AKB48's 3rd Janken Tournament - AKB48 29th Single Senbatsu Janken Taikai

At the handshake event of AKB48's latest single 'Manatsu no Sounds good!' in Saitama Super Arena earlier today, it was announced that AKB48 will be holding their 3rd Janken Tournament on September 18th at Nippon Budokan for their 29th Single.

This year, 68 67 official members from AKB48, including Matsui Jurina (SKE48 Team S/AKB48 Team K) and Watanabe Miyuki (NMB48 Team N/AKB48 Team B), 1 AKB48 Research Student, 8 SKE48 members, 6 NMB48 members and 3 HKT48 members will be joining the main tournament.
Since Sashihara Rino was transferred to HKT48, she will have to compete in HKT48's preliminary tournament and get into one of the three available spots for HKT48 in order to get to the main tournament.

Last year, Mariko won the center position but to my disappoinment, none of my top favourites made it into the Senbatsu positions. Can't be helped though, it all depended on luck. Guess they weren't lucky enough last year.

I hope that this year at least both Akicha (Takajo Aki) and Rena (Matsui Rena) can make it to Senbatsu positions!

I guess I won't be able to witness the tournament 'live' and can only rely on news released later on, that will be fed to my RSS feeds that I can read when I can while serving the nation... (•A• )

Source: tokyohive/Mantan Web

UPDATE (1st July):

Results of NMB48's preliminary tournament held yesterday at NMB48 Theater in Nanba, Osaka:
Shinohara Kanna (Team N)
Kotani Riho (Team N)
Yamagishi Natsumi (Team M)
Hikawa Ayame (Team M)
Kawakami Rena (Team M)
Takano Yui (Team M)

31 members of NMB48 Kenkyuusei competed first, where Kushiro Rina won and competed with 30 official members (Team N and Team M).

Watanabe Miyuki (Team N/Team B) will be participating in the main tournament directly thus was exempted from the preliminary tournament.

Source: tokyohive/Oricon

UPDATE (6th July):

Results of SKE48's preliminary tournament held yesterday at SKE48 Theater in Aichi:
Nakanishi Yuka (Team S)
Hiramatsu Kanako (Team S)
Sato Seira (Team KII)
Sato Mieko (Team KII)
Ueno Kasumi (Team E)
Kimoto Kanon (Team E)
Kobayashi Ami (Team E)
Takagi Yumana (Team E)

Similar to NMB48, one victor from SKE48 Kenkyuusei competed with the official members (Team S, KII and E). Matsui Jurina (Team S/Team K) will be participating in the main tournament directly thus was exempted from the preliminary tournament.

Source: tokyohive/natalie

Results of HKT48's preliminary tournament held earlier today at HKT48 Theater in Fukuoka:
Moriyasu Madoka (Team H)
Nakanishi Chiyori (Team H)
Eto Sayaka (Kenkyuusei)

Similarly, one victor from HKT48 Kenkyuusei competed with the HKT48 official members in Team H.

Sadly, this concludes that Sashihara Rino won't be able to participate in the main tournament.

Source: tokyohive/natalie

UPDATE (9th July):

Pairings for the main Janken tournament were announced yesterday at Tokyo Big Sight.
During the event, Masuda Yuka (Team B) announced that she will not be participating in the tournament as she recently passed the auditions for a musical (Wiz ~Oz no Mahoutsukai~) and will be having lessons from August.

Iwasa Misaki vs. Minegishi Minami
Iwasa or Minegishi vs. Uchida Mayumi

Nonaka Misato vs. Takahashi Juri
Nonaka or Takahashi vs. Shimada Haruka

Itano Tomomi vs. Komori Mika
Itano or Komori vs. Kobayashi Kana

Masuda Yuka (withdrawal) vs. Watanabe Mayu

Takano Yui (NMB48) vs. Kobayashi Ami (SKE48)
Takano or Kobayashi vs. Takagi Yumana (SKE48)

Kimoto Kanon (SKE48) vs. Ishida Haruka
Kimoto or Ishida vs. Kawakami Rena (NMB48)

Kitahara Rie vs. Chikano Rina
Kitahara or Chikano vs. Watanabe Miyuki (AKB48/NMB48)

