AKB48's 2nd Big Reshuffle Effective Date

On the very first day of the AKB48's first ever Tokyo Dome concert, 'AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830m no Yume~', AKB48's team big reshuffle was announced and that Team 4 will be discontinued. It was revealed yesterday at Iwate Sangyou Bunka Center during their handshake event that the reshuffle will be effective from 1st of November.

With the reshuffle, AKB48 will be back to three teams but with 22 members in Team A, 23 in Team K and 23 in Team B.
Team A will have their final concerts with their current members on the 29th, Team K on 24th, Team B on 22nd and Team 4 on 25th this month.

The set lists for each of the reshuffled teams are not announced yet at the moment and the teams will be taking turns to perform at the AKB48 Theater a performance called ‘Waiting Performance’, which features a set list chosen from AKB48 songs.
Even though each team consists of 22 or 23 members, only 16 will be participating.
I don't know how this is going to work and what will the remaining 6 or 7 girls do, but I shall wait and see what Aki-P have in mind next month.

The starting dates of SNH48 members Miyazawa Sae and Suzuki Mariya as well as JKT48 members Takajo Aki and Nakagawa Haruka are not announced yet.

Source: tokyohive/Sanspo

UPDATE (23rd December):
Takajo Aki and Nakagawa Haruka will debut as part of the newly formed Team J in JKT48 on the 26th of December. Team J will be performing "Renai Kinshi Jourei", that is a revival of AKB48 Team A's 5th stage (19th October 2008 - 27th May 2010).

Source: tokyohive/Oricon

AKB48's 2nd Big Reshuffle!

On the very first day of the AKB48's first ever Tokyo Dome concert, 'AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830m no Yume~', TGSK (AKB48 Theater’s manager Togasaki Tomonobu) appeared with yet again a shocking news. (Every time he appears for a speech, the speech always got to be big issue huh.)

As title has said, AKB48 is going to have a big reshuffling of the members between the teams for the second time. (The first time was on August 2009)
Team 4 will be disbanded and the members will be added into Team A, K or B. Which means that Team 8, mentioned last time, will not be formed.

Leadership roles also changed where Takahashi Minami was appointed as the General Manager of the AKB48 groups, Shinoda Mariko takes over the Team A captain position, Oshima Yuko is now the captain of Team K and Umeda Ayaka - transferred to Team B - is now the captain of her new team.

All these are still just the icing by the way. What was more shocking is that with the 'Study Abroad Program' which was mentioned last month, Miyazawa Sae and Suzuki Mariya will be transferred to SNH48, while Takajo Aki and Nakagawa Haruka will be transferred to JKT48.

Akicha... JKT48... I couldn't take it any more yesterday and stayed away from the twitter feeds while suddenly the hash tag for Tokyo Dome was flooding with excited Indonesian tweets.
(No offence intended but seriously the twitter feeds just flows non stop regarding Akicha's and Harugon's transfer to JKT48 - where almost all of the tweets are in Indonesian. Wasn't upset about the the flood of Indonesian tweets but more of the transfer.) I would've felt much better if at least was transferred to SNH48 where she will learn Chinese and thus enable me to be able communicate with her with bits of Chinese if I get to meet her!

Anyways, here's the list of the whole reshuffling:

Takahashi Minami:　Team A captain→ AKB48 Groups’ General Manager

Shinoda Mariko: Team A→Team A Captain（Former Team A captain: Takahashi Minami）
Oshima Yuko: Team K→Team K Captain（Former Team K captain: Akimoto Sayaka）
Umeda Ayaka: Team K→Team B Captain（Former Team B captain: Kashiwagi Yuki）

Yokoyama Yui: Team K→Team A＆ NMB48
Kitahara Rie: Team B→Team K＆ SKE48
Ishida Anna: SKE Team KII→SKE48＆ Team B
Ota Aika: Team A→ HKT48
Miyazawa Sae:　Team K→SNH48
Suzuki Mariya: Team B→SNH48
Takajo Aki:　Team A→JKT48
Nakagawa Haruka: Team A→JKT48

