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The Great Produce 48 Rewatch: Ep 4, High Tension (AKB48) Challenge

Welcome back to the thing I’m doing for some reason: The Great Produce48 Rewatch Recap-ma-jig! When we left off in the previous post, we saw team Mamma Mia sort of… generally disappoint, alas. But now we’re going to dive in to team High Tension, and get to see Yunjin from Le Sserafim, Dayeon from Kep1er, and Suyun from Rocket Punch!! Woot! It’s a pretty short segment so it’ll be a pretty short post. Let’s do it!

This whole segment is a little different from the segments for each of the other pairings, because we don’t spend time with each group individually. Instead, we sort of see both groups preparing, then each group right after each other performs, and then we get the results. It’s really short.

So, let’s remember our two teams. This is the same screenshot I used for the previous post about it, but it’s appropriate for this circumstance as well.

Top row, team 1, LTR: Nakano Ikumi, Mogi Shinobu, Iwate Saho, Cho Yeoungin, Kim Dayeon, Yoon Haesol

Bottom row, team 2: Takeuchi Miyu, Cho Ahyoung, Huh Yunjin, Kim Suyun, Oda Erina

Team 1:

Cho Yeongin, 16, who auditioned alongside Lee Chaeyeong, moved from B to C and is ranked 62.

Iwatate Saho, 23, who auditioned with Miyu to Dancing Hero, moved from B to D and is ranked 24th.

Kim Dayeon,15, future Kep1er, B class mainstay and ranked 65

Mogi Shinobu, 21, the living meme, who moved up from F to D and is ranked 59

Nakano Ikumi, 17, “known for her dancing”, who moved up from D to B and is ranked 53rd.

Yoon Haesol, 20, who auditioned with Question Mark, moved down from B to D, and is ranked 50th.

Saho was the chooser for this team and was chosen to be the center, and Youngin is the leader. When we left off with this team, we were being reminded that Saho performs this song in her role as a member of AKB48, but she has never been chosen to be center, and she’s hoping that she can get people’s attention finally as center in this performance.

Team 2:

Takeuchi Miyu, 22, the one who auditioned in the awesome orange bulls eye dress, fell from A to B but is still ranked pretty high at 11th place.

Cho Ahyeong, 16, who auditioned with future Cherry Bullet Haeyoon, rose from C to B and is ranked 78th.

Huh Yunjin, 16, future Le Sserafim, who somehow fell from C to F, was ranked 15th

Kim Suyun, 17, future Rocket Punch badass, has lived in class C and is ranked 51.

Oda Erina, 21, who was supposedly known for her singing, fell from C to F and was ranked 67th.

This group was formed 6th, and the chooser was Oda Erina. It was Erina who suggested that they should choose a Korean girl to be center, to create a new style of the song. Erina and Miyu talked it over and chose Huh Yunjin to be center, and I just have to reuse this picture as well because it’s just the best.

When we pick up with the teams, they’re at dance practice with Psychopath.

The narrative, as presented by the MNET editors, is that this isn’t really a group battle -- it’s a battle of the centers.

Yunjin’s team goes first, and Psychopath begins yelling at them while they’re still dancing. When he’s done, he says “you wouldn’t be able to go on stage as you are now.” Yes, and you can’t eat eggs until you’ve cooked them. What is your point, sir? He goes on to talk about how centers are very important, with the suggestion being that Yunjin was a bad center, and seriously, fuck you very much. Yunjin begins to lose her confidence.

Saho’s team goes next, and she doesn’t understand Korean or his vague instructions as he tries to get her to move to a center position. They do their best, and then Psychopath absolutely tears Saho to shreds when they’re done. He says, “Saho, I think that you have a lot of shortcomings as the center. I don’t think you command the stage very much as a center, and I’m not even sure if giving you more time on this will allow you to improve.” He tells the team that they either have to replace Saho, or make her into a “super player” (English phrase). Her teammates promise to help her, and the Superman theme song plays as Saho considers: can she do it?

(not my edit)

Meanwhile, Yunjin is asking her team if they want to put someone else in the center, and they all reassure her that they believe in her. Suyun from future-Rocket-Punch tells her, “He’s just saying that you can become better by doing certain things.” IDK, he sounded like he was saying that they were all terrible and deserve to feel bad about it. But he should have told them to work on it, so let’s pretend he did! Suyun says, “Don’t lose your confidence over that.”

“Rather, I think it’d be better for you to show him the sharp end of a knife. He might get the idea then.”

Yunjin is touched by how much her chingu-duri believe in her. I wonder if Suyun and Yunjin are still friendly when they run into each other at music shows and stuff?

Saho’s team is helping her as well.

A few days later, the girls meet with Psychopath again, and this time they do a lot better. He tells Saho she’s like a totally different person, and tells Yunjin he didn’t think it was possible for her to improve that much. He says the teams are now neck and neck.

Saho interviews that the two teams will just put on different styles of performance, and thinks that the song suits her group better. So who will reign supreme??

It’s time for the performances!

Unfortunately, that angel PD48 Edits didn’t do a blessed edit of this performance, so we’re stuck with yucky MNET. Sigh.

Here’s the link.