Takeuchi Miyu vs. Kobayashi Marina

Oba Mina vs. Ota Aika
Oba or Ota vs. Nakagawa Haruka

Saeed Yokota Erena (HKT48) vs. Takajo Aki
Saeed or Takajo vs. Nito Moeno

Yamauchi Suzuran vs. Kojima Haruna
Yamauchi or Kojima vs. Kotani Riho (NMB48)

Umeda Ayaka vs. Eto Sayaka (HKT48)

Tano Yuka vs. Kato Rena
Tano or Kato vs. Nakanishi Yuka (SKE48)

Otsuka Shizuka vs. Shinoda Mariko

Kuramochi Asuka vs. Kawaei Rina
Kuramochi or Kawaei vs. Oshima Yuko

Maeda Ami vs. Morikawa Ayaka

Sato Natsuki vs. Sato Sumire
Sato or Sato vs. Nakatsuka Tomomi

Nakaya Sayaka vs. Yokoyama Yui
Nakaya or Yokoyama vs. Sato Amina

Nakata Chisato vs. Sato Seira (SKE48)
Nakata or Sato vs. Iwata Karen

Natori Wakana vs. Ichikawa Miori

Moriyasu Madoka (HKT48) vs. Sato Mieko (SKE48)
Moriyasu or Sato vs. Shinohara Kanna (NMB48)

Akimoto Sayaka vs. Ueno Kasumi (SKE48)
Akimoto or Ueno vs. Kikuchi Ayaka

Suzuki Shihori vs. Nakamata Shiori
Suzuki or Nakamata vs. Hiramatsu Kanako (SKE48)

Iriyama Anna vs. Abe Maria

Nakanishi Chiyori (HKT48) vs. Yamagishi Natsumi (NMB48)
Nakanishi or Yamagishi vs. Shimazaki Haruka

Miyazaki Miho vs. Matsui Sakiko
Miyazaki or Matsui vs. Nagao Mariya

Hikawa Ayame (NMB48) vs. Miyazawa Sae
Hikawa or Miyazawa vs. Kashiwagi Yuki

Fujita Nana vs. Suzuki Mariya

Tanabe Miku vs. Izuta Rina
Tanabe or Izuta vs. Takahashi Minami

Matsui Jurina (AKB48/SKE48) vs. Nakamura Mariko

Kasai Tomomi vs. Matsubara Natsumi
Kasai or Matsubara vs. Katayama Haruka

Fujie Reina vs. Kojima Natsuki

Source (image & table): tokyohive/natalie/Sanspo

Watanabe Mayu 2nd Single - '大人ジェリービーンズ' ('Otona Jelly Beans')

Watanabe Mayu announced that she would be releasing her second solo single titled '大人ジェリービーンズ' ('Otona Jelly Beans') on the 25th of July.
This time, Mayuyu will not be having her unique twin tail and will be showing a more mature image with her hair let down. More details are yet to be revealed.

Source: Sanspo

Type A (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] 大人ジェリービーンズ [Otona Jelly Beans]
2. [CD] 最初のジャック [Saisho no Jack]
3. [CD] いつでもそばにいてあげる [Itsu Demo Soba ni Ite Ageru]
4. [CD] 大人ジェリービーンズ (instrumental)
5. [CD] 最初のジャック (instrumental)
6. [CD] いつでもそばにいてあげる (instrumental)
7. [DVD] 大人ジェリービーンズMusic Video [Otona Jelly Beans music video]
8. [DVD] 大人ジェリービーンズMusic Videoメイキング [Otona Jelly Beans music video making]
9. [DVD] 麻友撮〜みんなの“大人”をいただきまゆゆ〜
CDJapan
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Type B (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] 大人ジェリービーンズ [Otona Jelly Beans]
2. [CD] 最初のジャック [Saisho no Jack]
3. [CD] ツインテールはもうしない [Twin Tail wa Mou Shiani]
4. [CD] 大人ジェリービーンズ (instrumental)
5. [CD] 最初のジャック (instrumental)
6. [CD] ツインテールはもうしない (instrumental)
7. [DVD] 大人ジェリービーンズMusic Video [Otona Jelly Beans music video]
8. [DVD] 大人ジェリービーンズMusic Videoメイキング [Otona Jelly Beans music video making]
9. [DVD] ツインテールはもうしない / まゆ坂46　Music Video
CDJapan
HMV Online

