AKB48 performing 3-day concert series at Seibu Dome

“I don't know where OJS is, but it sounds like ojisan48 to me.”

Now that’s funny! As for this ABCDEFG48… stuff, take away thescantly clad costumes and coy smiles and you have a bad sounding high school choir singing recycled tunes. Bet your bottom dollar a large portion of the concert goers are middle aged otaku’s armed with their concealed camera gear. Fortunately this form of entertainment does not represent Japan as a whole.

I prefer Korean girls pops group GIrl's Generation. Those beauties took out their upper leg muscles to look good. Oh yeah, baby!

Where is the photo of the group? I will be going to all 3 concerts.

I love AKB 48 and Kara etc...they are so cute! Ganbatte!!

I like AKB48. They are cute. They make me fun.

And that is all they can do, just be cute. So where is the talent, as one of my co-workers explained to me, Japanese people, especially the men, enjoy having a huge variety of choices and selection of women. These groups provide and feed that visual appetite. This is more about visual appeal than anything else.

The creators and marketers of these groups are geniuses. Do you not think being able to get people to pay to watch girls play rock paper scissors and getting them to buy large numbers of physical albums and goods in order to get votes for their favorite performer (in this age of digital music) to be utter genius?

Sub-acts associated with AKB48 now include SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, SDN48, OJS48, no3b Watarirouka Hashiritai, French Kiss, Not Yet and DiVA.

WTF.

Now steve@CPFC, that was funny. Made me smile.

worthless article

sunshinekyutech; congratulations!! Would you like a lolly pop?

I like AKB48. They are cute. They make me fun.

There's a big difference between trying to make good music and trying to cheat schmucks out of their money.

I can see the AKB48 nerds busy doing their thumbs down on all comments critical of their meaning in life.

At night? I hope they use lots and lots of electricity.

Pathetic what the hell!

wow people buy tickets to watch these girls play rock paper scissors... what has the world come too

Turn on the TV and you can't go 10 minutes without seeing either AKB48 or Arashi. The marketing power behind this mediocrity is astounding, as is the gullibility and shallowness of the consumers who lap this up. Formulaic and infantile songwriting sung in unison and candied up in postproduction. Not to mention the unhealthy fetishization of young girls for perverted ojisan to drool over. Rock-paper-scissors tournaments? Because of producers like Yashushi Akimoto and Johnny Kitagawa and the media machinery behind them, the Japanese public is finding it harder and harder to conceive of any culture beyond what is branded and marketed through the media. How can a society treasure preservation when most of its artistic output is so easily disposable?

Yea, yea, yea!

This is the lowest level of entertainment.

Oh, this is not even at the bottom of pop music.

This is the lowest level of entertainment. I can understand little kiddies liking this mindless trash but you get adults praising them and defending them against criticism. Expolitation with a capital E. Why anyone could like this is beyond me. uess it shows modern society and how far culture has fallen.

Who can remember all these ABC 48? Instead of remembering kanjis, our youngsters have to remember this mass girl groups. Are we in North Korea here?

Thanks for the warning!

I had no idea they had that much groups. That explains why you can't watch any TV without seeing a dozen of them, except maybe for chii sanpo.

I don't know where OJS is, but it sounds like ojisan48 to me. lol

for charity or ...trying to make money from tsunami hit disaster area?

AKB48 now include SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, SDN48, OJS48, no3b Watarirouka Hashiritai, French Kiss, Not Yet and DiVA.

This is like a whole class of high school girls. Wanna bet they create more?

Anybody looking for a ticket?

They should have announced it a week ago. Lots of HS kids will miss out on this.