AKBingo 17th March Summary

Continuing from last week’s episode, it’s DANSPO Part 2!!!

1. Sae with Yuko (bar scenario)

Sae is a smooth talking barman chatting up Yuko and making her a cocktail in a bar. The members are going crazy for Sae especially Kasai and Kuramochi. She’s nearly in tears and think Sae is so cool. Has Kasai got a thing for girls in boys clothes or something? Sae score: a hugely impressive 17 out of 20.

2. Mayuyu with Takamina (samurai scenario)

Takamina is a young apprentice with Mayuyu as an old samurai master. I could hear a few of the girls shout kawaii at Mayuyu. She was OK. Mayuyu score: 8 out of 20.

3. Tomochin with Acchan (school scenario)

Acchan is the schoolgirl waiting for Tomochin as a boy. Tomochin I believe could pass as a boy. Sashi and Kitahara were impressed enough. Tomochin score: 15 out of 20.

and finally we have

4. Nito Moeno with Yuko (comedy scenario)

Yuko is the schoolgirl who tries to lift a piece of wood blocking her way with Moeno as a carpenter with stubble around the face who swings the wood around his head narrowly missing Yuko’s head as per a comedy scenario. Both girls were desperately trying to keep a straight face. The 20 members watching were also laughing. Moeno really got a low score: 3 out of 20.

Sae is the winner. Nachu butts in as a sumo wrestler in a painfully unfunny segment.

Promo for AKB48′s 2nd best album, something to do with them being photographed in bikinis, 3 ties they’ve designed and then we have the PV for SKE48′s 2nd single Aozora Kataomoi. No live performance at all on this show.

More promos for the new AKBingo book and Watarirouka’s single Akkanbe Bashi (no.1 again for the 2nd day in a row on the Oricon Daily Rankings!!).

This week’s episode wasn’t as good as last week’s. Even though Sae was great as a barman, I think Rena was just outstanding in the previous episode.

Next week: Shojiki shouji with Mariko and Maachan.

New AKB48/SKE48 TV Shows/Akkanbe Bashi

There’s a couple of new TV shows coming up soon featuring both AKB48 and SKE48. The first one called Ariyoshi AKB Kyowakoku is set to start on the 29th March on TBS every Monday at 1.25am. The guy from Nemousu TV (Ariyoshi Hiroiki) will appear with 1 popular AKB48 member each week to give the idol group a set of projects to do and present them in order to please him. 5 kenkyuusei members will be on location to do them. If Ariyoshi isn’t pleased with how the girls do their projects, they have endure some kind of punishment. It sounds like an interesting show so I guess I’ll tune in to this.

SKE48 meanwhile have 2 new shows but these will only be short programmes, and I mean really short programmes…….like 2 mins long! The first Shitte Kaiketsu! SKEtto Net will have 3 members per episode delivering information about things like consumer issues, disaster prevention, the environment and health. It’ll only air in the Nagoya area from April onwards.

The 2nd show they’ll appear is Dera SKE ~ Yoake Mae no Kuni tori 48ban Shoubu. This 2 min show which will be on TBS every Monday to Wednesday from 5th April between 2 – 4am has the girls split into 2 teams – Team Jurina and Team Rena. Each episode will have them answering questions to do with the prefectures in Japan. The team that wins ‘gains’ that prefecture, and battle for country domination.

As for Watariirouka’s new single Akkanbe Bashi which was released yesterday I’m afraid I’m gonna have to eat humble pie!! I said in my initial post about the single that they would never be able to reach 10k in the first week. Well believe it or not they’ve broken that figure in the first day of release and even gone to no.1 in the Oricon Daily Rankings which is a hell of an achievement, even beating Arashi! I know Arashi’s single has been out for over 2 weeks already but I’m still happy for the girls even though I dislike the song. The actual sales figures were 11,159 copies. If they keep this momentum up there’s a good chance of being no.1 at the end of the week. Well done!