SKE48′s Yui Matsushita To Graduate

After a prolonged recovery from a serious ankle injury, SKE48 Team S member Yui Matsushita has decided to graduate from the idol group at the end of September. Yui suffered the injury way back early last year and underwent an operation in April 2010. She was supposed to be out for 10 months but obviously things weren’t going quite so well. Even though she was brave enough to come back and start performing again on TV and radio with SKE48, the road to complete recovery is far from over. She will have an operation to remove a bolt from her leg and the rehabilitation from that will take perhaps several years. Yui decided it was best for her to graduate from SKE48 in order to concentrate fully on getting better.

It’s always sad to hear when somebody’s career is stopped by a serious injury. I wish her the very best of luck in the future and hope one day she will eventually be 100% fit again.

AKB48 – Flying Get 2nd Day Sales

After yesterday’s euphoric record breaking day, what kind of sales could we expect from AKB48 today? Naturally as it happens with every 2nd day with new releases there’s a big drop and that’s to be expected. So how did AKB48 do? They managed to shift another 113,656 copies of Flying Get to nudge the grand total up to 1,139,608. Compared to the grand total of Everyday Kachuusha at the same stage, they are 54,900 copies ahead right now.

Reading other people’s blogs last night, I’d kinda forgotten about the promise that one member of the idol group PASSPO gave the press.  She would shave her head if PASSPO lost to AKB48 as they have released a single at the same time too. The challenge itself was a no-brainer as they would never win against AKB48. I’m sure as soon as she saw the sales figures yesterday she had her head in her hands and regretting the day she every agreed to do such a silly thing! Will she go ahead and shave her head or try and think that people have forgotten about it?