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shitpost48-blog · 7 years ago

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This is my first time shitposting in here. After a while, I decide to make this tumblr a compilation of everything I like.

Girls in the picture are representatives of their groups. From above (then clock-wise) is Rino Sashihara from HKT48. She’s on top because she is last year winner. With pink flag, is AKB48’s Mayu Watanabe. With red flag, is NGT48’s Rika Nakai. With black flag, is HKT48’s Sakura Miyawaki. With leopard-patterned flag, is NMB48’s Miru Shiroma. With white and blue-stripped flag is STU48’s Yumiko Takino. And last but not least, with yellow flag is SKE48’s Jurina Matsui

Soo…AKB48Group Senbatsu Sousenkyo is over 17 June, which is nearly a week ago (with an expected yet frustating results) and not forget to say, with a lot of drama. The most dreadful was the usual-opening-concert cancellation due to heavy rain in Okinawa, where the event are being held.

Senbatsu Sousenkyo (General Election) is an annual events held by AKB48Group which decided members who will participate in upcoming AKB48 single.

Normally, selected members (from now on it will be called Senbatsu) are chosen by management. But once a year, fans are given a chance to votes for their favorite members so that they can rank among the selected members.

Besides 16 Senbatsu members who will sing Main Track of the next single, there will also units consists of 16 members who will sing Coupling Tracks based on what ranks they got in the Election. Eligible members are members from AKB48, their Japanese Sister Group (SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, NGT48, and the newly formed group, STU48), or a Kaigai member (international sister group such as JKT48 in Indonesia and BNK48 in Thailand) whose originally an AKB48 Japanese Group member.

I feel like to comments about the ranking members so you can google their name and hopefully find out their respective awesomeness. This is also a way to know more about AKB48Group members (whose probably has more name than your neighborhood).

The first unit is Upcoming Girls consists of members who ranks #80 to #65. The formats would be Ranks. Name (Group and Team, Number of Votes) They are:

80. Hana Matsuoka (HKT48 Team TII, 15,396)

This is the newly pushed member from HKT48. She was a center (member standing in up-middle front of the formation) for HKT48 8th Single Saikou ka Yo (a fun song, try it), this is a first time she ranks in Election but despite of her push, this is pretty low imo. Still, good for her. She’s still 17 and has plenty times to grow.

79. Aki Toyonaga (HKT48 Kenkyuusei (Research Student), 15,598)

A research student, or a Trainee from HKT48. This is her first election and she already ranks-in. Amazing.

78. Yuki Takahata (SKE48 Team E, 15,804) A 7th generation member, a good start for her.

77. Yuria Kado (NGT48 Kenkyuusei, 15,990)

She wasn’t included in Team NIII and also NGT48 1st Single which was released just recently. So this is very good.

76. Moe Goto (AKB48 Team B, 16,097)

She’s one of my favorite Draftee members. She’s been a member for 4 years now yet just managed to ranks this year. Great!

75. Miyuu Omori (AKB48 Team 4, 16,162)

She’s also one of my favorite member. Too bad her rank down by two than last year.

74. Shinobu Mogi (AKB48 Team K, 16,393)

This is pretty bad. Her rank get down by 27.

73. Yui Hiwatashi (AKB48 Team A, 16,492)

She’s one of the ‘Next Generation’ member who just managed to rank-in this year.

72. Yuna Obata (SKE48 Team KII, 16,511)

A new face from SKE48 7th Generation. Great, she’s just appointed center in SKE48 newest single, too.

71. Minami Kato (NGT48 Team NIII, 16,641)

Her rank raised by 5 compared to last year. Despite being original ace of NGT48 1st generation, her rank is pretty low, though

70. Aya Miyajima (NGT48 Kenkyuusei, 16,930)

Again, get promoted later doesn’t mean you don’t have loyal fans.

69. Nagisa Sakaguchi (AKB48 Team 8, 17,303)

AKB48 Team 8 is a rather special team in AKB48Group. Being sponsored by Toyota, it consists of 47 members (now 46 with 1 announced graduation) from 47 prefectures in Japan. Nagisa is from Hokkaido and this year get 1 rank up compared to last year, by the way.