Type C (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] 大人ジェリービーンズ [Otona Jelly Beans]
2. [CD] 最初のジャック [Saisho no Jack]
3. [CD] 残念少女 [Zannen Shoujo]
4. [CD] 大人ジェリービーンズ (instrumental)
5. [CD] 最初のジャック (instrumental)
6. [CD] 残念少女 (instrumental)
7. [DVD] 大人ジェリービーンズMusic Video [Otona Jelly Beans music video]
8. [DVD] 大人ジェリービーンズMusic Videoメイキング [Otona Jelly Beans music video making]
9. [DVD] 渡辺麻友 × 平嶋夏海
CDJapan
HMV Online

Regular Edition
1. 大人ジェリービーンズ [Otona Jelly Beans]
2. 最初のジャック [Saisho no Jack]
3. 小指の微笑み [Koyubi no Hohoemi]
4. 大人ジェリービーンズ (instrumental)
5. 最初のジャック (instrumental)
6. 小指の微笑み (instrumental)
CDJapan
HMV Online

With twin tails or not, Mayuyu really still looks as cute and heart melting. o(>w<)o Really feel like ordering all three types of the single, but I will need to check on whether I have enough budget for these months... (._.)

UPDATE (2nd July):
Covers and track lists revealed

UPDATE (9th July):
Performance at HEY!HEY!HEY!

Majisuka Gakuen 3

The airing date for the third instalment of AKB48's Yankee drama, マジすか学園3 (Majisuka Gakuen 3), was revealed. It will begin airing on 13th of July, weekly on Fridays 00:12, on TV Tokyo’s “Dorama 24” channel.

In the first season, Maeda (AKB48 Atsuko Maeda) and Daruma (SDN48 Nachu) transferred to Majisuka Gakuen, an all-girls yakee school. Maeda was frequently picked up for a fight or challenged due to her silent nature and mainly her strength in fights whenever her true nature is awakened (She is a pretty strong yankee in middle school). Slowly towards the end, she managed to climb up to the top and towards the end, Yuko (AKB48 Oshima Yuko), the president of Rappapa - MJ's strongest gang, passed on her role to Maeda before she passes away due to her illness. A peace treaty was also made between Majisuka and Yabakune, after much fights through the season.

In the second season, surprisingly Maeda didn't take the top seat herself and instead shared it with a new transfer student whom she know personally, Otabe (AKB48 Yokoyamo Yui). Maeda from the start was absent from school, trying to get the answer she have been searching for by beating up many street hooligans, leaving the president responsibility with Otabe. Most of the original Rappapa members have graduated and allies (or rather, friends) of Maeda took over the vacated positions - except for Gekikara who had to retain in school due to her detainment for her crime in the first season. The Rappapa in this season however is a lot weaker and lack the aura the original Rappapa top members have - which also caused some disapproval amongst the other gangs in the school. What's more, the peace treaty between Majisuka and Yabakune was broken. With Maeda's absence, the internal discontentment building up, the increasing threats by other rival yankee schools, predominantly Yabakune Gakuen, the betrayal of Shibuya (AKB48 Itano Tomomi) and all the plans and tricks by Nezumi (AKB48 Watanabe Mayu), Rappapa had a hard time keeping the school under control and fighting against Yabakune. At the last episode, there was an official big fight between Majisuka and Yabakune which ended rather abruptly when Maeda (who found the answer she have been finding) turned up and resolved with Shibuya - in a rather.. peaceful way. Surprisingly, the conflict gets resolved and members of both sides start helping each other up while Maeda gave in to the cops who came to the fight scene expecting for Maeda, for the crimes she committed while being absent from school.

Frankly speaking season one was really very nice from the start to the end but for season two, the starting episodes was kind of more into comedy and lack the action and thrill that the whole of season one had. Slowly into the season, MJ2 gets more and more interesting and the thrill is finally back. However, the thrill came to a very abrupt stop at the ending part of the last episode, making the season kind of like ending too soon.

No details of the third season is revealed yet, excepted that the setting would be in a prison. Could it be a continuation of Maeda's capture for her crimes? However, with Maeda graduating on 27th of August after the Tokyo Dome concert, could she be acting for only half the season or none at all? Shall anticipate for more details to be revealed! Hope the new season is as thrilling as the first season.

