SKE48 Senbatsu Members:
Nickname: Masanya (まさにゃ)
Birthdate: November 6th, 1990 (20)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 158cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
Catchphrase: "M! (A!) S! (A!) N! (A!) Masana! Nagoya's Snow White, Oya Masana"
-Has participated in three AKB48 singles (Heavy Rotation and Sakura no Ki ni Narou's Undergirls and in DIVA's track on Beginner).
Nickname: Rikkii (リッキー)
Birthdate: August 7th, 1989 (21)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 160cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
-Her nickname (Rikkii sounds like Ricky) was made to impress foreign fans.
Nickname: Yuria (ゆりあ)
Birthdate: February 11, 1996 (14)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 154cm
Team: Team S
Special Talents: Dancing, Tennis
Hobbies: Anime
-Her favourite kind of food are strawberry milk flavored sweets
Nickname: Mizuki (みずき)
Birthdate: February 2nd, 1992 (19)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 162.6cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
-I know her as the one who embodies the meme "I whip my hair back and forth!"
Nickname: Akarin (あかりん)
Birthdate: October 31st, 1991 (19)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 160cm
Team: Team S
-Akarin is left-handed (they tend to be smarter, but die sooner)
Nickname: Kanakana (かなかな)
Birthdate: November 14, 1991 (19)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 152cm
Team: Team S
Hobbies: Watching DVDs, shopping
Special skill: Tennis, writing articles
Favorite foods: Ice cream
Nickname: Shiitan (しーたん）
Birthdate: July 19th, 1990 (20)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 159cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
Hobbies: Remake and finding delicious/good things
Special skill: Long distance swimming in breaststroke and riding a unicycle
Favorite foods: Sweet things
-Younger sister of former Team K member Takada Ayana.
Nickname: Jurina (じゅりな)
Birthdate: March 8th, 1997 (14)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 160cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
Catchphrase: "1,2,3,4 let's go togetter 6,7,8,9 Jurina~!"
Hobbies: Dancing, making pastries, sports
Special skill: 100m run (in about 14 seconds), animal sound impressions
Favourite foods: Chocolate and her Mother's Cooking
Nickname: Rena (れな)
Birthdate: July 27th, 1991 (19)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 162cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
Hobbies: Walking around in convenience stores and making pastries
Special Skill: Programming (COBOL)
Future Ambition: Actress
Favorite Foods: Sweet things
Favorite Phrase: Daily Training
One Line Message: I will carefully do my best with every part of my personality.
Nickname: Kuumin (くーみん)
Birthdate: June 13th, 1994 (16)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 158cm
Team: Team S
Generation: 1st
Catchphrase: にゃは〜ん。わくわくーみん! きらめくーみん! きっと明日も、にゃはっぴー。くーみんこと矢神久美です
Hobbies: Playing the saxophone and piano
Special skill: HIPHOP dancing
Future Ambition: Actress, Multi Talent
Favorite foods: Sweet things and meat
Favorite Phrase: The amount of work equals the level of the results
One Line Message: There are many sides of Kuumin to see from now on, Kindly support that kind of Yagami Kumi as well.
Nickname: Anna (アンナ)
Birthdate: May 27th, 1996 (14)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 153cm
Team: Team KII
-Once on her blog she posted a picture of a lung with the comment that she will need to use her lungs a lot.
Nickname: Shiorin (しおりん)
Birthdate: September 15th, 1992 (18)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 153cm
Team: Team KII
-Wants to be an actress in the future
Nickname: Airin (あいりん)
Birthdate: December 13th, 1989 (21)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 155cm
Team: Team KII
Hobby: anime, drawing
Specialty: piano, flute, drawing portraits
Favorite food: Macron
Nickname: Akane (あかね)
Birthdate: November 29th, 1991 (18)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 154.2cm
Team: Team KII
Hobby: playing with birds, singing songs
Specialty: cooking
Favorite food: Fruit jelly
Nickname: Manatsu (まなつ)
Birthdate: May 10th, 1996 (14)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 157cm
Team: Team KII
Hobby: Collecting cake boxes
Specialty: Clarinet
Favorite food: Melon
Nickname: Non (のん)
Birthdate: August 11th, 1997 (13)
Birthplace: Aichi, Japan
Height: 151cm
Team: Team E
Generation: 4th Gen
Catchphrase: のんのんのんのんがんばるのん♪キャハ 中学1年生13歳の木本花音です!!
Hobbies: Watching Soccer
Speciality: Logo Design
Future Ambition: Multi Talent
Favorite Food: Gyouza
Favorite Phrase: 死ぬ気でやれよ死なないから
One Line Message: I'll do my best with all I have, kindly support me!
-Promoted to Team E on December, 6th 2010.
-I find that she resembles C-ute's Suzuki Airi.
1. Matsui Rena
2. Furukawa Airi
3. Takayanagi Akane
4. Kuwabara Mizuki
5. Hirata Rikako
6. Kimoto Kanon
7. Yagami Kumi
8. Hiramatsu Kanako
9. Mukaida Manatsu
10. Takada Shiori
11. Oya Masana
12. Ishida Anna
13. Ogiso Shiori
14. Matsui Jurina
15. Suda Akari
16. Kizaki Yuria
Non-Senbatsu Favorites (of Mina's):
Ono Haruka
Kinoshita Yukiko
Matsushita Yui
Singles Ranking:
1. 1! 2! 3! 4! ヨロシク!
