AKB48: Mechaike Sports Festival Part 2 — Mayuyu is the bomb

Continuing from the last entry…

Once the saka-agari finished, everyone took a break and ate some food from whatever TV station was running this program. Apparently they have some sort of theme park or food park or something, and the food place was called G-kyuu, for Giant.

GIANT CORN DOGS

Later on, they were trying to promote some sort of tomatoes, and to do that, they made minestrone soup. Off the top of my head, I don’t know what it is, but the girls were getting hype over it. What? Really?

I mean, look at Annin’s eyes!

The pictures just made me want to eat tacos, though.

It was then followed up by a ridiculous comedy section. I mean… just, absolutely ridiculous. It all started with the mascot getting mad and taking off his mask, at which point Mayuyu tried to calm him down.

Calm down, sir.

Then things escalated, when he started making fun of Mayuyu.

I’m pissed now.

Then a brawl broke out and they were going at each other!

Go for the leg!

Get tossed in the boxes!

It culminated in a spectacular event where Mayuyu started driving a golf cart and the guy hopped on the roof, and in a fit of madness she drove into a building that blew up.

I am not making this up.

There he is on the roof…

And there’s the explosion.

Then they made up.

I’m actually really glad they picked Mayuyu for this. She played it really well. I might not like her as an idol, but I sure as hell like her as an actress and an entertainer. Apparently, I did miss something when in a previous episode that guy performed a Giant Swing on her and she did not receive it well.

After that strange and entertaining diversion, we resume the athletic festival with some sumo matches.

Yuuko and Ricchan had an epic match, even though she got disqualified in the first 5 seconds, the ref let them play on.

In the pre-game trash talk, Annin only had these words to say. “I saw your video on Youtube.” Holy hell.

The last event was the relay race, they were split into four teams.

My NMB honeys were doing so well!

… and then a wild Rena appeared.

I don’t understand how Rena is so weak that she can’t do a single situp. That doesn’t make sense to me at all. It doesn’t even look like she’s trying. I don’t really care that much for the results, but it’s funny how Sayaka and Milky built up a huge lead, and Rena was so slow that Ricchan couldn’t recover at all.

It’s okay though, at least the end was… sort of close. Yuko was head-to-head with Jurina for most of it, and then she just pulled away and destroyed her just like she did the rest of this competition.

I don’t see anyone else around, do you?

I think she was actually crying a little when she lost.

All that’s left were the standings, and that was actually pretty cut and dry. It was pretty easy to see who was top and who wasn’t, so there wasn’t much suspense. At least with the exam, it’s usually not so obvious who’s top, mid, and bottom tier.

They were split into 3 tiers: A class, B class, and Shit Seven.

No surprise to see Yuuko destroy everyone.

Sayaka also did well. I miss the days when she first joined NMB and she looked invincible. She looked like she could practically do anything.

Also glad to see Ricchan have some sort of redemption.

And dead last was so obviously Rena, which they celebrated by having her put on a poop costume.

And everyone danced around with poop. The end.

The whole program was actually quite entertaining. Okamura is such a great comedian. And after not having followed AKB for so long, it’s cool to see some of the old faces and how they’ve improved by so much. I was really impressed by Mayuyu, she definitely has a bright future. And Yuuko is still shining on, I really need to start watching Android or whatever it’s called. Jurina looks a lot prettier than I remember her to be, Miichan looks to have finally recovered, and Ricchan proved that she’s still worth paying attention to.