Come to think of it, I might only be able to watch at most 8 episodes before my enlistment. Damn.. after the 8th episode, it must be very exciting already... =[

Photo and source of news from: Mantan Web

UPDATE (7th July):

Casts:
AKB48
Shimazaki Haruka (Lead)
Oba Mina
Shimada Haruka
Kawaei Rina
Abe Maria

SKE48
Yagami Kumi
Kizaki Yuria
Kimoto Kanon

UPDATE (9th July):

'The upcoming drama will be set in the year 20×× in a privately run juvenile prison called “Prison HOPE” or better known as “Majisuka Prison”. The prison accommodates juvenile delinquents who have been abandoned by society, school, and even their families, and are put into different groups. Rather than trying to turn over a new leaf, the girls step into a battle ring everyday to compete for the top in a game of the survival of the fittest.

‘Majisuka Gakuen 3′ will air on TV Tokyo’s “Drama 24” time slot every Fridays starting on July 13th.'

Adapted from tokyohive

A totally new story plot huh... =o

Kind of lost the 'Gakuen' feel in my opinion. Might be a bit too early to comment on it but I feel that they might as well make a new series with a new title instead of making a season 3 that got nothing to do with the past couple of seasons.

AKB48's Sashihara Rino transferred to HKT48

A few days ago, a scandal relating to Sashihara Rino (AKB48 Team A) was reported on 'Shunkan Bunshun'. (Article here, translations here)

Photo from http://akb48sokuhou.doorblog.jp/archives/53960331.html

I was rather skeptical about news partly as it was revealed after the AKB48 General Elections and that the publication was known to have reported false scandals before. I believe that it's a doing of a Sasshi's hater, in response to her fast rise in ranking - entering 4th in position this year.

Genuine or not, I already expected that Aki-P (Akimoto Yasushi Producer) would not just do nothing about it. I was starting to fear that Sasshi might need to be suspended.

Surprisingly, it was just revealed on ANN that Sasshi will be transferred to HKT48, instead of being suspended. Looking at the bright side first... she's won't be graduating but... I strongly feel that this is totally not a good solution.

On ANN:

秋元康「いろいろ考えました。どうすればいいのかと。指原がどういう形であれ、AKBを応援してくれるファンの方に過去だけど誤解を招く形の行動をしたことは間違いないです。指原莉乃は明日からHKT48に移籍します」

Translation
Akimoto Yasushi: I’ve thought about it for a long time. What should I do. Because of Sashihara’s misleading behaviour in the past to the fans who have supported AKB. Sashihara Rino will be moving to HKT48 tomorrow.

So instead of suspension, Sasshi would be given a chance to start afresh in HKT48. Even though Sasshi is one of my top favourite AKB48 members and would not want her to graduate just because of that news article but I strongly disagree with the decision of transferring her to HKT48. A punishment might just be unavoidable but with this transfer, it feels as if that HKT48 is being punished as well - for apparently no good reason!

With HKT48 Team H being full and that Sasshi is being transferred as a 'reset', I am guessing she would be joining the Team Kenkyuusei.

I initially am only feeling very sad for Sasshi's plight and with this I am really worried for HKT48 too. Hope everything would somehow turn out to be okay and that HKT48 would not be affected in a bad way.

UPDATE:
Sasshi's last concert performance would be on the 20th of June

Source: AKB48 Official Blog

UPDATE (17th June):
Sasshi's last concert postponed to July as to not clash with Natsumi Matsubara's birthday party on the 20th of June.

Source: AKB48 Official Blog

UPDATE (19th June):

Sasshi's profile have been officially removed from Team A and placed under HKT48 header in the AKB48 official site. Her profile is also under a team in HKT48 official site called 'チーム未定' ('Team Unconfirmed').

Sasshi's profile removed from Team A

Under HKT48

In Team 'Unconfirmed'

UPDATE (5th July):
Sashihara Rino will be joining Team H

And now Team H consists of 17 members.. hmm...

AKB48 4th General Election 27th Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo Results

The release of results of the AKB48 4th General Elections just ended and it is as follows:

