@Tony - may I ask what papawash is?

Yoshinator54

Shame on you, it is one of the emoticons at ShoutBox !
It is an Indonesian drink that gives you great strength...hehe

But here is a Japanese one he could try...Minmin !
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@topic: Takeru should have cover Acchan when he carried her... tsk tsk

@Tony - oh haha, there's a facial cleanser called "papwash" and I was thinking "Why would he need to wash his face after carrying Acchan" haha. I was confused so I decided to ask. I've never even noticed that there was an emoticon called Papawash. lol I've never used it. Anyway, thanks for the info

@topic:
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As a Yui-han oshi, AKB48 fan, and an NMB48 fan, the dude in the article above is crazy!!!

tonymiller wrote:Yoshinator54

Shame on you, it is one of the emoticons at ShoutBox !
It is an Indonesian drink that gives you great strength...hehe

But here is a Japanese one he could try...Minmin !
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wow , i usually said papawash but don't know the origin is in indonesia i thought it was thailand or phillippines


for acchan , i really agree that she (acchan) is with Takeru Sato , he is my favourite actor after all

What Acchan is doing next ( apart from getting legless ! )
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Woah! Acchan speaking Mandarin! That will be interesting to see.

Woah! AKB48's song "Sugar Rush" will be in the Disney Movie "Wreck-it Ralph"!!!!
Their song will be the ending theme and will be in the world-wide movie, not just the Japanese-dubbed movie.
I was already planning on watching it, because it has a few famous video game characters, but this makes me want to watch the movie even more!
Maybe this will help AKB48 gain world-wide popularity! or at least more popularity.
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EDIT:

Man, the riots in China are not looking any better. They are being told to kill and rape the Japanese people who are living in China and to boycott or destroy anything that is Japanese. They are flipping over Japanese cars, hurting Japanese people, and lighting Japanese businesses on fire. I really hope SNH48, Sae, and Mariya won't get pulled into this nonesense. I hope things in China will calm down, and I hope Japan won't do things like that to their Chinese citizens, or else things will get worse.

Anyone planning to watch the 29th Janken Senbatsu tournament tomorrow? :cheer:

@shark - I have no idea where to watch it, so probably not ...unless someone can tell me where I can watch it. I would be super happy.

@topic: Janken Taikai Brackets

Round 1
Block A
Iwasa Misaki vs. Minegishi Minami
Nonaka Misato vs. Takahashi Juri
Block B
Itano Tomomi vs. Komori Mika
Block C
Takano Yui vs. Kobayashi Ami
Kimoto Kanon vs. Ishida Haruka
Block D
Kitahara Rie vs. Chikano Rina
Block E
Oba Mina vs. Ota Aika
Saeed Yokota Erena vs. Takajo Aki
Block F
Yamauchi Suzuran vs. Kojima Haruna
Block G
Tano Yuka vs. Kato Rena
Block H
Kuramochi Asuka vs. Kawaei Rina
Block I
Sato Natsuki vs. Sato Sumire
Nakaya Sayaka vs. Yokoyama Yui
Block J
Nakata Chisato vs. Sato Seira
Block K
Moriyasu Madoka vs. Sato Mieko
Akimoto Sayaka vs. Ueno Kasumi
Block L
Suzuki Shihori vs. Nakamata Shiori
Block M
Nakanishi Chiyori vs. Yamagishi Natsumi
Miyazaki Miho vs. Matsui Sakiko
Block N
Hikawa Ayame vs. Miyazawa Sae
Block O
Tanabe Miku vs. Izuta Rina
Block P
Kasai Tomomi vs. Matsubara Natsumi

Round 2
Block A
WINNER vs. Uchida Mayumi
Block B
WINNER vs. Shimada Haruka
Block C
WINNER vs. Kobayashi Kana
Masuda Yuka vs. Watanabe Mayu -> Watanabe Mayu (Default Win)
Block D
WINNER vs. Watanabe Miyuki
Takeuchi Miyu vs. Kobayashi Marina
Block E
WINNER vs. Nakagawa Haruka
WINNER vs. Nito Moeno
Block F
WINNER vs. Kotani Riho
Umeda Ayaka vs. Eto Sayaka -> Umeda Ayaka (Default Win)
Block G
WINNER vs. Nakinishi Yuka
Oya Shizuka vs. Shinoda Mariko
Block H
WINNER vs. Oshima Yuko
Maeda Ami vs. Morikawa Ayaka
Block I
WINNER vs. Nakatsuka Tomomi
WINNER vs. Sato Amina
Block J
WINNER vs. Iwata Karen
Natori Wakana vs. Ichikawa Miori
Block K
WINNER vs. Shinohara Kanna
WINNER vs. Kikuchi Ayaka
Block L
WINNER vs. Hiramatsu Kanako
Iriyama Anna vs. Abe Maria
Block M
WINNER vs. Shimazaki Haruka
WINNER vs. Nagao Mariya
Block N
WINNER vs. Kashiwagi Yuki
Fujita Nana vs. Suzuki Mariya
Block O
WINNER vs. Takahashi Minami
Matsui Jurina vs. Nakamura Mariko
Block P
WINNER vs. Katayama Haruka
Fujie Reina vs. Kojima Natsuki

Round 3
Round 4
Quarter-Finals
Semi-Finals
Final

yoshinator54 wrote:@shark - I have no idea where to watch it, so probably not ...unless someone can tell me where I can watch it. I would be super happy.

