of the top 20 places.

The Billboard Hot 100 tries to estimate the total popularity of a song by combining figures from CD sales, downloads, radio plays, streaming, online searches, Twitter mentions, etc. The period covered was 2015.11.23 to 2016.05.29.


AKB48's Kimi wa Melody was far and away the #1 song, with Nogizaka46's Harujion ga Saku koro #2. Then came Arashi's I seek and Fukkatsu Love. Silent Majority at #5 came before songs by Hoshino Gen (Sun), Nishino Kana (Torisetsu), back number (Christmas Song), Urashima Tarou (Umi no Koe) and Exile (Ki・mi・ni・mu・chu) in the top ten. Numbers 11-20 included songs by One OK Rock, Kobukuro, SMAP, Perfume, and two more from the powerhouse AKB48.

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