The results are in. A few shocking changes for good and bad. Senbatsu is an election based on fan votes to decide which members appear on the next Performance Video(PV). It's also a popularity ranking so it decides the future of these Idols; Everything is on the line including will they get more airtime or will they get cut from the organization.



Center:center stage and main spokesperson
1. Maeda Atsuko (Team A) – 139,892 Votes : Acchan retakes first place after losing it to Yuko a year ago.

Media Senbatsu:top 12 get to do most PR events and TV appearances.
2. Oshima Yuko (Team K) – 122,843 Votes
3. Kashiwagi Yuki (Team B) -74,252 Votes Yukirin makes it all the way to 3rd.
4. Shinoda Mariko (Team A) – 60,539 Votes
5. Watanabe Mayu (Team B) – 59,,118 Votes
6. Kojima Haruna (Team A) – 52920 Votes People thought she might drop a place, she actually went up one
7. Takahashi Minami (Team A) – 52,790 Votes
8. Itano Tomomi (Team K) – 50,403 Votes She dropped some places
9. Sashihara Rino (Team A) – 45,227 Votes climbed all the way to 9th. Her TV show helped
10. Matsui Rena (Team S) – 36,929 Votes
11. Miyazawa Sae (Team K) – 33,500 Votes
12. Takajo Aki (Team A) – 31,009 Votes

Senbatsu:Top 21 get to appear in the new single PV
13. Kitahara Rie (Team B) – 27,957 Votes
14. Matsui Jurina (Team S) – 27,804 Votes
15. Minegishi Minami (Team K) – 26,070 Votes
16. Kasai Tomomi (Team B) – 22,8,57 Votes
17. Akimoto Sayaka (Team K) – 17154 Votes
18. Sato Amina (Team B) – 16,574 Votes
19. Yokoyama Yui (Team K) – 16,455 Votes New member makes it all the way to 19th
20. Masuda Yuka (Team B) – 14,137 Votes
21. Kuramochi Asuka (Team A) – 12,387 Votes


Undergirls Center:center stage for under girls
22. Umeda Ayaka (Team K) – 11,860 Votes

Undergirls:rankings of 22~40 get to appear on side-B single PV
23. Takayanagi Akane (Team KII) – 11,674 Votes
24. Nakagawa Haruka (Team A) – 10,854 Votes
25. Ota Aika (Team A) – 9,910 Votes
26. Hirajima Natsumi (Team B) 9,742 Votes
27. Miyazaki Miho (Team B) – 9,271 Votes She dropped a lot, too bad.
28. Yamamoto Sayaka (Team N) – 8,697 Votes
29. Oya Shizuka (Team A) – 7,264 Votes
30. Oya Masana (Team S) – 6,660 Votes
31. Nito Moeno (Team K) – 6,288 Votes
32. Komori Mika (Team B) – 6,177 Votes
33. Hata Sawako (Team S) – 6,120 Votes
34. Sato Sumire (Team B) – 5,438 Votes
35. Oba Mina (Team 4) – 5,411 Votes A very new member makes 35th
36. Suda Akari (Team S) – 5,343 Votes
37. Maeda Ami (Team A) – 5,220 Votes
38. Matsui Sakiko (Team K) – 5,020 Votes
39. Ichikawa Miori (Team 4) – 4,928 Votes
40. Fujie Reina – (Team K) – 4,698 Votes

Ranking of 41 and below don't get to appear at all except for AKB TV shows or TV shows independently negotiated by their respective managers.

Itano Tomomi only ranked 8th?Not fair!What happened?Her agency screwed up?

I didn't know they put all the groups together on the list. Maybe we can't call it "AKB48 Senbatsu"? Matsui Rena did pretty good. While it's a fun way for the fans to participate in AKB48's path, I feel bad for those who dropped or didn't even make it on the list. =/

AKB48 3rd Senbatsu Top 2 speech

Four girls gain position on her: yukirin, Mayuyu, Kojiharu and takamina.
It may be partly because she plays the bad girl on Majisuka Gahuen 2.

On the bright side, she did get to do a Solo "Dear J."





Senbatsu is out of almost 300 girls. Yeah, the AKB organization is really milking it. They make all that money and promotion just in selecting the girls for the next PV.

Matsui Rena is super cute. She is the perfect good girl with a little "bad" inside. Even though she is officially SKE48, She is practically Akb48; she appears regularly on AKB48 shows and she has been in every PV for the last three years.

I see a lot of "bad" in this lol

^Majisuka Gakuen 2. She is convincing as a blood thirsty lunatic.

My usual image of her is this:

She does have a dark side.
She told a fellow AKB48 member "To get what you want from a staff members.... all you have to do is cry."
I actually find the dark ones more interesting!

Oshima Yuko's new hairdo bothers me.
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=1107661851

^ Is that a new Haircut? I can't even tell.

I never liked Yuko, She has too many vulgar points to be center.

Maeda Atsuko(Acchan) on the other hand was born to take center stage. I also find third place Kashiwagi Yuki(Yukirin) extremely cute and sexy.

Kashiwagi Yuki,she is sexy.Is she very popular in japan?How did she get third place?I still feel like Itano Tomomi deserves it more.But Im very biased.

^ I think it's because of her group "French Kiss". Yukirin is the center of that group and they go on a lot of TV shows to promote themselves. She is a very good talker but more important, she can capture peoples attention thru her facial expressions and reactions. So, even when she is not talking, people are paying attention to her.


Tomochin on the other hand is not a talker, she's best as a fashion model/designer which is what she wants to be. She really doesn't want to be on Variety talk shows and try to be funny.

By the way, Tomochin was the first AKB girl to catch my eye. I saw her in this video which led me to discover AKB48( I knew about them for years yet I never watched a single video or TV show!)
Now, they are all over my sig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9I0JUTiOck

im a fan of mariko shinoda!

i also like kojiharu and matsui rena

I dont watch many of their tv shows cuz they speak so fast I cant even catch up with the subtitiles.Thats probably why I didnt really get to know Yukirin.When it comes to look,she is the kind of girl that makes me wonder what she will look like when she grow up,like 25.Some girls you just know how they would look when they get older.But Yukirin is the kind you cant be sure I think.

^ True. a good hint is to look at the mother. I don't know about the other members but I did see a picture of Kojiharu's mother-beautiful lady, Kojiharu is going to be pretty for life!

Congratulations to everyone

And thanks to everyone too -- glad to see that theres a few people who can see through my occasional outbursts/frustration and take it into stride. I say this because I got a few votes from people I certainly didnt expect