AKB48 latest single, Sakura no Shiori which will be released later this month has been awarded by the Japanese Government through The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, as "The Song of 2010 That Can Cure Insomnia and Sleeping Disorder for Human and Pets".

She is not a member of Morning Musume or any pure Hello Project unit. She is not even one of the hundred plus member of AKB48. She is Ogawa Mana. A member of Tsunku's TNX Canaria Club. Not just an ordinary member, this beautiful girl had released a few solo singles and acted in a few dramas.

What's most amazing about Ogawa Mana is that she is very popular in the western world, not only in the United States but also in Europe. She never been to the United States but she is more popular than Morning Musume and AKB48. Why, because there is one song about her appeared on TV, then the whole world made their versions. Including one Persian version probably from the members of the Persian Wota we covered months ago.

The song is by probably one of the greatest group in the United States which features 3 members, a guy as the lead vocal and 2 girls as the backup. No we will not reveal them here but they are in the video. The title is J'etaime vous, Ogawa Mana! (I Love You, Ogawa Mana!).

Right after the jump, we will feature the music video dedicated to her that took the (internet) world into a new dimension. We even did a karaoke for you to sing along and feel the power of transforming into an Ogawa Mana die hard fan.

In celebrating Kamei Eri 21st birthday next month, UFA will be (re)releasing Kamei Eri's Maple Special Limited Edition Photobook. So you think they are saving money just by releasing an old photobook with some extra unreleased picture?

No and yes. Because the extra picture will be in thermal imaging. During the photoshoot, the photographer used a special camera that gives two picture outputs. One is the normal picture that resulted the normal photobook, and the other one is the thermal image.

Talking about Japanese technology is very complicated but thank god they applied the technology to the idol industry. So who will buy the photobook? Tech enthusiasts, Eri's die hard fans and wotas, and someone with a good taste on art. But the pictures are not fully thermal, just some parts.

And the good thing is, The Trippendicular Unknown Stories received two pages (two pictures) from UFA, just because we are the best idol blog out there. One picture is above and the other "special" one is after the jump.

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 ]

From the country that has been making headlines everyday, we present the Persian Wota. Forget about the politics, this video from Iran proves that the wota culture has spread even to the Middle East. Unfortunately, they are quite new and the wotagei video featured here is the tutorial video from one of the few group pioneers, for the new members to learn the wotagei.

The video features a Persian (Iranian) guy, chanting and giving instruction at the same time for the Fujimoto Miki's Romantic Ukare Mode. And what makes them unique and uber-cool from other Gaijin Wota including the over featured Mexican Wota is that they have created their own moves that combines the traditional Iranian male dancing and chantings in Persian language. But the moves are named in Arabic because they wanted to standardized the name for other Middle Eastern countries.

Some of the moves includes;

أكثر من عمل الدلفين النمط الفارسية - OAD Persian Style
ستايل الرومانسية الفارسية - Romansu Persian Style
ڧ.ڧ.ڧ.ح النمط الفارسية - PPPH Persian Style
المواريالنمط الفارسية - Mawari Persian Style
and so on.

We hope to see more of the Persian Wota uniqueness and hope they will grow and increase the sales of H!P products outside Japan in the near future.

Last night, we received an email from an unknown individual who claimed he is working with Up-Front Agency. In the email he attached a video entitled 光井愛佳の左足人差し指の手術.avi (Mitsui Aika's left toe surgery video).

From the 30-seconds video, we found out that the video was recorded by Mitsui Aika herself as she introduced herself in the video and she asked the supports from her fans. UFA will probably release this video somewhere BUT after watching the video, we conclude that this video will never be released officially.

Kamei Eri and Takahashi Ai.

First, we would like to congratulate Morning Musume on their latest single, Shouganai Yume Oibito. It is a great song with a wonderful PV. We hope the single will get a good sales and further increase Morning Musume popularity.

Unfortunately, we may not be able to see the current Morning Musume shines. The latest breaking news we received from Japan is that two of it's prominent members fell into a sex photo scandal. The members are Takahashi Ai which is the current group leader and one of the 6th generation, Kamei Eri. They both is being accused of sleeping with the same person at the same time.

Since yesterday, Japanese televisions have been showing the picture of the girls, sleeping next to an unknown Japanese man. The man revealed his chest and probably naked during the time the picture was taken. In the picture, he was also seen having his arms wrapped around the two girls. The three of them were smiling happily as they were enjoying themselves. For the two girls, they had their clothes on and still, most people were worried if they wore anything under the blanket.

The identity of the man is still being investigated. Some said he is one of the Hello! Project staff while others identified him as one of the professional gigolo hired from one of the club at Tokyo's Kabukicho area. The picture shocked the nation yesterday and Hello! Project are still holding their comments regarding this matter. As far as we know, this is too serious and probably Morning Musume will be disbanded.

Good day everyone! We have received a lot of requests for us to make a karaoke subtitle for AKB48's 10 Nen Zakura. So since we have a lot of professionals and time, we decided to do it. We are NOT a fansub but more to a translation group. We are very professional in translating.

What makes Trippendicular Sub different from other fansub group:
- We are Trippendicular.
- We don't need fancy typesets because when you sing karaoke, you need total concentration on your singing, so distractions are not available in our releases.
- Also the lyric will be miliseconds earlier so that even anyone that never sing the song will be prepared to sing.
- Professional translation from native language professors from top 10 universities. We have the most accurate translation compared to other fansub group.

For this 10 Nen Zakura, we only did the song part because we already did the drama part in the previous post. ENJOY!

After watching the translation of the opening and the ending drama of the latest AKB48 single, 10 Nen Zakura, we found out the director was trying to convince that married idols will be just like normal housewives too. They will face problems in their relationships.