TV / Radio AKBINGO! (2008/10/01 - 2019/09/24)

That ruse got me, I was all anime for a second lol
https://media.tenor.com/images/36234236bf0eb790db74f7539239f8e4/tenor.png

Danso Dates are high up there for me. Always enjoyed those.
Of Course is the Answer - Tozen and the Photo Card Battles were also great!
I could never figure out if Miichan really didn't understand the Photo Card Battle concept or if she was just playing into it for laughs lol

 

thanx for the sub!!!!!!!!

 

i'm not even following akb that much, but still binge watching akbingo.
hama, juri,shibuya nagisa, taguchi manaka should be permament on the show

 

Hama seems to be the go to variety member lately, Juri is more of a special guest by now, but at least is back for the current batch of episodes. Manaka strangely doesn't appear as often as Kurumi but at least was finally back for the latest recording session.
Nagisa is NMB, so she will only appear sporadically.

 

Manaka is a mad dog. We need more mad dogs. Too many nice girls here

 

16th gen member doing pretty well for me.. manaka and kurumi and one other girl(forget her name) keeps coming at each other...

 

Maeda Ayaka

 

You probably mean Maeda Ayaka, right?



The only other 16th gen girl who frequently appears on AKBingo is Mizuki and she doesn't speak a lot.

 

yes, that's the one

 

531 is such a good episode! I finally conclude that a cocky Juri is the best Juri. lol

Anyway, thanks @Lusankya for your top 50! It is really well thought-off and thorough. That's what should be what this thread is talking about a lot.

 

Sadly we won't see too much of her in the show after this

 

That Narcissistic Shitori battle was great. Hama really turned that into a high level battle.

 

Maybe like Kaotan, she can now unleash on Bingo!

 

Yeah, true. I just found out the news after I posted that.

 

You're welcome. It was actually quite a lot of fun to create this list, even though it took way longer than I initially expected.

I definitely wanted to see how balanced the entries on my list are, e.g. if most of them come from a specific timeframe. On the internet you can read some strong opinions regarding AKBingo, usually there are some people who only like the first 100-200 episodes or only BB episodes or only WRH episodes and so on. So I was delighted to see I basically love them all. I can definitely see the point of people who only like the older episode as I had the same opinion a year ago. Back then I was like "Where are the games, who are all these new girls?"
I still watched the new episodes and over time the new members grew to me, so I also checked again the episodes from 2016, 2017 (I initially skipped a lot of them) to see where they all started. At the same time I also really started to appreciate WRH and most episodes which didn't feature pure games. Actually nowadays I don't miss the original members at all anymore (I still like them of course) and am very happy with the current group of members we got.

It's also really fun to rewatch episodes. E.g. when I first watched the latest Muchaburi Dodgeball episodes (from last year) that was still at a time where I only really knew roughly half the members present. Now when I rewatched them I was all like "Ohh, it was Satone who shared the bed with a snake." "Hey, Hatsuka was already there back then, let's check out her funny faces!" That really enhanced an already very good episode for me.

So yeah, if some of you are lukewarm on AKBINGO nowadays, ask yourself if it's maybe because the show is full of random young members you've never seen before. If that's the case give them a chance and watch more episodes to get to know them. Also watch episodes you have skipped in the past because you assumed they are not fun. Originally I skipped e.g. episodes 417, 418, 461 because I assumed they would be boring. Well, they ended up in my top 20, top 10 after giving them a chance. So don't be like me in this regard.

Hama's got to be the winner of last year. Maybe even more than Moeka she went all the way from 0 to 100 and is now an absolute essential member of the show.

Last episode was really a Juri show, she even stole the spotlight from Annin who had her grand return. It'S good to see she gets a nice farewell from the show unlike Mako, who wasn't on it for over a year now.

 

It was never the same since Junji Takada left.

 

If they could bring back even just his cutout I would again be able to enjoy this show. Maybe they could do the same with Cardboard-Acchan and we'd been truly back to the good old days.

Spoiler

TBH I never liked Takada in the show. Or rather I had the feeling some members didn't like him and his jokes.

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Btw preview of next week's episode is up.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1102971148914970624



Looks like the members are classified what type of idol they are? I heard the term "variety" and seeing Hama-chans and Zukki's placement on the two opposite ends of the Y-axis probably means -Y is "Variety" and +Y is something like shy, quiet, proper behavior or something like that. Or considering the left side of the chart, light blue is like Mayu (classic idol), green is like Sasshi (entertainer).

Regarding the X-axis I see Juri and Mion and the far end of the positive x-axis, while Hijiri and Yokochan are at the far end of the negative axis. Orange seems to represent Kojima Haruna and purple Nakai Rika? Seems to be related to fashion style, I guess.

Looks interesting and I'm glad to see Hatsuka got a variety placement. Not sure why they would place Ayaka on the positive Y side, though. Seems more variety to me.

 

blue +y: orthodox idol
green -y: variety
purplr +x: 闇落ち, not sure but it seems meaning 'fallen to the dark side'
orange -x: 女子ウケ not sure again, 'considerate towards female fan'

wait, rinrin has fallen to the dark side? noooooooo

 

Sooo, Mion is the darkest of the bunch? Man, where is Komiharu when you need her.

Edit: On the other end of the x-axis, totally missed her.

 

i guess shes's on the far -y side because of her brilliance in instagram, those are appealing to female