Tag Archives: AKB48

After Sutou Ririka dropped the surprise announcement at AKB48‘s election that she was getting married, there were understandably some who thought that maybe it was a joke or a publicity …

In idol trolling on fans moves, J-pop tends to be way ahead of the curve, and NMB48‘s Sutou Ririka continued the trend recently. As a reward for fans who voted …

GOAT idol Sashihara Rino of HKT48 has deemed it necessary to do charity work, and will collab with Morning Musume on AKB48‘s ‘Thumbnail‘ album set for release on January 25. …

Sashihara Rino has won AKB48‘s 2016 Senbatsu Election with 243,011 votes. You can find the rest of the results here, but I don’t care about anything except the fact that …

SNH48 are going rogue and breaking away from the AKB48 brand, as we covered yesterday, but they actually might run into more trouble than anticipated because Chinese netizens don’t seem …

Glorious contract drama has finally hit J-pop shores, as SNH48 in China has recently basically declared they are independent from AKB48 and that entire brand. It started when AKB48 announced …

AKB48 member Okada Nana had been hinting at this for a while now in terms of her sexuality, but in a recent interview she basically made it official that she …

There have been many casualties of the The Great Server Crash Of 2015 at Asian Junkie, and one of the losses I regret most is not being able to link …

AKS, AKB48‘s company, is now expanding into three new foreign markets in their quest for Asian domination. The announcement included the groups MNL48 in Manila, Philippines, TPE48 in Taipei, Taiwan, …

As mentioned previously, AKB48 failed to sell a million singles in a week for the first time in like forever, so out of complete desperation to not lose ground to …