68. Sumire Sato (SKE48 Team E, 17,320)

A rather-old member, originally from AKB48 7th Generation whose have been in the group for 9 years now. One of my favorite member because we share the same birthday and some traits. Her ranks was dropped last year (frustating), but raised again this year by 7 rank.

67. Serika Nagano (AKB48 Team 8, 17,662)

From Osaka, she just managed to ranked-in this year, too.

66. Marika Tani (SKE48 Team E, 17,744)

Originally an HKT48 1st Generation member, her ranks dropped by 11 from last year (Oh NOO).

65. Nao Ota (AKB48 Team 8, 17,757)

This girl is from Kyoto and just managed to rank this year. Come to think of it, there are good amount of Team 8 members ranked this year. Nice! This girl will be center for Upcoming Girls track.

Okay, next unit from #64 to #49 will be in Future Girl tracks. Those girls are:

64. Ryoha Kitagawa (SKE48 Team S, 18,299)

One of the heavily-pushed member in SKE48 keep her rank stagnant. IMO, this is not a good situation. She’s beautiful.

63. Haruka Kumazaki (SKE48 Team E, 18,299)

Don’t follow her much. But her rank raised by 4. Congrats.

62. Aoi Motomura (HKT48 Team KIV, 18,363)

HKT48 Team KIV captain. In 2015, her rank fall from 48 to 80. Her fans then raged and made her ranked 36 last year. However, due to a lot of factor, she’s falling 26 position this year.

61. Ichikawa Miori (NMB48 Team N, 18,814)

When her name called. I was like “YATTA!” This originally AKB48 10th Gen member is your daily dose of dorkness and what makes it better. SHE’S A LEGAL LOLI! You wouldn’t believe with her appearance she was just as old as me. It was devastating that her ranks getting lower these past years. She didn’t even managed to rank last year (FRIGGIN 81 can you believe!?). Included in NHK 2017 Kohaku Utagassen Senbatsu where you can’t easily spam votes and AKB48 senbatsu twice in a row was good for her.

60. Nagisa Shibuya (NMB48 Team M, 19,263)

She’s down 4 position from last year. But what I like about this girl is, she kept smiling and grateful for her position.

59. Natsumi Matsuoka (HKT48 Team H, 19,372)

DAMN, this Team H captain (and my HKT48 Oshi) ranked-down by 13 position than last year.

58. Yuki Arai (SKE48 Team KII, 19,467)

Ranked-up 28 position. Congrats!

57. Airi Tanigawa (NMB48 Team N, 19,752)

Two years ago, this NMB48 2nd Gen member was ranked 74. She didn’t participate in 2016 election, and that decision proven good by this year result.

56. Saki Takeuchi (SKE48 Team KII, 19,919)

Ranked-down 25 position. Too bad.

55. Orin Muto (AKB48 Kenkyuusei, 20,356)

Her sister is Tomu Muto (an underrated AKB48 12th gen member whose rank was #10 in 2016 without any push) whose withdraw her participation this year. Her votes obviously came down to her sister as Orin was just debuted.

54. Nao Ueki (HKT48 Team KIV, 20,640)

Ranked-up 4 position. Congrats!

53. Maho Yamaguchi (NGT48 Team NIII, 20,818)

I know her because of her miscommunication scandal (she was suspected having sex in Showroom, some kind of live streaming site due to her heavy breathing(?)). I don’t know the detail but that was later proven not true. It was just make her more famous! Look at her rank now!

52. Haruka Komiyama (AKB48 Team 4, 20,910)

I don’t like her much, but she is a member with worst drop compared to last year (from #21 to #52).

51. Yui Oguri (AKB48 Team 8, 21,296)

Being unranked last yer, this Tokyo girl’s presence is more and more in AKB48 recently. Congrats!

50. Natsumi Tanaka (HKT48 Team H, 21,472)

The tallest member of Japanese AKB48Group. She wasn’t included in the single last year with her rank (#89). Neither was ever ranked despite of her status as HKT48 1st Gen. She has an interesting personality. Congratulations!.

49. Riko Sakaguchi (HKT48 Team H, 21,643)

Didn’t follow her. But she ranked-up 10 position. Congrats, Future Girls center!