Iwata Karen: Team 4→Team A
Abe Maria: Team 4→Team K
Watanabe Mayu: Team B→Team A
Kojima Haruna: Team A→Team B
Mutou Tomu: Kenkyuusei→Team K
Oba Mina: Team 4→Team B
Akimoto Sayaka: Team K（No transfer）
Nakamata Shiori: Team 4→Team A
Ichikawa Miori: Team 4→Team B
Kasai Tomomi: Team B→Team xA
Kato Rena: Team 4→Team B
Matsui Jurina: SKE48 Team S ＆ Team K（No transfer）
Nakamura Mariko: Team 4→Team B
Nakata Chisato: Team A→Team K
Nito Moeno: Team K→Team A
Oya Shizuka: Team A→Team B
Maeda Ami: Team A→Team K
Tano Yuuka: Team 4→Team A
Itano Tomomi: Team K（No transfer）
Iwasa Misaki: Team A→Team B
Kobayashi Mirina: Team A (promoted in June 2012)
Sato Amina: Team B→Team K
Shimazaki Haruka: Team 4→Team B
Sato Sumire: Team B→Team A
Ishida Haruka: Team B（No transfer）
Matsui Sakiko: Team K→Team A
Kuramochi Asuka: Team A→Team K
Katayama Haruka: Team A→Team B
Kotani Riho: NMB48→NMB48 ＆ Team A
Nakaya Sayaka: Team A→Team K
Yamauchi Suzuran: Team 4→Team B
Morikawa Ayaka: Team A (promoted in June 2012)
Uchida Mayumi: Team K（No transfer）
Fujie Reina: Team K→Team B
Kawaei Rina: Team 4→Team K
Izuta Rina: Team A (promoted in June 2012)
Mitsumune Kaoru: Kenkyuusei→Team K
Natori Wakana: Team B (promoted in June 2012)
Tanabe Miku: Team K→Team B
Sato Natsuki: Team B→Team A
Iriyama Anna: Team 4→Team A
Chikano Rina: Team B→Team K
Kashiwagi Yuki: Team B（No transfer）
Nagao Mariya: Team 4→Team K
Takeuchi Miyu: Team 4→Team B
Kikuchi Ayaka: Team K→Team A
Suzuki Shihori: Team B→Team K
Oshima Ryoka: Kenkyuusei→Team A
Fujita Nana: Team K (promoted in June 2012)
Kobayashi Kana: Team B→Team K
Minegishi Minami: Team K→Team B
Kojima Natsuki: Team B (promoted in June 2012)
Nakatsuka Tomomi: Team K→Team A
Shimada Haruka: Team 4→Team K
Watanabe Miyuki: NMB48 ＆ Team B (No transfer）
Masuda Yuka: Team B→Team K
Takahashi Juri: Team 4→Team A
Nonaka Misato: Team K→Team B
Miyazaki Miho: Team B→Team K
Matsubara Natsumi: Team A→Team K

Source: tokyohive/Oricon

Reshuffling might not sound to be a good thing just when AKB48 is peaking at it's popularity, but well, it's not that bad also. AKB48 still did very well after the first major reshuffle back in 2009. With Acchan graduating from the group and now the major reshuffle, it feels as if AKB48 is really 'reborned' and the new team compositions indeed do feel really fresh. Shall see how it goes as time past, just like last time!

Grabbed from somewhere in Facebook:

Credits to the person who created this for easier viewing.

UPDATE:

Akicha posted on her Google+ account yesterday after the concert that she was the one who chose to transfer to JKT48.

'皆さんこんばんは！

今日は東京ドームコンサート初日でした！
先輩たちがかかげてきた
東京ドームの舞台に立てたこと
嬉しくて感動したと同時に
いつも以上にすごく緊張しました。

これが目指してきた目標の重みなんだ。
と身をもって感じました。



そして今日はみなさんにお知らせがあります！

AKB48は組閣しました。
それに伴い
私、高城亜樹はJKT48に移籍します。


発表されたとき
舞台からはたくさんの表情が見えました。

移籍を知って泣くメンバー。
驚きを隠せないファンの方。
泣いている方もいました。

ビックリさせちゃってごめんなさい。

この移籍は自分の意思で決めた移籍です！

今私のAKB48での活動や、個人的な活動
すべてを考えてみると
私には、踏み出す勇気がなくて
まわりに流されるがまま
今この状況まで来た気がします。

でも、今のままでは
立ち止まってしまいます。
そしたら夢もそこで終わってしまいます。

自分で一歩踏み出して
何かに挑戦していかなければ
終わってしまう気がしたんです。


私は、将来の夢を叶えるために
AKB48に入りました。
たとえ夢にたどり着くまでに
長い時間かかっても私はいいと思っています。
今このAKB48という恵まれた環境で
夢にたどりつくまで
いろんな経験をしたいんです。

