http://www.animexchanges.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:34:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/mika-saeki-leaves-akb48/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/mika-saeki-leaves-akb48/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:21:27 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3668 Mika Saeki, a member of AKB48′s Team B, is graduating from the group next month. The news came during a performance on Tuesday night at their Akihabara theater, followed by a comment posted on their official blog. In January, Saeki took a break from AKB48 due to a leg injury that required half a year [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/mika-saeki-leaves-akb48/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/nanami-nishikawa-dismissed-akb48/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/nanami-nishikawa-dismissed-akb48/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:06:21 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3598 Nanami Nishikawa (16), a member of AKB48′s “kenkyuusei” (“research students”), has just been dismissed by her agency, AKS. As a result, her departure from the idol group was announced through a post on the AKB48 blog. Nishikawa’s management explained that she had done something careless, due to her “lack of self-awareness” as an AKB48 research [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/nanami-nishikawa-dismissed-akb48/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/michiru-hoshino-takes-time-off/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/michiru-hoshino-takes-time-off/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:30:29 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3480 Singer Michiru Hoshino, a former member of AKB48′s Team A, announced during a solo concert on Saturday that she is taking a short break from her music career. Early on Sunday, she wrote a blog entry titled Thank You, revealing that she has left her management agency, AZ Entertainment. “I want to try hard to [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/michiru-hoshino-takes-time-off/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/sdn48-recruits-akb48s-kayo-noro/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/sdn48-recruits-akb48s-kayo-noro/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:13:12 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3428 Kayo Noro and Megumi Ohori, both from AKB48, have been recently recruited to join AKB48-related “Saturday Night 48″, or SDN48. Noro and Ohori are both over 20 and have been officially part of SDN48 since Friday. “Saturday Night 48″ was revealed last year as a series of late-night shows being held at AKB48′s theater in [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/sdn48-recruits-akb48s-kayo-noro/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/girls-akb48-promote-nato-day/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/girls-akb48-promote-nato-day/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:19:42 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3174 AKB48′s Miho Miyazaki, Tomomi Itano, and Tomomi Kasai, assembled at a promotional event on Friday as Natto Angel. There the group performed Natto Angel. Some of the lyrics from the song included: “Natto is good for your intestines” and “For those who don’t like natto, we’ll be there right away.” The reason why Miyazaki, Itano, [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/girls-akb48-promote-nato-day/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/akb48-in-new-york/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/akb48-in-new-york/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:52:07 +0000 stryderspider http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3042 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/akb48-in-new-york/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/akb48-perform-september/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/akb48-perform-september/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:05:39 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=3006 AKB48 is attempting to market themselves outside of Japan by starting with France. This weekend the group is in Europe at the Japan Expo held in Paris. There are reports that AKB48 will also appear in New York in September, with another appearance in Cannes, France the following month. There are no confirmed reports by [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/07/akb48-perform-september/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/06/mariko-shinoda-visit-homes-nurse/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/06/mariko-shinoda-visit-homes-nurse/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:22:32 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=2923 So-net Hikari, Internet access provider in Japan, is launching a campaign which will have AKB48′s Mariko Shinoda visiting people’s homes in a nurse outfit. Shinoda donned the yellow nurse outfit and joined the campaign character Momo no Hana at an event to promote the campaign. Shinoda’s role is not entirely clear yet, but she hopes [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/06/mariko-shinoda-visit-homes-nurse/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/05/akb48-loses-risa-naruse/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/05/akb48-loses-risa-naruse/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 05:36:09 +0000 asianknight7664 http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=2413 A few months ago Risa Naruse had to take a break from AKB48 due to a herniated disc and hasn’t been able to return since then. As a result, Naruse decided her time with AKB48 is now over and will continue to focus on her recovery despite the successful laser surgery. Keep in mind that [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/05/akb48-loses-risa-naruse/feed/ 0 http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/04/akb48-sing-paris-japan-expo-2009/ http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/04/akb48-sing-paris-japan-expo-2009/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:29:22 +0000 stryderspider http://www.animexchanges.com/?p=2054 Popular idol group AKB48 announced Monday that they will be performing at Japan Expo 2009, held in Paris from July 2-5. It will be their first overseas gig. Meanwhile, the group teamed up with SKE48 at a concert at NHK Hall in Shibuya on Sunday to see off Mai Oshima, 21, a member of AKB48 [...]]]> http://www.animexchanges.com/2009/04/akb48-sing-paris-japan-expo-2009/feed/ 0