Sashihara Rino recently visited a warehouse that keeps many of AKB groups’ costumes, sparking many nostalgic comments.
The warehouse is kept at a suitable temperature and holds about 20,000 pieces of costumes. The costumes are sorted according to each song and are tagged with each member’s name.
Sashihara visited the warehouse with Osare Company's Shinobu-san, who explained the concept and design for many of these pieces.
The costumes featured include pieces worn by the idol girls for various performances, such as for the Japan Record Award shows and graduation concerts. The outfits were also designed to suit each members and Shinobu-san also explained how concepts came from the songs, and how they were made to fit each member. (Examples were explained in the video by Shinobu-san, using Miyawaki Sakura’s costume etc.)
Costumes shown include those from Majisuka Gakuen, Oogoe Diamond Ponytail to Shushu, Aitakatta, Koisurun Fortune Cookie for which Sahihara was the center. (It was apparently inspired by a Thai school uniform concept.)
Check out the video to walk down the memory lane + J Fans comments below!
Selected comments
[+1500] Just with one glance, I can’t help but go “ah, it’s that outfit!”. After all, AKB was really my youth and once again, I am thinking that I will never forget my youth for my whole life…My youth was colored with Osare Company’s costumes. The costumes reminded me of the feeling of admiration, love and the frustration from the general elections, it’s so emotional that I can’t stand it…I love Osare’s outfits…
[+882] If you look at each outfit on its own, it looks so small that you can really tell how thin and delicate each AKB member was. And I really liked how everyone wore costumes that were more chic and mature than usual when they danced for the record award performances
[+572] You can really feel the love, they carefully made each outfit to fit each girl like this
[+517] Even though there are so many of these outfits, the fact that Shinobu-san can immediately recall the characteristics of each piece…it really shows that they were made with sincerity
[+465] Even though she commented that she (Sashihara) was thin back then, it’s amazing that she was able to wear that piece immediately over her one piece now…If possible, I want to see a fashion show with the costumes from AKB, HKT and also the otaku era
[+448] Osare Company takes such care, even DOWN to the small details of each costume and they even make it match the bone structure of each and every member. They are really of a different league
[+321] They are really good, taking into consideration of things like the group and the members’ thoughts, their physique and complexes. This is amazing as it's something that can’t be done without love
[+319] You can feel the love. There are really so many costumes and it’s amazing that they are keeping them all carefully
[+273] As a fan of 48 groups, I feel happy just by seeing Shinobu-san. It’s amazing that love for each and everyone of them were poured into the costumes. I really want to go on a costume warehouse tour!
[+185] I also had the same thougth when I watched Yukirin’s YouTube – Osare’s costumes are truly amazing. I really like Osare who create amazing costumes that make the 48 Groups and =LOVE look good
[+185] Seeing the passion for each member and the care put into each costume made by Osare, I can feel AKB’s long legacy and am really touched …! Apart from the warehouse shown this time, there are yet other warehouses, that’s really amazing. Osare is really an organization of skilled professionals, they have made these numerous costumes with overwhelming high quality…For me personally, I was really happy and felt nostalgic seeing the Tokyo Dome performance and Record Awards performance costumes for the first time in a long while
[+160] All the outfits are different and it’s awesome how the 16 costumes are made with each of the 16 senbatsu members’ style and character in mind. It’s also interesting how there are many details that you wouldn’t notice unless you look carefully
[+159] I really like the live performance costumes. Fans will be reminded of the scene then with the costumers but the idols wearing it will also have memories of them, even the company also created these outfits with their sincerity
[+116] AKB wore many of these costumes only once so I wondered what happened to them, I knew there was a warehouse but I didn’t think they would keep all of them. I’m so happy that I’m emotional, these are all costumes that I know!!!!
[+114] These costumes are full of love for each member. It’s because these outfits were made with such love that those wearing it had been left with such deep impressions. Thank you for working on such a great job!
[+106] AKB48 is really the no.1 when it comes to costumes and I’m happy as I've always wanted to see these! I didn’t know there was a warehouse…It’s amazing that the outfits were made with the person wearing it in mind