時間がかかってもいい。
私は私のペースで夢に近づいていきます。


だからファン皆さん！
私の夢が叶うまでどうか
見捨てないでください。


いつか夢がかなったとき
皆さんに恩返しがしたいです。'

From bits of translation by Bilingual48's tweets:

'I am sorry about the surprise. I requested for this transfer.
After thinking about where I am currently, I realized that I got here by going with the flow because I don't have the courage to make my own path. I am now at a standstill and my dreams won't come true if I am stuck.
I joined AKB48 because I want to make my dreams come true, even if it takes a long time.
I want to experience many different things in the gifted AKB48 environment until my dreams come true.
It's ok if it takes a long time. My dreams will come true at my own pace. Please do not abandon me at least until then.
When my dreams do come true, I will repay everyone.'

Well, if it's really her decision, I shall respect it and of course no matter what still continue to support her - like what a real loyal fan should do! All the best to her!

AKB48 Singapore Theater 'Live' Vol.10: 'NMB48 1ST STAGE' (Team N)

Was super excited and was anticipating for NMB48 Team N's first stage in Singapore A LOT. Sadly, the very next day is the start of my Mid-semester Tests, thus even though I came up with a excuse to come out of house today, I couldn't come up with a 'valid' excuse to stay over night yesterday at the airport to welcome the NMB48 members when they arrive.

Bought the the ticket for the second time slot from the store when sales start and got ticket for the first time slot from a friend few minutes before the concert start. Was really sad as I initially wanted to buy the concert t-shirt but when I arrived, it was already all sold out. Should have went down to get it yesterday!

The concert was totally awesome and my attention was mostly placed on Sayanee (Yamamoto Sayaka), followed by Maachun (Ogasawara Mayu). They are my top two favourites in NMB48 and Sayanee is my oshimen (top favourite).
The setlist of the concert is as listed below,

-overture-
Seishun Girls (青春ガールズ)
Beach Sandal (ビーチサンダル)
Kimi ga Hoshi ni Naru made (君が星になるまで)
-MC1: Introductions-
Blue rose (Fukumoto Aina, Yamamoto Sayaka, Ogasawara Mayu, Kishino Rika)
Kinjirareta Futari (禁じられた2人) (Yamada Nana, Yoshida Akari)
Ame no Dobutsuen (雨の動物園) (Watanabe Miyuki, Kondo Rina, Mori Ayaka, Shiroma Miru, Jonishi Kei, Kadowaki Kanako, Kinoshita Haruna)
-MC2-
Fushidara na Natsu (ふしだらな夏) (Ogasawara Mayu, Jonishi Kei, Kinoshita Haruna, Fukumoto Aina, Yamada Nana, Yamamoto Sayaka, Watanabe Miyuki, Yoshida Akari)
Don't disturb!
Virgin love
Hizukehenkousen (日付変更線)
-MC3-
Boku no Uchiage Hanabi (僕の打ち上げ花火)
-Encore-
Yakusoku yo (約束よ)
Korogaru Ishi ni Nare (転がる石になれ)
Cinderella wa Damasarenai (シンデレラは騙されない) (Was in the original N2 set list but not in today's set list)
*Zetsumetsu Kurokami Shōjo (絶滅黒髪少女)
*Oh My God! (オーマイガー!)
*AKB48 Medley (Beginner, Chance no Junban, Ponytail to Shushu, Heavy Rotation)
*Everyday, Kachuusha (Everyday、カチューシャ)

I got really crazy, jumping and waving my light sticks (and also my D-I-Y supposedly-ultra-bright yellow LED light sticks) for almost the whole of the concert for both time slots. There are just so many songs that I enjoy in the set list!

One of my top favourtie, 'Seishun Girls', totally made an awesome kick-start. 'Blue Rose', right after the introductions, was the song I have been anticipating the most as not only does it sound really good, the performance in general totally ROCKS!! To add on, it was performed my two most favourite NMB48 member, Sayanee and Maachun, with two more NMB48 members that I also love a lot, Ainyan (Fukumoto Aina) and Rikanyan (Kishino Rika).

The very next song 'Kinjirareta Futari' was also one of my favourite as it's very melodic and frankly speaking it was also because Yukirin (Kashiwagi Yuki) was one of the singer of the song in AKB48 Team B's first stage in Japan.
'Virgin Love' and 'Boku no Uchiage Hanabi' were also my favourites in the set list.