選抜メンバー (Senbatsu Member)
1位 AKB48 チームK 大島優子 (Oshima Yuko)108,837
2位 AKB48 チームB 渡辺麻友 (Watanabe Mayu) 72,574
3位 AKB48 チームB 柏木由紀 (Kashiwagi Yuki) 71,076
4位 AKB48 チームＡ 指原莉乃 (Sashihara Rino) 67,339
5位 AKB48 チームＡ 篠田麻里子 (Shinoda Mariko) 67,017
6位 AKB48 チームＡ 高橋みなみ (Takahashi Minami) 65,480
7位 AKB48 チームＡ 小嶋陽菜 (Kojima Haruna) 54,483
8位 AKB48 チームK 板野友美 (Itano Tomomi) 50,483
9位 SKE48 チームS/AKB48 チームK 松井珠理奈 (Matsui Jurina) 45,747
10位 SKE48 チームS 松井玲奈 (Matsui Rena) 42,030
11位 AKB48 チームK 宮澤佐江 (Miyazawa Sae) 40,261
12位 AKB48 チームB 河西智美 (Kasai Tomomi) 27,005
13位 AKB48 チームB 北原里英 (Kitahara Rie) 26,531
14位 AKB48 チームK 峯岸みなみ (Minegishi Minami) 26,038
15位 AKB48 チームK 横山由依 (Yokoyama Yui) 25,541
16位 AKB48 チームK 梅田彩佳 (Umeda Ayaka) 24,522

アンダーガールズ (Under Girls)
17位 AKB48 チームＡ 高城亜樹 (Takajo Aki) 23,083
18位 NMB48 チームN 山本彩 (Yamamoto Sayaka) 23,020
19位 NMB48 チームN/AKB48 チームB 渡辺美優紀 (Watanabe Miyuki) 19,159
20位 AKB48 チームK 秋元才加 (Akimoto Sayaka) 19,121
21位 AKB48 チームB 佐藤亜美菜 (Sato Amina) 17,009
22位 AKB48 チームＡ 倉持明日香 (Kuramochi Asuka) 14,852
23位 AKB48 チーム４ 島崎遥香 (Shimazaki Haruka) 14,633
24位 SKE48 チームKⅡ 高柳明音 (Takayanagi Akane) 14,111
25位 SKE48 チームKⅡ 秦佐和子 (Hata Sawako) 13,920
26位 AKB48 チームB 増田有華 (Masuda Yuka) 13,166
27位 SKE48 チームS 大矢真那 (Oya Masana) 12,142
28位 SKE48 チームS 矢神久美 (Yagami Kumi) 11,712
29位 SKE48 チームS 須田亜香里 (Suda Akari) 11,323
30位 SKE48 チームKⅡ 古川愛李 (Furukawa Airi) 11,179
31位 SKE48 チームS 木﨑ゆりあ (Kizaki Yuria) 10,554
32位 SKE48 チームKⅡ 小木曽汐莉 (Ogiso Shiori) 9,596

ネクストガールズ (Next Girls)
33位 AKB48 チームＡ 岩佐美咲 (Iwasa Misaki) 9,297
34位 SKE48 研究生 松村香織 (Matsumura Kaori) 9,030
35位 SKE48 チームKⅡ 向田茉夏 (Mukaida Manatsu) 8,552
36位 AKB48 チームＡ 仲谷明香 (Nakaya Sayaka) 8,505
37位 AKB48 チームＡ 中田ちさと (Nakata Chisato) 8,315
38位 AKB48 チームB 宮崎美穂 (Miyazaki Miho) 8,173
39位 AKB48 チーム４ 永尾まりや (Nagao Mariya) 7,809
40位 AKB48 チームK 藤江れいな (Fujie Reina) 7,782
41位 AKB48 チームB 小林香菜 (Kobayashi Kana) 7,195
42位 AKB48 チームＡ 前田亜美 (Maeda Ami) 7,168
43位 NMB48 チームN 福本愛菜 (Fukumoto Aina) 6,912
44位 AKB48 チームＡ 仲川遥香 (Nakagawa Haruka) 6,890
45位 AKB48 チーム４ 田野優花 (Tano Yuuka) 6,694
46位 NMB48 チームN 山田菜々 (Yamada Nana) 6,683
47位 HKT48 チームH 宮脇咲良 (Miyawaki Sakura) 6,635
48位 AKB48 チームＡ 片山陽加 (Katayama Haruka) 6,602

