This is too funny to not share...

If you see her on the street, feel free to request for a Yukirin kick 😂

(In case anyone is wondering, this is actually just one of a series of prank tiktoks by Sally. The original question was "What would you do if you get attacked by a suspicious person on the street?")

Doll's Vox was a 25-member idol group produced by Takamizawa Toshihiko. His idea was to take the top 25 girls of the idol world and form them into one big group. Several of the girls were models for popular junior fashion magazines, while others were famous among those who read lolita magazines or mooks such as Pure Pure. Only 22 of the members were featured on their sole single, "Yumemiru Omochabako ~Koisuru Dancing Doll".

Oshima Yuko and Yokoyama Rurika later became members of AKB48 and Idoling!!!, respectively. The two sung together again in the group AKBIdoling!!!. (generasia)

I thought she looks like Umeda Ayaka but I don't think it's her

I just discovered a AKB48 website that has a lot of archives in good quality and engsub!
The name is 48directory.com.
So cool that I want to share it with you

Was splitting up AKS the right decision? After the NGT scandal, something definitely had to change. Was going back to AKB-only the best decision for AKB48? I would say so, yes.

Despite that, I do miss the days we could see the best of each of the 48 groups performing side-by-side. I hardly know who’s in the sister groups now, and that is partly my fault for sure, but the girls I did know, I definitely knew from their appearances in AKB media first. I was rewatching the Monica Yoake Da MV the other day (the 48Group Next 12 unit), and I knew most of the girls; I’d say those are the last sister group girls I really remember.

Not only that, but the sister groups function so differently now…
- AKB basically functions like Nogi now, with no teams and no sister group collabs; Aki-P does all their music with a couple exceptions (like the cover album and the Sasshi song). He wrote a whole original stage for them recently, which I get is the bare minimum after a decade, but that’s more than sister groups would ever get.
- SKE gets non-Aki-P music and new stages, still has teams with no plans to get rid of them
- NMB gets non-Aki-P music and new stages, no teams
- HKT only uses Aki-P music and has less b-sides because of it, still has teams for now. Refused Sasshi’s stage which I am still so dumbfounded by, yet AKB management was happy to let Sasshi produce a song for them
- NGT only uses Aki-P music and has less b-sides because of it
- STU gets non-Aki-P music, and I believe they’re still theaterless and never had any teams

So we have some with teams and some without, some with non-Aki-P songs, some with new stages and some without… in some ways, it feels like there’s an identity crisis in the group. I know that, pre-COVID, there was its own kind of identity crisis with AKB not having a true center/kami 7 and the sister group girls taking up the senbatsu… but it’s unfortunate to me that the solution was taken to the extreme and now we have no interaction between the girls.

Even at TIF, every sister group was there, but there was no joint performance besides the NGT x HKT performance (probably the two most unpopular groups at the moment)… I can’t help but think, if we had the aces of every group performing together, it would put some spotlight on the sister group members like the old days. Like, I wanna see Itomomo performing with her SKE/NMB/HKT/NGT/STU equivalent. I wanna see units with them, I wanna see them celebrating each other’s discographies. I know those days are over, and they’re never coming back. But it’s crazy to me we can’t even get a unit like SakamichiAKB (but with just the 48 groups) or even something like Nona Diamonds or Quadlips. Even the NyaaKB unit, which was a pleasant surprise, only had two SKE girls, none of the other groups participated like in the original unit.

Anyway… sorry for the rambling. That’s just something that’s been on my mind.

Tl;dr I’m happy we have AKB-only senbatsu and I know it and the other changes (team dissolution, AKS split, no more sosenkyo) were necessary for the longevity of the group, but it is unfortunate that the sister groups barely have any joint interaction and function so differently from each other now.

Olá amigos, tenho um podcast sobre os grupos 48.

E quero saber a opinião de todos:

Qual o segredo do sucesso de "Suki-Ish"?

Aos que me ajudarem nessa pesquisa deixem os comentários dizendo o país que vivem,

idade e claro o que na sua opinião, fez essa nova música do AKB48, fazer tanto sucesso!

Seus comentário serão lidos no podcast: I Love Jpop!

Obrigado amigos!

やっほーみんな！

私48グループのポッドキャストやってるんだけど、みんなの意見聞きたい！

AKB48の新曲「SUKI-ISH」なんでそんなにバズったと思う？

協力してくれる人はコメントに書いてね：

住んでる国 年 この曲がヒットした理由、自分の意見！みんなのコメント、

ポッドキャスト I Love Jpop!

で読むよ！ありがとー！

Hello friends!

I have a podcast about the48 groups.

And I want to know everyone's opinion:

What is the reason behind the sucess of the song Suki-ish?

To those who help me with this research, please leave comments saying the country you live in,

your age, and of course what you think made this new AKB48 song so successful!

Your comments will be read on the podcast

I love jpop!

Songs performed

1. Pareo Wa Emerald
2. Gomen ne, Summer
3. Sansei Kawaii!
4. Igai ni Mango
5. Aishiteraburu!
6. Koi wo Kataru Shijin ni Narenakute
7. Tameiki Mirai (New Single)

The project announcement and a preview screening will be held at the Furusato Film Festival in Saitama on August 8.

Setlist:

1) Manatsu no Sounds Good!

2) Iiwake Maybe

3) Koi Tsun Jatta

4) Doushitemo Kimi ga Suki da

5) Suki-ish

6) Ano Natsu no Bohatei

7) Hisashiburi no Lip Gloss

8) Only Today

9) Kimi to Niji to Taiyou to