Happy 1-year anniversary, Naacord 💚
At first, we were just looking for a place to cry together without the toxicity of net benkei…but now, Naachan is embarking on their solo journey, speaking their truth, and finding the success they deserve in the music world! It’s amazing 🥰
Hi everyone! I made a discord channel for Naachan if you are interested in joining. I will maintain it at least until her graduation. I just wanted a place where we can cry together without all the hate comments from toxic fans.
Okada Nana is non-binary and bi and dated both a woman and a man during their time in AKB!!! Not surprised but shocked that they announced it publicly like this, Naachan never fails to amaze me with their courage and authenticity and kindness 😭
Nako is so smart 🥰
“The official news of the ice cream company said that it tastes best after it has melted a little bit. Since the official news is correct, then let’s all believe only in the official news. No matter what happens, everyone please only believe in official news!”
230419 Nako smartly used icecream to respond to the “news” this morning in tonight's radio.
"No matter what happens, please only believe in official news."
Only in Yabuki Nako do I trust and follow.😊
#야부키나코 #矢吹奈子
#YabukiNako
#아이즈원
#IZONE
#HKT48
#レコメン
A bit late, but here are some photos from the AKB48 costume exhibit!!
I took too many pics / videos but will only post a few interesting ones focused on my oshis 💖
#AKB48
大衣装展
Not Naachan trying to support Yuiyui, and people in the QRTs shading her with the lyrics and telling her not to get involved with AKB anymore 💔
This is exactly what I was worried about 😭
“Thank you for coming to see me. We will definitely meet again!”
Hiichan’s Mandarin pronunciation is pretty good! She’s a bit uncertain so she had a Japanese questioning tone in places she shouldn’t have haha, but otherwise her intonation was perfect 💖
Ok but these reporters really gotta stop asking recent grads about “lifting the love ban” immediately after their gradcons and perpetuating this illusion that we have a love ban to begin with - like please give Hiichan a break and just celebrate her career omg
I somehow get the feeling DH just wants a smaller AKB48 in general. With OO48 and now no teams, I feel like they are actively trying to get people out of the group either through a survival show or graduation, then they can focus on promoting the people they want to promote…
This kinda fuels the whole “love ban” delusion doesn’t it 😭
Yeah AKB management will never come out to clarify it or protect the members when necessary 😮💨
I do like the choreo and Yuiyui as a center tho…mixed feelings 😭
Omg someone on YouTube just pointed out to me that each scene of Dousuki actually has hidden in it numbers 1-16 and I’m wracking my brain trying to find all of them now 😮😮😮
AKB48, SKE48, HKT48 & NGT48 to conduct fundraising campaigns in form of donation boxes in their respective theaters to support the areas affected by the recent Earthquake
All the donations will be given to the Japanese Red Cross.
Damn, Weibo writers are amazing.
Idk if I’ll have time to translate the whole thing but I cried reading this post.
“All of this started because of Twoset, but it’s not for them, but for ourselves. As such, they are only ordinary people, but you are no longer ordinary.”
On the one hand I’m happy for Hiichan and her fans, on the other hand this just goes to show AKB still *can* do gradcons and they just didn’t want to do one for Naachan even tho they def were on the same level 😭
We are officially launching our Okada Nana overseas fanbook project!!! Written/visual submissions welcome. Deadline: March 1st, 2023.
Use this form to submit your piece, and also let us know if you want to help with translations/join the editorial team!
Funny moment from the San Francisco part of the TwoSetViolin world tour 😂
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Brett kept on forgetting his lines and literally asked Eddy to repeat the cue and walked off stage for a do-over 🤣
Eddy: “I lost my talent 🥲”
Brett: “I lost my memory 😭”
Naachan is taking a break and cancelled their new year’s concerts. I hope they get the rest they deserve and get better soon. We will always support them no matter what 💚
I know there are other nb and bi idols but having Naachan come out as a former AKB member is huge! And also describing the journey of questioning, hopefully helping people to understand how fluid gender / sexuality is!!! 🥹
@windystarmoon
1/3
"Is there any other company that transfers personnel without even asking them first? This was my first thought. If they explained us the reasoning and the merits of what they are doing I would understand.
At first I didn't understand what was happening. Then I saw members
Hi everyone! I made a discord channel for Naachan if you are interested in joining. I will maintain it at least until her graduation. I just wanted a place where we can cry together without all the hate comments from toxic fans.