Cho Youngin (stripes/purple), Nakano Ikumi (pink/polka dots), Kim Dayeon (red), Iwatate Saho, Yoon Haeseol (red skirt), Mogi Shinobu (green and purple)

I don’t know why the resolution has to be so terrible for the performances. I tried my best.

Here’s Kim Dayeon, future Kep1er:

Here’s her fancam if you’re curious.

My thoughts:

Overall, pretty good. It doesn’t seem like too hard of a song to sing, and the choreo is pretty easy, but it’s all so silly and high energy that you need a lot of energy and charisma to pull it off. I thought they more or less did, though it’s hard to imagine a debuted k-pop group performing a song like this. It’s just so obviously J-pop that my brain is kind of stuck.

I couldn’t help but focus a bit on Dayeon, given her future destiny. She looked a little scared or something -- her smile didn’t quite reach her eyes, and sometimes she looks down. But she throws herself right into the dancing and all the performing.

For me the biggest discovery was main vocal Yoon Haesol. She sounded fantastic.

Iwate Saho smiled and threw herself into her center position, but she didn’t stand out in particular, unfortunately. I feel for the girl. Charisma is so random -- you have it, or you don’t. I have a lot of charisma when I’m just standing around, for some reason, but when I get on stage it evaporates. Who knows why?

Anyway, when the team is over, the other team goes up almost immediately.

Team 2:

Here’s the MNET link.

LTR: Oda Erina, Kim Suyun, Yunjin, Takeuchi Miyu, Cho Ahyeong

Suyun

Fancam

Miyu

Yunjin (fancam)

My thoughts:

The groups were both pretty close, in that most of the members of most groups were pretty strong. I think this group pulls ahead of the other group partly because the formation just looks better with five girls than it does with six, and partly because they had Yunjin.

Yunjin looks like she was born to perform this. I think it was at about this point in my first watch that I became a Yunjin one-pick. She can sing really well, she dances well, she looks great on stage, she oozes charisma, and she also is just really pretty. She also seems nice and hard working. Saho sang just fine, but Yunjin sang well enough that you specifically notice her voice. In other words, this team had two members who were main vocal quality, and that gave them the edge.

Miyu does fantastic, but I knew even on my first watch that Miyu couldn’t possibly be that successful in Kpop despite her voice and talents, because she just doesn’t meet the Korean beauty standard. It’s a shame because she has a fantastic voice and also just generally does well on stage. Why should the bones underneath our facial skin matter this much? Life is weird. But I think she did great here and I am glad we can keep hearing her sing even in 2024.

Imagine if they had edited this to be about the battle of these two main vocals? Both main vocals really did great in this song. And Miyu was the leader of this team, too. She deserved better. She also deserved better than this unflattering outfit.

I became a Suyun fan during Queendom Puzzle -- I had also noticed her in Rocket Punch videos but didn’t know she was the one I kept noticing because she looks so different when she does her hair differently. I think she’s great at just about everything, and she actually does really fantastic here too. She’s cute as hell, with a great smile and just looks like she’s having a great time. She sparkles -- what can I say?

Erina’s singing voice got a lot better in the short time she was on the show, and she looks cute here, even if sometimes her smile looked a bit forced.

Cho Ahyeong was maybe doing a bit too much with her facial expressions and it made her look a little manic on stage, but maybe that’s a good thing for this song? Hard to say. Her rapping seemed fine, with a good tone (Cheetah agrees with me!) but my Japanese isn’t strong enough to be sure of her pronunciation. She looked really cute, regardless.

The MNET edit of both performances is relatively unobtrusive -- hardly any instant replays, and only a few reaction shots from the other trainees or judges. It’s as if they wanted to get this whole segment in under ten minutes or something. Maybe it’s just because they were worried the audience wouldn’t stick around for an AKB48 song? The first group seemed to be edited relatively fairly, but in the second group, I noticed that they showed Yunjin a lot, and we hardly ever get to see Miyu, even when she’s singing.

After the second group, the judges comment to each other that they can hardly believe that Yunjin was in F-group. I mean, she probably just had a systems failure from not sleeping for two days and having to learn the song in Korean and Japanese when she’s most comfortable in English.

When the groups are both done, the audience votes and then they go back to the men’s bathroom Results Zone.

They reveal the result of the center, and…

…. Yunjin got 188 votes. Saho got only 56. Yunjin wonders if she’s dreaming, and Saho is heartbroken.

Full voting results:

Team 1: Average: 46.3 Cho Yeongin 28 Iwatate Saho 56 Kim Dayeon 46 Mogi Shinobu 58 Nakano Ikumi 50 Yoon Haesol 40

Team 2: Average: 101.2 Cho Ahyeong 160 Huh Yunjin 188 Kim Suyun 12 Oda Erina 60 Takeuchi Miyu 84

It’s a blow out. Team 2’s average is more than double Team 1’s.

On team one, no one really stood out, and the votes were distributed almost evenly. Meanwhile, in team two, I’m glad to see that Miyu got some love, surprised at how much love Ahyeong got, and sad on Suyun’s behalf.

The two teams applaud for each other, and Yunjin sheds some tears of relief. She said that she lost confidence after falling to F class and she thanks her team for believing in her.

And that's it for this post! Thanks as always for reading along -- you're a good egg. Hope you're warm and cozy and see you in the next one, when we come face to face with.... HELLBAYAH.

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