Mae shika Mukanee

"Mae shika Mukanee" (前しか向かねえ, "I Only Look Forward") is the 35th single by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It was released in Japan on February 26, 2014, by King Records. This single was first performed at AKB48's "AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 200 2014" concert. This is Yuko Oshima's last single in AKB48. The single reached number one on Oricon and Billboard's weekly charts,^[1]^[2] and placed third overall in Oricon's year-end chart with 1,153,906 copies.^[3]

Promotion and release

"Mae shika Mukanee", was first revealed to the public on January 24, 2014 at AKB48's "AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 200 2014 (Part 1)" concert at the Tokyo Dome City Hall. The title track's center performer is Yuko Oshima, and it is also her final single with AKB48.^[4] The members who participated in this song have participated in the group's previous song "Heart Electric". New participants include Mako Kojima and Akari Suda, and it is Kojima's first participation on an AKB48 title track.

The lyrics were written by Yasushi Akimoto.^[5]

The single was released in four types; Type A (Normal / Limited Edition), Type B (Normal / Limited Edition), Type C (Normal / Limited Edition), and Theater Edition. The supporting tracks on the single are done by various subgroups: "Smiling Lions", "Beauty Giraffes", "Baby Elephants", and "Talking Chimpanzees".

The full version of the music video lasts more than 20 minutes, and it wasn't released on YouTube; instead, an edited version of MV only with the performance of the entire song has been published.

Tracklist

Type A

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto.

CD
No.	Title	Music	Sub-unit	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (前しか向かねえ, "I Only Look Forward")	Yasuyuki Kojo, Yusuke Itagaki		4:17
2.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki" (昨日よりもっと好き, "I Love You More Than I Did Yesterday")	Makoto Wakatabe	Smiling Lions
3.	"Kimi no Uso o Shitteita" (君の嘘を知っていた, "I Know You Lied")		Beauty Giraffes
4.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (off vocal ver.)			4:17
5.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Kimi no Uso o Shitteita" (off vocal ver.)

DVD
No.	Title	Director	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee"	Naoto Kumazawa
2.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (Dance ver.)
3.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki"
4.	"Kimi no Uso o Shitteita"
5.	"Nakamari-Channel" (Video about Mariko Nakamura)

Type B

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto.

CD
No.	Title	Music	Sub-unit	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee"	Kojo, Itagaki		4:17
2.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki"	Wakatabe	Smiling Lions
3.	"Himitsu no Diary" (秘密のダイアリー "The Secret Diary")	Hiroki Sasaki	Baby Elephants
4.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (off vocal ver.)			4:17
5.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Himitsu no Diary" (off vocal ver.)

DVD
No.	Title	Director	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee"	Naoto Kumazawa
2.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (Dance ver.)	Kumazawa
3.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki"	Wataru Saito
4.	"Himitsu no Diary"	Takatoshi Tsuchiya
5.	"Rina Hirata London Report"	Taizo Hayashi

Type C

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto.

CD
No.	Title	Music	Sub-unit	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee"	Kojo, Itagaki		4:17
2.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki"		Smiling Lions
3.	"Konjo" (KONJO)		Talking Chimpanzees
4.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (off vocal ver.)			4:17
5.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Konjo" (off vocal ver.)

DVD
No.	Title	Director	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee"	Naoto Kumazawa
2.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (Dance ver.)
3.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki"
4.	"Kimi no Uso o Shitteita"
5.	"Konjo"
6.	"Tentōmu Chu! in Hawaii"

Theater Edition

All lyrics written by Yasushi Akimoto.

CD
No.	Title	Music	Sub-unit	Length
1.	"Mae shika Mukanee"	Kojo, Itagaki		4:17
2.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki"		Smiling Lions
3.	"Koi to ka..." (恋とか…, "Love Is...")
4.	"Mae shika Mukanee" (off vocal ver.)			4:17
5.	"Kinō yori Motto Suki" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Koi to ka..." (off vocal ver.)

Personnel

"Mae Shika Mukanee" All Stars

source: ^[5]^[6]

AKB48 Team A: Rina Kawaei, Minami Takahashi, Yui Yokoyama, Mayu Watanabe
AKB48 Team K: Yuko Oshima
AKB48 Team B: Yuki Kashiwagi, Haruna Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki
AKB48 Team 4: Mako Kojima, Minami Minegishi
SKE48 Team S / AKB48 Team K: Jurina Matsui
SKE48 Team KII: Akari Suda
SKE48 Team E: Rena Matsui
NMB48 Team N: Sayaka Yamamoto
NMB48 Team N / AKB48 Team B: Miyuki Watanabe
HKT48 Team H: Rino Sashihara

