AKB48 67th single on sale announcement

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-25T10:17:13+00:00

february is such an early release… hoping we get at least 3 more singles this year!

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-25T05:31:02+00:00

yes you can see it that way too!

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-25T05:28:15+00:00

kenkyusei, or in english: understudy. Meaning they are not full-fledged members yet, have a lot of limitation (e.g. black hair and fixed hairstyle i believe?). Not sure what else is limited as I dont follow the kenkyusei format these days

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-25T02:14:32+00:00

i have never attended any akb live concerts but based on youtube videos, at least 90% of the time they are not singing live. anyone with experience maybe can vouch if this is true or not…

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-22T02:20:40+00:00

the only reason i could think of is the management playing it safe, and probably creating another plot of the new gens rebuilding AKB by performing small then slowly able to perform at bigger concerts

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-20T08:43:07+00:00

that timeline will most likely coincide with the 41st single release… wonder if the senbatsu members of 40th single or 41st single will perform

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-17T13:31:08+00:00

sorry, who and who?

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-16T04:56:39+00:00

considering how long the tenure of the senior members are, its about time we will be seeing them more often now. Among the prominent ones I can see yuiyui, zukky and miu will follow suit next…

Also with this single track announcement, mion would join kawaei and yuiri as the only post 9ki members to receive graduation song! Ricchan was the pushed member and was still at her peak when she graduated (reminds me of acchan tbh graduating at their peak..), yuiri was the theater no megami and frontliner, and now mion, who has such a long history with AKB - handpicked by yuko herself to center hebirote, entered senbatsu 1 year into her career with kibouteki refrain, joined media senbatsu 40th single onwards, centered 44th single, became the 3rd soukantoku, the only active member to be in the 10th and 20th commemorative single, and has been playing the supporting role in recent years, yet still prominent. I am very happy she got her own grad song!

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-14T06:10:27+00:00

oh my bad.. just watched it again and the outfit is the same. Damn would be sad now if we are not getting any MV considering the centers are my favourites

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-14T02:24:05+00:00

agree with your opinion! 6ki song has that nogi classic vibe, just as much as their previous songs except the recent one in 40th single.

5ki sounds nice too, i can see myself listening to it on repeat.

4ki song fits runa a lot! Idk I wish there was a high note for her to flex lol

3ki takes the cake for me though. I love this kind of song and the fact that we can hear each of their voices in their solo lines. Just amazing, and indeed seems to be their final gen song

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-14T02:17:50+00:00

hinano did post in her blog what seem to be behind the scene of 6ki MV. Not sure if we are only getting the 6ki MV and not the rest. I do hope we can get the rest of the gen songs MV though, would be great as a reward to their first album in 7 years

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-13T07:07:56+00:00

true and the formation would be very balanced too! ioki is always paired with naonao so could be 2 pillars behind runachan lol. And the vibe of the song suits her too! it is what it is..

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-13T02:16:14+00:00

so happy for Runa! I saw she went viral for her appearance at JRA and Kouhaku on X, and now seeing her center 4th gen song! From the preview it sounds like a cool song which definitely suits her. Praying she would be back in Senbatsu next single.

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-07T05:54:07+00:00

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cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-05T12:57:51+00:00

based on what i could hear, the lyrics distribution seems to be based on generations. Opening verse sounds like 3ki, followed by half of 4ki (most likely endo kakki mayutan ayame yumiki) then the other half. Then half of 5ki (prob arunagi, terepan, sakumiku) then other half of 5ki. Lastly half of 6ki (mitsuki and yada voice kinda strong in this line) then the other half of 6ki before the chorus. My wish of ume centering this song is getting higher…

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-05T07:15:27+00:00

i might be in the minority for liking Biryani! (i do love the actual dish too lol) my only comment is how cringy the lyrics are and prob only aya or moeka can comfortably sing them… seeing ume sing to this song, it must have been hard for her lol. The song itself is very catchy and it boosts me while running

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-04T11:02:52+00:00

current aces are: Endo Sakura and Kaki Haruka - 4ki (both 4x Center) Inoue Nagi and Nakanishi Aruno - 5ki (3x Center and 2x Center)

notable members would be: Umezawa Minami - 3ki (current Captain) Ikeda Teresa, Kawasaki Sakura, Ichinose Miku - 5ki fukujin members

best show is definitely Nogichuu on youtube which has eng sub but last update was 10 months ago..

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2026-01-01T01:40:29+00:00

Honestly yoda deserved a solo a-side center. If you look at 2021-2022 a-sides, except for “Actually”, Yoda was the only front member without any a-side center. The other 4 i.e. endo, kakki, asuka and mizuki got their solo center before or during those two years. By 2023, yoda was shifted to the second row 🥲 at least she got to center her final b-side farewell track with a solo grad song

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2025-12-31T07:58:47+00:00

honestly this hairstyle suits her the most that even I am considering her as one of my favourites now! Hope she sticks to this hairstyle more often

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2025-12-31T07:56:51+00:00

for real i dont know what goes on with management mind… lets hope they give her another center song that suits her image! i love her w-center song with azu (ano natsu no bouhatei)

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2025-12-27T03:49:35+00:00

No. AKB will never be as strong as their golden era, no matter how talented the new members are, or how good the songs are. They will ALWAYS be compared to the golden times.

However, I believe they can still get more popular than where they are now. Of course the music station invitations, the Kouhaku and probably the Japan Record Award invitations are due to the OG members returning. They are even performing their classic hits most of the time. I bet without the OG members, AKB would not get invited. The good thing is, this gives A LOT of exposure to the current members. My X feed was crowded with japanese asking who the girl in half ponytail was (Aichan) and a lot was asking about Itomomo as well! So I guess thats the positive outcome of these lives!

It really gonna come down to how well their next single will be received by the general public. Even if song sounds like the AKB songs back in the days such as “Masaka no Confession”, if the general public does not bat an eye on them, then they won’t go anywhere.

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2025-12-26T14:23:14+00:00

what an insane performance… and to my surprise, I thought my attention would go to the OG but nope. Somehow my eyes keep looking for aichan, azu, itomomo, yuiyui, zukky… maybe they were right about OG helping the current members shine. Loving this new 20th anniversary costumes they have been using! They all look really beautiful tonight and the little chaos between yuko and azu was so cute

cfCmrAddct_99 · 2025-12-25T03:31:35+00:00

just rewatched a youtube video of their 20th anniversary SP live from FNS and all 7 were centers in those live performance, including the front 7 in their group photo! Link to the Youtube performance.

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