The Five Guys wanted money, though apparently, not for drugs or booze. They wanted income so they could conduct to Tokyo’s nerd district, Akihabara, and go to lassie cafes and statue concerts.

The Five Guys were a rope of otaku (geek) crooks.

It all started final October, when 5 friends motionless to emanate a organisation of thieves. They called themselves “The Five Guys”, and a set off on a crime debauch that, according to news reports, took them opposite Tokyo to adjacent Chiba and even as distant as Aichi for apparently sixty-six break-ins.

The Five Guys apparently done off with ¥5,300,000 (US$63,000) during their crime spree.

One sporting products robbery, for example, presumably netted them ¥400,000 (around $5,000) value of apparatus and approximately ¥850,000 ($10,500) in cash. In another break-in, they presumably entered a Tokyo unit by an unbarred window and scored ¥630,000 (about $7,800) in income and around ¥1,500,000 ($18,500) in jewerly and changed metals.

And once, when there wasn’t income or things to steal, a Five Guys would apparently flame a place.

Japanese military recently arrested a group’s ringleader, 21 year-old Yusuke Tasaki. When asked because The Five Guys went on this crime spree, Tasaki replied, “We wanted income to go to AKB48 concerts and lassie cafes.”

AKB48 is a renouned statue cocktail group. Aimed during Japanese otaku, lassie cafes are coffee shops populated with immature maids. With Japan’s towering self-assurance rate, a usually place Tasaki will get to go is prison, that is populated with associate criminals. Not accurately otaku’s paradise.

Article source: http://kotaku.com/5905640/thieving-nerds-stole-to-hang-out-with-maids-and-see-idols

TV Asahi’s renouned strain program, ‘MUSIC STATION‘, has suggested a artist line adult for a May 25th episode!

For subsequent week’s show, a girls of AKB48 will take a theatre with their arriving single, “Manatsu no Sounds good!” and GLAY will perform their new song, “Bible“. It will also horde performances by Ieiri Leo, Hirai Ken, and Noel Gallagher.

Check out a full set list below!

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• “Shine” – Ieiri Leo
• “Manatsu no Sounds good!” – AKB48
• “Bible” – GLAY
• “Dream On” – Noel Gallagher
• “Kokuhaku” – Hirai Ken

Source: MUSIC STATION Official Website

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/music-station-reveals-line-up-for-may-25th/

On May 18th, AKB48’s Itano Tomomi and renouned sub-unit French Kiss attended a recover celebration for Seven and we Group’s “Rain Style Collection“.

When asked questions by a press about her tighten crony Maeda Atsuko’s upcoming graduation, a date for that was only recently confirmed, Itano remained tight-lipped from commencement to finish about a topic. Since a AKB48 member was smiling in a stretched approach and seemed to be uneasy by a questions, a press fast left it alone and changed onto other matters.

The “Rain Style Collection” by Seven we Group is a vast enlargement of their prior products that will start sales on a 22nd. Itano, who showed how easy it is to open a lovable and delicate new umbrellas to a assembly collected during a event, commented, “I hatred rain, though with this I’d like to go out even on stormy days.” Takajou Aki also remarkable with a smile, “I didn’t know where we should buy umbrellas, though since of this, I’m meditative of looking for an powerful to be my favorite.”

A lightning advisory was given via a morning, heading Kashiwagi Yuki, who is seen by both herself and others as a ‘rain girl, to contend with a assured expression, “That’s my speciality display itself.” Her associate French Kiss member Kuramochi Asuka responded, “Her batting normal is starting to be incredible. There’s a gale entrance too.” Kashiwagi incited a review into a sales pitch, cheerily stating, “As a sleet girl, my one dream was to seem in a blurb for products like these. I’m happy to seem in this CM with a members.”

The 4 idols will seem in new commercials for a product, that will atmosphere from May 22nd until Jun 30th. In a meantime, take a demeanour during some photos from a eventuality below!

Source + Photos: Oricon

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/akb48s-itano-tomomi-dodges-questions-on-maeda-atsukos-graduation/

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On May 19th, it was announced that 3 stories of Higashino Keigo’s ‘Shou‘ (‘Laugh’) novel array will be distributed as a new play array by a online use “Drama JoKer” supposing by KDDI and J:COM. The 3 stories are starring Mikami Hiroshi, Sasano Takashi, and Hamada Gaku, and will have Tortoise Matsumoto yield a thesis strain called “Warattemi“.

Higashino is a eminent author of many good poser novels such as ‘Yogisha X no Kenshin‘ (‘The Devotion of Suspect X’), and ‘Byakuyako‘ (‘Into a White Night’) among others. He’s also created many brief stories with a singular kind of black amusement expelled in 4 collections called ‘Kaishou Shousetsu‘ (1995), ‘Dokushou Shousetsu‘ (1996), ‘Kokushou Shousetsu‘ (2005), and ‘Waishou Shousetsu‘ (2012).

