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AKB 0–1 Nogizaka – Kibou!

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LIVE (Erika Piano Only Version) – GODLY

 

I am sorry but comparing AKB48’s Haru single (So Long) with Nogizaka46’s similarly themed single
‘Kimi no na wa Kibou’, there just IS a gap so wide one can only shake their heads because it is the same writer for both groups!

First AKB is getting slaughtered by the sisters and now even Nogizaka is making them eat dust! Seriously, I am starting to get embarrassed by most of things AKB. I can’t even remember the last time I enjoyed an AKKBINGO episode, went bazonkers over a single or throw my money at the TV just because AKB48 is on it!

Nay,

Those days are long gone. I think even AkiP himself is giving up on them because what other explanation is there for them to suck while their sisters and rival are only going up, up and away?! I have listened to So Long in full, I think only twice, or thrice at most! But Kimi no na wa Kibou on the other hand, damn girl, not only does the song touch me deeply compelling me to replay it and shed a tear, but the girls execute it so well that….

OMG you guyz, Kragorin, you have to watch their LIVE version of it where they didn’t use BGM in it except the piano…

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THAT WAS BEING PLAYED BY ERIKA HERSELF!!!!

The girls’ voices…..

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I sure hope the AKB girls watched this because…I mean I know it wouldn’t change anything since they aren’t in charge but…Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

And since we are comparing singles, let’s not forget the couplings….SHAKISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Kimi no na wa was combo breaker, then SHAKISM is the ultimate move, pulled off as a finisher! So Long stood no chance! First AKB single I didn’t buy since I became a fan!

And let’s not even go into the beauty of the PVs! I think everyone here knows of AKB QUALITY when it comes to their PVs, which is still, even at this moment, a mystery to me. I now have no choice but to believe that they actually hire terminators who specialise in turning things ugly! So, let’s not go there. Needless to say, Nogizaka wins in Quality hands down to.

If only all the time wasted on So Long was instead donated to SHAKISM….

Sigh

Jump ahead for glorious caps…..

PS: RINA’S HAIR….OMFG!!!! *faints*

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[NGZ46!] So, SHAKISM….

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Couples every where!

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Danso Heaven!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how rare, how bulls-eye and simply awesome the concept of Shakism is?

Please?

Okay, one might ask what the big deal is apart from the obvious (danso) as the baselines aren’t that new but it all comes down to execution. The danso idea was already there. Every fan across the globe knows of the No-Love rule.

But despite those facts, they still let AKB girls get it on with males in their PVs like it ain’t no big deal. Can we just imagine the awesomeness that would have been Gingham Check had Yukirin been kissing a danso AKB member as opposed to that Dude that sent all the fans on rampage? Wouldn’t the fans have been much happier had Yuko and Mayuyu been fighting over Sae-man? Has this happened in the 48 family? Will it ever happen in the 48 family? I think not!

And so I give Nogizaka’s SHAKISM’s director the utmost praise at pulling off what can only be thought of as one of the best for-the-fans PV ever! AKB doesn’t do that anymore, if it ever did. They are falling into the trap that is BUSINESS!

“OMG our girls are too popular now to be mistreated. We have a wider audience to appeal to now so we have to average out our uniqueness.” – so saith AKS.

Well dearest AKS, IDGAS!!!

Nogizaka not only did that right but making half the girls play the boys’ part but they touched upon the No.1 rule in such a way that will drill the idea into those who simply did not get the grasp of it. Not only that but it falls within the main genres except comedy.

We have Sci-Fi in the futuristic setting (what, with teh lazers and all that post apocalyptic feel it has). Then there is action (“”What are you saying – that I can doge bullets?), there is drama of course. There is romance, duh, and I also want to include adventure in relation to the fact that they referenced TDKR. We shall be getting into that.

Then we also have the usual shonen formula, – Main starts out the weakest then by end ends up the strongest MF to ever have waked the earth (“No. I am saying that when you are read, you won’t have to”)!

All those point to SHAKISM being some generic PV but I assure you that I have been watching this Every day since it appeared on the NET! And now that I have the HQ, let’s get down to business.

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