Moving on to Next Girls unit, these girls are from #48 to #33:

48. Ayaka Okita (NMB48 Team BII, 22,264)

This co-captain of Team BII has ranked-down by 23 notch. Poor girl.

47. Satone Kubo (AKB48 Team K Draft Kenkyuusei, 22,895)

She’s a Kenkyuusei, just bound to Team K. This is her first time ranked-in, anyway.

46. Rara Goto (SKE48 Team E, 23,225)

Being unranked last year, she’s been called a failed push along with Ryoha. Now they can shut their mouth up.

45. Megu Taniguchi (AKB48 Team A, 23,304)

This next-gen member ranked-up 24 position. Congrats!

44. Natsuki Kamata (SKE48 Team E, 24,108)

Ranked-up 30 position. Congrats!

43. Yukari Sasaki (AKB48 Team A, 24,276)

Ranked-down 5 position. If you ever about a CGI-Member of AKB48, this girl is the ‘voice actress’.

42. Saho Iwatate (AKB48 Team 4, 24,303)

One of my favorite member with a burikko (an excessive cute-act) personality. Ranked-up by 9 position!

41. Marina Nishigata (NGT48 Team NIII, 24,401)

More NGT48 member. Maybe this group is not as plain as I thought, lmao.

40. Meru Tashima (HKT48 Team H, 24,458)

This girl has a deadly wink, really. Ranked-up by 3. Nice! (I can’t say the same for her pairing, tho)

39. Sae Murase (NMB48 Team BII, 24,585)

Ranked-up 49 position. Amazing!

38. Asuka Tomiyoshi (HKT48 Team KIV, 24,996)

Ranked-up 4 position. Nice!

37. Nako Yabuki (HKT48 Team H, 25,364)

My heart break apart watched this loli’s speech. She was crying because she ranked-down by 9 position. From Undergirls to Next Girls, that’s a pretty much jump. Good luck for next year, one of my favorite member!

36. Yuna Ego (SKE48 Team KII, 25,731)

One of my favorite member, too. Too bad she ranked-down 1 position.

35. Mio Tomonaga (HKT48 Team KIV, 25,733)

:(. Just…:(. This is Meru’s pairing. She ranked-down 12 position. A lot of people predicted she would be in Senbatsu (Top 16) this year because some good amount of Top 16 from last year are either graduate or not participating. Thus, what happened to her is sad.

34. Mai Fuchigami (HKT48 Team KIV, 25,900)

Ranked-up 6 position. Nice!

33. Yuuka Kato (NMB48 Team M, 25,988)

Ranked-up 51 position. Amazing! Congratulations for being Next Girls Center! However, come to think of it. The centers of units this year are members I don’t know about lol (Except Senbatsu and Undergirls ofc).

Okay then, next would be Undergirls from #32 to #17:

32. Seina Fukuoka (AKB48 Team B, 26,444)

Ranked-up 65 position. Wonderful!

31. Madoka Moriyasu (HKT48 Team KIV, 27,384)

This pianist ranked-up 19 position from last year. Way to go, girls! (Just don’t thwart Matsuoka Natsumi, tho)

30. Narumi Kuranoo (AKB48 Team 8, 28,037)

This Kumamoto girl ranked-up 4 position. Good!

29. Saya Kawamoto (AKB48 Team 4, 28,118)

Ranked-down 2 position. Too bad.

28. Miku Tanaka (HKT48 Team H, 28,335)

This pairing of Nako is one of my favorite, too. While Nako is the cute one, this girl is the beautiful others. Ranked-up 17 position, she stands in Nako’s exact position last year. WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!

27. Yuuri Ota (NMB48 Team BII, 28,452)

This girl is called as NMB48’s future. And her 25 position jump is definitely proves that.

26. Mina Oba (SKE48 Team KII, 28,554)

Originally AKB48 9th Generation Member, this poor girl ranked-down 4 position this year.

25. Moeka Takakura (NGT48 Team NIII, 28,623)

Last year, only Minami Kato managed to rank. This year is an excellent year for them.

24. Mako Kojima (AKB48 Team 4, 29,699)

Ranked-down 5 position. NUUUU, I like Mako, and this is bad year for her.

