People flock to Horikita Maki’s rendition of “Jeanne d’Arc”

Actress Horikita Maki (22) just celebrated the first performance of her debut stage play “Jeanne d’Arc” one week ago and today she already had another reason to be in high spirits.

The play is a huge success with more than 100,000 people that have already come to watch Horikita’s rendition of the national heroine of France at the “Akasaka ACT Theater” in Tokyo. Everyone in the team, including co-star Ito Hideaki (35), participated in a special event wearing their original costumes to celebrate its success and thank their supporters.

Horikita about her feelings: “We have broken through the 100,000 and it’s a great honor to be able to celebrate such a number during my debut stage play. I will continue to try my best for every performance and hope that all the fun we have as a team will be conveyed to the audience.”

Reporters also tried to get a comment out of Ito about the recent incident involving his good friend Ichikawa Ebizo, but he decided to stay silent on this matter.

Performances for “Jeanne d’Arc” will continue until December 15th.








source: tokyohive

People flock to Horikita Maki’s rendition of “Jeanne d’Arc”

Actress Horikita Maki (22) just celebrated the first performance of her debut stage play “Jeanne d’Arc” one week ago and today she already had another reason to be in high spirits.

The play is a huge success with more than 100,000 people that have already come to watch Horikita’s rendition of the national heroine of France at the “Akasaka ACT Theater” in Tokyo. Everyone in the team, including co-star Ito Hideaki (35), participated in a special event wearing their original costumes to celebrate its success and thank their supporters.

Horikita about her feelings: “We have broken through the 100,000 and it’s a great honor to be able to celebrate such a number during my debut stage play. I will continue to try my best for every performance and hope that all the fun we have as a team will be conveyed to the audience.”

Reporters also tried to get a comment out of Ito about the recent incident involving his good friend Ichikawa Ebizo, but he decided to stay silent on this matter.

Performances for “Jeanne d’Arc” will continue until December 15th.








source: tokyohive

AKB48 celebrates their 5th anniversary at the AKB48 Theater!

On December 8th, AKB48 held a special stage at the AKB48 Theater to celebrate their 5th year anniversary! A total of 82 girls showed up for the event, which if we broke down, included all of the AKB48 members, 16 research members, 5 SDN48 members, and 13 graduated members. Did we forget to mention the partridge in the pear tree?

For the opening act, 16 former members of ‘team A’ appeared on stage dressed in the very same costumes they wore 5 years ago, and subsequently performed their very first song, “PARTY ga Hajimaruyo“. Back when they started, there were only 7 people in audience; but 5 years later, they sang to a full house! These girls performed a total of 11 songs including “Chance no Junban“, which was released on the same day as the concert.


8 research students were promoted as members during the concert. Although it hasn’t been revealed as to which team they’ve been designated to, the lucky qualifying students are: Ohba Mina, Shimazaki Haruka, Shimada Haruka, Takeuchi Miyu, Nagao Mariya, Nakamura Mariko, Mori Anna, and Yamauchi Suzuran. With this promotion, AKB48 now consists of 56 members!

Will they be called “AKB56″…? Hm, not quite sure how it fits but we’re going to bet that these girls are going to still going to reign the J-pop scene no matter how many members they add on.




source: tokyohive

AKB48 celebrates their 5th anniversary at the AKB48 Theater!

On December 8th, AKB48 held a special stage at the AKB48 Theater to celebrate their 5th year anniversary! A total of 82 girls showed up for the event, which if we broke down, included all of the AKB48 members, 16 research members, 5 SDN48 members, and 13 graduated members. Did we forget to mention the partridge in the pear tree?

For the opening act, 16 former members of ‘team A’ appeared on stage dressed in the very same costumes they wore 5 years ago, and subsequently performed their very first song, “PARTY ga Hajimaruyo“. Back when they started, there were only 7 people in audience; but 5 years later, they sang to a full house! These girls performed a total of 11 songs including “Chance no Junban“, which was released on the same day as the concert.


8 research students were promoted as members during the concert. Although it hasn’t been revealed as to which team they’ve been designated to, the lucky qualifying students are: Ohba Mina, Shimazaki Haruka, Shimada Haruka, Takeuchi Miyu, Nagao Mariya, Nakamura Mariko, Mori Anna, and Yamauchi Suzuran. With this promotion, AKB48 now consists of 56 members!

Will they be called “AKB56″…? Hm, not quite sure how it fits but we’re going to bet that these girls are going to still going to reign the J-pop scene no matter how many members they add on.




source: tokyohive