With so much epicness before the encore, a lot of energy was already drained but it was really just appetizers. The encore was the real deal! Almost everyone lost ourselves and I was forcing out what ever energy that I still have. By the way, this was not all as about two and a half hours time later (6pm), I had a round two! My hands and in fact almost my whole body are still aching even till now. I totally did not give a thought about my tomorrow's test to be honest. Oops!

The handshake session was really unforgettable too, for both sessions (2pm & 6pm concerts). At the first session, I confessed my love to Sayanee.. I mean told her that she is my most favourite member in NMB48 and want to be her top fan. She got very delighted and thanked me very sincerely while holding to my hand even more tighter. (´∀｀)♡
When I reached Maachun, before saying 'ありがとうございます' (Thank you), I added in 'あああ! まーちゅん!!' with so much passion that made her though that she is my oshimen (most favourite) and like Sayanee, became super delighted and held on to my hand tightly. Uh ohh... Never mind! She's my second favourite so it's okay (^ ^") It became more obvious that she thought I oshi her during the 6pm concert's handshake session, where just right after I let go of the hands of the member before Maachun, even before I turn to face her, she grabbed my hands and shook so sincerely, thanking me even before I opened my mouth! Σ(゜゜)
In general, the whole handshake session was really good and most of the members were referring to and commenting about the t-shirt I was wearing. (I wore a 'for Japan' tee by 'The Design Society' where proceeds would be donated to the Touhoku earthquake struck areas)

As usual, straight after the handshake session of the 6pm concert, I rushed straight to the back of *SCAPE to get a good spot at the van area.
Sayanee sat at the seat just in front of the seat that I am facing while Maachun sat at the seat just behind and here came the awkward moment..

Initially, I was showing Sayanee a heart made with my hands (can say the same as the moe-moe-kyun one but reaching out to her). She waved to me happily and took photos. Soon after, Maachun spotted me (while I already put my hands down luckily), pointed and waved so happily to me. Well, I gave her a heart made with my hands too and what she did in return totally melted my heart and gave me the final blow, she gave me back a heart made with her hands! Oh dear... o(>_<)o ♡
Shortly after, Sayaka started video recording us fans, while the van moved a bit. I gave Sayanee a heart again and she pointed her camera straight at me right away! I think she even took a photo too before the van started to move off.
Super awkward to have two favourites in a group. While I was giving a heart to one, I was worrying the other would see. This really shows two-timing is not good huh.. hahax!

Ah well, shall rest and wake up early tomorrow to send the NMB48 members off at the airport, with an excuse to my parents that I need to settle some stuff in school before having my test. ('x' )

By the way, I also collected quite a lot of stuff I ordered through my friend,

Three French Kiss 4th Single 'Saisho no Mail' (Types A, B & C) , two Wasamin (Iwasa Misaki) photos, one Rena photo, and the Everyday Kachuusha single (Theater ver) was from another friend.

I opened my 'Saisho no Mail' singles to see what photo cards I get and shockingly, I got Akicha (Takajo Aki) - my kamioshi (most top favourite of all among all the '48' groups) - for all three!! I was like, 'OMG... What are the chances of getting all three my top favourite?!?! This must be fate!' I wanted at least one Yukirin (Kashiwagi Yuki) though as I already have one Akicha and one Mocchi (Kuramochi Asuka). Just happened that a fellow Akicha fan did not get any Akicha and have a Yukirin to trade with one of my Akicha photo card.

Collected many light stick from fellow fans for 'raw materials' for my personal project (･ω ･ )

AKB48 Singapore Theatre 'LIVE' Vol.6 - AKB48 4th Stage

Didn't intend to go for the concert today initially, mainly due to lack of spare cash =[ Went down to *Scape with just intending to get a concert flyer and go back home. However, thanks to a very kind person I got to enter the 2pm concert!! ^o^ (eh wait.. I thought I should be studying for my Power System Analysis examinations already?? o_o)

Anyways, before the concert I got news from the friend which I ordered Rena photo sets through that one more of the sets arrived. Costed me SGD21 =X Well, Matsui Rena is my SKE48 oshi (favourite). =p
Here it is,

 As for the SDN48's 3rd Single 'Min.Min.Min.' ^

I preordered through a friend in the forum, Girls of 48, and got it from her after the concert. Thanks! ^^

(Received the Kohara + Serina photo from the single)