23. Rika Nakai (NGT48 Team NIII, 29,903)

This girl was appointed as center for NGT48 1st Single. Currently my NGT48 Oshi, she managed to jump 73 position from last year.

22. Masana Oya (SKE48 Team S, 30,236)

This one of the oldest and one of two remaining member of SKE48 1st gen wasn’t participating last year election. However, her loyal fans remains on her side, it seems.

21. Rena Kato (AKB48 Team B, 30,282)

She was pushed at almost the same time as now-graduated Haruka Shimazaki. Ranked-up 5 position, she is slowly climbing the ladder.

20. Ririka Sutou (NMB48 Team N, 31,779)

Ranked-up 24 position. This girl surely has bright future in the group. I like her because she said she likes an AKB48 4th Gen member which I like, Amina Sato (a.k.a the first underrated member in AKB48Group History). However, on her speech, she stated that

SHE IS GETTING MARRIED!

The whole fandom is on fire after this announcement. Actually, before this results announced, a paparazzi-ish newspaper in Japan called Shukan Bunshun was announced that they will reveal a member’s scandal after the election. I thought it may be a top member if they decides to drop that bomb right after the election, thus Ririka may be thought it’d be better if she announced it herself. But seriously, this news is more famous even more than the cancellation concert event, nor other big announcement which I will write later. However, there is no further announcement about what will happen to her. EDIT: It seems Ririka and her partner will still going married, but not in the near moment. She decided to leave NMB48 even though management offered her to stay. Man...I hope she will be happy wherever she is. In addition, she will continue to live in showbiz.

19. Minami Minegishi (AKB48 Team K, 34,668)

Ranked-down 2 position. This last HER HIGHNESS ORIGINAL MEMBER OF AKB48 1ST GENERATION makes a bunch of mistakes this year thus she ranked-down. I’d prefer she graduates first before another Original AKB member, Yuki Kashiwagi but it’s likely won’t happen.

18. Kaori Matsumura (SKE48 Team KII, 34,977)

Two years ago, this girl ranked in Top 16. However, she didn’t participate last year. This result isn’t that bad, it’s just the votes are getting crazy this year.

17. Mion Mukaichi (AKB48 Team K, 35,201)

Another Mio case. She was predicted to be in Kami7 (Top 7) this year. This 4 position drop is marking that this will the be first time there is no Team K representation in Top 16. She’s center, at least.

Here it comes. Top 16! There is more my favorites or at least member I know in this unit. They are:

16. Akari Yoshida (NMB48 Team M, 35,540)

This girl is pretty famous in Youtube for her Make-Up tutorials and review channel. Moreover, to be able to jump 61 position from last year is amazing.

15. Akane Takayanagi (SKE48 Team KII, 38,576)

She’s back in Senbatsu after in Undergirls last year. 5 ranks-up!

14. Nao Furuhata (SKE48 Team KII, 40,202)

She’s been acknowledged by management, finally after managed to ranked-up 15 position than last year.

13. Hinata Honma (NGT48 Team NIII, 41,230)

First time ranked-in, and in Senbatsu! NICE!

12. Miru Shiroma (NMB48 Team M, 41,491)

My NMB48 oshimen. She is the highest NMB48 member ranking in this year election after their biggest name, Sayaka Yamamoto chose to opt out. She ranked-up 12 position.

11. Juri Takahashi (AKB48 Team 4, 42,663)

Ranked-up 4 position, this Team 4 Captain get some amount of critics because of her speech that calling out Ririka’s confession.

10. Rie Kitahara (NGT48 Team NIII, 45,684)

After a lot of NGT48 girls ranked-in, I was afraid their captain (whose initially an AKB48 5th Gen) would not rank at all. Thank God that wasn’t happen. She even jumped 2 position, and the highest result she ever managed this far.

9. Nana Okada (AKB48 Team 4, 48,143)

I predicted this Team 4 co-captain would managed to Kami7. However, her votes raised and her rank too, from #14 last year. Still good.

8. Sarina Souda (SKE48 Team KII, 52,475)

Jumped 22 position, this girl is very amazing.