The writer of a online play array commented, “I wish people to know that Higashino is not only an author of poser novels and that he has a opposite side to him. Since a 1990s, he has expelled a ‘Shou’ series, that is a collection of many brief stories that underline black and asocial amusement as their theme. we would even go so distant as to contend that amusement is one really critical component in Higashino’s universe perspective in general.”

She also explained that it’s critical that a categorical expel doesn’t include of tangible entertainers. “The ideal expel would have to include of actors who aren’t accurately famous to be funny… If we used an actor who calls into doubt ‘Isn’t it funny?’, it would substantially confuse a tangible comedic themes in any story.”

The initial story is called ‘Motemote Spray‘, and is destined by Mizuochi Yutaka. It’s a story about a immature male who wants to turn renouned (mote) with women, and receives a puzzling mist from a indeterminate alloy that is pronounced to perform his wish. Hamada plays a unpopular immature male Takashi, while Kurashina Kana plays a lady he’s madly in adore with. Tsugawa Masahiko plays a indeterminate doctor.

Ishii Soichi destined a second story called ‘Aru Ji-san ni Senkou wo‘, in that an aged male carries out experiments in sequence to revive his youth. Sasano plays a aged man, while Suda Masaki plays a younger chronicle of him. The heroine is played by AKB48’s Miyazawa Sae.

The executive of ‘Sadako 3D‘, Hanabusa Tsutomu was obliged for a third story called ‘Yuukai Denwamou‘, starring Mikami, Mimura, Ishimaru Kenjiro, and others. This story is about a married integrate using a soba grill who finish adult carrying to rescue some different abducted children.

‘Motemote Spray’ will turn accessible on Aug 1st, ‘Aru Ji-san ni Senkou wo’ on Sep 1st, and ‘Yuukai Denwamou’ on Oct 1st.

Source: eiga.com

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/higashino-keigos-black-humor-series-to-be-adapted-into-an-online-live-action-series/

Last month, AKB48 suggested a full PV of their arriving singular “Manatsu no Sounds good!“, that is releasing on May 23rd. Now a organisation has suggested a dance chronicle of a single.

Furthermore, full PVs for a lane list of a singular “Mittsu no Namida“, “Chodai, Darling!” and “Gugutasu no Sora” have also been released!

Without serve ado, check out all a PVs below!

Manatsu no Sounds good! dance ver.

Mittsu no Namida

Chodai, Darling!

Gugutasu no Sora

Tip: mochichan

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/akb48-reveals-dance-ver-of-manatsu-no-sounds-good%E2%80%9D-and-full-pv-of-the-single-track-list/

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (or ‘RIAJ’ for short), has usually expelled a digital recording sales certifications that artists achieved during a month of April.

To announce a certifications, a RIAJ works together with roughly all of a digital and mobile download portals in Japan, including recochoku, dwango, music.jp, mu-mo (Avex), oricon ME, and many more. After compiling a information from all a vital download portals, a RIAJ afterwards releases a new certifications on a 20th of each month.

For a RIAJ, a thresholds for digital (online and mobile) certifications are as follows:
Gold – 100,000 downloads, Platinum – 250,000 downloads, Double Platinum 500,000 downloads, Triple Platinum 750,000 downloads, and Million – 1,000,000+ downloads.

The Apr certifications are as follows:

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Japanese Chaku-Uta *

No certifications this month.

*Chaku-Uta downloads usually get certificated for Double Platinum, Triple Platinum, and Million+!

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Japanese Chaku-Uta Full

# Triple Platinum

“Ai wo Komete Hanataba wo” – Superfly : 2008/02/13 (Warner Music Japan)

# Double Platinum

“MR.TAXI” – Shoujo Jidai : 2011/04/26 (Universal Music)

“Baby we Love You” – TEE : 2010/10/06 (Universal Music)

# Platinum

“Iiwake Maybe” – AKB48 : 2009/08/19 (King Records)

“READY STEADY GO” – L’Arc~en~Ciel : 2005/10/19 (Ki/oon Music)

# Gold

“Nemuri Hime” – Acid Black Chery : 2009/02/12 (avex)

“Onara Hazukashi Kunai yo” – Onna Lovely : 2010/02/15 (Yoshimoto R and C)

“Tsukema Tsukeru” – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu : 2011/12/21 (Warner Music Japan)

“Rainy – Ai No Shirabe” – Janne Da Arc : 2005/09/02 (avex)

“Koibito” – Suzuki Masayuki : 2007/03/21 (Epic Records Japan)

“Ikiteru Koto ga Tsurai Nara” – Moriyama Naotaro : 2008/08/20 (Universal Music)

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Non-Japanese Chaku-Uta Full

No certifications this month.

