All these are members of the music group AKB48. What do you think is the maximum number of members a band can take before it starts to become silly? Do you have music groups in your region with hordes of members too? AKB48 photo session below - quite a few cuties though.
wow, so many hotties, i don't know which one to pick.
their song is oddly addictive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CTFZpAla2E maybe danny could post that in the news item too
Aitakatta is the only song I know from the group and yes, since the first time I heard it I couldn't take it out of my mind for a while. But I don't know, since I'm fan of H!P I can't really turn to other bands... I know this is weird but I think I'm not the only one.
You can't limit it to just 1 thats for sure!
Ridiculous numbers for a band lol
Wow, way too many cute girls. I don't know if I could even pick one that I wouldn't go out with ;) lol.
i think a band with 5 people is more than enough. you got bass, guitar, drums, lead singer, and a mc. having 44 people in a band is just too much, you can start your own orchestra with that number
Reinvokes the Sei-Sei (Die Die) part... Magic number!
my mistake, there's actually 48 members, hence AKB48. wow, i feel stupid.
No, no, they really are 44... Just make a rapid calculation with the help of the pic... It's even written on it anyway.
really? because i just read that there's 48 of them split into three units A B and K with 16 in each unit.
Hmm, Grand Sage Wiki says you're right (I based myself on it)... So basically they kicked out four members from the picture, or was the latter cropped?
I agree...7 would be the max limit for me...beyond that I think would be just insane. And here I thought the morning musume group was large enough.
HOLY ******* ****** THATS A ***LOAD OF GIRLS!
4 is the max in my opinion. Like they say, too many chefs spoils the broth or in this case, too many hotstuff spoils the group all together
48 members? Doesn't that qualify them as an orchestra?
Quite the trivial thing.
I don't think they have songs with all 48 members. But Hello! Project have one with 46. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaovMtb9nLI
not totally true. that was a pv with all, or most of the H!P groups.
Over here...having more then five members is unheard of. I don't know much about AKB48...aren't some of them just dancers?
For anyone with a perverted mind, I think this is their dream come true... Maybe... Anyway, I find this hilarious. If you don't have quality you can always have quantity...
I remember there being large numbered bands in the UK like Blazin' Squad with 9 MCs (See you at the crossroads! - I'm so sad that I still remember it) and So Solid Crew with 17 vocalists, 9 DJs, 13 producers and even 11 So-Solid Kids. I never knew there were even So-Solid Kids!!! Remember how my friends and TV used to laugh at them and only a few members actually made the band. But 44 members...I bet only around 4 or 5 of them actually does some 'singing' while the other 40 odd just leech off their success. Still, there are a couple of nice looking ones to drool over.
I remember hearing about AB48 on Japanorama, a BBC show hosted by Jonathan Ross. Thought the idea was stupid then, and I still think it's stupid now. But they're still around so they must be doing something right, aside from ripping off otaku...
They don't make money by making songs... but by hiring a bunch of girls and taking pictures of them??? Whenever a band is at such a large number- only choirs sound amazing..
Hmmm... Wasn't they whose manager decided of a crazy marketing ploy (the 44 *magic number!* special covers to collect)?
Yeah and now they just came up with another crazy marketing. They just released a new photo book of AKB48 and each book comes with 5 special photos of members, from total of 848 pictures. Get it? 5 out of 848 per photo book. So to collect them all, you need some super miracle and buy 172 of the photo books. Photo book has 4 different versions and if you collect all four, you get to attend a special event where you can shake hands with AKB48 supposedly. I wonder if there are any hardcore AKB48 fans that will fall for this ploy...
Omigosh...
My band officially used to have about 14 members, only 4 of them were actually playing, me included. It's a fun-only project only so we invited everyone who wanted to be in our band, no matter if they were able to play instruments. We actually have some fans xD
About AKB48: If it's a serious project 48 members are way too much, 5-6 are enough to me.
I feel like playing the Idolmaster with this group of ladies... would be better if Idolmaster was an eroge
yet another thing to steal the minds of male otakus xD wow so many, i doubt all of them do something
I feel like in the US you couldn't find this many cute girls period. No thats an overstatement, but not in a 100 mile radius at least.