7. Yui Yokoyama (AKB48 Team A, 58,314)

From #11, this Team A Captain and also ALL48 General Manager proves she is worthy to bear the title Soukantoku (General Manager).

6. Akari Suda (SKE48 Team E, 63,124)

Ranked-up 1 position. I don’t like this girl that much, but okay.

5. Yuka Ogino (NGT48 Team NIII, 73,386)

If I call Akari Yoshida amazing I would call this girl incredible. She was ranked #1 in preliminaries, and #5 in actual results despite this is only her 2nd election and even she was unranked last year. I like this girl ever since she joined Baito AKB (Part-Timer AKB Member, lmao)

4. Sakura Miyawaki (HKT48 Team KIV, 82,803)

Ranked-up 2 position, this girl is a promising member.

3. Jurina Matsui (SKE48 Team S, 113,615)

Despite of her amazing spirit, it looks like she won’t be able to beat AKB48 Top 2 yet. She remains in #3.

2. Mayu Watanabe (AKB48 Team B, 149,132)

MY OSHIMEN. IT’S SO SAD SHE CAN’T BE NUMBER 1 IN HER LAST ELECTION. AND OH, SHE ANNOUNCED GRADUATION *CRYING IN THE CORNER*. I predicted she will announce it. But Ririka’s announcement overshadowed hers

1. Rino Sashihara (HKT48 Team H, 246,376)

She will be the center for AKB48 49th Single. It was predicted, but I don’t like it because of MAYU. Oh well, it is her three times winning in a row, anyway. In addition, she has won 4 elections, now. Congratulation, Sasshi. Even her threepeat winning was still overshadowed by Ririka’s announcement.

Next year, Mayuyu and Sasshi won’t be participating. Mayu because she will graduate from AKB48 *CRYING IN THE CORNER* and Sasshi because she said this will her last election. So, it will be a bloodbath between Jurina and Sakura. They’d better watch out, though. Yuka Ogino, Hinata Honma, and another numerous members whose leap high must not be underestimated.

Me? I hope Ogiyuka wins for the lol :p

#akb48 49th single senbatsu sousenkyo #akb48 #senbatsu sousenkyo #akb482017ssk #senbatsu #undergirls #nextgirls #futuregirls #upcominggirls

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ianmoonestuff · 8 years ago

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AQOURS 1ST LOVE LIVE ~Step! ZERO to ONE~ Live Viewing Coverage in Malaysia

I really don’t know how to start this article with. It was a hell of a concert. Full of ups and downs kind of feelings. The memories that AQOURS had given us was quite priceless. As usual my article will be very long and VERY thorough.

So please, in order for you to fully enjoy reading my article, it is recommended for you to really spare some time, brew a cup of coffee(or tea, whichever you prefer) and sit back, take a deep breath and enjoy.

I’ll divide the coverage into Day 1, Day 2, personal opinions, the REAL things that happened during the Live Viewing in Malaysia and BONUS as I’ll explain one of the greatest history and memories in Love Live concerts.

Update: -Added video highlight from official sources. I also want to share the unofficial one but I lost it..sorry

https://www.facebook.com/GSCinemas/videos/10155217647297275/

DAY 1

(25th Feb)

GSC Movies stated that the official merchandises will be available to purchase starting 12.00pm until the concert began. I rushed there by train(as usual) in the morning. Some of my friends are already there as early as 6am or so I heard.

They only provided a very LIMITED item such as pamphlet, sub-unit rubber strap keychains and KingBlade.

And surprisingly everything went sold out fast for the FIRST hour!

Also we were featured on the big screen. The video was during the recent Final Love Live and the record breaking for the largest audience and 1st Live Viewing in Malaysia.

It’s time. People taking their seats.

Now some of the highlights from the concert. I won’t provide any pics because...it’s a rule duuh and I won’t gonna risk my country from getting ban. Also I won’t specify it much since you guys can read it more from many sources out there.

So they start with Aozora Jumping Heart followed by Koi ni Naritai AQUARIUM and introductions. Everything went so well until...rainstorm came.