"Kinou Yori Motto Suki" Smiling Lions

source: ^[5]^[7]

AKB48 Team A: Anna Iriyama
AKB48 Team B: Rena Kato
AKB48 Team 4: Nana Okada, Miki Nishino
AKB48 Kenkyuusei: Nana Owada
SKE48 Team S: Yuria Kizaki
SKE48 Team E: Kanon Kimoto
SKE48 Kenkyuusei: Ryoha Kitagawa
NMB48 Team N: Miru Shiroma
NMB48 Team M / AKB48 Team A: Fuuko Yagura
NMB48 Team BII: Shu Yabushita
NMB48 Kenkyuusei: Nagisa Shibuya
HKT48 Team H: Sakura Miyawaki
HKT48 Team H / AKB48 Team A: Haruka Kodama
HKT48 Kenkyuusei: Meru Tashima, Mio Tomonaga

"Himitsu no Diary" Baby Elephants

source: ^[5]

AKB48 Team A: Ryoka Oshima, Marina Kobayashi, Yukari Sasaki, Juri Takahashi, Yūka Tano
AKB48 Team B: Miyuu Omori, Miyu Takeuchi
AKB48 Team B / NMB48 Team N: Miori Ichikawa
AKB48 Team 4: Moe Aigasa, Ayana Shinozaki, Yuiri Murayama
AKB48 Kenkyuusei: Mion Mukaichi
SKE48 Team KII: Mizuho Yamada
SKE48 Team E: Rion Azuma
NMB48 Team N: Rina Kondo
NMB48 Team BII: Yuuri Ota
HKT48 Team H: Chihiro Anai, Aika Ota, Aoi Motomura
HKT48 Kenkyuusei: Yuka Akiyoshi, Nako Yabuki

Charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
Oricon Daily Singles Chart	1
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart^[8]	1
Billboard Japan Hot 100^[9]	1

References

↑ "【オリコン】AKB大島卒業曲で総売上3000万枚突破　女性グループ初の快挙". 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
↑ "AKB48「前しか向かねえ」フィジカルで大差を付けて首位獲得". Billboard Japan. 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
↑ "2014年年間音楽＆映像ランキング発表 2ページ目". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 2014-12-20. Archived from the original on 2014-12-23.
↑ "Oshima Yuko promises fans that their 'bonds are forever'". Tokyohive (6Theory Media, LLC.). 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
1 2 3 4 Mae Shika Mukanee - Type-B CD/DVD (CD booklet) (in Japanese). King Records.
↑ AKB48 (May 20, 2014). 【MV】前しか向かねえ / AKB48[公式] (YouTube).
↑ AKB48 (March 20, 2014). 【MV】昨日よりもっと好きダイジェスト映像 / AKB48[公式] (YouTube).
↑ "2014年02月24日～2014年03月02日のCDシングル週間ランキング（2014年03月10日付）". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
↑ "Billboard Japan Hot 100". Billboard-japan.com. 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2014-04-07.

AKB48

Members

Team A	Anna Iriyama Shizuka Oya Nana Owada Mayu Ogasawara Natsuki Kojima Haruna Kojima Yukari Sasaki Haruka Shimazaki Miru Shiroma Minami Takahashi (former general director) Kayoko Takita Megu Taniguchi Chiyori Nakanishi Mariko Nakamura (vc) Rina Hirata Yui Hiwatashi Ami Maeda Miho Miyazaki Sakura Miyawaki Yui Yokoyama (c, general director)

Team K	Moe Aigasa Maria Abe Haruka Ishida Manami Ichikawa Haruka Kodama Ayana Shinozaki Haruka Shimada (vc) Hinana Shimoguchi Mariya Suzuki Yūka Tano Chisato Nakata Nana Fujita Minami Minegishi (c) Mion Mukaichi Tomu Mutō Shinobu Mogi Sayaka Yamamoto Ami Yumoto

Team B	Ayano Umeta Ryōka Ōshima (vc) Yuki Kashiwagi Rena Katō Yuria Kizaki (c) Moe Gotō Miyu Takeuchi Makiho Tatsuya Miku Tanabe Seina Fukuoka Ma Chia-ling Nako Yabuki Aeri Yokoshima Mayu Watanabe Miyuki Watanabe

Team 4	Miyabi Iino Rina Izuta Saho Iwatate Rio Ōkawa Miyu Ōmori Ayaka Okada Nana Okada (vc) Saya Kawamoto Ryoha Kitagawa Saki Kitazawa Mako Kojima Haruka Komiyama Kiara Satō Nagisa Shibuya Juri Takahashi (c) Mio Tomonaga Wakana Natori Miki Nishino Rena Nozawa Yuiri Murayama

