Akimoto Yasushi: “Recently, both AKB48 and Sakamichi have their Senbatsu and Centers decided by staff. If I made the decisions myself, I’d get backlash.
The kinds of songs fans like are pretty much fixed: they tend to prefer songs like 'Iiwake Maybe'. On the other, something like 'Koisuru Fortune Cookie' is actually the kind of song fans dislike the most. It's hard to do MIX calls to and it leads to getting heavily criticised by fans for it. That's why with '365nichi no Kamihikouki', people might think, 'What is this song?' but I deliberately do that from time to time."
I never knew the person behind Scramble Egg was one of the 7 people at AKBs theater debut on that day…I’ve seen so many pictures of idols and groups with that Scramble Egg watermark since I became a jpop fan but their Akb pictures were always the best~