Yeah the live viewing got interrupted. I heard that Singapore were affected too. If it does then I’m not that surprise since it’s raining season now here in Southeast Asia. It happened to be during a raining season so can’t help much. We tried to warn people to keep switching off their phones. The least thing that we could do was do not disturb the signal. We missed Yume de Yozora wo Terashitai and Genki Zankai DAY! DAY! DAY! but quickly recovered until CYaRon’s mc part.

The funny thing was if you guys remember the 2nd or 3rd episode when Chika, You and Riko about to perform their first debut and everything doesn’t went well because of the thunderstorm? Yeah, it was the same thing that happened us. All of us were screaming “KISEKI!!!”. Some of us even sang some idol songs to calm us down(curse the guy who sang BokuHikari XD). The funny thing was they even sang some random songs from other idol anime like Macross Delta and iM@s.

My favourite part was when Guilty Kiss make their appearance with Strawberry Trapper song. KYAAAAAAAA!!!! It was a legit rock song sang by some cute girls and I LOVE IT. Their performance was FREAKING AWESOME!!! I CAN’T DESCRIBE MUCH HOW AWESOME THEY DID. EVERYONE CHEERS MAKE IT MORE PUMPED UP AND I CAN’T STOP TYPING IN CAPS!!! MY OSHI HAVE TO BE MARI AND AINYA, HER SEIYUU AND SOMEHOW I PICKED THE RIGHT GIRLLL!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH. LOCKK ON!!!!! MY KOKORO!!!!

Not to mentioned AZALEA!! Especially Arisha. Given that she’s also a gravure idol, man I can’t help but being amazed of how was she look with that dress. GOSH!!!

The live ended with Step! ZERO to ONE as one of the encore.

We actually did the largest AQOURS-SUNSHINE cheers but I forgot to take the picture because I was busy queuing in the arcade(my bad sorry )

DAY 2

(26th Feb)

Well the weather back then was pretty cloudy. I can expect many things can be happened during 2nd...which it was indeed happened.

I started a few bit late and the hall will be open on 2.30pm.

2nd day setlist was pretty much the same as first but they replaced AQOURS Heroes with humming Bird.

Somehow I did a good deed as a fellow Love Liver. Apparently a girl sitting beside me didn’t have any KB and judging by the way she act, she was a shy girl. Once the concert was about to start everyone were standing up except for her. So in order for not letting her felt left out, I offered let her borrowed one FLL KB(I actually brought three different kind of KBs during that time haha how convenience). She said she was kind of nervous(aww how cute) but I kept telling her that just enjoy the show, scream all you want and dance the hell all you want, we don’t judge here as we’re all Love Liver here. So I did showed her how to use the KB and yeah she missed some of the chants, cheers, calls but meh she was still learning.

Everything went so well and again like I said before since it was a raining season here...yes, we got another interruption and this time it was kinda frustrated for me. This because we still have a few more songs left to go and *boom* it happened. I heard people praying to God so it won’t happen that long, some of them even left the hall for awhile for a breather and yeah I did pray a lot too so we won’t missed much.

Then suddenly some guy screaming from outside the hall. He told us that they finally announced the 2nd season of AQOURS and 2nd Live Tour! We screamed with overjoyed but we still want to watch the broadcast.

Then the broadcast turned back into normal and it showed the last mc where Aikyan was crying about the announcement. I straight away grabbed my KBs and support her along with other cast. Thus, the 1st Live ended with a breeze...well...not ‘that’ breeze as I’ll talk about it later. Enjoyed some dinner with other Love Liver then went home with head full of memories and tiredness of supporting your favourite girls(I slept while standing in a train...no kidding)

Forgot to mention that we actually did made a flowerstand. We have representatives there who handle the flower for us.

Thanks to all who contributed for our project. Surprisingly we have one Indonesian contributor there who also joined our project. Incase people wondering, KEI is my nickname there.

Below are some shenanigans that we Malaysia’s Love Liver did haha

(Noticed that various idol series?)

The thing that he hold was actually AQOURS callbook.

...courtesy of Malaysia’s Love Liver.

Oh and if you decided to come here in Mid Valley, please visit Komugi bakery. I really love their meronpan. Wish you were here @emitsunosaurus-rex

And that’s all for AQOURS 1st Love Live ~Step ZERO to ONE~ coverage from me. Thanks for reading...you can go now...unless...

