Somebody has been kind enough to post the premiere episode of the new AKB TV show which aired earlier on in Japan. I quite enjoyed it and I can see this becoming a good show to watch alongside AKBingo. See the links after the summary below.
The show is set in a mock classroom which is way too pink for my liking. The main MC’s are Acchan and Takamina but I’m not sure if that changes each week. They also have 2 comedians (don’t know who they are) as guests. I thought they were useless.
The first segment is a challenge to Acchan, Kojima and Mariko. They have to stand near a crossing in Omotesando, Harajuku for 15 mins and see if anybody passing will recognise them. They’ll get points if somebody goes up and says hello, ask for an autograph, get a handshake but will lose points if they start trying to get attention to themselves, saying AKB48 out loud or get pestered to do a survey.
Mariko gets no points at all, Acchan gets 4 points and Kojima gets 8 points. I thought Kojima was funny singing a few bars of Namida Surprise to gain attention. Mariko asks for another go due to her failure in the first. She does get some points but loses a lot of them for also blurting AKB48. A wota who spotted Mariko the first time she did the challenge but was too scared to say anything to her finally plucks up the courage to go up to her the second time round. Despite all her efforts, it’s Kojima who wins the challenge.
Next up – Sae gets pranked by a party popper that springs out of a microphone!
The girls have to design a logo for the show as homework.
Some news follows about the national tour that AKB48 is doing in August, the senbatsu result and the position that Namida Surprise achieved in the Oricon charts.
Yuko Oshima also gets pranked when she’s all set to do an interview and sits down on a whoopee cushion!
Finally we end with a preview of next week’s show which is all set in a theme park.
EDIT: As willx24601 kindly pointed out the links to the episode have been removed. I’ll have to look for alternative links. There’s bound to be somebody that have posted all the episodes so far on Youtube. Once I find something I’ll update the links to this episode.
Looks like the girls will be riding a roller coaster next week, from the preview alone it’s going to be funny.
ohhhh the videos were removed by user!!! arrgg!
Poor Miichan was terrified of rollercoasters!