The results to the 37th AKB48 general election have been announced, seeing something of an upset as super carnivore Rino Sashihara’s reign was ended by Mayu Watanabe with 159,854 votes.
AKB48’s own 20-year-old Mayuyu’s 159,854 votes clinched her the victory, her first after several years of loser also-ran status at third or fifth place.
Ominously in her victory speech she proclaimed “I will protect the AKB group!” – though from who or what exactly was not specified.
With Watanabe in position and apparently as unburdened by individuality, talent or scandal as idols come, a timely return to a more orthodox candidate seems to have come to pass, as even AKB’s own seem to have had trouble stomaching Sashihara’s ascendancy.
HKT48’s 21-year-old super carnivore and previous number one Rino Sashihara was on the verge of tears as she lost, proclaiming her title loss with a paltry 141,954 votes to be “really annoying” but rather unconvincingly maintaining “a setback may be for the best!”
The top 10:
1. Mayu Watanabe – 159,854 votes – AKB48 Team B
2. Rino Sashihara – 141,954 votes – HKT48 Team H
3. Yuki Kashiwagi – 104,364 votes – AKB48 Team B
4. Jurina Matsui – 90,910 votes – SKE48 Team S
5. Rena Matsui – 69,790 votes – SKE48 Team E
6. Sayaka Yamamoto – 67,916 votes – NMB48 Team N
7. Haruka Shimazaki – 67,591 votes – AKB48 Team A
8. Haruna Kojima – 62,899 votes – AKB48 Team A
9. Minami Takahashi – 57,388 votes – AKB48 Team A
10. Akari Suda – 48,182 votes – SKE48 Team E
The devotion of fans was not just evident in the vast numbers of votes most of them seem to cast – torrential rains hammered Tokyo on the day of the event, but seem not to have so much as dampened enthusiasm for the election:
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At least we cannot call AKB's followers the "Unwashed Horde" ...lol triti
LOL.
"LOL" is so underrated
What a healthy society and respectable culture.
Yeah, so much better than shootings every few weeks like in the US.
Nevermind the wanna be samurais with swords cutting people up though
more knife crimes in usa than sword crimes in japan.
Hey guys guys! I hate USA, too! Can I come hang out with you cool kids now?
eh...
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/massive-sword-fight-erupts-indian-temple-speak-first/623010/
Massive swordfight, huh? And yet no one died... Lol some swordsmen these people are.
That's because the US is a very shit country.
And every other week there's a story on here about a kid committing suicide because of bullying and the teachers encouraging it in Japan? Or how about the misogynistic attitude that prevails on this site? Ooh, I know! Denying that Japanese soldiers mass raped thousands of Korean women and try and turn it into victim blaming.
'Murican06:38's mad!!!!!!
got guns? didn't think so.
Japanese Soldiers rape Korean Woman.
America to the Rescue?, otherwise that has nothing to do with America being such a shit country...
Hell even in Japan where the Yakuza control most Buissniss anyway, you rarely see Shoot-Outs like in the US.
For those hating on America(Likely wapanese people) or Japs, google Unit 731 and come back and tell me Japan is a great country.
Say what you will about the us, frankly i dont give a damn, but japan will fall/taken over by western culture. Maybe a generation or two and bye bye culture.
Don't you mean every few days?
Hey, we only have around 30,000 gun deaths a year, numbers like that wouldn't even make a dent in an AKB48 election. The scale of the problems are completely different.
"The scale of the problems are completely different."
so is the severity of the nature of the problem...
or are you so moronic as to think AKB elections, no matter how stupid, are a more serious problem and somehow "less healthy" than unchecked gun ownership (to the point where its completely legal for guns to be owned by people who have a known record of mental instability) and the highest levels of gun-related crime and death (by multiples) out of any industrialized nation in the world
@8:08 that is the most half assed biased answer ive ever heard...lol. Maybe that were true in the 20th century during and after the occupation. America has lost all its "talent" in distributing its ideology and culture, its the opposite now where Asia is now the primary influencer of worldwide culture.
It's like a fucking cult.
"like"
"It's a fucking cult" FTFY
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
WTF is the point of going to a concert if you are going to be 100meters at the back.
Exactly! Its very... very stupid to attend to a "concert" like this. They cant even see the damn screens! Something its wrong with the world this days.
Anyway, this is just another show of no talented but cute girls (thank you again Japan), people its free to throw their money or burn it if they want, if they want to support this kind of "Junk entertainment Concepts" its their choice.
I think the stadium was booked way in advance and no one knew that it'd rain back then. Since people already bought tickets, I'm going with "they hoped it wouldn't be THAT bad"
one good lightning strike...
Fuck that, we need to get jade over here with an indignation strike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsbhiYZAnI
One good Ion Cannon beacon placed on the stage, Command And Conquer style ;)
"Ominously in her victory speech she proclaimed “I will protect the AKB group!” – though from who or what exactly was not specified."
Against the forces of DES with her cyborg weaponry, of course.
from this mass cult of otakus.
Let them be what they are, millions still show up. They may be auto tuned to the point that no one knows what they actually sound like, but I'd probably still go the concert.
Hate on me <3
Meh, I might find some interest in this if they allowed voting for Minori Urakawa...
If only that farmer wasn't such a cheapskate.
Yeah man, had he bought 50,000 more CDs the object of his obsession could have won by a landslide.
Maybe he sold not enough strawberries this year.
I'm sure he learnt his lesson. Next time he will buy more.
just like in America where you vote someone in an election and expect results that will benefit the country.... well,it's the same as you vote someone in AKB48.
The fucking fuck!? Look at that turn out, all for some auto tuned, no talent group. The fucking fuck is wrong with idol otaku? Idols indeed, this shit is insanity
They don't actually auto-tune mostly. They just let the girls sound bad when bad and good when good.
I just wonder what all these haters care anyway? It's not like any of these retards live in Japan. Please vote down my comment and give me hateful replies, thaaaaaanks. ^_^ <3 <3 <3
We're worried that the contagion might spread.
And isn't AKB48 designed to provoke hate? Maybe I don't understand the idea.
Nice engrish sir. We apologise for the immense amount of butthurt our hate for the way AKB48 operates has caused you, please accept my solo performance on my tiny violin to cheer you up.
What a bunch of hateful weeaboos AKA poor, fat, ugly, forever-alone white nerds who sit at their computers masturbating, wishing that they were in "Glorious Nihon". U mad, fags?
Yeah, we wish we had micro-penises like you ;-;
The average Japanese male has a penis so small, he can only have sex with hamsters.
A good burn right there.. sir.
Anyone know the difference between a borg drone and an AKB48 fan? Anyone? heh.
They have different words to describe them. Borg drone is "Borg Drone" and AKB fan is "Otaku fan" or something.
Good answer, but I was thinking they're both mindless driven by a collective will. There's no will in a singular drone, they're governed by the collective.
Borgs adapt and assimilate. Otaku does not adapt (but may assimilate).
Borg Drones "live" all in same Hive and follow one Queen.
AKB48 Drones "live" all in same Hive but follow different Queens.
A Borg Drone will kill and die for its Hive and Queen, while AKB48 Drones would kill for their Hive and Queen but they do not want to die ... mostly.