Wow if they all sing together at the same time, I wonder how hard it is to synchronize them...
too many members there, i mean 44!!! or is this some kinda way to reduce the unemployed ppl??
Pretty crazy to have that many in a band. pretty attractive ladies there though. Looking at the picture makes me think of the Negima class roster.
44 ppl!? what the heck... I think that's way too much. (-_____-.l|l
Just saw a video of AKB48 in youtube and only a few of them actually sings most do some choreography.. So many eye candies that my brain can handle at a time.. Here's the Link Guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDWgMwGlFy0 Since danny disabled the video linking.. The Video has AKB48 + Leah Dizon + Shoko Nakagawa Performing..
44 is definitely way too much! o_o 4-5 is max ^^;
isn't it hard for a music studio to support a band with that much members? for example for a singaer, the manager only have to pay him/her one salary. but for a band with 48 members won't the manager have to pay 48 salary? O_O
I'm one of AKB48 fan~ Started from around early last year. I love them all and their songs are good. It's hard to remember all their names but now I remembered them all.. xD For more info on AKB48 you can join the international fan forum in here http://stage48.net/
thats nearly doubled the size of The Polyphonic Spree
Actually, a little more than double. AKB48 is 48 members. The Polyphonic Spree is 23. But I guess that's splitting hairs on technicalities.
i will take numbers 1 through to 48 please
omg, now thats a lot of girls. T_T gonna check out their videos now! thanks danny!
That first one in the third row is so cute... I love her hair :D
There are a lot so they can be replaced easily without people noticing.
hmm can't decide on which is cuter.. if only i could take everyone home...hmm then i need a bigger room
I bet too much girls to satisfy ur dolphin.....Buwahahahahaha...
imagine having a real-life harem with them as your harem XDDDD
It's possible to have 48 wives in Japan right?......>_> right?
Thats practically a whole cast for an anime already. Sounds like Morning Musume to me but only on a larger scale. Well if you had music from mahou sensei negima anime u'll understand since all 32 seiyuus did sing some of the songs together at one go.
but those are seiyuus not a band... 48 is just nonsense...
LOL. that is too many people. How do they split their earnings like that?
I prefer maximum 5, this is overkill. I wonder how many fights they had within the group.
Far Out i thought Koreans "Super Junior" or "SuJu" with 13 boys was bad enough now they bring out 48 girls thats alot to work on im having trouble remembering all 13 boys names think ill just remember the girls i like and say "yeah i know them , i like so and so the best"
Kojima Haruna!!! I'm not actually sure which she is on that big pic of all of em. But I've seen her on the music video's. She's taller than alot of them. I like that. I relate to that. I quite like AKB48. I like peppy Jpop. And I don't mind the numbers of the band lol.
She's top center. I thought that was her....
That's way more people than I can handle in a band. @.@ But they're all so cute and pretty, so I can deal with it. ;)
Aitakatta~... hahaha Well their song is great, but only some of them ar good at sing. Not all, but some. I like Chocolove AKB48. But I like Berryz and C~ute most.
I suppose 5-6 at most. Futher more, it's a horde not a group o.0
1st row 2nd from the right is my fave but i dont know her name..
Ehh the pic says there's 44 people.. What a misleading name I guess.
I've said this before, but Skirt, Hirari [スカート、ひらり] is the best PV of all time. I swear i've watched it like a 100 times over the past 2 years.
That "band" has officially become a chorus.
Just one thing I wanted to add, the number 48 was reandomly selected, and it by no means reflects the number of people there will be on the group. While they were 48 in some time, they only started out with 20 or so. They aren't a normal group in that they don't make only PVs and CDs, but they work in a teather doing shows daily and twice on the weekends. BTW, this picture is not really updated, in March 3 some girls were added to the 3 main team's roster (for a total of 46 now, having something like 12 SEED). BTW, the girl in third row first column is called Oku Manami, also follow Kazearashi's advice and join stage48 ^^.
ha i think the maximum is about 5 larger than that and you can't really fit all of them in one song properly
omg, the group is so big o.O". The girl all not bad...
With so many girls, they are not a group or band but should be called a choir! When you go to their concerts, where do you look? they are all so cute!!
