No! Do not attempt to scroll past this! I am not pranking you! For Ladies and Gentlemen, NOGIBINGO is back! If you are crinkling your eyebrows right now, let me assure you that you most certainly aren’t alone, Dear Reader for I too have heard absolutely nothing, and I mean, nothing of a third season of this show that makes AKBINGO run for it’s money! Episode 01 already aired and I am only finding out about it now!?! I am so ashamed of myself!
And just like it’s previous premieres, this season’s first episode sets the ground for some pretty epic things to come! And here I was thinking that we would never get another season! I don’t know why but I really thought the second season was the last! It was just so good and felt like all the best was poured into that season but then I remember that series get continued because they are awesome and so here we have ourselves another season of Nogizaka awesomeness!
Yumi x Reika MaiMai x MisaMisa Ikoma-kun x Sayuringo
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Yeah, I am totally crying and for various reasons right now! First of all, Nogibingo! is o-v-e-r Over! How am I going to spend my Friday nights form now on? Seriously this has been the most enjoyable and looked forward to 48/46 show for me this season and now it’s tots over! So downs right now!
And as if that fact alone wasn’t enough, they go and make the last episode such a FEEL-inducing roller coaster! Seriously, how am I supposed to hold all those FEELS in when the bring out secret weapons like these letters of apology from member to member! How?!
I couldn’t! My throat and my chest are both hurting pretty bad right now! I am such a mess that I could only get the energy to translate ( very roughly) just Reika’s letter to Yumi! I couldn’t hold it in anymore., My eyes could see a thing! I was typo-ing every three characters so I gave up! So forgive me but I only found time to translate Reika’s letter only.
So anyway this week the theme was that members who had something really weighty to apologise for to another got to write in down in letter form and then read them in front of the intended. Naturally Captain went first. And naturally still, the receiver was none other than Wakatsuki-sama. I speak for everyone when I say that no one was surprised by that, huh? Anyway since I translated this, no need to talk about it. Read it and find out if interested…
Enter Nogizaka46’s event to find out the worst sporty girl evar! And let me just say that if you thought that Ikoma was the worst ever one could get (Remember, last time she ranked lower than Rena) well, there is a new Queen in town!
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.
I am sad that I didn’t get Nanami-chan, probably on the Type-A I didn’t get, but at least in her place I got Asuka-chan. Two lolis of the same coin those are ^^
Any ways onto the few scans of the goodies that came with my orders.
BTW, I already gushed about this single, well it’s PV, way back when. Go there if interested.
百合 Fever 