Team 8	Nagisa Sakaguchi Yui Yokoyama Hijiri Tanikawa Nanami Satō Tsumugi Hayasaka Akari Satō Kasumi Mougi Rin Okabe Hitomi Honda Maria Shimizu Ayane Takahashi Nanase Yoshikawa Yui Oguri Erina Oda Shiori Satō Ayaka Hidaritomo Natsuki Fujimura Yuri Yokomichi Yūna Hattori Ai Yamamoto Haruna Hashimoto Reina Kita Kurena Chō Moeri Kondō Serika Nagano Nao Ōta Nanami Yamada Ruka Yamamoto Momoka Ōnishi Sayuna Hama Ikumi Nakano Mei Abe Kotone Hitomi Yuri Tani Miu Shitao Riona Hamamatsu Yurina Gyōten Kaoru Takaoka Natsuki Hirose Karen Yoshida Rena Fukuchi Moeka Iwasaki Narumi Kuranoo Miyu Yoshino Moka Yaguchi Karin Shimoaoki Rira Miyazato

Former members	Rina Nakanishi Mai Ōshima Erena Ono Rino Sashihara (Moved to HKT48) Atsuko Maeda Natsuki Satō Yuka Masuda Kaoru Hayano Yu Imai Ayana Takada Haruka Nakagawa (Moved to JKT48) Sae Miyazawa (Moved to SNH48/SKE48) Tomomi Kasai Mariko Shinoda Tomomi Itano Sayaka Akimoto Ayaka Kikuchi Misato Nonaka Yuko Oshima Haruka Katayama Yurina Takashima Rina Ikoma Aika Ota (Moved to HKT48) Mina Oba (Moved to SKE48) Suzuran Yamauchi (Moved to SKE48) Sumire Sato (Moved to SKE48) Ayaka Umeda (Moved to NMB48) Riho Kotani Nao Furuhata Fūko Yagura Ayaka Morikawa Shihori Suzuki Rina Kawaei Sakiko Matsui Hikari Hashimoto Marina Kobayashi Mizuki Tsuchiyasu Mitsuki Maeda Asuka Kuramochi Rie Kitahara (Moved to NGT48 (captain)) Mayumi Uchida Aki Takajō Rena Nishiyama Jurina Matsui Natsuki Uchiyama Misaki Iwasa Karen Iwata Mariya Nagao Kana Kobayashi

Units

Chocolove from AKB48 (Inactive)
Diva (Disbanded)
French Kiss (Disbanded)
No Name (Disbanded)
no3b
Not Yet
Queen & Elizabeth (Inactive)
Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 (Disbanded)

Solo acts

Tomomi Itano (Former member)
Misaki Iwasa
Tomomi Kasai (Former member)
Yuki Kashiwagi
Asuka Kuramochi
Atsuko Maeda (Former member)
Sakiko Matsui
Rino Sashihara (Former member)
Minami Takahashi
Mariko Tsukamoto (Former member, Adult AKB)
Mayu Watanabe

Albums

Singles

"Sakura no Hanabiratachi"
"Skirt, Hirari"
"Aitakatta"
"Seifuku ga Jama o Suru"
"Keibetsu Shiteita Aijō"
"Bingo!"
"Boku no Taiyō"
"Yūhi o Miteiru ka?"
"Romance, Irane"
"Sakura no Hanabiratachi 2008"
"Baby! Baby! Baby!"
"Ōgoe Diamond"
"10nen Sakura"
"Namida Surprise!"
"Iiwake Maybe"
"River"
"Sakura no Shiori"
"Ponytail to Shushu"
"Heavy Rotation"
"Beginner"
"Chance no Junban"
"Sakura no Ki ni Narō"
"Everyday, Katyusha"
"Flying Get"
"Kaze wa Fuiteiru"
"Ue kara Mariko"
"Give Me Five!"
"Manatsu no Sounds Good!"
"Gingham Check"
"Uza"
"Eien Pressure"
"So Long!"
"Sayonara Crawl"
"Koi Suru Fortune Cookie"
"Heart Electric"
"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de...Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"
"Mae shika Mukanee"
"Labrador Retriever"
"Kokoro no Placard"
"Kibōteki Refrain"
"Green Flash"
"Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai"
"Halloween Night"
"Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby"
"Kimi wa Melody"

Other singles

"Dareka no Tame ni (What Can I Do for Someone?)"
"Sugar Rush"

Related groups

SKE48

Members

Team S	Rion Azuma Asana Inuzuka Masana Oya Ryoha Kitagawa (concurrent as AKB48 Team 4) Risako Goto Mai Takeuchi Rika Tsuzuki Yume Noguchi Haruka Futamura Jurina Matsui Chikako Matsumoto (vice leader) Ami Miyamae Miki Yakata (leader) Suzuran Yamauchi Juna Yamada

