Recorded February 16th, 2012.

OPENING:
New Ship – AKB48

ENDING:
Pedicure Day – no3b
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Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae
Aryton’s Twitter – art0n
Anthony’s Twitter – yoshizumitime

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Last week was both surprising and rather unsurprising at the same time. AKB48′s latest offering “Give Me Five!” sold over a million copies in its first week of sales, an accomplishment that I’m sure all of us saw coming. The more important factoid to take note of from last week however is that Sakura Gakuin actually outsold Dream Morning Musume in first day sales. Naturally their numbers dropped away dramatically as the week wore on, after the diehard fans had had their fill but it should still cause some eyebrows to be raised in the fan community.

All this news is so last week though, it’s time to look ahead to what’s coming out this week so read on after the break as I break things down.

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Recorded January 13th, 2012.

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Garry’s Twitter – mage77
Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae
Anthony’s Twitter – yoshizumitime

The first episode of our spin-off podcast sees Garry, Dae and Anthony sit down to talk about some Kami 7s.

All Night NSK is where we discuss idol topics that we feel deserve more in-depth discussion than the time constraints of the regular show provide. If you have a topic that you would like us to discuss or wish to take part in a show please feel free to leave a comment on this post or contact Garry or Anthony on Twitter.

Recorded February 9th, 2012.

OPENING:
Koe ga kasureru kurai – SKE48 Akagumi

ENDING:
Kamoku na tsuki – SKE48 Selection 8

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We’re back with another “This Week in Music”, featuring the big releases for February 15th 2012. A slightly more interesting week than last that’s for sure although I’m sure most of us were more than content with getting “Junjou U-19″ from NMB48 last week. Many congratulations to those girls by the way, for selling over 300k copies in their first week of sales. Hopefully their consistent gains in numbers continue through future releases.

I’d  also like to thank our readers for the feedback and just overall nice comments we received on last week’s post. Please feel free to leave more of those on any of the posts we make on the site, your comments are always appreciated.

With all of that said, read on after the break to find out what CDs are in stores this week.

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Recorded February 2nd, 2012.

OPENING:
Pinocchio Gun – SKE48

ENDING:
Uso no Tenbin – NMB48

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Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae
Anthony’s Twitter – yoshizumitime
Dave’s Twitter – t3hdave
Aryton’s Twitter – art0n

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We’re back again with another installment of “This Week in Music” brought to you by NSK. We have a couple of releases to look forward to this week and I’ll be diving into them after the break. Before that though, there’s one thing that I’d like to mention:

This is only the second week that we’ve run this feature so there’s no doubt some things that can still be improved. If giving feedback is something that you’re into then please do leave a comment at the end of the article. Even if you’re just commenting to say that you enjoyed what you read, we really do love hearing back from the community.

Shameless begging for comments out of the way, let’s take a look at this week’s releases:

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Hey all! I’m rather new around these parts and the idol scene in general. Although I’m afraid that this article doesn’t contain any new stuff in terms of idols. But I though I’d start off by writing about something I know well.
Kamen Rider!
Yes, the long running Japanese kids television series.
But this isn’t so much about the riders themselves. This article is here to talk about Idols, in Kamen Rider. Some of you may know who I’m going to mention in this article. Though, I doubt these are all the idols who have made appearances in Kamen Rider. It’s just the ones that I know of, and who have actual characters. Not just some 30 second cameo.
Let’s kick things off with 2 girls quite a few of you may know!
Tomomi Itano & Tomomi Kasai as Queen & Elizabeth (Kamen Rider W)

In the series ‘Kamen Rider W’, Itano and Kasai played the gossip girl duo known as Queen and Elizabeth. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a decent picture of them in character for this article. Queen and Elizabeth became a sub-unit of AKB48 for Kamen Rider W, releasing a single made for the show. The single was titled ‘Love=Wars’. An official music video for the single soon followed.

Now, let’s move on. Next up, we have the woman who received the title “Best Butt in Japan” in 2007.
Rina Akiyama (Aka Oshirina, haha) as Mana Kazaya (Kamen Rider Agito) & Naomi (Kamen Rider Deno-O)

Rina Akiyama, actress, gravure idol, and tarento. I don’t know much about her character Mana Kazaya, since I didn’t watch a lot of Agito. However, her character, Naomi from Den-o is basically the waitress of the DenLiner. 2007 was the same year Den-O started, so it’s no wonder she won “Best Butt in Japan”. Her character spent most of her time clad in black and white leather. Akiyama has also made some small cameos in both Kamen Rider Ryuki and GoGo Sentai Boukenger.

And now to finish with something completely different…
Sure, Kamen Rider has had idols in the show. But it has also made idols.
The idols are known as the…
Kamen Rider Girls

Kamen Rider Girls was developed from a colab by Avex Trax and Ishimori Productions. To celebrate Kamen Rider’s 40th anniversary in 2011. The group consists of Yurika Hirokawa, Nao Yasuda, Erika Yoshizumi, Kaori Nagura & Hitomi Isaka. Each of the group’s current members represent one of the protagonists of the Kamen Rider Series. The group’s debut songs were ‘Koi no Rider Kick’ and ‘Heart no Henshin Belt’. The group has released two singles. ‘Let’s Go RiderKick 2011′ & ‘KAMEN RIDER V3′. On March 14th, the group are releasing a third album, titled ‘Saite’.

Darren
@BritishGuySWAG

Recorded January 27th, 2012.

OPENING:
Answer – no3b

ENDING:
Gomenasai – Watarirouka Hashiritai 7

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Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae
Anthony’s Twitter – yoshizumitime
Dave’s Twitter – t3hdave
Aryton’s Twitter – art0n 

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Welcome to the first of what I hope becomes a weekly feature where NSK brings you a brief rundown of the latest idol CDs hitting store shelves during the coming week. Considering the volume of releases over the coming months, keeping up with which singles are coming out and on what week can be tough but we here at NSK have you covered. This feature is very much a work in progress so if you have any input on what things you think could be improved for next week please do feel free to leave a comment.

With all that out of the way, let’s take a look at what we have to look forward to coming out on February 2nd 2012:

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