It's your Daily Dose of Music, everyone, and today we have for you Minami "Takamina" Takahashi, striking out on her own for the first time in her debut single, "Jane Doe". To be perfectly frank I haven't been completely floo...
| Josh Tolentino |
Remember when that one AKB48 fan seemed to go a little bit crazy in video format at the news of Yuki "Yukirin" Kashiwagi's alleged indiscretions? Back in that post, I wrote that I "sincerely hope that this an attempt to paro...
| Josh Tolentino |
Unsurprisingly, the rain of "scandals" continues to pour on AKB48, this time due to Yuki "Yukirin" Kashiwagi having the temerity to attend a group party with *gasp* men in it, just days after the now-infamous "Mii-chan Affai...
| Josh Tolentino |
An eventful week for idol megagroup AKB48 continues. In case you haven't been following, Minami "Mii-chan" Minegishi was humiliated in rather medieval fashion for reasons that no one should ever have cause to feel ashamed abo...
| Josh Tolentino |
[Update: The apology video has been removed following an official response by AKB management. An English-translated transcript of Minegishi's statement is available at the bottom of this post.] Ah, an "Oh, Japan" moment. ...
| Josh Tolentino |
Former AKB48 leader, Atsuko Maeda returns to the big screen with the upcoming horror flick, The Complex. The new teaser doesn't tell us too much, but from what I know the story revolves around Acchan's character, Asuka movin...
| Hiroko Yamamura |
Name: Mayu WatanabeBirthdate: March 26, 1994Hometown: Saitama, JapanMeasurements: 71/55/82 cm Did you get what you wanted from Santa this year? Perhaps you actually wanted Santa for Christmas? I think we'd all say that ...
| Hiroko Yamamura |
AKB48 are back, and this time we have a winner! There seems to always be plenty of AKB48 videos to wade through, but every once in a while, a fantastic video makes it through. It's official Yuko Oshima, i...
| Hiroko Yamamura |
As silly as it sounds to make a movie based off the game of Bingo, the BINGO movie takes the basic concept of Bingo and uses it as a means to execute prisoners. In order to make these deaths interesting, the families of the ...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Now here's a bit of a weird, or at least uncommon occurrence. Idol horde AKB48, a group I figured only otaku would know of in North America, has been tapped to perform a song for the Hollywood movie Wreck-It-Ralph, which fran...
| Josh Tolentino |
The Toyota ads featuring real world actors as famous Doraemon characters, has just added another superstar to their line-up. Former AKB48 front woman, Atsuko Maeda takes on the role of Jaiko, alongside Naoya O...
| Hiroko Yamamura |
This is it, people. If there was ever a sign that human civilization was approaching some kind of cultural singularity, past which everything just implodes onto itself, this is one of them. AKB0048 is getting a game, the...
| Josh Tolentino |
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