MUSIC- HKT48
2 centered cb’s :do you love me?, kimi wa motto dekiru
MODELING:
Kirsh
Idol runway
Tokyo Girls
Sweet
Loccitane
Bvlgari
Fred jewelry
Maxmara
A’ddict
Fendi
Dior
Converse
Puma
Ambassador for:
PEACH C
Daniel Wellington
Loveberry magazine
MMA 23
Basically a Chinese fan asked them if there are plans for a mainland China tour, and if so which cities, and asked them to reply in Chinese. She’s from Chengdu so asked if they are coming to Chengdu to eat hot pot, and at first the only thing Brett understood was “eat hot pot” 🤣
@yamaki_nyx
I visited Japan for the 1st time in 2019, but couldn’t find Guilmon’s home - is it still there? Still, I was excited to the park and Hypnos headquarters/Shinjuku government building. Here’s a picture of me with a digivice I made and a Blue Card I drew as a child doing card slash!
A few comments that I feel like needs to be boosted for their critical thinking.
Putting all the interpersonal drama and emotions aside, what speaks the most is actions, not words, and they haven’t yet committed to all the actions needed to redress everything.
I made a constructive criticisms post. Part of me is already super tired and disappointed and ready to give up. But I want to try one last time. Not for B+E but for all those former-fans-turned-employees who believed and continues to believe, somehow, in their mission.
@okadanana_1107
なぁちゃん、動画ありがとう!
私は児童思春期精神科医になりたいと思っているので、もう少しコメントさせていただきました🙏
Thank you for the video, Naachan!
I’m hoping to become a child and adolescent psychiatrist, so I commented a bit more.
I wasn’t involved in the original convo but just found it and read the whole thing. As a bilingual Mandarin-English speaker, I feel like there is nothing to worry about. Everyone on the thread was obviously joking, and OP even clarified this to make sure no one takes it too far.
lol the antifans are plotting on destroying twoset's concert at Kaohsiung concert by installing a booth to sell their second hand merches. They also said they'll block twoset's way to the venue, pretending to be their fans to get them signed on the second hand merches^^
Idol photos I got on my Japan trip!
Can you believe all of the photos in the second pic was only 770 yen?!
Usually the shipping prices make these so expensive 😭
And publicly speaking about how there is no love ban, while also reflecting on how their mind has shifted over time on these topics - they’re so human and beautiful 💚
I’ve said this before - I’ve always believed that Naachan will revolutionize the idol industry, and still do 🥹
My oomfs who love Naachan and Kinoshita Momoka need to get into the Mandopop phenomenon that is Liu Yuxin - winner of the best idol survival show ever Youth With You 2 and center of The9 ❤️
Hiichan isn’t saying AKB should turn into Kpop imo, she’s just saying it can take elements from Kpop. I think having more solo parts is a great idea. I loved Naachan’s solo in NemoHamo Rumor 🥰
Should AKB48 change with the times as a group? Here is what the members think.
Honda Hitomi: "Nowadays, K-POP is mainstream, and the music has solo parts. I think it would be good for AKB48 to also have solo parts so that people can get to know each member."
Kashiwagi Yuki:
When your oshi makes the most dramatic thumbnails to give your daily dose of anxiety 😂
“ANNOUNCEMENT” no matter if it’s happy or sad news please Naachan 😅
Even after graduation, their authenticity and openness and strength are continuing to challenge people’s perceptions of what an “idol” is as well as what gender / sexuality are - while destigmatizing mental health struggles like panic, alcohol use, and eating disorders 💚
It’s the way this means we won’t see Naachan at Yuiri’s grad stage, Mogi at Mion’s grad stage, Tomu at Orin’s grad stage, Nako at Hiichan’s grad stage, or MAYUYU at Yukirin’s grad stage…or ever again 😭😭😭
Ayanan: It's impossible for the 5 of us (13th gen) to be together on Mogi's gradstage. The graduated members can't perform on gradstage. Therefore this time (Saki's) will be the last time for 5 of us together. A puzzling rule has been made. We can't invite graduated members
Someone I know was in Japan and picking up Digimon stuff for me? I'm sure everything I wanted was very useful.
There is useful stuff, just not in the photos.
It’s peak capitalism that when a bunch of rich people die on their private island that it generates a whole industry of forgeries and mystery conventions, meanwhile the Ushiromiya group continues to exploit smaller businesses. Ange should have donated everything to charity fr.
“I can’t see you anymore, sorry,” because they will be walking different paths (for a while at least)…but she will really miss her because she is always the most herself around Naachan, “able to laugh even when not wearing make-up” 🥹
A bit late, but I had a great time at
#Digifes
!
Highlights:
1. Meeting
#Digimon
fans and cosplayers!
2. I met Miyazaki Ayumi-san, who sings all the evolution songs! He’s so nice 🥹 (JP fans told me it’s ok to post this now, let me know if it’s not ok🙏)
#デジフェス
#デジモン
Eddy has been to Shanghai in the past on a tourist group, and saw people taking wedding photos near the Huangpu River everyday. (People in the comments of Weibo were like “I’m going to spread the rumor you two are coming to Shanghai to take wedding photos near Huangpu River” 🤣
@xinhanji
@corpsekkunos
@imane
Yeah, sure, let's all support a content creator who is just profiting off of the drama that he created himself by releasing the doc publicly in the first place.
