Not sure why anyone would still follow AKB48. Terrible singers, terrible actors, and mediocre-looking at best. After studying Japanese for a few years I'm really growing tired of the idol bands and crap like that. Always introducing themselves as one then breaking into a crappy pop song.

Maeda Atsuko clearly had terrible surgery jobs seeing as she always looks the same.

LOL that's too funny. Her face is so annoying! That one big girl is super weird looking too. The only girl I like personally from the show is Sayaka Akimoto.

Well, I'm gonna miss her.
She's not my favorite and she's definitely had her share of misses (AKB48 Kouhaku's Kareha no Station performance, the Moshidora movie, the Hanakimi drama remake) but at the same time, she was also the center behind a group that went from a live show of 5 people to packing Tokyo Dome for 3 days and achieving worldwide popularity. I can respect that, it's going to be hard to think of AKB without thinking of Acchan.

TheVinster wrote:

Not sure why anyone would still follow AKB48. Terrible singers, terrible actors, and mediocre-looking at best.

No one follows them because of their singing or acting (although arguably Ooshima Yuuko is really coming into her own as an actress).
They follow them because they like the drama. It's a reality show that you're a part of. You get to follow the girls as they grow up and improve at performing. It's precisely because they're not the best that you follow them. This is a fact that almost all the fans acknowledge.

kainzero wrote:

TheVinster wrote:

Not sure why anyone would still follow AKB48. Terrible singers, terrible actors, and mediocre-looking at best.

No one follows them because of their singing or acting (although arguably Ooshima Yuuko is really coming into her own as an actress).
They follow them because they like the drama. It's a reality show that you're a part of. You get to follow the girls as they grow up and improve at performing. It's precisely because they're not the best that you follow them. This is a fact that almost all the fans acknowledge.

Also they get to support them (voting for their oshi-men at the election thing, cheering and doing the "mix" at the akihabara place, buying the cds, etc etc) and watch them grow. Another thing is they always announce important/shocking news at the big concerts ie maeda acchan's graduation, recently they announced that a couple members going to china (the sister group) and indonesia (or was it malaysia?) and they also switched up the groups setting up new captains and moving around members etc.

They have their talk/variety shows like akbingo and akb kyouwakoku. I personally love akb kyouwakoku it's a very silly but funny show. People like them because of their personality which you can really tell on their talk/variety shows. If I only saw the pv then i wouldn't be interested in them whatsoever.

If anyone wants to watch you can watch the　金スマ episode on akb48 and find out how they became "national" idols. It's been like 6, almost 7 years since they debuted at the akihabara stage when they had no fans to now with dome/stadium full of people.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2012 August 27, 4:06 pm)

Of course, she'll never beat Tomomi Itano for the "most modified AKB member" award.

Last edited by JimmySeal (2012 August 27, 11:52 pm)

The world would be a better place if we stopped supporting shitty businessmen, record labels, and talent agencies like the ones responsible for AKB48.