Rikako’s Breakdown

Yeah...it was one of those biggest moment in histories of Love Live live concerts. It literally hit me hard...VERY hard seeing RKK’s(Rikako) struggle for the sake of the concert, for the sake of other members and for the sake of her fans. We didn’t stop discussing about it after the concert was done. Even while we’re having a dinner. I had to ban myself from listening any AQOuRS songs after the incident in order to let the feeling cool down a bit...(but knowing internet’s natural being, I kept being hit by feelings everytime I checked my phone.)

It was a 2nd day live viewing. The seiyuu were already took their spot for Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare song. The piano was already there as usual. The idea of the performance was to imitate back episode 11 where we already know the story behind it was that Riko had a problem of playing piano and won’t play before this but then decided to join the competition...but since this is LIVE concert, it was a real business.

When Chika(Anchan) started to sing everything went well...until when the music was cut off. I actually did noticed a ‘wrong’ note being pressed resulting the music sounds a bit off. The rest of the seiyuu just continue on dancing and keep acting professional as they might be thinking it was just a technical problem and soon be over. The instrumental version was played a bit to cover RKK mistake but just for a few seconds as they realized that RKK...REALLY DO NEED HELP NOW!

A faint voice saying ”ごめんね”(gomenne) was heard and Anchan rushed to RKK and embraced her, hugged tightly and calmed her down followed by Ainya(Mari) and Suwawa(Kanan). The word ”大丈夫”(daijoubu) being repeated countless time in order to make sure RKK really calmed down. Anchan reached and gave her a water bottle and a towel. They hold her hands very tightly and keep on calming her down. Knowing Ainya’s personality, I already expected that she will rushed to RKK too(YOU GO GIRL!!).

Yes RKK had a panic attack. This might be because of the pressure she had to face when it comes to Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare song where she volunteered herself(if I’m not mistaken) to perform the piano part. I’ve to admit everything went very well on the 1st day and it was really great watching RKK performed. Having no background of any music theory, she practiced playing piano for the past 3 months...for her fans.

The crowds including me broke into tears. The incident really...really...really hit me VERY hard! At first I thought it was a gimmick to imitate back the scene where Riko can’t play piano...but it was a mistake and I’m really sorry for thinking it that way. I really am.

The crowd then switched their KB into sakura pink and keep chanting “RIKAKO!” countless time. I did the same and screamed my lungs out hoping my voice to reach out despite broadcasting in Malaysia. All of the crowd turned into a sea of sakura pink as a sign of supporting RKK. Tear-mark left on our face during that time.

Anchan, Suwawa and Ainya, they hugged each other for a very quite some time. Then they continued on taking their spot leaving RKK alone again and hoping everything will be fine. I still can’t forget RKK’s face and shaky hands from the camera view that mounted beside the piano as soon she about to start playing it.

They performed Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare as usual and this time without any mistake and no flaw. RKK’s performance on piano was flawless. Ending the song with a view of RKK pressing the last note...with her shaky hands trying to get that perfect sound...she pressed it. The last note was a bit off but I DON’T CARE!! RKK have done well for us. The audience still keeping their sakura pink KB and keep on chanting RKK’s name endlessly. The performance ended with You greeted ”ただいま”(tadaima) followed by ”おかえり” by RKK...with a smile.

Again...it was one of the greatest, heart warming moment in the history of Love Live concerts. Rikako eventhough you’re not my oshi, you’ve earned a special place in my heart because of your act of braveness facing your hardship, never give up and keep on smiling in the end...

There you have it, my coverage for the past 2 days. I was listening to Omoi yo Hitotsu ni Nare while finishing this article and yeah nonstop tears streaming out. Sorry for taking it too long as I was busy and calming myself up after that ‘incident’.

With 2nd season coming up and Next Step Project, I hope they realized that they are actually competing with their own senpai in this idol-anime world. Not to be rude but I’m looking forward for AQOURS to beat their senpai sometime haha

As always, feel free to contact me if there are any errors here and there. I won’t bite.

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~If there’s a colour for courage, it would be sakura pink~

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