Sure.

There is a free streaming software called Niji that is free and you can get here (http://www.myniji.tv/). It let's you stream japanese channels. Unfortunetly not in the greatest HD quiality. But it's decent.

The Janken is being streamed on a show called Kayoukyoku on TBS. I think it starts at 19:00 Japanese standard time (JST) so you have to convert the time to your own.

I hear there are other streaming software you can use to for the same show, but I have never used them.

@Shark - Thanks ...but It will be 4:00 AM here, and I have school, so I don't think I'm gonna watch it. Hopefully, someone uploads a rip of the video.
Let us know how it goes.

Aaand the winner is!!

Shimazaki Haruka!

Not too thrilled actually, the broadcast was pretty messy. I was rooting for Milky since my oshimen (Yuria) didn't make it in but she lost her first match and I didn't even get to see it.

Then I started rooting for Tano Yuka or Fujie Reina but as soon as I did that they both lost -.-

Really wanted someone to win that wasn't in the senbatsu. Technically that happened but Paru is getting a big push from Aki-P with the Majisuka Series and also in general. She didn't really need the win.

Here is the rest of the people that made it into senbatsu:
Uchida Mayumi
Itano Tomomi
Kimoto Kanon
Takeuchi Miyu
Nito Moeno
Umeda Ayaka
Shinoda Mariko
Maeda Ami
Yokoyama Yui
Nakata Chisato
Ueno Kasumi
Abe Maria
Kashiwagi Yuki
Nakamura Mariko
Matsubara Natsumi

@Shark
I like Milky too, but where is my Kami Oshi Miichan [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

@shark - thanks!

I had a strange feeling that Paruru was going to win. lol
The list looks pretty good. My oshimen Yui-han is in there, so that's good.

I'm going to be watching Abe Maria. I feel like I have some kind of connection to her because my mom's side of the family is Abe.

It was in yesterday's papers that Yasushi Akimoto ( AKB48's Boss and founder ) has filed a
law suit against Shukan Shincho for damages of 110 million yen for an article he wrote claiming
AKB were started with 'dirty money'.
With the importance of manners in Japan and fear of offending people this is quite an unusual step
and Akimoto is obviously very upset about it.

I'm starting to like other AKB girls other than Maeda... .whistle.
Lol

They are my guilty pleasure. .love.

Love the group. Kinda what got me back into Jpop. From there, I found Scandal.

Mayuyu, Paruru, Miichan, Jurino, and Rena my favs. Yes, I know, the last two are more SKE48.

@Bushido
As a huge AKB fan since 2005 I can see we are going to get on well !
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Miichan bravely offered to take her place !

@tonymiller, I just kinda got into them this summer so I'm still very new. Watched AKBingo and started to like them. Too bad not earlier or I could of tried seeing them when they were in Washington DC but my favs weren't there but still would of loved to see the others as well.

@Bushido - I got into them pretty recently too. I started listening to AKB48 a few weeks after I discovered SCANDAL and SKE48 during the spring of this year. I knew about AKB since 2009 and watched some episodes of AKBingo and a few pranks, but I never really cared for their music much at that time. I just thought the shows were really funny.
Takamina is my kami oshi, but Yui Yokoyama, Yuko Oshima, and Rena Matsui are my other oshimen.


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@Goldenarms
Hehe...I quite agree !

The magazine headlines really made me mad !
'Acchan scandal' !
A 21 year old girl had too much to drink...big deal !
She will not be foolish enough to have a drinking contest with Yuko Oshima another time

@tony - yeah I agree. I was kinda angry at the headlines too. Just because they are famous...There are 21 year old girls who do that everywhere. There's even kids younger than that getting drunk every weekend. On a side note. Every time I saw that headline "Acchan Scandal" I kept thinking of Acchan and SCANDAL, the band. As a matter of fact, every time I see the word "Scandal" the first thing that pops up in my head is the band.

@goldenarms - I really like your signature! Its really cool.

@topic - I feel like I keep finding AKB48 songs every other day. Its like a treasure hunt haha. They have so many songs. I don't think I'll ever be able to listen to every single one of them.

@yoshinator - thanks man

@topic - I'm trying to complete all their singles and album... I still have a long way to go to
complete my AKB48 song collection

any of you guys already heard any song from their sub-units DiVA and French Kiss?

@Goldenarms
I admire you but you have a huge task !
I have 27 singles, 4 albums and many DVD's, even I dont try to buy all the stuff by their sub groups
as well, they have something new coming out every few weeks !

No3b is my favourite sub group :
Minami Minegishi
Minami Takahashi
Haruna Kojima

Just enjoy them, dont make it like a task, even I have no idea how many songs AKB have done altogether, it must be a lot !

I also liked French Kiss but now one of their three members ( Akicha, Aki Takajo ) has been banished to JKT48 I guess they are no more.