You call tying your hair back in a pony just like any other girl would do and putting on a suit Danso like Hori Miona? HA! And what was up with the Noujou business? How did she even get to play two roles!? Are you all on something? And Oh the drama! We don’t need no drama for Danso yuri! You call your cosplaying Danso?! Hahaha! !Don’t make us laugh!
Now this, this is how you do Danso…
…NO…
NO WAI…
It’s too soon Nogizaka! Too soon! I barely survived the NOGIBINGO Danso episode and now you are giving me the Nogizakatte Dokko version?! I…
My reactions exactly!
Okay, first thing first…Come out come out whoever you are! We aren’t going to hurt you, much! We know that you are there, probably reading this right now too. So come on out spy! We only wish to thank you for all your lovely work!
Seriously, I have said it before but there really is a spy among us! All this evidence just piling up proves as much! I mean the week this episode aired, I and another Reader were just discussing and speculating and hoping that Nogizaka would do a Danso episode, most likely on NOGIBINGO because it’s like the parallel version of AKBINGO and since they had taken some segments from AKBINGO during the earlier seasons, we were hoping that they would do a Danso take as well.
Well guess what, that following week this episode went and happened! I swear to you my mind is still blown! Took me a while to grasp the fact that this wasn’t a dream! I mean there are just too many coincidences for there to not be a spy among us! And if there is one, I hope you think about my Yukirin rumblings as well. Then again, that is a much different ball game all together.
So, let’s all give a round of applause for our spy dear Readers. Because what an episode this was! And it wasn’t any other Danso, it was Takarazuka style Danso! You know, the masters of Danso? The ones that Mayuyu dreams about every second she isn’t thinking about Mamarin? That type of Danso and people, I think that I am in love with this type of Danso!
Couples every where!
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.
百合 Fever 