フューチャーガールズ (Future Girls)
49位 AKB48 研究生 武藤十夢 (Muto Tomu) 6,428
50位 AKB48 チームB 石田晴香 (Ishida Haruka) 6,333
51位 AKB48 チームK 菊地あやか (Kikuchi Ayaka) 6,185
52位 AKB48 チームＡ 多田愛佳 (Oota Aika) 6,140
53位 AKB48 チームK 松井咲子 (Matsui Sakiko) 6,058
54位 AKB48 チーム４ 山内鈴蘭 (Yamauchi Suzuran) 6,027
55位 AKB48 チームK 仁藤萌乃 (Nito Moeno) 6,025
56位 SKE48 チームE 木本花音 (Kimoto Kanon) 5,982
57位 AKB48 チーム４ 大場美奈 (Oba Mina) 5,969
58位 AKB48 チーム４ 市川美織 (Ichikawa Miori) 5,963
59位 AKB48 チームＡ 大家志津香 (Oya Shizuka) 5,933
60位 NMB48 チームN 小笠原茉由 (Ogasawara Mayu) 5,919
61位 AKB48 チームB 佐藤すみれ (Sato Sumire) 5,706
62位 SKE48 チームKⅡ 矢方美紀 (Yakata Miki) 5,606
63位 SKE48 チームS 中西優香 (Nakanishi Yuuka) 5,592
64位 AKB48 チームB 小森美果 (Komori Mika) 5,398

Not really in the mood or calmed down enough to comment much largely due to my disappointment with Akicha's drop in ranking. Even the number of votes she received is much lower than what she got last year!

Well, looking at the bright side she's still the centre of Undergirls.. (which is largely taken up by SKE48 members - a real big surprise to most fans!) and I hope for the next 君のことが好きだから (Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara).

Come to think of it, Sasshi jumped in rank so much, even above Mariko-sama! Totally shocking but after some thinking, makes sense with all the push she received recently.

Anyways, was really glad that Rena - SKE48 oshi - maintained her position and did not drop, that Sakura - HKT48 oshi - got into #47 (Next Girls), and that Sayanee - NMB48 oshi - risen from #28 last year all the way to #18 (Under Girls) this year.

Shall comment more tomorrow. Now, let's wait for the election speech by the Top Senbatsu member, Oshima Yuko, later at 23 00 JST. (http://www.akb48plus.com/senkyo)

French Kiss 5th Single - ロマンス・プライバシー (Romance Privacy)

French Kiss had been working on their fifth single since the start of the year and it was revealed that the single will be released on the 11th of July (rescheduled to 18th of July).

Source: tokyohive

Type A (CD +DVD)
1. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー [Romance Privacy]
2. [CD] Rainy day
3. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー (instrumental)
4. [CD] Rainy day (instrumental)
5. [DVD] ロマンス・プライバシー (Music Clip) [Romance Privacy music video]
6. [DVD] Rainy day (Music Clip)
CDJapan
HMV Online

Type B (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー [Romance Privacy]
2. [CD] 瓶の蓋 [Bin no Futa]
3. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー (instrumental)
4. [CD] 瓶の蓋 (instrumental)
5. [DVD] ロマンス・プライバシー (Music Clip) [Romance Privacy music video]
6. [DVD] フレンチ・キス弾丸ツアーinマカオ [French Kiss in Macau]
CDJapan
HMV Online

Type C (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー [Romance Privacy]
2. [CD] バイオリズム [Biorhythm]
3. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー (instrumental)
4. [CD] バイオリズム (instrumental)
5. [DVD] ロマンス・プライバシー (Music Clip) [Romance Privacy music video]
6. [DVD] 「ワタ鍋」ほぼ3分間クッキング [Wata Pot (3 minutes cooking)]
CDJapan
HMV Online

Theater Edition
1. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー [Romance Privacy]
2. [CD] 火山灰(柏木ソロ曲) [Kazanbai (Kashiwagi solo song)]
3. [CD] ロマンス・プライバシー (instrumental)
4. [CD] 火山灰(柏木ソロ曲) (instrumental)

Wooo! All types of the single ordered! ＼（^∇^）／

'ロマンス・プライバシー' preview

'Rainy Day' preview

UPDATE (21st June):
Covers revealed
Release date rescheduled to 18/07/2012

Source: French Kiss Discography

UPDATE (24th June):
All track list's coupling songs revealed

Source: tokyohive

SUPER☆GiRLS 5th Single - 'プリプリ SUMMERキッス' ('Puri Puri Summer Kiss')

Announced last month, SUPER☆GiRLS will be releasing their 5th Single, 'プリプリ SUMMERキッス' ('Puri Puri Summer Kiss'), on the 4th of July. The details of the single were just released.

