At their Budokan concert, it was announced that a major regrouping is to be made in October with many members being shifted from one team to another. The girls didn’t have any idea that this was going to happen to them. Here’s how the new look AKB48 will look below with the former team they occupied in brackets. What do you think about this development? The very heart of these teams will be destroyed and a lot of Research Student have been promoted. The girls that have been shifted from Team K to B appear to have taken the news rather badly – it’ll seem like some kind of demotion to them. What’s the point of all this I wonder? Perhaps too many star members were in one team so they wanted to spread them around but this is rather drastic. What I’m pissed off about most is the loss of Nonti, Meetan, Cindy and Sato to SDN48. At least they didn’t break up Sayaka and Sae from Team K. What you’ve also got to take onboard is will this sudden regrouping make some of the girls think about quitting? Some are saying that Tomomi Itano could be the first to leave – she’s not at all happy with the news. Who knows but I think the repercussions from this announcement is going to rumble on for a while.
Team A
Minami Takahashi (unofficial leader)
Haruka Katayama (Team B)
Asuka Kuramochi (Team K)
Aika Oota (Team B)
Natsumi Matsubara (Team K)
Rino Sashihara (Team B)
Haruna Kojima
Sayaka Nakaya (Team B)
Mariko Shinoda
Haruka Nakagawa (Team B)
Atsuka Maeda
Chisato Nakata
Aki Takajo
Shizuka Ooya (Research Student)
Ami Maeda (Research Student)
Iwasa Misaki (Research Student)
Suzuki Mariya (Research Student)
Team K
Sayaka Akimoto (unofficial leader)
Reina Fujie (Team A)
Moeno Nito (Team B)
Erena Ono
Minami Minegishi (Team A)
Miku Tanabe (Team B)
Tomomi Itano (Team A)
Rumi Yonezawa (Team B)
Sae Miyazawa
Haruka Kohara (Team B)
Ayaka Umeda
Yuko Oshima
Tomomi Nakatsuka (Team B)
Ayaka Kikuchi (Research Student)
Misato Nonaka (Research Student)
Sakiko Matsui (Research Student)
Mayumi Uchida (Research Student)
Team B
Yuki Kashiwagi (unofficial leader)
Rie Kitahara (Team A)
Miho Miyazaki (Team A)
Kana Kobayashi (Team K)
Tomomi Kasai (Team K)
Natsumi Hirajima
Yuka Masuda (Team K)
Manami Oku (Team K)
Mayu Watanabe
Rina Chikano (Team K)
Amina Sato (Team A)
Mika Komori (Research Student)
Sumire Sato (Research Student)
Haruka Ishida (Research Student)
Shiori Suzuki (Research Student)
Natsuki Sato (Team K)