“It's not like the Idol Kashiwagi Yuki is going anywhere just because I'm not in AKB48.” Thank you for showing the world that being an idol is a legit career choice for life 🥹🥹🥹
Yukirin, on her YouTube channel:
"Honestly, I'm graduating because I finally started thinking that I wanted to experience what life is like outside of being AKB48's Kashiwagi Yuki
I will still continue to sing, dance, appear on TV, post on YouTube, and work on my makeup brand.
In terms of concert bloopers they also accidentally replayed one of the adjudicator clips and the entire audience was laughing 🤣 at the end Eddy was like “this seems familiar 🤔”
When Brett came back after asking Eddy to cue again, Eddy again said “this seems familiar 🤔”
Funny moment from the San Francisco part of the TwoSetViolin world tour 😂
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Brett kept on forgetting his lines and literally asked Eddy to repeat the cue and walked off stage for a do-over 🤣
Eddy: “I lost my talent 🥲”
Brett: “I lost my memory 😭”
So true 😂 This is actually why I highly doubt tsv themselves care that much - they probably just think it's silly and a bit cringe but also as long as people do respect them as musicians and as content creators it's fine. They took the whole bp stuff in stride too.
Writer gang: (having in-depth discussions about the complex ramifications of rpf)
Ray: What if i made the ai write a romantic poem about my friends and posted it on social media
tw: suicide
After reading this translation, I realized that even though this is no doubt a dark song, the fact that the title is “MAYDAY” really portrays the idea that “suicidal ideation / gestures are a cry for help.” When we treat them seriously, it can often be prevented.
Translation of lyrics for "Mayday" by Okada Nana (岡田奈々).
Please read at your own discretion. Trigger warnings: mentions of suicide, suicidal thoughts, explicit description of certain ways to commit suicide
The lyrics express a feeling of helplessness and being alone
“DH treated her terribly !! but AKB itself didnt.” So true 😭😭😭
I said this back in November when we were trying to convince her not to leave, but AKB truly shines the brightest with Naachan at its center. Nemohamo Rumor was truly a highlight for both Naachan and AKB 🥹
What is so hard to understand? Non-binary = gender. Bisexual = sexual orientation. Different things, and both can shift as people’s understanding of themselves change over time.
And that’s it for the AKB48 costume exhibit photo dump by me ✌️
I’m not the best photographer, but I hope some of the shots of the details will make you feel like you were there too 🥰
Let me know if there are any other costumes you want to see, I may have photos!
This AKB-Bruno Mars interaction just made my day 🥰🥰🥰
Reminds me of back in the old days when AKB just had random collabs with international celebrities lol, like Robert Pattinson 🤣
AKB48 responds to Bruno Mars’ performance of “Heavy Rotation” with the members dancing to his song “Runaway Baby”
“Big Love from AKB48🫶💓 Enjoy your concerts in Japan!”
Naachan received a lot of hate comments on SNS, leading to a mental health crisis recently 😭 They are not doing well. This is for the best.
Please send Naachan lots of love! And join their fanclub Nanairo (they post a lot) + our discord server if you'd like (dm me for link).
Ok seriously tho, we need to better support workers worldwide. This culture of minimally paid volunteerism, silencing employees wrt pay discussions, overseas workers having minimal legal protections, no min wage in Singapore (I was shocked!) needs to end. Everywhere.
If it's something they really felt uncomfortable about they would have said something by now. And their close friends certainly wouldn't be feeding into it.
#棋魂
#HikaruNoGo
The actor of Shiguang reacting to his own acting during the episode before Chuying disappeared - definitely represents all of us as the audience hahaha.
Leaving Japan tomorrow! I checked off so many things this trip 🥰
Met Naachan
Attended Digifes
Celebrated Odaiba Memorial Day with other fans (and in cosplay!)
Saw AKB costume exhibit
Saw AKB / HKT / STU / ≠ME at TIF
Met a Sky friend
Attended a summer fireworks show
Hi
#tsvtwt
! I just found you all through the fanbook project, and thought it was really amazing. I watched some of their first videos when I was a viola in high school orchestra (lol) but didn’t get into them for real until 2019. Also piano gang ❤️ and med student 😊
As to whether or not to support them, everyone’s ethical bottom line is different. If we can all slowly figure out our moral bottom line and our needs, that’s also an opportunity for us to understand ourselves better.
The fact that a bunch of the hate comments from the QRTs are coming from the MAGA crowd and racist/sexist/transphobic people is so ironic because they're basically the American equivalent of the Japanese demographics they're trying to criticize 😂
🚨 | TikTok is reportedly down due to heavy traffic from Japanese girl group ≒JOY releasing their new single ‘Sweet Sixteen,’ which gained 1.5M new videos on the sound in only 5 minutes.
#TikTokDown