Jacket A (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] プリプリ SUMMERキッス [Puri Puri Summer Kiss]
2. [CD] 南風パヤパヤ [Minamikaze Payapaya]
3. [CD] 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) [Asu e Step!]
4. [DVD] プリプリ SUMMERキッス (MUSIC VIDEO) [Puri Puri Summer Kiss music video]
5. [DVD] プリプリ SUMMERキッス (MUSIC VIDEO MAKING) [Puri Puri Summer Kiss music video making]
6. [DVD] プリプリ SUMMERキッス (メンバー別個別CM集) [Puri Puri Summer Kiss CM ver.]
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Jacket B (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] プリプリ SUMMERキッス [Puri Puri Summer Kiss]
2. [CD] 南風パヤパヤ [Minamikaze Payapaya]
3. [CD] 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) [Asu e Step!]
4. [DVD] 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) (MUSIC VIDEO) [Asu e Step! music video]
5. [DVD] A Message From iDOL Street
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Jacket C (CD only)
1. プリプリ SUMMERキッス [Puri Puri Summer Kiss]
2. 南風パヤパヤ [Minamikaze Payapaya]
3. 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) [Asu e Step!]
4. プリプリ SUMMERキッス (Instrumental)
5. 南風パヤパヤ (Instrumental)
6. 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) (Instrumental)
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Jacket D (CD Only イベント会場・mu-moショップ限定盤)
1. プリプリ SUMMERキッス [Puri Puri Summer Kiss]
2. 南風パヤパヤ [Minamikaze Payapaya]
3. 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) [Asu e Step!]

Individual Member Jacket (CD Only)
1. [CD] プリプリ SUMMERキッス [Puri Puri Summer Kiss]
2. [CD] 南風パヤパヤ [Minamikaze Payapaya]
3. [CD] 明日へSTEP! (Song by iDOL Street All Members) [Asu e Step!]
4. [CD] オリジナルCDドラマ「SUPER☆GiRLS 超絶学園　スクールデイズコレクション　ゴージャスなバカンス！？」
＜Bonus Track＞※八坂沙織ver.のみ [Original CD Dorama -bonus track- Yasaka Saori ver.]
5. [CD] 初恋グラフィティ（八坂沙織 Special Solo Version） [Hatsukoi Graffiti (Yasaka Saori solo ver.)
mu-mo

Source: SUPER☆GiRLS Discography

AKB48 4th General Election Early Results

Early results of this year's AKB48 Senbatsu Elections were just revealed on AKB48's official blog! This is just after a day's voting and is definitely not conclusive yet. There will still be a lot of changes as 6th June steps nearer. I hope that my favourite members get a higher ranking this year. My AKB48 oshi, Takajo Aki, was ranked at #12 last year and I hope she can get into top 10 this year. My SKE48 oshi, Matsui Rena was #10 last year and I hope she can get higher, at least #9 - at #7 in this early results, I hope Rena maintains there or even better, rise higher. Will be voting for them soon with my voting tickets.
All the best to the other members too, especially my favourites - Kashiwagi Yuki, Yamamoto Sayaka (NMB48 oshi), Iwasa Misaki, Ogiso Shiori, Ogasawara Mayu and Miyawaki Sakura (HKT48 oshi) - even though I don't have enough budget to vote for all of them.. T_T

1位 大島優子 15,093票
2位 柏木由紀 12,654票
3位 渡辺麻友 11,329票
4位 指原莉乃 9,337票
5位 高橋みなみ 8,955票
6位 篠田麻里子 8,619票
7位 松井玲奈 8,460票
8位 松井珠理奈 7,795票
9位 板野友美 6,595票
10位 宮澤佐江 6,280票
11位 小嶋陽菜 5,334票
12位 横山由依 4,301票
13位 高城亜樹 3,661票
14位 梅田彩佳 3,484票
15位 峯岸みなみ 3,396票
16位 北原里英 3,302票

17位 河西智美 3,227票
18位 山本彩 3,218票
19位 渡辺美優紀 2,976票
20位 高柳明音 2,471票
21位 佐藤亜美菜 2,392票
22位 島崎遥香 2,340票
22位 古川愛李 2,340票
24位 秦佐和子 2,312票
25位 増田有華 2,182票
26位 須田亜香里 2,149票
27位 向田茉夏 1,948票
28位 大矢真那 1,919票
29位 小木曽汐莉 1,788票
30位 武藤十夢 1,757票
31位 小笠原茉由 1,746票
32位 秋元才加 1,743票

