48G WrapUp: AKB48 SHOW! screencaps of Grand Reformation announcement, Graduations, Nyanyanya? Nyanya! (and many more)

Before we begin…

CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE
100 MILLION HITS
ON HEAVY ROTATION!

It also went on to be Yahoo! News Headlines and Oricon News, being the FIRST ever Japanese video to hit 100,000,000 views!

All that Yuko could say was, “I don’t know what I should say…”

Anyway, congrats to Yuko and also all of you fans around the world who has contributed your bandwidth for this 100,000,000!

48G Grand Reformation will include overseas sister groups

General Producer of AKB48 Akimoto made clear that G-Reformation is across-the-board, including all overseas groups. pic.twitter.com/mKSwGgyPSq

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As of writing the article, Feb 17, nothing has yet been decided. Staffs haven't presented him a blueprint of Grand-Reformation.

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Why do they need to carry out members shuffle in that large scale? Akimoto explains it's because "to give opportunities to many more members

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…that since AKB48 has a lot of members, in order to get noticed, girls need to present themselves with unique and creative personalities

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…but right now, each team has members who have pretty much the same personalities, and so we need to put right girls in right teams.

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Well, I guess that confirmed whatever we were assuming on the other thread. Whether management will really go ahead and include the overseas members is another thing. We shall see in a few hours!

The Offstage of Grand Reform Announcement on AKB48SHOW

Tears Tears flowed
He (Aki-P) said it would be something that won't be filled with tears
It's already nothing but tears
Too many of them were crying out loud
Tomu's wails...
Reformation is scaaaaryyy
K that was being told that something must be done to fix them
A that has strong friendship
4 that has always been together since research student days
Churi
As expected, the damage they sustained is enormous.
I'm surprised at how Lovetan has grown so much to the point she didn't give that much of reaction

Video: Behind the Scenes of Grand Reformation announcement. (AKB48SHOW) https://t.co/jJDPvH5lTk pic.twitter.com/bAPm1N922C

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Video: Behind the Scenes of Grand Reformation announcement (AKB48! SHOW)

Source: source

Matsumoto Rina's graduation announcement

This maybe late, but here is the video of Matsumoto Rina’s Graduation announcement in Team KII’s stage on February 21st.

Matsumoto Rina

I, Matsumoto Rina, will graduate from SKE48 on April. Thank so, so very much for these 5 years. From this time on, I will focus on my studies. There may not be that much time remaining but please take care of me.

This also bring us back the memories about the List of the girls suspected to either consult or advice to graduate that came around as rumor around November. With Matsurina’s graduations the number of girls that graduate from the given list have gone up to 5 names.

The list is as follow (with the ones that had announced their graduations in bold):

Team S:
Kizaki Yuria, Ohya Masana, Mukaida Manatsu, Satou Seira

Team KII:
Takayanagi Akane, Katou Rumi, Satou Mieko, Takagi Yumana, Matsumoto Rina, Yamada Mizuho

Team E:
Suga Nanako, Kinoshita Yukiko, Miyamae Ami, Mizuno Honoka, Yamada Reika

Kenkyuusei:
Yano Azuki

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