Idol Sousenkyo Including AKB48, KARA, Momoiro Clover Z, Shojo Jidai

  May 23, 2012
Almost solely because of this month’s sensational fight against Nogizaka46, Sashiko ranked the top

IT company Biglobe are hosting “Saikyo (=ultimate) idol general election” on it’s homepage titled Twipple Trend from yesterday, 22th May. This election includes not only AKB48 and it’s sister groups’ members but other idol groups such as Momoiro Clover Z, KARA, Shojo Jidai. Participants of the election are total 421 members from 23 groups.

Ranking of this election is determined by the company’s analysis on twitter to examine who are trending on the social media. Users can also directly vote for their favorite idols through the website by tweeting.

There are several sections in this election, namely General section (総合部門), which is determined by names and nicknames of idols included in tweets, Kawaii section (可愛い部門), names and nicknames of idols plus the word Kawaii, Beautiful section (きれい部門),  names and nicknames of idols plus the word Kirei, Kakkoii section (かっこいい部門), names and nicknames of idols plus the word Kakkoii.

Twipple Trend

Current results are as follow.

-General section
Rino Sashihara (AKB48) 135,500 tweets
Tomomi Itano (AKB48) 116,920
Mayu Watanabe (AKB48) 109,750
Yuki Kashiwagi (AKB48) 93,360
ジヨン (KARA) 77,880
Ayaka Sasaki (Momoiro Clover Z) 77,590
Shiori Tamai (Momoiro Clover Z) 75,390
Minami Takahashi (AKB48) 75,350
Momoko Tsugunaga (Berryz Kobo) 69,890
Mariko Shinoda (AKB48) 59,640

-Kawaii section
ジヨン (KARA)
Mayu Watanabe (AKB48)
Rino Sashihara (AKB48)
ソヒョン (KARA)
Yuki Kashiwagi (AKB48)

-Beautiful section
ジヨン (KARA)
ソヒョン (KARA)
Amina Satoh (AKB48)
ギュリ (KARA)
Tomomi Itano (AKB48)

-Kakkoii section
ジヨン (KARA)
ソヒョン (KARA)
ニコル (KARA)
Mayu Watanabe (AKB48)
Ayaka Sasaki (Momoiro Clover Z)

In today’s ranking Mayuyu places the top followed by Kojiharu and Mari Yaguchi of (former member of) Morning Musume