Volume 23 of “2chan Says the Darndest Things”!

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Maybe you thought the past few weeks have been pretty slow on the release front. You’d be wrong but still, I respect your opinion. Regardless of your opinion, it can’t be denied that this week is packed with fantastic new music. Won’t you join me on this journey as we explore everything that this week has to offer?

 
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Recorded May 16th, 2013.

Opening:

NSK Overture (intro only)

Ending:

Borealis by Chase Lim

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Yoshi’s Twitter – yoshi_nsk
Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae
Dave’s Twitter – t3hdave
New School Kaidan Twitter – newschoolkaidan
NSK Google+ Community

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“Haven’t slept in 48 hours” Edition.

Yeah yeah, this wasn’t posted on Friday I know. I’m a terrible person but I haven’t been sleeping much these past few days because reasons. Anyway, here we have this week’s NSKaption. Our subject for this week is SKE48 KKS Matsumura Kaori who appears to be mugging some poor old man in the photo above. That’s my take on it anyway, you should post yours in the comment section in the form of a caption. It’s this thing we do once a week just for fun.

If you find any good photos we can use for this feature, send the links in using the contact form, find me on IRC, Twitter, wherever. In return I’ll try not to keep forgetting to post these every Friday.

As always, we look forward to seeing what our community comes up with.

Yoshi got an iPhone not too long ago, so he’s been recording some interesting videos on the iOS app, Vine. Take a listen to his professional voiceovers for Watanabe Miyuki, Ichikawa Miori, and Hirata Rina.

What do you think? Do you like Yoshi’s voiceovers? Do you use Vine? What kind of Vine videos would you like to see? Let us know in the comments!

I wasn’t entirely sure how to approach writing the column this week. There isn’t really a “major” release that I can piggyback off of to promote some of the less well known stuff coming out. Which is what usually ends up happening. In the end I just decided to forge ahead regardless. If you want to join me on this adventure, feel free to keep reading.

 
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Folks, the time has come to place your bets on the upcoming AKB48 General Election for a chance to win a prize! There will be one winner for the prop bets and one winner who makes the most accurate projection of the top 32 ranking! The two winners will win a mystery prize!

Place your prop bets!

Submit your prop bets through this CLOSED.

*Over and under example: If you think a member will rank 11th, you would take the over on 10.5, if you think they rank 10th, you would take the under on 10.5

*Ms. Irrelevant is the member who will rank 64th

Make your top 32 projection!

Submit your Top 32 ranking prediction CLOSED.

Make sure you only pick a member ONCE. Those who pick a member multiple times will be disqualified.

Rank how you think the top 32 will play out, points will be awarded based on how accurate your predictions are.

No. Spots off = No. Points awarded:

0 = 5 points
1 = 4 points
2 = 3 points
3 = 2 points
4 = 1 point
5+ = 0 points

If you correctly predict that Oshima Yuko ranks 1st you’ll get 5 points. If you’re wrong and she ranks 2nd you get 4 points and so on. Whoever gets the highest score is the winner.

*All transfer/concurrent members will count for their original team and group and their concurrent team and group. Miyazawa Sae as SNH48 and AKB48 Team K
Suzuki Mariya as SNH48 and AKB48 Team A
Oba Mina as AKB48 Team B and SKE48 Team KII
Ichikawa Miori as AKB48 Team B and NMB48 Team N
Kodama Haruka as HKT48 Team H and AKB48 Team A
Yagura Fuuko as NMB48 Team M and AKB48 Team A
Furuhata Nao as SKE48 Team E and AKB48 Team K
Matsui Jurina as SKE48 Team S and AKB48 Team K
Watanabe Miyuki as NMB48 Team N and AKB48 Team B

Deadline is May 21st at 12am Pacific time! Place your bets!

If you have any questions, leave a comment in this post, use the contact page or contact me on twitter.

Mad props to our friend, Reo for creating the two docs for us!

Recorded May 8th, 2013.

Opening:

NSK Overture (intro only)

Ending:

Borealis by Chase Lim

[download]

Yoshi’s Twitter – yoshi_nsk
Dae’s Twitter – newschooldae
Dave’s Twitter – t3hdave
New School Kaidan Twitter – newschoolkaidan
NSK Google+ Community

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“This week sucked because I got sick” Edition

Hey look, it’s actually being posted on Friday this week. Shame about the lack of posts on all of the other days but oh well. You can’t win em all. We have another photo for you to caption this week and this one features Murashige Anna and……..Nakanishi Chiyori (maybe? I’m not 100% sure on this, draw your own conclusions) from HKT48. I think this photo is very open to interpretation so you should have no problem coming up with all manner of witty captions that you can write in the comment section below this post. If you haven’t contributed in the past, maybe think about contributing this week. It’s just a bit of good clean fun to round out the work/school week.

If you find any good photos we can use for this feature, send the links in using the contact form, find me on IRC, Twitter, wherever. In return I’ll try not to keep forgetting to post these every Friday.

As always, we look forward to seeing what our community comes up with.

Well, last week was a complete blowout due to it being Golden Week in Japan so sorry to the two of you who read this. I’m back this week though and for a change I’m not rushing to meet my 6am EST deadline. That’s forward planning for you I suppose. Anyway, let’s take a look at what new music is coming out this week.

 
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