I like how everyone else is at 90 while Yukirin is like, NOPE, I am aiming for the stars

Okay, my worries flew out the window after I watched this new Team B stage. The biggest worry I had was that the chemistry would simply fail and everyone would be all over the place but then I realised…These girls have already performed many time together before so they aren’t really strangers to one another. Many of those Team 4 graduates were performing in old Team B stages while they were still KKS so they are kind of used to working with other members.

Also after the first shuffle, it would not be that hard for the girls to get it together and move on now since they have lived through that before. So I was really worried for nothing, maybe the new new girls like Milky and Anna who are from outside AKB are the ones that need some careful treatment. It can’t be easy for them to be learning both new stages for their respective teams then those of Team B at the same time. But since KKS do this all the time, I guess to them it shouldn’t be that out there, though this is one of the reasons I really respect KKS.

Getting back on topic, as we know each new Team has more than 16 members but 16 is the official performing number so a few were actually missing in this first performance. Fear not though, knowing how rarely Yukirin, Kojiharu and other popular members also not to forget the foreigners Anna and Milky, there will be plenty of time for the others to perform as well.

The 16 present on this first day were;

Kashiwagi Yuki

But of course! If the first day had happened without her, I would be like, sitting there blankly staring and un-enthusiastically waving my arms around and breathing ‘yay’ in cheer!

Yukirin was another worry I had. I thought she would go back to her SRS business persona she had in the earlier B stages but to my pleasant she kept her chirpy and free personality she has grown thanks to Mayuyu’s childish behaviour when around her. I love that Yukirin who seems so free when she is on stage. In this performance she was like that, still alive, still winding the dance moves to make them more fun and at ease. It was like she was performing B-Oshii all the damn time!

While others may have been pretty nervous and trying not to mess up, Yukirin was loitering all over the place like a mid-fielder on a soccer team. That playfulness is what made team B stand out from the others and why they are the closest to the fans. It was really great to see that Yukirin still remembered that even though this was a new team and new things needed to be brought out.

I guess she decided to leave the new inventions to the others since they were the ones moving while she was stagnant in these team shuffles so she figured that while they changed their catch-phrases and seemed to have new personality ambitions, she would bare the responsibility of keeping the old spirit around. She still uses her old catch phrase, still acts the same but she did say that she too hopes to give us a different side of her in this new team so I will be looking forward to it.

Also as usual she seems to be the target of jokes for some reason. Oh well, more camera time for her so no complaints from me.

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