Sunday 17 February 2013

AKB48 sub unit NO NAME Holds 1st Concert


Last February 17, AKB48 sub unit NO NAME held their first solo concert called "AKB0048 NO NAME FIRST KILALIVE" at Makuhari Messe. The group is composed of AKB48, SKE48 and NMB48 members who voiced the main characters in the AKB0048 anime.

The group appeared in the same blue costumes wore by the understudies in the show's 2nd season. NO NAME performed a total of 7 songs, some of these songs are: Kono Namida wo Kimi ni Sasagu, Aruji naki Sono Koe, Oogoe Diamond and Shoujo tachi yo.


The concert also featured a segment featuring the Akemi Kanda, Ryoko Shiraishi, Sachiko Kojima and Yumi Kakazu, the voice actresses who played the elected members of AKB0048 in the anime. The voice actresses showed the dubbing with the members and a "shuffle live dubbing". The live dubbing challenged voicing for different characters from their actual ones which livened up the event.

Watanabe commented, "We members are very close with each other as it's hard to believe that we were joined from different groups. The live was just so much fun, so it is sad that the time went by so fast."

Hata also said, "Though we have 9 members, it felt like 26 of us (including their characters from the anime) stood on the stage all together."

Source: tokyohive