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Japanese Digital (PC) Singles

# Gold

“Gift” – ET-KING : 2007/09/12 (Universal Music)

“Tsukema Tsukeru” – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu : 2011/12/07 (Warner Music Japan)

“Misenai Namida wa, Kitto Itsuka” – GReeeeN : 2012/02/29 (Universal Music)

“Bo Peep Bo Peep (Japanese ver.)” – T-ARA : 2011/10/05 (EMI Music Japan)

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Non-Japanese Digital (PC) Singles

# Gold

“It’s My Life” – Bon Jovi : 2007/07/04 (Universal Music)

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Source: RIAJ

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/riaj-reveals-digital-certifications-for-april-2012/

At Tokyo Rainbow Pride final month, we asked dozens of people of varying ages, domestic persuasions and non-straight identities about a one thing a Japanese supervision could do to urge their lives. “Give us polite partnership” was a resounding answer. Currently, happy couples vital in Japan mostly review to adopting one another as a means of full authorised protection, and while a nation sealed a UN custom final year earnest to strengthen a LGBT citizens, taste on a basement of passionate march is nonetheless to be outlawed.

Meanwhile, a debate for polite partnership championed by Taiga Ishikawa, one of usually dual plainly happy Japanese politicians who has been in bureau only a year, is embryonic. The preference to concede Koyuki Higashi and her partner Horoko to spend illusory amounts of yen on their mystic kinship is understandably poignant to them. But will a commercially-blessed ceremony, played out in a enlightenment where recreational costumery is though a socially-acceptable remit from regressive daily life, be anything some-more than happy cosplay?

Part of a answer lies in Disney’s initial refusal to concede a ceremony. It would difficulty others, a integrate were told, not to see a span dressed in a interrelated morning fit and meringue; they could have a rite supposing they dress “like a masculine and a woman.” Tradition in Japan prevails, quite when a strenuous expectations on women to benefaction as hyper-feminine means Japanese lesbians are primarily femme, hence augmenting a odds of a discouraging two-frock spectacle.

While a Japanese adore of stay gameshow hosts and drag queens favours happy masculine representation, Disney’s benefaction is indeed a strike of sorts for lesbian visibility, now cramped to animation porn and a philharmonic of popular lady organization AKB48 flitting candy to one another by approach of their nubile teen mouths in a new TV blurb – which, incidentally, viewed 116 viewers’ complaints for what Japan’s broadcasting ethics and programme alleviation organization described as enlivening homosexuality. But with a graphic default of genuine lesbian and bi women in a open eye, let alone in a party world, it’s tough to trust that a steer of dual grown females committing to one another in an synthetic locus combined to indulge childhood fantasies will have any genuine domestic significance.

In fact, Disney’s preference substantially says reduction about changeable Japanese attitudes to happy partnership and some-more about how a western corporation’s farrago avocation can be commandeered by an Asian association concerned not to provoke inhabitant sentiment. The Tokyo Disney Resort is indeed run by a Japanese entity called The Oriental Land Company, that licenses a name and characters from a Disney corporation. Notably, general companies of Japanese start that unite Pride events in a rest of a universe have mostly refrained from doing so within Japan. Japanese morals, traditionally sensitive by Shinto, Buddhist and Confucian teachings, might not be impeded by a judgment of homosexual sin, though open passionate display, whatever a orientation, is still generally viewed as shameful, hence a hostility to publicly support LGBT events.

In a box of Tokyo Disneyworld, a Oriental Land Company is means to gaunt on a west’s increasingly open toleration towards homosexuality but indispensably affronting normal Japanese amicable mores. But all cultures move with them their possess prejudices, in this case, a Christian stress about same-sex coupling in a residence of God. Despite Tokyo Disney’s immature light, Koyuki and Hiroko will not be means to sell mystic vows in a park’s chapel due to “Christian teachings”.

The wish of march is that Koyuki and Hiroko’s debate can be used as an event to plainly plead a need for polite partnership, in a multitude where workplace promotions are frequently contingent on marital status. But while a Japanese clearly find workaday remit in a fanciest of dress-up games, a new subculture of personification wives in Disneyworld is doubtful to be a fairytale moody to equal marriage.

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On Apr 4th during 3 P.M. JST, AKB48’s Maeda Atsuko (20) done a grave proclamation per her graduation and her appearance in a ‘AKB48 27th Single General Election’ (to be reason on Jun 6th during Nippon Budokan in Tokyo) by AKB48’s central YouTube channel and her Google+ page. Now, it’s been suggested that Maeda Atsuko will be central graduating from a organisation after AKB48’s Tokyo Dome concert.

