«©NCSX» Unknown in the West but somewhat big in Japan, AKB48 is a girl group that was formed in December 2005. Unlike most other girl groups however, AKB48 is comprised of 48 members who are split into three squads of 16 girls each as follows:
Team A - Minami Takahashi leads team A
Team K - Akimoto Sayaka was team captain but resigned in October
Team B - Yuki Kashiwagi leads team B
As a comparison, the American girl group "The GoGos" was made up of a mere five members. Anyway, the teams in AKB48 are A, K, B and there's 48 girls so when you put it all together, they're literally AKB48.
In the PSP ABK1/48 game, players get a chance to interact with the idols and possibly find one girl to perform a love confession. Thousands of images of the idols were used to create the game and 80 minutes of video are included for the interaction sequences. Although NCS hasn't played much of AKB48 thus far, the plan is to go after Tomomi Itano of Team A even though she has a wicked snaggle-tooth. If that doesn't pan out, the backup plan involves Yūko Ōshima of Team K who doesn't have a snaggle-tooth.
Every copy of the first printing of AKB1/48 includes a photo of one of the members in the group which is packaged inside the UMD case.
