Last night, in the usually quiet Trippendicular Unknown Stories secret underground headquarter, our forums monitoring device received an unusual increase in posting counts in the AKB48 forums from all around the world. There are spikes in the usage of words such as"OMG", "OMFG", "WTF", "Akipi is stupid", and "DO NOT WANT".

It was caused by the shocking announcement at the Budokan concert where most of the girls will be regrouped into different teams in AKB48, that's team A, team K and Team B effective on October. The new Teams will have the following members.

Team A
Takahashi Minami (Captain), Katayama Haruka [B], Kuramochi Asuka[K], Kojima Haruna, Sashihara Rino[B], Shinoda Mariko, Zuzuki Mariya [G], Takajyo Aki, Nakagawa Haruka[B], Nakata Chisato, Nakaya Sayaka[B], Maeda Atsuko, Maeda Ami [G], Matsubara Natsumi[K], Iwasa Misaki[G], Ota Aika[B], Oya Shizuka[G]

Team K
Akimoto Sayaka (Captain), Itano Tomomi [A], Uchida Mayumi [G], Umeda Ayaka, Oshima Yuko, Ono Erena, Kikuchi Ayaka [G], Kohara Haruka [B], Tanabe Miku [B], Nakatsuka Tomomi [B], Nito Moeno [B], Nonara Misato [G], Fujie Reina [A], Matsui Sakiko [G], Minegishi Minami [A], Miyazawa Sae, Yonezawa Rumi

Team B
Kashiwagi Yuki (Captain), Ishida Haruka, Oku Manami [K], Kasai Tomomi [K], Kitahara Rie [A], Kobayashi Kana [K], Komori Mika [G], Sato Amina [A], Sato Sumire [G], Sato Natsuki [K], Suzuki Shihori, Chirano Rina, Hirajima Natsumi, Masuda Yuka [K], Miyazaki Miho [A], Watanabe Mayu

Half of our staff are AKB48 fans. That's around 250. Some of them went crazy after hearing the news. We read about how Watanabe Mayu aka Mayu cried like a baby while kneeling and holding to Ohta Aika photo or so we heard.

But the most shocking, saddening and heartbreaking news we had was one of our most prominent staff who decided to quite her job after the news. She was shocked and looks like she has no interest in AKB48 anymore. We really do not want her to quit her job so we posted the video we captured after the announcement hoping that our readers can probably motivates her not to quit. Thinking that she will not going to have a proper job after this, she still hopes that she will have the money to buy A5 DVD.

There must be worst than this out there.

So we have a new PV from AKB48. Iwake Maybe. We have translated the opening scene, just like we did for 10 Nen Zakura. It is a story about typical high school girls relationship and conflict. The main characters in the PV are Maeda Atsuko who had an affair with the boyfriend of Oshima Yuko. Both looks like the popular girls in the school. Maeda, backed by Takahashi Minami who continues the drama into some intense scene featuring other AKB48 members.

Then the teacher interrupted the confrontation and decided to let the girls prove who's the best through a bicycle race.

One of the main attraction of the PV is the appearance of what seems to be the Evil Powerpuff Girls, led by Ohta Aika, who usually gave brilliant evil and sickening suggestions to see other girls suffer. She has two sidekicks with her, the trustworthy, supportive but a bit dumb Watanabe Mayu and the quiet Kashiwagi Yuki with her evil flowery words.

So we hope everyone enjoyed our latest quality post from The Trippendicular Unknown Stories. Thank you!

[ AKB48 Iiwake Maybe 言い訳 Maybe PV sub translation ]