2. バンザイVenus
3. 強き者よ
4. ごめんね、SUMMER
5. 青空片想い
Team E's 1st Stage Pajama Drive (B3) - First Impression:
I am not going to review it at the moment because all I can find is low quality video of their performances. I've also seen Team B's third stage. Probably once they release an original stage I'll review that. I was thrilled to hear that their first stage would be B3 because it is one of my favorites. The overall sound and performance of the stage was well done. It was hard for the girls to stand out considering the poor quality during the group performances. Chibi Airi is soooo cute! (No I will not stop calling her chibi airi. . . maybe I'll start calling her nono and not cause she reminds me of Tsuji Nozomi.) She definitely stood out as my favorite in the first line of the intro MC. The rest of them are also pretty cute. I think the last line had the most stand outs to me, but nothing on the level of Miorin. The tales in the first unit are much too long. The third unit sounds auto-tuned during parts of the performance. It is not uncommon for the first couple of stage performances to be lip-synced as they get used to it. I feel it lacks the vocal power the original AKB unit had. (Warning the following ranking is biased towards my favorite songs.)
Ranking of the units:
1. Kagami no Naka no Jean D'arc (鏡の中のジャンヌ・ダ・アルク) (Kobayashi Ami, Sakai Mei, Umemoto Madoka, Takeuchi Mai, Yamada Erika)
2. Tenshi no Shippo (天使のしっぽ) (Ueno Kasumi, Kimoto Kanon, Shibata Aya)
3. Junjou Shugi (純情主義)(Takagi Yumana, Hara Minami, Ishohara Kyoka)
4. Temodemo no Namida (てもでもの涙) (Kaneko Shiori, Nakamura Yuka)
5. Pajama Drive (パジャマドライブ) (Mano Haruka, Tsuzuki Rika, Yamashita Yukari)
Considering this is their first performance of their first stage I thought they did a good job. They'll come into their own once they do their second stage, hopefully also an original stage because it will be tailored to them.
Team S 3rd Stage - Seifuku no Me Review:
I've seen songs from this stage performed in their concerts (I posted both of those concerts above and I suggest you watch them). I've also listened to the audio CD of this stage a couple of times. Hopefully I can watch this stage the whole way through without wanting to punch Jurina square in the face (she does a good job but she irks me.)
Is their theatre usually not well lighted on the sides? While I do think the coats are flattering and go with a schoolgirl image, if you consider the back is black, I don't think it is the best choice. Dark on black, wouldn't it make them a bit hard to see in the audience? I like the frolic away moves (ballerina, ballerina, jellyfish, jellyfish). I enjoy their choreography. It isn't anything technically difficult, but it requires some energy and it is only the opening number. Oh, and I really like the song.
I love the combination of idols and glasses and all, but is there a reason. Wait. . . they don't need a reason! At certain parts in this song it reminds me of something from Hello Project. I like the song and they are being adorable, but it is still a bit on the dull side. I want to watch what is happening in the back; it looks like they are doing something fun back there. One of the girls who has really high cheekbones, doesn't look that flattering at the moment. I think she did a shuffle of Jurina's unit for this stage in a concert and she had curly hair then. I might have made a mistake, but I thought she looked amazing then.
Another high energy number. No, not in a bad way. I like it when they are genki. The chorus is a bit. . . Miss I whip my hair (or is it head) back and forth made some extremely cute expressions just a moment ago. I keep on getting tempted to put her and Ricky above Rena as my favorites. Lose points for using 'la's in the lyrics.
STRIPPING! Things seemed a bit rushed, they run backstage to chug some coffee. Maybe points for spelling things. I only give bonus points if they spell something hard. . . like definitely (people spell it wrong quite a bit). Especially, considering it would be a foreign word. Where is this coming from? I have no idea. (Wow are these girls older than I thought they were!)
Minus points for Jurina. I began loving this unit when I watched the shuffle. This would be an amazing unit if it just wasn't Jurina! She scares me. . . like Matsujun. . . well not in the same way.
No bananas? This is cute and all, but it just doesn't hit the spot. It is done well, maybe it is the song.
Is this from an old TV show opening? (Why do I keep asking rhetorical questions? I guess I am in that mood. . . whatever that kind of mood would be called.) Sorry for the tangent. Loved it!
RENA STOP BEING A BUZZ KILL! Odd placement for a ballad don't you thin. . . sorry. Not much of a review, more like a commentary. The song is lovely. The performance is simple and beautiful. Rena is an angel sent down from NPH in heaven. (Bonus points to you if you understood that joke.)
Lovely. . . there isn't much to say about it. I guess it wasn't amazing because I don't have much to say about it.
I adore these costumes! However, for this kind of song. . . Now I am doing the . . . thing. Sorry. Your head banging doesn't help me. I love high tension numbers. I don't like how Matsui just appears in every other shot. It is probably because I've seen most of these performed in concert. I promise I'll be better once a new stage is released in high quality.
Mood swings much. I appreciate the energetic dancing for this plain song, but I don't think it matches either. I am impressed with Team S. Uh oh, most of senbatsu is Team S. I foresee a team shuffle in their future.
This would be an amazing last song, but it isn't! Notice that the paper things are shaped like hearts.
I wish they would mess with each other because at times it looks a bit awkward. Shut up demon spawn. Wash that table.
Favorite number yet! There are some boss hats in this set.
I loved this coupling track, possibly even more than the main song. I'm glad that they perform it often. It is a great song. But I bet the trainees felt gipped from performing it themselves in concerts.
Waaa, pretty.
Favorite Song/ Performance from Each Set:
Group Set 1: Koi wo Kataru Shijin ni Narenakute
Units: Onna no Ko no Dairokukan
Group Set 2: Nakama no Uta
Encore: Rakuen no Kaidan
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