AKB48 22nd Single – Flying Get (Eguchi Aimi’s official debut?)

Never in my lifetime did I expect to see my beloved AKB48 being mentioned in the news over here in England. Never did I expect to see them featured so heavily in the Japanese media as they have been for the last eighteen months or so for that matter. I can’t help but feel an enormous amount of pride that they’ve managed to make it so big and yet it does feel a little like they’ve been stolen away from me in recent times with the massive influx of new fans. Heck I remember complaining about the voting for AX2010, I don’t even dare to look at the full list for what this year’s was.

All of that is largely irrelevant though; the only feelings of mine that are relevant in the current climate of AKB’s goings on is the joy of hearing that “Ice no Kuchizuke” will be featured on their newest single, so I suppose you could say this is officially Eguchi Aimi’s debut, maybe. Relief may be a more fitting word actually though, it was pretty obvious it was going to feature somewhere down the line as we all know how AKB love to milk every marketing ploy they come up with and seeing this one pass them by would have bordered on the ridiculous. For those who don’t recognise the title of the song it’s the one featured in the recent ad campaign that has been getting so much attention around the world featuring everyone’s favourite fictional idol Eguchi Aimi.

If you do happen to see have spotted reports on this from overseas then you’ll probably notice the fact that they like to get details wrong for seemingly no reason; such as claiming it’s a composition of eight different members instead of six.

It was certainly amusing to go back and read people’s posts on various forums regarding Eguchi’s tangibility and seeing just how far some people flew off the handle defending her and saying there is just no way that she can be fake. If you haven’t tried it already you really should go and check out the “Oshimen Maker” on the Ice no Mi website as it really is quite a laugh. It’s far more entertaining to make them look as hideous as possible though rather than to make a potential oshimen candidate. “Ice no Kuchizuke” playing in the background really did annoy me at first but I grew to love it before too long, I love just how easy to amnipulate predict we mere mortals are.

Truly horrific.

There isn’t a massive amount of info about the single at the moment as it’s not due out until August 24th but both special edition versions all already sold out on CDJapan. As is the usual tradition each version is slightly different just to rape your wallet that little bit more. That is such an overused expression and there’s no way I’m ever going to use it again…

[Type-A]

01.フライングゲット – Flying Get
02.夢破れても・・・ – Yume Yabure te mo (AKB48 Undergirls)
03.アイスのくちづけ – Ice no kuchizuke （Ice no Mi CM)

[Type-B]

01.フライングゲット – Flying Get
02.夢破れても・・・- Yume Yabure te mo (AKB48 Undergirls)
03.青春と気づかないまま – Seishun to kiduka nai mama (Majisuka Gakuen S02 Ending Theme)

[Type-C]

01.フライングゲット – Flying Get
02.夢破れても・・・ – Yume Yabure te mo (AKB48 Undergirls)
03.Team 4 前進！Team 4 Zenshin! (AKB48 team 4)

[Regular]

01.フライングゲット – Flying Get
02.夢破れても・・・- Yume Yabure te mo (AKB48 Undergirls)
03.スポットライト – Suppoto Raito (AKB48 Team Kenkyuusei)

I had heard rumours of Yasai Sisters coming back to do a song on at least one of the versions and while I’d welcome this with open arms I can’t really confirm or deny it either way as I’m not sure anybody knows right now.

Will I be buying at least one copy for myself? Probably not as things stand, I’d only really consider getting a version with a DVD since I don’t usually buy singles at all and since there aren’t even any around at the moment I can’t see that being the case. I don’t even have “Koko ni Ita Koto” yet but that’s simply because it was pretty poo.

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