On May 17th, Yasushi Akimoto posted a following on his Google + page:

I was means to reason a assembly with Atsuko Maeda a other day. we had upheld her by in places like a studio, though did not have time to lay down and speak to her given that day in Saitama Super Area.

About AKB, her peers, her juniors, her fans, and about her possess future…
Though she is not good with words, she common her frank thoughts with me.
I was overwhelmed to see that a bashful 14 year aged lady that always hid in a bombard had grown into a 20 year aged woman, who cared for others and common those feelings with me.

Although she is still not good with words, since of that we felt we accepted her tender and approach feelings.
And a bashful countenance she shows each now and again is a same “Acchan” we knew.

Anyhow, Atsuko Maeda will be graduating after a Tokyo Dome unison and a AKB museum opening on a following day. (detailed report will be announced on a after date.)

Good luck, Atsuko Maeda!!

The Tokyo Dome unison dates have nonetheless to be suggested so when that is announced, we will know a accurate date of her graduation.

Source: Yasushi Akimoto’s Google +
[Thanks to everybody who sent this in.]

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/maeda-atsuko-to-graduate-after-tokyo-dome-concert/

AKB48’s Maeda Atsuko, who recently announced that she will be graduating from a organisation following their unison during Tokyo Dome, has only denounced a covers and lane lists for her arriving second singular “Kimi wa Boku da“!

As tokyohive formerly reported, a singular will be expelled on Jun 20th and has been picked adult as a thesis song to a arriving film “LOVE Masao-kun ga Iku!” (which opens in theaters on Jun 23rd). The pretension lane is a lovely balance ideal for a initial days of summer.

Check out a lane list and covers for yourself below!

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‘Act 1′ Version

Act 1 CD Track List
01. Kimi wa Boku da
02. Migikata
03. Toomawari
04. Kimi wa Boku da (off outspoken ver.)
05. Migikata (off outspoken ver.)
06. Toomawari (off outspoken ver.)

Act 1 DVD Track List
01. Kimi wa Boku da Music Video
02. Kimi wa Boku da Music Video (Drama Version)
03. Making a song video “Kimi wa Boku da”

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‘Act 2′ Version

Act 2 CD Track List
01. Kimi wa Boku da
02. Migikata
03. Aishisugiru to…
04. Kimi wa Boku da (off outspoken ver.)
05. Migikata (off outspoken ver.)
06. Aishisugiru to… (off outspoken ver.)

Act 2 DVD Track List
01. Kimi wa Boku da Music Video
02. Kimi wa Boku da Music Video (Drama Version)
03. Maeda Atsuko Graduation Documentary Interview

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‘Act 3′ Version

Act 3 CD Track List
01. Kimi wa Boku da
02. Migikata
03. Sunday drive
04. Kimi wa Boku da (off outspoken ver.)
05. Migikata (off outspoken ver.)
06. Sunday expostulate (off outspoken ver.)

Act 3 DVD Track List
01. Kimi wa Boku da Music Video
02. Kimi wa Boku da Music Video (Drama Version)
03. Bokutachi no Goshujinsama ~Aikentachi to Maeda Atsuko no Nichijou~

Source Images: Barks

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/maeda-atsuko-reveals-covers-details-for-new-single-kimi-wa-boku-da/

On May 15th, Fuji TV announced that they will live promote AKB48’s ‘4th Senbatsu General Election‘ on Jun 6th. This will be a initial time to live promote on a TV station.

This year’s promote will a biggest in their choosing story with a sum of 237 girls (152 girls final year) from AKB48 and a sister groups participating in a election. They’re all competing for 64 open seats(40 seats final year).

Fuji TV set adult a special module for a choosing patrician ‘AKB48 4th Senbatsu General Election Namahousou SP(tentative title)’ from 7:00 pm on Jun 6th. They will promote a discerning news of votes counted during Nippon Budokan, that is a choosing venue, and Odaiba Fuji TV studio.

At a studio in Odaiba, Fuji TV’s announcer will offer as host, and a celebrities who are well-informed about AKB48’s ubiquitous elections, and AKB48’s fans will seem as guests. (Guest list will refurbish later.) They will demeanour behind on prior elections and expect this year’s trend. On a limit of a screen, they will arrangement venue and prompt reports of a series of votes.

The cameras will cover a backstage of a choosing and atmosphere footage of a girls rebellious this vital event.

The module writer Hamano Takatoshi stated, “These inhabitant statue groups are a amicable materialisation now. We will promote any of their critical expressions as they lay their emotions bare.”

Source: Sanspo

Article source: http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/05/fuji-tv-to-live-broadcast-akb48-4th-senbatsu-general-election/

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