33位 矢神久美 1,671票
34位 倉持明日香 1,653票
35位 木﨑ゆりあ 1,624票
36位 仲谷明香 1,348票
37位 矢方美紀 1,345票
38位 仲川遥香 1,244票
39位 松村香織 1,194票
40位 中田ちさと 1,188票
41位 藤江れいな 1,166票
42位 山田菜々 1,136票
43位 小林香菜 1,110票
44位 木本花音 1,039票
45位 岩佐美咲 1,023票
46位 平松可奈子 998票
47位 山内鈴蘭 988票
48位 石田晴香 985票

49位 宮崎美穂 970票
50位 大家志津香 964票
51位 片山陽加 955票
52位 多田愛佳 912票
53位 永尾まりや 818票
54位 福本愛菜 816票
55位 前田亜美 810票
56位 大場美奈 786票
57位 松原夏海 750票
57位 木下有希子 750票
59位 市川美織 702票
60位 野中美郷 701票
61位 菊地あやか 653票
62位 江藤彩也香 641票
63位 中西優香 618票
64位 田名部生来 616票

Maeda Atsuko 2nd Single - '君は僕だ' ('Kimi wa Boku da')

Last month, it was revealed that Maeda Atsuko will be releasing her second single on the 20th of June. The details of the single were revealed recently.

Act.1 (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] 君は僕だ [Kimi wa Boku da]
2. [CD] 右肩 [Migikata]
3. [CD] 遠回り [Toomawari]
4. [CD] 君は僕だ (off vocal ver.)
5. [CD] 右肩 (off vocal ver.)
6. [CD] 遠回り (off vocal ver.)
7. [DVD] 君は僕だ (Music Video) [Kimi wa Boku da music video]
8. [DVD] 君は僕だ (Music Video/ドラマバージョン) [Kimi wa Boku da music video drama ver.]
9. [DVD] Making the music video「君は僕だ」 [Kimi wa Boku da makingm of music video]
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Act.2 (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] 君は僕だ [Kimi wa Boku da]
2. [CD] 右肩 [Migikata]
3. [CD] 愛しすぎると・・・ [Aishisugiru to…]
4. [CD] 君は僕だ (off vocal ver.)
5. [CD] 右肩 (off vocal ver.)
6. [CD] 愛しすぎると・・・ (off vocal ver.)
7. [DVD] 君は僕だ (Music Video) [Kimi wa Boku da music video]
8. [DVD] 君は僕だ (Music Video/ドラマバージョン) [Kimi wa Boku da music video drama ver.]
9. [DVD] 前田敦子 卒業ドキュメント・インタビュー「これからの、私」 [Maeda Atsuko Graduation Documentary Interview]
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Act.3 (CD + DVD)
1. [CD] 君は僕だ [Kimi wa Boku da]
2. [CD] 右肩 [Migikata]
3. [CD] Sunday drive
4. [CD] 君は僕だ (off vocal ver.)
5. [CD] 右肩 (off vocal ver.)
6. [CD] Sunday drive (off vocal ver.)
7. [DVD] 君は僕だ (Music Video) [Kimi wa Boku da music video]
8. [DVD] 君は僕だ (Music Video/ドラマバージョン) [Kimi wa Boku da music video drama ver.]
9. [DVD] 僕たちのご主人さま〜愛犬たちと前田敦子の日常〜 [Bokutachi no Goshujinsama ~Aikentachi to Maeda Atsuko no Nichijou~]
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Theater Ver.
1. [CD] 君は僕だ [Kimi wa Boku da]
2. [CD] 右肩 [Migikata]
3. [CD] 畳 (Tatami]
4. [CD] 君は僕だ (off vocal ver.)
5. [CD] 右肩 (off vocal ver.)
6. [CD] 畳 (off vocal ver.)

Nogizaka46 wins Sashihara Rino in First Day Sales

The result of the competition between Nogizaka46 and AKB48's Sashihara Rino was revealed!
Nogizaka’s 2nd single, 'Oide Shampoo', sold 111,000 copies, topping Oricon’s Daily Charts. While, Sashihara’s solo debut single, 'Soredemo Sukidayo', sold 57,000 units, and placed second in the charts.

This rivalry was actually planned out by the producer, Akimoto Yasushi, of both AKB48 and Nogizaka46, which coincidentally (part of the plan I would say) took place on the date of Aki-P's birthday.

Source: tokyohive/Oricon

UPDATE (3rd May):

Exact figures revealed in AKBINGO! yesterday 24:29.