The new WordPress is trash, so enjoy the gallery above; each person in the photo is captioned to go with the information below.  To stop the gallery, just click one of the arrows.  You leave for 6 months and come back to what?

Hi, remember me? I’m Paladin, I’ll tell Editor Kuno to change it to Dark Paladin or Black Paladin—I am trying to return, but medically, every keyboard stroke hurts, I’ll suffer though because all I ever cared about was entertaining the readers.

For those who don’t know or don’t remember my previous articles, AKB48 is a Japanese Idol group …

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Last time I talked about the music, including some of my favorites like UZA—I hope YOU enjoyed the videos.

Now, I want to talk about…

Oshimen (Number 1 Favorite):

For me, my journey into AKB48 started in 2007, I was doing a photo search and came across Minami Takahashi—at the time, I saw a pretty, little Japanese girl with black hair in what appeared to be a top ponytail. (The photo is below). Her face was so pretty and she just seemed to grab me instantly. So, I went into the page it was on and found out that the group …

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Last time, I talked about that dark side and graduation; this time, I want to focus on the music—after all, they do sing and dance.

UZA:

In the middle is Minami Takahashi, my AKB48 Oshimen or Number 1 favorite. She is the lord of the yakUZA and looks like she is going to fuck someone’s shit up—holding her Kiseru (pipe), she stares down at the rival families and wears a beautiful Kimono.

On the left and right are her thugs.

On the left is Tomomi Itano who Graduated in 2013. One of the original members from the cover of the first …

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In the last part of AKB, I talked about the older members and SDN48; also covered was the awesome DVD concert. In this part I will talk about Graduation, Scandal and other fun things that surround the group.

But first…How old is she?

Think about it and all will be revealed at the end—NO CHEATING!!!

Graduation:

AKB48 is built like an all girls school, so to say; and there are two forms of graduation, the first is graduating from training. Training ends, when it ends…each individual has a different length of time in which they learn the dance steps, the lyrics …

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In part one I introduced the Japanese Idol group AKB48 through a few photos and many CD’s; I’ll continue now with another aspect of the group.

Akihabara48 began branching out into different cities in Japan, but also with a very different show. SDN48 was a group of the…shall I say, older girls who put on a show on Saturday nights at the theater in Akihabara. The show was 18+ because of Megumi Ohori who was a living sexual desire! Of course I’m joking just a little. Megumi was one of the most interesting members of the group, she was part of …

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The word “Idol” gets used a lot without the actual definition of what it means. People just assume its some singer that everyone likes—well, not “everyone” likes them just because the press says so.

An Idol is a singer, an actor, a model…an entertainer—most of the time the word is associated with a pretty female; however, it’s used with males too.

Let’s take a look at what Idol means to ME.

In the photo below, you might be able to call this line up a good part of the popularity generation?  Left to right; Jurina, Mariko, Tomomi, Yuko, Mayu, Atsuko, Minami …

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Even when you allow those shadows to follow you, they have the ability to haunt you.  The choices you make, mold you into something you cannot see, and the mirror tells another lie.  You chase those beings that have already gathered and clutched their mits tightly around you.  All in all, not realizing they have become you.  Or have you become them?  Hard to tell, who is real, with all these shadows floating in and out of bodies these days.  Is anyone committed anymore? Maybe what we need is just a bit of loyalty, to the vices that sink their fangs …

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Control, it can be an emotional and mental level of assuredness and confidence.  All sorts of things control us, misconceptions as insidious as they are, can control a lifetime.  I know what you might be thinking, a control session is about to spill all over your monitor and seethe into your brains and for just a few minutes, you may become a puppet in this cyber playhouse.  I have to deny the urge to stop you and say I can only imagine the wheeling and dealings I would place into effect if I did have such Control.  But I digress.  I …

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Ah The Grammys… Touted as “music’s biggest night,” the Grammys are music industry’s version of the Oscars. While musicians still regard this prize with respect and covetous idolatry, the Grammys have a tendency to year in and year out feature the same acts (at least, as far as what they show on TV), many of whom are veritable dinosaurs in the business.  Nominees for this year’s best rock song were members of the Beatles,  Nirvana, Black Sabbath, and the Rolling Stones. These guys came out with the best rock song … for this year? Really?

Still, the show wasn’t all bad. …

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You know you’ve made it big when you get spoofed on SNL. Way to go Psy!

Here’s Psy on the Today Show. Awesome energy!…