This concert can be considered one of the best I gone so far, not because of the member list (don't have any of my favourites this time in the performing member list), but because of the experience I had while at the most back row. There was so much space at the back that me and my friends went very high during the concert, jumping more than usual, along with all the wotagei actions and shoutings - which are usually rather toned down while we were around the middle rows, due to space constraint and having people behind us. There was so much 'exercise' for my hands and legs that I was totally exhausted at the end and so much shouting that my throat went very sore, considering I just fell slightly sick this morning. XD
The handshake that followed the concert was rather okay. More of like touch and go for most of the AKB48 girls. =[ I still missed the SKE48 and SDN48 handshake sessions as they so much more friendly, holding on to my hand (or rather all the people's hands) with some even as if not willing to let go. =X

Walking around outside the warehouse and the AKB48 Official Shop for awhile after the concert and saw a Japanese guy with a ton of the AKB48's 22nd Single 'Flying Get' Theater version photos. Spotted 4 Akicha (Takajo Aki) and a friend of mine took 2 of them while I took one.

Had a real hard time closing the deal. =X The Japanese guy wanted to traded it for only full set Singapore Theater photos so I offered both my Haachan (Haruka Katayama) and Nakayan (Sayaka Nakaya) full Singapore Theater June sets for just the single Akicha 'Flying Get' Theater photo but he also don't want and said he looking for Team 4 full sets, which I don't have. =[
I tried to offer SGD15 but he also gave me the 'No no'. He asked if can trade with my the two 'Marutto AKB48 Special 2' Team 4 photos, which are the Maria and the Paruru+Miyumiyu+Ranran. This time was a 'No no' from me. Totally not worth. Those photos are Singapore exclusives for the magazine and is in very limited amount, and the Akicha photos can be found very easily on auction sites while those Singapore exclusive magazine photos are not.

Had no choice but to offer a higher cash price and I got it at SGD20

 Looks a bit too China-like =X but well.. I'm still okay with it.
She's my kamioshi (Most favourite) XD

More information on the concert in my previous post here.

Trip to AKB48 Singapore Official Shop #3

Today was actually the first day of photo sales for the July Singapore Theater sets. I went down today, not for the photo sets as I don't have the spare cash, but to collect three Rena photo sets from a friend. (From another friend this time) One of the photo sets I ordered through my friend's friend was missed out during the ordering thus I only got two sets in the end.

As I only got 2 out of the 3 that I ordered (paid on the spot), I now have some spare cash for the moment thus I decided to get one more of the 'Marutto AKB48 Special 2' magazine to see if I can get the Maria Abe photo, so that I can complete the magazine's 'photo set'. The magazine comes with randomly one out of three different photos and from the past two that I bought on Wednesday and Thursday, I got the Aamin and Paruru+Miyumiyu+Ranran photo.

I received the Paruru+Miyumiyu+Ranran photo again, so I traded it away for the Maria photo!

I also got the Akicha 'Chance no Junban' photo today from someone for not a bad price =3

Trip to AKB48 Singapore Official Cafe #2

Actually should be more of 'Trip to outside AKB48 Singapore Official Cafe' but well never mind about that. Went down today not for the special visit (No money to buy tickets for the event =[) but to actually get two sets of Rena photos I reserved with a friend who is going for the cafe special visit. =p

Rena <3 - She's my oshi (favourite) in SKE48 >w<

Oh yeah, not to forget, something appeared in my mail box today...

Aahhhh... My kamioshi <3<3<3 Akicha~! >w< Won it in eBay. Rather disappointed to see a dent near the bottom right corner >=(

Went down to collect my Akicha file

Won this file through an event on a AKB48 forum that I frequent visit, Girls of 48. In the competition, one is required to eat as much don as he/she can through out the whole of July and post a picture of the each don on that event's thread. One valid picture earns the person one point. The accumulated points is then used at the start of August to bid for the files one wants, from a list of files featuring different AKB48 members. My oshi is Akicha so I poured all my points there, and well, seems that there was not competition for the Akicha file, I won it straightaway.

Collected the file from two of the global moderators of the forum at *Scape this afternoon. Thanks to the administrator for the event and thanks to the two moderators for passing it to me! ^^

Went into the AKB48 official shop to just look around, while still pondering whether to get the Oya Masana and Ogiso Shiori photo sets and in the end, I went ahead to get the Oya Masana set first. =X oops!

This month's SKE48 costume is very pretty ^^ 'Pareo wa Emerald' (literally emerald-colored pareo)!

My Akicha Gelaskin finally arrived

My Oshi (favourite AKB48 member) on my iPod Touch! Now I can really see her everyday every minute! Hahax! -nosebleeds- >w<
Made this custom skin at Gelaskins too ^^