Team KII	Shiori Aoki Yuki Arai Anna Ishida Mikoto Uchiyama (vice leader) Yuna Ego Mina Oba (leader) Ruka Kitano Saki Godo Sarina Sōda Yumana Takagi Natsuki Takatsuka Akane Takayanagi Saki Takeuchi Yuzuki Hidaka Nao Furuhata Kaori Matsumura Yukari Yamashita

Team E	Kyoka Isohara Reona Ida Narumi Ichino Madoka Umemoto (vice leader) Rumi Kato Natsuki Kamata Kanon Kimoto Haruka Kumazaki Kumiko Koishi Makiko Saito Mei Sakai Sumire Sato Aya Shibata Akari Suda (leader) Sana Takatera Marika Tani Nao Fukushi

Trainee Members	Honoka Aikawa Yuka Asai Ayaka Ota Yuna Obata Narumi Kataoka Narumi Kawasaki Rara Goto Oka Suenaga Aika Sugiyama Yuki Takahata Nozomi Tsuji Kano Nojima Otoha Machi Junna Murai Aina Wada Rena Isshiki Ayuka Kamimura Kotono Shirai Airi Mizuno Maya Sugawara

Former Members	Eiko Maeda Rie Kitahara Sawako Hata Airi Furukawa Rena Matsui Sae Miyazawa

Albums

Kono Hi no Chime o Wasurenai

Singles

Participation singles

"Ōgoe Diamond"
"10nen Sakura"
"Dareka no Tame ni: What Can I Do For Someone?"
"Eien Pressure"
"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de...Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"
"Green Flash"
"Kimi wa Melody"

Related groups

NMB48

Members

Team N	Kei Jonishi (Co-Captain) Yuuka Kato Rika Kishino Narumi Koga Kanako Muro Aika Nishimura Yuuri Ota Ririka Suto Yuuki Yamaguchi Sayaka Yamamoto (Captain) Akari Yoshida Natsuko Akashi Yuumi Ishida Eriko Jo Rurina Nishizawa Rina Yamao

Team M	Yuki Azuma Reina Fujie (Captain) Akari Ishizuka Rena Kawakami Momoka Kinoshita Rina Kondo Rina Kushiro Mao Mita Sae Murase Ayaka Okita (Co-Captain) Miru Shiroma Yui Takano Sara Takei Airi Tanigawa Fuuko Yagura Azusa Uemura Mizuki Uno Reina Nakano Megumi Matsumura Ayaka Morita

Team BII	Momoka Hayashi Miori Ichikawa Anna Ijiri (Co-Captain) Kanae Iso Emika Kamieda (Captain) Chihiro Kawakami Haruna Kinoshita Hazuki Kurokawa Konomi Kusaka Kokoro Naiki Nagisa Shibuya Mirei Ueda Miyuki Watanabe Shu Yabushita Mai Odan Honoka Terui Chiho Matsuoka

Former Members	Yuki Kashiwagi Saki Kono Anna Murashige Natsumi Yamagishi Tsubasa Yamauchi Arisa Miura Ayaka Murakami Nana Yamada Akane Takayanagi Yui Yokoyama Riho Kotani Kanako Kadowaki Ayaka Umeda

Trainee Members	Akane Takiyama

Singles

Participation singles

Albums

HKT48

Members

Team H	Yuka Akiyoshi Chihiro Anai (Captain) Yuriya Inoue Haruka Kodama Yui Kojina Hiroka Komada Natsumi Matsuoka (Co-Captain) Naoko Okamoto Riko Sakaguchi Rino Sashihara Miku Tanaka Natsumi Tanaka Meru Tashima Mashiro Ui Izumi Umemoto Haruka Ueno Haruka Wakatabe Nako Yabuki Marina Yamada Mao Yamamoto

Team KIV	Mai Fuchigami Maiko Fukagawa Izumi Goto Mina Imada Raira Ito Shino Iwahana Serina Kumazawa Sakura Miyawaki (Co-Captain) Madoka Moriyasu Aoi Motomura Anna Murashige Kanna Okada Aika Ota (Captain) Yuki Shimono Yuka Tanaka Asuka Tomiyoshi Mio Tomonaga Nao Ueki

Trainee Members	Misaki Aramaki Hazuki Hokazono Sae Kurihara Erena Sakamoto Riko Tsutsui Emily Yamashita Yuna Yamauchi

Former Members	Yui Komori Yuko Sugamoto Airi Taniguchi Kyōka Abe Sayaka Eto Ayaka Nakanishi Chiyori Nakanishi Marika Tani Kanon Kimoto Manami Kusaba

Singles

Participation singles

Related groups

Yasushi Akimoto
AKS
Universal Music Group
- Universal Sigma

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